redacted Gilgamesh

Collin is out of spoons. Brandon is overloaded on Taco Bell sauce. And we cannot figure out cricket boxes.

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers trying to figure it all out with your host, Brandon, Pollan and Aaron on this week's show. redacted Gilgamesh.

Brandon  00:19

Oh, hi. Oh boy, I'm here. Because sometimes it takes longer to volley

Collin  00:28

the balls and you thought oh man, it was it was intense, I think

Brandon  00:36

nail biting action.

Collin  00:37

It was nail biting action. And it was a it was a hard it was a hard hard slog for sure. I mean, one, it's probably one of the later latest games that we've played. So all girl her little more tired little gas in the tank. And we were we were playing

00:59

a team with 13

Collin  01:03

members

Brandon  01:04

on it. How many members does your team have? I'm guessing not 13

Collin  01:09

Seven. And then we got a you know, our girls were working a lot harder to make that work well they're basically swapping out to every time you know. So that was I was tough for sure. So of course with also with sit with his literally do not lose but like basically doubled the players you get a lot more, you know, home field turnout. In the stands, they're a bit more raucous. The nr are our crew that was there. That's impactful, as well. But no, that was a it was a it was a hard game. I got complimented Miss Lille on her her returns that got the got the scores for that, for that particular Saturday. So that was just good. Trying to try to remind the team it's not sorry about the serving, right. Yeah, you can score on serves, but the return other Yeah, there are other other avenues. There they are is equally as important because the ball will be coming to you soon. Right.

Brandon  02:18

Yeah. And you know, sometimes the team isn't expecting the ball to come back to them. Yeah, especially the younger ages. Right? Then it's like a big surprise. Like, oh, oh, oh, what do I do now? Yes, yes.

Collin  02:33

So that is definitely a hip thing of like, well, the balls over the net. My job is done. What's this? Why is it returning? Ah, yeah. Old. Oh, new one. Oh, that wasn't supposed to do that. So that's that was those fun. Oh, I also I also got to be aligned. Judge. I was aligned. judged. Oh, my goodness. So that was fun. One of the coaches came over and was like, ah, hey, any one of the parents want to be a line judge. It was like radio silence.

03:06

I was like, see? So I held up my hand and say, congratulations.

Brandon  03:12

That's basically what you need to do to be aligned yet. Yeah, pretty much holding everything.

Collin  03:17

hand down a thing, right? That thing like, Oh, I was equals. So that's what the

Brandon  03:21

signal. Signal is the correct one, right? So I don't remember.

Collin  03:26

Well, So hands up is is out. Hands down and forward is in. So ah, yeah. Yes. How?

Brandon  03:34

How could I have forgotten? Exactly.

Collin  03:39

So I was talking to the ref and whoopsie she she was hilarious. Because I was standing there and she was oh, are you are line judge? And I said if that's what I said, is that what you need? And she said yes. And I said, Great. What do I do? And she laughed and she said, Okay, well if the ball hits the line, or is in you do the little anything, you know if it's the line line or out it's out right so they play if the ball tight if it touches the line, it's out? Yes, I think right. So anyway.

Brandon  04:10

Sure. Anyway, yeah. Anyway,

Collin  04:12

this is why I'm not aligned just anyway. And she like she made the she made the hand gestures of like taking your hands and like throwing them straight out in front of you down like you're doing a like, you know, straight out in front of you. At an angle it's

Brandon  04:25

like a 45 degree angle.

04:27

Triangle. Yeah. Versus if it's if it's out you take your your arms and you fold them up and try and like touch your shoulders with your hands and keep them flat. Yeah, because you're like pointing away away. Right? So think about it. And then that's what she did. She went she really exaggerated she was like in and like bent into like a point into the court. And then she like stood up into this back arch thing. It was like out

Collin  04:52

I'm not doing that. So and I said, I said, Oh, I can't do that. I did that at yoga this morning. And I My back hurts and she laughed a lot and I'm And I said no, like, I don't we always bend forward and she wants to bend backwards today and I was not okay with that. And then I said, Okay, well, I've got the in and out thing. And I said, What do I do if an angry parent charges over to me because I make a call. And this, this, this this, this ref is full like foot shorter than I am, probably weighs, you know, I don't know why not very much sopping wet. And she like put out muscle arms. And she was like, they're coming through me first buddy. I laughed. And I said, I'm glad you're there. And she's like, Oh, I've handled my fair share of crazy people. And that you'd like me, I

05:38

wish. I wish

Collin  05:39

I had a red cards. That'd be fun. If I could add to that red cards. And I was like a human. Yeah. And I said, Wouldn't it you could become known as the red card ref. And you would people would tremble at your name that you were coming in refereeing. She started to be like I could learn. She's basically saying like, she could learn cool, like magic tricks with them to make it like disappear like reappear by people that year. And like red cocked? Really, really

Brandon  06:04

losing the plot here a little bit, I think.

Collin  06:07

And then she had to blow whistle and I had to go stand in a corner for the game. And yeah, I had a few moments where and I, I at first I was like, so do I only because I didn't ask these questions. But I was like, do I only? Like, do I only do the hand signals? If it's like, questionable? Or do I always do the hand signal to district to determine where the ball wise? I'm in play? Well, I know

Brandon  06:33

what it's like on the other side. That's not That's not how that works. Right? I know it needs to be.

Collin  06:39

Right. But if the ball lands out of bounds by like 14 feet, oh two, I don't think you have to I need a signal to I don't know, I didn't ask these questions. So I, I kind of was like, Okay, if it's within like a foot either side. That's what I'll do. I'll make that call them with my little hand signal things. And

Brandon  06:59

I really, I think if it's like nine feet behind the line, I feel like hand signals are probably extraneous at that point,

Collin  07:06

right? Like, it's clearly out is like, yep.

Brandon  07:11

You didn't you don't need me for that. One guy

Collin  07:14

was like, yeah, when it hits the side curtain or whatever they had on this thing, so Oh, yeah. Yeah, so that's what we did. It was a great game. Ah, and team did very well. So we were all very tired returning.

Brandon  07:36

Oh, yeah. Did did you have any terrifying moments of the any of the other parents like almost really angry. I don't know how angry parents get at small children, but

Collin  07:46

very angry. I'm not angry, but I'm gonna say just like, loud, like, all my goodness. And I, I was reflecting on this as I was driving home, I was like, okay, as a parent, I'm sure it's nice to know that there are like other parents cheering on your kid. But like, also, they don't need to be cheering louder than me. Like that's, that's a bit much when another parent is cheering louder than the kids own parent or like, they're more invested in it. I think you've overstepped your bounds as like,

08:22

person or when they I don't know. I'm very loud. You're right. But again, it's really weird. Because like our school, right, so our school the culture of cheering

Collin  08:34

is like, not existent. It's real weird, right?

Brandon  08:40

Growing up, being in like the pet band and like being in other like Rogersville stuff, right? Like, yeah, loud. Loud. Cheering and all times. Right. Like, I the student section was almost thrown out of a sectionals basketball at one time because they were to Whoopsie daisy, but like, yeah, in high school, like the culture of cheering is like non existent. So it's real awkward. Sure, because like, I'm cheering everyone else just sitting there with their arms crossed, staring at things like that's not and I'm just sharing like, random things like yeah, let's get right and like, yeah, that's it.

Collin  09:18

There's a difference between being engaged and being like, everything is like the be all end all I think I think I referred, I told the story of like, maybe I didn't have we were someone was down some points and, and we, the girl came up to score and their parent was like, Oh, they 15 more. And I was like, what?

Brandon  09:38

That's that's a bit. Why would it be encouraging but like, yeah, that's not that's not helpful.

Collin  09:45

So there was some very loud and boisterous I feel

Brandon  09:48

like just saying like, Let's get another one. I feel like yes, that's yes. Good turning

Collin  09:52

and letting them know that they good. You scored one. Now you need to do that. 15 more times. I don't know. Like That's, that's not helpful. So but yes, people were not. They weren't too bad, it makes it hard because the way the they were looking to me though, because the way the we had to travel to this and the way the community center was that we were playing in, had the setup of the all of the bleachers were only on one end. So you had to look long ways down the court. And so, and the home team was closer. So they all have their serves, and their returns were far away from them, and they could not see some of these calls.

Brandon  10:44

Yeah, I should have volunteered suckers.

Collin  10:47

If you really wanted to know, you'd be over here. So they, they there were a few times where, where I had to like really signal of like what it was because people were very invested in whether the return on this game of third and fourth graders was Oh, yeah. Again, get high stakes Olympic volleyball now, like, that's what girls are having fun. It's whatever, that's fine. Like, just in as long as they are. They are the ones being competitive. I have no problem with this. But when it's like, you know, the guy in the back who's like, frustrated about how the call went? You're like, no, no, no. Oh, man. No, no,

Brandon  11:32

we have we have several of those parents. And they're terrified to sit, right. Because you're like, what this is like all of us. This is like not fun for me to watch. Like, I can't imagine the plague. You're like, I don't want to be near this because it's not enjoyable experience to sit in the bleachers. With your negativity about sixth grade sports. Okay, so, yes, calm down.

12:02

Yes. Or the guy who kept

Collin  12:04

because of where he was, he couldn't see the score. So he kept yelling to see the score. And they would have to like turn the little scoreboard on the table to show him and it was less. And he would do it after each play, basically. And for a little while, then he did stop. But it was like, okay, like we get it. Like, if you're stressed about the score. I hear. What I hear you saying is you're stressing about the score. And normally you would just obsessively look at it. But you can't. So you got to ask this the scorekeeper to do that for you. It's really annoying. Like, come on. I just so anyway, it was good. I had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. The team did great. And I think we have one more. We have a tournament this Saturday. So oh, boy, another one. It'll be our third tournament. Third turn second, second or third tournament? I don't know. A lot lot of volleyball up here. So ah, yeah. That was That is a lot of it. Yeah. Tournament five, but that's rough stuff. Yeah.

13:12

And yeah. And

Collin  13:16

it's a nighttime tournament.

Brandon  13:17

So like, Why? Why are small children play our fourth, third and fourth graders playing volleyball? So? Yeah. 30 at night.

Collin  13:25

Wow. Okay, so it's not nice. Okay, so I'm gonna say nighttime, but that's because I'm an old man. But like, our game tonight started at 6:45pm. And like, it was 30 minutes away for us. So, you know, it's, it's a bit when we get done and everything. The tournament starts at 4pm on Saturday, and the last game will be held at eight o'clock. And I think that's like, but then again, I'm, I think that's like it.

Brandon  13:57

I mean, yeah, like add like little kids, that is kind of late. Right, right. That's

14:07

what I'm, that's me, you know,

Collin  14:08

I just what I'm getting, I was like, Sure, I'll get over it. But, you know, and I know, we're kind of weird because like, our kids go to bed at like 730. So it's, it's late to do that. So we'll see. We'll see how the tournament goes. I don't know any of the other teams that are playing. But we'll bring our snacks and brew coffee, and it's almost actually walked to this one. It's actually kind of nice. Hey, that is

Brandon  14:36

nice. That's good. Yes.

Collin  14:39

I'm very excited about this. But yeah, yeah, that was how we finished the night. We started the day with with yoga as I mentioned earlier, which broke me very badly. Oh, my gosh. Oh, it's yeah, it's fine. Lady who teaches it He used to have a yoga studio here in town and now she just does these things for you know, for people and my goodness, I, we did this thing where we would we do we were, I always liked the progression of yoga because it starts up where you're standing and then throughout you just like get lower and lower to the ground before you're, you know, you fall asleep at the very end. That's my favorite kind. And this week,

15:24

we worked. We were on, we had

Collin  15:26

to land our stomachs, okay, so we lay on our stomachs. Alright, so if you lay out spot in your stomach, put your hands out like a tee. Then you were supposed to take like your left arm and put your left hand on your left shoulder, and then push over to kind of roll yourself over and bring your leg over with it so that you are stretching out your right shoulder, right? Can you imagine that of laying flat and then leaving your right hand and arm extended straight, rolling over onto your shoulder and, and stretching it from that way? We did that a lot. And that hurts quite a lot and having a

Brandon  16:03

little bit of trouble visualizing now, but that's fine.

Collin  16:07

It's okay. So you're lying flat on flat. Imagine your face first down on the ground is in place your arms out as a tee leaving Oh, okay. Yes. Okay. Now, if you imagine that, take your left hand and slide it under your left shoulder. So you kind of scrunch your arm up. And then you're gonna do a one arm push up, and you're gonna push that shoulder up, your left shoulder is going to rise, your right shoulder is going to lay on to go to push into the ground, and you're going to stretch your arm back and around. Yeah, no, I started to do that. Personally, it was like, oh, no, Colin, you have to stretch your you know, do something with your arm. I was like, Yeah, I would, if I could.

Brandon  16:51

But I can't. This is as much as I got man. She keeps all there is.

Collin  16:56

So she came over and she put one little foam block under my head. So I wouldn't have to strain my neck so bad. And I was like,

17:04

Ah, this is, this is nice. So we did this.

Collin  17:08

I did this thing. It was working about flexibility and our hands and our arms. And, you know, imagine you go down into a plank, or, you know, cat cow where you are, it's called table where you, you're on your hands and knees basically with your back flat. Okay, yes, I can imagine that. Usually your fingertips are pointing away from you like you're in their normal hand position. We did this we did this with our hands inverted. So we brought we twisted our hands so that our fingertips were pointing back to our knees and making Megan's on my right she looks over and she goes No your point your fingers backwards. And I was like I cannot they don't go they kind of got to the side and stop. So I'm this is what I do.

Brandon  18:00

Yeah, I don't I don't have a lot of yoga experience. Right Susan does yoga. Right. You know, she likes it. More for like the relaxation and like a little bit of stretching, right? A long time ago. I used to do it with her. But she got tired of like her trying to be Aleksander relaxing and me being like no. Like I was like, this is beneficial for one of us only and it isn't Yeah, so like, I'm gonna go I'm gonna leave you to it and let you do your relaxing. I'm gonna go hide now it was

Collin  18:42

yeah, I'm, I'm kind of the same way Megan really likes to go to it.

18:47

And

Collin  18:49

it was, it was it was it was hilarious. But it was it was good to be there and also was like, right when all the rain was hammock, so it actually was kind of relaxing. But my goodness, there were times where our My Little 70 year old teacher was really kicking my butt with what was going on. I was like, okay, I'm fine. Like, I'm just gonna do what I can do. And that's all I can do right now. And I'm gonna hurt myself. Because I was I was doing something. And she was like, Oh, you need to straighten that out. And I was like, No, that hurts. And she goes, Is it is it? Is it? Is it stabbing or something kind of pain? And I was like, No, and she goes Oh, so it's just kind of discomfort and I was like well thought just discomfort you know? I don't like it and she's like, No, we can deal with that. I was like no, but this is me this I don't like being discomfortable like

Brandon  19:38

like no no, no, no, we don't need to we don't need to worry about that much. It's fine. I don't want to

Collin  19:44

Oh yeah, yeah, that's though. No, no no, anyway, that's what we started off the day with and I'm I'm Still Here we that was that was lit Trulli 12 hours ago and I'm still I'm still recovering

Brandon  20:06

that's what I would do if I That would be me like definitely 100% Because

Collin  20:12

I can't, I cannot

Brandon  20:15

probably need to, because I do have those days where like wake up in the morning and I have laid in like the most confusing position at my shoulders just like nope, I'm just going to be stuck here for a little bit. I'm not going to move at all. Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah.

Collin  20:36

Oh, yeah, just there's a lot of stuff. And the whole the whole the whole theme was to find find glimmers in your life and she I forget what she she said glimmers. Yeah, a glimmer was something that gave you gave you hope or like inspired you or you discovered something new that you are capable of? And I was like, Yeah, I don't glimmers maybe just a whole new realm of pain that I'm encouraged that I'm finding out right now. I discovered right now that my shoulders are very inflexible. Like that's what I've learned

Brandon  21:09

today. What a weird word to latch on to and to make. You think, right. I feel like that happens a lot though. People like cabbage on to like a very specific word. But then they say it in some sort of context. That just confuses me. Right. When people say, let's say, say phrases like that, like, find your glimmer, like, Ah, no, stop speaking to me, please. I can't. Yes,

Collin  21:40

well, that's like, um, have you heard of a lot of spoons?

Brandon  21:46

I eat with spoons. Yes, guy hadn't heard of spoons. I know. I know. You got a spoon, man. Right. Okay. Do you know feel the rhythm why you can't

Collin  22:02

rhythm while you can? Know spoons. Spoons is one of those words that are meant to be like, how many spoonfuls of energy do you have in a given day? And I've never

Brandon  22:15

heard this okay, but this sounds like something weird teachers would say and I'm it's

Collin  22:22

you there's I'm okay. So I'm including the Wikipedia article for spoon barrel,

Brandon  22:26

no. Spoon Theory.

Collin  22:29

It's a metaphor describing the amount of physical and or mental energy that a person has available for daily tasks and activities, and how it can become limited. So basically, what people do is like, getting out of bed is is one spoon. Or okay. Oh, wait a minute. Versus like going shopping is for spoon.

Brandon  22:51

I feel like that ratio is a problem. Okay, like, I'm not going to, like poopoo anybody who, you know, because there's, there's we never want to get out of bed every day. But if the act of getting out of bed is a whole spoon of energy, I feel like the ranking system for this is going to be like, what's the point? Like, I feel like a spoon is too small a measurement, because he'd be like, Oh, what was going to work out in the park with your friend today? Like, was about 17 spoons? What? Doesn't? Why would you even say that since I had it. Yeah. It's great.

Collin  23:38

I think I think specifically people. Like it's focused around mostly, like, daily tasks of like, to to describe. I think the origins of it came from people with like, chronic illnesses, or as long

Brandon  23:55

as I didn't want to poopoo anybody? Oh, no, no, no, no, like, clinically depressed people. Right. This is like, you do it does take a whole lot to get a bad rap. I'm not I'm not Yeah, I'm not. I'm not saying it doesn't. Oh, no, I'm just saying for like, normal. Like, everyday vernacular. I feel like the spoon is a weird measurement. It is.

Collin  24:14

It is weird. It is weird. Like, if you have

Brandon  24:16

a good day, or you like, oh, today it was like a teaspoon.

Collin  24:19

Right? Because that's where my brain goes of like, yeah, so how many teeth how many spoons equal a cup of energy or like, how do I like what's the but no, it's

Brandon  24:29

it's Yeah. Is there a scale? Is it like kitchen measuring system? Yeah, pinch dash, quarter teaspoon, like what is happening? It's like I don't understand. Right.

Collin  24:41

And people will have different, like Smidge spinning spoon enter spoons allocated to different like, different activities. So they'll have especially for people who are on the like are on the spectrum, they'll say like sensory spoons are a big thing for them because They are able to describe how a better way of communicating how overloaded they can get in a particular situation of like, you want me to go to a party? Oh, well, I only have like, two sensory spoons and one social spoon left. So I don't know if I want to expend that spoon on it. It kind of gives an idea its idea of currency as as opposed to just energy levels gas. Oh, which I mean,

Brandon  25:22

but I have one. Like, How tired are you? One neutron star?

Collin  25:28

spoonful, right. But, but this gets to the it's a it's a meaningless word. Right. But people just start to use it. Like, glimmer, like, did you find your glimmer today? Right. Like, what's your spoon? And I'm like, I it makes it really hard to have conversations when when I'm using words that I I have completely different associations with. Yeah, that's yeah, I guess because I'm

Brandon  25:59

not in a situation where I would use that vernacular. Right? You start talking to me about spoons like I'm thinking about our previous conversation of what is the best spoon for cereal use? Right? What is the difference between like, teaspoon tablespoon? soup spoon, right. This is what I'm thinking. Right?

Collin  26:21

Or how McDonald's has discontinued their spoon. Did you know this?

26:25

Paid? Why? Yeah. Okay, so

Collin  26:27

well, so

Brandon  26:29

that made a flurry spoon,

Collin  26:30

the MC flurry spoon.

Brandon  26:32

Oh, is it because they're a mixer, but she never works? And then just like, yeah, just forgetting?

Collin  26:36

Well, no, no, it's because it's too many single use plastics. Because the basic but see, here's the thing.

Brandon  26:44

The whole reason they did in the first place was for sanitary reasons. So they didn't have to continually clean things

Collin  26:49

well, and also it's faster, right? Because they don't have to. Because if you're trying to literally just throw handfuls of Nick flurries out a window nonstop. You don't have time to clean. You don't. It takes too much time. And so they engineered I personally, I think it's an engine. It's a beautiful, really beautiful way of solving this problem of we'll just make the spoon the mixer. Right? That's I'm like, what? That's amazing. And so yes, they are getting rid of the spoon. And they are going back to cleaning the mixers. And instead you will get one of their ridiculously flimsy and terrible other lessons

Brandon  27:36

that we're it also sort of goes into what we talked about a while back because that McDonald's is losing its role

Collin  27:47

in the universe. Right. Like they think they're some sort of like actual restaurant. You know, and not like a

Brandon  27:57

fast food burger place. Which is where you are right? I

Collin  28:05

feel like that's not the job, right? Like, you're not an actual restaurant, McDonald's, don't have waitstaff

Brandon  28:18

or like a maitre d. I listened to a very interesting conversation the other day on some sort of, I was watching some sort of video, right? I because I fallen into the rabbit hole of like, cooking videos on YouTube, right? Because I want to like, become a better at making food. Right? Sidenote, the pizza I made yesterday. The best one yet? Oh, no, it was good.

Collin  28:42

This brings up a whole other side discussion about what we're doing over the Thanksgiving. We were all together and how Yeah.

Brandon  28:49

Anyway, we come back to that minute. But they were talking about it was like two chefs like the actual chefs. And they were they work in restaurants in like New York and stuff. And they like oh, and restaurants and stuff. But they're talking about how one of them was talking about how the word restaurant they were like responding to something somebody said how the word restaurant in the United States is used sort of wrong. Because like the like every place is not a restaurant. I mean, like in like Europe, he said he was saying specifically France, obviously. But like you don't like restaurant carries have very specific connotation of like waitstaff front of house, like maitre d, right, like that is that's what a restaurant is. Like. It's a high, high level thing, right? Like high levels of service. And like it's this very specific connotation. We're in like the United States like everyone just says restaurant for everything, but like in Europe or France. It would add it's actually like a bistro or like, he listed off his like big, many words that I've never heard before. And like several other things. I don't remember exactly. Like, you know, like, a smaller thing just has like a few food items and it's like sit down and there's like no waitstaff and they just like grabbing food off the counter. Like that's called something else. Right? Like it everything has like a specific name.

Collin  30:25

You know what I mean?

Brandon  30:28

Like, like, again, like a bistro, or like a pub, or like a, you know, whatever, like a cafe. That's like a cafe and a bistro. Technically different. Right? I don't remember what he said The difference was, like, technically, that's a different thing with different expectations, right? Because then like, you know, with different levels of food and that kind of stuff. So they're talking about how like, a restaurant experience is like,

Collin  30:55

the top, the tippity top.

Brandon  31:00

Right, it's like, your, you know, your nice tablecloth and your full size, you know, everything, like lots of different back of house people like all this stuff, like everybody's highly trained and like, that's like, all they do is they've worked in the service industry for years. Right. And that's like, the best experience you can get. Whereas like, the Bistro is just like, you know, some people that are like starting out in a restaurant, he was talking about how like, I think the way the reason they started talking about this, they were talking about the culture of tipping, right in the US, I think that's what they're talking about, anyway, because he was saying, like, yeah, you know, tipping comes with, like, an expectation of service, like, you should tip when your service is really good. And then like other countries, that's what it's based on. Like, you can't just walk into a restaurant and get a job. Like, they're going to ask you like, what else have you done? Like, you can say, Oh, I was, you know, a bus person here and I worked in this cafe and I did this job and you'd like they won't hire you to work at certain places. If you don't have any experience in any other. Like, restaurant tea thing, right? You can't just like go in and become the maitre d right that doesn't sound that works.

Collin  32:12

Yeah, it's a different it is a whole is a whole career right? Yeah. In a very, very respectable one and many other many other cultures.

Brandon  32:22

And places. Yeah, but I just I just thought that that was like an interesting I just need to think of that whenever we're talking about the how McDonald's is like oh, yes, we are a restaurant and we're doing no no. You're like a fast food place or like a diner almost right like so. Get stop charging me so much for your hamburgers and just clean your machines that's all I want you to do.

Collin  32:51

Come on break bring back the self serve refills and soda fountains because those are yeah away.

Brandon  32:57

That's a terrible idea. I like people get

Collin  33:00

so much advancement into those like that we had all the cool ones where was like one button and you could mix all the different flavors and choose all that stuff. And like they're like no that technology not for you anymore by Yeah,

Brandon  33:13

I guess I guess part of that. I mean, that's like a like again right now people aren't they're just like not going into

Collin  33:18

the restaurant. I mean,

Brandon  33:21

into the establishment see I messed up I saw her not going into the the eatery. You know? And so like, if like but even though that's like a right now thing that's still like a little bit of post COVID thing people are apparently willing to pay like a whole lot extra to have this random strangers deliver their food. I don't know. Thank you. Right. Like, that's, I don't know why you do that. But whenever. Especially McDonald's, like just get it. It's already Why don't already already have a drive thru.

Collin  33:58

Like it's fine. People can take the McDonald's and then like, add the upcharge for Uber Eats and then also tip $7 on top of it. I'm like, it was just a Big Mac and now it cost us $34 Like

Brandon  34:10

yeah, it's not even really worth like whenever a Big Mac is now right like it's not even that it's not really even worth that buddy like the cost. I mean, that's why McDonald's struggling right? Because the cost benefit is not there anymore. Because like you would go there and eat for like, cheap at like relatively a large amount of food for like no money and now you're eating like, kind of sound food for a lot of money. Like that's not really a good ratio to have. You know what I mean? Like that's not what I want as a customer. No, not at all. But again, like, I don't know, like I haven't eaten at McDonald's in a very long time. Not just because of that stuff annoys me but like You know, can I make sure my cholesterol is in 9000? Yeah, yeah, no, but like it's working. I guess I had to go do my wellness checkup for work and they're like your cholesterol levels are excellent. Excuse you say that again, please. That is not a phrase that's ever been said to me before. I just need you to repeat that. So I can let that soak in. I don't think I need you

Collin  35:34

to really highlight that part of the piece of paper, please. Because I say that again.

Brandon  35:38

was hidden again.

Collin  35:40

I was asked confused. So yeah, yeah. Yeah.

35:46

That's all that to say. Why are they getting rid of the slides? Why? Oh?

Collin  35:55

Yes. So unfortunately, may take you a little bit longer, but they're going to be cleaning cleaning things more. They won't be. They will not be right.

Brandon  36:09

If there's one thing I remember from working in the restaurant, minimum wage, people don't want to clean random stuff.

Collin  36:15

They don't. I mean,

Brandon  36:18

like, you're already doing some other things. And you're like, I'm getting paid no dollars.

Collin  36:21

So I'll get to it later. It's just, yeah, it is. It's 100. I understand. I understand. It's, you know, priorities and trying to get people to. To care is hard. And it's okay.

36:44

Oh.

Collin  36:48

So what's what's new? What's doing you get your another world?

Brandon  36:52

Um, well, parent teacher conferences tomorrow. Yay, de la. Oh, excited. I love that. Whoo. airily. As odd as that smile. So it had to be at school for

Collin  37:10

8000 hours for us. Like

Brandon  37:15

that's pretty much it. Right? Like, into the quarter happened.

Collin  37:19

Kind of get some stuff done. Trying to

Brandon  37:24

do the lab today, viscosity lab, whoo. All important, important viscosity lab results, actually. Okay, so my viscosity lab is we in order to test viscosity, you know, we could use like a zaan cup. And like, you know, time different liquids and then calculate viscosity is based on your time, right? We could do that, which is like how you really measure viscosity. Or what you could do is you get six condiments, and you put them on a board, and you race them to the bottom of an inclined plane. That's what we did today. Excellent. Yeah, we like, we just see which one is fast. We just like compare. It's like comparative viscosities, right, like, thicker versus thinner. So we, I put them on a board that I cover with like a trash bag. And then I just say three to one go and then I raise it up, and they're responsible for timing one, and they just have to see how long it takes to go down the thing.

Collin  38:34

What kind of what kind of board are you using with?

Brandon  38:36

It's like a, like a, like a marker board thing? Like a whiteboard? Oh, sure. Right. Yeah. It's just like a big one where it's one that I had. It was like it's in my room. And it's the, it's supposed to have a frame on it. So it can hang on the wall, but the frame is broken. So it's just the board. It's like cardboard with the marker surface on it. So oh, I just like okay, well, I'm not going to use this for anything else. Except for right. Sauce raising. Just again, I just put a plastic bag on it and then like a trash bag a big like 50 Gallon Trash Bag thing. I've cut it up and then tape it over the side and then boom. Good to go. Alright, so what what were the condiments Alright, so in I like to use fast food condiments because they're already in the small little package. Yes, right. And that way I don't have to bring things from home. And my guess worry about going to buy something from Walmart if I like it, I'm gonna use it mostly for squirting on a board as much as a bit extraneous, right. So I use I use like fast food packets, right? So today, we always try to have ketchup and mustard because I can just get those from the school cafeteria. Last week, I was like, last week they had hamburgers for lunch. And I just look at the Here's one of the classes I was just like, Okay, guys, I need you guys to bring me some ketchup and mustard packages and they're like, why is it don't worry about why Okay, that's not important right now I just need them or science. And that is

Collin  40:18

taboo. This year, I had a very important question that I needed answered. Hey, I wanted to know which

Brandon  40:31

Taco Bell sauce has the highest viscosity. So not only did we just do, we did ketchup and mustard standard, and then I did all four of the current Taco Bell sauce that I can get hold that for my six to fill out my six, my data table of six. Okay. There we go. So important sauce update. Lowest viscosity. Taco Bell sauce. Yes, unsurprisingly, the mild sauce.

Collin  41:02

Yeah, it just runs straight out of there. It does, like control.

Brandon  41:08

Can't even put it on a thing. It just like shoots up. Highest viscosity. The fire sauce nearly by a significant margin. Yeah, I don't remember the exact times but it took several minutes. Whereas the mild sauce made it my board is like three feet long. Right? Yeah. And it's not it's not traveling all the three feet because I put a piece of tape for the start and finish line. Sure.

Collin  41:34

The mild sauce was like

Brandon  41:39

17 seconds like it was wow. I think the order of lowest highest viscosity Taco Bell sauces,

Collin  41:52

mild. Hot Diablo, and fire is the most highly viscous Taco Bell sauce.

Brandon  42:02

So there you go. listeners. That is a very scientific test that you didn't know that you needed. Okay. That is the official ranking with multiple trials today. Okay, multiple trials, every trial. They've performed similarly. So I think we have enough enough data here to definitively say fire sauce, highest viscosity Taco Bell sauce currently out of those four that

Collin  42:27

I could get in the package. Fantastic.

Brandon  42:32

No, real groundbreaking work we're doing here.

Collin  42:36

I'm ready for the for the Nobel. I submit that go. Thank you be good to go.

Brandon  42:44

So that's good. All right, at establishment that knows its place, right? Because I just went an extra school and I was like, Hey, I just need a burrito. And then I just went over to the sauce table and like flung a whole bunch of my bag and left like that at bat breed only cost me $1. So you know, as Ron

Collin  43:04

Kind of kind of doing every day you get just bean burrito or

Brandon  43:07

just the Beagle in the eye and I just needed something I didn't excuse to go in and get sauce right I didn't want to like walk in and take sauce without buying anything.

Collin  43:18

I thought that would be weird, right? I have

Brandon  43:23

a little suspect. So I just went ahead and got that and then yeah, kind of loaded up my son I have some sauce at home already. Because like you know, when you go to Taco Bell sometimes when you asked for sauce, the drive thru person will give you like three sauces.

Collin  43:40

Or the other

Brandon  43:42

the only other option is they just plunge their hand into a large box. And just they bring out as many as they can physically hold their hand and they drop it in your bag. I chose not enough sauce or so much sauce that you don't need to ask for sauce again for like a month right like this.

Collin  44:04

And those the people you want you hope they're getting a raise because they are doing God's work. Because yeah, fewer things are more frustrating when you're like can I have mild sauce and they give you like three packets and you're like no I need I need you to understand

Brandon  44:19

like first of all, I ordered like four tacos this is not gonna work out here like this is what are you doing?

Collin  44:30

Mathematically

44:31

this is impossible for me

Collin  44:32

to do Yeah, I have started to take you know a good handful or like a big handful don't say

Brandon  44:40

that here. You will not know what to call this awesome get these people yeah there's a couple of people here oh my goodness gracious they just blam it's it's insane. Like I have so much thoughts I don't. I have thrown away like I keep it should keep it around for a while and And then like alright, we just kind of know how long it's supposed to stay around so like wow just dump it behind you Yeah, that big goings on. I had a Oh, milestone moment. Also. Right? Has this is brought this is brought to you by hashtag not sponsored okay? I just wanted to not sponsored at all yet Hey, what's up

Collin  45:35

I had to buy

Brandon  45:39

a new set of rechargeable batteries for my Xbox, right? Because there are wireless controllers now. And so I use rechargeable batteries because why would you not do that? Right? Right? Because otherwise I would have spent like $20 billion on batteries, right? So I have a set of rechargeable batteries and they're just like, they were not like are charging them and then they would not last like a day and then they could turn turned on again. So I had to go

Collin  46:15

buy more. And then I realized

Brandon  46:21

I've had these same rechargeable batteries for like over 12 years I break

Collin  46:31

what Yeah, yeah, they've been

Brandon  46:35

they've been pretty low for a while right? They haven't been holding guitars like real great for like a while now but I'm pretty sure I've been using the same like I there's four right at the same four. I switch them around the same for rechargeable batteries for like, over 12 years.

46:53

That's insane.

Brandon  46:55

Yeah, yeah, that this is the hashtag not sponsored part. That Energizer Bunny is no joke. Okay, that that is insane stuff like so obviously I had to go buy more energized batteries because all we got after that performance right it lasted lasted like over a decade of using the same batteries. If my again not like a super power drain activity, right? Like I don't like you know, I go through spurts where I play it a lot and I don't use it for like why on it but

47:30

still it's a very impressive feat. It's amazing to have lasted this long

Collin  47:39

it was a little bit like wow, I have to bide more batteries.

Brandon  47:43

What a weird thing to do because I have not I have not bought batteries in at least 12 years possibly longer. Right? possibly longer than that just deal with that information what you will that's the minimum amount of time that these have had that I've had

Collin  48:07

Well unfortunately now I'm concerned for you and that now you're gonna get you're gonna get like a year into these No, and they're gonna fail and you're gonna be like there was a time you could take your life on these batteries now we'll see how it goes

Brandon  48:25

but the last ones just wanted to throw that report out there what in the Holy hand-grenades Is this like I holy holy power cables Batman I cannot believe

Collin  48:45

that I had those there's no i i almost like it that's so like it's it's insane it's like I almost don't believe that because that just never happens. Never happens.

Brandon  49:02

Yeah, but I I'm pretty sure I've never bought any more I don't know when I bought these. I'm not 100% Sure but I've been using the same set of batteries just I get this four of them. I have four so I like you know switch them around but still we use the same sets of batteries for I can't even fathom how long it's been it's been a long time

Collin  49:27

no no I mean I mean I believe you but it's like it's unbelievable to think that the most people battery's like that especially when they're used like that but I guess you know you've been charging them and discharging them appropriately and not so good. Good Battery Management good on now go

Brandon  49:51

of the reason I had to get more in playing video games, right I've been swept up in mania. That is new video game really He says, okay, habits from time to time. Yes.

Collin  50:03

So been playing some lies of P.

Brandon  50:11

Class B. Have you ever wanted to play a game that was like a dark fantasy? Steampunk inspired retelling of Pinocchio? Well, obviously you have because, okay, it's rad.

Collin  50:31

Hey, so I should want this should want

50:36

ah I'm

Collin  50:44

interesting. I was kind of I was tracking with you and then you were like, you know of Pinocchio. I was like, oh, sorry. What's wham.

Brandon  50:52

Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, instead of like, A, it's still like the, like, 1880s. Right. So that's where the like, kind of steam punk influence comes in. But instead of like marionettes, they're like

Collin  51:06

automatons. You know, like, You're like

Brandon  51:09

an automaton thing, like gears, like that kind of deal. With that kind of vibe, right? That kind of like art style, where it's like, the automaton was like the mechanical man, you know, kind of stuff

Collin  51:22

like that. So instead of they call them puppets, right, but they're actually like, automatons. That's what's

Brandon  51:33

the thing. So that's kind of like the vibe is happening. So it's like, kind of dark Fantasy II a little bit like,

Collin  51:40

very steampunky. But Pinocchio

Brandon  51:45

That's wild. It's kind of

Collin  51:49

cool. So what's the what's the story game? Like? What's the point?

Brandon  51:57

Well, the story so far. Right. There's like, apparently, so like society created these public it to be used to like help daily life. Right, you know, today. And then something happened and they turned like villainous. And they like, massacred the city. Oh, my Yes. And so the beginning of the game, you are sent out to go save Geppetto. Right. And don't worry, because you have a little like lantern guide. automaton puppet thing. That's Jeff definitely named Jiminy. Just getting things out on your belt, right? That's important. So you like save him? You're trying to like figure out what caused this puppet? I think they call it the puppet frenzy. Right? So you try to look for the cause of that you like save some people, and you're trying to figure out why the puppets do this. And then like, because it's like fantasy setting. It turns out there some alchemists mixed up in all this somehow, right? And they're like, you know, they were fighting over this. They discovered this like, magic rock thing. And that's what they used to give that traumatize the power with the alchemist. We're using it for like,

Collin  53:13

alchemical things.

Brandon  53:17

Unclear at the current progress of the game, right? And so and so that's what's happened. And it's like, turned the puppets have turned evil. And then like, well, and then also, like, some of the things that like turning into monsters, probably Alchemist related if I had to guess. And so it's like a bit of that, like horror story elements.

Collin  53:42

Right? So it's very cool that it's fun.

Brandon  53:46

It's like a mega hard, but like,

Collin  53:51

what, what makes it particularly hard, I guess, especially compared to maybe other other types of games.

Brandon  53:56

Or just like the combat style is like a it's like a highly demanding, like, actually, kind of thing like dodge block. But like, very precise timing for like blocky stuff. So it's just like, very difficult to do the timing or it's like a very timing based thing. So it's, it can be hard. For sure. So yeah, that's what I'm doing

Collin  54:18

mostly this week. Playing weird.

Brandon  54:21

Pinocchio games. Oh, that's, yeah, I didn't know I needed that in my life. Oh,

Collin  54:27

but the answer is yes. Yes. I'm looking at some screen grabs and stuff from it as well. And it just looks beautiful as well. Right?

Brandon  54:37

I just like the art style. Do I really like

Collin  54:41

yeah, that's really cool.

Brandon  54:45

Yeah. About like, I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea how far I am still far enough to be like, I don't really know what's happening. So, you know, that's

54:56

far, far enough, but

Collin  54:57

not far enough. Yeah. Well, I will look forward to more updates on that as you go through.

Brandon  55:06

Yeah, once you know that's yeah, that's pretty much it gearing up for I mean, a four day weekend, right? So parent teacher conferences tomorrow, so we don't have school Friday. And they have an in service day Monday. Yay. I don't know. Well, what are you?

Collin  55:29

What are you? What are you going to be in servicing in service at all?

Brandon  55:33

I don't have the schedule yet. But I think the elementary is still theming all of their answers days off of the reading instruction. So I don't really know what I'm going to be doing on Monday.

Collin  55:55

Gotcha. We'll find out we'll find out.

Brandon  55:57

We'll see. But I don't know if I don't have to do that. If I don't have to sit in on a big long answer. It's

Collin  56:03

about phonics, which I could play down.

Brandon  56:08

I'm going to probably work on my stuff I gotta do right. I've been like I have a present like a PowerPoint thing I'm in the middle of making

Collin  56:25

that I need to finish because along with my

Brandon  56:31

idea, like these storytime things, right, where I will just like do like a myth retelling. You know, like in like Greece and stuff we do like the the weather we do. We do the like the Trojan War with like, you know, all that stuff. And then we do. I do one about Decius. Right. And the Minotaur, I do that one. And so I've made these PowerPoints that are just like the pictures to go along with my story. They're basically just backdrops. So I'm like, I'm telling you just like verbally, but I have like, pictures behind me where it's like, Oh, hey, look, this is over. So I have to make what I decided to do that last year, like right before I got to the testes in the Minotaur story. And so I do need to finish making one for the Epic of Gilgamesh, because we talked about that one in the Mesopotamia stuff, obviously. So I need to make some backdrop slides for my epic. The redacted version, don't worry listeners the redacted version for sixth grade appropriate redacted version. Thank you. Hey, that's where it gets weird. But I have to just put some, like pictures on there to go with my slideshow have no cards and stuff that I can remember, because that's a long way. But like we said some of the highlights. So I gotta do that. And then I'm probably going to do some more. Chapter reading audio book reading. For myself. That worked really good last time. I use it the other day. Yeah, it seemed to work

Collin  58:09

really good. So produce more that. Is it you you reading or it's me?

58:18

I don't know.

Brandon  58:19

Yeah, Morgan Freeman was unavailable. So it's just me,

Collin  58:23

I just, Okay, well, I'm not interested anymore. Nevermind,

Brandon  58:27

as I was reading the lectures recorded myself reading the, like some of the book chapters, okay, for some of my special education students, so they can like, listen and follow along with stuff so they can read it, because some of the stuff is hard to read, like by yourself. So sure, you can have that to look at and do stuff, they can do that. So they seem to like it, and I help them last time. So we're just gonna go with that. And do that. I have my Samsung stuff hooked up on my desk at work. So I just have

Collin  59:06

did that. I might do that smart too.

Brandon  59:12

So if I don't have to go sit through a reading meeting, which I really hope I don't, because that doesn't sound like a thing that I need to go to.

59:21

No, it doesn't

Collin  59:23

say I can't go to your reading meeting. I have to go read being right now.

Brandon  59:28

Oh, no. Oops. So II LZ. But again, I don't have an agenda. So I don't know what

Collin  59:38

this plan is. So

Brandon  59:42

I don't know. I hope I get the agenda before Sunday night. That would be real nice. I would not I would not like it for it to be probably fine. It might be wishful thinking but I hope it's not Our administration has gotten into a real bad habit of like, emailing like really important information like it's 730 at night to people. That's just like, I got an email the other day about something. And it was definitely sent at like,

Collin  1:00:18

it was on Saturday. Last Saturday, I got an email at like 720.

Brandon  1:00:27

And I didn't read, I don't read my email at home. That's not what home is for. But one of my fellow teachers emailed me or text me and said, you see that there was like a see, what, what are you talking about? Please, send screenshots. I don't know,

Collin  1:00:46

what was happening. I don't know. I don't know why they do this. Right. I think

Brandon  1:00:58

they just like take it for granted that people use, like their school email on their phones. Right. Oh, right. And so like, I think they just take for granted that people do that. And they'll just like, send out stuff like all the time. Which is weird, because you can schedule an email to go later. Yeah, you can schedule it. Even if you're thinking about it right now, you can schedule that for tomorrow. You know, it's really kind of weird that they do that. And I don't put my work email on my phone, right?

Collin  1:01:39

Because no one wants to do that.

Brandon  1:01:44

So like, I don't do it. And so every once awhile, I have no idea. I like it to work. And there's like these weird emails that like showed up at like, over the weekend. Oh, no admin, and you're like, that is not how this works. Okay. I don't know. Again, this is one of those things. I'm very pedantic about this. But if they're gonna harp about, you better make sure that you're at school between this time and this time, because those are your contracted hours. Oh, right. You better believe I'm not reading and responding to your email at 830. At night. That's not No. No. Okay. Like, we all know, teachers are doing things outside of our anyway. They're reading weird emails is not going to be on the list of things.

Collin  1:02:29

That definitely is one of those. You're right of, well, they know everybody does it anyway. Everyone's on their phone anyway. So they're just gonna go ahead and send it because they know you're gonna get it. And I that's, it's so wrong. So wrong, unfortunately. Right. Like, it's very unfortunate. It's very effective. Because they get responses, I'm sure. Right. And people, because people are on their phones all the time. Yeah. Yeah, it's real. It's real weird. Like, ah, I don't really don't like

Brandon  1:03:02

when this started happening. But it's been happening, like a lot more, like just a lot of weird emails, like, be that and you know, some of them are important. Some of them are just

Collin  1:03:12

not, right. But if you're, you know, it's still like, 630

Brandon  1:03:17

at night, and you're just got these emails in my inbox next day, and they're marked like, after school was over. Like, why would you do that? Right, like, I mean, office courtesy would dictate that you schedule that email to be sent the following morning at like eight o'clock. Uh huh. Right. Because you know, for sure everyone's gonna be at school at eight o'clock. Right? We have to be there like 747 45 and I that.

Collin  1:03:46

So you should schedule emails

Brandon  1:03:49

to show up that I have if you're working and you're like doing stuff, good, that's fine.

Collin  1:03:53

You do that, whatever. But

Brandon  1:03:56

don't expect me to have it like read and ready to go. I got one last night. There was one last time that might you might have something that had to be done today. And they sent it at like 530.

Collin  1:04:08

Yesterday. Like, what are we doing? What is that? Huh? Nope. Nope. Is it's a weird and I understand people, I understand people work different hours. But like, I for us, I will tell my staff like Megan and I work weird hours. We we may we've processed stuff. We'll try to send them the next day. But if you get an email or you get a message in Slack, at 1130 at night, that's just us processing stuff and you get to it the next day, but like Don't, don't stress out, but then that may that may happen. But I'm telling them in advance and I'm telling them what to do with that when they get it

Brandon  1:04:55

at 1130 at night. Yeah, leave it for tomorrow. Yes, exactly. but not not necessary for you to get to at all. Yeah, I don't I it's just really weird. Like, I don't know. I don't know, I feel like we need to have an interview today about email etiquette, I think that would be good for just like everybody in general, right? Like,

Collin  1:05:19

do you really want to sit in that meeting?

Brandon  1:05:21

Do you visit? This is a meeting that should take 20 minutes, I would gladly sit in this meeting for 20 minutes, if it will make people send better emails, right? Like, if you're gonna send an email to the whole staff, use the subject line. Maybe that would be good. Maybe that would be something useful that you want to do. Maybe, if you're gonna send the email to the whole staff about something just kind of innocuous don't put it in all caps. Right? Don't do that. If you're Yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna do this, like, format your email in some way. That makes sense, right? I know that we don't need we don't need to do like a whole, like, remember learning about like the 90 different types of like, memo. Remember that? Oh, yes. Right. Maybe we don't need that. But like antastic paragraph spaces would be good. Right, like, categorizing things in paragraphs, when you have when you're gonna tell me three different things. Give me three different

Collin  1:06:25

paragraphs, you know, that'd be good. Instead of having to be like, where?

Brandon  1:06:32

Because, you know, it happens to be a lot where someone would be like, well, I put that in an email, like, what you did? Yeah.

Collin  1:06:39

Where is that?

Brandon  1:06:41

I read that. For sure. And I don't know where that is. So or having your email be like, so incredibly long and dense.

Collin  1:06:50

For information.

Brandon  1:06:55

Again, not separated with paragraphs or even, you know, headings, if it's gonna be really long a heading would be, you know,

Collin  1:07:04

you're really asking a lot.

Brandon  1:07:05

I know, I know. Right? That would be good. But, you know,

Collin  1:07:11

I feel like sometimes they just like,

Brandon  1:07:14

think about something and then like, key it up, and it's fired off. You're like, wow, this should have had some thought like, it's really weird getting an email from like, a bunch of teachers and as a

1:07:25

spelling errors. Ah, I'm not the best speller in the world. But like,

Brandon  1:07:34

Google highlights, you know,

Collin  1:07:37

like a quick read through or something here. Like, let's get that a little bit of

1:07:43

pause, write,

Brandon  1:07:44

reread, reread what you typed, before you send it. Yeah, like, because you know, you do that thing where you put like, is, is blah, blah, you know, and you don't see it, because your brain automatically deletes the word because it knows it's not necessary, you know, but and you're like, if you just type it, and then send it, you're just getting a bunch of weird stuff that doesn't make sense. Or wig. Because like, we always get email, and then we'll go,

Collin  1:08:16

you're staying with that meant? Oh, no, yeah. Ha,

Brandon  1:08:21

I'm gonna send a follow up email for clarification. And then someone gets mad because they, you know, told me I didn't read it.

Collin  1:08:29

I did. And therein lies the problem, because you didn't write it correctly. Yeah, yes, we are in our our software that we use our company allows the our clients to go in and edit their own information, which is, which is both a curse and a blessing. It's wonderful that the onus is on them to make sure that it's right, so that if something doesn't, it's like, we feed two cups instead of a cup and a half. I wasn't me that wrote it down wrong. It was the client who didn't update it. It's it's nice in that respect. Yeah, it's also terrible for the clients who will do a voice to text message in while they're driving. And then I'm looking at this and it might as well be in hieroglyphics because I'm like, there is no there's I cannot decipher any of this. And I, I now have a phone call to make and that's not what I wanted to do right now. So

Brandon  1:09:23

giant run on sentence with like no.

Collin  1:09:26

And like arms and ahhs and like, oh, well, maybe not. But okay, well, let's go ahead and do that. And then like, sometimes they'll have a conversation with their significant other who is also on voice to

1:09:37

text. And you're like, Oh, no. Why is this happening right now? Oh, no.

Brandon  1:09:46

Trainees words in their eye level. It's great. It sounds fun that zag.

Collin  1:09:56

It's real precious. We're all we're going through a business thing where each day is like a challenge for you what you should do in your business. And we just finished with the mission, vision and values of what we want our company to be.

Brandon  1:10:22

And that does not sound exciting at all. That sounds almost exciting is four hours of phonics. PD, right? That isn't, right.

Collin  1:10:35

I, it's, it's, it's a, it's important for a couple reasons of like, one, if we're trying to have consistent like, marketing, messaging and branding, like, that's important, too, if we're trying to make sure that all of our staff are on the same page and understand what we're working for. Like, that's important. But like, my goodness, it's literally just, we just sat there, I had a flip chart and pay in a pen, and we just started throwing words like, writing random words. And glimmers, right. Yeah, exactly. And spoon were the top two, obviously, and trying to figure out like, you know, because it's like, oh, here's an exercise, think of your top three staff members, and then write five attributes that each one of them has that make your company better, those, those would be a great starting place for your values. And then you have to make a sentence with them. And I was just like, oh, my gosh, oh, oh, this, it gets to the point where you read it, and you're like, well, those words are good, but like, doesn't say anything? Or maybe it says something, but it's just so boring, you know? It's like,

Brandon  1:11:41

Ah, whatever. Oh, no, yeah, I've teachers like to do that thing too, right? Where you have the, we've done the thing in the past where you, they like to do a thing where they put like, these big flip chart papers on every wall, and they all have like a some sort of topic that go with them. And then you have to put you in groups based on some very strange game and or association and or pick a color out of this box. And you have to go group with people, and then you have to go around and like discuss topics and put your answers on the board. Right, and then come back. And then you have like, these big talks about what that means. And how we can finish like, I'm falling asleep in my chair cannot deal.

Collin  1:12:37

Yeah. And I, I mean, this is it was it's me writing everything. So my handwriting is terrible. And I misspelling things left and right. And what does that say? Like just the thing that says, you know, Foster, that's what we want to foster partnerships to equip, you know, thing that's like, oh, my gosh, this is this is going places, that's for sure.

Brandon  1:13:02

I mean, it's a brainstorming activity. Yeah. Worry about spelling on the brainstorming activity. That's like, the number one thing about brainstorming is write things. Right, you know, care about spelling,

Collin  1:13:14

you know, except whenever if you're trying to, you know, yes, and somebody you have to know what you're guessing to make an answer. Like, you have to

Brandon  1:13:21

worry and somebody, right? It's brainstorming calm that teachers are also very bad about this, right? Like, we know these things intrinsically. Right. We know that like, like, I know, like, I tell my kids, like, I don't really care. Like, well, how are they? Because I don't want to answer the question. 800,000 times a day. How do you spell this? Like, I don't just do it. Just write down. I'm not interested in that. I'm not a spelling teacher. I want you to put your thoughts on this paper, get them out. Fast. Boom. But like, if, like, if there's no worst place to be in, like a room full of only teachers, right? It's like the most pedantic place in the universe. Right, like full of like, you just like, correct each other's grammar and be like, well, that's not spelled right. Like I don't care. That's not the point here. We're focusing on the wrong thing. Stressing we just need to keep moving. Yeah. Like, don't talk to your kids like this, please. That's not going to help. Please tell you that do we bet the children Please don't?

Collin  1:14:38

Yeah, so hopefully I can survive PD day by doing Yes, tasks that will be useful to me. As best of luck. Try try.

Brandon  1:14:50

Also, right, just another side tangent here. I don't know what is happening this fall. Right. But there are currently four cricket It's on the wall of my room right now and I don't know why that's so vague crickets there's so many crickets like outside everywhere every where I don't know why there are so many like normally have some in the house right I don't know if it's because it's like way dry they want something but like they're all over the place and I don't know why there are currently four crickets just on my wall this is as looked over and like what

Collin  1:15:27

the heck I didn't know it was

Brandon  1:15:33

apparently it's cricket season October is apparently cricket season if you didn't know. That's

Collin  1:15:40

okay. Put this on my calendar maybe MDC will make a get you get a tag for that for next year. Yeah, maybe. And do some of this is very weird.

1:15:51

I mean, are they are they big? Small? Medium sized? Good. Yeah. Loads of them before

Brandon  1:15:57

they start making noises because that will kill me. I don't need to do

Collin  1:16:04

are you interested in in harvesting them and turning this into a side hustle? Selling this into the exotics community?

Brandon  1:16:11

I don't think so. I have no exotics. How big market value for exotic crickets nothing.

Collin  1:16:18

Now I will tell you that during the bell i Yes. i mean crickets in high demand. I did a lot of people do cricket and breeding for fishing, I guess no, no for for like tarantulas, our actual geckos for all sorts of critters will eat them. And you can be on my fancy lucrative, but I will not I do know that make us hundreds of cents 10s of cents, especially during the well I noticed during the pandemic, like our local pet store, just straight up stopped getting shipments for these. And they were the only place you could buy crickets in town. And we were having to go I was going there every day just to see if they had some. So I could buy a few to then take to my clients houses because they were traveling. And it was like, every day before I went out to do visits, I had to take a swing by Petsmart to see if they had crickets because they had these my clients had they had a bearded Bearded Dragons, they had geckos and stuff that you needed to eat. And so we had to we were like supplementing with fake stuff and other things. And it was it was it was very interesting. I never thought there'd be a day where we were at supply chains impacted crickets, who knew but okay, like that's where we are right now. i Yeah, it's very interesting.

Brandon  1:17:47

I'm taking a side note in my mind, right. This has brought about a memory of the river on that shelf. We had that like brass cricket box.

Collin  1:18:02

Right? Yeah, it was above me as a piano.

Brandon  1:18:06

Yeah, yeah, I our cricket box is a thing. That's what I'm seriously googly. Hey, now like what is the point of that? Or?

Collin  1:18:16

I don't know. Cricket keeping that's the thing.

Brandon  1:18:21

Okay, I just found the word. Hey, but why I don't know. I don't know I'm trying to find answers for this. Some of these pictures are the one that we had. Right? But I can't find why is it a Wikipedia page for this? Right vintage cricket keeping the thing was happening. I want to know why that is? Because I need a cricket box apparently. For all these crickets Am I

Collin  1:18:57

Oh, I thought it was for I was I was for luck. But the Chinese art of cricket keybie was actually for fighting. Had fighting crickets they had fighting Yes 12 century cricket fighting also started what? What does a cricket

Brandon  1:19:14

bite look like?

Collin  1:19:15

I don't don't google that. You'll get on some lists. Don't do it. I don't

1:19:22

what? I leave those what what on earth is this?

Brandon  1:19:31

Okay, this is very confusing, and I need more. I need more information on this and why does it exist?

Collin  1:19:45

What if I just grew up cricket keeping. I can't spell keeping. Well.

Brandon  1:19:51

This the one article Wikipedia does not seem to have is anything percolated to Greek aids keeping and boxes, right?

Collin  1:20:07

Yeah, somehow this has been wiped from the internet and I think I think we're onto something here on to something Oh,

Brandon  1:20:18

there's a cricket as pets Wikipedia page

Collin  1:20:24

kept for their song. And then cricket

Brandon  1:20:27

fights okay that has a page cricket fighting hobby and gambling activity involves the fighting of male crickets. Cricket fighting rarely causes injuries animals is a popular pastime in China dates back more than 1000 years to the Tang Dynasty. Era. The sport is losing popularity in China. Gee,

Collin  1:20:46

I wonder why. Well, I mean, like I don't know. I I mean, okay, I want to see your video. I kind of want to see a video. I don't want to see a video. Oh, they're arranged crickets are arranged according to weight class. What is the weight class? Yes, I'm looking to say So Wikipedia does have a cricket fighting.

Brandon  1:21:10

Whatever. I just found it. Yeah, range. Apparently cricket season begins in summer and the champions Championships take place after the autumn equinox. Hey, that's right now that's when the cricket is getting big. Oh. Ah, I'm in my house.

Collin  1:21:28

Looking for something. Fight and anger.

Brandon  1:21:31

Cricket fights are arranged in anger. I love that's a that's odd. Love that these are fixes wonderful

Collin  1:21:47

Oh my goodness. Okay, I'm going to post the see if I can do this the Chinese cricket fighting World Championships

Brandon  1:21:55

from eight years ago. Oh, wow. The loser is the cricket that first begins avoiding contact runs away from battle stops chirping or is thrown from the fighting container.

1:22:06

So if you flee, you run away. You disengage. you disengage. You become those there's a tournament. Wow. In October,

Brandon  1:22:18

so it's cricket fighting season. These crickets here are much scarier than the Warriors are in my house. Right these these crickets don't look like they're just big black ones that I have here.

1:22:34

No

Collin  1:22:36

Yeah, these are all these are all sorts of oh, these are wild. This is

1:22:39

so strange. i Who

Collin  1:22:48

No, there's a video I sent you. This guy has been doing this for like breeding these crickets for like 30 years. So

Brandon  1:22:53

that's the thing. Yeah, there we go. So what I need to do is go scour the internet for one of these little brass cricket cage things and just put it on the table and don't tell Susan about it. That's what I'm really gonna need to do surprise her with a new pic

1:23:16

and

Collin  1:23:18

that's Yeah, and you know, it just really for the longest time just really? What are you talking about? No, it's always it's always been there.

Brandon  1:23:24

Yeah. It's crickets are terrifying. These are these are not normal crickets. They're like, scary. Apparently keeping them as pets in Japan also a thing. I bet there are some like stylistic differences between Japanese and Chinese cricket boxes.

Collin  1:23:44

Oh, I thought you were gonna say stylistic between their fighting style.

Brandon  1:23:48

I made me to write well, it doesn't say here that the Japanese have any part of fighting. In in Japan, the cricket is a symbol of autumn in Haiku poetry. This makes sense because it is autumn and there's always cricket

Collin  1:24:06

as well. Now, we just had to wait for your Haiku poetry and I think

Brandon  1:24:10

okay, cricket haiku coming next week. Hey, we'll get on that. We'll see.

Collin  1:24:22

And I think I think that's a you know, we'll have to just, that's that man, there's a lot to look forward to then I think there's a lot of

Brandon  1:24:31

confusion happening. I don't really want to watch this YouTube video because I don't know what that's gonna do to my watches.

Collin  1:24:38

I think that's exactly why you need to watch it. And I look forward to your full report on on the stylistic differences between the boxes and a haiku. And yeah, and who your money is on this year.

Brandon  1:24:53

All right. Okay. So more more in depth to Packet Analysis being soon insect analysis sorry, not the sport. I know. I know nothing about both of these things actually. So this

Collin  1:25:13

that and that might bring you the latest and best reporting completely from a point of

Brandon  1:25:24

Yeah, of utter ignorance

Collin  1:25:25

of utter ignorance.

Brandon  1:25:31

So, to become alright, amazing. All right. Whoo.

Collin  1:25:37

Whoo and stylistic report, look more to it. Got it. Love you bye