rummaging
Brandon saw rain. Collin did a talk. We have questions about a movie.
When did I see rain last?
You have failed the test
Brain activated mode
Graduated cylinders with funnels!!
Rummaging
Ive moved on
Collin is preparing a talk..
And gave a talk!!
And doing another talk!!
Surprise Movie Review!
An almost good Treasure Island…
1990 Treasure Island
Sir Christopher Lee as Blind Pew: https://vimeo.com/130537794
Collin Haiku
Sunlight on the stream,
Ozark bluffs hold summer’s warmth—
Paddle cuts the glass.
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Keywords
rain, teaching challenges, sixth grade, science experiments, student behavior, personality traits, classroom management, family float trip, camping, conference preparation, business networking, Treasure Island movie, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, Long John Silver
SPEAKERS
Collin, Brandon
Collin 00:04
Collin, welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your host, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, rummaging
00:18
boy,
00:19
what's going on?
00:20
What my window was freezing. So I was like, ah, hi,
Collin 00:25
computer. Window was freezing. I was like, wait a minute, not that cold outside yet?
Brandon 00:30
No, but it actually is kind of like, not that cold, like 60 degrees. Holy cow, what they know. What is it actually rained? Oh, you got rain. We didn't get out today. Finally, we got rain. Oh, my goodness, I haven't had anything that, like, other than like a small, tiny drizzle, like it hasn't rained. Like, I was thinking about this today, and a slightly distressing thought entered my head, right? Oh, the last time I saw like rain, I was in Denmark, right? Think about that. Yeah, that
Collin 01:21
that's a lot of different, that's a lot of perspective to try and wrap your brain around.
Brandon 01:25
Yeah? It kind of hurt me. I was like, oh, oh, too sure about if I like that or not. Wow, yeah. I wasn't even really after I sat with that for a minute, yeah? Like, oh no, yeah. I would have to sit here with that
Collin 01:38
for a real long time before I'm like, Yeah, this is what I'm okay with right now, and this is, oh, my goodness, that's crazy. So yeah, did you, I mean, was it like a lot of rain? I don't want to be like, All Weather talk
Brandon 01:54
here. No, again, I don't own a rain Gage, and I haven't talked to any farmers today, but I was Wow. The custodian guy said he heard something like, it's over an inch, at least, so Okay, have it's been, it's been pretty, like, it was pretty steady rain for, like, most of the morning and afternoon.
02:13
Okay, you
Brandon 02:13
know, nice, nice. Just like, Ah, it's raining. How exciting. Feels nice. Yeah, you had to have indoor recess again, already. Whoa, already have an indoor recess is a little bit much. Okay, I feel like
Collin 02:29
that. Yeah, okay, that was too far, too far, yeah, a little too far there. But, you know, it's okay. But also, it was kind of fine. Yeah, yeah. Cool.
Brandon 02:41
That was nice, yeah. So just like trying to steer the ship in the general direction of getting sixth grade off to a start here, that's where we're going. Like, just a lot of it's it's not unintentional that the first science lesson is about making observations. And I spend the first few weeks of school just sort of like looking at them, like, what are you doing? What are you Why did you do that? Writing notes. What is happening here? Documenting. I told some of them the other day. I was like, all right. I just need you to know that you failed the test, right? Like, that's like they were, they were supposed to be working on this project, right? And they were just like, not, right. They're just like, goofing off and whatever. Yeah, I told them I was like, so this project, it serves two purposes, like number one to like, reinforce the content matter we've been talking about, sure, right? I was like, the second thing that it does is it tells me how you use your class time. Oh, no, right? Like,
Collin 04:00
I'm gonna look at being monitored. Yeah,
Brandon 04:03
well, number one, I'm watching you right now, right? And I'm seeing who's working and who is not, yeah, and I gave them two class periods, which, it's my afternoon class. So that is, it's less time than it sounds like, right? It's like a 230
Collin 04:19
minute class period. Oh, right, because you got the weird lunch split. Yeah, right,
Brandon 04:23
yeah. So we, it's a it's wonky, like we, because we still have, like, recess and we have this, like, responsive intervention reading thing and lunch, right? So our afternoon blocks are only 30 minutes long. Whatever I told them, I was like, this, you know, the first day? Well, the first when we started, it was like, this is going to be due at the end of class tomorrow. Right? Clearly, clearly, so you know how much time you have, right? Making, yeah, I told them. I was like, I watched the people who were done immediately and thought that. They were going to give me that and get points for it, oh, I
Collin 05:06
see you an hour basically, and you're done in 20 minutes. And you think you're done,
Brandon 05:20
the answer I have, yeah, I have something to tell you about the rest of your sixth grade life, right?
05:29
Okay, like, that's,
Brandon 05:34
that's what you think. Oh no, that's how this works, right? Like, that's interesting. That's very interesting that you have decided that's how. Okay, okay,
Collin 05:45
cool. You know what? Everyone's learned something today,
Brandon 05:49
yeah? So, yeah, I've learned much, right?
05:55
Yeah,
Collin 05:57
I, I was thinking of you today. I was talking with somebody, and I was talking about like, like personality traits, and stuff came up, and I said, I don't know like, what's something that like, like you like a personality trait that you like like about yourself, but you would rather change. And person said, Well, I'm really sarcastic. I'm really sarcastic, but it helps me, because I'm a teacher. And I said, what great do you teach?
06:30
He said, junior high. And I said, I
06:35
like, yeah, okay, that tracks. That's fine.
Collin 06:38
I'm really sensing a theme for what it takes to teach your high level, like, just start laughing. He's like, what? And I said, my brother, that's all.
Brandon 06:51
He's the same way. It's fine. Yep, you have to be a little bit right, like, it's fine. Yeah, you gotta go easy on them a little bit at the beginning of the year, because they're not they gotta feel them out. You gotta feel out which ones are okay, and which ones are like, right? Because it's like, also personality, like, some some junior high kids will just, like, throw it right back at you, right? And then you're like, Okay, it's good. It's fine. The other one, there's something like, we'll shut down. Oh, no, okay,
07:25
sorry, not not, not them. All right. No,
Collin 07:27
no. What was funny is the person, the person said, um, I don't, because I've been teaching for so I've been in the classroom for like, 11 years now. And I don't know if I started out this sarcastic or not because I really can't remember, and so it's like, I don't know if I'm the sarcastic because of my job or I'm good at my job because I'm sarcastic.
07:52
Why not both? I'm
Collin 07:54
just gonna go ahead and say yes. I'm gonna say yes to you.
08:00
Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, that is fair. Funny,
Collin 08:04
I can't really remember, because it was been a while. I was like, oh, okay,
08:10
yeah, and tracks, so it's okay,
Collin 08:16
nice. So kind of getting off to the to the races and everything. So it sounds like it's going well so far. Yes, right? I think we're slightly ahead of the curve, because today we did an
Brandon 08:29
activity, and I think I remembered everyone's name correctly. So there we go, in there. Now we're in there now. So, first, like two weeks, I was like, Wait a minute.
08:44
You?
Collin 08:48
You there? Yeah, yeah.
Brandon 08:53
So that, yeah, do that. But I only called one kid, his brother's name too. There go. Okay,
Collin 08:59
guys all coming together. That's fine
Brandon 09:03
together. Now gotta say, Oh, that's good. Classic, yeah. So you know, yeah, just kind of Yeah. It's a slow start, feeling out right, trying to get stuff under control. But it's been, it's been okay, I think so far
Collin 09:30
see. So it's also very like,
Brandon 09:34
the first weeks of school are also very difficult, because you're like, Oh man, just like, exhausted
Collin 09:43
because you're using all the time, yeah? Well, you've got to be not just like talking, but like you're on going, Yeah, full. There's no like, I'm gonna slump in a corner, like, I'm sure sometimes, but like, No, you that bell rings. You gotta, like, move in. Moving, moving, yeah, and they,
10:03
I tie with a mess
Brandon 10:05
my schedule again, right? Because that's what they left. So I have a My Plan block is first hour, okay, so you mentioned, yeah, I mentioned this last time. It is kind of killing me, right? Like, already, because,
Collin 10:21
like, I wouldn't now, I would imagine that, like you would, this is me, like, I would rather Gideon, like, start the day off, like, just going, like, just get into it. Going, why do you find that that hour planning in the beginning throws you off so much,
Brandon 10:41
I think because I haven't done any teaching yet, right? So you're like, not in the mode, sure. I mean, so like, it's kind of bad because you it's hard to get started doing stuff, yeah, right, because you're just, like, me, whatever. Like, I mean, my last I have always had early planning blocks, right? So, like, it's been like, second hour before. So, like, I just, I maybe I'm just used to that, right? So it's like, come in and you, you have a little bit because, you know, got a little bit of time to just, like, get stuff ready and whatever. And you said, Go, blam. And then when you have that plan block after that, your brain is, like, already activated, you know, you're kind of like already in teacher mode. So you're like, Okay, I gotta do this and this and this, and you gotta get this ready for later. And it kind of, even though it's so early, it would, like, allow me to, like, get my day ready in, like, two halves, right? Like, the day before I would get, like, the morning classes ready, right? Like, after school, like, a little bit after school, like, when you're still there. Like, okay, I'll just make sure I have everything for the morning done, and then during that plan time, like, Okay, now I'm gonna make sure I got everything for the afternoon. You know, you kind of, like, split things that way, this way. It's kind of like, I don't know what to do, and I got, like,
Collin 12:17
No, that makes total sense, because it's like, you're right. I think when you said the brain activated mode of like, I'm ready, yeah, I'm going, I'm thinking about things. I've got my juices going, ready to go, versus like, okay, and plan,
Brandon 12:31
Yeah, cuz I don't, like, I tend to be a person that, like, thinks about things and come up with, like, my plan sometimes, like, in the middle of the moment, right? Yeah, I'm just like, Oh, Ah, I got an idea. Like, I've been, I have so, yeah, this week my here's kind of the what's happened. I have been toying with a long time, redoing my beginning of the year science experiments, right? So, like, after last year, I was like, Yeah, I'm just tired of these. Like, they're not really that good. They're, like, not as hands on as I want them to be. And it's like, whatever. So I have thrown out two of the old there's three. I do three just kind of get, you know, like, practice doing it, then we talked about variables and procedures and mobile but so I threw the other ones out. And I, like, last week, made two new ones,
13:31
yeah,
13:33
and then
Brandon 13:34
so I had to make some lab sheets, right? But, you know, I just whipped together a data table. Was like, here you go, bang, guys, oh,
Collin 13:40
we all know you make it look pretty
13:42
with the little grad knock,
Collin 13:44
everybody knows this.
Brandon 13:45
And whatever font Google Docs comes in, and I put a table in it, and I put a place, I do remember to put a place for their name, and it was good. And the header even, whoa, use the header. I'm
Collin 14:00
sorry, you're gonna need to sniff out,
Brandon 14:02
yeah, what's down here? Got the header going on and then a couple of questions about it. So I whipped up two of those real quick. I dug around in my The most exciting part about all of this was digging around in some of my science cabinets, and I found a whole bunch of graduated cylinders that I did not know that I possessed, oh no, and, and there was funnels with them. So I really feel like this was great, right? Like I was just when I'm in there, like, ah, that is, that's spectacular, yeah, yeah. So some of the kids are like, Why do you have all this stuff? Like, because you never know, yeah, right. Well, I never know. I have it now, and we're doing it. I have it. We're good, right? So there's still a couple cabinets where I need to, like, throw out, like, some stuff in there. Like, I'm not going to use it. Probably, I just need to,
Collin 14:59
like, No, you're. Not crazy? No. I mean, nah, it's
Brandon 15:02
hard as a teacher to be like, I have this, like, small stash of, like, folders. Like, do I ever really use folders? Not often. No, do I want to throw away folders? No. So like, I'm like, I don't know what to do about that. But some things like that, like today, I found I did. I was looking for, again, I was rummaging, looking for something to hold all these marbles in about. And I was a coffee can. I had a coffee can in there, and it had, like, a bunch of pins in it. I don't even know where it came from, so I just dumped through all the pins away because they were, like, really old, just like junky, like, random, cheap, clicky pins. No idea how those got in my cabinet, but I dumped all the pins in the trash can. Was like, ah, Folgers Coffee can. That's what you need, 500 that's where you could put 500 marbles. That's what's up. Let's go.
Collin 16:03
It does it does sound like a bit of a manic episode. We like so is rummaging for things. Yeah,
16:14
the most Yeah. Balance,
Brandon 16:15
anyway, anyway, anyway. I was doing this. I was doing my experiments. I was thinking about my experiments. We're talking about like asking science questions and drawing conclusions from data, right? And so I thought to myself, wait a minute.
Collin 16:29
I like on my test that I'm giving, I'm gonna rewrite the questions
Brandon 16:38
to like mirror and be similar to the experiments that we've done, so that it makes is more continuity, instead of just like a random, like, quote, observation, right? Yeah, gonna, like, tie it to the experiments that we've done to, like, give it more like grounding, so that you can, like, understand and, and it's like, oh, you've done something very like this before. So what would that look like here? You know what I mean? Yes, trying to make it more contiguous. Because this is a like, asking a good science question is very difficult, right? And so I was trying to figure out how do that, so I also started rewriting my test today, after that, and drawing some graphs on the board about the results of our experiments so they could see, like the at, like, the class average, right? Like, Oh sure, you know, instead of just their data point, like we did one about paper towel absorbency. Like, how much water can a paper towel hold? Like, okay, and yeah. So that's why we need the graduated cylinder. They're measuring the fluid. And so instead of just seeing their data point, right, I did a big average of the sixth grade as a whole, and then I put that into a chart on the board so that they can see, like, Oh, this is like we talked about, like, now your individual result might not have been the same, but the overall everybody, this is their answer that we got right, like, The average answer of all the sixth graders, yeah. So trying to present them some data that way so they could, like,
Collin 18:26
see actually what the experiment was telling us, you know, as a whole.
Brandon 18:33
So I was also doing that. And so, yeah, it was a bit of a prayer, but that's what I decided today. I was like, in the middle of doing
Collin 18:40
something, and then I was like, wait, I should make my test questions like this. I could also,
Brandon 18:50
also do that. So have I finished grading all of the labs? No, did I spend time completely rewriting some of the questions of my quiz? Yes? Like,
Collin 19:02
yeah. That's fine, though, yeah, it's okay. And made Yeah,
Brandon 19:09
it'll be okay. I just like, was like, Oh, wait, this would be great. And
Collin 19:17
then it's hard to stop that momentum. Whenever it, like, pings into your brain and you're just, yeah, must, like, yeah. Like, I have to get this done now. Like, there's, there's no, there's no waiting for this one. Yeah.
Brandon 19:32
So if you could, so if all these kids are asking, they're already asking me, like, why is your desk so messy? Like, this is, if I need to explain that thought process, then, like, look, I was in the middle of something, immediately decided to do something different, and then we can't be bothered to, like, pick up the paper, right? We're doing
Collin 19:53
that. No, no, come on. What are you expecting? Too much here. You just gotta
Brandon 19:57
Yeah, and other things. Like, yeah, I
Collin 20:01
moved on, yeah.
Brandon 20:03
Like, I don't care about that. Oh, nice. Plus, I always just, like, keep the paper around for long enough and then go, like, it's like, random extra things, like from the office or whatever. So I'll keep it around for a while, sure, and then just, like, throw it all the way at once. Like, ah, there.
Collin 20:22
Reach that threshold where you're like, Okay, this is, this has not reached the land where I need to deactivate on something,
Brandon 20:29
yeah, yeah. This is also the reason why my week has been, like, exhausting, because it's been a bit manic. But like, you know,
Collin 20:38
it's fine, you know, you kind of need a good manic week every now and then.
Brandon 20:43
Yeah, so that's pretty, pretty much, it right, nice. What have you been doing? Other than looking like a coach? Apparently random pictures that are being said. I understand what's happening.
Collin 20:58
It was so bizarre. I
Collin 21:06
I, you know, this week has been, this month has been wild. It's, it's one of those things where, like, it's, if you compare it to some of like the early winter months, like January and February, you're like, oh, this, this is, this is an absolutely insane, crazy, busy month. But if you compare it to our summer months, which we were just coming off the heels of, it's like, oh, nothing is happening. This is, this is this is so slow I don't even know why I'm doing this. What am I doing? Like, it's just how quickly I lose perspective of that. Of like, No, literally, this is like, double what we were doing in January of this year. Oh,
21:51
my God,
Collin 21:52
that's where we are. That's what we're doing. That's a
21:55
horrifying sentence when you say it out loud like
Collin 21:57
that. But when, like, but when, like, the previous three months were two and a half times, right? It's like, Oh, this isn't, I'm not. I'm not doing that right, like, Whatever, whatever. So, you know, we've got it's, but it's, it hasn't felt as intense. And that's just because, well, the previous three months were literally off the rails, insane. And so, of course, at the moment, it slacks off just a little bit. You go, oh, okay, this well, this is manageable. This is This is nothing. Why? Why would we? Why are we worried about this? Keep moving. So that's been that's been good to have a little bit of breathing room. We got to go on a family float trip down the middle portion of the James River. This was, this was the kids have been really wanting to do it. We have. We floated the same little upper stretch that, you know, we've done before, and that's like two and a half miles and but they wanted to spend more time on the water, and Megan specifically said she would like to eat lunch
Brandon 23:05
on the river. And so, I mean, how can you say no to lunch? Really? How?
Collin 23:10
Indeed,
23:12
that's just not allowed, right?
Collin 23:15
Okay, fine, like, we'll do this.
Brandon 23:17
I will twist my arm up. Oh no,
Collin 23:21
I for being honest, Megan's going to be listening to this, and she's going to be like, No, Collin, you weren't all gung ho because I was a bit of a stick in the mud because the previous week it was so blipping hot. It was so ridiculous. It was, I was, it was my murder. I was like, No, we're all going to just like burn into a fiery crisp. Nobody's going to like this. I'm going to hate my life. Everything's going to be awful. And I was a little, I was a little bit of a, we'll just say, stick in the mud. Mega may have other terms to use to describe me,
23:54
but obviously, fuddy
Collin 23:56
duddy clearly the One Only option, the only one left, only one that I can possibly think of. And this family show, it turned out that it was like an absolute gorgeous day. It was 80 with clouds and a breeze and like, oh, wow, yeah, it was. It was actually, like, sometimes a little cool, if you were in the shade, oh, wow, now, and it was, it ended up being an absolutely wonderful time. I talked to some of the outfitters to see, like, hey, what's the river? Like, how are this blah, blah, blah. And, you know, we, when we go floating, we float in canoes and cut Megan's in the kayak. I'm in the purple canoe with kids trucking on down the river. And, you know, they were just like, yeah, it's, it's, you know, it's float. You float it between. Four feet and six feet, it's above that. Do not come near the river. Basically, you'll die. I
Brandon 25:04
was like, yeah, it like, rips through there all of a sudden. It's real weird, yep.
Collin 25:09
I was like, Cool, cool. We were sitting right at 4.3 feet, yeah. So I was like, awesome. However, at 4.3 feet, it is a little low in
Brandon 25:21
spots, a bit say that sounds low,
Collin 25:25
yeah, if we were floating in an inflatable, one of those things, right? Oh, yeah, like a raft, a raft of sorts, then it probably would bottom right out. What happens in an issue, an issue, however, because we are not those kind of people and we actually, we, we float proper,
25:51
whatever. Actually paddle, yeah,
Collin 25:55
it's an actual thing that we do. We
26:00
drug A lot, yeah, yeah, four is a little bit.
Collin 26:04
But yeah, four, I was, like, really, four, that's what you'd say you this was floatable at four in what? In? What your shoes walking? Sure, I could walk the river at four feet. Like, absolutely. I don't know what people do it for. That doesn't make sense to me. No, thank you, right? Like, yeah, I was very high by this. We floated. We floated seven miles River, dragging in. Well, we could have done it in five, but we had an hour lunch, and we then spent another hour, like a true hour at something else, just kind of playing around and doing stuff, yeah. And so we stretched it to swimming, yes, yeah. So we stretched it to six hours, which was, which was a good amount of time on the river that was, that was really good. Appreciated that time, and it was just neat to see a different part of the river. Got to see some bluffs, not like big like, nyanga, yeah. Not like river current, river bluffs, but like, Oh, this is a very, this just looks like a very different river than what we floated before like. So that was kind of neat to talk about some of those comparisons and contrast against certain things. And, you know, just, just have fun out on the river. So that was, we spent a day doing that. And, man, that was like a woof, like that. That is a pretty brutal that will take it right, that'll and it was brutal, not because of the heat or anything. But just like, yeah, when you're dragging and like, I'm pushing a canoe that's got two kids and our cooler and some other gear and stuff in it, like, you know, that just wipes you out a bit. So we got
27:55
a lot, like, it's being
Collin 27:57
perfectly honest, yeah. So we're
27:59
all
Collin 28:00
pretty substantial amount. We get back to dads, and this is where the kids go, Dad, can we sleep in the tent tonight? You can? No. I was like, No, I will. I will sleep in the tent with you. I will do this because I know, like, if when I sleep outside, like, I always get amazing sleep. It just and because this was where it was starting to get cool, so it was, like, in the low 60s at night, like, oh, okay, it's gonna be kind of like 80 right before sundown, and then it's gonna just drop 20 degrees all night, and at three in the morning, it's going to be 62 Yes, I will be here for that. I will be out there. So we set up the tent. And of course, this is the first time the kids have been in the tent. We're outside, you know, seven steps from the deck. It's fine. Yeah, I did not put on our rain flies and our the tent I have, we have for is the entire open the entire, entire top dome is mesh, right? So you can just see the sky. And there was not a cloud in the sky that night, so tons of stars. Kids are kind of getting up. They're looking around, standing up and doing like a 360 scan of the area around us, looking through the mesh,
29:17
whatever.
Collin 29:19
And they're kind of up, and whatever I get up at, you know, two can't go back to sleep. I go out to go to the bathroom, come back, you know, I lay down, and I wake up. It's five o'clock, and I just opened my eyes and looking at some stars, and they're starting to disappear. And I take both my hands, I put them up, and then I rest my hands down on the left and right, because I have one kid on the left and one kid on the right, I'm gonna, you know, like, rub their backs or just sleep, yeah,
29:46
and my hands
Collin 29:48
go through their sleeping bags, ah. And there's no children in the tent. Oh, no. Oh.
30:00
Off. I take a moment I go, Huh? I wonder where they went.
30:07
And then I just
Collin 30:09
listen, and I hear giggling and what they're doing, just running laps around the house, under the stars, obviously, 62 degree weather, and it turned out that they had already been like inside the house and back out like twice, uh, getting a cup of water and getting a towel to
30:38
wipe the feet off.
30:42
Ah, it was fantastic. So I kind of like called them over and
Collin 30:53
said, Okay, we get back down. Okay, it's fine. And they did go back to sleep, and then we all kind of wake up around 630 and, yeah, got up, but it was so funny, like, I put my hands down.
Brandon 31:08
It was just like, what's going on?
Collin 31:14
It was fantastic. So we got to do a big float trip. Got to do some camping,
31:22
and
Collin 31:24
we are ready for our back country introduction. But I think that's what this is nice, yeah, now, now, of course, the kids are like, when can we go camping? When can we so we say, When can we sleep on the river? Oh,
Collin 31:48
like,
Speaker 2 31:49
Well, yeah, now we're gonna
31:55
need to work up a bit
Collin 31:58
more to that, because their little, there's six hours on it, they were both completely asleep within five minutes of getting the car ride home, like they were they were out. It was great. So, like, No, I don't think two, you know, a six hour day and then, like, another four or five hour day. Like, no, I don't think we're gonna be doing that
Brandon 32:27
just yet. Yeah, that's a bit, you know, you don't want to do it too early, like that. That's, it's, it's a little referee, no, that's
Collin 32:39
good. I enjoyed it a lot. I was like, yeah, yeah. We need to be doing this a lot more, like a lot, lot more. So that's kind of, we're kind of looking ahead to maybe do one more fall float. I don't know yet, we'll see nice. That'd be nice. So yeah. So we're kind of, now, I'm in prepare mode for travel, September bonanza. Oh yeah, I am getting, I'm not, like, super nervous, but just like, what I what I have to do is I have to because I we do a lot like, it does mean that we have to pull forward like so much before, so that we can leave, right? So like, Oh, right. I have to pre edit five podcast episodes before I can leave for this, all this stuff, so that I have time for things. And I have to pre write all of this stuff so that I have time for things. So it's like, Oh, that is where I am right now. And trying to, like, Okay, so I've just got to do like, a little bit more every single day, and then I'll, like, chunk through it, and everything will be fine, as long as I don't add, like, anything else to my plate, like, I think I've got my time budgeted. Then one of the so I'm going to speaking at a conference, and I was going to go out and do an MC at this other conference, and so that's like a whole other job in its own I'm starting to, like, I don't know all the speakers that are there, so I'm trying to, like, remember who they are and make sure I can recognize them when I see them, like, flashcard work, because, like, that's going to be embarrassing if, like, hey, oh no, I'm introducing you later. Like,
34:36
I can't do that, right?
Collin 34:39
So I'm preparing for that and working with the organizer of that conference. And then they reached out to me, and they were like, Hey, um, so I know you're like, the emcee and everything, but like, what if you were also giving a talk? Would that be?
35:02
That'd be cool with you,
Speaker 2 35:04
obviously. And I was like, it was like,
Collin 35:10
like, oh, no, um. And so, like, I kind of had this idea of like, okay, well, I am already giving another talk. So what I just said, like, hey, in order for me, oh, because it was like, if so, I need your completed slide deck and anything you want to hand out in a week and a half. Thanks. And I was like, oh,
35:36
not a week and a half. Oh,
Collin 35:39
well, for an hour long talk at like, a pre, like, a conference that is supposed to be, like, really high level, high impact kind of stuff. Like, oh, yeah, this isn't like, my favorite color is blue. And I calm myself by reading like it's like, no. Like, these people are like, it's Yeah. So I'm a little intimidated by that, yeah. So I was like, Well, I have this other talk. I think what I'll do is, if you're okay with it, I'm gonna just, like, use 60% of it and punch up the rest of it to fill the time. And she was like, that's fantastic. Great. I love it cool. So I sat down, and I have my original slide deck, and I'm like, going through it, and again, it's all just pictures and, like, random pictures, because I've got to have those are my pictures. Are my keywords to cue me to what I'm supposed to talk next. And I'm going through all this, and I start picking and choosing, and then I'm like, Oh, well, actually, if I and all I have to do is Oh, and then all and then Q, an hour and a half later, the talk shares exactly 3% from the original one. It's completely different.
Speaker 2 36:58
And I'm that's fine. It's new. It's exciting, right? I
Collin 37:04
know. And of course, you know Meg, you know I told Megan, I was like, the only way I'm doing this is if I'm sharing between talks, and because it'll just it'll won't be so burdened, and I won't be so freaked out about it. I'm sorry. I can't help myself. I am so sorry. Anyway. Let's we just move on from this conference. So I'm building that deck out, and I will say I'm really excited about this one specifically because it's about so the conference is all about like scaling and like growing your business and, like, vol all this stuff that, like, I whatever. I'm not gonna talk about that. But, yeah, I'm gonna talk about thoughtful scaling. So I'm gonna be kind of, like, the one that's like, counter programming during it, of like, while these guys are, like, set your goal of 180% and, ah, I'm gonna be like, what if you, like, breathed a couple times during the day, like, what would that be? Fine? Would that be? And so here's my kickoff for him. Here's my spoiler.
38:09
I'm gonna read
Collin 38:11
Shel Silverstein story about Melinda May, who ate the whale.
38:17
Oh, okay, yes, ah. I Okay. Okay, I see the direction here. Okay, that's my
Collin 38:25
lead in, right that's what I start with. And then everything is framed about like, okay, choosing the right whale, and not like the right whale, although that is a pun I am going to
Brandon 38:35
make, because otherwise I'm going to be grumpy, like,
Collin 38:40
choosing the correct whale, the right whale, how to go about chunking away at it. Like, what are the small bites? And my guideposts for the small bites are actually every topic from the other talks going on, like using AI, like, using this thing, like using, like, those are the little
Brandon 39:04
bites you can take, one at a time, and sneaking in there. Give me.
39:09
Look at me.
39:11
I do
Speaker 3 39:12
have references to, like, where,
Collin 39:15
where pursuing your whale could go wrong. So, of course, I've got some Captain Ahab talk. Thank you. Good. Okay, good. I also have some talk about Pinocchio and the transformation that happens when you're
39:30
in the whale rebirth, right?
Collin 39:34
You know, so I also do pull in from some Inuit lore on what whales represent to them. And then we wrap up on, like, Okay, now you choose your whale and go forth like, that's, that's what, that's my whole talk, right? Take it the whale metaphor, and I'm like running with
39:58
it. You know, having a good. Fallen through metaphor is really it's really important, right? I feel like,
Speaker 3 40:06
Yes, I because what happened, what Susan
Brandon 40:09
and I were talking earlier, and I said I was telling her about something, and I was like, Listen, I don't have answers. I only have metaphors. Okay? I don't know. Exactly,
Collin 40:24
exactly. And what had happened was, is that in my other talk, I had used a little bit of the story as my transition point, because I started off that talk by saying, like, hey, it was that talk is about time management, which is really boring, and I picked a dumb topic, like, I will own up to that, like I was not in the right frame of mind when I submitted that. Talk like, it's about time management. I'm like, Oh man, no, that's Oh gross. Why did I do that? So that's time management. But I talk about, like, here's the 10 guaranteed ways to waste time. I talk about Melinda as the transition to more focused, purposeful move forward, and then we transition to actual like tools to manage your time better. Like, that's that was my transition point, was Melinda. And then that became the whole purpose of another talk for, like, picking and choosing these things and whatever. So I'm trying to breathe for that. And so I have, I've got to start finding now, here's what I do, right like, so I have a pun about right whales. So I have to find the right picture for the right whale to make sure that it lands. So this is, this is now what I'm there I'm spending my time doing is like hunting a whale, finding a whale.
Brandon 41:40
Literally see, yes, see,
Collin 41:43
my other whale reference is the whale and Hitchhiker's Guide, where it just like, plummets out of nowhere and falls to the earth. And, like, some whales are not meant to be around for a long time, like we've got to let it go. That was my other whale reference. Sorry, I was trying to remember what it was like this. This all came together in an hour half like last night, from 10 to 1130 so I'm okay. Could not give this right now, but yeah. And then I this week, I went and gave a talk to some business people about business, about this thing called 1 Million Cups. I've been there quite a lot.
42:20
Oh yeah, because
Collin 42:23
so they do these things where, like, you come and present one time, and then each time you come back, it's called a refill. And what they want to see at the refill, nice, oh man, puns. And I'm like, this is, I'm like, this is, like a big mucky muck like non profits funded by the Kauffman Foundation, and they're using, like, I'm okay, I'm good with when I use my puns, everybody quiet. What they want to hear is, like, stuff you implemented from the last time you were there, and like, a new challenge, or new thing that you're coming up. And I got a call on Monday from the organizer of that group, and he was, you know, kind of doing a little bit of a schmooze. And I, I know him, and I'm talking to him, and I, I know what his ask is, I know he's calling me on Monday, the meetings are on Wednesdays and and he's like, Well, you know, man, we we'd sure hope things are going well for you. And, man, I'll tell you, I know we had you back in March, and so we're coming up on six months, but we would love to have a refill from you. We absolutely would, but hey, I don't my September is completely full. What I actually need help with is this Wednesday.
Speaker 3 43:38
That was the stout. What a hook set that was.
43:42
Ah, dang,
Collin 43:45
braided. I had not said a word up to this point.
Brandon 43:53
I said, Hello, and then yeah, zing them in there, exactly.
Speaker 3 44:01
Oh, there's one thing. Oh, like I had called him. Well, oh, man, we would love to have you back, absolutely. But here's the thing, like, I didn't ask why you called me.
44:15
Yeah, you Yeah,
Collin 44:19
and now I'm like, like, Ah, I now know why you are the the regional manager over an over an entire bank, okay, yeah.
Collin 44:36
Conversation lasted less than a minute and 20 seconds, and and afterwards, I just kind of sat there my phone. Like, I know what happened, but what happened?
Brandon 44:47
It's got blitzed Right? Like, oh my goodness, oh my gosh, oh, wow.
Collin 44:58
And the good thing about the. The hardest part about those presentations is you have they want it's a you start networking and talking to people at 830
45:11
you get you
Collin 45:13
start talking about your presentation at nine. They want you to be done talking at like 906, and then the rest of the time till 930 is questions and conversations back and forth. So basically, what you have to do in five minutes is frame your problem in a very hyper specific way and like, point everybody's nose in the right direction, because these are people who show up. They are small business owners. This is, this is a networking event, for sure. But like these people, they show up to give advice to those who are presenting. Like, that's the whole point is to share ideas and get feedback on them. And so you have to, because if you just show up and you're like, I don't know, and I tried some stuff, but I don't know, like, they will focus on literally everything else that you don't want to talk about.
Brandon 46:10
Oh, yeah, obviously, right, they'll like
Collin 46:13
because they have no direction. And so what I have learned to like get the best out of this. You basically have to come in and slam every door that you're not interested in talking about shut like all of those boom. And then focus, hyper focus, and say the words over and over again about where you want to go and what you're there for and what you need from them. And when you can do that, like again, that's five minutes. You don't have 30 minutes for a setup. You've got, you've got two, yeah, like that. That's been that was hard to do. And this is my fourth time presenting to them again. They kind of, they do reach out to me about every six months, and they're like, Hey, cool, thanks, because I'm on, like, a an August, or, sorry, like a March and August, September timeframe, okay, so those are very slow periods for them, yeah. And so I'm like, absolutely I have I can and many things, many things to talk so the photo, the photo that you saw there. I when I they always like, Oh, and here's your here's your microphone. And I'm like, you can set that over there. This is not a big room. I've
47:30
got this, yeah, because I'll be fine.
Collin 47:32
I have found, for me, that when I hold the microphone, I get more nervous and anxious, and I'm not quite sure, like,
Brandon 47:40
I think it's because you can't do things with your hands. Yeah, you can't gesticulate, because otherwise you'll be right, right. Like, you, you like, have to stand still. You like, have to hold your hand still. And then my hand starts to
Collin 47:56
shake, right? Yeah. And then my brain's like, oh my gosh, you're shaking. You're nervous. And then I do get nervous, and I'm like, like, no microphone. I'm just yelling. Okay, we're just gonna yell. People deal with it.
Brandon 48:08
And so it's fine. Don't worry. Yeah,
Collin 48:12
again, like, I have lungs. I can use them for now. Like, let's let's go. Let's do this. So anyway, we gave the talk. I got some interesting feedback about kind of what we're what we're wanting to try and do, and it was good that that's always a whirlwind, because you basically, again, you're like, I don't, you don't know who's going to be in the crowd that day, because it's not the same people. It's whoever can show up. So it's like it could be, you know, 40 people from totally different and varied backgrounds, or it could be three people, and they're not going to talk a lot. And so I had quite a lot of people in the room, thankfully. And it meant that there was a lot of rapid fire questions back and forth. So it was a, went pretty good. I'm happy with it. It was a, oh, yeah, yeah. I just Yeah. Cut off the phone. I was like, again, I know what he just did, but what is going on? Yeah, do that, man. He is really good at this, almost
49:18
like he's a salesperson. No. Oh,
Collin 49:22
wow, yeah. What's funny is, I didn't know his title and, like, what his actual day job was. And again, all these are volunteer positions. They're not there for sure. Yeah, one would say, Okay, so you've got a banker there at a small business networking thing. Okay, right? The next time somebody shows up, and they're like, and I'd love to have a trailer to sell my taquitos on the corner. He'll be like, I'll give you money, right? Like, he does get stuff out of that, but there are really good ideas, and they do know the system, and they do share freely and willingly. Like, tons of coaches show up too, and they're never like, well, here I can't tell. Talk to you unless my
Brandon 50:02
coaching rate kind of an hourly minimum, right?
Collin 50:05
Please tap your card here for to continue. No, I've never had that. They all are like, it's all very open, and so I do very much appreciate that from that perspective of like they're there to help and be helped, too. So that is nice, yeah. That's, I do like that atmosphere, but just, ah, yeah. So it's always, always wild, yeah. So that's, I mean, that's that's been this week. So far we've been now, again, we're kind of in this lull where I'm just staring at things coming up and trying to get ready for our i When, yeah, I was like, Oh no, we're traveling in a week and a half. Like, I'm Dang it,
Brandon 50:52
yeah, I gotta wrap up a bunch of stuff too. Yeah. I do like, oh, like, some things, yeah, yeah.
Collin 51:00
Because of the pacing of everything. It's like, right? I'm not guess. What I don't want to do is get back from my trip and have to immediately work on a bunch of the other stuff. Like, yeah, editing more things and writing more things. So it's like, I've got to use this time now to edit like, four or five podcasts to, like, jump way ahead. It'll be yeah and and write all these emails that go out and do all this video like so not complaining, but also I'm
51:37
complaining that's that's all I got.
Brandon 51:41
Well to ease your mind, I have a surprise for you. Ah, right here you go to take you out of this right now. I have for you another classic installment of surprise. Brandon is reviewing a random movie. Oh, yeah, let's go right now, of course, of course. What else could I be reviewing this week, right? But something to do with Treasure Island, right? Obviously, right? This book has had, uh, massive reverberations throughout the cinema history, right? So, like, I was reading that, like Disney's first version of this movie, like the oldest one, like the guy that plays long genre silver is basically responsible for why people think pirates say like are made here. Like that is really like his performance, like cemented pirate into, like, the American zeitgeist, right? It's like, Let's go extreme, important thing, right? Wow. So we have that version, right? We have, of course, the best version, the best version of Treasure Island Muppets, Treasure Island, right? Yes, we have the best adaptation of Treasure Island, right? Uh, Treasure Planet. Oh, right. And of course, you know, we have the truly, you know, it couldn't have existed without Treasure Island, Pirates of the Caribbean, right? However, yes, what if there was a version of treasure island that was like, almost good, but not like, okay, except for the performance of one person, right? What if that version exists?
Collin 53:39
Hey, hey, guess what it does? Oh, no, did you know
Brandon 53:46
there is a version of Treasure Island from 1990 right? It's like a TV situation. It was produced for TNT network, right? And this movie is almost excellent, right? No. So this, we have powerhouses, maybe not powerhouses, but, like, there's a lot of very good English actors in this movie. Okay? Like, Oliver Reed is Billy Bones, okay, right? Like, he's like a, like, he's the guy that plays proximo in the gladiator movie, but he was like a actiony guy back in the day, right? Some other people, right? Pete Postlethwaite, right, he's in this movie. He is George, right, Tom Redruth is James Cosmo, who was also he's in Braveheart, right? Dr Livesey is Julian Glover. He's Donovan from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, he's the, is the, is the doctor. There, right. Okay, blind pew. Would you like to guess who plays blind pew in this movie? I, I, no, I don't. Did you? Did you guess Christopher Lee? Oh, yes, yes, yes. And of course, Jim Hawkins, yeah, played by an extremely young Christian Bale. No way, way I rise.
Collin 55:36
This is more and more a fever dream. As you talk, it is. It's amazing.
Brandon 55:40
Now you'll notice there's one name that I did not mention, right, one name that I didn't put on here. Okay, that is because this movie is let down by the casting choice of who to play. Long John Silver. Unfortunately, one right? But the most important character you could say really lets the side down. Okay, because for some reason, this exceptionally English cast centers around Charlton Heston.
Brandon 56:28
And believe me when I tell you, Charlton Heston's Long John Silver is so bad.
56:41
Why would they do that? Don't know,
Brandon 56:44
which is still 1990 people still cared about Charlton Heston. I guess I don't know, like man, I literally anyone else could have been in this role, right? Gracie, yeah, yeah. I just, I really, I really feel like they fumbled it when Christopher Lee wasn't Long John Silver, if we're being honest. But I don't, man, you imagine? You imagine silver brother. Oh, man.
Collin 57:21
I mean that. I mean except all the nightmares you'd have after that. Like, that's
Brandon 57:28
so good. That's right, his blind Pew is, like, way too good. Like, I don't know, doesn't even make sense. Like, why? Like, he goes all in, like, the makeup and like the it's insane, right? Like it's but yeah, Charlton Heston lets the side down hard, right? So some notes in this movie, Oh, no. It's kind of hard to find online. But, you know, like, all their, all their movies, will you looking for online, you look for the Cyrillic alphabet, you'll be all right, right. It's fine, right? So, so we have this, it's actually pretty accurate. There's lots of like, dialog from the book, right? It's just like, what if there was more action, right? So it's a little the action scenes are a little played up more, right? Kind of drawn out a little bit, which is good, right? It's nice, but overall, it's pretty accurate. One of the things that I thought was interesting, right, is, in this version, right, in the film version that it is, it's very explicitly shown that when Jim Hawkins goes to see, he is going To see with
Collin 58:59
Billy Bones, is sea chest, right?
Brandon 59:04
So, like the he packs his stuff in the chest. So like the pistols that he uses throughout the movie, they're the ones from Billy Bones his chest, right? Like the knife that he has in the movie,
Collin 59:14
that's Billy's knife, right? So he's sort
Brandon 59:17
of, like taking these things, and that's what he uses throughout the movie. Okay, kind of a little interesting development. I thought. I was like, okay, that's kind of clever, right? Like, you know he's going to, he's got, he needs, he doesn't have a C chess. He's going to take movies, right, obviously. So you do that was just a little aside that I thought was like, that's a good detail. I like this, right? I like this kind of thing, right? And, of course, it's very Chekhov Gunny for whenever he ends up shooting Israel Hands he used, he's using Billy Bones his pistol, right? Very fit. Yeah, and right, no that you saw at the beginning of the movie, right? Look at.
1:00:00
They do use it. They do,
Collin 1:00:02
yeah, right. So, um,
Brandon 1:00:05
other notable differences is the captain, right? When he gets injured, he, like, is way not as severely injured, right? He's like, ends up having his arm in a sling, right? Whatever,
Collin 1:00:20
like, not like, disappears from the rest of the
Brandon 1:00:22
Yeah, yeah, not. He is in the plot a lot more, which, you know, fair for movie. But would you like to know the manner in which the captain gets in?
Collin 1:00:35
Is it? Is it not being
Brandon 1:00:37
shot? It's, it's epic, is what it is. It's much more epic. It's not just like get shot through wall, right? No, no during the attack on the fort, right? The roundabout thing here, the pirates wheel up a cannon closer range to the thing, right? And so they're shelling the building with like grapeshot from much closer. So the captain and Hunter right, decide that we gotta get rid of this gun emplacement. So what do they do? They take a powder keg and they jam a big fuse in there, and they run out the door. Okay, no charge the gun emplacement with a makeshift ball. And the captain gets injured. He goes down right. Hunter picks it up and continues to runs and flings at it that blows up the gun emplacement, right. Once he throws it all the pirates scatter, right, run away, right. Oh. The other thing I wrote here is that also it is, like, very clearly stated, that Ben Gunn is the one killing the
Collin 1:02:00
pirates off screen, right? Like, oh, not, yeah, none of the like, it is, like,
Brandon 1:02:05
explicitly, like, stated it was him, right? Like, it's not like you see scenes where he's like, sneaking he's like, crawling up a tree with like, a knife, right? James, so you, like, he does you don't see him, like, actually stabbed anybody. But like, you see him, like, lurking around the pirate encampment.
Collin 1:02:26
He's, he's moving in the dark, we know it, yeah.
Brandon 1:02:29
So that is like, you explicitly see that, right? Also, the other part that was really funny is whenever the, you know, whenever the doctor, just like, goes off in the middle of the night, which prompts Jim to leave, also later, yes, he is shown wrapping up a piece of cheese in a cloth and putting it in his pocket. Okay, okay. Yes, I this is, this is
Collin 1:03:01
getting close to the number one version right now at this point. See, see, I'm talking about this movie was almost perfect. Yeah, it was really, except for nested,
Brandon 1:03:18
oh, other things I wrote. Here is the fight with Israel. Hands is actually really good. It's very dramatic, right? With Jim and hands on the deck doing
Collin 1:03:27
their up close and like, Yeah, and
Brandon 1:03:32
like, it's really dramatic. Like when the ship hits the ground, like Israel's about ready to stab him. And it like they both get thrown off the thing. But he also, they did add a line in there, I think, where he's, you know, right before he shoots him, and it clicks off, like Israel says out loud, oh, Jim, you didn't keep your powder dry and, like, runs out.
Collin 1:03:55
Oh, geez. Okay, yeah, that's, it's like, a very
Brandon 1:04:02
dramatic, right? So that whole thing is, like, very good. So, yeah, that's basically I wrote. I have a couple other side notes here, because it's shot in 1989 released in 1990 I have a note here. I'm just gonna read it verbatim. Aside, there's a weird amount of didgeridoo in this soundtrack.
1:04:30
Why? I guess it's exotic. I guess,
Collin 1:04:33
like it's exactly what it is. It's
Brandon 1:04:37
exotic. It's not a Caribbean sound at all, right? Like, Flint, allegedly, you know, Flint died in Georgia, right? So, like, oh, man, the didgeridoo did
Collin 1:04:49
reduce, yeah, well known Georgia
Brandon 1:04:53
thing. I also imagine that this play, this version also has a lot more English writers, because there's. Just saw lots of extra French insults in this mirror, right? Like, there's a lot of extra, like, little jabs. Like, yeah, like, oh, I don't blah, blah, blah. Like, a Frenchman, like, what
1:05:17
like that like, when he's checking the guys, when he, when the doctor goes back and discovers that Jim is with the pirates
Brandon 1:05:24
at the readout thing, they're like, he asked to see their tongue, and he's like, oh, man, that tongue is pretty bad. It could frighten a Frenchman. Like, What? What? What
Speaker 3 1:05:37
does that mean? We're just saying things now. Is that what we're doing? Yeah,
Brandon 1:05:41
we are saying, saying things now, apparently, um, another thing that was, like, very extra and like, not necessary, is that when they go to when they're going to find the treasure, there's a scene where there's just like a rope across a huge chasm with the waterfall, and they are like, you know the thing we like, hang upside down on the rope and, like, shimmy across it. That's what they're doing. Oh, who put that rope there? What are you doing? Why? How does, how does love John Silver do that with one leg? I don't really understand what's going on, right?
Collin 1:06:17
Yeah, there's actually, we have lots of questions. People,
Brandon 1:06:21
yeah, like, a very extra like, that scene does not need to exist at all. Like, why is that there? You know, for me to think about the fact that Christian Bale becomes Batman later, right? That's really the only reason origin story, everyone has an odd story, a portent of things to come true. Like, what
Collin 1:06:41
I mean, I could see how they were trying to punch up the, like, Island
Brandon 1:06:44
walking, right? Yes. They're, like, trying to punch up the walking across the island, and
Collin 1:06:49
not just like, oh, look,
Brandon 1:06:50
he I found it, yeah. And I wrote, oh, like, when they they're going and they do not recognize Ben Gunn's voice just immediately, right? So they, the screenwriters also, uh, discovered this major plot fallacy. There's just like, hey, that's been like, they did it. They don't do that. They like, stay scared the whole time of the spooky ghost. Voice nice, and they don't discover it's been until after the confrontation at the empty
Collin 1:07:27
treasure hole. Yeah. And then I wrote, well, the captain looks fine, like he
Brandon 1:07:37
just has his arm in a sling, like a he's still like, fighting and whatever, yeah, not laying lying in repose. Yeah, he's not like lying on the floor, right? It's okay. So, yeah, it's overall pretty good. I also wrote the several scenes actually look like the illustrations that I had in my version of the things specifically, whenever Jim is like, with the treasure at the end, like, kneeling down, oh, at the treasure sounds like, so there's a couple scenes in there. They're like, and like, silver walking with Jim on a rope, right? That was kind of like, it looks like, it is like, I appreciate the love for the source material here, or at least the attention to detail of the source material, right? This is what I like about this variation. And then, except for the part where silver, just like escapes randomly off the back of the boat while it's in the ocean, they just like gone. There it goes. Wow, like he just pops over the side, gets in the lifeboat and sails off. Like, he does threaten van Gunn, but like, he's just, like, they just, like, barely left
Collin 1:08:48
the island. He's like, bye, see you later, losers. Like, it's really gone, yeah, yeah. He's like, really good. Like, immediately, huh? Man, it all all comes down to one very poor performance that's, that's
Brandon 1:09:07
really, it, really, it didn't do it for me, you know, I just like, man, it really took me out of the whole thing, you know, like, Charles nested, why are you here? Like, the voice he's doing, or whatever, like, it's basically just the Charles nested voice, right? Not totally. He doesn't do a whole lot else. He doesn't have a lot of range, no, right? Charlton Henson, not a man with range, no. So there's that. So I don't know why someone thought, Yes, he can be a pirate. Like,
Collin 1:09:41
I don't know i This movie is almost amazing,
Brandon 1:09:47
right? It's kind of sad. It just it falls so short, right? Like right, young Christian Bale, awesome, right? Like all these other actors, like, really good, right? You could tell they're into it. They're just like, going for it, being the pirates, right? They just like, they're in, right? It's great. They do. There's a lot of really great performances, maybe even like the random people, like, It's
Collin 1:10:17
good, right? They're good. But like, Charles nested, like, what? Why are you here? Oh, so. But overall, I I had fun watching this movie. It sounds like a fun movie. It does
Brandon 1:10:39
a movie, right? Is it a good movie? Maybe not. But is a fun movie to watch? Yes? Like,
Collin 1:10:46
well, I mean, you can't, not much better you get than that. I mean, just going to having fun at a movie, like, yeah, that's nice. Yeah. That was
1:10:54
pretty good. So they got there is my review of 1990 Treasure Island. That is something else, sorry, Christian Bale, or we're gonna, he's gonna get the lead tag. Now, that
Collin 1:11:07
makes sense. Yeah, I think, yeah, I agree. I think it's, it's starring him,
Brandon 1:11:15
yes, again, man, I this is the most baffling casting choice, just ever, maybe not ever, but like, it's right up there with just, like, what?
Collin 1:11:27
Especially, so good they did, so good with everything else. Everything else is great, yeah, sounds like they really nailed it, yeah, using people for the right things, you know, giving them fun, letting them just kind of go crazy with the characters, and then this stilted Charleston shows up, and this really doesn't do it. So
1:11:49
he's disappointing, but when is he not so like,
Collin 1:11:54
who directed this movie? Really? That's
1:11:56
a good question. I actually don't know. I didn't look that part up. Who did direct this movie? Oh, was it Charlton Heston?
Collin 1:12:07
No, not. Charleston. Heston.
1:12:10
Frazier Heston,
Brandon 1:12:11
aha. We found the answer. Oh, yes. Frazier Clark, Heston, okay, well, now we know where Charlton Heston's this
Collin 1:12:21
movie. Uh huh, there we go. His dad, yeah, his son directed and his son, wait, wait, he was a producer on Ben Hur, yes, are we sure this is his son? Hold on, how Ben Hur, oh. Ben Hur, sorry, the 2003 remake. Okay, no, these are all horrible movies. Yeah, no, okay, none of these movies get very good. He's definitely starts playing on his father's name towards the end of his career.
Brandon 1:13:06
Okay, oh, oh, okay, this is worse than we thought, right? His film debut as an actor is as the baby in Moses, right? Boom. So, yeah, there you go. Just inextricable nepotism from the get go, right, like no,
1:13:29
oh, there it is. He's in a basket.
1:13:39
Oh, no, this is so bad.
1:13:43
Oh, there you go.
Collin 1:13:45
That That, my friends, there you go.
Brandon 1:13:49
It's a shame, because the rest movie, like I said, the rest movie is great, right? It's good, but trial nest and not good. This is really the saddest, because we could have had Christopher Lee as Long John Silver, yeah. And I just feel like that is just a tragedy.
Collin 1:14:10
We're so close that doesn't exist, so close to greatness, and yet, no, and yet, people I know here we are. He
Brandon 1:14:17
stole the show. Is blind pu he's on the screen for like, four minutes. Like,
Speaker 3 1:14:21
what a weird how I
Collin 1:14:24
want, I mean, we need to be. How does that conversation go with Christopher Lee? Like, yeah. How do you approach him and say, Hey, Treasure Island and hey, Dracula. How do you feel about me? Yeah, and no. Not in that, not in that capacity, no, not in that other role, that you were thinking, no, no, yeah,
Brandon 1:14:45
we need to be blind to you. Ah, like I just, I'm so sad that he wasn't silver. I just feel like that would have been so good, right? I agree. Hey, I don't know. I don't know. Else he was doing. Maybe he was busy, I don't know, but, like, it's in this opportunity and I'm sad.
1:15:08
Listen, yes very
Brandon 1:15:12
they go. There's the surprise movie review, the 1990 edition of a Treasure Island, starring Christian Bale. There you go.
Collin 1:15:25
Oh, well, I think I'm gonna add that to my watch list. Of a big deal, yeah, usually I mean it's good, it's good
Brandon 1:15:33
watch, right? Just don't, yeah, I It's fun. It's a fun time. Sounds like it most of the movies really good. Most of it
Collin 1:15:40
just fast over the Yeah, someone's in it,
Brandon 1:15:47
unfortunately, the large part of them,
Collin 1:15:54
nice. Well, I am excited about this. This is good, and I will wrap us in a haiku. Ready? Play us out. Yes, okay, sunlight on the stream Ozark bluffs hold summer's warmth. Paddle cuts the glass now for being perfectly honest, the PAL didn't cut a whole lot of glass because I was walking a lot of it, but that ruins the poetry. There were moments of cutting glass, so that's what I focused on, not the Yeah, you don't want to put dragging over gravel. That's really not the right questioning life's choices. Yeah, gravel scrapes the hole. Yeah, it's not really kind of sorry Dad, yeah, see, I don't want, don't
Collin 1:16:54
want a lot of that. So we did that beautiful.
1:17:02
Okay? Well, good.
Collin 1:17:03
Well, we will continue this. See what happens next time
1:17:10
no one knows.
Collin 1:17:13
That's why it's always new.
1:17:16
Love you. Love you.
1:17:18
Bye, bye. You.