schrodinger's sasquatch

Collin is train spotting. Brandon is sasquatching. We mourn Adam the emu.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

hailstorm, sinus pressure, Sasquatch, punk rock, Minneapolis bands, garage sale, job interviews, historical museum, model trains, Transcontinental Railroad, Frisco lines, Zen Arcade, Dillinger Four, summer reading, podcast episode

SPEAKERS

Speaker 1, Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Hey. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, Schrodinger, Sasquatch, Ahoy,

Brandon  00:18

ahoy.

Collin  00:20

What's going on?

Brandon  00:21

Oh no, recovering. How are you?

Collin  00:24

Yeah,

Brandon  00:28

tonight's hashtag not sponsored episode brought to you by I don't have it shaky. Shaky. Your grassroots past elite and, of course, Alka Seltzer, sinus and pain relief. Oh yeah, let's go. Oh no. Oh God, so

Collin  00:47

sorry.

Brandon  00:48

Hashtag not sponsored, But yo, let's go,

Speaker 1  00:54

yeah,

Brandon  00:54

when you're doing oh and of course, chamomile tea. Obviously, every episode brought to you by chamomile tea. But, well, almost,

Collin  01:05

yeah, pretty much. Oh no, this is this allergy. This is just allergies.

Brandon  01:12

I think it's like allergies, like, big sinus II death, right? Finally happened, right? There's always one time, like, sometimes it's like, oh, I have some allergies. I was like, No, this is the stab like, Ah, this is the one where I think things like,

Brandon  01:29

Do I need a nose? Really

Collin  01:32

sure? What would

Brandon  01:34

happen if I drove a railroad spike into my cheek? Do you think that would relieve the sinus pressure? Right? Like,

Collin  01:40

I have thought about that so much. That's always a terrible spot to be in that place, like, right

Brandon  01:53

kind of under your cheekbone, right by your nose,

Brandon  01:56

stuck

Brandon  01:56

a drill in there. Like, don't do that. Don't do that. Okay? This is just not medical advice. This is just my like, man, there's so much nice pressure in here. Frontal, sinal lobotomy, right?

Collin  02:11

Some would say, yes, yeah, that's, that's real rough. That's real wrong.

Brandon  02:19

Yeah? So if you wonder, like, Man, why does Brandon sound so much more baritone today? Well, listeners, it's because I can't breathe out of my nose.

Collin  02:27

I'm in pain.

Brandon  02:30

Well, not so much pain anymore. Sunday, pain, right? Like now, mild discomfort. But,

Collin  02:38

you know, we're on the planning about that

Speaker 1  02:41

however.

Brandon  02:43

Yeah, so that's what I've been doing this week, except for,

Collin  02:48

oh,

Brandon  02:50

dodging the world's largest hailstones. Oh,

Brandon  02:54

my God,

Collin  02:55

Brett, this was terrifying. Springfield made national news.

Brandon  02:59

Tell

Brandon  02:59

me about it. Okay. Tell me about how terrifying it was. Yeah, national news for weather, just what you want to be,

Speaker 1  03:09

right?

Collin  03:10

I know the

Brandon  03:12

largest, most damaging hail storm in Missouri history. Hi, hi,

Collin  03:17

how are you?

Brandon  03:19

I was there,

Collin  03:21

and what is so wild is I watched this unfold from two hours to the north. And man, because I had, I had employees who were out, like driving around in this That was not fun, you know, trying to get them cover and then figure out where they are and are they safe, and people, you know, because it just, it seemed to just come out of nowhere. I mean, I don't know we were watching it, but all of a sudden was just like, and massive amounts of hail all over the place.

Brandon  03:57

Yeah, it was weird. Like, so weird and like, so I watched it happen through. Like I could watch it. So we, like, had the classroom window open a little bit, like the blinds open, not the window, window and like, you could kind of see the rain coming, right? But the terrifying thing was, like, south of the school, like in the field, like, south of my window, right? All of a sudden, we just saw horses running, right, yeah, so these horses just take off sprinting, like, for the barn, yeah. They were sat in the field, and then, like, I like, 200 yards away. I think over 200 yards away probably is a pond, and I could see waves splashing out of the pond right, like these things were hitting the water, and like shooting water up like five six foot in the air, probably because I could see it. From the window. And if they would have been smaller, I wouldn't have been able to see these kick up, right?

Speaker 1  05:06

Yeah,

Brandon  05:07

so there's these things are hitting the water, and these are baseball plus size.

Collin  05:12

I saw the picture you sent over.

Speaker 1  05:14

Yeah,

Brandon  05:15

they're hitting the water, and they're just, they're, they're falling at like an angle too, which is weird, right? They weren't coming straight down. They were falling down at, like, I don't know, not, not like, it wasn't straight down. It was probably like a 60 degree angle, like coming down,

Speaker 1  05:32

right?

Brandon  05:33

So you could see this water, just like, kicking up, like crazy. And then you could walk, then you could see it like, hit. It kind of came from, like, Southwest, so you could see them start hitting

Collin  05:47

and

Brandon  05:47

then just walking towards the parking lot, like, oh no.

Collin  05:53

So freaky.

Brandon  05:56

And I saw one just like, smash this person's car. It's like, Oh crap. Oh no, no. And then just thunk, thunk, thunk. And it wasn't like, it was really weird too, because, like, not all of the hail was gigantic, right? There was also like, small hail in there, so like, normal sized hail, which was just sort of falling at but then, like, it would be like, bam, over here, and then like, smack over there. Just, like, very intermittent, these huge things just helping down at, like, very irregular time, and then once they hit the roof of the building, holy cow, it's not like a machine gun, like, like a big, like 50 Cal, like turret gun, right from, like an airplane, like a tail gun, just wave, right? So, so we got, I learned how much a windshield costs,

Speaker 1  06:59

right?

Collin  07:00

Were you so cool? Were you able to get one, like, quickly?

Brandon  07:04

Yeah. So I was kind of surprised, like, the place I went, like, that dude's phone was, like, breaking there's only like, three places in town that are really going to do this, right? And so we went to the one just, like, closest to the house. We're like, well, we're just gonna go in there and see what's up, right? What's gonna, you know, ask him. And I was pretty worried, because I didn't know. I never had to buy a window before. I don't know about, like, availability, whatever. And after I told dad, he of course, was like, Well, I called somebody and he said, like, four weeks, blah, blah. So I talked to this dude, and he was like, can you bring it in Friday? I was like,

Collin  07:41

Yes, I can. They're

Collin  07:43

already

Brandon  07:45

Yes, yes, sir, I will leave it Thursday night. You can just have it like,

Collin  07:50

Yeah, I'm not even

Brandon  07:55

gonna complain about that. Go for it. Yep. He was, well, it took a while to find the part number, because apparently there's like, 15 billion different, like, trim options for the car that we have, right? And so we had to be like, which one is it exactly like? I don't know.

Speaker 1  08:13

So

Brandon  08:15

we had to dig around. But yeah, so that was an interesting experience. I was kind of surprised, but, yeah, his phone was blowing up like crazy. But ours just cracked open. There were some other people like it hit the side window because it was coming down in the angle, right? It busted the side window this lady's van. You hit somebody else, like, front and back then, like the car next to it, like, nothing, right? Like,

Collin  08:43

oh my gosh. Well,

Brandon  08:44

like, I hit the top, like, the roof,

Speaker 1  08:46

sure, right?

Brandon  08:46

So there's, like, big dents in them, but, like, not, like, their windows were fine, you know? And then, like, the one next to it, the back glass completely gone, right? Like, just, it's just so, like, haphazard, right? It's so wild. But that wasn't near Susan's brother was driving. Yeah, he lives out on the north side of Springfield, like over by the airport.

Collin  09:11

Yeah, that's where they had this really bad stuff up that way.

Brandon  09:16

Yeah, yeah. It like his car is toasted, right? It's done. It's,

Collin  09:26

does he make?

Brandon  09:26

The window

Brandon  09:27

is just in a million pieces, and

Brandon  09:29

hail damage on the hood is like, it looks like the moon, like

Brandon  09:35

one

Collin  09:36

of my one of my employees, sent me a picture of her windshield, and it looks like somebody took a sledgehammer to like, eight different places in her windshield. It's terrible. That's

Brandon  09:46

what his look like.

Collin  09:47

Like, the amount, like, just that you don't think about. I mean, there was even a, did you hear about the ostrich at Dickerson Park Zoo?

Brandon  09:54

Yeah, yeah. It was emu.

Collin  09:57

Actually,

Brandon  09:57

it was emu. I think,

Collin  09:59

oh. Oh, sorry,

Brandon  10:00

yeah. So weird story, Susan was supposed to her last story time for the year was supposed to be Thursday, and Dickinson Park Zoo was going to bring the little traveling van thing down and do with the kids, right? Every single one of their outreach vans windows are broken. Oh, so they had to cancel it.

Speaker 1  10:23

Oh, no.

Brandon  10:24

Every single one of their fleet vehicles, all of their windows are broken.

Brandon  10:30

That's crazy.

Collin  10:32

Well, I was just watching some some clips floating around on the interwebs, and people were just driving through like, car lots of like, there's not a single car, car lots that does not have massive amounts of hail damage.

Speaker 1  10:48

Oh, yeah.

Brandon  10:48

The worst is the airport, though, because there's all the, all this, bunch of those people who are not there. Yes, exactly, they're and they don't know they're gonna get back. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure at least somebody from the airport's gonna try to call them, right? I don't know if they can, though, but like,

Collin  11:04

how you don't know who's right?

Speaker 1  11:06

That's true.

Collin  11:07

Don't put any information,

Brandon  11:09

yeah. Oh, Susan wanted me to tell you that it was a 21 year old emu named Adam.

Speaker 1  11:16

Oh,

Brandon  11:17

yes. So shout Yeah. This one goes out to Adam. Yeah, so it was wild man, holy cow. So I gotta, we're gonna try to see, I guess we'll see if we can go to the other place and check about dance and stuff later, because dad's on me about that, of course. Because little dent, you gotta go over that. Good, Dad, I can't see out the window. Okay? Window, first I need to go to Window.

Collin  11:46

Guy, one thing,

Brandon  11:47

because the front window is toasted, right? And it's crazy too, because it like, almost didn't hit the window, because it like, hit, like, right on the windshield wiper, you know, yeah, like, it broke the plastic cover that goes over where the windshield wiper clips onto the window. Yeah, like, dang, like a quarter inch to the left, right, and it would have just hit the wiper and, like, nothing would happen

Collin  12:18

at all.

Speaker 1  12:19

I Hey, is wild,

Collin  12:31

well, but I'm glad there was no serious injuries and everyone was safe. Otherwise,

Brandon  12:37

yeah, that's true. We're all inside the custodian guy, though he was driving, also he was, I don't know if he was getting, like, delivery, pickup stuff or whatever, but he got hit too. And he was like, Oh, it was horrifying.

Collin  12:52

Jeez. Yeah,

Brandon  12:56

I was talking to this girl this morning. She's like, the day before, it hailed a little bit, and I had to run outside and get something and, like, one of those little things hit my thumb, and I thought it hurt really bad. I can't imagine

Brandon  13:09

giant one,

Collin  13:11

right? Yeah, we got we the kids, we had some pea sized hail. Yeah?

Brandon  13:19

The day before, there was a nice marble sized hill here too. Yeah, we were driving, so we kind of slowed down, pulled over, and it was like, okay, it's

Collin  13:26

fine. And the kids like, Oh, these hurt. And so whenever I was showing them pictures from what south of us got, they were, they were their eyes were huge, like, oh, how does that even function? I'm like, Yeah, that's badly.

Brandon  13:39

That's how,

Collin  13:40

yeah,

Brandon  13:41

badly. It was crazy. It was absolutely crazy. So yeah, that's what I've been dealing with this week, is learning how much Windows cost,

Speaker 1  13:51

right? I was

Brandon  13:53

a little afraid, but it turns out one window cost less than two tires. So oh, you know, expensive tires on accident. I don't know how that happened, stupid, like, low profile things or but so it's not as bad as I thought, right? I saw some large numbers on the internet. I was like, Oh, no. I was like, I don't think there's any fancy sensors in here, the older car. I don't think, I don't think we have any of

Speaker 1  14:24

that stuff. Yeah, so

Brandon  14:28

we'll see. But, yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. That's, that's pretty much I've been doing this week. I did. I have a small rant for you, right? It's rant time. So I have a, I don't know how this happened, right, but somehow my like YouTube, like page thing, like, all of a sudden, became very full of Sasquatch videos, right? And I don't know how that happened. I didn't watch any squashy things, right? I watched like, one thing about a guy looking for bears in Romania, and then after that, it was like, What did you mean Sasquatch? Like, I did not mean Sasquatch, right, but I have discovered, right? Somehow, this is dusty's fault. I'm blaming dusty for this big Sasquatch, Sasquatch girl. So I told her earlier, it's like, I'm blaming you. Is your fault. But I learned that there is a very distressing type of Sasquatch enthusiast out there, and this is the person that thinks that Sasquatch is like some sort of interdimensional being.

Speaker 1  15:45

This is amazing.

Brandon  15:48

I heard somebody use the word Sasquatch and portal in the same sentence.

Brandon  15:58

I

Brandon  15:59

was like, Oh, dear God, what is happening? Why? Yes, like, I can be open minded about, like, undiscovered, like, APE ish creaturey thing, cool, right? I'm down with that. That's fine. Yeah, I can entertain that idea right into interdimensional, potentially psychic creature. I love this so much I cannot get on there. People are described. These are basically the dark ones from Metro, right? I played through that game earlier. I was talking to Aaron about it, right? Had another conversation about that. Me and Aaron been talking about that, and they're like, that's how they're describing Sasquatch. I was like, what? So here's a couple leaps in logic, right? I need you to understand. They were like, we put the apple on this tree and we came back and it was gone. So a Sasquatch took it,

Collin  17:01

I mean, and

Brandon  17:02

they're like, we can't put cameras, because the Sasquatch is so smart that it knows the cameras are there and will not take the apple.

Collin  17:14

Yes,

Brandon  17:14

therefore, if you put the apple with no cameras, and the Apple gets taken, clearly, Sasquatch. And I was like, Wait, there's literally dozens of creatures in this forest that would eat that apple. So, like, are you telling me, like the double slit experiment of apples, right? Like, it's like, no,

Speaker 1  17:42

we

Brandon  17:43

can't observe the apple being eaten, but by not observing the apple, we know that it was eaten.

Speaker 1  17:51

No,

Brandon  17:52

wait a minute, this

Brandon  17:57

guy seriously tried to argue that there's no way a squirrel would try to eat an apple like guys. Do you know what squirrel? The squirrel eat everything. What do you

Collin  18:05

have you have you met a squirrel,

Collin  18:08

seen a squirrel?

Collin  18:10

Do you know you? You know squirrel? Yeah. So

Brandon  18:14

this new type of Sasquatch person really worries me a lot. There's another guy who is allegedly a structural engineer, okay, I say allegedly, because after hearing him speak, there's no way that could be true, right? I need to see some like credentials, right? Because he said he's like, there's like, this tree is broken in such a way that it would require, like precision, whatever right? He used the word shearing kind of incorrectly, and then something else. And then proceeded to demonstrate by not being able to break the tree the same way on a dead stick from the ground right, not understanding that live wood in a dead stick have different properties.

Collin  19:11

Well, I would believe you, but you didn't say that you were an engineer. So sir, I need you.

Brandon  19:18

I am an Eagle Scout, Collin and as a person who has broken many a stick in their life, right?

Speaker 1  19:28

Yes,

Brandon  19:30

right. I'm not only an Eagle Scout. I was a child that was born in a year where the second number was nine,

Speaker 1  19:39

nine

Brandon  19:40

and the third number was eight, okay, so like

Collin  19:44

as a person born in the 1900s Yeah,

Brandon  19:47

as a person born in the 1980s All right, I can, I firmly have stick breaking pedigree. All right, this

Collin  19:55

is fair,

Brandon  19:56

and everybody knows that a live. Green piece of wood will not shear and shatter the same way that a dead, dry stick of wood will do. That anybody who has ever looked at a fire should know this, right? Well, maybe, but, and he was like, yes, either there's no way you can't do it only a precision creature that knows exactly what he's doing. And I was like, That tree is alive.

Speaker 1  20:29

What

Brandon  20:29

do you mean? Stop it?

Collin  20:33

Well, you know, it was convincing up until that point, that's really sad. It

Brandon  20:42

was

Brandon  20:42

rough. I was like, I my guy. What are you talking there were some other clues that some of these people were a little wacky, but that was the big one. I was like, Man, this has this experiment has no validity whatsoever. Like, absolutely zero. Like, the tensile properties of these two different sticks based on like, the amount of water contained therein

Speaker 1  21:14

is

Brandon  21:14

so astronomically different that you can't compare them, right? You see what I did there listeners, I also used their technique where you say big words in a sentence to make yourself sound official. It was me demonstrating what these people will do to try to fool you. Okay, you just throw some sciency words in there, and then people will be like, Oh, yes. Sounds credible. Excellent, right? So this is, this is me demonstrating that, arguing from authority position, right, using context clues. Look at that we're learning right

Collin  21:49

to do

Brandon  21:50

they go? There you go. So I also, I just had a side range about this. I learned about a new type of Bigfoot person, and they, it worries me a lot.

Collin  21:59

Yeah, yeah, I I don't know. I don't really great about that.

Brandon  22:05

I was really unaware that this person existed, right? Like, I didn't know that there was this subgroup. It was like, it's a, it's like a interdimensional being, and it can be invisible, and it's like, whoa. What?

Collin  22:24

I'm really loving this. This

Brandon  22:26

man just

Brandon  22:27

confidently walked up to like a divot in the ground. Who's like, you can see here. This is made by a small female Sasquatch. You're like,

Brandon  22:33

What? What?

Collin  22:36

That's okay.

Brandon  22:36

You cannot tell that that,

Collin  22:38

sir, that is the kind of confidence I need in my life

Speaker 1  22:42

that is

Collin  22:42

exactly

Brandon  22:43

like this.

Collin  22:45

I need

Brandon  22:45

this. This tree break is approximately eight years old, like, Um,

Collin  22:58

excuse

Speaker 1  22:58

me,

Collin  22:59

bucko, yeah. Wow, kind of handed to him, at least, you know, yeah.

Brandon  23:05

So that's what I've been doing, is dealing with that in my life that was very this is a self imposed horror show that I have put upon myself, possibly to try to cope with broken windshield, but, but also,

Collin  23:19

I also,

Collin  23:26

yeah, weird coping mechanism. But I'll take it. Hey,

Brandon  23:30

you know, sometimes you just gotta disassociate a little bit right from the horrors of real life with a wacky, conspiratorial, invisible, Bigfoot guy, right? So like,

Collin  23:43

well, there's

Brandon  23:52

that, have you been Collin, how? What have you been up to? Well,

Collin  23:55

I, I didn't, I didn't go into conspiracies, but I did disassociate from this, from the world for a little bit this past Saturday,

Brandon  24:08

very important. In 2026

Collin  24:09

there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. I keep, I do keep waiting for things to like, so low down, like right before we just right before we jumped on the call here, I sent out yes two two job offers, and I'll be sending out a third one tomorrow, trying to hire and staff up. So my pace I'm going for the past three weeks has been basically non stop phone interviews and zoom interviews, like it's it really picked up the first week of April, of trying to get staffed up for the summer. And that has just been, that's literally been my all consuming like every day I'm doing at least four phone interviews. And. Maybe two zoom interviews every single day, and that's a lot. I don't much like that. So hopefully we are on the downward trajectory of this.

Brandon  25:17

Yeah, hopefully,

Collin  25:18

yeah, hopefully. So we, we shall see, but we as a family, are preparing for a garage sale. So this has, this has been a feat of many things, because, see aforementioned, I'm busy, which means I can't help, like, go through things, yeah. Yeah. So it's like, in between, because I've learned to, like, space out my interviews with like, 30 minute chunks. And so it's like, I'll do an interview. I'll run downstairs with Megan, like, while we're, like, picking through stuff. So like, talk about the interview and then, like, run back upstairs and, like, do another interview and then come back downstairs. So that's been, like, my exercise has been going up down the stairs a lot. We're good, good, nice. It's also been an exercise of, we haven't, like, we're not gonna sell a lot of stuff for doing this with Megan's folks. We're just like, hey, let's you know, we've got some stuff we need to thin out. But boy, howdy, the amount of stuff that we have thrown away. Brandon,

Brandon  26:25

yeah, yeah.

Collin  26:27

I, I have, I have two massive trash cans that the city gave me when we moved in. I have never filled both of them and then had them, like, opened and, like, crammed from the top and above, oh yeah, in one week, we could throw it away enough. And it's not like, I'm not throwing away stuff. I don't want people to hear like, I'm just like, throwing things away. But like, I was

Brandon  26:53

like, random, like, old papers and, like, job like that,

Speaker 1  26:55

right?

Collin  26:55

Papers

Brandon  26:56

up here and there,

Collin  26:57

yeah, like, ratty towels and this kind of stuff where you're just like, I don't need these boxes. Like, I Okay, okay, this is a safe space, but not but I may or may not keep the boxes for all the electronics that come into our home. And

Speaker 1  27:18

yes,

Brandon  27:18

dad, good

Speaker 1  27:19

job.

Collin  27:21

I

Brandon  27:22

can't imagine where Collin could have learned this

Collin  27:26

behavior. No, originally I was keeping them because I told myself, but when you go to sell this, people will want the box like, that'll make it. They'll be impressed. Like, people will want the box to go with the insert name of thing,

Brandon  27:43

yeah. And then you realize, Wait, I don't sell these things. We use

Collin  27:51

our things until they, like,

Brandon  27:53

physically break. And then you buy new things. Like,

Collin  27:56

buy a new thing, and you like,

Speaker 1  27:59

trade it

Collin  28:00

in. You recycle the thing. But guys, we don't if I were on like, a annual upgrade cycle or something more frequent than once every when I remember, like, I yeah, it's just not important at this point. So I had an entire trash bag of just, like boxes from stuff of like, I don't need this anymore, or I don't have this anymore. It was, it's that kind of stuff that we're throwing away.

Brandon  28:27

Yeah.

Collin  28:28

And so I have two massive trash cans completely filled, and I went through just today I filled three more kitchen size trash cans,

Brandon  28:41

no what.

Collin  28:42

We went through our last thing of of our home, and we filled, from that one place, three garbage cans, garbage bags of of trash. And so this has been like it's one of those things where it feels really satisfying, but you just don't see the results.

Brandon  29:05

Yeah? Like, because it's like, from a closet, right? Like,

Collin  29:09

I never

Speaker 1  29:09

found

Brandon  29:10

under a cabinet somewhere, like,

Speaker 1  29:13

you know,

Collin  29:13

back of a cat, yeah? Like, I realized, like, oh, this drawer kind of closes, funny, so let me, like, take it out and oh, look low and low. There is, like, three magazines that have been crammed repeatedly over because they were shoved in the store and they

Speaker 1  29:28

over, yeah,

Collin  29:29

that kind of stuff. So my house doesn't look any different,

Brandon  29:34

but it is cleaner, but

Collin  29:35

it is cleaner and

Speaker 1  29:37

less

Collin  29:37

cluttered. This was a very big like, it feels good, but it's not as satisfying as, like, yeah,

Brandon  29:44

because it's like, not visually different, right? It's not like, Marie Kondo wouldn't notice what's happening.

Collin  29:50

She would still be telling us to get rid of things, right? No,

Brandon  29:54

no. She changed her mind. She like, actually had a kid, and she's like, it's important. Important to keep things around your house like, lady, you psycho. Think of how many fights you caused in families before, and now you're all like, Ah, it's important to have things around and keep like, blah, blah, like, you fraudster, whatever you mean.

Collin  30:21

Like this is this is this gets to another one of my core tenants in life of, if that like, and there are some caveats here, if the person who's talking is not or has not been in your stage of life,

Speaker 1  30:37

yeah,

Collin  30:38

take whatever they say with a very small grain of salt or large, right?

Brandon  30:43

That's true. That's a good that's a good thing to keep in mind for all these people on the internet right now that are like, fitnessy people, right? And they're like, telling you how to live your life, right? All of those people are 20,

Speaker 1  31:00

right? When

Brandon  31:02

you're 20 years old,

Collin  31:03

yeah,

Brandon  31:03

you could literally just eat cheeseburgers and pizza forever and still be completely ripped, and it doesn't matter. So like,

Brandon  31:10

yeah,

Brandon  31:11

don't listen to that people.

Collin  31:15

Yeah. This is why I liked Jack LaLanne as he was out there doing his shtick right up until he died. Yeah, it's fantastic, yeah. So, so we're doing this decluttering thing. We're getting things ready. We're getting things out of the home, and in this, in this little break, we decide we're gonna go dissociate. And I made we drove, we drove 45 minutes away to the little place of Clinton, Missouri.

Speaker 1  31:49

Oh, yes.

Collin  31:49

You may not know. You may be asking, why'd you go to Clinton? Good question. Because

Brandon  31:54

you wanted to think about the childhood home of your high school English teacher, right? That's what you

Speaker 1  31:59

wanted to

Collin  32:01

do. That that or, or, we went to go listen to a guy talk about the history of trains in Clinton, Missouri.

Brandon  32:16

That sounds more like the reason you would go like, that's exactly a reason.

Collin  32:20

Yes, and here is, here's the great part. Brandon, my son, got to experience meeting like a little celebrity from his world, because the man that we went to go listen to Noah, has heard on a podcast and watched a few of this man's YouTube videos.

Speaker 1  32:44

Oh, man.

Collin  32:45

So we got to go see Mike Landis, who is a news reporter in Springfield.

Brandon  32:54

Yes, I was like, I've seen this. I've heard this name before. Why do I know that person,

Collin  32:57

and also purveyor of model trains for the the main track TV on YouTube.

Speaker 1  33:07

Is he?

Collin  33:07

Yes.

Speaker 1  33:08

Oh, and,

Collin  33:08

and, why? Why is this interesting? Well, Brandon, I'm gonna tell you he is. He is dedicating his entire basement.

Speaker 1  33:21

Oh, dear

Collin  33:22

two modeling the railroad from Sedalia through Clinton down to Kansas as it was in 1987

Brandon  33:35

that is quite possibly the most niche thing I've ever heard in my entire life, right? Like, I I'm all for people having hobbies, right? But, holy cannoli, how on earth you arrive at such a niche topic for your diorama, right?

Collin  34:02

Yeah, I'm gonna send you a layout. Why did we

Brandon  34:05

pick 1987 is it we just have the most information for that year? Is that? No,

Collin  34:10

no, that's Brandon. That's when he was younger and growing up and going around this area.

Brandon  34:17

Okay, that makes sense to me. I mean, he

Brandon  34:19

actually

Brandon  34:19

that's exactly the type of thing that an old man would do, right?

Speaker 1  34:22

He

Collin  34:22

spent some time. Now, you say old man this, he is mid 40s, so

Brandon  34:27

I know, but like, that's, We're old now, Collin, I don't know if you know this, right? It's kind of how it works.

Collin  34:34

His entire layout site, it's like 50 feet by 30 feet. It's in this, like Double L format, yeah, and it's an H O scale, of

Brandon  34:45

course.

Collin  34:45

To put this into perspective, he is he has to model Truman Lake, as it was in 1987 so he is calling all the historical societies in the area to see if they can get connected, to see if anyone has photographs.

Brandon  35:00

Yes, you know those people are going to be so excited to talk to him, right?

Collin  35:04

I

Brandon  35:04

was nothing gets a historical society person as excited as something like this,

Collin  35:09

I would say, room with nothing, but people who are just over the moon,

Brandon  35:14

they were agog about this. That's the word here, ago

Collin  35:19

he is also, here's the Okay, here's the kind of stuff that happens. He is calling around these places. They say, Oh, yeah, I know a guy. Turns out the I know a guy. Guy was like an insurance agent who lived in Clinton in from the 60s through the 90s, and he was a train spotter, and so he went out and dinner table, he'd go out and he'd take photos of trains coming by. And so from the 60s through the 90s, all the trains he's captured and at sites around town, and Mike Landis is taking these photos and going and like, recreating what the what the depot looked like at that time, and what the crossings were like. And it's in painstaking detail, like he showed a picture of a crossing in Sedalia that I drive under all the time, and I'm like, he goes out and he measures these places.

Speaker 1  36:17

Oh, yes. So,

Brandon  36:18

yeah, I believe it.

Collin  36:19

So I

Speaker 1  36:19

believe

Brandon  36:19

it. This is, this is what rare would people

Collin  36:22

do. He went,

Brandon  36:23

this is like their thing.

Collin  36:24

He couldn't figure out what scale to make the Truman bridge, the bridge over the Truman, like the Truman lake there, how to, how to design the trusses on this he he got connected with a guy who has the who had the original designs for them.

Brandon  36:46

But of course, there's a guy that has that just in his closet somewhere,

Collin  36:51

yes, yes, and, and so take

Brandon  36:53

that. Marie Kondo,

Collin  36:54

yeah, see, it was necessary. And very his, his Truman Lake bridge is nine feet long.

Brandon  37:05

Yo, holy,

Collin  37:08

just the bridge is nine feet long.

Brandon  37:12

That's enormous.

Collin  37:14

He He is custom, threed printing the pylons because the standard ones that come from the manufacturers aren't.

Brandon  37:24

Yeah,

Collin  37:25

right? They're just

Brandon  37:26

not. There has to be a lot of 3d printing involved in this particular adventure if you're trying to model a like, actual, real life location based on, like, real life photos. I mean, 3d printing is really the only way that you can make this work.

Collin  37:41

Yes,

Brandon  37:42

right,

Collin  37:43

yeah. And so he, he is, yeah. So he's relying heavily on 3d printing to this. He's like, manufacturing all this stuff. A lot of the stuff, there's a place called Vintage aerial you can actually go online, because apparently, in have you used this website before?

Brandon  38:00

No, but I've heard of things like this before.

Collin  38:02

Yeah, well, so they pull their database from the insurance companies who used to fly around and take photos of, like, large things like, oh, I don't know, train depots and grain silos and like these kind of things at various points in time. And then he can go in and go, Well, I don't have the specs for that grain silo. I don't know how tall it is, but look, here's a picture of this picture has a man in it, so I'm gonna, like, estimate how tall it is. He's doing that kind of stuff, yeah, to make sure it's all to scale. And he had a fantastic story just about the depot and, like the trains in Clinton, in that area. And I just wanted to relay a few stories to you, if that's

Brandon  38:46

okay. Oh yes, this is exactly the kind of thing this podcast is for Collin. I don't know what you thought would be okay, but this is definitely

Speaker 1  38:54

it.

Collin  38:55

First off, I am continually I forget that the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in less than three years.

Brandon  39:05

Yes,

Collin  39:05

this is this. I'll start there, but

Brandon  39:08

totally not by underpaying Irish and Chinese work. It's

Speaker 1  39:11

fine. They were just dedicated to the mission.

Brandon  39:16

But anyway,

Collin  39:18

oh, so I should, Oh, that's weird. I'll unsubscribe from my revisionist history YouTube channel. Hold on, no no so. And he went through detailed like, okay, and then this company owned this, and then they built out this, this, this, I just want to tell you about the Frisco lines in Clinton, because I love this. So there they had, they had two different lines. They built the original one, and this was called the leaky roof line. And

Speaker 1  39:50

this

Collin  39:50

was the older one built originally. And they he also has to learn as he goes. Through this, like, why did they build the line, and what was the main cargo on this line coming out of Clinton? Turns out there was a massive clay pipe manufacturer in Clinton that they used for, like, the water mains and things like that.

Brandon  40:18

Okay,

Collin  40:20

we're so busy. What did he say? Something like 200,000 rail cars out, like a week from this manufacturing that went out all over the country, shipping this stuff, but on this one line that went from basically up from Springfield into Kansas City, it stopped over in Clinton to pick this up. It called it called it the leaky roof line because the people who operate it were kind of cheap, and they didn't like to spend a lot of money to upkeep their rail cars. And it didn't really matter, because the only person, only the biggest manufacturer on this other use of this was shipping clay pipes. So does it matter if they get

Speaker 1  40:58

wet? No,

Brandon  40:59

because they're gonna have water in them later, anyway, so, like,

Collin  41:02

so if they get rained on, they're not gonna, like, they're not gonna, you know, fall apart. It's not like, it's flour or something,

Speaker 1  41:09

yeah, it's on millet, right?

Collin  41:13

Turns out, about a decade later, a flour mill showed up on the same line. We

Speaker 1  41:16

gotta fix something.

Collin  41:20

And when the leaky roof line at that time, I forget what it was called like, when they were slow, they would offload some of their carts over to ship to service the grain mill and the flour mill, and the foreman kept saying, Don't send me any of those from that leaky roof line, because I'm losing all of my product. And so that's how it got its name. Okay,

Brandon  41:43

nice. No one wants ergot. Okay, get that out of here.

Collin  41:46

And so, to accommodate this, they built the Frisco High Line Trail, which a high line, High Line, which is now a trail that runs, yes, out of Kansas City. Well, this is also weird, because they built it kind of paralleling the the leaky roof line from Springfield up to Kansas City. It goes the same way, but they like, leapfrog over another if you look at it from an aerial perspective, but when it enters, here's the other part. It is separate from the leaky roof line. So in order to like, let's say you were coming north on the High Line and you needed to get onto the leaky roof line. Well, they never built an actual like, junction of these two. So they they had to snake this really weird connection through Clinton. So they would pull forward in their train, and then have to back down this, like, really weird, like, like, dog leg J turn thing to get on the other track, and then they could go back in the other direction.

Brandon  42:55

Geez, yep. And then

Collin  42:56

they kept saying, like, Oh, we're gonna build a junction. They're gonna build a junction. Then it never, it never came. But why was it called the highlight? Why? Why possibly could be on the High Line? What? What? What engineering masterpiece or, like marketing? No, it's called the High Line because they built it on higher ground. I knew it. It was like it was on top

Speaker 1  43:16

of the hill.

Collin  43:17

That's what it was. That's

Brandon  43:21

exactly something they would do. Like, well, it's just up on top of that ridge, so it's higher,

Collin  43:26

higher,

Brandon  43:26

yes,

Collin  43:27

just higher, yes, yes, yes. So I think what you should do is you should reset your YouTube, watch history and watch some of these, these things where he walks through his underground,

Speaker 1  43:51

sane basement. Yeah,

Collin  43:53

it is insane where, and he's like, he's working on various aspects of these he's modeling, of course, he has to model like, Okay, what were the How did it go through? And he's, he's trying to pick up on the the major industries of that time too, and model their rail lines. And model like,

Speaker 1  44:15

yeah,

Collin  44:15

you know. So it's kind of neat, because he has to model MFA was still really big, obviously, but like, they had junctions,

Speaker 1  44:23

much bigger.

Collin  44:23

So, yeah, much bigger. What's it like? Oh, there's, like, in Clinton, I think there's a place called, like, Chesterfield cheese, or was or whatever, like, this big cheese manufacturer, so he's modeling that

Speaker 1  44:33

cars. And, yeah, that's crazy, yeah,

Collin  44:36

yeah, and how they enter and, and all this stuff. So I don't know. It's just It was neat to watch and to listen to him, especially because he was using pictures from that guy in Clinton. Well, his sons were there. His son and daughter were there. They had give shown him those photos, and he's just using it as research and everything. So it's, it has really, really fun. Just sitting there was a, it was a two hour, two hour presentation. That's

Brandon  45:07

crazy.

Speaker 1  45:08

That's

Brandon  45:09

absolutely crazy. Holy cow,

Collin  45:12

yep, yep. I'll send you, I'll have, I need to send you the link to,

Brandon  45:16

yeah, absolutely. I'll watch some of that later. That's crazy.

Collin  45:18

This one's from January. I'm going to clue that it'll be the shows too, but January, where he talks about building this bridge across, and the other part

Brandon  45:29

that,

Collin  45:30

yeah, because he's like, it goes through his methodology and the photos that he uses, and how it's going to be and what, and like, the other thing that I was didn't even think about was okay, if you're going to be modeling this kind of thing, he's picked in 1987 what season are you going to model? Yeah,

Brandon  45:54

that's the point,

Collin  45:55

right? And so he's down to the to the level of going, what season Am I modeling? Will determine the water level that I show.

Speaker 1  46:05

That's crazy.

Collin  46:08

So check out main track TV that's

Brandon  46:13

crazy

Collin  46:14

on on YouTube. And we got his, we got his book, by the way, of course, we had to,

Brandon  46:22

I mean, yes, at this point, had to.

Collin  46:25

And it's filled with all these beautiful historical photos from the time, and it's literally only, only the MKT, like,

Brandon  46:37

oh yeah. I mean, yeah, this is a hyper specific, some would say fixation. Some

Collin  46:45

say,

Brandon  46:46

some say, I'm say fixation.

Collin  46:51

This brand, we went to their little museum there, also in Clinton, the historical museum, and it is one of those museums where they modeled it after the what life was like in a small town. And so inside the building, it's like you are in a town square.

Speaker 1  47:14

Oh, that's cool

Collin  47:15

with like, caught with like, not Cobble, but brick beneath.

Speaker 1  47:19

Yeah.

Collin  47:19

Then you step into the stores, all the storefronts are around you so you can go see what life was like at the doctor's office and in the lawyer's office and in the like all this stuff that they have modeled inside this building is really like, yes, yes. It was nice. It was wonderful. We had a lot of fun. I I recommend it.

Brandon  47:41

Well, that's pretty

Speaker 1  47:42

sweet, right? Nice, yeah. Well, Collin, I

Brandon  47:45

have a surprise segment for you as soon as you know what

Collin  47:48

that Oh, you do. Okay, sorry, I will do just one more announcement. All right, go for it. I do have to say that we, I think, I think we should plan on doing our state fair musician thing next week or the week after, oh,

Brandon  48:02

okay,

Collin  48:03

because I learned they have three more spots they're trying to fill.

Brandon  48:08

See, I knew it. I knew it.

Collin  48:11

I did. I learned, I learned this. And so I think, all

Brandon  48:17

right, sounds good. Yeah, we can work on that. We can decide when you want to do that? We also, I was also going to ask you, when do you want to do the other list that we talked about, the top five songs, not in 440,

Collin  48:33

okay. I mean, we can, we can push that one back a little

Speaker 1  48:37

bit

Brandon  48:37

later. Yeah, that one doesn't need a timeline. I just wanted to remind you that was the thing that was the thing that we talked about that we say we would do later on. So, oh,

Collin  48:45

man, we're really bad at this. Yes, it's fine. Yeah, I think we should do,

Brandon  48:49

we can push

Brandon  48:49

that off, so later,

Collin  48:50

yeah, I think we push that off. I think we should do the state fair thing, because they're not all filled, so maybe they might get last true. It's true. Jump in,

Speaker 1  48:58

right? We

Brandon  48:59

can talk about, we can talk a little bit later about how many we want to do. Do we want to do more than three? You want to order? Just do only three or

Collin  49:06

no, we gotta do all of them so they Okay, ready for next year

Brandon  49:08

too. All right, we can work that out later.

Speaker 1  49:10

Yes,

Brandon  49:10

we can wait two weeks, maybe give us two

Speaker 1  49:13

weeks. All right,

Brandon  49:14

so let me we'll work on a number a little bit later. You I was thinking about that conversation last week about State Fair music, and I was thinking about it's almost summertime, right time of music and things like that, and I got inspired to make you a surprise top five list. Collin, oh, right, I have a top five list for you. Oh, no, of my own doing, right? Came out of nowhere. I just was inspired to do this, right? So I wanted to think about right? It's very musical time of year, summer, right? Think about music. There's lots of concerts right next, this week. It's the first, like, big food truck Friday thing here in town. So it'd be like outdoor music and stuff and blah blah. And new food trucks are coming. So I'm very excited about this, but it was like summer music time, right in my heart. Collin, we all know that there's a genre of music that I love very much, right? I am, at heart a punk rock child, right? And I thought, You know what? We need to highlight some very, very important punk rock music Bastion that is not really thought about, right? When people think about right? When people think about that, think about like New York and New York hardcore, or like the East Coast, or think about like Southern California or the Pacific Northwest, right? MC Collin, there is one city in the Midwest. It is has a deep rooted music tradition, including a very healthy, thriving punk rock scene. So Collin, I have for you top five punk rock bands hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Right, right. Minneapolis, of course, rich music tradition, not just Prince, okay, but mostly Prince, but also lots of other stuff, okay, also, right. Very diverse music scene there, but, but I don't think it doesn't get love like other places like New York and Nashville and even Kansas City, right for, like, bluesy stuff or St Louis or New Orleans or or like Los Angeles and Southern California or Seattle, right? People forget about Minneapolis, okay? And so

Collin  51:59

often overlooked. I Yeah, usually,

Brandon  52:01

if they think about Midwest music, they're gonna be like, Oh yeah, Chicago, right, yeah, yes, but,

Collin  52:07

but

Brandon  52:08

I think it's important to highlight the punk bands from Minneapolis. All right, so I have a brief top five list for

Collin  52:16

you. Okay, I wonder how many? Wonder how many I

Brandon  52:22

have no

Brandon  52:22

idea, if you will, know any of these.

Speaker 1  52:24

I

Brandon  52:24

had to think I got four, like, really fast. I already knew, like, three of them, which is how I decided to do this list. And then I was like, Well, I just need to fill out the rest of it, because I already know three of these. So, like, come out. So, um, I really these are, I wrote them down in like, reverse chronological order, so I'll do the first two, because they're like, that would be like five and four anyway. So the one that I settle on for number five is like the newest band, who is only formed in 2015 right? And there are full length album. They have a couple of EPs and stuff, and they have a full length album that came out in 2022 right? This is the Vaughn tramps, right? The Vaughn tramps, it's very like pop punky ska, like very modern, very polished, very bright sounding. It's very nice, right? It's very it's very hip, right? So it's very kind of like more pop punky sky, kind of upbeat action. So that's the it's the von tramps, right? So number five, their album is called go. And one of the songs I liked up, this is not like the best song, because I don't is all objective anyway, but a song that I liked on there when I was listening to it is a song called 2am it's a good one. There you go, right? I Great. Okay,

Collin  53:45

very nice.

Brandon  53:46

Number four, right, excellent. Another. This one is a very punky band from, oh, I should say the von tramps are still active. That's important. The next band not active anymore. They were formed in 2001 this is the Soviets.

Collin  54:04

That one does sound familiar? Okay,

Brandon  54:07

great band name, first of all, right, right. He's like, very like, straight punk, right? It's very nice. I like it. It's a little puppy. It's a little it's fun. You get seen to the courses. But I think my favorite Soviet album is the LP number three.

Collin  54:24

Okay,

Brandon  54:25

they're very creative at naming very good. They have LP one, two and three. LP three came out in 2005 and then one of the songs on that is really good that I liked it showed it up a lot, was the multiply and divide. It's a good one. Good song there, right now, Collin, we have heavy hitters.

Collin  54:45

Yes, okay,

Brandon  54:46

these other, these last three, are like legendary. Some of these are groundbreaking, important musical acts that come from Minneapolis, right?

Speaker 1  54:59

You.

Brandon  55:00

Now these final three are not necessarily in, like a strict order. This is like my preference today, right? So I will not go chronologically here, but one very excellent band is the replacements. Okay, 1979 the replacements, right? Definitely kind of a punk, hardcorey, garagey situation. They kind of like morphed into, like, a more different type of sound later on, right, as they like later on, like, but the album that I think we should definitely highlight here is 1980 ones. Sorry, Ma, forgot to take out the trash. This is exactly what you want from, like a 1980s punk album. It's like 18 songs in 35 minutes, right? Like blistering and great, and the songs are hilarious. Like, customer is a hilarious song. It's just about, I don't know, it's just funny. I like that song. And Otto, there's one called Otto that, just like, all of a sudden, has a random, like, blues riff section in the middle. And it's hilarious. Like, what? What did that? What's going on? So that's good stuff, right? Okay, of course, of course, we can't mention Minneapolis without probably the most important band in the genre for Minneapolis, right? I'm gonna put them in number two. It's just my personal preference. But no, you know, listen, there's no hate, right? I love you guys. This is like, this band is like a transitional fossil from like punk and hardcore to like post hardcore to like alternative, like late 80s alternative rock that would like, turn it into, like what a lot of bands were doing in the 90s. But this band gets no credit. Collin, I am course, talking about the legendary

Speaker 1  57:00

Husker. Doo

Collin  57:02

oosker. Doo, there it is.

Brandon  57:04

There it is. Have to bring it up. Have to talk about who SkiDoo, right? My favorite album, of course, 1984 is Zen arcade, this massive magnum opus. I start somebody in a comment that I was watching, was listening to it again. They were like, this has got to be, like, The War and Peace of punk. And I was like, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. I love that. I'm stealing that credit to that guy.

Collin  57:30

Now they, they didn't. They break up in the was it

Brandon  57:37

they did? They had like, uh, yeah. And then they got back together for a while. I did some stuff again, and then, like, they broke up again, like they're not active anymore. So they did do that. They did that, like, we're done, and then they're like, um, actually, let's get back together and do some more stuff later in the 90s, right? But they originally formed in 79 right? And Zen Arcade is awesome. And then I just, like, picked the song, chartered trips, just because it's cool. All the songs are cool on the album. It's great. It's awesome. Like, I like it a lot. But my current favorite, longtime favorite, actually,

Collin  58:10

current law,

Brandon  58:11

yeah, of Minneapolis, punk slash hardcore bands. It's got to be the Dillinger four.

Collin  58:19

Dillinger four

Brandon  58:20

right? The Dillinger four, right? Not a lot of it's a few years ago. It's easier to find online these days, right? Long time ago, it was very difficult to ever find any Dillinger for anything, right? It was like, buried in the internet, and everyone was like, What do you mean? Do you mean Dillinger Escape Plan? Like, no, I do not get out of here. Diligent four, right? Formed in 1994 right? There, Minneapolis, right? The great situation is comedy from 2002 excellent band, excellent album, right? And, of course, everyone's favorite song, noble stabbings, right? We gotta love that song. Just gotta give you what love I sing this song all the time for my song all the time

Collin  59:03

to myself.

Brandon  59:03

So weird. I don't know why. Melody that just pops into my head sometimes, and I'm like, what is happening? Oh yeah, go. It's had a brief top five list for you.

Collin  59:17

I love this.

Brandon  59:18

Thought that'd be important, right? I don't know. I just, like, I don't know how to fit this in, so I'm just gonna drop it in his lap and let him

Collin  59:26

know. This is fantastic. I I the only one that I have, like, really heard about is, who screw do?

Speaker 1  59:37

Yeah, good. Okay,

Collin  59:38

that one, at least I've got that one. The other ones, really, maybe I don't know. Now, I don't know, I don't know. I gotta, I gotta listen. I'm gonna grab some some songs and listen to them. I remember anything.

Brandon  59:54

I don't know. I guess they're on my Spotify thing. Every once a while they show up. I'm like, Oh, yeah. I forgot about them. Okay, there go, that guy. So they go, I had to dig for the von tramp. I tried to find a more recently, one, somebody. So I put that one on. There they go,

Collin  1:00:09

yeah, there are, I think punk rock specifically, I don't know, just my opinion, goes really great in summertime. It

Brandon  1:00:17

is. That's kind of why I decided to do this, right? Like, it's a very summertime vibe.

Speaker 1  1:00:21

A

Brandon  1:00:22

lot of it, right? Like,

Collin  1:00:23

yes, just makes you Yeah. It's that time. Roll down the windows. Crank some Yeah.

Brandon  1:00:30

Play it loud. It stop light. Get all the people in the trucks looking at you weird. Like, what,

Collin  1:00:36

as as you were supposed to do? That is, yeah, we have, we have talked about this, the loss of people listening to music with their windows rolled down, this is a travesty,

Brandon  1:00:46

really, is right?

Collin  1:00:49

Bringing it back.

Brandon  1:00:50

So there we go. There you go. Random drop on you here.

Collin  1:00:55

I don't have, sorry, yeah, I don't have a that's

Brandon  1:01:00

all right. I was alright. I was like, I did it. I was like, I was gonna do it again. My week hasn't been very exciting. I've been thinking about this for a while. I was like, I'm just gonna drop it. So let's do that for my homework, because I was not watching any more gratifications, movies, okay? I can't

Collin  1:01:12

that was healthy. I

Brandon  1:01:13

need it,

Brandon  1:01:14

yeah, I need to break mentally for that. I just couldn't do it anymore. Need to break from a little PIP for a little bit, like, I

Collin  1:01:21

got, yeah, that was a good, good time to step away and recollect, bring some sanity back into your life. Yeah,

Brandon  1:01:30

yeah, what little bit I could muster with only like, two and a half weeks left of school, like, I had to, like, dig that out of there. So

Collin  1:01:39

that's fantastic.

Brandon  1:01:40

Oh, it was rough, but yeah, there you go.

Collin  1:01:44

Very nice.

Speaker 1  1:01:47

Was

Collin  1:01:48

I supposed to have a haiku ready? Or is that?

Brandon  1:01:51

No, it's my turn.

Collin  1:01:52

Okay, yeah,

Brandon  1:01:53

cuz I I missed my week, and then we doubled last week, which was actually your week, and so it's my week again.

Collin  1:01:59

Oh, I have,

Brandon  1:02:00

don't worry

Collin  1:02:02

at a panic. I was like, Oh

Speaker 1  1:02:03

no,

Brandon  1:02:03

no, no, no. I got

Collin  1:02:04

it. I got it.

Speaker 1  1:02:05

I

Brandon  1:02:05

finished it earlier today. Oh, also random sixth grade quote of the week, oh, for today, I almost forgot. Oh, my God, I didn't have I didn't think I was gonna have one, right? But this gym drops today, and I just like, what's go with that one? It'll be good, right?

Brandon  1:02:29

Holy moly, buddy, get over yourself.

Collin  1:02:41

Perfect,

Brandon  1:02:42

right? Now. Now, this was not to another student, right? This is a response to something we were reading about. So that's even better, right? So, so it's not, not quite it's not as visceral as it sounds, but it is the last Social Studies project I have, I call so, like, all the year I have these little segments called, like, story time with Mr. Funkhouser, where I tell, I, like, do a orienting story of, like, a myth or important story from that culture that we're talking about.

Speaker 1  1:03:18

Oh, cool, right?

Brandon  1:03:19

So do like the Epica Gilgamesh, right? I do like the Osiris cycle from Egypt. I gotta find a better each one, that one's a little rough. And then I do like the essays in the Minotaur. And then I do the Iliad, right, which is a crowd thing. And so the last one of the last assignments for social studies is called Story Time with you, right? Where they have to get in groups and, like, learn about a myth from Greek mythology, and, like, perform it for the class.

Collin  1:03:47

Okay, I like this a lot.

Brandon  1:03:49

It's pretty great. And so they have to, like, learn about it and talk about, like, you know, is there a moral here? Like, what's supposed to be going on, right? But they do have to perform it for the class. And it's, it's usually gold. It's beautiful, right? But this, this girl was reading about Narcissus, right? The dude falls in love with his own reflection, and like he he saw in love with himself that he stops eating and drinking and just like,

Collin  1:04:20

dies. Yeah,

Brandon  1:04:22

she's sitting there. She's like, everybody's just kind of working in groups, and they're not really talking, and she just, like, shouts this out.

Collin  1:04:35

Dude was supposed to do it elicited

Brandon  1:04:38

they did a very visual response.

Collin  1:04:43

That

Brandon  1:04:51

was, there you go. I found one. I didn't

Brandon  1:04:55

think I was gonna have

Brandon  1:04:57

one. Yeah, all right. And I have a haiku for you, inspired by yesterday, right, frozen missiles streak towards unsuspecting targets, decimating all

Speaker 1  1:05:19

yes,

Collin  1:05:29

I'm glad it wasn't worse. I mean, it's pretty bad, but like, I know, like, dang well, hopefully that we don't have another, anything like that to report on the next.

Speaker 1  1:05:46

No

Brandon  1:05:47

kidding, we'd be done with that. Please. Over that. So

Collin  1:05:50

that's true,

Brandon  1:05:53

and we'll talk offline about how many bands we're drafting yes

Speaker 1  1:05:56

from

Brandon  1:05:57

the list. So

Speaker 1  1:05:57

do that,

Collin  1:05:58

what we shall do?

Speaker 1  1:05:59

Okay, good.

Collin  1:06:01

Well,

Brandon  1:06:01

and then we do need to talk about, what vibe Are you feeling for summer reading? Like, do you have a direction you want to think about? Think about that too. Like, where should we point our search for a summer novel? What's something very opposite of great expectations that we should

Collin  1:06:22

we're just do

Collin  1:06:27

some thinking and pondering and searching on this.

Speaker 1  1:06:30

Yeah, I've

Brandon  1:06:31

tried to think about you. I can't really nail anything down Exactly, yeah. So we just, we just think about that too, like, what direction should we put ourselves in?

Collin  1:06:40

Okay, to

Collin  1:06:40

search.

Collin  1:06:41

Yes, I will begin again, musing. All right, okay, let's moving forward. Then

Brandon  1:06:50

yes,

Collin  1:06:50

until then.

Brandon  1:06:52

All right, you.

Speaker 1  1:07:00

You.