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Collin has shoe problems. Brandon has concerns about hot dog eating. We get some new narratives from Treasure Island.

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podcast, sports style, storms, lightning, volleyball shoes, tennis shoes, shoe shopping, athletic shoes, parade, Fourth of July, Marshfield, Missouri, Confederate flag, sea shanty, Treasure Island

SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Speaker 1  00:00

Colin, welcome to Oh

Collin  00:06

brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, sports style,

Speaker 2  00:19

Ahoy, ahoy. What's going on? Oh, not a lot. Yeah, hacking, mostly, right? Yeah, you

Collin  00:30

well, we just had a bunch of storms come through. One of the reasons why we were a little late, we were trying to do a evening swim, or they call it a late night swim at the pool. Yeah, and things just kept getting delayed because of the, you know, the storms in the area. And for some reason, you know, they're, like, really concerned about lightning, and so when it gets close, what? What

Brandon  00:58

lightning? Lightning and pools go together wonderfully. I don't know. Yeah, I know. Just kidding, don't swim in a pool. What

Collin  01:08

if I gotta get out? And so then, so that took us a little while, and then, you know, it's hard to get out. So anyway, we are, we survived. We are, well, hooray, yes, no danger of pools and lightning for us. Haha. Because I was like, oh, man, do they have like, some sort of cool app or feature that they're using to tell when the lightning strikes are hitting? And I realized, no, no, they're just using a little freebie app that I, too, have on my phone. So I was like, Aha. So now I I've said it because, for some reason I checked my default settings and it was set to 37 mile radius around me for why, for, like, whenever you get some little bit, a little bit of lightning. And so, yeah, I was like, That's useless, because they only go by five miles. So

Brandon  02:07

yeah, it might maybe a bit much, but, you know, you could see it coming

Collin  02:12

now, yes, well, that was what we literally we arrived. And he was like, well, hold off something struck 10 miles away, but it looks like the cell is headed straight towards us. So see,

02:29

yeah, it's coming right for us.

Collin  02:36

So we had to sit and wait. And then he was like, never. Mind you. Good. Okay,

Brandon  02:44

well, I mean, this is, I approve of waiting for this, right? This is not a thing you want to be like, I'm sure it's fine. We don't need to worry about that. That is not, not. I mean, this is fair. It's not of

Collin  03:02

the thing to like, you know, poo, poo, lightning and water probably is not one of them. So it's pretty

Brandon  03:09

high up on the list of things to be like, I should pay attention to this. I should

Collin  03:14

just at least be alert, I guess, you know, stuff and things, yeah. So that's what we were so we were doing, and we're trying to to get out, so needed a little bit of an extension. There no worries. And then it felt weird, because we got home, got everything in bed, and every in everyone in bed, and I sat down, and I was finishing editing all that behind the curtains here tomorrow's episode. And then I, like, closed everything out, and then went, Oh, I have to jump on here and record really quick,

Brandon  03:53

weird, not using that. We can kind of plan ahead. No, who saw that coming? Yes, not us, that's for sure. By the skin of our teeth, fine, it's fine. It worked out just fine. Everything's okay. Don't fret. It'd be no

Collin  04:17

fretting in my life. I so our oldest is getting ready to go into some volleyball and the ball. She needs some tennis shoes, right? Some good some good shoes. And so was like, Okay, well, we gotta go figure this out. Now, of course, I am who I am. I can't stop it.

Brandon  04:40

I started to Google and search for girls volleyball shoes. I don't really think that's that's not a big market, right? Like there's not volleyball, is not a big enough sport in the US to warrant like shoes. Shoe its own shoe design,

05:03

right?

Collin  05:04

This. This is what I learned. This is what I learned I I quickly found mostly just Reddit threads of volleyballers discussing this, and my goodness, it is quite a heated topic. As far as what's good. Some people are like, never, ever use basketball shoes. And other people are like, I love using nothing but basketball shoes to play volleyball. And then other people are like, well, you must buy this one weird brand from some so that's what I was spending my time doing is trying to figure out, like, what I was reading, like I had like, three different articles pulled up of like, what makes a good volleyball shoe? What characteristics should I look for in a volleyball shoe? Now I still can't tell you exactly what that answer is, okay, but there are

Brandon  05:58

articles I wish we were for this reason. I wish we were still in school, because I have a lot of people. I could just ask for you. I could be like, Yo, that's totally fine. I

Collin  06:11

am married to someone who is a hardcore volleyballer in a past life. So I just was like, hey, we'll we're just gonna go. So I did the thing that I have not done in nigh on millennia of Ask

06:26

mom purpose. She

Collin  06:30

actually wasn't feeling too well, so we weren't able to go to the store. The first time with her this morning, I was like, we're just gonna go to the store. Like, and I have, I have in my mind what a tennis shoe looks like. Have you been tennis shoe shopping recently? Okay,

Brandon  06:50

so, like, no, but yes, but no, because, like, I don't buy tennis shoes for sporting purposes, right? I my tennis shoes are strictly like, in the like sneaker fashion category, right? Like, I just wear, like, original Adidas, and that's kind of all I want to buy. So like, but I have seen some of them. They look wonky, right? I also kids at school show me their shoes sometimes, and I go, what is it?

Collin  07:28

I have never seen like. I'm blown away. The thickness of the soles of these shoes these days

07:35

is immense. Now,

Collin  07:39

I guess this was this is weird, because part of my problem was basketball shoes. In the early 2000s were going through this weird phase of, like, strip everything away from the shoe, give a really high arch with like shocks and stuff on it, and like taper and like flips up at the end, these shoes look nothing like I and, and, to also, be fair, I have not had to buy like, an tennis shoe in 20 years. Like, I really, I just, like, this is my first foray into this. Like, I, I settled on my shoes 20 years ago, and I'm, I'm fine.

Brandon  08:15

I mean, yeah, same, right. Like, I don't really branch out too much. I do have some shoes that I like run in, but they're either I just went on the Adidas website and was like, sale. Yes, yes, done.

Collin  08:33

Got it. Okay, there you go. The other part that is hard for me is there's been such an advancement in technologies that the shoes, like the foam, has gotten better and the textile has gotten lighter. So you pick up this $75 shoe and it feels like it's worthless, like it feels like a super cheap shoe. Oh yeah, yeah, it's not like I'm used to, like the I remember the tennis shoes like they were heavy because some of them had literal wire springs in

Speaker 2  09:09

the lamest shoes. Can we agree that those are the lame issues I know it was shocks, or whatever

Collin  09:14

I know, like, and they were, they were filled with these heavy plastics, and also, so, like, a heavy shoe was like, Oh, look at this. I go, Look, here's this. Here's this $100 shoe. And I pick it up, and I go, this is, feels like foam and paste. Like, I can't, what is this garbage? So this is also something that I hate. Yes, it is, but it's like, it's high end foam and paste. It's very costly, sure. So this is the other thing I'm like, This doesn't feel like it's going to last. So I'm having a real hard time with this right now, and so we're in the store. And the other thing is, is that her foot is right at the edge of like she's at the upper end of youth and the very low end of women. Oh.

Brandon  10:00

Yes, the classic conundrum.

Collin  10:03

Now, my concern like this. So this quickly became apparent, of like a there's all of these shoes are also, like, super flat. There's no arch from the outside that you can see. It's on the inside, though it's on the inside, right? So this is another change of 20 years ago, because this sounds like old man yelling at clouds 20 years ago. They wanted to show that arch like because they again, they were, they were like minimalist shoe, like, strip everything away, make hard plastic in there. You could see this from the side. You could pass your arm through the arch of the most of these shoes.

Brandon  10:40

And now everything's just like those wood blocks, like the wood block piece, like,

Collin  10:44

Hey, we're like, Here, here's a hole. Now everything is just flat, and I'm sure this is helpful for whatever. But like, working, like, all of a sudden I'm like, none of these look like the shoe that I thought I'd be buying. And so I started to panic. And we found a shoe that I was like, oh, okay, I actually like this. I FaceTime with Megan because she was home not feeling well, and she's like, Yeah, just get that one. But here's the thing, remember the aforementioned barrier of, like, upper end of youth, lower end of women's Yeah, another thing that shoe companies are doing is there, there are no laces in youth shoes anymore. They're all, they're all velcro or, like a stretchy slip on shoe with, like, bungee thing cords on it. You don't and so I, like, I put on a shoe. It fit her perfectly, but it was, it was a slip on, if you went up to women's, it was laces, yeah, and, and I had her run around and jump in these in the store, and I said, how do they feel? And she goes, I feel like my foot is coming out of the shoe, like it's not tight. And I was, like, we need laces. Like, like,

11:55

like, we need, we have

Collin  11:57

to have laces here. So then this became another constricting factor of, okay, now I can only look at the smallest size in women's, which is a five right. Of like, I need

12:10

a five, okay, I did not know that.

Collin  12:13

I learned all of this, like eight hours ago.

Brandon  12:18

Is that educational program sometimes. So that's good. Thank you for

Collin  12:22

sharing. Yes. And so I'm like, Well, I've got to go to that. But how many size five shoes do you think most general purpose stores have probably not, just

12:35

oodles.

Collin  12:36

I can tell you from the we went to a shoe sensations thing here, it's all nothing but shoes, zero, size five zero. Cool, cool. We went to Kohl's, yeah, also zero size fives. Oh, man, entirely. And I'm like, Cole shoe department really, fell off really, I know, in love with those guys. I know once you know, yes, it got shift. Oh my goodness. I'm like, Well, we are in a real bind. And like, we kind I thought we were gonna have to compromise with the size three youth with this Velcro strap. But her shoe, his her foot was just tall enough where that the velcro didn't quite come down enough, and it was just kind of like barely touching the other side, so it was kind of just lightly clasped together. Oh yeah, that's no good. I'm like, no

Brandon  13:30

especially for an active sport, I think you definitely need laces.

Collin  13:35

I need these Lashed to the feet, right? That's the whole point of this cannot move. This has to be stable. Otherwise, this is all pointless. And so we spent an hour. I spent well, I spent 30 minutes this morning, and then an hour back out looking at Kohl's, and came out with nothing. Yo, what the heck nothing. Because none of the youth sizes had actual laces that we could use. And if they did have laces, they were not of a, like, a sporty shoe. It was like, here's this heavy, like, weird, clunky fashion shoe with a sole. Some of these soles are, like, two inches thick. Like, seriously, yeah, I don't understand these. And so I just went, well, we can't get that, and none of that, nothing is in size five,

14:26

so

Collin  14:28

I am going to have to do some quick internet searching and figure this out.

14:34

Yeah, and just get it.

Collin  14:37

I thought, I thought for sure, I just want a kid's tennis shoe. I was like, I just want a tennis shoe. That's all I want. I'm not looking for all of these, like, high end stuff, or like these latest and greatest technologies. I just wanted a lace up tennis shoe to, like, run in. And I don't even need the all the hardcore volleyball stuff, if we're being perfectly honest, because we're not there yet. I just wanted to. Lace up tennis shoe, and I couldn't find one that wasn't like, just weird. And didn't it wasn't like, this is one you can run in. Like, that was like, I want to run in this. Everything else was just like, this is a leisure shoe. Let's not help

Brandon  15:17

that's true. I think the other problem we have here, especially with like all right, so let's, here's my controversial statement of today. All right, there is no delineation in shoe between the sexes, right? There's no real reason in most cases, to have boys slash girl shoes, right? And a lot of times, from my experience speaking with middle school age girls, they can't find shoes at all for sports. Like, it's very hard for them to find shoes for basketball. Like, they don't really get like, girl shoes. They just get shoes that fit them. Like, yeah, it's the other part. Like, it's a weird thing that's like, like, they don't make sports shoes for girls. They like, don't make Right, right? So with a sport like basketball or even if there were volleyball shoes, I bet there would only be, like, men's volleyball shoes. Like, I can guarantee you that would happen, like, base for, like, for like, basketball, like, there's like 20 bazillion boys and men's basketball shoes, and there's like six women shoes. Like, what? Yep, and we were

Collin  16:59

even doing some of the crossover thing of like, okay, well, we're gonna have to set aside the like, our desire for all pink. Okay, let's set that aside. What can we, because we

Brandon  17:11

can't remember, we can buy pink laces for any shoe that we get, right? Yeah, this is an important consideration. You know, we can do that right, right,

Collin  17:24

but no right like this is so we went all that way, but still, this delineation of the of the laces was the issue. And then the whole, do you think finding a size five in women's is impossible? The smallest size admins, they are never going to carry that like that is just fair. That's true, right? Straight up. They don't even make that. They just laugh at you. They go back to your boy, your child shoes, dude. And it's like,

17:52

Okay,

Collin  17:55

that's pretty rough, yeah. So we just, I felt really deflated, because I'm like, I know, I think I know what I'm asking for

Brandon  18:02

here. But again, these, like these shoes that

Collin  18:07

they have out there, I'm gonna try and send you the graph that I found of during my frustration, of where shoes are these days, of like this is supposed to be a Nike running shoe.

Brandon  18:22

Let me know if that comes through. And look at this, look at the the souls on all of these things. I don't know if that's gonna come through, gonna awkwardly sentence, oh, there it is. Okay, like, it's gonna awkwardly fill this void. Oh yeah. These are like, hardcore running shoes, though, for like, these are for like, people that think, hey, it's really fun to run 10k I know this is hilarious. This is beautiful, but, like, I love to run marathons, but that, yeah, this is a ridiculous

Collin  18:55

that size of soul is is permeates through everything. And now, yeah,

Brandon  19:01

here's, here's, we go, here go. If he wants a shoe. This is not hashtag, not sponsored, right? Hashtag not sponsored. But if I think what Colin really needs, or Colin's daughter really needs, is a pair of new balance, right? You want a shoe that looks like a tennis shoe? Yes, just, I think, really, there's only one real answer here, right? You can get, like, old school, like Adidas, like sambas, right? Yes, like, yeah, they make those in like, every single color we are some sambas and, like,

Collin  19:40

I was like, I think it's time to do a just get a new balance. And so we this is in my list of things to do. But here's the other thing, laces, finding a sport like with laces, I'm looking at one. I was just looking when it was like, a $90 shoe, no laces. Just slip on. And it is, like, from the if you just look at it in profile, you go, that is the ER shoe. That is, that is what I'm looking for. And then you zoom in, you're like, Nope, no laces. I don't It's so it's the, it's the athleisure efficacion. Oh, yeah. Of everything, right, like this is, this is truly people want to look like they could go running a 5k but, but they actually don't, because the shoes would never do that. You have to go to these ridiculous looking things that actually it's just anyway, this is what I spent my day doing, nothing but shoes.

Brandon  20:44

There you go. That is unfortunate. A lot of these new balance shoes I'm looking at have places, as do these Adidas kids ones. By

Collin  20:52

the way, I think what we're going to go with is we found an an ASICs shoe. Oh, another classic, right? Also another, another classic. And this one just so happens to be specifically a volleyball shoe.

21:12

Oh, wow, dang, there we go. So one

Collin  21:15

yes. Now they are not the prettiest looking shoe, and I will tell you,

Brandon  21:21

but they are so this is the Asics things I know people that a lot of teachers like ASICs, right? They are not always, there's they have some. Obviously, they're fine, but they're not the most like trendy shoe, but they are,

21:36

like, mega

Brandon  21:37

comfortable, from what I understand, right? Like this is, this is what I hear from people that I know that wear them. Like, yes, they're mega comfortable,

Collin  21:46

so yes and and highly, also highly rated, from people who like, it's one of those shoes. If you look at it's like, that is, that is really ugly. But a lot of people will wear this for various reasons. Like, it's extremely popular for the people who are just want a very practical, down to earth basic shoe. Like,

Brandon  22:08

a lot of teachers wear basics a lot, right? Yeah, they go. I think Susan has a pair of these that look like her running shoes. I think they're basically like this, yeah?

Collin  22:16

Pro tip. All ASICs shoes kind of look

Brandon  22:22

the exact same they do. They do, but that's okay, right? If they have a vibe and they're quite comfortable, right? So it's good, right? I feel like that's fine, yes, and they come in pink. Most importantly, this particular scenario, pink. They do come in pink, yes, which I hear is highly important,

Collin  22:44

very important that pink be involved somewhere,

22:49

yes, right?

Collin  22:53

And so, yeah, so we this is what we're going to go with. We're going to see how tomorrow goes. It's going to take a day or two for these things to arrive. Obviously, that's fair, but, yeah, that's true. But the term that keeps popping up, I use the term ask leisure, that's fallen out of style now they just call it sport style.

23:15

That's not sport

Collin  23:17

style, right? It's like,

23:19

that's not a good name. I I disapprove. No

Collin  23:25

horrible name. Like, really, it's very lazy I like, but unfortunately, right, they're not gonna it's not what they want. It's just like, I kept coming across sports style. Went,

Brandon  23:42

right. So apparently, athleisure is a dirty word in the industry. It was too much, too much, too much of a negative connotation. I guess maybe I don't really know. It does

Collin  23:56

sound a bit condescending, I suppose, I guess, yeah, where they're like, oh no. It's Oh it's very demeaning and demeaning to just, like, wear sweatpants like I you know, you can just do that, right? You can just wear sweatpants like, I know, I know it's now they're calling it as if to say, like, again, I'm styling you for sport. There's no substance here at all. It's just pure style. These things are going to look very much like they could, but they can't. So please do it right. Are you saying that they're more leisurely? Perhaps. Why is this what you're implying? Some say, some say it's you could wear these in a leisurely fashion

Brandon  24:40

in a leisurely context, yes, perhaps, and it wouldn't be out of depth to do so is that, no, that was

Collin  24:48

your implying, exactly right, you can just wear these and not have to run. That's the thing you just they're not actually for running. They're just made to look like that. Wow. I

Brandon  25:01

Oh, my God, have imagined I couldn't imagine that. Like insane. I know it's crazy,

Brandon  25:19

ridiculous I eat people because marketing is dumb, right? It's dumb marketing. I disapprove of this. Just call it athlete. I uh, speaking of words like this, right? This reminds me I was reading about this year's, uh, Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Oh, right. And so they, you know, Joey Chestnut won again. He's back this time. Legal disputes apparently resolved. I don't know how old is Joey just thought too old to be eating 70 hot dogs. I don't know. I don't really know, but he's been doing this for like, a billion years, and he just weighs all the time

26:07

anyway. The thing I'm referencing occurred in the women's competition, right? So the the rules of the contest state that participants must eat hot dogs, and then they must

Brandon  26:26

maintain the hot dogs right. That's what, yes, you cannot and so not lose them. But I was reading one of the female competitors got disqualified, and the term that they used was for actions contrary to swallowing what guys like they won't say He threw up action, right? Like, contrary, yeah, actions contrary. No, very dumb.

Brandon  27:10

Oh, no, yeah, oh, that is, that is, I mean, I guess you know what your press release to be like, yeah, she puke, bro. But like, actions, contrary to swallowing, is an exceptionally silly thing to say in this instance, in my opinion. I mean, what do I know? I don't know about this kind of stuff, but, like, I just, I just felt that was the goofiest the goofiest sentence

Collin  27:46

that is, does I'm not okay with this. And what's interesting is, unfortunately, I just googled that. I was like, where else has the internet like I am curious. Apparently, I'm going to link to a thread from homebrew talk.com

Brandon  28:03

That doesn't sound from 2000 firing 2006

Collin  28:10

the whole thread is, how many different ways to say puke,

28:13

I don't know.

28:16

Oh, this is

Collin  28:17

horrifying. I don't like it, but included in there is the phrase actions, contrary to swallowing. Wow,

Brandon  28:27

maybe that's where Nathan's they read that article. I did.

Collin  28:32

I I actually want to know it was the writer, M in bug eater from homebrew talk.com he, he posted this April, 24 2009 so this thread was going three years after its original posting.

28:53

Man, it's pretty good.

Collin  28:56

So I wonder, because this guy, this person, has a sports icon in their thing. It's about eating.

29:05

Oh, I wonder

29:08

maybe

Collin  29:09

we found,

29:10

maybe we found

Collin  29:13

the originator, an author. But maybe they were just looking at this. Because I'm like,

Brandon  29:18

I mean, maybe, but yeah, they could just read it, but that is, I, yeah. I was like, no on Earth actions contrary to swallowing, yeah, thank you, yeah. As a a

Collin  29:34

phrase that's highly upsetting, that's just it is it is saying throwing up? It's so much better. It's just better to say, throwing up. Okay, I

Brandon  29:42

don't know if, I don't know if, like, if it's like a what I don't know. And what the article did not go on to explain is that, like, is it like a faux pas to sit to like, talk about throwing up in competitive eating, right? Is it some sort of like taboo? Do you don't talk about it like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't, I don't know if that is a thing. So, yeah, there might be some, like, weird secret insider well, and I'm also eating cultural thing that I don't know about, not so

Collin  30:23

all. I mean, I don't know. I also wonder, I do wonder, if there is a sanitize for like, yeah. Like, Well, no, or is there a very technical reason for why they used that phrase as in, like, if you were to have reviewed the tape, you wouldn't have call it throwing up, like, but, but for some other reason, I don't know, like,

Brandon  30:46

I'm just trying No, because it was talking about how it like, it occurred, because it you, the official rules say that, like, there's a because there's, like, the time stops, right? And then there's like a little bit of time, and then the awards presentation happens. And the time in question is that time between the end of the competition and the presentation of awards, that is the time with which all things must stay where they are, right? And it happened during that time. So it wasn't even like during that eating part. It was like afterwards, I guess, for a lack of better term. So like, yes, it was like, kind of after a little bit. So maybe, I don't know if that would have anything to you know, I don't know if that would affect the phraseology or not. You know, that doesn't

31:46

I don't know, but that's when it occurred. That's when the event occurred anyway. But I just had to share with you actions, contrary to swallow, because it's quite a goofy way, sentence, really?

Collin  32:06

Yeah, well, that's highly uncomfortable. I just

Brandon  32:10

thought you need to know that since that phrase has now entered my lexicon, my vocabulary, I just need to make sure that it was shared with you, and so I wasn't told no, no, maybe next time just don't.

32:28

Oh no. You need this in your life. Oh, you know what

Collin  32:32

fair I do? That's, that's the thing I need. Yeah, league,

Brandon  32:39

well, that's interesting. Oh, so

Collin  32:44

you all are you? Do you have everything in bags for your trip, or you still spread a boot?

Brandon  32:50

No, I think I have mostly in the bag today, except for, like, the toiletry stuff, right? Last thing to go, because, you know, can't pack your toothbrush

33:00

too early, that would be problematic, so we're not, no, don't do that. But yeah, other than that, mostly, there's still some spare parts laying around here, but I have most of the clothing in a bag, so

Brandon  33:21

that's good. Good start. Good start. Everything's in there, yeah, no, and we have room for the little things that we need to add. So this is so far so good. We're gonna go, Yeah, and

Collin  33:36

you got room? Like, are you? Are you over stuffed in any place or, Oh no, no. You're like, Oh, you have room to spare in these. Yeah,

Brandon  33:44

nice. Bring home a t shirt or two. So there you go, bang. So, yeah, just kind of getting that stuff, doing the luck again, luckily, my life is it? My wife is a checklisty person. So, like, now that's getting, there's a list somewhere, and

Collin  34:10

that phrase just like, burrowed into my brain of like, oh, that's how I think about it, yeah, there's a list somewhere. It's my it's embodied in my wife, who's walking around like, with the list, right? Yeah, she's got a list. That's why, that's why she's here, because she I don't have a list. But yeah,

Brandon  34:31

my wife says, so it's all good. Yeah, somebody's on the case. Yeah, yes, as long as that yes, as long as there is a responsible party involved here, shock, that is not me. So this will surprise literally no one did. That is what's going on here. But that's. It's okay, at least we all know. Yeah, it's everyone knows. I'm not gonna hide it. It's all right. It's fine. There you go. So before we move on to books, do you want to talk about parades real quick? You wanna

Collin  35:17

see what I totally Yes, yeah. Raids, yes, yeah, all right, sorry, I was like, there's, I have something, there's, yep, topic, parades. So we attended a

Brandon  35:29

parade. Apparently, just a parade? Yes? Well, that's true. We have thoughts about the parade, right? So, and just so you know, listeners, these thoughts were shared by the majority of our family. So, yeah, basically everyone, even dad, right? This is they go big one. Now, what we've learned this week, right? We attended the Marshfield, Missouri Fourth of July parade. Right? I learned this week, upon arriving home that the Marshfield Fourth of July parade has been going on for 146 years. It is the longest Fourth of July parade west of the Mississippi apparently, according to KY three news. So you would think with this much parade heritage, that Marshfield would know how to parade correctly. Yeah, right. And what I learned this week is they do not right. We left this parade after an hour, and

36:58

there was still much

Brandon  37:00

parade happening? I don't know how long it actually went on, but I'm guessing close to two hours

Collin  37:11

had had to have been and I say that because at no point did the parade look any different from like moment to moment no, no. And when we left, we were walking down

Brandon  37:28

like towards the beginning part, and it was just stretching for ever, literally forever. So I would be fully confident saying this was a two hour parade. First of all, I would just, like, I am of the opinion this is much too long for a parade, absolutely right. Like, I don't think. I think maybe an hour is good, right? Like, you need to cap the number of entrants somewhere at some point, right? At some point, there must be you can't just let anybody into your parade. That's what I wanted to talk to you about today, dear listeners, right? When I say the word parade, some of you have a specific vision in mind, right? You're thinking like floats. You're thinking like people walking in a procession, right? Like, you know, together in some kind of thing. Maybe you're thinking about the classic prom queen in the car thing, right? Doing the parade wave, you know, the pageant, something or other, right? The Marshfield parade appears to be basically a mobile auto show. It is a

Collin  38:58

linear car show. Is how it is a linear car show. And

Brandon  39:04

I think certain car shows would not let in some of these cars, because they're just like a car, right? All right. So, so this is what we've got. Collin, I want to discuss just briefly some important parade criteria, like, what needs to be present in a parade and what should not be allowed in, right? That's what, yeah,

Collin  39:34

yeah, because it's I understand, like, from an organizer's perspective, like having that good vibe of everybody's invited, and it feels really good, until you sit through an hour and go,

Brandon  39:49

What? Yeah, why is like a 2010, Chevy Avalanche in this

Collin  39:56

parade, like, but it had big tire is happening? I don't care. Or,

Brandon  40:02

I think, I think my, my first qualification here is that if you are a car, right, cars must be part of an auto club. Yeah, right. So if you want your auto club to be in the parade, that's cool. You get a certain number of people. Like you can't have every single car in the club be in the parade. That's goofy, right? You can represent your club. You can pick some people to represent your organization, but you don't need every single person in the whole entire organization in the parade, right? So I think Car Clubs are good, because like a parade, to me, especially this type of parade, it's so like a civic thing. Yes, right? Very much. It's like a local thing now. Now Marshfield is like the county, like seat, or whatever. So this is like a local, civic, county level organization, sure, right? So, if you have an organization in the county, but if your car club is based in the county, right, come on down, right? You drum, you know, maybe you get some new members. You know, that's what's that's what that kind of stuff is about, right? Finding new you can get new people interested in the club, grow the organization, show your civic pride, right? But you can't have every single person in the group in the parade. Okay, that's silly. And what we really need to cut down on most here is the entrance that were like random kid in a four wheeler with a flag on it that doesn't need to be in a parade. That's not paradey, right? I understand. It's the fourth of July. It's like patriotic blah, blah, like a four wheeler with a flag on it. Not really trying hard.

Collin  42:07

No, you know, well, and, yeah, I think the having the not everybody has to be involved. I think that that that is hard. You're literally in one Yeah, just saying, I think, I think this would, I think my next suggestion, or like being part of a parade, would help a lot with this, to the confusion, because there was a lot of blending of, when does one thing start and when does one thing stop in this parade? Because there was nothing I think you have to have the procession for each club like you need to have, yeah, the banner or something that shows who this is. Because what most people are relying on, more and more are like stickers on their car or like their T shirts, and that's like, Ah, I can't read your T shirt. Really, I can't read your T shirt. And I don't I, I'm so confused. There's a lot of moving pieces. I want two people with a little bar, and hanging from them is the banner that says such and such civic club, or like this band, or this church, or whatever this organization you need that so that you know these people are with this. Because then when you have the random person on a four with it, with a flag, it's like, oh, they're with the civic organization. Yeah. Okay.

Brandon  43:38

Not me going. Why are you here? Who are you? Yes? Is this

Collin  43:45

you? Yes, yes, you you need to be labeled and not just like, I like the clear, here's the start of one thing and here's the start of another thing. So Juno, everything in between is of a kind like, I just that really throws me, because I think I saw in total

Brandon  44:03

two, two, yeah. Now some of them were, like, on the side of like the like, some people did have floats, okay, I really am going to show a lot of love to people with floats, yeah, right, because they had, or what some people did is they had like a, I'm okay with this, too. If you have, like, a vehicle that has your organization written on a banner on the vehicle, or something, and then people are, like, walking next to the vehicle, right? I'm okay with this, because some people had it, like in the truck bed, or they had, like a flatbed truck was like a thing on the back, and it like, clearly said what it was, was like, written on the side or something, and then there were people, like, walking near it, like, that is more parade, because they're interacting with the crowd. They're handing out stuff, right? Yeah, it's not just like a dude in a truck, like, with the windows up, driving down the road. Like, what? What are you doing? Why are you even here? Dude? What? Like, what is this? Yep, so bad.

Collin  45:05

Just some guy where you're like, Okay, there's another truck. Like, yeah. Like, what? Yeah. It just, it just seemed like these random trucks with people throwing out candy and like, I don't know what's going on,

45:17

yeah. And it's just like, who, who are you? Why are you here? Do I care about you? I don't. I don't know, because I

Collin  45:25

don't know who you are. Yeah, you have to be labeled, and that's why I like the banner. Like,

Brandon  45:31

yeah, I think the labeling is an important thing here. Like, I really, I do think that's important, just so that you know we all know who, what, when or why.

Collin  45:44

I understand it's like, oh, now I have to have a banner. Well, yeah, but you're also in a parade, so like, yeah, come on, yeah, right deal, and it

Brandon  45:54

helps to mix it up, right? Because, like, when you sit through like, 20 minutes of just cars, oh, it's not a particularly interesting thing, right? And again, this is me being some of this is me being old, right? You're like that, that car is at 2009 why is that in a parade, right? Like, I don't understand that. And it's not just like, it wasn't like, it wasn't part of a car. There was a section that was like, clear, very clearly,

Collin  46:28

the Corvette Owners Club, right? Also, I think you mean the, I think it was the Shriners, Corvette owner Club.

Brandon  46:35

Well, that's true, but like, you know that at least makes sense, like they're all the same type of car. They're all together. They're all whatever, like, okay, I can understand what's happening here. Like, just a whole bunch of random cars of various makes and models, like nearby each other. Doesn't really make any sense. So I it needs the variety of like, floats and cars and stuff, right? So I think, yeah, you gotta, you gotta mix it up, right? I would like more band action. Yeah, gonna parade. I do. I understand summertime, right? We don't have, it's hard to get, like, high school people around to do things in summertime, because everyone's doing stuff but, but I want to, I want to suggest bringing back a long lost Midwest staple right from the days of your right? That would be the community marching band. Yes, right? Yes. This is an ancient thing from, like the 1940s that was very, very, very, very prevalent back in the day, right? There was like a community band, right? And so parades had the band in it, right? And that's basically all they did, was they would play concerts at, like festivals or like, they would just march in the parade, and that's what they did, right? So I feel like this is a strong, a very strong, you know, point here for bringing back the community marching, right? We have, like, really bust, you know, interject some vigor into a car show parade, right?

Collin  48:30

Yeah, we have a community symphony and and we also have a actual symphony, so it's a little interesting. But, yeah, we have, like, the community band. They don't do marching or parades, which is unfortunate, but they're very nice. And I, too, I agree that you need more bands or music or performers like I also feel, yeah, something right, like they're used to. That's what I would suggest, two of, I think in our hour there we I saw one person who had some sort of music playing on their via on their on their float.

Brandon  49:11

Well, there was the there was that. There was the one band from the in the Marshfield

49:16

band. Good job, by the way,

Collin  49:18

I needed beautiful lines.

Brandon  49:21

But also there was the dance troupe thing, right? Like dance studio, they had a good float, because they had, like, a big truck, and there was people in the truck waving, and then they were playing music, and there was people doing a dance routine behind the truck as they're walking. This was excellent. This is far and away the best thing up to that point, right? Well, it was everything of, like,

Collin  49:47

just, it was, it was showcasing what they did, and it was having a lot of people involved and entertainment, yeah, right, like, just

Brandon  49:57

community engagement, right? The whole. Caboodle, as one would say, yeah,

Collin  50:03

that that is what made it a really good participant in that, a random truck. And for Yeah, like, even the trucks that were there, none of them were playing music out of their windows, like your windows are rolled down. Play something, yeah, I don't know, like, I just, I think there needs to be more music at parades. And so that's a big thing that I

50:24

that's fair music in general, yeah, yeah. I think so that'd be better. So yeah, there we go. I think everything else you're talking

Collin  50:35

about, no, no, I had my I had my processions, I had my, I This is, yeah, no, that's pretty much it. I mean, genuinely like, I, I like the those things. I think everything, okay, I would,

Brandon  50:49

I have one more controversial hot take here. I feel like this really upset me a lot, like, a lot a lot like, I really can't describe how distressed I was. I wasn't surprised, I guess. But I was distressed that in the Fourth of July parade, a parade celebrating America's independence from the British, there was a procession of the ugliest trucks you've ever seen in your life that had a big banner for the Confederate States of America on the side of it. Right? I feel like if, if you are at a fourth of July parade. Right? In my fourth of July parade, there is no floats allowed for combative enemy nations, right?

51:54

That bothered me a lot.

Brandon  51:56

Like I was like, Are you serious? And I was like, Wait, of course, you're serious. What the heck? Why would we not be serious? But that was very upsetting to me on a personal level. Just like, what is this? Get

Collin  52:11

out of here. It got real quiet whenever they drove by. I will say, like, bro,

Brandon  52:19

what are you doing and like you're not really, yeah, this is, no, this is not okay. I am not okay with this. No, yeah,

Collin  52:31

we're already, we're already a rebel combatant nation celebrating ourselves. And now, yeah, this over here.

Brandon  52:42

Yeah, no, no bueno. So that's the only other thing that really, really bothered me. I was like, oh gosh, I cannot, yeah, yeah. I just

Collin  52:52

got this on what parade checklist here. It looks good,

52:54

something, it's good.

Collin  52:57

I do. I do agree that that was, well, that's, yeah, certainly, that was certainly a choice. It was a choice you could have made. Gotcha, you

Brandon  53:07

know, just okay. So with that out of the way, we move to a slightly more light hearted topic. Because, of course, we can't forget the sea shanty of the week again here, no, right? We can't forget that, right? We can't forget about this week is the it's called fish in the sea. Yes, hey, right, right, topical, yes. Come all you young sailor man, listen to me. I'll sing you a song of efficiency. Boom. It's great. This is a good one. I really like this one. It's very catchy. It's very singable, which you know, kind of important for sea shanties, right? Credited to at least 1860 huh? So again, probably a bit older, but like, at least somewhere in the 1860s right? So that is the one for the week. There are a couple different versions of this song right there. There are at least two variants right that are. There's a version that the chorus starts, windy weather, stormy weather. When the wind blows, we're all together. That's, that's my favorite one. But there is another one where it talks about the blow. He wins, westerly, Western blow. So according to this little thing I'm reading here, so you can probably just put the two courses together to make like the ultimate song, right? The ultimate version of the Sea Shanty. I feel like that would be the best version of all. But. I think some people might do that. I don't know, but there we go. That is the fish in the sea from this week. Boom. See shanty. There we go.

Speaker 2  55:18

Yes, speaking of stormy weather, though, oh, boy, we get a bit of a tonal shift here

Brandon  55:28

in part four, the stockade, right? Yes, which. So we have an abrupt shift. When last we left, young Mr. Hawkins, right. He was startled by a cannon shot and arms fire right, and he looked, and there was a little there was a, was this a we last left him, and then not a quarter of a mile in front of me. I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood so he was like, What in the heck is that? Yes, yes. So we have interesting storytelling device here. We basically have a rewind, right? So this part is supposed to take be taking place at the same time as part three, Jim's shore adventure. So these two little bits happens simultaneously.

Collin  56:31

Did not expect this storytelling device to pop up here. Yeah.

Brandon  56:35

We just boom, right? We we get a random like, chapter 16. Right chapter of the title is all of a sudden narrative continued by the doctor how the ship was abandoned. So we get a point of view shift as well for three chapters, which turns out nicely for our delivery methodology here. So for three chapters, we have a tonal shift to the doctor, right? Dr, lively, lively, whatever, so we get his point of view. Now, could you tell from the writing that this was a different person? Did Robert Louis Stevenson do a good enough job, totally, to be like, Hey, this is a new person.

Collin  57:23

In your opinion, in my opinion, it felt the writing shell felt a bit more brief and clipped.

Brandon  57:32

Yeah, it was a bit more matter of fact, yes, right, so I think it kind of did, right? It's definitely, it's definitely a different character. Not like, hugely, right? Not like, not like a giant shift, but it is noticeable enough to be like, Oh, this is someone else,

Collin  57:53

right, right? Well, it doesn't get so many like daydreamy or like panicky moments or what am I trying to say? Like, it doesn't it is a matter of fact, this, I think it doesn't like Wonder, right? It's pretty much a well in this and this and this and this,

58:10

yeah, this, yeah. So, so, yeah, we get this so much. The doctors here now,

Brandon  58:18

so we're on the boat, and we're trying to figure out what to do, right? They are trying to come up with a plan, because now the pirates are off. They're off on the on the shore there, and they're on board, so it's the six people, and then there's six of the crew on board as well. So trying to figure out, what do we do about this? And again, he mentions, interestingly, the nasty stench of the place turned me sick. If ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage we get this like, again, it's like a, almost like a portend of, like, something bad is gonna happen, right? We can smell disease. And I don't know if we're equating disease to the disease of, like, the greed, yeah, like the hold that the treasure has taken on the crew, because they're getting all antsy, and they're, you know, really acting up, and they're doing all this stuff. So I don't know if, I don't know if maybe this is like a portent to that, like it's very heavy on everyone, and he can sense that. I don't know. That's an interesting thought, maybe.

59:38

So they like for I had a hard time following his logic here, right? Because he's like, I agree we should abandon the ship. And they're like, What?

Collin  59:55

Um? That came up abruptly when he arrived at that. Expect it was like,

Brandon  1:00:01

I'm sorry, what? Why? Yeah, so the plan just kind of all of a sudden becomes, we're gonna take a bunch of the supplies, right, and we're gonna go to shore. Now they kind of like,

1:00:19

he in

Collin  1:00:20

somebody else row to shore, like, first, right? Kind of, like, there's a group of pirates who are like, whistling, yeah. And then it was a funny scene of as they approach, the whistling stops, and they all kind of stare at each other,

Brandon  1:00:36

yeah. They're like, staring each other down, right? But basically, they come to discover that, like they they want to find like a stronghold, right? This is their thought. They need a place to defend themselves from the pirates, right? So they're thinking like siege, yeah, but they do realize we have all the supplies we need, set for water, yes, but there is freshwater spring on the island conveniently. It's very convenient. How all literary islands happen to have freshwater springs upon them. It's very interesting. Otherwise it'd be very short. Yeah, right. So what they decide to do is get all a bunch of stuff right, and they're gonna take these supplies to the island, and they're gonna set up a defensive position, right? This is, this is what they're gonna do. So I don't, I don't know if there already is a little building thing, I guess there's already, he found, he called the stockade, yes, right? Which is they made a like a, I guess an ex a small expedition to the thing, to kind of look around, to kind of scout out for a place, right? They find this building near a spring, probably from older pirate expeditions. Yeah, right. And so they like, Okay, well, this is where we're going to make our stand, right? Here's where we're going to come. So they get all these their their plan is to get these supplies and get them over to the island, right? Yes. Well, they did. I was a little worried here they, uh, we're gonna not think this through all the way. But, like, they did, think to, like, throw some of the stuff overboard that the Pirates of the pirates couldn't use. They threw a bunch of the small arms overboard, yes, a bunch of the

1:02:47

powder in the Yeah, but

Brandon  1:02:49

it was, was two and a half fathoms, that's what, 15 feet or so down. So, you know, it's down there. They could get it back, but it'd take a long time. It'd be all things. They threw others. They threw some supplies over the ship. They did forget an important thing. We'll get back to that in a minute, um, but before they were going right the other they basically, like, had a standoff with the remaining crew on the ship. Right? They had this like standoff moment where they were hiding, like on opposite ends of the ship. In my mind, it was happening because they were like the the captain, and all them are in the cabin, and all these other people are at the front of the boat, and there's like, having a standoff, because like that now they realize that they're leaving, and they've shot at them a little bit so that they get down and they call out to one of the people there, a certain Abraham Gray, right? Because they think he's not a villain. We need to try to get him on our side right. And there's, like, a bit of a TIFF, apparently, between gray and the other villains. And he's like, gray, I'm we're leaving, and I order you to follow your captain. I know you are a good man at bottom, and I dare say not one of the lot of your as bad as he makes up. And there's like, sounds of a scuffle, and then he's like, yeah, he jumps out, and he's got like, a knife cut on his cheek, and he, like, runs to the other end of the ship. So they do get one more person here on their side, which is good,

Collin  1:04:50

I guess. Then, yeah, he comes up and says, I'm with you, sir. And yeah, they they, they drop

Brandon  1:04:56

off, they depart. So they've already made one. They've already been to the island, like, twice, I guess, because they went over there looking, and they, like, very quickly came back and they put some stuff in the boat and took it over, and then they came back for the rest of the stuff and the people. But no, right, but here, but we start Chapter Two with the fifth, oh yeah, they've already been out four times. So this is a very this is a lot, this is a lot, this is a lot of trips we've made. So yeah, we've made, we've been back and forth, a whole bunch of blah, blah, blah. And now, though this is since this is our final one, we have all the people. It appears our boat is a bit overburdened, yes, as it were, right? And so the they're taking on water is too heavy in the back, in the in stern there, so they have to, kind of, like, as they're rowing briskly away, they're like, redistributing the stuff to make it more level, right? Well, and he's trying to steer in such a way so they're not straining too hard or dipping down into one side over the other, yeah, well, because now the tide is also turned right, right, so the tide is running in a slightly different direction, and it's a very slow going time now right. The tide kept sweeping us the wrong way. And so he basically is like very angled, trying to go into the thing so that they can get to the shore here. And this means the journey is going longer, which means more and more people are seeing them go right, and then all of a sudden, the captain goes, Oh, no, the gun, right? I Yeah, I thought of that where I made sure he was thinking of the bombardment of the fort, right? They could never get that gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through all the word the Woods says, Look astern. Doctor replied, the captain. We had entirely forgotten the long nine, and there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about her, getting her off the jacket, as they called, the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed, right? So like, oh yeah, there's a there's another gun. I didn't think about, right, so I don't know, oh yes. All of a sudden we're going, um, well, yeah. So this is a, an interesting thing. This is a, a word that I've heard a lot. This is, like, they like to refer to the long nine in a lot of books and stuff like that. So it, I don't really know what is, so I did look it up a little bit, and it is just like a nine pound gun, right?

Collin  1:07:58

So is the is the gun nine pounds, or is it shooting?

Brandon  1:08:01

The shot is nine pounds? Okay, that makes sense, right? Yeah, there's apparently they were, often they would come in different lengths, right? And they're the long nine is just the longer version of the gun. So, yeah, there you go. There you go.

Collin  1:08:27

At this, at this, they say, well, we should probably shoot them before they can shoot us. And so, right, the squire, the trail rainy, yeah, steps up, yeah. They're like, who's the best shot? They're like, Oh, it's a squire for sure, yeah. And he's like, All right, try to get them. Captain's like,

1:08:47

shoot Mr. Hands, if you can please. Like,

Collin  1:08:50

oh, right, because he's the one, he was the one that was really good with the cannon, right? Like he

Brandon  1:08:55

was Flint's gunner. Oh, right, yes. So they're like, shoot him. And they he tries, but he moves, and he just shoots some other Yes, and this draws attention at this point. Oh, yeah, right. So, so now they definitely could, they, because you can hear the some people in the shore can start to hear the small arms fire, and they're like, what's going on, right? Oh my gosh, right. And so here the some of the other boats that were ashore start coming out to try to intercept them, right? So they they really have to make a run for it, and they're getting pretty close, right? And he, I think he shoots again. Maybe here he does one, but it the boat like it's just too much. All this activity is too much in the stern sinks, right? But it, it only sinks, like three feet. So they're. Close to the shore, so they can, they can escape, right? They escape, and they run up to the thing, right? Because they There's already people running towards this Stockade, yeah, from where the other pirates were. So this, this activity, has drawn their attention. So they are. They're all running that way, right? And that's kind of where this check is here. They've lost their last load of stuff, mostly, but they did make it to shore

Collin  1:10:35

with that. Well, they, well, they, well, well, importantly, leaving behind a good half of all their powder and provisions. So, yeah, they're coming to this stockade where they were planning to be kind of, you know, under siege without as much stuff as they'd hoped.

Brandon  1:10:55

Why they didn't take the powder first that would, I don't know, but the so they got in there, the next chapter here, and they did leave two people there to kind of like guard, right? So they kind of tell them a little bit what's happened, and now they're just really understanding the other they discover that the pirates already have guns from somewhere because they're getting shot at. Yes, from somewhere,

Collin  1:11:27

yes,

Brandon  1:11:28

yeah, they just had, huh, boom, right, and they did shoot some dude who runs up there, but they when they return fire, Oh, Tom, Tom gets shoes. Did Tom dead? Tom's dead. Collin Tom stumbled and fell his length on the ground.

Collin  1:11:54

I did. I laughed a lot, a little bit when I got to this point, because I was like,

Brandon  1:12:00

oh, it's dead. Tom, he's dead. Oh, yes, this is sad. This is sad. Yes, what's so he's, you know, there's a kind of a dramatic scene here, you know, he's like, Oh, I'm, I'm sorry, Tom, he's like, What do you got to do? He's sorry for we put up a good fight, and that's all the man could ask. It's very, like, weird, 1800s macho stuff going on here, you know? And so he's, he's dead. And then after that, we have this, like, very bizarre thing, right? So we have, we're dealing with Tom dying over here in the corner. And then in the meantime, the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets. It turned out a great many various stores, the British colors, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pin, ink, the log book and pounds of tobacco. Really got his priorities here, really important stuff. So the first thing that the captain, of course, does, right? I love this. He's busy all their shooting, Tom's dying. The Captain is busy because he is hoisting the colors above the force. Yes, he is Lord. Yes. He climbed the roof. He had, with his hand bent, and run up the Collins, right now problem the, you know, they have a brief moment, and he's like, sir, Tom's been shot. And he's like, that might not be so bad, because we don't have as many provisions as thought we were going to So, right? You know,

Collin  1:13:54

probably are okay without that,

Brandon  1:13:57

yeah, but we have enough powder and shot still, he says, but the food on the other hand me so that all of a sudden, the the the gun on The ship starts going off. Now, right? And the they it's hitting the sand right, because, apparently, sand is impervious to cannonballs. It's just like right, because they scattered a cod of sand, but doing no further damage. Captain said the squire the house, is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they're aiming at. Would it not be wise to take in strike

Speaker 4  1:14:44

my colors cried the captain, no, sir, not i and like,

Brandon  1:14:52

yeah. It's again, extremely like, well, well, it

Collin  1:14:58

says Yeah. It says for it was. Not only a piece of stout, seemingly good feeling, it was good policy besides, and showed our enemies that we despise their cannonade. Yeah?

1:15:08

Oh, my God. Oh,

1:15:10

spite. I get it,

Brandon  1:15:11

yeah, just good old fashioned British spite. I So all through the evening, they kept thundering away, ball after ball flew over or fell short or picked up the sand in the enclosure, but they had to fire so high that the shot fell dead and buried itself deep in the sauce sand. We had no ricochet to fear, and though one popped in through the roof of the cabin and out again through the floor, we soon got used to that sort of horseplay and minded it no more than crickets, sir. Excuse me, yeah, even though

Collin  1:15:48

what yeah was like, We minded it no more than crickets. Okay, sure, it popped in and back out again and you're just like, whatevs. I'm not worried.

1:16:02

Yes,

Brandon  1:16:04

dear. So we did. We did have some like, I can't remember where it was, but he talks about, like, it's a strange thing being a doctor and a soldier like you get so used to these sorts of things. It's just blah, blah, blah. Like, basically saying, like, stiff upper lip and all that, Pip, pip cheerio.

Collin  1:16:21

Oh, oh, well, that was whenever he was That was back, sorry. That was back whenever he was on the island and he heard that scream of somebody dying, right? Tom had, oh, sorry. Jim had also heard Yeah. He had that, like, yeah. Like, here it was. Like, I responded both as a doctor, but also like,

Brandon  1:16:38

I'm here. That was the catalyst that got them off the boat. That's basically what made them decide to leave, right? I forgot, we forgot about that part is they heard that exchange of somebody being killed, and they were like, Nope, we gotta go now. Blah, yeah, but, like, it was a very quick turnaround, right? And then, and then the, you know? So they're just sitting in there doing the thing the captain's writing in the log book, right? And then, and then again, the best coincidences of all time, right? At that same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins, fate hail on the landslide, somebody's hailing us. And I heard who was on guard, dr, Squire, Captain, hello, Hunter, is that you came the cries? And I ran to the door in time to see Jim Hawkins, safe and sound, come climbing over the stockade. First of all, Jim, don't just go running, jumping over stockades if you're not really sure who's in there. Okay, yeah, we learned our lesson by now. I mean, I mean, kind of obvious, what with the the British colors flying from the roof and all the pirates probably aren't flying that probably aren't doing that just for fun. I mean, they you never can tell they are sneaky pirates. After all, I can't just go running and jumping over stockade walls and be like, Yo captain

1:18:01

that year, right,

1:18:03

right.

Collin  1:18:04

Also, it's important to note that they have said that they have not said nothing about a weird looking man anywhere around in here. So it's

Brandon  1:18:15

coming. Yeah, probably behind Jim ran too fast for him, perhaps. But anyway, I just

Collin  1:18:21

thought it was like, hmm, there's going to be some interesting conversations coming up.

Brandon  1:18:26

Yeah? Like, who's this guy? What's going on here? Crazy looking dude, duck, for the love of everything, yeah? Like, yeah, what is watch out, Jim. There's someone behind you.

Collin  1:18:40

What I'm waiting for.

Brandon  1:18:41

Yeah, we'll see. We'll see what's going on there. So yeah, there we go. Interesting plot device, just all of a sudden, switching up to to the doctor. Right? Kind of unexpected. So interesting change pace here, but I believe now we're back to Jim for the next couple times. I think so, I think so probably for the remainder of the book. I think this is just a an interlude to explain how they got here, because, again, this was all supposed to be happening at the same time as Jim was out and about. So it's kind of like a parallel story here. So it was an interesting way to do that, though. So that's, that's kind of, yeah,

Collin  1:19:24

yeah. So we'll be back to Jim and see what continues to take place here. I'm very I'm interested. Yeah, it's, it's getting good, yeah.

Brandon  1:19:35

Here we go. Yeah. Oh, nice. And so if I can trouble you for Haiku, will wrap her up here. Yes, all right, yes, you go. We'll do this. Am lawn chairs unfolded, awaiting the settings. On colors paint the sky.

Collin  1:20:05

Boom, literally, boom.

Brandon  1:20:11

Small update from last year, right? Last year, we did decide to change our traditional fireworks watching position. Yes, and it had to do with the weather, right? So I wasn't sure if the that place would like, still be like available this year, because last year it was like, delayed and stuff. So like, I didn't know if people weren't there because of the rain delay, because it was like a new day, or if it was just like, always like always like that, right? Sure did go back down there, and, yeah, it was fine, right? We got there, there was, like, plenty of places to be. We just like, sit down. We just popped chairs out on the old soccer field. Just like, Oh, yeah. So it's really good, right? Really good, although this time, the first time I've ever heard them make it because we could hear the PA in the park this time I did for the first time ever hear somebody being like, please do not cross

1:21:09

the yellow tape. Oh no, guys, you can't go over there.

1:21:20

Okay. Yeah, finally putting their foot down, yeah.

1:21:23

And

Brandon  1:21:24

again, I don't know why you would come to

Speaker 2  1:21:27

a public park full of people and proceed to shoot off your own fireworks. Yes, there's a bunch of Nobody did that. No, you'll never

Brandon  1:21:40

believe this? Right over on the side of the road, a bunch of dudes parked their trucks in the ditch and then proceeded to shoot fireworks off over the ditch. I'm pretty sure some of them were also shooting off fireworks on the railroad tracks. Don't think you can do that's a lot. At 1.1 of them did tip over and blow up really near their trucks. And I was like,

Speaker 2  1:22:15

justice, yeah. But like, they were over there, just like, doing all kinds of ridiculous things with no qualms to all of people that were sitting nearby. Just like, shoot off our fireworks. No one came here to see you. Jack wagon, yeah, go to your own house. I don't care.

Collin  1:22:34

Great. I don't this is, this was that's not okay.

Speaker 2  1:22:39

Other than that annoying interlude. It was very good fireworks after the real show started, right? Yeah, and things were nice. I don't care if you want to go shoot out fireworks, just don't do it near me. I don't want to be a part of your EDC, on your own time, right? Okay, yeah. Yeah. There you go. There you go. Update on that, update on positional thing, so boom. Well, I'm glad that was good. Yes, good time.

Collin  1:23:13

Well, enjoy your jet setting lifestyle.

Speaker 2  1:23:16

Oh yeah, give a shot here. Yeah, yeah, see how it all pans out and

Collin  1:23:22

get back. Yeah, yeah, can't wait for that. Okay, very good. Well,

1:23:26

all right, you love you too. Bye.