Collin survived Texas. Brandon survived a full week of school. We have opinions about donuts.

Missouri’s false spring

Collin’s travel stories
Nissan Sentra SV review
Weird air vent neuroses!
On site recording
Travel snacks!
Banana nut muffins!
Top 5 Donuts

Brandon

5- Blueberry cake donut
4- Raspberry jam filled
3- Cinnamon twist!
2- Apple Fritter
1- Bear Claw

Collin

5- Bavarian Cream Donut
4- Old fashion - sour creme
3- Cherry filled
2- Cake donuts - blueberry or plain
1- Glazed - NOT Krispy Kreme

Honorable mentions

Beignet
Croller
Yum Yum
Churro

Haiku

Golden onions sweat,
Whispers of thyme, bay leaves dance,
Bowl of warmth, heart meets.

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SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin 00:04

Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Colin. On this week's show airvent neuroses Oh boy.

Brandon 00:17

Oh, boy. Oh, how's it going?

Collin 00:21

That's going pretty good. Yeah, really? Okay, good. Good. It should be fine. Yeah. Having good work five days in a row. What happened was this Yeah, I know the weather tried to help you tried to get cold but I guess they didn't try is very cold approximately listeners, again, exciting Midwest. This is very helpful. Teaching weather science this week. We just like looked at the actual weather map and was like look, here's all the things that would have been amazing. Like yesterday

Brandon 01:09

80 degrees Yeah, yeah, this morning 23 So

Collin 01:17

oh my gosh

Brandon 01:27

Yep, it was actually 80 it might have been just like 70

Collin 01:31

Now it was look it was close enough really high as

01:35

day yeah, this

Collin 01:36

morning was but I had already put away my coat to ask knowing prior date my jacket by by winter coat out of closet this way last week because it's a hot forever and that's like Oh, no milk. This is the fall spring is that so that's where we are in our weather journey. Series false

Brandon 01:55

spring. Yeah, just like oh, boom. Just kidding. Freezing cold. That was a fun fun time. Right so yeah, other than trying to remember where I put my coat it's been fun oh, yeah, we had

Collin 02:20

Yeah, it was it was cold all day today and I could definitely tell that several of the staff members had also put away their coats because and some didn't didn't bother to get them back out and we're like yeah, cut this walk kind of short today because it was called

02:37

like, oh, oh, you

Collin 02:39

didn't layer Oh, okay. Bye.

Brandon 02:41

Bye now. It happens yeah, at least where like your hoodie and also something else yeah and something else Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because

Collin 02:59

the wind has been terrible too. I've been my allergies have been insane I was driving which we can get to here in a little bit but just right side side note on that like a number of cedars that line the Interstate is quite a lot and then all we had like an infinite like, wind the wind like a

Brandon 03:19

cruise in USA right when you drive and it's just like victory it's just like lit by does anybody else remember cruising USA they call it something different and outside of the USA but they're all like Sega arcade video game, right where you like drive the roadtrip game? Yes.

03:36

Yep. Yep.

Collin 03:38

And when the when they are so when the cedars are so laden with pollen it looks that they are lexica they're on fire because of the amount of pollen that's leaving them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It makes you really turn the to recirculation. That's what you hit that budget

Brandon 04:01

Yes. So

Collin 04:05

yeah. So it's I'm, I'm back to sneezing again, which is

04:09

fun. Although

Brandon 04:10

with that, just when we thought we were past all this, right, like

Collin 04:20

I'm glad you got to have some teaching moment from the Missouri weather. So I guess you know, you're welcome.

Brandon 04:26

It was good. Yeah. Hold up the NOAA website and we're like, hey, look, look. Here's why tomorrow is going to be freezing. Look.

Collin 04:35

Here we go. Look at the light look. Look at the lines. The isobars the low

Brandon 04:43

pressure whole bar. Oh, yeah. So that that's pretty much it. Nothing else like super exciting this week is happening. Sure. And to just survive the weather change and go the other way. Do you have AIDS keys in your time? Oh, Saturday, are you gonna want to Saturday? So that's totally fine. But that's, that's about it. But I got transferred by we are doing like classroom demo presentations tomorrow? Oh, that'd be good. What are they? What are they on? Air pressure? Oh, so we'll see. There is a suspicious lack of materials that have been brought to my class over the past week. So we'll see how tomorrow goes. At least a couple of people will present I suppose.

Collin 05:55

Yes, and there may be more time vacant than you were expecting. Yeah,

Brandon 06:00

it was it'll be sit in. Think about your horrible life decisions about how those times when I said, we need to make sure we are going over our stuff and planning and meeting and talking about things of groups that never came to see me and just sat over the quarter full of shenanigans. They don't have their stuff. It's pretty weird. Crazy. It's pretty. It's pretty weird how that happens. Right? Yeah, who knew? But yeah, that's pretty much it. Let's hear about this driving. Oh, appraisal USA.

Collin 06:41

I was. I was. So I mean, I mean, somebody. Yeah. So we're starting on Friday. The reason so I was driving and the mega was flying, because we had a year ago, she had committed to be on this committee to be part of the board that does the big fundraising event for Women's Heart Health here in town. Basically, it's this huge fundraiser that raises money for AEDs. And their goal is an AED in every business here in town. Wow. So yeah, that's their goal. So really ambitious. A these are like $3,000 apiece, then. And I didn't know this, but then like, the view, then have to replace like it as a unit is only I'm gonna get all this wrong. So right into, I don't care any USA, like, the unit itself has to be replaced, I think, like every 10 years, but the battery has to replace every five years, and the pads have to be replaced every two to three years, even if you don't use them, but these things just go bad.

Brandon 07:47

How does the how do pads go bad?

Collin 07:53

I think it's the sticky adhesive stuff that just dries out and dies after a while. And it's not as effective. So I think it's one of those things of like, well, technically, you could use like seven year old pads, but manufacturer and all that stuff thinks that you sell pads are like $500 just for the pads for the house.

Brandon 08:13

Again, hold on hold on listeners. We live in the United States. So they don't actually cost $500. They're just selling them to you for $500. Right? I need my I need all of our friends in Scandinavia, tell us how much they actually are. I want to know you can message us that right? On

Collin 08:36

Instagram. Yeah. Brother podcast and then.com

Brandon 08:42

I want to know how much they actually because I can guarantee you they don't actually cause no, that's just what they're gonna sell them to you for sure.

Collin 08:54

To me, that was part of this committee. It's this huge luncheon. And she was like, actively involved. And then the opportunity to go to this conference came up and we said yes to that. And then we actually, we actually looked at the day and like, Friday was the luncheon that she had to be like, there or at a part of but it got but it got out too late for us. Like if we had both flown for us to both make it there for the opening of the conference. And so plus, I have a lot of things that we were taking with us. Did I sent you I sent you the picture of the big pop up the booth Yeah, yeah. Of the booth setup and everything. Yeah, you can't take the banner on the claim right that won't fit no overhead. Even collapsed and completely flat like the thing is huge and it weighs a ton. Plus I've got recording gear plus I've got other boxes of stuff and things I'm like, I just feel better driving for this like I just I'll drive on the last ferry down there anyway because the way Are we were staying versus where the conference was actually held are 15 minutes apart? Oh, yeah. Right. So it's like, we need a driving down. That's why I drove and what I forgot to do. I only bust out, I use some apps on my phone for I kind of go through this whole story a lot faster than I'm going through right now. I use some apps on my phone for a long time. It's fine, whatever. I'm gonna get to review. We're gonna get snacks. Oh, okay,

Brandon 10:30

we've got anyway, but like, I

Collin 10:32

only use a few apps specifically for long distance driving, because they're much better at recalculating and stuff. So I use Waze, is it Waze wave, whatever? I don't know this. Yeah. Where it's like a crowd sourced traffic thing where like, active users can drop like, down car. Road. Yeah, I really liked this app for that, but it only use it when I'm driving long distance. And for some, so I start off Friday morning, I'm driving. I'm like, oh, that's, that's not the time that I thought it was. Whenever I was, you know, on my computer telling me, but I maybe it's rerouting me. And then water. I leave at five in the morning. And I'm driving, I'm driving, driving,

Brandon 11:22

I get Joplin. And I

Collin 11:29

it starts telling me that I need to start going nor

Brandon 11:35

I'm like, fine. So I, I'm like,

Collin 11:40

You know what, I've got plenty of time. The time that it tells me I'm going to be there. I still got loads of time, so fine, whatever. So I quit. But I do get back on the interstate. And I drive and then it has me get off before I get into Oklahoma.

Brandon 11:55

And I'm like, What on earth is this? Why am I going north? And then

Collin 12:06

I realized that I am going through Baxter springs. I am taking I am I hit chipolata or whatever. Cheetah, Cheetah pa ye do whatever. Who knows? Really? Who knows the land of make believe? And then I hit do south and then I realize it's going to take me into the NIDA and I then while driving and not safely check the settings on my phone. And yes, yes listeners you may have caught on by now. I had a setting on my phone turn to avoid toll roads.

Brandon 12:42

Ah. So my all makes sense. Now my little

Collin 12:49

phone was doing everything I possibly could to avoid a massive eye for toll road that goes

12:59

okay, yes,

Collin 13:00

this does make sense. Yes. What did you put in the wrong Texas is being like oh, yeah, and then magically I got a lot of time back because also in North Dallas. There are also a lot of toll roads that it was also avoiding. So I got back like 40 fights but it was just like wow,

13:22

right. Wow. Okay. Okay. That's wild. Yes. So,

Collin 13:30

the let the rest of my six and a half hour drive completely uneventful. Drive through Oklahoma into attack North Texas. We settled in Lewisville. Right off of Lewisville Lake. Buy the thing there. So completely uneventful, wonderful drive. I was driving the Nissan Sentra S v. And I never remember with Nissan. Like there's an S There's an SV and then there's like a L something. I think I can't remember

Brandon 14:05

these. They just like pick letters. I think they just like throw letters at a dartboard. Right? Yes. And they're just like okay, yes. And then the next higher FOB. Alright, ve got it. Like they just whatever. Yeah, real,

14:25

real bad.

Collin 14:28

And it's one of those things of the rental company. Like I think about the software like why did the rental company want this version of the car? And the reason is, is because in the s v. This is what gets you all of the driver aids of like the lane check like so that the blind spot checker like when your take going over like a little light will pop up. It has the

Brandon 14:54

adaptive cruise control, which

Collin 14:58

so it's got all that the time features but you still have the cloth seats you don't have, you know powered anything inside. It's all still manual, but it's gonna pull them like the tech in it like it's a really weird like, like that's Oh, that's so odd. So it at the next level is where you get all the other niceties

Brandon 15:15

as are, by the way, really, is why just according to this map this diagram that I'm looking at Nissan SSV Sr. Oh, okay. Yeah,

Collin 15:28

that's what I said. So that's the that's a more sporty trim in there,

Brandon 15:32

I would guess. Yes. So I am, it was a, it

Collin 15:39

was a you know, it's a rental of whatever things I didn't like about this car. I can't complain too much, because this isn't bespoke to this car. But like the, the adaptive cruise control, I hate this, I hate this feature with a burning fiery passion.

Brandon 15:56

I, it hurts so bad. Because you're in normal cruise control,

Collin 16:03

in dumb cruise control. That's what I'll say. You're driving along. And it's just like, Okay, I'm 67, I will always drive 67. And you can come up, you can pass people because you approach people, you know, you're getting closer, I can see the car, I look at my blind spot, I check my mirror, I emerge over, my momentum continues carrying forward with this, you can never catch this close enough. It will always slow down when it senses that car in front of you. So what happens is you merge to the left lane while you're braking.

Brandon 16:39

Always a safe, safe plan, right? Yes,

Collin 16:42

yes. And then your car has to sense that there's no other car in front of you. And then it accelerates. So you've already lost the gaining that you were making on the car in the right lane. If you're also holding up everybody in the left lane who's trying to actively pass you. So you find yourself driving, and then like turning it off, to then pass to then get over and then turning it back on. Like it's a managed system. And I can't stand it. And then

17:13

and then the other thing

Brandon 17:15

does kind of defeat the purpose of cruise control. Yes. Yes, yes, indeed, indeed. So the

Collin 17:24

other thing about this too, is if you're driving along, and let's say your Senate force, I don't know you're in North Texas. So you're going 83 miles an hour, because the speed limit is 80. And you're driving along, and then you're listening to a podcast and you're paying attention to the road, you're listening, you're paying attention to the road, and then you are behind somebody, and you're just paying attention to the road. And then you look down and you realize you've been following somebody going 63 miles an hour the whole time. Because your car just slow just slow down to accommodate that. Just just you know what, hey, you bought me here. I'm not going to run into them. I'm just we're just going to stay the same distance. And you're like,

Brandon 18:08

I that's the other thing of like,

Collin 18:11

if you don't pay attention, you will just be going 50 miles an hour the whole

Brandon 18:18

that's true. There's no like, thing to notice, like, Oh, hey, it's slowing down. Because you would expect because you set the thing at the x speed. You expect it to go. X speed, right? Yes. Yes.

Collin 18:33

So, you know, there's that so I don't like that feature. Also, when you're sitting driving, they're doing the thing where the bottom of the steering wheel is flat, because they're trying to be sporty. And I'm like, who are who are we kidding? Here people who do not have f1 car here like f1 cars. It has four cylinders, and like 150 horsepower, like World Rally Championship ready

Brandon 19:00

horsepower, right? That's fair point. Fair point, power to weight but still power wise hunter or body is like the zone right? Adequate like the that's what the Subaru Impreza used to run out? Right. So we're under there.

Collin 19:17

Yes, that's what we asked for the soup the soup. The impresa Nissan Sentra,

Brandon 19:21

yeah, the rally rally edition, right, the one that weighs like four ounces that

Collin 19:28

yes, not the one sitting here with 16 inch wheels, though. Okay.

Brandon 19:35

So you've, you've got that.

Collin 19:37

So the driving is not great, but I don't understand this again. And again. I think I've talked about this before on this podcast because last time I rented this vehicle like this on the shifter. You can go I hate I hate this. You will you put parkas all the way forward. If you click the button and pull back. You will go all Way back, which is you will go past reverse, you'll go past neutral, you will go past drive and you will go to L or low.

Brandon 20:07

Which is, Oh, would you do, you don't ever need that. And like,

Collin 20:13

especially whatever, because I'm thinking like our little four cylinder. It's gonna catch me in Drive. And then if I need to go to low, I'll need to make an extra click like this. Like you can slide through reverse and neutral and drive, but it will keep going too low. Even if you let off let go of the button.

Brandon 20:30

It sounds weird, but yeah, yeah. Why would you want

Collin 20:34

to go too low? I don't know. I don't know. And if you're like me who's expecting to stop and drive? You aren't you pull out of the the, the parking lot parking lot. Yeah, and then go to the on ramp. And you're like, Wow, 7000 rpm. sounds really weird right now.

Brandon 20:53

Yeah. Oh, oh,

Collin 20:56

I'm in low.

Brandon 20:58

Not letting me out of first. Okay,

Collin 21:00

got exactly what do you slam it into Drive.

Brandon 21:03

And then what you notice is

Collin 21:07

on the, on the, on the shifter? It's, I It's so hard to describe this on the shifter on the back of it. So like when you put your hand on it to shift, if you were to slide your hand down, like now your hand is around the actual shift shaft, you could plus push a little tiny button on the back. That's not less that's not labeled. Oh, at all, that's fine. But it puts you into sport mode. Ah,

Brandon 21:38

a completely useless button. I mean, entire Yeah. On this particular Nissan probably

Collin 21:45

positively useless, right like, but if you're wanting to go out and thrash 149 horsepower in a Nissan Sentra, I have a button for you click on a button that will make your day it just makes a lot of noise. It drives even more Herky jerky with the acceleration. With with a small, four cylinder car, you're already like, we like it's already pretty on edge. It completely when you turn this on, it will say it does turn off ECO mode. So there's a button over on the left that you can press to turn to eco mode. And what this does, is actually I thought this would just like it changes more than just like when it shifts is what I kind of thought it would do. It changes things about how the air

Brandon 22:34

conditioner works. Right? Like it

Collin 22:38

changes functionality about the car beyond just the engine because you know air conditioning is a big drain on our engines. And this can make it very inefficient. So it actually makes the air conditioning worse in the car. So if you want to drive a slow, hot car, you can push the Eco button.

22:58

Perfect. Which really cool.

Brandon 23:03

is as effective, right? Like

23:05

yeah, now

Collin 23:06

I will say over the course of almost 1000 miles. I did manage 33.9 miles to the gallon. So like, there you go. And it was and that was including that was just I've set it and then I didn't reset it till it got dropped off of like, that includes all the times I was driving in low for way too long.

Brandon 23:28

Open 34 Really,

Collin 23:30

I mean could have been four or when I was hitting the sport button. repetitively going, what is this actually doing? Oh, it's actually making this worse. Like it's making you know, I didn't I didn't baby the car. I'm driving 85 miles an hour through Dallas, and you know, all of the that entails and that fun. But yeah, and then the other thing, the one thing that's kind of a little display over here on the on the thing and it's nice. I can't stand and I do need to send you these photos.

24:03

I cannot stand the air vents. Okay. I, these are a terrible design. They're not flat. There are perfect circles on the center of the dash.

Collin 24:21

Okay, okay, you've probably seen leaves, something like it. Yeah, but they're perfectly centered in the data. They're perfectly round circles. There's three of them in a row. They've got the little fan blades coming off of them to direct it. And the whole thing moves you grab a little center peg, and the whole thing moves around like a gyro. She pointed out what you want. Oh, then that center peg, because you may be wondering, well if it's a circle, how, how do I stop airflow? Well, that seems like it might you twist it and twist this little tiny n it is large enough for you to grasp it. It is too small to comfortably do this maneuver. Because no, it's too small to actually do it, it needs to be a larger center knob, like it's genuinely like, you know, to grab it. But it's not large enough to comfortably make this adjustment because then you just feel like you're rolling your fingers and you're not twisting your hand, does that make sense of like, you sort of yeah, my, what I want to do is leave my hand in one position and just take my fingers and twist like I'm putting on the nut of a bolt, right where I'm just twisting my fingers. But it's, it's too stiff to do that. So then you want to rotate your hand, but then you really have to squeeze this hard to make sure that you've got a good grip on it. Don't twist the whole thing. It's a very awkward motion to make. And I was either way too hot the entire time or super cold the entire time because I couldn't make these adjustments the way I wanted them to. And I was genuinely annoyed.

25:57

Brandon 26:00

yes, I usually don't even mess with those. I just like I think I constantly fiddle with the speed of the fan. I think that's how I overcome this problem. Like, little cold fan down. Oh, fan back up again. Like I just don't, because the fans are too annoying. And this is just like sometimes Yeah, I guess I'll just like pointed away. But like, I don't ever want to Oh, yeah. No, that's horrible. Yeah, but

Collin 26:29

I don't always want some airflow. Ah, the other thing about this, so I sent you three photos. I don't know if it came through, but you can see the vents. And the little knob in the middle. That's your smoke. Okay. You can see I took a picture of the shifter in the middle with that little weird button on the very back of it. Again, that's the Sport mode, that there's no label there. And it's it barely moves when you touch it. But you hear like, that's all you know. Yeah. And I showed you the Eco button and another one. The other thing about this, I don't like the events, these are terrible. I hate this design just look weird to normal events. And that's part of this too of like, Oh, we're funky like we're fine. Yeah. No, just stop. It has its pushpot spin button start like all modern cars are these days. But the push button is not up near the steering column. The push button by that console, it is Eli the console down by the shifter. So instead of pushing forward, you have to take your finger and you have to point down on this, which is again a very weird. It's an awkward motion for your hand. Yeah, because you, me, again, I am large. So I have to actually move my hand around to the left of the shifter to make because I can't just slide it all the way forward because the consoles too narrow, to have a space where I can put my hand have shifter on resting against my pinky and then push the button. So I have to actually angle my hand in towards my knee to go around the shifter, and then press the button. So it's just an awkward position for it. Like it really needs to be just further forward to get around this entirely.

Brandon 28:21

But then it runs the risk of getting hit when you're pushing other buttons on.

Collin 28:24

Yes. So then, so I understand why it's that far back. Plus, they don't want people having to extend their arm too much. But it's too close to the shifter especially with the shifters forward.

28:35

Oh yeah, sure. Like we're it's a car.

28:43

It's for this forward position. Yeah.

28:47

It just,

Collin 28:48

again, that's where I'm like, Oh, this doesn't make sense. Like,

Brandon 28:51

what are you doing? Yes. Why? So? Yeah. Sorry, this is such a traumatic event for you, like, dry.

29:08

So, beyond that, look,

Collin 29:10

I knew the day I needed a car to get me from point A to point B. And it did it right. And yes, this is a the like, brand new. These cars are like $23,000. So they're not like they're built for a purpose. They're to move people and store things in the back. And it did that it did that just fine. Boom,

Brandon 29:32

boom. Accomplished. Did car stuff got

Collin 29:37

punctured as a car?

Brandon 29:41

So yeah, that's. Yeah, again, we'll be fine.

Collin 29:47

I'm fine. I'm fine. I think yeah, I think brand new. This was $20,000 back when it was brand new. They've they've had some price increase because this was a model or two back. So this was it was just one of the things Seems like I actively like driving the rentals because they tell you a little bit about how this car is going to hold up. So this is a true Yeah, right. This is a, this was a 2022 model. It's not, you know, wasn't 2023 and whatever, but like, it had 36,000 miles on it, which isn't a whole lot for a car. But this is a rental. So it's like, going through some stuff. And like, you know, the steering still felt tight. The brakes were fine. There were no obvious signs of massive wear and tear on the interior of any of the surfaces or anything like that wasn't coming apart.

Brandon 30:35

So for that part, good durability,

Collin 30:38

right, you know, so for that, you know, top top marks, but my goodness that air vents, just never because because here's the here's the other thing of like, they it is not it is not this, but it's close enough to make it annoying. And circular airvent that's kind of a complete pivot and can be moved in a 360 degree fashion is infinitely adjustable.

Brandon 31:02

infinitely adjustable. This is too much for me.

Collin 31:06

I think. I have to adjust in X, Y, and Z ways.

Brandon 31:16

Too many axes of mobility for coffee axes,

Collin 31:19

motion. I can't do this. Maybe and so if we're being perfectly honest, this is why I find myself driving behind a vehicle going 60 miles an hour and an 85 Because I was futzing with hair before to my face going oh, do I need to move this more over? Like I could really hone this in on which nostril I want it blowing up?

Brandon 31:43

How

31:49

so bad. Just stopped is

Brandon 31:56

a whole new level of neuroses. Right. Right. unrepaired airvent neuroses like what is happening, I don't understand like

Collin 32:09

and I'm like I have, I have, I have just there's things that I need to not be doing with this. But I will say I, we don't, we don't own a vehicle with with, you know, Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. These are great features to have. Every car should have this where you plug your phone in and your phone takes over the little infotainment center like that just should be standard. I really did enjoy that not having to like my head. My phone basically displayed up on the little heads. Oh, yeah. Very nice.

32:47

Howdy. Between that and the

Collin 32:49

start button. So so that's super nice. I don't have a scale or rating for these kinds of things. I just know that. I need a basic card to get the job done and don't mind. infinitely adjustable air vents. Central's your way. I couldn't recommend it highly enough.

Brandon 33:11

But it's ever except for the air vents at the start. But yes, isn't that in the sport?

Collin 33:15

Stop putting sport buttons on these things. People. Nobody. Nobody needs to be driving these in sport mode. Like this is not it doesn't make it more fun. It should just really you're like, yeah, that's just a lot of like, really bad noises coming from an ICER Yeah, like that's should not be making this noise this this car should not be making that noise. But we did arrive did arrive safely. Conference that Megan from the airport.

Brandon 33:47

Or like did you get you what? Did you get out of low to get making the airport? Can you find the right here? I did. Okay, good.

Collin 33:55

I managed to get into terminal C. Ra. Nice. Yep. Yep. I did have two people approached me and asked me if I was an Uber. Ah Uber drivers of Nissan's is that the Is that what's happening here? Like, probably because I was sitting there looking like I wasn't worried. Where I was just because like I was waiting for somebody. And they're like, are you waiting for me? And I'm like, Who has a Sentra on this? That's weird. You need to get the black Escalade that's behind me. That was there are four of them in a row. Those are your Ubers, buddy.

Brandon 34:31

And

Collin 34:33

there were 115 attendees from across the country that had showed up. Wow. Conference. Yeah, yeah. Big big conference that they do. I will say one of my one of the things I really liked about going to scientific conferences, when we did that was that they were multitrack and they was like, so every, but they were also much, much larger. Every 15 minutes throughout the day, somebody was giving a 15 minute talk. And it was 15 minute rule. And there would be like 30, you could choose from at 815. Right? Because it's so nice, but and then they'll just quit all day. I really liked that because I could really go, Okay, I need to attend this, or this is the one that I'm more like, like, it was wonderful to go from a perspective of, here are the problems I'm facing or the questions I'm trying to answer or where I'm at. And I can just circle through these and get to where I need to go. Now, this is also bad because it means you're not being exposed to new information that you don't need right now. But you may be later and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But for a Get in, get out with information. Fantastic. Where these conferences are run, everybody's in the same room. And everybody listens to the same speakers. And the shortest anyone speaker will talk is an hour at a time. Just as

Brandon 36:05

Yeah, as a 40 minutes, maybe? Right, maybe? Maybe right 30 is probably

Collin 36:12

30 would be ideal. Yeah. For the content are most of these. Now, again, I understand from a conference organizer perspective, I now need double the presenters. I mean, yeah. Right. And I mean, I don't

Brandon 36:27

have to, you got to think you don't have to stack them. One to two to three, three, right? You can be like, you know, shuffling through the middle and say like, Okay, well, we're going to one to, like 130. And then we go from like,

Collin 36:45

the next one's at like 145 to Brian, check, if you want some time to go and do stuff, right. Maybe they need a drink. Maybe they need snacks, I don't know, right? So this is this is the thing of like, you don't need to stack them so heavily, it gives it a little bit more actually would give it more breathing room. People could do stuff in those little time segments.

37:07

And you could also ask

Collin 37:09

the same presenter to speak on like three different things.

Brandon 37:13

Like I asked you once, and then like a couple, you know, like an hour and a half later, they could like talk again, maybe yeah, something else, right? Yes.

Collin 37:21

And then that way, that way, it's more focused, because you can tell during sometimes, during when you're watching people give these hour long, an hour and a half long talks, you're like, oh, yeah, those are fun. You're like, oh, like you're doing like five different talks here. Like you this could actually be broken up a lot better. That's one critique of these, everybody sits in the same conference center and talks kind of thing. Because it's like, oh, I have to sit here for an hour, like, oh, my gosh, and whatever. So that was that. But it was great to see people get connected with everything. They're going over there for the podcast. So we set our booth up. And we had our little tent thing. That's the other thing. Okay. So from our perspective, like, both Megan and I attended, because we were a quote unquote, vendor for the conference. Yeah. But also, like, we do have our own pet care company. So we're learning while we're sitting in the back of the room, because the vendors were also in the same room as everybody.

38:22

That's helpful.

Collin 38:24

Yeah, yeah. Cuz we were just sitting there taking notes. But like both Megan, I could attend for like, the price of a ticket because of the anyway, right? So Oh, yeah. Because as a vendor, you get two tickets to attend two tickets, whatever. So we set up our my, the mobile recording year, I had to take, I took all four microphones, which was actually fantastic. I almost didn't, I almost only took three, because I was like, I don't think I'm gonna be talking to two people at the same time. Except there was a husband and wife there. Were also a vendor who I wanted to talk to, I got to talk with both of them on our table

Brandon 39:00

using microphones. So from a like,

Collin 39:03

technical aspect, this was also very difficult because we're in the conference room with 115 other people trying to like, record.

Brandon 39:15

That is a bit tricky.

Collin 39:20

But I was like, Look, key here is to get the microphone as close to people's face or Yeah, and we're just going to just eat it, eat it. And we at first my thought was, well, we're just gonna sit here and pass out stickers, pass out our starter packs, QR code, talk to people and then like, in, maybe invite them to talk if they want to. But normal attendees are not there to be interviewed. And we're actually quite awkward by the presence of the microphones, like, very much like you're not recording right now. Or, you know, I'm not recording right now. It's it's right

39:59

Islami to be.

40:01

Alright. So

Collin 40:03

then I realized like, oh, Megan, I need to be recording during the breaks just her and I talking about what we're experiencing, then we need to be going and tapping people on the shoulder and saying, We would like to have you come talk with us and sit over here about this, which was, which actually ended up working out. And we ended up got to talk to like all the vendors there and had them recording the show. And then, but it was, it was hard to get it in with everybody because there's just a lot going on. And like, I don't want to just, I can't record while somebody is presenting because I'm in the same room. Which means that I have to sift through the person talking. And then I can't go to the bathroom because I have to wait for Director like I can't go get a doughnut, or I can't foreshadowing Oh, like I can't do this stuff. I sit here and then I was like, Oh my gosh, this is takes too much time. And I'm really tired though. Oh, I should space these out more next time. Because we kind of like, Saturday was a test day. And then Sunday, we had still had all day. But it was like oh, like I have to get everything done today. Like I'm grabbing people and like, I'm gonna talk with you for five minutes. And then I need you to get on the chair because I gotta go find someone else. So managing that was difficult on the back end editing that, I will say that I had intended to leave in more conference background noise than what was actually in the show. Because I had wanted to bring listeners in to that feeling. Not sound like we were in a studio. However, I was, I was editing on a very real time crunch where the conference ended at five Negan and I drove three hours north. And then I still had to edit, and upload and get everything done. And then we were back on the road the next day, and the podcast came out the next day. So I was a little crunched for that time and I couldn't what ended up happening was I ended up running it through a program and it stripped out everything from the background. Well, if you listen to this, you can't you can't there's nothing going on the background we are in a studio recording kind of talking a little aggressively and because you know we're actually yelling over the boy yeah, that was there.

Brandon 42:16

So I I'm I couldn't

Collin 42:20

release the audio with it having been edited with no edits. But yeah, no, it was I had intended just to bring it back a little bit, but I didn't I couldn't fine tune it that much in the time that I had. So it just it just came out and it just sounds like making an error talking in a room with no background noise which I think it's fine

Brandon 42:43

right? Yeah. But that's crazy that it was able

Collin 42:47

to strip out that much background audio that's kind of impressive. I didn't know itself right there like it's it's intense. Again, having been there listening to it. I can see I need to send you an audio snippet of like the before and after just like

43:01

holy crap like That's amazing. Okay, computers can't cool. Through Yes.

Collin 43:12

And then we wrapped to the conference and drove back in those two stages of stuff.

Brandon 43:18

You know, it

Collin 43:19

was a blitzkrieg going down in blitzkrieg coming back up. But I will say as far as travel stacks go because we need this to talk about Oh, okay. Yeah.

43:30

Collin 43:32

I'm going to throw out a travel snack that's not typical, that I actually really liked. And this in this in this, this is probably just because again, we're at like, venues, like we're staying at a hotel that had like breakfasts and stuff like that. I really got to throw it out there for the travel muffins. Like re they go eating a blueberry muffin or a banana nut muffin on the road. Like, I don't know what it is about that but driving and just like grabbing a little piece of muffin and not having the wrappers or things like that. We went for the month like the more like bakery stuff. This time. Yeah. On the travel. It it was yeah, it was very good. Also very messy. Right. So but also that is the problem

Brandon 44:21

with the muffin, right? It's a big it's a crumbly, right like, that's the only problem is it is very crumbly. Yes. That is big. When you said muffin, right. I instantly had this like flashback to high school, because they used to sell those in the cafeteria in the morning. Yeah, right. So I have these memories of go after band practice, like this job. Getting the five feet

Collin 45:00

over to the cafeteria to grab like a juicy muffin, right? And I just I don't know why but for that you need to remember to that there were in fact muffins in our high school cafeteria. Yeah. There was a large Otis Spunkmeyer. birthday. I think

Brandon 45:16

so. Yes. or something similar. I don't know if they're what they actually are. But yeah, they like those like apple juice things. Yep. It had him in that second line. Over there. Yeah, yeah. So yes, you

Collin 45:29

go. Yeah. Oh, just spunkmeyer muffin because actually, we did notice both were muffins. And I do think that those were I think those were the ones in the cafeteria. There probably were.

Brandon 45:41

But yeah. Yeah, no, no, no, I

Collin 45:47

have your callback. Anyway. We were calling Yeah, those juices. Drink wise. Yeah. Here's what we had on our on our snacks. I highly rate these. I add a link to an Amazon. Boxes of note. It's Otis Spunkmeyer assorted muffins. 15 count for 25 bucks.

Brandon 46:07

That's bad. Now do you bet hashtag got sponsored by the

Collin 46:11

way not sponsored. But yeah, the banana nut is the is the way to go. I'm I'm all about blueberry

46:19

muffin type. Really?

Brandon 46:21

Very. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I always look at the muffins. Right, and I see all of the choices. And then I'm like, Nah, blueberry. Like I just like a blueberry muffin. There's something very comforting about blueberry muffin again. Mom used to make blueberry muffins on the weekends. And I think there's like a very nostalgia heavy factor in my love for blueberry muffin. Fair. Fair, fair point. So I think that's why because I like some of the other ones, but like, there never is good. Like, I want the chocolate muffin to be better than it is. Right? Yeah. There's usually there's sometimes like the apple strudel thing or whatever. Sometimes that's okay. But like, the blueberry muffin is always good. Point. Right? You just I don't know. Again, I think there is some very heavy nostalgia playing into my choice here. But

47:22

I am a blueberry muffin enthusiast.

Collin 47:27

Well, in case you want to know you can get a you can get a case of buchmeier Delicious essentials while blueberry muffins for $53.

Brandon 47:35

Don't think I need a case of muffins. That might be a bay too many muffins.

Collin 47:41

I'm having I honestly can't figure out why you wouldn't but fine, whatever. I

Brandon 47:47

mean, I had to pay the tax guy today. So oh, gotta wait. Couple that you know, quite a few business days before by the case muffins. Right? It's works gotta weigh their point. There. airfare and?

Collin 48:09

Oh, so yeah, it was a overall a great weekend. Too much happened. For my it was just a lot, a lot, a lot to do take in to how do people also take notes, still have lots of notes over here, but successful. And then in the world of of the pet industry. At first, there was just one conference,

48:38

the big like, big

Collin 48:41

group had one conference in the fall, the second group popped up another national organization, it was like we're gonna have ours, but don't worry, we're not gonna have the fall we're going to be in the spring. And so for years, like 20 years, there's been one in the fall, one of the spring,

Brandon 48:58

then within 10 years ago, the

Collin 49:00

one in Texas, it's a Texas specific association. It's not a national instance, just at the state level, they started to have theirs

49:08

as well. So

49:09

they chose Texas thing to do ever, right? Like we're not affiliated with nothing else.

Brandon 49:13

This is only Texas. Well, like it is like the most Texas sentiment of all time.

Collin 49:20

A decade ago, there was they were really kind of the start of this state level organizations. At first, it was just one national, and there was a second national. And then Texas was like really like the first one to get off the ground at the state level. And they were like, Oh, well, we'll be the spring. So it's not like super hot. So so now we have two in the spring and one of the fall. Well then two years ago, Florida was like oh, we have a now we have a state association. And we're going to start doing ours

Brandon 49:54

in the fall as well. And so why don't they just do it in the winter. They need to It's not just in Florida, right? Like not you only have like two seasons anyway. So like, what are you doing?

Collin 50:06

So now, and so now, this is what happens. We had the Texas had theirs on one weekend, the very following weekend is the is that one national organization. And then in the fall, instead of being one week apart, they're only like, two weeks apart. So what a lot of people do, I don't know how they have time for this, because I have no time.

Brandon 50:30

Guys, you have months, there's like three months of each season. Like you don't have to do them the day after one another theory. I know.

Collin 50:37

So what people do is they'll go to the Texas one. And then they'll just kind of like, slowly travel across the country to the other national association one, and they have another conference. And so they have basically a week and a half book ended by us. And so people were there asking us like, Oh, are we going to see you next weekend? Because a large contingent of people are just going to travel across the state to the next conference. And I'm like, No, I don't have the kind of time I'm very tired. I drove down here in like six hours gag gag. And the other one here in Savannah, Georgia. And I'm like, oh, gosh, like, Oh, you're not driving out there at all. Oh,

Brandon 51:22

no. Ill that's not sound pleasant at all. No. No, I

Collin 51:29

have to Safina No, no, no, thank you. No, no, no. That's Oh, my gosh. It was there was an event. It's fine. Back back here. I keep thinking I need to say one other thing about this, but I should probably just stop talking. Let it come to me

Brandon 51:59

Wow, that is there's a lot. I wasn't expecting it to all be in one room. That is the biggest shocker. Hear from me. That seems like a bit much. I figured that would be like at least like a hallway in like a conference room thing. And then they're like a main hall. But all in one room is. That's kind of intense, right? Like, oh, it's very intense. A lot of just stimulation every week.

Collin 52:30

Right? Always movement things. Ah,

Brandon 52:33

yeah. It really, really put it kind of over the top.

Collin 52:40

And then I got Oh, I didn't get to say my joke multiple times at each breakfast at the hotel. No, we're at a we're at a breakfast at a hotel with the littles like continental bar like with like the eggs and the things and the water heater and all that stuff. So what's the one thing you get to say when you're in Texas and you're standing in the breakfast line? Specifically behind the baffle maker, what do you get to say you need to say, oh, it's scientifically proven waffles tastes better in the shape of taxes. Because every that's true. They are held in Texas as a waffle iron. With a mold in the shape of Texas, everyone I think I think it's assigned into law that is legally required. And, and people from out of state and I include myself I'm a I'm I'm quasi Texan because we were there for so long. So like I get to say things like it's scientifically proven that they taste better in the shape of time. And then people go oh, Harrumph. Harrumph. Harrumph. Ha ha, ha, ha. And then you then then you don't have the waffle because they actually taste. You move on to the other things. And you grab a muffin. You could tell waffles are oftentimes not that great. Right. Just, you know,

Brandon 54:02

there's something about the batter just sitting in that cup for a long time. It's kind of you know, it's not the best free ward. Yeah, it's like already half cooked because it's like next to the waffle maker. That's

Collin 54:14

like, oh, in the butter spray that you get to put in? Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, no, I put hairspray on it. That's wonderful. Yeah, no, I

Brandon 54:21

usually just go for the eggs and the toast and or muffins. I think last summer we were traveling a lot of the muffins and the eggs. And then I also prefer sausage over bacon at the breakfast buffet. Because the bacon gets too soggy. Very, but like if the sausage is a little bit sitting there because it doesn't matter. They can't tell. It's just like okay, whatever. Kind of spicy beef jerky or whatever. Yeah, it's still fine. It's still fine. And then you get was a bit of a weird experience because they had one day. I think maybe yeah. I don't know. Ever had biscuits gravy once but biscuits and gravy not the Northeast kind of not quite right right it's basically okay but like it just feels a little bit something's missing here I don't know what exactly probably humidity might be it like it's yeah, there they were, they

Collin 55:34

had weird concoctions there. They had like, tried to do a pre made portioned and packaged, like egg scramble with like, oh, sausage and like peppers and stuff in it.

55:49

But the sauce, the egg,

Collin 55:51

I was just like, oh, this is like fake egg like this tastes like this. Oh yeah, it's always like these were like, the taste of summer camp eggs.

Brandon 55:59

Like no,

Collin 56:00

no, they tasted like a foam mat.

56:03

Like I was like,

Collin 56:03

Oh, I've tasted this before. I've been into like a foam flipping at a pool like that's what this this is this

Brandon 56:12

is always thinking about like Boy Scouts, summer camp eggs, right? They just like they feel are just like school cafeteria, right? It's just like, why are they so? Round? Like? Yeah, like this is like the hardest scrambled every like, oh, that's because they were powdered. Okay, got it. Yeah, I understand. Yep. Yeah, no, it's

Collin 56:34

very odd. So I stuck to my muffins. In my in my in my doughnuts.

Brandon 56:39

Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. Before we transition I do say that listeners another just one more fun Texas fact here. I think it's also a law in Texas that Texas will always hang its state flag just a little bit higher than every other state flag. Oh, yeah. Right. They always do that. They'll be like, Okay, well, like it was just a little bit more not as high as the US flag usually, although this year. Who knows? Who knows. But the normally is like all the state flags in Texas just a little bit more. And then it's very weird. Yeah, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, you're fine. I know. Exactly. Breakfast buffets a bit hit or miss. But sometimes you do have to go for the donut option instead. Right? Like math.

Collin 57:38

Yes. Also, also can be hit or miss. is true, right. Like hex entered. You texted with this? With this challenge of a dude a top five. Best or favorite donut list?

57:52

A Yes.

Collin 57:53

I had to approach this. My

Brandon 57:58

not my.

Collin 57:59

I had to purchase this from not my my favorite donut because that's very particular to a donut shop. Right? So I got to well,

Brandon 58:07

okay, I was thinking like general donut categories. Maybe I should have said donut category. But you can be as specific as you want. Right? I just didn't either.

Collin 58:15

I just back this out with like, Okay, I am standing in. Name of generic doughnuts. Yeah, down the road. What are my go to like? What am I gonna train hit? Yeah, yes. What am I looking for? Yeah. See, that's that's that's how I came at this.

Brandon 58:31

That's what I was like this conversation. This idea came from we were watching of course, because we're ridiculous. The finale of the, like, children's Baking Championship. And one of the things they had to make was like doughnuts. And Susan, I got to this like big long talk about like our doughnuts. And I was like, like doughnuts that we like it doughnuts that were disappointing. And our favorite type of donuts we're always looking for. And I was like,

58:55

I have to take Colin right now. Black guy,

Brandon 58:59

this is important. I know, this is very important. This is important. And

Collin 59:05

I I think I really think that my list reflects that. That desire to like, what? What can be good anywhere? Right? Like what? Yeah, like, so that's so my list may be a bit a bit a bit boring, but

Brandon 59:23

that's all right. And I don't know if I came. Like when I started thinking about this. I started thinking about like, yeah, like, walk into store. Right? I'm also, you know, the caveats here are like, Yeah, can I Where can I get these the most often? Like, I'm assuming that these are like relatively fresh, because a lot of these things older are not good. Right? Like kind of older doughnuts. Some donuts hold up longer than others. Right. So there, but had to kind of had a good long think about this. And it was very difficult to actually come up with the list that was like that I

Collin 1:00:07

felt good about because I was like, Oh, but I will but what about all but what? No, but

Brandon 1:00:12

what about like? So? Yes, it was a very winding road to get to the listen to Matt curl again, this is the list as of today. You know, who knows what mood may come later on. But as of right now, this is the current fav. Hey, things that I want. That's right. If I'm going to like because I don't eat donuts very often. Right? This is not a thing. Contrary to popular opinion. I am American. I don't just eat donuts all the time. Ah, god them. Like they are like when you do all them. I'm looking for the certain things. Hey, great. I'm like I'm seeking out these things because they're like, my favorite ones

1:01:04

that I want. So they go

Collin 1:01:08

why don't why don't you Why don't you kick us off? Right? If you're in line. We'll do number we'll do five and four. Yeah,

Brandon 1:01:15

okay. All right. But which thing has my list and it's this one. Okay, got it. Alright, so, so top five. My number five donut, right? I'm cool. I just had to think long hard about this. Right? But out of like, I really do like cake donuts. Right? Like a lot like cake doughnuts. And my absolute favorite cake donut. Conspicuously also a throwback from earlier. blueberry cake donut. Okay, because typically the blueberry one is my favorite cake donut. The other ones are good. The blueberry one is always it's always like it's more moist. Right? It seems to have a different consistency than like the chocolate cake. Or like the spice cake the spice cakes do try get it like and they have a lot of times they have like just a little bit of glaze on them. Right? Blueberry caked on it with like just the light. The glitter is the best. I like that one. So the blueberry cake donut. I think I'm putting it number five. Hey, maybe a little low. Maybe too low. But I've liked a lot of these other ones. Maybe more right now but I do like a Blu ray caked on it. Okay, okay,

Collin 1:02:38

I'm I have I'm making a note here. Yeah,

Brandon 1:02:42

cuz I perfect. Yes.

Collin 1:02:46

So blueberries are wonderful. I wasn't sure how specific to go on this.

Brandon 1:02:53

I mean there are no rules really? Yes. Yes. So

Collin 1:02:59

which is which is hard but I I went with a with a Bavarian Cream donut as my number five. Now the risk with going with any sort of filled donut is what's the feeling like? Because sometimes these are like knock it out of the park. Or like amazing cream like handcrafted stuff. Sometimes they taste like plastic

Brandon 1:03:31

yeah you know like yeah, that's fair. So I have a lot of times in my life picked the wrong field donor that is its tragedy is what it is. Yes, exactly. So I have

Collin 1:03:48

I feel like we're very has a higher hit rate on this

Brandon 1:03:56

so I think I think I go with that. Very nice. Very nice. My number four I too went with filled donut right? So I mean, I guess technically it's a Bismarck right there's no hole so blam. Bismarck got him. But my favorite filled donut is the raspberry jam filled Okay, especially the one that has the little bit of like chocolate glaze on the top like chocolate icing.

Collin 1:04:28

Okay,

Brandon 1:04:29

the raspberry filled with the chocolate. I mean the normal raspberry filled is good to not the powdered one. The one that I like the powdered sugar though no get out. Now. Like the raspberry filled Bismarck with the chocolate glaze. Okay, there's no chocolate the plain glaze is fine. But the chocolate one is my favorite because you just get like a little bit of chocolate with the raspberry. Right? get just a little bit of extra taste variety in there. Wherever like that

1:04:59

right So,

Brandon 1:05:00

I also Yeah, well, I'll

Collin 1:05:02

make that observation a minute. But yeah, I

Brandon 1:05:04

like that one. That's my favorite filled donut. Okay, on the filled donut category. I put that one there because I like I do like the brain cream. But I like the raspberry one more. It's a lot more dangerous. Yeah, way Messier. It actually gotta be like, be careful with the raspberry.

Collin 1:05:26

The Raspberry one is actually the one I was specifically thinking of were filled because like, it can taste either like, Oh, this is almost a jam. Or I can visit I can taste that this is processed. Like I can taste this like. Yeah, so But no, I understand like, it's a good good go to

1:05:44

so. But

Brandon 1:05:45

it is dangerous because that is mercy can't really see what's going on there. Yes.

Collin 1:05:55

My number four is one that I don't encounter a lot anymore. But I do I will. I will. I will take it if it's there. I do like an old fashioned donut. Ah, the old fashion is slept on. Yes,

Brandon 1:06:10

I think I think it's definitely slept on. That's a good one. Yeah, I, I like how

Collin 1:06:20

simple it is. But also, I did say the one thing that can go wrong with that is that they can they can cook them too hard. Or they can get too crispy. Like they can get really over fried. And then they're just not fun to eat after that. So there is definitely a fine line. And that's the one problem that can go wrong with these is that they just the edges get really like, like, Oh, I'm just this is just super crunchy and not actually like

Brandon 1:06:48

delicious. Not in an enjoyable way. Right? It's

Collin 1:06:50

right in the old fashions and it's an old fashioned cake donut as I think how they described and I like the the chocolates are fine. I just like the plain like the old tick. Nothing. Nothing at all. Oh, yeah.

Brandon 1:07:05

No, that's for sure. That's a good one. That's a good one too. All right, my number three. We're divulging now. Kind of big time. Okay, because I was as I was in the middle of making this list, racking my brain trying to figure out what else to put on here. I remembered that cinnamon twists exist. And Oh man. Oh, do I like cinnamon? I haven't had one in quite a while you don't encounter them just like all the time. Right? They're kind of special like that sometimes, like they're not just everywhere. Right? You're not just finding cinnamon twist. It's all over the place. Right? feels like to me, because I haven't. So maybe I'm just looking in the wrong spots. Let me know how I'm doing this wrong. But But I like the cinnamon twist. Right? It's so satisfying. Right? This cinnamony goodness on there is so good. I like and it's usually just again, kind of just a bigger donut, right? It's well, I mean, obviously, if I'm going to have one eyes, we'll get the big one. Right, right is that sort of that's sort of the pattern that's emerging in my list is like, it also not only does it go from like, you know, not least favorite but like to most favorite but it also kind of increases in size. The further I go. Oh, no, I was like, Oh no, I am a hash tag team fat real right here because this

Collin 1:08:42

always take the bigger dose. I

Brandon 1:08:44

mean, yeah, right. Like if you're gonna get because sometimes you're just getting one right through. So like, you got to make it worth it. Right? You want like a little teeny donor if he's gonna have one. Right so you really got to pick up but yeah, I remember the cinnamon twists were a thing and I was like, Oh man, I do like

Collin 1:09:08

like, again the problem they're super messy like Mega

Brandon 1:09:13

they're messy but you know the paper at least helps you know when you get the paper the wax paper or whatever I'm sure like it helps contain the cinnamon twists. A lot of it's not going to have major spillage like the raspberry right? There's no jam to just like explode on you and like get to my mind with three. Okay, it's a cinnamon twist. Okay.

Collin 1:09:41

Are my three. I'm bringing in another build donut. And for this one I'm going with like a cherry filled donut. That is a very rare one. It is very rare because typically they go raspberry, right you'll get a cream and a raspberry. You may get Lemon. But yeah, I typically don't like the taste of the artificial lemon. And I really like cherryfield. So I'm going to also kind of add slash like a cherry. Ritter. Okay, maybe they're kind of in this realm. But yeah, if I can find a cherry, I'm definitely going for it because I'm all about that.

Brandon 1:10:21

That's true. That is a underestimates maybe an underutilized donut flavor. They don't see a lot of that because you'd get it sometimes you get blueberry filled, right? Oh yeah, you get the Bavarian cream. You just like the other cream? Like the whiter one, whatever that is. And then you get like, the lemon. But you don't get a lot of other jam varieties. Very often. No, no, I think they've done it makers out there. explore some more cherry flavors, right? That's where it was at at like what's

Collin 1:10:56

and I will say that, as you alluded to earlier of, of the sometimes these do come with a chocolate on or normal glaze. All of mine are sans chocolate. They're just a glazed build on Fridays. Yeah, just making sure the blanket statement here right now. Right?

Brandon 1:11:17

Right. I only I only specified it for the raspberry one because I do like it when it's in a nice you know, junk place where the raspberry goes pretty it goes well together. Yes. Right. But I will acknowledge that not all chocolate glazes are created equally. And some of them are bad. So you do again, gotta be careful. Yes. But if you know, sometimes it's got a receipt. Right? He's gonna go for it. See?

Collin 1:11:45

Take the plant and a blood. The good thing about donuts is like, unless you're going to one of those really super. There's a super, super fancy donut place in Portland, Oregon. Oh, yeah. Where it's like $7 and donut unless you're going to one of those. Like, if you buy a doughnut and you're like, Oh, this is gross. Using like $1.18 on it. Yeah, maybe like that. That'd be an expensive donut. Yeah,

Brandon 1:12:09

I've said before, so you can kind of gamble a little bit. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And let's say it's like the bespoke place. So there's a lot of that place in Springfield to us like that. They're kind of expensive, but like, most of them are good. So it's like, it's not bad, but they mostly just have different toppings on their doughnuts, though. I don't know. I haven't had them in a long time. But like, it's just like weird things on the top. It's like the donut is the same. But the topping is wacky. Right. And that's, you know, is that really wacky? I don't know. I would say not. Yeah, still not cherry either. What's up? No. Was that Fruity Pebbles, but no cherry what's going on here? Anyway, number two, number two. You said the magic word. So I pulled the trigger and number two apple fritter. Oh, lamb I gotta go after I really like a nice fresh apple fritter. Right there. The consistency is so good. Right. Like, I really just like how I know some doughnuts when you eat them. Right? It's just like, you're you ate nothing. Right? I think you just kind of like so. Like, I liked the apple fritter. Because when you eat it, eat like feels like you ate something. Right. So am I eating a lot of extra calories? Yes, but it feels like I am too Right. Just let it go to waste right. I want to feel full. Yeah, I do you want your you want to feel a little bit full. If you're just going to have like a doughnut. Right? You want to like be filling in. I mean, so I like the apple fritter. I really like the consistency of Apple for her. Right, right. And the apple taste is alter. Yeah, the other reason but their consistency is really good. Right. So

Collin 1:14:03

yeah, this is this is Megan's go to at all times. We go get get doughnuts, you must always have an apple fritter. As that that's like, that's the that's the baseline. It's only going up from here.

Brandon 1:14:20

Exactly. Nope. Yes. Yeah,

Collin 1:14:25

that's your choice. That is my mind number two. I'm going to I'm going to bring back one that you've already mentioned before. I'm going to bring back the blueberry cake donut because that's yeah.

1:14:38

I will

Collin 1:14:41

always reach for one of these if it is present. I will always ask for one when we're buying. And this one was really hard for me because at first I just wanted to say cake doughnuts because I really, really liked cake doughnuts. I've already had an hour and half the old fashioned cake doughnuts. So of course I'm going to have the modern Take doughnuts or whatever, but yeah, I I also I also do appreciate it. Because I'm an old man at heart playing cake donut dipped in the cheap coffee from the don't same donut shop I do. How do I do that? Yes, I do. I like I like cake doughnuts. I feel as though they are more well, they are more substantial than the typical. It's one of the doughnuts you have like, I'm actually getting something here. And I like the glaze on the little berry. So that's really good. Um, every now then we have oh gosh, what do they have? They have a strawberry. caked on it.

1:15:45

The let me let me please. Okay. Those are not very common. But boy howdy. Yeah, those

Brandon 1:15:56

are not uncommon at all.

Collin 1:15:58

I have. Yeah, that's anyway. I will. I'll take strawberry cake. Every day. That's good. Yes. Yes.

Brandon 1:16:11

The blueberry cake got it heard number one, right. Like that's

Collin 1:16:16

number one, right. That's where she's going

Brandon 1:16:17

for that. Like, that's what she wants all the time. So that's why it's so good. Yeah, I like those. So, okay. But yeah, yeah, I can write and that's my number two. Okay. So my number one, right. Again, this number one, it can be a bit hit or miss. Right. So it is maybe a risky number one choice. Right. But I think kind of maybe a little outside normal doughnut territory. Oh, but I don't care. My favorite one. I'm gonna go bear claw. Oh, wow. Okay, I'm going bear claw it's a little outside normal. But again we're talking about like substantial bang for your buck. Yeah, gonna satisfying right that is I think that's gonna be my number one. I love America there are there now again, are all bear claws created equally? Absolutely not. Right. I have had some absolutely trashed here. Bear before okay. It's always like disappointing. Because you're like all you're really excited. You're like, hyped up and then you find it. You're like, Oh, crap. There's no filming here. It's like bled pastry bad and mad. But the good ones. Hotdog. Are they good?

Collin 1:17:58

Do you like yours? With the put nuts on them? Sometimes?

Brandon 1:18:01

Sometimes. Yeah. I wasn't sure if you Yeah, if you don't really care about that. I have no, that's not my favorite, but I'm not going to turn it down. Because usually they're like carmelized that so they're pretty like Oh, soft. They're not like hard, like crunchy. So, yeah, I'm not a big, like nut person, but I do like the bear claw. That might be my that's, um, that is my number one. I think. Just because I mean, I like that one. Maybe a little outside normal donut. But, you know, you can find them

Collin 1:18:37

in donut shops and so boom.

Brandon 1:18:43

Right? Ah, okay. Well, I am.

Collin 1:18:49

Is that triggered a memory of a donut that I have only seen at one donut. So up here. It's not my number one. But I'm going to have to use it as an honorable mention. But I'm also ministry desperately trying to figure out what it called. Because I was like, oh, yeah, the thing. But no, my number one. So I have. I am going to say that my number one again. And this is I will. This is all this is every time we buy donuts. I always have this in the order and copious amounts. I will always have one of these when doughnuts are available. Even if I've already grabbed another donut. This is the donut that goes along. It's always Oh, cool. Tobacco donut. Cake. No, it's like oh, a cake donut and this one or very green.

1:19:40

And this one.

Collin 1:19:40

I again, I started off by saying that it's not a very exciting list. I gotta go just glaze is just gonna go but also specifically not the Blaze from Krispy Kreme because I hate those. I shall not who it mushy. mushy. I know people love how they're like oh, They dissolve in your mouth and they're just blah blah. I cannot stand glazed Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. No, thank you. No, no, I want a blaze. That's like a puppy ones that are like, yeah, like weirdly tall. I'll

Brandon 1:20:14

like I'm really over it. Yeah.

Collin 1:20:16

Thank you so big slick. I like those dents ones glazed doughnuts. And it's one of those also like, there's so hard to mess up. I don't know how Krispy Kreme worked so hard is a million dollar company and nested out. Everybody else does it fine. I will always go grab a glazed doughnut,

Brandon 1:20:37

so that's true. Yeah. Susan does like the Krispy Kreme ones. But her caveat was, it has to be like, when they give them to you like fresh, like, if you can pick it up directly from the belt and eat it. Oh, that is then it's really she said then that's the best. But otherwise after that, she said it goes down real quick. Once it starts sitting in the box Yes. Yep, I

Collin 1:21:09

see me. Yeah, that's, that's my number one. Eye

Brandon 1:21:12

apps. Nice, good, classic, classic. The only reason I didn't put one of those on my list is just because like, I feel like even the normal ones not Krispy Kreme ones are like, they're just like, you eat it. And then you go like, kind of feels like I didn't eat anything. Right. But oh, yeah, here. It is a good companion to. Yes. Right, exactly. While you're looking for your honorable mention. Yeah, I did want to shout out a couple things here. didn't make the list. I don't gotta shout out the crawler. Right. That was I,

Collin 1:21:48

you know, I went back and forth between the kroehler and an old fashion. I really did because I was like, Oh,

Brandon 1:21:53

do I? Do I ever feel good? I couldn't. I couldn't. I mean, it doesn't displace an apple fritter. No. But like, it is a nice change of pace, right? Because there's something unique interesting about like, the texture of that donut. This is really good. Right? And I like that one, like you're talking about like just the glazed one. Just nothing just like the plain straight up color. That's the good that's good. Right. Like I really liked that one. I also wanted to shout out the beneath a technically also a donut, right fried donut. So they go

Collin 1:22:27

that was on my on my list as well. The Ben Yang. Yeah, my, my, my other honorable mention here was is our donut shop calls it a yum, yum. And tell me more. Okay, so what this is, is it's like a long john with with cherry or strawberry, strawberry, like, switched in and then the whole thing is twisted a couple times. So it's like this, this long drawn twist with strawberry in it and on it. And then they put like, like, the icing on top is like ice cream. Whoa, on top. Oh, cheese icing on topic pipe.

Brandon 1:23:20

It's amazing. That does that are quite incredible.

Collin 1:23:26

So while we were talking about like, substantial, I was like, oh, like, Yeah, I do like the yum, yum. But it's good. I think it's a lie. I don't I don't know if every everyone else has this or or how to do it. But I'm gonna grab a screenshot and was sitting over tea ever seen that before? So I don't know. Like, it's real different. Um, hopefully this will send over you can kind of see this, this thing because it's not filled with it. But it's like they challoner. They took the doughnut, and they laid it out flat, and then like, spread the strawberry stuff on it and then like twisted it together, and then put this name on it. Does that do have you seen one of these before? No. Again, or the order that our local donut shop calls these a yum, yum.

Brandon 1:24:18

Yeah, it's very interesting. Yeah. It's it is they're very good. They're also very, very rich. So that yeah, just be one of those.

Collin 1:24:30

Not Not, not one that you can grab, like any type of No.

Brandon 1:24:35

Now my last I have one more on we mentioned. Right. Of course, as I was doing this, and I was just thinking about this and then when you realize that a donut is a longtime just fried dough. Gotta give a shout out to the churro Oh, yes, right. That was really ugly. I mean, technically by this definition, kind of a donut. So Oh, I do love a good churro right what it there's just there's like a turbo food truck that shows up right here sometimes and you just like,

1:25:09

Well, okay,

Collin 1:25:11

I mean the leg arrives.

1:25:13

Yes, it's so good. I mean, you ever had a bad throw? Like, no, no, you haven't. Like, well, I will say real quick. On the pitcher of

Brandon 1:25:30

pollen has apparently I thought I was

Collin 1:25:33

okay so pick it I were at Okay, so we were at Subway. Okay, put that in today. They are nads. Okay. Well, their first problem we were at Subway and we pay

Brandon 1:25:46

in $45 for a sandwich apparently.

Collin 1:25:50

Way too costly, but they were offering this like, long Truro. Okay, so I turned out I have like footlong like cookies now to Yes, they have the footlong cookies, and they have footlong something else. So I said, we are getting to churros. And Megan said, why do we need to and I turned and I said two feet of JIRA. We're measuring it in feet wet feet of chair. That's okay. So the two feet of churro from Subway whereas mushy was was like, way too softballs a way to chewy combination of Lego No, it's easy to bite. It's taking me forever to act like

Brandon 1:26:38

champion anti churro That's horrible. This is like the Ark churro. Like,

Collin 1:26:44

it was very gross. And I don't recommend these. And then I'm like, Oh, I have to eat two feet of chair. Oh now. But the churro that we had when we lived in Texas, and we were at the Mexican restaurant and they made them fresh in front of you. Yeah.

Brandon 1:27:00

Oh, yeah. Yes. Okay, so listen every day. If you don't get your trailer from Subway, then it's a it's a fantastic thing is breathtakingly wonderful restaurant whose tagline is eat fresh, like stale churros in the freezer. That's that. No good bad luck. We do. No, no, yeah, that's fresh tomorrow. The food truck churros. Yo, those are so good. And those are huge. They usually are free check. I'm pretty sure they're probably longer than what I've gotten big ones from them before. Oh, yeah. And they have like, whatever this thing is I don't even remember the name I checked him out but I can't remember. They have like different flavors. They have the dipping sauces with churro too is also an exciting adventure right? You can usually get some kind of like they'll just be they'll have all kinds of like weird stuff. Oh, I use this like okay like because it's crisp and have to hold up to sauce you so get some good stuff. So I shout out to true just not subway. I guess. So. No. Okay, good list. Less I get to visit our local donut shop tomorrow. Ours is under new ownership so maybe have to go this weekend. The old people I think that people did like retired and then there's somebody new operating it now. So as a new sign, so give it a shot. See if you have any fritters. Bam, go

Collin 1:28:46

Oh, nice. Okay, I like it. Well, good. We're gonna dive into my Haiku. All right, which conveniently is also food based. So this episode just title and food based from last week and my throat is starting to go out on it. Oh let's see. Let's see if you pick up on what it's about. Golden onions sweet whispers of time Bailey's dance bowl of warm art meets.

1:29:24

Yeah

Collin 1:29:33

French onion soup really impacted me apparently.

Brandon 1:29:38

So glad.

Collin 1:29:41

So has been been immortalized in haikus beautiful, thank you. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a That's what happened happened. Next week, we'll we'll talk about our opinions on the latest Grand Tour.

Brandon 1:30:07

I think okay, all right. That'd be good. I just finish it

Collin 1:30:14

I'm gonna make a note. I don't forget look. Green

Brandon 1:30:17

is true. Yeah, do it was saying I didn't have time to watch it yesterday. So I was like, oh, man, I don't need it. Because

Collin 1:30:28

I fell off a little bit. So I gotta,

Brandon 1:30:29

I gotta get back in and watch more of it. So that's right. Well, you were busy. You were doing thing you were driving all the way. It's hard to nation. So it was you were cruising USA

Collin 1:30:41

tour? Yeah. 1000 miles. I did my own 1000 mile journey.

Brandon 1:30:50

Boom. You go.

Collin 1:30:55

Okay, well, we will. We will reconvene and we'll do this again. Now. All right. Love you. Bye