b-c testing

The cat’s out of the bag, this is all just a giant test. Collin has blistered hands. Brandon is giving Greek art warnings. Aaron almost got kicked out. You know, the usual. The boys are working through spring break, because it doesn't even really exist at this point. You can tune out as Collin talks shop about growing a pet care business. We all agree that business cards suck though. Plus, we talk about supporting Ukraine in novel ways. Oh, and Aaron is eating cake. 

• Just a giant test 

• B-C testing 

• Collin was tilling a yard 

• Learned a LOT about tractors

• Spring Break a thing?

• Learning about weather!

• Wild Weather with Richard Hammond: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4592154/

• Greek Art warning!

• Hades: https://www.supergiantgames.com/games/hades/

• Matt Parker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Parker

• Numberphile youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

• Aaron and baseball

• Annoyingly cold games

• Aaron almost got kicked out

• Avian flu is currently a thing

• Collin growing a business…pet care talk

• Also gave a talk

• Business cards suck

• Learn Ukranian! And help the cause! https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-statement-ukraine/

• Aaron cake tested!! 

• Red velvet. Vanilla. Southern Pecan. Pecan and cream cheese filling. 

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Aaron, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother of odd cast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon Cullen and Aaron. On this week's show, the C testing. Of all boy.

Brandon  00:21

Oh boy are you talking? Yes. Did you break it again? And again? I can hear you but you can't hear me at all. This is problem. You broke something again.

Collin  00:39

Why is this? Why is this happening? Hello?

Brandon  00:41

Are you there? Yes. Okay. Hello. Ah, a while. I mean, I was here it wasn't.

Collin  00:52

I need to get up get to less. Box apparently I had this Senate. Ha. You move your travel and move a box. Anyway. Hello.

01:03

Hello. Ahoy.

Collin  01:08

Ah, let's see now. I'm not as loud in my I'm not as loud in my ears. Sorry. Not talking too loud or not?

Aaron  01:15

Oh, well, you sound basically the same for me. Okay, perfect.

Brandon  01:20

That's definitely better than the beginning of last week. That's totally there. And totally, it's everything's fine. Yeah, yeah. What are you talking about? We just started talking last week. Oh, yeah, that's true. There was no yes. Yes. There was no prologue. Last week. Everything's fine.

Collin  01:36

This is weird. I really got to go out. Okay, something anyway, we'll we'll roll with it. Not going to test live on air. Thank you. We do probably

Brandon  01:48

I mean, that's exactly what we do. But that's to listeners are like don't lie to us. Kala and we know it's fine.

Collin  01:56

All one night literal.

Aaron  01:58

A B nothing. Yes.

Brandon  02:02

I guess in this case, it would be BC testing but,

Aaron  02:05

but um ah, ah.

Collin  02:12

Ah. But it is spring has sprung allergies are everywhere. My hands are hurting because I hand tilled my entire backyard planting the seed. What? Why my soil in my backyard? Does not. It's not, it's not a place for the grass to thrive. I may I know, you may listeners, your listeners may be thinking, well, that's, that's fine. Because you have a lot of dogs. No, during the winter months, we keep a lot of the dogs off of the the grass for this very reason. And yes, vast swaths of it are dead. And this is mostly because the

Aaron  02:54

soil Yeah,

Collin  02:55

that's the word is a very complex lot, it gets compacted very, very easily. And which is not a good place for long grass to grow as I think it has a high clay content. And so because of that, the spot like anytime you walk on it, you can just feel like it's hard concrete basically, especially during the summertime which is which is not good for grass. So I have to go in and basically read till everything

Aaron  03:26

in aerated and get my grass seed planted. You just need

Brandon  03:31

a more robust grass. Right?

Collin  03:33

I have I do actually have a very like aggressive smiled like massively invasive kind of grass that's adapted. The other thing is, is that literally half of my backyard is in full sun all day. And the other half basically is all shade which, which is a terrible thing to try and play it. So there's this wonderful, highly unnatural sunshade mix that comes out. And so I plant that and it does pretty well when it's growing. It just doesn't doesn't last. My backyard is is killed. It's grass seed is planted and have math calluses on my hands. And there's there's a lot of straw my backyard

Brandon  04:19

did you not work gloves calling it?

Collin  04:21

I actually did I wore gloves and nice leather gloves and yet still because the hand Tiller it's it's not motorized. You like jam? It's got the four prong ease things about oh, it's that one that you like twist around and you twist it because I twist and because it's not good loose soil. Like actively breaking open concrete. It's quite a lot which is fun. Yeah,

Brandon  04:48

I feel like you went about this wrong. I feel like you should have been like

Aaron  04:53

should have got like a little one. Right and be like no

Brandon  04:59

no Gonna do construction in the yard? Get your orange vest in hard hat. Let's go buddy and then boom done

Collin  05:08

Mike, no problem. Really. He does have a, a NOAA sized pebble. He was helping assisted me next to me. The problem is is that the soil? I mean, we're talking like it's not fun to dig into the soil. And so he got bored pretty easily. So then I was having to have him just shovel the park that I had already tilled. Which was fine until you know, he started like walking and re compacting it. And I was like, No, I don't even have grassy data.

Aaron  05:37

Do dear. It's like weird. Yeah. But now that we we

Collin  05:44

brought up some good discussion. So we were actually I got a book from the library all about attractors. So we were learning about the bestie was a messy, messy Ferguson. Oh, yeah. A bunch of other really good ones. Day and the book did a poor job of displaying photos of highly specific like, down to the model number trackers. Where they'd be like, Oh, yes, the was it other Kubo DC 79 three P can go up to 98 horsepower. I don't like there needs to be a photo of that. Because

Brandon  06:23

I don't know. Why. What the heck kind of book is this? Like a manual like a sales manual? What did you get?

06:32

It was a book all about tractors I need to find

Brandon  06:34

Google literally all about. It was just a giant catalog.

Collin  06:38

No, it was a book little tiny, like, learn about tractor book from the library. And it had different kinds of no learn about

Brandon  06:45

tractor book has that specific model number? Oh, yes. Well, actually the 1976

Aaron  06:52

from the 19 1930s from something

Brandon  06:57

like an FFA handbook. Right. That's what it is. They were written for our

Collin  07:04

No, no, seriously, it was like the case D 40. ranges from 190 to 100. horsepower was a much better time actually, while the case D 60. And D 65. C goes up to 300 horsepower. Seriously, in the

Brandon  07:21

heck is happening

Collin  07:25

in the world? No, no.

Aaron  07:27

I mean, he just

Collin  07:28

he just loved it and ate it up. The problem was is that I was been having to be like, well, they don't appear to have a photo of the case DC 65. C. So I have to now go and google this to show you what this list. And then we're like we'd spend time like going on Google and going up. And it also talks about model like the what is it the the 1917 Ford of fireball or whatever that is like like very specific years and wow.

Brandon  08:00

What in the heck was insane? Like

Aaron  08:05

I learned that's,

Brandon  08:10

I mean, mind blowing, like what in the

Collin  08:13

know, is a little kid's book, not like a kid's kid's book, but was one of those like, you know, medium sized

Brandon  08:19

hardback book was not a kid book. Alright, no kids book does that. But it was going and

Collin  08:24

talking about like how PTO drive works. And what the three when the three point hitch was invented? Why the hydraulic

Brandon  08:34

weight call and when was the three point hitch invented?

Collin  08:37

Seriously, three point hitch was invented in the 30. That's how long the thing has been around, basically, in the PTO drive was invented like in the 30s or 40s, as well, like all this technology. And it was nice, because I could know it intimately knows deedes tractor for obvious reasons. And so I was able to be like, hey, remember drives, it drives all time. And I was able to actually pick look up a picture of of that tractor. And I could point him out of the stuff on that. But yeah, when you google like tractor PTO hit or, you know, whatever, like, you get some really good spec sheets. I'll just let you know

Brandon  09:12

why. Imagine that's all you get, like, spec sheets.

Collin  09:18

It was. It was quite really

Brandon  09:19

weird PowerPoints, like what in the world is this?

Collin  09:23

Huh? Yeah, I mean, they talked about anyway, it was a it was I mean, very, very good book. But this is also like I will also sit with Noah and we will watch drone footage of combine harvesters harvest fields for just you know, for quite a long time.

Brandon  09:39

So what a thrilling

Collin  09:42

watch my

Brandon  09:43

fist one big giant machine driving in a straight line for like,

Collin  09:47

miles. But they do the drone shots here going like all the way around it, you get to see it. And then the really cool part is is when they overlay like different models of trackers so you can see the progression No.

Brandon  10:01

Oh, well, they'll be like Aaron, hold on. But don't get too excited here. And I know you've had dropped your water.

Collin  10:08

So So we've, I think we've talked about this where they'll have like the, like the OG harvesters go take a pass, and then they'll go, okay, like, in subsequent order of like, model here and then they'll get to the modern ones, you can kind of see the progression. I've talked about the plowing of field, right, we've, we've done the plow competitions in Iowa, we've talked about this, right?

Brandon  10:28

Yeah, but I've not know that they did like time lapse, like deep chronology dives of harvester technology through the ages in one sort of video essay.

Aaron  10:38

That's very.

Brandon  10:41

That's very confusing that exists.

Collin  10:45

I'll have to refine this food down a rabbit hole one time, but it was quite

Brandon  10:48

Oh, my goodness. I mean, we've mentioned that before, but all you did before on the show anyway, was mentioned. Yes. We watched some combines Not, not this level data.

Collin  11:00

No, it is quite interesting. Where they will, bunch of farmers in a wide area will drive their tractors to a field to to plow it, using historic and modern tractors in different implements. And then they also do the same thing with like, combine to harvest and showcase them and to keep the original farming traditions

Aaron  11:23

of the country live. Do they have

Brandon  11:27

this important question for the plowing competition?

Aaron  11:31

Are there? Mules? Yes,

Brandon  11:35

they do have Okay, good, because I feel like you're missing out on a big part of black history. And like, people if you don't have mule teams, like what is like an mule, right, they'll

Collin  11:47

have one with like a plow like an plow behind it. Yeah. And the scary rocks at some oxen. Yeah. With

Brandon  11:54

like the old wood plow, right? Because in England, you don't need there's no rocks apparently. So you can use use a stick

Collin  12:00

stick and just drag it out? Like a nice already pre loose dirt?

Aaron  12:04

Yeah, that doesn't work in Missouri. Nope. And they

Collin  12:10

the scared that the ones that are like super intense to watch are the ones where it is the steam powered when they get to the steam powered ones. If you're just like, this needs to be outlawed this

Brandon  12:22

steam powered tractors look like they're going to explode at any given second. Yeah, like, there's so much like rattling happening. And some of the rattling is supposed to be happening. And some of it, I don't think is and like they just sound like I mean, steam technology in itself is very interesting to me. Because like, you can see everything happening. Right? It's it's literally an external combustion engine. Right? It's like, right, there's a fire, and you can see all the moving parts. And it's all crazy. And it's very, like it meets all the senses, right? You could this definitely smells and sights and sounds everything. But it also looks like I mean is to some extent, a bomb on wheels.

Collin  13:07

It is barely controlled chaos. Yeah,

Aaron  13:10

that's Tractor Supply near you by chance. By chance there is.

Brandon  13:18

You just go there and walk around with no and just stare so

Aaron  13:19

you'll see. You'll see. Oh, no, I'm scared. Oh, no. No, it was birthday present. Of that. You would love that. But no, don't get help with the yard.

Brandon  13:40

That definitely could help with the yard help listeners. This appears to be some sort of pedal powered tractor implement

Aaron  13:50

for children well, just

Brandon  13:54

I don't really know what I'm looking at. But that's what it looks like.

Aaron  13:58

It's one of the it's one of those things where like they get like they peddle it. And then they have like little things on the side where they like move the bucket is John Deere tractor with a Oh yeah. Yes. Yeah, we look how helpful that

Brandon  14:10

would be for the yard work column. He can move things

Aaron  14:13

around to you will do it for you. Or he.

Brandon  14:20

So we didn't know whistle actually also on track. What you could also get Cullen is we this is weird segue because my friend that the guy that I play guitar with would play music with right. He was also he was showing me his new tractor. Last time I was house. See, he bought this is not he was he was very proud of this. And he was like, he did the same thing. He was like, come check out my tractor. And so I came out to his barn expecting like a massive tractor because he lives in the middle of nowhere on this big farms gotta

Aaron  14:55

know. He bought himself a BCS two wheeled tractor.

Brandon  15:04

Right. Have you seen one of these things? No, I'm feeling yo, it's wild. So it has a variety. I don't know which one you bought, I don't know. But he's got like, it's got a variety of different engines on the front. These like hand grips that control everything and then a PTO shaft that comes right off the axle. Yeah, so it's only two wheels PTO comes off the axle and there's like, apparently a bazillion different attachments that you can just attach to this thing. Yes, including a wagon. For reasons and it can, like, do all kinds of stuff like I am. It's the craziest thing you've ever seen

Collin  15:45

to give the listener some idea of what this is imagine a garden Tiller on steroids. With a variety of implements you can attach it does have the garden till I see that but there is a tiller to mow. There's a mower there's there's a roller there's like there's apparently infinite Yes, infinite attachments this thing. Oh, let's see. It's large though. Like I'm looking at this guy.

Brandon  16:12

It is it's it's a little it's bigger than I thought was gonna be is bigger than a tiller. It's probably kind of four to five feet long. Yeah. Well, that's with the attachment the handles. Sure, right.

Aaron  16:21

I am kind of waiting for Noah's mind to be blown. When Collin tells him he went to a school the head driver tracker school day. Live just so that we are aware one day

Collin  16:34

when we go to out to eat. They have those magazines at the front of the front of them have like things for sale in the area. And that's like

Brandon  16:43

the Thrifty Nickel or whatever, whatever they they used to have that on here.

Collin  16:47

Great entertainment for children, where Noah will go through and he will circle what he wants to buy. So far he is he will see we'll circle things like the cable repair truck with the extended arm. Oh, no, he's you he'll, he'll get the Democrats. And then he will also he will also request will say hey, what do you want to do when you grow up? You know, say, I like do you want to run your business? Or do you want to work for somebody he'll say everyone's business and we'll say, you know, like, what do you want to do? And he'll just say like, I want to own a tractor. So his first car may well be

Aaron  17:20

Oh, no, that's horrifying. That they may go, oh, sorry. I'm looking at more than a BCS thing.

Collin  17:29

I'm doing It's wild. So like, it's absolutely insane. It's the craziest thing of all time like yeah, it that that that handgrip thing to it swivels around. So like you can actually walk? Yeah, and you can walk so you can like walk it but you don't have to walk behind it. If you have a big impediment you walk like to the side. So you like can walk on where you haven't plowed yet. And it actually spins all the way around 180 degrees so that you can that's like push it. Well. That's how you use forwards or backwards. Yeah, the lower side because the other engine would get in the way.

Aaron  18:04

Yeah, I think this is

Collin  18:07

cool. I like this a lot. The one thing that we have not done yet is there's a John Deere showroom on the South side of town that I think we just need to stop it and go go let him see because we would

Brandon  18:20

like he would literally freak out and then want to go back like every single day. That's never when we would never not be able to go there.

Collin  18:26

Get I mean, you could obviously guess what his most favorite part of the Missouri State Fair was? Oh, yeah, definitely. Tractor showcase the tractor showcase. Yeah. Which was honestly it was pretty cool. You get to see him all kind of road walk underneath and block and stuff but I suppose yeah, we we should probably go to

Aaron  18:49

good yes, I have. I have a lot of work you know, just never inside. Oh, sorry. You all you all on the spring break. What does it mean for you? Spring Break does not exist. It's a myth. Oh, right. Now we have we are attorney we,

Brandon  19:21

we great school that we have spring break and do we have off this Friday because we had parent teacher conferences Monday yesterday. So I had to stay at school like relate every day.

Aaron  19:36

It's very tiring. Sorry. Parents blast. No. We had spring break both shell and myself had Spring Break this week, so it's kind of nice, actually. What's nice to get last year I would still be working regardless. So it's actually like Oh, that's great. So where are we at Spring Break? This week? I got to go do practice stuff tomorrow. So and then other than that, we'll be back next week, but it's just kind of nice to have it all kind of aligned and got to be and we actually get to enjoy it for one. Yeah.

Brandon  20:24

Yeah. Yeah. We had plenty to conferences. And then, like,

Aaron  20:30

tomorrow, it's like,

Brandon  20:32

in a quarter celebration day. So like, if they've made their goals for like, behavior stuff, there's like a thing in the morning. And then we just decided the English teacher always does a reading reward party at the end of the quarter for all the kids that meet their reading goals. And so she's just like, well, let's just do that tomorrow afternoon. I was like, Yes, fine. Go for it. So tomorrow is basically, we're not actually doing things tomorrow, we're just gonna be at school. But we're not really doing school things. So you know, it's fine. So this week was real short. Basically, a short week anyway, because the high school Friday, and then Thursday for we're not really having school Thursday. It's like tomorrow, so we're

Aaron  21:25

fine. Everything's fine.

Brandon  21:26

It's fine. It just makes it annoying that like, I mean, I don't really care, I guess, but kind of weird to like, stop, start. Stop, start. Stop. Start all this stuff like,

Aaron  21:37

Monday, I'll be like, what was it doing?

Brandon  21:39

What's happening? What is science? I don't know.

Aaron  21:42

I understand. We temperature

Brandon  21:47

temperature lights I think we're talking about so it was good. It was good. We watch a video today, just because I was like, Look, we're not gonna start anything. We're gonna watch this video. Sure, but it's everyone's favorite video series. wild weather with Richard Hammond time plan. Yeah, good stuff. It's the good stuff, guys. I am doing right by my kids. Okay, it's fine.

Collin  22:09

It's good. Like you said, good for them. Yeah, we actually does

Brandon  22:13

science, and Hammond. And so there's like zany things happening. Like this one that like the temperature one he's talking about, like dust and how dust is a major factor in the weather. So have that naturally, he goes to Australia, it's like we need to make a manmade dust storm. So he like, whips out this like, Toyota work truck. And he starts doing mad donuts. Obviously, so like,

Aaron  22:39

yeah, it's great.

Brandon  22:42

I think it gives like it and this time I made like little video, follow along questions, you know, and just to be like, Hey, guys, thanks for paying attention watching this. So how they did a lot of good conversations about it and everything. So it was fun. Did that today, it's gonna take it easy. Because we're just starting that part. So I figure like, well, we'll watch this at the beginning of this like, chapter or whatever, because it's kind of talking about the video contains a lot of things that we're going to be talking about. So we have something to refer back to like visuals and stuff. So

Aaron  23:12

that's helpful. Yeah, it was tried out here. See,

Brandon  23:16

nobody here makes more sense at the end of the unit. I think just because like, Hey, this is things that we're going to be learning about. So when I talk about them later and say, hey, I can say hey, remember that video when they did this?

Aaron  23:28

Oh, yeah. That's right.

Collin  23:33

We're using recall right now.

Aaron  23:35

Yeah. We did

Brandon  23:40

start a new units and studies. So we had to have the official talk

Aaron  23:45

about the Greeks. Right? We have to have a we have to have the public service announcement. Warning.

Brandon  23:56

At the beginning of every winter do the Greek unit like Guys, guys, listen. Okay, we have to be mature sixth graders here, because

Aaron  24:07

we might see Greek art. And, well, Greek the Greeks

Brandon  24:12

just really, really loved sculpting naked people. And they're always like, what, what, why isn't complicated? I don't know. Maybe it's too hard to sculpt the shirt. I'm not sure. But they did. So if we find that we just have to go next, and then move on with our lives. We have

Collin  24:34

and not dwell, not dwell. Yes. Like, oh, it's

Brandon  24:39

yes. We have to like just not do that. So we had a whole talk. So the

Aaron  24:46

official warning, public service announcement for the Greek unit. They do just because I don't want any trouble

Collin  24:58

just to tell them that they had invented close yet. And yeah,

Brandon  25:04

we talk a little bit about like the like alright guys really what they're doing is they're like because there are so I was very like stylistic idealistic. So they were like, sculpting, quote, the perfect human form as a goal, right? Yeah. So what is your all of it the night so we just have to move on

Aaron  25:31

that's fine, but

Brandon  25:33

just made sure we give the warning to everybody so that we can move on with our lives and just not deal with it. So it's really do do a Greek god, like presentation,

Aaron  25:50

right? And so, you know, every once in a while, it's got to be careful. But I tell them like you can

Brandon  26:00

like there's people have been drawing Greek gods for literal 1000s of years. So we don't have to use the Greek version. You know, I mean, like, there are many better like modern interpretations of like, artists draw like Zeus or whatever, but like, in a modern style, so it's fine. You know? And actually, luckily, last year, there's this video game counts like a dungeon roguelike thing. It's called Hades. It's all about Greek mythology. And they have like, all of the gods and all these art styles, and they look fantastic. So you can actually find those screenshots online and steal some of those too, for our presentations. Be like, Oh, yes, this is Zeus. Blam. There. Take that one. So

Aaron  26:50

that's handy. Borrow those

Brandon  26:54

for presentation purposes. It's all right. Yeah, this week's isn't the complete weird.

Aaron  27:02

It's like, long and boring. But like,

Brandon  27:06

we don't really get a lot accomplished because there's all kinds of in the quarter and all this stuff and

Aaron  27:11

blah, blah and interruptions.

Collin  27:16

Yeah, we celebrated. Celebrate Pi day on Monday. And, like, a month ago, I had all the kids about it. And they were like, shocked that it was a thing. I was like, Oh, yeah. Obviously, you haven't been taught by a nerd. Oh, yeah. There's 3.1 today, and they had pie in class. And they were super excited about it. And they were like, thought that I would like for had forgotten about Pi Day.

Aaron  27:49

But oh my gosh,

Collin  27:51

remember Pi Day? Who's not gonna

Aaron  27:55

doesn't even work the way

Brandon  27:56

they do you show them what's that guy's name? That guy, the stand up maths guy.

Aaron  28:03

What's his name? Matt.

Brandon  28:05

Matt Parker Do you so many Matt Parker videos? Did not Oh, he always every year for Pi Day. I don't think I watched the film this year. I haven't seen it yet. But he does these weird things where he calculates pie by hand. Like really obscure ways like one time he calculated pie with pies. And like it does all these like really strange ways like the ancient people or whatever used to calculate pie and he like, tries to do them with varying degrees of success. But it's pretty great. So he's I will add this Yeah, he he's a great right like the him and then the whole like, divorces number file, guys. That Brady guy does the number file YouTube channel. Oh, man. That guy's great. I love that dude.

Aaron  28:53

Do a podcast with Brittany Aaron.

Brandon  28:56

He has like 17 He saw like any?

Aaron  28:59

No, yeah. But I like the number five was my favorite one.

Brandon  29:04

I like the one with the curator thing. He does like weird museum things too. But I like number five is my favorite.

Aaron  29:10

So I like them. But yeah,

Brandon  29:13

sure the kids, Matt Parker. Randomness,

Aaron  29:15

or

Brandon  29:18

yeah, there's much people on that channel that are awesome. So Aaron, how was how was bases and balls going?

Collin  29:34

I'm still in the dark. Well Well, you said you won your game because of darkness.

Aaron  29:42

Oh, okay. So that was like weeks ago. So I remember things. So the first game, um, for those of you listening, I, I I coach at a very, very small school. And one thing that we don't have that's multiple What is stadium lighting? So the first game, we technically won off technicality, because in the A or the OSA rules that if the game was stopped raining, then the game reverts back to the previous thing. And we stopped at the beginning, which was eight to eight, but your ending before it was a four. And so therefore, we won. So that was the first game. We then played a doubleheader against a really good team, which we smoked, got home late. And then the game wasn't last week, the one that I that we kind of rescheduled for was actually against Shelley's brother. He's the head coach down there. And we played because there was ice storm or two. And we played and apparently you can play when it's like 25 degrees outside, which we did. And so we had to know, we played and it was it was so like, annoyingly cold. And so like, we we played, and we actually, we actually won, which was a surprise is my, my team struggled, but we somehow pulled it off. And so we won, but it was so cold that I got a dinner afterwards, I drove separately, I drive the I drove the afternoon bus. And so I just drove separately, which kind of worked out because like, Oh, I'm like way closer home, having to drive or ride the bus and then drive back. So that was actually kind of nice. I'm sure, did you. But then yeah, we just we won. And then then it was spring break. Which we didn't have school Friday, which was kind of nice to not really do that weird. No. But we have. We have game Monday, I think. But softball, we actually won our first game, which is the first game they won in like two years. So that was actually kind of a nice little thing to have for those girls. To win for the time ever.

Brandon  32:22

storming the field, carrying off the basis. Oh,

Aaron  32:27

they were so confused. Because then they Oh, yeah, I almost got thrown out. But the first part a, there's

Brandon  32:34

something very unsurprising about that statement, just based on how you are me. Like I feel like that's fair. Like,

Aaron  32:41

you guys have never came down to watch me coach. I'm a vastly different thing. But we're in like the I'm called the Blue called game. And the girls like, we're going out to the field. And they're like, Coach what to do? And I'm like, What do you mean? But you guys won. And they're like, what, like, if you won, and they like, became super emotional. And I was like, What do you mean one? They're like, we we haven't won a game in two years. I was like, Oh, snap. Oh, that explains so much. And so yeah, they, they won. And it was exciting. They had a they had an away game the next day, which didn't go too well. But the fact that they like won their first game, pretty legit. No. So yeah, I almost got thrown out. Um, I was over there as assistant, you go to first base. And like, like in baseball, you don't like all the time. And then like You're like their eyes, so they don't have to, like look for the ball and make an easy transition. And softball, it's a little bit different. But first girl comes up, hits the ball in like chunks are bad. Right, like chunks it and the complaint umpires like Hey, Coach, listen. You know, this was districts or something, you know, she could be thrown out this talk with their blue I gotcha. I gotcha. Don't worry. And so I'm like, Hey, don't very bad. It's ridiculous. Like, you're better than that. Don't don't throw it so on. And so some other girl kind of does it. And then like, she comes up, and she, she does it again, sort of the our home plate is like it sits on top of a hill, kind of and so she like hit it. And then she like dropped the baton and roll. Well, he didn't see that she just played so he did roll. But she was thrown at first and so she's jogging back and he's like, like storming up the first base line to me. He's like, I don't want to talk to you how to talk to your coach. He's like Coach, I told you twice, you know, get over that, you know, call her out and throw me out. I don't want to but you know, I may have to throw you out. Sounds like like standing there and like disbelief, and I was like, blue like her bat roll dog. Coach, I don't hear it. Like, we've been awesome so far, but you're talking to girls. And so like, on the first baseline, I just yell, I'm like, the next person that drops, their bat is running. And they all guess coach. And then this girl comes up. And we are in is one one at this point, and it's what do we say? Bottom of the seventh? Like we like we need like, we have girls like we runner on first. And third. This girl comes up. She's awesome outfielder, she just like smokes it like, Oh, that's perfect kit, let's go over that she drops her bat. And then like it rolls and like I see it happen. I'm just like, I can't I will not tell you the words that came out of my mouth. But the opposing coach is like right next to me. He's like, Oh, he's gonna get her on that. I just know he is. And he was walking over to tell the blue. He's like up, runners out, coach, our daughter told your wife that's like the fifth time it's happened one more, and you're out of here. And I'm like, he knows I'm not the head coach. Right? Like, he knows that. Like I'm pointing to my coach, who she's never coached before. It's her first year like coaching anything. And so I'm like, helping her get established as a coach, like, you know, the ins and outs of like, talking with refs and things like that. And I was like, you know, I'm not the coach, right? Like, you're aware that coach, I want to hear about it. And so of course, I sprint over to the dugout, and I'm like, eyes on me. And I was like, This is what you do not do. Because if I get thrown out, you think I'll be happy? And they're like, oh, no, coach. And so thankfully, we had another girl come up, pops it up. Runners in blue calls Paul's game. And he's like, Well, you know, Coach, I didn't want to have her yell. But no, I we got her set an example on a mic. Now blow your right, I'll get onto him. I don't know. That's not what they're supposed to do. And then the next game we had, I was like, I went to the raps. I was like, Look, Listen, please. You see this hill? Isn't rolls and like, oh, no, we gotta go see it. So yeah, I almost got thrown out of the game that they won for the first time in two years. The administrator, super, super tender. It's like, just get thrown out of a game. I'm like, listen, we're gonna have a talk. We need to redo our entire field because I'm not gonna be thrown out over over vs like that. So yeah, they won but I was just in disbelief. I was like, you gotta throw me out of the know. Tony, Larissa this right now that will store that dug out.

Brandon  37:49

What exactly are you supposed to do? Are you supposed to hit the ball and then bend down gingerly and place your bat at the feet of the Empire before jogging off wistfully to first base? Is that what you're supposed to do? Like I told them, This is literally the dumbest rule I've ever heard of in my entire

Aaron  38:05

life. And like me, I could see it. I mean, like, why he's saying it. But at the same time, I'm like, pointing to the dirt. And I was like, Listen, give me for that. Because that's not my fault. Like, their their girls are doing it. My girls are doing it, apparently. But I was like, I can't I can't help. I can't help gravity. Don't you want me to go fight gravity? I can't do that. And so the other was the was super understanding. He's like, Yeah, you know, you're, you know, I see it. I'll let him know. I was like, you let him know, before he throws me out, please. That'd be super cool. It's like, there's a certain way that you like it. And then like, the bat, just like naturally goes down. Sort of like, you can't just chuck like, the first time this girl like, curled her bat, like took it and just like swung it to the fence. I'm like, I love that I get like, you cannot do that. And I got onto her multiple times. I'm like, we've worked on this and just throw the bat. But she doesn't do like out of anger. So it's just like, awkward to watch her do it because she's like, swings, and then like, hurls it out of the way. And then she runs but all you know, he hit and then the bat just comes naturally behind you. You set it and you take off like we've worked on this, boom, boom, boom. But every other time. It's just the way that it did and then just like naturally rolled. It might the last time I did it, I was like, Oh, I'm in trouble. He's gonna see that. Oh, I don't want to talk to you. And I'm like, Oh, come on. You're wrong.

Brandon  39:44

It's fine. It'll be okay. There's a backstop. Nobody's out there.

Aaron  39:48

Sorry, bad. I don't care. Well, I mean, like, we do go to like districts or playoffs. Like there's typically another umpire that would be standing there and The fact that she would say that she's like, I'm talking like, took the bat and like Rue it. Maybe he shouldn't stand there, everything like that. Like everything else, like, you hit and like, you haven't rolled like a distance, like if you hit like a good ball and you need to go and like, yeah, sure, whatever. The fact that you just took the bat and like, overhand Shut up is a little

Brandon  40:24

less literally what the fences for. It's okay

Aaron  40:26

to catch that. And so yeah, the bad catching friends. Yeah I was was a little key. I was like, I'm glad we won. You ever get me thrown out or something that we've worked on? I'm going to become unglued like that parents like we've never had, we never had a coach yell at our kids before. And my kids are like, No, we love it. It gets the kids going. Nice. And like good. There's more where that came from. But yeah, I'll be happy. And I looked at her mom. And I was like, I gave her the look. And she's like, get after I'm here. I'm like, Thank you have a nice chat. And then I went back to the base and didn't get thrown out. Job.

Brandon  41:10

We did not get thrown out of a softball game.

Aaron  41:14

The other game yeah, it was like 25 degrees in like, sixth inning. And I kept going to blues like the outfield Jeff and like we can, we can play five, right? He's like, Hey, I have to drive to Oklahoma City after this. And it's like, eight o'clock at night by this point. He's like, Hey, I gotta drive. I have to drive home home after this. So if we can also speed this up, like, hey,

Brandon  41:40

not my problem. Don't care. Let's go.

Aaron  41:43

That's that's that's the fun thing about some of these, you know, small town empires that they're like, hey, like, I'm just gonna speed this up as quickly as possible. And I'm like, hey, you need to man.

Brandon  41:55

I gotta go walk my goats. Right. So I gotta go. Like

Aaron  42:01

for some reason, we found the founder back, started pulling the trigger. And I had one kid, you're like, don't you know we can we can score if we swung. I'm like, Oh, you're just not realizing that. Really?

Brandon  42:14

You don't say that's a great idea. Let's try that next.

Collin  42:18

One wins one who gets the most points

Aaron  42:22

in their life? Coach, I can't I can't get on days like this or not spring ball. Swing run. I don't care. So yeah, a lot of it's learning about growth. You know, growing pains. That's the word for it. of some of these kids and what all they haven't had to deal with before. So like, Oh, you guys know, I have no idea. What can we look forward to this? Yeah, um, that that was their last two weeks in a nutshell. So from the cold, you know, Blizzard that it was the seven degrees that it currently

Brandon  43:04

is outside the tundra game. And two.

Aaron  43:08

Yeah, right. Riley. Shelby's brother was like, I'm glad we played it today. But then like that Friday was like super cold in the morning. And then it was like 15 in the afternoon. Or we could have waited like an hour. I wouldn't have wanted to play like, with no school than having to drive here. That seems too crazy. He's like, can you write it? Right?

Brandon  43:33

Yeah, that's always weird when they do that. I was like, no school, but then we've got the game anyway. It's like, you know, it's really good. It's kind of point doing that.

Aaron  43:43

So that we met at work. And so we're currently tuned to the season. You have another game Monday. So anyway, I'm excited. We got we have Practice more. Practice. And I got to do some lesson planning. I've not looked at lesson plans at all this week. And I'm like, oh, I need to do that. I don't really want to do that. Again. Yeah, no, yeah, get that done that way. So I'll do that. I'll spend like all day tomorrow, if you practice in Friday, and have like a nice, chill weekend. We've been to the zoo this week. We've Zika Tulsa Zoo opened up the first time in a long time. I completely forgot that the avian flu was currently going on and so that bird exhibits we're not going not open yet to go like inside for most. And there's a lot more geese. Then there were actual like, animal animals as a little disappointed, but there was no one there. It was really. Hey, that's good though. That's that's have been pretty much pretty much are we? A nice kind of chill? Get back into it. Oh, nice.

Brandon  45:08

So other than tractor in Collin, you've been doing anything else just super fantastic other than blistering your hands working tirelessly on your lawn, like

Collin  45:20

my Polito hand. Ah, me and Actually Actually no.

Aaron  45:29

Been I mean, it's spring break for us. So this is a busy, I'm grateful. And

Collin  45:39

we get getting a lot of inquiries from Springfield, which is nice. Where Hey, we go except we haven't no no nailed in the target audience of people who need us. We get a lot of a lot, but we get quite a few calls in inquiries about people wanting us to stay overnight

Aaron  46:02

at their home, which is fine. Except

Collin  46:11

I am asking an employee to stay in your home from 7pm to 7am. That is 12 hours of this a lot of Yeah, right. So let's just do some quick, quick back of napkin math path here, of if I am working 12 hours, and I pay my staff $13 an hour, and they work for 12 Let's just say 60 bucks. Yeah, labor. And that that actually costs me an additional 30% to pay for taxes to pay for insurance and to pay for work for them. Yeah. And now all of a sudden I'm at like 180 190 just for like them, and to have a body there.

Brandon  47:10

You don't want to pay 200 bucks for that man.

Collin  47:12

And so whenever I put them

Aaron  47:14

at 200 bucks.

Collin  47:17

It's, you know, they go Oh, nevermind. It's that's been that's been that's been frustrating to get people to that point of helping them understand exactly what they need, why they need it. So I've actually started asking them going, Hey, tell me tell me why. Why you need by you're looking? Why do you think you need? Gets me there all night long? Yeah. Why? Because what's fascinating is people will go, Oh, I just need you to stay overnight. And then maybe like one checkering? Like, your pets or what afraid of the boogeyman at nighttime.

Aaron  48:03

Yeah, that's kind of what? So that that's frustrating

Collin  48:09

to me. And having to explain, so basically, I started to say, Are your pets exhibiting signs of separation anxiety? Or is there a medical reason why you need someone to care for them? And usually they're like, no, and no. And then like, great. We offer this other service that is much less costly for you. And you can you can book that right now. And they don't want that. So that is this weird, like, a client education. Well, that's weird.

Brandon  48:40

Like, why would why is the fact that you come in the evening and then come like, first thing in the morning? Or like, relatively, in the morning?

Aaron  48:50

Like, that's, that's the same thing. Right? You're like feeding their

Brandon  48:55

pet at night? Like I'm okay. So I'm just imagining this is the scenario of like, I'm thinking about like Chuck style, right? So Chuck would eat at night. And then in the morning, he would have to take medicine. Yep. But there's like, no reason that you would have to stay there the whole time in between? No, right,

Aaron  49:13

actually, like,

Collin  49:14

especially since I would my last visit could be at nine o'clock. And I'll be there at 6am The next morning. Yeah, of course even

Brandon  49:22

seven right. It's seven, eight, it doesn't matter. Like somewhere in there.

Collin  49:28

For some reason I'm well, I will I will say this. I mean, one the Springfield market is very, very heavy with with people who board I think their dog somewhere. The majority of people are also used to they are also used to for just being honest about having like their daughters or their sons friend from school. Come over and watch their pets. Yeah, kind of reached that like kind of like Middle High School ish age of like, letting them do that. So I come in and I'm like, Hey, there's $200 a night. If they're like, I'm sorry, what? I had a high school student do this for free last year, like, I know, but you weren't paying your high school, above minimum wage per hour.

Brandon  50:10

Yeah. And we can do more than them. Because they're, we have all these qualifications and trainings and blam. And so like,

Collin  50:18

that's hard, and they don't see that right. And so it's this weird, like, we're a premium service, but also we're kind of for everybody. But also people don't see it as premium. And they don't understand why it costs so much. And so I that's why I say we haven't found quite our niche target audience people, but we're getting closer, like right now just people are throwing darts at a board. And that's a good word for them to hit, I can then do a bit of education about what we do and how we provide it and really kind of pushing back a little bit on these preconceived notions of what they need. And that's not to say that the way they were caring for their pet was wrong or bad in any way. It's just not required, like that level of care is really not necessary in the vast majority of cases. And that's hard for people done, especially the last two years where people were cooped up with their dog, and they were around them 24/7. And they feel like their dog needs to be around somebody 24/7 When in actuality, they need to be around their dog 24/7 Not the other way around. Yeah. So it's also like, yes, addressing the like pet care needs, but over and above and beyond that is addressing the client's concerns about what that is, and how and letting them know it's not settling. That's the other thing that we struggle with a lot. We feel like we're offering that service, it's a notch down from boarding or from daycare, or something like got

Aaron  51:50

their second choice.

Brandon  51:52

And, I mean, the dog is in their own environment in their own home with their own bed and their own food and their own everything like Yeah, it's like, I don't I don't understand how that would be adopted down. Like, you know what I mean, like,

Collin  52:05

out around, it's not around friends. And it's not around some body, right? This is where they I'm like, Yeah, but that's mostly because like, you want your dog to be around somebody. And in all actuality, it's very like, bluntly, here, like, you have damaged your dog to the point where it cannot function without somebody on crew, like what your dog really needs

Brandon  52:25

is your dog needs to walk for the exercise for the energy draining, right? That that release of its tension, its energy, it needs to go on a walk, it needs to be fed, watered, you know, played with shared affection, but after the walk in all that stuff, it should be ready for naptime. Right? Like it's

52:48

exactly. Like if you really play with

Brandon  52:50

it, and walk with it and do stuff. It's like, it's good for a while, like it doesn't need these wants to be like, ah, you know, we're talking

Collin  52:56

about a well adjusted dog who's able to regulate their feelings and emotions in an appropriate healthy manner.

Brandon  53:02

That's fair. That's true. Okay, that's, that's true.

Collin  53:05

We, that a vast majority of dogs who maybe three years ago were like that are now emotionally basically, they're emotionally damaged to the point where separation anxiety is through the roof. And let's not even get started on puppies who were gotten in the last year and haven't seen the outside world. And so that there's very real, psychological, physiological responses going on. And so that's the other part of this of going like, Hey, I know you think that you have to have that kind of service. If you will partner with us, and this other trainer, and give us six months, you will need to take your dog to a boarding play. Yeah. But that's, you know, people go well, yeah, but I could take him to a boarding place today. And that'd be fine. Right. And then they move on. So it's a little like, at least we're getting, we're getting and I think that I talked to you guys, I went last Friday.

Brandon  54:09

A week ago. Yeah.

Collin  54:12

I think I told you I went down. I gave a talk to some people in Springfield. And I don't know if he did tell us. I don't know. I went to a one. It's called the 1 Million Cups by the chamber. Yeah. Yeah. Use it and tell us about the latest version. Okay. Okay. So yeah, I went and I talked, I spoke with him about that. And it was kind of funny, I you know, they sent me an email and they're, like, come prepared with your thumb drive for the presentation and get set up pretty early. And the more I thought about it, the more I was like, hey, like, I have a Mac and I I'm not going to have this rigmarole of like converting it but have it be broken and not work and whatever. Because I know they're not going to have a Mac there's going to be a PC I'm not gonna be able to conversion work and I don't have Windows, Microsoft any products at all, so I can't even make like I can't even To double check this, so I was just like, I'm not doing a talk. I'm not doing a presentation.

Brandon  55:03

I show up. Google Slides it man, boom. Gatlin? Well, well,

Collin  55:08

I didn't know, I didn't know if I'd have access to their computer or how was going to work or what the setup was going to be. And then I would have to log into my Google Slides, and I didn't know their password. I didn't know your email. I'm just gonna like, I can do this. I literally they asked me to speak for six to eight minutes, which is almost impossible for me. And so yeah, six David,

Brandon  55:28

listeners of the show will attest to the impossibility for Collin to be brief.

Collin  55:34

Must not be that brief. So like Han and brevity do not go.

Brandon  55:38

I mean, same be real, like buy like,

Collin  55:41

hence the show. So yes, I just came in. And I was like, he was like, Oh, you take over here and get your PowerPoint as like, I don't have one. And he looked at me a very, very concerted. And I get it, right. It's a business meeting their business. See people here, like must have PowerPoint wearing their stupid name tag for their business braiding on it. I just wanted like, Oh, I couldn't stand it. It was a bit much.

Brandon  56:06

My sidetrack I think I mentioned this before, too. But anytime I used to have to go to conferences like that, and they would give me a name tags, write my name, I would always write the first half of a Laffy Taffy joke on it.

Collin  56:17

So you would have to finish it with Sto. Yeah. Much more memorable that way? No, this is this is not they give you a name tag. This is people who came from their office with their own name. You gross.

Brandon  56:30

That's disgusting.

Collin  56:31

I know, get out.

Aaron  56:35

I could, and I'm saying

Collin  56:36

there are people like again,

Brandon  56:38

mine would just say what's a tree's favorite drink?

Aaron  56:43

What is it? Root Beer? Ah,

Collin  56:54

good. Sorry. I'm, I'm again, I'm way out of place there. Because I'm, I'm wearing my Vibram Five Fingers. I have a hat. But this petsitter. And I got like this, like pullover hoodie thing. And everyone else's. In their business ie attire in their business casual stuff. And their land is your busy walk dogs. It's my business. That is that is your business attire. Like, I'm ready to walk with, you know what, why I like giving these talks. And I like going into these situations where it's like this is it's for entrepreneurs, and it's for business owners to talk business, then I come in there and I'm like, I walk dogs for living. That's how I spent I pay for my kids school by walking dogs every day. And you can just see the look on people's faces. They're like, what if and I'm like, and I have employee to also walked on. And this is my plan. It was it was great. I love doing that. And it was kind of cool. They had a students in a business class and marketing class from evangel, who were there. And they were going to do a SWOT analysis on my business. And I was like, that sounds very official, have fun. You will Good luck, you will find lots lots of dangers. But, you know, one of the one of the people that I talked to was like, you know, he's just straight up said, like, that what you offer will not work for me. So instead, you know, I was like, So where do you take your dog? He said, Well, I try 45 minutes away to a boarding facility. And it's not much they don't get a lot of room. But at least they have constant observation. And it was just, it just struck me of like, wow, like, that is how much this person believe they need that they're willing to drive an hour and a half round trip, which is quite like imagine that like you're leaving for a week. And you have to somehow find time between your your job, students, your kids schedule, driving your dogs to a place and then coming back and then repeating that, on the back end.

Brandon  58:58

I don't want to drive an hour and a half anywhere,

Collin  59:01

anywhere ever. So I was like, so that's where all of a sudden I was like, Okay, I need to start being able to better communicate, like,

Aaron  59:09

imagine that. You leave and

Collin  59:13

magically your pets be cared for and you return and they're there and happy when you walk through the door like ooh,

Aaron  59:21

like Mr. Cole, you don't have to do anything. Pirate Ship. It was a

Collin  59:29

it's very eye opening about just talking a little bit more with those people about services. And one of the things that I kept getting asked over and over again was like, how far out do you service? How far out do you sir? Which is a? Which is a tricky question because like, I would love to be able to service 45 minutes around Springfield, I would come Yeah, the bedroom communities I would capture because right now are the thing I told him I said the biggest thing that we're running into is the people who actually need our services don't live in Springfield, but I only Yeah, Springfield.

Brandon  1:00:01

They live in like Nixa and I was I can Republic and garage row and the moment

Collin  1:00:05

I stepped outside of, of highway 65. I was 60. And the interstate, that little boundaries. Drive time goes through the route, trying to get to people.

Brandon  1:00:20

Oh, yeah. Because it's so spread out it. It's so

Collin  1:00:23

spread out. And I can't have I can't I don't make enough money to reimburse my staff for either yeah, I've time or mileage. It's almost 60 cents a mile. Yeah, most people at this point. And if they're doing 20 miles round trip, like Yeah, no, they're gonna make more driving than they are and the actual. Yes, it's. And so, you know, it was kind of it was, again, helping people educate people about like, how the business operates in like, what we have by how we think about things, and the fact that like, yeah, with a lot of people who grow their pet businesses, they have 45 So I talked to a lady literally this morning. She lives in Boise, Idaho, and she has 55

Aaron  1:01:05

employees. But what, but yeah, 55 but 55

Collin  1:01:13

only, only five of them are full time. The rest of them work like 10 or less hours a week. But that's the kind of staffing you need. And while I mean the me

Brandon  1:01:25

Idaho's so like vast

Collin  1:01:30

that kind of manpower you need to make these kinds of things work. And that's why I'm not servicing Rogersville Nixa Ozark Willard battlefield Republic like all these bedroom communities, like I can't go there yet. And so we do have like, the thing work is good, but not now. But the things that we spent this week working on are actually we are trying to hire in Ozark, like, yeah, so that that person does Ozark and Nixa because they're when they are within a five mile radius around Ozark, which is great. Yeah, they won't, they'll touch the very south side of Springfield. But but not that I won't have my central Springfield dad driving way out of their way. So that yeah, that's what we spent this week working on is really focusing on like, strategically, like, how do I grow? And what do I do here? That's taken up lots of my, give me lots of migraine.

Aaron  1:02:29

Ah, and

Collin  1:02:31

I know it's exciting. And we're, like I said, we're starting to get traction, which is good. It's just, it's slow. And that's fine. I just, it feels good to get phone calls. It feels bad whenever I'm like, I can't. Like,

Brandon  1:02:46

yeah, it is rude to conversate This is the worst conversation is like, no, no, you don't want that. Okay, just let me tell you what you actually want. Like,

Collin  1:02:56

or they call me and they're like, like, I want dropins we've heard great things about you. You know, your pay your rate looks good. And I'm like, yes, yes, yes. And then they're like, I live in you know, I live south of Ozark. Like, anyway, I find. Yeah,

Brandon  1:03:11

I live in Colchester. Yeah. I'm sorry.

Collin  1:03:13

What's the one guy was like? Well, I love because we live in Hollister, and he, he says, I live in Hollister and I have horses. How much could I pay you to come down and take care of my horses. And I was like Scott enough. Like I just unless all of a sudden I start offering bespoke, like, equine service and hire an equine person to do that. It doesn't make sense. I know, in driving to Hollister to do a horse care, which takes over an hour, depending on what they need to then also do like 30 minute drop in visits on a cat, or else like it's just like,

Aaron  1:03:49

yeah. So that's, that's wild.

Collin  1:03:56

I did get lots of business cards, which people were like, you have one and I was like, No, I hate business cards, as I was taking them out of their hand. Because I was like, they always get thrown away. And

Brandon  1:04:09

it's true. It's kind of like it this point in life. Like it's kind of like an environmental waste to have a business card. Right. Like,

1:04:15

I feel like that's one of those things. It's

Brandon  1:04:18

not necessary anymore.

Aaron  1:04:20

You know, I mean, like,

Brandon  1:04:22

a business card is not a thing that you need. Like, I'm not gonna go back to my office.

Aaron  1:04:28

Tape it to my rolodex, right.

Brandon  1:04:30

This is not a thing is gonna happen. I'm

Collin  1:04:35

not No, no, it's so it's always funny. Whenever people you know, they come to these networking events, and they have business cards, and they're hand them out. And they're like, where's like, do you have one? And I'm like, No, I don't give one out because I always just throw these away at the end of it. And then I put their put their their business card my pocket. I'm like, anyway, what do you do?

Brandon  1:04:55

Yeah, casually, throw it on the floor, and I'm just getting like

Collin  1:04:59

four I think in very particular situations, or like what we do, we don't have business cards. Instead, I have a business card shaped thing. It is a Mac. And I put that on my clients, refrigerators whenever I leave for the last time. And so they have that. Yeah, refrigerator, like, boom, like, that's what I'll do. But I'm not going to go out and spend Yeah. $45 To get double sided, printed, laminated of high gloss. Crap. Like, like, No, I'm not like, nothing.

Brandon  1:05:29

Well, it's just a it's a very, I don't know, it seems just such an antiquated

Aaron  1:05:34

thing. Right? I mean, it's literally Victorian,

Brandon  1:05:37

right? Let's be real like this. What? Like, guys, come on. You don't need to do that. Show up at the dinner. Present your car to the thing. They read it off to everybody, right?

Aaron  1:05:49

Like, you don't need that anymore. Guys, we have the internet. Literally, we have internet. What are you doing? Why?

Brandon  1:05:58

You know your name badge should be dude.

Aaron  1:06:02

Brilliant idea. Already.

Brandon  1:06:05

Your name tag should just be a QR code that gets your website.

Collin  1:06:08

So So QR tag. So I have thought about QR codes. There's also this growing like, here's the thing that people are trying to replace these with is they're trying to replace them with digital cards. Of like, you have an app on your phone and you touch your phone to somebody else's phone, it transfers your information to them. Or it pulls up a little mobile website thing that they can tap on stuff and send things to you. Give it like,

Brandon  1:06:38

I don't understand why it's not just like you're like, it just needs to be like your business Instagram account, or like, something like that. I mean, like, there's already there's already all these things that do this job. Online. There's like business Facebook pages, Instagram, Twitter, actual websites. So just like you just need to, that's all you need. You need a business card, even a fax number,

Collin  1:07:07

go on, just get this is the thing of like they're trying to solve a business card with a business card. And the whole concept of a business card is not relevant anymore. Like, send them it like, yeah, exactly a QR code. Where can tap Do you can scan it, it sends you to your information base, like, what do you need to have? You just need a page on your website, if not listed or surfaced by Google, right? Yeah, sure. Yeah. It's a hidden page. And it's just your information page. It's just yeah, like About Me page or your contact page, where it only goes to there from the QR code. And anybody who gets it sees that. And that's all your information and all of your links and everything

Aaron  1:07:46

there. It's, that's what people want. But instead, I get these. I didn't throw away two of them. But it's like, I don't know. I'm looking at these.

Collin  1:07:56

I'm like, there's information density on these so little. There's hardly anything here. It's mostly just like a name, a logo, a phone number?

Brandon  1:08:04

Probably the website address.

Collin  1:08:05

Yeah. Right. Like, it's all over over engineered and architectured? Because I know they're like, Oh, don't put too much on there. But also, do they need to know about you and put some of your personality on the business?

Brandon  1:08:18

Yeah, has to stand out from the others, right? All that stuff. Like, they're

Collin  1:08:21

all the same size. And you know what, people will go out and they'll get different sized business cards, which makes it even more annoying because they don't fit your pocket? Yeah, you'll have a stack of like, I went to something and I had like a stack of 20. And there was three of them that were squares, like, literally squares, and I was like this. That's the worst shape possible.

Brandon  1:08:41

Now, here's what you do. You get a name badge, but it is just a QR code. So people ask, you can just go here. Yeah, boom. And then like, if you go someplace, and you do bring your presentation with you make your last slide, just a QR code.

Aaron  1:08:56

So that can be the audience to go, boom. Got it. Like that's all you need. Right? You can

Brandon  1:09:04

just put it up there. So if they are interested, they can go pow. Yeah, scan it. They're at your website. Right now. They're at that page that they're that landing page has all your information on it laid out in a much more aesthetically pleasing, easy to access manner than a little teeny tiny business card. Thanks, go. Whap got it. And then if they meet you again, and they forgot it, you can be like, oh, yeah, here scan this thing. I got mine on my shirt. Oh, here's

Collin  1:09:28

the other thing I liked about that kind of approach. Because here's what happens. You're in a conversation and somebody goes

Aaron  1:09:35

Do you have a recommendation? You're not going to reach into your

Collin  1:09:39

briefcase. Nobody has a briefcase anymore. You're not going to pull off the stack of business cards.

Aaron  1:09:43

Nobody has business Status column that

Brandon  1:09:45

I wrote. Yeah, column does have briefcase. That's not me.

Aaron  1:09:49

Not like to look. Okay, dad.

Brandon  1:09:53

Dad, give me a brief case recently. He's an AI business man. You're a man of business.

Collin  1:10:00

I have decided to dedicate that briefcase to so that is my, that's my teaching all of my teaching things, all of my teaching pen, because I had a backpack I'm using back and forth. I've dedicated that whole briefcase is where all my books, paperwork, pens, everything just goes in this stays in there. So when I go to Yeah, I grab that I go. But anyway, good. Yeah. Anyway, uh, like, nobody hands out, my business card would have a business card to share it to somebody while they're talking. But you know, what they do have on them have a phone and have my website or they have my contact information on their phone, or they can send it to you. And it's like, I want it I want that I just

Aaron  1:10:41

anyway, business cards back. And yeah, I I just I can't, I can't see it. Have I watched that clip so nice.

Brandon  1:10:56

Or good. You could just your next brand of pet sitter shirts. Yeah, they just have the QR code printed on the shirt. See, I can definitely integrate it into the logo, which would be super easy. Or just like on the front, like, one side is like the petsitter logo on the other side. Like the other like breast area is like just a QR code.

Collin  1:11:16

The problem with this is that washing does,

Brandon  1:11:20

okay. Okay, that's fair. Fair, but we'll stick with the name tag thing for now.

Collin  1:11:27

But yeah, I just Yeah, man. I tell you what I was just I know, I was I was definitely a fish out of water. People. The meeting here in town locally is very much, much more relaxed attitude. This one.

Aaron  1:11:43

A lot of people who think very high lifted. I mean, yeah. It was just,

Collin  1:11:52

it was good. It was fine. I got a lot of good reception from it, and made some good connections. That's why I did I brought out people's names because I do want to reach out to them about stuff. One guy was in business operations, and

Aaron  1:12:10

business operations and business is like, that's not real. That's not a real job. But it's quite fun. And easy. fracture. fracture. Oh, what does that mean? CHIEF OPERATING o to Chief Operating Officer.

Brandon  1:12:31

I know that what's what's the first word fractional CEO.

Collin  1:12:35

I wonder if there are multiple CEOs company maybe. And he's just he's like is one part. That's a terrible name fractional SEO

Brandon  1:12:45

like that. That just sounds made up. That sounds like a boss. I fought and Elden ring the other day. Like that just doesn't sound right.

Collin  1:12:56

I don't. Oh, I okay. So he, okay. He, he is an out. He's an outsourced CEO.

Aaron  1:13:06

So, you know, he takes he takes

Brandon  1:13:10

like a freelance chief. You know, you're

Collin  1:13:13

growing. You need help. It sounds like you give them

Brandon  1:13:19

the but he's just one of those consultation dudes. Yes. That's all

Aaron  1:13:22

okay. All right. Yes. Okay. That's very odd.

Collin  1:13:29

Yeah, it's a really odd title. I wonder if he gets ownership of the company as part of fractional? Because Chief Operating surely

Aaron  1:13:35

not how people are. That's really not. Hopefully not. Because this is operations and stuff. That's not like anything else? I don't know. Yeah. It'd be weird. It's just okay. Anyway, but still.

Collin  1:13:54

Okay. Let's stuff growing. Going. Oh,

Aaron  1:14:00

oh. Oh, my

Brandon  1:14:03

gosh, all right. Again, six, eight minutes. Not past

Collin  1:14:07

I had a two hour drive. I practice that taught so many times. It was like, timing it as I was freaked out. It was like 15 minutes. Okay. 14 minutes.

Brandon  1:14:21

Okay. Did you just like talk faster?

Collin  1:14:24

Is that your plan? Oh, no. I mean, I like the process of going like, I mean, editing myself is extremely hard. And whenever I have an opportunity to do that, like, again, I don't try and memorize speech and give it exactly word for word, although I can do that. I like trying to distill down the information to a very singular point. And so yeah,

Brandon  1:14:43

because then you have no room to like, if you have a new thought like mid stream, you can't wait.

Collin  1:14:50

Yeah, I can if I have to go off, but I got down to what I do. You know, I got it down to my name is Collin, my wife and I run monkey punch back here. And today I want to talk to you about Two services and four prompts. And then that was that was my, that was my outline. And yeah, right. So and that was all I needed of like, my two services are dog walking, pet sitting. And then the four promises are company if your client and I talked to how we operate within those, and that was like okay, like that was a very clarifying moment, whatever I was like that. That's it. That's all he's talking about. Now, I could have talked about that for 45 minutes, but it was I managed to do it.

Aaron  1:15:27

Okay, pretty good.

Collin  1:15:32

But we need to have a whole I think we need I think would be a topic on brainiest speeches, and public speaking and all sorts of that good stuff.

Aaron  1:15:41

I think that

Collin  1:15:44

because both of you both you being educators do that all the time. And

Brandon  1:15:49

extemporaneous speaking is literally my job.

Collin  1:15:51

That's it. And I want and want to learn more about processes to do that. So do I'm adding that to the list? You have such a long topic we have, we have to start

Aaron  1:16:03

acting. That's fair.

Collin  1:16:07

I just realized that I scrolled up I was like, it's not a page in half and these

Brandon  1:16:10

are a fun. That's good. Listen, listen, we've been going for like two years. We still have a giant topic but doing good man is fine. Just means we're.

Aaron  1:16:22

We're in there. Okay. brainiest. Okay, anyway, yeah. Yeah.

Brandon  1:16:31

I mean, you also do that this is your, your side hobby here as podcast host is basically that as well. So, but yeah, we can talk about that.

Aaron  1:16:41

Yeah. All right. Well,

Collin  1:16:45

I think we have given our loved one listener in France. Quite a lot to over us fine. Our listeners in India. Hello, and back then.

Aaron  1:16:55

Hello. And so we'll

1:17:02

wrap this week. I will go. I

Brandon  1:17:03

did want to mention one more thing real quick briefly. I found out the other day. So I've been doing it all day. This is partly in reference to last week's topic on Ukrainian related things. Sure, sure. If if you go on Duolingo right now, and you learn Ukrainian, all ad revenue that they get from Ukrainian lessons is being donated to Ukraine for things.

Aaron  1:17:29

So if you want to

Brandon  1:17:33

join me in learning some Ukrainian like us, it's very fantastic. i It's very confusing, because I don't understand this real alphabet at all. And so this is it's a very interesting challenge to try to undertake. So I started doing that today. So I was like, oh, man,

Aaron  1:17:53

doing this this way. I'm retesting the

Collin  1:17:58

letter from the CEO, the CEO. Yeah, yeah, we've won on. Yes. And

Aaron  1:18:04

it's amazing. Yeah,

Brandon  1:18:06

very interesting way to do that. I like is very interesting. There's a there's a lot of very interesting things that are happening with people like helping Have you read about any of that stuff.

Collin  1:18:13

Most of the world that I see from news reports involves pets and pet transportation.

Brandon  1:18:19

Well, Poland is doing that there are groups in Poland who are specifically undertaking helping Ukrainians with pets fleeing the country. There is also like Airbnb. I know is that do you see that? So they are they're letting people make reservations for Airbnb

Aaron  1:18:37

Airbnbs in Ukraine, but like, even though, yeah, like, even

Brandon  1:18:41

though they're not no one's going in or out. Like it's basically just like, Y'all give us money. Here you go. Great. Yeah. And then they're like, opening up and discounting stuff for a lot of Airbnbs that are in places like Hungary, Romania, and Poland, for refugees. They're keeping those open for them.

Collin  1:19:01

One of the really touching ones. Were Duolingo reports a 485% increase in people studying Ukrainian. Yes, one of those is me. Yeah, good job. One of the more touching stories I saw was the moms who were going to train stations and leaving the other strollers, strollers and stuff as a new pair, you know, playing and they didn't have anything. Those were some those are some hard to see images, just kind of envisioning. Yeah,

Brandon  1:19:32

I just saw that yeah, the empty strollers just lined up at the

Aaron  1:19:35

the stops that's pretty crazy. There's another one to one

Brandon  1:19:40

of the some sort of ride sharing company like Uber but in Ukraine. I can't

Aaron  1:19:44

read the name of it currently.

Brandon  1:19:46

They are like people are going on their website and just like paying for people's rides. Like pre like say hey, here

Aaron  1:19:59

so they just like you

Brandon  1:20:00

donating. So they're paying the operators and everything. And then they're like waiving the fees and stuff Airbnb is also waiving fees for the Ukrainian people to read. So there's no like, transaction fee. It's just all straight 100% To the

Aaron  1:20:15

families and stuff. So

Brandon  1:20:20

say, some good things happening there, I guess on that front without, from these random people all around the world, trying to chip in to help in little ways that make a big difference.

Aaron  1:20:31

So Well, that's the thing that you forget. Or, you know, it's like, the like, Oh,

Collin  1:20:38

I'll learn Ukrainian in a little bit. We'll go there. But if you know, 1000s upon 1000s, upon 1000s, people are doing that. And yeah, it's like, oh, like, not only do you like, stuff better by learning a new language and being able to understand who's ever ever coming out of there? Like, yeah, people that are like, it's just, it's that compound effort, when people get involved with things like that.

Aaron  1:21:03

That's one of the weird things about, like,

Brandon  1:21:07

situations like this in the age of the internet, right? Because like, there are things that happen, like, just much more outside of other ways people can do things in other spaces, to help and be connected in different ways that are useful, right? Like, when the Internet can be good, sometimes not all the time. But you know.

Aaron  1:21:30

That's a good point of like, there's a much larger, a much

Collin  1:21:36

more diverse way of helping in in ways that were never possible. I mean, even five years ago, right, like, oh, yeah, what, what's capable of you? No longer do you just have to write a check to Red Cross UNICEF something like, yeah, I can do I can do that. But I can also write, they feel like please write chair or I can do this other stuff,

Aaron  1:21:57

too. Yeah. Or I can,

Brandon  1:22:00

like give my directly to those people walking Ukrainian dogs, right. Like, I can do that. Like, you know what I mean? Like?

Aaron  1:22:06

Yeah. So it's pretty cool

Brandon  1:22:10

to see people doing that kind of stuff, just trying to help the Ukrainian people in little ways. That, like I said, those little ways make a big difference, because there's some pretty nasty stuff going on. So I saw my kids about it. Today. We've been reading some nonfiction articles for like, tournament things about it, and it's pretty, it's pretty good. They've had some good conversations about it too.

Aaron  1:22:30

So. Okay, well,

Collin  1:22:34

I will have a link to the

Brandon  1:22:37

Duolingo stuff in there. So yeah, got that. That's good. That's yeah, that's a little bit of a little bit of light. In this formula. It's fun. It's easy. Like, you can do it without even like, you know, you're not really doing anything you sort of like you can bet you're kind of contributing in a unique interesting way. If they even that's all you can do. So every little bit goes a long way in situations like this. So come learn Ukrainian with me as I

Aaron  1:23:09

struggle to understand

Brandon  1:23:10

the syllables and phonetic sounds of a completely different alphabet

Collin  1:23:17

Okay, Challenge Challenge.

Brandon  1:23:20

Right. Dude, I think we should do some sort of Ukrainian based challenge we should do like some learn something about Ukraine something well, the warm up this

Collin  1:23:29

actually, I think we should actually I you know what I am committing to on air before we start off doing something about either learning in history or culture or something along those lines for nikto. Cuz I think that'd

Aaron  1:23:42

be very good. Aaron, quick, quick, quick update. I know it's not anything Ukrainian but Shelby and I had our cake testing. Oh, Monday. Where Hey, yeah, so slowly, slowly get. Okay. And wedding updates.

Brandon  1:24:00

Also important change?

Collin  1:24:01

Don't worry. Don't kick tested. And the results are what? Yeah,

Aaron  1:24:06

famous. runners up so we so there was, I can't remember her name that we pick from or like the baker.

Brandon  1:24:15

You can give her a shout out next time.

Aaron  1:24:16

One of them is a we we get three weirdly so red velvet. Classic. Susan approves. Vanilla. Okay. And southern because we're interesting choice. We have a con and cream cheese, cheese, cream cheese, cream cheese, whatever. Yeah, cream cheese. So I'm going to be a three layer cake. Going to be worth 18 inches baseline, I think but we went down there. super difficult to find. It kind of reminded me of Cullen. The off Springfield or like, she's, she lives and is based in like a different city but has her base of operation, if you will, here, free and so we had to like, search for it. And then once they found it she had like all this stuff laid out and she's like, Oh, you take whatever you want. And so we we preset what we wanted shall be send me a PDF like while I was in school, and she's like, pick your favorite like Yes. So pick your favorite one that there had the cakes. She had little sample pieces set up. And they were so good. And I regret like eating dinner beforehand, but we out there samples and picked or three and so we'll once the wedding gets closer, we'll kind of go from there.

Brandon  1:25:49

So we I was really concerned about where this is going with. It reminded me of Collins office in Springfield. I was like, oh, no, sorry. Like cake did like it was brown. Like I understand.

Collin  1:26:02

Interior layers.

Aaron  1:26:03

Yes. Like a separate like base of operation. Okay, yes,

Collin  1:26:07

that's fair. Okay,

Brandon  1:26:08

that's fair. But when you first started that sentence with the cake room, I didn't have Collins office

Collin  1:26:16

I had a very memorable smell that was conjuring up the convicts in the penitentiary, and you have a board game this is not That's hilarious. Keep the updates.

Brandon  1:26:43

Yes. Wedding updates for everyone

Collin  1:26:45

wins the day. Anyway.

Aaron  1:26:49

Ninth of April next year. Okay. Not this year, because every time I hear and I'm like the next one, but it's not

Brandon  1:26:59

it's probably not mine because we haven't got the Save the date thing yet call and clearly. That's why we have it.

Collin  1:27:18

Anyway, okay. What's in their

Aaron  1:27:28

back? All right. Is Megan made a comment? When we when we first had to invite or notification thing is you're like, that's on a Thursday. And she's like next. Oh,

1:27:41

yeah. It's next year. Yeah.

Collin  1:27:44

Oh, also, also was on my calendar in March. So I just moved.

Brandon  1:27:49

That's why you couldn't find that you put it in the wrong month.

Collin  1:27:57

Okay, good. Good. Okay. All right. So we'll do the Ukrainian challenge next week.

Brandon  1:28:04

Right? Workshop that a little bit off air to have a more efficient thing to be learning Ukrainian Duolingo. So join me. I sent you my usernames. You can add me if you download the app. Gone All right.

Collin  1:28:23

Very good. Very good. Love you guys. Love you. Bye bye.