Champs-Élysées

Where is the mid west? We’re pretty sure we’ve found it. Collin is dreading a 12 hour long drive. Brandon is terrified of the doldrums. We confuse some movies.

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Colin, and Aaron. On this week's show, Sean's elisee Jim Ballard is will Avenue likova longkou I haven't been able to get that song out of my head since last week. It's been an awful help.

Brandon  00:29

Was it? Was it my John Tesh story? Did that really help you bring back memories of French class just like little fold? We just thinking about your conjugation tables and all

Collin  00:42

your planning stuff, right? Yeah. And I remember having to recite that. And I was terrified. And we had to remember Oh, man, it was not. Oh, my gosh, snot. Also, also one of the few classes I took French to my senior year, and I'm sorry, Mrs. Chanel wrote in, but you definitely she she knows. I really found in my final project for that year.

Brandon  01:11

That's your final project. Oh, first of all listeners. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. What was your project? I

Collin  01:18

honestly can't tell you. I don't remember. But I do remember using Google Translate a lot and 15 years ago, was it so good?

Brandon  01:26

I don't think I didn't even know it existed. I mean, when I was in high school when I was in French you I don't think Google Translate existed that I? I don't think so. I mean, the internet barely existed. Yes.

Collin  01:40

But no, I definitely use Google Translate way too much for my final project in which I, I didn't even go back to pick it up after because she said, Oh, you know, once you choose to get graded, you can come back and pick it up. I was so ashamed. I didn't even go back

Brandon  01:54

and pick. We had to do like a video one of the options. Video Project. I don't even know how we did that. I don't remember.

Collin  02:01

So I did that as well.

Brandon  02:05

It was like there was a lot of being at the grocery store.

Collin  02:08

I think. Yeah. The I'm sorry, the Boulogne jewelry. Yeah,

Brandon  02:13

I that's that's only a meat store. Right? No,

Collin  02:17

no, no, no, no. The premise was you are a foreign exchange student in France getting ready for what a Christmas dinner and you have to go and by the

Brandon  02:25

ah, ah, yes,

Collin  02:28

i Yes, I did. In fact, I did this with my friends, Kevin and Kyle. And because I am the way I am. This was not straightforward. And I don't know how you shot yours. But I definitely we had a scene where I was crossing the street and Kyle pretended to run into me over the car. And then I went flying off screen. And he he was in like Spanish four or five or whatever. Because they went way higher than a French but he out of the window. He screams and Spanish get out of the way you American nerd and then drives

Brandon  03:01

off. Nice. It was wonderful. Beautiful. Yes. I don't remember I do remember we were we had to do a skit one time about like restaurant, Ting ordering restaurant. I think like in class, we had to like do a skit and stuff. So we had to have like, a waiter slash waitress and people and I recall that me and my friend wanted to make it funny. And I was like, no. She was legitimately just like, now that no, that's not how this is gonna work. Like, okay, fine. So sorry. Like normally, but yes,

Collin  03:41

no, I I actually did reach out to her. Gosh, this was have been this was six years ago, I think last week. Last one? No, no, it's about six years ago, I did send her an email. She was still working at school. And I sent her an email, say, while I was in Montreal, and I actually had to go grocery shopping for the weekend. And so I sent her an email and I said, hey, guess what I got to do today? Thank you so much.

Brandon  04:12

I was like, Who are you? That's whatever.

Collin  04:17

The Why didn't this go to my spam folder? Anyway? Fine.

Brandon  04:24

So imagine how mortified she would be when she realizes she's the subject of like, 18 conversations on this show. So

Collin  04:34

start tagging that would be fun. Oh yeah, I've been. I've been having that tune and stuck in my head relentlessly. And then I'm like, It's very funny because I have not I don't sing the song very often, but in my head. I know. Exactly. I know all the words. And then I went to go actually, like read them and I was like, Oh, that doesn't jive. What's in my head at all?

Brandon  05:04

I can pretty reliably seeing the first, well, maybe not now. But I can very reliably seeing the first two verses. Yes. And there's a third one that I know. A lot less well. Oh, I don't remember really. The third one at all. Like many this happens in many songs, not just songs that are in other languages. But I, I'm like, oh, yeah, the first one. It's pretty good. Second one's a little shaky. The third one's I'm like, what? I don't. Third one. What's happened? Like, that's not real. It goes downhill pretty quickly. Right? But like you know, it's fine. It's

Collin  05:52

because of you wondering, this was originally written in like the late 60s.

Brandon  05:58

So yes,

Collin  05:59

about how wonderful the Sean's Lee's A is over in Paris.

Brandon  06:05

Yes, as many songs of that ilk are who's like, oh, look, this is basically like, this is a great street for love and love and holding hands and

Collin  06:20

the opening line is are exactly the opening line as I just so eloquently and beautifully retold. Is something like walking

Brandon  06:32

down the avenue

Collin  06:34

with my heart open Yes, right. Known Yeah, it's out there. Like a cheese Okay, let's roll can you

Brandon  06:42

do the bones you are in the botto Yeah. And then but the key also for the D The Oh yeah, they put the choir Yes. Yes.

06:53

They do to see play Yes, that's

Collin  06:57

a thank you for your how many listeners do we have in France? Let me just

Brandon  07:03

for now all right now that's

Collin  07:06

a really game the system here at some hashtags and some shows elisee References love hey

Brandon  07:10

listen to us badly recite famous French songs.

Collin  07:21

Yeah, we're really throwing off the algorithm now.

Brandon  07:25

Just what we do you know, it's fine

Collin  07:35

it's over 400 downloads. Oh, my God, I

Brandon  07:40

practice my French more sorry,

Collin  07:41

followed by Belgium and Germany. This is very fitting for any of our topics actually. It's true. Hello, oh, people in Central Europe. Yeah, Bangladesh and Nepal to Hello

Brandon  07:53

everyone. Nepal is the one that really screws with my brain. Right? That seems like for some reason, that's the one that's like the most out there for me. Like what Paul? Like, I don't know, for some reason, like Singapore is much like it makes sense. That doesn't make sense because I don't know why. Anybody St. Paul is just but Hello Singapore. We live Yeah. But like Nepal is really as a big curveball that I'm like very confusing to me. It's very confusing to me. There are two demographic regions that are the strongest are South Asia and Central Europe. You know, what, what? Whatever works to whatever we appreciate you all as always, so

Collin  08:51

So with that out of the way no the painting continues. We have yes, we've made our way downstairs haven't finished the stairs yet. But we've made our way through the stairs. We've completed the living room, the what we call the play room. And now we have we have branched over into the the one that has been scaring me, we've saved the two hardest rooms for last the dining room, the dining room and the kitchen and listeners maybe wanting to know why is the dining room so hard. Why? Well I will tell you because not only are the walls painted, but the ceiling is painted as well. Ah and there are we have big wood beams that are painted a nice bright white. So you can't just repaint the ceiling white because then the beams disappear. So you have to have an accent on the ceiling to highlight the beams which means that I not only have to coordinate a color in the room, no

Brandon  09:55

need to oh, do ah Ah

Collin  10:03

let's see. So yes, I have to coordinate two colors. And if you're wondering what the colors are

Brandon  10:09

of the walls, which of course we are

Collin  10:14

the walls the walls note the waterway.

Brandon  10:16

I forgot Scandinavian minimalism. Not gray.

Collin  10:20

Not yet. Not yet. Okay, so currently, currently they are. They're Maroon? Oh, like, it's a it's a great maroon i and then

Brandon  10:32

we are LR obviously. Or

Collin  10:34

Maggie's. Yes. And the ceiling is like, oh, gosh, tikka, like a red wines kind of color. Oh, so it's like, it's like several shades lighter than the maroon it's a little more than pink.

Brandon  10:51

Right? Like some clue. So anyway, it's,

Collin  10:55

it's a very interesting combination.

Brandon  10:58

And we're left way to say it again.

Collin  11:02

Because I am because I am painting over Maroon? I, I thought that I was having to lay the paint on thick in the other rooms. No, no, no, no, no, if we chose. Okay, so here's how we get to the colors where we're actually black is black with I Sears after I started painting the color that I was like, oh, they'll do this one. Because remember, we're taking everything in our house and making it just a little bit lighter or a little bit softer, a little bit gray or a little bit, you know, cloudy Scandinavian sky. You know,

Brandon  11:38

it's cool. Neutral year.

Collin  11:41

Yeah. I think on a previous show, we had joked about this, but my walls or my walls are now going to be great ish. That's the other end. So now, if you have if you have color, that's great ish. What what do you paint a ceiling, right. So here's the other aspect of this is that in gray, the kind of all those screens that gray is a defining feature of this room that I absolutely love is this, we have a massive wall. It's like an antique wool rug in this room, red and tan, and all this stuff. So I still so basically, we looked at the rug, and we found a very light. It's a light pink, kind of like a light rose for that that's in the actual rug. And that is going to be our ceiling. So this like, trust me, it sounds really bad. But

Brandon  12:49

so far it sounds it does sound odd.

Collin  12:52

But I haven't I have I've got a wine colored ceiling now like help.

Brandon  12:58

I can't, I didn't say that wasn't also odd. Like,

Collin  13:02

what do I do, because what I would love to do is to paint the ceiling white, like normal people, but but I don't want to have to scrape and sand the beams of my ceiling to do that. That is too far outside of my purview for what I am doing at the moment. Like, no thank you. There's, there's nothing that can happen to make that to make that worth. So we went with basically a toned down version of the ceiling to still have a little bit of the pinkish slight isness. And then the gray. It's grayish and it's it's but it's anyway, it's interesting. So this room is going to feel massive when we are done like absolutely gargantuan. Yeah,

Brandon  13:52

it's not gonna be maroon that's gonna be a big improvement. Like,

Collin  13:56

I mean, so if you so I mean, if we've got our wood floors are antique and they're dark, we've got maroon walls. We've got dark furniture everywhere. It's very like, like cigar lounge. Kind of nice. I liked it. But obviously, it's like, well, like, I can't go darker like didn't do that it would be black this year. So I have to fit with everything else. And this is the one room like this. This one's going to be tough. And I started to roll my grayish on the wall and I was like, Welp, I need more paint.

Brandon  14:37

There goes that is we not learned we didn't learn about primary do not learn about this. It has the primer in it. That's the thing. I gotta pay another color over that because there's no way that's ever gonna do. Oh,

Collin  14:48

so I gotta go buy more of my paint and it's fine. Yeah,

Brandon  14:53

I think you're probably your best bet is probably going to be to paint it you have to paint more than once. Right? Right. Yeah, you just kind of like, throw a coat on there. Yeah. And then paint it.

Collin  15:07

I tried to do the like, Oh, I'm really going to cover it with this one or put it on heavy. That does not work. That's very bad. So I'm just like, it's gonna be too. I'm just going to paint and it's going to look really bad. Because I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna paint again. Yeah, probably.

Brandon  15:22

Yeah, that's probably the ticket, I think. Yeah.

Collin  15:26

And the other thing that we've been tackling, so we've saved the kitchen for last, because I realized that, well, there's

Brandon  15:31

lots of stuff in the UK, I go around with the cabinets.

Collin  15:35

And what we've made up in what we want to do is we we actually want like a new stove, and microwave, which are out next to the wall. So I actually need to somehow coordinate my painting with the delivery of appliance these

Brandon  15:52

days. So I don't know when that's gonna happen.

Collin  15:56

But like that's, that's coming.

Brandon  15:59

I have also taken to a cocking everything all the time?

Collin  16:06

Because it turns out with a fight pastime, yeah, because well, so when I went, Yeah, this is how fun it is. I went and I bought a 12 pack

Brandon  16:17

of the interior clock. Oh, my serious right now very, very suitable

Collin  16:22

as well, because I realized that like, I should have done this years ago, but like, all of my windows and some rooms, I can stick my finger in between, like the wall and the edge of the window. I yeah, whatever. It's like my classroom

Brandon  16:38

windows. Yeah, I was like this,

Collin  16:41

this, this void needs not exist. So I am filling it. But because there's a lot of windows, and these are big gaps, I go through a lot of the COC.

Brandon  16:54

So like you need like spray foam is what you

Collin  16:57

probably should get spray foam. Now I will say that I don't feel any air going which I've it's been very windy where we are. And so I don't feel anything, I probably should just do spray foam and then caulk around that.

Brandon  17:10

But like still, that's gonna let in like cold air. That that gap. It's just, you know, yeah, you're not even if you're not going to feel like moving air, like the cold will like sink through there.

17:24

So yeah, no, no gaps,

Collin  17:26

no barriers as our new thing. And plus, like it's an old home. So like, I can fill parts along the baseboard, you know, just little bits here, and there. Isn't. So now I'm having to like an order of operations, things of like, when do I do this and how like I've got to go through basically, I have to make like five passes through a room to get it done. What kind of it's like first of all, first, Megan has to tape the baseboard and the ceiling, because I'm very awful at my painting. And then like I have to paint the baseboard. And then I can pay all the walls. And then I have to get on a ladder. And I have to paint the ceiling like that. And then like, but also before I can do that after making tapes I'd go in, that's when I call. And then I have to do all the lower portions and I go up and I do all the upper portions around the windows. And then I do the painting. And then we remove the the tape. And then I have to go back and fill the spots with the missed because of the tape. Yeah. So it's like, it's just, it's just like, oh my gosh, it's fine. Everything's looking beautiful. And I'm happy about it. But also, it's like dear graciousness. This is

Brandon  18:41

does sound quite distressing right now. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Well, you know, it's one of those things of like,

Collin  18:49

I am very thankful that our house has like very tall ceilings, very tall for obvious reasons. I am happy me me Colin happy ceilings tall. On the other hand, for these kinds of projects, it's like suddenly they're like a foot shorter. I would be fine. Like that'd be

Brandon  19:10

great. Even more fine, fine, finer bird for like, right.

Collin  19:19

The Odyssey continues and we barrel forward through through the weeks through the months and we're actually getting ready to head out on a grand adventure. Actually, this you see this episode will be coming out as we are getting as Megan and I are getting ready to go off on an adventure to drive to New Orleans

Brandon  19:46

right? Yes, yes, yes. So

Collin  19:48

that week next week we may actually need to have jury some things around but it's fine.

19:57

Oh wait. Oh no, this

Collin  19:58

will be this episode. Oh my cast this episode is as after we're back. So it was amazing. It was

Brandon  20:03

Oh, Oh, wonderful.

Collin  20:08

But right now we are preparing for this and the drive. And the it's 12 hours to get there. We simply have to drive hefty drive, hefty drive. But I was also but it was like,

20:21

I don't know what

Collin  20:23

I don't know how long of a drive it's going to have to be these days to make flying more convenient for me. Like, I'm like, oh, with all the headache and possible cancellations and like a flood that luggage and getting there and sitting and then I still have to rent a car or deal with their stuff. When you get to your location. I'm like, I got I just I've just so we are driving, driving to Louisiana to do this. And it's gonna be fine.

Brandon  20:55

It's a plan that Yeah, I mean, yeah, cuz the airline industry is like so ridiculous. They don't know, heads or tails about any they apparently don't know how to do their job properly. Right. Imagine having a monopoly on a form of travel and still screwing it up somehow meeting.

Collin  21:15

Almost as if they just could do what they want.

Brandon  21:18

Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. What happens when you like deregulate everything. It all goes down. Really well as what are you meant to say? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That works perfectly edit that together till it doesn't it? Then it just like, fails, catastrophically. Sort of out works. Right. It's like, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's not fine anymore. Not fine anymore. Yeah. Yeah, I struggle with this right. Because I like as previously noted on every episode, really,

21:49

I hate droning.

Brandon  21:52

And not that there's a lot of places that like to drive to New Orleans is so uninteresting, right? Like, there's not even like stuff, right? Like, this is a thing like, okay, so you go, the Midwest figured this out, right? They know that you're driving through a lot to feel. So they put stuff around, right? Like back in the day, it was like, come see the world's largest groundhog statue. Right? be lame stuff like that. But there's like stuff around, like scattered here and there. There's stuff. There's little things, whatever, little sugars and things like that, right? Are they lame? Yeah. But like, it's something to do, right. Mississippi hasn't figured this out. Right. So you drive down was that 55? Or whatever? Like, the entire length of the Mississippi element? Nothing? No, it's just like, it's like a road. It's like, perfectly straight. It seems like it Well, probably not actually perfectly straight, obviously. But like, you're driving on it. As far as roads go. It's it's perfectly straight. It feels like it's just a direct North South Line. And it's just a straight, dead straight road or hours. with nothing on it. Okay, not, not even Kansas will do this to you know, Kansas will be like this sunflower museum, or like, just random stuff. Like, this is why Kansas has a Cosmosphere because they're like, look, we need something here. Because there's only fields. So like, what if we put a museum about space in the middle of this field? Yeah. Is it weird? Yes. Yes. Like, would you expect that to be there? No. Is it awesome? Yeah. Yes, it is, right. So out of the way I don't like you can't like, nobody's just really hard to be like, I want to go there because there's nothing else there. But like, you know, that but like Mississippi doesn't I don't recommend to be having this. So they don't they don't believe in it. Yeah, it's just like, Nope, just some more rice fields. Don't worry about it. And the fact that they plant all those trees, like super close to the road, like, hide the rice fields behind? Yes. All the piles just like a corridor of pine trees. Hundreds of miles.

Collin  24:28

It's just I don't understand it. I really don't I so I'm not. And there's there's literally no other way to go. Like, I mean, generally there isn't. I mean, you can so way we're planning is basically going over to St. Louis down to Memphis and then straight down the terror the awful road like Yeah, the other option is you go through

Brandon  24:50

Arkansas. Yeah, but that part of Arkansas is like, that's too interesting, right? Yes. No, no,

Collin  24:58

it's like real like cool. like you're getting down there and like, lots of stuff to go through little rock and everything. I was like no, like, I'm not well, yeah, south.

Brandon  25:06

I don't know if people know this is a little tip for people. Not who have never been to Arkansas before. Also Arkansas, not the Midwest, we are clearly in the south now. Right. As Jessie previous episodes, graphically speaking, but like Little Rock, there's not really anything there between Little Rock and the southern border of Arkansas is actually nothing. It's like it's actually it's like, empty. That's where it's it starts getting like real swampy, right? Yes. Yeah. Where it's

Collin  25:46

real flood plenty. And I feel like yeah,

Brandon  25:49

there's a lot out there. No, you're looking at a map of Arkansas. Like becomes very empty very quick. Yeah.

Collin  25:54

It's the fluvial plane of the Arkansas River. Yeah, yeah. It's

Brandon  25:59

like a floodplain. Sorry. Yeah. Playing with Arkansas playing the Arkansas River comes through there. And it's like, yeah, the Livio flood plains of that. And it's just like, blah. Yeah. Yeah. Like southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana is it's interesting. Right? Like, it's very different. It's a whole lot of like, oh, no, there's like no road here.

Collin  26:36

So, you know, I've got you know, last year, we drove to San Antonio. Right for our, for this thing. Yeah. Our New Braunfels is we're just outside of San Antonio.

Brandon  26:52

I mean, it's close enough,

26:53

right? It's the same distance.

Collin  26:57

So it's 12 hours to get to New Braunfels. It's 12 hours to get to Louisiana. And boy

Brandon  27:02

howdy. Yeah. Yeah,

Collin  27:05

I can tell you right now. I am way more dreading and I did that drive with two children in the car. And I and I am way more, not looking forward to this coming. Drive through Louisiana. So

Brandon  27:21

sorry, is it because there's no buches in Mississippi and Louisiana, right.

Collin  27:25

I'm sure that's it. Now that you now that you mentioned it, my eyes have been open to my biases.

Brandon  27:34

And I'm sorry, even not even not that right. Even not just buggies. But like the Texas gas station, just in general, is kind of like a strange experience. Because they're all enormous. Right? Yes. Like,

Collin  27:54

they got space. They're just like mine is put more of it here.

Brandon  27:58

But like, they're, they're very, they're a different breed of gas station down there. It's very different. Right? It's very different. The Missouri gas station is very, like small and very, like. There's like 12 pumps. That's it. Yes, that is true. Even like, Missouri truckstop gas station, right. They're still like, you know, they're kind of big. Right? And like, you know, when we got West, we would stop at some of those, because they had like the bigger bathrooms and stuff in there, you know? Sure. And so it's like, oh, this is kind of big. You know, he's talking one of the things in Texas, you're like, oh my gosh, this is just a Walmart. Guest. Oh,

Collin  28:43

it just keeps going until like the corners that you go around. And you'll be like, is there an actual motel in here? Like, this is

Brandon  28:51

a todos. It pretty much is. Oh my gosh, so I Yeah. It's gonna be your challenges. You have to find something interesting in Mississippi. That is not the Capitol Building in Jackson. Hey, hey, go. Sorry. Gotta take that word out. Because I knew that you would find that and you'd be like, Oh, that buildings cool. Even though it looks like every other state capitol because state cap for international listeners for our South Asian and Central European friends. Hello again. Hello, the state capitol buildings. Every US state has its own Capitol building. And they all look the same. Very unoriginal. I'm sure they're not all the same. I'm sure Texas is different because they like to be different from everybody else. But yeah, they all are the same. They look the same. They look just like the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. All of them every single one. Not really not. It's not interesting. It's really kind of boring. You think about it. Like, where there's no style? There's nothing, right? Just just the big white marble building with the dome on it. Cool.

Collin  30:12

Yeah, I don't know what we're going to do. I mean, so we're going out to give a talk. So obviously, we're gonna have lots of time to, like, practice this. Like, it's true. Like, that's gonna be a plus.

Brandon  30:24

But also, like, you know, with the kids, we

Collin  30:28

were focused on entertaining and talking and doing all this stuff. So yeah, I think I'm gonna have to find some things to stop and do and look at to make this because I'm, I just like that. And I don't know, maybe it's just maybe in my brain because I'm so used to the drive to Dallas and I'm familiar with Texas, and my only exposure to Mississippi is interstate 55. And the wonderful place that that is,

Brandon  30:58

I guess, I don't know.

Collin  30:59

It's just I just remember being absolutely nothing to do ever. Yeah, and I know people go oh, Texas is really big. There's not a lot of stuff to do like Yeah, but like, they have that Midwestern the feel of like, their stuff to do like there is to keep wanting to

Brandon  31:12

didn't plant trees, five feet from the road. So you can like see things you could like, look at stuff.

Collin  31:18

Yeah, you can actually see misters and see plans and see things. They're not like no, what if we put you in a tunnel? Could you just drive for the nine hours in a tunnel? fun

Brandon  31:28

exciting. Don't look at our rice fields. Yeah.

Collin  31:33

So our our first overnight, we're gonna try and make it to Jackson, Mississippi, which is okay, but it's like it's quite far.

31:40

It's yeah, but again,

Collin  31:42

listen this. We Oh. I don't know why my brain thinks this. Jackson, Mississippi is the same distance from here to Arlington, Texas. Is it really? Yes, Arlington, Texas is nine and a half hours away from nine hours away from me. Jackson is nine hours away from their safe place to save.

Brandon  32:04

This kind of hurts my brain.

Collin  32:06

The Maverick you can drive between them on Interstate 70. And there it's bait. It's a straight line. It's a straight line between

Brandon  32:13

is it also nine hours is it and I saw Sully's triangle or any collateral triangle. I mean,

Collin  32:18

oh no. Ah, no, I think there are.

Brandon  32:23

So as I saw Sully's triangle, yeah, it's

Collin  32:24

oscillates. Right? Oh, for sure.

Brandon  32:25

If if this is a fact for also that plants Missouri firmly in the Midwest, right. I feel like this is important information, just demographically. Back to our our new stated goal of defining the Midwest. I feel like that notion is very is if Missouri is a nine hours from two extremely radically different places. And parts of the country. I feel like that kind of cements you firmly in the Midwest right there. I think that's what it is.

Collin  32:53

Well, I think also is also we need to remember the fact that like, we can drive nine hours north and still be in the United States.

Brandon  33:01

I certainly can be in Iowa. Well,

Collin  33:04

you'll get beat. Yeah, you can probably get to meet you. I mean, Des Moines. Yeah, you're in Des Moines. Right? Well,

Brandon  33:09

yeah, you're in. Are you just in Des Moines or can you make it to you could probably let me see you might be able to make it to South Dakota.

Collin  33:22

You know what, actually, I think you can you can get close to Mitchell or Minneapolis and get to the corn palace. Oh, yeah. No. Oh, gosh. Yeah. To Moines is only four hours away.

33:33

Because it feels longer

Brandon  33:34

than that. For me. All from you. That's true.

Collin  33:37

Me. Yeah. Okay,

Brandon  33:38

that's fair.

Collin  33:39

I put I don't know. Anyway,

Brandon  33:42

I'm a good couple hours south of Collin right now listener so

Collin  33:46

I can get to Minneapolis in seven and a half hours. I'm still not still I

33:53

could still go. What's

Brandon  33:55

grandma? Yeah, there's another Okay. Missouri is officially in the Midwest closer to Minneapolis than New Orleans.

34:02

So there you go.

Collin  34:05

Yeah, I can get two grand for Okay. Grand Forks, North Dakota is 11 hours

Brandon  34:12

away make a song talk about a place where there's not a lot of bread for for is that on? 29 steel forks.

34:20

Yes, it is. Your way.

34:23

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I

Brandon  34:24

know. I've driven I've given I 29 North. Yeah. to the Canadian border. To what like well, it goes all the way to Winnipeg, typically less. Boy howdy. That's,

34:37

that's but even North Dakota,

Brandon  34:38

right. Like on the North South Dakota border. They're like, Hey, here's a big gas station slash casino

Collin  34:43

for you. Yeah. Boom. Throw this out there for you. weary traveler. Not a lot else. You can see a lot of corn. See? Oh, boy. Yeah. Yeah. So that's there you go. I rest my case. 911 hours to get to Grand Forks. It's 12 hours to get to Jackson or ROI or, or New Braunfels? Whatever. Sorry, New Orleans, and I don't even get out of the you're still in the country. So yeah.

Brandon  35:12

German listeners just went out. Yeah.

Collin  35:16

Just 12 hours of straight driving and you don't I don't even get to anything exciting. Sorry, people, you know, whatever. So

Brandon  35:25

that's, yeah, that's that's like over 12 hours to get to the Canadian border. Yeah. Right. It is. Because that's when we drove that. That was like

Collin  35:36

well, I can't imagine that last push from Grand Forks. To the border. Like, yeah, it's a little rough. Yeah, it must be brutal.

Brandon  35:44

It is. It's empty. It's so empty, like the northern plains. Oh, people people say that. Kansas is empty. Right. And it is. But but that northern North Dakota man is actually nothing. Oh my gosh, it's crazy. Yeah. This is This is wild.

Collin  36:13

This is kind of hurting my brain now. Just putting some of these distances and stuff in realizing that the I'm like, Denver, Denver, for me is only nine hours and 45 minutes away. Pretty good. Yes, I can get to Denver in nine hours and 45 minutes.

Brandon  36:32

That's, that seems wrong. Yeah.

Collin  36:36

That's the same distance from me to Arlington, Texas, which seems a million miles away in Denver, which also seems at least is a two day drive. By like dad is

Brandon  36:47

let's because we used to do it in two days. But dad's house though, right? Yes. That was so that's a little. You do have a bit. You're a bit closer to i 70.

Collin  36:55

I am I do have a break. That takes me from my house.

Brandon  36:59

It it takes me a good what, two and a half hours to get to Kansas City. Yeah. So I mean, like, you got to jump on me there. Yeah. Okay, a little farther away from me.

Collin  37:11

So still. So what things we have learned today, Colin, Concord drive to either Paisley let's say Austin, Texas, New Orleans. Those are both 12 hours way. A little bit past Denver. Might as well throw it into Salt Lake City, probably. I can go to all the way past Denver. At this rate, who cares? I can basically go to the border of Canada, or I could drive to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Those are all the same distance away from me. 12 hours that's a that's a 12 hour radius. Pittsburgh, that's

Brandon  37:49

just insane. Pittsburgh seems very far away. Yeah,

Collin  37:56

that's a whole other world away. Like that's, that doesn't even register on my brain of like, I just I just randomly pick that up. There's like, oh, there's no way right. There's no way I could pass it. Just kidding. Yeah. That would be a much doubt. I mean, you'd get that'd be a pretty exciting drive. You could go to Indianapolis, Columbus, like Sure. Yeah. Yeah. The false Midwest over there. People do. Yeah. Yeah, we could see.

Brandon  38:21

That would be the the like, is it really like the exploration? Like, where does the Midwest stop in this direction?

Collin  38:29

Like stopping and taking a sample of what dialects every Yeah,

Brandon  38:33

I don't know. Stopping at a diner and being like, what's your breakfast special? Right. I feel like that's a good metric, right? Yeah, that would actually be pretty. I feel like it'd be really extra. Just see some minuses. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would be good. I think we could set up like a mobile studio in your car and just like drive. Oh, I guess while driving. I'm,

Collin  39:08

I'm actually thinking about trying to do that at some point along this journey. Over go of just recording straight to the computer in the backseat, right and have a I've got boom, arms. I can. I can just hanging over our shoulders. I can feel

Brandon  39:26

Megan's eyes rolling. Right.

Collin  39:31

As I've loaded things up, she's going um, what are you doing? Yeah, so excuse me, look, put your gum over there. We're getting ready to get mixed. You got water. Okay, I've got to put I've got I have an XLR cable. I've kind of run through the center console. Okay, just to give me a minute so, yeah, we're, yeah, this is gonna be like adventures. Like, I'm ready for this. I'm super excited about this. And you'll give me one Ahmed, my young son is crying bye bye. Okay, so this trip will be interesting to see, to see how this goes. And I don't know, I like road trips.

Brandon  40:11

I think they're always. I mean, it's can be fun and exciting. So possible, possible? Not always. Not always the reality, right? Like,

Collin  40:26

new. No. And so we're starting to prepare our staff for us, we have been preparing of like, Hey, we're not going to we're going to be out of pocket like, we're going to go into this conference thing. And so that's been a whole other trying to get everything settled. Because right now I'm, I am the backup in case something goes off the rails. So looking at people's schedules, and trying to get all that nailed down while simultaneously doing whole projects and all that fun stuff. It's been a good adventure. So

Brandon  41:04

I think I'm ready. Ready for it? With a sound very adventurous, so you have to fill us in.

Collin  41:11

I will how it went full report of how wonderful I 55 is.

Brandon  41:15

Do you survive the tree corridor? That's really no, but I never get permission. Find something interesting. It's not taxing state capital.

Collin  41:28

But I can't drive 55

Brandon  41:31

pa Ah, sorry about that.

Collin  41:39

PC myself out.

Brandon  41:44

Good grief.

Collin  41:46

So what? What's new with with you?

Brandon  41:50

Oh, oh, I really just sort of existing in this weird time that it is like, third quarter. It's cool. Because it's like, okay, well, we're just like doing stuff. But then. Like, it's not quite testing time yet. And it's not like it's just sort of like a it's always a weird dolger. Me Time. Third quarter doldrums? Yeah, it's kind of like third quarter doldrums, right. Like nothing's really going on. Just kind of like normal stuff. So that's just kind of just kind of doing that. Did that kind of like not not quite getting ready for next year? But like, that's coming soon. Well, it does that concept

Collin  42:40

of just real quick. When you learned about doldrums. Did that just freak you out? Or was that just me?

42:47

No, definitely. Okay.

Brandon  42:49

Yeah. Can I when I tell my kids about it, because we talk about atmospheric weather patterns. We talk about it and they're like, wait, what? Yeah. Like, why freaks them out, too. Yeah. Especially.

43:06

Especially whenever I you when you put yourself on the unlike the oh, they're sailing? What do they need wind of one of these slides and not have wind and guess what? You don't want to be on his boat that needs wind. Places with no wind? Yes. at the equator, the equator of a Gosh, it's just how terrifying just being stuck. And nothing nests going on. And yeah, yeah. Right about a day is like scurvy. And yeah. Where's the bread? Huh? Yeah.

Brandon  43:44

So yeah, that no that always snow had ever like that. I didn't like the kind of like thinking about that, that's

Collin  43:51

just me. But But yeah, you have wind, it's just, you know, not as much wind in your sails as pushing through the third quarter. Because it is hard when you have anticipation for like, things that are coming up. And like, that's where your excitement is, which makes all of the here and now stuff just take? Yeah,

Brandon  44:07

ever. Yeah, that's kind of like it's all because like it this time of the year in a school, right? You're starting to like, well, the administration, like not me, because I don't think on this, but they're like, starting to think and plan about like next year things. Right? So like, you're starting to think about that. But you're also have to finish like the end of this year. Right? And so you have to like the testing season as soon as we have to hear like big, like state testing all that stuff so that they can deem you worthy of receiving state funds or whatever. So like, you have to kind of it's just as weird like in between where you're just like, Okay, well, I don't really I'm not ready to get ready for next year because I still have to do this stuff but it's also Have Not one time for this other stuff. So yeah, it just feels very dolger me kind of just like just kind of going, just doing normal things. And so how do you keep the kids from, from feeling that with you? Um, I think it's just like, you just keep doing stuff, right? You gotta keep this unit like, I don't know. I don't it's not intentional, right? But like this time of year, I have more like, presentations and projects and this sort of like, stuff to be doing, right. I don't think I planned it that way. Because it's third quarter, and I was feeling antsy. That could be why I did it my curriculum design, right, that could have been an unconscious factor that I wasn't thinking about. Who knows, like in science, we have like two pretty good presentations, just like back to back, like do one and then like a couple days of downtime. And then there's another one, right, kind of like, just kind of keep it moving forward, something to kind of drive forward and like, focus on right focus on that have some tasks to do mix it up a little bit, right, get him doing stuff, right, because our next one is like a demonstration. Right? So they have to like, model stuff for the class. So that's, you know, get them up focusing on that, that's fun. So it's kind of like that, to try to make sure you're still doing stuff. Right. Try not to get bogged down in like, oh, just gonna read another chapter. Because that's, you know, gotta mix it up, got to throw in some stuff in there to mix up the hearts going. There helps me write to keep being interested in and figuring out what to do. I think it helps the kids because they're not just doing like the same thing every day. You know, mix it up, do different things. That kind of stuff. I think it helps get through this time where it's just kind of a test feed just feel just kind of like it's like the I 55 of school corridors, right. It's like

Collin  47:16

there we go. Ah, that tie back in.

Brandon  47:19

Ah that's just what we're doing. Just kind of focusing on that. So not a lot of excitement there. I was going to have for you a nother installment of branded watches a weird things on Amazon. But ah, I I don't like the show. I was watching. Now. Oh, no. I have a sort of review. Right. So it's not. Okay, so I have a two episode review of what's it called? I remember the name is being show. Nice, weird. Minute outer range, I believe. Yes. Right. So it's just like, kinda Western II thing. Right. But But space maybe? Well, yeah. So it's like, got some sci fi element to it. That I can't really figure out in the first two episodes. It's weird. A Josh Brolin in it. Right. So he's like, really broody? And like, he's like, quiet, old rancher guy. You know, so he talks like, yeah, that's it. Right. Perfect, easy to see a lot of expressive T right here. And so the first two episodes are not interesting. Oh, nine, like, there's like, I mean, it's like a little bit mysterious. But also, it's just like, really? sloggy. Right. And the show is like, really dark. Like, nobody turned on a light. Like at all. So it's like Wyoming ranch. Right? And a lot of it's at nighttime. And I guess the director of photography was like, We want realism. Right? Somebody could read too many comments on the internet and people being like, Bro, why this isn't even like, you know, there's people complain in movies or like, Oh, this is supposed to be at night, but I can see everything. Yeah, because seeing a movie or TV show is the point. It's like black screen. Like see a vague outline of a dude in a field like not really very cool. I couldn't motivate myself to keep watching it because it was so interesting.

Collin  50:07

Well and shocking, so I just I just looked up the premise of this because I like to see, like, how in this in these summaries kind of like where's the emphasis placed? And, and I will read you this premise right now. Roll Abbott is a Wyoming rancher who is fighting for his land and family. He discovers a mysterious black void in the pasture after the arrival of autumn a drifter with a connection to Abbott's ranch. While the Abbott family copes with the disappearance of their daughter in law, Rebecca, they are pushed further to the brink when a rival family that Tillerson has tried to take over their land. To me, the fact that a mysterious black void is the second sentence and nothing is like

Brandon  50:50

it's just thrown in there. And that was just like family strife.

Collin  50:54

That seems very confusing and why it is

Brandon  50:57

when you watch it because he finds this thing in the field and it's literally just a hole. It's like really big. It's like a house size. circular hole that's it it's just like it appears by he like kicks some rocks in it. Right? Does the old kick the rock in it? Listen literally

Collin  51:17

what I was picturing he did he walked up there. Was there a camera angle from inside the hole looking up? See See his face peek over the edge and he kicks some rocks into the top.

Brandon  51:25

It's the other way around. It's above the hole looking back.

Collin  51:28

So see I had a shot there. I went with one.

Brandon  51:31

I think there might be one from inside. At some point you'd like to see him peek over the edge maybe? Yeah, that might be right. Okay. See I have and so it was it?

Collin  51:43

Was it just because it was so obtuse in nature? Or just it didn't know it was trying to be or

51:49

what? How would you I feel like a little bit of both,

Brandon  51:51

right? I feel like a little bit of both. I feel like it is very obtuse because it's like, oh, we're not gonna tell you we're gonna keep it mysterious. But you're like, Okay, let's it's kind of just like boring. Like, that weird lady. Like, sees it too. Right? And then she just like start spouting off a whole bunch of like, weird nonsense. She like references like Kronos, and like a bunch of weird like Greek stuff. And I'm like, What are you talking about? lady like?

Collin  52:24

Someone found a Wikipedia page. By this is so cool, man. Yeah,

Brandon  52:31

that's what it feels like. Right? And it's like, it's like mysterious, but it's not intriguing. Right? There's not enough for the two episodes that I watched. Like, there's not enough for me to be like, Oh my gosh, what's this mean? Like? It's just like, Okay. And that's it, right? It's just, it's, it's sort of, it's not very intriguing, right? It's not the interesting. I don't know. I didn't like it. So probably not going to finish that. But who knows? Or next year do episode review of open or outer range or whatever. Open, open open range offers a different movie. I think that's a that's definitely a Western one might have Kevin Costner in it. That's true. Is it vol. Yes. Yes. Good. Good movie should watch that one instead.

Collin  53:36

Okay, you heard it. here first. open rates. It's a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Brandon  53:46

They can't really go wrong with Robert Duvall. Right. Like no. It's not because I can't really think of too many Robert developed movies

Collin  54:04

to see it's very sad when I type in Robert. The first one is Google its default. Pattinson is ready to lay not the same. Yeah, I don't know very many of these. These movies? You can. I'll bet you I'll give you one guess. What do you think what? A lot of his

Brandon  54:29

genre would

Collin  54:31

do a lot of genre like,

Brandon  54:32

are they Western? Yes. A lot of Westerns turns out in Apocalypse Now, I think yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, wasn't that one. Interesting? Yeah. Hi. This is weird. I have

54:52

very few of these in here. Days of Thunder. Okay, so that was a good one. Oh, yeah. He is in there. stuffed under his bus. Wasn't Days of Thunder. But now we're getting about that. Apparently he was also in To Kill a Mockingbird

Brandon  55:10

Yes. Apparently is that's bright think that might be his earliest dumb credit. I think so. Isn't he Boo? Boo. I think so. I see

Collin  55:30

this is more googling on the internet he's five nine case you're wondering.

Brandon  55:34

I did not know that he seems taller in the movies oh

Collin  55:40

oh I have to go to separate article article for his filmography.

55:44

Good cheese.

Collin  55:45

Ah, yes it was first he was Boo Boo Radley. I guess that his his first film credit 1960 twos

Brandon  55:54

To Kill a Mockingbird. You go. He's in a lot of random Westerns you right? Oh, yeah, I haven't seen any of these at all. No. He's also just like, a random dude in a lot of the Westerns. Like he's not like the guy. Right. He's also there. And he's continued to work quite a lot. Ah, like he's in Joe kid. That's right. Oh, sorry. That was fine. I can vary. I figured that was. Yeah,

Collin  56:42

he's continuing to put out quite a lot. Very interesting.

Brandon  56:45

Because yeah, who knew? Robert Duvall, such a varied body of work? Yes,

Collin  56:52

he is. 92 and he has he's currently filming a movie. He really gets he's currently filming something

Brandon  57:01

called Hold on. The ploughman the ploughman. Is it a Western? I have no idea. I'm no. See here. Oh, yeah. He's also in the remake of God in 60 seconds with Nicolas Cage. Which is secretly a guilty pleasure movie of mine. Because like, it's that movie Good. No, no, no, it's not. Well, I watched the movie if it's on. Absolutely.

Collin  57:32

The ploughman is starring Robert Duvall at 92. And yes,

Brandon  57:38

it is. It is a Western. Yes. Go. Good. NES nuts. So very, very odd. So you know, who knew that rowdy ball was at this meeting movies? I did not. What's this movie? I don't know. I like there's a lot of these screenshots. I'm like, that looks familiar. What is that? And then it won't tell me. I like that. That's my favorite. When it's like like he's a screenshot of having this movie. Oh, wonder what it is? Nope. Not gonna tell you. Back out. Back out. Yeah, you'll never know now. I bet that Tim in The Godfather. Yeah, that's probably what that is. I forgot he was in that until I just saw this list. Well, yeah, so you should watch it. Robert Duvall. Maybe instead of watching this out of range thing. So habit to list. Yeah. Other than that, we've just been kind of hanging out. We had some friends over in the day, we had some board game action or game night. They've got what specific board games? Now? That is a good question. I don't actually know the names of them, because I never played it before ever. One of them was like a trivia game. Right? So that was kind of cool. That's fun. And the other one was like I don't really know how to describe it. It was like a to the game, the premise of the game. I'll describe the premise of the game to you. So you got a little card thing. You had to write answers down on it. And they asked you just like they're just like a bunch of really crazy question. Right? And you had to write down what you thought your the response was. One of them was like, how many pounds of manure does an elephant produce per day? They go and use have to write down your guests, right? And so on. Everybody writes down their guests and you put them in order. And then you bet these little chips on who you think is the closest without going over? Right? Oh, right prices writers thing. And there's like the gameboard thing has like odds. So like if you pick this, because you put them in order for like, ascending order, right? All the numbers that you write because all the answers are some number, or a percentage, right? And so you put them in ascending order. And all the spots on the game board have like, odds, like 31421221, whatever. And so based on where you bet, you get little chips, like fake like poker chip looking things as points for getting correct or betting on the correct answer. That was actually really fun.

Collin  1:00:53

That's a very interesting premise of it. So do you know, Do you know whose number you're betting on? Or is it just?

Brandon  1:01:01

I mean, yeah, because the cards are color coded. But it's like, it's more of like, oh, that answer looks better than what I wrote down. I see. And so you see, like, Oh, I think that one might be closer. So I bet they're like, and you do that? So it was fun. Some of the some of the answers were like real wild like, what? Like so we did that. That's fun. We made some dinner. I mean, Susan made some dinner. Oh, no, no pasta this time. Now. Well, she made pasta, but it was like we she made like a sauce from scratch. So no noodles this time. Oh, I did attempt to make some bread and dusted off the old bread making apron have not made any bread and like yours. Oh, that was like, Oh, I'm gonna try that. So this was on Friday. It did not go well. Right? We had some we had some bread failure, right? I have this just propensity of using too much flour and things. I don't know why. But that's what I did. It was like, Wait, it's just way too much flour in it. Like it didn't rise a whole lot. Really? Because it was so flavorful. Right? It was too dense and heavy. And it like literally couldn't rise out. No. So it was like, I mean, it was fine. But like, it wasn't like, good. Right? So we didn't need that we suffer. We just kept that a secret. Like, I'm not gonna tell anybody that we did that.

Collin  1:02:45

Bread. No, no, no. So did you run out and buy some did

Brandon  1:02:48

have to go buy some emergency backup bread from Walmart.

Collin  1:02:53

Thankfully, it wasn't too far away, right?

Brandon  1:02:56

Sure. Yeah. So we had to go buy some emergency backup bread. So Saturday, I went for the redemption round. And Saturday went much better. Like a Ha, there we go. This This looks more ready. This has holes in it for where the gases actually rose.

Collin  1:03:20

Oh, gosh, did you make hard tack the first time? That's what I'm thinking she made

Brandon  1:03:25

close enough. Right? It was very dense. It was very dense. It was very, it was all too much. So Saturday's baking activities went much better. Much better. Right. So we did experiment mode. I just did things backwards. And it worked better that way. So there we go. In order to keep myself from using too much flour. I you general rule of thumb is you add like flour, and then you put your wet ingredients into that. Yeah, right. So I didn't do that. I took my yeasty water and threw it in a bowl and then like gradually added flour as I've mixed it until it got to a consistency that looked much better than what I had the day before.

1:04:12

Oh my gosh, that's what I did.

Brandon  1:04:16

I did it backwards. It worked. But it turned out much better. So hey, you know for experimentation purposes. That was the ticket right? There was literally whatever works. Yeah, well, it was much better. So can't really argue with the results actually working. Turns out Yeah, turns out when they work actually better you can like eat it. And everything as as wild as was want to do. Yeah, crazy, right?

Collin  1:04:47

I too made bread recently. Although I used I cheated and I used a bread machine. So it's like

Brandon  1:04:54

eating that's just another way to make bread that's

1:04:58

i i

Collin  1:05:00

If we were in the habit of cuz for obvious reasons we go through a lot of bread, aka peanut butter jelly sandwiches at my house. I mostly me, I eat them all. But I got into it for a while where I was making like, basically like a loaf of bread a week, or more frequently, depending on what we're doing. Then we just got busy and got out of that. So that's something that I'm trying to get back into of like, Saturday or Sunday, bread day,

Brandon  1:05:28

and we're going to get it made. And we have bread for the week. So nice. Yeah, it's like, I like it a lot. It makes me

Collin  1:05:38

feel all homestudy when I push a button, and it makes bread for me. This is this is how they did it in Little House on the Prairie for sure. I'm ready.

Brandon  1:05:51

What you got to do to make you feel better, right is when you are doing it by hand. You have to start developing the gluten in the bread. So you just like sort of grab it and use like whack it on the counter really hard. Roll it down. It's like bam. Yeah, there we go.

Collin  1:06:12

Ah, so it's a form of therapy. Yeah.

Brandon  1:06:15

Nice. Okay, yes, it was better. There's also me testing the don't like, is this still sticky? Yes. Okay, good. That's what I mean. Don't need to be too hard. Yeah, too hard. Was like tearing, right? You want to still be like? Yeah, so way too much flour. I don't know why I do this all the time. It's very strange, but I do put too much flour and everything. And why? It's very odd. So very, very addictive.

Collin  1:06:51

I think. Good.

Brandon  1:06:52

I don't know. I don't know. Really. I don't really know why this happens, right? So yeah.

Collin  1:07:02

Yeah, we've we've baked a little bit more into bread. Lillian is on a big kick to bake. She'd love to bake every day. But we baked more cookies today. And

Brandon  1:07:17

Banana Nut muffins.

Collin  1:07:20

What the one that? I don't know. Are you do you like Well, that's bread.

Brandon  1:07:25

I don't like walnuts anything. Oh, there's something about the taste of a walnut. They really like it's really like acrid right. That's the right word. Right. It's just a very, very weird thing. And I think part of that is like I just never ate them ever, ever. And in like, I never knew anybody that use walnuts in cooking until I met Susan and her mother. Right. And she made chocolate chip cookies one time. And I bid into one and it was like wow. What is is always you know, walnuts in chocolate chip cookies. And I was like, yeah. I know. What are you doing? What has happened? Very surprised. Walnut. Show up there. So I didn't love that. See, I don't really like walnuts. That's one of the only nuts that I don't like. Just don't like it. I don't know what it is about it. There's some something about the taste is just too much. No. I'm glad you enjoy them in your banana bread. Yes, that we

Collin  1:08:47

now have come to expect them. Ah, plus, it is a smashing of the walnuts is great. Stress Reliever. Every time we do that I'm reminded of Do you Do you remember the little grinder thing that Mimi had for walnuts? It was a glass shaped kind of like a pair? It had a metal top and it had a little twist? Yes. It has a little grindy like yeah really really really primitive like shredders almost looks like a

1:09:22

key. And yeah,

Collin  1:09:25

yeah. And you tipped it upside down like a salt shaker and then you ground it and then like fell through the slats or whatever

Brandon  1:09:34

I do remember that she didn't put walnuts in there did she?

Collin  1:09:37

I O or pecans or whatever because she's nuts peanuts peanuts

Brandon  1:09:42

on it for like ice cream maybe?

Collin  1:09:44

Yeah, well, wouldn't you? Yeah. Yes for peanuts, or I think she'd made maybe she never useful and that's But anyway, I just remember this this thing.

Brandon  1:09:53

And I don't know like, again, it's

Collin  1:09:58

random things as I think of Got that every time we got the one that's my brain. I started to the point where I've started to say the phrase, well, you know, Mimi about 19 times and I have to catch myself because Megan knows Megan is all about this thing. I've talked about it before. I don't need to tell her any more about this object. And every time we got the wallet, my brain just starts to say, well, you know me No, I wish I really this is this is another reason to go to antique stores is to find like this thing because

Brandon  1:10:30

I man God

Collin  1:10:32

about that. Yes. It was so cool. Is that

Brandon  1:10:35

still have it somewhere in the garage? I heard of that last night.

Collin  1:10:39

I don't I would, I would. Probably something

Brandon  1:10:41

that nobody thought about keeping because I didn't remember it even existed until just right now. Yeah. It's very, that's wild. You know what I was thinking about to the other day was that I didn't that that weird, like, ice cream dessert thing she used to make you remember that? Yeah. That had eggs in the chocolate. Do you remember that? I don't remember that. I remember it had like peanuts and ice cream in it. Yes. And I remember anything else about it? No, I remember I had peanuts. And then like ice cream and then there was chocolate on the top. Right was some good stuff. Right? And I thought it was good stuff.

Collin  1:11:22

Graham crackers on the bottom. And you layered it. And because you had to buy the her cheat or cheat was you bought the the square cartons with the paper sides, the paper cartons? And then you cut the ice cream. Yes, into slices. And then you laid it on. And then you let it melt a little bit. It fills up

Brandon  1:11:48

on the bottom with peanuts on the top on the chocolate tin. And others peanuts in there somewhere.

1:11:53

I think it was I thought

Collin  1:11:54

it was like graham cracker and then I thought the chocolate the peanuts were on the bottom. And then you put the ice cream on the

1:12:01

top. And you layered it

Brandon  1:12:06

was the other way around. Okay. Well, I don't remember. This is why I was just thinking about it the other day. Oh, it's it was so good. Yeah, it was. Really?

Collin  1:12:17

I don't I know she had a recipe for that. I know she did. And I yeah, I think Dad has

Brandon  1:12:24

that. We have the recipe books on where we need to find that really makes them faster. That's good stuff. Okay,

Collin  1:12:31

so next family get together. We're making pasta. We're making this ice cream then. There we go. Ah, like we're there. We're not we're buying everything. We're not leaving for three days. We're just gonna wait available homemade pasta and ice creams. True. Okay, sir. Cake.

Brandon  1:12:45

thing. Remember what she called it even? No. I think she did that. She might have just called the ice cream dessert. Actually, not that. That sounds like something you just make that pan that one like kind of janky pan and just like they were in the freezer. Right one pan that you would make? Yeah, just like nine by 13 pan. There was like, kind of looking right. It's like it's just led. I don't know. Throw it in there. It's fine. It was me. Know, buddy. Just fine. Don't worry about it. Yeah. I'll see think about it. I was like, Man, I kind of want some that. What the heck is that called? I don't remember.

Collin  1:13:26

I think I I think I made it one time for like a, like a home at class. We had to bring in a recipe or make something at home and bring it in for the class to do.

Brandon  1:13:39

I remember I made that. And that was the only time it would have been a very long time ago

Collin  1:13:46

that it was in middle school. Yeah, definitely in middle school. So

Brandon  1:13:49

there you go. Oh, hey. Well, wow. Yeah,

Collin  1:13:55

I'm hungry. And it's 10 o'clock. So Oh, yeah. Go drink some water.

Brandon  1:14:02

Something. We had some real quick before we go. We had some I got some leftover chicken curry in the fridge there. Oh, because we made some Susan that we Susan again. Made some chicken curry with some stuff that we got from the Asian markets and like curry pottery. Yo. Oh, amazing. Okay, so good

Collin  1:14:32

is it okay is it

Brandon  1:14:34

was like chicken curry and rice like, Oh, my God, what and Basie we've

Collin  1:14:40

we've been on a big rice kick recently. And I don't know why we don't have rice with more things in the world because I it just it's a perfect thing for everything. It's just like, Oh, we've got veggies in this thing and we'll just rice and rice makes me really happy. And no wonder it's really popular. It turns out, but did you? Did you? Did you like it because of, of the spices of just how it was prepared or like what?

Brandon  1:15:09

What about it? I think it was this spices, right? It was very good. Very good spices in there. Because of that it's like real simple. It's just like some chicken and a couple like keys and vegetables and like I was at real nice. It wasn't like real. It's not like super sauce heavy, right? Like some of it is right. It's very nice. Very just we get the spices really good though, and they're really delicious. So ate the heck out of that sounds good.

Collin  1:15:49

Okay, well, sounds like we're building a menu for our next thing. So this is good. We've got pasta, curry. We've got ice cream.

Brandon  1:15:58

Not to mention, we have to complete the full mission. Right? That's Oh my gosh. Oh, okay. So as soon as we were thwarted at every turn, every so sad.

Collin  1:16:09

Okay, if we're being honest, mostly because we were trying to do this mission at like seven o'clock at night, but

Brandon  1:16:13

on New Year's when we forgot. They forgot that people close things on New Year's. All right, because we are in the Midwest. Everything also closes at like 830

1:16:25

Okay,

Collin  1:16:27

so what's Oh, so that we get both it's what's on your breakfast menu? And what timetable flows?

Brandon  1:16:32

Yeah, what's already closed? Because it's at like eight o'clock. At still the Midwest still in the best part? Yeah, that's good point.

Collin  1:16:40

That those two should average out pretty good. No, I found I found a fireplace, like 40 minutes for me in the other town. Okay, it's so bizarre of my town is larger than this other one. But because this other one has a certain Central, a university centrally located because that's in this town. It changes the entire feel of the of the of the town. And it's very interesting to see the impact that a university has on the amenities that are in a town and how things are kept up and how things are ran and what their priorities are. Our town is very much a blue collar town. Like it's very much in this other town. Not so much. So like, we're driving around and it was like this. There's a fireplace like that's so I have one tantalizingly close. But that was just a very, we were driving around just noticing these differences and pointing them out. Like, it's so it feels so weird. They are much, much, much smaller talent. But but because the university, it Yeah, it has all these things. It's very,

Brandon  1:18:03

yeah, it's very interesting. It's also like the demographics of just who's living there. Right? Yeah, there's some things right. It's just that kind of stuff. But like, that's what we have a like, you know, down 20 minutes, way down in like, Cassville area. There's like a restaurant that serves like Thai food. Right? It's really good. But it's like real low key and like, not a lot of people talk about it because everyone wants to eat it like a Chinese buffet. You know, everyone likes Chinese buffet for some reason. And it's illegal. I don't like this, but you know, and this is just like a little hole in the wall restaurant. And they have Chinese food and stuff. But the family is Thai. So they also have a time menu. And it's so good. I think I've talked about this. It's basically just want Thai fried rice. It's all just piles of it. Right? Like oh my god. So

Collin  1:19:02

it's just like this very like,

Brandon  1:19:03

secret thing. Right? Like, oh, secret Thai food, man. There we go.

Collin  1:19:14

Well, no, I really don't agree. So

Brandon  1:19:16

sorry. Get your water. That's right. Yeah. Isn't tea Yeah,

Collin  1:19:20

some raspberry leaf tea.

Brandon  1:19:21

That's got some chamomile tea by recording. Oh,

Collin  1:19:25

nice. Okay, well look it up the game. Yeah, good. Well, on that I'm not gonna say disappointment. We're gonna say that new thing. Will rabbit already. Love you