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Music. Welcome to oh brother podcast where we try to figure it all out with your host, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, cos playing ahoy ahoy. How's it going? Pretty good. How are you? Ah, still alive, still. This is a vast improvement from last week. So that's good. Oh my gosh. So it's so much, it's so much. But, yeah, it's been a lot recently. I haven't been enjoying that part of things. You know, it's terrible. It was like 90 degrees a day. It's ready September, the worst month ever. No, I was like, no, no, I was ready for was ready for cold. All the trees around us, we have, uh, some sycamores and some sweet gums, and they're like, bye bye leaves already. So that's fun. I think next week is supposed to be a little better. Yes, as far as, like, Monday might actually be folly. I know shocking, but we'll see how it goes. And yeah, I know. And we were supposed to have like thunderstorms last night, and they completely just disappeared around us. So, yeah, where's the two we heard it, and we're like, Oh, is that thunder? And then nothing like, oh, it's definitely not okay. There we go. Like, tantalizing. Like, Oh, you need some rain. Oh, Ah, just kidding, you don't get rain buddy, but I want it. I know. I know. Oh, well, so, yeah, it's been a it's been a week of we so we have hired so well, one of our employees, when we got back, when we left on the trips, I talked about this, how we've kind of changed up some responsibilities for one of our employees, and it's kind of breaking me a little bit. You said I knew about the changed of the responsibilities, the breaking part, I suspect, always, but I did it. Yeah, officially, no. It's just, it's one of those things where, so I think that she was wanting more, like more learning more, like administrative duties and stuff I talked about this, where we were elevating her to take on more responsibilities. Well, it means that one day a week, they get like, five hours to do nothing but administrative tasks. And this is very good. It's very helpful, very beneficial to us. Like, in about another month, I can see this being like, very nice. But of course, we're in the beginning. We're gonna be Yeah, so there's a learning curve for everybody involved. So what that means is, like, I, you know, having to train on all of this stuff. And then it goes by really slow. But then we keep finding new, like, you know, Oh, what about this one thing? And it's like, oh, yeah, that's actually, that's actually a 45 minute discussion. And it's just like, one button, so, Hmm, how? And, of course, oh no, all of this remotely, so lots of zoom calls. But here's the thing that I'm like, okay, self, self, pretty, pretty proud of this. All of our zoom calls are recorded. So what I can do is I take my Zoom call recording. I take the audio, I throw it into the transcript program. The transcript program spits out a high, you know, a really good transcript. I take that transcript and I go to my friend, chat GPT. I say, chat GPT. Here's a here the transcript from an online training I did for an administrative assistant position take the relevant pieces of this and write SOPs. Boom. This has saved me so much time, because I've already trained on it, like one time. And at first I was like, Oh, well, I guess I need to, like, save the videos or something. But no, like that is actually not helpful, because, you know, the the videos are be kind of like rambling and stammering and stumbling around as I'm having a conversation with the person, yeah, and so it's actually very unhelpful. If somebody's like, how do I do x? Because when I'm training this person, I'll start being like, Okay, here's x. Oh. But also, along the way, let me talk to you. Let me just take a brief moment here and talk about these other 17 things that are kind of closely related to this, but not like start to finish out. Do this, so it's a little jumpy if you just wanted to sit down and learn how to do something. So, yeah, that's actually, I, that's actually been, really, I've been having to lean into that a lot, and it's been helping the process go by a lot smoother. This is great. This. This is something that you need to tell the people that run our student information system thing, because they just keep sending out emails being like, here's our latest training. And it is just like a zoom call with some random tech dude and like, they just sort of talk about random job for forever, and you're like, This is the least helpful thing I've ever seen my entire life. I don't watch them because I don't care to know about the secret superpowers that this program allegedly has. I just need to know how to take attendance. That's really all I need to know about. And so they keep sending all these videos and all this weird stuff. I'm like, I'm not gonna watch it because they're not good and, like, they're real bad and boring and die awful. So I don't know, why would you send me a link to a recorded zoom call that you did trading with for somebody else anyway, because, for the reasons you said, because they asked, like, very specific questions that are only related to, like, the thing that they're doing. And I'm just like, I don't care about any of that. I don't know what you're talking about. No, I think that that is probably, I mean, not only is it exceptionally lazy, but it's exceptionally damaging to everybody involved. Because, yeah, buried deep down in that video is your relevant piece of information, but you don't know where it is. You're just hoping that they're going to stumble across it. That's like, basically what I'm trying to do is and because here's what, here's what I want, I want. Like, I sat down, I did a 45 minute call with this person, and I talked about 12345677, different things, but they were all kind of like it was messy, all intermingled with one another, and like I kept jumping back and forth, and as she had questions, I'd go back to this other one. We'd loop around. It's incoherent. So, like, but I mean, if, if so, if this person wanted to copy that video, that would make sense, right? Yes, because they'd be like, Oh, I remember we talked about this, but, like, I don't remember exactly what we said as well. But so it's like, only good for them, right? Because they were there and they can follow the flow, because they were part of it, and they were part of the interactive process anybody else watching is just like, What the heck is going on? I don't understand, yes, exactly, and that is where that's that's where it just falls off a cliff, because it's great for that person to reference. But at the other, on the other hand, it's just, it's not right, it's not okay. And so I hate that whenever I find a YouTube video of somebody who's it's just them on a troubleshooting call with a friend, it's like, this is actually complete. This is not helpful at all. People like, this is the least helpful thing in the world. So I am, I want to be able to have, here is the video to show you this, and here is the video to show you this thing. And I don't know, like, yeah, all together. Sure you could, you could string them all together. I also just want, like, the 35 second clip that shows you exactly what you need. And because I I've had to do that with some of our like the software that we use, they are really good about having a 45 minute long YouTube video, but I'm not sending that to a client right to and how to do something. So I have to download the YouTube video, it's fine, and then I have to clip out the portion that I want re upload it, and then send it over to the client, because otherwise it's just gobbly gook. And so that's the part that is also that's hurting me. Of going, Yeah, I really need to make sure that all this is succinct and easy to follow. And now the other thing that I didn't have, that we still don't have, are, like, I don't know how to say this, but like, repositories for stuff for her, for her to have. Of like, oh yeah, I need to make like, I guess, a Google Drive folder for you and stuff, right? Like trying to try to make sure that they have what they need, but also, like not overwhelming them, because I'm really good at that, and that's really unhelpful for people, really unhelpful. So, yeah. Yeah, that's true, but, you know, it's fine, it's fine, everything's fine, and it's something so anyway, yeah, so I've been, we've been working on that, and, yeah, I just, it's one of the things where, like, you know, I as much as, like, this, I found I'm very thankful for this use of chat GPT, of being able to throw audio at it, have it write what I'm what I said anyway, but making it more organized. Yes, that is a benefit, right? Like you get to get Yes, put it all together in a way that makes sense and in a format that you can just find the pieces that you need, right? That's the hard part, too. It's like building the like, just that library is weird and time consuming and annoying, but I was not going to say about this something to say with Susan, because she's, you know, started her new thing, and it's like she's got to put in all this work on the front end, do all this stuff. And I'm sitting up in my room today feeling kind of bad, because like to prepare for next week, I just have to go to a file and be like, click, click, bam. Oh. Because I already built all the stuff, and I already built the the mechanisms and storage and system to, like, put it there. So I just have to get it out right where she has to make all this stuff from scratch for doing her like, PT stuff to go. You all right, there we go. I feel a little bit guilty right now, but so it's annoying and a lot of work, but once you get it done the first time it's there, as long as you're a better File Manager than me, because sometimes I still do go, huh? I have a thing for this. Where did it go? Where? What folder did I put this in? Well, hmm, I wonder, would I name that thing? What would a person name a thing like that? Hmm, I don't know. Well, yeah, my man is a little bit dicey sometimes. But you know, yeah, that's we've been running into that non stop, because it's just been Megan and I handling all of this stuff, right? And so now all of a sudden, we have this weird this we need to get somebody is now peeking into what we've been working on, and, man, it's a mess, and trying to, like, ah, what is this? I was like, I just get my big thing was, like, I just have to get everything in one place. I have to figure out a way to get everything in one place. So that makes sense, because, you know, we, over the last several years, we got tired of always having to retype answers to the same questions or say the same thing to same situations, so we just started saving these scripts. But they were saved and like, some of them were just on Megan's phone, some of them were just on mine. Some of them were in Google Docs. Some were in our emails. Some of them, we would just go and find in the lat, find the last person who we sent it to, you know, and copy it from there. Like, yeah. It was like, oh, right, that our employee can't do that because they don't know where anything is, so I have to put it on you barely know where it is, so they can definitely get it takes me six minutes to just, like, search for stuff. So I need to be better at this. So yeah, that that was a big one for us, of just collecting all of our scripts and all their little the tidbits of of text that we send off to people so that they have it. So just she can just go and click right to it, copy and paste it, not have to worry about, because we've already written once. So it's like it needs to be somewhere. And that's that's been another one. So, yeah, oh, the other one. We were like, Oh, you just need to which she knows how to schedule visits and do all that stuff and move things around and time block and whatever, super straightforward. And I was like, Okay, great. I need you to do that. And then there was like, this, like, weird pause. She goes, um, well, I don't, I don't know when, like, other people work. And I was like, Aha, yes, that calendar, God. I was like, fair, that's a good I need about seven minutes so I can make you a quick cheat sheet. I. And a link to the schedule calendar thingy. What I did? Yeah, so I created that Google Sheet, right, and then hyperlinked it to her task list so that she could always see click right to that to go find it, because that was the other thing of I didn't want, I didn't want her to have to download, like, bespoke copies, oh, yeah, because then let me have to do it all the time to update it, yeah, what happens if I update it? Right? So it's like, no, no downloading. Just use this link when you can't find it. It's in this master this document as the one you go to. This gives you all of your tasks. It has all of the links to everything you need. Like, this is the one that you need access to so you don't have to be making copies of copies of copies, because I just need to be able to edit things directly so you get the latest version. True. It's things like that that's just been like, it's good. Like, this is very good, very good for us to get this externalized and stop being just in our head. But my goodness, is it like getting it out the problem, right? Yeah, so that's been that's been good. It's been fun. So awesome, something, yeah, well, again, trying to make sure that I'm not overwhelming her, because it's a lot. Yeah, info dumping can be a problem, right? Like, I don't know, yeah, well, that was part of the training video. Like, if you were to just watch it, you, you would see about a three minute period where my brain was glitching because it realized that a step that I think is very important. After we approve visits, we go over to the invoice section and we verify that the invoice was compiled correctly. It's supposed to do that automatically on the back end, but we find weird things every now and then, I was like, oh, and then you go over and you click invoices, and she was like, I don't see invoices. And my all of a sudden, my brain was like, what? Why? Why? Where did it go exactly? So then I realized, oh, right, we elevated her to one level, but that doesn't give her access to everything. But also I don't really want her to have access to like, everything yet. That's fair. Because it's really like, there's a lot in the back end, and you can you get access to a lot of sensitive information. You can really change a bunch of stuff. It's like, I don't think that that's necessary. So then, over the course of this three minute loop, my brain is, you can see I'm processing it, like, what's the best way to solve? How do I get access to her so she has invoicing, and then the other one that we still have? Can I just downgrade invoicing to less level, lower tier? Well, turns out that if you the level she's at, you can actually specifically toggle on and off access to a few things when one of those is invoicing. So we were able to click that on. And I was like, Okay, well, now I used to have to train on invoicing, but later, much hidden Alan, but come back down there. Yeah, that's what I've had tell yourself. That's the that's been, that's been good. It's been, yeah, I've got a so I've got it. I've been just every week, building my list of like, Oh, right. How do I? How do I? How do I that's been good. It's been really good. Today was an auspicious day. We obviously, the kids birthdays are coming up, and right, exciting weekend, we told we were like, look random, new dog. Happy Birthday everybody. Oh, hey, there you only happy birthday present. But today we went to the local tattoo parlor. Oh, and we did not get family tattoos? No, no, which is, which is what I was really like. Could we do that painting? No, I don't think so. I think, you know, they're a little too young for that. Yet, I think that's how that works, but not too young for one of them to walk out with pierced ears. Uh huh. Good job. No, oh no, man, there we go. Yeah, and I'll tell you, I got some flash for later. Well, yeah, well, but Mark that one for so we've got, we've got, we've got four weeks to figure out exactly what we want in this. We gotta leave them for four weeks. Have to clean them three times a day for four months. And I'm like, Oh yeah, poked a hole in yourself. You gotta, you know, you know. So we this, really, this individual, really. Really wanted this done at the beginning of summer, like this was all that was talked about, right? But then, but then we went, we went into this tattoo parlor. And, you know, we, I know it sounds weird to go get just ears Pierce. Had a tattoo parlor, but they do bigger things, right? And they they also, like, as a parlor, they have to do them to a much higher standard. And, like, they're, like, medical cleanliness and everything, and like, Yeah, whatever, to have sterilize all the stuff. It's better than, like, the mall, right? Oh my gosh, right. It's like, cooler anyway, right? Come on, well, right. And just like, really chill people, because this is all they do. All they do all day long is Pierce and tattoo, tattoo and Pierce. They've, you know, they've, they've pierced, they're kind of good at it, right? They've pierced everything on all sorts of people, like, literally, we're good. And so, you know, like, okay, yeah, that actually makes me feel actually makes me feel good to know that this and like the tattoo or the piercer, she was fantastic. She was just like, super chill and like, whatever. And she was really kind. She actually allowed us to come in several months ago to do a complete, like, dry run, like we came in and she walked us through everything, had lien, sit down, got out all of the equipment that she was going to use. Didn't undo the, like, the needle, but just like, Yeah, but like, showed her it is, you know. And then was like, here's what the spray feels like. Here's like, she did the fake dots on the ears, all that stuff. And I was like, Oh my gosh. That was so wonderful, so nice. Like, oh my gosh. And so we came in and will was like, I know, like, this is old hat people like out, like, everything that she's done once before is like, I know how to do I get out of the way, move along. Oh my gosh. It was, it was great. And so she was really focused, like, really super zoned in on this, and came in, sat on the table, and was like, Okay, let's do this. And you know, I was like, Do you want to hold her hand? And she was like, no, just sit by me. And you know, the lady was like, it's gonna hurt. Like, just it is. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna be a sharp pain. The first 30 minutes of this is going to be the worst, but it's going to die down. And if you would have just, if you would have had one of those, like full face framed camera shots of her getting her ears pierced, I don't think she even flinched, like she didn't wince, she didn't pull away her. She didn't even twinge in her eyes, like, just, boom took it. Boom took it like, I was, like, of course, like she did, of course, you I'm over here having heart palpitations behind you, I'm about to pass out. And so when we and she just stands up and she's like, Yeah, those are nice. Thank you very much. And then just, like, just walk out of the room, like, again, like, old hat, like, Yeah, whatever I'm this is what I do every Tuesday. And there was this big, burly, uh, tattoo artist out in the front who saw Lily walking back out. And he was like, Oh, you did a really good job. And I was, of course, me who I am, thank you. That was really hard. I almost didn't make it too much, because you just got to make every situation really awkward, right? Yeah. They were like, do you want to take a break? Do I lay down? You had some water? Are you feeling the lady was like, Are you feeling dizzy or lightheaded? And it was just like, No, no, I'm fine. I'm fine. Oh yeah. But even if she was feeling dizzy and lightheaded, she's also gonna say no, of course, right? I'm fine. Exactly. She would have just, just, you know, right there, like, I'm fine, and then, boom, been on the floor. So, my goodness, so, yeah, so we got, we got the earrings. Now she already has. She does have her next set picked out. That's good. Gonna be prepared? Yes, are prepared? We don't know. Like, Megan has an allergy to nickel and so, yeah, can't have the, you know, really cheap earrings and stuff, which is just, oh man, this is, it's so wonderful. Oh, oh, what I'm hearing from you is you're not expensive. You're not You're. You're not, you're not allergic to the expensive stuff. That's convenient, isn't it? Isn't that isn't that great, yeah, okay, cool. Susan has the same thing. She doesn't even really wear earrings because of that, like they just, oh, hurt her ear so much that she just, oh my gosh, yeah, that's wild. Yeah. So, so, again, I don't want to go and like, test this on theory to see if Lillian also has this. So we're gonna, we've agreed we're gonna get one nice, like, nice pair for her to be, like, permanent set, and then we can look at like, other ones to interchange here and there kind of thing. But yeah, so that'll be their our next thing to do, and then we'll get gages. And then, of course, yeah, that's the real question. When does that happen? Right when we hit the double zero. That's what we need. That's what I did at bedtime. I asked Lily, and I said, So was it okay? And she's like, Yeah. I was like, Do you want to do it again? And she was like, yeah, yeah. Actually, maybe later, it's just so boring. Oh my gosh. Um, yeah, that was, uh, our big excitement. This is a pretty exciting event, though it is. That is a milestone achievement. Oh, I know. Well, our vague achievement this week actually happens tomorrow. We are gonna cosplay as you tomorrow. That's right, what? We are pet sitting, haha, uno, reverse card. What? No reverse card user, that's what's up. Oh, no Stolen Valor. What is this? What's, uh, what's this bracket? Susan's friend, right? Uh, she has like, five dogs, right? But there has been dissension in the dog ranks, right? So this really strange event has occurred where the eldest dog, and like, kind of the boss dog, right, has passed away, like half a year ago or so, and, there has been at least one event where all of a sudden, one that some two of the dogs, like snapped at each other, right? Oh, because of this, like chaos in their hierarchical lives or whatever. And so the one like there was one event, I guess it was like, quite bad. And the one, the other dog, the dog that we're watching, is holding a grudge and will not go near the other dog, who is like, apparently, according to the owner, trying to be like, apologetic and like, trying to play it off like nothing happened, right? Trying to make amends. And this dog is like, No, it doesn't want to be around them right now. So she has to go out of town for, like, a family thing. And so the normal person is going to watch the other dog, right? But we are going to take for just, it's like, just overnight, the one dog is gonna come to see us so, so that it can, like, because the other person can't be there like, the whole time. Yeah, right. So, yeah, so they'll be coming and going and, like, feeding and watering and letting out and and all the stuff. But they don't be able to be there like, all the time. So we are gonna be the watcher of the one, so see how that goes. Uh huh, they're coming tomorrow morning. They litter mates, by any chance. No, they're all, they're all like, rescue dogs, okay, so, like, they've all been a lot of she has, like, a big property and stuff, so several of these dogs have just been dumped upon her doorstep. Happened, yes, yeah, and so they're all kind of rescue, and she's taken them in and done various things and all that. But, like, just recently, these two have not gotten along after the passing of the senior dog, right? He's upset the balance and the force somehow, and they're just not they've, they've had at least one incident that was pretty intense, I guess. And the other dog is just like, not forgiving them. It's like, Nope, you stay away from me. I don't want to. Oh, right, that's hard. That makes it really hard. Yeah, so she's got to go away for the weekend for, like, a family thing, yeah, and so we are gonna watch the guy. So, oh, he's, uh, the older dog, but, like, he's pretty big too. They're kind of like medium to large sized dogs, all of them, because they. Are on, like, this big farm and stuff. So it's kind of like a small ish lab, but it's like a mutt makes kind of random dog, right? But it's kind of a smaller, but he's got that, like, short laby hair, right? Like, kind of a smaller, stocky little guy, but, yeah, that's gonna be our adventure, uh, starting tomorrow. Okay, gosh, because it's been, I mean, it's, it's been a minute since you guys had a dog, since Chuck passed, right? It was, what four is it? Four years? Maybe, yeah, four years, yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, right, yeah. Okay, wow. Well, that's, that'd be fun. So Susan's gone over there and watched them before, right? Okay for her, but this time, he's gotta come here, so that's gonna be our adventure, right? Docking it up. Susan's gonna join this, right? I think he's a big couch buddy, so I think it'll probably be okay, but we'll see Yes, necessary. Yeah, goes, but that is our adventure. That's our planned adventure for this weekend, dogging with the little guy. Well, that'd be fun. That'll be fine. I uh, that that's hard for owners to have that change and then, like that sudden change in behavior, because that's scary. Like, yeah, weird. So unnerving, so Well, hopefully you won't have to do anything. I literally tonight after they had to break and enter into a client's home to take care of their pets, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hopefully we'll have to do that the Oh yeah, nothing so. But right door did no bin. It would go like, near like, like, that was all the sound it would make, oh on the outside keypad, and it would just barely lift the door, like, barely just enough so that eventually I could shimmy, like kind of one finger underneath it, yeah, and then that was all a move. And so I could manually lift it about there were four inches. And then I set a block underneath there, and then I went to open and close it. And then it would open it further, like another inches. So then I wedge strat, okay, got it. Then I would put it one underneath that, and then open and close it again, and it would raise itself a little bit. And I could successfully did that. So I had to shimmy underneath this thing, yeah, in order to get it. And come to find out, just it has a bad sensor, one of the protection. So it doesn't know where the door is, basically has no idea whether the door is up down. So which is usually when those sensors go bad, it all, they just default to being up. But this thing won't even open, because it's like, I don't know. I don't know what could happen. So I'm that's weird, yeah, because when ours did that, ours like, got hit or something. It like bent and so it was all like, caddy Wampus. And so it like, when it close, it would just go down, it would start going down and go, Nope, just kidding, because it was like reading the wall or something. I guess. I don't know exactly what happened, but well, so these, these two sensors, one has a little green light and one has a red light on it. And so I think this sensor is just bad. And so the whole thing is like, I'm not even bothering to open because I don't want to mess with that or whatever. Like, it's a weird default mode. But so, yeah, I had to break it into her and then call the client and be like, Well, I'm inside the house. I broke your garage door anyway. Well, that was my, that was my initial fear of like, because it felt like it was trying to pull, like, lift, like, if you could see, the whole thing would bend and then would stop. And my fear was that it was off the track somewhere, or that the something had collapsed inside and was pulling at a weird angle, or whatever. Oh, yeah, you know, nope, nope. No issue. It just was not, I don't know. So I was I so when I was lifting it, I was like, this may very easily come off the track very soon and come crashing down onto their cars inside, which is not what, really what I want. But I mean, no, that would not be very exciting, but no, or the we had a couple years ago, ours, like, we were like, sitting at home. I don't know it was a weekend or something. I don't remember when it was. We were sitting home right in the living room, and there was, like, a weird noise in the garage, right, like, this weird noise happened. And so we went out there and we looked around, and we're like, I don't see anything. We checked in, like the utility closet to see if, like, something got messed up in there. And, like, No, nothing. Like, it was really weird. And then, like, the next day, we went to open the garage door, and it like nothing would happen. And the tension spring had broke. And right? And so the big, loud, clattery noise was the spring exploding and shattering. And so the door wouldn't do anything like it would have whined or do anything like that. It was just like, Nah, I'm sitting right here doing nothing like, oh. And as we come out and replace that, but it was really bizarre. Like, it was a really strange thing. I was, like, I've never even, I mean, it makes sense that it could do that, but I've never seen that before. Like, it was wild, yeah, well, that's scary to think if you had been in there, like, when that went off, like, I don't know, that seems well, it was all still, because it's that tension spring that's on the top on that rod. So just like, all twisted up, yeah, okay. It didn't like, shoot out. It goes shoot out. It had just like, come apart. And the noise was like, one of the the, you know, coils. It just snapped in half, yeah? And it just, like, dramatically unwound, so it was all still attached to the bar, which is why I didn't notice it at first. Yeah, right, because it was still there. But it had just like, separated a little bit, I guess, and it made an ungodly loud noise, which was, we were, like, really confused about what's happening, but that's what it was, and it wouldn't do anything after that. So check the tension spring right? Maybe it's that. I don't know. You know what? That's, uh, that's a good point. I didn't, I didn't do that. I just kind of looked everywhere and was like, well, there's nothing like hanging so I think so it's fine. You're probably the sensor if one of them is a brown color. But you know, you never know that's true. That is the code that they're wrong color. Sometimes they just have to be lined up exactly like they're looking directly at each other. Because if they're off, even, like a little bit, it's like, I can't tell what's happening when I quit, right? There's like, a lasery thing that sensors it goes because and so if one of them is, like, lightly out of whack, it's just done, it's just over. And there's nothing that can do. You just have to give up and ticker with it until it lines back up and it goes, aha, I'm back right? It's like, basically have to, like, re align them. Yeah, I have to go back out and just kind of tap ours every now and then, because they get hit by, you know, kids running around corners or in bikes coming in and around and around them, that kind of stuff. Yeah, or kicked when you're just walking through with like, Carrie and stuff you like, brush your pant leg against. It's like, oh, I'm looking at the ground now. Sorry, yeah, I have important question to ask you. Oh, right. I want you to weigh in officially. Oh, on this elephant in the room, right? Because this is a show primarily about nostalgic things elephants. I need you to, I need your official stance on the reformation of Lincoln Park here. I need to know the Internet is a buzz. Oh, and I need your weighing in. I have many thoughts and but I am not as big of a Lincoln Park fan as you are, yeah. So I need some commentary here. I need some insight into this situation. Yeah, you know this, this is one of those very, very, this is, this is hard when it's happened a few times over the years, obviously, where in bands, specifically, lead singers die, drummers, you know, get replaced. People have to step out for drug release reasons or family reasons or whatever. But the band itself persists. You know, I know a lot of bands who like, there's like, the main guy who started it, but everybody else changes over the decades, just because it's just the music is what's important, not who's performing or who's doing the guitar player, and everyone kind of adds their own style. I mean, that's kind of like the Beach Boys situation, right? That's a band that's been around for, like, just ever and so there's just a bunch of random, different people in it from every once in a while, but it's still, they just play all the beach boy songs, right? Yes. And it's just kind of like indistinguishable. The other event is like, like you said, maybe a member dies, like, ACDC, right? And then just, like, stick somebody else in there and keep going, right? And it just kind of like, pretty similar. It's basically the same thing. It sounds a little bit different, but I. Whatever, right? The I think problem number one with the link and park situation is Hybrid Theory is like a genre defining a moment in music history, right? So, like, that's kind of an odd thing to work around. Because, like, again, not to throw shade too much ACDC, but like, overall, in the grand scheme of things, just kind of a rock band, right? Yeah. Solid, yes, good, yes. Genre defining, no, no, not even a little bit, right. Yeah, right. No offense azdc fans. But like, I mean, come on. Like, and so, you know, it's our I think it's very good that they're coming out with a new singer and a new album in pretty quick succession. I think that that is, I hope that that means that they are trying to, in a sense, you know, redefine who they are personally as a bait. Sounds like it from the signal, yes, right? Yes. It's like, the single is Lincoln parky, but like, different, you know what? I mean, like, you're kind of like, ah, yeah, that's it. There's some of the traits are there, yes, but it's not like, it's not like, trying to copy themselves, you know? I mean, yeah, they're not going back to Hybrid Theory going, you know, we need to do, we need to re record crawling. That's what. That would be a really good thing to do right now. No, no. And if they're smart, they will. It's hard, though, because, you know, people like Lincoln Park and so when you go on a tour, I would hope that on tours and such, they would lean more into more recent music for them, as opposed to back into play some of the stuff they're going to have to Yes, yes, and just especially right now, because they only have one new new one, yes, right? And they did play that show where they did play old songs, and a lot of them weren't that bad, really, no, right? No. I think this is the this is tough, because it's like, I heard George Lucas talk about this a couple times, where the people take, uh, immediate, like, once you put it out into the public, people take ownership of it immediately. And they're like, Well, this is the thing, and right? And he got a lot of flack for this, because he kept going back and changing the thing and redoing the thing and futzing with it and modifying it. And people hate that, because they just want to be static. And this is also true for bands, like, people want the singers to sound the same regardless, right? It's they want them to sound like they sound. And this is one reason why, oh, Aerosmith had to pull out like he's no longer really singing, like his vocal cords are shot right? Like Bon Jovi is a similar way, like he sing because, I mean, all those songs are so high, yes, right? So, like, 40 years later, your voice literally can't do that anymore. No, no. And you, you saw this evolution with you see this evolution with with artists as they age. It's just part of the aging process, you can't hit those notes anymore. What is tough with this is that it's just a whole new person, and so people are going to be immediately turned off by just the sound to begin with, instead of going, well, I like Lincoln Park, and Lincoln Park is more than just the lead singer, although that does contribute to the sound of the band, there's, I mean, very significantly, right? Like, well, I mean Chester, though. I mean seriously, so, I mean, I think that is the other reason that people are like people. Some people don't love Lincoln Park. They love Chester. Chester, right? And so, like, it's, it's a little bit weird because, like, they don't, they, like, they're just like, Ah, yes, Lincoln Park is a vessel for Chester, right? And again, it is. It's very traumatic because of the manner of Chester's death, right? You know, trigger warning here, but like, because he did commit suicide, because he did have these things, these demons that he was dealing with, right? It's a very delicate situation for a lot of people, because they have a lot of emotion tied up in that, right? And so anything at all. All happening is, like, really a difficult situation for them, because they just love Chester only, not only, but like, mostly, right? And so they have all their emotions tied up into that aspect, and not necessarily, like, Well, yeah, the other guys probably want to, you know, they miss him too. They even talk about it all the time. Like, Mike talks about, like, every single interview he has, he talks about Chester, right? All of them, even the new ones, with the new singer, he still talks about Chester all the time, because they were buddies, and they were friends, and they, you know, had a lot of stuff together. And almost 20 years, right? Yeah, over 30 years, yeah, yeah. So, like, it's a whole thing. And so when, like, I just don't know how I feel about the people, they're like, You're betraying Chester. You're like, okay, hold on. No, I think no. I think in that context, you go, Chester was an artist. He was a recording guy. He was a performer. He he's gonna want his thing to perform and go on and do stuff like that's kind of where you go, well, it is a bit bigger than than him. And obviously we don't know what he would want or whatever. But my perspective, I go, Okay, we just need to take this for what it is. It's, it's mostly Linkin Park. What do they have a new drummer too? I think, yeah, they have a new drummer, and I think the guitarist is not gonna perform with them, but he's gonna be like, because of, like, family stuff. I think he's gonna like, write and, like, help with, like, studio things, do studio recordings, yeah? But he's not gonna be like, touring, sure, Brad or whatever. I don't think he's touring with them, yeah. So you go, what is this? Well, this is, this is a almost 30 year old band, yeah, you know, trying to evolve. It happens. You just go, Well, I'm either going to go, Yeah, I like where they're headed, or I don't. And I can't get upset about that. I can't be mad at the members for wanting to continue to do something and do recording and work, because this is their job. Right at the end of the day, like they need they're working. They're doing stuff. I can't be mad about them for that. I can't be mad at them trying to reinvent themselves and continue to do the thing that they love. So I just take it on. Am I going to like everything that comes out from this point forward? Probably not, but that's okay, because they're going to find new people, and they're going to get connected with other people, and it's the Hybrid Theory albums not going anywhere. I can still enjoy that and not be angry, right? Like that's true, and I think you said something really important here, right? Because already, right? Already that there's this thing that happens right, where, where, where everybody thinks about Lincoln Park, right? And they do think about Hybrid Theory, and they think about Meteora, not the five other albums that they have that nobody mentions as their favorite Lincoln Park album, right? If I look at this discography list, nobody mentions Minutes to Midnight, nobody mentions 1000 suns. I didn't even know living things existed, or zero party, or one more light from zero is the new one that's going to release in November. That's the one. But no, there's, there's one from, it's called 0x e, r, O, from 1997 Oh, that's, that's like, probably their, before their major studio thing then, yeah, probably, like, a self released deal, right? Or, like, nobody mentions these other albums. It's like, oh, this is my favorite. Like, um, no, because they're like, Oh, this is kind of like Lincoln Park sound, but like the new stuff, like the people that I heard commentating on this, they, I heard them mention, like later albums, names for what it kind of reminded them of, right? So it's similar to, like, later in Lincoln Park, which some people already didn't like. So, like, no, like, I don't like this. Like, we already didn't like anything after Meteor anyway. So what are you mad about? I know, yeah, let's be very real here, right? When we go to Yeah, Hybrid Theory, 2000 Meteora, 2003 Yeah, it's it is very telling. Is very telling. If you listen to somebody who likes Lincoln Park, who talks about one more light, which came out in 2017, or even minutes to midnight, in 2007 the gap between Meteora and 2003 and minutes to midnight 2007 it's decades long like the that is a very different group of people who are favorite is the Minutes to Midnight versus Meteor. Like you just can't, just you can't, you know, again, can't deny that. And so to go, they're coming out with an album that says from zero. It kind of sounds like they're going to be starting from, where from? Yeah. Euro as a new band in 2024 24 years, basically two and a half decades after Hybrid Theory. I hope they're different, right? I hope they're not just playing the same stuff. And, yeah, they're not for and this is the other this is the part that really gets people angry about this is when you go, they're not for you anymore, right? They're not, they're not for you. That's it for me and people. People get really offended, right? Because what happened? You changed the thing they changed the thing that I liked, Yeah, but you're also not an angsty 17 year old anymore. I mean, right? I mean, part of my soul is, this is why I still like a lot of the music that I liked when I was 17, right? But I don't like modern music for Angie 17 year olds, because I'm not a modern, angsty 17 year old. Yeah, right. Does that make sense? Oh yeah. There's part of your soul that gets stuck musically in a certain stage of your life where it's, like, really important, because you're, like, emotionally developing, and you're doing all this stuff, and so that music is, like, hyper important for that moment. So not only is like, you've tied a lot of this stuff to your own self in such a way, it's, like, deeply personally in a certain way where, like, it's not rational, right at all, and there's no way to rationalize it, but it is true, right? It is there. It is a thing that exists. So you can't like, like, yeah, maybe you don't like. I mean, if I look at the sales figures from just minutes to midnight versus Hybrid Theory seven years, right? Worldwide sales figures, Hybrid Theory, 32 million records, right? Minutes to Midnight, 20 million. Yeah, right already, right? We have a discrepancy. Right already we have a thing. Don't even get me started on 1000 suns, because that's less than a million in the US only. Oh no, yeah, a decade, a decade after Hybrid Theory, they're less than a million. Yeah. And that's, that's exactly people go, I like Lincoln Park. What they really mean is, 17 year old me, 16 year old me, 15 year old me, in 2000 likes Lincoln Park, yeah, and they're an important band in who I am and who I became and who I was at the time you you are messing with a part of how people have defined themselves and their interests, that in their mind, it's still the same band, and they haven't bothered to look at anything new or modern. And because, if they were 17 today, what would they find? What would a 17 year old be listening to today? Not Hybrid Theory, if we perfectly honest, nothing that cool, probably, but nothing again, not biased at all. Everything's fine, yeah, but like, yeah, it's exactly right. And, and, you know, even after that, like, Hybrid Theory is their best selling album. You know, again, this is a very genre defining moment in, like, music history, because I do remember when Lincoln Park came out. Like, everybody was like, Oh, hello. What in the world is this? Like, it was completely new, completely different, like crazy. And so everybody sat up and took notice, right? The whole world literally went, Oh, yes, what's this? Right? Just a side note. I'd like you to know that some of these sales figures include cassette tapes. So that's fun. There's, there's Hybrid Theory cassettes floating around out there that you could probably find on the internet that might, I might need a Hybrid Theory tape that might need to happen anyway to do. I think I also think us like, even though it is a controversial decision, right? I think having a female singer now does distinguish the eras of Lincoln Park, like, very differently. Because I think it would have been like a really bad idea to go out and been like, oh yeah, this person sounds really close to Chester. Like, almost exactly. We should get interesting for us. Like that would have been a worse plan. I think, yes, again, you have to think about from their perspective, like, what do you what do you do your band? You want to keep going. Nobody's currently in the band is a lead singer. What do you do? You're gonna go all acoustic. Nope, yeah. Where's, what are you gonna do with Mr. Han, if you're go all acoustic set, where's that's good? Like, are you gonna go out to the the the impersonator circuit and trying to. Find a Chester impersonator. One is one. There's several that are really good, yeah, but, like, how effective to the Yeah, right? Like, I think it's more bad, right? Like, a more like, Oh no, that because that says, Oh, we are replacing Chester. Yes, we, we, because what they are saying is, yeah, you're right. The only thing that differentiate us was, was Chester. So that's what we have to do. Here's new here's New Chester, right? Welcome. But what their smart thing to do is we want a new sound. We want to, you know, still pull from our experience and how we've tried to define ourselves, but we want to be new in some way. And gotta be honest, lead singer is a great way to change your sound from top to bottom, so you you just from as much as I go. I don't know if it's for me, like I sure I could listen along, not sure I would actively go out and buy the new album, but I get what they're doing. I understand. It makes sense. It's important, and it's part of what musicians do. And I hate to be so practical about it, because, again, they are one of my all time. I mean, just me bands from top to bottom, but I have to go right in my I hope to not be the same person, running the same business, doing the same things in 20 years from now, right? Like, no, so you got to give them props for, at least for trying and for doing something that they are are still passionate about, yeah. And I think Mike kind of talked about it in an interview that I saw of him, because I was very drawn into curious about this whole thing when it happened the other week. But like, like he was talking about how, like, they do, like, every once while they would get together, just like, bringing people and just like, play and like, kind of mess around, right, sure. And, like he said, The reason they settled on her as the singer is because whenever they would play together, they would all just kind of look at each other and be like, Oh, that sounds like a party. Oh yeah. Like, oh yeah. This is kind of vibing, like some of the other people was like, Oh, this guy was fun. Guy was fun, but it wasn't like, you know, the vibe or whatever. So, so I think, you know, if they like it good for them, because, like, they have songs they probably need to write, and because they're musicians, they need to, you know, they have, they need to create an outlet and stuff. So, yeah, I don't care, right? Like, I just think it's very it's very interesting. The drama has ended, and you said that too, of at the end of day, they were sitting around going, Oh, that's the, that's the sound that we're looking for, that sounds this sounds like us. What more could you want from a band like you? Don't exactly. I don't want a band who bases what they do, you know, based off of what I want them to sound like, because that's not like that's not how music works. Sorry, people, musicians do what they love, and they pursue it with a fiery passion, because they're passionate about it. They love the sounds that they love, and they kind of hope that other people will come around them as soon as musicians turn and are like you can tell the bands who go, Well, this is the sound we have to do, because if this is what our fans want, they become completely disinteresting, right? Yeah, they become just kidding. They become completely irrelevant and disinteresting and stop being novel or exciting in any way, but their favorite sure do love them, right? Oh, well, but that's not Yeah, yeah. I think this is interesting to like juxtapose against one of my other favorite bands, right? One of my personal favorite bands is, like, Mastodon, right? Yeah. And every single Mastodon album sounds like very different to each other. And it's on purpose, right? They do that on purpose. They're like, yeah, we want to do this now, blah blah. And then they kind of, like, mess around for a while, and they go, Oh, no, we should do this. Blah blah. And then, like, that's what they do. It on purpose, right? And they've even said it interviews, like, Yeah, we like Leviathan. That's why we made the record. If you like it, you can still buy it, like, you can still listen to it. That's cool. Go for it. If you don't want to listen to crack this guy, because it's a little too psychedelic rock for you, listen to Leviathan, right? That's cool, right? Yeah, we don't care, like, we have different stuff. And so you could like it and you cannot like it, that's okay, like, it's there still, right, whatever, right. Well, I just wanted your official opinion on this matter as big Lincoln Park fan, right? So there we go, the official Collin opinion. What we've all been waiting for. I know it's, I know we have been, turns out, equivocator to the max. But also, get over your salespeople. It's not that, yeah, it's fine right now. Yeah, we. We'll leave alone. The part that she marked Scientology starts a little bit weird. We don't want Tom Cruise coming after me, so I won't tell you about that right now, but that part's a little sketchy. But the fact they have a different singer, okay? Oh, goodness. Oh, well, I think we should turn now to go back to the future, to jump ahead in time. Yes, right? I was trying to think of a good segue, but yeah, so I'm sitting here thinking like I gotta find anyway, oops, and I have rewound the book too far, aka, flipped too many pages backwards. Here we go. Yes, right. We left on a good spot here, because our next chapter is three years later. Yes, right. They I will say these three chapters are wild, right? They're insane. This is a lot. This is a lot. This is a lot of a climactic event, like, right here, we're only two chapters away from the end, and this is like a complete paradigm shift has occurred. We Yeah, like, Oh my goodness. Last we left our hero, or however we're going to describe, hey, here, right here, antagonist, protagonist, at least he had just uh defeated, uh, Knight errantry, uh, for good, excuse me. And, Oh, pardon me, yes, he did, yeah. And he broke the back of the night errands and immediately, not wanting to waste any time, exposed the whole plot. Right? He threw open, hey, we like. He exposed the fact that they had all these schools and workshops and factories and everything. And he just thrust the 19th century upon the sixth right? Because it's always good to follow. I think the quote is, it is always a good plan to follow up an advantage promptly. And that's what he said. And so he just let her fly and brought out the modernization immediately, right? And he attempted to use the knight errants as his like messengers slash Missionaries of the way, right? And because they were used to Gallatin around, and so he just sent them off to be proselytize the revolution and go around and convert people to modernity. That was the plan. Yes, well, and is it in this chapter, or was it further down where? No, it was this one where he, um, he's talking about the trains, and he kind of made, um, certain positions in the new new kingdom like to be kind of like sought after, so that he could scratch their ego and get them to work for him. So, like, nobody on the train was less than an earl or whatever, right? Yeah, yeah. He was basically like, Man, I need to get these guys to scramble for these and get them out of my hair and get them make useful. So, oh no, yeah, this is the, oh, look, this is this position. Is just so wonderful position. The super important I love, yeah, I love that. And they, they still wear their armor because they couldn't be parted from it. And, you know, oh. And they, Oh, what did they do? They, he said they would not stop wearing their armor, and they would give away tickets, as in, they would rob from the company. Yeah, of course, whatever. And also we get this very humorous like full blown satirist Mark Twain comes out here when he's talking about the when he's talking to Clarence. Hank and Clarence are having a conversation about how to get rid of the monarchy and bring in a republic, right? And Clarence has the argument that, well, once you've been exposed to a royal family like you just can't live without it, right? Yeah, this is actually the exact same argument that I've heard from modern English royalists. When anytime the dissolution of the monarchy comes up, they're like, oh, but no. But we're so used to having a king or a queen, like, what would England be without the monarchy? It means we would not be special anymore. And like, yes, interesting anyway. So the fact that Clarence is making the same point that I think Piers Morgan has made relatively recently is very funny to me. But then Clarence goes, like, off the rails, and he's like, what if, wait a minute? We had, like, Well, you're right, because the Royals are useless. But what if we had a royal family of cats that would answer every purpose would be just as useful? And he goes on to describe this this whole page. It's like talking about how it would might actually be more useful to have a royal cat family than actually royal family, right? Because you could have the pomp and the circumstance and the ceremony and the titles, and everyone would fawn over them, and they would know about as much as a king and queen anyway, and then you could just have them as figureheads, but they would be much easier to take care of, it much cheaper. And then he starts meowing. At the end of this, he does go into, like, full blown thing. And it was really funny. Like, he was like, half joking, but also Hank was like, ah, not a bad idea. Like, I don't know, yeah, he had pictured a distinct and perfectly rational and feasible improvement upon constitutional monarchy, right? So weird, like, wait, I'm sorry. Wait, we're not doing that thing, are we? Right? Uh, immediately after this, oh, man, this we have this chapter is all over the place. We have a bombshell dropped upon us right here, right we get a little bit more backstory into this situation in the following chapter, but we hear that basically, through a very humorous exchange here, that Hank basically what we've learned. I'm gonna summarize here, because going chronologically doesn't make any sense. Chronologically we have, we've, we've learned here, through this story, that Hank and Sandy have become married, yes, and to have a child, they do gasp, right? And the child is ill, right? And it's sick, and so they have to, they're taking care of it. It has the croup, you know, as all 1890s children had, I'm sure, and so. But who, who is there to help with the sick child. Why, Sir Lancelot? Lancelot, of course, right? You know doing there, even though he's out there being a bear of a real estate person or whatever he talks about your stock salesman or something, he, uh, takes his time to be with Hank and child and Sandy to help recuperate it and take shifts watching over it as it recovers in the what do they call it group tent, which is interesting. But you know, basically they they're adding like steam and stuff to help the respiratory disease of some sort of the baby. So, you know, that's a bombshell that we just get thrown in there. We do get a little bit of more backstory here later, because we learned why the child is named. Hello Central. Is the Wild's name. Hello, Central. More on that to come. But oh my gosh, that was like, I was like, what? So anyway, child is fine, and they go off to sea, right? They're going, Yeah, some sea air. So as any English noble does they take a vacation briefly to the north of France? But before we do that, yeah, we have a bit of a side note. Again. This comes out of like nowhere to like, he just sort of like, starts talking about it as another way to his experiment. He just starts talking about his experimental results. She'll be Coming forthwith. And he talks about he's created this idea to replace the tournament right, to keep these knights you know, entertained and sidetracked, right from bashing each other about with chivalric nonsense. He's come up with a plan, and that plan is inventing baseball. I love, yeah, he goes back, they're out for a month. He's like, Okay, you're doing better. He says, um, I had had a choice band of them in private training for some time, and the date was now arriving for their first public effort. Experiment was basically what Yes. And so this bar was funny too, because he has all these there wasn't a knight in either team who wasn't a separate sovereign. So again, these are high ranking people to so that people will be drawn. To it and want to watch it. They're all the rosters made up of Kings of some sort, right, or, like, very high ranking officials. And the part here that was really funny is that they say they tried to get just like a random person to be the umpire. Oh, and but because the umpire was of a lower station, none of them would respect the umpire's decisions, and they would just like beat him, whether that yes or the bad and so he says that they had to find an umpire that was a lofty government position, that would be the where the lofty government position would protect him, and he would be respected by the kings. And then it gives the list, and it says the umpire was Clarence. Bang. There you go, yeah. I love Yeah. That was hilarious. Our boys come a long way. Clarence, the real main character here, the real character arc. Clarence, he's really Yeah, yeah, and that's how this chapter ends. They're getting ready for their ball game. Yeah, this is a real weird one. It's just like, boom. Anyway, I feel like this is a situation where this was act, because the way it's written, it's actually just one long chapter. But I feel like Mark Twain was like, um, that's too long. Chop. Okay, anyway, let's go, Yes. He just he literally, it's literally just in the middle of a sentence, and it's like next chapter, and then it just continues with the exact same thought that he was having. However, my attention was suddenly snatched. Like, yes, yeah. These are weird chapter breaks. I don't think this one was really strange. It was very abrupt. It's like the worst chapter break ever, right? But now we have this, we get a little bit of backstory on this marriage situation, right? We get we figure out how Kim and Sandy came to be married, where he remarks on the fact that, due to chivalric customs, that she was his property until some other nighthead should win her and then, but she did, you know, Hunt Britain over for him when he was Mia and kidnapped as a slave, and he just decided that they should get married. And then he was like, actually, this was a great idea, because she's awesome. So she finally won him over. He's like, turns out she's great. The best part here is, when they're talking about this, he's talking about his dreams, and apparently he's been talking in his sleep, and for whatever reason, he's been saying hello central in his sleep, that's what he's been saying. Because he's been dreaming of talking on the phone, I guess, I don't know. And so she mistakes this as like some sort of, like, important personage from his past, yes, right? And thinks that this is some sort of important, long lost person to him, because she thinks that's a name for some reason, and she says that she has preserved it here in our child's name. And he was like, What are you talking about? Oh, I then he plays it off. He does Hank things like, oh, yeah, I know exactly what you mean, but I want to hear you say it, yeah, yes, right. And she says it like, I didn't laugh. I'm always thankful for that, but the strain erupted every cartilage in me, and for weeks afterwards, I could hear my bone clack bones clacking when I walked Oh yeah. And then when she did, hear him answer the telephone and say that he was like, no, no, I have officially decreed, in honor of our child, all telephone calls must be started this way. Yes, yeah, yeah, definitely. That's definitely a real thing that I did right now. But yes. So they go and they're, they're in the north of France, you know, as all English people do, they talk about how much they hate France, and they go vacation there. Oh, that's just how it works. And then leave their actual favorite parts, yeah, yeah. So they go there, and then he, you know, they're there for a month or so, right roundabout. And then he's like, Oh well, it's time to come back and lo and behold, the world is changed, but not for the better at all. Things have gone wrong in his. Absence, very, very wrong, right? He goes back and he has, like, a, it's like a movie moment where he's, like, walking through abandoned streets, like, there's no ships in the port, right? All the towns are deserted, right? You know, he just like, he's like, it's very, it's very, like, somber. He's talking about stuff. And then one of the comments is, barely, much had been happening. Like, yeah, just kind of casually it off there. Like, what in the world you talk about? So he, he's, he's wandering about any decides to go, is it here? Yes, incognito mode yet again, yes, guys, so we can sneak about and see what's going on, right? Um, and so he's trying to figure out what's happened, but it appears that the church has swooped in and taken control, right? His worst nightmare. Yes, right? They have swooped in, but we know not why or what caused this event to happen, right? Nope, so, so that is the end of that chapter. Short, confusing, cliffhangery, right? But he does eventually journey to Camelot, where he finds who else Clarence but Clarence? Clarence is here. Yes, of course, Clarence is here. Where else would Clarence be? We need Clarence to progress the story. This is the most terrible character. Actually, this whole story is Clarence, turns out, and what does he learn from Clarence? Oh, all the bad things have happened, right? Basically, for just a little bit people Yeah, and, yeah, yeah, yeah. We get the part of King Arthur's story that everybody knows about, right? But we've just been not mentioning the whole time that Guinevere and Lancelot have been a thing for very long time, and the king has finally discovered this right because, of course, of Lancelot two aggressive business dealings and buying tracts of land, obviously, um, right? He shorted some of Arthur's relatives, something on land or whatever, and they were so mad, they told Arthur about Lancelot, because everybody knows, except for Arthur, yes. Oh yes, oh man, so there's, there's war. War plants a lot in the king. There's, uh, this part was okay. So he's recounting, Clarence is recounting all the events to Hank here, and he's just sort of talking, and he's like, talking about stuff, and Hank, he's interrupting him, and he's like, No, oh. And then. But he's like, because he's Hank, right? The Interjections are hilarious. And he's like, oh and sir. K, he's like, No, not my shortstop. No. Like, that's Hank. There's other problems going on here. Don't you understand? Like, why stop with the baseball team for a while. Yeah, just if we look at important stuff going on here, and then he's like, really, really impressed that, like, the war correspondence is going on. And he's like, Oh, well, that's good. I'm gonna be that. He's he versus all the wrong things. But my favorite part here is when he's talking about all the people that Lancelot killed. And he's like, he's like, what? And he says, Sir Garris and Sir Gareth. And he's like, What? Lancelot loved them. He's like, Well, it was an accident. They were onlookers. And in Lancelot bloodlust, he just accidentally killed him. And it made me think of Monty Python, the Holy Grail. He just kills all those random people at the wedding. And he's like, oh, sorry, sorry. You know, I get a little bit excited, and I get Yes, it's just the wedding scene from oh my gosh, holy grail. Lancelot just flies into a fury, just starts stabbing random people. He's like, oh, sorry, sorry, did it? I didn't mean to sorry, yeah. Well, sorry, sorry, sorry, it's great, yeah. So we have this, and, you know, then, then Arthur has also been slain, right? So, everything's gone wrong, right? Everything's gone bad and right? So, so yes, and then he talks about, he reads the war correspondence and Hank's only responses, ah, that is an excellent piece of writing. Clearance. Very nice job. Yes, which is. Pretty interesting that it is much like you can actually go back and reread the stuff that Clarence wrote for the newspaper in the beginning. And this is far superior to Oh, right, much better. So, you know, yes. So he's like, Oh, and one of the king is he all right? He's like, No, he's dead. Like, oh, oh no. And the queen is now a nun, and everything is bad, and Hank is a wanted man, right? Because the church is after him for inciting all of this nonsense with his revolution, right? And but don't worry, because Clarence has a plan, everything will be fine, because Clarence, well, he has some sort of plan, right? Uh huh. But again, Hank has all the wrong conclusions to draw from this plan. He really, he really gets. He gets, I don't know, like, way too focused on, yeah, you're right. All he's focused on the wrong details, all the wrong things, big, come on. But I guess that's him just processing this, or just like, Well, but wait, I wanted to go in this direction. Or, like, I don't know, like, it's weird, yeah? And you know, Clarence is talking about, like, yeah, we have, you know, all of our army is gone because he's like, Yo, did you really think that you could, like, unindoctrinate these people from a whole lifetime of doing whatever the Church says? He's like, Well, I did. He was like, Well, you're wrong. The so their Resistance Army appears to be 52 teenagers, because, you know they were actually they've lived longer under the rule of the boss. So they're not like they're not falling back on indoctrination. This is just what I know. So this seems normal to me. So that's where they have they have this. So Clarence starts telling this plan like they fortified the secret factory in Merlin's big cave. Yeah, I like that. He says, not the small one, the big one. He's like, Oh yes, yes, yes, that one, that's where we secretly established, again, it's all like, oh yes, where we secretly established our first grade electric plant, but we didn't want to use it. Yes, we didn't want to use it, but we're going to use that one that we totally, you totally remember that, right? We definitely told you about that reader earlier. And so it's like, yeah, so they're guarding it, and they're gonna, like, reroute the wires to do stuff or whatever. And he's like, we built a wire fence. And he's like, yeah, it. He starts talking about how it's gonna be like an electrified fence, and how it's like construct. He goes into the construction details, because we know that's all Hank cares about, really. And he's going through and explaining to him how he's constructed. And Hank's like, no, no, no, you shouldn't have done it that way. You should have done it this way. Yes. And you're like, Hank, you're, I think you're focusing on the wrong part of the fact that you have to now have a fortified secret layer. Not that there's too many ground wires. Okay, I think that's not the most important part here. Yes. And then he's talking about how it might be too expensive, but, you know, use force for nothing like you want. Oh, yeah, it's just ridiculous. Yeah. And then is this the part where he goes, like, somebody talks about torpedoes. Wait, yes, yeah, yeah, right. After that, they've had, they had some sort of torpedo. I'm at. This sounds like a landmine, right? This is a landmine, glass cylinder, dynamite torpedo. But the way that they describe it, this is code for landmine, right? And so they're like, Yeah, we buried it. And then he goes, but you didn't test it. And he's like, Claire's kind of goes, we didn't test it. We've already blown up some church people, basically, is what he said. He's like, this interaction, he says, Well, I was going to but, but what? Why? It's an immense oversight not to apply a test. Yes, I know, but that's all right. I think a few in the public road behind our lines, and they've been tested. Oh, that all who did it a church committee. So they didn't really come to test the torpedoes, but they got tested. I have an accident, you know, blew them up, right? I do like the next exchange, though, is quite funny, because, did the committee make a report? Claire's just says, Oh yes, they made one. You could have heard it for a mile. Yeah, unanimous, that was the nature, oh, Lord, like, Oh, it's a great pun. They just slide in there. Like, yeah, I got them. Sorry. Right? He goes all this to officially proclaim the Republic. Right? We were talking about, we've been talking about it for a long time, right? He even said earlier, like he secretly wished to be the first president. But, you know, he knew that Arthur had a good many years left in him, and he didn't want to put the strain on the old boy. But he's dead now. So here we go. He officially authors, or dictates, rather, a the official proclamation of the Republic, right? And he's going to have them all printed up and sent out for everyone to read or be placed where they can be read to them, right? And he says, you know, he does say where they'll be located. And Clarence is like, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to just tell them where they are? And he's like, yep, we have to strike. We can't wait for defense. We must go on offense immediately. And so that's what they do. They says, we'll be ready to print these up in 10 minutes. And I see in the chapter, boom. They say, look at the Clarence. Looks around and goes, it's a pleasant old place. I wonder if I shall ever see it again. But never mind about that. Oh, boom, yeah. And now there we are. So we have reached a climax here, some climactic, catastrophic event has occurred. The all of the industrial revolution has been undone in less than a month. Uh, everything has been made illegal, no electricity, no rail, no no, nothing. So here we are, the final showdown at Merlin's cave. I'm guessing. I don't really, I'm guessing, yes, I believe, because they, they sounds like a very defense position. So playing minds and such. Man, I this is Twain guy. He's pretty, pretty, pretty good. But no, I continue to not know where this is going at all. Yeah, yeah. I don't know how this is going to end at all. I will say this story has gotten significantly better than the rambling chapters at the beginning, right when we just, like, went completely off the rails, and we're basically just, like, talking about, like, all kinds of other things. And it would just like, turn to that. So the last half of this book, I would say, at least, is much better than the first half, in my opinion, so far. But I, I'm like, You, I still don't know, like, what on earth is the resolution to this? Could this possibly be, right? There's, there can't be, like, an actual resolution, right? It's just gonna, like, end somehow, right? We know. We know things that we know. The only thing that I know for sure is Hank will be back in the present at some point. Yes, because he is telling this story to Mark Twain. Mark Twain, that is the setup that we had in the beginning, right? This is a story where the narrator is, Hey, he is right. He's telling this story to Mark Twain, and Mark Twain is writing it down. That's the setup here, right? So, again, accidental secret, bit more, right? It goes with our theme quite nicely here. But right? That's all we know for sure. That's all we know is that Hank is back in the present somehow, right? And because this is just a convoluted time travel story with no real rules, we know that he got to the past by being bonked on the head in a fight at the workshop, right? So my prediction is going to be the reverse bonk strat, where he gets bonked again, boom, and then maybe time travels again with another good, solid bonk to the noggin. I don't know, but we're gonna see, yep. That's yeah. That's all I got for it. Keep waiting. I, I really thought that it was going to happen when he was in the struggle as a prisoner, and he was all in disguise, and he was going to, I had, I had envisioned it just transitioning into him being taken into a place to be interrogated, and then escaping and going back to a castle and then fight anyway. I kind of thought that that was where the transition would take place. But yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah. We. This. We have this. We go on a vacation for the month. Oh, Clarence does explain in here that the his vacation was orchestrated by church spies, right? Clarence does make that appear to us. I forgot about that part where he talks about how the reason that he was told the doctors were church spies. So the doctors told him that his child needed sea air to be feeling Yeah, right, which doesn't make sense, because, as we know, in the late 1800s if you did have respiratory diseases, you needed like mountain slash desert air, right? It's where all the TB patients were into like Colorado, yes, yeah, or like New Mexico, right? Not the sea with the moist, damp, salty air. That doesn't make any sense, so, but the doctors told him to go to sea, and so he took a bunch of people to see on a boat, but the boat was full of spies, right? And Clarence knew this, because he was passed a message, right? And he was like, that doesn't sound like a thing that Hank would say. And then he told him to send Hank a message back, but Hank never received said message. Dun, dun, dun. So partly, this overthrow of the new revolution was overthrown by church spies and meddling. So we know that as well. That's another yes that I forgot to mention. So, yeah, that's fine. Yet another plot point. So that's where we are, two chapters away from a very confusing ending. Who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen? Not me, not me. So, oh, so. But I do know, yes, I have a Mark Twain quote of the week. I'm ready for this. Boom, there you go again. This one sort of goes in line with these chapters, I think, right? Um, based on kind of again events that happened to Hank so this quote says, Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was your first inspired by Hank It is ridiculous attitude about all this stuff that's good. Good. Okay, well, I will end this on a haiku to walk us out here. Hey, tiny paws patter, little wiggles, nub, a blur. Joy, wrapped in soft fur. Oh, that's a good one. We have a corgi. That's a good one. I have a good one. Oh, nicely done. She's She's 12 weeks old. She stays in the crate for eight or nine hours overnight. I We don't have potty messes inside the home. I don't know what's going on. I'm very This is bizarre, as bizarre, yes, I'm unsure about what's happening here. So, yeah, me too. So that's wacky, man. We'll see Yeah, yeah. So yeah, and on that, on that positive bombshell of There we go. We'll, we'll end there, and, man, we will rock it to whatever happens at the end of this book next week. Yeah, we will happens the conclusion. We'll see, we'll see how it concludes. Yes, stunning or not, it will conclude next week. Indeed. Oh, it's at this rate. It's gonna, I'm gonna, I'm Yeah, okay, we'll see. And then I have an idea that I'll mention to you later for our challenge. I like this patented, patented, oh brother, top five, oh brother, yes. Okay, all right. Got an idea floating around, so I'll shoot that to you a little bit later, and we think we'll go forth. I like that. All right. 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