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In a shocker to no one, both Brandon and Collin are suffering from allergies. To celebrate THREE YEARS of podcasting, we take a trip down memory lane and share our thoughts on the show. We give some of our all time favorite episodes, things we’ve learned, and what we hope to do in the future. Join in to get some amazing show recommendations, plus a teaser for the lost episode. 

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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, Pollan, and Aaron. On this week's show. dinky flat. Oh, boy.

Brandon  00:20

Oh boy. No. Is it going? I'm better? I think so. That's good. Oh,

Collin  00:29

no allergies right now. Oh my gosh, sneak up on you. Sneak the truck up on you and laugh You're right inside the head. actually doing pretty good. There so bad. It's actually a good thing. actually a good thing you canceled yesterday because I can talk much better today. So that's a bonus. That glad I could be of service as you're like, Oh, really? Sorry. We can like nope, that's fine. No worries that everything is fine. Yeah, that was actually more like it.

Collin Funkhouser  01:08

Well, yes, I'm glad you can clearly talk and, and hopefully you're doing well for our three year

Collin  01:19

extravaganza,

Brandon  01:20

Dan Dennett.

Collin Funkhouser  01:24

I had to keep track of the notes. And I almost forgot that today was that so?

Collin  01:28

It was? I couldn't remember if it was this week or next week, but I knew it was soon. Soon. So soon. It was today. Like wow, there you go. So soon, it's now now i don't know i somewhere I said yes. This celebrating three. Truly just straight up to 356 episodes. So three years. I don't know what exactly our like, actually, like when the date of our first published episode is I

Brandon  02:02

would have been well, probably a few weeks ago. Yeah, that's right. But that's alright. It's fine. We were aiming we were targeting the number

02:14

you're targeting the episode cat,

Collin  02:16

not the data.

Brandon  02:17

So it's fine. Yes. So

Collin  02:21

yes, yes. Three years of this, whatever this whatever this has become. What do you have thoughts?

Brandon  02:33

Whenever Yeah. I mean,

Collin  02:37

like, do we have are we gonna put these in particular order? Or like, Oh, I didn't know. I thought first of all, I was like, wow, we did a thing for three years. That is surprising.

Brandon  02:53

Yeah, that's kind of crazy. Like.

Collin Funkhouser  02:56

And I think we only I think we only missed like, one. I think we had

Collin  03:02

one or we only missed one. And that is no, we missed one because of data corruption. Yes. This is wasn't even our fault. Yes, we didn't even do it. We had an episode. There is a last episode. Again, what maybe someday we'll revisit the contents of the last episodes.

03:17

So sprinkle that out there. There was a last episode.

Brandon  03:24

We did replay. One week. Like, what do you do each post? Like a popular episode or something? I did. I did a best of Yes. Like whoopsie. Daisy, we've had a problem.

Collin  03:38

And we had a whoopsie Yeah. But yeah, so I think that's that's the most impressive thing for me, is the fact that out of 156 We've only missed we had one that didn't quite work out. And it was it was our fault.

Brandon  03:54

Yes. So we didn't even we didn't even like skip or break or anything we just add made him did something weird happened.

04:02

So but yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  04:06

so yeah, I don't know if you want yeah, I don't know. You have a you have an order you want to go in or do you want

Collin  04:11

really? I mean, I just like not like an official. I didn't like write anything down. Obviously that would be too. We don't prepare much. No, no, very rarely do we do that. But yeah, I'm just like, I was wondering if you had some Greatest Hits. Write some highlights. episodically if you were things that you were like, oh, yeah, that was really great. I really liked that one. Ones that you're like, yeah, we can do better. No, they are all treasures in my all mid tier. No, I'm just kidding.

Brandon  04:52

Just kidding.

Collin  04:54

No, oh, man. Oh, I mean, I have I have I was thinking about this the other day. And I actually should have written it down at that point in time, because

05:06

I was like, I'll write that down later. No, no, it's gone.

Collin  05:13

I was there was what was it? It was because I was trying to think of like one or two previous episodes that were really impactful. And I just can't think of any of their names right. Now part of this does have to do with the naming nomenclature that you have adopted. Were not always obvious. With I. Not entirely sure.

Brandon  05:39

Right now, now. Are they great titles and humorous? Yes, yes, absolutely. And I love them very much. But

Collin  05:49

will they help you finding things? Will they

05:51

help in our archival

Collin  05:54

become it when the historians come back to put together our lives and repeat our AI on these episodes? No, it will not be helpful in that at all.

Brandon  06:08

I think one of my that,

Collin  06:09

that that in and of itself does tell you what our API's are gonna be like, though if it gets chaotic. The pretty awesome. I have really, one of the early ones was what it was coastline of couches was just is a good one for me. I really, really appreciated that one. It was really funny. Yeah. And then some of the early ones that they set the tone right of just randomness that's about to happen. Also, my fav one of my favorite early ones is the more corn and hogs please, where I just go off for way too long. About how I don't like eight accuracy and Hallmark movies. That one is great. I like that one a lot. That's pretty good.

07:02

That's a tone setter episode. That lets you know what you're in for.

Collin Funkhouser  07:06

The Long Haul listeners are still figuring it out. I also have always I've also really enjoyed our our text adventure games. Those have been quite humorous, especially when we got to do them in person, though. Yeah,

Brandon  07:20

it was the surprise ones. Oh, yeah, that's true. The first ones, we have to select the first ones. And then there's other random ones somewhere. Yes,

Collin  07:31

those are fun. I also like it when they're surprise. When Aaron and I have to go, Oh, no paper, where would it go? Find don't know. exists? Exactly. Yes. Yeah. I also like to be Kind Rewind episode.

07:52

That one was quite,

Brandon  07:54

quite good. How you should be nice to people like that with you. It's another trendsetting episode. I think. Some of the themes in there we touch on more than once. So I feel like that is another solid episode. My opinion. Yeah, because that one

Collin  08:15

I Well, yeah.

Collin Funkhouser  08:17

You're scrolling. Are you in the archived one? Did it load for you?

08:22

I'm on Google podcasts. Just scrolling down.

08:29

I'm in my note when we help me,

Collin  08:32

because I can't open one of the archive things because the file is too big to open on my phone. This is and it's like, Nope, don't do that. Nope. Going not quite as far back as some of those. But the good news episode was kind of another theme of the Be Kind Rewind. of good news. Things that bring us joy in the middle of a little bit of chaos. Back in a good old 2020. Understatement of the year, the little bit of chaos.

Brandon  09:06

Yes, yes. I would agree with that. The good news episodes are several of those. I think there's at least two maybe three. Yeah, remember, there's at least two because I know there is more good news

Collin  09:23

as well or good news.

Brandon  09:26

Those are good ones. Right. Nice. Again, more themes happening. Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  09:34

unfortunately, I'm looking at some of my notes. And I'm very glad that the time from when we record an episode when I edit it is mostly very short. Because

09:47

you know, son always makes sense.

Collin Funkhouser  09:50

Usually just little snippets and little phrases that are meant to like, like jolt my mind about what is in this file and what should I write about

Brandon  10:02

That's fair. That's fair.

Collin  10:05

Oh, oh, another man. Yeah, we were we had 2020. Duck, we had a lot of good ones in there because I really liked the two back to back ones that we did were hacky sack and where we talked about the extreme 90s Oh man,

10:19

always a classic Daljit always a winner,

Collin Funkhouser  10:22

followed by our grunge esque, which was actually another celebration episode because that was our that was our one year podcasting episode. Oh, we were that was the challenge where we had a music. What was it? Period, and we had to, or genre music genre. And we had to listen to some examples of that. And we played those snippets. And then we Yes,

Brandon  10:50

that's excellent episode. Mostly. Because

Collin  10:55

Do I still play stoner rock at work sometimes on my playing period in the background while I'm getting my work done? You bet I do. Listeners you a bad idea. It's excellent background, especially the just like I said that. Like I said that I've said the stuff that's like, wall of soundy. And like not like no vocals and stuff. It's great as turned on below. It's just on because quiet in the room. Isn't that you know, not always the best. So today, actually, when I was making some of my dad was doing my data entry. stuff so yeah, helps keep you focused. Yeah, because you don't want to be listening to like, you always like you don't always want like classical music that makes you sleepy. So, um, yeah. So that episode is important because it has it still as it has continued, because I've still been listening to that

Collin Funkhouser  11:55

our everyday carry challenge. I still carry the Gerber multi tool in my pocket and stab my hand with it. At least I do

12:04

that what was the one where you were so add a bit of a like, I hate this. I'm definitely not gonna do this anymore. Because I still have it.

Collin  12:11

Here's the thing. I've learned that the Phillips head screwdriver on that is a lifesaver when I'm in client's homes, because something that you don't know is that a lot of clients homes have door handles that are about to fall off. And because they did little screws, oh yes, I happens in my apartment a lot. Everyone's will always have to like

Brandon  12:36

redo them.

Collin Funkhouser  12:37

Yeah, and so I'm worried that I'm going to get locked out locked in something so I have actually like even during meet and greets with clients taken out that tool and then like here, let me just get this real quick before I leave their door and

Collin  12:53

they just look at you like

Brandon  12:54

hey, that's weird. But But I still

Collin  13:02

I still have the the flashlight is it's been I've let that's become my desk flashlight. Because it is it is far too heavy. To be an everyday carry flashlight. It is very small and the metal is very, very dense. And so it's not very practical for like lightweight, quick, easy access stuff. It's more baton and so like a very very tiny tiny baton of caliber so I that has been relegated to my desk flashlight when I'm so that way if I'm recording at night or editing, I don't have to turn on a big light or my lamp. I can just click that and I go What's this over here? Look at this. I do less stuff in the dark. So it is right. Next door I don't usually turn the light on in the house. Like I turn lamps on. So that's fine. Yes. Yeah. I mean, the rehash things that I carry in my pocket is nothing. So I have upgraded. Upgraded you see, because I have since moved to the backpack method.

Brandon  14:06

I have I have graduated to the backpack.

Collin  14:12

Right? So we have a very radically different carrying setup. Like it's 100% Different, right? Like, yeah, you've you've gotten Yeah, what could be known as a an extremely large external pocket. That's true. It's not big. It's like a small backpack. It's actually like one of those ones. It's like a so this was one of those situations where I talked about sometimes were kind of in the spirit of the EDC challenge actually where I was like I'm gonna buy a cheap version of thing and then see how it goes right so I bought just on Amazon some random backpack and it's like a business see like, it's supposed to be like a carry on backpack, right? For like traveling and stuff. It has like these weird like annoying little lock thing that you can lock the zipper together, which I don't use, obviously, but it's there.

Brandon  15:05

But it says it's a small size because it's designed to be like, put on the plane and stuff. But it has the like computer pocket in it. And then a pretty big main pocket and in the front has a smaller pocket with all the pin stuff and the things in there. Oh, yeah. Okay, I

Collin  15:24

just was like, No, this one's good. i This is fine. For right now. The major pocket annoys me slightly, because it has like a, it has the laptop, flappy thing, the padded part, which is fine. But then there's another thing in there. That's like, just a little dinky flap that I don't really know what you're supposed to put in there. And it's just kind of in the way and I want to cut it out. But I mean, do I never remember to do that. There's just like attached to the back. And I don't really know what you're supposed to put in there because it's kind of useless because it's not very big. But it just kind of gets in the way when I put stuff in the main pocket. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Brandon  16:07

But so we have upgrade to backpack. So now it's like, water bottle.

Collin  16:15

like pins and notebook and lunchbox goes in the hair. Right? Because, you know, that's like, hey, you know, boom, this perfect. Put my lunchbox in here. You guys still have the chapstick. I don't think he's the same one. But I still have chapstick in there. So they go.

Brandon  16:32

And I keep my wallet in my backpack because I hate my pockets. So that's really annoying. Fair enough. Fair enough. And I've been meaning to buy a new wallet for about two years now. And I just keep being like, I don't care because most of the time I leave in my backpack right now. It's like over the summer when I had to put it in my pocket and like go places like Ah, dang it. This was crud I forgot that I did it like this.

Collin  17:09

Well, it's just it's like a leather one. Like, it's actually one Anita gave it to me. So I don't think they want to throw it away. Right? Because that's a little weird. But like,

Brandon  17:16

I like it's just too big. Because the only thing I carry is like my wallet and my debit card. And like my insurance card. Right? That's it. So I definitely need to find that smaller minimalistic thing to have because it's just like, there's no reason to have this. Leather. This leather like even like a leather front pocket wallet. But it's like so fat because it's leather. And I don't carry anything.

17:45

So it's kind of

Collin  17:48

Yeah, and I the whole wallet thing has been just a trip for me as we've discussed actually on this on this.

17:55

Yes podcast several more than one occasion I ever lived.

Collin  17:59

I have actually recently come into possession of a I guess update on that a and a magnetic so on my phone has a little magnet on the back and I could attach magnetic things to it. One of those is a magnetic wallet that snaps to the phone. Yes. Now Susan has the phone, wallet thing. Go. Now this is nice. Except it can only hold three cards. Exactly three, no more. No less than number shall be three. And which is fine. Except I do have more than that. Yeah, but it's like I have one that too. But it's not like a lot more. It's like four or five cars with all my insurance cards because I have the insurance card. I have the digital insurance card. I have the prescription card. I have my driver's license, and I have my debit card. So yeah, yeah, that's more than three. So it really it really is. So like, yeah, so I carry yeah, I've got like, personal debit. I have driver's license, I have business debit and other business debit and an insurance card. And then I have another one or something. So yeah, I've got like this, like five that would be like really perfect for me. So I do have to be careful about like, what am I going to be going out today and doing because if I'm like, oh, I need to go buy something for the podcast. I must swish out debit cards, because I couldn't I couldn't do that I need something. I start bawling there because I would be bad. I can handle that. There's no way there's no way I would forget every single.

Brandon  19:40

Yeah. So I

Collin  19:42

have to change. So anyway, so it's working out so far and because I don't really use it all that much. As far as the other, the other one. The other cards so it's just whenever like okay, I have to know what we're doing

Brandon  20:00

there. Oh, yeah, for like a specific Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.

Collin  20:06

Yeah. So yeah, I still don't carry much else I have a comb and a flashlight in my desk at work nice and have a knife in there to to science knife of science.

Brandon  20:19

That's so obvious obviously, it's in there. Oh, the most important thing is the lunchbox that I bought. Okay, they say this is Game Changer lunchbox games. Trying to nerd out about lunch boxes too much, but fine. This one is like the Freezie stuff is built into the lunch box.

Collin  20:41

So like, instead of having like a freezer brick thing that you put in there, you know, like there's big, stupid blue things. This lunch box like the freezer gel is sewn in between the lining of the lunch box. So I just throw my whole lunchbox in the freezer. And in the morning, I take it out. And I put my lunch in it and I throw my backpack and it stays cold all day.

Brandon  21:04

It's great. It's amazing. It's fantastic. It's

Collin  21:12

very,

Brandon  21:13

is it a goldmine? Yeah, right. Yes, this Exactly.

Collin Funkhouser  21:19

Why didn't people do this before?

Brandon  21:22

I don't know why this thing is kinda great. Because

Collin  21:27

the gel packs for a long time. I can't fly. There's just nothing.

Brandon  21:34

I don't know. I don't know. But it is life changing. Okay, can't as somebody that takes their lives to work every day. This is just incredible. incredibly useful, right? Because it's the whole lunch box is cold. Like, it keeps things cold all day. I mean, at least until lunchtime. Like you know, so. And it's not like, it's not like the old lunchbox where it's like just whatever is touching it is cold. Right? Like before, he'd be like, Okay, this needs to be cold. So I need to put this over here and then put the ice pack like on this thing. Right now. You just Yeah. Your Jenga your lunch together so that you could keep things cold or not. This is superior. In that you just you just throw the whole lunchbox in the freezer.

Collin  22:33

Yeah, everything's fine and cold. Yeah. This is most amazing. Okay, it isn't me. It's wonderful. Nice.

Brandon  22:45

I'll try I don't remember the brand name, unfortunately. Isn't it? Maybe I'll text you later. It is that's what it is. Okay. Yes. Yes.

Collin  22:53

So give me there. Yes. So so my my freezer so here's I searched freezer gel lunchbox and that was the number one hit. So

23:04

boom. That is it every go.

23:07

Pack. Yeah.

Collin  23:07

Is it products recommend hashtag not sponsored. But yeah, they are excellent.

Brandon  23:18

And of course, speaking of hashtag not sponsored. Also in my backpack, grafters pasa Lee's the throat lozenge of choice for teachers that podcast is like, again, hashtag not sponsored yet. Hey, listen, we're available. Here we are. Pushing your product hard here. I love this stuff. It's a wonderful

Collin Funkhouser  23:41

Progressors USA author putting the link Yeah.

Brandon  23:45

Oh man, things look real. That's great. Telling you. It's hard. Oh my gosh. They work so well. You don't even know.

Collin  23:55

You can explain a button that says relief for your throat and voice and there's a button that says Explore I don't know what I'm exploring but we are diving deep. Okay. elderflower goodness is what you're exploring. No. Oh my goodness. Yes.

Collin Funkhouser  24:13

Scrolling through here, I think another one of my episodes that I really enjoyed, specifically because it was another theme that then shot another memory into my brain. So this really teed it up for me is the obscure nature of many of the references. And because in the episode sod poodles did a deep dive into minor league teams that i i 100% do not believe exist.

Brandon  24:44

Well, they do actually hurt us. But

Collin Funkhouser  24:50

yeah, because the Amarillo sod poodles are thing. Listeners

Brandon  24:56

what you don't know is that Colin so didn't know that existed. in the show notes, he had originally written sod puddles. And I had to be like, no, no, that's not what he said.

Collin Funkhouser  25:08

I was so I was so thrown off by just the entirety of this. I had no idea what to do with my life. Like because much like when Aaron talks about towns in Oklahoma, this was, this was a point where my brain is really short circuited on what was happening during the conversation. And what cued me into this was the fact that this episode was followed by our deep dive into Milo and Otis on another nice genre and our discovery on air of cinema cats. Oh,

Brandon  25:46

yes. The most important episode we have done possibly

Collin Funkhouser  25:57

were, again, our, our our love and adoration of of things of the obscure nature and the novelty, again, the niche of genres others, and finding the fact that there is an entire website that is still up and running and going.

Collin  26:22

Is a lot.

26:25

She's very productive.

Collin  26:27

There's literally one posted today. Oh, yeah. Next she posts about one a day, most most days she does.

Brandon  26:36

She's intense. She's a workhorse that one. Yes. Was Linda? Man. Great. Yeah. Wonderful stuff.

26:43

I Yeah. So that that.

Brandon  26:47

That episode, also notable for just the real time confusion. As we tried to remember what on earth happens in myeloma notice, and really not being able to come up with an answer.

Collin Funkhouser  27:03

We really struggled. Oh, that was the one where I had that mystery sound were like here.

Brandon  27:08

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

27:11

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh, yes.

Brandon  27:16

I heard a quote one time that listening to a podcast is kind of like being dead. Like if you were a ghost, and like, you can't interact with other people. I feel like that is really personified in this episode. Because, you know, there was people like screaming at us like No, you idiot. It's this

Collin Funkhouser  27:38

business, this is the obvious answer. What are you talking about? As we as we really just stumbled in the dark, through a lot of stuff in that episode, as we learned in real time. Yeah. A lot of the childhood memories weren't

Brandon  27:52

quite exactly the fever dream. That was my low notice. Oh

Collin  27:56

my gosh, I know. It really, really was. Much like when Aaron tries to describe here and gives his brief rundown of rocket Doodle in that was beautiful, though.

Brandon  28:14

And also, it makes sense because that really doesn't make sense either, right? Like what in the world is going on? Oh,

Collin Funkhouser  28:26

oh, now I'm just scrolling and looking at all of these and being like these bills.

Collin  28:32

In our in our in the episode came out and I guess it was April or such of the the away cafe where we

28:42

kind of man that was

Collin Funkhouser  28:44

just really went off the deep went off the rails. As far as yes anding the ideas that could come forth from what we started with the Rainforest Cafe and then very quickly did not end up there

Brandon  29:06

is that the spiraling out of control theme very important. Here on the Oh, brother podcast, where things go sideways in a hurry. It's fine, though. Everything is fine.

Collin  29:22

I just think some of the ones that really I really appreciate are when we do like, you know, the the watching movie challenge, um, you know, like the one that was kind of around this era, I think it was like, pick a foreign animated film not from that was not anime, right? Yeah, take that one. Or even you know, when recently were like, you know, pick shark movie or, like, yeah, we're looking at observing media. And that obviously kind of leads into our multi review of the outsiders. Oh,

Brandon  30:00

that's true. That's true. Right? I think it started way back with the wonderful episode hit the random button where we didn't watch anime, right? Because none of us are really anime enthusiasts, right? Like, I have watched it before. And it's like, I still don't really watch it that much right didn't change me that much. Aaron was the only one who had more experience. But I think that was one of the early ones where we were like, Yeah, we're going to watch something that is out of our comfort zone and see how it goes. Right. So like, kind of that theme happening in the thing, followed up, of course, by the classic. This is only half over, where Colin and I went to mega extremes with movies from India, where I watched 70. And he watched half of

Collin  30:59

hmm, yeah, in the show notes we have 12345. Yeah. That were watched by Brandon. I went a little overboard. And the half of Louis that I could not, I could not get through. That's still haven't slavit you. So that's just sitting out there. It's kind of one of those like, you know, like, there's things in life. It's just a running

Brandon  31:22

joke. It's he still hasn't watched it. That's

Collin  31:25

just sometimes they each be sometimes the satisfaction comes from not completing in it

Brandon  31:31

at all. That's true. But then also when we did the like you said, so that kind of led into the later on the animated movie, not from the US or Japan. Right? Yeah. Because we obviously have a long history with us animated movies, and are at least marginally familiar with one sword, Japan. So what else was out there?

Collin  31:54

Yes. I think maybe that one was

Collin Funkhouser  31:58

impactful for me because the movie I watched was not. It was pretty terrible. Yeah,

32:03

it would have to be one. Yeah.

Collin Funkhouser  32:07

Kind of thing. You were like, Oh, the secret of the cows. And I was like Waltz with Bashir. Yeah, it's this heavy sadness, really heavy and impactful, and just tears all around.

Brandon  32:19

Yeah. And then that led us to our, of course, Ukraine week. Right. I love that episode. That's right. Well, we did that one. And we talked about Ukrainian movies and stuff like that. So I think that's a good, good thing. I think we definitely got to keep expanding on that theme. Because I like those, like watching random things that you've never seen before. And I think one of the things I like about doing the show is that we can do that, right. It's kind of an excuse to do that kind of stuff where like, push your personal boundaries a little bit like what is this explore things that you have not explored before? Like expose yourself to new stuff and try it out? And I think that's a that's a really important theme that I'm really proud of that we have done right, a lot of try to do some I think out of the themes that we do, right? I think that is one that I really like is the kind of explored new things. Try new things. See how they go because obviously you're not gonna like everything right as Collin does not like Indian films, obviously. But I watched just just getting I think that's a good one. I like those. I think those are fun. Those are some of my favorite ones that we do. Yeah,

Collin  33:37

because I kind of is the exact opposite of the other theme. I think that plays a really big in the show is the nostalgia part. Obviously that's very heavy. And a lot of things that we do, but I do think we are balancing it out with the we have no experience with XYZ Yeah, I think that is it's good to

Brandon  34:00

be both right yes.

Collin  34:03

And just the discovery of new things is something I always appreciate of how one little statement or one thing well like when we were when you were you were reviewing the movie fall right all it was like oh yeah, this insanely tall tower is kind of right down the road. Wow.

34:25

Yeah

Brandon  34:29

shocking revelation if ever there was

Collin  34:31

one I think it's because we all will agree that a very healthy aspect of of a well rounded well lived life is always trying something new and different. And it doesn't have to be like today I'm going skydiving and tomorrow.

Brandon  34:55

I'm gonna climb this giant tower. Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  34:57

see, we all know where that goes. We'll we'll see Movie

Brandon  35:01

stands a loser, don't let Dan bring you down.

Collin  35:07

But you're going, I could sit and watch a Top Gear episode for the literally 7000s time and just cite it all verbatim do that or I could watch something, you know, like Waltz with Bashir like that took up the same amount of time it was gonna watch Top Gear anyway, so might as well do something different and dive into it that way, or like the Ukrainian week and kind of how that was like a very, very interesting deep dive into a lot of different aspects, especially in times where all of a sudden something hits this global stage and realizing well, I don't know anything about the actual people who are suffering right now. Yeah, right. It, it really takes it a lot in humanizes it, and makes the world a lot smaller, which I think is really important. And it stops becoming so much of a Oh, the others, like, like them over there. And because the more you have these little connection points, the more and obviously, everyone cultures are distinct and have their own histories, that makes what that's what makes them so, so beautiful and unique. But we have a lot in common and you don't know those common touch points, until you take a few moments to look. And yeah, that week was very impactful for me to, to kind of go through that process. And, and realize it's one of those moments where you're like, Why No, my childhood books, but like, what are childhood books on the other side of the globe? Or what, like, I know who I know, our, you know, founding fathers of literature for America for you know, whatever. But what does that look like? You know, what themes? What context Are they pulling from, to make their world? And?

Brandon  37:03

And that's really cool. Yeah, I think so too. That's what I got out of it. As well as try that he really said, I think he said really good, the humanizing aspect of that. And you know, that kind of, like what is important to this group of people. And when you see movies produced by them, TV shows produced by them, read things produced by them, you get glimpses of that, right? And like you said, you notice like, Oh, that is the same. That is important to me, because this is the thing that I like to read about, or this is a thing that I consume. Right. And it's, you see the similarities, and they're, they're much more apparent than you would think on the surface. Right? Because, you know, a lot of people tend to think like, oh, you know, this person lives in a completely different place to me, they must be completely different. No, not really. Right? Yeah, no. Excuse me. Sorry. So I thought that was a really good one. It Ukraine week one. That was that was good. I have to throw a dart at another random country

38:09

sometime soon.

Collin Funkhouser  38:11

Hopefully, yeah. Let's let's do that before and that just make the old brother learns about the current country being invaded weak?

38:18

Well, yes. I think yes, we need to have a

Brandon  38:21

better context. Right.

Collin  38:23

I would have. So, yeah, I don't know. Did you have any others that have stuck out to you?

Brandon  38:34

I was going to go back to because I know kind of cut off when you were talking about Apone. Right. Oh, yeah. Friend are weird. Like seven part expos a slash literary analysis, slash book club. Read along of the outsiders. That was really I enjoyed that a lot, I think. Partly because we just had material for seven episodes in a row, partly, you know. Like that level of kind of like, thinking about literature. I mean, even it wasn't even that great, right? I'll be the first say that, like, I didn't do the best job. But like, that's not something that you I normally do when I'm reading for funsies. Right. And so it was nice to do something like that. And like the, like, again, the theme of like, exposing and reading this thing that was completely foreign to me never been before. Been out of the loop, right. I realized a couple of weeks ago, maybe last week, I was ragging on like, the book talk people for having opinions about a thing that's old. Listen, I know I did that too. Okay. I just want listeners to be like, okay, like, Listen, you moron. You did that, like yes, I know. I'm aware. But I didn't do it in like five I'm in a video going, oh my gosh, can you believe that? Like so it's a format is important, but but just be able to talk about that and like kind of going through that process. And I think, at least for myself, personally, the roller coaster ride of this isn't so bad. Okay, oh my god, I hate this so much. Okay, actually, it was fine. Like that sort of emotional roller coaster was interesting for me to go through I was reading that book Great. The range of emotions was vast during those times,

Collin  40:42

which, which again, is as a reminder of like, how many times I don't I don't know if I would have kept reading the book, much past the first couple of chapters, like, had we not been setting on this quest to finish at all because it was like, Okay, well, this is really weird work. I don't like this at all. Those first couple chapters. But you have to finish the book, right? Like finishing a book sometimes. Yeah. Like, it's

Collin Funkhouser  41:11

like, I understand I have I have unfinished books before.

Collin  41:16

But I think that kind of like as I've grown in like listening to music, the the importance of like, listening to an album, from beginning to end, has become more important to me, because, like, the artist has put the album together, hopefully with some thought and, and idea of crafting and experience hands on. The artist depends on the artist, right? Like, I know, I know. But, but even more so for like a book. Where, where that was kind of the point, right? Yeah, where it's like, okay, like I least need to, as long as it's not like 1000 pages or whatever, like I can, I'm gonna stick through this, to see where this person was going with this.

Brandon  42:03

Yes. And and what is their ultimate thing, right? They're going to tell us. So sometimes you have to wait to the end. Like any outsiders, you have to wait till the literal last page of the book. Come on. What does that but you know, it's a yeah, you have to get the whole point. You have to get the whole picture. And sometimes the end kind of saves it makes it better. Sometimes that book is a Picture of Dorian Gray, and there's literally nothing you can do to make it better. It's just horrible. The whole time through.

Collin  42:39

But it's favorite what?

Brandon  42:41

Aaron's favorite The Great Gatsby.

Collin  42:43

Gatsby. Yes, yes, yes.

Brandon  42:46

All right. So we got to get Collins least favorite book because we know my area. And so we got to figure out what kind of show my least favorite classical book is. Now that he loads with a fiery passion challenge. I love a Picture of Dorian Gray and Aaron loads. The Great Gatsby kind of find Collins least favorite book of all time.

Collin Funkhouser  43:10

Okay. I'll put some thinking into that. Okay, yeah, I would like to take that as a challenge I would like to revisit again, is another high school reading list challenge.

Brandon  43:22

I keep on the short side, where you read, like 700 Page novels, but I think it's a 280 some sort of book. I had a list the other day that was like what should be on a modern high school reading list. And I lost that thing. I lost that website. So

Collin  43:36

oh, I find that that'd be really interesting. There we would have completely out of context for but there's

Brandon  43:46

no idea whatsoever, like better versions of like, some of them are like substitutes. Like don't read this by Hemingway read this instead, because this is way better.

Collin  43:57

Or one of them was

Brandon  43:59

definitely if you're gonna read F Scott Fitzgerald. Why would you read Great Gatsby it is like, it's his first work. Like, why would you do that? You're way better.

Collin  44:08

It's a rite of passage, you must suffer together. See, see that's the common

Brandon  44:14

shoe. So that's on the list to do again to just some sort of book ish thing. Because I liked that. I thought that was fun. Yes, I did as well. And again, we got multiple episodes out of it. So Win win, right? Like definitely.

Collin  44:31

Look at that. More book clubs to come.

44:35

i Hey. I think

Collin  44:39

I was never involved in any sort of book clubs. And maybe it's just because I'm old now. But it's like, that's that's really nice. Like, I think I'd like to do more more Book Club II type things.

Brandon  44:53

I haven't really either but you know, it's it was fun to do that you Because I like to overanalyze things sometimes, right, it's,

Collin  45:03

it's kind of fun. No, I literally did this I, we made a, made a new acquaintance in, in town. And like, the first things, I was like, Do you want to read a book together? It's like, Yeah, sure. Yes.

Brandon  45:21

Now, otherwise, he didn't go like,

45:24

okay.

Brandon  45:25

Like, do you think give any sort of context of what you'd be reading? You're going to read like, Of Mice and Men together? Are you going to read?

Collin  45:33

No, it was more kind of like, business oriented kind of thing of like, coming together, like reading a book about business development, or whatever, and kind of how that would impact us and our businesses and having somebody to talk through that level of thing. Be good. See, okay.

Brandon  45:51

For that, sorry, not

Collin  45:52

really a literary analysis, you know, from a literary and analytical side of things, but just more of a, how does this apply to us? But even then, I think it's good. So yeah, I enjoyed this very much.

Brandon  46:04

I do. So had to find some time to sneak those in. So I know you're doing lots of books, you could do audio book. Now, since you're traveling.

Collin  46:14

If as long as I could find an audiobook version of it, I will be fine. You'll be good to go. I will say that. This past three weeks, two weeks,

Collin Funkhouser  46:23

two to three heads or whatever weeks since I've written the car. Yes, I'm very glad that I have in the rental to put all the miles as I drive back and forth from Sedalia to Springfield, sometimes multiple times a day.

Brandon  46:37

It's gross. There was

Collin Funkhouser  46:41

one day where I had to be down in the morning. So I drove down. And then I had a last minute meeting back home. So I had to turn around, go back home. And then was like, Well, I have to be back in town in Springfield for the next morning. So I guess I have to go back to Springfield tonight. Like six hours in the car like this? No.

Collin  47:05

That's horrible. Yeah. Which brings me actually to another side side note of we love sides.

Collin Funkhouser  47:17

Something I was gonna comment on, was,

Collin  47:20

I maybe it was just where we grew up how we grew up, I don't know. But I remember a portion of my life growing up, where we rolled the windows down a lot. Was this. Do you remember? This being a thing?

Brandon  47:36

I mean, it was probably what you were writing in my car because I rolled the windows down all the time, because the air conditioner didn't work. So like,

Collin Funkhouser  47:43

Well, I remember. But like, I just kind of remember seeing a lot of other people doing this kind of thing as well, like around town.

Collin  47:52

I don't see anybody with their windows rolled down anymore.

Brandon  47:57

Like at all right? Yes. And so

Collin  47:59

I the other night when I was driving back home late at night, I was like, No, I'm gonna do all my windows. I'm gonna play the music. kind of loud. Because it's fun.

Brandon  48:13

I never rolled on all the windows, right? You get that weird buffeting noise in our car like the if you roll down the back windows you get this horrible like noise window.

Collin  48:22

Yeah, so you have to roll down Yeah. In the in our Honda. It doesn't matter like I don't know what engineering they did to make it work but you do you never get the tu tu tu tu tu the air pressure in this Corolla like the second roll down the back when your your earphones are bleeding. Yeah, can't play can't

Brandon  48:40

do that. I only ever roll down the drivers.

Collin  48:44

So I rolled down the front two in the back to halfway and I gotta say it's really nice. It's still really nice. Yeah, I do that a lot

Brandon  48:55

right? Like I don't like I don't drive very much but like I do that frequently when I just throw the window down just because like Yeah, I know why I think I mean part of it. I think for me it does stem from the fact that my early my formidable teenage years when I was driving my air conditioners in the cars I was driving not really wonderful or functional that much right the Cavalier it was technically there but not really right now.

Collin  49:38

took up space under the hood. Yeah, that's for sure.

Brandon  49:40

I there was one there but did it work? Well? No. Didn't even really work most the time. No. And then of course the Dodge like no way. No, it was broken. It was technically there too, but like definitely not functional here, but but not the

Collin  50:02

and maybe that's true because the like the Jeep, it had awful.

Brandon  50:05

Um yeah, AC as well.

Collin  50:11

So I guess that's I guess that's where that comes from but I was just because the other day I was like taking the kids back from school and I was like, I don't think we've ever like driven with just like all the windows down has decided to go down even what's why is this a thing and they loved it. Absolutely because you're driving down the highway and yeah, it's going everywhere. But I layered on top of it. blaring the music which was awesome. I'm in the middle of nowhere. I'm not disrupting neighborhoods. People don't worry. I'm not being that guy. That's when I

50:47

was driving real slow through the neighborhood.

Collin  50:50

With the bass in the in the top, all the way up. Just shaking the glass right.

50:57

That's exactly

Collin  50:59

what I was like. This. This is enjoyable right now. This is very nice. Like this.

Collin Funkhouser  51:06

Don't ask me what I was blaring because it was it was very, very much early 2000s Emo rock five.

51:14

Oh, perfect.

Brandon  51:19

Exactly what it should be.

Collin Funkhouser  51:20

I had I had that feeling of like, I wonder. Yeah, it's definitely definitely early 2000s Emo bands very, very all of those romance like yellow card AFR was a really really was motion city center.

Brandon  51:40

Oh man deep cuts here ladies gentlemen. It's not called was fake emo. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no Ocean City soundtrack and yellow card

Collin Funkhouser  51:49

really? deep cuts. So that yeah, that was fun. I had that moment of like, I'm listening this pretty loud. If anybody's like, standing on their front porch and like how confused are they going to be? email from 20 years ago comes blessing

Brandon  52:09

yard. Now my car does this really annoying thing where it like when you stop it like it's like ducks. The radio? Oh, yeah. down a few notches. Yeah. And it makes me grumpy. Yeah, no, no, I don't care. Forget your safety measures. Okay, I'm going to stop like don't duck my radio because because messed up like because my car stopped moving. No, no. Louder. That's what I want. Stop it. Stop nannying, me radio. Get out.

Collin  52:44

Yeah, I had that. I think it's depending on the car company. They they change what it's called. In the in the Toyota. They called it auto leveling. Yeah, no, I don't want that. I want no, I turned that

Brandon  52:57

up. I don't know how to turn it off. Right. It's probably in some sub sub sub menu on my little screen thing, and I don't know how to find it. So.

Collin  53:06

Yeah, so I dug down. Fortunately, the sound system in this is not very complicated. So there's literally it's like, you click on Audio. And it's like the top one that just says Audio loving and like, Oh, I'm gonna click on that. And turn this off. Because the other ones Yeah, I've seen it where it's, um, it's speed volume or something like that. Yeah, too. You could turn that all the way off. Because yeah. Because then I was like, well, because it also does the reverse where like, as you on at least the older models were like, you would turn it down and then as you would accelerate it would turn the volume back up. The faster you went. Yeah, there's one kind of

Brandon  53:46

like it like whenever you stop it, it brings it down some and then whenever you're going it like raises it back. Right it's it's annoying though, because like I'm trying to listen to some Macedon here. And I nobody want to listen to Macedon quietly. Well, that's not the point. Right? It's not nobody got time for this nonsense, right? We need to hear blood and thunder loudly. That's the whole point of that riff, right? Yes. Is

Collin  54:16

there it's not it's not soft, gentle lullabies. It is.

Brandon  54:20

No Yeah, I do that. Sometimes. We go the other day somewhere. And I just like, I didn't even really think about it. I just like automatically put the window down and started driving. I was like, Oh, I didn't really think about it till later. Like, oh, it's nice outside. Yeah. It's just like a automatic nerve response. It was like, Alright, we're good. Let's go.

Collin  54:50

Well, especially now we're moving into like, you know, the late summer early fall. So like we had cooler starts and stops to the day and makes mates first very nice. So That was a that was a sidetrack to the music that media

Brandon  55:05

and why

Collin  55:08

you need to do that more, I guess.

Brandon  55:10

Roll your windows down try it out you ever talked to people at stoplights?

Collin  55:23

No, I never did that. No, I was it wasn't one of those people. No, sorry. Let me read it. Did you? Do you ever talk to people at stoplights?

Brandon  55:34

Well, it was not really a function of Did I talk to people? It was a did people talk to me at stoplights? Yes. Okay, so like sure I didn't I was not usually the one initiating conversation every once awhile but like normally it was somebody like shouting at me like what? What are you want like not like negatively shouting just like shouting to hear probably on my radio. But

Collin  55:55

that was absolutely about it. Think about that. Because I do dad sometimes the car he knows you get little groovin and then and then we also look

56:12

around as everyone else

Collin  56:14

puts he did you put the you look at people driving cars. I watch people there. None of them are dancing. Because if you're watching them, yes. So then you're like, like, why are you not?

Brandon  56:28

It's very confusing to me. Very they're all They're all driving around like dad dead silence. No noise. Except well, except the CB radio in the back is true. Random truckers yelling marginally racist things over the CB radio. Just love that.

Collin  56:45

It's only marginally fine. Not all the time. But did you know he is going for his ham license?

Brandon  57:02

I suppose it's inevitable. It is inevitable. Right? Like there's just an inevitability to this occurrence. Yeah. He was just not so

Collin  57:14

the test is pretty intense. He was going over some of the materials with him. And I was like, yeah, that's over. Okay. Nope. No,

Brandon  57:21

thank you. Yeah, cuz if you do it wrong, the FCC just comes to your house and like, yeah, they're like, No, you can't have this. We're picking you up in airplanes. Quit?

Collin  57:36

Yes, exactly. So that was he was saying that they're like three different levels of ham radio operators. Where you are get you get more and more access to bands, or whatever your frequency is. And he was explaining how DD just basically was like, he had the top level, it was just like, ever, he could use everything whenever he wants to kind of thing. Like,

Brandon  58:03

oh my god. This is insane. Like I first of all, it doesn't really strike me that that would be a thing that multiple people would do still. But I guess you know,

Collin  58:20

oh, it's I think it's almost bigger than ever.

Brandon  58:24

Really, wiring, I guess access to the internet may gives you like all the schematics and things to build it, right? Because before it's like this really esoteric knowledge of like, how to make giant radio receiver and transmitter right. So like, you had to be quite specialized to do this. But now I guess you could just look up the plans and start building well and add the part hearts are like, the biggest part is symbols that you have to maintain the towers. And so they have ham, ham operator club ham clubs, where groups of people come together and like invest in maintain and buy parts and repair the towers

Collin  59:08

that keep the ham system going globally. Whoa, which is another part that I was like, Oh, I'm considered this same same. So it's not so you have because you have to anyway, you have to talk to the repeater that's up in a tower but you only know what that repeaters frequency is. But if you're part of the club and you have your license, and then but that tower isn't maintained by a some of them are maintained by like cities and government organizations, but like the vast majority of them are maintained by Jim. And you know, Darla, and that's just like their thing that they keep going

Brandon  59:52

How do they keep people from climbing them? That's, that's a real secret.

Collin  59:56

Well, now you know that the actual that the movie fall was just The big sigh up to keep up oh,

Brandon  1:00:01

this place shouldn't climb radio towers kids. Ham club

Collin  1:00:06

operators come get you yes big amateur radio money was heavily invested in that one. That's what they don't tell you about the dark money saying but your radio juiciest. Yes. Boom

Brandon  1:00:21

get off i tower kid blam legacy. So oh my gosh, this is not again this is the least surprising news of all time. Frankly I'm I'm shocked it hasn't happened already. Right let's be real. There's yes

Collin  1:00:42

it was inevitable, you know, in an infinite timescale it would happen. It wasn't just a matter of right of how soon

Brandon  1:00:50

death of the universe right just dad being a ham radio operator is just right up there. So yeah, he has to go and take a test.

Collin  1:01:02

And everything that he can didn't then you can go buy the parts. You can't even buy the parts unless you show them. Oh, that's

Brandon  1:01:08

I gotta think about he couldn't even buy parts of the of the license because you're not allowed to have this because you're not a licensed operator.

Collin  1:01:15

Exactly.

Brandon  1:01:16

So So, man. Yeah, there was some ever thought. Whoever thought there would be hobbies where you have to take tests to engage in them, right, like,

Collin  1:01:28

Oh, I know. That's, this is

Brandon  1:01:30

why it's important to study for tests kids here. When they you might have a hobby that requires you to take multiple tests for licensure. There's no no, it's just like, Huh, well, that's interesting. But well, then again, I'm

Collin  1:01:45

like, Okay, well, here's another here's another example of hobbies falconry balcony you have to take the test.

Brandon  1:01:53

That's true. And be mentored by maths there are many levels of falconry. I know this because Colin once dabbled once starting to become a falconer.

Collin  1:02:03

Yes. And then I went took the test. I didn't take the test twice. I did not pass that one. That was That was hard. It was very hard. I saw the book it was like yeah, well and then the test was like it's it's it's you know, it was like giving you elevations temperature weather conditions. And like the what you were a hunting and it was like which of these birds which you use? And I was like,

Brandon  1:02:32

huh, the one that I have because my first license only allows me to have one of these two birds

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:40

so is it a Red Tail? Tail? How about a red tail?

Brandon  1:02:46

Yeah you know what it's not an owl because that's the next license up and I can't have that one yet so nice try cops

1:02:55

but I'm not falling for that one. It was it was just how would you how would you do it and now could do the cow now yeah, you're not allowed to have one of those loser bled

Collin  1:03:12

me and what a great sting operation exactly what they would do

Brandon  1:03:20

they would write animal control just hide in the bushes with a net to get you back jump out

Collin  1:03:30

Yeah, I even built the little mouse cage and everything that's gonna use to trap it made the lassos with Oh yeah. I remember this what you do is you have the get a cage wire mesh cage that you put a mouse in that a secure very secure talents cannot donate it right no my to be harmed in the making of this. You have to then stick it down and like two different places so that it is not then carried afar. Yes. And then and then you have to put basically lassos on him little the name is actually escaping me right now what they're actually called, but those traps the slip knots, snare snares. Yeah, snares snares on them in several different locations. With the hopes that whenever the bird comes down and tries to grab and then come away, you actually snare on their talent so you can go up and throw a towel over them.

Brandon  1:04:32

And hope they don't rip out your face. That seems like the worst part of this plan. I know like capturing a grumpy Raptor, right like Oh, no. Yes.

Collin  1:04:48

Yeah, that's the point. What could

Brandon  1:04:50

possibly go wrong here?

Collin Funkhouser  1:04:52

Yeah, that was the part where I was going. All of the sounds really good right up until it's like throw blanket on top.

Brandon  1:04:59

Yeah, Get right until there's a beak inches from my face. That's good. What goes wrong? Could be worse, right? You could be a Mongolian child scaling a cliff face to grab an eagle out of its nest while its mother swoops back to like,

Collin  1:05:19

pick your face off, right? Good. Yeah, in the grand scheme of things that me basically being like, I'm gonna set this trap out in my dad's field, which is seven feet from my front door. Yeah. Something. I'll be fine. You're right. I'm not scaling for Eagle egg.

Brandon  1:05:41

So, yeah, that's, that's nuts. That's a totally crazy can imagine like, throw blanket at it. Raha she's like a bedsheet? Like,

Collin  1:05:55

no reason to throw, because it's too it's too thin. You have to have sure but why would you throw like a quilt? Yeah, blanket like a blanket like a fleece blanket.

Brandon  1:06:05

fleece blanket. Like this white blankets at least have like one of those really much?

Collin  1:06:11

Pretty much. Pretty much in case anybody is interested in following the horseback Eagle hunters. That right across Mongolia. I am attaching the New York Times

Brandon  1:06:24

piece. Who would not be interested in that and to be it's their

Collin  1:06:29

story. It's their storyboard. So it also has amazing photos across everything. Max in it. It's yeah. Oh, it's beautiful. It's so crazy to see them hunting with eagles.

Brandon  1:06:40

What Yes. Doing and those eagles are huge. Yes. Bear enormous. Yes,

Collin  1:06:49

it has. Yes. They're not just very specifically here. What are they hunting with? Golden Eagles. Okay, they're hunting with golden eagles. It's like okay.

Brandon  1:07:04

Yeah, and we all know from Rescuers Down Under the golden eagles are huge.

Collin  1:07:08

We all know so big. Yeah. You can affect right? Yes, child. Absolutely. Yes.

Brandon  1:07:15

Yeah. Not just mice. But children.

Collin  1:07:20

No mice can fit on top of a sardine can on top of an albatross.

Brandon  1:07:26

Because in actuality I'm pretty sure an albatross is bigger than a golden eagle.

Collin  1:07:31

Well, wingspan wise, but maybe not like

Brandon  1:07:35

heft. No albatrosses are giant like they're so hefty, they can't land. Right? That's the gag in the movie, right? They even put it in there. Like he crashed lands because albatrosses are so unwieldy that they like just sort of, like fall on the ground. They're not graceful birds on the ground, because they're, they're so big. Have you seen a picture of a person standing next to an albatross, which

Collin  1:08:02

is Yeah,

Brandon  1:08:02

right. They're like four feet tall. Some of them that's what they look like. I don't know if that's accurate or not go from memory here.

Collin  1:08:10

Let's see here.

Brandon  1:08:13

There's nine. Oh,

Collin  1:08:16

well, I am watching a video or watching a video right now have an eagle flying off after a dive bombed on top of an albatross is carrying an offense talents.

Brandon  1:08:26

That's your

Collin  1:08:31

anyway, I mean, albatross to get there wingspan is big. But I don't know if they have like, but their wings are really narrow because they're meant for gliding long, long distances.

Brandon  1:08:42

They're not powerful. Yes. Right. Yes, I do think I didn't say they were like, they're not like powerful hunting birds. But they're also not tiny.

Collin  1:08:51

No, no, I do think they have very wide swings, right? Yes, they have a very wide wingspan.

Brandon  1:08:55

But they do not have the of an eagle. Yeah. I also like how this Wikipedia entry says the albatross designation comprises between 13 and 24 species. That does not seem like a very scientifically accurate

Collin  1:09:13

number. Perfect. No, no, exactly. What shots

1:09:20

1324.

Brandon  1:09:23

Guys, what are you doing?

Collin  1:09:25

That's not that's

Brandon  1:09:27

that's not enough near accuracy. Man. Apparently the definition of an albatross is very bad.

Collin  1:09:37

Yeah, yeah, very angry ornithologist out there. In the taxonomic world, we'd call this splitters and joiners. Everyone tried to split them out to their own species and the joiners who are trying to group them back together into their into the same. So may I bet those those conferences must be a lot of fun. So albatross

Brandon  1:10:00

Just know that you're not supposed to kill them and as a sailor, and having an albatross hung around your neck is a form of punishment because it's so stinking humongous. That it's bad for you. Right? Yeah, Southern royal albatross wingspan between nine and a half and 11 feet. All right. That's Yes. Stupid big. Yeah,

1:10:20

that's yes.

Brandon  1:10:21

I remember. albatross around your neck is as bad as a punishment. Right punishes you.

1:10:28

Is that a saying? Is that saying?

Brandon  1:10:30

Yes. Yeah. It's like a nice like, carry a burden. Right? Or like, Be and you're like, it also goes with like being shunned, right? Because like, if you have an albatross around your neck, it means you've done something not good. In the sailor terms, right? Yeah. Oh, man.

Collin  1:10:49

That's what you said that feelings.

Brandon  1:10:51

Killing them brought bad luck because they were thought to be thought to be the souls of sailors lost at sea. So having an albatross around your neck is a punishment given to the marriage Mariner who killed the albatross? Because it's bad luck to kill them because of that. So it's bearing a burden or facing an obstacle. Facing like a really daunting obstacle. You can say having an albatross around your neck. Okay.

Collin  1:11:15

Because yeah, you said that phrase and I was like, Wait a minute. That's a thing, right? That's, that's the idea. Okay, here's

Brandon  1:11:21

the idea. Now this is like a weird idiom. That's like, what? No. I seem to remember. At some point in time, it came up. The first time I heard about this was of course, during the Mad Mad ramblings of Mr. Garrick in high school history class. He was prob I think he was once again convoluting some movie and real life together in some way, but not possible. No, yeah, not possible. Later, I learned that it was partially true. And then I learned about the sailor thing, which I just confirmed by reading that thing online. So there we go.

Collin  1:12:09

Back Back checked, back check.

Brandon  1:12:11

I wish I remember what movie he was referencing. We probably watched it in class. Oh, man, I have to do another episode of What do we call that fever dream movies do did this movie really happen? Like we do with my airplane movie have

1:12:34

we solved that? Did we saw we

Brandon  1:12:36

did solve that. What was that one that I said? Okay, it was the one it wasn't anything else. It was the weird one with that always our old man Robert Redford.

Collin  1:12:50

Never never not old.

Brandon  1:12:51

He's never not old. Hmm, I'm pretty sure we did watch me I'm add that to my list of movies that I needed to

Collin  1:12:58

find. Did this movie really happen with

Brandon  1:13:03

care enough to have to make a list of those need to make that a recurring thing once I find them because there's at least three now that I can add to it for the next four. Okay, I'm gonna write these down after we get done. Okay, so

Collin  1:13:24

we have, we definitely have lots of challenges still ahead,

Brandon  1:13:27

through many challenges. Many, many. Of course, before we go anywhere, we can't not talk about possibly the greatest episode we've ever done. It encapsulates encapsulates everything's great about this. The sheer randomness of the show. rolled into one that is of course top five favorite movies of all time. I feel like that one. The one where we talked about like our third favorite ice cream, right? I feel like that really? That was the other part of the show. Where it's just a bit silly.

Collin  1:14:16

Yes, yes. Sure. Sure.

Brandon  1:14:23

I like those episodes a lot, too. I forgot about the mouse movie episode. I had to get it in before we stopped because that one's great. I really like that one a lot.

Collin  1:14:36

It really yeah, good stuff. It's really good work. It does. Again, it's these many of these many of these are are taking a basic premise and then twisting them to where they're not like completely absurd, but they are delving into into where it was going thought but ridiculous, but I certainly, certainly good. And then yes, the, the ice cream, the third favorite ice cream, which I still think is a wonderful premise for getting people to, to think about stuff. It's kind of like I've actually taken that same concept and used it whenever I interview potential staff, because I will say, because Okay, so what are they applying to? They're applying to work with pets. So when I say, tell me what your

Brandon  1:15:30

passion is, what are they gonna say? Pets, pets? And so what?

Collin  1:15:40

So what do I say? I say, Oh, I really appreciate you sit down with me today. If you don't have any questions for me, I'd like to start off by asking you what your passion in life is. And it's cheating. If you say pets, and

Collin Funkhouser  1:15:55

the look on their face, because you they are gearing up for as soon as I say, What was your passion life? They're ready with a passion his animals. And then I say it's cheating. It's a Pat's.

Collin  1:16:05

I'm like, I'm trying to put them back on one thing, because I want to know more about them. What's your passion other

Brandon  1:16:11

than pets? Yes, yeah, no, it's not pets. And it's like, you have a goldfish, sir.

Collin  1:16:18

I know, I know, you're doing other stuff. And the people who give like they give really good answers of because they now have to sit and think about it. And they're actually they're actually being honest with me. They're not just trying to, you know, blow smoke to make themselves look good. Or be like, Oh, this is what he wants to hear. Because what I actually wanted to hear is the fact that you are really into a what somebody said they were into historical languages, and like, extinct are going extinct people groups, and so they were going to school to study. Anthropology. Yeah. Like, like, dang. Like, like, all right. That is an amazing answer.

Brandon  1:17:05

I too, have heard of Sanskrit is that

Collin Funkhouser  1:17:09

I'm somewhat of a scholar myself.

Brandon  1:17:16

I also took French in high school. Yes. No.

Collin Funkhouser  1:17:21

So yeah, I liked that concept of coming your second or third favorite, whatever. And then, yes, I do enjoy about movies, because what did it make us do? Well, it made us really do a lot of research

Brandon  1:17:35

on the fly

Collin  1:17:38

on the fly, and take some of the ideas and concepts of what exactly a purpose of it. And I do like that. I do like that where we have to go. I'm like, what I do, like, I appreciate them. When we do those things. It's like, okay, this is how I'm defining this, or like this, to me is what this means. And so therefore, this is this that shaped by decision making.

Brandon  1:18:03

Yes, right. I think yeah, that makes it funnier to but also like, he's just makes it more individualized and thinking about like, other ways to think about stuff other than just like the normal standard way of doing things. Kind of like the realization that when somebody asks you, what's your favorite type of egg? You can say egg sandwich. It's allowed see a is. So Tony said, it's fine. So that is, again, like it not it's a non standard answer. But I think non standard answers are interesting to think about. Because we get like if the ice cream thing, right? You get stuck with it's this. I think this, I do that blah, blah, blah. So when you're forced or put yourself into a situation where non standard answers

1:18:50

don't apply.

Brandon  1:18:52

More interesting things happen. More interesting thinking can happen. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Realizing that your favorite type of egg can be egg sandwich. Do you know what I ate breakfast this morning? I did have an egg sandwich. Go.

Collin Funkhouser  1:19:10

Bigger world. And those of you wondering and you did not get to go and listen back to Oh, yeah. Yeah. Another nice genre was the same episode where we found cinema cats. So how could I have missed it forgotten about that? Because that's where we were talking about cinema cats. And we get started talking about fifl goes west. And then we started we ranked five of our top favorite animated

Brandon  1:19:31

movies. Was that the same episode? Really? Yes. Oh, wow. That is a banger. We should listen. Everybody should stop with a day right now and go listen to that episode. That might be the greatest thing of all time.

Collin Funkhouser  1:19:43

Yeah, we started our pizza. Because I started talking about I was telling the story because I was recording. I think I was recording and there was a pug staring at me while we were recording or yeah, yes, yes. Yeah, hold pug eyes and I had made a comment to the owner about Milo and Otis and they just looked at me like are really scared for their life and

Brandon  1:20:03

are annoyed because it's the only question that anybody ever asked him about pugs.

Collin  1:20:11

Yes, that was JAM PACKED episode music goodness.

Brandon  1:20:14

Wow. Okay, here we go. Yeah, definitely

1:20:20

Perfect. Oh, so here's to here's to another 156 episodes.

Collin  1:20:27

Oh yeah, we're on our way. Feeling feeling good about

Brandon  1:20:31

this. Right. Exciting

Collin  1:20:36

in D. Well

1:20:40

enjoy the rest of your evening we'll do this good you as

Brandon  1:20:43

well.

Collin  1:20:44

Okay Love you.

Brandon  1:20:46

Love you bye