broken engine mount
What happens when 3 Lord of the Rings nerds get together to discuss the often maligned Hobbit trilogy? We pick our favorite…or least hated of the bunch. What was up with all of those dwarves? Why is the last one so bad? Answers to questions such as these are (sort of) given.
What broke Collin
Brandon is IN school
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Brandon is self-sufficient
Aaron was IN the office
Aaron’s OLD
Aaron’s broken engine mount
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Which Lord of the Ring movie is your favorite?
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SPEAKERS
Collin, Brandon, & Aaron
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Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers, trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Collin
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and Aaron.
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On this week's show, broken engine
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Hello. Hello. What's going on?
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Not Not too much the exasperated one What?
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It's just been one of those days, it's all good. I think what really finally clicked my brain over was walking into one of the kids rooms. And finding two toys, toy buckets setting on top of each other kind of like a, like a, like a like a hamburger box for McDonald's. So take the two pieces and you can open it up like a clam, I lifted the top. And then on the inside, I found a cup. And the cup was three quarters filled with water. And also in the cup, were like little itty bitty teeny, tiny bits of paper that had been delicately precisely shredded, very, very nimble fingers. And then there was like, little dice thrown in there. Plus a little fuzzy ball and a cotton ball. And then stuck into the water in the cup was a stuffed rabbit that had soaked up a lot of water. And then next to this was another thing filled with water and little teeny, tiny shredded pieces of paper.
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And that's when I
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decided, you know, I'm done for the day. Was there an interrogation as to what this elaborate construction? Is? Or maybe why it was created? No. Or is that still to come? No, that's we it was just told to be gotten rid of
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destroyed?
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Oh, I didn't have I didn't really feel like finding out the origins of said mystery. The origin story of this mysterious.
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I thought it best to you know offer my sanity and everyone else's safety if this was just you know
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gotten rid of now the great and from my perspective, beautiful irony of this particular incident
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is the the little piece of information that once when Collin was young listeners he took string
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yarn or ribbon perhaps I don't exactly recall which and created
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an extraordinarily elaborate spiderweb
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type creation throughout the his entire River. Something like that. I don't really know. But
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it's
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it's fine. It's just like, I always discover these kind of mostly just so weird. It's
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like, this is bizarre.
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I tend to discover these projects as we are getting ready for bed. So it's like at the end of the day. You know getting claw you're already doing like 15 things like 13 things. We're running late. Everyone's tired. And then it's like
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this. Okay.
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One more thing. Take overwhelming and strange. And then mostly just like really strange. like,
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What the Why?
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What is that?
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Oh, well. Yeah, you know, showing creativity.
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That's true. That is true. I feel sorry for the rabbit though. Sorry, rabbit.
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That's unfortunate,
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you know, innocent bystanders I
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guess. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, other than that has been? Well in Yeah, my knee has been an element
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other than the last 30 minutes.
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All right. Even
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relatively uneventful. Like, my brain finally turned on today and said, Oh, you're in school now. Haha. So like, Okay, got it. School mode activate is a little laggy on the uptick here after break, like Monday, I was like,
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what's happening? Where am I?
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And I'm really glad that we didn't record Monday because after a whole day of using my teacher voice as for like, basically not talking to anyone for two weeks, my throat was like, destroyed.
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Sorry, that's
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no fun. Yeah, so it's one of those things like, man, I forget about how loud I speak during the day. I'm a general,
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like, goings on. So yeah, we just kind of, yeah, I kind of got
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remembered what was going on kind of back in the swing of things. So going back again, so kind of got the rest of week already planned out and ready for next week. So it took a few days to kind of be like, what am I doing? Where are we? What's happening?
06:52
Getting your bearings again? Yeah, it's
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kind of resetting your bearings about like, Oh, yeah, school. What's the and then I always forget about like, so we have this thing. And it's called. It's like, it's, the full name is a response to intervention. Um, it's, we, this RTI is what we call it and like, it is a tiered directed reading instruction time. Okay, right. So like, we kind of based on test scores and performance in, in language arts classes, we've split the kids up into there's five groups of our kids. So like, one group goes to like, that's when they go to E Ll, you know, the English language learners, right. And then another group goes to like a title one, like, stuff. And then the remaining kids get split up between myself and the other two sixth grade teachers, and it's like, kind of extra, really direct reading and writing instruction time, like language arts skills, you know, okay. And so just like skills that they missed, or they needed, and it's tiered. So like, one group is a high group, one group is kind of the middle group and one groups that lower readers and stuff, right? So they can get more instruction and things they need help with and stuff like that. And I always forget about to add more at that level, instead of like, at sixth grade level, it's more directed at where are they actually reading? Or where are they actually performing? Right, like, so the one group, you know, if you have kids that are consistently scoring seventh and eighth grade on the reading, well, they're doing more advanced things. The kids that are pretty close to grade level are just getting extra practice on their grade level. And the kids that are lower are getting extra practice on skills, they need to try to get them caught up, you know, just kind of meeting where they are type of thing. But I always forget about RTI time, I forget about planning for that. Right? Because it's like just an extra 25 minutes of my day. Yeah, that I kind of forget about sometimes, because it's not my core instruction area. It's just like, this other thing that I have to do. So sometimes it's like,
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Oh, right.
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What do we have kind of got everything else planned, and then we don't have RTI on Monday, but it's it's Tuesday through Friday. So kind of like yesterday, I was like,
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Oh, yeah.
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What are we gonna do Friday? Yeah, the thing is, I sort of forgot about that part. I always forget about that part. Like I plan really good for everything else. And the other stuff is like, because I talked to the language arts teacher a lot like Hey, what are we doing? What do you guys do in class? How can I Adjust that for my class, you know, what are we doing there to try to give extra on to what she's already doing. But I forgot about that after breaking it. I have like a little notebook with like my ideas. And I have some set projects that I do like the commercial thing that I talked about a few times. Like, that's one thing that I do like all the time, but like, I just kind of didn't remember where I was in my RTI life like,
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What is?
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What's next? What did we just do? Where am I? What's going on? So that was another brain turning moment of Oh, yeah, that's another thing. I
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gotta get ready for.
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A plan now though, everything's fine. Everything's fine. All right.
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Well, good. Okay. Well, that's, you know, you plan, you work the plan, and then you change the plan. And then you,
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you know, go from there.
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Sure. But I just had to kind of reorient myself, like, I'm not am I doing?
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Wait a minute, I
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got an ex,
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I had told them today.
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Kind of what our goals are gonna be like, what are we aiming for? Right, we're gonna be doing informational writing, that's our gonna be our area focus. Now, informational writing and reading nonfiction, like how to read it. Practicing reading it, this is also a good test prep for a few months, right? So kind of getting some of that started. So reading nonfiction, like short articles,
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not like textbooks, right, like,
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but short article reading kind of the characteristics of nonfiction and specifically informational texts. And then
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like, how do you
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kind of construct something that is informational. So we will construct some sort of informational piece to share information with other people. That's what we do, usually. And I like to do. Like I mentioned this for two, but I like to do short, like video projects. For this. Yeah, because they do, they do a lot of writing in writing class. So we try to switch it up a little bit and make it more I don't know, it's more fun, they like it, it's more fun for them. And number two, the pressure of like writing paragraphs is, they don't really, you know, that can be hard for certain kids to deal with like, and writing informational pieces are is difficult, because you have to collect all the information, and then you have to organize it, and you have to write it. So if you can do that, I like the video projects, because now it's a group effort. And we can focus things on, you know, each person can share the tasks a little bit, then we can still focus on the important parts. And then like how to deliver that part,
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right? And then, you know, plus, some
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of the kids get to do cool stuff, like, do the video and because they do all the video editing and all of the scene stuff, right? I kind of just act as like, a producer slash director, like, okay, yeah, do that. And they kind of do like the rest of it, you know, they kind of come up with a, I let them couple this with as much ideas as possible. And kind of be in charge of it. And I'm just kind of like,
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the back ground guy.
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Like, you know, cuz I like, I just kind of asked questions like, Well, where do we put the camera for that? Where do you? How does this need to look? What do you want it to do? Plus, that allows us to organize our ideas more visually. Right? So I, I do a lot of like, try to focus on like, other ways of organizing information in this class, like, instead of, like your traditional outline format, where we try to do things like storyboarding, or we use note cards, or something like stuff like that kind of different ways to organize your information because some of them like think, very differently. And especially the you know, storyboarding, we can just like draw a couple pictures and kind of this is our plan sequence, and then we can follow it. It's just another way to get them to think about how to organize and stuff like that. So that's why I like to do that. Because it's really fun. And then we show the rest of the classes and they like it so
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Haha, there you go. Ah, well,
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yeah, and I like that idea, too. Because, again, like you mentioned, like you're tapping into
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a different
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type of not just like learning but just a whole new skill set. For them to flex and to see that maybe they haven't experienced before and to put together pieces. completely differently than, than they do every single day when they're in school, right? It's not necessarily completely out of left field. It's just, yeah, it's so close and comfortable that they can do this. But it is just like, hey, like, we're gonna, we're gonna approach this a little bit differently and get out of our comfort zone just just a little bit, right, like not this big massive step. Yeah. And it's cool. And it can be really collaborative. And they can get a lot of stuff out of it that way. Like when we edited our commercial, we just, we mirrored the screen of our iPad up to the board. I was like, Alright, do it. Do it right now in class. So they they did it, I don't ever touch it. They do it all. And they asked for input, like, Oh, hey, should this you know, this little section? Should it be here here? How do we move it around? So again, how do we organize this to make it make sense? Right? Because even in that, that's a persuasive piece, technically, right? But even in that aspect, you're telling there's a sequence that has to happen? And how do you put it together so that it makes sense so that your audience understands what you're telling them?
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Like,
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it's a good, it's a, it's, again, instead of like writing it down, they're physically moving a piece of media around. And, you know, sometimes your brain needs to see it that way. Instead, to be like, Oh, well, I want to put this piece here instead of there, or this needs to go like that. This is another, it's another way to think about stuff that might reach somebody else instead. So it's fun.
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Yeah. I like it. And
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it goes along with a lot of our author's purpose stuff, and then we can hit lots of like, small things in there with that stuff. It's fun. So informational. Last year, we made like how to videos?
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You know? Yeah,
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I think we'll do that again. Because it's relatively. It's not too complicated. It's not like a video essay, right? We're not gonna, like come up with like, tons of research. Make a big, like, thing like that. But how to videos are cool, because, again, it's presenting, how do I present my information clearly, and distinctly, and in like, in the correct order, so somebody can follow along and understand what I'm trying to tell them?
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Right, kind of that
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I don't make this coherent? Sure. Well, I mean, you talk about, like, a very simple skill, it seems so simple, just give instructions to somebody to complete a task. But when you sit down to really think about it, and try and come at it from somebody else's perspective, who's quote, you know, never done this before. That, that also helps somebody put themselves in somebody else's shoes, right, yeah, thinking outside yourself, thinking of others for others. And
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I really like
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those kind of exercises, because in the quote, unquote, adult world, literally, whatever that means, anymore these days, I have no idea. But I try not to be a part of it. If you do find yourself, I took those Toys R Us commercials to heart. You do find yourself instructing people very informally, most of the time, not in a, you are my you know, I am supervising you to do this thing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, just people on the street, or, you know, people ask directions, or asking how did you make this work? or things like that, like, that comes up an awful lot every single day? Yeah. And so it's just good practice. You know, how do you make yourself Understood? Because a lot of times I tell the kids this, right, like, I tell them, like, sometimes
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I know what I'm saying.
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Right? That doesn't translate to you know what I'm saying? So, like, don't ever
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feel
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like I don't ever feel like you cannot ask for clarification. Right? I try to be very transparent. Yeah. You know, sometimes I make, like, you know, I make sense to myself. But sometimes I get excited. And I start going real fast. And I start using like, high level vocabulary. But I haven't talked to you yet. And I just start rambling. And then I look at your faces and I see you going.
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And then I wrote
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like, give me the sign. And then we can go from there. So it's I tell him like sometimes I'm not clear. I think I'm being clear. And I'm not and that's, that's okay, we'll we'll try again. It's fine. Just let me know. That's, I try to be open about that. Because, you know, I've had teachers before that are like, No, you just figure it out. I'm bright about everything. So don't be that person. So
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All right. So, again, I
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think we'll dry I told him, I told him about it today, just so we can like we can start brainstorming about what to do later. So when we finally sit down and talk about like, Alright, I'm gonna start planning out our project after a little bit of practicing some skills and stuff, then we can really have a place to start and go from there. So I was kind of the thing today, officially back in school mode. That's a lot of school mode talk, so I'm okay.
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Okay, okay. We love school of talk that
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keeps people coming back.
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Right? Yes, definitely. Everyone loves that. What else keeps people coming back? Because I also had to be part of a collaborative process of helping figure out I've talked before about our grading online gradebook thing, system, and how completely unwieldy it is. That reared its head again, today.
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Yeah,
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there's this weird thing. I'll try to keep this short, because it's not super interesting, which is annoying. I get there, there's this weird, like,
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plug in there, where
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if you have a certain settings selected, and then you mark something as, like, if you don't fill out the field for in the gradebook section, it says, the program counter is missing. And it flags it somewhere in like a weird sub menu that you have to dig to find. And then when you put the grade in, it does not unflagged it as missing. So it does not recalculate the grade. Because it's supposed to automatically calculate the field. It's like a spreadsheet, basically. And so if you it flags it as missing, and then the flag does not something broke in this thing, and it will not flag it as missing, I'd say. So. Now if you mark it as exempt, or you just put a zero in. It doesn't do that. Right? It registers well. Sometimes if you have the thing flagged if you put a zero, it says missing. But if you if you have a thing selected, it marks it as exempt. Right? When you add a grade in it says, oh, here's a new grade now today. So now all of a sudden, it counts that field and it's averaging of the grade system. So by that are my neighbor teacher, who is new this year, like she was putting great cards are due for the last semester today. And she was putting in the last late thing. And it like she was looking at them. And they were all like these really bad grades. And she and then she looked at the fields next to it and like they were all turned in. So it was like, you know 10 out of 1010 out of 10. Nine out of 1010 out of 10 didn't the average grade was like a see what we had to go in and being this other guy. Because we fought this last year we have he's the one that figured out it was broken. And then we had to just menu dive to figure out how to fix it because nobody knew what to do. Oh, geez, that was that was terribly unfun. He figured it out. And then we fixed our grade books last year. But it did it to hers. And so we had to re menu dive slightly and brainstorm about how to be fixed that we had to get her stuff all fixed. That was terrible. So it's all fixed and ready to go back. Oh, yeah. It's so it's so bad. It's so so weird. And I don't know I think at some point last year the system the program like updated in the update broke something
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I think is what happened. Oh,
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it didn't used to do that. And then all of a sudden at some point last year it started doing array lucky you right?
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Yeah. Yay.
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Love a broken system that nobody actually knows how to use in the first place. Right?
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Well, it's crazy because you think of something just so like, fundamental that
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literally every teacher uses will use like you have to overcome. I don't know something just just so plain and simple and reliable. And then to break it like that. Like I don't know, like that's just I don't see how that would get through their system when if of all the things that a teacher needs. A rock solid, reliable gradebook and grading system?
25:01
He's like, yeah,
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that's the big kind of number one. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. Yeah. And then like the other like, other frustrating thing, again, I've touched on this before, I think is like, nobody's actually ever been trained about how to use it, like, in depth. You know, like, my, I got the Crash Course five minute version, when I got hired, and that's all I've ever gotten. That's it. Right. And I think it's one of the things that the problem is there's such familiarity, like the two functions that everybody uses. Nobody bothers to tell new people about how it works.
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Because I just,
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like, it's just like, I think that they do. And it's one of the things like people, you don't tell other people about it, and so that the lack of knowledge just sort of gets passed down repeatedly, to everyone.
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It's like, why?
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growth is terrible. So we're gonna do about that, but we fixed her thing. So hopefully, cookies don't just have like, straight f style. So no.
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Yeah, is bad.
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But it's, it's similar to like, a frustration that I have. Again, more office ranting, sorry, everyone. The the other like, big thing in my life that just causes me infinite frustration is the copy machine.
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Right. So, so like,
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it's something is always weird with it. Right? Number one, like people
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don't clear their jobs and gets like backed up and jammed and like, nothing will print ever because it's been flooded with stuff. And then nobody knows how to go in there and clear it. So I have to go down there. And again, after some menu diving, I figured out how to delete everything that's in the queue. To do is I just go and that makes me angry. But like, or people like copy about stuff, and they just leave it there forever, like we doing fun stuff. But the real thing that bothers me is when it starts not working. Like if it's out of toner, or the waste toner boxes full or something like that.
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Like I can't do that.
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Right. Somebody else is supposed to take care of that. Right? And right, it's the one. It's like the one thing in my day that operates outside of my control. And it's consistently The one thing that lets me down. It makes me so bad, because it's like, everything else. I'm very self sufficient. Right? Like, I don't need outside help for basically anything else. The majority of the time, every once in a while here and there I do. But the majority of things, I need no other help. I have a very self sufficient operating classroom. And so when the coffee machine starts letting me down, I just get so mad at because it's the one thing one thing that I can't do anything about, and it's always the thing that's broken, or screwed up or messed up. So
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yeah, drives me crazy. Well, I guess it'd be kind of like,
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you know, like if the if the, if the coffee
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is a coffee maker, right? Like if that just everyday just squirted a little bit of hot water on your thigh, like or on your face like yeah, like, well, it still makes the coffee but I get slight scalding burns every time to go make it.
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You're like
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yeah, it's just so annoying. I know, that makes me sound like a weird, like, hyper control freak or whatever. And I'm not really like that. It's just that I'm like, now it's just that I'm so self sufficient. Like everything that I need done. Almost everything I need done, I can just do.
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Right? by it. Yeah. I can just do it. I can
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just say if I need like, because I need lots of crazy stuff all the time. So like I just I've talked about the one of the head they like the top maintenance guys. Like I know him real well. And you know, he basically just told me Yeah, if you ever do anything, just go in there and grab it. Just I know you'll put it he's like I know you put it back and I know you'll be good with it. So just grab whatever you need anytime you need it. So if I need something fixed,
29:51
I just fixed it. Right?
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They got more important things to do than fix my blinds. Right I can do that is fine. You know, like, I make a big mess of my room all the time. So I just get the dust mop and the broom and I clean it, because I made a big giant mess with rocks in my classroom. So I'm gonna clean it up. So you can you can do that. I can do that, because I made a mess, I'm gonna fix it. I'm gonna take care of the stuff.
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So like the copy machine,
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I can't do anything about the copy. Not yet, at least not until you go not yours repair school, I guess you could do that over the break. That's true. They have an online correspondence course, well part of it because it's all automated, right? So if the waste if a toner thing is out, you'd have to let it sit there. Because it's allegedly sent a signal
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to the people who like the technology, people
30:49
that like, fix all that stuff, and then they can just come and fix it, you know, but like, I don't know if it actually did or if it you know, it's a whole nebulous concept of is it did actually do that it's actually working like it's supposed to.
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There was one time last
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quarter though, where I did just get frustrated. And I just went to the central office and was like, I need this toner. And I handed them the empty one. I was like, I need this now. Because I have a stash. That's where that goes. It's like sits in that little storage closet thing. Like,
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I need this toner. Because it had been out for like,
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a week and a half and nobody did anything about it. And I just got mad and just like alright, fix it. Don't care. Oh, well.
31:51
Well, they are they're terrible. Aaron,
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how's your office? going? Yeah.
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Well, I actually went into my office for like the first time in like,
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three months. Like that. And so I remember where it was. I couldn't. The problem is I don't remember. I could not remember who some of the people were, like some of like the the main office people. They're all really nice. The problem is I just couldn't remember who they were. So yeah, I went up there. And everyone's like, Oh, hi, Aaron. How's it going? I was like, Oh, hey, you, how's it going? There are some other people in there. Thankfully, they're wearing their name tags are a little bit kind of out of my element. But I was like, Oh, hello, person. Which you are. Hello. Yes. So it was a I kinda I definitely panic. And but thankfully, everyone was all really chilled. But they they took a lot of the maintenance stuff out. And so all the printers are kind of like, not the right ones. And so I feel like, it's easy. But where is this print to? And they're like, why? Like should you know like, well, I should but I haven't been here forever. I've been in Hello. So I don't know what this is or where this goes. And they're like, Oh, yeah, just goes over there. And I'm like, thank you for not yelling at me because I have not been here forever. But they're still parent. We're still hearing we losing our office, but I haven't seen anything promoting against it. So that's what I would have done my ex I just went to the first time in like several months and was like, oh, Who are you people? And what are you doing? Like, oh, you work here? Oh, no. Sorry. I forgot. I'm new at this. So the new at the Tulsa office is a much bigger office. And they're always like why you signed in? I don't want to do that in my other place. You're not at the other place. Very so. Normally interview people in pig fields.
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Okay, leave me alone. I don't
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need to do but yeah, it Oh yeah. I'm crying now. Oh, yay. Yeah, it's it is a vastly different world down there, but I just kind of do my own thing show up and then I leave not be yelled at so I'm not knocking at the my work life has been
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at least. Excellent. I'm glad you remembered where your office was.
35:23
I was worried for you. It was a struggle, but that's fair. Well what else you've been up to? Other than that? Well, celebrating the big 300 man get back hurt yet.
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Use like wake up and go. Oh,
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so we've actually disconcerting
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when you're young brothers 30 like, Ah, thank you, brother.
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We we've actually been like, even before the new year is we're actually like working out you know, extensively and being more proactive but I haven't like truly worked out worked out in high school. Or even like since college but I know what I'm doing. My body can do that.
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So we mean 30th birthday your knees eight you and
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I shall we mix me every day. My hat would you say I'm living by New Year's. We went down to downtown Tulsa went to a really cool sushi restaurant. And nice now and then we had sushi. Then we went to the Cherokee Casino in from Moana. And we listened to a live band and we hung out with Kelly's dad and that mom until the new years and so all by hazhar we had two years now I'm tired then we we went back home in which I had a unfortunate unfortunate curb accident. Yeah, so it was raining pretty hard. Like all day and it's been a part of the town where I just don't spend a lot of time and work we went to water burger. And then we were leaving and I was driving down the road and it was wet and I did not see this gigantic curve and like right at the split second. I turned still maintain control of the vehicle and I did not I did not jump the curb or or anything like that. I just like hit it in like ricocheted off still still maintaining but it was a nice little Kherson had a very nice sounding vehicle afterwards in which I took it. When was that Monday? And the diagnosis was that I hit it so hard that it broke the engine off of the of the engine mount. Whoa was Yeah, so
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I figured tie rod ends a arms that kind of thing.
38:39
Yeah.
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Yeah. Not
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engine mouth. ripping is not good.
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So it was kind of interesting. No, they showed me that set tire and they they pull this thing off and they're like, Hey, here's the thing and I was like, Oh, that's not supposed to be there and they're like Exactly. So is it like the engine had like broken off and it was like sitting on the oil pan and one of the exhaust bombers? Um, I don't want to I don't I don't want to say manifold but that's not right. So they thankfully they fix it. It took took them like a good four hours.
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They're what they do.
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Pretty much today. Yeah, four hours and $412 later you know, I was like at
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the cost a lot more. That's not bad. That's pretty good. Colin's mad at you right now that so angry that you had your engine mounts Bri welded and my
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only one. It had hit it so hard. On the right side, that it just like, shattered, only like one corner of it, I guess.
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Yeah, that makes sense. It probably twisted it. Yeah. Right. And so by twisting the frame a little bit and pop that,
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yeah. Yeah. So it like broke in like two different places and like the engine was just like sitting on top of like, the oil pan or whatever it is. And so, so they, they, they like jacked it up and like re pinned it. And then they like, you could hear them hammering from outside but they were like hammering pin like back into place because it was like yeah, that's not supposed to be bent. And but it actually sounds a lot smoother. Before I got the correct you got awesome. Perfect. The big, big win and total but yeah. They did that. And then we kind of went on a we took Shelby's car, we went on an adventure to Stillwater. And we took her friends who from Alabama, just kind of around kind of you know, Dawson, Oklahoma size. And so then I've been working my tail off. It's been an absolute mayhem over the week with some things and I'm kind of trying to play damage control as best as I can. with it. Yeah, I'm just kind of plugging along as best I can. Um, but that's kind of been my or are we down here? Not a whole lot of you know, there's you know, there's there's some I'll wait till next podcast to kind of talk about them. I don't say like, there's nothing big life changing and happening, but there might be an opportunity to move up and out. But I'll save that for next week. Other than that, that's kind of what it's been it's all the new festivities down here. We still have Christmas decorations up and pick. Yeah,
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same time for me that we're not taking them down anytime soon. Because they're lovely. And she likes them. Alright, sounds good to me.
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Yeah, other than that, I mean that's that's what we've been been heading along pretty good here just it's raining now obviously, though. Yeah. All day. yet? Not yet. But that's pretty free tonight. So we'll see. Yeah. Oh, wow. But yeah, that's what us what's happened here in the Oklahoma area
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other than finding exciting creations of children point of view.
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Let's call it children are messy. Yeah, making making
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Yeah, I wouldn't do my office. More office talk again. This is what the listeners man every go. lives a media talk we can do actually. Oh sweet. Well, I'll
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go quickly review how you find it.
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I enjoy the media talk to you
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know, it was
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I had to go in for we're doing a monthly check ins with everybody kind of in my group just to see how everybody's feeling. I'm making sure we're all
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on track all of that good stuff. So
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it was it was interesting again to be to be in the in the office. The in amongst people? Was your printer working?
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You What
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was your printer working?
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My printer? My printer was working. I did not have to use it. Oh, that's good. But
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it did. It did make me think of this. I don't know it was it was very interesting because I'm so used to not interacting with people at my work like in person that whenever I do see them all of a sudden it's like,
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oh, yeah, like I can, like talk to
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you and like, you know, it's actually really nice. Oh, yeah.
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But I don't want to
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No, no, no. It's nice to talk to other people. But I also can you say so? Most days,
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but I also started to Pull, pull in
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some more of my office stuff from my work office to bring to my home office, just because it's like, well, you know, yeah, I took everything there. So I wouldn't have to have it here at home. But now, you know, a year into this, it's like, well, I actually do that you're at home, or I'm at home. So I need to, you know, get this taken care of. So anyway, that's a, it's nice to kind of pull in some books and pull in some more papers and some notebooks and some pens and things like that, bring those home and get those set up. So not quite so bare bones here at the home office. But it did, I did. As I was like, carrying up his arm full of stuff. I was like, don't worry. I'm not not like leaving, leaving, I'm just, you know, restocking his home. So yeah, that's, that was good. It was good. I like I do like going into the office infrequently. Now. I've decided that it is nice change of pace. And that whenever there are things that really have to like, really, really get done, it's a nice break from just working at home. And it's a place that I can really seriously focus. And it's only after it's turned into this, like when I'm there. It's a very special occasion. And I I can get like, yeah, I get so much more focused work done when I'm at the office. And I'm actually scared that as we transition to going to the office, you know, right now I go into the office one day, and I'm worried that when when it starts going into like one day, a week or two days a week that it's gonna lose that special patina Yeah, developed where I'm able to get as much work done as I am when I'm there. Yeah. But I will have to be something I address. Moving forward. It's just, I know when the time comes, right, like, Yeah, when the time comes. Yeah. And I think that just because it's again, it's like, this is a special occasion. I am here for purpose. And I have very clearly defined purposes, when I'm there, I'm productive at home. But when I'm there, it's I'm able to focus so much more than when I am home. And it feels good. Whenever I leave. It feels like a very long, exhausting day when I'm at the office as opposed to being home. But it's good. It's good. It's good. So I've enjoyed that. Alright, so
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questions time.
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Is this talk?
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Yeah, well, I have two two pronged media. I had some thoughts this week about it. Okay. Number one chief Being that this week, I don't know if you noticed or got the text I sent you. But it was jrr Tolkien's birthday.
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It was. Okay.
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Yeah. Be happy as would have been his I think it was 100 and 29th. Birthday, something like that. And so far, that's cool. Yes,
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so we had a we have been watching the movies,
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right here, of course,
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as you do. And so we we haven't made through all of them this week. But we watched or last week, and this week, rather, but we've got through all the hobbit ones. And all the Hobbit movies, right extended, obviously, like you do. Okay. And so my question is controversially, I know a lot of people don't like the Hobbit, you know, that's the author who didn't like it. I think they're fun to watch. I like them so well. But I want to know, do you have a favorite
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Hobbit trilogy movie?
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And I realized when thinking about my own answer to this question that my sort of thoughts and reasoning behind it are different from the Hobbit. And from the Lord of the Rings, I think it's because they're different kind of tone. And how the movies are, you know, like the hobbits more like fun.
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Like, well,
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at least more fun, I guess, right? It's a lot more like adventury. So the third one when they're all like crazy and Gorgonzola nuts, but like, they have that different tone. So I think my answers are different for both the trilogy's and so I just wanted to your opinions on that.
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Are we just like the hobbit in general, like I want to tell the Hobbit trilogy? Yeah,
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yeah, The Hobbit. Just The
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Hobbit trilogy. First off, just don't break the premise.
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I don't think I was, again, remember how we're talking earlier about how sometimes I'm not the most clear? I think this is. So yeah, I was talking about the Hobbit movie trilogies? No, Aaron was about to go into like, well, there was an animated one done in the 60s that I kind of liked the most.
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Not sure that was a no, but the new the new Peter Jackson Hobbit trilogy?
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I don't know. Do you have a favorite one? Or do you not even like them? Because I know some people don't like them. They poopoo the idea of The Hobbit trilogy, there's like a huge knock. It's not just a lot of three. Because they added a lot of stuff. They did stretch it a bit. Right. And so like, when I say a bit, I mean, a lot. But you know, I think at face value for what it is, I think it's I think they're fun movies to watch. And I like them because I like the universe. And again, that kind of thing we've talked about a few times before, like, the setting for me, like, kind of makes a lot of that stuff. Okay, because it's so good. And I like it so well, that I can live Oh, no, I live in this universe for 40 more minutes. Oh, terrible. Like, you know, I can handle that. It's I
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don't know if you have a favorite Hobbit trilogy movie. So I as a whole
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it did not like the Hobbit trilogy.
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See at all.
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And I think my biggest beef from that is, I think, as you just touched on is the hobbit book is very kid, like, very kid, and then the movies came out. And they did not feel like they were made for children. See, I think there are a lot of bad aspects still there.
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Because a lot of the way that the dwarves act seems very, what I think I definitely agree with Collin. Because like you, but you don't really see that like in the other three, because like the first one where they're doing like the introduction of The Hobbit, or the dwarves, like that's the only real time like the goofy silliness comes out. And
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you don't think the barrel writing thing from the second movie has that?
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Okay, that's the only other time I could think, like, I
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feel a lot of that in there.
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Yeah, it's got like, the little whimsical, you know, stuff in it. But I like there's not a I, I like the Hobbit movies. I do think that they are different that they are a little. They're they're quirky in their sense. But I think compared to the books, even though I've only read partial of of it, there's they're more whimsical and they're more like musicae music Li inclined, I guess that's the Lord Yeah. in there, you know, thing that they talked about, but I like them, because they do kind of have that sense. I do kind of see where Collins coming from. I think
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I think here's the thing, if they wanted to have the wimzie, they needed to do the wimzie they did not need to also bring in the seriousness of the other three film. That's where I get off track with these is that there's this incongruity. They try and have it both ways. They try and have that feel the serious tones. The dark nature of the movie of the of the first three, and they bring that into here, while also doing barrel writing and ridiculous dwarf stuff. And it's like, yeah, I can't. I like the last one, the Battle of the Five Armies, like, yeah, so desperately wanted to be Helm's Deep over again. But it was, it was so hard to take that seriously, and really be in that moment, given these other moments of extreme levity that didn't match the characters that I was seeing on the on the screen. So yeah, I really had a hard time and did not like I definitely did not like the Battle of Five Armies. If I had to pick one, I think it would be an unexpected journey. Because the story arc at that point is so small, and the world that they're in is very small that they don't get all these threads way out there and you don't quite get to this serious, weird nature that they try and take it to at the later ones. With that said, it is a toss up to me because Desolation of Smaug because I love Smaug so much. It's just I I think I liked the first one.
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Right here. I think the first one is definitely kind of, you know, like the Oh, the actual Lord of the Rings II. Um it's kind of it's a little, I don't say like, not ruined. That's not the right word. But it's the second one kind of like a little like, Oh, you know, there's a little different kind of pace. I like I do like the Battle of Five Armies, just because it is just kind of chaotic in what is going on kind of thing. But that's kind of me and the little quirks that I like of it. I would probably say the first one is my favorite. Because that that kind of sets the tone for the rest of the movie. And that's whenever you think of The Hobbit you think of, you know, An Unexpected Journey. I've kind of this is the start. This is what everyone quotes the most. Unless you're bill Connolly writing a book. I don't think any I don't I don't think anyone or didn't really talk that. But yeah, it's it to me, it's still it's still kind of cool. of whatever aspect it is. Yeah,
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I think I agree more with Aaron. Like, I think this, like I'm thinking I think the second one is my least favorite.
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And again, like
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when I say least favorite, it doesn't mean it's not I don't think it's good, right? I'm not like, Oh, it's Yeah, I think it's like, I just have to put them in some kind of order. Like, I would still rather watch it over like many other movies, right. But I feel like the second one for me, it's just it's one of the it's one of the only ones that like, just feels long. You know, I mean, because like, they're all very long, because I want I like the extended versions, because I like all that other stuff. But like that one to me, like, feels long. Because there's so much in that movie. Right? Like the Battle of the firearms is, is I think it does a better job because it's basically just that part. Right? The whole arc of that story is basically just the battle and right before and right after it. So it's just like one event, the whole movie is basically one event now that that that event, I see how colloquy like, it's a little much sometimes, like, Are we still going what's happening, but like it, it's at least makes sense. I feel like the second one is even though I like a lot of parts of the second one.
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There are a while we like more really, more
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random characters we have to do what more story arcs. And so I like I feel like that one is the the most just like, oh my goodness, what the heck is going on? Sure. And I I like I think I would have to agree that the first one is my favorite just because of it is it's much more concise. There's like a whole story there. The whole thing is the it's very orderly, like do to do to do starting the journey is very fun. Right? all the doors come to the house and all that stuff. And the beginning and the introduction of that that group of characters. Like that main ensemble is interesting, even though there's like so many dwarves that you're like,
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dwarf number three, like I
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literally don't know who you are, but like, I don't know, like for their names. And I like there's so many that's that the the my biggest problem with the
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Hobbit trilogy?
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Is there so many characters
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that I don't care about. Yeah, like all over this, right? There's
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so many doors and like,
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yep, you're there. And you're there too. And they try says like half of them. Half of them are just like, Who are you?
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What's going on? You don't even know your name. Like, I want to get to the end of the third movie and I literally have no idea who you are. Like
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I was I was kind of taken back. I can't remember it was in the second one. I guess it wasn't the one where you know, oh, elves are here. Oh, and there's like, like,
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yeah, and there's Oh, there's more for ourselves. Oh, and then here's the lake town people oh and hello Bard and like Oh, hello. Like
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I I will say it is it is kind of cool that andreo elf Canyon is actually from Oklahoma. So that's gonna do Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that. Yeah.
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I'm gonna take these characters bad. I'm saying like, why are they all here at the same time? Like,
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who are you? Yeah. So like, I can get that. It's, that's
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my thing with the second one. Like, again, I like the second one. But that's the only one to me that actually feels long, overwhelming that you feel the three plus hour runtime of that one. You know what I mean? Like? That's me, like, oh, man,
1:00:38
it's all over. What the heck? That one, to me at least like, Oh my gosh, to some. And again,
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there's lots of good parts,
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but some of the connective tissues like, okay, and I think that one is really hampered by the problem where there's there's a lot of dwarf stuff in that one, like, tons of Darla place. And there's so many doors. I'm like, Who are you? What are you even doing? Do you even have? Do you even speak in this movie?
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Right, like,
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you know, and that the extended versions do have some extra like, oh, like, here's some more character but you're like, I don't know. Not help actually don't care about you.
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Yeah, and again,
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as much as I do, like, smog, and I think, you know, I do like him on screen. The all the lake town stuff I could really care less about.
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Yeah, like, it's cool. Look,
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right? It is it is. But I distinctly remember the scene where the not the king, but whoever it is, he's trying to run away. There's gold stuff spilling all over it again. It's like, it's supposed to be I guess, funny, or comical? Or amusing. But it's just Yeah. Just not even like, I never laughed at that or thought it was just like, oh, they're trying too hard. Right? They just come across as trying? Well, yeah. And I mean, it's, it's hard to balance cuz like, some of the themes have to deal with like, like, thorens arc is very
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rough. You know, that's kind of a deep
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dive there. Yeah. And it's weird. It is kind of hard when they try to balance like that arc with, like, you know, the rest of how the doors are presented, right, like, and then their store and like going crazy. And like being all weird and bad guy. Right. So like,
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yeah. So what about
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the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then?
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I was afraid you were gonna follow up with
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it. Yeah, I'd follow up now.
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I'll at least start with this. The reason I brought this up, interestingly, is because the it's weird to me that the reason I like the first Hobbit movie that was made in Germany or whatever, all the reasons I like that movie are basically all the reasons I don't really like the Fellowship of the Ring.
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Well, because
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like in the Fellowship of the Ring, I feel like so much. There's like so much and like, nothing really happens. Like there's a bunch of cool scenes, and like, the ending is really cool, and all that stuff. But the rest of it's like,
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okay,
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like, it's to me out of all three of them in context of the three. That one is the least for me, like, but it's weird, because all of the reasons that I really liked the hobbit
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kind of
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translate transformed into all the reasons I really don't
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like fellowship.
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I think I think they're getting you're, you're viewing them all in context of each other as
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a trilogy. Yeah, right. Like so. Yeah. Cuz I agree. Like,
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the fellowship is insanely boring. It's like it's good again. It's good. It's but it's like, yeah, it's to me. It's kind of boring. Yeah. Well, I
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don't know. Yeah. So
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my favorite is the two towers easily. Yeah.
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Yeah. easily.
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That's the best for me. Like, there's like because they do a really, in that movie, they do a really good job of balancing all the different stories that are happening at once. So like, it always feels like we're unlike in the second Hobbit movie, which name I can't actually remember the Oh The Desolation of Smaug, like I feel like sometimes the different when all the characters are in different spots, you don't get a very it's like uneven about where you are. Right? It feels like you spend a lot of time here. Maybe not as much time with this other people, you know,
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in
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the two towers, at least from when I view it. I feel like it's really balanced. And it really moves the story really well. Because it's, you're here. Okay, now you're here. Now you're back here. Now you're there. Now over there again, right? Like, it moves. Yeah. You know, it moves really well because there's so many different small elements and they spend like just the right amount of time with them. And to cut back someplace else, and then go there and then go there.
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Plus
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I think Helm's Deep is the best
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battle sequence edit any of them hands down. Without a doubt
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done. Full stop. I
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don't care about like Pella. northfields is good. That one always like fed and little charge thing makes me tear up like literally every time don't don't even like it's like know what,
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What's that over there? Oh, like,
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I think I think what the Helm's Deep, yo, that's so good.
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Because because you know the odds. Yeah, and in what that steak, and then plus just to watch for however long that scene is just like an unrelenting full on CG. take days.
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Right? Like,
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you know that there is so much on the line for that. And then the little technicalities of the machinery that they're doing and the different tactics that you see being put into place like it just like it is it you sit there with mouth a gate watching that scene? As the onslaught happened? It I love helps dude that makes the, the The Two Towers for me that makes that movie on top of what you mentioned. Oh, yeah. Each time they're going from person to person. It's also that time is spent so well. At each cut to move not just the story forward and that piece of the puzzle, but that character at that. Yeah, like with the merry and Pippin dynamic. Plus, Frodo, Sam plus Aragorn. Legolas and Gimli. Who's I think, give me my favorite ever but like, the Gandalf over there, right, like all then when you get to row Han, the day Odin and arrow mirror and all that stuff, like
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it's really, really love it. Plus,
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I think the music is great in that movie, too. Like I just really like rohana in general, like that kind of aesthetic that that plays is so good. And also, side note, having been to New Zealand watching these movies is murder. Like,
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oh, gosh, why? Ready to go back?
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again. Anyway, sorry.
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No, I, to me, I definitely was gonna say play two towers was it was iconic, but I think like every time I think of Lord of the Rings, I always think of the the charge of the row hyrum at the peloton in the third movie, oh, man,
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that that does catch all of the fields or obligates me. Yeah, and that was still gets me every single time.
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I I think I remembered that more. Kind of more than anything, really. Just of how iconic it was and how like, you know, yeah, if any, anything as a kid, if there's any scene of the movie that I want to replicate more, if you know if that it also kind of to me the even though it is you know, the CGI and all that stuff. I still think that is still super cool.
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Oh no, it's really good. It's really
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in depth. It definitely kind of shows how large this universe is. and kind of just how big you know. All you know is who said it best remember who it was but like when they talk about like yeah, it's in I can't even think of the scene but they talked about like you know, even though this is so big, you know we got to take it at the tail end of the battle the Black Gate of how much like oh, you know, there's all this stuff and oh, there's more to go. Yeah, just kind of dig it all is but you know how much a little hobbit to do at the tail end but I thought it was just cool just to kind of see if you hear all that stuff of Oh, you know, Mr. And all this stuff and then you don't you know, it doesn't come into it. His Majesty until the third one and you know not dinosaur but four years brother that that charge when you know everything there is charging the tip in staying in August that that also got the field and I think to me like the comms thing all of that even though I truly love the second one I think for me when I thought when I talked about just you know the fool in are wondering I always think of a third one.
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I do again I do like that one but i think i think my mind still there's a lot of good stuff there and of that. Like I said there they do a lot of story really progressive that I feel like it doesn't do quite the pacing isn't quite as good as to me, but I see what you feel because there's a lot of very like, like it's even it does, a lot of it feels you can feel the up stakes, like you know Helm's Deep is like high stakes, but like, return to the king is like
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that's it. Right? Like,
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that's the final, I think the stakes kind of add a lot to that emotion and stuff. Which is cool and fun, personal trivia. The Return of the King is one of the very few movies that I've ever seen multiple times in a theater. So I don't normally go to the movie theater multiple times to watch the same movie. Right? Return the king. I watched at least three times in the movie theater. Well, I think I went with different people. Right? Because there was somebody who's like I haven't seen yet like, let's go, let's go do this. Like, you know, I think that's what it was. It was one of those situations where like, oh, man, I haven't seen it yet. Have you like, Yeah, but I mean, I'll go with you. So like, Let's go, I think.
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Awesome.
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Yeah, I think I think for me, it's definitely two towers.
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And those are, there we go. I know. We're gonna watch leave that those were 21 D 20 years. I
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don't want to talk about that.
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Or not talking about it. That's fine.
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guy can i with the app? That's That's insane.
1:12:36
Yes, it is.
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Because 20 years ago is when I first had my way we did that, like my friends and I the first one that whenever the they all came out on DVD. Finally we had our first ever marathon. Right, right where we just sat down. We went to my friend's house. We watched all of them
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did. Colby? Yes. Did you take us, at least me of after school? And I was excited because it was like the feel of it the last day of school. And I was like, Oh, yeah, I get to go home to do this. And you're like, No.
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Sorry.
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Welcome, though, by the way. We I think we missed the first movie. But can we play the like in the basement? We play like leopard Ed or something? Yeah, I don't know. And we watched and watched it. I was like, Oh my gosh, they're so much more very welcome. It's great. Yeah. So that's
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Yeah, it was a long time ago. That's how long ago that was. That's what we did. Yeah, we haven't watched that. We're gonna watch the rest of that. We're gonna start watching one of those this week. But maybe tomorrow. I'm not sure. But I just want to ask that it was on my mind. And we've been going through there and it was his birthday this week. So that's really cool. That's fun. So
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no, more
1:14:03
Lord of the Rings with no brother. Bingo. Welcome. Listen. Let us know your favorite Lord of the Rings trilogy movie. And also whether or not you even like The Hobbit, if you do which one's your favorite movie. And do you even know the dwarves names? Who are they? What the heck is going on with them? I don't know. loin? Yeah, one of those families dad, but he has like no lines in the movie ever. He's just there. Mm hmm. That and then that? Yeah. Thorin Thorin oakenshield and then do all and I think it's the only one I know
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everybody.
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He's the one I wouldn't bother. He's the one with the weird hat.
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Yeah,
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they go. I know those ones. That's all I got. glows out of that one. Yeah. Citing things. Very very good.
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Good. I love it. Same
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All right. That's about it for today.
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Okay, well what? What's the game plan for
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sure to be any upset.
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Oh yeah. Well you guys