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Collin has lawn problems. Aaron has fern problems. Brandon is collecting sediment. After some initial ranting, we break out some good news we want to share! Because really, we all need some.

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Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers trying to figure it all out with your host, Brandon,

 

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Colin and Aaron.

 

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On this week's show,

 

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good news.

 

00:22

Hello. How are you? I am Yes.

 

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Oh

 

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What are you? What are you what are we in prepared for? Chancellor Palpatine What is happening? I don't know.

 

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wrong with you

 

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once more the galaxy outlet. Hey, Brandon

 

00:54

Callen saw your lightsaber

 

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okay. Destiny okay. I'm just gonna go back on mute then again.

 

01:12

Hi.

 

01:16

Yes. Hello. What's going on? Nothing. Any talking? Surprising, huh? Cool. Nothing I don't really see. crazy crazy

 

01:34

about you.

 

01:38

It's been a good week. so far been interesting. I'm starting to get a little bit busier with some dogs. So as people are venturing out more and more, we are getting busier and busier,

 

01:56

just good. still nowhere near where we were this time last year. Uh, well, I mean, yes.

 

02:03

It'd be kind of scary, I guess if we were. But um, yeah, that'd be weird to me.

 

02:10

Yeah, definitely unexpected.

 

02:14

So

 

02:16

that's been good. But one of the side effects of this is if you're talking about it here or not, but one of my projects since we didn't have any dogs was to get a nice backyard

 

02:24

grass growing. Yeah. And how that work.

 

02:27

Yeah, well, now we've got amazing grass. And now Now I have another project is to keep that grass nice. And it's almost as

 

02:35

like Yeah, he's now turning into that now. Right That's what

 

02:42

the descent continues right. Really? into deadness? Like, oh my gosh, the yard. The grass like, it's

 

02:51

fine. Yeah.

 

02:52

So now about once a month fertilizing it and stood off the grass. Keep the dogs off the yard. Yeah, so Yeah. Do you like, freak out if you see a dandy lion? And like, we don't have drivers

 

03:07

don't have any dandelions. If somebody is driving in my backyard, something has gone horribly wrong. I thought I'll say listen.

 

03:14

It's fine. Aaron's gonna drive by your house and just blow dandelions at your house.

 

03:23

To produce to is, um

 

03:28

we worked so hard on our backyard that now I walk out and I see our front yard and I'm like, Oh, well, this doesn't look nice either.

 

03:39

Take that front yard.

 

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Yeah, I know. And

 

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I'm like, cares about you the yard that people see. I know.

 

03:46

I didn't I do that because it would be the easiest way because nobody walks on it. It gets a lot more sun like smaller. Like

 

03:53

this was this was really not well thought out.

 

03:57

I mean,

 

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now All you like, know how to do it because you did the bigger one first. It's gonna be easier this way, I guess. Yes, yeah. Oh man so that's uh yeah, that's been it's been fun and I'm going to go to gonna meet up with Kyle and Kevin tomorrow to go hike some some property that Oh right, the wood, the wood the wood that they may be getting so fun to go in the pouring rain. Yes it is supposed to it's raining here now. spoilery now so it's already gonna be it's gonna be really damp. Very damn soggy. So here, your socks are gonna be soggy. Yeah, well, and we were like, well, we could. I really wanted to try and go today but we're scheduling stuff and I really wanted to go today because it's going to rain like For the next week and a half, yes. And so then counts and we're like, Well, we've got a babysitter all lined out. We don't want to cancel. I was like, Oh, look, I get it. I'm fine with going. It's just we're gonna get wet. Just so everyone is made abundantly clear here. Just

 

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so you know,

 

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there's no getting out of this not not

 

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like, yeah, this as long as you're aware of that fact. You know? Yeah, it's fine. Oh, so. Yeah. Then

 

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kind of fun.

 

05:39

All right.

 

05:41

Aaron, you've been doing anything. Just honestly, just lots of work. I had a late one yesterday. And so my, my sleep schedule is kind of a little thrown off, but I was. I was about working on that till about 10 So yeah so I honestly just been working all the time so this is I'll be off of call monday so hopefully okay as crazy everything will be back to normal but I kind of got a little slammed this week with with work so I'm just like this is fine this is this is good yeah just mean work work and then some relaxing this weekend but I got I got to work some more and then Shelby's coming back tomorrow so I got a from down down south and so you gotta meet everything I've been picked up but like I said that that Fern has caused more get over more damage and so I had to reevaluate a lot of things. But other than that, that's that's honestly all I've been doing. Nice, craziness.

 

07:04

Very nice.

 

07:06

I've been doing nothing. Let's be honest. I've just been sitting home school is now officially over. So like,

 

07:14

now I really have nothing to do like, no no.

 

07:18

Like dude to do. Okay.

 

07:24

Just sitting now.

 

07:27

Did they were they doing any summer school programs or anywhere they are going to?

 

07:33

So they have decided that June 1 through the 26th I think is going to be summer school. But

 

07:45

that's all the information that I know currently.

 

07:50

I don't know they have no idea how many that's what Susan was working all week this week was trying to get like figured out who would want to come how Many, so they know what grades teachers and everything would want to in the informal survey. A very small number of people said yes, summer school sounds like a great idea. Not so if they have it, it sounds like it's really quite limited, because they'll still have it because they'll you know, to have bacon still. They still want to have it because they can serve lunch all through summer school. Right. The program that we have for lunches is kind of the same extension to what they have been doing anyway. As any body anybody under the age of 18 can come get lunch at school. Right? Yeah, it doesn't matter. You can just come and get lunch. So they that's one of the reasons they want to have some summer school, right. I don't know. Other than that, I don't know usually our summer school like kindergarten first grade pretty full after that, you know?

 

09:06

So I don't know exactly

 

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what the rest of it looks like, other than they are planning on having summer school. But I don't have heard anything else about how many people what's going What's going on? Oh, no. No.

 

09:32

Yeah, that's not a decision that I would want to be tasked with trying to make. I mean,

 

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yeah, just, you know, so much. I know they were trying to like figure out how much like outdoor class they can have. You know, because we have lots of areas outside school where people could go, Okay, this class can go outside over here, this class and go outside over there. But like you were talking about June is very rainy and sunny. That, that would be a problem. So, we'll just start now. Exactly. The plan. So

 

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we'll see.

 

10:19

More to come. If one of my friends works at I'll let you know, because they didn't ask me. I don't usually work anymore. So like, they have a list. Right? Because there's a certain group of people that like, always wants to work summer school. So they are on the like, you date like your first list. Right? Oh, right. For the last I used to work all the time as like an aide. Because that was fun. I liked working as an aide. I always worked as an aide. But ever since I became a teacher, stayed away from summer school. I really have a need for somebody that wants to teach older kids. One year they're like, Hey, we have an opening in second grade. I was like, you know what I real busy all of a sudden, I

 

11:05

got bamboo to shove underneath my fingernail. Yeah.

 

11:12

I don't. I don't really. I really like the small children. So like, there Yeah, there was one year they're like, Hey, we have a second grade opening. I was like, Huh. You know, I'm, I'll substitute for you. That'll be like, so they call me I've substituted like I substituted last year. A couple days went in, did some subbing stuff though. That was nice. But that's it's kind of not very exciting, though. Especially if it's first graders, second graders about

 

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Battlestar that's supposed to start June 1, but we'll see

 

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what that looks like when that happens.

 

12:04

But the other bonuses they should have already been like doing my classroom. Ah, so it should get done earlier than normal. So maybe I can go in there at some point and start like doing stuff like getting your foot back together kind of doing just like basic planning things for next year getting my like sequence set out for the first month or so. Just so that's done on the way back home.

 

12:38

Since last year was my first year it was kind of like

 

12:41

my first year in sixth grade rather my it's kind of like, what are we going to do next? A

 

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this like

 

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and so I have like a billion notes laid out like what I did what was good what was totally abort that mission. Don't ever do that. Again, right? So I'm going to go through my first at least first unit and be like, okay, these are all the things I did kind of lay them out in order, like, is this order good? Was this bad? Do I need to shift it around a little bit? stuff like that, especially for social studies, because the science stuff went pretty good. I kind of know what was going on that already because I already work on that. But social studies are going to be like, oh, let's cut this out. Let's add this. Let's make this better. Like that kind of stuff. I need you that kind of thing. All that's on my school computer and everything. So Someday, I'll get to go back in there and mess with that clean up my room, because they say, for those of you who don't know, at the end of every school year, basically they take all the junk out of my classroom. They come in and they strip the floor, clean everything. And then like wax seal the floor. Again, like every year they do this, to keep the tile fresh, keep everything clean everything. So this year with, oh, by the way, School's out tomorrow. I don't really ever have any time to like, clean my room at the end of the year. Let's be honest, that is a vague term when it comes to me anyway, like, this year more so than ever. I was like, Okay, well, I'm going to just take all this stuff and throw it on top of this shelf that I know is not going anywhere.

 

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I have things like throat everywhere. So I need to go. Like get it back down. They did they did.

 

14:48

Would you ever do with all those rocks that you had that those get squirreled back away and taken?

 

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Some of them did? The rest of them I took outside and put them in the creek.

 

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Oh yeah, we release them back to there. Yeah, I Release them back to their natural habitat. Good. That's I was gonna say the Department of constant. You know, they do have regulations on how those Yeah,

 

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yeah. So we kept them inside for a while on that huge paper, right? Some of the kids were like, Hey, can I take this little rock home? I was like,

 

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parents like, why am I kidding? It's they like geology. Okay. It's great. They love it. So yeah, the rest is my repatriated out to the stream out front. So I do need to go out to that stream because there's a whole bunch of stuff where we talk about like sediment, and the kids have like, they always have this confused look on their face when I'm talking about sediment. And so I have some collection jars. And that little creek down there has just like tons of sediment in the bottom of it. So I just need to go out there and just scoop it out a little bit. So I can have some have jars. That was one of the things I was going to do at the end of the year. And then they were like, you're going home. Oh, good. Okay, so I didn't quite get done. So Collect sediment. Another thing I need to do on my list just for demonstration things just we can have a look at and talk about

 

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that this week I've been sitting home

 

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playing video games. That's it.

 

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That is a

 

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pretty bad week. I mean, it's not. But no, it's just like

 

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okay.

 

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My sleep schedule, man. Oh my gosh, what is what is sleep? What is how? No I can't bad. Yeah, bad some days. I'm just like sitting here. It's like 230 in the morning and like, Oh, no. Well stick it. And that takes a while to get back. That's the Oh yeah, really. It's really whatever. I have to go back and on. August and they're gonna be like, hey, come in the first day of school at seven o'clock and be like,

 

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physically capable of moving. Oh, no.

 

17:17

No, that's Yeah, that'd be a little rough. But

 

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trying to get that just at this point, I'm just like, well, there's nothing to do nothing to find it. I might as well just. And then of course the dog alarm, like five o'clock in the morning like, I guess who needs to go to the bathroom? Like he didn't

 

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get the memo that I was planned very well.

 

17:41

Yes. Chuck. Chuck, what are you doing? Come on, man.

 

17:47

Yeah.

 

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All dogs gotta do what they gotta do.

 

18:03

We're sitting our

 

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our oldest dog. Her name is Jules. She is a beagle mix and she is 16

 

18:12

Oh, man. Yes. And she's real Piney because she's a beagle, the Knicks, and everyone thinks she's a puppy. And I'm like, Huh, if you would watch how she walks in this very stilted

 

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stiff leg. Yeah, I was I am old and tired.

 

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They're like,

 

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Oh, how are you? Oh, what a cute little puppy. And I'm like, Well

 

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she's they say that about Chuck too, because it's a Yeah, it's a size thing. He's not very big boy. Like, like, Oh, look at the cute little puppy like, huh? It's cute. That he's little

 

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he's old man dog. So

 

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good. Yeah.

 

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Yeah, I've been we were for work.

 

19:05

Some fun stuff. We've been

 

19:09

showing your hog boots.

 

19:11

Sorry, no, no I did. I saw that email and I clicked delete real fast.

 

19:16

Oh, I read what you were talking about the other week, I read an article online that the Missouri Conservation Department is doing a survey about bear season. Mm hmm. They're all like, hey, people live south of I 44. Mostly, yeah.

 

19:35

Do you have a gun? Are you interested in shooting? Yeah, new.

 

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Yeah. I was very interesting. Like, huh. Oh, it was all these numbers about bear population and some of the numbers I went, Oh, I didn't. That's the bigger number than I thought it was going to be. Okay. Oh, yes.

 

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Yeah, that's the thing is it's a lot.

 

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It's like, huge, but you're like, Oh, okay. Well, there we go. Well, yeah, but it will be soon. Because that is an apex predator. All right, like there's nothing else it's going to hunt a bear. Sure, right. Well, unfortunate. fortunate. Yeah, it's what's unfortunate. They don't. They just don't have a lot of deer or anything to eat. or beans in the, ya know? Yeah. If only Missouri had an extreme problem with deer over here. Oh, wait, wait.

 

20:28

So Oh, so

 

20:30

I have it. This is gonna go off in a couple like rants. Um, I love

 

20:33

it. But that's what this whole show is about. It's not what people tune in for.

 

20:39

That is what people tune in for

 

20:40

some random topic.

 

20:44

No, I'll just start with the first one. The the legislation just in adjourned. legislative session just ended as far as like budgets and stuff for the year. Guess how much the government the Missouri government approved for the Department of Conservation to spend on land acquisitions? zero dollars. No, no. All right. $1 $1 Why do you even do that? I don't think they are legally allowed to say zero dollars. I think they they have to allocate something i think i think

 

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other otherwise it was meant as a very clear

 

21:34

like shot across the bow of probably next time it'll be zero. But there are some there are some of our wonderful Missouri representatives that view the department buying land as government interference, and right of course and impeding on locals rights to do what they want with their land so

 

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young, which is

 

22:00

Which is very frustrating because that's like, the best way to perform conservation is to

 

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buy land

 

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and, and conserve it.

 

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And so amongst many other things that came down the pipe with the department and the legislation, they were not nice to the department this year. Mostly they're punishing them because the hogs and they're trying to really cripple

 

22:27

the Department for

 

22:32

for everything that they're trying to do with hogs. I didn't kill them.

 

22:37

Well, but remember we've talked about people don't like that and they think the department is doing a money grab for this and that it's all a farce, and it's not science based.

 

22:48

And so they were doing a money grab, they would have held a lottery, said $500, inter or unlimited hog calling ability Write your ticket now. Right? That's what they would have done. If they were doing a money grab, they would have been like, hey, they would not have done. Okay, three quarters of the department is going to do work on hawks, and we will spend all of our money on Hawks. Yeah,

 

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yeah, they wouldn't be spending money to try to help make it

 

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people don't understand how the budget works. Like when you get federal grant money, you don't get to pocket that. Like that's a tit for tat thing. You have to show that you can do it well, most the time you have to show that you've already spent it or you get reimbursed for it because

 

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otherwise that they don't like that they don't wait

 

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to zero in which is so frustrating to people who don't understand how those programs work. It's not eight years a billion dollars.

 

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More right, yeah, they just like it's the gap away. Yeah, they account by hour by hour. What's you're doing when you're doing that stuff? And yeah, which means You as the employee are getting paid for that. And you were the department is only reimbursed for that money that they pay you for equipment that they have to buy, replace, get new, whatever, like it says net zero. And yet people think, though they're making out they look at this look at this $10 million grant or whatever they got, look at that the money that they're getting, because they're spending that much like, don't you? Yeah, you don't. And so there's some people that just don't understand funding, which is crazy, because there aren't they sit on the House Budget committees

 

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for the state, which is Oh,

 

24:42

let me tell you something about committees,

 

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committees that nobody wants to be on. And they just have to be like, you, committee, right. And so you get these people in their communities that are like what is this what Anyway, what is happening? Well that's how they work in sub areas like there's like one guy that he's been on it for a million years he's like really likes it and stuff. And there's like five other people that just showed up because they needed more than one person on the committee. right they're like you committee and they're like, uh What is that but see I don't get that feeling of people who are

 

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on

 

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House committees like

 

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some of them are maybe maybe but I just where they go I need to be on a committee because I have to be resume building it literally all times. Because I see. Yeah, yeah. I guess. Blah blah blah, constituent blah, blah. Like I don't know what Yeah, but

 

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we we got like the most

 

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defeated

 

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I'm email from our

 

26:09

Oh, gosh, what's her name?

 

26:11

Our director about about the about the legislative session session. I mean, it was just like, one. You know, one thing after the other of like, bad news and where things are trying to and it's just, again, I don't understand people's mindsets for Well, I don't I don't understand the mindset of people in the government that say things like, you don't need government. Wait. Right. That's like the whole thing. Like you don't need government telling you what to do. Okay, what do you do? What are you doing? Right? Well, I'm the I'm here to tell the person in the government, right. Oh, so you like that weird feedback loop. happens is sometimes, like, really confusing. And I don't know if anybody else sees that, but like, there's, like, government's bad. You don't need government. And these are people in the government telling you that like, but that that means that your job is is bad. But then you want me to elect you to your job. Do you? You don't make any sense right now, you know,

 

27:27

when I say government's bad, I mean the other way all government not me. Yeah. But I'm in government, government.

 

27:36

And you're like, that's the way leadership I see. Right? That's going I'm the only one who knows how to run this around here. I am the only one who knows how to good if everyone just did exactly what I said.

 

27:47

We'd be fine. Like, that's, that's again, there are there are certain people in the government where you go, Okay, let me just play out this in game. Right if we take this all the way out to the natural conclusion. That's ridiculous. Right? Like, stop it weed. Right? Yeah. So I don't know that just that would just add been. Oh, when I saw that news, I think you've got to be kidding me because there are lots of like, what people don't understand, again, is that it's not like that money that we use to purchase goes to person purchasing conservation easements so people can keep

 

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their farms.

 

28:28

Right. So, there is a situation down in Douglas County right now where someone has a big massive stream crossing going across part of Bryant Creek

 

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and they are losing

 

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tons of yards and yards and yards of, of a Hayfield, upstream out. Yeah. So we have said, Hey, the way we were going to approach this was Hey look, if we if you are willing to set 100 feet back of that, from that And plant trees into an easement. We will can come in and actually buy that easement from you. So you get payment for that land. And we will pay for the crossing to be replaced. So the only way we can do that is if we have money and land aquas. Yeah, to buy them. Yeah. So this person now we have to go to and say

 

29:24

the, the,

 

29:27

the people who think they know better said that we aren't supposed to spend money on buying land because it's bad. So you have to buy buy to your field. Right? It's like yeah, those kind of those kinds of situations because all people think of is is the department expanding conservation areas. If that's all they think about. They all they think about it is buying another tract of land to add to a conservation thing. And which, again, I'm obviously on board on and I think that's great. They don't see those kind of smaller transactions that take place and that gets really like

 

30:02

oh my gosh

 

30:06

Yeah, there's

 

30:10

Yeah, it's hard when you have a state that is like all like 1,000,000,000% agriculture, right? Like, I mean, that's oh my god oh my god, that's just what it is in Missouri even though even though you don't think about Missouri's being a big agricultural state because it doesn't really fit the mold of like an Indiana or Nebraska, right? The farms are not as large right? There's a lot of smaller more numerous I mean in the till you get to Southeast Missouri. Sure. I mean, but farming farming in the farming Hey, in the Ozarks? Yeah, looks I mean, you're Yeah, friend than anywhere else. Yes, that is technically a farm because that's a that's a crop that people need it. Money until it started. And it's Gosh, important though, because there was a few years ago, like when it was a couple years ago, it was real droughty. Right. And droughts for a couple years in a row. Hey, there was no hay. Right? People could not feed cattle was not right. couldn't do it. There was no hay because there was one cut. Maybe it was bad. And so there was no

 

31:24

you know, speaking of

 

31:27

speaking of arms, the wonderful Missouri Farm Bureau, which is just an interesting organization, they really only released a video this week. I think that the reason one of the biggest problems facing landowners, which they mean farmers in Missouri, in sales is stream bank erosion. And I was like, Oh, I mean, that's true. I deal with stream make erosion. Okay, let's hear what your video has to say. And they

 

31:58

starting back Because

 

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of the Clean Water Act, we were no longer able to do the practices that we used to do. And so now our banks are eroding faster and more frequently, and we're losing ground. And so we need to be able to do the practices that we used to do and maintain and get our land back. Do you want to know how people used to treat streams?

 

32:21

Please, please just go ahead. Don't tell me about the concrete lady. She's a dump in there and say, Look, it's done. Now.

 

32:29

These new concrete they also do what we call Detroit riprap whereas they would use aircraft carrier cable to string old cars together that yes,

 

32:39

I seen that,

 

32:41

that the specs, the specs that you did this did not say whether you were supposed to drain any fluids from them or not. And I guarantee you, nobody did. And you would drive pikes deep into the stream bake and lay the string of cars. I've seen pictures of that a bunch of all

 

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I saw pictures of it was it was old cars. Like a junkyard that had been like half crushed and they were flipped they were on their roofs roofs on slammed into the stream bank so they were like this just ungodly angle like a 55 degree angle, like implanted in the side of this bank and then like Yep, these male you know what I want in my water, all that iron and heavy metals from the rusting.

 

33:26

Hey, they're natural. They came from the earth from dust to dust. They also what else

 

33:31

is natural? What arsenic? Well see mercury. Oh, I think yummy. I think

 

33:38

you just need to have a more holistic idea.

 

33:39

And so that's my comeback. Tell all the all the people that say Oh, it can't be bad for you because it's natural. They say Oh, right. Mercury is natural. Right. Um, they also go to if you stand on a stream bank, over time streams wiggle back and forth across their floodplain. That's natural, right they wiggle wiggle. However, if you're flying That means that in your lifetime, the stream never comes and goes, it typically just comes towards you. Or goes away.

 

34:07

Yeah, it only goes one direction. Yes.

 

34:09

So if you're a farmer, and the stream is coming towards you, what do you do? You go, Well, I've got a tractor, and I've got a plow. So I'm just gonna move it back, move the channel back to over to where it was before. Yeah. And you just keep straightening the channel over and over and over and over again, which actually increases erosion and increase the sanitation because that that dirt is now disturbed and moving somewhere. It's got it's been aerated. So well. Yeah. air pockets in there that make it more susceptible to being carried away by a river. Right. And do they ever plant trees after they do that? No, they just put rock or or grout, that's a that's a favorite. There's just grout directly on dirt. And then the other thing that they talked about was that, well, we can't get in and remove the gravel and it's the gravel that's building up in the street. And then the water can't go anywhere and blah, blah, blah.

 

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And it's like,

 

35:05

I understand what you're trying to say here. But remember, water moves that gravel, right?

 

35:12

Right. And actually, the gravel that we're seeing in our streams right now are the result of all of the logging in the Ozarks that happened to 120 years ago. Yeah, it was like not, not not because of anything that happened 10 years ago, or anything else, all the gravel like, here's, I mean, our listeners will have no idea what this is. But next time we're a dad's property, look, go down into the ravines and see all the rock that's there. It'll take about 100 120 years for it to reach all the way down into the main channel of the Finley. And because dad's way up in that watershed, as you're saying, so our dad's house is probably four miles from the Finley River. Yeah. Accurate if you go down that road. Yeah, I mean, for linear miles for river miles, that number is going to be bigger considerably. Because that when it goes a weird way around, but it's, I mean, if you were to go straight shot, you're probably four to five miles from the failure.

 

36:14

And all that water, all that

 

36:15

stuff that's way up in the tops of that watershed way up in those high fingers. It takes a long time for that to reach the main channel. And the effects that happened in the channel take a long time to reach way up into those tributaries. And so the results that we're seeing right now are the result of bad management practices

 

36:32

100 years ago,

 

36:34

and and all of the interim, extreme grievances and pillaging that's happened to landscapes in Flint, it just keeps piling on top of one another. So to say, oh, all of this happened because of that. That darn Clean Water Act. And yeah, it's like, let me let me Harmer is I have a I have a I have a story for you. Let me tell you the story of Monique, Missouri Here's the story of a town built in the late 1800s as a railroad depot town, which runs next to Kelly Creek. So, the town said, Man, this creek sure is nice, but it's kind of in the way of our railroad track. And so they moved the creek bank, right, they move the creek channel

 

37:33

to the south

 

37:35

of the railroad track, and then they put in Broadway Street, the main street downtown Broadway runs right through there. I did this 100 years ago, right? Um, what, what has a tendency to happen? Especially a few years ago, it floods. So it rains. Kelly Creek goes over its banks, and it goes to where it goes. Used to be right. Which is right in the middle of Broadway. Yeah. And this this road get a bead of water.

 

38:11

Well, and yeah, and then because

 

38:14

they because they were like, oh Yo, this is in the way. Let's just move the creek over there be fine. Nope, nope. Kelly Creek says no, I don't want to be over there over here. Sorry monotypes newspaper office. Boom, bloody bye goodbye again. Yeah. So now just now they are doing a new thing where they are taking out stuff to the south of Broadway and like revitalizing it re like naturalizing it I guess they're doing like they're making it into more of a floodplain area and like planting stuff and kind of re designing it because over there now because that was the heart of the old industrial so it's like concrete slabs and brick building. things. Yeah. And that's what it is. So they're moving all that out. Yeah, and trying to do rework this area, this big triangle of land because the flooding down there is so and erosion on that new bank, if you go look at it, it's just like six feet of vertical, open exposed dirt. Because that's just what it just rips it out. Yeah. And that's, that's, uh, you know, people it's it's, it's counterintuitive and a lot of the ways of how streams and and pipelines respond to human activity. But to boil it down to the simplest like, takeaway is just the more monkeying you do with a stream, the worse your problems, just ask the Army Corps, what they have to do to maintain the Mississippi shipping. Oh my gosh, like no, just ask them Because they installed huge, huge, you don't like hundred yard long wing dikes out into the river 100 years ago, 80 years ago to rebuild whole swaths of land to narrow the channel so that it would self scour. And now they've got to maintain that and now and now that's one of the reasons why the flooding is so bad is because they narrowed the channel of the Mississippi River. So that it would be for shipping. It'd be a faster, swifter water and make shipping faster. And now you've got it you those flooding as a consequence of that. It's not because

 

40:38

of anything else, just

 

40:41

straight up, like we get more water more frequently, and we have more damaged channels than we ever had before. Yeah. And well, they did that. They did the same thing in the Delta. Right? Delta, they just went they just went, oh, let's just cut this big straight channel. Yeah, so they cut leaves. They cut these enormous like dead straight channels through the Delta.

 

41:06

Very well engineered straight lines.

 

41:09

Yes. Beautifully drawn straight lines, Euclid would be very proud. But the problem is, that means that all the seawater just come straight up the channel, and it just kills all the vegetation. Mm hmm. Then. So now, the the tertiary thing you have to deal with now is all of that very lively, dense lush vegetation was a naturally occurring hurricane break. Yeah, right. And now it's all dead. And it's just flat ground between the hurricane and like, towns, everything, absolutely nothing to slow flood surge. Anything just like black. done right? Like part of that too. I mean, if you Most of us have experienced this. If you have a hose, it's all spread out and you turn it on full blast, what happens to the very end of it as the water comes out, it waves back and forth. That's what the Mississippi does in the Delta, what used to go back and forth constantly depositing, depositing the sediment that you're going to show your students into the Delta continually growing and expanding. It's not doing that anymore. And so the delta is shrinking in size as sediment is no longer being able to make it through the whole area.

 

42:31

And so yeah, you get it. I was just, uh,

 

42:34

earlier in the year I was reading an article about some of the last remaining French Creoles native there that lived on these islands. Yes,

 

42:46

you know, that can't fit anymore.

 

42:49

Finally having to evacuate because over like 70% of the lab, and yet that's popular due to rising water. It's also due to land thinking because it's not being replenished, right? Both of these things are in effect at the same simultaneously. Yeah. So it's just, it's fun. It's real fun. And that was that was Those are my two big gripes the net farm here one message

 

43:15

just like oh

 

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43:46

Anyway, Hey guys, good news. Right.

 

43:52

The DC is Sendero 2021 will come out

 

44:03

is available for sale in the US. Did you buy a new car too soon? No. I think you're telling me that the pride of Romania, the daisies in there. For name side note named for the Romania back that the one of the tribes that lived there during Roman times was the de scions. Right, so they are native people to that area of Eastern Europe. So the day seems inhabited that area. So that's one of the reasons that's where that name comes from. Dacia Sunday Oh, sorry, continue. Romania's pride Daisy asunto. James may save your car

 

44:42

JSON. And in our transition into the segment with my one of my leading news news articles. It's It's from earlier in the year but the 2021 ACS and arrow has been spied on in some snowy sparks parts of Europe. In the winter, with possibly sporting a new tablet like infotainment center, but I'm very sorry to inform you that it still has drum brakes in the back.

 

45:16

Hey, you know, they're cutting cost down somewhere. If you're gonna have a tablet, what did you say infotainment center

 

45:25

where they have a tablet like infotainment in it, which is the most non exciting way to describe a touchscreen in the middle of your car.

 

45:36

I think touchscreen He's fine. I think infotainment

 

45:43

saying that out loud kind of hurts me, right.

 

45:50

Oh, all right. Oh, no. Is it does it still come in brown?

 

45:55

Uh, you know, I don't I don't think they really

 

45:57

did. They like do that weird thing where they like camo wrap it in like a weird Yeah,

 

46:03

it's a hammer wrapped is one that they that they were spying on so you can't see it's it's new you totally can see it like I

 

46:09

don't like like, wow, God did that with that the new Supra that came out yeah all these pictures that leaked online were like the new Supra but it was like wrapped in like a weird black and white camera thing and you're like I don't, I could still see that I don't be doing I know it's like hide certain body lines and stuff. But like, it just seems really goofy because it's like driving on the road you like but

 

46:36

that's just looks silly. like

 

46:41

yeah, I mean, it shares some of the same underpinnings as the Clio. And I think we all know that the Clio is pretty cool. And a hatchback. So also not

 

46:49

available in the US. No, two

 

46:54

emission standards. I believe it's pretty Yes,

 

46:56

yeah, it does not meet our

 

46:59

wishes. Yeah the the French are like now Why? Why would a why would everybody Renault Clio There we go. Yeah

 

47:09

it's crazy to me to think that this has been made since the dciaa scenario for those of us for those of you listening who haven't no idea why this is funny

 

47:21

and I hate to explain the joke but you know inside jokes. Top Gear James May loved ACF. Good news. Sendero. Okay, that's

 

47:31

a It's crazy. This thing has been in production since 2007.

 

47:36

And it's only on its third generation of model a, you know, you guys stick with what works. You know, that is this is true. Yes, I mean, true.

 

47:49

Volkswagen Beetle look the same forever. So I,

 

47:52

I guess, I guess, you know, Porsche 911. That says to still look

 

47:57

real Porsche 911 still Some would say the first design integration writers

 

48:04

still feel first generation some crazy bird named john strong like it's fine boy. Yes. So, anyway,

 

48:13

uh

 

48:14

Yeah, so So what other kind of good news things did you guys have are funny things that you've enjoyed?

 

48:20

Oh man.

 

48:23

Well, hold on let me pull it up here cuz I have one. Aaron, did you have 1am I taking your turn?

 

48:28

Um, no, you can go ahead and go by mine weren't as as extravagant as Oh, okay.

 

48:37

All right. Listen, Aaron. Did you know that Norway is set to excavate its first Viking burial ship in more than 100 years. Hey, boom. So what there is, they generally don't like to do this right. There are a few of these Viking ships in Austin. In the Museum of cultural history, one extraordinary like, all closed up perfectly preserved ship that you can go and look at right? It's cool. So some of them they're buried as part of funerary rites for Vikings Hmm This particular one I can't quite remember where it is the girl style Viking ship. There we go. That's my attempt it pronounciating Norwegian word. They are going to excavate it starting next month in June. Wow. So there's this big they kind of noticed that it is the one of the big reasons they're decided to excavate it is it is to quote this article being ravaged by fungus. Right so there's some fungus that have gotten to the woods. Finally after X number of years of being buried, bit. Yeah. And they don't, they don't exactly know what time period this ship comes from. So that's another reason that they're kind of excited to excavate it the last Viking ship that they actually excavated, I believe, was 1906. Or there abouts. Okay, I could be slightly wrong on that date. But it was around that time. Right. And the other two were before that. Right so late 1800s. Wow. Oh, yeah. 1868 1880 and the last one was 1904. Excuse me. So this is the first time they're going to be excavating a ship using any sort of modern technique. That's, that's insane to think about. Yeah, right. So they're, they're hoping that they can learn a lot about Viking ship design. And kind of where this ship falls in the timeline, because like the design changes subtly over the years, you know what I mean? So there is a kind of like a topology of Viking ships, right for lack of a better term. So if you can place this ship somewhere, like based on the features that it has, like, how is the keel, what's the, you know, the draft look like all that stuff, you can kind of place it in a timeline and get a fairly accurate representation of when this burial took place. And then also what else is in this burial? Right, because only super important people were buried with ships, so some sort of King assumably is there. Unknown other artifacts are in there as well. So they kind of want to dig this up to preserve it from fungal degradation. And also just to kind of learn more about that time period and just see what's down there. But I thought it was crazy that it's going to be the first one undertaking with any sort of modern archaeological digging it. So like, there's gonna be some cool stuff. So they're supposed to be starting in June, right? The university is good to go in Norway, they got everything laid out. So sometime in mid June, this is supposed to happen. So do you still have the link to that? I do. I'll share it in the text message a little while. And I'll make sure that we include all of the things discussed in this in our show notes. Yes, that's what I'll text them. So they have this so I had two articles that kind of say the same thing. One is from like Norway and the other one is from like, what it says Gizmodo or whatever. But yeah, it's pretty cool. I was kind of excited about that. And it's just something to keep an eye on because I think

 

53:00

Trying to find the actual date that they said

 

53:04

they were going to do it but yeah, it's gonna be soon. So it's gonna be it's pretty neat. Looking forward to that. So keep well we will continue to be updated on yeah just says here in June so on the new excavated ship in Norway, Viking ship in Norway boom there we go

 

53:32

okay that is good news is good news. I think it's exciting. I think it's great. Yeah. It

 

53:38

I have one that's kind of weirdly in juxtaposition to that that just from from one end to the other so Aaron what's what's yours? What are yours? I don't know You can bring in Did you have more?

 

53:49

I have another one if we have time. So

 

53:50

okay. Sure.

 

53:53

I mean, my my week has been absolutely chaotic. With with family. Emily's in cases and so, you know I kind of had a look more you know internally with some things that you know are like are good news so they're not like worldly news by any means they're not as as extravagant as Viking ships being

 

54:23

you know being excavated or a DC Sendero

 

54:28

mines kind of more, more personal.

 

54:33

You know, the big one, you know, Shelby's coming back after two weeks of being gone. That's in and then I guess the other good news. I don't know if it's like good good news, but it's just like it makes me happy. So that's, that is number one classification for good news.

 

54:49

That challenge was

 

54:52

there was a new DLC that came out with a game that I truly enjoy

 

54:59

for Warhammer two, Total War. All Yeah. So I've been, I literally like it came out literally today. Nice like, oh man, let's go and then I like it. I was working on a case late and I was like, Alright man, this is Oh, this is gonna be so cool. And I literally just loaded it. And then I had to do this. So I got that chance to play like, Mayberry. And I was like, oh, man, this is so cool. It's like it's ready to go though. Yes, it's on my laptop is also very old. And so it might, it might take a wee bit fine. Yeah, likes a nice exercise. There's good news DLC and via games are very important, actually, during

 

55:46

this time. Now, that was my

 

55:50

good news. News. This is good news in the return of Shelby is always good news. Yeah, good. Joe.

 

55:58

Excellent. Really?

 

56:02

Okay, but that those are all my losers. Newsies good ones. Yeah. My next and last one. It's just interesting that Brandon, you, you had the the hundred year old you know the Viking ship because my mind was was the actually in six days. SpaceX is launching NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. And it's the first time it's the private industry's first manned. I think it's the first manned connection with the International Space Station. They've done unmanned

 

56:43

supplies and cargo,

 

56:44

but I think

 

56:48

Yeah, yep. So it's, it's the launched the last time they traveled a minute So 2011 was the last time they launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. And when astronauts left from that, and now this time, they're traveling on private companies between SpaceX and Boeing's joint venture with astronauts to the space station. So I think that's really cool because they've been going from Russia, right? Yes. All the American astronauts have been going up from Russia in this big Soyuz rockets. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. They've been. They've, this is the first time it'll be back from back on the, the US soil not being done by NASA. But NASA trained astronauts in private companies, equipment and machines. Interesting is just fascinating. It's really cool. Because space is awesome. And that's true.

 

57:45

It is

 

57:46

we need to this kind of stuff needs to be happening like more. And like I already know that there's a lot of work that goes into this and these people like right but like on the scale of

 

57:56

how long

 

57:58

the timeline since we've been into space

 

58:01

It's just like, every time there's something like this happens it's so exciting that Okay, now we're we're still doing this we're still doing interested in these ventures and it's worthwhile. I feel like

 

58:12

and just cool. Mostly because the cool factor but

 

58:16

especially because my four year old daughter wants to be a ballerina astronaut, so we need to go on this perfect

 

58:25

on this SpaceX.

 

58:29

I have a little girl's dreams to help out here.

 

58:33

So more space missions.

 

58:36

ballerina, I like it. That is

 

58:42

what she wants to be because she can because it's fun to imagine

 

58:45

how much you can twirl.

 

58:47

Yes.

 

58:48

Right. It's totally whirling whirling forever, right.

 

58:56

And yeah, so that's, that's the One thing that made me made me happy, and it's just funny. Now that is cool, because there's a lot of cool things, especially that are like pot like that are theoretically possible. But they're just too cost effective, right? Because as we know, everything comes down to cost. So like, there's tons of stuff that is, like, theoretically possible, that could happen that could be going on. Right? And it's just not for a variety of reasons. People don't think there's value in it. People don't want to put the money in that area. Right. So there's tons of really cool things. Because in theory, we could be on two planets in the moon, like right now. Like we have technology available that it could, we could do that. Because if we want to, we can be on our Moon, Mars, and Venus right now. I mean, not on Venus, necessarily. was

 

60:00

around Iran there are

 

60:02

no there are some really cool NASA has these plans on if you ever seen these right? There are four basically what look like giant airships flying through the Venetian atmosphere? Because it's so dense.

 

60:15

Right?

 

60:16

There's so much heavy Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like Cloud City on Venus. Yeah, that's theoretically possible to have a

 

60:25

well and so part of part of

 

60:28

this news exciting is because this is one of the firt This is the first test right of of of a manned space from you know, with all the pieces put together. They've been testing the Falcon Heavy nine rockets and all this stuff independently or whatever doing payload runs. And now they're doing the manned cruise. The the the, the Falcon nine rockets are reusable, which is a route which is awesome because I can self self land and all that stuff too. And that's the thing every time I walk in Go with a hexane. And so it really like if this can get off the ground and this is successful, like, it just means there can be more of these because it's just getting easier and easier with each time. And so that those kind of Mars moons, you know, like those kinds of things become Okay. Now let's take that next step next. Well, because that's the next barrier, right, the first barrier is ease to getting out of atmosphere. Yes, right. The second. The second thing that really holds you back is the speed at which you can travel in space. Right, like the technology that we have to do that is not like the best. Right? There are. Again, there are other theoretical things like ion thrusters and all these things that that that could work, we just don't have them because they're not tested and they're very expensive to develop that technology. So that would be the next thing is how to How do I get from here to the moon faster now? Right, right? How do I make How do I reduce that travel time? through a variety of things, right? Especially if you have like bigger crafts that just stay in orbit and kind of act as shuttles between these things. And you use these other rockets, these lifting technologies to just get to the orbit to rain, and then they go, so that way you have, like, you don't have to have one thing that does everything. Right. Kind of makes it divide that workload and it makes it more efficient. Really. That would be cool, though. Right spaceport, but, uh huh. So, yep, that was uh, that was my, my last my last one there. That's pretty good one. Pretty good one, a mile my last one. Bringing it back a little more terrestrial. for you is the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia as just I believe I saw this for the first time yesterday discovered new unseen footage of Benjamin Of course Benjamin the last known Tasmanian Tiger in captivity, well this is footage. This is footage that is newly discovered has been digitized with sound from September 7 1936 Oh have him in the zoo in Hobart Tasmania. Right. So this is the last known Thylacine in captivity he died he unfortunately died in captivity due to an accident. The door to his enclosure was not But it was too cold outside. And he died. Oh, right. So this is how he died in captivity be last known confirmed Thylacine ever. Yeah. Right now this is this is cool number one. Yeah. Because I have scenes are very fascinating to me. Yeah, they're extremely interesting

 

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not only because

 

64:31

they're just like a cool animal, right like a watch a move is they're so weird, right? And I look so crazy. And this is this is just a 21 second clip. It's basically like part of a zoo tour documentary thing. Mm hmm. And it's like 21 seconds of on his enclosure, just checking them out. He's just pacing around, walk around back and forth. Just seeing him walk and move and I move his head and stuff. So weird, right? So interesting. That's really cool. The other reason that iOS has continued to fascinate me is the fact that like every once in a while you hear these reports that people see them. Right? Is this that that animal that's like I don't really buy into a lot of that other stuff but like that one you're like, baby though, cuz part of me like desperately wants it to be alive somewhere still, right you know what I mean? Like

 

65:24

it just sad. just sad that it gets lumped in with the other cryptozoology like a Bigfoot and all these Yeah, no. So like, now we enter another time that episode is coming. Probably because I have some thoughts on that. Oh, no, but But

 

65:39

yeah, it is sad that it gets lumped in there because it was alive in 1936. Right. No, it was alive. But we killed it. Because it was eating the sheep. They just killed them all. Right. I want to cheap though. I mean, she cheap ranching in Australia is big business. Well, yes.

 

66:01

It is.

 

66:04

Even back then it still exists now. Right? So, but every once in a while, like bears universities in Australia that are like, Hey, we're looking for it. That I mean, and so like, I don't know if it's because yeah, like, you know, you would think that'd be if a university was like spending money to go do that that's like legitimate. Right, right. It's not. It's not like, Oh, you know the University of Stanford is not going to look for Bigfoot. I know that. But like,

 

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that we know of.

 

66:40

That's true. They might be nosy. But they're just cool. I just like to, like read about people that go out look for them. There's one guy that's actually going soon. The guy that found the tortoise last year What's his name?

 

66:58

The tortoise in the Galapagos island. hadn't been seen in

 

67:00

the last one.

 

67:02

Yeah. Yeah. He's going to look in actually he's going I think I saw somewhere he's going to Northern Australia and possibly like Borneo. Because a long time ago that was connected. Right? So, going up in there.

 

67:23

Check it out. So

 

67:27

Australia is a big empty place, man. So maybe somewhere.

 

67:32

I know. That's true.

 

67:35

Yeah, man, I forgotten about the friend of dn. Nandy and giant tortoise.

 

67:41

And yeah.

 

67:45

The guy the guy's name

 

67:46

was wako. Tunisia or happier.

 

67:50

I don't know. That's not who I was like. Oh, hold on.

 

68:02

What's this guy's name?

 

68:07

Boris Galante? That guy. Yeah, he's, he is going, right? He's the he's the grandson or something of the dude that rediscovered the Steeler camp. Oh, really? I believe that. I might be. You know, that might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. That's him. He's late to that guy. So yes, his his grandfather, Gerald Sommerfeld was involved in in the guy that was involved in proving it that was still alive. So he's got a, you know, he does this kind of thing all the time. For fun. Okay, Sweden, goes and looks for extinct animals. He's going to do that. Who knows? Who knows? But this is you I just like those because that's one of those things that you see cuz other like animals are like oh no dude look at this you look at the picture and you go dude, that picture is terrible right out here we look at that. Yeah I've seen so pictures that like Australian Bushmen have taken of like a legend Tasmanian tiger and you kind of go

 

69:26

right? Yeah, he's doing well I was going to dismiss out outright but

 

69:33

I can't quite do that. So we were very,

 

69:37

very distinctive animal. Like sometimes there are some pictures where you go, No, you there's no way you can actually tell what that is. Right? But there's a couple that I've seen it this make me kind of go. Okay, got me interested. I'm I'm intrigued now, okay. I wasn't before but now I'm in right. I am. So This is just nor number one. It's kind of a, it's just cool. Right that there's a new footage of a Thylacine around. Right. And, you know, there could be more old footage out there somewhere waiting to be found of these. Well, somewhere. Right? And that's the thing of the what's so cool about archives is that they keep stuff around. What's not so cool about archives, is that surfacing? That stuff is is really so hard, right? It's really, it's in a box somewhere.

 

70:34

Yeah. And I mean, I got to taste a little bit of that when I was doing research. When I was down in Texas, and I visited the Texas Natural History collection.

 

70:42

I was taking photos, and like

 

70:44

they're trying to digitize their fish.

 

70:51

They're trying to catalog

 

70:52

Yeah, their fish catalog or fish specimen.

 

70:54

And

 

70:56

it's just like, how do you even start whenever you have 300 Plus thousand billion, right? Cuz, you know you'd like okay, this jar is only 12 ounces of liquid, but it's got 700 you know, juvenile whatever in it, you know, spotted bass, you know, like, oh, oh, well, it's gonna take a while. So yeah, so one of my things of like, okay, thank you for letting me come down here and use your facility and you're really nice camera in kind. I will instead of just photographing the specimen that I want, I will photograph all of the specimen for the species in this area. Yeah, yeah. Right. And so that's what I did. I was down there for a week. And I just eight hours a day to boat with a fish for a whole week. Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah, it was, which is, you know, again,

 

71:48

it was fine. And they needed it and I am. So So. Do it. What do you think of faces like the Smithsonian

 

71:56

that have it's, who knows? Who knows? They don't know. No, they don't even know. Right? We have warehouses off side of that place or whatever they have, like half storerooms and they have they have no idea what's in there. Right. Right. And who would

 

72:10

Who would have thought to have looked in the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia for a Thylacine clip, right. Yeah, like you're right.

 

72:20

And there were at one point in lots of other zoos like around the world. So there could be, there could be video archives of footage of that in the Smithsonian. Right? It's in some cardboard box. Right? It's like end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Right. So that's what I imagining right now. Well, and then just a big box somewhere, and there's an eight millimeter.

 

72:45

We'll just go. Let's go search for it. Okay, well, in order to search for that, you have to in real time, rewatch the video clips, you just have to do that. There's no way to automate that you just have to press play and sit and cross your arm and take notes about what you see on this film.

 

73:00

Yeah, well, I mean, that's how you have to digitize it. Right? You have to play it in real time thing in real time. Right is exactly what they do. And then, you know, it's just like. So I even know the department is desperately trying to do that have a whole lot of their slides, and a lot of their old footage and get it digitized and archived. And so they have one archivist in Jeff city that that's all they do. They just, they're not even they're not even restoring stuff. They're just trying to capture that.

 

73:33

Yeah, yeah. Or you had to set that stuff aside, like this stuff is messed up. We'll put it over here for now. We'll like preserve it the best we can in its current state. And then we'll have to come back to it. You know,

 

73:47

kind of triage it,

 

73:49

almost. So, hopefully somewhere more Tasmanian tigers.