Brandon is muted. Collin has weird meetings. Aaron is discovering all the potholes in Oklahoma. We simultaneously realize we are all slowly becoming different aspects of our father..which is terrifying. We discuss what it means to organize vs downsize and our obsessions with totes.

Good number sequence
Is Aaron organized?
Tools and organizing
Decluttering
Memories and objects
Brandon is turning into Dad…with his 20 year old shoes
We’re all turning into our father…
Dad’s truck
Aaron and bus sized potholes
Janky Buses
Collin’s weird meeting
Collin is traveling too
Travel math
Air pressure!
Named by a scientist

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Aaron, Brandon

Collin 00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Cullen and Aaron. On this week's show janky buttons

00:16

Hello. Oh boy. Clicking Oh, do I need to say hello again. But I waited.

00:31

I clicked the button said my opening line. looks down. realize I had not clicked the button resolutely enough. clicked it again.

Brandon 00:43

And here we are. Solid. Yes, not depress quite enough anything. Anyway. Hello. Oh, yes. Welcome to 120/3 episode. Oh, look at that. 123 baby. I love it. Oh, exciting. I love a good number sequence makes me happy. Who? Who doesn't love good numbers? Many people? Well, but that's okay. Number sequence. What's a bad? Ah, probably one that would be

01:30

like, there's probably two types of bad number sequences, right? I imagine one would be one that's just like aesthetically displeasing to

Brandon 01:37

look at your right. Or as some sort of like negative connotation or like superstitious things related to it,

01:46

you know, get too many the wrong number in there. Like I don't know. Oh, gosh. Ah. Okay, right. Is there something that probably there's also something less impressive? You know,

Brandon 02:00

I imagine. Okay. Aaron, how would you define a bad number segments?

Aaron 02:12

Explain. Okay, boop, boop. No, no, we're moving on. We move on. Are you organized? Do I need to hear about this right now? Tell me about your life. Okay, so I don't have any major details on anything. They came in they specters. And I guess they did this with a lot of thing with a lot of houses. For those of you who are listening. Sounds like you're getting investigated by the CIA. I'm sorry. Yeah, right. Okay, I need a paid organizer is coming to our apartment help organizing, which sounds silly because yes, we are an apartment. However, as we live in here that we definitely stimulated a lot more things. And so we are getting rid of a lot of enemies. We don't live in still, we don't live in junky things. And it's not like a messy apartment is very clean. But like closet space, like her clothes is, is not very big. And so then there's all the little knickknacks and things. And so they came in, and they're like, you know, this game plan, yada, yada, yada. And so I think they're coming back next week, to then kind of like, work with us and like, help us get rid of some things and organizing kind of maximize and utilize space appropriately. So we've been talking about this for a long time of downsizing and then, you know, maximizing base. And so this was just, you know, her mom was like, oh, no, everyone, right? Okay, so it was just kind of struck me because I forgot, as I often do, and so I was like, wait, what we're doing, but it's actually been really helpful. actually, physically saying of how like, oh, you know, we could use this to put shelves in here. And then I got this mat. And so, um, but yeah, we're, it's, it was just in the planning phase. And so we were just waiting for the next step.

Brandon 04:12

So it was like the consultation. Yeah, pretty much part. Yeah. Yeah. So I had a question of how much is it? Like, this is might be kind of weird. How much is it is methodology? How much is it? Like, buying organizers? How much is it getting rid of stuff?

04:31

Um, how much cost? I'm not paying for it. But no, no, no. How, what like, what percentage? What's the percentage breakdown of that's the stuff that she talked about with you

Brandon 04:44

on your home and they're talking to you? Is this person saying like, Oh, actually, your solution is you need to get rid of everything, or is this person saying if now is, quote,

Aaron 04:55

a lot of it was like, I'm kind of like Not decorating but like just her basic, like, they're basically stuff but like, Oh, this is, you know, this is the space that we have. This is how much stuff we have. And what can we do with what we have with what we need or what we need to get rid of. I only got the tail end of this I was not there for the whole shebang. Because I saw that yesterday, I had a baseball, softball and I they get home late and they were still there about like, eight ish. So it was just kind of wanting to deal with that. And so I don't know all the details. But I know that it was kind of like, oh, but that's as far as my expense goes. So unfortunately, I cannot provide details because I honestly don't know. Okay,

Brandon 05:49

that's fine. Get Shelly on the line. Go ahead.

05:57

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. So when the first I had a mild panic attack, like

Brandon 06:03

for you right now, because the thought of somebody coming in my house and doing that. Really kind of like freaked me out a little bit.

06:12

I didn't like it. I was like, you know, I want someone look at my closet be like, Oh, you can move your stuff like you move your stuff. Yeah, stop judging me get out.

Brandon 06:21

Like, yeah. I like it. I'm, like we discussed before, I'm a person who like I need is a certain level of clutter in my life. Like I do not like, like, hyper clean, like aesthetic look. And I like anytime that there's anything that like, threatens that I panic. So I was like panicking on your behalf.

Aaron 06:44

Like yeah, I mean, if normal, just like get rid of this, get rid of it. Like it would have been a little bit different. But if it doesn't, to my knowledge, it doesn't work like that, like you have too much stuff to get rid of everything. And so hopefully next week, I'll be more details. But my limited knowledge of the situation, I have no idea.

07:10

I like oh, we're bringing all these, you know, totes or bring I'm bringing you more hangers. It's it's a little bit more in depth. But what that depth is out. So we'll

Brandon 07:23

we'll need to be kept abreast of the situation as it develops. Because I'm curious to know, kind of like, Collin, I have many questions about this. I've only ever heard of this type of thing. I've never I've definitely never known anybody to go through it. So I'm very curious about your, your future reporting about this process in your life and how you feel about

Aaron 07:47

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, no, I have I have no idea. As far as what it all like, how much like actual, like in the home stuff goes. But what I also understand is that if we wanted to, like donate things or get rid of them, they take it for us. So that's at least kind of my blood drive like

08:09

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right. It's gonna be very interesting these updates, cuz I like I said, I was panicking on your path, because I don't

Brandon 08:21

like that game. But, I mean, it is it is, it is one of those things of like, uh, I think this might be early, this might be a little bit different

Collin 08:34

erotic damage that I have, but like, I've thought about having somebody come in and like, clean the house, like once a month, just to like, do a nice, deep clean, like, while we're out, not home. But then when I start thinking about it, I'm like, Well, I don't want them to like, really, like, I would get embarrassed or like, feel self conscious about what they're cleaning. And so then I would do like a pre clean of the house. And then at that point, why don't I just actually just clean so I don't actually, because I was like

09:09

I'll take it. Easy. If I do it. It's fine. Please go away. Don't Don't look at me Oh, yeah, it's a yes. I yeah, I went there with you. I mean, I can now this is why.

Collin 09:30

Yeah, I could have handled it. Very interested to see how if Aaron is like, oh my gosh, guys, I got this tote. Or like, I got this organizational basket. Or like, kinda, Okay, guess what, that's the thing that I've always been fascinated by is when people are like, Ooh, I need to organize. And you get more stuff to organize stuff that I get an organizing. So I'm interested to see what kind what how this balances out and kind of how they Yeah,

Brandon 09:54

right. Because like, some of the stuff I've seen that people go through this it's like The user would hate myself for this term storage solutions, right? You know, they do that kind of stuff. And I definitely am a person that's like, cuz I have this weird like fascination with like clever storage things. Okay, so like, I like that kind of stuff. It's really cool. I don't think I'm a person that would use it correctly. Because again, like, I don't know, I'm wired really, really strangely about this kind of thing. Like, I like to like see things, right. I don't like things to be in drawers hidden away, because and I can't get to them. But there's certain things in your life that you do need to have away in a drawer. And so some of that stuff is like, like the storage solution stuff. And like the tiny houses in the RVs. And like, other stuff like that, it's like, super cool. I would hate to live an environment where I needed that badly. But like, I think it's really cool. How some of that stuff works and how it functions. So I have this weird, like, love hate relationship with that kind of thing. Like, I like looking at it. I think it's really interesting. And it's engineered really cool. I don't know how I could function with it in my life. But

Collin 11:19

I think it's interesting. Does that make sense at all? Like, I don't know. No, no, it really does it. I totally understand that. Because there are times where it's like, yeah, like, I don't like seeing things out and about, I like them. I do like them put away. But then it's like, then I kind of I do, and like, oh, well, what can I put in this drawer to make it better?

Brandon 11:42

But also, like, well, I don't know, like, I want I want it to work. But then I kind of start obsessing about like, well, what if there's a better one? Or like how I know this is the actual one to solve a problem? So yeah, I think, what's the name of this? Sorry, you said I totally understand what you're saying. Because it's like, this need to have things at least a little bit organized, but like how to organize them and what to organize them with? Yeah, so like, I just remembered this thing that I saw, I saw this video one time of Adam Savage of mythbuster fame, discussing this, right? And if you've ever seen a video with Adam Savage in his workshop, it kind of looks like the world has exploded. Right? And some people are gonna look at it and go, How do you function in there. But I watched him do this thing. Because he does these videos on his YouTube channel where he like builds stuff. And it's

12:41

just really kind of like, cool to watch. It's one of those things where you just kind of like get sucked down the rabbit hole of watching some dude, like build really crazy intricate things.

Brandon 12:50

He was talking about how he doesn't like toolboxes. And it wasn't that he doesn't like places to store his tools. They say he doesn't like them. Put away where he can't see them. Yeah, right. Because when he needs something, he needs to know right where it is. And he he needs to get it. Right. So he likes to see everything. Because he doesn't want to go digging for it. And he doesn't like it to be put away where he can't find it. Right. Yeah. And so he built this thing. And it looked like imagine a like a kind of like a big a frame ladder on caster wheels. Right? And so where are the rungs of the ladder should be keep up these little like Shell things that had some of them look like almost like a you know, the things that still work comes in in a cafeteria. You know, you go out I work at school. So this is just the thing I noticed but like, they have that thing where like all the for like a buffet restaurant. All the forks are in like a little plastic thing. Right? He built things like that. Were like, Okay, I'm gonna put my screwdrivers in here, blam. I'm gonna put my pliers and he like, draw this thing and like hung his pliers on like a rung. So like all of his tools and wires and connectors, and all this stuff was just like right here. It's all organized. But it's not organized in a traditional sense. Where it's in a drawer put away unseen. It's like kablam in your face. Right? It's all technically where it's supposed to be. But it's out in your face. And it's usable. Yeah.

Collin 14:30

It's like how I prefer having all my pens and pencils in a cup versus in a drawer, right? I think that's yes, I am a cup store as well. Of like, like, okay, sure, you could put them there, but they're not usable. And it's actually going to make your life worse if you put them in the door. And so I think that does take some time, think about how do I actually use is the space or the tools that I actually use? Ooh, good at some point of is the amount of time and attention I put into deciding which cooking utensils would be granted access to that little counter space.

Brandon 15:18

Basically the Giant Cup where you put all the you know your bachelor. Yeah, Mr. What

15:22

do we have that we have the that countertop? It's like a little crock pot thing like, like an old like stoneware pot that we put all the stencils.

Collin 15:30

Yes. So So like for that, it's like intentionally going, Okay, what goes there versus the drawer that's right underneath it. That's a very different decision, based off of what you use, how often you use it, and the kind of cooking that you do. So that's, that's a real kind of,

Brandon 15:49

it's also another manifestation of what that looks like, think through what are the tools I'm using my day? And where do they need to be worked on? Oh, yeah, no, that's for sure. Because you're right, something that you need, just grab it, like I did, I did that this year, I changed my desk at school. Not drastically, obviously. But I did get one of those little, I got like a pin cup thing, like a new pin cup thing. To put my pins in, I get rid of my I actually had a cup, like a plastic drinking cup. Right? Like, it was like a, like a red solo cup thing. Like, this isn't like that, because it was just what was in the cabinet. You know, and I just had it. And so I was like, Alright, I thought I didn't think to this weekend here. I was like, Okay, I don't use these. A lot of the things that are in this cup, right, I don't use markers really ever in my life.

16:52

Except for the occasional Sharpie, right. So I'm gonna put them over here. So I got rid of all that stuff. And I got a new one. And that one is like my pins,

Brandon 16:59

and my highlighters only, because that's the thing that I use all the time. When I'm working, grading, writing, like, all that kind of stuff. And so it's all just right there, because I can just go blam. Got it? You know. So I did have that thought this year and my workspace stuff. Like one of the few things I thought about in my workspace, rather than like, Oh, what is it that go right? Like, I had that thought of I need it out. I don't want them in my drawer, because not to dig forum not to lose it. And whenever I need it out, so I can see it, I need a pin boom, have been done. Like it's also like a speed thing. And it's a tool that I'm using constantly, you know, all the time, and I need a place to put it so I don't lose it. But also I need a place where it can be organized. And I can like I said I need to physically see things. Right. I really connected with this Adam Savage video. Like it's become ingrained as a part of me like,

Collin 18:01

I need stuff out to see. Yeah. Well, I think it too, when you are in the process of trying to use something new or see if it works. Like I almost have to put stuff out. I don't get that I have.

Brandon 18:16

Yes, true if I like get something new or do something like that. And then it's like, oh, wait a minute. What? Or I'll be like, going through my cleaning out a drawer and go oh, yeah, I do have this. Okay.

18:35

Yeah, I do that too. Right. And I like Oh, yeah. And then I sometimes I'll just like, I'm not thinking about something else. I'm like, oh, yeah, I don't need that right now. I'll put it back in there. Just put it back in the drawer. And then the cycle just continues itself.

Brandon 18:49

And I'm like, Oh, dang it. It's gone. It's gone forever so yes, I, I definitely want to part of that this year with my desk at work because like, I need to do that with my desk at home because my desk at home. I guess I'm a I'm a we've talked about this for too. I'm a serial Pilar of things. pile. So this summer, I cleared off my coffee at my table in my room in here. Nice. And it's the bottom of the stack of papers. Like it's one of those stacks that just been on the corner of my table for a long time. And like, I think I would, it would kind of grow and I would take some of the stuff off the top and then it would kind of regrow. So it'd be kind of like this weird erosion processing is happening. But at the very bottom of the pile. I definitely found a piece of paper that was dated like 2015 or something like that.

19:56

It was like 2014 or 15 I was like Oh, yes, this my, this is indicative of a person that has a problem like

Collin 20:09

this, this process might not be working the way I, the way I had intended. Perhaps I should go through this step more. Oh, well, then that's, that's the other step is going like never just a set it and forget it right? There's never a one and done. There is a process to that and knowing that like, now like that's, that's tough of going I wish I could just have stasis in the things coming into my life but it never it literally ever stopped and never seems to work that way. So you're constantly having to go through and do these assessments and look at these things and not just the tools that we're using. But the stuff that's in our lives and of going okay, or whether it's paperwork, mail, that's a really good example here man comes every day. And you Yeah, you do the process with mail? Is this important? If not, it goes in the trash. If it is, I'm going to hang on to it. But then it's like, okay, now hang on to it. Where does it need to go? Who needs to see this? What do I need to do with this? What's the actions that and kind of doing that with? Every item that comes into the house is like a? Like, is this important me that I know there's Marie, with

Brandon 21:21

her name? The spark joy lady? Yes. Is the spark. Yeah. Not quite going to that level here of like, this. Blackwing 511? Bring me joy, like I don't know. Like, yes. I mean, it does. But

Collin 21:40

like, do I, my basically my I get down to like, am I actively using this? If so, okay, it's to stay around? If not, then I need to decide. Why am I not actively using it? Some things we get around? Because we only use them twice a year. Right? Other than Yeah, we keep around because we forgot that we haven't?

22:01

Well, that's true, too. But like, I also have the dad syndrome of I overly emotionally invest in

Brandon 22:11

inanimate objects. Right? I know this about myself. It's a problem, like legitimately. Because like, I have in my closet, like, a billion T shirts. I don't wear them ever. Right. But some of them I have very distinct memories of being places in that T shirt. Sure. Yes. And so like, there's this part of me that like, can not

22:42

separate myself from that. I just like for some reason, there's some mental block that I can not separate

Brandon 22:49

this, like, sense memory from the physical object. Right? Even though I don't need

22:55

the physical objects to have the memory. Like some if for some reason. It's like comforting to have this like random t

Brandon 23:03

shirt. I don't wear anymore. Well, because like, you know, like, Well, I mean, just so I don't have it with T shirts.

23:13

Let's have it like random things, right? It's like really know, bizarre what it is

Collin 23:19

okay, over here. Oh, you can't you just I cannot do this. But over here. I'm reaching my hand up to the right. And right now I am touching a a typewriter. That was a baby. Do I use it? No. But who I think of her every time that I see it. Absolutely. And I like I like being able to do that. That makes me happy. Right? That's that's something that I don't like. I'm not going to start a mass collection of typewriters just because of this. But it's like, you know, that's really nice. I love being able to see that. And and know that. A that was hers. And B it makes me happy to have it. Right. That's just part of part of

Brandon 23:59

that. Yeah, I had, I had this epiphany this week, that I'm definitely turning into dead because oh no, I took the trash out. Right. And it came back in. And I took my shoes off. And these are a pair of shoes that I wear just like basically, their only job is to take out the trash. Like if I have to just like walk up to Susan's mom's real quick. That's it. There's kind of like they're basically slippers outside at this point. Yeah, like wear them any other place because they're pretty rundown. I looked at my shoes, and I was like, Man, these things are getting pretty worn out. And I sort of stopped mid thought because I realized these shoes are 20 years old. I was like oh my gosh. Like and I have a distinct memory of being at the mall with you and Aaron and Mimi and I bought the shoes there All

25:01

right, like I have this i i remember exactly this time of having, and I just had them forever. I haven't actually worn

Brandon 25:08

them as like shoes to wear, you know, like to work or out forever. Yeah, they've just been sitting here. They've been like the pair of shoes that I just have. Uh huh. Because they're just like, tied and I slipped them on, right. And they're the shoes that I used to walk chuck in. And I used to just take the trash out and that's that's kind of their job, right? I don't really

25:33

that's that's how long they've been relegated to this job for so long. That's just what they do.

Brandon 25:39

Like I just goodness. Yeah, that's right. That's a revelation. So

Aaron 25:49

okay. Yeah, I was like, oh, gosh, I gotta sit down. This is some heavy. I literally am dad. Oh, no. You're turning into dad that way. I'm turning it to dad and that I would have brought in the trashcan and then washed it out. Aaron, other How are you turning into our father in ways that you are finding more disturbing? Not getting rid of vehicle. Okay. As much difficulty as nice car is a new car. Oh, it's so good. And then I was driving the other day, and I'll call him Tell me about that. I was like, I thought like mid conversation. I was like, yeah.

26:33

Are you okay? And like, other driving police? Like, no, you don't understand. I learned how to take care of people doesn't mean I know what I'm doing.

Aaron 26:46

Oh, yeah, I think Yvonne keep on trucking with the car. I guess. I guess. The one thing I got going for me that is

Brandon 26:56

yes. In light of the text message earlier today that is definitely fits the bill for sure. 100% like

27:07

listeners for a brief bit of context. are a few months ago, our dad had a car wreck.

Brandon 27:13

Right? Pretty. It's pretty bad. Right? And

27:17

his truck was like, destroyed. And he did not scrap it and buy a new truck. He in fact, had it rebuilt.

Collin 27:28

Totally, like completely, literally from the like, they had to read the district in the frame. Right. Okay. Like, yeah. All new like body panels, new upholstery, new headliner, all new interior, basically. Yeah. Yeah.

Brandon 27:48

I was so flabbergasted at that. I was like, I can't wait, how is that cheaper than buying a new truck? Like I literally can't meet that it's possible. Like, basil, I definitely want to do because you love that truck so much. He's driven this truck for like 500,000 miles or something ridiculous like that. Well,

Collin 28:09

well. Okay. So he's like, Well, we need to take a small backup here and realize that this is actually the like, third version of this truck that he has owned. It is a yes, it is a 2003 Ford f150 Crew Cab shortbed. And this is the third one that he has owned. The the first one, he also put 500,000 miles on and then it was broken so badly that he bought a second one and start parting out to rebuild that one. And then he bought this one to drive while he was repairing the Yeah, you know, it was there was like a weird that this is literally a third exact one. Because he had a truck that was exactly like this that had a sunroof. This one

Brandon 28:54

does not have a sunroof. Yeah. He did. Yes. Yeah. He had a white Ford had a Ford f150. Crew Cab, so the big board doors on either side that he had well, I was at Missouri State that had a sunroof in it. And I remember seeing the button. Then that one went away because it broke horribly. And then I think there was an interim one or maybe he just went straight to this one, but I'm pretty sure this one is actually a pretty recent used purchase that he is now recent. Within the last 10 years. That thing doesn't say that word is relative in this situation.

Aaron 29:35

I do. I do think there has only been two to dendro the white is white work truck for a long time because that's okay. Yes, there was Unruh and then that one was dying. And this one can I remember I remember specifically this one, because I asked him like yeah, I'm just wanting to find some room and he said, What? Where am I supposed to put me in Setup. Like. So. Yeah, that is that is why so I think there has only been two because I remember coming home one day. Yeah. And there was open them and I thought one of them was me. It was like, Oh, God. Oh, yeah, like they're the exact same. Yeah, but this one doesn't have rust on it.

Brandon 30:22

Yeah, I believe there's been two but there's white GMC work. That's the one you are correct. There was he worked for whoever at that point. And he did have

Collin 30:32

a work truck. Yes. Okay. Maybe that's the third truck. He was he did. Yeah, you're right. I forgot about the work truck to go. Yes. Yes. This is a yeah, this is a second second iteration. Now totally rebuild. He's already had already. Oh, the other boat. Okay. So one of the reasons he didn't want to get a new truck is because it just had the it just bought a new engine for it. And he had just like 30,000 Miles prior to that replaced the transmission for like a second time. So he was angry that he had like this new engine on the way that he couldn't cancel. He'd spent all this money on that insurance would not pay for to reimburse him for and he had it suck that money into the transmission as well. So he was like, Well,

Brandon 31:24

I'm putting that engine that's on its way into that truck. So I better get the truck ready to take the engine that apart. Alright, with that context, this decision makes slightly more sense. But still don't. Yeah. So. Oh, brand new and shiny. Oh, interesting. See?

31:44

It's pretty intense. As Ms. Brown. No. No. So yeah. Okay. Well, I

Brandon 31:51

think we got that pretty locked on. Yeah, looks

Collin 31:56

like it. So Aaron, beside the decluttering, or having I guess you're not decluttering. But having decluttering take place around you? Um, what are having been exposed to the process of decluttering. Other than that, what's the what's the Have you ever damaged any more school buses

Aaron 32:27

this week? Oh, so I've driven a bus every single day this week. Two completely different routes. In some modern buses, or aka bigger schools, they have GPS systems where it actually like, notifies you like, Oh, hey, this kid gets off here. Um, I have been driving around with like, pieces of paper with like, signs on them. And just like trying my best a Monday, Tuesday, I drove a bus route, which was that it's vastly different than my other route that I've having to pick up every once in a while is that there's like, eight kids in total, maybe. But it's just like, weirdly quiet. But everyone lives so far away. That it takes that the same as my other bus routes. And, like, it was also on those dirt roads that were recovering from the ice storm that we had, which many dirt roads don't know why. So they were pretty slushy.

Brandon 33:34

And I'm pretty sure I failed it on a few powered

33:37

by. There's probably some bus sized potholes in that road too. I imagine that just

Aaron 33:46

it's very helpful to all the kids have been like super helpful like Oh, coach and get up here coach. He is a hero. Hey, hey, Coach back he's not on today. Just keep going. The other bus route is the main one I drive. It's like some percent highway. And then the rest of the backroom. Another one is all back roads. Like it's just that one just crazy. And the other one or one that probably been picking up every once in a while. It's just and there's new kids. There's like a kid like new to this tool. And he got on and the reason I knew he was new this is number one. I've never seen him before. And number two he is you know, stapled to his shirt that says his name and blustery. Oh by Hey, buddy, where do you know? And he's like, I get off my Nana's like Hey, where's Do you know where that is? My mom said at Nana's and I'm like, desperately looking for one of the elementary school teachers and they're just waving me on I was like no, I need you. And I just closed the doors and left and so I was like Alright, buddy, we're going for an adventure. But thankfully, I got to do a spot. Today, it was a little weird. There was a lot of kids that were gone. A lot of kids that were like, new. And I felt so bad for this for my sixth grader, so I just blew right by his house. And like, I was trying to get other kids situated. I was like, Alright, whatever your max, you know, come up there and stand. And I just, I looked in the little overhead mirror, he just stood up to the head turn to watch us out by he's looked at me. He just pointed. I was like, what, what do you want, he's like, oh, and just sat down and went, Oh, hold on. I want to go the other way. And he just came out and was like, I'm so sorry. No, it's okay to want to go home just yet. I got a boy, I got him off, and then pick it off of us. It's just, I'm getting much better at backing, and also helps us in those things. Those back roads are not heavily populated with people who actually have time. But another thing but I've also noticed that it's very difficult to get to engage in your role. And remember, we don't have a parking brake. And so if I'm, if I'm trying to like backup, go for backup and go forward. Sometimes a little thing, a message pops up that says low range. And like it just won't engage. I'm sitting there it'll finally click. Oh, there we go. And I can back up. And so these buses are janky and thankfully, I haven't been stuck anywhere. Because I just had to sit there with or blocked any major roadways. But they're just fiddle with the drive. But now I'm still going grade basal zone great. But just at the end of the day, I just want to go home. I don't want to drive I want to drive. This was a scary I don't want to drive it

Brandon 37:03

Yeah, today we had to combine bus routes on the way home because we don't have enough bus drivers. So there was like I don't know where they were, I don't really know. But out there sick or doubt or had a day after or whatever. But like they didn't have the bus drivers didn't have enough people to cover it or whatever. So we had to like combine one of them perhaps

37:31

do some crazy things on the way home today. Isn't that one time they did that they like ran it on one of the buses that does like the town route so it's like really really short. So they like kept us kids at school

Brandon 37:43

blasted through that route came back picked everyone else up. Yeah, but they I don't remember I don't know what exactly they did but one of the drivers wasn't able to drive and they didn't have any more backups so

37:59

yeah. Yeah, so I until the kids like what all the kids that had extra kids on their bus real mad like What do you

Brandon 38:09

mean give them about sorry, you're gonna think then I guess just scoot in there. Be right closer no clothes Yeah, they were not they're not very excited about that. It was kind of funny. But yeah, we had a similar problem to you know, buddy to drive the bus no errands about I guess to save the day. Okay. Aaron, you have your marching orders you need to start making a loop through Missouri

38:45

Yeah, maybe I'll make a pass on that. I barely enjoy what I do now. I mean, we do need a middle school baseball coach just saying

Brandon 38:52

so the my time I think before you move school districts you just need to horrifically crash and empty bus into fields that nobody will hire you to hire to drive a bus again you know with all my record I can't drive buses sorry, I can't do it. Fire was awful. PTSD. Terrible Oh, oh, gosh. Oh. I went to a Meet Greet today.

Collin 39:31

Where we go before we take care of people's pets to go to their house forehand to get to know them and the pet and walk through their process and make sure everything's kosher. Good. Great. Um, I scheduled this one after a gentleman called me like three times over the last few weeks finally filled out the paperwork. Fine, whatever. Go. He is a traveling nurse from Arizona. Living here in town in a an RV park.

Brandon 40:00

He bought a fifth wheel RV to live in while he is the author. Now, he has a 14 year old dog. He is going on a good trip.

Collin 40:15

And I confirmed two days ago, whatever. And I showed up at this house today as RV today, which was a weird experience for that later, but I open the door and he stares at me. And I'm standing there. And RVs are perched to high up. I'm having to like kind of crane my neck looking up while he's in. Yeah, right. It's very awkward. I have my petsitting hat on the hat. My hat has petsitter theater on it. Right? And he goes Hello. Can I go? Hi, I'm calling with Funky Bunch here for the mean greet for your dog. And then he like stared at me like I had morphed into I don't know what, and then goes, Oh, yeah,

Brandon 41:01

I was supposed to call you. And I went, Oh, yeah, I'm just gonna have by a neighbor. He said he take care of the dog. When dating there, ah, with knowing full well that I have an employee who texted me as he's running like three minutes late. And I said, I'm just gonna go start the meeting greet me when you're in and everything's fine.

Collin 41:24

And I'm sitting there going, Well, what do I What do I do? So I just said, Well, I'm here. Let's just go ahead and go through this, just in case something happens. We'll be your back. And I quickly text my staff member I'm like, hold off, see in a little bit. Like having like a back down because this is gonna be weird. I have their hand down. I know what it was. I've never been so uncomfortable. Doing a meet up before. He was awkward talk to he was like, little lilting in his voice. And as he walked, it's also weird doing a meet and greet it where you're meeting somebody in a space as big as my kitchen in my house. Like, again, true, very, it's just weird being that close proximity. And then when didn't this is the one thing that totally freaked me out. We're standing there, I'm struggling through this conversation with him. He's not being very forthcoming. I can tell he's kind of like, kind of upset that I'm there even because he knows he's taken care of. So he's not into this at all, which is fine. But I just didn't want there to be a frantic call from him in the Bahamas going, I need you to take care of my dog. My neighbor can't do it anymore, or something like that. And then I just have to figure it out. From there. I figured I've already wasted my time driving here. I'm going to do this. Anyway, a car pulls around, and he completely stops what he's doing. He stops talking to me. I disappear from the room apparently. And he just locks onto this card follows it around as it goes around the RV. And he just watches it. And it pulls up. He turns to me and I told him about my employee coming in. He says, Is she yours? And I went, No. And he goes, Well, I don't know what she's doing here. And he goes and he opens the door to his RV and stands in there and just watches as his girl driving this car parks and starts unloading from her car. And then he's like, not talking to me. He's just standing there staring at her. And she starts getting out this bag and he goes, Oh, I guess she's staying for the night. And she starts walking over to the next davers RV. And at that point, I'm like, I'm out. I gotta go. Hey, buddy.

Brandon 43:39

I don't know what's going on here but look great talking to you. You've got her information ideas. Were good.

43:46

And I say I have a couple questions for you. Question number one what did it smell like in there?

Collin 43:53

You know it's it was extremely nice in the RV It was basically brand new I literally think he bought it while he was in Arizona in drove it up like bought a brand new he was a slightly older gentleman. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. He was eating cherries off of a stem while we were talking that was a little weird and like spitting the pit into think last that's a little bit gross but like

Brandon 44:26

I was thinking like what did it smell like or what sort of like brownies loses the eating before you got there? Because that sort of like really weird vacant paranoid response is sort of like I like that's what that was be like question like do like self medicating right now like forgot you were coming that's why explains like why he forgot to call you or why he was so like, confused. Why he like violently stared at a random car. I mean, he seriously was staying there in broad daylight. These are signs like tearing down this woman as she got out. And he kept looking at me and then looking at her and I was just like, I don't I'm not I need to leave.

Collin 45:19

What she's not what she doesn't have a hat. She's clearly that was me. Okay. We were at and looking at it just if I have, I feel I'm doing this 10 years now. Ah, I've never had that happen. I've never been so like, I think I need to leave. I think that yeah, this needs. Something's going on here. I'm not comfortable. I'm really glad my staff member was not doing this. Oh, man, we can definitely show their stories that I have had many encounters. Like that. And I'll say, Hey, are you okay? I'm leaving by I just, I feel your pain. I mean, usually, by the time people are going through this process, they have, like, committed, they know how much it's gonna be, like, we're just rocking. And this is just a formality that we're breezing through. But this was like, like, I usually when I go to these meet and greets where I'm in somebody's home, like they take 20 to 30 minutes. I was in and out in

Brandon 46:21

seven. Like, that's how this will say, yeah, yeah. And I every minute was painful. And thankfully, my, my team member was just like, driving also very slowly around the entire RV park, just like every now and then we do another lap. And he was like, I just wanted to make sure that like, you know, I don't know, but I appreciate good thinking. I like the I like the plan to appreciate that. I didn't want to you know, you know, I feel like I'm young enough. I don't need anybody wearing my skin just yet. So this is

Collin 47:03

true. Like, Oh, God. So He's crazy. He's on our he's in our no list. And again, it was one of the things of like, it wasn't just one thing that was off. It was just like, every seven things. Everything was just a little bit off and not in a may have like it like immediate alarm bells. But at the sixth or seventh thing, it was like, Okay, I am and then whenever he just deadpan stop talking to me and all attention swiveled over to this other car. I was like, Yeah, this is I don't need this.

Brandon 47:42

That's pretty crazy, right? That's the wild. Oh my gosh. So anyway, that's uh that's the only fun thing. And that's not but they're, oh, they're, they're pouring. They're installing a new manhole, cover and access on our street. That's been a lot of fun to watch. Oh, yes. Have you spent no has been outside. Yes, ogling the cement trucks pass all the cement truck. And today we got to witness what happens when the foreman is not happy with the consistency of men coming out of truck. We walked away. Ah, yes. Cuz he's pouring it. And I'm like, I've seen I've seen these pores a couple times. Like I'm no expert. That looks like there's a lot of water in that coming out about you.

48:49

Oh, no. That's bad. And all of a sudden, the foreman, his head snaps round he was. If that's the kind of bleep bleep bleep you bring it over. Just take the whole bleep bleep truck back to where he came from, by blip blip on like, anyway, look at over here these squirrels playing in the room.

Collin 49:15

Oh, great. Great, but they've been pouring. They had to what happened? What had happened was the power company were like, Ooh, I need to drill a new hole for a new power pole, power pole. And they drilled but you know what? They didn't do? What they what did they not do?

Brandon 49:36

They don't call before you dig. They didn't Oh, that nobody thought power company didn't call before you dig. Oh, no, bro. So they so what

Collin 49:46

they drilled through one job Power Company. Come on. They drilled through all of at&t is 155,000 wires that were just underneath where they planted, oh, drilled by get through them straight through all of these bundles, each bundle is like four and a half inches thick or four, six inches thick. Was what one guy had said, there were four of those bundles of wires. And they had to powder you even fix that, you know, you're ready for this. You ready for this? A man sits down in a hole. And he has a little computer. And he sends a tone from the right. And he finds that wire. And he sends a tone from the left. And he finds that wire. He patches and oh my gosh, that's the worst job in the history of the world. And when I say tone, I mean it's a literal. No, it's gonna be literally Yeah. Like, like Botox that'll travel through that wire. Exactly. Because that because it's meant to, it's for phones. And so he had to have special equipment to basically pick up that signal to say, Oh, it's this one. And he had a little wand that he was waving around them to try and find the one that was beeping. Oh my god. Awful. Oh, man, it was it was great. It was no, they were very unhappy at&t workers down there. And so at some point, they were like, Oh, we're not just going to patch this and then bury it. Again, we're doing we're going to actually install a manhole cover here. That's been kind of neat to see how they set the walls, that floor and are pouring all of that to just create this new cavity. Where once there was just a sidewalk

Brandon 51:39

did they? So let's see, if I was doing a manhole cover to they dig out a hole like privet and then the pour concrete between the cribbing in the ground. Yep. And do it like, like, let us do the bottom. Try it harden. Next layer dry art and like that. Yep, exactly. You can't do it all at once because it won't know. Too much. Too complicated of a poor to do all that was to it. Well, number one, it's too heavy to break the thing. But number two, like it won't dry evenly. Yeah, because the bottom wouldn't drive the same speed the top load if it's too deep. So you'd have to pour it sections do like

Collin 52:20

a foot and then set it dry that come back for the next footer. So yeah, so what they're doing. Yeah, so the floor and then yeah, let that cure for a long time. And then they set the walls. They poured that but then they then they excavated out behind those important a second thicker portion of of concrete I don't know why they did that that

52:51

just to stabilize kind of like a we call that oh my gosh, like a retaining bit right sure to kind of retain behind it to keep it from collapsing and stuff probably

Brandon 53:03

have like the more finished walls than than the buttery walls and into the side. Yeah, it's like 14 feet deep. I mean, yeah, so you definitely need more support behind the wall than just

Collin 53:15

their ground. Yeah, right. Yeah. And so and and this but does this but this does but right next to the foundation wall of a home. So I'm oh my gosh, those poor people. Oh, no, no, no, the guy seriously, he has a two car garage with street access. And he just bought this like 1950 Whatever, whatever Thunderbird because he was gonna do re upholstery because I found out he used to run. He's an upholster by trade. He does upholstery. For whom? Who might you ask? Danny he had a team where they traveled around the country and when they would build a Denny's his team would come in and in a weekend upholster everything and then go to the next one.

Brandon 54:00

And I thought that's so insane like what I've loved this so he's he's and he also does cars he has not had access to his cars at all because he kept chewing through the window and expanding more and more into his into his driveway and now they have expanded across both of his driveways into use so rightfully so, like, like, I would like to be quite furious. I've imagined like so I was just like ah, well that's interesting. Anyway, there dang Yeah, he's not he's not happy about this, but it's been interesting to watch the bore and talk to kids about that and kind of learn learn more about that process

54:55

to you got to because concrete Setting is also hold on. Let me get this right. It's a exothermic reaction. Yes it is. Yes, that's what's putting off a lot of heat. So you can't I always have to stop think Endo,

Brandon 55:13

EXO, EXO. I have to think about that. So you can't really pour like, a huge amount, like in a vertical thing like that, because it will get like, just way too hot and like, compromise the structural integrity

Collin 55:31

of the poor, right? Yeah, I think it's, it gets brittle. Yeah, if it cures too hot, basically from the, from the curing of the layers below it, right? Yes. buildup of heat, where it just yet it doesn't get them.

Brandon 55:50

They won't care, right? Yeah, too brittle, or they will collapse in on itself, which is literally defeating the point of what you just did. So that was indeed that would be less than ideal.

Collin 56:02

Yes. So that that was our latest venture today, too. So yeah, I'd had a freebie meeting and learn about concrete carrying and pouring. Always, always fun.

Brandon 56:16

I say go, man. Had all the fun today. We could add anything. Yeah. Do so the real question I have now is Where on earth are you going to be next week? Ah, what sort of adventure Are you going on? Sure, indeed, ambitiously, ambitiously, we are driving to New Braunfels, Texas.

56:50

Oh, that is quite ambitious. That's very far away. Or, and weirdly, I know exactly where that is. Because one of my former students, that's where her family lived. And I like they would go there on vacation route.

Collin 57:07

Right. No, we are not going that far. least in our adventure, I'm sorry, through our Kansas. No, not going that far. East, either. We're doing the McAllister run down through Oklahoma. We're going to go into the here's the thing. Here's what we have to do, actually, with multistage things. Okay, moral, the story of the chase, we are going to a business conference in New Braunfels for pet sitters. And I may or may not be giving a talk that's not important to the story. But what is that'll be important in a couple of weeks episode, when we have that. What is important is that Megan's folks live in Bryan College Station. And so we are driving from Sedalia through Dallas, down to College Station, dropping off the kid and then driving over into New Braunfels flew to the conference, which is Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, Sunday morning. And Sunday morning. We are leaving driving to pick up the kids and brand called station driving as far north as we can in the night and then driving the rest of the way homes

Brandon 58:21

Monday. Yeah. But it was like, I I don't know. I didn't want to. It's too much. I'll put it this way. It's too many transitions or a flight of made. Right. I mean, yeah, that's true. Right? Because we fly from like, Kansas City. I've got to fly. I've got to drive from here to Kansas City. Then drive five Kansas City to Dallas and then Dallas, probably half an hour's or Bing, whatever. Like, I don't know. And yeah, cuz that's laid down by Yeah, it is.

Collin 59:04

It's still like, that was like really far. Downside. Texas is like for those international listeners. It's true. Texas is stupidly large. So that's how I found out well, a cool fact about Texas. If you stand in the western bar, there's western most corner of Texas that way, far, little point that goes way out there on the west. If you see this right, by like Juarez, Mexico, yeah. And there you are closer to California than you are the eastern part of

Brandon 59:33

tech. There you go. That is a lot of facts for all. That's all we got.

Collin 59:42

Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's gonna be quite a drive. It's going to take one overnight, somewhere we haven't. We're just gonna drive till we stopped to be determined. Yeah, yeah. No, like, I have played out an eight hour day of driving, but also I know that that's actually like 10 hours with no stopping inside. So yeah, so I'm not

Brandon 1:00:07

really like, I don't I don't know how it's gonna go. But we are renting a Chrysler minivan for the trip. Man. There you go. Fun. I'm excited about this. Negative because it's a van. It's a fan. Exactly. That's icons excited about van review incoming as I say that will be inside

1:00:32

real quick sidebar. I have to say I've I watch this video today, I want to fight it back and send it to you. It's these two Australian dudes that have like heavily modified Japanese key trucks and like went off roading in Australia. It's beautiful. Anyway, I'll find that for you later.

Collin 1:00:47

Continue that story. So we are no, I'm, I'm excited about it. So we're leaving. We're leaving Wednesday. Morning. First thing basically, to to get there and getting back Monday. And so that's why we need to rejigger the scheduling. Oh, maybe we could record Monday or Tuesday. But also I'll be busy doing Yeah. So true. I don't want to do too much I wanted. I mean, obviously, I love traveling, I love traveling, it's one of my favorite things to get to do. And this will be the first like, big trip with family ever. And so true. I guess I'm excited about that. Because I just I have I have such fond memories of doing big trips growing up. And so I'm not nervous about the actual trip. But also my brain is broken such that I must plan and come up with things and like, there's a lot of stuff that my brain is trying to do. So I'm trying to modulate that out a

Brandon 1:02:07

bit. That's true. Yeah, I don't I don't love traveling. I love being somewhere new. But I don't generally enjoy the process of getting there. That is Megan to like, a tea. She loves. She loves going she loves being other places. She doesn't like getting her. And so this Yeah, usually I don't generally like the traveling part. Like it's not enjoyable. So it makes it like maybe it's just a part where you're in the car because like I don't mind, like stopping at a new place. And like being somewhere else, even if it's like eating there or getting gas or whatever.

Collin 1:02:57

Like that's, that's fine. But like, the driving part? Oh my gosh. No. Yeah. And so I'm, I'm, I'm realizing that like, ah, like, we've got some stuff that we need to get done. So I'm coming up with like, games activities for the kids, one of the things that I'm going to do is get like the big flip out atlases and highlight the route that we're going to take and have one kid so we can kind of guess exactly where we are. Because I have memories of the classic Yeah, is that maneuver, if dad being like, Here is a map, find the 50 and trace the blue line until you see this town. And we're that base are doing that kind of thing with them.

Brandon 1:03:49

They can kind of see and all along. That is how I learned about distances. We were traveling because like back back and back in my day. Like that was literally the only thing I could do in the car is like look at the map because I have this thing I can't read in the car. I get carsick. It's really annoying. I like it. I get like really dizzy and like lightheaded stuff. So I can't like read in the car. I can like do like, I could read the map. Okay, because it was bigger. Yes, I don't know. But like, that's how I would learn about like, I would do all the math in my head about like estimating times and distances and arrivals with like speed and everything like that. But like, I couldn't do all of that. Like to try to figure out like how long we would take to go places because I do have trouble memories and be like, Dad, how long is gonna take us he'd be like figured out. Okay, well, Coach, I don't know. You must do this now. But yeah, so I would do estimates like okay, well, I would like try to use the little Let's scale to be like, Okay, where were this far away? We are currently doing this miles per hour. So like I would try to calculate our like arrival time based on current speed and estimated distance from location using a combination of the map and roadsigns. That was an you know what it was during it was doing that kind of mental math that helped me understand that the phrase mile a minute really isn't that impressive, given given modern car?

1:05:30

Yeah, that's true. As you can see, I am, you're going 60 miles an hour, you're doing a mile a minute. And so like, boom,

Brandon 1:05:38

like, that realization was such like a, I felt that in my brain whenever I realized that like, oh, oh, whoa, why? Very, very impactful whenever I realized that, my limited thing is, yeah, but that's also how I did make these really convoluted, like, masculine of like, mental masculine, like the ones where like, I sort of, like learned to develop the like, Okay, here's my known and then like, okay, that's 50 more miles. So that's or like, it's like, it's that this thing is this number is like, 60 Plus, like, 47. So that means 60. And like, Okay, let's see, one hour, and then like, 47 more minutes, because we're doing 60 miles an hour, but then predict 65 miles an hour, then like, Okay, I'm gonna estimate that that's now this minute. Right? Like, it's very weird. Like, I think this is very, yeah. It's very reliable, though, once you figure it out, because dad is a lover of the cruise control. So we're not like varying speeds very much ever. So you knew what you're getting is always pretty, pretty good. Yes. Yes, we will need the report back eventually, of how you have survived the longest road trip to the middle of nowhere, Texas. It's not really the middle of nowhere. It's like by San Antonio. Pretty much, but that's very far into Texas. Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah, I don't know how it's gonna go. No, we have to get it done. And so that's very different. You know, I'm, I'm excited. But then again, I was also super excited when I got an opportunity to take Lillian when she was to, to San Francisco for a week, but also go to a conference. I was by myself, that was fun for me. But I know people that's not

Collin 1:07:43

the conference parts. And often that's a problem. But it was, you know, like for that, like, what, what do we do to be? Well, I mean, yeah, but blue for that one. But I put together an activity book, I put together three ring binder with like, a bunch of bunch of different activities, but they were all kind of like, plane and or travel related. So there was a lot of like, matching pictures of planes or tracing lines of trains. They knew we were going to try to travel on a train eventually during that during that time. And trying to prepare her for like sights of sounds like what what we're going to experience on this because it was her first time on a plane. So it was kind of putting all the stuff together and I enjoyed that part

1:08:29

but I mean that's true. So anyway, update for sure coming on. Okay, Boom.

Brandon 1:08:38

Nice. Anything anything new exciting with you? You're not doing buses. You. You have one of your old shoes.

1:08:47

Actually your shoes no bus driving? No, not really. We have a four day weekend. So like boom, surprise go does it so I got Oh, I'm not gonna do anything just normal school stuff like

Brandon 1:09:03

doing air pressure demonstrations next week. Boom. Exciting stuff. Exciting. I learned all about the wonder world wonderful world air pressure. Excited exciting. How do you promote versus treating pressure? Oh, it's not how am I demonstrating air pressure? That's the ticket. So they're the assignment is this there is a list. I presented them with a list of possible demonstrations that they will be doing to tell the class about air pressure. I see. So they are doing the demonstration. They are getting all the things.

1:09:49

There are a bunch of stuff like balloon rockets, right? The thing where you like crush the coke can with hot and cold water you know Yeah, the the classic, suck the egg into the bottle, you know, thing with the you put like, like

Brandon 1:10:10

pizza like light a fire in the bottle, and then you like put the egg on it and like, sucks it down in there. more appropriately, the high pressure air on the outside of the bottle forces gag into that area of low pressure created by the heat. Kablammo. Kinda like when you realize how breathing works, right? Like how it's, it's the vacuum that's created as your diaphragm pulled, right? And you're like, oh, like, it's literally sucking air in? Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. So yeah, we're doing that. So they have to do that. And they have to make a very small slideshow presentation might two or three slides, maybe just sort of showing us like that to help help them explain what's happening. So they have to do things like, tell me, where would I find the high pressure? And where is the low pressure? Basically, that way we know the air is moving from high to low pressure. Right. And so that's sort of helping to explain how this thing works. You don't I mean, yeah. Like in a balloon, you sort of manufacturing that pressure, you've created this, like, low pressure inside the balloon, because the atmospheric pressure on the outside, and the balloon itself is trying to school V's in on it right. So you're sort of amplifying the high pressure on the outside. So that's why it's it's forcing the balloon to close. And then the air coming out the back is what makes it go forward. That's slightly. It's a bonus feature of Isaac Newton in this but we have Yeah, whoa. But is on the show us about air pressure. So cool. Pretty cool. Pretty fun, usually. Oh, and the old classic guy, the thing where you put the piece of paper on the cup, and then you turn the cup upside down. And you move your hand. And hopefully the piece of paper stays on the cup. That was a real hit or miss thing, but sometimes, and that is very soggy. So I'll give you some updates on how wet my floor got during I think only one or two people doing that well knows that won't be too bad. But they get to pick them when their partner pick it. So they can kind of do whichever one they want. But it's all like household material stuff. Like you need a string

1:12:49

can of soda. Right? It's nothing like go buy all this not enough. Use this random stuff you already have in your house, bring it in here.

Brandon 1:12:58

Do some science man. I think that's the kind of that kind of

Collin 1:13:06

is, is really important in helping them have a better relationship with with science with that process with being able to do things in their world by going wow, I can demonstrate these somewhat complicated or interesting properties with things that I have in my house. Like I think I really like yeah,

Brandon 1:13:27

doing it that way. Yeah, I really need to find some more of those kinds of things to like throw in randomly hearing they're really hard in geology, though, right? Like what are you doing demonstrate plate tectonics with? Yet? Nothing? That's what so like, No, I saw what was it? It was I have a very clear distinct memory of watching Okay, of course, it's a very clear like memory. And then my brain does not work. betrayed you has betrayed me. It was science science guy. Bill Nye. Bill Nye science guy.

1:14:06

Good. Oh, Bill it which, which? Why does nobody talk? Nobody talks enough about the giant rat in that. And I think I think we're all just trying to put it out of our minds. It's terrifying. Like, I

Brandon 1:14:19

think if we actually went back and watched it, we'd be a little more terrified than the the nice memories we have of that show. And dude, no, for real. I did watch it a couple years ago, because I was gonna show my kids part of it. And I was like, what? In the ADHD nightmare. Am I looking at? How

Collin 1:14:35

was I able to process anything in this show? It's crazy. So yeah, it's so bad. And then you throw in the terrifying giant human and rat. Like I don't Yeah, we've evergreen. Anyway. It is. I have a very I have a distinct memory of the first time I heard about plate tectonics and it was him doing a demonstration and all it was was was just to floating literal

Brandon 1:14:58

paper plates on it. Water. And I thought, What? What is this? What is this? wizardry that is going on? Yeah, that's true. I thought about I don't have a large enough, like glass container because I could do the thing where you like, have you seen the one where you do that you like have the water and you have some like, piece of paper plate on top of it or whatever. And then you put it on top of a burner. Yes, I was just gonna write and you can kind of you can throw some dye in there with like a turkey baster to see that convection happening? Yeah, you know, and you can watch it like shove the plates out of the way. But I do not have

1:15:48

anything remotely large enough to put on I think I have a burner in my cabinet somewhere if it works are not enough. Well, I need some container that's like big enough that we can see into

Brandon 1:15:59

Yeah, because then I'm going well, maybe if you had you kept the water shallow enough. But you use like a fish tank of aquarium heater. But those don't heat up fast enough. They don't heat up that hot though. To get that water moving enough. Yeah. Yeah, definitely not fast enough. Or, yeah. Yeah, that's true, too. But I don't know. Cuz I have a like a, like a hot plate. Right. Again, I don't know if it works or not. Because it's just been in this drawer. I know where it is. But like I have a hot plate thing. But I don't want I don't have is because I don't want to use your like a kitchen pot because we can't see it. Yet. I mean last night my 13 pan. Could use a class now I 30 pan. It's true. But you just half the size the papers. preggers cut them smaller like us like a styrofoam. From Yeah, right. Cut the styrofoam small. thing? Well, I feel like Yeah, true. Well, I've done it before I did it in college as like a thing. I got up and I did a whole plate tectonics demonstration for the class. And mine is the best one clearly, but like everyone else is like really lame. I was like, No, bro. Plate tectonics, check it out. So yeah, that might be something that I could do, like the ones that they can do. But like to be better than I think I suppose. Because yeah, it's hard to get some stuff to like, that's what's rude. That's the hardest part about the Earth Science. Right? Like, I really liked her science. And it's really cool. And I think it's really interesting. But like, he's really difficult to demonstrate some of those concepts because they're swinging, you're talking about the scale of that stuff. Yes. You know, you're talking about the scale. That's like, just enormous, you know, well, you've got you're talking about like, and temporal like that is Oh, yeah. You know, we're talking about like, the Earth's mantle. Like, it's really hard to conceptualize for 12 year old how large this thing is that we're dealing with, right? Like, I have pictures and diagrams stuff, but like it really understand like, this is like hundreds of miles of like melting rock.

Collin 1:18:23

It's moving. But it's like, buddy, but more like, oh, no, no, it's anytime a while, like just example, the construction that's going on where they're doing the manhole. And both Lilian and Noah are like, Wow, that's so deep. Like, you know, like how, you know, the ask questions like How much further until you get to the warm part of the earth? They know at least that little boy, like?

Brandon 1:18:54

I mean, I have some slides about the Kola superdeep borehole, you want to call it? Yes, everyone. Yeah. But that's, that's again, that's my that joke helps me set that that slide helps me set the stage. We always talk about like, how to name things like a scientist, because we talk about thinking like a scientist, The Lodger, right? But we name things like scientists too. Right? So like, like, it's called the Kola Superdeep Borehole because it's in this Co Op peninsula of Russia.

Collin 1:19:28

And it's super deep. There's like, wow,

Brandon 1:19:33

okay. So I joke like, you can tell when someone's when a scientist is named something, because you don't have to ask why it's neat that right? You just know exactly what it's like. This is the Aldabra giant tortoise. Well, it's a giant tortoise and this is where it's from. Boom. I don't want to. Yeah. So I like the dow of training them. So that like sometimes like, Guys, guys this, this was not named by scientists like, I have no idea what it is. But if you show them a picture you go this is named by a scientist. There'll be like a it must be called something like, volcano island like, yes, it is a good job. Like they get it they get like, boom, like, yeah, they could figure it out yet. Yeah. Yeah, right they get great like that's my training process. That's the joke in my classroom is I like it. We name things like a scientist. You just look at something and go.

Collin 1:20:53

Black table. Did it? Yeah, well, that's how, yeah, I mean, you. If

1:21:08

they don't, if when they do try to be creative, you go, Oh, no, that was, well, when they get creative, what they do is they just use that exact same like naming process. They just do

Brandon 1:21:19

it in Latin. Right? That's what that's all they're doing. They're like, Haha, I'm gonna knit this sounds really cool. Like, what's it mean? It means like big lizard. But in Latin, so it sounds cooler. Okay. Wow, guys. Thanks. I'll helpful Yes. No. Hold on. Hold on, hold on. My favorite one. Quercus macrocarpa. Cuz macro means large and carpet means is another container. And it's just burrow. Yeah, for large. Yep. I get it. I get it. I understand now. That one? Yeah, it's just weird. You sitting there? Like? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to train them about how to think scientifically bad thing. And if we get nothing else other than naming stuff? That's a good start. Right. Like, it really is. No, it? Yeah, I mean, having words and terminology are super important anytime, not just for ourselves in our understanding, but more importantly, really communicating to other people. What's going on? And that's why I tell them as like scientists really want to make sure that there's no

1:22:52

gray area, they don't want you to be confused about what they're talking about. Nothing. And so

Brandon 1:22:58

they just go right. Ah, this. Yeah, they just call it exactly what it is. They tried to be like that. Yeah. Well, so it bleeds over into our like presentations, because they're like, What should I name my air pressure demo? And like, if if I was making ever said that, I would look at him go. What do you think? A good name for a slideshow about an air pressure demonstration? Should be and that'd be like, air pressure demonstration? like perfect. Got it? Nailed it. Yep, done. Keep it exactly. Yeah, you're right. It is important to try to communicate things clearly and effectively and easily to other people who are then going to understand what exactly you're saying. And then be able to use that information and not like some like weird esoteric nonsense, like, of like having to, like decode what sort of like strange thing you're talking about? Like what, huh? What and

Collin 1:24:05

sometimes it happens because they don't fully understand and they're just using the best terms they have on hand with like, no, like, that's fine. We just can equip people to have better terms out really good example. Very recently, somebody was trying to describe her dog. She said, My dog aggressive around kennel. And I was like, Okay, well, that's I will handle that dog very differently. But when I probed about like what happened? Turns out the dog was someone she was in her kennel and someone reached into the kennel to try and pull the dog out the dog dinner. And I went, Oh, that's, that's a reactive dog. That's not an aggressive dog. The dog was scared. I'm going to handle that very differently. So sometimes we don't have the right terms. And we use the best that we can kind of like throwing a dart at the dictionary and being like, what's the closest one? And yeah, but it's takes a little bit of like, and so I was able to go, Okay, here's that difference. And now we can work together for how to how to solve that. But it starts

Brandon 1:25:06

with knowing that does have meaning. Yeah, and a mean, a good. The best example of that in the science field is like, sound like animals, their Latin names are technically incorrect now, because like, they would name it something thinking that it was related to something else. And it turns out, it's not, right. It's some sort of like weird, like, convergent evolution thing where it's like, it's similar. And it's found in like, a broadly similar region, but it's actually not related at all to this other thing. So there are a handful of things where like, they're named in the wrong, like, family, or whatever. Like the genus is, like, incorrect, because it's not true that actually, no, it's not in that family at all. Whoopsie daisy. But it looks similar enough. And it kind of behaves similar enough. They're like, Oh, yeah, must be, but they didn't have the correct. They didn't have enough tools yet. Right? To do the thing. So you're right, you had even better you can now and if it changes, or changes, we change it but like, boom. So yeah, but that's that's the training that's happening in my room anyway. How do we talk like scientists, we rename everything exactly. Like what it looks like? Yeah. Well, I look forward to hearing about that goes. Well, yeah, hopefully we get so lots of updates. Or bus accidents. Or not, or lack of bus accidents, hopefully or not. Yep. And more importantly, how many new shelves is there and getting yet more sweet little cubby things with like, drawers with sweet spacers in it. This last rollout tote that you know, has apartments in it. I feel like Collin

1:27:09

has said the word tote more times and I'm actually comfortable counting in this episode. And like what I'm gathering is I think Collin is projecting on you Aaron and Collin just really want some totes. That's what I'm getting here. This is what he wants for his closet. He's jealous. Aaron, we extract it. Okay. In addition to many of our other travels, for the over other podcast, including the pure pyramid in museum over in Egypt, and go to we need to record live in containers. That would make me so happy. Oh my oh my gosh, the listeners could not possibly handle that. Oh, yeah. brief, brief sidebar. Before we close here, I just want to say that like a hysterical thing always also occurs in the sixth grade personal studies because we aren't talking about Egypt right now. Like, I showed the video and it has like mummies in it. Right? And so their their reaction is always like, Oh my gosh, it's so gross and disgusting. I want to see another

1:28:14

one. Like after about five minutes, they're like, oh my gosh, turn off. Why would you show us that? And like, literally the next day, they're like,

1:28:33

so. Alright, you can show some more pictures of mummies or what?

1:28:39

He said you don't want to see them. Like, I mean. I mean, I did it. But now you know, I thought about it. That's kind of cool. I was wondering, and it's so funny. How quickly they turned from Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's like this like abject horror to like, Wait, that's actually kind of interesting. Wait, wait, how do they do that? Well, how do you do that? Like, like, right. Yes. It's great. Well, lots of things out there alright. Love you guys. Love you. Bye