most Missouri sentence ever

Collin is a First Quarter kind of guy. Brandon survived being a room monitor. We look at Dutch paintings of Dutch candles…in the Dutch darkness.

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Collin, Brandon

Collin   00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon. And Colin, on this week's show, most Missouri sentence ever. Oh, boy,

Brandon  00:18

oh boy, if my

Collin   00:21

life was being narrated the narration just a few moments ago would be, but he did not, in fact, have time to make it smaller. Because you, you said, we possibly, you know, push this back in my head, I went, Oh, this is great. That gives me enough time to wrap up this thing. And then I'll make it out to dads. That was not true. I was off. My calculations were off just a little bit. But still, nonetheless, they were off. So my apologies for additionally being additionally late. I'm sorry. Additionally, did

Brandon  01:02

I just read the wrong time? Because it's always the same time? No, I was just like, Oh, it's this thing. And I just did it. You know, if you would read your emails, that would be a good thing. Bernard

Collin   01:10

that was in the excuse me? It was in the email.

Brandon  01:14

I know. I know her my last email. I'm doing. I'm doing the push his glasses up. Gesture. I'm also just

Collin   01:23

actually, yeah, well, actually.

01:31

But it's all right. Oh, yes. Yes.

Collin   01:35

So I've made it survived. It's been. It's been a month at this point. Let me tell you,

Brandon  01:42

hey, it sounds like your week was a little bit. Not just not restful will say that. How about that? We'll go.

Collin   01:50

No, it's weird. No, no, just one of those things where you go, Ah, this is what just in a season, we're in a series. We started off the year with double the amount of employees that we currently have.

02:09

Which is an over the

02:10

course of three months with dwindled, which was no, which was actually fine. Because the first quarter, which is I feel like such a what one of those guys talking about was the first

Collin   02:21

quarter of the year. It was so down, like Megan and I were just would look at each other and go, where is everybody? Like, where? Where are the people for the business? So super slow. So having lost employees, that was actually fine. And they weeded themselves out, they would get another job, or they were gonna go back to school or they were moving or, you know, a life change was like, actually, I'm not really complaining about this. So this is totally fine. And then the middle of April happened. And all of the people who we were wondering where they were Saudi. Suddenly, we found them very quickly. And it was so bad. Was it last week or the week before? 40, a full 40% of all of the visits that we did, were booked last minute and we to find a last minute booking by within 48 hours of them needing us. Oh, ma 40% were within were booked within for within within 48 hours of them needing us to start service. That's real hard to, you know, schedule stuff around.

Brandon  03:42

So yeah, it says oh, so I've

Collin   03:45

just like been chopping these things off of my plate of like, Nope, I can't do that. Nope, I can't do that. Nope, nevermind. I can't, like I had to set up several other like, interviews and things like that. And then all of a sudden was like, no, actually, I am so sorry. Like, I had to reschedule. I mean, I've rescheduled on you like two or three times now. And then I've rescheduled this another person like four times over this past couple of weeks, because it was like I just I thought I would have that hour and it's just gone. Like I can't I've got to I've got to take this. So it was a very weird. It's really weird right now really, really weird to try and be like, I'm of like, I always joke, you know, I'm available until I'm not. But like, I'm really available until I'm not so I'm not going to play it next week. I'm just going to figure out what I'm doing with the rest of

Brandon  04:39

me, because I could plan you know, sounds fair. Oh,

Collin   04:43

well, like this morning. We're taking care of this MultiPad household they have four inside dogs and three cats and these dogs had been around each other their entire life. And all of a sudden we get a call from the sitter over their IP and in you know where we live and they get hit was one of the dogs is really limping, and I'm pretty sure it has blood all over his ears. I'll be right over. And sure enough, at some point, this little Collie got in a fight with what we think was either the German shepherd or like the pit mix, and that other dog just put the put that smaller dog's head in their mouth and shook during a fight. Yeah, kindness, and like nothing was, you know, it was and we did a full debrief, and nothing was last night, it was just these little tiny pit marks around the back of the head. And the dog was fine otherwise, and was like in good spirits. And unfortunately, because we live in a small town, we had no emergency events available at all. Of course, yes. Yeah. None of them are the one that is supposed to be the emergency vet, you call and they're like, we're busy this weekend. But you can drive an hour and a half away. Good luck.

06:05

Yeah, that is really

Brandon  06:09

this is a problem with the veterinary industry in general. Right. Like, I am telling me more and yeah, I mean, I understand that you. Like, you can't, like pick when your dogs or cats or your pets need medical assistance. Right. Right. But I feel like it's just really weird that there's zero veterinary establishments open on Saturday. Right. It's like, it's really strange. Like, I mean, I mean, so like, I would like to see some data on this, right. Like, other places have figured out that you can be opened, like, you know, Monday, Tuesday through Saturday, right? Yeah, that's a thing that you can do. Right, like, places that like a motorcycle places, right? This is a weird tangent, but like, Sure, places that sell and motorcycles and motorcycle accessories. Often open Tuesday through Saturday. Hmm. Right. Because I mean, Saturday is probably like a huge day for them. Yeah. Right. So like, if that place was closed on the weekend, that would be pretty ridiculous. That's right. I understand that you need to like protect your time and whatever. Right. That's cool. I get that. I understand. You know, you don't you don't, you know, don't want to work like all day, every day forever. Sure. People great, but providing a service for people. And like, people need

07:59

the service on a Saturday. Right?

Brandon  08:04

Like, it's just really weird. You know, like, that would be a thing. That's like, you know, imagine if that was like the hospital. And you're like up sorry, buddy. Come back Monday. Like, but my appendix though. Like, no. Sucks to suck loser. relator. Like,

Collin   08:21

well, and you hit on that distinction there have for humans, they have solved this by having a dedicated emergency portion of the hospital. Yeah. Right. Like your general practitioner isn't there. But in the veterinary world. They that is that is a true specialty. To have that and it's it's not something you know, that even though the the emergency vets that we have in our town, they are. It's by appointment only, like you have to call. Yeah. And then they patch you through directly to the vet. Phone, and then they pick up and they go Yeah, okay, okay, we'll meet you will meet you over there. Okay. Same thing with our dentists. They have a quote unquote, emergency line. And that's where you call and he talks you out of Cummings.

09:15

Inside No,

Collin   09:17

this can wait till distance definitely wait till Monday till 11. Let's

09:20

do that. Yeah, so

Collin   09:25

I get it. And that's why you don't in larger areas, like they have dedicated emergency veterinary clinics.

Brandon  09:30

Yeah, I mean, Springfield has one because I know that's where Yeah, we had to go whenever for Chuck. Right. That's where we had to go. Because our I mean, our guy, our guy would have been there. But he was, you know, he was fishing. Right? And he was like, Yo, go here. And he like, uh, he at least cute like, he's a great guy. So he like called them and was like, I'm referring to people. They're coming. Right blah. Right. Like told us about about Like, you know, as a whole do like a, you know, Saturday, or whatever, but like, what the heck, like, I don't know.

Collin   10:06

So, you know, we just maybe a Sunday, I don't remember exactly. But then Sunday's are worse for, you know, for a lot of stuff being and being accessible. So, you know, we we did a full assessment of the dog and it's going to be fine. It's just you know, it's not the happiest state in the world. But we did were like, Okay, well, she's not getting back, the owner wasn't getting, he's getting back literally within 24 hours of this event. But it's like, okay, we've got a separate put different rooms monitor, like, can't have this happen. Again, I am calling her and was like, hey, here are the options. Either we can put your dog into a room by themselves, eat them secluded, they're safe. Like there's, we've done a full assessment on this. We've washed the wounds, we've done all this stuff. The dogs probably going to want to get some antibiotics, you know, soon, but there's no pressing need. There's no active bleeding and we don't need sutures, that kind of thing. Yeah. So let's do this. Or, or I can drive an hour and a half away to you know, him you Medical Center. And that's where that's that's what we're talking about. And she was like, Yeah, let's not do that. It's five. All just talk to my bed. And so it was in that start that was at 645 this morning of like, I was just starting to like, come awake. And I get first a video from my staff member and then a phone call. And I was like, I haven't even watched this video. But I know it's going to be bad.

11:42

Because this person like never calls like never. So that's whenever I was also like, Okay, I'm going to gird my loins for this. And he explained and I was like, Ah, okay, yeah, let's

Collin   11:56

let's go assess. So it's just it's wild things, wild, wild things. People, people, people.

Brandon  12:05

Yeah, that's a lot of fun stuff. Write it.

Collin   12:09

Yeah. I mean, it's one of the scenes like, yeah, it comes it comes with it. And the client was just like, super appreciative and was like, Yeah, this is exactly why we love you all because you pay attention to this stuff. Because like, if you were to just like looked at the dog, you would have been like, oh, they had like a bad hair day. Right? But but but because we have what we call like, hands on time with every animal, like, touching feeling as they get as far as comfortable. It's like, that's how we caught this. Like, that's how we catch things. So just knowing and she was super appreciative, but it's still like, to come your way to start your you know, to enjoy your vacation knowing that that come home to like house.

Brandon  12:46

But I,

Collin   12:50

at least that's been sunshiny, you know, in cold?

Brandon  12:53

I don't know. It's been cold. That is true. It's been very odd. Temperature wise, right. I'm not like I'm not I'm not complaining, right? Because I don't want it to be hot. Yeah. Because it's gonna be probably very hot again. So I don't want to do that. But

Collin   13:09

we went to, we went to a local baseball game.

Brandon  13:13

And did you was your son playing in it? Is that local? Or is it like? Nope, nope. And we have a

Collin   13:25

baseball stadium that was built in 1937. That is still there. And they've gotten you know, they've done replacements and things like that's not the OG structure. But it is still in the style of a 1937 structure. That's what's cool is,

Brandon  13:44

are there a bunch of like, random seeds, like behind posts? A bunch, but like, is there like, a couple seeds? Because that's, that's one of the things that's really weird about really old baseball stadiums that have been like retrofitted. Like, there'll be seats that are just like, behind a pillar like what? Yeah, what they did we do it.

Collin   14:06

And this was a at the time these these Stadium was, I guess, really advanced. It's entirely covered where the stamps with a fan said yeah, 100% covered. And which is which is weird, right? Like that's, that's odd. Like you think you're gonna go sit out and fake. That's just because modern loans are so big. They can't do this as a small stands.

Brandon  14:30

And that's very Roman, though. That's hilarious that it's like, because that's a very like Roman thing like Roman. Roman Colosseum has had that they had like the shade thing that would like tears was even retractable. Sometimes they would just like sit out there and cover this. Funny. Sorry. Anyway.

Collin   14:49

So we got to go and it's a very, very plain straight board, but it's cool to be there and the local community college plays at this baseball field nice additionally, for the time being at least before they build out the new stands for the high school the high school team also plays at this stadium. Yeah, and and we have a some I don't know what league it's it is but we have not even it's not even like a semi professional whatever like a pro am kind of leaving

15:29

that plays there and they were supposed to be playing and like the next week they're scheduled supposed to start in like may but I called the general manager because it just rings it just like this. Don't you just have his phone number. And apparently, the word on the street is Joplin dropped out of the division and completely scrambled. Everybody sees us.

Brandon  15:55

Pa stinky Joplin dry

Collin   15:58

new job,

Brandon  16:00

Lin. Right. This is the this in this part of the in this part of the state. There's this like big rivalry, not rivalry. But like there's a lot of people that prefer Joplin to Springfield. And these people are of course wrongs. Right in every way. I don't like Yeah, another example. I tell that's people. That's what I have. Look, I now. Yeah, no, I agree. I

Collin   16:32

don't understand.

Brandon  16:34

Because I don't either every time they say that, I'm like, bro why? I remember distinctly the first time that I moved out here to go to college right over this area. And then my friend and I went to Joplin like on at night to go find some food or something. And we're just sort of driving around scoping it out. And we both had a moment of oh no. We have made a mistake No, it's all gone wrong. Yeah, right. It's not it's not great. Now not now. So

Collin   17:09

they say three

Brandon  17:12

times a couple of good restaurants but like I can't eat anymore because it's like unhealthy is all get out so like probably shouldn't My blood pressure is actually good now. I giant Coney dogs Fine, fine.

Collin   17:29

So yes, Joplin completely threw everything in the into the wood chipper on the way out. And they were like, Yeah, we don't know when it's going to be it should be coming out soon. Hopefully. Maybe. I don't know. But the best part about this is once I get that comes out, it's fine. We can also get it we can just watch our our community college go play there. But it's like, like, it's five bucks for adults and children are

Brandon  17:57

free. Yeah, there we go. Right that like how baseball is supposed to be.

Collin   18:04

Popcorn was, you know, it was a good sized bag for like a buck. 25 or Buck 50. Yeah. Super cheap, which was great. And, and even better. I can walk there in seven minutes. Like, that's the best.

Brandon  18:20

Guess I'm checking that this is? Yeah, this is a very old timey stadium here. Yeah. So yes. Very cool. In a bad way, in like a cool way. I can, that's pretty hard. They've

Collin   18:32

actually they actually get grants to do renovations and things on it because it is a historical structure. So that's what's also up keep it up. Keep it cool. Yes. Yep. It has that it has some level of of maintenance and quality. It's not just a writing on their laurels kind of thing. So we got to go there. And the completely covered nature of this is going to be brilliant in the summer. But Oh, right. On a cool crisp spring day.

Brandon  19:02

We've been better with

Collin   19:03

30 mile an hour winds out of the north it felt like right into your face.

19:09

The we're sitting there

Collin   19:12

we're watching a baseball game. Okay. Huddled like in winter coats and eating popcorn and drinking hot chocolate. Yes. A baseball game. It was Bill Laureus. It was so fun to watch and I like the again I feel as though some of the pro sports can kill the fun of a lot of things like a lot of that's

Brandon  19:39

that's for sure. Right if I and to see

Collin   19:47

the guys out there playing it was like got there they are genuinely having fun like and they are they taking it seriously. Because this this is many of their scholarships a ride on this so like It's not something that you can goof off on. Yeah, that's

Brandon  20:02

what I'm reading that this is actually a a collegiate summer baseball league. Right. Is this accurate?

Collin   20:12

What what you are the, the the team I'm talking about? Yes.

Brandon  20:16

Yeah. Yes. The mink League?

20:18

Yes. The main? Yes. Yeah.

Brandon  20:21

That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's the I've found I went to the Yes. I've tried to find out how this works and what this could possibly be. And it's a collegiate summer baseball program.

Collin   20:30

Collegiate Baseball Program. Yeah. Very interesting. Yep. So this is after they've done their spring baseball, they can join this other league to play more. So it's, it's also, you know, people who are working on their skills, they love the game. So they're trying to play year round.

Brandon  20:47

Well, yeah, and it's like a, they said, this is it's run similar to like a minor league team. So a lot of these collegiate athletes could potentially be go to like minor league, or feeder League teams like that, after college. So this is basically just like that.

Collin   21:07

It's kind of like a fear to a feeder, almost like it is. And it's also neat, because these are, these are players who come from all sorts of places, right? They may have played against each other, during the spring League, are now on this league, playing on the same team. So it like that I'm really that's what I'm really excited about. And like it, that's the kind of like, it's a small field. But you know, they, they, they apparently they, they get a lot of people to come watch. They're very, very popular for that again, we were there watching the DAR state the community college, their play their games, so we didn't actually get to see the the mink league play, but I'm excited about that. Because it is a it's, it's not a professional one. Right. So like, there's, there's a different feel in this not so whatever. I don't know, like, No, I

Brandon  22:07

agree, I find that it's often like watching professional sports, a lot of times, it's just like, not fun to watch. Because it's like, the stakes are like so high. And everything is so serious. And it's so

22:19

blind, like

Brandon  22:22

me, like I don't care. Like I don't like I do not like to watch professional basketball. Right? But I loved being at like every single high school basketball game. And like, I was a junior college. So I was loved to be like the junior college basketball. Sure, right. And so it wasn't like it wasn't like super high stakes. Like it wasn't like just like this crazy important thing where, you know, every second is like the most important second of someone's entire life, just like just like fun. And it was cool. Right? So yeah, I do have a do have read. We have a research potentially here, because there's a paragraph in this out the mink league baseball. And this paragraph sort of nebulously says the mi n k not only derives its name from the Class D, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas League, which is handy. Not only is the modern evolution of the League, which dissolved its MLB affiliations following the 1913 season. Wow. Okay.

Collin   23:37

Okay, hold on. So,

23:39

what, what?

Brandon  23:43

What in the field of dreams is going on here?

Collin   23:45

So in 1913, there was a dissolution of something. Yeah. And the mink league is the remnants of that.

Brandon  23:53

Yeah, it's continuing on the legacy of whatever happened. Ah, that's cool. It is very interesting. I don't know what that means. I heard their research required. Okay. There is a bit of a potentially interesting quit this baseball history is also just like the most insane thing of all time. Because like, prior to 19 like 40 It's just wild. Like it is the most

Collin   24:20

Yeah, anything goes also the most insane

Brandon  24:23

thing ever. Like early baseball history is crazy. Yeah. Now there's so much weird things happening so so here's another one to add bliss. It has to do some research on this at some point because I have many questions now.

Collin   24:55

Yeah, I don't under You know, it's, uh, it's interesting is they is the field that they play on? There is. So that's that's a neat connection too because again, this field this The stadium is not directly back to that exact location, you know that time of 1913. But like, there was obviously a, a presence to then later have built this big stadium at that time. Right. Yeah. So So there has been a long standing history of it here, right. And of being used and founded. So

Brandon  25:46

it's very Yeah, it feels

Collin   25:48

it's kind of cool to be there. So I'm, we have always driven by and looked at it and seen all the cars and everything and been like, huh, we should go. And then, you know, that turns into Oh, man, we didn't go and then a oh, we also still didn't go like, Oh, yeah, we really need to go and do that. Because that's important. And it's really fun to be part of that history, as well. Oh, yeah. They, they?

26:20

Oh, interesting. It's,

26:22

it's just more more, you know, history here. It's reputed or reputed, reputed to have you did reputed to have been the first baseball field west of the Mississippi with lights.

Brandon  26:37

Oh, there we go. Ah, look at that. Look at that. And

Collin   26:46

it was built as part of the New Deal agencies of the works relief programs and the Works Progress Administration. Ah, how

Brandon  26:55

are the old Works Progress Administration? How about the WPA was the WPA? Yes. No, not some people, not opponents of opponents of UPA are not well, not opponents of Roosevelt. So not, not 1930s. Republicans, they did not like that. But I mean, probably modern ones, too, I guess. Because it like builds cool stuff. So you have that. But that's really interesting. Yeah, yeah. Oh, this says Yeah. Oh, go ahead. No, different. No, I was just saying all this says all I could find so far is that the mi n k derived from the 1910 to night theme 13. Minor League of the same name.

Collin   27:38

Oh, interesting. Okay, it

Brandon  27:39

doesn't tell me anything else that I needed. Okay. So I'm gonna

Collin   27:44

concede, this says I keep getting conflicting things, whether whether it can seat 1000 or 1800 people, which is a lot for the stands. Yeah. But also, they've just gotten maximum capacity. Yeah. Uh, huh. Wow, this is crazy. They are going to be putting an additional, and again, this is the support you kind of get with these old structures. Again, this was built in 1937, by the WPA program. So at the time when the WPA program went into, you know, it was spending 10s of billions of dollars around the country. So like, every one project got a lot dumped into it. And so in modern day, they are now going back and going to be working on this and kind of doing some big renovations and things and they're going to be pouring two and a half million dollars into this thing.

Brandon  28:38

Wow. Yeah. To get it up and running better. I think, yeah.

Collin   28:48

Oh my gosh, yeah. They're like actually updating the sorry, I'm just look, I live in this town, but I don't actually pay attention to what's going on. So that's all right. That happens me a lot. So that's fine. No, they're gonna they're gonna gate beginning artificial turf, Ada, approved of facilities, improve dugouts, locker rooms, better spectator seedings, a new roof, and they're gonna pave the parking lots, you know, so they're actually like, really investing in it to us to continue to use it and not just, you know, kind of preserve it in its current state, which I always like to see. Oh,

Brandon  29:24

yeah. That's cool. Yeah, so notable alumni from the Mi NK League. None other than Ozzie Smith. So obviously, oh, the real deal. Okay.

Collin   29:39

Here you go, people go. So that's, that was our big, big adventure this week of getting out here. And lock Yeah, it was a very big adventure walking seven minutes from

Brandon  29:52

like being in the stadium. But I got to have popcorn hot chocolate. This is the winner.

30:02

Speaking of which the Chi Chi at the concession stand, had the obvious look of a man who was not supposed to be there. But the Oh read because the original but he was there because the original person has not shown up yesterday.

Collin   30:21

It was it was fantastic. Which is why I think the popcorn tasted almost like I was just biting off chunks of a salt lick it will salty,

Brandon  30:31

right. So here it into the popcorn.

30:36

It didn't so much. I was fantastic. Because it was cheap and hot. And they were eating stance. And when we asked for the, the hot chocolate, he goes how we need for he goes, Okay, ah, that's gonna take me like, three minutes. Is that okay? And I was like, Yeah, that's fine. I'm not going anywhere. And he was like, Okay, watch the baseball. So

Brandon  30:59

now. He just looked at him and said, If I go back to the seats without hot chocolate, my wife will.

Collin   31:10

Just, I will be so. So I stood there waiting. And it took him like five minutes. But again, I don't care because we're just having fun. And it's like, I paid five bucks to get in here. There's nothing at stake. Like we're just talking. There's nobody in the stands either. And he's like, you know, he's feeling self conscious. But he turns he has cords as he's wrapping up, because how am I doing on time? I'm like, Oh, 10 seconds. Of course, he runs over and he slides in and I you know, you know, same thing, because it's mixing the metaphors because they're not timed to run around the base, but it is whatever.

Brandon  31:48

They do practice doing it faster. So, you know. Yes,

Collin   31:52

indeed. In deed. So that was that was fun. Yeah, I highly recommend highly recommended and I am yet again, you know, things of like, yeah, I I'm so torn, unlike I love living where we do now. But also, you know, I like living in the middle of nowhere with you know, I can't see a soul. And it takes me forever to get places that I'm like, I also like living in this, like, historic district place where, like, the historic library is an 11 minute walk and the historic, you know, baseball field is a seven minute walk. And you know, I get to all these places. So yeah, it's an especially in the spring and summertime. I'm like, I'm, I'm very thankful for for where we are like this is this is fun. This is really

Brandon  32:40

nice. That's very cool. We don't have we have a baseball park, but it's all like very modern. And it's like, like, it's one of those like things. There's like a whole bunch of fields over there. And so they just have things all the time. But there's no like cool seats. It's just like, bleachers and field. Although we do have the year old racetrack. Right, like the dirt track thing. Yeah. Which this Friday, right. I've it the guy that owned it, like, stopped me like sold it or whatever. Oh, and so I didn't know. Like it was like not running for a while. And then Friday, I get home and I get out of the car. And I think I went down to get the trash can. And I was like well wait. Yep, there it is. Like I was running. I'm like, yep, that is definitely running. I didn't know that somebody new bought it. Right. Like doing thing and like they haven't backing up and running again. So I was unaware that that happened. And so I went outside I was like, oh, no, that's Oh, no, definitely still going. Okay.

Collin   33:49

What? What are they racing there?

Brandon  33:52

Ah, you know, I actually have not been to that in a very long time. Fair enough. It's apparent they used to do they're just like the modified like dirt track car things. Right? Yeah, like the like open the yeah, there's like a whole bunch of them. They used to do that one. They did that they did used to have a race where it was the one where one this is a very okay, this is like the most Missouri since I've ever said my life lesson is you ready for this? There's a race that they have where one person is operating the pedals and the other person is operating the steering wheel

34:32

Yeah, yeah, they have that

Brandon  34:33

I think they used to have that I don't know if that's still a downside to have like I don't know if that's just like a super popular thing.

Collin   34:41

It's not like the like the Top Gear episode where the driver was what on the bottom and the guy with the

Brandon  34:46

left and right yeah. As far as I'm aware, I can't even

Collin   34:51

hear still love that episodes. As they put the Australia it's upside down. Oh, yeah.

Brandon  34:57

I forgot about that. I don't know. I don't know what else they have here. I just know that like, everyone's like every once in awhile, you just see like a ton of trailers driving through town because taking the cars over there. Yeah. But I didn't, I was unaware that it had reopened under new ownership. And so I was just getting trashed. And I was like, oh, oh, they're out. Okay, that's definitely not still closed. I can definitely hear that very loud.

Collin   35:23

So it's interesting. Okay, so the it's a dirt circular track.

Brandon  35:28

Yes, is a big thing. That's pretty cool. I don't. Again, I haven't gone in many years. With some friends like a boy, I think it was before I even moved here. So like I this is very old information I have. I think I might have still been in college whenever I went. So I don't know what they have over there. Maybe someday, I'll be brave enough and go to the dirt track races. I do remember that I was covered in dirt when I came home. So if I go again, I'll sit higher up and

Collin   36:13

I think I've decided just for your benefit. I've decided that you guys need a golf cart. Ticket around over on that side.

Brandon  36:22

Because there's no sidewalk anywhere. So that's really Yeah, that a walk like on the curb? Yeah, see? No, no, because I definitely could walk to that place from my house. But that's not like the safest option.

36:39

Right, like it's right

Collin   36:41

now, or you could you guys could both get those little mini scooters, you know, there's sub 49 cc ones. And you guys get those. Those are so popular in our town. Because there are so many people with suspended license.

Brandon  36:57

Oh, nice.

Collin   37:01

Little scooter gangs get out this time of year.

Brandon  37:03

Wait. I mean, I should probably just go full blown Dad and I should just embrace the motorcycle aspect of our dads do that, but that'd be cool. But yeah, Scrooge would be rad imagine rockin ABS is a dirt track on a basketball right? Can you imagine the incredible looks from the circle drag drivers just feeling cute? Like what are you doing around here by like, that's what would happen? It would be

Collin   37:29

especially especially if you were in full leathers. Yeah. That'd be fantastic. Fantastic. Wait, we saw em. It's that time of year. So again, we're seeing all of the mopeds out in force, like on mass or everywhere around town. And then randomly again, we live in a like it's it's that the historic part of the downtown area. And randomly we're sitting there and like two golf carts just drive by, like whiz around a corner and down our street with people in them. And I'm like, what? Why are there golf carts every minute? Says net? This is new. And then I was like, wait, I want to I want a golf cart like that. Is that the what we need to do? Because that'd be a lot of fun. Whiz down. But you can't ride those on the road? I don't think no, no, no, I can't. So I was very confused. And they just appeared and they disappeared. And I have we've never seen them before. And I was like, wow.

Brandon  38:45

On the way to seven whole

Collin   38:48

turn way on the other side of town. I guess. This is weird. You had to drive on lots of roads to get to wire right. Yeah.

38:57

Just so you're aware.

Brandon  39:05

Oh, gosh.

Collin   39:06

Are you all winding down for the school year? How many? How much longer? Do

Brandon  39:14

you guys have? A couple of weeks? weeks? Okay. Yeah, four or five weeks? Maybe? Not very many. Sets up do some testing soon. I don't think it's this week. Next week after that. You have to do our state testing MAP test to clock who? Nice. So that's yeah. Yeah, pretty well. I mean, like, the other classes are kind of like winding down a little bit like because I don't, there isn't a science test in sixth grade. So like, I'm just going along. Whatever like, you got to do stuff like you No just kind of keep going actively find some stuff to do do some end of the year project things and see how it goes. So you know yeah, a lot of that winding down trying to figure out something to do for the make sure I got enough stuff do for the rest of year mostly. Oh

Collin   40:25

also means we need to start thinking about our summer book club and what you need summer book club action. That's

Brandon  40:30

true. So got that today. Oh, Susan asked like she will Susan asked me earlier. She was like, Are you guys gonna read another book? And I was like, probably sued, actually.

Collin   40:42

To be about time. I have to

Brandon  40:44

know do some research on that to try to figure out what the vibes are this summer calling. What do you what's the Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Not good. I'm

Collin   40:56

not gonna vibes advice. Yeah.

Brandon  40:59

So we'll see. But yeah, that's pretty much it. I did survive. proctoring or not practicing. Being room a CT monitor. Yeah. Yes. Super exciting. Not really, because it's just staring

Collin   41:18

it's really Beardsley Aki Millicent Lambie, like

Brandon  41:26

for many hours at a time, right. So did that I was trying to remember. Also, I can't remember all the places that I took the AC T. And so I was thinking about this. I was like, I I think I figured it out. But I'm not 100%. Sure. All right. Oh, no. Again, long time ago, at this point, right? Good. I was thinking about it, obviously, about AC T. And I was talking to some of the kids from school that were there, like afterwards. And we were just talking about AC T testing stuff. And I was like, I start thinking to myself, I took it multiple times. Where did I do the middle? I don't I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think yeah, I think I do, but I I'm just gonna be like, doing the the room monitor thing is way weird, because you just kind of gotta sit there. You gotta read your script thing. It's very nice now, though, because all the script is like online. And so like, all the timers and all the everything is just baked in to the site that you have to log into.

Collin   42:47

Interesting, okay, well, there's just

Brandon  42:49

this huge list. And they'll just say like, you complete the thing and go to the next one. So you like read the thing. You like read part of the script. Hit next, you read the next part of the script. And then it sounds like you may begin now and you click the button, and then it like flips to new page and the timer's on, and like all the stuffs happening, so it's just like, Oh, okay. So it keeps time for you. Nice. It monitors everything. There's a little more reminders that say make sure you know, like, one of the tasks is like, observe the room. Got it? Okay. Did it

Collin   43:29

look again? Yeah.

Brandon  43:31

But it was nice. It was all like baked into the thing. So you literally just had to click through. Okay. Well, that is nice. Yeah. Some of the other menus for like, there was like several people that didn't show which is weird, right? Get Paid bunch of money to do this. And just like, don't come like what the heck, like that's trying to figure out how to get them out of there and make sure that I logged that I didn't use that book was difficult. I had to be like, is this I waited till to close the head, but to the counselors like, Please help. I need to make sure that I do this.

Collin   44:11

I don't want to mess this up. Yeah,

Brandon  44:13

cuz you're supposed to, like log like, which test booklets you used? Alright, so I was like, Well, I didn't use these ones. Yeah. So I need to tell them that because these people aren't here. So I need to like, make sure that they know that they weren't here like and seat them from the thing. So we got it figured out. I think it's all good. Okay. Yes, I was trying to remember what what it was like when I took the AC t and I have a very, I have two very distinct memories of taking the test. And then because I took it like three times, I think, and then the middle time, I have really no recollection at all. And so I think I took at Missouri State once in like one of those giant lecture halls. I took it there. I think the middle time I took it Nixa. I'm gonna say it was Nixa really bad. I think so. I think like just when I was doing it that was like the one that was available. Oh, yeah. Right. Because I don't, I don't think there was just like a ton that you could go to, if I remember right. And I think it was Nixa because I think Nick's is the one where like my friend showed up to take it and like they didn't have the ID. And so like they couldn't do.

Collin   45:41

Oh, no. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah, right.

Brandon  45:47

I was like, Okay, well, why? Because I'm doing this now. And then I think the last time I took it, I took it at Kickapoo because I remember that one for sure. But yeah, I

Collin   46:01

took I think I took both of mine at Kickapoo.

Brandon  46:05

Now that I'm thinking about this, I think I had to go to Nixa. Wow, I think I think it's fine. Just like the time of year that I wanted to do it. Like that was the one that was available. Right. I think that was it. But yeah, it was kind of I remember was kind of far had to get really early. And I couldn't because I think it was next. I'm gonna say it was next. Uh, I don't I'm not 100% Sure about this though. And then yeah, the third one was a kick. Because I remember kickable has very distinctive entryway and hallways and stuff. So I don't think I've ever had it's probably different now. I imagined, but

46:43

probably yes. Oh, yeah. Exactly.

Brandon  46:56

Was just reminiscing about testing. How totally not exciting it is. Yeah, that's been pretty much my week. Okay, over that. Kind of make sure I have things to do. I'm gonna give my children a test next week. Uh, huh. Okay, so pretty much it. Not just a whole lot going on. Yeah. Okay. Good. That's right. Yeah. Sorry. I have nothing going on. You're like, Wait, he busy? So it's like,

Collin   47:27

no, it's just a weird time of year because yeah, it's this this like, there is for us, like there's a lot but there's also like,

Brandon  47:34

not a lot. And I

Collin   47:38

like just waiting on a lot of things. Like I'm still waiting to see who the Missouri State Fair is going to announce for their office row on the 17th. I mean, obviously, we know who it's going to be. But

Brandon  47:49

yeah, I'm gonna keep you in suspense, you know,

Collin   47:52

whatever. And remembered what's going to did remember last time I gave a long exposition about the 50th anniversary of the Ozark Music Festival. Okay, yeah. And how there were two people who were trying to relive the magic and one of them the held the rights to it. I don't know if I had mentioned this on the show, but the person who holds the rights is like actively using them against the other people that I mentioned this like no, actually finding actively filing lawsuits and stopping them from doing it. Like I had to you

Brandon  48:32

didn't mention the word lawsuit. Like but I think I thought it was just singular like a cease and desist on the name No, I

48:38

sorry. Okay.

Collin   48:40

But he is they they are going after them for like the use of the the like, idea and concept of this as well. And so

Brandon  48:52

concept of music festival and,

Collin   48:55

but specifically Ozark music festival like of what that was supposed to be of like music and stuff. And so I went to a local round. So weird, but he's like waving this around frantically and the people the other organizers like they're trying to do this in the best interest of the community like they're not trying to be big bad boogeyman about this. So they are like sidestepping around all sorts of craters and things like that. So slash two to not last week or not this past week, but like the week before is actually a day after you and I recorded I was like, I just I looked at my notebook and I was like, Oh, right. I have to tell the story. Because one of the main organizers

Brandon  49:46

for the like, off brand thing

Collin   49:53

for the for the one who doesn't hold the rights. Okay, so I mentioned there was the Mozart Okay,

Brandon  49:58

yeah. I told her the name and she went. No. But yeah, why they

Collin   50:05

try to get as close to the mark as possible.

50:09

legally distinct, right?

Collin   50:13

Yeah. So, anyway, I ah, and so that guy shows up to talk about this. And it was one of those really awkward times because we, everybody knows why this music festival is important

50:38

of like, why it's important to to like why he is trying why they are trying to get this organized right now, of, of were celebrating this music festival because everybody knows it's been 50 years since then. Right.

Brandon  50:52

And

Collin   50:54

he had a presentation he was giving the Chamber of Commerce. And he can't say that they are putting this on for the 50th anniversary of the music festival rehab break for legal reasons, right for legal reasons. So he actually really sad like, so why are we doing this now? Well, we're throwing it back and remembering things like it's the 75th anniversary of the Beatle being imported, and the celebration of the Vietnam War, and the celebration of like, he had like seven things on his slide. And the very, very last one was, and, you know, on there was also a music festival Anyway, next slide.

Brandon  51:39

There was Yeah, and you know, there was anyway.

Collin   51:47

Yeah, it was he was doing everything he could to not say the thing. And like, and like he would say, like, oh, and we have a band. But we also have crafts, right. And we also have crafts, and we've got vendors, and there'll be this other band, and don't forget the crafts and the games and this thing. And this memorial and the and the craft and the school shooting. I was just like, oh my gosh, like, way out of his way to his basically stretch of like, this is not about the music, but there'll be music, but it's not about music. With

Brandon  52:24

Oh, my heavens. Ah Oh, man. Oh, boy,

Collin   52:36

I've been holding on to that since then. I was just like, oh, I felt so awkward. I've just I'm sitting there. I'm just like, Oh,

52:43

my God.

Collin   52:47

I feel bad for them because they've been kneecapped. They can't come out and say the thing that they want to say they can't because they know they're going to be buried in litigation. And they're like this. Ah, okay, this is so ridiculous. Like, sure can have the name but like, also, don't why is this why is this thing I don't understand.

Brandon  53:06

donors. That's yeah, that's pretty. That's pretty nuts. Like. Oh, my goodness. So it gives a fiasco it's just a big mess with another big mess.

Collin   53:25

So that's a that's your report your report from the nurse. Pretty good.

Brandon  53:29

I like it. I like it. I want to share with you a thought I had today. All right. I have sitting around just like, you know, as one does, I was sitting on the couch was scrolling through my phone looking at stuff. And I was confronted with like a gallery of like, like an art gallery. It was like a collection of art from this person. Right. And they're painting. Okay. And that my first thought was, oh my gosh, these paintings are incredible. And my second thought was Dutch. Right, obviously, and so I just random guy. Never heard of this dude before. petrous function in Dell. Right? You know, your business casual 19th century Belgian master artists, you know, just hanging out. I just want you to take a peek of that. Some of that stuff I just sent you there until your thoughts on this dude. Oh my god. When was this done? Yeah. Yeah, he was. He was alive from 1806 to 1871.

Collin   54:59

Holy moly.

Brandon  55:01

Yeah. These are otherworldly. I don't know. I mean, yeah, I

Collin   55:09

get that. Yeah, these are all rather out what's so cool about this is basically all of these. All of these are of a have a dark, very dark setting

Brandon  55:21

with painted around a candle

Collin   55:25

light. Right? Yes. Or a lamp like, that's what is so striking to these is he was really studying dusk, nighttime, like really trying to capture the presence of being a people around and doing stuff around a candle or a lamp in the dark like this is Oh my gosh, yes. So there's

Brandon  55:46

like tons of them. This is just a random website that I pulled up. Not the thing I found because I found like, it was like I was on like Imager or whatever. And I was just like looking at stuff. And I was like, what? Oh, my. What? I just want to share this website real fast because it just has like all this like, it's in saying absolutely crazy. Oh my gosh, he's incredible. Right? Like, never heard of this guy before. today. And yeah, just like, yeah, here's a fun fact. Is he earned the moniker most you chandelle right. So his nickname was basically Mr. Candle for obvious reasons.

Collin   56:35

Okay, well, there you go. Okay. Look, I'm okay. See people I wasn't I wasn't exaggerating here. Like, all like, Yo,

Brandon  56:43

that's like his deal. He's just like, it's cool. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna paint candles. Right? I don't know. But we're so incredibly amazing. They

Collin   56:59

are. And that's what that's what it is. Is you can everyone has seen like a photograph like this of somebody around like it can you can envision like a modern take on this would be somebody in a dark room staring at a computer screen where you see their face lit up and maybe some things around their desk, but everything else around the edges is very dark and faded. Like that's, that's what he's capturing here. But with

Brandon  57:24

candles, yeah, he's painting. Like it's not mine. It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, I can also from his Wikipedia article. I just feel like this is important that you and all the listeners out here who are gonna go Google Petraeus punch Tyndale, honestly, right now. So quoting here, Politico, in addition to his art, he was also interested in the mechanics of the steam engine. And in 1841, patented advice for improving the blades on steam ships. He also devised suggestions for improving lateral stability of rail cars. But yeah, let's go. Yeah, yeah. And he, and stuff for reclaiming the more lands in the Netherlands because, you know, they're just taking back land from the ocean. One square foot at a time. But

Collin   58:24

he's got this one. He's got this one I've been looking at it was staring it's called nocturnal Marine. This one is I like all of the other ones. Because they're very intimate. That's the only thing is like it's very like look at this person talking to this person or this person market

Brandon  58:41

by candlelight. The girl holding the apples or whatever. And that yoke thing that is like the most that's it's saying. Yes.

Collin   58:50

This one is a different take on this concept of of it is a marina at nighttime with the moon in the back cloud, even behind clouds. And all the ships that are more apt out are coming in.

59:06

It's a scene and a half.

Brandon  59:07

Yeah, does have some other ones. There's some other like, further away, and he like veers off. You know, there's some other stuff. There's some like biblical references. I mean, obviously, you know, thank you to them peers. I think it's mandatory. But like, yeah, it's just, it's crazy. It is so insane. Also, this brings up another question that I don't know the answer to. Right. When you look at all of these, all of these Night Market paintings. Is this a thing? Was this a 19th century thing that actually happened? Or was he just like doing this because you'd like to paint at nighttime, like what was there? A Night Market scene in The Netherlands. I mean it century Right. Like, I don't know, like with the level of I mean,

Collin   1:00:09

yeah. When people really buying I mean, I think would have almost Okay. Okay. They would have almost had to given just like, like the people who are out shopping at these markets like this are these are people who worked in houses like these are the cooks? These are the yes are just

Brandon  1:00:27

like early morning. Oh, right. Yeah. Or is that like,

Collin   1:00:33

what do you say night market? So are they coming in at nighttime so that they can start preparing the meals and stuff for the next day? Like,

Brandon  1:00:42

wow, yeah, this is what I don't know the answer to like, is this. Like, was was this like an early morning market thing? And like, is this like, is this like four in the morning when people are getting up? And they get like, yeah, because like you said, a lot of these people look like they're a working class, you know? And so they are, are they setting up the market? Are these people buying stuff for the household, like later? Is this like, late at night? And they're on their way home from stuff and they're stopping by the market? And we're not like, what? What is this? Like, what? What is happening? This is like, I don't know, I need I need some answers here. And so I know. Okay,

Collin   1:01:28

we have a lot of reports to be doing. have data to look up. What if the history of night markets I guess, yeah.

Brandon  1:01:39

Ah, yeah. Because you

1:01:40

could, you could see how it'd be very beneficial for a certain sector of the population to have these and how it would be very beneficial for them. But also, like, it's also weird to think about, like, people setting up their tables at nighttime with candles to sell tomatoes. Like that's yeah.

Brandon  1:02:07

Okay, how, how accurately depiction is this? Of like, 19th century goings on? Or like, because if you Google just night market, what you're going to get is the like, Asian version. Right? Which are cool, right? But it's not this history of those. Yeah, that's what I do. They don't know. How does one find this information? Right. That's what I'm thinking. Like, yeah, I gotta I gotta refine my Google searches here because it's also it's what it's conflicting with Christmas markets, which do of course happen at nighttime, but Oh, Christmas. And so like, European Christmas markets, real big thing. Right. Huge thing. So this is, like, kind of conflicting with my results here because like, that's what it's pulling me up as well. So I don't I don't know. Know that it's going to be a very interesting. Okay. Yeah, that's bizarre. I had no idea. I mean, yeah. And I don't know I don't know what exactly is in the water in your Netherlands there. But like the other fact that I saw this painting and went bad that he's Dutch, like

Collin   1:03:47

Yeah, no, no, no.

Brandon  1:03:50

Dutch dudes are another level of painting. It's saved.

Collin   1:03:55

They really are. TPU they are really trying their best to capture something there.

Brandon  1:04:03

Yeah, I'm gonna share you my my art history thoughts today that I had while I was having my mind blown by candle painting.

Collin   1:04:15

Yeah, candle master.

Brandon  1:04:17

Okay. Candle candle Metal Master Petrus varnish Mindell. Again. Sorry for poor pronunciation. Yeah, that's fine. You know, all of our Dutch friends please let me know if Night Market thing is like a historical thing. Did he just do it for funsies I need to know some European market history here

Collin   1:04:54

Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm still looking at these photos or other surreal I look

Brandon  1:04:59

at them all. All day long there. racy absolutely saved. Like they're just it's it's nuts like no like I really liked these. Yeah, I use you very nice. Yes. I think there's, there's I've just been saying and everyone was like, wow it's so cool I guess. So in order to do some of this, I guess another interesting fact about this dude is our studio, right? He had like, it was like basically split in half or one slide one like half of the room was like really, really well lit. And then the other half of the room was like, it's dark as possible. So he would like stand over in the well inside to paint and like models and stuff would be over on the other side. Right so he could like when he was studying how this light stuff works. That's kind of that was his his methodology. Interesting, right? Yeah. Because he Yeah, cuz you think it

Collin   1:06:21

how he's obviously not going out and and setting up his easel right in the marketplace? Like he has to have subjects and place them in, in something. But

1:06:35

yeah, how could you

1:06:38

have a dark enough yet light enough room? That's crazy to think about? balancing those two things up, like, yeah, has to be nuts pitch black. So I can do that pitch black, but has to be super dark so that I can study what's actually happening here but also light up so I can see my paints. And he doesn't have a headlamp to do this.

Brandon  1:06:58

Exactly. Has like candles and stuff. So it's, it's really, it's not so cool. Like, Adam,

Collin   1:07:06

I really liked that. You just reread that glow on the faces and the reflections on the on the objects and again, just how like how quickly you lose any sort of sharpness to what you're looking at and how it just becomes like all homogenous. Oh, I

Brandon  1:07:27

figured out how to send you the gallery I was actually looking at there's more

Collin   1:07:36

it's a little baby

1:07:42

yeah, I'm gonna

Collin   1:07:44

be looking at these the rest of the night. They go. You're welcome.

1:07:46

Love this is

Brandon  1:07:48

Art History corner. Me. Oh, brother podcast, they got her finger learning things here. Together. This is cool. It's a bugler. Okay, anyways, when you start looking at these long enough, you can definitely see that he like you can tell he had some like reference sketches that he was working with. Because there's like similar groups of people. Like they're standing like differently and they're wearing different clothes and the backgrounds all different and the lights in like a different spot, kind of so like, you can kind of almost see his process a little bit, which I find absolutely fascinating. Like

Collin   1:08:30

three people around a table in discussion. Yeah, big. That's that right there. Yeah,

Brandon  1:08:36

but you can see they're like in slightly different postures. And they're always wearing kind of different clothes and the lights in it like different spot and maybe the table has different stuff on it like Yeah, it's crazy.

Collin   1:08:53

That's super cool. Yeah, I like that.

Brandon  1:09:08

Dutch master painter, like Mr. Candle Mr. Candle himself. Yeah, that was my day to go discovery today.

Collin   1:09:24

That discovery discovery

Brandon  1:09:34

Well, my last discovery is haiku bass.

Collin   1:09:43

discovery that you made. That's good.

Brandon  1:09:44

It's trying to open that like, open

Collin   1:09:49

in place.

Brandon  1:09:53

Okay, all right. So, all right. There's time to close out the Have show full of learning and excitement. Yes. Here we go. Day turning tonight Celestial Alignment captivating sky

Collin   1:10:20

nice, nice captivating sky.

Brandon  1:10:25

Yeah, exactly

Collin   1:10:33

yes. Very good. Very good.

Brandon  1:10:35

Clips behind you action there

Collin   1:10:43

Got it. Okay. Well, I like it and we will start discussing in the background our reading program and see what comes next. Okay. Sounds good to me. Love you bye