motley chill
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Setting sail in our car!!
Waiting on cancellations…
Hiring a wizard?
Mostly chill
Or Motley Chill??
Lofi 80s hair metal
AI is terrible
Collin survived glamping…
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Going to Thailand! Enjoy the heat!
Who did the fair book and judge them accordingly??
Ian Munsick
I’m sorry in advance
Haiku in Italian!!
Una valigia (a suitcase)
Esplorare il mondo (exploring the world)
Nuova casa (new home)
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SPEAKERS
Brandon, Collin Funkhouser
Collin Funkhouser 00:05
Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, and column on this week's show. Motley chill. Oh boy, it is I'm in a basement, but no need to be alarmed. There's no storms there is just me needing to record here.
Brandon 00:30
So all right. All is well already already had the storms earlier this week. Yeah now it's just freezing cold, right? Oh
Collin Funkhouser 00:41
my god I was so it's one of those things where we I like it's really like Not super cold because we in the wintertime we were experiencing like negative 30 But after like a spring or 30 degrees feels insanely chilly like it just
Brandon 01:10
That's true, but you have to remember today it was 40 some degrees. But there was also a 21 mile an hour northwest wind, at least me here. So the wedge it felt like 35 Right. So it was not exactly a
Collin Funkhouser 01:27
wind has been unrelenting on relenting recently,
Brandon 01:34
last couple days or two days, I guess. been pretty, pretty gnarly, right? Like it's been really bad. And
Collin Funkhouser 01:44
which is great whenever I'm heading north, because I get amazing gas mileage. Until then the wind switched from the to the north or coming out of the north. So now Oh yeah, well, going home won't be fun. But I did get like 42 miles to the gallon going home the other day. So that was
Brandon 02:05
wind boost. Right? Like,
Collin Funkhouser 02:07
like set sail up? Yeah, exactly. Why don't we have sales on our cars? That's what I want to know.
Brandon 02:15
I feel like because the wind is so unpredictable, right? And as we know, you know, world history. You don't really sail into the wind particularly well. And you can't really tack on a road. So that doesn't make like, feel like it would be bad. So this is not we're not in full blown Madmax yet. Yeah, we still
Collin Funkhouser 02:44
have one more. One more presidential election and boy happy.
Brandon 02:54
So yeah, we'll be on the maybe. But yeah, currently, we can still use the road. So that's what Oh, yes. Yes, very windy. Very blustery. Very insane. Right. We at least lucked out here. Right? Because all the storms Monday went like north of us. Right. Like the line was just north, like the front was just north of us. And so it rained a lot but there was nothing really any nothing to you know, treacherous, which is
Collin Funkhouser 03:35
nice. For once, right? Yeah,
Brandon 03:38
don't like that. We
Collin Funkhouser 03:40
had a double line of storms move through such that Noah's first baseball practice was indeed canceled. Oh man, which we all like i Everybody knew. But like, I was just like, I'm not going to be that guy. I'm not gonna be that I'm not going to be the guy who jumps on the message thread with the group and is like, cancelled, because everybody knows right I'm gonna wait for the coach to do their thing to like reach out to everybody. So the coaches are that's the you know, they'll they'll let us know I'm not going to be the pre emptive parent who jumps in here. But boy howdy I was staring hard at my phone three o'clock when I was like they still haven't called this everybody's saying you know we're an elevated four out of whatever for you know, for tornadoes. Starting at five which shows like which is literally in two hours but they did cancel.
04:30
That's good. Yes.
Brandon 04:33
I don't know the other day like we had, like it was raining like all day. I was just waiting. I was staring at my computer, my email, right like, surely the baseball and track coach are gonna email me now. Just cancelled because as we know, baseball players allergic to rain, very much so very also, and it was like cold and rainy blah blah. And like no, they're just like, dismissed baseball and it's like, What? What?
05:09
Seriously, like you
Brandon 05:13
guys gonna be like, whatever. I don't care. I mean, I don't know. I don't care. I'm staying here so, but I was just like, I was shocked. I was as shocked like track I can kind of see but like they're doing any jumping or anything like that's not gonna fly pun intended. So like, you know they're gonna leave. No, you want to jump in that sand right? That'd be terrible just like, like, Oh no,
Collin Funkhouser 05:41
that's right. Right. Yeah. Not very cushiony in the land like,
Brandon 05:47
it's like slam into the ground and we'll just jump on the grass at that point like right Wow, but I went so I can do whatever they good for you guys. I guess. I don't know. Shocking. Yeah, that's surprise but I will. Okay. But yeah, nice and nice. Chilly this week. Made recess super fun. But you know, I didn't have to do today. So just to say that I have inside were today. So all people that was like missing work. I just stayed inside and stared at them when they weren't going to work. Or doing stuff. Yeah. I really like to. This may be a bit petty of me, but like, especially the fifth graders, right? I'm like a little bit extra, like, stern with them. You know? I set the bar because I set the tone for next year. I don't want coming in. They can you know, Oh, no. So I'm you know, I give him the old like you're in this is not the talking room. You move over here now. Like, lamb you know, gotta
Collin Funkhouser 07:12
give them a nice really lay down the law. Yeah. Yeah.
Brandon 07:16
I don't know if it works or not. But, you know,
Collin Funkhouser 07:18
it's okay. It sounds good.
Brandon 07:20
I think that sounds good. Some years. It works. Some of us it doesn't work. Right. Like this year. It didn't work, right. No, it was just coming in. They're just like, they're like, just insane. Right? But like, the year before, at least the first day of school. The kids all came in and they sat down in their chairs. And they like didn't say a word. It was the most hysterical thing ever. They're just down they just sat there like stared really nice they're just standing by the door and they're like, standing there. Yes. Haha. Here I am. leering from the doorway.
Collin Funkhouser 08:13
Yes, you can either be I was gonna say you could either be leering from the doorway or you could be sitting out in the cold with your hood up and brooding as you walk around
Brandon 08:26
on the cold side wants you to and that's not very fun. We magazine pretty
Collin Funkhouser 08:37
cold outside. Yes, she does. She wrapped herself in layers and decides that she wants to sit by the heater and just stare but
Brandon 08:49
lack pets, the
Collin Funkhouser 08:54
storm around the house standing in corners and staring out the windows. Now we we went to a a new like young professionals or like, like Emerging Leaders kind of group thingy. And they are just getting off the ground and needing a lot of help. And so we try and decide if if we're going to be involved or not in that are kind of how dedicated we can be. When we were on our family walks through the neighborhood, I was like, You know what, I've decided what role I need on a committee and Megan was like, we don't have time. We've already talked about this and like blah, blah. It's like no, I need to I need to be the committee. I need to be a wizard. I need to be the brooding wizard that's in the corner that just takes everybody's ideas really bad and just throws it back at them and then just goes back to brooding in my deep thoughts in the corner. So, I am open to the position of broody wizard on any count, especially if it's a council ever be counseled neither wizard shoe. So you
Brandon 10:03
pretty much nailed why I am not on any committees at school, right? Like Ah, I see the issues like I literally don't care this doesn't affect me at all. And then like, like 10% I'm like super animated about and like very over the top Chevy so less so I'm not on a leadership team lead Long story short, I
Collin Funkhouser 10:35
decided maybe we don't have him do
Brandon 10:41
the English teacher so I love to refer to her as our fearless leader. She loves that. Yes she it makes her very happy.
Collin Funkhouser 10:49
I like that. I bet that's a very endearing thing to say to do
Brandon 10:57
it with love so it's fine, but
Collin Funkhouser 10:58
absolutely it's when you say I hope this is received as it was sent when
Brandon 11:06
we're not we're not quite that cringe am very, I am very I will take this I will take this opportunity just to say publicly publicly announce that I am pretty lucky in my team dynamic right that like a lot of other grade levels. There's there's some very high strung people. Right. And they're very like, like, we gotta do this. And like all of us on sixth grade this year, just like yeah. Okay. I like to think that we're pretty chill about things right. Like she definitely is. And I usually am sometimes. And then the other lady is pretty just like, Okay, so like, I like to feel like we're just very like yeah, pretty chill most of the time, right? Just do her thing,
Collin Funkhouser 12:02
but mostly chill.
Brandon 12:03
Mostly chill. Mostly not 100% obviously, because, you know, I know. I can't do 100 of the time. There are some times I have to be like
Collin Funkhouser 12:18
I went to type in mostly chill into the document and it came up Motley chill, and I think that'd be a great like, New Wave funk band name. You know, not really chill.
Brandon 12:29
Listening. Like, Lo Fi hip hop.
Collin Funkhouser 12:35
Oh, yeah, that's what I'm Yes. Yeah.
Brandon 12:37
One of those Lo Fi girl like rip off thing. Yeah. This
Collin Funkhouser 12:41
is exactly
Brandon 12:47
like 80s hair metal, but like Lo Fi Right? Like,
Collin Funkhouser 12:53
Lo Fi? Lo Fi 80s Hair Metal. That is that surely that's got to be something? Surely somebody's done something with that.
Brandon 13:02
I know. Oh, hmm.
Collin Funkhouser 13:08
Now what came up was actually Tiktok thing saying I made a hate 80s Hair Metal music video using AI? I am not clicking on that. So
Brandon 13:18
no, that's no good. Moving away. Tears are like really bad. And like, ridiculous and blah. So it's fine. You know, whatever. Like that concept, though? No, I think it's way better than bad AI videos. I hate those. I always like, again, whenever I do find myself on like, YouTube shorts or something. And like, again, that algorithm is completely broken. Because like, I have no, like, there's no reason that I should get some of things that they do. Like what? Yeah, is this but it's like, there's always something dumb, like countries as people AI generated, like, this is just like, what? Garbage? Why is it why what is this? Like, what, who wants this? Like, I don't understand like, well,
Collin Funkhouser 14:16
and that's the that's the big thing with the AI generated content of like, it's really easy to make the bar is really low. It's really bad. And so it takes the problem of there being too much stuff on the internet and too much crap on the internet, and just makes it exponentially worse. Because now it's just like noise like, yeah, so and like, I'm glad I'm not an engineer at Google. Because like, How the heck are you going to devise something to parse through all of that to actually get at people's relevant questions and answers and things like that? Because that's, that's just, it's just immense now and it's not going to get any better.
Brandon 14:58
Yeah, no, it's just you out, I don't even know if they want to parse it. Right. I don't know if they're interested in that currently, like, but it's so bad. And it's just so like, I can't I can't listen to the same four background songs over and over again. That's really annoying. I can't, you know, listen to the same stupid AI generated voice guy, right over and over. Like, I don't want to hear this. This is not what I want. Like, what is this? Now? I will say it's all it's all like the text to speech thing. But the text is like, it's definitely not like it's, it's also it's like, very uncanny valley because like, the grammar is like, almost good. Almost passable. Yeah, there's always like some tense things, or some like subject verb things that are like, just wrong. And you're just like, Nah, no, I can't do this was just like, a random person typing in here. So it's either a child or right, like just some Chinese person typing.
Collin Funkhouser 16:14
Or why not both? Yeah. Well, there's, there was there is one AI one that I do like following. I don't know if you've seen this. He makes AI shorts about the life of a gnome on like a foreign planet. Or like, oh, no, no, it is amazing. And, like,
Brandon 16:35
that sounds like a curated like a direction. Yes. No,
Collin Funkhouser 16:38
it's actually story. The other one that I really like, and I need to figure out how to find links to this guy does. Or I don't know who the creator is, but they do an AI generated with like storyboarding, about that like, like, the the carrots taking over from the broccoli and like, the wars that they fight in the wizards and things like that. It's It's amazing. And like, does,
Brandon 17:03
it does take place in the same universities Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. No
Collin Funkhouser 17:07
unknown, but I'm gonna go ahead and say honestly, is likely. Very, very likely. So yes, it's one of those things of in the hands of an actual
Brandon 17:19
creator. And like, artist,
Collin Funkhouser 17:23
it can be really cool and fun. Yeah. But in the hands of everybody else. Yes. I
Brandon 17:29
saw one the other day, right. And it was just like, a, again, at work. A lot of times I just like put on like random music when I'm doing stuff, right. When I like, you know, whatever I was put on, like, background music, like really low, like when I'm like, during my playing time when I'm working right. And one of them was kind of cool. It was like a very, it was like a Balkany vibe, right? But it had like these, like aI generated video thing. Right. And it was, it was so distressing to look at, because it was like showing. It was like, like people, right? And it was like a picture that were like morphing to a different picture. But you know how like, just like, straight up AI a lot of times like gifts, just like, hands look wrong. Yeah. You know? Yeah, like when you, you know, when you feed it in the feed it stuff and then it's like, oh, I can make a hand. No, or something like sometimes, like eyes look like, wrong, you know, just like wrong enough that you're like, it was just a whole bunch of that for like the whole thing. And I was like, I can't even I can't even look at this like this is this is upsetting and, and a bunch of the comments. They were probably bots, but they're like, Oh, great video, I love it. Your bot so whatever. But like, Oh, this is awful. I don't know if you're a human with eyes. But this is so like, hurtful to my like, sense of like, perspective. And like, what people look like that I can't focus on anything else right now. And knowing that it's there, I can't even listen to music anymore. So I have to find something new. Yeah, it's so bad. It was like so like, My eyes hurt. Looking at this, like,
Collin Funkhouser 19:26
early on. One of the things that I saw that people were kind of waving the warning flags about was actually in YouTube for children's content. And it wasn't even like, you know, whatever, whatever people's children's content, but like, because people use that as a lot of like, it just needs to sit in the background and be somewhat distracting. AI was one of the was used by a lot of channels to just grab, like, all sorts of different concepts to mush in together and make make videos and The because of these terrible because these production companies were like, there was no QA there was nothing about these, they were just making them and shipping them out like, terrible, horrible things were being made by AI and being just being shoved onto these children's channels, because they were so desperate for more content and trying to have fresh content and have the ones uploaded and all this stuff. And, and nobody was going back and actually watching it until the parents were sitting there with their toddler being like, this is actually highly disturbing. Like, why is Mickey eating that? You know, it's just like, Oh, yeah. Oops. So, again, oversights good. People use it,
Brandon 20:39
use it carefully. Yeah, right. That's the stuff that's like bad. I think that's I think some of the stuff for AI when they're like, Oh, we can like run efficiency models for like, logistics and like, distribution and like transportation things like, do that. Do that one, okay, leave that, like really horrible art projects, just don't We don't need that in our life. Okay, you can talk about efficiency and all that. So that's good. I like that. Okay, yeah. But not all this other, like, in my life go away.
21:17
We use it for a couple of different things. One thing I like to do is feed it different pages on our website. So I'll just to grab a URL, throw it in the AI. And I'll say,
Collin Funkhouser 21:30
you know, I actually ask it about that web page, about the branding about the messaging about the consistency about things like that, like recommendations to make it better. And that's actually been really beneficial for us to be able to do that. Or you can throw pictures at it and say, like, I need help writing a caption for this for social media posts to get these kinds of clients or for this kind of message for this kind of stuff. And once you find it once it spits out when you like, you can say, right? 20 more like that. And it just gets glued, you know, just because all the way down and you're like, Okay, well, I that's really helpful for me to get some ideas now to then go and expand these or make changes or, or whatever. But that's been kind of this like idea generation has been been very helpful. Yeah,
Brandon 22:17
I used I used a one of the Art Generator things for one of my school posters, right, I needed a because I couldn't find a picture that I liked. Good enough. So when I did my heat transfer like thermodynamics, little science side questi thing. I generated a snowman roasting a marshmallow over a campfire. Yes. And so I use that, but I like gave it I gave it the criteria. So I need this. Because all the other ones were like really bad or not existed. And so I did that, but close.
23:08
Close observers will note that the two episodes ago oops, all illusions. The photo for that was actually AI generated from the Iliad.
Brandon 23:19
I thought that was the Iliad. So I use it for random junk projects. But I only use it once. I probably shouldn't use it should use it for my other one because I don't have a big cover photo for that thing. So but yeah, I use it for that just because I was playing with it like seeing but you know, other than that, I just like the video the shorts and stuff are just like, they're so bad. Yeah, I'm like, Why? Why does this exist?
Collin Funkhouser 23:50
To like to what end?
Brandon 23:54
Right. Like you said, a lot of it's like, it's like it's just there to be mindless filler. But like why? Like I don't It's not like entertaining like it's not I don't know, man apparently I'm in the minority and this particular situation but like, I don't want this I don't
Collin Funkhouser 24:13
just terrible, you know, just terrible Well, yeah, it's so again as and I will always, always add my caveat. Just make sure that you always say please, and thank you, so that when the AI overlords take over, they will show kindness and mercy towards you because you were kind to them. Oh, they're
Brandon 24:51
out here. Good luck. Hey, it's fine. That really is Yeah, great
Collin Funkhouser 25:06
design. Can I tell you about our adventure that we've been on this week? I tell you about this. But our
Brandon 25:11
dad mentioned that you had Oh, why it adventurous time because he came down for Easter. You should ask your brother about it a little tricky. Because like, oh
Collin Funkhouser 25:27
look, all I gotta say
Brandon 25:28
gave me a brief kind of outline. But like, that was it. So yeah. Ladies, gentlemen, the cliff notes I got is Colin fell victim to false advertising.
Collin Funkhouser 25:44
Well, so we kids were on like an extended, like, where their school works. There's just like, they it's like they had this weird, like, really long Easter break for for their school. So we didn't do anything. And then we were like, Oh, well, it's gonna be a beautiful weekend, we should we should go do something.
Brandon 26:08
And something did happen. And
Collin Funkhouser 26:10
I'm searching and we were like, Let's go somewhere for a night or a day trip. And we were then I started searching. And I remembered that I had actually met these people at a networking event in town like a long time ago. So I reached out to them because I tried to do something on their website, and they said wasn't available. And then I sent a request. And it was like, Hey, I know this is really last minute as in like, we want to show up tomorrow. But can we stay in your tree house because we found a place that is close to us? That does glamping. Okay, so this is glamorous camping. And they originally started out with those big heavy canvas tents that were built up on a little platform. And then like the really, really nice tents, and you'd unzip all these things. And inside, it was like a queen mattress that was super nice with really nice sheets. And there was lights and a coffee machine and flushable toilet out back and nice coffee, nice a firepit. And all meant to to be like your little like, you didn't have to bring it, you know, didn't have to do anything. You just showed up with some food and you stayed there for the week or weekend. And they had built a tree house. And I was like, Well, I don't want to stay in a tent, but I will stay in a tree house. So the guy was like, well, first off, typically we don't allow children, because we had some very bad incidents last year. So we are trying to figure out how best to accommodate them while also being respectful to other pic campers that are there. But we have nobody else here this weekend. So come on down. And I was like, okay, cool. And he was like, Do you know, like a little bit about it? And he's like, Well, I remember he was like, Yeah, because I said, Well, just tell me remind me as well. We've got water for you. And we'll have some electricity and
Brandon 28:10
this vague.
Collin Funkhouser 28:13
And but he said he all he said all you need to bring is your drinks, and he's an extra, what'd he say extra drinks and your food and everything else was taken care of.
Brandon 28:26
And I was like, awesome.
Collin Funkhouser 28:28
I said, so we don't need to bring sleeping bags. And he's like, Oh, no, no, we're everything's full. It got everything on it. If you just show up with your extra drinks in your food, everything else is take care of,
Brandon 28:38
I always like, awesome.
Collin Funkhouser 28:40
Let's go Let's book this way. So you drive up to their house. And then there's a little gravel parking lot, you jump out of the gravel parking lot. And he pulls up in a side by side. You load everything up from your car into the side by side jump in the side by side, and then he drives you back to your campsite. And it's like, over hill and dale and valley and yonder and like really rough terrain. To give
Brandon 29:07
a case the case ons go rolling along as I was adding to
Collin Funkhouser 29:10
they do and I which is which is again, fine because we're supposed to be kind of camping and roughing it and it's not that long of a drive out on his D you know, yeah, rustic out from his house. We get there. And I note and then he's like, Well, let me I kind of walk you through everything. Just you know how it works. And I was like, Okay, what do you mean? What do you mean works?
Brandon 29:38
Hold on. You said
Collin Funkhouser 29:42
all I had to do is show up with food and my drinks. And now I there's a tutorial okay. And and so when he said that they had water. What he meant was they had one of those big cube like water tanks that you see with like The extra metal reinforcement around it
Brandon 30:02
Yeah. Up up on a plinth and
Collin Funkhouser 30:08
go to gravity to create that pressure. Yes. And, and this the plump, like one went into a little sink on the ground floor, which was also in the, for the toilet with a flushable toilet. So there is a flushable toilet. However, once,
30:24
right? Well, however,
Collin Funkhouser 30:31
what you had to do to refill it was there was actually a little ball valve right above the tank. And so so when you flushed, you then had to open the ball valve, let it fill annually
Brandon 30:42
refill, refill,
Collin Funkhouser 30:47
and the shower. All of the showers that are basically outdoor showers because it's outdoors, right. So that's one thing. Yeah. So that's a you know, a whole other thing. But he uses this little it's a camping thing made by Coleman and it has one of those big green gas like stove bottles in it. Screw that into one side, you click a button. And it's also it's it's electric, you click a button you hear go as the fire kicks on, and it has while it has to and it has two hoses, one hose is dropped down into basically a five gallon bucket, it sucks up water from that comes through the thing through the burner so that it can heat up and then the other hose comes out through the little showerhead. But because a lot of people shower with more than five gallons of water, there is also a little ball valve into that bucket. So when you start showering, you basically open that ball valve, turn on the
Brandon 31:52
holy cow you're
Collin Funkhouser 31:53
extracting filling at the same time, which is and you have to monitor that because yeah, times the electric pump, like we'll put out will suck more or less. So you could overfill or it could run dry like you really gotta
Brandon 32:15
and then we
Collin Funkhouser 32:17
go up and he had said we'll have an I should have looked I should have
32:23
I should have caught this. And you might not
Collin Funkhouser 32:25
have heard this either. Whenever I had said I said read verbatim what he told me he had used the phrase, some electricity. Yeah,
Brandon 32:33
that's the part of that Dad told me about when you said there will be some electricity. I was just waiting on pins and needles. I was like, oh boy. So comes.
Collin Funkhouser 32:44
So I had envisioned like an outlet? And like some like some limited like, you know, yeah, solar panels or something. But what it actually is was a giant, it looks like one of those backup batteries for like electronics. Have you seen those things where they're like, like, like three shoe boxes tall?
Brandon 33:10
Have you seen these things? Yeah. What? It's one of those
Collin Funkhouser 33:14
that he charges at his house, and then brings out to their campsite.
33:22
To use
Brandon 33:24
like a solar panel, or to just be much more efficient, right? Well, what you need is
Collin Funkhouser 33:29
you need solar panels plus that thing. So it's constantly you know, recharging, so you can recharge it, because there are some like it powered everything. If you needed it to you there was a socket that you could plug into, right. There were some high efficiency, like on base not like very nice lights that were stringed together that you could turn on. It charged the walkie talkie that was there so that you could radio to the front office. But then he also admitted that that he and his wife are terrible at having that on them. So hopefully we had cell set reception so that we could call them if we needed anything, which is encouraging. Yeah.
34:11
Don't have an emergency emergency
Collin Funkhouser 34:13
by
34:16
and later and, and so now I'm like,
Collin Funkhouser 34:19
oh, okay, so I have a battery to work with. Like, I don't have electricity. I have a battery. And that's yeah, very different. To monitor this real quick. I
Brandon 34:34
like like Apollo 13 it right? Like, I can only draw so much. So many amps. Decide what to turn on when in a way.
Collin Funkhouser 34:42
Well, exactly. So I'm like low level like,
Brandon 34:45
Okay,
Collin Funkhouser 34:46
I'm doing my order of operations here exact so I immediately know that we're not going to use any lights. Right? Yeah, we're not gonna use any string lights. I'm not going to go No. Like, I actually bought I brought an X Journal battery pack for our phones. So like I already got that covered. I'm not touching that. We we do also grow to some candle lantern. We came barely prepared, and I'm glad I came as prepared as I did. But I knew that our kids have like it's a new situation. And they do sleep a sound like they do, or they do suffer the sound playing. So it's like, I'm now worried about this lasting all night. It doesn't draw a lot, right, but it is a speaker and that draws more power than you think. And I have no idea the capacity of this of this battery. I don't know how actually how much. Yeah. What's the realistic? What can I he's just like I charged it. 200% for you. And I was like 100% of
Brandon 35:45
what? Wow.
Collin Funkhouser 35:48
So let's real quick, let's dive down this track cut forward to it's that evening. We've just had dinner, and the kids want to have s'mores and hot chocolate. Well, when he dropped us off, he gave us hot chocolate cake cups to put in the little tiny knockoff Keurig in the in the thing. And I was like, well, we're having hot chocolate.
Brandon 36:11
Let's do this. But also, I didn't bring enough like water for this. And all I see is this big tank out there. And I don't know if it's potable.
Collin Funkhouser 36:25
Right like i There we did. So now all of a sudden, I'm going oh, I need to be boiling lots and lots of water. Because on the cover on the phone call. He said we have water taken care of.
Brandon 36:38
So I thought that was like
Collin Funkhouser 36:41
anyway, so I'm not taking any chances. We got to boil water and boiling water on a stove or over fire takes a long time. Right. So I'm just that's all I did. Basically, once we arrived in fi I figured out the water situation. So I've got the water situation. I'm pouring it into the thing and making hot chocolate. And I have to
Brandon 37:01
make four. I have to run this thing four times. Okay. Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 37:07
I do. I've been checked to see the battery after I run this battery went from 100% to 74% after
Brandon 37:18
thanks high specific heat capacity of water like so.
Collin Funkhouser 37:27
Oh, man, I was so it's beyond, like, oh, no, I have really, really done it now because there's no way this is gonna charge us they all night. But then we start looking. So that's the power situation. And to cut forward to that at 3am. The next day. We just ran out of power entirely and it just been silent. Like it lasted from seven until three which is still a good run, but like true, but I was like, Oh, I bet if I would have not done that. That extra 30% would have gotten me patent Anyway, whatever, we'll never know.
Brandon 38:07
But then you wouldn't have had any hot chocolate which was very
Collin Funkhouser 38:11
important with our scores. It's important and then I go well it's time to make dinner. So that's that around that timeline. Let's go back to making dinner because they had said we have everything you need. Just bring your food
Brandon 38:27
they do have a nice gas grill where
Collin Funkhouser 38:31
it's got a big hot plate and then like a little oven section so like it's very utility a very nice this is where I'm not allowed water important. Not electric. Very very important. I noticed that the handle on the hot plate like clam that's actually where I was I had one kettle on the hot plate and one over the fire trending. Okay tag team that but basically yeah. Anyway, like I told
Brandon 38:54
me the Keurig alone drain of the word. Yes, heckles. Yes.
Collin Funkhouser 39:01
Wow. It wasn't even it's not even the fancy Keurig like it's a tiny one of the micro ones like this tiny tiny all it can make as a single cup like that's all this one time but like badly
Brandon 39:12
and inefficiently billion amps to rip the K cups open and put them in a pot like all right, here we go. Mass boil.
Collin Funkhouser 39:22
If I they actually did have a percolator coffee thing. I should have just put it in there, put it in there and put that on the oven. stovetop and then just made it that way like I really should have but I didn't
Brandon 39:39
think to do that because I was a very Boy Scouts.
Collin Funkhouser 39:43
I was like, Who's, who's good. How bad is this going to be? So I'm going through all the I'm doing an inventory of what we have there and I'm like, okay, look, we've got knives we've got forks, I see some mugs and plates. I see a spatula, I see a big fork I see a carving fork thing I see a cast iron skillet
Brandon 40:04
and that's it.
Collin Funkhouser 40:06
Work let's apply to no pot or no a like no pot. Not even one pod.
40:12
No
Brandon 40:15
you know I have a pot like look even i Non cooker that I am whenever I was living alone many many years ago before my wife saved me from a life of starvation. I had I because this is a crucial for making pots and pans for everything. Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 40:44
And let me tell you what we were going to have for dinner that night. Spaghetti.
40:49
Oh yeah. Famous for
Collin Funkhouser 40:54
not being a pot not needing a pot spaghetti.
40:57
Oh, yeah.
Brandon 40:58
You can do it in a pan I guess but like not well or, or efficiently.
Collin Funkhouser 41:05
You fill the tea kettle with water and then
41:11
you put the D for this bat in the percolator.
Collin Funkhouser 41:17
I didn't put in the percolator, but I did put it in the tea kettle. And I boiled that sucker. And then it was actually quite so I had the I had this I didn't warm. I know you're not supposed to do this. What are come after me. I've did put the pasta sauce in the cast iron skillet, right. I know you're supposed to do that because acidity and whatever. Whatever. Whatever. I don't
Brandon 41:38
listen. It's okay, this is dire. Okay, yeah. So
Collin Funkhouser 41:42
I've got the pasta sauce in the in the cast iron skillet, and I'm willing to the pasta and the tea kettle. Once it's done. I am like, oh, I also don't have a sieve now. But that's okay, I just take my pop open the little tea kettle nose nozzle thing there. And after it's over. I just take my fork and I put it over the opening and I do a bush ago. And it works. And then I I did put it in the cast iron skillet to let it finish just for a minute and then it was done. And then I then I realized, like Oh, I know how to clean the pasta out of the tea kettle. And that's there's a lot more crevices in there than you would expect.
Brandon 42:28
One opening at the top is not you know, hand sized. Right.
Collin Funkhouser 42:34
And there's a lip around there. Just fits right in there that spaghetti just right in that lip.
Brandon 42:43
So that was fine.
Collin Funkhouser 42:45
But it was fantastic. It was a great night I actually slept outside it my camping hammock that I took with me. So that was fantastic. And I saw the sleeping quarters are up in the in the tree house. And downstairs is where they have like the little kitchen kind of sink bathroom and shower because head pressure again. So it's 3am and I'm laying in bed and I'd been drifting in and out all night again, just kind of how you do when you're in the middle of the woods of like, your your body when you especially when you get used to it after wild like oh, what was that sound? Like? Okay, go back to the Yeah, always. So I'll go back to sleep.
Brandon 43:28
I wake up and I hear like banging in our bathroom. And like, like clinging and lots of movement. And I was like this is okay. So something has gone wrong.
Collin Funkhouser 43:45
I am outside in a hammock. And there's something clanging and banging inside of our bathroom and I'm like the only thing I have with me with my big light that I that like big like construction light with battery powered and I'm like I'll use this to blind it and then I'll you know that all make it upstairs. And I'm like, just staring super intently at the door because the door is wide open and I remember at a head shut it before I went to bed. So you're staring and I'm waiting and I'm waiting.
Brandon 44:15
And then I hear singing. And then I saw my daughter
Collin Funkhouser 44:20
Lillian was going to the bathroom do it. And singing and talking to herself.
Brandon 44:25
Oh Lord.
Collin Funkhouser 44:28
And I rolled back over the bed. Oh my god. popped her on the head with my flashlight. blinded her in the face. Laughter
44:37
outdoors
44:38
yeah
Collin Funkhouser 44:42
so we made we made it through the night and it was overall it was a fantastic time to get out. Enjoy do something kind of crazy and like like very last minute no time for second thoughts. Really?
Brandon 44:58
Oh yeah, no, no today oh
Collin Funkhouser 45:01
They had a they did have a lake there that we could go and we went kayaking and canoeing on, which was fun and kind of fed the fish and just went around that and tried to. That's cool. I tried to paddle board, which is a lot harder than it looks.
Brandon 45:18
It is and getting ready for your summertime dad adventure,
Collin Funkhouser 45:22
right? Am I Am I my pre emptive ready for this? Again?
Brandon 45:27
Are you going to get your flyrod that dad got you for Christmas? Couple years ago? Are you gonna go? That's what
Collin Funkhouser 45:32
I should all do? Nothing but fly back.
Brandon 45:35
Right? I think we should do like a side note. Fly fishing, like Pokemon challenge. You gotta catch them. All right, though, you gotta get
45:48
Hey, I'm ready for this.
Brandon 45:50
I have to remember how to procure a fishing license. But other than that we'll
Collin Funkhouser 45:55
be you can do it online, or through the app.
Brandon 46:00
Anyway, sorry about that later. Yes. Okay.
Collin Funkhouser 46:01
So we did that. The Habitrail. It's only like a mile and a half. So you can finish it pretty quick. And then that's about it for things to do. Their their target market for people is really like young professionals, or people wanting to just get away for a weekend and basically sit on a porch and drink wine and read a book. Like, it's really who they're after. So, for us who are like, let's get out, let's hike. Let's explore. Let's vote why like we did all that in the first 30 minutes. And then we're like, oh, like, oh, oh, no. Well, we'll stretch this. So you know, and then again, like, how to radio to be like, we're ready to go. Come pick us up, please. And you know, the little side by side came by and loaded us up and we leaped. So don't
Brandon 47:00
look in the skillet. Sorry.
Collin Funkhouser 47:04
I did didn't have another option. What I did, you know, I oiled it and did all that stuff to clean it and whatever. But I am if we had just showed up, and I did not have any, like, prior history with actual camping, this would have gotten very poorly for you, like me would have been Oh, yeah,
Brandon 47:25
right. I had been real,
Collin Funkhouser 47:27
real bad. Because like all of a sudden was like all that kind of like easy plan. And then it's also a reminder, like, when you're in those situations, just how much of your day is actually consumed thinking about preparing and executing, making a meal. Like that's all. Like, it just takes forever. And there's so much time involved.
Brandon 47:49
I was like, Oh my gosh, like, if we just showed up
Collin Funkhouser 47:53
completely unprepared. It had nothing like it would have been would have been real bad. Or if we had to stay a second night. I
Brandon 47:58
was like, Okay, I'm
Collin Funkhouser 47:59
sick. I'm ready to leave. Because we just weren't prepared mentally for like anybody. Like I was like, Okay, we're camping. But like, Megan, and the kids were like, Oh, we're what I thought we were staying in a nice tree house with running water and electricity, like well,
Brandon 48:16
there's, there's water there is water. And it sounds on electricity. So getting ready.
Collin Funkhouser 48:29
Yes. No. And totally, no, they did. They didn't care at all, like the blast that they had fun. They got to because we had the whole site to our like the whole all of their property to ourselves. Like we just kind of wandered and we brought our like, we brought our own walkie talkies to talk with one another. So there were times where like, Megan I would stay by the fire and the kids would take a walkie and they would go down to the little lake you know, it's not a big lake, but it's a little lake and like Hong Kong, like Yeah, it's a large pond smaller, and like walk around it like go explore feed the fish, go collect stuff, and then come back and show us like that was fine. And they really enjoyed that aspect of it just kind of being like out doing our own thing.
Brandon 49:09
And that was fun. So
Collin Funkhouser 49:13
would we go back? Probably not because again, like nobody else there beautiful weather so that we could spend all the time outside because as the other thing if the weather were bad and we had to be inside oh yeah, that would be terrible. Like not a it's not a big tree house people like not a big tree house. So having to be inside of that river. Collins
Brandon 49:37
slept outside Iceland tells you how nice and luminous it was. Yes.
Collin Funkhouser 49:43
Yeah. Hold up.
49:47
Yeah, maybe.
Collin Funkhouser 49:48
Right like that was had it been worse. It was like, like worst weather or colder, right? Like where we couldn't be doing stuff like today. Like today. I don't know if it was like it was We've just been miserable sitting in the inside with like the flies ever increasing increasing the number because oh my gosh, it was just like, you could tell the flash like yay, people were all here. Hello. You know, please leave us alone. But yeah, it was a because of that I was like this really just doesn't need to be like a couples getaway or like a person going I just need to go real I just want to go sit in the middle of the woods and read a book. Like, this is the place for you. I found the place for you like seriously, you can get right into it a little side by side and just never have to leave your tent or the porch on your tent. And you're good, right like it just it would be a wonderful time but if you're wanting to do stuff or be active or
Brandon 50:43
you know, yeah, it's yeah,
Collin Funkhouser 50:45
not the not the thing.
Brandon 50:49
Yeah, so that's it. Yeah. Okay.
Collin Funkhouser 50:55
Overall, not that we survived Jenna was great. Everything was perfect. Like, like in that aspect. Like we had a blast as a family and would definitely
Brandon 51:05
do it again. Like, but I don't think
Collin Funkhouser 51:09
we would do it again. Like I really really wait it was just um, yeah, so our next our next tip of what we just signed because we we came up with two trip ideas because we were like we're gonna go away for one night not too far away. And but nice thing about this place was is 30 minutes from our house like, like it so not bad. But our other thing was we could take the train to Hermann Missouri at Hermann Missouri and stay in a historic cottage for a night at breakfast
Brandon 51:40
electricity and torque buildings have not electricity
Collin Funkhouser 51:52
not a lot sometimes. I'd say the bed and breakfast and then come home the next day, but we were didn't want to do that because it was like well, it's gonna be so nice outside and Megan kept on saying like, I want to be outside I want to go walking and blah, blah. And then when we were in a cabin with no electricity and no water, she she was glaring at me. And I was like, well, we're outside. I got you outside. We're in the middle of the woods. I've got that rack. I did really good on that did night. Stop Why are you staring at me so I'll just go downstairs and boil some more water okay
Brandon 52:31
yeah, there was outside right outside existed, okay
Collin Funkhouser 52:45
so it was a it's very interesting. I did think this would be kind of fun to get the rest of the family out here because then we could all have our own cabins. And we wouldn't have to like we can have the common area and then we can always go back to our cabins. And that's fine. I think that we will survive will survive your tongue sir. will survive this lake trip. Then we'll go glamping together. Wow. I think that would make everybody super happy.
Brandon 53:20
Oh, yeah. I'd be happy because I loved some electricity
Collin Funkhouser 53:29
we can all pull our resources though. See that we find oh Lord. They are. They are building a a geodesic dome over a valley. So that's fine. It's like a raised thing off the side of a little cliff. Yeah, that'd be neat. Again, Clifford, northern Missouri so like Don't get crazy people. But the other thing that I am excited about is they are building what they call the double tree house. So what they're gonna have is they're gonna have a tree house two tree houses separated by some feet as well. So
Brandon 54:11
it's gonna be kind of goofy. Oh, sorry. Okay.
Collin Funkhouser 54:16
Each each Treehouse is going to be self sufficient going to have its own little kitchenette thing like everything else. Okay, kitchen wink wink nudge nudge we know what that means. Lots but a very power hungry Keurig knockoff with their queen beds and all like glass floor to ceiling windows because it's going to be up on a ridge overlooking their little lake. But the space in between them they're going to actually do it because none of nothing else has right now all bathrooms are on ground floor. They're going to have aerators just mean solar panels like I'm telling our board right now what they're gonna have a raised bathroom that's going to be shared between the two Tree House It's like a Jack and Jill bathroom. Except the only way that you can get to that bathroom is varme room via rope bridges.
Brandon 55:07
Ah, yes, that's worse. No, no, no imagine you like really have to go like to the bathroom, like really bad. And then you have to traverse some sort of like janky rope bridge to get there. This is like a recipe for disaster, right? Like you get. So you're like, oh, I need to hurry to the bat. Oh, well,
Collin Funkhouser 55:34
especially whenever you understand that, like, most of the people who come out are like, difficulty wine involved is even worse. Definitely imbibe a lot. While they're out. Yeah. So now they're going to involve a suspended rope or just Yes, I felt the this could go wrong, you know?
Brandon 55:59
Like Temple of Doom, right? It was gonna happen. Yep.
Collin Funkhouser 56:02
The reenactment of a flying will Linda act out there all.
Brandon 56:10
Day. long as it's not a reenactment of the Flying Grayson's. I think
Collin Funkhouser 56:17
you see why I chose
Brandon 56:22
Yes. So that
Collin Funkhouser 56:24
was yeah, that was our big adventure. For the time so definitely. as
Brandon 56:30
light as quite an adventure you've just been so. Dang. Yeah. Some electricity in the desert has
Collin Funkhouser 56:40
got water and some electricity. Okay, cool. Cool. Cool. That's, I can work with that. Oh,
56:46
oh, no. And then the, yeah,
Collin Funkhouser 56:50
the one splints make me realize how many watt
Brandon 56:53
hours is some sounds? I want to be viable number right.
Collin Funkhouser 56:59
And I'm glad I had the the external battery pack that I brought for our phone. Because had I not like, Lou, that would have been not so good. So yeah, it was a learning experience. It was fun. But the everyone voted that next time we'll do the train.
Brandon 57:19
fare. Now you know, and as we know, knowing is half the battle. Boom. Got it done.
Collin Funkhouser 57:30
Got it in.
Brandon 57:35
Listeners, I hope you're picking up all these wonderful illusions this time when this episode airs. Giving you a heads up oh my goodness. Yeah, that's that's quite adventurous. I gotta say, behind vitreous. We did not have quite as much adventuring. We did go see our friend for she's off to Thailand. We got a lowdown on that deal. Right. So her talked about that. She's going to she's gonna go she has family over there. So she's going to be staying with her like, aunt and uncle. Right. And she's going to be doing some English tutoring. Oh, cool. Blam. In May. So
Collin Funkhouser 58:25
is that through an organization?
Brandon 58:28
Not well? Yes, this time is just through like her as friends. So like, gotcha. Okay, well, that's
Collin Funkhouser 58:35
cool. So good connection. You
Brandon 58:37
didn't say she's like, Yeah, people with teaching degrees can make a lot more money if they go and do that. I was like, wait, I have a teaching degree. How much more money exists? Right? Like Wait a minute, but then I realized that this week alone, and timelines it's going to be 100 degrees every single day not counting humanity. And I was like wait a minute.
59:09
Nevermind.
59:10
I don't know. Hold on M changed her mind.
Collin Funkhouser 59:16
Our English instructors needed in rural mountainous Italian villages. Well,
Brandon 59:22
hopefully not rural mountainous Thailand because it wasn't about some water. Oh, no. That would be relatively horrifying. We go from like very modern city to mountains. Real quick, right when you start? Yeah, like after like Chiang Mai or whatever. Like, Oh, no.
Collin Funkhouser 59:51
Yeah, that gets real bad. Real real, real remote real fast.
Brandon 59:54
So yeah, or cheap, or whatever. But yeah, so yeah, he's doing that. She left this week. Right so help you like the heat buddy. Go. Yeah, so we got the lowdown on all that plans. She does get to see the tide New Year The sunk cron or whatever. Because that's like, next week, like the Big Water Festival with all the elephants all painted and stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be Yeah, so she was like, I might have planned this around. That might be what happened here. Oh, my like, Trixie? Yes. Very nice. And then yeah, so yeah, that and then the only other news of her sister. girl that you met. We were down there. She's getting married. Oh, right. And so yeah, got to hear. She's talking very fast. It's like other people. But like, we were getting some of the insight on traditional long wedding nests. Oh, what? Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. I don't know. Exactly. It's just sort of explaining stuff to some like, like different traditions that they have to do and all these things and there definitely is a chicken involved at some point. Right? What they do, they're like, they like do the they like a wave of chicken over your head. Because it's supposed to like bless you and like keep away like bad spirits and stuff like that. Right?
1:01:24
The chicken lives. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah,
Brandon 1:01:29
I saw the video, the chicken flapper. We've just smacked her right the head. Right. It's very romantic. Yeah, it got the lowdown on some of that stuff. So it sounds like a very, it's like very serious affair. Right. And there's a whole bunch of stuff, right? There's like, you know, they still do like a, like, you know, haggling over like, the price or whatever. But it's like, not quite, it's not like they're buying the brand. Right. You know, it's like that, like drilling shirt funnel bid. Yeah. But it's like about, like, who's going to have the food for this thing like that? Right? So it's like, okay, it's not like serious, but it's like, it's the custom. They're still like doing the custom day. Sure. Right. Yeah. And there's like a go between, and she's telling us that, like there's a person that is like, assigned to the bride. And like, during the whole day, she her job is to just follow her around. And to make sure she doesn't run off. Apparently, this is a problem. In the olden days, just like I just, like, get up and run away. So oh, you know, there's that.
Collin Funkhouser 1:02:52
That's hilarious. Go on bride watch. Right. And she's like, Yeah. And
Brandon 1:02:56
then there's like, certain foods that you have to eat to ensure like prosperity and like, good luck and all this stuff. And like other foods are like very taboo, because they are like, associated with like, you know, negative things, right? She said that like, like, you have the they had, like, we ate. Like, we had to eat like this pork, like boiled pork. And I was like, Oh, she's like, No, but you can't put spice in it. Because you don't want like, the bad, you know, spiciness in your life. So it has to be like very bland, very, like blah, blah. Oh, that's less exciting. It is very interesting. Yeah. So it's just like there's a lot of very traditional element. So she said she, she's going to do that and then she's going to later like after they've been married for a while they're going to have like a Western wedding to like have like, more friends and stuff come to that show. They did like they're doing like their traditional one for like family like a big extended huge extended family. Right, like enormous rain, so I dead. So they're doing all that and so she's gonna have two weddings. So nights. Yeah, that's pretty much all. I have to report here. I got the lowdown on. I got the Oh, the brief overview among traditional wedding things, and got a little update on why on earth a person is going to Thailand for just like, like, you know, well.
Collin Funkhouser 1:04:27
Yeah, it'd be interesting to hear the report on how the heat was. I think that's really what I'm interested in there. Yeah.
Brandon 1:04:33
Like how that is. I don't know if I could survive. Like, no, I think I would just like melt into a puddle on the street. They'd be like, Oh, well. Yep, that's it. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, no, thanks. Just
1:04:53
evaporate, right. They're
Brandon 1:04:54
gone. Like Oh, no. So yeah, that's pretty much I'm done this week. Other than storm watch. But anything else interesting. Had Easter haunted some Easter eggs? Ah, yes. Like Susan is too sneaky at hiding eggs. I heard there was some problems. Yes, she hides them too well, then forgets where she hid she's like there's 10 eggs to find what we found nine. She's like, Ah, here's the other sneaky that Susan. She's so sneaky. He's too good at hiding easter eggs. Nice, too good, right? You gotta rein her in a little bit. Do that. Do it. Outlaw because she's like, oh, yeah, you got to look under stuff like okay, hold
Collin Funkhouser 1:05:50
on. Hold on. No, wait
Brandon 1:05:53
a minute. Now.
Collin Funkhouser 1:05:54
That's not fitting a little
Brandon 1:05:55
overzealous here with us. Yeah. Yeah, it's harder. You're sticky enough when you just like, hide them out? I don't know if we need to add in like, under in behind things like maybe behind. Under under.
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:11
Under is a bit excessive. We did a it was requested that we we do an Easter egg hunt in the woods. So that was that was done. Megan did go Hyla we did not do them. Like off the trail. Like we didn't
Brandon 1:06:28
go just like oh yeah. galavanting through
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:31
poison to the deep woods.
Brandon 1:06:35
What's wrong with this badger hole. Exactly.
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:37
reach in there and see what happens. Maybe there's more. Yeah, no, we did kind of like an
Brandon 1:06:43
Easter egg. Snake.
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:46
Hoot Yeah, because find out pull heart. Actually
Brandon 1:06:48
just a rabbit like, Oh, what is this?
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:52
Toby hope you had fun with your fingers. They're there. But we didn't, we had some trouble find re refunding them because shockingly even putting like purple and bright yellow and blue plastic Easter eggs in the woods. Still really hard to find. It's shocking how quickly they disappear.
Brandon 1:07:24
Isn't no like just poof.
Collin Funkhouser 1:07:28
But yours were especially hard because they were underthings so that's yeah, that makes it that's a that's a yeah, you need a
Brandon 1:07:35
service. They were like a real bug eggs. Oh, they were they were like a little ones. Most of them were bad. There was just like a handful that were like, Where
1:07:44
on earth is.
Brandon 1:07:53
Better sorry. We overcame. We found them. We were victorious. Well done. Well done. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Yeah, that's pretty much it for this week. haven't really done. Anything. Very weird time of year. Right. So I'll have too much going on. You know, the budget. Yeah. Well,
Collin Funkhouser 1:08:25
I think real quick in closing, we were supposed to follow up with who did the fare book, right? Yes. Did you go and check to see who it was. I saw that one of them was a tractor pool. Okay, so well, so yeah. So if you just look at the this is their fair grandstand events. So yeah, they've got tractor poles and more tractor poles.
Brandon 1:08:48
Even though, even though I've read an article, saying The fair was not going to be able to have tractable,
1:08:54
they're like, Oh, we're having a tractor pull. And
Collin Funkhouser 1:08:56
I'm like, no, no, hold on. Let your free tractor pulls.
Brandon 1:09:00
This is what I could understand. I didn't like I didn't read the full thing right. But I just saw that they were like, We're not gonna we'll do this blah, blah. And then and then I saw having a tractor.
Collin Funkhouser 1:09:10
What? Yeah, so they had to shut down. One of their expert one of their centers there so that cuts out some of their indoor activities. But all of the big league like pro stuff is still outdoors at the arena. Yeah. Okay. So but I will I will contend by far the best tractor pole to go see at the Missouri State Fair. Is the is the is they call them the classics.
Brandon 1:09:41
Yeah, these are the modified tractors.
Collin Funkhouser 1:09:45
These are the unmodified tractors from like 1932 like the farm halls, all of those with nothing's been touched you these are the these are the tractors to go see pull. They are fantastic. TIG, and just a lot of fun because you actually actually have a conversation while things are going on. And it's fun to see the cool equipment out there. Pull in and taking
Brandon 1:10:09
names. So that's my pitch for that. No, yeah, I agree. Those are great. I like those. There's just a close though. One. The FFA was one of your school name. It was just like it was cool. Yeah, it's good.
Collin Funkhouser 1:10:26
But now they they added some guy named Ian Munson with creed Fisher was a new addition. Right? So okay.
Brandon 1:10:35
Yeah, it's happy people. I don't know who they are.
Collin Funkhouser 1:10:37
Didn't know who this person was. There was one night left open, August, August 17. And look, I think if we can remember what night did REO Speedwagon house, Drew
Brandon 1:10:50
I believe, I believe, there. Let's go.
Collin Funkhouser 1:10:56
All I'm saying is that if I get this, I'm going.
1:11:02
I I
Brandon 1:11:06
like wearing a helmet teachers is just as I predicted this, like no context whatsoever. Yeah,
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:11
this was no no, no, my shirt will just say this was foretold. Oh.
Brandon 1:11:17
Oh, that's better. SOCKS signs point to yes.
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:21
Yes. Exactly. Exactly. And they'll just stand outside. Anyway. Yeah. So it's, uh, they got there. So.
1:11:34
I don't know. I don't know. But anyway.
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:37
So yeah, that's gratulations Z. And man. Good job.
Brandon 1:11:43
Yes. Rock the stands. Right stands. We got him. All right. Well, I didn't really have anything more exciting this week. But I do. Have a haiku. I use when you are interested. Always make it interesting. You in a bit of poetry? Yes, yes. All right. Are you ready for this?
Collin Funkhouser 1:12:11
I I'm the little worried. I have no idea. Like, this is the point where we look at last night last week's notes. I'm like, what did he bet?
Brandon 1:12:20
Oh, boy. Well, I really went out on a limb here. Now. I'll talk a little bit about this. I'll give you some context afterwards. But okay. There we go. I will say I'm sorry in advance.
Collin Funkhouser 1:12:37
One wonderful one. Wonderful thing in history have started with. Yeah.
Brandon 1:12:44
Make sense? In a minute. Right. Okay. Okay. Again, I apologize. Not great at this. But here we go. Una Liga. Explorer ra il mondo move Oh.
Collin Funkhouser 1:13:04
The last one.
Brandon 1:13:09
Lamb that haiku was Italian. I apologize for my pronunciation. It's Italian, as previously discussed. I didn't attempt to write my Haiku in Italian since we were talking about our moving plans, right last time.
1:13:32
Yeah. Now,
Brandon 1:13:33
I gotta say, I don't know if Italians write haikus because every Italian word I was trying to use has like 90 syllables.
Collin Funkhouser 1:13:44
You know, this is
Brandon 1:13:46
so hard. Because they're all like, all these words have like, it's just words they just have six. Why? Like so like when every word has four syllables, making a haiku. It becomes a very
Collin Funkhouser 1:14:09
it's okay, so what? I got the new house. Yeah, so that
Brandon 1:14:16
part is very so the it's actually it's okay. So when you look at this written down, it's very similar to Spanish, right? No, yeah. But the translation roughly would be now this the translation is not in a correct syllabic form, I'm sure. Okay. But it roughly translates to a suitcase exploring the world. New home, okay,
1:14:45
yeah, okay. Ah,
Brandon 1:14:47
I have trouble saying suitcase, right. I want to say Valetta because that's the Spanish but it's una vida Liga. La Liga explorer ra il mondo. Mondo is like that's very, like monde in French is the world so That's similar there. So I will copy and paste this and just do so you don't have to try to type that out.
Collin Funkhouser 1:15:10
I have the translated version here, but yeah. And I think as far as ingratiating ourselves to people, I think poetry is a great way to do this. So I'm so I
Brandon 1:15:23
feel like, you know, the Italians would appreciate this. Right, this attempt, right? You know, I don't know if it's six of again, I am not. Who knows? You know, it's hard to because, like, the words are different. And like, I did probably, we can poetry, you use the, you know, use different use full sentences anyway. So I probably use like, incorrect word form, but you know, it's all right. Like, it's, you know, it's
Collin Funkhouser 1:15:55
the, it's the heart counts. Yeah. There then again, we're dealing with a billion and a half syllables. So I think there's so many syllables.
Brandon 1:16:04
Right. So many, so many multisyllabic words. It's very interesting. Yeah. Wow, these are very odd. These ideas sound better than telling you and I will tell you that right.
Collin Funkhouser 1:16:21
Do they fit in this context? Context?
1:16:24
I don't know. I
Brandon 1:16:25
need to work on my Italian accent, right? Because I don't know. Say No, I don't know. Like, like, I know what French is supposed to sound like. Right? I understand. Like, when you speak French, just don't open your mouth and you sound French. Boom, got it. Right, that will offend all our listeners. I apologize. But well done. In Spanish, you know, I know how Spanish sounds but like Italian I don't really know. inflection in sort of like the accent the kind of stuff I am not entirely sure. So it sounds a little bit weird. I apologize to my Italian friends. But you know, I thought I'd give a go. And attempt the Haiku. Just for funsies that
Collin Funkhouser 1:17:04
was way more ambitious than I think. Really, that's, that's taken it to a whole new level there. We're doing different languages. Now. I
Brandon 1:17:12
suppose if I could do it. Okay. Very
Collin Funkhouser 1:17:16
tricky, but well done. I like it. That's good. That's good. Good. Add, I'm going to I'm going to make all that in italic. Steve and make it go pop. Oh, that's how you know it's in a foreign language because it's an Italian. That's true.
Brandon 1:17:34
And because it doesn't look like English. So.
Collin Funkhouser 1:17:36
Tada. Okay, well, not I'm not doing a haiku and been another language bar right now.
Brandon 1:17:48
That's right. I was just sitting I was like, I don't know what to do. I don't really know. And I was like, I wonder is this possible? Is the results again, Italian? Let me know how bad it is. Okay, let me know. Help me out with my pronunciation. Please. Let me give me tips.
Collin Funkhouser 1:18:16
And we'll see what happens.
Brandon 1:18:18
Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 1:18:20
Oh, nice. Nice. Okay. Well, that's, that's a good thing. It's good thing. Okay, well, we will that's we'll end on that high note before things. And we'll try this again next week. All right. Love you. Bye.