nasal afflictions

Brandon has mic trouble. Collin has presentation problems. We agree we can’t see Reacher 3.

• How is the mic?

• Collin has problem

• Dog presentation brainstorm

• Encyclopedia set!!!

• Nasal afflictions

• Brandon busted out the ancient knowledge - salt water

• And can’t see Reacher 3

• New unifying costuming theory

• GASP!! And bought boots

• Haiku:

• Worlds at my doorstep—

• Pages whispering secrets,

• Six bucks well-spent joy.

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SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin  00:00

Music. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, nasal afflictions.

Speaker 1  00:18

Ahoy. Ahoy. How is it going? Well, I don't know exactly, can you hear me? Okay, I

Collin  00:26

can I should I not be able to hear you? Fine.

Speaker 1  00:30

My microphone is like making scratchy noises when I talk into it. So, oh, that doesn't sound great. Oh, you

Collin  00:42

just, you just got boomier All of a sudden. I did yeah. Did you get closer? No, oh,

Speaker 2  00:52

it's fine. Okay, cool, cool, it's fine. Yeah, oh, I'm not worried. Okay, well, we'll see how this goes. Hey,

Collin  01:04

maybe I'm a little bit worried, but it's fine. It's fine. I mean, seriously, what's the worst that's gonna happen? Let's not talk about that.

01:17

Oh my goodness,

Collin  01:18

it's been a it's been a week so far, and it's, yeah, it

01:21

sounds like it has been for you. What the heck are you doing? I don't, I

Collin  01:25

don't know anymore, honestly, I don't know. I've completely, it's off the rails. I've, I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere in between. I completely, I'm not gonna say completely forgot, but like, about two months ago, I somebody approached us and was like, Hey, your dog people. I'm tired of people who have dogs who don't know basic like training and things for dogs. I I'm also the one who puts on our local Home and Garden Show. I'd like for you to come and give some talks about dog training and dog best practices for dogs. And I was like, awesome. No worries. That's forever away. I have plenty of time to prepare for this, obviously. Oh, it's in two days. Oh, no. And do I have anything prepared to talk about? I do not. I have no clue. I realized yesterday that I was like, I don't even know what times I'm supposed to be there. I don't know how long this is supposed to be. I don't know when I'm supposed to show up. I'm not I don't know what's what I'm gonna have available. Like, I have, I have nothing

02:39

this.

02:42

These are all problems. Just case you didn't know that,

Collin  02:48

yep. So I definitely a Collin has, I has problems. So I'm, I'm, I'm like, okay, it's fine. It's like, she can she go back to me? And was like, oh, it's 30 minutes. I have a podium for you. And I was like, sweet. I I can, I can, you know what I can do. I can talk for any, for about anything, for 30 minutes, I'm fine. Never proved like there's no present. I don't have to have a presentation together. I have to do anything together. I just get to show up and I just have to literally shuck and jive. That's, that's my life. That's all I do. I show you.

03:24

May need a note card,

Collin  03:26

yeah, so I can say on topic. That's right, yeah, yeah.

Brandon  03:29

On topic, yeah. So that, you know, start talking about, like, who knows the Russians

03:37

safety vests, or, like,

03:42

visibility jacket

Collin  03:46

on high vis jackets, actually.

03:48

Oh, I've heard that about you, but,

Collin  03:51

but, yeah, so that's, that's my thing, that I'm like, right? So I've survived Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm ready to go. Wednesday, I was down. I had, what had happened was, last week we had, we wanted to go to the grand opening of a new business in in our other service area. And I had said, Yeah, I want to go to this. It's, I see, it's, it's been posted by the local chamber. Let, I'm going to do this. So I drove down there, waiting outside. I

Brandon  04:24

walk in, and I'm like, there's nobody here. It's like,

Collin  04:29

starting now, it's weird. And I talked to the the manager of the store, and she was like, Oh yeah, they got the wrong day. It's next week. Oh no. That's not what I wanted to hear, because we were actually really busy yesterday, and I I should not have really driven like I needed to do stuff here at home and around like I didn't I should not have been gone yesterday. But it was like, Well, if I am going to be gone, I'm not going to just go down and it's. Go down for just this one hour event, right? Like, I need to be doing other things while I'm down there. So I was like, Okay, well, I gotta go to this networking thing, and I gotta go meet up with this person. I'm gonna go try and do this thing. It's gonna run on. So I had to throw all that together to make my time worth it. And this is something I've been I've been doing on for a long time, like the how I have developed these kind of, I call them boxed schedules, kind of like a box lunch, of, like, I have these schedules of, like, stuff I can do when I'm in a particular context, specifically two hours south of where I live, like, when I'm down there, I have to have all this, like, pre made, pre planned stuff, because I don't I'm usually down there, like, I can be down there on on a scheduled basis, of, like, when I want to be and stuff, but a lot of times I'm down there on the spur of a moment. And so I was like, Okay, I need to so that I don't not just wasting time driving around or, like, they are sitting in some sitting in a coffee shop trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I just have all this stuff somewhere so that I can go, Okay, I'm here, I can open this up. Boom, boom, Bing, done, right? And I'm over. I'm doing this thing now.

Brandon  06:11

So also, when businesses say that they're open and then they're not,

Collin  06:19

I get angry. But I'm that kind of person, so I had to, I was doing a lot of deep breathing exercises. It

Speaker 1  06:25

wasn't them that said they weren't open. It was the other it was the people doing the thing, right? So it wasn't their fault. This

06:32

is a separate business, okay, okay. I was like,

Speaker 1  06:35

I was like, Whoa, you, man, you took a hard turn there. Like, real quick. Like, yeah, no, no, no. These people,

Collin  06:40

they're fantastic. They make their own they've been making their own pet products like shampoos and soaps for like seven years. They sell nationally, nationally. Megan, Megan, in a bygone era, was a she worked for a CPA and did bookkeeping for a lot of boutiques and stuff around the country. And what's funny is, when she was doing the bookkeeping, she had to, you know, track expenses and stuff, she kept seeing the name of this place come up over and over and over again, like disparate around the country. And it turns out they manufacture them right out of South of Springfield there and and so, yeah. So they were opening a boutique to sell their own products and a few other like pet stuff. So I was like, Well, I have to go. So they're really fun. They're really good. But no, I tried to talk to somebody else, and they're like, we open at 10. I was like, great. They're at 1030 and their door was locked. And I was like, Well, moving on. I guess that

Speaker 1  07:38

is a that is a problem, right? Like, that is how, how?

Brandon  07:43

Ah, I know things like happen, right? Like, but, like, you kind of, like, post that somewhere, you know, can't be somewhere. Oh, surprise, just not gonna come. Okay,

Collin  07:55

I'm small. I'm a small business owner. I understand things happen. It's fine. I'm not judging. I was just

08:00

frustrated because I'm here maybe, well,

Speaker 1  08:06

hopefully it wasn't a surprise to them too, right, right? Like, oh, what do you mean? We're not open,

Collin  08:11

like we should, right? Yeah, so I did email while I was there. I see now, and he was like,

Brandon  08:16

oh, yeah, sorry. I had to step away. I was like, Cool, cool. Thanks. Just be here, I guess, anyway, but not here, because you're not here, dang it. This has gone wrong. Moving on. So,

Collin  08:36

so, yes, that was, that was my yesterday. Of like, Oh, right. It's this day, and I've gotta go and I gotta do things. And I used to do a lot of down and backs where I was like, I'm gonna get up at five in the morning. I'm gonna drive two hours south. I'm gonna spend all day down there driving around and doing stuff, and then I'm gonna come home and drive two hours back. I was like, the getting up at 5am to start and drive is not my favorite thing in the world. I'm Oh no, no. That's terrible. It's very terrible to, like, get up, basically, throw some clothes on, grab a cup of water and get out the door and then drive for two hours. It's like, that's, I can't do that, so been trying to go down the night before, so it's a little more relaxed,

Brandon  09:24

you know, not quite so frenetic, frantic. That's true. Good plan. Yeah, it's working. Working, I think

Collin  09:31

is, it doesn't really sound like it's working. Well, I mean, the schedule is still insane, but I'm not sitting there with my heart racing at 178 beats per minute an hour and a half.

Brandon  09:43

Okay? Well, that's good because that's not healthy. That's not what you Yeah, right, exactly like, that's will not be good, yeah? So anyway, so yeah, that's so now, now I have kind of tomorrow, but I did.

Collin  09:59

I. Booked up tomorrow as well with other things. So I have, I don't know when I'm going to be preparing for my presentation, but I think I'll be.

10:08

All right, we brainstorm

10:09

right now. All right, live brainstorming

Brandon  10:12

session. Right? If somebody says to you, that's a weird so first of all, that's kind of a weird, uh,

10:25

premise of, like, I don't like when people don't know about

Brandon  10:29

docs, yes. Like, what do you what do you mean they don't know about docs? Like, how do you not know about a dog? Like, what? Like, I feel like this. There's one specific thing that annoys this person? Oh, I will tell you what it is. Oh, did they tell do they tell you eventually? Like, yeah, okay, okay, good. Because I was hoping they didn't just be like, Man, you should talk about people that don't know about dogs. And then, like, walk off.

10:52

Like, wow, what is

10:55

That's like telling me, like, oh, man, people, some people don't know how to drive, and then I will rant for 75,000 years. Well, how? Yes,

Collin  11:07

yep, no, specifically, specifically, this was

Brandon  11:13

people who get a dog and then it barks a lot when it's outside. Did that? Wait, that's it. That's the thing. Yo, so, so what I, my,

Collin  11:31

my thought process in this is, okay, this is actually systemic of a general thing. And I think it's actually more I think it's more beneficial, more better or to focus on, hey, you've got a dog now. What kind of like a you've adopted a dog, great. Or you got a puppy, okay? Fantastic. You you have this thing in your home. What are five things that you can do right now

Brandon  11:59

to set yourself up for success. I mean, yes, that's like, yeah, because I feel like you can't Yeah, because some people do get a dog and then just like, expect it to do dog things, yes, by itself. Yep. Like, oh, you can do it, right? Like, that's, that's not how this works,

Collin  12:21

right? So, so there's a lot of context here, right? You have to go, Okay, the first thing I have to do is describe that there's the rules of threes. Anytime when you bring a new dog into any environment, there's, it's three days, three weeks, three months. It's three days before their cortisol levels start dropping right from the stress. It's three weeks before they start to understand their routine, and it's three months before they're settled in and they feel at home like, and obviously this is a you can move this up or down depending on the dog, right? Yeah, but

12:54

like, it's good to have a general timeline,

12:57

yes, right?

Collin  12:58

So we have to just lay that out. And so it's like, okay, how can I help transition? Well, we can use calming diffusers, we can use sprays, we can use white noise. But the biggest thing is, get on a routine, right? Have the dog immediately start the routine, you know? So that's the first thing is, we start talking about routines and integrating and making sure that. Because unfortunately, what a lot of people do is they get a dog, and I see this all the time. They go, Okay, go, Okay, I'm not going to get a dog until the summer, when I'm home more, and the kids are home too. And that way we have all summer to train and work with the dog, and then we'll be ready when we go back to school. And I'm like, ah, ah, see here, here's the thing

13:39

that dog. Now the dog got used to all the attention and now, and

Collin  13:43

the dog got to use to you being home all the time. Especially, I hear this from a lot of like, well, teachers, like, obviously, like, teachers, or just families with kids, they're like, oh, I'll just wait till the summer, because we'll have more time. Like, no, that's actually a really bad time, because that's not your normal, right? That's not what it's going to look like for the majority of the year. Yeah. Plus,

Brandon  14:03

also you have, if we think about that rule of three, you have taken approximately three months to get the dog used to a routine, and then you will suddenly change it. You go back to school, or you go, right. So, yeah, you have, like, just got it figured out, and then wow, like, mess it all up against that's uh huh. And

Collin  14:26

then you get the calls. My dog is anxious. I can't leave home. It's being destructive. I What do I do? And, like, okay, like, we're just, that's what we're gonna do. And I give resistant product recommendation that then we need to start making sure that we are meeting the step two is the physical needs of the dog. And this is, walk your dog, yeah,

14:48

let it outside, walk,

Collin  14:53

age and breed specific. And what's the other word I'm looking for appropriate at. Exercise, yeah, making,

Brandon  15:01

not just, yeah, because the walk, I mean, you know this basically, so I don't know, I'm filing you, I don't know, I'm telling you this, but like, good walking, listeners, walking the dog does more than just make the dog go to the bathroom, right? It is a form of, like, exercise for the dog and, like, energy release, okay? And so I cannot abide when people just, like, tie their dog to the porch and it's like, leave them there. Like, yeah, it's outside. Like, that's not the point. Yeah, right. Like, that's, that's not the point at all. Like, yes, part of going outside, from going for like little walks, is going to the bathroom, but also it's like bonding time with you in a certain sense, right? And it's exercise, and just like roaming around, right? These this is like a structured activity, not just like, yeah, go sit outside for a while. What I mean, obviously, if you live in like a country setting, and your dog is like, always outside, this is a different conversation, okay, like I'm talking about like dogs that live inside with you, and then you take them outside, like big dogs that live outside all the time, different rules, different expectations, different everything. So just, I know this, okay, people, I know but

Collin  16:25

well, you also have to remember that a lot of times, people will just say, Oh, well, my dog is in my backyard. It's fine. Um, that's this doesn't provide appropriate physical exercise because there's no motivation to do a whole lot. Sure, they can kind of move around. But it's like, well, when you go and sit in your backyard, are you going running, right? Are you how much exercise did you get when you're if I just locked you in your backyard, how much exercise would you be doing? Yeah, so, so there's no like, unless there's, you're there,

16:55

there's been like, play,

Collin  16:56

right, right? So that's the other thing. I'm like, okay, doing the walks, getting that exercise for the age and breed, Appropriate and specific requirements, for sure, but and health, health as we can with our health. Yes, got it, but then sure do play time because, but here's what a lot of people do. They get a dog, they wake up, they groggily make their coffee, they schlep around, they get dressed, then they sit, scroll on their phone, and then they leave for work. Meanwhile, they've opened up the door to get the dog to go outside, or tied it up to something and or what I see as apartment complexes, people come down with the dog. They're still in their bathrobe, still in their slippers. Dog is frantic, goes around, pees, maybe poops, and then what did the person do? Immediately, go back inside. Yeah? They just, like, stand

Brandon  17:42

there while it, like, walks around them, right? Like, yes, and I go,

Collin  17:48

you have and now what you're going to do is you were going to leave for eight, 910, hours and hope your dog's okay. This is, this is this is bad. This is really not okay. And so making sure that you are exercising with playtime, tug of war, Chase, fetch, you know the titular fetch, right? This is a thing. Not every dog will enjoy this, but you find the activity that works for you and your dog because you are able and you are consistent with it. See aforementioned number. The step one, set a schedule and set a routine. Do that. So that's a big component. The third one is make sure that you're meeting their their mental stimulation needs. So when you do chain them up into the backyard, or do you put them in the backyard, they're gonna get bored real fast. This actually leads to a lot of, I don't know, barking because they're bored. They have nothing to do in their days. So sometimes they bark because they're bored. Sometimes it's because they visually, they're being, you know, excited or whatever, by something. So you need to put a fence right to help stop that visually, you can work on at this point if they are barking while they're outside, you this is where consistency comes in. And if they do bark, you tell them quiet, or you say, I like to use the word, the word quiet instead of No, because no is referred to a lot. You use that too much. It's overused. So pick a keyword, it's quiet, and the moment they even stop barking or get quieter or do something, you give them a treat, and then the next, and you just repeat this process over and over and over again, right? There's environmental stuff that you can take into account. But while they're outside, while they're walking, the walks help with mental enrichment, maybe getting them puzzles, getting them, you know, those are fantastic. If you have somebody who can come over, if you have a sitter, you have a dog walker that provides enrichment. This is where we get into topics of socialization. What is socialization? It's not just I'm going to throw my dog into a group of 16, 2040, 100 other dogs and. Go for it. It's providing them access and exposure to new sight, sounds, smells and experiences in a safe, controlled manner, which doesn't have to be groups of other dogs at all, and making sure that they have those needs met on a consistent basis as well.

Brandon  20:19

That's true. I think, I think also, just the side note here that you just reminded me, like, I think something that new dog owners need to be aware of too is that you should not be annoyed when your dog tries to smell stuff right, because, like, love it. You got to think about some dogs, especially some breeds of dogs. They're basically a nose with legs, right? That's kind they are. Like, they experience the world so much through smell that it's kind of ridiculous. So like, letting them smell things is good. And, like, obviously you don't understand that for like, 10 minutes just smelling the same, like one thing, right? You get a little gentle, like, right? Come on, let's go. But like, letting them smell things, I think is important thing to remember, because some people, like, don't do that, and they get real mad when their dog, like, smell stuff. And you're like, what that's that's kind of what they do, like, it's kind of their thing, right? It's like, it's how they work,

Collin  21:19

yeah, and it's not just something that that they do, but it's absolutely essential, and for dogs who especially young puppies, older dogs who maybe can't get the physical side of things so well, this provides mental enrichment and stimulation. It's like doing a sudoku or solving an extensive word puzzle. You're gonna get tired after that,

21:42

right? You're gonna get tired.

Collin  21:45

And it's very valuable in that aspect of this is good for the dog. And this gets to my fifth point, but we talked about setting the routine. That's just what you're supposed to do in the day. The biggest, the overarching component over all of this, is your time and commitment. It takes time. It takes time to do all of this. It takes time to let your dog sniff without you feeling like you should not feel rushed or hurried. Plan and set that time appropriate. Sure you're gonna have rush days. You're gonna have things where have things where it doesn't fit, but you need to set the expectations that of how long something should take, because you're giving your dog that chance. It's, it's a long term thing, and it's not, it's nothing's gonna happen overnight. That's my number five. I think my number four would be after you've met the routine. Set the routine, set the got the mental needs, physical needs. Fourth one would actually be starting training, getting some sort of training in there, waiting for the dog to get in the routine. So if you get a new dog waiting till, you know, basically waiting for the dog to settle in. So between that three and that three month mark that get help with that, don't wait for problems to arise. Training is about bonding and trust. It's not about obedience and punishment, which is what a lot of people think it is. It's training to use the crate. It's training to wait for you when you open the door instead of the dog bolting out. Um, training to halt. There's, there's safety reasons for why we need to be training too. Well,

Brandon  23:35

yeah, and it just, it's just like anything else, right? It's just basically letting a dog know the rules of how things work, right? It's not really dissimilar to, like, the beginning of the year and, like, kind of the upkeep that you have to do in, like, a classroom as a teacher, right? Like, these are how things work. This is the procedure you have to do. I have to tell you this, yeah, right, because you don't, like, automatically know it, you know. Like, this is what happens. Here is what we go. Here is what we do here. This is how this works, right? Like, it's just sort of like reminding all the time, like, yeah, this how it works. And, like, that's what you have to do. Let's kind of like it is teaching middle school really, right? It's just like, oh, remember, oh

Speaker 1  24:18

no, why are you running on the stairs? That's not how stairs work. Get back over you. Like,

Brandon  24:23

yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's, it's too

Collin  24:27

often people focus on that. They think it's just about punishing the dogs. And I get, we get feedback where people will say, I don't want a robot. Like, they'll say, I don't want a robot that's just an automaton that just does whatever I said, it's pre programmed. It's going well, well, awesome, because that's not what it's about at all. Like, sure, if you were training and a guard dog or, you know, a tactile, tactile, you

Brandon  24:53

know, yeah, those are, again, those are different things. If you have, like, your what those? What are those? Big, monstrous thing. Those can Corso things, right? Yes, those, yes, please, by all means, make like a little more like, just like normal, everyday dog working like your dog shouldn't, like, bolt out the door. That's because, if you're carrying in groceries, then your dog just runs off, yep. Or if it bolts out the door, it knocks you over, right? Or it gets hurt, or it hurts you, or you hurt it right? You step on it right? Like, there's a it's like a safety thing, right? It's just, like, how to be safe, like, your dog should not just see an open door and, like, run. That's just, why would who would think that's a bad idea,

25:41

like, right?

Collin  25:42

Well, and unfortunately, what happens is people think for a time it's funny and cute, right? They go, Oh, it's or what the thing that I we I've seen before. It's not frequent, but I've seen before is, oh, my dog jumps up to say hello. It gives you a big hug. Oh, yeah, no, I don't like that, right? Okay, okay, sure. So okay, this is, this is okay, the boxer that does that. It's a, it's a little off putting, no, well, not right, right? Little off putting. It's big, kind of big. What question for you, what happens when your elderly mother comes over, yeah, is jumping okay? Then what about when you're when your young niece comes over? Is it okay then to have them bowled over by the dog, like this is where you get where people don't have these, these things in their brains, of going, where's all the problems, where this could come from and And sure, nobody can know or predict. But there are some best practices. There are some suggestions that we can do to go, what? What does it mean to have a family dog, right? Like, what is that? How do I have a dog that's integrated into my family. I'm going to know what my family's like, my activity levels, who this dog's going to be around? All of those, those things come into the decision for, for how and what we're training for, to make sure it's going because, I mean, we get, I do get clients who go, Well, I've had this dog. You know, usually older clients have this dog. I just, you know, my, my, my son is having a kid. I'm gonna have grandkids. I'm worried now because of how this dog reacts. And I'm like, Yeah, right. It wasn't, it's not a problem, until it is, yeah,

Brandon  27:37

before right, jump in and like, real rough, or

Collin  27:43

my, my personal favorite. And this is the thing. This is the thing that gets people time and time again, right? Okay, um, Chihuahua, um, on the couch, teeth barred, eyes wide, going insane. And people go, Oh, it's so cute. Such a cute

28:02

that dog is horrifying. He's like, terrifying

Collin  28:05

going if you, if you had a Rottweiler who was doing the same behavior, you, you would have this you would have this dog removed from your house immediately, and probably darted to do it right like you. There's this weird thing that happens with summit dogs and and it goes, you're putting people at risk here. And this behavior is not cute. It's not okay. We've got to correct this. Like when I have to use of admits to pick up your dog, to move them to safety. Sometimes, like this is problematic. Everybody, like, and here's the other thing, right? Okay, oh, it's funny. Fifi, does that what? What happens? Just, just quick question, um, what are you going to do when that dog needs insulin shots?

28:53

Yeah, or just has to go the vet.

Collin  28:58

What is this funny now? Right? Is it cute and funny whenever you can't administer life saving medication to your dog?

29:05

Yeah, yeah, gotcha like

Collin  29:09

we there are things to do and prepare and again, I know that not every dog, some dogs are just going to be like that. We have to understand and admit that that there are just some dogs who are going to be special cases. Unfortunately, people think that every dog is a special case, and they haven't tried anything

29:28

without Yeah, true like

Collin  29:34

I Coby, no matter how much we worked on him, he just I we could not get to the point where he was comfortable with us trimming his toenails. We just, we could not that was, that was a barrier that we just could not break with him. So we just had to admit he's gotta go to the groomer for toenails. He for he's gotta go that. And that was just something that we knew was okay. This is, this is a barrier that. We can't cross with him. He's not this is not okay. And and the groomers loved him. They were like, Oh, it's great, of

30:06

course, fine, great. Thanks, buddy. I

Collin  30:12

appreciate you so much. Thank you for costing me so much money. But you find those things, you find those things. But like, at least you know, at least you know what's going on. So I plan on, I do plan on having a prop there, since I do have a young, kind of rambunctious, wild puppy that I have access to. So that's true. Yes, cinnamon may be making her presentational debut. Oh,

30:37

official guest appearance. Yes,

Collin  30:41

and Ashley, I think, because she'll be working in a professional capacity, I gotta figure out some way to, like, write this off for taxes.

30:56

Oh, yeah, there

Collin  30:58

you go. I had somebody say, oh, because My dog is my mascot for my business. All of they are. They're considered when I buy food for them, it's a business expense. And I was like,

31:12

that feels thin,

Speaker 2  31:13

right? Like that feels a little I don't know about that. I don't

Brandon  31:20

know. I think I need to

Speaker 1  31:23

investigate that, or you can investigate that, but like that one feels that feels like made

Brandon  31:28

up, right? You know, it's like the are you seeing those, like, shorts or tiktoks, whatever, like that actual

Speaker 1  31:36

tax people, and they're listening to people on the internet say things like that, like, Oh, yeah. Well, when I do this, I write this off, and they're like,

31:45

you absolutely cannot do that. Yes,

Collin  31:47

yes. Like,

Brandon  31:52

that was a one lady. Yours are great. She's always like, No, you know,

Collin  31:58

that's rock. I see that. It's that time of year, so I see it in our little pet communities and stuff, where people are, like, I bought a shirt, right? Can I write that off? Or, like, there's this weird stuff that's out there that people just think they can do, and it's like, no, no, really, no, no. Like, really, really, no, you can't do that.

Brandon  32:24

There are weird things that you can right, absolutely do, but like, also, there's a ton of things that people like, think that you can do that are incorrect. So

Speaker 1  32:37

maybe consult a professional right, which is not for legal reasons. This is not a this is not legal tax advice, okay, we don't know what we're talking about. I mean, I don't know. I

Collin  32:48

think, I think the advice of go talk to a professional is pretty sound advice. Yes, that advice is good, but we, we are not everything else. Yes, we are not that professional, right? So, you know, I mean, consult an actual pressure. So I'm supposed to have, I'm giving two different ones, one at 10, one at two.

33:10

I'm gonna give this. I mean, the same one,

33:13

probably, but I

Collin  33:13

think I'm gonna do the same one. I don't know if that's what they want, but that's what they're gonna get. That's what they're getting, absolutely. So, yeah, it's, that's yeah. So anyway, so I've got to do, I've got to take some time to maybe outline that a tweet bit more, because I always, I always talk and prevent present fast, like, very fast I had, I was, I tried something new the other week. I had to give a little presentation, and

33:52

I wanted

Collin  33:55

to do something that I'd never done before. So I actually tried to, like, script out and do a manuscript version of something, where I wrote it all in my voice, and then I was going to try and read it back like that. And I was, I had, I was doing a couple different things to figure out, like, how many words per minute should this be? Because I never, I've never done this before. And I was just, this was just an experiment, like to see, like, I don't know I don't like it, but I've never really done it or tried it. It was like, like, usually, you know, for for 30 minutes. I, you know, two, two. What was it like? 1800 words will be more than enough. And so I was like, great. So I wrote 1800 words. I read them out yet my usual cadence, like, I'm not like speed reading, I'm just like talking, because I'm a fast talker, right? And it was like, then it was like, Cool, I still have 13 minutes left.

34:50

Oh, ah, well, okay,

Brandon  34:58

yeah, that just sounds too different. Cold, like I am not about that. That sounds awful, I know,

Collin  35:04

right. So I was like, okay, cool. I need 5000 words.

35:14

Oh, but

Collin  35:17

other other than that, we're just settling in with our encyclopedia set.

Speaker 2  35:23

Oh, yeah. How's that going? Oh, man,

Collin  35:26

we've been looking up so much stuff. Finally, we finally, finally happened, this

Brandon  35:31

isn't it. It's so I gotta be like, Okay, so this is

Collin  35:38

an a 2010 World Book, encyclopedia. And it is, it is glorious. It is absolutely glorious.

35:50

It's all of them. You got everything, yeah, all

Collin  35:52

of it included. There's not a single one missing. And I'm going to be honest, this sat on the shelf of our public library,

36:03

I think. And they bought this new,

Collin  36:07

these might as well be just fresh out of the packaging. Say,

Brandon  36:11

I mean, well, I mean around 2010 though, right. We're firmly ensconced in internet so like, Oh, I know. You know need I know. I know that's good for you, yeah? Really good

Collin  36:25

for me. Because these are not trash. They're all complete. They're all there, cover to cover. I've been through pretty much every page quickly,

36:32

yeah? Like doodles or no,

Collin  36:35

no tears, no highlights. I mean, I'm sure maybe I've missed one in the 1000s of pages here. But like, No, it's all fantastic. And I also really love the spine. And so they had bought a new a new version, right? The most, the 2025, one, so they put that, sold this. But I'm seriously. I went to the they do a book sale every year as as they are due. And as I discovered last year, I have apparently kryptonite to this thing,

37:09

and I am

Collin  37:11

I showed up this year and was like, Okay, it's towards the end they were doing the buy one book, get one free. And I was like, sweet, let's go. And it was considerably diminished from when it had started. I will say that overall, so the book is 20 the World Book is 22 volumes. We collected 90 books in total

Brandon  37:38

from this good, crazy,

Collin  37:42

great deal is what that is.

Brandon  37:46

Actually, I gotta grab the two books, the other two books that I got. Okay, well, that that's just a lot of books. Oh,

Collin  37:52

it is. It is, plus the

37:54

20 some world

Collin  37:56

books that come in. And it's really diminished. Like, you can tell that people picked through this over and somehow

Brandon  38:03

left the encyclopedia. Yeah, it was meant to be. It was.

Collin  38:10

And I noticed there was a big box on the floor. And usually that's where they have, like, oh, we just brought this box up from the basement. And I don't know what's in here. Good luck. But in there just lined up perfectly. Of their spines facing me was the set, and I remember staring at it because I go to our library to work sometimes, and I study and work in the reference section. So this World Book has sat behind me for over a year, and so I immediately recognize it for what it is. And I just stare at it, and I'm like,

Brandon  38:43

Whoa. And I go over to the and I start panicking

Collin  38:47

a little bit. I start getting a little bit sweaty and clammy, because I'm like, Is this really happening? Is this happening right now? Finally, and I go over and I say that, and it goes, try to play it cool. I'm like, so the it's

Brandon  39:01

like a beauty set is that, do you have a price for that? And she goes, Oh, it's, it's, buy one book, get one free. And I went, oh, so like every other book for this 22 volume sets, and she said, it's, it's free. And I was like, oh, turned

Collin  39:22

scrambled over as fast as I could, and picked up the box, and was like, Megan, I need you to see something really quick. And

39:31

she was like, we're bringing this box out. I

Collin  39:33

know she was like, she's like, what is in that box? And I was like, okay, it's fine. It's fine. Remember, remember how I have been talking about it, encyclopedia set. And she her face fell, and she was like, Are you serious? I was like,

39:47

You mean, there's became elated. There's this box. You're

Collin  39:51

not going to believe there's a whole encyclopedia.

39:59

It's all there. It's all there.

Collin  40:04

And so she's like, put it over there, and we'll look at it. And because then I start panicking, because I'm like, oh, yeah, I bet there's something missing. There's something horrible with this, like, or then I start to panic of, what if some weirdo came by and grabbed like, the W's, yeah, as we say, and somebody

Brandon  40:21

took, like, one, right? Like, I don't know why they would do that, but it's, you know, people possible that something, somebody would do that, right? Yeah, yeah. But no, no,

Collin  40:32

all their glorious, untouched, unmolested, un it's not even dingy from people's fingers, you know, pawing through this stuff, and I was like, Well, I I sure is it 15 years old? Absolutely, is most of the stuff in here really going to change for the kind of things that the World Book Encyclopedia covers? No, right? Like it's not going to have too much different am I going to know who in the most recent information about the most recent election? No,

41:08

but you know,

Collin  41:11

I it, I information about uranium, probably not changing a whole lot. So we're

Brandon  41:18

as a general reference for $6.50

Collin  41:24

Come on, come on. So it's on a bookshelf. It's glorious. I love the spine artwork. I've already said that they always do a good job with these. But this one is it's people from history or on the the spine. So it looks, it looks really neat. Some of them have, like, animals, like, that was the series that they would go through. They're like, It's a shark, which is very striking, or like, it's an elephant. But I'm like, that's not what I really think of. What I think of, it's like, pedia.

Brandon  41:55

Well, I mean, the ones that I remember were just like, red, yo, yeah. So, and the ones that Susan has are, like, cream color. Yeah, that's it. They're cream and brown because it's a 70s, 70s, so obviously it's cream and brown. But,

42:12

like, what other what other color would it possibly be?

Brandon  42:17

Right? Just, obviously the correct answer, but it's a

Collin  42:24

yes, that's the correct answer. So, yeah, I don't know when they started doing the spine art work, and I think there's a technical name for that. There probably is where, like, as you know, but i If only I could have something to look up.

42:42

What this is. How do you look that up?

Collin  42:44

Encyclopedia, what is the name? Oh, so this was the thing. I immediately had to start showing the kids how to use the reference index, the reference guide, right? That you have book number 22 or 23 whatever. Where this is, this is where you go for certain terms. Like, to know all of these terms, because you they might not, especially if you go to where you're like, oh, I want to look up a T Rex. Like, sure, it's probably under T, but it may also be under something else. So if you don't find it under T, that doesn't mean it's not in here. You just have to go look the reference and see where it is, because it will tell you where it's supposed to be. Yeah,

Brandon  43:25

yes. So I yes, this was good. This

Collin  43:31

is good. I'm right. We've already used it. We've looked up poison Hemlock, because that was because the kids were doing something in history, and Socrates came up, you know, so, as one does, and then we are going through, we just, we just finished watching the two towers Lord of the Rings movie. So the kids went over, and it's 2010 and here, and Lord of the Rings, is it? Oh, yeah. I was like, Yes, it is. So what we are doing now is we are finishing up some big core subjects for the kids. They we've worked through all of their grade level material, and so we have this time. And so Megan came up with the idea to do more of this, like unit studies. So each kid, each of the kids, is going to pick a topic that they're going to do some research on, and we're going to get one of those little tri fold presentation boards. Then they're going to have to, like, answer some general questions, the same, kind of the same, you know, the when we're why, how, and then they've got to talk about it. And I was like, and I got an encyclopedia set just in time.

Speaker 2  44:40

Oh, yeah, and then she rolled her eyes again when you said that.

Collin  44:50

Oh, I thought that was pretty like, Man, I'm good at this. So, yeah, yeah, I brought up one. I brought up the you. It's in my hand right now. I'm looking at Frankie Valley and oh, so we can learn about the value added index or Valley Forge. It's all here, people, it's literally,

Brandon  45:13

maybe, maybe skip value added index. And that's right, okay, it doesn't really scream exciting, but

Collin  45:22

ooh, ah, oh, we can learn about Van Buren. I went to a presentation the other day from a girl who is starting a clothing company, and she's like, I'm from this really small town. You probably never heard of it. And I was so, of course, I was like, what down are you from? And she was like, oh, Van Buren. And I was like, I love Van Buren. It's such a cool town the Current River.

45:45

And it's true. Weirdly, I believe

45:47

an episode of this show has been recorded in Van Buren. I

45:51

believe, I believe, you were there. I

Collin  45:54

was there, recording in a hotel in Van Buren. Yeah, along the Current River. So, yes, there

45:59

you go. There you go. Tie in. Look at that bang

Collin  46:02

that. That's what we do here. That's what we do. That's what we do.

46:08

Yeah, so that's my

46:09

superpower, making really random connections that

46:13

don't matter. Everything's cut. If you're true

46:19

enough, it's true. Man, oh my gosh.

Collin  46:21

What's really funny is when you look online for back to encyclopedias, really quick, when you look online for encyclopedias and like reviews or people's takes on them, weirdly, again, because of the world that we live in, 2025 you will find things like this. The World Book Encyclopedia is a print encyclopedia so it is not dependent on electricity or an internet connection.

Brandon  46:52

Thank you for telling me how books work. That's really that's really important. I love it. Thanks a lot, man,

Collin  47:01

it makes me. Oh, it hurts, is what it does. It hurts me. So that one really does

47:06

that. That hurts pretty good. I What the heck?

Collin  47:13

Oh, yes, but I did. I did walk away with the 19th century French tales.

47:18

Um, oh, good as well, good.

47:20

That's important. I have not I would have gone with that one. Yeah,

Collin  47:24

I've not started this one. But

Speaker 1  47:30

listen, you can just, you don't have to read it all at once. You just read a tale or two. Some

Collin  47:34

of these, some of these tales are like an and page. Yeah? See, beautiful, beautiful, yeah, so guess Yeah. Anyway, so that's that's on my desk. Now I've got that

Brandon  47:50

and by Engel Flores right there, the public library.

Collin  47:56

Yeah, I feel bad about the book sales, because it means that, you know, these are books that nobody was checking out or have lost, you know, relevance. Because, again, I have this view of libraries as being repositories of information for all time. But like then I have to remember that the little town public library that was gonna say the little town that's the Library of Congress you're thinking of, you're thinking about the Library of Congress, not your local library center, right? That's not, it hurts me. It hurts, yes, but, but I'm like, Okay, well, I mean, if somebody's got to be a repository of information, I guess it's me, so they go start encyclopedia. Said, so, so, yeah, that's, uh, that was, that's my week. I I've

Brandon  48:49

been running tether and tether and and all that stuff. So, yeah,

Collin  48:56

are you? Are you? Are you healed from your nasal afflictions? I

Speaker 1  49:01

believe for the most part, yes, knock on wood there. Yes, I believe. So

49:05

I had to bust out the ancient knowledge, right? And it to finally, like, help it go away, right? Like, I'm still having a little bit of, like, sinusy stuff, but I think that's just like

Brandon  49:19

normal spring, like, blah. But like, I had to bust out some ancient knowledge, right to, like, finally start making me feel better a little bit. Okay, my throat was killing me, right? So I had to cast my mind back, and I had to think, what would my grandmother do? Well, she would have gargled

49:46

with salt water a long time ago. So that's what i

Brandon  49:50

Ah, yes, you know, you bust that out twice, and holy cow, healed. Like, wow. Oh, yeah. Like, I don't nice, weird, like, whoa. So much better. Oh, my God, water, nice. It's good. Did you do now? Now? Do you do you do warm water. Do you do? Okay, yeah, not like, hot, hot, no.

Speaker 2  50:22

So you have to gargle it still. But like, Yeah, I did warm you two. One you want it cold, plus it wouldn't

Brandon  50:26

dissolve as well, right, cool, right? You're gonna get that solid up, right? Like,

Speaker 1  50:32

so we got, got it. Yeah, absolutely that concentration in your solution higher, but yeah, so pretty warm

Brandon  50:38

water. And just like, big fat, like, tablespoon of salt in there. Just, boom, I like it, yeah, that helped. I think a lot, like, a lot, a lot. So the magic of the salt water was, what did it? And then

Speaker 1  50:56

all of a sudden, my throat field, it was so much better. Like, Oh, well, okay, it's like, oh, I'm taking this medicine, doing this stuff. It's not going away. My throat still,

Brandon  51:05

like, hurts, blah, blah, but like, wasn't like, it was weird, because it was like, sinus hurts, because, like, sometimes it hurt, and it would stop for a while, and sometimes it hurt, like, on this side, Oh, just kidding. Sometimes I heard on that

Speaker 2  51:18

it's like, what the heck I had stupid I

Collin  51:24

it was the left side of my throat the longest time the left side where just it was like, Why? Why you? Why not both? Like you'd be I would be less annoyed if both sides hurt equally. But no, just my left side hurts you. I,

Speaker 1  51:45

yeah, I even one night, like I was, I can't remember what there was one night where, like,

Brandon  51:53

I woke up and I, like, could not breathe, like my nose was so just like, oh, oh, done. And I was like, cover that. There we go. And so I was like, coughing and blah. So I had to, like, I just got up. I had to get up. I took some medicine and Susan.

Speaker 1  52:12

We had the Susan remedy of the old vinegar and honey there that loved it a lot, too.

Brandon  52:19

The combo, right? The professional combination there that helped a lot. So think finally, plus, just like normal medicine stuff, pretty well, got it knocked out again, still a little congested, I guess. But like, you know, that's just always there sometimes. So, like, there's always, pretty much.

Collin  52:43

I'm glad you're feeling better, too. Yes,

Speaker 1  52:45

it's great you can actually, like, speak, not coughing all crazy. So sorry listeners, for last time

52:50

it was normal. Little much.

Speaker 1  52:52

So yeah, my week, though, has not been very productive because we're on spring break. So like, Oh, we did like a weird again, I don't know, my school decided to treat spring break like the trans traditional Thanksgiving break this year, like we went Monday and Tuesday.

53:10

Oh, right, and then like this. I

Collin  53:13

don't understand. I do not. I don't either this decision, right? I mean, look,

Brandon  53:17

this is better than the normal amount of Spring Break that we usually get, which is nothing so snow days or just No, we just usually don't get one. They're like, what our school is like? They're very kind of like, oh, you can have a four day weekend, oh, and you can have another four day weekend. Oh, this is like, Oh, this is unsettling, guys. Well, it's been like that forever. Rogersville used to be like that too. Like, when I was a kid, there was no spring break. I don't that was illegal in elementary school. It was like, Nah, we're not doing but so this year we have a actual Spring Break kind of, sort of, but like, we came Monday and Tuesday. And, you know, that's kind of difficult for to, like, accomplish things with children's because, like, sure, you know,

Speaker 1  54:12

Tuesday is just like, Ah, so we kind of had to, luckily, it just fell right this time that I was able to, like, make it

Brandon  54:21

doable, right? We ended up just with, like, the where my schedule was, with my lessons and stuff, like, it was fine, but it's really kind of hard to be like, What are we gonna do Tuesday? Because, like, I want to do stuff, but also, which stuff and where do I stop? Because, like, I don't want to stop on anything. It's gonna be like, Oh, okay, we're gonna need another class time to do this, because that next class time will be in five days, so I don't wanna do that. Oh, I

Speaker 1  54:49

had to do that a couple times this year just because of, like, snow days or whatever, and or like celebration days or other things like, okay, so sorry about this, guys. This is gonna take us two days to do, but the next day is gonna be in four days from now. So sorry,

Brandon  55:05

oh my goodness. But you know it's fine. Wow. So well, hopefully you've survived. Yeah, it was all right. So I don't have really anything exciting happening. We are going to plan on going well, we're not really doing anything this week. We're just gonna, like, hang out and do nothing. But I do have some random updates for you, right? So I've been watching, I was gonna watch some Clarkson's farm, right? But then I got distracted. I haven't watched it yet, maybe by next time. But I did watch, uh, season three of reacher, right? I watched that show on Amazon, right? I will say overall, there's no big review here, but like, pretty good, uh, telegraph the opening pretty hard in the first episode, right? Like you immediately know something is not as it seems. Okay. This is a spoiler for 10 minutes in the episode, so they go, oh, cool, right? But also, I just want to say last season was kind of bad, but this season is also, they're just like, the whole thing is dark, like, I actually can't see it, because a lot of them happened at night time, right? And they're like, they're going for, like, the realism thing, you know, and so, like, there's things happening, and I don't know what's happening, because they,

56:47

like, fired the lighting director or something, because there's no light anywhere

Brandon  56:53

in this tank show. And it's ridiculous. And I'm over it. I'm just like, I have one episode left, but, like, what? Why? Why

Collin  57:06

I don't I don't understand the need to have just and, like, poorly lit everything. It seems very, it seems to be an epidemic of dark TV shows, and not dark, as in, like, oh, subject matter is kind of Oh no. Like, they turn the lines off. Like, physically, I can't see this. I cannot see what's going on screen.

Brandon  57:31

So I know, I know we've talked about this for a little bit. Like, yeah, people say people think they want that, right? Because you watch a thing, you're like, oh, it's night. Why is it so bright? Oh, it's so I can see what's happening. Ta da surprise. That's amazing. Oh, wow. Turns out, if I'm going to watch a thing, I actually want to watch it, right? Here's a here's what I want to do. I want to actually watch him. So there you go. That's my critique of reaching season three. I can't

58:03

see half of it.

Brandon  58:08

So I don't know what's good or not, but literally, can't see it. What the heck? I also saw that Wheel of Time. Season Three is coming, and I just can't anymore. I have given up. I cannot watch that show anymore. It's too bad. It's too confusing. It's too not good. I'm abandoning it. I can't do it. I don't think I actually finished season two. It just it's too bad I saw, it's too boring. I saw, I think, I'm sorry, Roseman Pike, but my goodness, I saw a short clip of something that was supposed to be from them and and I was like, Oh, I think the trailer

Collin  58:58

is, I guess what I'm describing is a trailer. Is the word that my brain's fine. I saw a short clip

Brandon  59:03

of that was it was trying to watch it. It's the internet. Now, you know, it's not always a trailer, because it's like 10 seconds like, that's not really and I remember my first thought when I saw it was, well, their costumes haven't gotten any better. Anyway, next, they haven't. Actually, I was thinking about this the other day, because, all right, so yes on costuming, right? Here is my thoughts on I have a new costuming theory, right? So, like, yes, the costuming in wheel time is not good, because everybody is dressed the same, right? And everybody everything looks brand new and shiny, and it's kind of like whatever, and it's hard to distinguish people, you know? And this is not just that problem. There is this problem in costuming in. A lot of movies where, and TV shows where everybody is wearing, like, the same clothes, right? And it is very difficult to easily discern who the characters are visually. Ah, right? You notice this is, like, this happens a lot, yeah, there's

Collin  1:00:19

a distinctive I mean, you especially see this, okay, so, a really great example for for what you're talking about here, this visual distinction. I mean, just think video game characters, right? Like, yeah, it's to think immediately, when you think of, you know, Final Fantasy, 789, all these things, like, you know, just by silhouettes, what people are or who they are, and now it's just this

1:00:46

blobs of

Collin  1:00:47

people. And again, this is not an ad. This is not I think it's important to point out, this is not a knock against the actors themselves. This is 100% costume design because they were dressed up like this is you were you put people in this, it's your fault.

Brandon  1:01:03

That's true, right? But I think that costuming is like now, not saying that this is like every single show and movie ever, right? There's obviously ones that do it well, right? But I think generally, currently, like what you see, a lot of like with these like, kind of trends in in, uh, cinema, right? Like, we have the, it's too dark. I can't see you. We have the everything kind of looks the same. And there's not a lot of, like, visual distinction between characters, right? Everybody's using, like, a suit or like, whatever. It's just like, all samey, right? You know what genre? This does not happen in Western. Ah, right? Western. Western as a genre, is like it has its own problem, right? It's some of is, sometimes it's blah. But yesterday, I was just watching a random spaghetti western thing, right, as one does from time to time. And like, Was the plot really good? No, right? Was like, was it even like, easily discernible what was actually happening? Sometimes, not really. Were the scenes way too long? Yes,

Speaker 1  1:02:27

could you definitely tell who every single main character was by just glancing at them? Yeah,

Collin  1:02:33

absolutely right. And I feel like, yeah, in my experience with westerns, this is a thing. Just, it's like, common in the genre. Like, I don't really know why, but, like, I don't know how cowboy has such a diverse dress code, but it does, right? Like

Brandon  1:03:07

in most media, when westerns are being presented like the characters are extremely like distinctive, right? Think most even like a movie like tombstone, right? Every character has a very unique look, right? John Wayne movies, right? There's like the three good guys, and then like the bad guy, they'll the good guys, though they have a distinct look, right? Any Clinton movie, distinct feature? Oh, yes, yeah, right. But I think it's interesting that currently, my opinion, the genre that best like utilizes costuming to distinguish between characters. Is the western genre. Who knew cowboy hats could come in that many shape? Not me, not me either, but it is like a near infinite there we have it, and that's reputations

Speaker 1  1:04:22

on a hat, right? Leads to everybody having a distinctly visual look,

1:04:27

well,

Collin  1:04:28

and maybe that is an intentional aspect of it, of, I

Brandon  1:04:33

don't know, because, because there's so many,

Collin  1:04:37

there's so few elements to actually work with. It really does, like it really does come down to styling of the elements, as opposed to everybody's just in the same costume. I wonder, yeah, I do wonder why that's an intentional choice, why they're not styled better. Interesting. I don't know. This is this? There's some, there's some. Do. General theory that we can probably pull together from this. For

Speaker 1  1:05:02

one, we'll workshop this one. Yeah, this would be one of those weird, Oh, brother theories happening. But this is, I just was thinking about this yesterday,

Brandon  1:05:08

like, this is, this is everything that Wheel of Time is not right? Same shirt, same color, same whatever, like, even, even the cowboy, right? They're just, like, almost everybody is wearing, like, boots, pants, shirt, vest, hat, and yet, and yet. Sometimes, yeah, sometimes, jacket, right? Yeah, the styling is so unique, right? Even, like, even we've been watching that Dark Wind show, right? It's about, like, Navajo police in, like, the 1970s it's super good,

Collin  1:05:50

right? It's love, amazing.

Brandon  1:05:53

But, like, even those dudes and the lady, right? Like, they are all just like policemen, but they all, they all have the same uniform, but they're visually distinct from each other,

Speaker 1  1:06:07

right? Just even that, maybe it is the hat. Maybe it's the hat, I don't know. Maybe it's the the hat pulls. Maybe it's the hat. Maybe more, here's

1:06:15

dramas need hats, right? The people, the people could

Collin  1:06:22

put hats on their characters and increase the styling, but they choose not to. So this is where I'm going. What's what's fallen down, what has stopped? Why? Why for anyway, yeah, I don't know, very interesting. This is just a thing that

Brandon  1:06:33

I was thinking about yesterday. I was watching this thing, and I was like, man, like, I was like, kind of like half watching at some point, because it was kind of not great, and it's kind of boring, and they did that, so like, some spaghetti westerns, because everybody just like, oh, I can make a movie like Sergio Leo. No, sure. No, you can't. Like, can you have a big, long, drawn out sequence with no dialog and just music and, like, clearly convey what's happening? No, not everybody can do that. Also, no. So, like, so there's some points I'm like, I don't know what's happening, but I know who that guy is, and I know that he's going after that guy. Boom. So I need to know, because I can visually tell them apart, yeah, very quickly, at a glance. Right to go. So this, this is a,

Speaker 1  1:07:26

yeah, well, this is just something workshop here, but this, yeah, theory here, yeah, unifying costume theory, right work on that, right to be published at a later date. But I

Brandon  1:07:42

so did you? Did you end up watching Clark Clarkson's farm? I'm going to as soon as I watch the last episode of reacher. I don't generally like to watch two things simultaneously, yeah, because I like especially when they're like that, especially when, like, reacher, there's only like seven episodes, I think, anyway, so like, just watch them and get them done. Gotcha got something else? Like, there's no reason why I couldn't do that, but I generally don't, which is weird, because, like, I'll read like nine books at a time, but like, shows, nah, watch one and I'm gonna watch another it doesn't make any sense, but I'm planning on watching that. So you know how that goes. I like it, yeah, you know other updates. I pulled the trigger. I have bought a pair of boots. Gasp, hey. Gasp, a paw. Yeah, okay, um,

Collin  1:08:50

why? What? What was this? Was this something that you've been thinking about for a long time? Well, no, I

Brandon  1:08:56

was sort of toying with the idea I needed new shoes, basically because the shoes I wear to work are like dying, right? Okay, so I thought, well, what should I do? What should a person do?

Speaker 1  1:09:15

And I decided, We're gonna try it out. We're gonna buy a pair of random boots, and we're just gonna see how that goes,

Brandon  1:09:21

right? Just, just random boots. I mean, not exactly random. I'd think about that part once I decided Sure. And most important part of this was these are, like, 50% off boots. So even better, that's the best part about this. That's the real reason I actually bought these ones. Because sale, right? I may have even been 60% off. I think, wow, yeah, love it, yeah, that's what we did. There bought some boots. You go pretty super casual, like Chuck a boot. Things put a bot. But, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, did I remember how horrible it is to break in a pair of leather shoes? Oh, no, no, it's not that. Man. Yeah. Sorry. Day one, not Wonderful, yeah. Day one, poor, very poor. Day two, also not great, right? Not the best. I tried to wear him around the house a little bit for like an hour or so before, but man, oh man No. Day one, oh, murder like, Oh no,

Collin  1:10:43

no, were you? Did you now? Now? So these, these are like, are these, okay, cowboy boots, work boots, like, where's the line? Here are these, like, pointy toed cow. Oh, no, no, no. They're like, super casual boots. They're like, like, I said they're chuck a

Speaker 2  1:11:00

boot, right? Oh, so I had, yeah, I had missed that. I'm sorry, yeah, sorry. I kind

Brandon  1:11:04

of slipped so that fast there. So they're, like, pretty chill on the spectrum, right? They are not anything fancy, definitely. No cowboy boots. I do own a pair of cowboy boots. I haven't actually worn them in a large amount of time, because it just doesn't really feel correct right. Like, I don't know, no, I don't know, absolutely, it just feels wrong, right. And then No, but yeah, I've been wanting them to work in right, just to have something to wear, yeah, to work right. A little better than just, like random tennis shoes, but it's like, not really that, like dressy, you know what I mean? So super casual,

1:11:53

and after the first week, they are much more comfortable. Now I tell you

Brandon  1:12:02

that, holy cow, turns out wearing them for a while, that's the real trick. But also the other positive for boot wearing, right to think about is boots come in wide sizes,

1:12:20

and I have quite wide feet,

Brandon  1:12:24

so like, this was the other things like, Oh yeah, that could be

1:12:29

an interesting thought. Now, I did think I mentioned out here, like the problem is, like, okay, but

Brandon  1:12:33

boots are a different size than, like, tennis shoes, so I was really paranoid about buying boots actually fit me,

Speaker 1  1:12:44

yeah? I mean, did you was this? Was this an internet purchase? Yeah, yeah. Where am I gonna go around here? Buying shoes? Nowhere. That's where I'm gonna go. Fine,

Brandon  1:12:57

fine, I get it. So that was the other like, I was a little terrified, right? Like, Oh no, what do I do? Which is why I generally just only buy one brand of tennis shoe, right? Because shopping stresses me out and I don't like it. I just buy Adidas shoes only because I know that I need this size and any size in this any size, like, no matter what I buy in Adidas shoes, if I get this size, it'll be fine, right? That's just how I think about it. So this was a departure that was very difficult to deal with, right? And think about. Plus, when you read the reviews, they're like, oh, they do run a little big. Oh,

Speaker 1  1:13:41

dang. Now I definitely can't order my tennis shoe size because it'd be way too big, right? So, like, then I gotta really, like, do I go down another half size? Or what do I do?

Collin  1:13:54

Yeah, then you're really stuck.

Brandon  1:13:57

So, but overall, I think these are pretty good. I think they're fit pretty good. They may be like, a touch big, but that's fine. It's better than too small, right? Well, that's the one thing I didn't want, is like, to not be able to get them on at all. That would have Sure, yeah, because then then you're really up freak of like, yeah. You're like, Ah, dang No, because they always do fit a little

Speaker 1  1:14:20

bit better after you've broken them in and stuff. But if they're them in and stuff. But if they're too small to begin with, then you can't break them in and then, like, you'll never get

Brandon  1:14:27

there, so, like, it'll whatever. But overall, not bad, right? So that's what I rave. That was my big brain and raves departure, bad, right? Yeah, you know it's all right. There's a big step right? Okay,

Speaker 1  1:14:47

well, yeah, like, exclusively wears tennis shoes, right? This is a big adult big step up. And absolutely

Collin  1:14:52

I understand. I get it. I get it. It's good. I.

Speaker 1  1:15:00

Well, that's the only other exciting thing I've been up to, trying to break in new shoot,

Collin  1:15:07

exciting times.

1:15:09

Yeah, sure is about it really, okay. Well,

Collin  1:15:19

I, I have a I have a haiku. Oh, I could read, ah, I would love it. If you Okay, good. Well, because I was, I was going to pray. So here, here's my Haiku, worlds at my doorstep. I do it.

1:15:42

I pages,

Collin  1:15:44

whispering secret, six bucks, well spent. Joy,

1:15:54

beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 1  1:15:59

Excited me to interrupt you, but I knew, I knew, I knew it was gonna be about, I just used

Collin  1:16:04

this thing. If we're being honest, it was a bit, we know this is, it comes as a shock and surprise to nobody. It's okay.

Speaker 1  1:16:11

The haiku is about capturing feeling, cause that is, that's all that matters here, right? You've captured, captured feeling of excitement, right? That is what, that's what we need, right? Haikus are about capturing feelings in moments, in moments, boom. So capture, done that beautifully captured, immortalized, forever. There we go, exactly.

Collin  1:16:36

We'll see. So, yeah, maybe we go wrap up tonight. They gotta go finish perusing my book 20, and we'll go to there. So anyway, all right, wonderful. Well, I look forward to Clarkson farm review next time. Oh yeah. Also, we need to talk. There's some some news also on their front as well that I conflicted about so we'll, we'll, we'll talk. Okay, very good. Well, I love you. Love you. Bye.