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, it's not not cool. Runnings Ahoy, ahoy. How goes it? I'm pretty good. Zoom finally decided to open, so it's going well now everything's fine. A little bit late. We're just like, you don't really want to do that. Yes, that's new. It's It's okay, it's okay. Yeah, I, um, I myself, was a little bit late to getting on, because I was like, Oh, I have a few minutes too, but I didn't have minutes to anything. And then I do here, here I am, true. Been my whole day, right? First day of school days. That's awesome. Saw, I saw a photo with a snazzy tie. Oh, yeah, you gotta wear ties on the first day of the week, right? That's important. That's the move set the tone. Yeah, right. Last year, I wore ties only on Monday, but then, like, we skip a whole lot of Mondays. So I got to the end of the year, and there's a big old handful of ties I never wore. I was like, well, we need to reevaluate the plan here. You know that's, this is the spirit versus the letter of the law of like, the spirit was like, you know, kicking off the week, but the letter was Mondays. So, yeah, you're more in line with the spirit of sugar. I was going, like, casual tie Friday there for a while. Oh, you're really digging deep. I was really I was like, I gotta get some of these worn, man, weird, like, work through these. I gotta work through these. I somehow have accumulated way too many times I was wearing, like, jeans and a white button down and a tie nailed. It, right? They go, like, super casual. I thought was good, right? I thought I liked it. I pulled it off pretty good, I think so that's always but tell dig. I was deep, blue, deep. I was digging. Try that again. At the end of the year, it's like, oh, man, I'm gonna have like, 20 ties. I never wore this, but yeah, this never knew now, boom, first day of the week, I like, yeah, that's that's much better. We'll see how that goes. We'll see how that goes. So okay, that's the plan so far. But yeah, survived pretty. First day is pretty calm, like, we don't really do a lot, well, that's how, but I observe a lot. Oh, and we had like, five minutes and they were doing weird things, and I was sitting back there at my table, and they're like, What are you doing? And I just went observing. I'm learning a lot about you right now. And they all stopped and turned looked at me like, What? And I was like, Yeah, I'm learning a whole lot right now. So far, I've learned that this kid over here cannot have five into free time by himself. These kids over here cannot work together. That's what I've learned immediately on first day school, I've learned that these Sue Blam, wow. So yeah, it was all right. It's pretty good. Just trying to figure out how things go, those schedule changes, like, kind of recycle then, because we, like, moved around in our middle of the day like we do, reading intervention, lunch and recess now in a different order than we did last year. Why? So there's some just, like, execution problems that we're just like, Hmm, how do we deal with this now? Because we would light up at this time, but we have to be at a different place. So, ha, confusing. So just some of those things to iron out this week, to figure out, right? The big challenge of the day, right was second hour, right, which is after I already gave some of my speech to my first class about how things work. Some of the admin was like, Oh, hey. It is, we're mandating that all students have school appointed locks on their lockers, and we're putting them on right now. What? Oh, excuse me. Oh, that's a big that's a that's a bold move. Yeah, it's a big surprise. And. None of these kids know how to use a padlock, right? So, like, so a big part of our day was learning how padlocks work. Oh, no, and that's that you don't want to do that on your first date. Yeah. No one of the teachers, like the teachers was like, she just sent the kids out to, like, practice doing the lock on their locker. And I was like, What? No, that's a terrible idea. So I told all my kids, go get your lock and in here, and we're gonna do it sitting down, because then you know that people shoot your lunch out later if you are not doing good, yes. So it's, uh, it was a weird adjustment today. It's one of those things like, I don't personally enjoy finding out about things at the same time as the children do. No, that's really not a good move. I don't like that. It makes dealing with things much more difficult. So Well, yeah, because then all of a sudden your processing, processing, you know, they've got questions, but you haven't had time to fully think through all of the implications of this, right? Like, yeah, I don't have any answers, right? That's and, and that becomes really dangerous, especially on first days when it's like, yeah, yeah, especially 12 year olds, right? It's, uh, not a winning combo, you know? It's much more difficult to deal with so but we made it through today. We'll see how tomorrow goes, and probably fine, but you never know, right? You never know you're gonna be right. Yeah, okay. But so initial, initial takeaways, good, good group, or kind of hard to tell with just one, it's kind of hard to tell with one day. So just, it's a very small sample size. So far, we'll see quieter group so far, not so far, not good, right? Yeah, mud choir. I had, like, an open house last week, uh huh, like at the end, when they were leaving, I had like seven or eight people come in my room from last year just to, like, talk and stuff, and immediately I was like, Oh my gosh. My ears out. Why everything? Oh, wow. I was like, I remembered that you were loud. I didn't remember how loud you were. This is actually painful. Okay, we need to, ah, yeah, so that we'll see. We'll, hopefully we can keep this new group under control tomorrow and, uh, calm down so we don't destroy my ears. But yeah, so far so good. Again. We'll first day is always kind of weird, because everybody's just kind of sitting there staring like, what happens now? Yeah, don't know it's good, yeah, because they and again, just remind me, in your school system, they, they are all pretty much from the same class, from the previous year, right? Or they're not all just jumbled in together, of like, they don't know each other. I've heard of each other. Oh no, they know each other. They're very familiar with them. We're a small enough school. They know who they are. They know everybody. So it's just a different mix, right? Especially this year, because last year, this group is pretty small, right? So compared to the other one. So last year, there was only 2/5 grade teachers, right? So there was only two classes, and now they're split into three, so it's smaller, and there's like so they are. They knew each other quite well. So there was, it was already. It's a more diluted mixture. So I think that's going to be good for some of them. From what the fifth grade teachers tell me, have a little bit more space for each other. Yeah, we have some more room to get people away from other people, right, potential influences, yeah, or they get those, just those personalities that just are at odds all the time. So like, yeah, there's more room for them to, you know, spread out hopefully and and not be mere people that maybe are triggers for them, you know. So sure again, we'll see, uh. Hopefully this is true. Hopefully the theory holds, uh, yeah, I wish and desire deeply, indeed, true. Um, yo, I've see how this week goes. It's always it's always weird the first week or two because there's kind of they're feeling out sixth grade, because it's quite different from what they're used to. New people, new classroom routines, I'm there being confusing, so that doesn't help. Probably sometimes, like you guys, like, what is this guy talking about? Sure, never heard these words before in my life. What is going on well, and it's, it's hard. Because, yeah, people this can that kind of thing continues well into adulthood, where they think they have a position pegged for what that, what kind of person is in that. So, yeah, you can see how very easy they were. There go. Oh, well, this kind of person is a teacher, so every teacher, therefore must be like that. And then when they encounter somebody who is not in that mold, throw them for a little bit of a loop. Hello, it's me. Not mold, not moldy. I was we were sitting there. We we sat together so that this year they moved a bunch of the classes around, right. Luckily, I didn't have to move right. But so upstairs in our hallway now is only fifth and sixth grade. Boom, right? This is good. So at all the stuff last week, we were hanging out together, you know, we were sitting in our in all our meetings, we were all sitting at a table together, you know, kind of having some hallway solidarity. You know, there's team upstairs, and we were watching a bunch of those, like, I don't know, I don't remember which one we you have to watch a bunch of videos and stuff, right? And there's always like, some it's like, the people in the videos are, like, the teacheriest teachers, you know, like, you watch them, and you're just like, I watch them, and I go, like, Oh my God, how are there so many bulletin boards in one class. Yeah, I don't physically so, like, it's some lady, right? And she's dressed like, perfectly, and she has this, like, incredibly organized, like, third grade classroom somehow, right? And all that stuff. And I'm sitting there, and I just looked at one of the new teachers, I was like, sometimes I think, how am I a teacher? This doesn't really go, Wait a minute, is that the expectation looking for? Yeah, that's like the stereotypical expectation. But like, I have, like, a pile of rocks and, like, the same poster has been on the wall for 10 years where it came from, yeah, let's leave it there. It's fine. I don't care. Well, kind of good enough, right? It's good enough for me, right? I don't care. Some of the, oh, some of the my former students. They'll come in and they'll be, like, you haven't changed room. Like, no. Why would I it may be the same to you, because brand new and all these new kids come in they never seen before. Yeah, why would we need to? Yeah, I'm cool with it, and I just keep getting new people in so they don't, like, no. Like, Oh, Mr. Funkhouser hasn't changed his room ever. Only you who've been gone for my room for like, three years, only you know. So it's, it's new to everybody else. Everybody else is fine, yeah, everybody else, it's right. It's a big deal. Like, yeah, I don't know what's wrong. What the problem is. My big change is, like throwing stuff out and like moving a shelf a little bit, boom, got it? Look at these massive changes. This is a massive change, right? Looking at something on the shelf going, I haven't used that for four years. I'm throw it away. That's got it now. Stick with me. Stick with me. Now, it wasn't here anymore, right? It's true. It's true. It's always that nagging feeling like, what if I use this? But then I go, I didn't even remember I had this Twitter shopping so well it could probably go, we, like, we ran into this whenever I went to hang Megan's dry erase board where I was like, Oh, I can finally use this. Laser level that's been sitting in my yeah for six years or more, four years maybe, who knows good feeling? Yeah, right. And, and, and she went, which laser level, and I went, the one that I have in my and she went, um, I may have gotten rid of that, literally, like crooked whiteboard, take that. So I had to do lots of um, measuring from floor and then measuring from ceiling, because my 100 year old house has nothing that is in alignment, so had to throw the level on top of the board and go for it. It's what I did. I what I know, what I actually did was I kind of set a good height and then I just screwed one corner into the wall. Yeah, that's walked to the other end and lifted it until it was level on top and screwed in that corner. Yep, that's the only other acceptable answer for this plan, right? Well, I'm because Megan was out with the kids at the time, so I didn't even have help to, like, hold it and, like, draw lines and stuff. So I was like, well, rude. No, it's rude. It works. It's fine. It's a very functional, very that's true. Yeah, it's expedient, too. Yes, yes. So yeah, all. The only other problem we had today was we just said the power went out randomly for like, 10 minutes. What? Yeah, I don't know what happened. I haven't heard yet. I don't know if, like, just to transform blue somewhere. Sometimes. Last time this happened, somebody like, crashed into a power pole. So hopefully that wasn't one. But, like, they were okay, but it was this whole thing, good. But like, yeah, just like, went off, I'm in the hallway. Talk about how to not be an idiot in the bathroom. And, like, power went off. Was like, well, great, oh well, we're in the hallway. There's windows. I'm gonna still talk about it. Aha, move on. But the problem was, I think, like, had flashbacks of last year because the power flipping out like that, like, freaked out my air conditioner and, like, oh, oh, I guess all of a sudden it kicked on press or kick over, and then no fan happening. I was like, oh no, oh no, oh no. We're not doing this again. Yeah, I called our maintenance dude immediately, yes. Like, no help. Come here. You didn't, you didn't start pulling out the box fan and the bucket Nice. That's gonna want that box fan back in my life ever again. So I probably just called him and they, all they had to do was they went up on the roof and just flipped the, like, hard reset the unit, because it has, like, some big mine is one of the newest ones, because, you know, last year it just completely exploded. And so I it's got all these like crazy computer sensors and stuff attached to it. I think the power flicking just like fried it a little bit. And so they had to hard reset it. They said they shut off the big power switch, and you hope that. So they did the old turn it off, turn it back on again, thing, yes. And then the fan came back on, so that's good, right? So I don't want my compressor blowing out because it's sitting there doing stuff and all the air is not moving. That's not good. That's not helpful. But there easy fix saved by the maintenance staff yet again. So I'm glad it was easy fix, or they didn't even, they didn't even throw the belt. Sometimes the belt just breaks and all of a sudden it's like, nope, not working today. That's happened before, but he said he just flicked the thing, like, whack it, and it turned on. So it was okay. We'll go with that. We'll turn it off. Beat it with a stick. Yeah? Again, nice. So that was the only other Molly traumatic moment today was the power went off randomly, and then my air conditioner was like, nope. Don't like that, sorry. So the real test is, how's tomorrow gonna be? That's the real Yeah, because you've gotten out some of the early jitters, people were probably a little bit on their best behavior for Yeah, instead of nerves, right? Yeah, default to to all that. And then really see true characters. Tomorrow? Yeah, well, tomorrow we have work to do, right? Yes, we didn't really do any work today. It was all just kind of sitting and discussing and showing things, right, and all that stuff, talking and stuff. So there's no work to be done today, but tomorrow, it's time. So then we're, that's the real stress test is, hey, how do you perform under actual classroom circumstances, right? That's the real trick, huh? To go, okay, yesterday, where it really wasn't even a dry run, it really wasn't even a practice run, right? Today, it's like a warm up, yeah? That was just a that was just, yeah. You were just observing the field at that point. Now we're really going to get involved in what this is like, yeah, so we'll see tomorrow how that goes. So that's the real test. Okay. Well, good luck. You got your tie picked out for it already. Was on the first day of the week. So, oh, right, sorry, sorry. So do you on the first do you plan it out for the day before, or do you just wake up and you let the tie speak to you? It depends, right? It depends on if I think about the day before or not. Oh, sure. Sometimes I don't want to put that much brain power in the morning. And it's really not usually a whole lot of thought it was like, it's mostly just like, what shirt do I want to wear, and then what tie goes with that color shirt? That's really kind of it, like, that's pretty much it. That's it. Sometimes I run it by Susan first, if I'm unsure, like, are we feeling this or no? Like, I don't know. Like, yeah, like, is, how is this feeling right now? I don't know what's up, so I do that sometimes, just to kind of get a second opinion from an actual professional person that knows how to dress properly. Like, I just like this, tie in shirt work. Is this okay? This is acceptable? Are we? We go with this? All right, we want to tell you my thoughts first. Remember, no judging, no judging, safe space. Yeah, so sometimes I do that. There's a couple combos that, if I'm thinking tried and true combo, huh? I just put it on. I'll kind of think about it, but whatever. But if I'm vacillating, I'm like, that's one. It's one. I need a Susan, opinion. I'll do that on Sunday, Saturday night, but tomorrow's Wednesday. So Wednesday is school t shirt and jeans day. M So had to find my T shirt because they don't have the new ones in yet. Because, of course, they don't. Why would you have the school t shirt that every single staff member is supposed to wear on the same day, ready for the first Wednesday of school? Why would you do that? That's silly. That doesn't sound like some something somebody would do. I think, yeah, that's lame. Who would do that? It would be weird. I don't know. Man, weird. Oh, so yeah, from last year, which is question about, I don't know where I put that, so I'm gonna do that once I get off here. Where did that go? Shirt hunting. It's not in your ottoman. Thing, is it that you had no no, I didn't put it in the Ottoman thing, I put it somewhere. I probably just folded put it in this pile here. But sure I'll see also, to put I have to wear jeans. I've worn jeans and months. I don't know if I feel fair, fair. Well, sounds like, sounds like, at least you're off, off to a good start. Yeah, so far the most part, upstairs hallways to a good start. I don't know about the rest of school. I have no idea what they did today, but I'm all right. We're good, unknown. Well, we are having a lot of fun, or are we're getting for our our trip. So we are getting ready to blast off to Florida for a four week. Bit. Gotta be real. It's pretty, I'm pretty nervous about this. I mean, it's a big sojourn, right? Like, yes, it's a big sojourn. And you know, as we've grown and changed our business and stuff at first, the really, the really hard part was letting go of the like the dog visits, actually going in and going. No, we're just, it's the it's the Yeah, no, you you do the doc walk and I'll just be over here. Yeah. But as we have grown and expanded now, like genuinely, the really scary stuff is, the is, the is the admin side of things. Because as as Megan and I were preparing for this, we realized, Oh, um, we this is, this will be, genuinely the first time that we will have been completely disconnected from our business in like, where, where we are going to not be reachable, because, yeah, we'll be on and playing true, yeah, so, so now I'm going, oh, what like oh, well, um, that kind of changes. Well, how we have to prepare and what we need to do so, working with our employees, getting that different systems put in place, that's been really hard, and just going well, yeah, for about five hours on a couple days. Good luck. Everybody will see ya if anything terrible happens, I guess so yeah, because it's I, yeah, I, I can't if I'm if we're in the in the air and something blows up, um, we'll know about it when we land. I guess maybe, oh yeah. I mean, yeah, at some point you have to be like, Well, yeah, like, right. Like, it'll be all right. Like, statistically, it's very unlikely that anything terrible will just absolutely blow apart. So let's just, let's just do this. Also, statistically speaking, the time in which you have most emergencies is like, seven to now, so like, like, your daytime afternoon Emergency Quota is very low, right? It appears to me, anyway, as an outside observer, that there's like, no catastrophes that happen in the morning, right? Like, again, we're gonna knock on the wood there for you. But like, that's not when things happen. Like, it's always the last visit of the day. No, it really it is. It's either the, you know, the catastrophes happen in the morning, if the person who is supposed to be there at 6am just doesn't show up. And we don't have that problem right now. We have a very, very reliable team. So like that completely takes that off of going, Nope, I know that if I need somebody there at six like that person is going to be there, no ifs ands or buts. So okay, cool, cool, cool, great. But, yes, it's the evenings, and this is because this is where, you know, just it's dark, it's late, clients are booking lots of things, and all of a sudden, because, again, the thing where clients do they go. It is eight o'clock at night. I am relaxing from my busy day, and now I will schedule and ask questions, and then we're like, Oh, could we just wait a little hot bit there? So yeah, and it's so we're just very looking forward to this time and trying to just embrace it and trust the systems and everything that we have in place, you know, and just just roll with it and see what happens. So we blast off tomorrow morning and we're gonna we've, we've, we have, we have. And this was another fun challenge. I mean, I say fun, Megan will will remind me of how much yelling took place, but now it's fun. Once I got in the Spirit, because it was me, I was the problem. No of let's we're going to, we're only going to do a personal item or a six day trip. Oh yeah, there we go. That's what I like to hear. So this is, this was actually, and the reason Ray I could get into this was going, Okay, well, I have a challenge now of optimizing and strategizing and getting things in place, and that that, my dear friends, is something that will occupy my brain for ever. I will, to the nth degree, go through this, to the extent where there there's not much more optimizing left to do whenever. I'm done with a lot of this. So we got it all, got all in. Each of us has our bags, and we are doing it, swim, swim goggles included, even. So I'm all there to go. Everything doesn't take up a lot of space. So, yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't. I'm curious how children that have a costume change four to five times a day are going to go with carry on bag only. That's really gonna be Well, yeah. So we, we have um outlined, um set days, right? So we planned we have at least one costume every day, obviously, with just a little bit of overlap for the first and last day. Oh, okay, but, but, yes, the real, the real test is going to come in when it's like, okay, it's noon. Now I would like to change into the and I'm going to have to go, no no, oh no. That's the tomorrow close, that's the tomorrow close, we don't, I don't, we don't get that. We sorry. That's, that'll be the challenge. That'll be the challenge. But I'm, I think we're okay, and if we're perfectly honest, push comes to shove. The hotel has services that can take care of it. Okay, don't mention that to them, though, this is, this is the you didn't hear that. Yeah, there is no washing machine. There is no there is nothing. We have nothing here, yes, so that is what, yeah. So it's going to be, it's full, yeah, be fun. I'm, I'm more nervous about, like, the, you know, making flights and are things going to be on time. But also, I know that those things are out of my control, so I have no need to or, yeah, I shouldn't be worrying about those. And, yes, right? So here we are, yeah, but those are always the things that go wrong, right? Yeah. Oh, by the way, there's, you know, something weird, or we, you know, whatever, so who knows? Like, all kinds of weird stuff. Like, oh, there's a bit of weather. We're gonna just hang out. No, yes, and this is where it's like, okay. And like, we're having those conversations of, Okay, remember, we don't, I don't have control over what does or does not happen in basically everything that happens when we're when we're off traveling like, right? It's just not going to be, I don't know, I we can't make things move faster. We can't make them move slower. Things are just going to have like, it's one of those phrases that I don't like. Of things just happen to you. I don't like having that, but they do right? In general, in general, I don't like the phrase, things just happen to you, because it's like, well, but you know, agency and taking control and like being in the you know, blah, blah, blah. But when you're traveling, no, no, no, literally, things just happen to you, and you just have to roll with it, because there's what, what else are you going to do? Like exactly, that's all. So, yeah, we are excited, uh, so we'll, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Been a lot. Been a lot preparing for this. So I don't know, well, yeah, but it'll be good. Let me get times go and see all that Florida has to offer, hopefully not the alligators, but everything else i Okay. So, so I will this. This episode won't come out until after my talk. So I'm spoiling nothing. All right, there you go, right? So because all the people listen to this, there's a lot of crossover. I imagine they're all going to be there. Yep, all them will be there. So this is, this is just a reminder for the listening of what happened. Oh, yeah, what you what happened already? Yeah, there. There does come a time where I'm talking, it's like towards the end of my talk, where I'm discussing of going like, well, what can you do? So I've outlined all these fears that people have and what they're rooted in, and some of the fears that we carry with us, and especially as business owners, and the impacts they have on your business. And each time I give practical things about overcoming that or or things that they can implement today. But like, big picture here, what do you do about about fears? And is, there's education, there's staying there's being a community, and there's taking care of yourself, like three big things you can do over your fears. And then there's a mindset that you have, that I'm going to offer of just like it's Bob Parsons was a tech guy, and he said this phrase, you know. Yeah, it's been said in different ways, like this, but just going, you know, they can't eat you. Basically, what's the worst that's going to happen, especially in the context of, like, going into networking at an event, or these things like just keeping this in mind, they can't eat you. My next slide is, I recognize we are, we are in Florida, and a giant picture of an alligator pops up, and then all of these headlines of like, 14 animals in Florida that can kill you, one of five ways to die in Florida, and a list of 10 dangerous things. And those are popping up while I'm, you know, I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say, Well anyway, so that's, um, that's my little Florida joke that I have to begin. I like it. Scoot out of here. So what is happening? Our challenge that was set before us was to pick the top three Olympic movies. Yes, this challenge much more difficult than I anticipated right now. Like, why? Why? Why was this difficult for you? Because I am very curious. I think a lot of Olympic movies are boring. That's what I they're so serious and, like, stoic and just, it's just, it's, there's just like every it's just like trope city, right? I think Olympic movie, at least the ones that I saw or have seen in the past, right? It's just like trope Central, uh huh, trope, trope troop. And it's just, they're just kind of the same movie, just like, insert different sport gear, right? I understand one of the cool things about the Olympics is, like the underdog story, like the come from behind victory, the like coming from, you know, small town and, you know, fighting adversity and the struggle and like, becoming the top of the thing on the Olympic stage, right? That's like the Olympic story, right? That's what people watch the Olympics for. Is that narrative. But when that narrative is not in a live sport, and it's in a movie, and it's, like, drawn out for two hours. It's really not engaging the whole time, right? Like, at least in my maybe somewhat cynical opinion, right? A lot of them are just not done well, right? I don't know, I, you know, yeah, it's, yeah, I don't know. I think, I think because, I because every Olympic movie that is basically out there, because their goal is to do the underdog story and how they and that they overcome like that. That's the story of underdog overcomes. It's all really boring. It really is like there's no effort to show anything beyond underdog overcoming story. They try and humanize it in some aspects, but because it's so heavy and laden with drama and dark scenes and heavy music and all these layers. It just, it does all kind of blend together of, well, okay, well look, oh, they overcame, and again, not detracting from the actual people that these are depicting, and the hard struggles and work they did, like, obviously, but also going. Could you tell it in a bit more in exciting and engaging manner, please? Because this is, ah, yeah. And I think the other the because, like, yeah, you're like, you said that like you, since you know what's gonna happen going in, that's not really very engaging. The alternative is also not really engaging, like superstar, best athlete at export in world, goes to Olympics, wins Olympics. Like, also not interesting. Like, that's an even worse movie. So I feel like, I feel like the difference between this and like, so we did the sports movie thing A while ago, right? A long time ago now, yeah, the sports like, when it's just a blanket sports movie, I feel like there is a lot more character development that happens. Uh huh, right? Like, I mean. Crying out loud. I watched a Korean movie about bowling, all right? And there was a lot of pretty character development time, but it was done in like, an interesting way, right? Like the field hockey movie. I watched the Indian field hockey movie the chuck de India, right? That movie has like, a ton of, like character development and like interesting things, and there's like, they really get to dive into all the characters, because the goal is just like the team, right? Like the Mighty Ducks were crying out loud, right? Like that movie is, like, it does this in an engaging way. I feel like, when you slide the constraint of Olympic on it, it just like ruins the movie, right? Because the movie becomes about the Olympics and not about, like personal growth and stuff like that, right? You know, with one obvious exception that I imagine we're both gonna talk about a little bit, but like, that's how I feel watching these movies. It's like, kind of the same, and it's just kind of not like, it's good, but like, I don't know, I feel like putting that Olympic tag on there kind of hampers the movie in such a way to make them not very interesting, right? I don't know. Maybe in the future, this is not a task for today, to not set this on myself currently, but like, maybe in the future, this is worth exploring. Like, what do Olympic movies like? Are there interesting Olympic movies that are, like, not made in America, right? You know I mean, like, not American Olympic movies, right? Like, not made there. You know what? I mean, like, yes, are there, do they approach this in a different way? Is it like, do they do something different? I did not delve into that sphere, but that is maybe something to revisit for myself at a later date, not right now, but okay, potentially later. But yeah, I don't know. I struggled a little bit when I was watching some of these again. I was like, so like, I don't know if these are the three best Olympic movies, but these are three Olympic movies that that are on a list right now. Hey, list subject to change. Right as always, there was a couple that I thought that I saw that might be interesting, but I, like, just didn't have time to watch them or investigate them properly. So, you know, we'll put some asterisks here, and we'll see. I don't know how well they were executed. The premise sounds interesting, but I don't know if it was well, okay. I mean, so Okay. Well, then we will start with our number. Your number. You want to start with your number three pick? Yeah, number three is fine, yeah. Oh, I will say I had mentioned before that I had put some additional constraints on myself. I threw one of those right away because it was just too tampering, right? I was trying to watch Summer Olympic movies because it was a summer Olympics. I did to that plan because, yeah, I just couldn't. There's none, right? I did stick with my other constraint, which is I didn't want to watch team great, bitten, winning anything, but I still did that one that was good, good. We stayed with the important, right? Yes, as as a red, white and blue American, Eagle, screaming American. I think that that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. I feel like there's several other countries around the world that we agree with. Countries around the world that would agree with me, right, that the honest 18 Great Britain winning. That's no good, right? We don't like that. So yeah, we can do number three. Do you want to go first? I will let you go first. To go first, right? My number three movie that I watched is a relatively recent one. It's also a book. Apparently, I didn't know that, but this is 2020 three's The Boys in the Boat. Oh, done to done, right. This is a movie about rowing. Yeah, right, Hey, so, so this was this one. We threw a little curve on here because also, like, like many American Olympic movies, it is set during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, right? Just because that's just fodder for American movies, you know, because you know they like to do that one. It is about, it is about the 1936 American rowing team, right? So, apparently. Currently, the story follows ostensibly random dude, Joe Rantz, in his journey, right? It's kind of like depression era. And so a lot of these people try out because you get paid to be on the rowing team at the University of Washington. And so they're like, yes, yes, okay, like to, I would like to have dollars, right? That's nice. I understand. So that's, that's first hurdle to overcome, right? We're overcoming economic disadvantage, right, going to the University of Washington, trying to get on the rowing team to get paid money, right? Yes, um, again, our underdog story continues, because it is the B team, the junior varsity team, uh huh, gets selected to go to the Olympic trials because they're more better than the varsity team. And the varsity team is not happy about this, obviously, no. And then we go to the Olympic trials, and win. It's like, it's not Olympic trials in 1936 it's just like some sort of big competition in New York. And you like, if you win, you get to go the Olympics, right? So they win. But no, oh, no, scandal, the Olympic Committee says, Oh, you have to pay money to go to the Olympics now. Haha, sorry, we're not going to help you. University of Washington, the underdog that nobody, because they all thought it was like California or like, right, East Coast schools, right? Yeah, why not east? East Coast schools rowing. It's kind of a thing, right? So, but there's so they do, like a charity drive and whatever, and then they get some money. There's a nice moment when the the rowing coach of Cal comes and he donates to the rowing fund for the University of Washington to go represent America in the Olympics. Star Spangled Banner plays in the background, you know, also, but right? So then, then you got to go to the 1936 Olympics and defeat Germans, obviously, as you do, right? Jesse Owens is also there, just randomly, you know, because that's a thing that happened. That's the American moment in the 1936 Olympics. Is Jesse Owens destroying the track and field people, right? Which is a good there's different movie about that, though, which I didn't judge, but it's fine, but they're also just like, hey, here's Jesse Owens anyway. Back to really, right? So it's pretty good, right? Joe is our main character. Joe, not just a real interesting dude, right? It's just like hard luck depression story. He has a chip on his shoulder because his dad left in the Depression to go work somewhere else and never came back. He's been on his own since 14. He doesn't trust anybody, right? Oh, he has trouble working as a team with the rowers, but in the eight man rowing crew, as you might suspect, teamwork makes the dream work, right? So there's just some of that, right? There's also a girl there. She's there, I don't know. It's fine. Whatever, like this movie is like, it's okay, but it's like, it's like, Fine, you know? I mean, I read several reviews, a lot of people really like it, and I was like, But why like everybody is it's like, flat acting like, there's not, like, a lot of just, like, stellar moments. You don't really know anybody else's name on the rowing team, right? It's supposed to be about like, building a team of like, eight dudes and, you know, like, nobody else's name. So it's not executed the best, but it does have the team rallying and coming together and working together and overcoming adversity. It is a little bit annoying that every single race, they come from behind to win, which is weird, yeah, because if you watch Olympic rowing in 2024 that literally never happens. Yes, that's weird. Like the teams that start off strong, like win team, like is often in the back, and then like, Fast and Furious is their way to the front by rowing harder. Every single race is weird, but it happens. I don't know if that's historic. The accurate, I don't know, but I didn't check the historical accuracy of this movie. But, oh, okay, that's it. So I don't know. I don't know. George Clooney, I think you could go a little better directly, George. Also, there's this, like, they kept doing this thing, like they do these weird camera moves where, like, in the middle of the race, it was like, the camera would like, go to different parts of the boat, right. Like, boom, boom. And every time they focused on the little lock thing, where the oars lock in, right, they just kept being like, here's the oar in the water. Like, dramatic music, like, bam. Camera shot, bam. Camera shot here. Bam, hands on the oars, bam, this little row lock thing. Every time they kept showing it over and over again, and I was just like, is that gonna break at one point? Like, why do you keep showing me this? What are you doing? Oh, but it wasn't important at all, and nothing happened. But I was just like thinking the whole time, is this part gonna break? Did somebody not secure their thing, and they're gonna go for a big pull, and they, like, increase the tempo and just like, rip the ore out. Like, that's what it felt like it was setting up, and then nothing happened. So that was a weird choice to just keep doing that all the time and, like, for no reason. I mean, I understand, like, trying to make rowing, like, dynamic, action packed sport. Yeah, a little tricky, right? So you gotta do something. But you know, I don't know if that was the answer. I did, like, the 1930s pick up, see New York rowing thing, though, because there was like, uh, alongside of the, I don't whatever you call it, where the lake, where they're doing it, there was like a train, and they're just rails. And so the cars, they were all sitting on these grandstands that were on rails, and it was just following the thing. Oh, interesting. I thought that was kind of sweet. Yeah, it's a pretty good movie. It's pretty good movie. But, like, I don't know it was okay. I did. I wasn't like, feeling just like, super strong about it, but it was one of the better movies I've seen. So that's my number three. Is the Boys in the Boat. Okay? Um, action. Okay. Well, I know if you were a stickler for historical accuracy, I'm not sure what you will do or how much you will appreciate or not. My number three, which is the 1980s animal Olympics, the what? I got wheel board watching actual Olympic movies, and so instead, and I don't, I don't know if I so, I have included, and I will send you a link to a YouTube thing that has the full video of this. Okay, I don't know. I remember every aspect of this as I watched it. There's the elephants doing trapeze. There's Bruce kwakimoto, a bird who does taekwondo. There's Barbara wobbler, warblers, the reporting songbird who who goes around and reports on all of the different events and everything. It is fantastic. It bridges the gap, because it does have both summer and winter Olympics, showcasing the wide breadth of the animal kingdom and their proclivities to what they compete in. But this is, I remember I was actively again. I cannot pinpoint to you when I saw this last but this came up in my research, and I watched the whole thing, and I was like, I remember every single part of this, and I have no idea why or where this was deep in my brain. And so I'm interested to know if you remember this at all. I don't know. I'm flicking through it here. This looks vaguely familiar, and I also don't know why. Uh huh, there's this animation. Looks like something I've seen before. It's an all I recognize the goat. That goat I remember. Okay, it's an hour and 15 minutes long. I at some point, watched all of this, there's an overarching story between the two marathon runners who eventually, like, fall in love and cross the line holding hands and everything at the at the very end, they show how they they do kind of a quote, unquote, like, oh my gosh, yeah. Is okay, okay, I'm watching that part right now, while I'm watching the introduction of them too. Yeah, the goat and the lion lady, which is weird. Yeah, yes, I do. Why do I know why? Very now, here's some interesting things about this. This is an hour and 17 minutes long. Hour and 15 minutes long. However, like over two dozen different characters, all voiced by four people, Gilda, rag Billy Crystal, Harry Shearer and Michael frimmer. Yeah, all do the same thing. It's amazing. I I had so much fun watching this again. This came out in 1980 and it's, it's like a series of short vignettes. It was actually supposed to be released as a television, television series of little, little vignettes showcasing different things. But then they they put it all together in one go. So this is an amazing production. And I think if you are looking to get into the Olympics, is a great place to start. I think this may this is way better than Boys in the Boat. What the heck I yeah, I'm I just, I have it on my phone right now, and I'm just like randomly scrolling through it randomly, and I do recognize some of this. So yeah, I don't know where I would have seen this, either, but I do this is very familiar in some weird, uncanny sort of way. I'm gonna also have to watch all of this at some point, not right now, but later. This is my number three, my entry into how I get what we're doing. That's a good one, all right. Number two, we went with the again, sticking with the American theme here, right, the quintessential American Olympic moment. All right, there is one moment in American Olympic history that stands a of, above all others, I'm of course, talking about the 1980 Winter Olympics, US hockey team. Aha, this is it. So I picked miracle, miracle. Gosh, this movie is actually pretty good, right? I did like this one. I remember liking that. I remember liking it the first time I saw it, right? I watched it again a little bit, and I remember it's pretty good, right? We got Kurt Russell as the coach, doing his best Minnesotan accent here in the mess. It's very good, right? Yeah. So again, try again. Stop me if you heard this before, right? Plucky underdog American Hockey team. Right, right, height of the Cold War, right? The whole point of this whole movie is the United States Olympic team. Is like, we need to beat the Soviets, right? Yep, we have to defeat them at hockey. That was a really important goal for the 1980 Olympics. The Soviet hockey team had been like, I can't remember exactly, but it was undefeated for like years, like they didn't lose a game, right? For like, 20 years or something, right? It's insane. Like, what do you think about that? Like, that is, that's intense, yeah, it is crazy, right? And so this is also, like, the, the reason that Americans like the story is, like, be in in the Soviet Union, these were like professional players, right? And at this point in history, the United States was sending like amateur college athletes to the right. So these people are all from like colleges, or like they just graduated, or something. They had to turn pro, or they're in college or whatever, and they're trying out, and that's the American team we're sitting right, yeah. So we have the, we have the classic moment of, you know, he's asking him, who do you play for? And he's like, Minnesota, Golden Gophers. But then, you know, after some adversity and strife, he's like, I play for Team USA, right? The whole team building thing, you're not playing for yourself, you're playing for everybody. So it's pretty good. I like it. I like hockey anyway, so it's a pretty good movie, right? But again, this is the quintessential American Olympic moment, right? And. This is why AI Al Michaels exists, right? For this year's Olympics, because this is the Al Michaels famous like, Do you believe it miracle? Oh, yeah, right, yeah. The best, the best part about this, the thing you got to remember, it's most important, is they win against the Soviets in the semi final round. It's not even the gold movie into the movie. It's like, oh yeah, they also be Finland anyway, yeah. I remember, I think I actually saw this in theaters that I remember it was such a weird way to be. We might have seen this with memes, actually. I think this was, I think we did go see this with me. This came out in 2004 Yeah. So this feels like a movie. We would have stopped with me for sure. And yeah, I remember, like, yeah, the title cards or whatever that came up afterwards. He was just like, oh yeah. Also, it was a good anyway, sorry, yeah, they beat Finland. They won the gold medal. Like, this was actually just the semi finals. Yes, anyway, that part of the story is always really funny to me. Just like this, like huge, giant, monumental moment was a semi final. Does make me think though, right? Watching this movie again, I was thinking about this. I thought thinking about how the Soviets won so many years in a row right undefeated in the Olympic play, like undefeated international play. And then I thought about Team USA basketball teams. And I thought, oh, no, we're gonna be the bad guys in some of these movies. Like the women's basketball team has like ever since Women's Basketball was introducing the Olympics, they made a big deal about this year. They've won every single game the whole time. That doesn't make you feel good, does it? Doesn't that means we're the baddies in somebody else's movie, right? It's gonna happen. I know that the US men had some a while there where they like, like, they, they're very dominant in the sport as well. There was a couple years, I don't remember how long ago, but, like, where a lot of the NBA players was like, Nah, dude, I'm not going to live because lame. And then, like, Team USA all lost a whole bunch, and they're like, oh, oh, just kidding, we're going next time. Okay, I'm sorry. But, like, still, they win all the time. And so I think, I think there'll be a time when we are the baddies in somebody else's movie, right? The underdog story is going to be against us in a basketball movie. That's going to happen. Okay, so future directors and screenwriters out there be on the lookout for this. Okay, this is going to be your country potentially, right? You're gonna, you're gonna write the script of overthrowing the US basketball team in the Olympics. That's gonna happen. Because it's weird, because you're like, Oh, the Soviets are the bad guys, because they win all the time. And you're like, oh, oh, no, wait, we win all the time. Does that mean we're the bad guys? Like, I think, I think we know what that means. Yeah, I think, I think that's what that means, right? So, so I'm gonna be on the lookout for that. When that happens, when the team USA loses a gold medal game somewhere, I'm looking after that movie of the plucky underdog team that's gonna unseat the USA British. Don't worry, it'll be no It better not be team Great Britain. I literally don't care who it is. It cannot be tinkered, right? Has to be like Portugal or something, right? That's acceptable, not team gray bear, right? Oh, well, good. I That sounds like a great one. Okay, I have not seen, oh, sorry, sorry, no, I have not seen that one recently, um, but it is a it is a good movie. And, yeah, I like that. I like them a lot. Well, my number two is a different take on this. I shocking, again, the breadth of what I'm offering here. This is welcome people. I'm actually, again, things are very boring. And I actually liked this, this attempt back in 1965 to do an entire documentary about the Olympics, because of what this meant for the country of Japan. I'm talking about, what is it? Tokyo Olympiad, yes. Yeah, 1965 I did actually watch this. I am including a link to the YouTube again, of where you can watch this whole thing. Again. I like this film because it was not about any individual person or event, but more about what having the Olympics in Tokyo in 1965 meant to the country, because, again, they were supposed to have this in 1940 and etc. And so to be, you know, 25 years removed from that, which isn't a long time in the grand scheme of things, and then to be hosting this was neat to see what they were doing, how they were doing it, and just some of the commentary at the time for what these events meant, and getting to see what these events looked like in 1965 is wild. And, yeah, I bet that's the best part, right? Very cool. What is 1965 water polo look like? What? Yes, yes. So 64 it's also very well done as a documentary, even from a modern context, very well shot, and the story is great. I recommend this a lot. This was actually a surprise for me to find and watch again. I had never heard of this before, but watched it and really enjoyed it. That is not pretty cool. Actually, I have a local connection to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, actually. Ah, yeah. So weirdly, I learned this visiting the local history museum that we talked about before, um, the there was a a swimmer from the United States on the 1964 team, right? She actually married somebody from my town, and she started the local swim club that is still around like she started it. What? Yeah, I I, till I read this big thing at the museum, was like, Excuse me, what? There's a local swim club that swims at the Y, right? They used to swim at the pool in the park, but it, you know, leaked, so they had to get a new one. But they there's a pool in the Y and they swim there, and they do, like, it's like a swim club. They do, like, swim meets and stuff. And she started that club, and she was a swimmer in the 90s for Tokyo Olympics. That's awesome. Yeah, right. It's really cool. I was like, well, that's neat. That a very interesting tie in. Okay, there you go. So we are moving into our number one spots for this correct okay, um, for me, there's really only one answer, yeah, for what is the best of the people movie? I saw a lot of other lists on the internet, and they did not have this movie at number one, and so they're just the most untrustworthy. Yes sing I've ever seen my life. Brands are like, there's only one answer. The answer for me, is cool. Running is cool. That's it, that that has to be it. That has to there's no other answer, right? Like, it's the best living movie ever, right? It has the like, unlikely underdog ish story. It has the redemption of John Candy, right? It has all this stuff, but, like, it does it in a way, it is not just, like, abrasive and annoying, like the characters actually have personality, right? Like, yes, yes, it is, yeah, I don't know. Like, it's just the I, I sat for about 20 minutes and tried to figure out how I could make my numbers three, two and one just be different. Acts of cool. Runnings fair and is, is how good I think this movie is at representing I think what we are trying to get at with what an Olympic movie should be great. I understand that there was a lot of artistic Liberty taken with the storytelling. And not all this is historically factual, blah, blah, but it's a story and it's hilarious and really good. Yeah, you have to you, like we've talked about a lot, right? You have to be able to adapt these things to the medium, right? And a movie is a certain type of medium, and your story needs to have certain things that are good for movie, right? And I think, but the overall message of, like, Okay, well, we didn't do the sprinting thing, right, which is awesome. Obviously, what Jamaica is known for in the Olympics, right? It's big sprinter powerhouse, right? Kind of, historically, not so much this year, summer Olympics kind of, kind of a downtime for Jamaica. So looking forward to next time guys, let's get them. But like, so it's the big, big Springer powerhouse, and so like to the pivot in that part of me is hilarious, right? They're like, what about bobsledding? Like, excuse me, what? I really like that part. So, yeah, I just think it really does embody, like, the spirit of the Olympics, like what we talked about the beginning, like the the overcoming adversity, the coming together as a team, the working together as a team part, like really pushing yourself and trying, you know, all this stuff, like trying to be the best in your thing. This is like what the Olympics are about, right? Like we talked about, this is what people tune in the Olympics. In the Olympics for, and that's what this movie is. That's, that's just it, just bottled it, like, put it out there. Doesn't matter that you don't win the gold medal, right? Boilers for Cool Runnings, sorry, yeah, it doesn't matter that they don't win, like it does. Who cares? You don't you do not care that they didn't win the medal. No, right? The important, the, you know, this is kind of the thing that gets a little bit annoying at the end of the Olympics, because, like, they've got all these people talking about, like, the medal count and like, all this stuff. But, like, really, like, for a lot of people, being at the Olympics is the win, right? Like you're there, you did the thing. You overcame so much, and you did so much to just get here in the first place. Like that is a win, right? Yeah. And I think we forget about that, especially in the United States, we think about like, the medals only. It seems like not all the time, but those Olympic stories are really important, right? This year on the Olympic coverage with like, No Bob Costas, like, no Mary Carrillo, like, nobody's talking about like, the personal stories behind people the Olympics, right? Like that is a a letdown, because that's what it's really about, right? These people that, like, are overcoming stuff, or, like, just working and training and doing all this crazy stuff to in, like, sports that you never hear about, ever other than during the Olympics, and you don't get to see and so you don't get to know their story. And then when they bring that to the forefront and throw that up there, and you get to hear about it, that's just like, what makes the Olympics, like extra cool? And so I think that's what like cool writing is about. Embodies that whole kind of spirit, plus it's hilarious, right? Like this, that's the other part. That's great. It has humor. Like I said, all the characters have personality. You know what? Movie doesn't have personality, and other characters, boys at the boat, right? That is what I was thinking when I was watching that movie. I was like, all these people are interchangeable, and I don't even know their name, right? Like, yes, I immediately forgot all these people and have no idea really what is or I never knew it in the first place. They just, like, mentioned it once, and then they were just like, also there. Like, aha, that doesn't happen in cool writings, right? You know exactly who these people are. You know, all their individual motivations, you know, all this different stuff, right? That's, I just like that. It's the best. I don't have much to add to this, other than, again, I was like, how, like, how do I break this in three acts? How do I make it sure that it's like, well, it's not, not Cool Runnings, and draw this out as long as possible. But no, it's, very good. You laugh a lot, and I, too, like the fact that at the end, it is not about the winning, it's about the characters, the stories. It's not even like, oh, it's about the lessons we learned along the way, right? It's just No, these are people who just tried and were able to come around one thing together, and tried really hard, and sometimes even when you try really hard, you don't win, but you do win. Like, that's at the point, yeah, yeah. Like, the end when they're, like, carrying the sled across thing. Like, that's really cool. Like, that's a very cinematically beautiful moment, right? Like, I don't care how historically inaccurate it may or may not be like that is a beautiful moment on film, like watching them all like happy and content that they were there and they did a thing and they finished the race, right? Because sometimes just finishing the race is important, you know, that's a big deal. And so. Yeah. Plus, I quote this movie a lot. Anytime you have to do a countdown, right? You're like, 321, you're like, you there. Trust me. Trust me. Stay with me, everybody. Yes, it happens. That's part of my lexicon. So, you know, how can you now put it on the movie has affected your vocabulary? I feel like you have to put it on the list, right? It's mandatory. You have to absolutely I agree, I agree. So yes, I full, fully endorsed this one for sure. So no, I again, I came at this going, how, how do I pick movies and aren't Cool Runnings? And then once I've picked Cool Runnings, how do I have a numbers two and three? So yep, it all true. Now all works out. There you go. So, wonderful, wonderful, indeed. I agree. I like this a lot. I agree that there need to be better Olympic movies. So I thought it was fun, but it was hard. It was a lot harder than I thought it was good agree, because I was like, what could be more fun about telling stories in the Olympics? Apparently, they do their darndest to make it boring. And yes, that's the other reason why cool readings obviously wins. Because it's not Gour the whole time, right? It's not just like serious people talking like mood. There's no like moody music, like underplaying, like weird tension undertones through them. Yes, I agree, right, yes. Well, nice. Well, I will, yeah, always rewatch Cool Runnings Absolutely. Well. In closing, here, I have a haiku to lead us out and I am going to go to bed. Okay, so haiku classwork waits in line, no printer or paper, dreams inkless. Days, goodbye. I was really impacted by your story, Lexi, but I feel that it was the cover art. It was like you really felt my pain here, every every moment, just very stark in my mind. So hopefully this movie right then I continue to haunt my dreams, photo of a printer, list school. I'm very sorry I did not mean to affect them thusly, but it's okay. It's okay. Tell me So Megan got it, yes, honey. Well, we will, we will set it there next week. We will pick back up with the next three chapters of our book, and we will keep rocking it. So, all right, good, Joy Florida. Don't forget the sunscreen. Don't forget sunscreen or the stingray shuffle when we're out there in Yes, practicing, and we've been working on that, so we were all set to go. So yes, some photos. All right, Love you, love you. Bye, you.