Brandon is trying to work on stopping. Collin reports on his first week of “unemployment”. Aaron is eating. We discuss more on bowling after Brandon’s recent experience, plus a deep dive into the two different categories of Olympic events.

Brandon bought a bike, but is NOT skid stopping
A flip flop hub single speed
Collin’s week of “unemployment”
Dog walking
Vague is good
Kids on golf carts
Aaron is eating
Practicing practice
A waxed classroom
He’s deciding where to put Australia
Having a schedule
Brandon went bowling!!!
Tiered Bowling Lanes in Springfield
- Enterprise Lanes was the good one
- Battlefield Lanes
- Lighthouse Lanes
- Sunshine Lanes...was not
Partial Bowling Alley
AKA MoJo’s…
He was a pin setter!
We’ve been watching the Olympics
Track racing is bizarre
Score more or go fast
Golf is not a sport
Random Olympic sports…
Preparing for Winter Olympics
TOP five fave Summer Olympics events

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Collin, Aaron

Collin 00:05

Welcome to Oh, brother, podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your host, Brandon, Collin. And Aaron. On this week's show. Partial bowling alley. Hello, ha. Oh,

00:27

you know, it's going. Yes. pretty hot. So I'm trying to not go very much. That's my plan currently. Yeah. Really kicked on a lot. Lot.

Collin 00:48

Yeah, it was weird. It was like, Oh, you know, 8588 8595? Like what? No. So stopping messes? Yeah. How's the I've been working on your skid slides and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. Not quite. Not quite skid sliding. not quite there. Yeah. Yeah. Not a first day thing, right. Oh. By the first day, it was just tweaking, like, Oh, these handlebars need to come this way. Oh, this has to do like, all that weird little stuff, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So Brandon bought a bike. I guess we should give that background here. Yes, again. And it's a flip flop hub. singlespeed. Which is pretty cool. Yeah. We have around the fixed gear side right now. And seeing what it's like. I've been very fascinated by those. For like, a long time. I feel like I've been thinking about this for like, several years now. Right? Yeah, 100%. Same. Things are like I've been thinking about it for a long time. Like, but because I'm like, very, because I me, I think about it for a while. And then I like completely forget about it for several months. And now think about it for a little while. And then like it goes, You know what I mean? That's how I roll with lots of things. So like, December, I was like, You know what? I was gonna do it. Whatever. I'm gonna go for it. And so, yeah, I got one. Put it all together. Got some stuff, right. I had to buy a wrench. Special wrench, right. Get your lock ring wrench. Got to have one of those. So your, you know, gear stays in place. That's important. Key. But yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty fun. So far, I've just been riding around the neighborhood, not going very far afield. Anything like that? How I was the putting together did it come in pieces of it come partially assembled, is partially assembled. So like, all the cranks and everything were on there. Basically, I had to do like, seat bars. wheel. pedals. Boom. That was it. Okay, not terrible. not terrible. And there's all that adjusting like the chain tension. I'm gonna have a little too tight right now the wheel, so I might have to mess with that a little bit. Next step, but yeah, it was all basically there. And I said, bolted together. Oh, the brake edit. Put the front brake on fiddle with that for a while. Good. Because I'm legally required by the state of Missouri to have a brake brake. Yeah, you can't you have to have a brake on. I looked it up. So I know a lot of guys plus. I need it. Cuz I don't know how to work it right. Yeah, not No, no, no skid stopping,

04:09

especially when you're trying to go down a hill. And slow down downhill. It's helpful.

Collin 04:15

Right? Yeah. So I had to adjust that too. Because I put it on there. And it was like his break is doing nothing you like grab it. And it was just like it was so open that when you pull it, it was just like, sort of close on the wheel. Adjustable tension on the rim. Yeah, so I had to adjust intention there. So it slams right down now. Right. Good to go. Love it much, much better. feels like it's actually doing something. You know, that's useful.

04:52

But it's a weird, it isn't really weird. It's a weird feeling. Having the direction Drive, like fixed experience for the first time ever? is a weird one.

Collin 05:08

Well, first first strange first time in a long time. Because Well, I guess well, yeah, I guess the when you have it in the fix not flipflop not. Yeah. Okay. Not the free wheel. Yeah. Yeah, cuz I think about that it's like my, you know, my BMX bike from back in the day as a single speed bike, you know, right. But it's not direct. Yeah. But the fixed one is that's a weird. It's a very bizarre sensation. For me, first of all, first of all, I haven't ridden a bike in a long time either. Yeah, there's so like, we're doing a double whammy. Right. Right, actual bike, and then new kind of bike. But mostly, it was the low maintenance like, easy. Durability thing that that made me it was like the, the most intriguing part of this whole situation, right? maintenance like zero, right? Oil, the chain, boom, got it like? Oh, yeah, no, absolutely. I right there with you. That's one of the reasons I really strongly considered it. Because of the mean, right? It's like, Okay, what what is there going to break here? Um, not a whole lot. So, I didn't pull the trigger on, on on mine. So I'm very interested to hear how you're doing. Yeah, I think you should be exciting. Especially because then you would still have like, another bike to write. It would be at a slightly more sensible way. That's what most people do it. Right? They like have a bike and then they go, Oh, hey, I would also like to have like this. Not like for your soul on the bike. Yeah. But again, cuz I want to just for like, mild exercise, and like, not like not looking to like, travel many miles. You know? Just right now just bobbing up and down this road out here is like so cool. And then you know, again, once you if there is more fitness that comes then you could go further, I guess. As right now, not going very far. Then you're entering it's weird that like, you look at things differently. Just on biking, right? Because you're like oh, well just I especially this bike because you're like oh that roads pretty flat. Oh skidding really good point. Yeah. Or like even like big, long, slow, gradual clouds. Like it's really odd. The sensation going from that then when you do find out whether it's really flat like this is super easy to pedal right now. What's going on? He's like, doo doo doo doo doo doo. Mild inclines, you're like, What's going? Yeah,

Aaron 08:16

my quads are going, whoa, whoa, whoa,

Collin 08:19

what is this? Why do you didn't tell us? We were gonna do this today? What he is not where we planned. We don't we don't do this. What's happening? Well, I'm sure to also, you know, because you are constantly pedaling, you also have constant pressure and forces on on right on all aspects of your leg. Because they're not no one muscles able to take a break. Because as soon as you start, yeah, you're doing resistance. Because it's trying to coast or it's trying to slow down. That's the wildest part is when you are going to like slow down when you start pedaling slower. And the bike is like, No, I don't want it. You know what I mean? Like it's not ready to do that yet. So you have this like, pressure from the opposite direction. Sure. going that way. Really weird. Weird thing. There's a lot to get used to all at once, plus, also toe cages on a pedal. That's not an experience that I'm super familiar with at all. Oh, I'd either. I'd never liked those. It's not so bad. Once you get going, like you sort of need them on the fix because of the pressure in the opposite direction. Everything. It's kind of mandatory. I know a lot of people just do like straps. They do like platform like BMX style pedals with a with a strap. Yeah, that's the thing I've seen. This one just came with the tow cages so I wasn't like in a hurry to just like buy All kinds of weird upgrades for things that I don't know if I need yet or not. That was no, we'll get you some clips every noon. Have you clipping in and out? Well, yeah, that's another thing, right? Like, you just buy some, but then you got to buy a shoe and hold things. That's, that was the part that Oh, it was always frustrating because I had the clips was I wanted to, you know, like the coffee shop by the park or bikes. And it was like, but if I do that, I've got shoes. Yeah, that I've got to figure out what to do with. And it's like, well, that is the one. And they're like, well, I've got a backpack. But what else can I put on? Yeah. And he's like, yeah, that's hotter. Right? Yeah. That is the benefit of the tow cage, or the strap, right? Yeah, whatever. Like, you can just wear a normal person shoes. So if you were going to go to a shop, which technically there are some in biking range of me. So but not yet built up to that yet. Plus, I got to get a bike lock. And I'll ask as many as whole thing. And I also talk about no bike infrastructure around here at all like so if you go somewhere. What do you fix your bicycle to so it doesn't get stolen. That's a whole other thing. Like random fence. light pole, I added a Lego on some places I know, in Arlington had regulations about what you were allowed chain a bike to? And they wouldn't if we have that. Yeah, they wouldn't. You might check my check. They wouldn't allow you to chain to a bench. Well, or if they would give me something else to chain it to. That was my always thing like, Okay, what am I supposed to do? That times when they when they didn't have that? I just brought my bike inside. And everyone glared at me. I was like, well, I can't. What am I supposed to do? Is bring it in the coffee shop like Hey, guys. Exactly. Like this is not leaving it out there. You're trying to create right with the hipsters like making your coffee? Your I am with bike? Right? Yeah, take that. Yeah, that would be an interesting option. Especially if I'm just gonna ride around the road, the clipless thing. But then again, you gotta have a shoe and whole thing. So keep it like this for a while. And see, like I said, in the tech measure, the saddle is tech. That's going to be the thing that needs to be upgraded. First, I think, what do you think? Again? I don't really know yet. I just started looking around. But the one that came on is like, it's very, like race inspired. Yeah, right, as most of you can tell that. They sort of looked at like, they looked at some of the physique racing saddles and we're like,

Aaron 12:53

yeah, we'll make that but hard. Cool.

Collin 12:59

Yet, a Brooks B. Seven, eight. There. Are those those like, vulcanized rubber? Like the one those ones? I know. There's no they're leather. Leather. Oh, I looked at the not leather ones. Okay. c 17. The Cat Cat Cat be something something? Yep. Look at those cuz I heard a lot of people use those on like, every bike conceivable. Yeah, they just people just use that. Yeah. Yeah, they do. They they're pretty, pretty standard. And you look at them and you go. How can that be comfortable? Right. There's no padding. It was a pretty Flexi, right? That's the theme leaf like the all in the shape. That's what you've got. Yeah, that because the leather ones gives you the more classic look. But it is again, the blacks and they've been they've been but after a while, but the C seven. Yeah, they do flak, and they they've really nailed the shape of how it is going to feel. Again, you've got to make sure that you've got it set up for the right writing posture. Well, that's Yeah, yeah. But you can fiddle with that. You know? Yeah. On the once you get on there. Yeah. Anyway, I Yeah, that would be a good option. Yeah, I looked at that, because I was looking at some stuff. And a lot of people are just like, I was looking at like pictures of bikes. And that's like one of the ones that just you just see over and over and over and over again. Like they do look really cool. So that's about us, right? Well, yeah, that's the other thing. Like not that we're we're vain in what we're doing here. But also But also we do want things to look cool. That is important. Well, that's like, I don't know, whenever I was looking for my bike. It was like, trying to find something. It's kind of the same approach that I took to whenever we were looking for a Honda. And we ended up buying the the Ford was what something like, what is this going to tell me about like my personality when somebody says these lists? Like, what's it? What's that? What's that messaging to them? And I was trying to figure out like, what car met my personality or like booked something. And then of course, I was like, well, Honda, everyone, we were looking for the car. And it was like, I want a four door. sedan, not Honda. And everyone was like, Why? Why would you? Why would you not want to hide? Yeah, if that's your category. If you're like, I really want a four door sedan like, yeah. So you want in the cord? And I was like, No, no, but I don't know what you do. And I was like, No, I don't. And then when I drove one, I was like, Oh, I do. Like do. I mean, I guess the literal only, like the other benchmark standard is like, Toyota Camry, Camry, right? That's the other one. Like, I want affordable car. There's not a Honda. Toyota, like,

Aaron 16:28

thank God. Yeah,

Collin 16:38

there's a lot of considerations of that, right? Because there's like a billion different, like, back to the bike thing. There's like a whole bunch of them. How'd you find? Right? Yeah, the world of when I when I did my research, the world of flip flop hub singlespeed. Is is deep and dark. And trying to distinguish from one to another is absolutely, basically. So I want Yeah, well, in that, especially in the like, really one of the I bought up in price a little bit? Because like, at the bottom level, they are all exactly the same. Yeah. And it probably doesn't matter at all. Which one. So part of it does come down to that, Oh, this one looks cool. But then you look at him, he started digging into the space, like these are all the same thing. These are literally the same components. These are literally the same. It's all I bought up a little bit because I was looking for like, like thinking long term. Right? So I was I was already thinking like, okay, it let's say that I am going to ride this bike for a while. Right, a long time I was looking for I was kind of thinking about it as like a modular type situation. Right, so like, especially on a bike like this, where there's like no parts, you know, I mean, like literally two moving parts. Yep, that's it. All the little stuff makes a big difference. So I feel like okay, well. If you're thinking about it, like, this is a bike where handlebar voice all of a sudden makes a huge difference. Yep. Right. And handlebars are really easy to change out. Right? If you have a headset that is like a standard size. So I was looking for that. Right? Does it have like standardized parts, right, because some of them some of those cheap like fixed gear stuff, like they use like weird sizes, you know, or they use that smaller size. It's like the old steel frame you know, with like the quill stem stuff they'll use like that size. So like but you can you can not get the variety for everything there. So I was looking for that. Right, like do these have like nice standard size of headset seatpost This one has the the on the chain ring. The chain ring is that track chain ring, bolts center diameter. So if you want another chain ring, you just bolted on done. nice, easy, okay, right? Because a lot of them use us smaller size. So like you can't get other parts to switch out. So if you wanted it to go up a changing size or down to changing size on some of those bikes, you can't do it. Right. But on this one because of the size that it is, you just buy another chainring unbolted Bolton Nunan. Boom. Done. That's it. Yeah, which really which is really again When you're doing it from the modularity, and it's interesting, because that was my same thought process, whenever I was looking at them was I was mostly concerned about looking at the frame material, making sure it was it was a good quality material, because that was the thing that was gonna last 15 years. But yeah, right. That's the other reason I picked this one too, because a lot of the cheap ones are there like steel, and apparently steel is real. That's what I hear from everybody. But the cheap ones are heavy. Yeah. Right. They're like, not the best quality. It's like the standard, like 4041 30 or whatever. But it's like, it's heavy. Right? The tubing diameter is big. And it's heavy. So that's why I went with the aluminum one. Yeah. Right. Partially because it's still it's cheaper. Because like, the good light steel is expensive, right? Some of those like track by frame sets or that stuff. But then that's way expensive, right. So I want to I went with aluminum because it's lighter. But it's nice aluminum. This one's really cool. I got that I love the one I bought is like the raw finish. So it's just like, got a clear coat on it. That's it. So I like that personally. But no. Yeah. But other welds are nice. And looking good in there. It's all nice. So that's what I yeah. That's why I wanted that's why what the aluminum plus aluminum you can do this, like hydroformed tubes, they look cool and everything, but it's lighter. So this thing like weighs nothing, but you just pick it up. Okay do to do. So that was another thing. Yeah. Because I'm already kind of big and out of shape. Do I want a big giant heavy bike? No, maybe not. But this. actually consider those. For sure. Yeah. And even if my skill level, you know, a few pounds doesn't make a difference, but like 10 pounds does. So. Yeah, you're talking about real change. Yeah, right. Talking about like, five plus pounds of difference is that can make a big deal of enjoyment. Right?

22:40

of when you're going up that hill, I'm going, I'm going to die or I can make it right.

Collin 22:48

Especially in the while you're trying to build fitness category. You know, you don't want to be discouraged by heavy, slow things. So yeah, that's kind of what I was saying about the modularity of the I could, you know, thinking about a deadline, like, oh, what if I And plus, it's, it's more experimental, especially with things like handlebars, because that's just like, Oh, these handlebars are not expensive. But throw them on there. We go for it. And it changes a lot about how it rises everything. So thinking in the future, that'd be kind of cool, right? Yeah, cuz, right now you've got the flat bars on there. If you go to the drop. You know, that is a whole different story. Yeah, right. It's a big different riding position, all kinds of stuff. With the fixed gear, you can also do that, like, bull horn bar situation, right? Like, all those crazy like track bar things or like, those insane like pista bars, like the big drops are like, normal compact row drop stuff, like, you know, all that, but just like a bunch of different categories. They'll be cool. They could like experiment with later on. And change up a lot with a small change. Yeah. Love it. That's really exciting. Um, great to hear that. Yeah. Looking forward to it to be slightly less hot so I can go right. Gosh, I know. I didn't go today. I'm not calling tomorrow either. We're under heated visor II until tomorrow night at 10 o'clock, though. Yeah, same. So not going to be writing tomorrow writing? For sure. Yeah, wait till Sunday or Monday. Maybe think that maybe? I would. So yeah. My big exciting week. This week. Yeah, we've been I've been insanely busy this week with doing lots of drop ins with no job, bra. weird how you make that your only business? Is it your only job? And obviously you have more job to do so. So weird, right? Who saw that coming when it comes to timing? You know, I have I keep telling Megan like, I've been unemployed since last Friday. And that I don't like the bookings that we've got even since then. Would have been literally impossible to with that job. Yeah, yeah. Just like, Okay, this is it's, it's insane. I scrolled this thing here scrolling through my calendar, looking over the next few weeks. Ah, plot. Li, but it's been good. I've been one thing I noticed. We're not quite full week of unemployment. But I have build my, all of my like exercise rings on my watch. Every single day. We got dog walking, which I never used to do with him for I was at the job a job. And it just feels totally different. At the end of the day, just good though. I've been really enjoying it. And it's really funny. I have been walking the dog to the same neighborhood twice a day, morning and evening. While the owners are out and kind of in behind the Country Club, though. They're kind of a cloistered communities, everybody. Yeah, give a stare you kind of do. Um, anyway, I've been waving and talking to this lady like multiple times throughout this week, both morning and evening, for various reasons, because I walked by her house and he's usually out there. He has got this lab and talk to you about her lab, her son's lab and, you know, joke with her about other stuff and the weather and you know what I do? And yet this morning, I was walking out of the house with the dog to go on the walk. But she had already started her walk and walked right out. Looked at if she was you carry? I was like, No, he goes this Gary live there. And I was like, yeah, and she just gave me like the weirdest look. Cuz I had introduced myself into Hi, I'm calling I'm the dog walker with monkey punch pet care. And I'm walking dogs. Like her total demeanor. Like completely changed.

Aaron 27:49

Like, Oh,

Collin 27:51

that makes so much sense. Because blah, blah, CEO that understands why you're okay. It was just really, really funny. Like, Carrie. No, just there. Yeah. It doesn't even matter if you just said, Yep. And then left like walked. So here's the thing of something that I I get it potential customer I understand. But I'm, I had it drilled into me growing up that if your home loan, you never let anybody else know that. And so I'm in this weird situation. And it's something that we've dealt with over the past 10 years. But it's good to tell people that we are walking the dog because the owners way and it's a transition into how we Yeah. Okay. But I also feel uncomfortable doing that about letting other people know that this house is vacant is a vacant Yeah, exactly. That Yeah. So it's kind of this weird line of, I don't want to lie to people, obviously. So this lady, I just kind of went in and was like, Oh, I'm just walking their dog to date. You know, morning and evening this week. And yeah, get into the why. It's vague is good. I like I like big beggary is good. be helpful. Yes. It was just it was just very interesting. Because then she asked me, he said, Oh, to like, so I'm explaining like what we do and how we do it. And she was Oh, so if like somebody needed go to the airport, but you take them. I was like, at one point when I was describing Petcare, did you think that included person taxi like, Ma'am, I'm not an Uber. It was so bizarre like how these threads were combined in their her brain. You could charge extra for that service, just saying. hour and 40 minutes away. No, that's true. Not Not for where you currently, if you live somewhere closer to an airport, if it was like in the same town as you, then you could be like, Yeah, do it boom. But then scheduling the pickup would be a hassle. It'd be a whole thing. Maybe it's about if you don't do that, I'll just leave that to the actual Uber people. And Lyft No, we only take you to the right. We don't pick up all the drop off, no pick up sorry. Above is the easy part that pick up too much. Yeah. The other thing that I have noticed about this is so this is the community behind the Country Club as a part of it. And I'm kids live a totally different life in this part of the town than other children. And I will give you the shining example. I've been walking this dog every night for the past week. And every night. There is like a mongrel horde of golf carts. That drive driven by 14 year olds. As they get together and just cruise in their golf carts, and they go from like, house to house and hang, and they go to the next house, and they do stuff and then drive and this is at really loud volumes. And these roads there, they're like one and a half lanes, there are no streetlights, they're kind of meandering. And there's, you know, it's, it's just bizarre, like I'm just being passed by kid kid kid, and there's like, five kids in a golf cart. You know, there's like, this is a totally different life then. Mostly weird, just a weird window into the world of what it's like to live there. And what that means, or kids growing up, I was just, I really had a lot of like, I don't know, like, future implications for like perceptions of the world and a reality of like, What a weird way to grow up or like that's just like, that's a unique thing. That not is very strange kid driving a golf cart around. Here, some of them drive them around on the golf course. Because like, well, at least when we were at the Fourth of July thing, we went out on the golf course, you know, and there were some children driving around golf carts. Because there's houses right next to the golf course. And then imagine that's where they were from. They were cruising around on the little golf cart path thing

32:46

in the evening, but it is very odd gang of roving golf carts.

Collin 32:53

They're having a good time. They're waving. They're being polite. You know, it's all this stuff, but I can't I've just like for now. Here's another three years, but it was just Yeah, right. Again, this i i've been struggling with this like like, wow, like, that's so weird. And as I'm walking, you can see different kids who are they'll drive their golf cart to their friend's house to then get on their friend's golf cart to then go pick up other other friends from their other location. And they'll just go from garage to garage. It's very odd. I confuse that Yeah. rotting folk golf cart. Yeah, for that, man. That is crazy. Very strange every day ahead of this going on. It's probably right. I'll just also and you know, each, you can kind of tell it's also it's also very weird. This is the things that I picked up on of like, you can tell very clearly tell that although the the the lifestyle that it would take to have access to a golf cart, then really drive around with the safety of your subdivision, which is like a sprawling place because it's Yeah, they have a lot of spaces areas. But then even within that there's like the class system of like, the kind of golf cart of like, is yours, the bog standard one that you could find on a golf cars, or is it like the Customize blue paint with like, slightly larger rims? And a stereo speaker system built into it? Yeah. Like those people kind of hang out together and then the like, again, weird class systems within a class system. Yeah. What and then like, the weird part is kids, the kids with like, Good, nice golf cards become like the de facto leaders, right because everybody wants to hang out with their golf. Part, right. So like, everybody drives to their house and they drive that one around. Yep. You know, like a little. It's the show car, whatever, you know. Yeah. It's a microcosm of things. It's very strange. Again, this is where I like walking the dog. And thinking about again, all these little like, spiraling out implications of like, what does this mean for this child? 15 years later? Yeah, right. Like, how does this impact the psyche of your expectations and views and perceptions of the world? And how people relate to you? I don't know. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Aaron,

Aaron 35:55

Aaron, are you here? Yeah, I've just been muted this whole time. I've been eating dinner.

Collin 36:01

Nice.

Aaron 36:02

I got home right at nine, and had had enough time to get set up. Get dinner, and I've just been chowing down.

Collin 36:12

Just some time to talk. You're welcome. So how is how is practice been? Totally not cold.

Aaron 36:24

So So this week in general, it is it kind of feels I kind of feel a little bad. Because what I had done my last day is tomorrow with state agency to and I started my new job. As a teacher and a coach. This entire week has been a stru of you know, getting my stuff together getting organized getting ready to turn in. However, some other people have also resigned. But they're their reasons were a lot different than mine. Mine was Hey, notes, it's an opportunity. coatings, what I want to do, they are leaving because they're upset with like, administration, kind of all this stuff. And like all that's coming out of coming out of the Woodworks and I'm just sitting there like, I just, I just hate it. I just need to turn my computer in. Yeah. So I'm dealing with that. And so so for me, when I left, I was gonna leave on good terms, I was gonna, or I am gonna leave on good terms. I was gonna get all my cases turned in every day, boom, boom, boom. And so there for the first time in the over a year and a half, two years, and I've been with the agency. There is no case on my caseload, I none of my cases will transfer to other workers. That's not what's gonna happen with some of these my other colleagues,

Collin 37:51

it goes out of bad circumstances. Yeah, out of

Aaron 37:56

out of a team of nine of our supervisors left, so someone replaced them. So there's me. And then one worker to worker, three worker, and then possibly fifth one pretty soon. So out of nine, we're losing like five. So it's going to be quite interesting with the transition. So me, I've just been kind of doing my own thing by then. And then I get a little text messages like, Hey, I just resigned, I'm like, Oh, what? Okay. Well, I feel better. And so they're, they're going to go ahead have their hands full coming up that transition. my classroom has been waxed, or at least the hallway to my classroom has been waxed. So I have not actually been able to physically go in the classroom. Until intil. Bro, so I'm going to have a last lunch kind of thing with most of my co workers and then I was going to run down there to, to school, actually get some stuff set up, make it look relatively presentable workup, some stuff. And then in the state of Oklahoma, there's only restricted times and it's, you know, across the nation. There's restricted times where you can practice so what we've been doing now or in during most of the summers, we've had what's called a Pride Week. Work is

Collin 39:30

right,

Aaron 39:31

yes. And so out but this week, we're pretty much doing weightlifting, maxing we did the bench press the day we're doing clean. Please know how clean are doing something tomorrow. And then next week, we start like at VIP kid camp. And then that will put us calendar so this week, day And then next week, I believe on the third and fourth. I'll have those camps. And then I have orient new teacher orientation with the school. And then the ninth is a teacher's show up. And then boom, the 12th is day one, which, thankfully, is on a Thursday. So it gets us two days to get acclimated, get set up for the weekend, and so your first day of school is the 12th. Yes. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So I will be teaching. sixth, and seventh grade geography. Sixth grade is more kind of Western, North America, South America, geography stuff. seventh grade is kind of everything else. or wherever I decide to put Australia. I'll be teaching, I'll be teaching that I'm also teaching sixth grade keyboarding. Weirdly, um, Oh, boy. I don't know what that is. Typing class. So. So the YouTube and there's a it's called typing calm, which is literally like a free website for teachers, or who anybody that you can literally create a classroom, give the kids a key and have them go at it. So I'll be teaching that. And then I'll be teaching eighth grade US history, which is pretty much from early, you know, American history, all the way up to or passed the Civil War. I don't know where my stuff is, as

Collin 41:40

I think it's usually because the second half is reconstruction to whatever. So yeah, prior to the end of the Civil War in the server, Okay, perfect. So

Aaron 41:49

I got that. And then I have I have all the stuff I'm going to take to the school tomorrow, which I have all, I still have plenty, plenty of books here at home. But I'm going to take a lot of like the history, geography books that I have down there just like a person's face and be like, Look, here's the resources.

Collin 42:11

I have, I have a shelf like that behind me. That's what I did today. I went to school today, and I sort of unpacked some of my stuff. And I did that I have that shelf behind my desk, where my personal books are that I just use this for, like reference stuff, right? Yeah.

Aaron 42:24

It's all I'll bring those down. And then what else so there's that? Right now if you hear clicking in the background, I am doing the natural, or the national. something something something. courses, which is like if you're on any athletic coach of any kind, you have to take what's called a care prevention course. What you learn like first aid, what do you do for heat stroke? What are some ways to communicate with your athletes. So I am on the second course, and I am 78% complete and this thing has taken me like three days to do. I'm thinking that I have about five more things I need to take. Plus, I need to take like a new teacher orientation thing online. And then I got to take like nothing else, while also trying to, you know, do practice and come up with lesson plans, which I think for the first part, utilizing the book very heavily. Getting the kids kind of set up for expectations. So if I can at least find myself a month I

Collin 43:43

think we'll be fine. That's definitely the first two days is expectation time. Yeah. Yeah. Again, if you want to call me this weekend, we can chat.

Aaron 43:52

I probably will. I'll be home this weekend. Yeah, I've just tried to get get set up. Yeah, it is kinda nice to go from one thing and kind of have like a week ish, to get kind of set up for pacing. Like what I know, it's great to get back into it. So my colleagues that they're leaving their last day or tomorrow, like, oh, would you start a new job like, Oh, we start Monday and like, yeah, I feel a little bit less bad. But it's, it's, it's gonna be exciting. It's gonna be a little bit bittersweet. My my staff that I had was really good. I could call them for anything. I always kept tabs and updates and where my people were. Apparently the other other half of the team was like, all chaos and all over the place. And I'm like, I did know that I feel a little bad now because I'm leaving on good terms. What else is so that's that's going to be a little bit different. I'm still gonna stay in touch with those people. It's kind of like one of those first jobs. I mean, the the other school I was at, I keep in touch with like, two people. That's where I was at before Eskimo Joe's, I still keep in touch with those people, only like a handful of them. But this job, there's a good hand good pick people that I'm going to stay in touch with. You just feel me it just gonna be different. It's gonna be nice actually knowing my schedule, what I'm going to be doing on a day on a daily basis, because yeah, we're having to kind of sit there and be like, Oh, hey, you need to drive an hour to this small town. And you have 30 minutes to get there. Like guys, I'm sorry. What? it'll, it'll be nice to be back in a place that I'm more comfortable with. I just, I just don't know what keyboarding is. So it's a it's gonna be a lot of lesson planning, hopefully over this weekend and get everything so I got plenty of resources. I got plenty of people to contact and call. They just I just got to get my room set up because I have no idea what it looks like. I don't even know there's a whiteboard in there. I think it's really important things to know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Collin 46:14

Call me this weekend. We got talked a little bit about some stuff. So yeah.

Aaron 46:20

can do. But that's been that's been Aaron's week in a nutshell.

Collin 46:25

It's true last weekend. where I was, guess guess what I did? That's right. We went bowling. Potts, what happened out? Yeah, so so Susan's nephews, son, right. So whatever. It was his birthday, he's five. And he wanted to have his birthday at a bowling alley. Fair enough. We went to Nixa and we both I wasn't and I,

46:58

I have not bowled and I'm going to guess approximately 15 years.

Collin 47:06

I read maybe a little more than that. To be honest. Love it. It was around about 50 it was a it was pretty It was fun. We had fun because her her mom came with us and we mean Susan a Shana when and everybody was bowling and yeah, it was pretty good times. Didn't do wonderful. But I also didn't do terrible. So you know, it's good. It's good. Right? Yeah. It took me a long time to remember how bowling works. Right about like, the ninth frame is like,

Aaron 47:39

Oh, right.

Collin 47:41

This is the thing I should be doing. Wow.

47:47

It was uh, yeah, it was weird. I was like, wow, I haven't done this in forever. bowling alleys

Collin 47:57

look different. It's not like, smoky. And gross. Right. And the lights are on. Like, it's been 30 years since the 80s. Yeah, yeah. You haven't been able to smoke in a building for ever now. So like, that's different. chakra it's one of my strong memories of bowling eyes when I was younger as being like, we're gonna go bowling. I can't see. It's dark. Smoky in here.

Aaron 48:30

What was the one that was open? That was close to the dad's first workplace.

Collin 48:36

You guys remember that? lighthouse Lane? It was like No, no, that was enterprise lean enterprise.

Aaron 48:40

Enterprise lane. Yeah, that

Collin 48:42

was a nice one. Right? Yeah. One Springfield, this is outdated information listeners. So don't judge Springfield bowling alleys. On this information currently. However, there was definitely a tiered structure for establishment bowling establishments in Springfield, right. That was the ones that you wanted to go to. And the ones that you like, didn't so like. I would put enterprises at the top. That was like the nice one is all real clean, I think some of the newest building. Right. And the one I went to a lot just because it was closer was like Battlefield lanes. I was like a middle kind of men. Right? lighthouse lanes is open for a long time. It was pretty nice in there. It was like the clean one. And then there was like sunshine lanes, which is the one that you did not want to go to. Yeah. Yeah. Again, this is old information. I don't know if you want to go there now or not. We're just gonna go ahead and but I think it's been, it's probably still that's the one you didn't really want to go to. I don't know if there's more bowling alleys. Now. or less or I have no idea on chain lanes is still there all right, it looks like Battlefield nine still even there what I think they change that building map it's not there anymore is it? No battlefield I'm pretty sure battlefield lane is gone yeah it's permanently closed and I forget what it is it's a full on I think it's not a bowling it but it's an entertainment complex or gain is like Ah, it's not bowling away with it. lighthouse lanes is still open enterprise I don't know I don't know. Enterprise lions still enterprise oh it's called enterprise Park plane. Oh yeah no. Fancy schmancy they have back alley Bar and Grill. bad name. Bad. That is a bad name. Why go to black alley anything? No. Why would you name it back? No, no, definitely see, that knocks it down on the tear list. right because now it does sound seedy even if it isn't. Yeah. back alley. Unless of course they put it in the back alley behind the building. Yeah, then it's just sort of weird sentence right. Otherwise put it back there.

Aaron 51:23

No, after after working. After working in a partial bowling alley. I could say that. Like they're such a weird like unique experience. They're such such a pain to work with.

Collin 51:38

Here. I've never heard

51:43

the partial bowling alley is a weird friend sentence. Because I was in that I went in there. I know. Never for the listeners are true listeners who's never been to Eskimo Joe's.

Aaron 51:58

Oh no. So this so This place used to be called Mojo's sister company to Eskimo Joe. So, theory of Eskimo. So whenever I was in when I was a college lad. I worked at a place called Mojo's. It was a rock and roll bowling Bar and Grill or rock and roll whiskey bowling Bar and Grill. So it was a it was a lot of qualifiers. It was a restaurant that was catered more towards like a whiskey establishment but we didn't really sell that much whiskey so it just was more of a bar restaurant and then slapped on next to it was a four lane bowling alley. They have like three games for a quote unquote arcade room. And that was it. You can eat and bowl and drink at the same time. Some other some other places. There's a lot of big places in Oklahoma City that are like full on like bar restaurants with bowling alleys that are like super fancy. We were they were nice like our restaurant was nice, but it just wasn't like you didn't come there for the bowling. I don't equate bowling with the word fancy. Oh well one of these big places they're like really high tech their their food's really good. The places really expensive because you get a lot of bang for your buck. Our Place like we had we had a lot of you know kids birthday parties. You know late night you know group of people would come in and bowling drink a little bit. problem was we didn't really spend that much on getting good quality bowling equipment. And so they broke time. And there'll be times I'd be sitting there like behind the bar working and to give a complete picture. We were never like super busy. On like on a busy day slash game day. I would maybe walk out with like 60 $80 equate that to a game day at Eskimo Joe's like a walk out with like 300 bugs. No problem. Yeah. So there there's a great discrepancy, a great difference. So there'd be times I'd be like back behind the bar doing my thing. And then someone would come up like, hey, the bowling alley is broken.

Collin 54:30

And they did you just have to reenact the 1950s and just be like the pin boy, and just like jump around behind the thing and settle the pins and throw the ball.

Aaron 54:42

I'd have to like grudgingly walk down the long corridor that everyone could see if people want it to go down there. Getting going like that like the back you know sketchy backroom, and then I'd have to climb on top of the equipment which there was like a little ladder access thing. To go to the lane and open was jammed in there. Or like there's a ball that was stuck by the, you know, there's sometimes like I had to like, if you were down on the other end like watching where the pins would come up, you would just see like two pages like drop, that would be me and I'd be like, sit there. So I would just come out and just be covered in like just grease and like oil and go to your bowling lanes fixed. And then like two days, like a is broken in the game. So sometimes, it would, it would get to the point where they're like, hey, Aaron, we'll just pay you just to have a bowling shift. And all you do was just sit back there and either work on homework, or read what I got a lot of reading done. And I would just sit on top of the bowling machine in a chair. And I would sit there and I'd watch it I'd listen. Or someone would text me like Halo lane force not working.

Collin 56:01

So if you were a 15 bonus pin center. sighs great. How exciting is this

Aaron 56:10

some sometimes that job would be would be given to like the high school like host person who's never seen large equipment in their life. If I was just the disgruntled college students go back there and like, come in with rookie. There's what to do like with my cigar like? Yeah, I mean, pretty much. And they were just they were broken all the time. The little bumpers we had were like duct taped together.

Collin 56:37

Yo, this place they had like, this was some high tech nonsense. Alright. So they had a you can set it up to wear it. So like the birthday boy since he's five, he wanted the bumper bowling, like you do. So on the little kiosk thing, no longer that janky telephone pad thing that you used to type your numbers in on the like, ASCII screen, you know, for the deal. This is high def. But if you click the bumper thing, that whenever it was that whenever it was his turn, automatic bumpers would pop up in the lane. And then when he was done, they would fall back they would like go back down to the next person didn't have to have bumpers if they

Aaron 57:23

were supposed to do it was so cool. Hey, are you guys okay with having bumpers hold time cool, because I can't put them down.

57:32

So these were awesome. It's just phase up. And then he was born and there was next person, they would drop back down again.

Collin 57:41

Man, it was cool. Because when I was a kid, I remember they used to be like literally a big giant foam bumper. Yeah, bet. I don't know where they store this thing. But they would just like put it in the gutter. Right? Right. It was just it was just like they're basically fill up the gutter with what looked like a giant pool noodle, basically.

Aaron 58:04

And that was it.

Collin 58:06

So it was like you want bumpers boom. You weren't you can't move them because they're enormous. here and then you had to have been there was like the kid lane because they had the bumpers and then the adult lane. Yes. So this was cool that they raised and lowered like that I hadn't again, I'm very out of date on my bowling technology. So like I had no idea this existed. It's very exciting.

Aaron 58:31

Yeah. I found a picture of my time at there. It's a picture of my friends that I'm sending you guys but in the background you can see that it you know what it was trying to emulate or replicate it like I said, it wasn't very big. It was just kind of air. But it was it was a weird, weird experience.

Collin 58:59

So this picture reminds me of the bowling alley that Nixon had in the White House. Whatever. Right? Just like a small company. Yeah. That was Nixon right? Was that Nixon? Yeah,

Aaron 59:12

yes. He's one where everything was like glow in the dark and

Collin 59:17

the rockin bowl. Yeah, like a rockin ball. It was always like very distracting on the neon colors. Like there was a turn the music up like way loud at Rock table. So like it almost became like, not fun because you'd like want to talk to your friends we had like scream and then

Aaron 59:37

yes, that is pretty much what it was every late night. It was just just that so

Collin 59:49

anytime I was younger, I mean my friends whenever we went bowling, we did not want to go to rock and roll generally because it was like it's so easy. It's like bowling alley music so it's like, either like weird rap music or just like 80s hair metal like that's the only to a bowling alley music. The one we went through on Sunday, by the way, the 80s hair metal variety. So there we go. Nice, perfect, classic bowling alley soundtrack. It's very weird. Very. It's a type type, you know, kind of have that whole thing. It was it was weird because it was like I had been balling it a long time. And it was like instantly recognizable as a thing that I had done before. Yeah, there's some nachos on the table. This is some 80s hair metal on the radio. Yep, this is Yep. Now saying cigarettes in the corner. Yeah, I did that. It was just not smoky. That was the only thing threw me for a minute. I was like, Wow, it's clean in here is weird. Yeah, so that was my big adventures week. We went bowling. You guys been watching Olympic action at all? No, no, I have been I've watched everything. Like it's great.

1:01:29

Yeah, I yeah, we've been watching so much stuff. Great. And awesome.

Collin 1:01:36

We signed up for a free week of Hulu, which has actually been really nice because they have specific channels for for two different sports, and the Olympic all of you have to go hunting them. They don't have to go hunting for them. So I can just go and click on one button and watch cycling. Now. The problem is is that they nice after they air live to kind of disappear. So I can't go back and rewatch them unless I record them. So I try and sit down. Yeah. And go ahead and record stuff. But what these are amazing, is each day, they release a five to like seven minute ilight clip of everything that happened with that sport that day. Oh, we've been wanting to close, like crazy with the kids. That's the perfect amount of length for the kids to watch. And understand. This is what archery is like, this is what Yeah, swimming is like, this is what the equestrian people do. This is what the four routines like, it's just been really nice to get boom, bite sized boom. Instead of having to sit and watch and do the waiting for the scores. And it's, you know, they can make it pretty intense. And then also we don't have to watch commercials. And also I don't have I can avoid all of like the human interest stories. Which while nice, have no interest for kids. And that's true. I like some of those. Right? Like, I like those. That's my favorite part about the Olympics is like Oh, hey, like today, like the fact that like, Ireland won its first ever gold medal and rowing. Sweet. That's cool. I like to know, but for a five year old, just wanted a one that people do as many dives as possible. Within like a seven minute. Yeah, right. Yeah. No, that makes sense. Yeah, that's cool. We then and then that way, we can just kind of go what has been happening, which is one and they're really excited because some of them don't have anything yet. Like the rock climbing. The artistic domain doesn't have anything yet. So they haven't done them yet. They haven't done it yet, which is fine. So they're excited to see what popped up there and what that is, and that's another whole like this is what this sport is. And this is what they're doing. This is how it scored. And this is you know, too much into beyond that one Oh, that's a good primer though. I did some of that in summer school. That's kind of what I do with my kids. Like, have you guys ever seen Olympic archery and they're like, yeah, no check it out. Lamb Exactly. No, no really wanted to see the shooting what they were doing. They were shooting and that really blew my mind because I was like, people are still amazing. Seeing these things go anyway. That's been that's been our exposure to it. haven't been able to sit and watch like a full we did watch the the women's triathlon finish, which was insane. Oh, yeah, I think I watch that too. Though, as overachievers they can't pick one. They gotta do all of them. Like what's good all three things. Now? Fortunately but that's Really, really like watching the rowing, for some reason. Like, it's really fascinating to me. And we were talking about it earlier. Like, I really want to try one of those little robots, the little scuba things. I think it'd be so cool to like, not like an Olympic speed level, just like in a lake, like, Hey, I think it'd be fun. Really fun. So, figure out how to get a hold of one of those. That'd be cool. You could like tow it to the river with That's true. Not a big Missouri sport. Skull racing. It's like an East Coast thing, I think. But when I think of that, I think of like, North East colleges. That's what I think about. Yeah. Like the same colleges that do lacrosse, like that's a thing. Oh, oh, no. 100% Yeah. All the lacrosse people are best friends with the the rowers? Yeah, it's been fun. I just like I like watching. I think about the Olympics is watching the random sports that you don't get to see ever. Oh, right. Yeah. Like fencing, or like safe rowing. Right. I like to watch those like, those ones. Like, I don't, you know, some of the other ones are cool. Like, I don't really love watching gymnastics. Whatever. But it's cool. Because it's like one of that's one of the cornerstone Olympic sports, right? Like swimming, gymnastics, track and field. Those are like, Summer Olympic sports. You know what I mean? Like that most people there's like the big popular ones. So I like to watch those. But I also like to watch the random ones like, Yeah, he's like the, like, I watched the cross country mountain biking. It was awesome. The cool. The rowing, like water polo, my favorite. We've been watching a lot of water polo. One of my favorite one, because you don't get to see water polo any other time? Really? Right? That's not like a sport on TV. Very often. You know, just like, it's not just on like, oh, tune in to watch some water polo on a random Thursday night, though. Like if they live is like the big spider, that one. That's been fun. So I just been like watching randomly. But like you're talking about the time difference makes it hard. Because like when you do you want to watch like the cycling, because I wanted to watch all the cycling stuff too. And it was really difficult. Because it's kinda like really crazy times, I stayed up and watch the man's road race, he got over like three in the morning. Like, yeah. And that's, that's when they're showing all that the track cycling is going to start soon. And I want to watch some of that this year, because that's a sport that I don't ever get to see, I kind of want to watch some of the track racing. Apparently, there's like a whole bunch of different kinds of, apparently, track racing is a bizarre land, where strange things happen that I don't understand how they work. Like I watched a video about the different types of track cycling the other day. And it did not help to alleviate my confusion about what these things are. I kind of want to watch some of those, but they're only like two in the morning. So I'm gonna have to go through and like, record some of those things. Because I don't, I definitely won't be able to parse what's happening at like, 330 in the morning, when it's like a brand new thing I've never seen before. Why don't you wake up? What are you talking about? I don't understand. What is this? Why are they why are they doing that? I don't understand. But I do want to see some of that because it's kind of apparently there's lots and lots of different types of tracks cycling. I was unaware of this.

1:08:59

So but he's on in the middle of night, because they're so yeah.

Collin 1:09:08

I just went to work around that. Track and Field started tonight, I guess, for today, whatever. So more exciting random track events, like however, I have it has drawn into sharp contrast when you watch all the Olympic sports, right? There are only two types of sports. Right? There is the score more points than the other person or team sport. And there is the go faster than the other person or team sport. And that is it. Yeah, that's it. That is it. Those are the only two times basically every sport goes in Those two categories. You distill it down like that. nearly as fun. Yeah. But like when you look at the Olympics for sale, the Olympic sports, that is it, you have to go faster or score more points then. That's it. So it's very funny trying to break. Okay, now, for those listeners out there screaming at me guess I am aware that there are throwing sports in track and field. So there is a very small subcategory of go further than Okay, that's kind of like get one point. Okay, so that's because your number is bigger than the person's number. So yeah, boom, you win. Right. So I'm aware of that. But I sort of categorize it that way. Yeah, I'm excited. I like watching it. I like watching all the random. I like some of the human stories. I especially like like, the women's cycling road race debacle. Makes me chuckle mightily. I like that. Pretty much Rogers decided he was feeling better and totally destroyed the men's time trial. after crashing in the Tour de France. That was fun. That's cool to watch. And you're gonna have to find some time in your busy schedule to watch some Olympic Island.

Aaron 1:11:38

Yeah, they had part of it on at the little gym, let it go and workout in it. It was like women's BMX racing. BMX biking.

Collin 1:11:48

Crazy.

Aaron 1:11:50

And we're sitting there watching. I didn't know this is an Olympic sport. This is crazy. Yeah, I mean,

Collin 1:11:58

I don't know where that's another sport that you don't I don't ever see that around. And so what you see here like, what he's what

1:12:05

dupli like the I saw some surfing the other day. That's new, exciting.

Collin 1:12:17

Skateboarding in the Olympics. Exciting. so crazy that like the podium finishers in the women's skateboarding are all like 15 or younger.

Aaron 1:12:33

That's pretty nuts. Girls are awesome. There's a cheerleading is coming to the Olympics next year round. Yes, I believe that's kind of cheer or some other sports. That didn't take out a lot though. They took out a lot of sports though. Yeah, I

Collin 1:12:54

don't know. That's a hard one. I don't remember what they took out. I know they added like they added the rock climbing they added the surfing

Aaron 1:13:08

they added skateboarding. You didn't have one Let me see.

Collin 1:13:24

I don't know how you Google Olympic sports. Oh removed Oh, Olympic sports removed. See? Baseball is gone. This true. umbrella No. This list is confusing and I don't understand how to read it. I don't know when they would have taken it out. Because these are all still there. I need a different list. Seven canceled. Oh yeah, golf is gone. controversially, notice that golf does not fit into the score more points than or do something faster than so golf officially. Not a sport. Boom. Hey, go. Hot take here. Ladies. Gentlemen. Don't be mad at me. All your golfing friends. We still love you. Everyone's favorite removed on the big sport. Tug of war. Yes. How exciting. Can you imagine if tug of war was still an Olympic sport? Like, can you imagine getting like hyped for tug of war?

Aaron 1:14:54

That'd be crazy. absolutely crazy. Did the foot play tug of war is on there?

Collin 1:15:07

Now? It's like it was a sport that they removed a long time ago. I was just like thinking about like, Can you imagine if tug of war was still an Olympic event? Like you imagine getting like hyped for like, tug of war USA versus Brazil like that'd be crazy.

Aaron 1:15:32

Car sports no longer in the Olympics. Tug of war. I don't know what rogue is cricket. crochet Polo. Oh, croquet? croquet? Yeah. Oh, no problem with the horse. Yeah, best game pillared. pelota a sport with ancient roots in which teams of two players used a curve basket playing a ball against a wall and a racket ball like that called highlight it that's what it's called.

Collin 1:16:10

Click on the basket that day's basketball. So I was very confused. But yeah, but yeah, it's a big hurt. Yeah, I think it's also called a highlight and it's like a really it's like racquetball. But it's longer. I mean, like falling it. Remember when we were kids? And those little like in PE there's little like curve plastic things you throw the wiffle ball with Yeah, imagine that but bigger. Oh, you could like zing it really hard in a like racquetball court. So that would be

Aaron 1:16:49

okay. Yes.

Collin 1:16:55

I just want to see International Exhibition tug of war now I think that'd be hilarious. Oh, my God dealing with dogs. We decided I decided to officially I declared golf not a sport. So there you go. That's what you missed. Now, more or less? It doesn't fit into the categories of score more points than or go faster than so. Not a sport. I mean, for more points by having fewer points. That doesn't go. Oh, now. We're talking about x Olympic sports that are no longer there. Oh, did you see motorboating from 1906 it only did they only do motorboating? Yeah. motorboating? No. 1906. They were like, Oh, these mother things that amazing. What? Oh, nevermind. I just like we're also talking about it. I like the tug of war is on the list. Like no more tug of war. Dang it. One of my favorite things about the Olympics that I think about the other day, because I was watching swimming is of course rowdy Gaines on commentary. Because he gets like, so amped about swimming things, like he would just all of a sudden be screaming, like, fuck. Yeah, in fact, to listen to him, just like go ham, like screaming about swimming. That is part of it, too. I always, I could never imagine what it takes to prepare, or one of those events. Because I've mentioned the whole, like, personal interest, or human interest stories. The random fact that they have on hand for each person. And as part of the team. You know, I'm sure they have to prepare more for some of the more high profile ones. But randomly, they'll be like number 17 zeek. He grew up playing this with his knees with his you know, with his cousins in Saskatchewan. And you're like, wait, what, why? And they're like, Oh, it's just random facts. And they'll just drop that I'm like, well, that's also partly because they one of the commentators they always have like the network random commentator, right? And then like, the other person is like, the expert. It's like, yes, whatever season that sport has or whatever events that sport that he's the guy that commentates on that so like they know everything all the time and you're like yeah, which is which is good, um, which is also weird because like, we I don't hear about the sports ever, right and then like, but they're out there existing somewhere, because these people know about it, and it's just not given to me in a manner that I can digest normally, still, like, I don't know anything about these people, but this small group does. Because they're like in the, you know, they know everything about it all the time. So it's weird. It's like hidden from me for a lot of year like water polo is hidden from me. I can't watch it. Or when they start breaking out some of the big water polo some of the strategies behind it of like, Oh, you can really see and how the USA, you know, when steam is powering depth back down the pool there to the other side, that they're really trying to conserve their energy in their stroke, because they've got some big games coming up. Because, you know, they don't want to basically say like, No, we don't want to dominate too much in these first initial ones because we need to continue to save the long haul tournament. Right? Exactly.

1:20:55

But you're watching you like they they are. Or when you watch something like handball, right? Yeah, yeah.

Collin 1:21:02

They are. They're like giving you these like handball strategy, which is one of the things I like about it. Is those sports you don't get to see because you're listening to the commentator tell you all about handball strategy, and you're like, Okay, sure. Yeah, okay. Okay. I'm following you. Like I think I just like that. I like that aspect to try to piece together how this sport works from like, the play by play commentary person telling me what's happening, like, oh, oh, the other can't do that. Okay. Let me see. So, it's been fun. I really like it. I just been having fun hanging out want to seem Olympics. Right. Now, I the kids have thoroughly been enjoying it. It's been fun to watch them know, we'll get really into them into them, or help sit there and stare really intently, they'll take us and they'll be like, collecting these little face. As he's watching. I'll come over. But are you? Are you nervous? Are you anxious about what's going on? It'll be like, I don't know. And I'll just put my hand on his on his lap. And then he'll hold my hand. Like, super. I don't know, like super invested in that beach volleyball game. Like 100% voice which is really good to watch. And then the difference between them. Well, we were watching the the platform dive of Lilian and Noah. I think going off the diving board pool recently. Yes. And, and, you know, watching the clip and stuff, and we'll go do you guys? What do you guys think you could do that? Would that look like something you could do? No, immediately is like vigorously shaking his head from side to side. Like No, no, there's no way that Emily is looking at you like Oh, he's like, heck yeah, look, obviously, we need to do everything. Everything that we've watched. He's like, yeah, obviously I could do that. Why are you still asking

1:23:13

whatever that front tech pike position next time you

Collin 1:23:17

go pool, right. I'm waiting for? Oh, no serious like, Well, I think I actually like, we watched one floor exercise. Or gymnastics, if you like, cleared her room, made a little Yeah. For us do and was like practicing her routine. And then was showing us like, how she did it and what the netcode was what you were supposed to do? And then like, Yeah, no, it was like, Oh, no, it's great. So we'll probably be signing up for mastics do a go. Sweet. Yeah. It'll help her diving. It'll help on that corkscrew. Right, that little. All. That's true. That's like synchronized diving, too. That's the other one that's fun to watch. Just because you like

Aaron 1:24:16

whoa.

Collin 1:24:18

Okay, impressive thing to stare at? Like, how do you do that? Women's synchronized diving in the Chinese ladies that did it. They're like 14 and 15. was like, come from right out of the gate is utterly and completely dominated the entire it was Yeah, it was insane to watch them were like, they would do the camera angle from the side and you could barely delta to people listening to the air. It's nuts. What? Like, yeah. And, of course, that's the other crazy thing about you. Go ahead. Anyway. I'm gonna change them. So guys Well, so they're doing the platform diving and before we start, I'm like, oh my god. Have you seen the video of the guy who does a backflip off of this and slammed his head into the platform? And mega Greg Louganis, right? Yeah, no, I was like, Oh, well then don't think about that. And then every time they jump pig, like flinch, and she's like, why do you have to tell me that? Yeah. They always talk about that. It's weird. They like always bring it up or show it. Sometimes they'll show it. They're like, Oh, hey, it's the anniversary of Greg Louganis, bashing his head on the dartboard like, Bye, guys. Thanks. I suppose it might be like, thanks a lot. Thanks for bringing that up again. I thought we were over that. That we hope we have some time to watch the Olympics this week. Aaron hope you'll get some

Aaron 1:25:57

good we'll see how much time I got if I got a TV in my classroom. Set up and watch some

Collin 1:26:07

highlights online that'd be the highlight clips like Noah and Lily.

1:26:21

The leaving in

Collin 1:26:25

Collin. Okay. Gracie, we probably be done. Sorry. Yeah, I have dogs who are well let you go into them. And thank you and we will start our Olympic reporting next next summer. Have Winter Olympics next year? Yeah, cuz we got weird. Yeah, we'll be back to back up real quick.

1:27:02

Plan more late Olympic highlights next week. And then whatever else happened next week, top five favorite Olympic events to watch go

Aaron 1:27:13

got it. I get

Collin 1:27:18

it you can't just throw curling out there to be the guy.

1:27:21

Okay. I was gonna say Summer Olympic events. Stick with the theme they go for one more year.

Collin 1:27:29

That's true. Because curling is obviously on my list. Go USA curling. Tight next week top five favorite Olympic events summer opening event.

1:27:42

So have some time to actually watch some more.

Collin 1:27:46

This is all this is all in preparation for our our sweet sweet

1:27:52

network deals we've come off of our Shark Week episode obviously are going straight into straight into unlimited coverage for the Olympics coverage to like in total total network domination.

Collin 1:28:05

Okay. Bye bye