rocks with ears

Collin went shooting. Brandon has a rant. We’re glad winter is here.

  • It’s COLD

  • Camera fun

  • Home security thing…sure

  • rocks with ears

  • Collin when shooting

  • Ranting time with Brandon!

  • The farce of…current college football season

  • Fan is short for…fanatic

  • Brandon proved himself…to be himself

  • Collin’s Haiku

    • Bags tossed in the car,

    • Miles ahead, night whispers loud—

    • Adventure calls us

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Collin  00:00

Music. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out. Your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, rocks with ears, ahoy ahoy. We have returned, aha, triumphantly, and at the turn, hey, even better. Oh, man, how is the week? Oh, cold. I know. I decided to be like fall, and then like halfway winter, just all of a sudden it was like, hey, surprise. What if? What if, right, yes, yeah, what if we remembered the correct temperature for November? Suddenly, instant, instantaneously, right, yes, immediately, just with no warning, and then trouble am 40 degree like, ah, yeah, at least, at least we're not getting snow, right? Like, I will. I mean, it's fair, but I'm more worried about the

01:19

fact that my nose is like, oh yeah. Like, oh,

Collin  01:22

oh no. My with this. You know, this is the time of year where, again, like, we get these sudden just like lasts of wind and storms and things like that. I actually clicked a button so we have some battery security cameras around our house, not no OpSec issues here, but just like, just so you know, if you're around my house, you're probably on camera. And no, they don't look like birds, although you should be concerned. Or do they, or do they? Ah, you'll know. But for some somehow, I actually clicked a button that said, like, sound recognition. And so they were, they've all been, they've all been also trying to figure out what the sounds are on the outside of the house. There's, it's supposed to be listening for, like smoke alarms and that kind of stuff, so that if they hear a smoke alarm, you'll be alerted to it. If you're away from the home. That's the that's the that's the thing. However, apparently this, this technology, is not very good, because, oh, I woke up, I woke up yesterday to literally 1700 notifications and a dead battery on, ah, and it was just like, ah, birds. It's like, it was every it didn't just connect you to the just to, like, Autobahn society. And was like, Ah, this is a Star League. No, right? Was it trying to identify bats? I don't know what this was doing, but like, every time and I went through and I listened to a few of them to be like, what sound was it a car alarm? Was it a siren going off? No, it was just like, wind, like, like, I'm like, Oh, this is, this is not good. So I'm going to, I'm going to turn this off.

03:17

That's, yeah, that's, that's solid plan.

Collin  03:20

I don't really feel like that's just hyper necessary again. What do I know now, really?

03:27

But that's what,

Collin  03:28

what's crazy is usually these, like, on one charge. So we, like, we arm them. They arm automatically at night time, and arm just means that they're going to start recording. And then

03:40

they this vocabulary you're using

Collin  03:41

is, like, I know, threatening in a way that I wasn't prepared for, really, that's very aggressive, isn't it? It is wonderful, right? We like, well, we arm the system. We arm the system, which just means, like, it basically listens for wind. I know that's the correct vernacular, but it's still like, so we have it so that it's on a set schedule, so like, at a certain time at night and it starts, and then a certain time in the morning it stops, and then it automatically turns on whenever we leave. Because I don't need a bunch of videos of me just wandering around my house, like on the outside of the house, you know, doing leaves or chasing a dog or things like that, or come, you know, pulling in from the grocery store. I don't need those videos. But it's supposed to do that. And on our schedule, we've typically eked out, like, three months worth of battery on on these things, if not longer, for some of the ones that don't get a lot of action, but like, the front and back, three months, and to have it completely drain in one night was fantastic.

04:43

Like, yeah, that's like crazy, right? Like, and,

Collin  04:47

I mean, I should probably do this. What is this? Okay? So I did what? 1700 notifications times 20 seconds each. That's 34,000 seconds. Okay, do my. Thing here, like, well, they weren't all 20 seconds, but because it's like, oh, that's 500 hours. But it was a lot like, and some of them were like, one second, it was just like, what so to have it go from three months to a single night was was sheer glorious, gloriousness to the nth degree. So I turned that feature off and we'll just not do that. Yeah, that feels like an important and I don't know, I'm struggling to find, like, I understand what you said about like, the alarm thing, but like, I'm struggling to find, like, a real reason for that. Like, I don't know, but, oh yeah, no, it's, it's, it's definitely like, and they're supposed to have these, like, smart detection, of like, if you have one on a front porch, it's supposed to be able to send you an alert to let you know if a package has been delivered or if mail has so it's, it's supposed to, yeah, Yeah. Smart stuff, but yes, these, these sound things, that's what is really like, No, I don't think that that's actually doing what you think it's going to be doing. It just, it's very interesting. And other than the like, Oh, you have sound detection for whatever reason it's like, but that doesn't, yeah, because it's supposed to be for smoke alarm or carbon monoxide alarm, and then, and that's the one that was selected, but then it has all other audio. And I'm going that wasn't, that was not selected. I couldn't imagine what kind of alerts I would be getting if I had put turn on all other audio, like, it would just never stopped recording. Like, what a what a gem. That's pretty nuts. Like, I don't know I, yeah, I don't, I don't know Yeah, yeah, and whatever, whatever, I don't know it. It seems like a good idea, but then you go implementation wise, way too sensitive, way too way too sensitive. Because then the whole reason, like, honestly, the whole reason that we that we did this is because when we first moved into our home, we did put up a fence because we have, we had COVID at the time, and we needed a privacy we needed a fence, not a privacy fence, but it matched the other one. That was, we had, like, there was a fence on one side and against the alley, but we were completely open on the east side, so we just closed it off. It was like, you know, 15 feet of fence. We closed that off so that Kobe could go outside and roam and wouldn't have to worry. And we'd been here for a couple months, and then we woke up and came outside to let Kobe out, and there was a plastic water bottle sitting on our deck. And I was like, Ah, yes. Ah, I that doesn't make me feel good. So we did go out and we got Karen's just to like, that was freaky. And no plastic bottle bottles have shown up since so, and I haven't seen anything or anybody. So who the knows. What the heck happened with that. But that was pretty, like, weird. So that's the whole, that's the only reason we have these, you know, I'm not, like, I'm watching the neighbors or, man, I'm ready for this ninjas to jump out of the bushes, although, if they do, I'll be ready. You say that now, but, like, right, all right, you know, this feel like this is just a first step in some sort of, like, weird escalation of old lady that just looks at the blinds all day, right? Like, that's really, this is really, like the next evolution of that neighborhood archetype, right? Like, nosy neighbor at the like, there's memes where the dude's like, trying not to be suspicious, but I want to hear what the neighbors are saying. He's like, vacuuming the driveway, right? Yeah, yeah, that guy right. Is that? Is that really what the sound is for? Or to listen to your neighbors having secret conversations, to drop in, to drop es, yeah, right. Is that? What is that really? What it's for. Like, when your neighbors are arguing on the back patio, you're like, bloop, enhance. Hit this button right here. It's gonna like, you could hear noises from outside, but you can't tell what they're saying. So you're like, huh, beep, beep, yeah, oh, Alice, there we go. You shouldn't let him talk to you like that, like, right? Let me put I'm putting

09:46

that down. Like, I'm with you. Girl, I

Collin  09:48

know that he was wrong. You say it. Sister, yeah, honestly, that's probably what it is, right? It's really what it's for. Oh, I, you know, and I like the system that we have, like, I again, like the whole, like security camera, like surveillance care thing, like it does feel, I don't know, like it does have a weird, icky connotation kind of thing. And it certainly doesn't help when, like, oh, a certain, a certain doorbell camera system actively partners with law enforcement right to that they can just, they just kind of have an open door to whenever to come in get footage from your camera without them really asking you. Like, that doesn't make me feel good, a little bit weird, right? Like, no, no, I don't. Not trying to enable the police state here. Okay, just calm down. Yeah, yeah, I just want to know about my

10:57

neighbors. Like,

Collin  10:58

I just want to know about my neighbors domestic disputes, right? Like, I just want to know what happened over Thanksgiving and why it didn't go well, yeah, right. That's a right, yeah and yes, sure this. This could lead down to to trip wires and to more ballistic devices and rocks with ears. But, well, yeah, I mean this, this is the, again, there's like, this weird line where it's like, okay, so the home security thing, okay, fine, I understand, right? Like, you know, whatever. But like, I don't know if it's because I played too many video games. Like, maybe I played Splinter Cell too much. But like, there's a line where it's just like, oh, it start like, it starts getting weird, right? Like, um, oh, okay. Now it's like, a little bit kind of odd. And it's like, Why do you have so many cameras? Like, what are you hiding and what?

12:00

Like, what is going on here? Like, uh huh,

Collin  12:03

like, it's, there's this really weird, like, kind of spectrum where it's like, oh home security to, oh home security like, or like surveillance, like, it's like surveillance, like the bunker, like, right? There's like, a whole other end of this that's, like, really chaotic and horrifying, right? And again, maybe I play too much video games. This is entirely possible, right? But, like, sure, right, it starts feeling very like Splinter Cell, like, Watch Dog Z, like, Hmm, hold on, when I start seeing this many security cameras, that means that baddies are nearby. Like, you know, like I should be sneaking, right? I know. I'll just give this a wide berth, and it is, it is it is addictive, because, like, the system that we had is, like, you can add up to eight cameras to this, but it only comes with, like, two, and then you're like, Well, sure, I've got two, so that covers my doors, but what about around this corner? Or, like, What? What? What if I could like this? What if I get this view or like this, like we did? Okay, so we did add one, but it was mostly because they Yes, the slope, see, but this one, it is pretty indeed. This was purely because we have a big gate that goes across our driveway. Now this sounds fancy, it is not. But there's a gate on our driveway that encloses our backyard that, if it is open, our backyard basically just goes from our back door around our house and then out into the street. But if I close my gate, it's fully enclosed and secure. And because we have a dog, it was like, Oh, I don't want to accidentally let my dog out at night and then not be able to not know that my gate is open, because it's, it's manual, like, I don't put, can't push a button and close it. We didn't, no, not those people, right? I gotta get out and close it. But, like, it's very nice to just have, I have a camera basically, like, trained on it now where it's, like, I can just pull it up and be like, is it my gate shut? Oh, it's open. Okay. I need to go. Which I know it's ridiculous, but it is nice. And I was like, well, now I have this, and it is an extra camera on our property now. And so, you know, we can, you know, I can. I'm now close to the neighbor, so I can hear their arguments even better. So that's nice. Oh, darn No. Do you have a button that, like, just automatically opens the gate so you have an excuse to go outside? Because I was technically like, Oh no,

14:48

don't mind me. I'm just closing, just

Collin  14:51

closing the game. I felt like that so many times right out, like, legitimately doing yard work. But there is a conversation like in the. Alley behind us. I'm just raking and listening, and I'm like, no break. No you need to go inside get a drink of water so you can break in this one spot. Man, this spot is really leaf free, certainly very stubborn in this they're very sticky and tacky on the ground. I none of this conversation has led up to the point where it's, I feel it's appropriate to tell you that I did go shooting with one of my neighbors. Oh, my okay. This is officially okay. You went down the row here to you're moving down the spectrum from they've got security camera now firearms are involved. Oh, dear. Okay, look, we take neighborhood watch very

15:51

seriously in the mccull. What the Home Alone is going on around here? Right? What is we

Collin  15:55

practice cardboard cutouts of people. We practice strings and wire manipulations. Pink. Hands, and learned how to how to wire door handles. It's all very volunteer. Oh, it was good though. We went to, I went to it. I went to shooting range. It was a, it's a rod and Gun Club. You are, like, speed running, dad, right now, that's what's happening. You got security cameras. You're going shooting, like, I have yet. There's gonna be an antenna in your backyard. Before we know it, it's gonna be like, like, there is a, there's a ham radio club here in town. Not that I

16:40

hear it.

Collin  16:44

We couldn't put an antenna up where we are anyway. It wouldn't work. But we challenge accepted. It was nice. We went to a, I this is, this is different. Like, I've been to, been to country clubs and private things like that. And like, you know, been there whatever. But, like, this was a private gun and Rod club, so they had their own, like, private lake for a dude's field. But it was huge. This thing has been in operation since 1953 so they have, like a clubhouse, and they have no yeah. And they've have, when you go and you could shoot skeet right, they've got, they have the automatic boxes, thing that shoot from the left and the right stuff. They've got the Yeah. And then they have the shooting, the actual shooting range, where you can go do like handguns, which is where we went. It's not just like in a field, they have bermed up. They've got four, basically four lanes, and each of them has like, 20 feet of Earth on either side that you're shooting down into. And then it's got this massive backstop that's like, super, super thick. I did ask where the drive by region was, and he said that they don't have that one yet, so they were waiting for whatever. That's just because it was your first time there. Oh, I think, Oh, I wasn't initiated yet. Yeah, no,

18:12

you were asking too many questions, right?

Collin  18:14

Oh, oh no, I didn't pass the test. No. Well, I mean, yes, you gotta you see maybe if you get invited back, that's fine, but it's like, whether, if you said it's very large, right? So it means there's like, sections to this, yeah, right, yeah. Just be if you get but down there and there's like a bunker, right? And they have, like, Flash bags and stuff, maybe, like, just, oh my goodness, I gotta go walk a dog, so I should drive, I should drive separately next time and not take a ride with I don't know if that's allowed, though. Oh, right, because I might get flagged for support. So anyway, okay, here's the real question. Here is the this is how we know what kind of place you're at. How were the other people that addressed? Oh, this is a good well, okay, so I'm gonna say I, I'm, this is how we know, if it's shooting club compound, right? This is how we know. First of all, were they all dressed as the same? Okay, okay, good, good start. I'm always that they were dressed. They were dressed normally. They were just like people who, like, I would say these were mostly, these are mostly people who have a gun but need a place to practice, or they can't shoot on their own property, so they come to this place. These are not like, I didn't see tactical gear,

19:43

like, that's a good that's a good sign. There

Collin  19:45

were no like, specialty glasses and visors. I didn't see very many, like, rip stop velcro kind of things on PK. So lots of camouflage. That's good. No, no camo. I. Did shoot with earmuffs that were also radios. That was cool. I'd never shot with those kind of things

20:07

before. We'll allow that. That will allow that that's relatively clubby, right? Yes, that could be, you know, go to it that seems with everything else, that

Collin  20:16

seems relatively okay. But yeah, no. People weren't like, yeah, they I would say these were pretty Normie people that were just needing an extra place to go to shoot so, but I was also there early on a Saturday morning, so I don't know when the real weirdos come out that maybe a Friday afternoon person, like, maybe, you know, who just gets off work and needs to go, like, release some energy and go, you know, I don't know, bust down some paper mannequins or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be good, yeah, maybe, maybe,

21:03

maybe it's like an evening time thing, right? Maybe the night vision, maybe

Collin  21:06

happens with night vision, maybe see, yeah, yeah. There was no, like night vision, there was no, none of that kind of stuff. Okay, okay, pretty good. I guess the next question is, what were you shooting? Ah, yes. So here's where my knowledge of firearms completely shows itself. 100% sure what ball was shot, okay, but it was mostly militia, handguns and guns, okay, so yeah, was

21:41

there lots of things attached to the side of whatever? Okay,

Collin  21:44

so that's how we know. Like, oh, so here's where we go from the Normie. And we take one step in the direction where you were kind of thinking here, of like the things. So some of the guns were fine, as in, like, unmodified. A few of them may have had, like, handguns, had flashlights attached to them, had the red.on the extra site. On top, there was one, and this was

22:16

actually, like, toe into the line of, yeah,

Collin  22:18

yeah, you're, you're, really, you're, I think my favorite one that was shot was it was a 22 with a silencer on it. And, no joke, yeah, the guy was like, I just he goes, this is my planking gun. He goes, this is what I like to do, to just come out in plank, okay, that's fine. If I also hadn't been a watcher of many mafia movies, no, that, huh, they love the 22 and you share some reason, and you shoot subsonic so that it's a subside in the with the with the silencer, so that, seriously, the sound of the bullet tearing the paper was louder than this thing out of the muzzle. Oh, dear, dear. See that one was addictive to shoot. That one I was I get it. I totally understand this is this is very reasonable. I think one more people know this is not reasonable. And then, and then, okay, so, so now we're going to take the Normie, and we've already stepped a little bit to one side. Now taking a bigger step, taking a bigger step. So people were dressed fine, but one of the things we did shoot was everybody's favorite gun, right? An AR, which is the one that gets a lot of attention for various reasons. And they had a 22 caliber AR, and then, oh, gosh, I don't remember the other thing. There was another. They had two different versions of it. And we did shoot, we did shoot that, but there was only one full blown like the two to three version. Or was it the bigger? No, no, it was not. It was not the two, it was not the bigger one. It was still a small, pretty kind of a smaller round. A two to three is not that big. No, no, no. It was a 223, I think, yeah, yeah, not the full blown like 556, rounds. That's No, no, no. So still, still, still reasonable. And it was not that one was not heavily modded either. It was still pretty, pretty plain. So that was again, I have seen, I've seen AR builds that go way crazy, that are looked very intense, and this was still. Like, Oh, I recognize this. We're not we're not doing any like, we're not storming anything with this is what I'm saying.

25:11

You say that it could have been

Collin  25:13

stripped down for me, that's all I can say. I don't know what I'm saying

25:17

it, yeah, that's true. Could have been like, Oh, we got it. Normie coming through, trying to put him in the

Collin  25:23

right. But we'll see. We'll test his reaction to this and see, yeah, next time you see him, how does he respond? Watch his eyes right. Watch his pulse, yeah. Where does he look when he sees this? What does he do that? I uh, yeah, there was a, a RE, yeah, so that's what we shot again. Spent a couple hours, two to three hours blinking and talking and stuff. Uh, it was, it was good. I enjoyed it a lot. There was somebody shooting a shotgun. Who would, you know, I don't know was doing. I don't know if he was trying to, like, get his spread pattern right, or whatever, because the shots were not, like, in any sort of form of, like, you know, there was no rhythm to them when they go, yeah, it'd be like, Collin, and then sometimes it'd be like, 13 seconds later, another big blast, and sometimes it'd be several minutes later. And then sometimes, you know, it would be like, half hour before you'd hear it again. So it was like, I don't know what's going on over there. I'm gonna just stay over here behind my berm. Stay ducking. So, yes, that was, that was my I was good. I enjoyed it and got to have a good time. It was beautiful morning too, which made it made all the more pleasurable to be shooting guns. Disturbing. Very nice. Then I then I came home and turned on my security system. Oh, no, I sat in the room. No, sat and stared at the monitors, listening to the neighbors, listening to the wind.

27:31

I mean, it's a starlings

Collin  27:35

taking up my stuff. I need to hear neighborhood gossip, not starlings. Did it? Sneaking birds? What are you doing? Oh, gosh, so yeah, it was, I enjoyed that. It was good. It's good stuff. Very nice. I'm glad that you did a thing, survived that's that's the most important part up here. Went to shooting compound and came back, don't say compound, I mean, you know, whatever, maybe a little, be a little bit, but

28:15

yeah, you know, it's got compound vibes, private shooting range. It's

Collin  28:20

a bit, you know, oh yeah,

28:22

it's either,

Collin  28:23

it's either, like, some sort of, like, really bizarre, like, British hunting lodge thing, or compound. That's what, like, private shooting range. That's what I that's the two things that come to my mind, right? Like, just some really random, like, 7000 billion year old English house, just in the middle of the countryside with dudes walking around shooting things with shotguns. Or, this is Missouri, so it's like bunker compound stockpiles, right?

28:52

These are the words that come to my

Collin  28:54

mind, yeah, it's the stockpiles where you really start. That's the That's the word when you start hearing thinking of visualizing stockpiles.

29:04

That's the big red flag, like, oh no, oh no, did

Collin  29:07

there is they are. So it's been around since the 50s. They are finally installing a a key, a key card access for the gate. Is it like a giant old key, like a ring? Like, no girl, yeah. Currently, you have to get out and you have to, like, push open this giant thing and then shut up behind you. Now, when this thing gets us installed, you'll be able to pull up, tap your card on a little thing, and it'll automatically open the gate for you, and then it'll shut behind you and lock you inside. That was going well into that last little thing. I mean, I mean, presumably you'll be able to get out again. Presumably, I mean, anyway, there's a good. Times that's great. I have not been doing anything this week, surviving the cold, sniffling, mostly, right? This is pretty much for me, but I have a brief rant for you. A brief rant here. We'll see how brief ranting time with Brandon. Here he is. Brandon's rant corner. We haven't had this in a while. Segment. We've been absent for a little bit, so, right? I want to talk about, talk briefly, just about the farce, the sham, the joke that is the current college football season, right? I just want to talk about this real fast, right? I would like to just any, any sports analyst who even pretend that like they actually think that the college football season is designed in such a way that the actual best team in the country should be the champion. Is full of it. It is nonsense. And I just want, I just want everyone to know that they are lying to you. Just that's just all there is really, like, they, they've been going through all this rigmarole, all this stuff like, Oh, we're gonna have a 12 team playoff, and it's gonna be even better, and we're gonna, we're gonna find the best team, blah, blah, right? Here's the problem with this, all of these teams here, right? All of the positions, okay, they're very heavily predicated by the fact that you give preseason rankings, right? You give a preseason ranking for no real reason whatsoever, right? And, and you claim to want fairness, you claim to be impartial, but you are, in fact, a liar, right? Because in the preseason, you only ever rank teams like Notre Dame and Alabama, right, and when you are ranking Notre Dame in the top 10 for some odd reason, before the season has even started, right? You're not ranking current Notre Dame College Football, right? You're just envisioning Newt Rockne and Rudy, right? Like when you put Alabama up there, like you're putting up Bear Bryant and all these things, right? You claim that it's the start of a new year, but then you talk about how consistent they've been for the last several years, but that we don't care about the last several years. That's irrelevant to this current year. That is not that should not be relevant at all in the current conversation. Never should you talk about things that happened before any current why they are ranked at this ranking, that you should never say the words last year, yeah, whatever past performance does not is not indicative of future, right? What do they say? Yes, right? And you're just like, ah, you know, this team, whatever, like you don't. You're not actually caring about the team and the current iteration of said team. You're caring about the history of said team, which is why certain parts of the country are just so absurdly biased, right? And they came up with a lot of stuff. Like, oh, strength of schedule, bro. Like, listen, Okay, listen. SEC teams, okay, who have claimed that their strength of schedule is the best ever for 10 plus years now. Okay, you spend many, many weeks during the middle of the season playing Division Three football team. Okay? You you try to pretend like we play a rigorous, exceedingly tough schedule every single weekend. False, right? You play like, third division teams in your state relatively frequently, right? And then you try to be like, Oh, we're great. And then, and then, when the teams that are in there, I was gonna, no offense, old No. This. But like, whenever there's a team like Ole Miss, right, like the commentators will just like, talk trash about how they how they're not good, and how they haven't been doing anything. But when somebody else in the conference plays oldness, they're like, Oh, what a tough game they had. You're like, Hold on, wait, right? Whenever Ole Miss is playing, you're like, Oh, they're no good blah blah. But when like, a team that you like, is playing Old Miss, oh, now it's a hard game, right? Like, now it's difficult now, now it's a challenge. Like, but when Ole Miss is playing somebody, you're like, ah, they haven't been good at all this season. Blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Like, the double standard is astonishing, right? And, and we can really trace this back, like this has been a long time thing, right? Because a long time ago, right? 20 some years ago, they had the like BCS system, where it was like, computer metrics chose the thing, and then they just threw a big fit, because, like, it didn't choose the right team, right? Like, oh, but LSU is not in there. Oh, Alabama's not in there. This system can't be right, but it's just because you're so obscenely biased that any other outcome is not acceptable to you, right? So they did away with the system. Oh, it's no good. We're not truly getting the best team, right? Ah, now we're going to bring in this new system, and we're going to have a committee right, but then they put people on the committee right that were impartial and didn't necessarily have a stake in said programs. And all the commentators were like, I don't know why they put those people on there. They don't know anything about football. They can't, they can't possibly judge a football game. But the goal was to be objective. The goal was not to come in with a super heavy bias towards a certain conference or a certain school or a certain subset of schools, right, right? The goal was to put completely biased people on there. But no, that was no good. I remember one year they put, for some reason, Condoleezza Rice ended up on one of these things, right? You know, she had no sushi, right? Yes. And they threw the biggest fit number one, because it was a woman. And, you know, of course, college football sports commentators are obscenely sexist, right? Let's just, that's just the way it is. And like,

37:39

Oh man, what could a lady possibly know about a man's game

Collin  37:43

of football? That's what they would say. Very complicated. They just couldn't, couldn't, yeah, couldn't possibly, yeah, the former high ranking government official could, couldn't possibly fathom football. No way, no, all the nuances of a child game. Oh, could never, because never do that. Glad you finally understand, yeah. And then then they go through this whole day, and so then they finally get the right people on the committee, right, and then all but there's not enough spots. There's not enough spots in the playoffs. So it's not really that fair, right? Because the team that I want you know, ended up being ranked number five. And so I I feel that this is unfair, because with only a four team playoff, which, you know, to be fair in playoff mode, kind of blame, but still, anyway, with four teams, right, somebody really great is going to be left out. And I couldn't stand that, if it's a team that I love deeply, or a team that has a rich history of football, they could be left out somewhere. But it doesn't matter, because if you're number five, then Sucks to suck loser. Like, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know, I don't know what you want. These are the same people that decry like, everybody can't win a trophy. Everyone's just so soft, and they need to be more manly, like back in my day, but then they're like, Oh no, my favorite team didn't make it in the playoff it's just so unfair. The system is rigged. You're like, buddy, what are you talking about? What? What are you out about? You are an insane person. It is interesting to to just really watch how that that influence of personal preference and biases come in and without even really having to say that there is a favorite right creates a favorite right and pre, kind of, like pre determines and pre sets up how the season is going to go based off of who's going to be playing who and how they have their season structured and who comes in. And like you mentioned, like the commentators and the you know, they already are talking and framing things to to appear. One way versus another, but it's because they, they were an alumni of some certain school, right? They did a whole bunch of things there, and they are, like, important people in the university currently, because that's how universities work. They just, like, latch on to famous alumni and never let them go, and like, Yep, and then you're gonna come and tell me that you're unbiased, you're a liar, right? You're just disgusting, you know? And then so, like, then you have these seasons where, like, there's like a team randomly that's like, undefeated, right? I think Kentucky is currently undefeated, right? But because Kentucky is not a football monolith, right? You see all kinds of, like, really exciting and bizarre verbal gymnastics about why an eight and two team should actually be ranked higher than an 11 and o team, right? Like, wait, hold on, yeah, why don't you find me again?

40:59

Mean, like,

Collin  41:00

you talk about fairness, you talk about things, right? They did this a long time ago with, like, Boise State, right? Because Boise State was, like, obscene, the good and, like, they did all this stuff, and they were undefeated for like, years and but they weren't. They just weren't good enough. They weren't in the right conference. They didn't play the right teams, they weren't historic, blah blah. Then they, like, beat Oklahoma, and then they're like, Oh yeah, you know, it was just an accident. They're really not actually that good guys. You're like, bro, what are you doing? Yeah, wait a minute, right? So there's really only, there's really only a reason for like, 10 teams to play football like nobody else even should really bother, right? Like, because they actually only care about those 10 teams anyway. Those are the only ones they talk about. Like, even the weeks they don't play, like the bye weeks, they just talk about it forever. You're like, what way to stay topical, right? They're not even going to play this week a year's going to go on and on and on and on and on about it's really disgusting. And I don't know if people actually don't notice that, right? Because I know sports fans like we can never forget that fan is short for fanatic, right now an unreasonable person, right? That we are not using judgment, right? We're blinded by by AZs anyway, because you are fanatical, yes, but like, the fact that they're just doing that, and, like, completely don't even care. And nobody, like, calls about at all. Nobody says this. Because the other thing we have to remember here is all sports have been completely ruined by millions of dollars. So, like, there's actually no point, because it's just about making money. That's all it really is in there. It's like, not actually about the sport. It's just about how much money the universities can make. That's really the other secret ingredient here. But like, they just, they just don't even try to pretend that they're actually making sense, and it's just really upsetting. And I wanted to rant about that, because this is something I've been feeling for many years, and I may have mentioned it before, but I was reading a bunch of stuff this week about it. It was like, this is just the most disgusting. Well, especially when it's presented as just like, as an attempt to come off as unbiased or independent in their in those opinions, right? Where they just say, Oh, well, this is just a matter of fact, right? This is just how it is. And it's like, well, because you say it is right, like that, what are you doing? Like? You're not actually doing good, you know, presentation of of this, you're not, you're not starting a blank slate and no seeing like, and I can sure like, I can understand where people got to this of ranking people before a season has start, because they've gone well, they still have XYZ players, and this person's still the head coach, and this person still on the training team, and, well, they put a team together last year, so that's what's going to be this year. It's like, no, there's literally no way that you can do that. Like, that's that's not how any of this works. Yes, like, they, they try to go around this by saying, like, oh, well, the official rankings don't come out until week light. I don't know, six or eight or something, right? Sure, but, but the official rankings have been heavily influenced by the preseason rankings because you already have a preconceived notion about where that team should be ranked based on the like unofficial whatever from before, right? They're already in a list form, and if then the new season comes out and completely. Up ins the list, then there would be even more whining and stuff like that. So, like, the once you have preconceived like, once a team starts out with number one by their name, right? It takes a whole lot for them to go down super far, right? You know what I mean? Like, it just does, you know? And then there's certain teams that, like, it seems like, no matter what happens, they just, they just don't go down, like, again, Alabama, right? Like, they, they've lost two games. And then there's all these verbal gymnastics about, like, well, actually, they're actually the best team in the country. Like, did they lose twice? Yeah, but that's not, you know, that doesn't really count, though, because, like, listen, and then they just, like, excuse making after excuse making after apology after apology after excuse. And it's like, what guys, what Come on. Like, what are you doing? This is this is kind of pathetic. Now you just like, show you just like, can't handle the fact that, like, not every team can be good every single year, because that's not how this works, that you're just gonna apologize for them, and no matter what they're going to be there, right? This is how a few years ago, I don't remember how many years ago now, it was, we ended up with the National Championship game of Alabama versus Notre Dame. And Notre Dame had absolutely no business being in that game. They were so not good and like, it's really funny, because that year they talked about how how strong Alabama was because of their strength of schedule. All the teams that they played were really great, right? Notre Dame, notoriously, doesn't ever play anybody, ever. They're not even officially in a conference, yeah, right. And so and so they're like, strength of schedule was really important for Alabama. We don't really talk about it when we mentioned Notre Dame. We talk about other things. We're talking about Newt and the Gipper and Rudy, raw history and that, yeah, Blue Holes in tradition, the little leprechaun guy and, like, look at that. Look at the storied past. Yes, have here. Yes, it's an old university. Cool. Yeah, they lost like, a million to zero. So, like, I don't know, you telling me they were the second best team in the country. I Are you joking? Yeah, no way, right. So you're saying that people probably shouldn't, you know, like, pre judge, and they should just like the competition, I don't know, like happen naturally to see who's genuinely the best, instead of, you know, pre forming ideas, because at that point it's like, well, if you've already determined that they're number one, why are we doing the rest of the season then, like, because, yeah, right. Like, kind of like it does, kind of defeats the whole purpose of, like, what's the exercise? Like, if the whole goal is to play to figure out who is the best, and you're preordaining that this person is the best, well, can we just go home? Yeah, we can just leave, I guess, like, we need to see myself here. Like, yeah, yeah. It's really weird. I don't, I don't know. I don't. I just, I just wanted to rant about that, because, like, I don't really, we haven't watched, I haven't watched much color football this year because it just annoyed me so much. Like, the last several years, I've watched less and less. I used to really like it, like, just watched, wanted to watch less and less because they're so the announcers and all the pundits and all the stuff, is so annoying and wrong, they're just objectively wrong, and everyone just goes along with it. They're just like, oh yeah, whatever you're like, Guys, no, like, totally fine. The hobbies gets. There you go, rant, Brandon's rant corner over. I just wanted to throw that out there, because it's what I think about this week. Just like, Oh, it's just so and plus, I read all this stuff back Kentucky being ranked, like, really low, even though they're undefeated, but they're not good enough, even though they're in the conference that everyone talks about is the best conference ever, and they have such a hard strike to schedule, but they're undefeated. Nah, no, but they're the wrong kind of undefeated. Though it's different because the uniforms are blue, and traditionally, no one likes blue, except for Yale and Notre Dame anyway. Also, like, bro, what in the world? Cool? Well, we haven't been watching much either. However, my kids did discover Aga. So that was that was a deep dive into learning about that tradition. And then who? Who AGA is? Been that's been our connection to college ball this year. Yeah, last Saturday, we dad messaged us and was like, because he sometimes will message like, really strange things, like when he because the game is on TV, so he's watching it, and he knows that Susan likes to watch them. But we couldn't watch last Saturday because we were actually at quince a so we were like, hanging out and busy, yeah, doing stuff with other people, but yes, so we didn't actually could watch anyway, because we were out and about, but so yes, he just likes to message very strange things, you know, like he does be times where I'll get messages about, like, traffic alerts here locally. And I'll be like, hope you're avoiding, you know, whatever, whatever Street. And I'm like, what you heard it on the ham radio, something. So that's why I got radio. That's why I need a radio. Otherwise, oh, no, these things, um, I hear, if you disguise your radio as a windmill,

51:04

get away.

Collin  51:10

You can sneak it up. Oh, that'd be hilarious. You trees in your yard, right? I wonder if there's an antenna that's right around the side of the tree.

51:19

Sneak it up.

51:20

Yeah,

Collin  51:22

keep it real. Yeah, that tree

51:24

has some extra branches. No, no, no,

Collin  51:26

don't worry about that. Everything's out. Yeah, no, that's totally natural for sycamore tree. That's what they look like, how they I would know, right? Don't, don't talk. Yeah, that way. I'm a treeologist. What do you mean? Obviously, apparently, I did just missed by by four if I by three days. Brandon by three days. I missed the the ham radio fest here locally, I missed it by three days, man, your dad was there too, so he brought go talk to him. Be like, Hey, you you hear what's going on. Yeah, they've got their own man. I should go talk to these people. Must be fun. There you go. I bet they will say so many words in a single sentence that you've never heard

52:18

before that you just

Collin  52:20

be like exactly Oh no. Oh, my goodness, uh oh. The other exciting, well, not exciting thing, right? Had to go get my new driver's license. Woo, oh. Exciting was that? Was that, did you bring all your documents and have them? I did.

52:46

I had to find all of

Collin  52:48

the documents that proved I am, in fact, me and myself, and also me again. So, like, still me. Yep, that was fun. And, like, I guess I didn't read the card carefully enough, because they were like, Do you have proof of revenant residents? So I just handed them the card that they sent me. I was like, how about this? Right? Did that? Did that? Here you go. Did that? No. I was like, Oh, you need to, like, what? Oh, wait a minute. This prints very small. I didn't know I needed two proofs. Oh, you need two proofs of resident. What is that? Number one? It's on my old driver's license already. Okay, so that's your point. This piece of mail. Another one, yes, yes. So, but they were just like, oh, well, I can print off your property tax form. And I was like, Yes, do that. Offered to print your property I am so angry. Yeah, you'd have the most helpful people there on the face of the planet. Do this happen this? What happens when you're the only person in the DMV? Oh, right. Like there. There was one other lady in there who was having a problem, but, you know, probably shouldn't tell you about her. I'll just listen, see if I can pick it up on my screen cameras she had, she had laminated her social security card. Oh, can't do that. You can't do that. You have to have this very fragile piece of paper for your whole entire life, and you can't do anything to make it more durable. Nothing. Otherwise it's invalid. Nothing. Don't touch it. Don't even look at it too hard. Yeah, yeah. Also, I think I don't know if this is actually true. Okay, I don't know, because it is such a long time in between renewing the driver's licenses that I can't really remember. But I feel like this time it went relatively like I didn't. Have to hand them as much stuff, because I have a passport. So I was just like, oh, that really, oh, my gosh, that's that just greases the skids. I have almost wanted to go to the process of getting a passport just to make my life easier, because you can use it for everything once you have it, just like, what? So, like, all of the other some of that stuff that you need, like, you have to have, like, a birth certificate, blah, blah, blah, blah, like, or a passport, because you have to have all of that stuff to get the passport. Yes, so, like, once you have it, it's fine. You're making me fine. I've got the paperwork in my house. I don't know. I don't know if that actually is true or not, right? I don't know if that's real. But it seems like there was like, oh yeah. But like, again, again. It was so long ago. The only thing I remember about the last time I took I got my driver's license is that I couldn't remember the name for this one of the road signs. I couldn't remember the word merge. I was like, you know, it's a thing where you gotta, I said, I literally said to the lady, yeah, it's the I was like, Oh yeah, stop sign, dude, I enter. Sign, school crossing, sign, the one where you got to watch out because there's going to be traffic coming into your road, and you got to, like, move like, no, no.

56:19

She was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's

Collin  56:21

fine. Understood, yeah. She was like, as long as you know what they're for, we'll count it. I was like, okay, okay, good. Because I could not, I could not think of the word merge. Oh, at all, man, you said this in my I panicked. I panicked so hard, because it's been a little while since I've had to do that, and so now I'm like, it's coming up. Like, I know they're gonna make me do it the next time. And I these have to do the whole thing and put your head in the thing, and you'll look, yeah, but it's like, well, the Missouri State Highway Department has a handy reference guide for you to look at so that you know you can decide it's one of those right around the corner from where I live, a hall she could also look at online, which is what I did. So I can remember the word merge, because I remember that, and it traumatized me. So I was like, oh, in case they throw like, divided highway at me, I need to make sure I could say the word divided highway, not like, yeah, you know, cars are going the opposite directions. On the thing with the numpty, like, Yeah, I'm uh yes, the science recognition study sheet. Here it is, yeah, oh, there's a PDF, and just like an online quiz you take. Oh yeah. Form eight, form 4869, look at that. There we go. It's official because there's just random numbers on it. Look at this best. It's literally the best when they're just random numbers that have nothing from me. I have no idea what they mean. They mean something to somebody. Somebody just very Yes, just net to me, and I don't care to find out I'm okay with that, but absolutely, yeah, I don't so yeah, again, I don't know if it's true, but I feel like having the password, like, made it easier, right? But yeah, I was also surprised. She was like, Yeah, I can just print off your property, text, name. Never had anybody be that nice or anything. She's so angry. Do that please. See you gotta be nice. See you go in, right? And they said, What can I help you with today? And I said, Ah, I need help renewing my driver's license. Boom, see, I need help doing it. So I'm here for you to do things. That's what you say. Not I need. Oh, I'm here for help. Help. I am here to be helped. Yes, I am here to be helped. Thank you for acknowledging that. Here I am helpful. Help, please. And I had everything else. Yeah, right. So they're like, oh, I can do that real fast. But again, maybe it was the passport. Maybe they're like, oh, international men of mystery. Oh, well, right, this way, Jason, I

59:08

see this passport has been used before

Collin  59:11

gas, Papa, you're not like those people who just get passports to make this easy on themselves. Yeah. Wow. Weirdos. I I know i have it has been okay. This you're making me I think 2025, is a year that we just all go get passports, plus we'll need it whenever we have to go look at our Italian villas that are for sales. That's true. That's true. How are we supposed to do that? We don't have them, so I gotta get ready, because those, those opportunities may come fast. Yeah, that's true. There you go. Yeah, I'm glad you've, you've proved yourself as yourself, to be yourself, even yourself upgrade to the Official Missouri ID. So it's like, I don't know. They're like, do you want to upgrade? And it's like, Wait, I thought I had to. You have to. I think that's, I think. They just said that. But, like, I it took me a minute. I didn't answer for a minute because I was like, what? Oh, officially, no good. Like, you have to, like, yes, because if you can't get on a plane, now, if you don't have the right one, I mean, I can't accept my passport. But it's really annoying because, like, last summer, well, like last summer, we went to, like, New York and Boston, right? Yeah, to take my passport to fly to Massachusetts. That just feels weird, weird, right? Does it feel well, correct? So we, we're actually going to have to do an early upgrade on on Megan's because she needed to get it. And she, she, we call and said, What do we need to do? A get the real ID. And we, there's a bro, there's a

1:00:43

handy brochure, yes,

Collin  1:00:43

but yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we had everything, and we, they, we talked to them, and we went in. And you know what they should have said? They said they should have Megan. We, like, had set time of this, because I we were a lot going on. So we went and we got done, we should have asked, Are these requirements the same if you are a married woman who's changed their name, oh, no, you need one extra piece of information. You do. It was on the brochure, okay, well, that was to us. Oh, really, phone, we did not have that one extra piece of information. So she had to just get a normal license because we were out of time, and so we are going to have to do an early upgrade cycle for her for next year, because we're doing some we have some trips planned where we may be flying. It's like, well, we gotta get that on flying. And I get one because mine, mine is my license is still good, but is it? And this is where I get, oh, and this is the other thing they always ask, Oh, didn't you get the reminder that it's expiring? And I say, No, no, I have never in the history of ever gotten a reminder or anything from the state of this year. I don't remember about before, but they sent me a little postcard thing, yeah, yeah. They were like, didn't you get, oh, like, the license plates? Didn't you get the reminder the license plates have expired? No, no, I did not. I don't always get that one. That one's weird. I get That's a hit or miss one, yeah. Me, yeah, so, but like, yeah, it's very weird. But I yeah, I got, I got two this year, actually, because early, the reason, right? Because my license expires, like this weekend, right? Because, oh yeah and so. But earlier in the month, all Missouri license offices were closed because they were upgrading their computer software. Oh, right. So they were closed for like, maybe a week, or a little less than a week. And so I just sort of was like, Oh, well, I can't go yet. And then I kind of forgot about it. Yes, it was like, the second week in the month, maybe they were closed right like, somewhere on the something like that, I think. And so I was like, Oh, I can't go right now. I'll have to wait till it's like, really almost time. And then I kind of forgot. And then yesterday, I was like, Oh no, hold on. Quickly. Did it? Dig through the closet. Where is that? Find the official documents right here they are. Okay. Got it? Did I tell you the scene that I saw unfold when we were flying back from Florida, when we went to the conference there we were flying? Did I tell you about this? The guy at the wall? Okay, okay. So we this unlocked. This unlocked a new fear in me of unreasonableness that but just like how you were like, Oh, it expires this weekend. We are in Florida and we're coming back, and there's a guy at the security checkpoint and his license expired while he was traveling. Oh, I think maybe you did tell me okay. And I was so horrified, like it's that I actually remember getting out my license and double and looking at it while we were standing in line, being like, Did you expire? We used to, it's not my birthday, but did you expire? Yep, he he flew with a license that was not expired, but while he was at his destination, it did, and they were he could not get on the plane. I think they were having to go some a few other things or whatever, but it was going to be a long, long process. And I was like, I'm gonna just keep walking so that that that that's a new terror of mine, but, man, next year I gotta get, I gotta get I gotta get a passport. I gotta get a new, Real ID. I gotta there's so much, so much to do on my list. Case, I also feel like I don't know if maybe I was misled, but like I feel. Like, when they first did the real IDs, like, it was considerably more expensive than a normal license, yeah? Because it required extra processing and it required something special. It was an upgrade, yeah? But like, this one, I don't know what the normal license fee is. I don't remember, but, like, when they said that my total was gonna be, like, $27 I was like, That. That feels smaller than the number somebody told me this cost, because that's been what's really that was, it's been around for several years now, because I just haven't got it because, like, I have my passport. So I was like, add me yet. So I can't remember if it's been like, well, so it's probably, I don't know, five years, maybe, maybe not even that. Maybe not five years. Yeah, I feel like, 20, yeah, 2019, 18, something like that. Maybe 19, maybe it's like 1920, they started, I'm not sure, but yeah, it's been a while, but I haven't I just I was like, I don't need it. It's annoying. But I feel like maybe initially the cost was higher. That's what I remember, too. Maybe I was, maybe I could also be remembering, remembering the incorrectly. But I thought it was, like, a very, like, a significantly higher license fee. And I was like, holy cow. Why would I I think that? I feel like that might be the other reason I just did, didn't just do it, because I'm like, oh, you know, yeah, I feel like maybe did they roll it out just as an option, and then it became required later. So I Well, no, because it was going to be required, because, for whatever reason, like, even, even though, like, to the my untrained eye, like my current driver's license and my wife's driver's license don't really look substantially different to me. Like, I don't really know what the fancy part's supposed to be, right, but I don't know. Like, I'm sure there's something that I am unaware of, but, like, doesn't really look good different. No, I know it takes longer to get in the mail. That's the other thing, because you get your sweet paper driver's license, just like, it's 1947 again, and you just have a paper driver's license, which is really funny and ironic, because, like, the whole point is to have like, a super spiffy, fancy card, and then you're like, here's your piece of paper. Man. I This is hilarious. I I miss the days when they printed them right on site, right? It was so great. That's what I remember when I first got my driver's license. They're like, you go, like, oh, wait, I said, I remember, yeah, my very first one. And then after that. I don't think I ever got a single one after that, but my very first one, they had me step to the side, and then, like, I remember again, it was still hot. Like, I remember that aspect of like, oh, like, this is this? Is it? Like I was they need to bring back those days. Anyway, while we're, while we're changing the ranking system for college football, we'll also bring back printing in the you walk out with that day. Yeah. Again, I just, I just, I just can't help but chuckle with the irony of we need to. We need all these 70 bajillion documents proving for you Yes, and then we're gonna give you a really shiny, official, Real ID, whatever that means. And then, but until that time, this random piece of Office copy paper will survive as your ID, like, what hold on and everything will be fine. What do you mean? This is just as this is just as you can do everything you that you could with a real one, with this piece of paper, maybe not everything. I think you could drive with it. I don't know if you can, like, I probably can't fly with it. I probably can't fly Ben. I probably can't fly with my piece of copy paper at probably, we don't know. Yeah, okay, this time next year. Done.

1:09:33

Here. Here's my ID. What are you doing?

Collin  1:09:38

Please go away. I'm

1:09:39

gonna step to the side like

Collin  1:09:42

No, no, no, oh, goodness. Ah. Yes, well, that was the excitement of all my mistakes. Nice. Well, I wrote a haiku to to wrap it up, bags tossed in the car. Miles ahead. Night, whispers, loud adventure calls us nice. Still, I still think I'm recovering. I still think I'm I'm in sleep that Well, I mean, that

1:10:33

was quite the whirlwind. So I will say That's entirely possible that you're still

Collin  1:10:41

recovering. Oh, my god for that

1:10:42

whole ordeal, right? Like

Collin  1:10:44

Bill so tired, but we did it. Aha. So yay, we survived. I like it, okay, well, we will schedule this for, oh, next time in person, next time person. How about that?

1:11:08

We go,

Collin  1:11:10

we go. So live, live in person. Lasers be great, great. See if we

1:11:22

can rouse a surprise. Aaron for you.

Collin  1:11:23

Aha, we will see if we can find one. Russell, one up. That's true. With that task in mind, we'll talk again. All right. Love you.

1:11:36

Love you too. Bye, bye.