second round of testing

What a WEEK!! Collin is still recovering from the dogs, plus an in-depth look at what it takes to put in a stream crossing. Aaron had some cajun! Brandon and Aaron discuss what it’s like to become a teacher and being a good test taker. With recent world events, we need more air ships. Oh yes!

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Aaron, Brandon

 

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Collin. And Aaron. On this week's show, second round of testing. Hello. Why hello? It is a day.

 

00:27

Sounds like it

 

Collin  00:28

Dave days.

 

Brandon  00:39

Listeners The reason I'm chuckling so hard to leave is that this is in fact the seventh different time we've sent for recording this

 

00:52

isn't the need to know. You know, a little bit

 

Collin  00:54

sometimes it's hard. It's fine. A little bit there. Everything's fine. It's all good. Indeed. Only gives me just finished eating. And so like, oh, like still trying to get the food out of my throat here a little bit. Was dinner. A lie lies. So, cashew chicken, Negros. Clearly it hasn't dinner. Springfield, obviously. Well, obviously Springfield, sockeye chicken. My favorite. Chinese. It's almost like pretend Chinese food because I know it's not like from China, but I don't care. Cuz I'm a Springfield boy. And I love Springfield cashew chicken. Oh, good.

 

01:58

It really is.

 

Collin  02:01

Are you Aaron? Oh, good. Are you doing? Well, you know, I've had better weeks. But you know, I'm sorry. Yeah. Her colon? Yeah. Let's have a Let's start our journey today with your saga. Oh, I don't know. Last week. Yeah, let's see. And I tell you what, people people decided that this year dang it. They were going to travel for Easter. Like, I never traveled for Easter before. But man, that's because they haven't been able to travel all year long. Break. They're just looking for any sort of opportunity to leave boilers. Yeah. Then

 

02:51

they might have a three or four day weekend nothing by like,

 

Collin  02:54

I am going this is what I am doing. So No, it didn't. It also didn't help that we have seen a market increase of our client that started the year started last year with one dog. And now have Ah, so so you know, someone reaches out like, Hey, are you available for a Baba? like sweet? Yeah, we are expecting one dog. And they're like, Oh, you to meet your sister. You're like I said what?

 

03:27

I mean, that is true, too. If people have been home for a year, basically.

 

03:32

Yeah. And other you know, going on? Well,

 

Collin  03:34

I mean, yeah, well, I mean, they've been at home. They've got time to put into having any pet. Like, why not? Right, you know? Yeah, so we gonna be there for those formative months or whatever. So, you know, like, why not? I'm working from home. I'm spending my time at home. What about what about pets? Right like a friend? Well, I'm part of it took out things they were like, oh man, I'm really getting annoyed that my my dog is demanding all his attention for me. If I get them a playmate, I will have more free time. It's also probable Yes, that's the other thought process that could occur. Yeah, so fair. I will say I want you to guess what is worse than one Beagle puppy. To Beagle puppies? Yeah, to Beagle puppies. is the word is worse than one. There's Oh, cute, though. And but in my personal experience, one Beagle puppy is quite bad. Yes, indeed, like not necessarily that they're bad. Dogs or they're like troublemaking dogs, they're loud. Dogs vocal, very vocal dog. They have a lot to say about everything. And like, yes. And so we won. His name's Coby. So we actually have two copies in the house because we have our other tree And he's a beagle. And I remember when he was a puppy, he stayed with us a while ago. Like, he was playful, but anytime you'd like, go to pick him up, it was like you were stabbing him in the face with an icepick. He just way off. And so I was like, surely that's just like, hidden thing, right? Like, that's just what he does. Nope, his little sister grace does the exact same things like, I just need to pick you up for a little bit and it's like,

 

05:31

Don't touch me.

 

Collin  05:34

So yeah, Thursday was quite a lot we had we had Remi and Ruger. We had Coby and grace. Sad and Shay. We had Kota and Luna. And then we had a daycare for Mac a daycare for our Wow. And we

 

05:50

this is the Menagerie Yes.

 

Collin  05:52

Yeah. So the rivian Ruger Oh, yes. Oh, and, and we had a daycare for another two dogs that come from the same family. We had kidney scraped? Yeah. Why? Dogs everywhere. Four to five families. Each had two dogs.

 

06:09

Oh, yeah.

 

Collin  06:11

And they're not small dogs. They're all medium to large dogs.

 

06:13

That's a lot.

 

06:15

That's how we roll. Oh, my. And I've been going and seeing doing some drop ins on a little

 

Collin  06:22

Chihuahua named blue. Yeah, no, he's really sweet. He's 16. And he's really super sweet. But when the owner called she I said, So tell me about blue. He said, Well, he's he's part Chihuahua. Part Pitbull.

 

06:42

And what?

 

Collin  06:46

I think that she's joking. However, I don't want to make a joke of it and then have her be like, serious. Oh, that's my dog. Right? Like and offend her. So I just go, Oh, I bet that I bet he's a lot of fun. Right? And so I get there and he's, he's 100% Voila. He's, which means he's also 100% pimple. But we, as we say just means he's like grumpy. Like, is gonna bite everyone's face off. Like, No, he's not. He's not bad at all. He's actually he have the Chihuahuas that we have that over the last nine years. He's probably actually one of the best. I think that, you know, dogs can go two ways in there. As they get older. They either get extremely grumpy and persnickety. Or they get the Oh, hey, anyway, that's true. in Maui. Yes. So indeed, he's definitely fallen into the cool mom napping. Okay, blue. Done, but he's really sweet. I love his coloration is kind of his coat reminds me that of a coyote. How it's like brown with black flecks in it and like white tips. And though he's a really, really cool, and he's not, he's not a tiny tiny Chihuahua. He's actually like, a bigger Chihuahua, though. Not quite domestic. Not quite so grumpy. Yeah. 100% eyes like Yeah. Well, and yesterday didn't work to record because I was in the field all day. I was actually down in St. James, Missouri. Oh, look at that. Yeah, out in the field, like seeing like grass and trees. streams, perhaps in all the streams. Now, the city of St. James is wanting to put in a bike route and expand the bike and they want to go down to Merrimack springs trout Park. They called the right person. But in the middle bike route in Merrimack Springs is grumpy old MDC who only recently has allowed bicycles on our properties.

 

09:16

In many areas, I mean, they do they are much more aggressive force of erosion. Well, yeah, right.

 

Collin  09:21

Yeah, people that a generalized statement, people that ride mountain bikes are like bicycles, or I would say mountain bikes, like outdoors, tend to be slightly aggressive and thrill seeking in nature. Wow. And so they'll be like, I want to go down this giant Hill. And like, you know, not always the best choice for the natural environment hurtling down virgin hillsides. What if we gave you a path though? How about that

 

09:58

just liability right in it.

 

09:59

It's access to property that

 

Collin  10:03

it's on. It's being unmonitored, though they have concerns about other activities that go along with this. And this seems some people aren't coming. Other people look up and well, though, anyway. But this has been held up because the bike path ends on one side of the river, and they need to get to the other side. And like December 1, a lady down in that region got a call and was like, Hey, we need you to sign this letter saying that you're okay with this thing? He was like saying, What? Who are you I, they're like, oh, we're the city, we have these plans for crossing you. We just need you to sign off on it. And we'd like to move forward. And they got the design. It was like terrible. It was just not ecologically friendly. It would mess up the watershed. It was things that we don't do anymore. And we actively are removing. And they were like, yeah, this is what we want. So they miss the grant deadline for this and big thing. And one of the ladies who's working on it called me basically in tears. And she's like, I don't know, dude, still confused. And I don't want people to be angry at me. And I was just like, Oh, I, what are you doing? And we get down there. And they're basically like, we have two places where we can put this crossing one place, we're going to need a spam bridge, and it's going to cost $180,000. And then another one, we're just going to have them walk across on the riffle with their bike. Cost $9 for the sign. I think, I think maybe that might not be a good.

 

11:33

Sound like, well, just for the stream, dude, it's

 

Collin  11:36

fine. Like, though, we've got a powwow together, and we had some pretty powerful people within within MDC there. And we were like, yeah, like this bridge idea. Even if we put a span bridge here, the span bridge is gonna be 10 feet tall. And we were talking to the biologist, and he was like, yeah, the water still gonna go like 10 feet above that, during the heavy flood period. I was like, Well, yeah, I mean, so yes. And usually, these span birds are designed to be inundated and go underwater. But the problem with that is that the more flooding that they get, like, the more likely you are to get large, woody debris jammed on it and have them actually like ripped foundations. And it's a thing. And also, I had my first encounter with a local in wearing the triangle. So before all this happened, I drove out, right, so I drove down. And I was like, I'm going to go see these spots before everybody else gets there. So at least we have some idea of what's going on

 

12:37

scouting out like,

 

Collin  12:39

well, I couldn't, I couldn't get access onto the property. So I had to stay on the north side of the river to see these air. And so I was like, Okay, let's go to this one crossing, because I can't see. And I'm just like, I just want to see what it's like, well, I pull off to the side of the road, and I'm looking,

 

12:56

and behind me

 

Collin  12:58

is not so very nice house. And I'm like, Oh, I don't think anybody's home. Well here a door slam and a car star. And he backs out super aggressively bring clean gravel. And then he buzzes past my truck going like insanely fast and really, really close. And my my bosses with me, I turned to her and I said, Well, I think we need to go and she said, yeah, we need to go. But this road is only one way. So I've got to I've actually in order to leave. I have to follow him and then turn around and drive past as I was like a one lane because to me, no, it's a dead end in front of us. It's a it's a road. Oh, okay. Okay, so you've already gone to the end. Okay. Yeah. So I'm already pretty close to the end I'm facing it's like, what do you drive forward to the turnaround? And then come back. Okay, Tom, like, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Gotta go. We start driving. Here, he comes back towards us, pointing his finger out the window and shaking his head really aggressively. And I was like,

 

14:09

cool.

 

Collin  14:11

We turn around, and I'm talking to her and I look over and he's standing in the middle of the road, waving us down. And I like, Well, looks like we're making a friend. Looks like we're murdered. You know, roll down the window. I make it to the doors are like what makes the doors like just a little bit, roll down the window, hopefully, like, crack and roll down.

 

14:35

No, you gotta go the crack.

 

Collin  14:38

What windows rolled down, the doors are locked. And we're talking to him. And this gentleman is totally freaked out that the department's there. And he's heard rumors

 

14:50

of a trail coming through. And he wants to know is the government going to take his property? And, yes,

 

Collin  14:57

eminent domain for a bike path. Clearly, well see, here's the thing is property butts up right next to our property and there's no signs, there's no gates or whatever. And Matter of fact, what we do, we lease that property to him. And so he is worried that we're going to come in and he's no longer going to be able to lease it from it. This whole piece of property is probably 5000 square feet, we just have it so we can get access to that side of the river. That's it, right. That's the only reason we have. And he's trying to lay it into us like y'all, they're telling me I need to create clean on my stuff. And it is like strewn with litter and debris, and all sorts of stuff. And we're like, well, like, We're not here for that, like, we're all we're here for is to look at the crossing. It's not even the shirts, but also Yes. Right? No, we didn't. And every so often, like, I'm kind of checking our mirrors to make sure that nobody's coming up behind us, because this guy is he has no friends, like,

 

15:54

right there. And then

 

Collin  15:56

because, you know, he's, he's obviously, really, like really freaked out about this and super paranoid about why somebody is down there looking at this. And he's not well, like, he just you can see it in his eyes in his face, you know, scarring, pit marks, like he's not well, but we're trying to keep the civil and just be like, Look, we don't even know if this thing is gonna go in, they just asked us to come down here and give recommendations or if something were to go in to do that. And then he starts asking about like property boundaries and what he can do on our property. And we're like, Okay, this is going fine. He starts really laying into really heavily how there's no cell service down there. And like, that's not like a I try and call sometimes. Like, it's more like a, you know, there's no cell service down here, like a veiled

 

16:39

threat like,

 

Collin  16:40

call anybody like nobody will your screen just like Well, well, what's up? No, that's very nice. We actually do have a meeting to get to have a nice day, sir. People, people are expecting us. They know where we are. Lots of people, though, like every but literally everybody. And we leave it on good terms, right? Like, the day, sir. And if you have more questions, the regional offices here, please go talk to those people. And we we drive away? Well, the thing about needing to look at the crossing is, now we are going to access that same point from the other side of the river. So we Yeah, we start walking, oh, I'll

 

17:19

see you in a minute, but

 

Collin  17:24

not by forever. And we go across the other side of the river is like, I don't know, like 8095 feet across. So it's a pretty good span from highbank to highbank. Right? Like, that's why this span bridge would be so expensive. But a group of now 12 MVC, people are now standing on the stream bank. And boy Howdy, that good old boy flew down his Hill, stream back again, coming back, and everyone's like, looking around, and I'm like, that's the guy. And they're like, Oh, really. But we still have stuff to talk about. Right? We need to make a decision that day, because we need to get some heat. So we start talking about Yeah, trying to do it. And not, not not ignoring but not actively engaging. Watch him he comes down the hill. And also we noticed there's a boat mord on the other side of the river, and I was like, Oh,

 

18:16

he's gonna come

 

Collin  18:18

talk to us. Which tells me he accesses the property an awful lot. He he didn't need us to tell him what he could or couldn't do he already know. Yeah. Yes, you have a boat more from across the property. I you come over here an awful lot when anyway. And he's but the waters down the boats stuck in the mud. He's slipping and sliding all over the place. He's got a push pole that he's trying to use these in the boat trying to push off the bank with it. But it's Yeah, they can get to the well there goes my there goes my socialist problem, Aaron, I was gonna suggest medieval style fairy. We just put the pole rope we like the hobbit to us right as what I was gonna, just a little fairy. He just, he just like pull yourself across the river is we were looking at the spam bridge, which cost $82,000. And I go well, you know, there's always a zip line. And one of the gentlemen there goes, that's probably more likely than the stupid spam bridge. Maybe medieval fairies not off the table. We're discussing this. Our friend the gentleman across the river is starting to become more frustrated that he can't get to us and he's like keep looking, keep looking over. He's got a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. And at some point, he's like scrambling across up a ladder that he's got laid across a ravine uses to cross it with muddy and wet feet and he's like, Oh, no, he was probably 15 feet off the ground above the water at this point because it was really, really cold. Later. Right there. And man, he almost did it. And I was like, oh, we're gonna have to go in and save this guy. And oh, like, I'm ready, I'm getting ready to go down because he's gonna hit his head on something and we got to pull them out of the river. He, like a spider monkey he scrambled across, frustrated, he storms up back into his house, it comes out with his two pitbulls on chains, and then plays with them in the yard. And I'm like, I think we need to really move along this guy say, hey, aggressive guy, again. And you know, we're leaving, and we're walking away. And I'm like, you know, I think that a spam bridge could possibly work there economically, it doesn't make sense. It could work there. I think you could engineer it to be a third way. Public Safety wise, I don't think it's a good reason. It's the access is not workable for that one reason alone, right? Like, we don't need to be bikers and families coming through here in increasing access and exposure to that place, and possibly coming across an altercation. Right? Like, that would be true, awful. So we go to the second site, and we go to the second site, and it's, it's much flatter, the hills aren't quite as big. And there's like, already a pre existing parking lot on one side. And all of a sudden, we're like, you know what,

 

21:32

I think that

 

Collin  21:34

we can have them cross on the river. And that sounds like a really good idea. Because basically, you just say, look, the grant you're going to apply for is just going to go towards the trail improvements, you're going to improve your it's going to go to improve the parking lot and the trail down to the river, and the trail access from the river, up to the fireline roads that we already have on the property. And that's where your money is going to go towards. And you're not going to pitch this as a basically we don't I was like I turned to the lady was kind of organizing all this from the department site. And I was like, What is the city's objective here? Like, do they think like families are going to come on this? Or, you know, because there's mountain bikers, and there are people who ride mountain bikes? And they're very different, as you alluded to earlier? Braden? Yes,

 

22:17

yes, there are.

 

Collin  22:18

Yeah, she was like, Well, I think we're, I think they're gonna say families. And I was like, we can't, we can't do that. We can't accommodate that. So basically, we just need to come to them and say, Look, this is the kind of trail with this kind of trail rating that we can provide. And if you would like that, we'd be more than happy to do this. Otherwise, you know, we're not going to put in a structure, we're not going to do any of this stuff. and label it black diamond. Right.

 

22:44

That's what no families will come.

 

Collin  22:48

That's what somebody said. I was like, like, because oh, here's the other thing. She was like families. I was like, the roads through the department's of conservation, like from the city of St. James, to Merrimack Springs is something like it's over 13 miles, you're not getting the family on that.

 

23:05

Just like, I was

 

Collin  23:06

like, I think this is the best thing that we need to do. And everyone's like, yeah, like, we can get some signage and some legal language and talk about liability and stuff, blah, blah, but like, we can make it more like an adventure trail, and like boarding rivers and like nature, yeah, things like that. Yeah, pitch it from that aspect. Instead of, because it's obviously not gonna be paved the entire way. It's not even gonna be gravel the entire way. It's gonna be muddy tracks and some of these places. So it was just this. Like, yeah, we just need to use start using different language for this kind of trail. And who is born in honestly, like, if you built a road like that, and it made it a trail made it accessible, the hardcore mountain bikers would would come there and drove right and find it challenging, and they would Oh, yeah. Yes, I think so. I think that would be much more appealing, then you could like build up local people to become more interested in more adventurous mountain biking, right? Because now you have that thing. And maybe not like whole families will go but like, teenage kids will get mountain bike or people in their early 20s will start to mountain bike, you know, I mean, like, and become a different outlet that way. Not like little kids, but like, you know, for older people, older kids and young adults, right. Right. And honestly, I think from the department's perspective, having more nature scape trails and more natural road surfaces is a much better look for the department than having paved and gravel surfaces the entire way. Right. Like that's not what Yeah, apartment is in the business of do and the town. That town could accommodate that themselves. Right if the town really wanted to push this, as you said they did, they can create some more low level trails within the town. Ship right? You could be like, oh, here's our, because you could market it that way you say, oh, here's our like, little trail that goes to like a Greenway trail, whatever, that's usually what they call them. You know, like, we have one of those, like, you started there, and then that's where people start on. And then they go, Oh, yeah, but when you get better, you go over there. Right? And you sort of build up that more environmentally conscious, and like outdoorsy spirit around biking and bike paths. And then you go, Oh, yes. And we can also go over there, into the wood to go more extreme mountain biking, right? Like, yeah, it's the whole thing. So like, my whole, I think it's up to the town a little bit, right to see how they work. And again, it was this thing like, look like, that's what we are willing to do. And if you're willing to go along with that, and if you want, and if you can get consistent messaging between you, the bike shops, the other parks in the area about what this trail is, and exactly who's it for? We're down for that. We'd be excited to be involved in this because, you know, it's like, there's a lot of work that goes completely unseen on NBC properties, like the amount of prairie improvement projects in timber stand improvement and Glade work that they do that nobody gets to see, right? Because they're just preserved. Preservation sake. Right. They do have some places where people can go walk and path but like, this, this place is conservation area. No, they're like no walking path. It's just for conservation. And so this would be a way to start getting a little bit of access and kind of behind the scenes look at the kind of projects and yeah, that's going on some of the other natural scapes right about Oh, yeah, and it's beautiful. And because then we Yeah, we got to ride through drive. The lot of the Fire Fire trails and roads that they have going through that roads is very, very loose here. Like this is that was in four wheel drive low for a few of these things. Um, so like, is beautiful. Just be driving around on there and seeing all like, the forestry side that I don't get to see a lot of exactly what they do and how they improve timber stands basically.

 

27:27

Sweet. There we go. That was yesterday. That's very interesting.

 

27:31

I was tired of that.

 

27:33

I can imagine.

 

Collin  27:36

Plus, it's two and a half hours away. Weighing slightly.

 

27:39

Yes. Even more.

 

27:47

He said he was a little rough.

 

Collin  27:50

Me? Yeah. Yes, yes. Just emotionally, it was a rough one. Your workwise is fine. But like, you know. So that was it. works just work. It's just springtime. It's almost testing season. So we're getting all that stuff ready. Doing all that stuff. So yeah. So other than that, nothing too. Too much. Keeping it low key. Since it's been so traumatic. Oh, yeah. The weather has helped a little bit hopefully. Right. The weather. It's a little bit like super cold and rainy. Oh, that was Freeze Warning the other day, which was fun. intriguing. But like

 

28:41

grass. Crap.

 

Collin  28:45

You're gonna freeze on it. Was it? Wednesday? Thursday morning, I guess. Definitely frosty outside. Thank God. Yeah, it was nuts. This is why I teach weather science in the spring. As we can see all this stuff. Well, yeah, like now for diversity of weather. Yes. Boom. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Nothing too much.

 

29:20

So read you Aaron. recap my week. So Monday, I took the first pass for the first step towards getting Oklahoma certified, called the Oh get education test. That Monday. It would be the second time I say good. So it's a weed difference. Um,

 

29:54

I haven't played concept wise I have not had to do Like,

 

30:02

what's the word for a certain phrase or what it's called? Why? So in this test, I haven't had to take like a legitimate test test in a long time.

 

Collin  30:20

The first, the first part of that test is all, like, read this passage. What does the author mean by this one? in paragraph five, like what verbiage could be changed and make the sentence for, like, make more sense? So that's the first part. And so it's like, okay, whatever.

 

30:41

those tests.

 

Collin  30:43

Um, but they have a lot of what kind of format? Did the author, you know, do by this UI? Oh, oh, that's a good question. So, so so there's the first part. The second part is a lot of things. The second part is like all map, basically, word problems graph here and there, things like that. So that's, that's the second part. And then the third part, kind of a follow up with the

 

31:20

even the first part is still it's still some English stuff. And then there is a lot of, you know, oh, like, what's the main difference between using this sort of resource, looking into something like this form a resource? Like when you're using some sort of,

 

Aaron  31:42

like a research topic? Or it's like, oh, I don't know. That's something I never really thought about myself. So you, you go through that. And then it's like, questions of, you know, what, what's the better topic? Or what's the best way to use? Like this kind of stores? Then I got what's the best way to, you know, gain this information? if you're if you're only looking for, oh, blah, blah, blah, like, Okay, and then the final hard? Yeah. So then, the final part is like, is, is you write an essay. So you is graded on? How you, you know, how you do your essay, how you, like, your writing format, and all that stuff. So that's,

 

32:33

you know, basically, the gist of of the Oh, get out 100 questions wrong. Someone you have about an hour and a half, maybe if I remember correctly. Take it maybe two hours. I don't remember as everything's been kind of a blur since then. So. So you take that, and then it's weird, how they, how they do it. So they take like,

 

Brandon  33:04

X amount of tests. And in those tests, they have X amount of people that will take like, 40 people test and will grade them all at the same time. But you won't get your tests back until like a few, like, weeks, a month later. It Yeah, there's like a window, right? It's like, yeah, like, there's the way that they do it in Missouri anyways, there's like a Thursday, there's a three week window, where they have it. And they just like alternate those. At the end of that three weeks. They grade everybody's tests. Yeah. And then you don't get the result until like, a week or two after that to super annoying. They score you against each other, because I know when I took the GRP that's what they did have, like, your score was relative to everybody else who took that same test? No, not in this one. They just they just have the banks set up where that like the testing schedule set up was they just grade them in chunks? So like, like I said, the windows open for a long time and it's just great against the like a rubric thing or whatever so it's not like against other people. Yeah. Came to other people. It'd be a little bit different cuz like he it was in a weird like, I've never taken it in a place like this. It's one of those like professional testing facilities that like companies like send their engineers to for Yeah. You know, like, they like college kids will go and take their test there are like different companies will think it's like monitored and they have like the little people to check you in the locker. the only the only other tests that I've ever taken have kind of been like that, but not like the extent of this persona. It was kind of cool in a long time uniquely different.

 

34:55

In that sense, the Yeah. I used to, like the whole chunk of time that I was there. just gone through time I was I was being a good fit.

 

Aaron  35:11

And I did that. I feel more competent in this. Then I and I did the first time it's okay. Because the first time I was like, I know what tests are like, and I I found it hard. I haven't had to take a test and so long I it was it was a struggle. So that was Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, we don't myself we went on a date to this amazing restaurant called no was in Tulsa is a super fancy like, Is it is it? Yes. The name? So I was guessing based on Yeah, so we we did that. I've never had like, it was like the second time that I've been there and I've never had like, a va before and they were so good. Why? Why? Yeah. Cuz I never I never got to like go truly experience New Orleans. Before I just did like, I got there. And I got the New Orleans. Wow. Then we left. So my my, I guess, fans also style New Orleans, which was amazing. And so we did that. Then what's today, today, yesterday, we got to go on kind of like a little another kind of date is this place called another road market, which is on highway 60. in Tulsa is it's one of those things where it's kind of like a food truck

 

Collin  37:15

that everybody like, brings their stuff and sets up and these like restaurants, he is kind of like a miniature like food court from mall in, like a different facility. And so it's a lot of like, almost like wholesome food trucks, and all these other things that are, you know, place in this restaurant in this gigantic

 

37:42

barn basically. So we would just cry a lot of different foods, and then listen to the extent of my

 

Aaron  37:56

week really is yes. test taking. And then they're like, I deserve to do this, because I work really hard. And so yeah, when when do you get your test back? Do they give you a date? So they gave me a piece of paper that has the like, the website and then I go to that and then the website will tell me when my stuff is in. It could be a month it could be it wants to be a few weeks. I'm not even sure I didn't know if they gave me like a window of like it should be done by this date or something. Well, they gave me a piece of paper that says congratulations, you took the test and then it gives me a link to a website and then I put in my credentials and then it was also the weirdest thing I did like I went in there and they made me like and my palm is that a normal thing? I've never had my oh I didn't do that

 

38:54

it was

 

Aaron  38:56

black Yes, I got to actually have this test was like I walked in I got my little summer thing the lady called I went up there by me for myself in a walker it's like oh go ahead go ahead and put your stuff on the scanner. I was like I beg your pardon. Like no there's like a little scanner has little blue and gray thing that I put my index finger for my middle finger in and then like scans my arm and then it was weird because I went and the next bar or there's another guy that's all I'm here to do. You know this and you know go ahead and put your hand on the scanner and I was like in the scanner that was like two feet away if you saw me stand like we need identification that it is you just saw me stand by. Okay apparently, apparently cheating is become very high tech and we know Yeah. Aaron Oh yeah, guys. Like uncertainty I did. I did I did that I, and then it's like, oh, well, you're taking you're taking the teachers. So you go to the special, like, rooms like, so they literally put me in like a locked cubicle that had like a window and had like a fan in headphones. And I was there for the for the next like hour and a half. Oh, this is a lot different than the other but like, other places are scary.

 

40:30

So that was that was the my week in a nutshell. Yeah. Well, hopefully that'll go good. And then do you have? Is it a coma? Same? Do they have a second round of tests that comes after that? Yeah.

 

Collin  40:45

Cuz that's what we have to get. And then there's the I can't remember which covers the border, Shelby might yell at me from the other room. Then there's the there's the Oh set, which is the specialized one was for me, I will take the Oklahoma specifically and yeah, there's the offbeat. No, for Yes.

 

41:12

On the show, on the show, yeah, this show special guests. And then after that your you have to take calculus classes that are like, classroom management and stuff like that. So okay.

 

Brandon  41:30

Yeah, well, maybe because I was doing those the same time, that can be why we just had to take the we took the one that you did, that's like the first one. And then you do in Missouri, you'd have to take the content ones in Missouri, that well, at least for the content ones, I don't remember. The first one, I don't know what's called. There's too many acronyms are teaching. They're terrible. I remember the first ones called, but the second one, at least here. Like immediately, after I took the test, I walked out of the room, and I printed off piece of paper and it says pass fail on it. Whoa, oh, let's go back. And like, you have to wait for your final score to be tabulated. So you don't know like the numbers that you got? Yeah. But they tell you based on like a very quick calculation, if you pass or fail. And then you have to wait those weeks for the final confirmation. But it was so nice. Immediately.

 

42:34

Yeah, because with this, as long as you get your foot in the door, basically,

 

Collin  42:40

once you get it like those names have taken, you have up to three years to get your other tasks, like your your classes and everything else. And so like, once, once you have those, those are the biggest kind of things. And then yeah, will usually be like, Oh, yeah, you don't go ahead and you know, big, thick, whatever, or take your time or do this. And then,

 

43:07

and then it's like a really long because like, technically, I'm still a probationary teacher, right? Because it's been teaching less than less than five years, almost.

 

Brandon  43:16

Not for much longer. But like, yeah, you have to do something to get like the official, like a final certification after you do that. I don't even know how that works. I'm gonna have to have somebody at school tell me what to do. But like, I have no idea for the things like I don't know how to do that. And I just I know, in some states, like in, in the state of Kansas, we have a person in school, his job is to help me with that. So hopefully, they're in Kansas, you have, like, a, like a college class, like every like two years for like, however long that you that you teach for is like, Yeah, well, in Missouri, you have to do that, too. It's like it's professional development hours. Yeah. Right. So those can count for that. Our school has enough. We have enough professional development days throughout the school year where they're covered. Right? So you don't have to worry about really finding your own. They're all there. They're all built in to schedule. So we have all those days where it's like teacher work day, those countless professional development hours. Yeah. And the school logs them and says, Oh, yeah, they did this law. And so then then you get you don't have to worry about that. So yeah, so I don't really have to go find my own catalog or I'd have to like write down all this stuff I do as a class outside school, like they're already there and done so was handy because I'm really bad at that. Kind of thing. So I don't like logging time and like, all that stuff. It was bad with that. So it's a feature that I'm rubbish at. So I don't worry. Okay. Yeah. But also, thank you for your help. Yeah.

 

Collin  45:30

Probably, you get those back soon, so you'll know.

 

45:34

Yeah, definitely, definitely ready for change? Sure. And as long as we get, like, stuff taken care of First, I know that anybody has that that was the biggest hurdle. And with me taking the test, I've never well, definitely later in college, I would fail some tests.

 

Brandon  46:02

But like, the first time I took it, and I was devastated, because that is the career like I get on who me like Facebook Page of, you know, people who have taken it and they have failed constantly, or like they failed it five or six times or something like that, like, oh, too much to worry about. But it's still that kind of thing going on, like, Oh, I'm building like, wait, I haven't been in school any years. Am I doing? I guess that's okay on that. But yeah, it's one of those things, it's just like, it is kind of hard, like emotionally racking because, you know, it's like a big thing and like, you have to pass it. Right? You have to, there's not another like, if that is going to be your profession, there's not another recourse really have to do it. So, but yeah, it is common for people to have taken more than once just because it is hard. It is stressful. And I think the stress is the other factor. There were people getting put down. And let's be real, it's not really based on the Missouri, it's not just really greatly designed test, like doesn't really yeah. Wonderful from what I remember, like it's not. I mean, again, designing test is very tricky thing very hard. But that's why almost all tests are basically just reading tests. That is something that I definitely noticed, like this time, I definitely I don't know if it was like the first time like what I did take it now that that panic sets in, like, Oh, I don't know what to do is I'm going to do it quickly. This time, I was actually able to like, like, read through everything and like, like, articulate what it all means. like reading and I was like, that is a really bad test. It is just garbage. It's just not really they talked about it in like, what's better resource management like using the library or like Internet, like, test come out like he doesn't? Or like come on. Yeah, the internet, bro. Come on. Like, if you like there's a question on there. That's like, if what would this like if I was using a this kind of research? Like, what would be the best way to get information and it was like a library or a encyclopedia or like stuff on the internet?

 

48:36

Nobody's used an encyclopedia ever years. No. Why do I have a chant? Like an option between

 

Brandon  48:48

the library and the library? Check out my world book. 98. Right. Guy answered. Yeah. Both. Both, obviously. I mean, like that. That does that sounds so out of date. Like, when I was in high school. We were only allowed to use like, two internet sources. Max. Yeah, no, the all the rest of mine had to come from books from the library. Yeah, all the 100% annoying that was like, find relevantly recent printed books in a school library about impossible is what that is. Possible. Not Yeah. That sounds very dated and weird. Maybe like you can't use internet like what do you mean, I can't get out here. I only use internet every day. Come on. It was a very rough days. So I actually like reading through it. You want me to choose a penal library? And the answer was like, come on. She's in it every time. Yeah, I mean, I read books, right? I have books. I've read them. I'm currently reading some write about, like, historical things. So I do read books. But usually that's for like, hyper specific information. Yeah. Right. Like, yeah. Or, or more like information that I have, like, in my interest, but like I use internet to look at, like all the other stuff. Like, I don't want to buy a book about x thing. I just want to read about it right now. Yeah, right.

 

Collin  50:42

I had a question. And I just want to read it. Because not my particular like, interest level. Right, because I'm currently reading a book, The sequel. It's Paris 1919. Right, about that treaty after world war one, right. That's a very specific thing. But if I want to read about well to be topical international shipping, then I'm just gonna use it. In the economics of shipping. We're gonna talk about Mr. Daley, his book for that. Those pictures of that are insane. I mean, it's it's passed now. Right? Okay. First of all, I still don't know how to happen. No, like I said, it was the wind like brah. That ship is enormous. The wind? Yeah, come on.

 

51:39

City. It's longer than like the Empire State Building laid on its side and you want me to believe it's so

 

51:44

huge?

 

Collin  51:47

Yeah, do you see those pictures in the ship in the Suez Canal? That's we're talking about?

 

51:54

We jumped in turn, but there was like, I was hitting the

 

Collin  52:02

guy, random guy was being taken down. Yeah,

 

52:04

you got it. Like the CGI map, the people who created and like it shows like the depth of the channel and like all these different factors. I was like, Yeah, but it's a boat by the sea. That thing?

 

Brandon  52:19

Oh, man, it is. So now, I have heard from people that I know that have been in the Navy and have traveled through the Suez Canal, right. There's a guy at school that he's he works there. And he's retired Navy. He said that place is there are I mean, everybody ever talk to you. There's certain parts where like, Navy ships go through, there's like, hold their breath. Like, don't, don't move. Don't Don't we don't want the boat anything like Oh, sure. It's like real narrow still. So the fact that some of those ships are going through that are so big. It's like, Whoa, how do they do? it but I don't know how it got wedged completely diagonally. sideways, right? Is this like, what? Yeah. And then wait, well, me. I mean, I understand those boxes are the containers are quite the windbreak. But yeah, dang. I mean, I don't think I ever really looked at a picture of the Suez Canal until this to like all these aerial photos of just this like little sliver of blue through the complete desert lamp. Oh, yeah. It's like, it's jarring and shocking. I think about that. It is and then it gets widened every once while they do stuff on it, but like, yeah, it's uh, it was really desolate. It's not wide. No, that's what I'm about to say. Cuz I was like, imagining this gigantic like, highway of ships going back and forth. Like that's a creek. That is why Oh, yeah, it's like, there's certain areas where they have to go one at a time. Yeah. And there'll be like, little lake things in there, where they're kind of like, they can go away and then kind of like, pull off to the side, like a little passing area where to let another ship go the other way. So they can move traffic through that way. Yeah, that's right. It's not. It's not like you're like, straight or something. Right? Where you think that's like a really wide thing. It's actually extraordinarily narrow. Right? things, it's really narrow. And then the fact that they once it was blocked, they're like, well, guess we're going around the Horn of Africa again, or, you know, again, the Cape of Good Hope. Here we go. Just like the 71. I mean, yeah, cuz some of those ships just like Well, I mean, the backup of ships all of a sudden happen is like, insane weeks and weeks, like hundreds of ships all of a sudden, like Well,

 

54:41

that's another concept that I never really thought about, you know, the world's shipping lanes goes through that. And then you know, some person this is the exit at the backup traffic for miles.

 

Brandon  54:53

Yeah, cuz normally like works for some unknown reason. Through magic, I think probably it like normally works. Okay. Yeah. You know, like you think about that you think about shipping, you think about like the open ocean. But there are all these places in the world that are like really bottle necky for shipping, and it's kind of insane. Just how like, delicate that balances, I guess is the word I'm looking for. Yeah. About how little tiny hangups here and there I can just like destroy

 

55:39

the shipping channels and like make things get backed up and forever.

 

Brandon  55:46

Well now just want to look at the Panama now. Oh, it's worse, man. There's so that first of all, there's some pretty sweet videos online, you can watch it like time lapse of the trip through the Panama Canal, where it'll just be like the camera on the boat. And then they just fast forward things you can watch the whole journey. And it's pretty fascinating. Like, they just widened it to not too long ago. So it's a little wider. It has bigger ships. But like, it does the same thing. You got these little locks, you know, and then they get into the there's a big lake in the middle of Panama, where they kind of hang out and a staging area through and then to go to the other side. Right. So you can get going back and forth. But But how was it possible to keep pace with how fast the ships grow? Yeah. You know, because the ships work on an economy of scale, like, the more stuff you can carry, the cheaper it is to carry it. Yeah. Right through this weird kind of just how it works like, so they can build the ships. Enormous. Well, and that's what and then like, there's even some shifts that like can't go through the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal, because there's so big. Wow, they can't go through there. Yeah, some of the shots that came out of like the little Well, not the little, but like the full size excavator. Next to the boat. Oh, yeah.

 

57:27

Oh, my gosh, and this thing

 

Collin  57:30

looks like a, like an alien to this. Yeah. Oh, it's like, just absolutely huge. And that's partly, that's hard again, because that scale, like in the middle of ocean scale does is completely meaningless. Right? Like, yeah. Do you realize how big those boxes are? The deck, you're like, wait a minute, that's a semi trailer. Basically, right? Yeah, there's all those shipping containers are the same size. You know, they're international standard. size. So you kind of look at it outside the ship like that, that one that ever ever given or whatever. You look at the deck, and you go,

 

58:05

Oh, God, yeah, that's a lot of boxes. And there's more below deck. Oh, no.

 

Collin  58:14

Like those ships are basically measured about on how many of those boxes they can carry. That's how the as the sizing measurement, right? How many containers they can actually hold.

 

Brandon  58:29

Which is insane. So Excuse me. I was reading though. This guy, these several people were talking about how this sort of event was leading people to rethink about how shipping works, kind of like what you were talking about Erin? Like they're kind of looking at how it currently works and like, Well, how do you make it not do that? And several people's solution to this problem is revive the potential reviving of the airship. Hey. Yeah, right. Like these big I saw a couple prototypes of these like massive airship things that are designed to be like hollow and those containers like fit inside the airship structure. They're pretty crazy. I don't know how they compared to how many they would be able to hold on a boat. But like, it really made me think about like, it'd be kind of cool. But it's one of those things too, like you think about like, well, it's a new thing. So not a lot of people would use it at first anyway. Right. But as it became more and more common, how many jobs around the world for things would you lose if airships became a thing? Right? Because like, if you think about it, if you need if you have an airship, I don't need as many truck drivers anymore. Because an airship can literally land anywhere doesn't have landed up, it doesn't have to land at a port, and then be put on a truck to drive somewhere else. So what do you lose? And then what jobs do you lose around the economy of having trucks? You know, and somewhat strangely, while I was reading about that this week, I found the show that I watched online this weekend, basically. Because I have that curiosity stream thing, you know, a hashtag not sponsored by Oh, yeah, so I have that. But because I've used some of it for school, and I just like to watch it sometimes. And it's pretty cheap. Again, not sponsored. But I found the show on there. Totally cool. That's true. Hey, guys, what's up? Anyway, so I know, I found the show on there, it was just like, randomly. Because side note, curiosity stream also not a great platform for browsing. I'm a browser, and not really the best for that they have some things they need to work on. If If you want to browse effectively, and just like look for shows in a certain genre, it would be nice to know what genres the current show you're watching are classified as that would help. Shocking. Shocking, right? Your menus need to be a little better. You can work on that I believe in you. Anyway. It's called hot roads. And it is a show all about like these extreme roads throughout the world that are like hyper dangerous and where lots of goods have to travel. Right. So like, the one of them like the first episode I watched is like the Manali lay highway and like super northern in, like for the Himalayan Mountains. Yo, like, like, yeah, like the only way to get stuff there is by these big trucks on this, like janky path through the mountains. Awesome. It's like a whole show about that, like just all over the world. He's like the king, where's it Bolivia, the road of death? You know, from that one Top Gear episode. It's on there. And it's just like all about these people that are, you know, a lot of them are truck drivers. Or like, bus drivers, right? Or something that have to drive on these roads that are crazy, perilous, you know. And the show also has its own problems, like the narrator is the world's most boring, like the narration of the show. Possible was such an interesting topic.

 

Collin  1:03:16

I don't know, everything he talks about is like, yes, this driver has to be very vigilant because this road is very dangerous today. Like, that's his tone, the whole thing. Like everybody that does the voiceovers are like asleep. And that good. They could do better anyway. So it was really hard to be looking at these like incredible VISTAs. And like these trucks traveling on this like, super treacherous stretch of road and the narrator's just like, calmly talking about the driver can't make one mistake. Otherwise he could fall hundreds of meters to the bottom of the gorge. In that tone of voice. Come on, man. Good.

 

1:04:06

stuff.

 

Brandon  1:04:15

But yes, so it's pretty interesting. But that that's, that's my original point was that it made me think about like, all the other industries, and like people who rely on that, like that transportation industry, like the people that live on those little roads, on the little towns and inside the road they rely on that's how they get goods and services, they sell stuff to these people that travel the road that you know, because sometimes this is the only way to just even get to a certain place. Right. And so like all those little tiny industries would be affected greatly by like the return of the airship, you know, and it'd be like even Yeah, we see that already. With like the interstate highway system. I like places like Little tiny towns just like die, because the traffic doesn't go there anymore. So, on the one hand, I think the airships are sweet. But I think putting a sky cap in the world is Morrow five. But yeah, definitely right, like, totally awesome. But I was thinking, again, it probably would not be economical to run an airship to like, Lhasa in Tibet, right? probably not the best way to get stuff. Still, it'd be these like, crazy trucks and weird little cars that go up. The thing is, it's nuts. So the show is really cool. Just definitely watch hot roads. If you can find it somewhere else. I don't know where else. But then the narration, the narration lights down. It's really bad. I'll just turn it off. And

 

1:05:56

I'll narrate it myself.

 

Brandon  1:05:57

Turn it off. There it is. Oh, this is watch. turn on the captions. And watch the watch the dude just like struggling to drive it over. Some of the roads are like, Oh, yeah, it's better than it used to be like, What? How? But even better, this is terrible or bad. Yeah, this is really crazy. Like, all the different I watched, like a bunch of them. So my brains like, addled slightly about like trying to differentiate them from each other. But like, you know, there's a couple that are like one of them was just like, Dakar capital, like the big city in Bangladesh. It's just like, yep, this is the road. And this is the town. And it's a town, like a city that went from having like, a million people to 17 million people in like, five years. So it's like, it's, it's growing. It's like, it's the people are the population growth is in. The streets are just like, yep. For always. Well, yeah, and I mean, that's a that's a whole nother topic as far as like, planning for growth. But I think I think these these foundations, and I, I hope that at least last year, got more people thinking about where their products come from, and how their ship, right, and how easily these systems can be completely disrupted with just a little tiny, like, what, what the grand scheme of things is a little tiny accident or little tiny hiccup. As far as Yeah, like, moves, not even just to make something but once it's made, how do you get it to your door? How do you get to your store? Yeah. I think there's two ways to think about this problem. Right now. One reactionary is our supply chains are can potentially be unstable. We should rely on more domestic products only. Yeah. Right. So you're kind of shrinking the global economy in that sense. Some countries, that's like, not a big deal. Right. Other countries, like, they can't deal with that, like, but our where we need food though. Right? Like, yeah, that guy, especially we're talking about, like, not just like my Amazon order. And that thing that I was, you know, my thing that I'm trying to buy online, it's stuck in the Suez Canal. I'm not talking about that. We're talking about like, products to live, you know what I mean? Like? The other one is like, how do I keep global trade going and expand and make these systems more robust? Right, I think, I think that is the that's the one I prefer. Personally, there will be a lot of people that like the first one, right? Especially in the current climate, right. That's the one we have to go with. Obviously, like, Oh, no, never blah, blah, blah, like man. Like I think, I think a prudent way to go that is to see like, is 100% of this item coming from one channel. Okay, that's not good. Right. Like, yeah, diversify that. And maybe that's diversified coming from other imports. Maybe that is doing something more domestically. But well, I mean, yeah, but it's like, it's not. I'm saying, like, overreacting, I was like, Oh, no, we have to produce 100% of this thing domestically. Right. That's not strictly necessary. Like I'm all for like producing domestically and like growing job markets. Clearly, that's not a negative, right. Like oh, no. more stuff and more more stuff to buy and more jobs for people to come on. But like, that's just a we're at a stage in the global network, where it is not possible to do that, on the scale that perhaps it was in, like, you know, the 19, early 1900s, you know what I mean? So like, that's another thing that show is really, the kind of eye opening thing about it is like, how these goods get to final destination, like the links that they go through. And it's not just like, finished, it's like, it can even be like locally sourced goods, right, like people living in x area, in the Himalayan Mountains cannot grow food, there are enough food for the population. So they have to have food imported, you know, what I mean? It has to come from somewhere, even within the, you know, the same country or the neighboring country, it can only come from, you know, 200 miles away, but it has to get there somehow, you know, same thing like here, even if you think a small scale, like, there is not enough agriculture in my current area to feed the population of this area. It does not mean, so, how do you make those things more robust, and work together to make sure that everybody has more access to stuff, stuff in general, like food and necessities, but also like other things, like, Cool stuff that they want to buy, right? Because that's good to be even want cool stuff. So that was another thing about the show. That was just really neat. to look at is like number one, where some of these people live, how big some of these cities are, that are seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Like how did this population center even get here? To support like this just enormous number of people, and then how their stuff gets to them. This is really cool. I thought, even if the narration was really not exciting. Well, I mean, that gets to a lot of like, just societal resiliency and stick to itiveness. And break cuz you see, even like, some ancient cultures of like, man, they had a whole lot of people on top of this very tippy tip of the mountain. Yeah, right. Like, how did that What are they doing? Yes, to the thing, right, there's always reasons. You know, I might not know what those are. But like, that doesn't mean they're right. Not good reasons. My favorite from those is when they're like, yeah, so we were, you know, going through this little stash of stuff. And there's like oyster shells in here. And they're 3000 miles away from the oysters.

 

1:13:04

We don't really know how they got these here.

 

Brandon  1:13:08

Yeah, that's pretty interesting one especially in like, Mesopotamia, like, man, they must have a really good supply network to get oysters that far inland that fast to not be bad 6000 years ago, or like, you just start thinking about like, how how they would have even started making those connections or building those supply connection. Supply road. When we when we struggle to do it. In modern That's true. Well, that's the other thing about this show is like they're they'll everyone's will all show people like working on the road. And they'll be like, so remote. Or it'll be in a country that's like, very poor and it's just like a whole bunch of dudes a shovels. Yep, yep, that's it. That's the road crew. They're currently fixing the highway out here next to my house. It's like a million people. Like, dump trucks for days. 75 steamrollers. Like, that's it like there's three but you know, asphalt machine. Id you know, all that stuff. And this is like, some dudes with some shovels baskets. Yeah, well, yeah, I did. Like there was one there was like a whole bunch of road crew making gravel. So that was a whole bunch of dudes on the side of the road just like smashing rocks with hammers to fill in the sections are like, oh my gosh. Top Gear Burma special. Right where he's like maybe the roads Okay, yeah. reminded me that she'll you'll think Oh, yeah. Yeah. Also topical. Get all kicked off. pharma. Yeah, it's been rough. A little. Yeah. Yeah, it's bad deal. It's getting that it's getting worse, like, every time. So. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Our Yeah. our listeners who don't know. My anmar is not in good times. Good things right. February, February, I happen to think a coup attempt as the military decided not to be charged again. And then now they are those good. So, yeah. Yes. Don't want ever say looks at the history of Burma, slash Myanmar and goes, Oh, man, you remember when the military is in charge? That was a good old days. I just love that. No, I mean, people in the military probably say that. No one else does. So. Yeah. And hopefully they know what they're gonna do over there. It's getting bad. So yeah, the refugees are pouring out looking for sanctuary and safety from others. And, yeah, but there's people staying to fight. So I don't know. There hasn't been really letting up. Yeah, well, as many talking to me, because I keep turning off the internet. So that's the that's the hard part is like they keep, like, it's hard to know, like, what's going on sometimes, because they keep restricting the flow of information coming out. Like literally turning off the internet. And I was like, Nope, sorry.

 

1:16:49

What's the sound? Oh. Yes. So it's Yes. Yeah. So keep an eye on that one. See how that's going.

 

Collin  1:17:02

Like friends in Myanmar? Hope you're doing all right. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. We'll have to check what's going on there. Yes. You can't leave on that note, I think what we cannot, is we need to, we need to, I'm gonna say, you know, last minute challenge has been has been posed. I say, given having ended on that topic. Next episode. We need to come prepared with too, we need to be another good news episode is what I've decided. Okay. So, we need to come prepared with some good news. And we can just go round robin, and have another good one. How many good news from losers? Do we need to have

 

1:17:54

up to?

 

Brandon  1:17:56

I said, two, if you want to go back three, three, but then two to three. Got it? Okay. I mean, yes. And then that your listeners will do another challenge. challenge for sure. Okay. Do you want to the one we've been talking about the last one we talked about? Yes. I think that will ease that a little bit. But yeah, I think we do need to I think, okay, there is one coordinate that it's in the it's in the style of things that we don't know about. Yes, that's which is because all of our challenges so far have either been in the things we don't know about or we bought a thing. That is the two challenges that we've seen. Which I'm okay with, I'm fine with it. Those are the overarching sort themes of our lives. So that sounds good chromatic elements. Yes, we just need to coordinate that one a little bit. But yeah, the we'll get that on the on in the worst case. We'll do that one through textual texts later. The super secret channels but right now, we'll start with next week. Good news, part two, which is topical because also good news part one. The backlog episode has recently come out on our YouTube channel follow us there to get old episodes easily easily accessible on YouTube bang I only remember that cuz I listened to it again yesterday cuz Oh, man. Look at that, c++. And I actually did go through I think we run coming up onto the last little bit of episodes that I have uploaded. So I have to go back through and do another big dump of of episodes so that so they all right, Melissa continues to blow but yes, more coming soon. So yes, the ones on YouTube are not The current ones yet they're still the backlog since we came late to the YouTube game. Yeah, but they're on there. So you can if you've got ease more easily accessible on your office computer, right? Oh, yeah. And it's also working from home. You can just busted open right there. Bam.

 

1:20:16

Got it in audio format.

 

Collin  1:20:18

And they're all just classics. Right. So what's going back and listen to the whole back catalogue anyway, right? Like, yes, stats. Mine is well relive those first four episodes. Where Aaron talks about horse wrangling. Good. deed. Okay. That sounds good. Our first action castle experience. Man, oh, man, we got to do another one of those.

 

1:20:50

Yeah.

 

1:20:53

So next week, next week. Good news, part two. And then after that, at some point, new challenge in the style of things that we don't know about yet. Which listeners if you have submissions for things that we don't know about which I was going to tell you. So especially our international friends, help us out and dump things that you think we should talk about.

 

Collin  1:21:24

Again, so you can do that by going to the contact board on Oh, brother podcast.com. Click issue. button there. Contact there's a contact button, literally a contact button. You can email us, though. Perfect. That's good.

 

1:21:48

You say you guys don't know about this. And we'll say yep, you're right.

 

1:21:51

We don't.

 

Collin  1:21:55

But we will soon. Sounds good, guys. All right. Love you. Love you back