that Buffalo buffalo sentence

You need to create more space in your life for appropriate failure. Collin breaks down the consent of ‘arete’ and Brandon works on a definition of a “good student’. The boys discuss what some outdated words that are still around. They wrap up with a sentence about a bullying buffalo from Buffalo, and a story involving getting stung by hornets. 

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Colin, and Aaron. On this week show that buffalo buffalo sentence. Hello how's your week? Exhausting. First day school. I was pretty good.

Brandon  00:32

Thanks. Today it was a second day just like that like bad, right? Just like lots of sucks saucing in long, right? Like no.

Collin  00:52

Like, how are the various class lengths going? are exciting.

00:58

Very fun. Love it.

Brandon  01:03

We were so interesting. Sorry. We, we did all that, right. We fixed our schedule all up. We did everything. And then we told the principal, and she was like, nothing's changed. And we're like, not true.

Collin  01:21

No. So

Brandon  01:23

like, we didn't even know like one of the other special class teachers were somebody mentioned it to him. And he's like, Nah, special class times are all the same. And we're like, Excuse you. What? So they messed up and didn't like, speak to each other appropriately. And so. Yeah.

01:43

Nice. Well, it's

Brandon  01:44

fine. I guess. Well,

01:46

well done. It's all right.

01:49

It's more normal now.

Brandon  01:50

But it's ridiculous man, like, oh, that's fine. It's like, trying to get it's always difficult, like when you don't know, there's like a lot of things that I do at the beginning of the year that I don't like remember? Right. And then, like, I don't think about them ahead of time, right? Like, well, yeah, a lot of like ground laying the groundwork stuff. You know, like the, your, like classroom expectations, telling the kids about the class, like, I don't think about that stuff. until like, I'm doing it. And then I'm like, oh, yeah, I have to tell you all these things right now. Today, we're talking about like, in teaching, there's this concept called, like, the first 20 days, I think we've talked about before, where it's like, it's kind of like, you use that time to set the groundwork and lay out expectations for the class and you like, weave that stuff into your lessons and everything, you know. So it's kind of like the foundational block for everything, right? And so excuse me. So it's like the first like month of school, you're kind of doing that, right. It's kind of what you're doing. Practicing expectations. Awesome. So today, we're going over some stuff. And we're talking about like, what makes a good scientist? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So I was telling him, like, if we're going to be scientists, in sixth grade here, we should be good ones. Right? So we don't want to be bad scientists. It's lame. No one wants to do that. So we want to know what makes a good scientist so we can do those things. I was telling him like these general categories and stuff. And then, like, how that applies to our life in sixth grade, because, you know, some of them are vague, like, you know, we state reasons and do research. Okay, so like, that's cool. But like, what does that mean for us? In sixth grade, what does that look like for us? Right? And so I was telling the one about, like, you know, good scientists, like,

04:12

I don't remember what my slide said exactly.

Brandon  04:14

But it's basically like, they don't give up, right? We don't quit. We don't like get an answer that we don't like and be like, hey, it's too hard. I'm stopping. It's not really how this works, right. And so I was explaining to them the process that happens, and I was like, it is possible for you. You know, in in here, so what what can happen is you can do some stuff, we'll do our, you know, we'll do the unit, we'll do our study guide. You'll, you'll take a test. And it's happened before where some people have taken their test, and they've gotten their score back and be like, oh, and they've come to me and they said Mr. Funkhouser, I'm kind of sad about this because I got this more, but I know I can do better than this. And they're like, oh, man, can i Is there any way I could take this test again? And I go? Well, sure. And when I said that the kids looked at me, like it was the craziest thing they've ever heard in their entire life. One kid who's kind of pegged him as kind of a smart aleck II guy already. He was like, You're telling me that I can just take a test again? I was like, within reason. Right? If you miss one question, you're not going to take it again. Right? Yeah. And he was like, Yo, that's like, easy. And I was like, is it? I was like, some of the concepts that we're going to talk about are quite difficult. And I like, read him off the list of like, the standards that we're doing in the first unit. And I was like, Do you know what that means right now? And he goes, No, I was like, Okay, you see,

05:54

what's your? Yeah,

Brandon  05:57

I was like, I don't expect you to know them yet. Because this is the second day of school, but like, this is where we're going. Yeah, we're going okay. So,

06:07

you know, it happens. So it's fine. Don't worry about it.

Brandon  06:10

But they were like, really confused. Like, what do you mean? I was like, Listen, if we if the goal is to talk about, you know, being able to create a space where like, like, I talked about this last week, where like, failure is okay, right. You know, take chess again. Okay. Wow, whatever,

Collin  06:32

like, boom, done. And so they were looking me like, it was crazy. They're like, What do you mean?

Brandon  06:41

Like, this has never happened before? Well, yeah, that's, that's like, that might be true. But you know, that's what we're gonna do. Because, you know, we're learning things. So sometimes you need you, so, deal with it. So it was funny. They're, they're like, trying to figure out their life right now. It's like the first day came in, as on the hallway, you know, just kind of looking at people, make sure they get to the right spot, or whatever. And I came in, came in to check my email real quick, because I always get like, last second emails, like, make sure you do this, like you

Collin  07:21

had two weeks to tell me about this. And you're just telling me right now, right now, the best girl,

Brandon  07:31

so I'm sitting there checking it. And my friend comes in, who teaches across the hall? And she was like, Hey, Guy question and she looked at the kids. She's like, What are they doing? And they were all just like, sitting in their desk staring at each other. They're just like, they were they looked horrified.

07:48

Oh, no,

Collin  07:49

it was kind of funny. I was creepy. Okay, everybody.

Brandon  07:53

Yeah, I know. I let them play it out for little Bob's like, I'm just gonna leave him like this. Until I take attendance. Yeah, that'll be funny, right? Like, I was gonna, like, it's kinda Larry. So we were just gonna sit in this space. Yeah, I don't know, if we're running around on the first day of school causing havoc. We're gonna, we're gonna keep this going. We're gonna play it out. See how it goes. Maybe I'm a mean, horrible person. But I thought it was hilarious to do that. So basically, in my week, do instead of just like navigating the murky waters that are the first week of school, where

08:35

everybody changes

Brandon  08:36

their plans is last second and forget to tell the sixth grade teachers. Tout works, right. Like like, oh, by the way, we're doing this. Like, second day of school. I mean, it was the second different lunch procedure we've had this week. No, no, no big deal is fine.

08:53

Oh, already?

Brandon  08:54

Yeah. So that's, uh, that was fun. You know? Okay.

Collin  09:06

Well, you know, you're on your toes. Yeah. It could be always be guessing is what they say Right. always wonder what's coming. Yeah, I heard that. That's

09:16

exactly what you want. Wait a minute.

Brandon  09:18

Hold on. No. It's it's interesting that you were commenting on setting up about like, we want to be good scientists. So we have to be good. We have to. We have to be good at doing science things that I was actually I was just writing a little bit today for the business retreat that we're going on this weekend. I sent you the copy of that. Book that manual and stuff right. Had you oh hey,

Collin  09:54

we're having we got some pets or we got some business owners for coming from across the country coming in for a week. Get in Independence Missouri.

10:04

Aha. Yeah.

Brandon  10:05

Listeners when Colin says going to what he actually means is hosting hosting he lying to you. He's he's trying to play himself Loki here but he's

10:15

we got the

Collin  10:18

we got the little bed and breakfast all rented out.

Brandon  10:22

Oh, all right,

Collin  10:24

I do think there is one dude who's going to be there and very confused.

Brandon  10:29

So it's fine. He's just like I just was trying to go to

10:34

Pony Express Museum,

10:36

what are these people doing? Why are these people

Brandon  10:38

just come hang out just you know, Hey,

Collin  10:41

he is he is more than welcome. But no, I was writing some letter I was gonna be sending everybody kind of about what that means

Brandon  10:52

for

Collin  10:54

me like pursuing excellence. And so there's this, there's this Greek concept. I'm not gonna pronounce this, right, it's ARATS or era Tei. And basically, it's like, excellence in your full form your full potential. And there's this logical dance that you walk through here, where it kind of, you can structure a sentence like this of like, someone, let's say a person who exhibits excellence is one who performs the many functions of a person well. So you have to kind of back out and ask yourself a lot of different questions about that, and go, okay, like,

Brandon  11:33

well, what are the functions that define me?

Collin  11:37

And what does excellent mean in those, right? And now, now, that's where you start delving down into so when you were talking about like, scientist and performing and excellence, it's like, okay, yeah, like, that's our job. But we have now defined like, what does it mean to be a scientist? Because if we don't define that we don't know what we need to work on and do better with?

Brandon  11:59

Yeah, exactly. That's, that's why I was trying to put it in context for them. Right. Like, because like, yeah, that means different in these things mean different things, different scenarios, sometimes, like, well, that's something else on my list was like, it's basically like, there's something about being methodical. Right? Yeah, scientists are methodical, right. Careful, methodical. And you know, when you're 12, do you know what the word methodical means? Maybe, maybe not. Right. So, like, we have to define this, we have to put this in context of how does that apply to us? What does that mean for us? Right. And I think like, that's where a lot of those like business key things like get annoying, right? Like, I could just tell the kids this, right? Do this, like, be excellent. Okay, but like, that's too vague, right? We have to have context somewhere, you know, we have to know how that applies to us. In our situation, you know what I mean? And so like, the being methodical in sixth grade, that means we go slow and steady, and we just take our time and do our best. Boom, that's what it means. Okay? It's we're not racing to be done. Because that is a thing that happens in sixth grade. We're like, Ah, I want to be finished. Done. That's it. Yeah, that's, that's not is that when you give your best work? No. So like, we, I guess, trends, you know, this is what we want, right? We want to go, we want to go slow. Take your time. Bam. As we want, you

Collin  13:39

know, don't rush to get done just to be done. And give me garbage. I don't want your garbage. Okay, I'll give it back to you as a no good. Take this back.

Brandon  13:49

This trash get out of

Collin  13:50

here. Well, that's, but you don't. It starts with having to be guided in that right of going. Okay, let's ask some questions about this. What went well, what didn't go well? Why didn't go well? Or why did it go? Awesome. What can we do more of how like, it takes being guided to that the first? Probably 1000s

Brandon  14:13

Again, the 12 years old, so

Collin  14:15

I know. I know. I was gonna say though they're grown adults, too. Who can't who have never, never intentionally gone through that process. So if

Brandon  14:24

that's because, dad, but that's because no one's ever told them what the process looks like. Yeah, right. It's like we've talked about before, like people just like assume that you know what you're talking about, right? Like, I'm gonna say words and I'm just gonna assume they get the meaning. Okay, that's not helpful to anybody. Right? Yeah, it'd be very clear. Okay. Like what do you mean when you say XYZ gay because your version based on my like, you know, life experiences whatever is different than mine. Mm. Just because of stuff. So like, you have to be intentional, right? And that's the thing. That's thing that makes me so angry about the beginning of the year teacher meetings. Another reason I get so grumpy about it is they like harp on about all this stuff. And they're like, be intentional, blah, blah, do this stuff. Like, make sure you clarify your stuff, and do all that. And then like, I'm doing all that my lessons, and then none of the administration gives me the same courtesy when they speak to me, right? They're just like, do whatever, blah. Be excellent. Be like, Yeah, okay. I'm not billing Ted. Right? If I was Bill and Ted, that'd be cool. I could just be done. Right. On the Circle K, bro. Need a slushy? Yeah. Like,

Collin  15:42

I'm even thinking well, from the students perspective of, what does it mean? Like, you need to be a good student? Nobody who I can honestly say, at no point, did anybody sit down with me and help me figure out what good student meant? What does it mean to be a good? Right? Like, that's, I had to figure out what it meant for me. But if you are just told be a good student, it's like, what did what? That's not helpful? At all? Yeah, completely obliterates all sorts of contextual concepts of what good means of like, okay, good. With with this background, this history, these struggles, these things going on with these goals, these objectives like, that's one kind of good for you to define for yourself versus something completely different from somebody else. And to kind of just say, use one word to say, be a good student. I think that conjures up a lot of imagery for people of, well, I'm never tardy. I'm never, I never missed a day of school, I always get straight A's, and all the teachers like me, and like, you can go down this list, but it's like that. That's not what that actually means.

Brandon  16:57

No, it isn't. That's, that is what I found out when I like, you get to a point eventually, where you discover that's not true, right? Like, it happens at various stages in your student career, right? Like, you do all this stuff, and you just like, get good grades. And it's like, that you'd like don't even have to try. You know what I mean? And then at happens at different places for everyone, but all of a sudden, you are hit with a brick wall of things get like hard. And then you go I don't know how to deal with this. Right? Because I had never had this struggle before I just like, listen in class and get good grades. Like that was my, quote, study strategy for a real long time. Like, pay attention to a thing. And then like, get, okay grades, jobs it. And then like late high school, it was like black? What? No, now you have to like actually try and I was like, Uh huh, this is problem because I'm now like, 17 years old and have not developed any studying skills at all, because nobody told me what they should be. Means I don't know how to deal with this reality that has slapped me in the face. Like, yeah, you have to be definitional, with this. And we talked about that today, when one of the points about like, how to be responsible in class, like how to be a responsible student, right? Because that goes with our PBIS stuff, whatever is like be organized. Okay. And then I stopped and I said, Okay, look, here's some tips on how this works. And we went through them, like, how to write notes, okay, like we talked about spacing your notes out, okay? Leaving space on a page, blah, blah, blah, some stuff like that, right? And I told them straight up I was like, like, these are some

Collin  19:07

starting

Brandon  19:08

places. But know that I'm going to be looking at your binders as we go along to give you points, you know, just like binder points for like, classroom participation, making sure you're on task and everything. And I was like, listen, eventually it will occur that

Collin  19:28

everybody's binder will look different.

Brandon  19:31

And that's fine. Because your brains work differently. And you have to do this the way that works best for you. Like we can talk about that. I can give you like, one on one advice. Come up with new ideas. If you're doing something you are it's hard for you you know, like it, we can switch it up. But your binaries will be different. There'll be similarities. Yeah, but they'll look different just because of how you your function and you work. and their faces are like, whoa. It's almost like this mix of like, they didn't believe me. And also some of them were like, you're not going to make us do it all exactly the same. That's weird. Like,

Collin  20:16

I need to pause right now I have a staff member calling me. Please hold. Alright, no problem

20:28

it's like that. Hello. Right in his left.

Brandon  20:33

Now I just failed to hit the unmute button on the microphone. The first.

Collin  20:38

So sorry. Oh, how long is that too long. So sorry.

Brandon  20:42

I was

20:44

good. Thank you.

Brandon  20:46

You know, one thing that's hard in life is pilling a cat? I've heard that. They're not exactly fond of that

Collin  20:57

kind of thing. Oh, man. There's one thing cats love. It's being held still forced to do a thing? Well, and one thing that they'll say, Oh, you can, you can buy like the pill pockets to give to a cat. And I mean, you hide the pill, right? You can catch. They'll do what they will do that exactly one time, one time. And then they will spit it out at you. So you actually have to put the kid in there put the pill in their mouth. Yes. And so we had a client recently had a little

Brandon  21:31

murder mouth full of

Collin  21:32

sharp pointy teeth and are very bitey. We had someone reach out to us today that their 91 year old mom lives in an assisted living center and has a cat who's on medication.

Brandon  21:45

And can't pill the cat by herself. And Fair enough. Fair enough. So the people who are not 91 can't fill the gap themselves. So

21:57

this is not.

Collin  21:59

So I was like, okay, and it's on a every 10 to 12 hour medication. Oh, so Oh, my i. So i She contacted me this morning. And I said, Well, we could set up a meet and greet. And then we can go over stuff. And she was like, Well, why don't we just do the meet and greet? At while you killed my cat? Yeah, well,

Brandon  22:25

you call my cat when? I said. I said no, actually, that's fine. That's fine. I don't want to waste time. Because, well, because a because well that's true. You got it's got to have messin, right? So like, it's gotta have

Collin  22:39

the medicine anyway, I would like to at least be there for that cuz they're gonna have to demonstrate that to me, anyway.

Brandon  22:46

Where's this mean? What is free

Collin  22:49

and I don't want to have to waste too much of my time.

Brandon  22:53

Good point. All good points

Collin  22:56

pay for it. So I told my staff members, I was like, Hey, meet and greet. I have an experienced staff member, they need to have the inexperienced, the new staff member shadow them so they can get together and go on this meet and greet at eight o'clock at night.

Brandon  23:12

Perfect time for me and greet. They just wrapped up an hour later. Oh, new now?

Collin  23:20

I think does your staff members have all their fingers? Well, so they FaceTime me the call Oh. Because beforehand, I had a pre pre flight with them. So every Meet Greet that our staff go on, the clients fill out information. And then I jump on a zoom call or phone call with the staff to talk about all that information and how we think it needs to go give them some more context so that they know what they're walking into. And then once the meeting greets done, we debrief again, same way over zoom or FaceTime to talk about and we have joked that one of my staff members is in the military and he may need to take his right vest in Kevlar to go do this. And so I said, Okay, 20 bucks, the guy's gonna call me and someone's gonna have a bloody face. And then they call me and I was like, dang it. I go somebody's 20 bucks. And they laughed because they were fine. That's good. Ray Now it's fine. Having all your fingers. So I am I had talked to them about multiple ways to do stuff. And the other part that makes us difficult is

Brandon  24:20

it's not just one pill. It's also a it's a pill and then the the liquid and a syringe that we have to give the cow so the cats already grumpy. Already mega grumpy. So I was basically like, look, we're just gonna go straight to telling the cat, which nobody likes Least of all the cat.

Collin  24:40

But we're gonna get this done. And so they were like, yeah, if we had more like ability, like focus on it, it probably would have only taken like 10 minutes. And so I was like, why did it take you an

Brandon  24:53

hour? And they're like, well, they were all really chatty and I was like, All who I was there. And they're like, Oh, well, the owner's daughter came by with her husband to meet us.

Collin  25:09

Five people and some apartment till staring at a cat and a towel. Just

Brandon  25:15

seems, seems extraneous. But okay, whatever, excessive?

25:19

And I understand

Brandon  25:23

why I mean, yeah, I've done but yeah, but it's still a little bit kind of weird when you say it out loud, right? Like,

Collin  25:30

what are they doing? And this is not the first time that somebody has contacted us who wants

Brandon  25:37

to watch wants us to care for a pet

Collin  25:45

that belongs to an older relative and older relative. Yeah, right. And so it's very important to them, I recognize it's important that they know explicitly, what is going on

Brandon  25:59

why that's true. Because like, it's different from normal dropins. Because like, there'll be a person there, or right.

Collin  26:06

And they don't, either there, they'll be there or I am communicating directly with the owner of the pet. So in this instance, the owner of the pet is there. But I but the I try and reassure the relative, you know, that we are, they are also going to get an update about this. Oh, yeah, true. Yeah. So that, yeah, I'm interacting with their mother. Well, at the end of the visit, I'm going to text you with photos of how it went, um, of the visit, so that you are you are aware as well, because I don't want people to the feel like we are taking advantage. Yay, somebody Yeah. Like, I understand that the world is rife with people who take care of take advantage of elderly and, and I don't want to have errors of that at all. So I try and be as open and apparent as possible.

Brandon  27:09

And that's just what we so we try and do that to make sure that we that they know that we know what's what's going on. Yeah, that makes sense. It's just like when you say the first time it's gonna like it. Like, it may not make sense. That's good. But we It took an hour. I mean, old people do love talking to they do and this person is 91 Their kids are going to be also older. Like just double whammy like so

Collin  27:54

yes, that's, I understand that. And I'm trying to recognize that this is a you know, it's it's a balance of making meeting people's needs in that way and whatever, but also, recognizing like, it was an hour long and nothing really happened.

Brandon  28:11

Yeah. That's kind of funny, though. To add,

Collin  28:18

this one was free. Dang it. And no, I actually did I thankfully did charge for this one. Since it's already working. Yes. i Yeah. No, I said.

Brandon  28:33

Nice. Try to get this into your kit for free. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll, we'll figure that out. But that's it. Sorry. That's what the that's why you're gone. I was thinking about, like a weird, like, residual things in speech that we say that don't make any sense anymore. Because I got a message from a parent about something and they were asking you about forms had to be returned to school and whatnot. And they're like, is this required? And I was like, I don't? First of all, I found Susan's just like, I don't know. Because the way that forms getting sent home at school sometimes is a person brings me some forms and says, Give these to the kids. And I'm like, What is this? And the person I'm asking is like a high school age. They don't know. So I just give it to the kids and I leave right. I don't know what the heck this is. I don't know what it is and where it came from. I don't know where it goes. When it goes back. It's just here's the paper right? Anyway, then they came up that this particular one like it, bring it back. The school needs them for something so like you're entered to win something both All right, silliness. But one of the things that one of the things that you're entered to win is a flat screen TV. Now, I asked you in 2022 Is it necessary to refer to a television as a flat screen TV? Because they're all flat? All of them? The screens have been flat for 20 years. Yeah, right. Is that necessary?

30:22

No, nobody

Collin  30:24

can just call it

Brandon  30:26

a baby. Right. So I thought that was a really weird. It's a really weird, like addition to that word that's still there. For some reason, like, they all look like that. Now, you don't have to say like, well, different kinds of TVs, like different, like methodologies of making the picture. That's fine to add. Right? But like, the fact that flat is the only addendum you're adding to this. It struck me as odd. All of a sudden, like Word is unnecessary in this sentence like you don't need Well, that's kind of like with like cell phones, or mobile phones cell phone. Yes.

Collin  31:18

Oh, I just lost it. I was. I mean, this will come back to me but yeah, like this. Is this these words that kind of have lost the relevance? Because everything is them that that way now?

Brandon  31:32

Yeah, I was thinking about the phone. See, right. Because like, it's like, it's a mobile phone. Like, okay, yeah, but like, now 90% of phones. That's what they are, right? That term is to describe, like, the newness of the thing. Right? And then once the newness has now gone, that terminology becomes irrelevant like cellular right? You don't need this anymore. First of all, nobody's ever actually said like, cellular phones maybe in like, the very 80s Right? It's like the last time anybody said that, but the it's just like irrelevant, because now almost all phones are movable. Right? The ones that aren't are like the phone at school. That's it. Right? That's the only one

Collin  32:29

Yeah, I sighs I wonder what else I could think about that would be like that. And then you came back so I got stuck. Oh.

32:40

Good interlude that's

Brandon  32:41

yeah, like lost in thought it just like weird like, Oh, that's really strange. Why do we have Oh, hello? Well as like the vestigial language, right? It's kind of what it's like a little bit. Because like, no, nobody. Now when you say television, they're not thinking like, console television. Right? They're thinking like, the big thing with like tubes in it, you know, thinking about just like a standard television. Now they're all flat. So you don't have to describe them as flat. Right. It's kind of like when people say like, carne asada steak. Right? Yeah. Carne asada. Carne mean steak, right. Thanks, Jake. The steak steak. Yes. Perfect. Exactly. See?

Collin  33:39

There's other foods. It's like that too. I can't remember.

Brandon  33:43

was basically just like the same word twice. Like where everyone's favorite fish. The Golden Dorado. So nice. They named it twice, right. The Golden golden fish. Right. It's very good.

34:00

Mola Mola bison. The

34:03

Bison bison,

Brandon  34:04

right. Yeah, so wonderful. Bison bison. Yeah, they're cuddly. You should go pet that. No, don't go I'm just kidding. I did not say that. For legal reasons. I was a joke. Okay, I did not say Oh, I just can't believe that people do that right like all the time they like Yellowstone tourists trampled when he tried to pet

34:25

a bison

Brandon  34:26

again. Dude. What? Why? What? What about looking at the animal makes you think you should pet it? Exactly. Right. It's like the world's angriest cow.

Collin  34:38

What do you do? Yes, I know. It's so bad. That reminds me of the Have you seen the buffalo buffalo sentence? What No, none of that ready for this? Okay. This is an actual This is a grammatically correct English sentence.

Brandon  34:59

These are some Weird. No, no, no, no, this

Collin  35:02

is grammatically correct. I will explain this in just a minute ready. Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo, Dallas

Brandon  35:15

it's a buffalo

Collin  35:16

sentence in a row. But what you can't quite get there is some are capitalized are not capitalized because it's a play. It's a using of homonyms and homophones. Okay, quickly, because we're talking about how the there are three meanings of the word buffalo. So, that one is a proper noun of the city, Buffalo, New York one one is the A verb buffalo to teach means to harass or intimidate. I guess that's true. The other one is a noun referring to the animal. Yeah, so So basically, it's

Brandon  36:01

it's talking about how buffalo bully buffalo from Buffalo? Which bully? Yeah, it's Yeah, so it's quick. Look at that. I'm going to right now.

Collin  36:21

Just type in Buffalo buffalo sentence. And

Brandon  36:25

you'll you'll see. It always makes me laugh.

Collin  36:30

This buffalo is a weird word to spell also, I'd like to bring that up. Yes. Lexical

Brandon  36:38

ambiguity What a lovely thing. Uh huh.

36:46

Okay, I lose the thread about

Brandon  36:48

halfway through because I understand now. The first one sentence Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Can I pair amical buffalo from the city of Buffalo. Yes. All right. Buffalo buffalo. Right. So they believe so the animal bullies. Another animal from the city. And I get lost. That's right.

Collin  37:26

claim it's a claim that bison are intimidated or bullied by bison are themselves intimidating or bullying bison

Brandon  37:34

from Buffalo New York. It's very interesting. Yep. So it's, that's, that is confusing. Uh huh. Yeah. About half of that sentence makes sense. In the first read, and then you got to kind of like go okay. And I distinctly remember not liking diagramming sentences. That is rough. So

Collin  37:58

there's there's plenty of diagrams. It's all out. Oh man. Yeah,

38:02

Wikipedia page.

Brandon  38:03

It is. This is a lot of fun with that. I like how in this one diagram there's just like a subset of buffalo in Rochester. For some reason. I don't really know what that's about like for a reason. Maybe they're the ones bullying the buffalo from Buffalo. I mean, Buffalo and the buffalo from Buffalo z. So is it is it implied in this sentence that people from Rochester New York are bullies, people of Rochester, New York. How do you feel about this sentence stereotyping you? Specifically According to Wikipedia, as Buffalo buffalo wing buffalo from Buffalo? Yep. Let us know. Tweet us at the Bronx.

Collin  38:50

Something something wonky for anytime you say?

Brandon  38:54

Yeah, that's a good one segue. Oh, we watched a sad day at the neighbor's yard today as the tree was completely chopped down. It was a beautiful beautiful old green ash. That is now I have lots of open sky to my to my West. Very sad. Very sad. Oh, no. Direct sunlight. The worst kind of sunlight I know. Was really like, what is going on? So we had a couple of weeks ago, I'll say I don't know how to change sign. Always a lovely surprise.

Collin  39:35

No of them.

Brandon  39:38

Because I saw

Collin  39:41

the owner talking with the crew, like two weeks ago or something. And I just never really thought that much of it. Totally. Okay, whatever. It's fine. And then they showed up today and I was like, Oh, he's gonna be tree trimming. Right. There we go. And then, like I should have been cued into That was more than just tree trimming by the fact that there was the big polearm boom truck, like huge giveaway and and dump truck with. There are two dump trucks, one of which had the wood chipper attached to the back of it and they had a bobcat little thing moving around. I was like, Well, this is a really big tree. Like, I guess that's just how they roll. 30 minutes into it, where there was a completely bare, massive branch coming up from it. I was like, Oh, they're cutting the whole thing down. So then we got to watch with the rigging. And I'm I am genuinely impressed by the art form that is rigging for this crazy living trees and how that works. And everything to avoid the you know how they wrap it around the tree to swing it one way and how it you know, so it does sort of voids the powerlines and the House and the road. All very, very technical stuff, which was kind of which was neat and impressive to watch. I mean, this was they took all day and we just sat on our back porch and sat under the umbrella. So the sawdust didn't get on us. Blue flew over to us.

Brandon  41:23

But now we've got a lot more sunshine, a lot more sunshine. And then when Lilium was running through the yard, she got to experience her very first. hornet stings.

41:33

Oh, how exciting.

Brandon  41:37

Carolina ground Hornets which the owner has been trying to eradicate from his yard. He had an exterminator come out as like a garden. And then the otter was like, no. Yeah, good thing. Yeah. Yeah, just kidding. And so Lillian was what happened was Megan was walking a dog. And it dog stepped on the nest and then willing came behind the dog. And got Yes, well known philosophy. I believe it was Confucius that said, hornets don't sting the person that disturbs the nest. They sting the person behind them in Yep, yeah, pretty sure that's exactly how that goes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, club quote that. Count it. Like I think that's

42:35

printed on T shirt. Yeah, that's CNN, Kansas. See?

Brandon  42:41

The irony here is like a just supreme, because this is how I was stung by a

42:48

calf to

Brandon  42:51

uh, you brought it up. Really? Right. You did this. You opened the door here, sir listeners storytime while Colin is reflecting on how his daughter was stung by Hornets after a dog trod upon the hornet's nest. The first time I was stung by Hornets. It's because Colin smacked a hornet's nest with a horse with red over there told him to not do that. And was probably stung by heart. What was so first of all, serious phone. serious tone here is Lillian okay. Yeah, she's good. She's fine. She's fine. She didn't come running in. It's, you know, they are not the ground Hornets are less as the thingy they're smaller. So they they don't. They don't have they're smaller.

Collin  43:46

There's just lots of them. And it's just terrifying because they were swarming on her is bad. And she was mostly freaked out by that. But then also I was having to explain the difference of cuz she kept asking me like, did you get the oldest like a bee Stinger, right? Yes.

Brandon  44:07

I never she never got she was asking me like When did you get the stinger? I think she's Stinger out. And I was like, Oh no, they don't come out. These stinging texts don't work that way. And then

Collin  44:23

I had to explain like, why they were just incredibly painful. And I was like, Well, that's because they bite you and then sting under your skin like they pinch and pinch your skin with their with their mandibles. And then they take their stinger and they jam it in there and so they grind and bite with your teeth. That's why Hornet bites

Brandon  44:42

have a little chunk taken out of you because that's where they beat you. And she was like, I mean, I don't know how comforting that was to her not but

Collin  44:56

we promptly got probably not very but That's fine probably got you know some some spray on her and you know iced it to keep the swelling down and got through on some antihistamines to keep the itch that I know is coming tonight as she

Brandon  45:13

Oh yeah, definitely but yeah, she kept running in saying

Collin  45:21

Did you know she kept saying the bees got me the bees got me and I was like go yeah but I was like oh no this is bad and it was she got to on her leg and then two on her back kind of in the oh yeah kind of on the lower back and you know they had gotten actually under her shirts I'm glad they only had two extra bites there because then we found two of them inside the house she had brought them in with her oh my god yeah there's still a last

Brandon  45:55

Dawn probably. So yeah, we're gonna have to take care of those did to you? Was your ESA your response was not to jump off the tractor and smeared diesel fuel on them wasn't that Oh, that wasn't what happened to you.

Collin  46:16

Well, good question. Have I had access to either a tractor or indoor diesel fuel? Maybe Maybe

Brandon  46:23

that's that was that was my father's confusing response to my Hornets things was that and I was like every like what are you doing? Why are you doing that? Why this this can't be helped me Why would you do

46:39

diesel fuel

Collin  46:40

yeah

Brandon  46:42

I'm still not sure why that happened. Like I don't know. I don't know what's happening. I'm sorry. I sort of took away the shocks. I was like, what Oh, yeah. No, I didn't do that. In so many ways. Maybe next time? Maybe next time? Probably. No, so we sat and we we talked about it why it hurts so much and try to move on to other things but yeah, that was so we that's that's how we ended our day, which was quite not fun at all. I mean, no, but that's gonna be fine yeah,

47:35

it was quite a whirlwind. And

Brandon  47:37

that is quite the exciting afternoon. That is a who knew there will be random ground Hornets nobody likes random grandma that's bad no sorry that you had such a terrible really eventful you know Yeah, it's one of the things like well anyway

48:06

tomorrow will be a new day

Brandon  48:10

hopefully Hornet free entry date as

Collin  48:15

well and then my my neighbor was like so I was looking up online how to get rid of these things. And I was like, tell me more and he said muriatic acid what you gotta do it's got to wait till nighttime because they're dormant and they just bunch of dump a bunch of that on top of it kills him right away if I was like I

Brandon  48:41

literally everything

Collin  48:51

okay you I let me know when you're doing this so I could

Brandon  48:57

not be outside

Collin  49:02

so you know maybe people just resolve for for diesel fuel do it

Brandon  49:06

he might right I mean I'm sure if he just dumped diesel on it it'd be fine.

Collin  49:10

Oh yeah,

Brandon  49:11

I I'm trying to think in my mind which one of those is the least worst thing to dump into the ground? I don't know think the ground is gonna love that your grass is dying straight up like it was let's be honest. Like oh for sure. I have no grass for a while for the Hornets but also know anything else? Yeah.

Collin  49:43

So I'm gonna not be around when you do dad just so every

Brandon  49:48

forum post Did he see that on? Just don't pass it on it. Like, I like to think that whatever. Like gardening post that was somebody just responded that to like every past problems like, Oh, I've got moles in my yard acid, right like weevils on my flour, acid, right? Like, yep. See? needles or

Collin  50:13

acid, as all helpful posts are when somebody finds the one thing that worked for them, they just respond to it all the time.

Brandon  50:20

Yeah. Was that mean? Like, thank you, guy. I'd read it 12 years ago, I really appreciate.

Collin  50:29

Exactly, yeah. The one guy who said, yeah, like, I did this one thing. And yeah,

Brandon  50:34

he answered that one question that, Oh, my God, nobody else had. But I had to do that today. So we use, I run a media server on our we have a Synology that down in our basement, which I use to stop to backup all of our stuff to that's where I store all of our excess audio files. I also run media on it using a service called Plex. Well, yeah, Plex came out and was like, hey, so I saw that it's like, yeah, mega hack type. Mega hack, like, not just a little bit hack, but like Mega hack. So I went in and changed my password, and then was like, oh, no, I, Oops, oh, no, ah, because I don't just have a client side, I have the server side,

Collin  51:29

I have to make sure that the server who is pushing out the media files is in sync and running and that the client app has because I just changed it for the client app. And then also, the client app was looking for the server and the server was looking for the client that couldn't talk to

Brandon  51:44

one another. Oh, no. Sadness. I

Collin  51:47

had, I had to basically just like, burn down the entirety of the existing server. And I couldn't strip it all away, because it kept finding pieces of the old one around like, it was like, yeah, like, Here you go. And so I was on all of these forums. And finally, there was there literally this morning, I was there was a dude, who, because it's a dude with a neck beard, who was like, ya know, it's right, right, right, whatever. And I was like, okay, so I just I just like typing in the code and like, bite, I had to find this claim key and the HTML of the big oh my gosh, it was, it was it was deep in there. He was not pretty, but it was like, as a work worked.

Brandon  52:34

Thanks, credit guy,

Collin  52:35

thank credit guy. I did have to rebuild, have to start rebuilding the library of everything. And I lost all of my watch status and everything. Oh, no, it's okay. Because I took that opportunity to then kind of set up some different profiles for like, for Lillian and Noah so that they can watch and don't have access to like, all of the movies. Oh, yeah. True. So because Lillian the other day was like, Oh, what was happening? Oh, we were talking about something. And she was like, I don't have a typewriter works. And I was like, oh, and she was like, Yeah, you put the paper in the top and you have things like you do on your computer dad. And I was like,

Brandon  53:20

Yeah, where? How? Why?

Collin  53:25

Just like, I was taught in the movie. And I was like, yeah, what? Me? Because we do have the let them have time that say, like, I'm like, Okay, we're gonna have you can have us these phones that they're all locked down, right? You have only access to like, five of these apps and blah, blah, one of them. Like X time to do whatever. Yeah, yes. And the both the phone and my network will lock them away after they use up so many minutes on it. Like, oh, hey, I have it all set up. And

Brandon  53:57

they billing us.

53:59

Oh, it was some? I think it was it was about like, I think it was called JAWS.

Collin  54:06

I was like, oh, oh, it looks like one slipped through the cracks. Okay, hold on. I went in I watched her watch time and she'd only made it like, six or seven minutes. And so I was like, oh, okay,

Brandon  54:20

no problem. Got the weird part of it doesn't make any sense the beginning.

Collin  54:27

You're we're fine.

Brandon  54:30

To go in and luckily that shark was broken. It doesn't show up for like 40 more minutes.

Collin  54:35

Exactly. I was like, Thank you technological issues from from the

Brandon  54:40

70s. So wonderful. So

Collin  54:44

so there's a tie in for our last episode about jobs.

Brandon  54:48

And she's she did that anyway, it was so funny. I I left. Larry is

Collin  54:58

kind of had to come through and I was like looking at each Are those profiles like tweaking it just a little bit to make sure everything was kind of like all situated the way I wanted it, but I was took that time to do that and then locked away my profile and the code so we're all like, good

Brandon  55:20

That's too funny. Oh,

55:23

I know. I know how iframes work is that you said I saw the movie and I do have a movie called California typewriters which is about the history of typewriters

Brandon  55:36

least the least surprising thing of all time and I was like

55:40

it was like okay, well maybe she Oh nope

Brandon  55:46

just kidding oh my goodness

Collin  55:52

that was fun

Brandon  56:02

What a weird takeaway from John's to like there's a I mean gets in the way the beginning but like still that's just really alive like

56:12

this is the thing Yeah. It's the beginning

Brandon  56:15

of Yeah, like when the I gay I think I know. But parts talking about you but this is hilarious.

Collin  56:30

I am going to jump off here and go put out some fires with the kitty visit.

Brandon  56:38

Okay, well, as long as those fires are not caused by somebody dumping diesel fuel that Norton has in the yard.

56:45

I'll be getting out. We're using acid as I asked you. Oh,

Brandon  56:49

yes. Totally fine. No accidents have ever been caused with ask. Wait. Oh, no. All right. Well, good luck. Putting out cat fires. Will do. No cats are actually on fire. Okay, that's good. Yeah, yeah. Go take care of this.