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internet grumpy, Wi-Fi router, dog walking signs, brand awareness, Christmas lights, water softener, Rohan lore, Helm's Deep, Ultimate Warrior, Lord of the Rings, animated movie, character motivation, fan service, Tolkien references, shield maidens, movie enjoyment, theater experience, Lord of the Rings, haiku sharing, holiday plans, calendar coordination, behind the scenes, planning session, family visit, favorite part, popcorn enjoyment, Frog and Toad, seasons change, friends laugh, excitement week

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Collin

Collin  00:00

Music. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your host, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, the internet is grumpy.

00:17

Ahoy. Ahoy. How's it going?

Collin  00:20

Okay. How are you I'm online. So there we go, victory. Oh my gosh, good stuff. Here we go. Literally, sat down to be like, Okay, and here we and, nope, nope. It just went fine. So like, sitting there, and then I'm trying to access the router, because I'm like, I don't want to have to a second store, like, I don't have to go into the basement. I don't want to go to the basement. I just want to be able to sit. But modern convenience, I just want to be able to sit in my office. The Wi Fi router is still up, so I just want to be able to sit. And I'll access the app, and I'll restart it from the app, like all the commercials said I could, I was in the basement resetting it, and had to pull out the thing and then wait and count, and then I can never remember, because apparently there is, like, a order that you're supposed to go in. Of, like, do you unplug this cable or this cable for, oh, yeah, yeah, of course. I don't know those things. There's stuff in my brain, but it's not that, right, like I I have tunes from 90s TV commercials to be spending my time throughout the day. I don't have time true to remember the order of operations for how to plug back in a router. That's not what my brain's for. No, that's fair. That's that's important. You gotta know the words to flag pole sitter, right? That's important. See, you don't. I mean, if you don't have that, what? What do you have, really, right? If you can't sing along to that, what's even the point? Like, no, no. I mean, I mean talking. I mean your visions, right? Like, you know, I was even whatever, yeah. So, anyway, so that's that was like, immediately, like, what am I doing? Boom, I'm running down to the basement to to deal with this. And that's fun. That's what I got to do. I got to do that today. It's been we are working on, oh, my big project this week. It's still, still a big project. I am trying to develop yard signs to promote dog walking, oh, oh, oh, no, right orange reflective construction vests not enough. Yeah, no, of course, I want right orange reflective dog walking signs, yard signs, where, whose yard are they going to go in? So customers yards like you're just gonna stick them. You're not gonna put them in like intersections, right? Please tell me you're not gonna do that. Oh, so you are you own? Where to put them as a little there's some wiggle room. Yeah, this is the question. Where do you put a yard? So because that depends on what the yard sign says and looks like exactly right. If it says, proud customer of business, then it goes in client yards. Yeah, right now, if it just goes in random places, it needs to be very different, very different, very generic. So I actually have two mocked up. I have a like, we love our pet sitter. Like, we love our cats that are like, we love our dog walker. Like, there's that theme of going to our clients and asking them, can you please put this those will be, those will be, look a little bit softer, a little bit more brandy, right? A little bit more brand catchy, versus the ones I've designed to go in, like ditches next to Inter, you know, in an intersection, yeah, that's basically like, just all bold text. That's just like, I walk or dog now, thank you. Like, that's all because that's, yeah, that's the problem, right? It can't be fancy because fancy, we've discussed this fancy yard sign. It's gonna call them real estate signs, because that's really what, that's their shape, right? Yes, the fancy ones of those, like a lot of people, make them and then they stick them on there. And when you're driving by at 30 miles an hour, you cannot read single thing. You're like, that was green, yep. Okay, uh, cool. That's helpful. So that's again and and honestly, this. Was a, this was a point of conversation with Megan, because we're designing these, because of the year, I'm trying to get them so that I can spend money on them and whatever tax but, like, so we need to get this done. But like, I'm trying to decide, because that is two different thoughts on this. Of the you mentioned the color, and I have that exact same thing of I'll drive down the road, I see a yard sign. I don't know who the real estate agent is or their phone number, but I did see blue and red. So I think right. Like, exactly right. Or, or we have one here that's all red and like, Oh, I know who that person is supposed to be. So what like is that one way that we go and just kind of link it into the rest of our brand awareness? Oh yeah, brand awareness. Like, is that what we do, or is this like supposed to be an immediate like they see sign, they have problem. They call me because that's what like the gutter people do like they're not like the gutter or the sighting or the power washing companies. They're not trying to build a brand awareness to power wash your your your driveway. They want you to get home and go, Oh, yeah, I saw that that number, and it was, you know, whatever, whatever, I'll call the person and get them over here to clean my driveway. Two different modes of thought. I don't, yeah, we're trying to. I'm more in the line of like, brand awareness, marketing, but that's because I everything else is like, but it just feels so like, like, gross to do it the other way. But I don't know. We may do it the other way, just to try it, I guess I don't know. Yeah, that is, that's a rough one, because, like you said, he's gotta, you gotta know where it's gonna go first. Otherwise, yeah, it's just gonna be you don't want to flail in the dark with your sign. No. Ooh, can I bring glow in the dark signs? Oh, I don't know, but I think I've had an idea. Well, just a minute, everyone sit down. Oh, dear, good thing. I'm already sitting. Oh, man, yeah, I should look into that. I'm taking notes, lots of notes here. Arthur city ordinances, against signs that glow too brightly speaking of city ordinances, Kansas City, oh, no, I never like to speak of city ordinances. This is bad. Help. Okay, well, so Kansas City came out hard and was been telling people like, do not wrap your car in Christmas lights. Do not do Do you have people down where you live that do this? No, you do that. Do we? Do we? Hold on. Hold on. I have someone who would know about this here. Do people wrap their lights or their car and Christmas lights? Is that a thing that happens down here? Have you seen this? Right? Okay, but not like just driving around. You don't see random like Camaros, right? Or no, apparently not okay, if there was going to be somebody that would be a jack truck, but I don't, I haven't seen any. And my resident Christmas expert says that she hasn't. Oh, well, okay, okay, yeah, that's different, though. Like semi trucks that do decorations. That's what, that's what he's talking about. Like, yeah, I don't, yeah, she goes. I don't think that's legal. Aha. I think we've, I think we've stumbled onto it here. So, so we saw a report come out from Kansas City that was like, please stop wrapping your cars in Christmas lights. They're kind of a nuisance, and it's not good to have, and it's distracting and blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, in my hometown, there's like 15 cars that have gone all out. When I say they have hovered, their cars have covered. There's literally a guy who drives around, I don't know. I have no clue, like, yeah, zigzagged around. One guy has a, it's a white Chevy Tahoe, and he has sticking out. Sticking out of his sunroof is a Christmas tree. So he drives, he drives out with the sun roof open, yeah, with the Christmas tree sticking out. It was 38 degrees today. What are you doing? But you got a Christmas tree sticking out of your car.

09:49

This is what I'm talking about, baby.

Collin  09:52

So meanwhile, my my hometown, is like whatever, and we're wrapping everything.

09:58

There's no rules, there's no. No rule. Apparently, you live in Whoville, who knew everything?

Collin  10:02

It's, it's amazing Christmas lights. It's literally Christmas lights everywhere. And they're bright, they're beauty. Well, yeah, I Are they like? Are they like the Okay, so this, this is gonna be a weird sentence, right? I'm fully aware of that currently money, I think it makes a big difference if they're colored lights or the white ones, because the white ones, it would just be like a big giant, like meteorite, just like, Yes, true. This is, these are the colored lights. These are not, at least, yes, although, you know, at 60 miles an hour, it still just looks like a Technicolor blur, right? Like when the world, Yes, yep, it's pretty amazing. And I'm like, so we see, we've been seeing those more, and those are always fun to see in a Oh yeah, I'm sorry, I will see them getting pulled over by the police. Apparently, this I'm gonna send you this picture. This is one of the ones that we see around here. This is actually a meme that is we see around here. Oh, no, this. This was actually, this was an actual car. The Show

11:25

Notes people here, yeah,

Collin  11:29

that's horrible. No, yeah. Well, this is, well, this is another one that this this Christmas tree is just on the roof rack, but not sticking out of the sunroof there, but, yeah, that's an that's an actual photo taken of and that says on the way to the Christmas parade. But that person was not going to the Christmas parade

11:50

because this is night time.

Collin  11:53

Yep, yep. That person's just driving around. And, yeah, yeah. And it kind of like it's grown, because at first we're like, Oh, there's one, and then there's two, and then there was, like, 15 now, and I'm like, like, all terrible things. Somebody saw that maybe, yeah,

12:05

I'm gonna do that too.

Collin  12:07

Wait, no, that's no, wait, yeah, so, yes, don't do the thing. Why? So anyway, I was wrapping my card Christmas, I know.

12:19

No, it's like

Collin  12:21

this net things that people put on the bushes, right? Okay, so folders, I do have a net, but that's because on our front porch, we have a privacy screen on the right side, and it's Ivy that's growing on kind of like this link chain post in him. That's very big, and I didn't want to just run lights on it, so I did. I did buy this was not a disparity comment against people that use nets. But I'm wondering is that what people are putting on their cars? Are these the netting things? Because otherwise I can't figure out how you how do you affix this to your car without, like, damaging it. I think they are like, when you look at this really close, is it just actually a car covered in duct tape that has some Christmas lights poking out of it? Like, what in the world is going on here? And again? How do

13:17

you get out of the how do you get with

Collin  13:18

the door? So they, so you have to weave it so they go back and forth. And you you do on a pattern so it looks like it matches across the door. That is, yeah. So I actually have seen one of these in person and just like, stop at Walmart and be like, All right, I'm investigating. I'm just gonna pull over here awkwardly stare in this person's what I've seen is most people will go through the extent of, like, carefully etching out the the driver door, but it just depends on if it's a family car or not, and then, like, they may do the passenger door, but all of the doors are sealed in with this. I feel like this is why, here's the real hazard, right? Like, yes, doors can no longer open i has no in this Triangle Shirtwaist company is gonna go wrong here, I wonder. Like, yes, yeah. So I've seen people who just use like, like, Gappers tape. I've also seen a car. I think it just depends on, on how long their wanting these to stay on, um, because these people, like, they'll leave them on for a very long time, not just for a Christmas parade. That's what's not clearly, yeah, also, who's just driving a random Chevy Tahoe in a Christmas parade, right? Like, yeah, I guess, if it's, I mean, I guess, like, small town Christmas parades. Like, you can just enter, like, it doesn't really, oh, you just be like, Oh, here's my form. Okay. Like, yep, I'm in the parade now. What club are you with? Yes, like, Graham. Oh, yeah. Well, so like, I think that's what this is. Or. Maybe it's like, oh, this was part of a, you know, a church function, and we need a car to wrap in lights, so let's just use this one and whatever. But yeah, they do, like, duct tape, or, I've seen the people will use those 3m What is it? The 3m like, little plastic man strips, right? Man strips on your car, yeah, yeah, that's not a good idea, because you can get the clear ones with the hooks, right? So you can actually put the lights in the little hooks and, like, tension them to get them onto the car. Yeah, I've seen that before. So quick news, what it just I and I guess some people would like that, because you can get the clear hooks so that it's not as, like, apparent. But I'm like, come on, who are you kidding? It's, uh, yeah, it's lights on a car, so if, like you, they're so bright that you can't see the hooks, right? So I feel like this is fussing over a problem that's not real. You know, that's what this feels like me. I don't know that's a big right? It? Yeah, there's so many other things to worry about at that point. Like, you're really concerned about whether it's a clear command strip or not. Like, I think there's other things on our list of two worries about it, yeah, like, the door not opening, in case, yeah. See, you know, being able to maybe that, yeah, fleeing your vehicle. This is being able to actually exit the car, or your passengers being able to flee your vehicle, I don't know, yeah, being able to roll down the window so you can get takeout. The real important thing here, like, how, right? Because you can't, how am I gonna get Chinese takeout if I have plus, you can't obstruct your windows, because that's, like, mega illegal. Like, I know he's crazy. Police like, oh, I can't see out of my car. That one, I agree with you need to be able to do that. That's again, this whole safety thing. It's kind of weird. I want people to see to not crash into me. I approve not putting random junk over your windows. This is good. This is mind boggling to me. This really hurts me in a lot of ways, like I don't why? Why is this? Yeah, I right. It's one of those things of of like, Well, that's certainly for somebody. I don't know about me, but they're fun to see on the road, and I'm glad I don't have to worry about getting a ticket, because I can just watch it drive by. True you can watch them get pulled over, watch them get pulled over, watch them get my favorite pastime other people, no, no, that's not what we do. Let's hope not. Oh, I'm in my Zoom audio profile settings. Oh, what a way messing stuff around here. No, sorry, I I've had this open this entire time because I am messing around with this. I'm trying to decide what's a good thing for me. You, I've been doing this for what, like, We've been recording this for, I don't know how many years at this point, like five, something, at least. Yeah, still messing with the settings. Yeah, that's what, you know. Yeah, this we're 5.2 years at this point. Congratulations. Hey, yeah, mileston anniversary, 5.2 point. What do we get for that? I don't know, flathead screwdrivers. I am or, Oh, wait, Japanese Industrial Standard screwdriver. Oh,

19:03

yes,

Collin  19:04

yeah, there you go. Transistor radio. Oh, you need it to fix the radio. Gotta have that GIS screwdriver to work on it. Yes, yeah, like it. I like it? No, I was, I've been put that on the list. Where's this? Where's my hold on? Yeah, let me scroll down. Yeah, yeah. Screw drivers here. I'm just putting them on the list right now. People, yes, get a set of three. Don't just get the number one or two. Get this. Get the full set, don't Yeah. Why'd you just need one other ones? Sometimes, sometimes they run deals and they're just like, screwdrivers are like $1 and you're like, Well, you know, like, as well, yeah, yeah. Oh, this is a third gen set. Oh, about the. Noise. Thank you. No, the background noise suppression. This is one that has always vexed me, because I have had instances where the auto will will clip me or somebody else, because it's trying to suppress the background noise and it clips the vocal portion of it. However, um. Then the next one is low, and this says banked background noise. I don't know what that is, but then medium. They get really specific here, because then they say a computer fan or pen taps, and that's, you see, I saw that one, yeah. And I went, oh, oh, oh, right. I digit. I move constantly whenever I'm doing anything, and so, like, I'll like talking. I'm sharpening a pencil. I'm literally, like, lifting up my mouse and tapping it up and down. I'm scooting my chair back. Like, okay, i i This should be on high, actually, because this, I'm almost to the point high is just background. Speech, quieter, quieter, fidget things like I have here, I have a, uh, random, like heart association Stress Ball Squeezy thing, but it's in the shape of a heart, so that's good. And the thing currently in my hand, what's this? Oh, is this the one ring? Yes, yes, it is. So just gotta find random things. It's fine. I I'm failing on so many levels. I'm, yeah, my I'm actually a full full disclosure. Listeners, full disclosure. Here I am currently sitting on the floor on one of it's like a inflatable rubber cushion thing that, like, it like, wobbles around. Oh, right. So it, like, moves. It's a core stability there. I mean, kind of, yeah, but like, it's just, it's not a pillow, right? So it doesn't, like, get flat, and you don't have to, like, keep messing with it, and it just like, when you move it, like, also moves. I like, this is the thing that you can you can give kids these things to sit on if they're fidgety in class, right? But I have one at home. I bought it some while ago. They forgot I had it. And then when my other Christian thing was all messed up, I was like, I don't have anything to what's this? Yes, so that's what I'm look at this on. Why I record here? It's like, it's just a little thing that just wobbles about what do you sit on it? Let me see if I can. I'll send you random picture over here on the floor. But, yeah, this is what. So you gotta have alternate. You can't find quieter methods gone. This is the real secret that you gotta get to here. So I do have a my other fidget thing. I have a what is this? It's a NC double A practice field hockey ball. This is very There you go, Okay, it's rubber, and it's really hard. And it's this thing is perfect. We got this when Megan was pregnant, and our chiropractor was, like, you will shove this on your hip whenever you're getting really bad back pain, and you can, like, lean hard into a seat. It's much better than a tennis ball. Oh, yeah. Like, gives, yeah, right. This gives just enough to like, like kind of push into it. This thing is really dense, and it hurts if you get hit with it. Not that anyone's ever thrown it at me, no, because that would never happen. But, but the other thing this is really good for is when I'm at my desk, I put on the floor, and I move my feet on it. Oh, yeah, that's what I do with a tennis ball. Yeah? Because I started with a tennis ball, but I realized I was like, it doesn't like, I can push hard now it could flatten the tennis ball. Yeah, yes. I'm like, I can really jam my feet in there, and it's good, because it keeps my feet moving, and it keeps me not just sitting still and I can, I can focus a little to look into this here. Is that? Is it like a really book? Is it like it's really hard rubber ball thing? Really hard rubber ball? Yeah, I, I this. Okay, so here again, oh yeah, an unbidden memory just comes racing into my brain. Here, Didi had something like this, right? Oh, he it was like this big black, like that big, it was like a black rubber ball. And I don't know if it was like a handball, or if it was like the feel hockey ball thing, and I don't know why he had it, because he also had a, like, there was. Also, just, like in a basket, for some reason, was also, like a racquetball, right? Oh, and then like, this thing. And, like, I don't know why they were there. I have no clue what they were there for, but I remember I played with it all the time. It was like, this, really, like, quite substantial, like rubber ball thing, and I have never seen another one like it before. So I am sorry. I said, feel hockey. Okay. So, okay, so it is actually a practice lacrosse ball. So this may change your this may change your tune on this, but maybe, but yes, this is, I'll just send the link here. I'll send it to you directly. These things, these are what you want. This is exactly what we have. We have an orange one. They're made by it's made by velocity. And this thing will this is good. This is my top tip for the day. Buy a velocity lacrosse practice ball and use it to really jam into your hips or your bleak and land the bat your back and ran this in your shoulders. It's good, way better of colors here. Yeah, you can probably your problem with, uh, lacrosse practice balls, it seems, is you cannot buy a ball. You do no you can buy if you scroll down, you can see single balls. However, you can also get cases of 120 that might as I am not actually playing lacrosse. I do not need 120 unfortunately, the smallest you can get is six. But all the way down there you can get three, get multi colored. That'd be fun. I think. Well, there's three in this picture. Oh, there's You're right. No, I see a two pack. Yes, here I'll send you a two pack. However, you really lose all the deals there. Here's your two pack. Do

26:58

I do? I really

Collin  27:00

think. And it's so funny how they have taken these like this is, I will tell you this. This is everyone's favorite segment where we read Amazon titles, because SEO is ridiculous. Okay. This is the velocity massage lacrosse ball from muscle knots, myofascial release yoga and trigger point therapy. Firm rubber, rubber, scientifically designed for durability and reliability, white two balls like but also for lacrosse. Definitely don't forget all of the photos. It's, here's the lacrosse. Lacrosse, lacrosse, here's the thing. But no also and then a foot. Whoa, hashtag. No free feet. Amazon, you better get this off of here. This is dangerous, like, but, yes, so apparently. So they definitely know their market, right. They know that this isn't like, oh yeah, a huge kept secret. But, man, I'm telling you, if you really want to up your game from tennis balls, this is the what you got to do. Do this. It is pretty official. I wonder, what other I wonder if other random sports balls are used for this, like, I wonder, like, if there's secretly people just out there, like, they have softballs just for this reason, or, like, I don't know. I could imagine, like, well, like, I don't know if it's Yeah. Like, do people use, like, a basketball to, like, lay on and, like, roll their back over, like, that kind of stuff. Like, exactly, do they use a pickleball? Do you think I don't know. I don't know. Are there people out there? Like, just, yeah, I want to know. Like, what other random sports equipment people are using i for sports medicine needs, right? Like, what? Why? This is a very interesting question, right? Somebody out there with like, a cricket ball, just like, oh yeah, let me just get oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, I don't, I don't know. I have a feeling like this, that that world veers off in a very weird direction. Oh, no. Okay, pickleball, I guarantee you pickleball, or people, because the size, squishiness, also, I'm sure they use that in handball. What are they doing it, grip strength, right? Just squeezing it because the handles are like those new style, like dodgeball things, right? They're kind of not ripening handle. Oh, no. What am I thinking of? I'm thinking of, um, no. Now here's a question that I hold on, okay, sorry, but this reminds me, so when I say handball, right, there's, there appears to be. The handball, and then, like, this other game that is also sort of called handball, but isn't the same handball as, like the Olympic sport handball. Oh, right, I think about, like the wall ball. It's like I was, I was thinking about handball in, like, handball, like racquetball, but with no racket. Like, yeah, yeah. But then, but then, Handball is actually kind of like soccer, but you hold the ball with you, yeah. Like, that is a game that is played in PE across the nation as well. I think this may have a similar origin story to you. Yes, yeah, right, yeah. And when I was thinking, Oh, it definitely does. It definitely does. It's like, you minimum setup, like, or it could be, it could be the other way around, right? This, this could be much older. And then PE coaches all watch the Olympics one year. Wait a minute. Wait, hold on, guys, I have an idea wrong. Pickleball started, I think from the bottom up. I think somebody saw handball went, Wait a minute, I'm gonna bring that down elementary PE class. Yeah, handball does come across as a little bit elitist, I think. But I was the grip strength thing, because I was, I was thinking also, because it's kind of akin to a racquetball, and I have seen people use racquetballs for that, like, they, they'll do the the squeezing, then the mobility stuff, like, exactly, I'm sure Pickleball is also in that as well for dexterity. I bet that's, that's probably what I would do maybe. So we'll just have to see which have to get the whole bunch of random sports balls and see

31:53

how we can injure ourselves with, oh yeah, hey, we're doing

Collin  31:58

it, doing a thing. I Oh, yeah, so that's what, but we've been, it's what I've been doing.

32:09

We have, oh, we

Collin  32:11

have. We have soft water. We did install, hey, a, all right, a water softener. And, my goodness, I'm yeah, this, it's amazing. When you go from very hard water all like things building up like a moment's notice, water droplets and the lightest mist and breeze in the kitchen, it just completely coats everything. And now to not have that, well, first off, my manic nature to constantly wipe and clean and spray every single thing, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't need that anymore. So, you know, I could redirect that of that energy elsewhere, I guess, probably where it's more needed. Yeah, that's good, useful, useful. So that's good. But I felt so weird, like, after we got it installed, just like watching people wash their hands and I'm like, How's the water feel? Can you tell the difference? Can you feel this less calcium? Me, like, what's happening for a little while when we asked, we're like, do you like? Like, of course. The only other person may have to compare this is like, dad's house, where we go and he's got soft water. So we're like, we're like, do you like our water or, or dad software, you can do software. The kids are like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like, yeah, and then, and then the daughter said, Oh, I definitely like, DDS better in the in the shower, because it's definitely softer. It doesn't hit me in the face as hard. And I went, Oh, that's just, oh, how do I shower head? That's the shower head. That's not what we're talking about. We have better water pressure anyway. Sorry, I'll try and tone down the shower head too, now that I know about that. Sorry, Annie, but yeah. Then I was like, I'll do the now. I'm just now, I feel like I am, like, in a true, like, like, manic stage of, like, do the clothes really feel softer when I get them out of the dryer? Like, what is going on? Like, that's not, I don't think your clothes really have a build up of mineralization upon them, right? Like, oh,

34:37

people say, people say that. People

Collin  34:39

say a lot, right? So I'm I feeling them? Like, Well, I haven't washed this shirt yet, so I'm gonna go take it down. I'm gonna hold it in my left hand. I'm gonna just look like a downy commercial, right, where you're just like, rubbing it on your face. Like, oh,

34:54

feel better.

Collin  34:57

Feel better here. Feel the shirt. Feel the shirt. Okay, okay, okay, dad, easy. Let's go lay down for a little bit. Like, no, feel the shirt. Chasing people down.

35:16

Be like, tell me about the shirt. It's

Collin  35:18

a big adjustment, because, right? Like, I have the opposite adjustment, right, the inverse, if you will, because whenever we go to dad's house, I'm like, Oh, I'm gonna take a shower, and it's just like, ew, Oh, gross. It's slimy, and it feels like the shampoo is not coming out of my hair. And, like, it just, I don't like it. Like,

35:42

Yeah, where's my minerals? I

Collin  35:46

need some resistance. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was really important for us to, like, dial it in, because you can go, like, way overboard with this um. And so I was, you can pay people to come out and test your water, right? Like, Colligan loves to do this. And then, of course, we had a friend they don't have your manic energy, so, right? Like, I don't think I need to involve any other people in this.

36:15

No, definitely not.

Collin  36:19

And I had somebody who was like, man, we had the Collin water guy come out and like, man, the test they ran showed our water was really bad. I was like, of course they did. They're trying to sell you a water filtration system. They're not going to say, Oh, well, tough luck. Your water is perfect. We I think they probably like, Okay, this is, this is for entertainment purposes only. Lawyers, okay, this is not right, but I what like? Can you imagine them going out there and being like, Oh yeah, they run the test, and they just, like, open the toolbox and get out the prepared chest strips. They're like, Oh yeah, see, it's real bad. Look. It's this, look at your pH, oh no. Like, and what are they just like,

37:02

they're gonna say, actually, there's like, Oh yeah, yeah,

Collin  37:04

that's, we see a lot of this in this area. Don't worry that, yeah, that's what we see a lot of, is this and then once. But, you know, we've got a system that actually targets just so happens, this specific thing that you can one specific thing that you need. Oh, wow. Imagine it's amazing. Also, just so happens to be on sale today. Is it today?

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Man, what

Collin  37:28

can I do to get you into, you know, filter system? So I wasn't going to do that. So instead, I went, you know what, I am on city water, and I'm sure they have to meet, like, some sort of reporting procedures and like water quality standards. So I'll just pull the previous five years reports that they have on file, and I'll average those for my water hardness, and that's what I'll set it to, and maybe, like, a click or two down, and then we got into the issue of, does this? Because it was very unclear, does the water softener measure in parts per million or grains per gallon? Because that that is an important delineation, I would imagine, yes, grains per gallon is generally a much smaller number. Like, just in general, like parts per million, you see much larger numbers. Just, it's very it's not uncommon to see three digits right off of that, versus, if you convert that to grains, it's like two. Like, okay, so it might actually, yeah, yeah. If you don't know what you're looking at, parts per million can seem overwhelming, shocking. Like, shocking, like, oh my gosh, this is a huge number. It's so bad. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine. It's fine. And so and so I thought, Well, did you not see that per million? And so my first thing, my first way in testing, this was okay, grains tends to be much smaller, very unlikely to, in a normal setting, like, hit three digits, because that'd be, like, you're, that's, you're just taking in brine at that point. Like they were being honest. Ooh, look, sand. Yeah, this, this, this is, how are you getting stuff through this that's so dense, like, like, it's just sludge. And so I just, I went to the little thing. I just kept pressing on the up arrow, because you have to set what the incoming hardness is. Because I was like, I'll see how high this goes. Because if it goes, like, really high, I'll know, ah, yes, okay, right? Because that'll give me some Well, yeah, it's, it's it's, I got up to like, 250 and I was like, this isn't helping. Like, this is really, we've gone too high. Oh, no, never mind. I was hoping this up at like 15. That's what I was. No, I was like, like, maybe, maybe 20, like, at the high end. And so we had to do some more digging. And I did find that it was, in fact, grain. So back down we went. So that was actually again, like, know your know your units, people, it's very important. It is quite important. Yes, we that is, but yes, I did find, I had to, I did, I did have to find the hardness. I would love for you to guess. So this is where we had to do some conversions. But it's also difficult. But the the average, average sampled hardness of my city in parts per million. Any guesses? I guess I have absolutely no idea. I have a zero baseline to go off of here. So like, yeah, no, it's, it's fine, it's, it is difficult, but it was that way. Did I do something? I didn't do something right there. No, no. It was. It was 250 if you look up parts per million, well, if you look up 250 parts per million hardness in your water, they're like, that's a lot. Is hard water. It's not, it's it's definitely above moderately hard. So like, yeah, that makes that makes sense. That's why all everybody's Hot Water Heaters die a terrible, terrible death. That's true. So, but it is always interesting. This is good stuff. If you do other pro tip, if you are looking up your local water quality. If you are on the city water, get it. It's fascinating. Data Reports, I'm sure, just lovely.

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Yeah,

Collin  41:52

yeah, exactly. Because then you'll find you're like, Yeah, I don't know. Like, look, there's wells, look, there's 1-234-567-8910, I 10. They pull from 10, wells well, for our little How about that? Shocking? Interestingly, they start, I don't, I don't know the exact history of this, but there's it starts at well seven, and then goes to well nine, and then 1117, and then 1513, 1618, 1912, where did one through six go? Well, I imagine they probably are closed. Oh, Captain, right, capped, right, they probably, what probably happened? Here's my hypothesis. Those were killed, and then they were like, not producing the flow, and then they capped and dug deeper. Wills potentially right, draw from the water table, because they're probably getting the cone situation right? So they had to go, yeah. So that could be or they just were, like, old, and they're like, oh and blah. So they just kept them so they, they're probably are remnants of, like, one through six somewhere, oh, well, like, yeah. And I bet that they they just couldn't meet the capacity. Like, you're saying, yeah, like, they were, they were, yeah, they were drilled, but they're like, the line wasn't big enough, right? The diameter of the well was not large enough to get growing needs. So, like, Okay, well, instead of redrilling this, we'll just cap it and then get a different one, like, over here, right? So I think that's probably, yeah, that's probably with it, either like wider diameter or deeper or like just whatever. So those wells probably exist somewhere, right? So urban Adventure Time, where are wells? This is, this is what I need more of this. To find him in there, like, oh, here it is, like, yeah. But like, yeah. So they're probably somewhere just capped, or they may even be cut off and buried, built over. Now, who knows, like, under some warehouse or something? Well, number one, here it is. I bet they have a little shrine for it. I hope there's all plaque on it. You would think for number one, right? Come on, you gotta Yeah, you can't do it for number one. Who can you do it for? It's true what I always say, yeah, no, not number four. Get out before we do it. What are we doing? I know that's that's been our big thing. I've been telling people to feel shirts. We've been chasing down lights lighted cars and making yard signs. So it's been just go very perspective. Well, I don't know about that. It takes a long time to chase people down, to have them feel sure. Yeah, but that's true anyway, typical week, I guess you know, very nice before I tell you what I've been doing, I have a segue segment for you. Yes, right? This is just a random segment that I thought of, and I thought I would grace it with you here. This is inspired by Internet darling John Green, um, have you seen his little tick tock thing? That's like, Have you ever seen a tick tock that isn't a poem, but it sounds like a poem to you. Have you seen this thing? No, okay, it's really hilarious. I mean, he's like, he goes on to quote this, like tick tock of this dude at the Indy 500 here's John Green's poem. That's not a poem. I started drinking at 6am we're here now. I don't know what time it is, but I'm rolling deep, and those cars are going real fast and real left, son, they're going fast and left. Yeehaw, yes. This is like a interview of a random dude at the Indy 500 right? So I heard something this week. Oh, that made me think of this poem that's not right, yeah. So this is the poem that is not a poem segment inspired by John Green. You're right. Are you ready for this? I am. I am seated. So, yes, all right. Fear. Fear is an aberration. Fear is the air that cowards breathe. Fear is the first taste of defeat. The Warrior only breathes the air of the brave, and the warrior only feasts on the fruit of victory. Okay, that is intense. It is intense. Who said that? Who said that? Well, I'm glad you asked. It was none other than the Ultimate Warrior. Oh, has it in some really big shouty 80s promo to poor Mean Gene, right? He's like, screaming, oh my gosh, it's so hilarious. I love it so much. And I was like, You know what? This actually is one of his more intelligible things that he ever says, And it reminded me of the John Green thing. So I just wanted to share this. This is our boy, Jim Helly, right opinion on the show, right? Here we go. Here is an aberration. Oh my Yeah, gosh yeah. But he's creepy. That's amazing. Oh, man, it's so wonderful. Yeah, I'll send it to you so you can watch it later and just see how he's dealing with here. But that is the, that is what I Yeah, that's what. That's what. Yeah, I definitely want to find this. This is a thing. If I go, Oh, here it is. I'll send this to you so you can watch it later. Okay, but yeah, this is our boy, our friend, friend of the show here, featured on the show, again, the Ultimate Warrior. So yes, that's I just wanted to share this with you before we moved on to other things, because I just thought this would be a fun segment. Just anytime I thought of this, you're gonna get poems that aren't poems, poems that aren't poems. My goodness, yeah, there you go. But anyway, not doing a lot really, why? Trying to get everything wound up before Christmas break for school, right? Trying to get everything, like, done and just like, get through the week. And so how things go here, they try to cap off school for Christmas vacation, anytime, right? But we did do something on Sunday. Oh, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Yeah. No, it wasn't monster trucks. Too cold for Monster Trucks, probably, but I did go see the War of the Rohirrim. Oh, how

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was this?

Collin  49:42

Okay, I liked it a lot. Okay,

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okay, hey, the

Collin  49:47

internet is a bit split on this movie, right? We have a lot of people that are like,

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that's not in the book. Token never wrote about it. Like, okay, first of all.

Collin  50:00

Calm down. Okay, if you go around bad mouthing every single thing that they give us, that's Lord of the Rings, they won't give us any more things did you not learn? Or they'll just give you, like, terrible things. Okay, don't, don't Star Wars this, please. We can't ruin this all right. We got to stop please just say thank you. Keep your mouth shut. Yeah, enjoy it. Okay, say, Okay, it's good, right? So I thought it's pretty good, right? It's really interesting, kind of how it goes. It's kind of weird to see, like it's just like normal people, right? Because it's all just like dudes, right? It's like people, right? There's no like, well, there's like, a bit, but like, there's not like, a whole lot of like, there's like, no elves, no dwarves, no like, super big magic stuff. There's a couple random orcs that just show up, but they're kind of just like, there, right? It's not like a big thing. It's just kind of like, this is the best kind of spin off event, right? This is just a story that happens in the universe that you know. Yeah, right? So, like, it, it just is happening in Middle Earth. And so there's a lot of references to things that are just kind of like, nods, you know, like, you know, like, they say a line, and they don't, like, dwell on it, but they'll say a thing, and it's kind of like, Oh, you don't talk about don't you? Yeah, you do, yeah, right. So there's like, tons of references to things like that, about, like, middle earthy stuff, which is kind of cool, right? The only thing I would say, I'll see these, some of these scores have gone out too. The Internet was is grumpy about this movie for some reason, right? I think partly it is because did they like, did they make this movie so they could keep the rights to Lord of the ring? Yes, well, but is that necessarily a bad thing? No, right. I do like the animation, like the anime kind of style stuff. It's kind of cool. People that are know more about this than me. Some people were like, Oh, it looked janky. Like, well, so it's not Ghibli, all right. Calm down. Like, what are you doing? Yeah, that's exactly right. Like, yeah. But I would say one of the there's two main problems I have with this movie. Number one, it's a bit long. Oh, right, it's a bit two hours and 14 minutes. Now, is that because, did it because, because length is, what is time? Time? Yeah, it's very subjective, right? But like, did it, did it just feel long? Or were you like, oh, okay, like we need to be, we need to be done with this. Or, like, it was, it was just kind of like, like, some of the it's a very character driven movie I see, right? So, like, there's not quite as much war as you might be led to believe in a movie called The War of the Rohirrim, right? It's like, about, how did the war come about, right? And these things like that. So, but it's not like bad. I just like, there's just a few scenes that they would just like, linger, and you're just kind of like, okay, but go, like, what do you it was just a couple though. So it wasn't too bad. I was just like, you know, you know, just because Peter Jackson made Bong move doesn't mean that you have to make long movies too,

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right? Like, Brian,

Collin  53:45

you don't have like, you don't have to, like, it's not like a benchmark. Like, uh, yeah, all Lord of the Rings, movies have to be two and a half hours. No, no, no, no, that's not, that's not stop, right there. Minimum, minimum, two hours, right? You're okay with that? Yeah, no. So, like, there was just a couple times that I was like, Okay. Like, why is this scene still going? Because it would just be like a lingering shot, right? And it's not like a big, dramatic panoramic camera move, because it's like animated, although there were some of those which are cool, right? But like, I just felt like that. It could have been a few minutes shorter. Not like, substantially, not like, cut out 25 minutes, something like that, right? The other problem I had this movie, I know it's trying to be, like, original, right, and stuff, but not enough Rohan theme in the movie, right? Not enough. Not enough, right? Not enough of that. It's there, but kind of only at the beginning, right, because then it moves into, like, different stuff. The score is still incredible, right, obviously, but not enough. Rohan,

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ah, that is

Collin  54:57

gotta be real. That's very disappointing. I know, but it is at the beginning and like, a big thing. So that's, yeah, right, that is good. I think another thing that is kind of like, I was thinking about this during the movie, right? So, like, the villain of the movie is very, like, his motivation is pretty cut and dry, right? It's like, oh, you spoilers, people, but this happens in like, the first scene of the movie, so, oh, it's like, Excuse me, he like, the guy's dad dies, right? He's killed. And then he's just like, you'll pay for this, and then his motivation becomes like you have caused me to suffer, so now I will cause you to suffer, right? This is very black and white movie villain, you know what I mean. So like on the one hand, his actions have a clear motivation. They are not like the deepest motivation, right? So I struggle with this because I'm like, this is really kind of like a one dimensional villain. This is really kind of like not that interesting, because he's just, it's just like a straight up revenge situation, right? But on the other hand, this is really how, just like real people are, right? They're Ah, they're petty and dit for Teddy, right? And like, this is exactly what like an actual person would do, right like? So on the one hand, it's not the most exciting movie villain, but on the other hand, his motivations, like, ring very true to life, and in a movie that's just, like, mostly dudes at tracks, right, like that. You know, it's like, oh, well, yeah, okay, maybe it's not so bad. But he does have a thing at the end, right, where he is their their classic movie, where they're like, you have to, you know, we can stop now. Like, we don't have to keep going. And he turns around to his little advisor, dude, he's like, I have to keep going because then I have nothing left. All I have is this. So you're like, okay, all right, well, all right, that's fair, right? Okay, I can you he they know, right? That it's, like, consumed him and like, just, he's too far gone now he's like, committed to the thing. So they tell they tell you, basically, like, he knows it's kind of dumb, but he knows he's come this far and he's this committed, and he has to see it through, because otherwise all of this effort will be for nothing if he just turns around and lets them, like, live or whatever, then he would have wasted all this time. So he has to go through with it. He's painted himself into a proverbial corner, right? So that was that admission, I think, saved a lot of the character. Like, okay, well, he knows right? That's part of his descent here is that it's gone wrong, stuff like Zoe, he knows that. But other than that, that's a lot of really cool stuff. Just like because it is just about Rohan, you do get a lot of Rohan lore, right? You get a lot of cool. You get more Rohan, which is good, right? It's always good. One of the reasons the two towers is my favorite movie is because there's a lot of Rohan in it, and that's excellent, right? So, um, and it does have you do end up at helm deep, which you know, because the movie's about helm hammer hand, ostensibly, right? It's the main characters, like his daughter, right? His family, but like, he is the driving force in the movie. So, like, even though he's not presented as the main character, I think the movie is better for that. Like he's not the sole focus, but he is there, like being the presence, you know what? Do you mean? Yeah, which is cool, right? So you get that, then there's just a bunch of cool stuff that happens. I don't want to spoil the Reno's too many things here, but there's big, yeah, they go to hell is deep, and they do the stuff, and it's cool, right? The only other thing that was weird was I was, like, the part of me that's like, very practical is, like, what I when they siege the building, they like, make the Siege Tower, like, go up really high, and then they drop it on the wall to act like a bridge. And I was like, that would just break, right? That would be dumb. Why would you do that? Yeah, it's a cool visual. And the resulting scene. They, like, fight on the bridge thing. It's kind of RAD, right? Like, it's pretty cool. That's funny, but that part is like, come on, what I know it's like for the visual effect, but like, that's breaking. Like, what do you what do you tell i Yes, yeah, I does. I mean, those are the kind of things that, like, I know budgets are always part of that. Like, how do you not just break everything about that for the sake of the story? But, you know, yeah, you gotta do the thing, and you gotta do whatever. But like, yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff, and it's just like, it is in the middle earth and so, like, everything that they're doing, like, it just sort of tracks. You're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, I know about that. Like, Oh, that's fun. Oh, that's cool. Oh yeah, I know that. Right. Like, there is one scene where they, uh, she comes across two orcs who are just, like, searching bodies, and they're picking up rings and putting them in a pouch, right? And that's kind of like the scene, Oh, interesting, you know? Because it's like, oh, oh, I know what they're doing, right? Because this movie set a pro, like, somewhere around, like, 200 years before the Hobbit, right? So we the Mordor is searching. It's growing, yeah, yeah. Well, it fits in, because the, like, the long has he searched? Long has he thought and planned and that kind of stuff. So there, there are the, there's this just like, little there's this little interaction where she sees these orcs, and they're pilfering, and they're picking up the rings and they put them in a pouch, and they're talking about it, which is kind of cool. The other part that's kind of cool is the voices of those orcs are the orcs are voiced by Billy Boy did Dominic Monica, oh, you serious? I Yes. Oh my gosh, I couldn't tell until the credit because they're not, like, they don't they're doing like a, like an orky voice, right? Sure. But in the credits, it's, it's Billy and Dom Which is awesome areas. That's a great tie in. I know it's great. That's great. The other tie in is that heroin is like narrating the story, right? So, really, yes, so Erwin, like the she, you know, the lady from Rohan kills Yeah, wearing hair. She's the narrator of the story. Miranda Otto is narrating the story. Oh, so anytime it's a narrator, it's her, and she's, like, is reminiscing about this. Now you don't ever know, because you don't see her ever, yeah, okay, I won't say reminiscing. Yeah. She wasn't alive then, but, yeah, but, like, she, so that's the cool part. Like, we, like, she's telling the story. So, like, the fan part of your brain is like, Who is she telling this to? Right? Like, yeah, when is she telling the story? Which is kind of cool, because, like, it could be, uh huh, like, after the war of the king, right? She could be telling this in, like, ministers, you know, she could be telling Faramir, you know, who knows? Or maybe, maybe she's telling it to the people at Helm, Steve, at Helm, Steve, that's exactly what I thought, because of Helm. Steve, that's what I like to think is happening, yeah, because many people probably wouldn't, I mean, they would have known, or they'd know why it's there. But to tell of another time where it was besieged and fought valiantly against, and like the horned bird, they can defend it successfully. Like, definitely, you could tell, you could see why she'd be telling that, yeah, to, to the to the townspeople, yeah. So I think, like, one cool thing you could think about is, like, is she telling the story? Like, when they're in the keep, right? You know, all the women and children are in the keep, you know, and they're getting ready, you know. Or they're thinking they're talking about like maybe going through the caves, out into the thing, right? Is she telling the story during the siege? Yeah, to the people, because that makes the story way cooler. Yeah, right. So my, my official fan theory, is that she is telling the story during the siege, during the two towers, right? Yes, because that that makes this movie like, so cool, like it's already pretty cool as it is, right? It's pretty cool movie. But if that's the, if that's. The backdrop, because she's talking about, like, the shield maidens of Rohan, right? And how, like, they may not be very many around, but their spirit lives on. And like, that's kind of the story is the girl, Hera, or whatever in the book, in the story is like, she's taking up that mantle as like, defender of Rohan, like she's not like, like she's leaving the she wants to leave the ruling and stuff to, like, her brothers and her dad and all the stuff, but like, she wants to defend Rohan, yeah, so like the shield maidens, like the story of the shield maidens, it's like she's taking up that mantle for herself, and that's what Erwin wants to do in The Lord of the Rings. She wants to fight alongside Theoden as a shield Maiden of Rohan, right? That's what she wants to do. So, like, exactly, this would be a story that she would definitely want to tell, and knew very well, you know? So I think that is a cool tie into the story, right? I think that would, that's my fan theory. I fully endorse this. Having never seen the movie. Think that does absolutely what it means, yes, because it means a typical, it's like that stereotypical protagonist of like, headstrong girl who doesn't want to, you know, whatever, but like, she wants to do this. She wants to be this, like, defender of Rohan. And it's like, a very interesting like, it's kind of like her, like, going from dreaming of doing that to like, actually attempting to do it, right? So it's like, definitely doesn't always work out the way that she plans it to, you know, it's like, oh, but like, there's definitely some cool scenes in there, right? So one of the things I want to tell you about, but I don't want to spoil it for you, because it's awesome. So doll, just, we'll get there and watching it. Yes, yes. Okay, yeah, so we'll talk about Lana Taylor. Maybe I really like that one part, so that's great. Yeah, it's a bro. I really liked it. I thought it was fun. Good watch. Fun to watch. I like it because, again, oh, no more Lord of the Rings, right? Whatever shall I do? Yeah, I always like all the little subtle tie ins, all the stuff, right? So I thought it was fun to watch, and I enjoyed it. So big. Thumbs up for me playing. Also, Susan acted too. So Kabam, there's something else I was gonna say, but I forgot what it was, so maybe later I'll remember forwarded along, forwarded along to some other time, I don't know, reach my people. I know I was on a roll with with a thought. And then it was like, Oh, I'll put this in there too. Nope. Went away. Adam, bye, yes. Nice, yeah. So that is the baking I do. I like that here. I like, okay, yeah, it's on my, it's on my, on my list to do list for sure, yes, so yeah, I won't tell you about some of that parts, but relatively spoiler free version here. Thank you, but there was a couple parts I was like, yes, needs more Rohan theme that make it even more epic. Yeah, we, we are in the two towers reading through, just getting into the the back end of the Helms Deep battle. And I have that theme music playing in my head a lot these days. So I agree more of that in life would be very good. Oh, there's also, yeah, there's Yeah, no, it's good. I like it. I think it's a good addition to Lord of the ringginess so well. And it's a different take too. Again, the animation, the different it would have been really this is the tough part, because I think a lot of people get upset with these kind of movies, because they don't like pander enough, like there's not enough pandering, and people love to be pander too. Yeah. Of of this is there's not a lot of fan service here. In as much as it's it's still telling lore from the world. You're gonna, still gonna hear names that were mentioned previously. Oh yeah, they're not gonna go overtly. To be like, Oh, they did the thing with the Oh, kind of, yeah. Like, they don't, don't want to do the Star Wars thing.

1:09:30

No, no, they don't. And

Collin  1:09:32

they just want to go, here's a story from the universe as told by us. Like, that's that we should we, that should be good. Like, and they tried something different too. Yeah, like, and that's what I really like about it. This is what I always liked about the Star Wars Expanded Universe books, right, when I was in middle school, right? Is because it is very firmly set in the world that, you know, but it's like, over there, yeah, right. And I like this. Kind of expansion. Like, I don't want everything to tie in, like, 100% directly, right? Like, be like, Oh, put in like, a bunch of stuff, like, Oh, hey, there's gollin No, that's no, don't do that, right? I like that. It's just in the world, and it's exists in the world of Middle Earth, and there are references to things in this movie, but like, they're not super like, overt and blatant, and they, most of them, like, they don't come out of like nowhere, right? And it's not like they make sense. The references that there are, they make sense, right? To like the story. They fit. They're not like. They don't feel to me to be shoehorned in there, you know what I mean? So they're like, they like the orc thing, like they're looking for the ring. That's like, all. They're just like, oh, they pick up a ring and they stick it in a bag. But, you know, as the viewer, like, oh, I, I know what they're doing. I know why they're looking for that, right? Like, you know, so, like, whatever. But, oh, I remember I was gonna say one of the other things I was thinking about is in the narration, kind of at the beginning, like eroin says that if you're looking for stories of Hera in the tales, right, you're not, there's not tales. Don't tell of these events, right? She says something to that effect in the thing, right? Because it's supposed to be like all the tales focus on like elm hammer, right? And not right. So some people on the internet were

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like, tell, continue to write about this.

Collin  1:11:40

Right? However, I would like to propose that this exact statement is a statement that token makes multiple times in his writing, especially in the Silmarillion, he will say things and then he will just say like, but of this event no tell tales, right? Yes, that's just code for like, he has it written, Yes, yep, yep. And so when they, when they put that in the movie, like, I thought that was a really clever line, because, like, if you it's like, if you know, you know, right? Like, because to me, I read that as like, Well, yeah, maybe the tales don't tell about it, but we know it happened because Tolkien says that he'll be like, oh yeah. He'll just like, say random things, and then he'll be like, Oh, but at this event, no tell tales anyway, because he, like, wants to go back on topic over here, like he's like, Oh no, back over here, he's, he's focused on something else. You're right, yeah, we'll talk. He's like, in some of that stuff, you could feel like he was like, oh, we'll deal with that later. Anyway, this place is to be, yeah, yeah. We gotta talk about Finn golfing. Let's go so, man. But like, the so that they there's this little line in there, and I saw some people comment on the internet like, well, that's because Tolkien didn't actually write about it, and this just is only in the appendices. And I don't know why they make a lot of like, first of all, second of all, this is the thing that Tolkien says in his writing, right? He says multiple times, but of this event, no tale tells right? That doesn't mean that it didn't happen. It just means that, right now, he's telling a different story. And you know, you know, we don't know the details. So, like, this whole movie is, like, you can go, Oh, yeah. Well, this, there's no thing that says this. You know, these things didn't happen like here. So to calm down, people calm down, they use the token literary device. Well, yes, and like you said, they're not inventing a new mechanic for the world. Yeah, everything is known. It's we, we're this is all familiar, right? And that's I. I do know that people get upset when they're like, no, wait a minute, you just invented, invented a whole new thing to make this just work, or because you thought it was cool, and people get upset about that. That's one thing, but to just say, Look, this is just like. This is just this part of it. We're just continuing a story or retelling a story. And also, let's not like reliable narrator, or not like, also, you have to think of that as well. Yeah, sure, let's say some of the discrepancies or some of the weirdness. Let's, let's, you know what? We'll blame aoin, because she's telling this in a rushed, stale, she's in the caves of Helms Deep, trying to make sure that this sounds really nice for everybody, because we're about to die, like you can Anyway, like I. If the fact that people can't, I don't know, like, just, yeah, have that in their head, it's frustrating to me, yeah, and it's definitely, it's definitely in the spirit of all things token, too. Because, like, it's not like, okay, so like, the girl, it's not like, she's just like, a like, super bad to the bone, like warrior who just, like, wins all encounters, like, flawlessly and effortlessly, like, it's not that, it's not like that she is like, it's a very real, I think it's like a much more like, in line with the whole rest of the trilogy and stuff. Because it's just like, she's just like a girl, and her motivation is like, oh, I want to help my dad and Rohan, and I'm gonna do these things like, and it's not like, she just, like, steamrolls everybody, and like, always is Victoria's and blah, blah, blah. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, very grounded. And like, oh, some this, this went well, this time, oh, this time, maybe not quite so well, right? Like, oh, like, right, yeah. Like, this plan didn't quite work out. Like, so it's kind of like, you know, it's not like, just like, Oh, she's gonna just steamroll everything and, like, solve all the problems in one hit. No, she has to struggle with it and deal with things, and she's trying to solve these things in her own way, and she has to deal with the results of that, and people don't agree with her and all this stuff. So it's like, a very nuanced take. It's not just like, uh, she's not like a superhero. She's like a Superman situation where she just, like, wins, you know, yeah, she's not coming in, yeah, being like, wow. Look at all this amazing super strength that this person has or has like and everything's really easy for them. What a cool, boring story. John, yeah, so it's good and it's very Yeah, I liked it. I thought it was really good, so I would definitely want to watch it again. Okay, bang. That was what I did. I saw I like it, the War of the Rohirrim, and I liked it as an token enthusiast, on a record token enthusiast. I like not just because it was Random Play token stuff, but I thought it was good,

1:17:09

one of those guys. Yeah,

1:17:10

no, I'm not just like, oh, it was great because it was like, No,

Collin  1:17:14

it was fun to watch, right? It was fun time. Well, that's that's important too. I enjoyed it like, yeah, I enjoyed the movie. Oh no, oh no. Someone on the internet enjoyed the movie. Ah, ah, yeah, that was my big thing. That's my review highlights, really, all I did. So how and how dare you for enjoying it, I know. So let me know when you see it, because I'll tell you my favorite part then. So, yeah, yeah, we'll have to get around to it. It'll be sure. Hopefully it's not too hard for me to pick out. Yeah, I don't know i That's why I wanted to go this weekend, because I didn't know how long our theater would have it. Yeah. So I was like, I'm going right now, right doing it. And we went on, like, Sunday, and, like, there was a 1230 on a Sunday showing, which was great, because that means we were the only person people in the theater. Because, like, not a lot of people are going to the early movie on Sunday in southern Missouri, that's not, that's not a thing that's happening, no. So we got to meet those people there. There were some other people in, like, seeing other movies in the theater, but, yeah, we really only was there, so it was nice. Big seed hung out a popcorn. Blam Nice. Yeah, good. I'm glad you guys go see that. I'm glad that movie exists. That makes me happy. Yes, I thought it was fun. Boom, that's all I got. That's good. That was good. That's all the excitement had this week. I saw more Lord of the Rings team. Yeah, oh, man,

1:18:58

jeez,

Collin  1:19:01

one. Well, good. I'm glad that's good. Well, I have, I have, I have a haiku that works for you. It does, indeed. I do love a haiku. Okay, might be on the nose. I don't know, Frog and Toad share Tea. Green leaves turn as seasons pass, friends laugh on each page.

1:19:25

Oh so good. I like it

Collin  1:19:30

and I like frog and toad, so it's kind of fitting. Yay. Yeah, works. Okay, well, we will may need to. I don't know what our schedule gonna be for next week, because behind the curtain, you know, it's supposed to be beyond Christmas. So

1:19:50

okay, yeah,

Collin  1:19:52

okay, maybe to do it, yes, move that around. I didn't realize it was on Wednesday, so it is okay. It is Anne Wednesday. So, okay, yeah, because I think we may be going to Susan's sister

1:20:05

house with her mom. I have no idea what's happening. Yeah,

Collin  1:20:09

I'll tell you what's I'll figure, oh, I'll let you know something, yeah, I figured something, yeah, also probably Yeah. We'll practice another day. But I think, yeah, I'll check. But I think every other day so far that I know of is fine. He says, with great trepidation. I say with great trepidation, I will ask the official keeper of the calendar, and then we'll go from there as Yes, I do the same thing. I go just to verify, right? Yeah, you gotta be safe, you know, fine, yeah, sorry, yes, Agree, Agree. Okay, well, with that, we'll do some planning and behind scenes coordinating, and we will go from there. All right, okay, Love you.

1:20:53

Love you too. Bye. You.