the rope climb

Collin brings the hard hitting news: baba ganoush is, not just an amazing word to say, but is also amazingly delicious. Brandon reminds climbing rope. Aaron is doing (a lot) to prepare for softball season. The main topic this week? Give your favorite shark movie, that is NOT Jaws. Spoiler - our favorite shark movie IS Jaws.

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Aaron, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Colin

Brandon  00:12

and Aaron.

Collin  00:14

On this week's show, the rope climb Hi Hello. Hello.

Brandon  00:28

Oh boy.

Collin  00:31

The Wednesday bringing some big Wednesday energy and today

Brandon  00:35

wow. That's can't tell if that's good or bad.

00:39

So tired. It's so exhausting.

Brandon  00:45

you're swinging all day, apparently. I saw like, you know,

Collin  00:48

we went to the trampoline park. And then we came back and within 45 minutes we were at pool. So okay, yeah, it was a long day. Yes, long cow. But we got to eat. I got the barbecue news with chicken shawarma on top. It was a good day. Good. Is there a more fun food to say? Than Baba Ganesh? Right. I'm not sure there is. It makes me happy

Brandon  01:21

to say it's pretty fun. Like, I gotta I gotta say, you need to tell me more about this trampoline park. I have heard that these exist. Yeah, I have never been to one obviously. Because like, why would I go to a trampoline park? You know? Like, that's not? Well, I mean, no,

Collin  01:43

I will say that. First off, Aaron, have you been to a trampoline park? I have. Yes. Okay.

Brandon  01:51

Here in many areas, just me the loser. Hello.

Collin  01:56

So what's interesting is that most trampoline parks are like already in like, pre sketched out, like shopping areas and whatever. And what you don't notice whenever you first walk in is at the reception areas down at the bottom, or down, like, right when you walk in, and you have to walk up a bunch of steps. And then like when you're jumping, you're like, look, that's right, because there's has to be space underneath the trampoline to like, go down. excavate down into the foundation of the port building. Do that. No, that's the first thing. But they're just like laid out in an array of design and purpose. There are also like obstacle course areas like that you would see on American Ninja Warrior things like the jumping to the site to site jump and then the hang on the thing and slide.

Brandon  02:49

Oh, right. Did you practice your Ninja Warrior?

Collin  02:53

My ability? I did not.

Brandon  02:56

But an anachronism. Historically because spoilers. Ninjas were spies. Oh, warriors. Well, okay. Anyway. Sorry.

Collin  03:06

Secret. So they have that and then they just have a floor trampolines. But they're not like the it's not like the trampoline that you imagine for somebody's backyard. Like these are the you know, I was messing like the gymnastics ones. They are. They are like so they have some really long skinny ones. So people can do like the double, triple lipid. Do you

Brandon  03:29

know how mad I would be if I went to a trampoline park and it was just like one of those janky trampolines from somebody's backyard. And they're like,

Collin  03:37

well, but you don't really know. Like, that's only been my experience of that feeling of a trampoline that kind of like I like what you expect of how it's going to bounce. you've ever

Brandon  03:48

been on a gymnast trampoline? The big ones, like the gymnastics thing? No, when would I have had that? Okay, why the question is why on earth was I on one? I don't remember. But like I was on when I was younger.

Collin  03:59

Yeah. So it's, I had never experienced that and just how different of a sensation that is how an immediate recoil you get and how responsive that floor is to jump and how it's like both simultaneously like, very bouncy, but also very, like a lot more rigid. So this so anyways, it's it's very interesting mix and they've got climate like walls where the trampoline actually flexes and goes up halfway a wall. So you can like run and jump and bounce and try and get up at the top and sit which is what kids do. They've got a cool if you want to play like a dodgeball thing where imagine where again, that trampoline comes up to the wall, sort of kind of loose up on the sides and you can kind of throw the dodgeball back and forth on your team's got a place for basketballs. The place that we like to go to is the foam pit, which is where I sent you that video from a where you can both just like run, jump and flip. Or you can get in the swing and do what everybody loves to do of like doing the,

05:07

like, Well,

Collin  05:08

I never did this, but like the when you get to the height of the height of the swing and you're like, what if I just went like you can do that? Yeah. And then not go careening into gravel or asphalt or rebar.

Brandon  05:20

Yeah. So listeners this was my first thought was Colin sent me a picture of the his kids like flying out of a swing into a foam pit. Yeah. Okay. And I was like, that's actually kind of sweet. And then I thought to myself, and to think I used to do this onto gravel playground like a peak. Right? Like, yeah. And Colin sent back. I never did that. Aaron, I need your vote. Did you jump out of the swings?

Aaron  05:49

1,000% Because we can get in trouble at a recess if we did that. All right.

Brandon  05:55

I did a lot. We did two, we had like, contests and like, stylized jumps, we would go for height, we would go for

Collin  06:04

distance.

Brandon  06:07

Right? Yeah. We used to do this thing where you like, I remember doing this all the time. It was so fun. You like swing really high. And then you jump out of the swing and you turn around and you grab the chain and you swing back like Tarzan.

Collin  06:23

Right? Yeah.

Brandon  06:25

It was so fun. When you're little right. I imagine giant me would not really have the same effect. But in like fourth grade. Dude, that was the best one. You could even if you did it right. You could jump to the other

Collin  06:39

swing. Yes, no. Yeah. It was great. No, yeah. I never did that. That's insane.

Brandon  06:49

I we used to go for distance, and we would draw our lines in the in the rock. Sure. Right. Aaron, did you do that? Do you see the distance contest?

Aaron  06:58

We tried to go as high as we could. Oh,

Collin  07:02

no. Also good. Good, classic. No, it was That's terrifying. So the kids were very quickly realizing the difference is in those of like, when to jump out because that was really fun to watch them. Because they had never done that before. The first time that we went to this place, it was kind of overwhelming. And we just spend our time jumping around from place to place. They weren't really into the whole, like, swing as high as you can launch out. And so they were they could see each time they jump off of the swing. They got they would try something a little bit different of like, okay, when do I leave out. And like the first time Noah did or Lillian did it, it was like, she leaped out as the just as the swing had started to like, move back forward. So she just got launched straight line, like, fly out and had no height at all. It was like, nicely forward, it was pretty awesome. See, you gotta go for that. No man. He would go up. And then he would just lay back and then like, plumb it back, just like back first. And that was his preferred way of launching off versus versus length, which was like base verse, or send to the phone.

Brandon  08:25

So you cannot do on the gravel. You do not want to land on your backpack. Let me tell you, or I did that one time. I don't really remember what happened. Exactly. I was in third grade.

Collin  08:37

Right. And I did that somehow. Like I fell

Brandon  08:43

when I was trying to like I was trying to jump. Right. But I think I timed it wrong. And I landed directly on my back. Right? And like, flat back bumped out the swingset right and I could not read. It was just

Collin  08:59

like it was so horrible.

Brandon  09:04

It was the first time I'd ever had the wind knocked out of me. And it was a little terrifying.

Collin  09:09

Right What happens to you that is not first time is a little

Brandon  09:12

horrifying. It's laying on the ground, gasping for breath. And my friend was like, holy cow, dude. Whoa. Are you dead? Sure, like pick me up and I was like

Collin  09:23

I think the first time I had my wind knocked out of me I was trying to do a slip and slide.

Brandon  09:28

And I could see instead of doing the forward

Collin  09:30

momentum I just belly flopped onto the ground and like, could not breathe a while I was sliding with water in my face. Pretty Pretty. It was a good time. Aaron What do you remember when you got the wind knocked out of you for the first time? Elementary School.

Aaron  09:47

We were doing basketball in the gym because it was raining. And for some reason I thought it was perfectly okay to stand underneath the goal for the basketball. And like it's like the ball came like right off the top my head and that knocked the wind out of me. And I like immediately pulled over. And so I don't I don't remember who shot it. I remember it happening and I remember crying a lot. So that was a very distinct a time of I think it was like one of the teachers there might have been shocked like, oh, well, we learned Yeah, never never did that, again.

Brandon  10:30

You're seeing it's important lessons to be

Collin  10:35

learned in elementary school is testing those crossing those boundaries,

Aaron  10:40

I think is really important. Yeah, when your body can

Brandon  10:43

literally bounce back and be like, okay, I'm fine. If I have to be now I'd be probably be dead for like a week. Right? I'd be like, I start McCann live, right? But when you're like, nine, you, whatever, fine.

Collin  10:57

I will get I will survive this. Now. I'm like, Just the mere thought of this is causing the lot. Yeah,

Brandon  11:02

I'd be laying on the couch for like days, right? Bro, you're nine you're like, Alright, I'm gonna go play now.

Collin  11:06

I'm okay. Oh, so it was That's good. I like finding those kinds of activities. Obviously, we like being outside and such. But you know, on rainy days or as a special events going to these kinds of parks. It because it is something that I think is important for just what you were saying like finding those limits, and then kind of testing their skills in a play form of, of just practicing hand eye coordination, gross muscle movement, continued maximum effort as they are doing some of these things. Like, all that is really good. And they always have a blast doing it was kind of a win win for everybody.

Brandon  11:52

True. Did you have flashbacks to the Discovery Zone? Of course. All right. Yeah, that's, that's important. Yeah. Especially

Collin  12:03

the diving into like going into the pit

Brandon  12:04

of like, dz.

Collin  12:06

Baby. This is like, in my day, these were semi hard plastic balls that would like slam into your body. And we're not sure we're deceptively not cushioning, not cushioning. Like Yeah. Oh,

Brandon  12:23

a kid take a fall into some hard plastic. About Okay, yes. Do

Collin  12:29

I then have somebody leap on top of you immediately after?

Brandon  12:33

Oh, no, that never happened? It's fine. Everything's fine. Don't worry about all

Collin  12:38

listeners I will send there is a there's both the discovery zone.com and the Discovery Zone Wikipedia page, you will find the show notes on our website.

Brandon  12:54

look a lot more. Many of these things were huge in just tariffs. I just got to like thinking about it. I also like I was trying to remember some of this stuff. This was a very early like the grandfather of the American Ninja Warrior phenomenon, right? Because they had the like monkey bar things in there. And you had that you could climb up the old rope deal and stuff. And then you could like, feed like there was like a thing you could swing across and like some little platform you could scurry across or whatever I seem to remember. And then they had like the classic tubes, right like the McDonald's plastic, but they were like bigger and like cooler than the McDonald's ones for some reason. That slides and the net

Collin  13:41

climbs like those like net climb fry. Which was so fun. Watching my kids go and do net climb today. And then they also have the ones where it's like a, like a punching bag size are a little bit bigger. That's made out of the mesh. You know this? Yeah, but it's but it's filled with the foam pieces.

14:04

Right? Like,

Collin  14:05

it's really hard to grab on. You have to like foil arms around like it takes everything to grab onto them.

Brandon  14:13

The dz had something like that. Yeah, that there was like a it was actually just like a plastic thing full of foam.

Collin  14:19

Sure. You know, it was blue I think because you know primary color slime up it Yeah, so yeah, that's that's kind of thing I'm you're right. It is kind of a

Brandon  14:30

pre just, I just realized that the Discovery Zone was the prototype. It's the grandfather of the American Ninja Warrior.

Collin  14:39

Look at this revelation. Do the NET client

Brandon  14:44

that cargo net climb thing Loki was like so amazing. When you were 10 Like I remember we had one there was on the playground at school. Do you remember that? I think they took it down after a few years because it really is. Oh this is not good. Save. Oh, I like it all dangerous. Yeah. But it was like, it was just a big thing. And it was cargo nets on both sides. Big black cargo net.

15:11

Right? Nope.

Brandon  15:12

You climb up one side, you went over the bar, and you went down the other side. Right? Which when you say that out loud, that sounds like zero fun. Right? But as a kid is a 10 year old. That was the stinking, coolest thing. Well, again, it's because you flip over the top. Well, you're not supposed to do that. You flip over the top anyway,

Collin  15:34

again, all while with the security of the cushioning of pea gravel underneath you. Yeah, just rocks below and dirt. And not even not even a lot of rocks. Like it's just like a like a dusting of rock like an

Brandon  15:49

inch maybe. Yeah, I've just like compacted Missouri soil,

Collin  15:54

like playing like pushing. Yeah. Delicious. Meanwhile, this one is like it's they have the yum. The what are they the gymnastic mat. But then underneath those they have three feet of the foam blocks and stuff. So like if you fall underneath them underneath when you're doing the the more Ninja Warrior style thing like you hit the mat but the like really goes a walk like

Brandon  16:21

yeah, it's not like it's not like an elementary school again, like you put the crash you put like the gymnastics mat out on the floor. Would so you fall out and it just kind of like Right yeah. Exactly. Like, like the rope climb. Right? They put them crash mat out there. Yeah, but it's like, maybe Jim.

Aaron  16:42

Two inch mat.

Collin  16:45

Already. 30 years old that we're like, oh, the dust inside will cushion you as Yeah.

Brandon  16:51

I never really thought about it too much. I just because again, you're like, Let's do child use climbed up the stupid rope. Did you guys still do rope climb? Was that a thing in elementary school? Yeah. At some point they stopped that.

Collin  17:03

Yeah, I did. I did rope climb because I remember. They had the ranking of like, what was it like coconut, monkey tree? Banana, banana or whatever. I don't remember that part. Yeah, like, depending on how high you went. You've got one of those things. Ah, I don't remember exactly what the ranking was. I can tell you mine was the lowest. But again, not a fan of heights. So true. I made it to the top once. That was kind of cool.

Brandon  17:39

Until you get up there and like alright, come down. You're like, oh, wait, that is I'm really really high up here right now.

Collin  17:51

Like, Oh, no. This is not good. Okay, good. So, yeah, I think it's new, it's exciting. They're able to do like all these skills, use their body. Like both kids were like, really like going all out on the on the trampolines. And it's also fun, because it's like in order to get from one side of the building complex to the other, like, you just kind of hop on trampolines. Or you could do the boring walk path, but it's much more fun. So it's all novelty and just like experiencing those. Oh, it's just it was really it's really fun. I recommend them. You can't have you know, adults there. Obviously, you can go down to the dump and Ben. You okay

Brandon  18:53

Eric, just for clarification, you do remember the rope climb?

18:57

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Aaron  19:00

rope climb, because they had like, in a map under it. That was enough. And so yes, I remember it very well. Because I think the first time I tried it I like was maybe 1030. And I just like my brain just said, It's time to let go and I just went right on it. So I remember that. Elementary was kind of a rough time. I was definitely growing up as a kid like this all hurt. My bleeding

Collin  19:34

very much remember that time? Yeah, carry you go through that. Right. That's yeah. But yeah, that was we spent our day doing that was residential. And was our day. Our day was good. Where were you? How was the winds? What Two years ago, go back to school. We talked about this

Aaron  20:06

eight, we showed the 1515 1617 is like, it's not professional day, but it's that whole day. And then the 18th is our first day. Oh, wow. Yeah. Give me days beforehand. Nope. Because there's also birthdays at last few years, we haven't really had a chance to really celebrate it because of war, because he also thought about that same time. And so yeah, I think if we come back, because our, our first softball game, is that

Collin  20:42

800 Because we're skirting tomorrow. And

Aaron  20:47

we're like, Oh, my God, we got so much time and people like so it's just been like two weeks and I go dig.

20:56

Yeah, I go back

Brandon  20:57

for my our first day is the first day the teachers have to be there, the professional days, whatever it is next Wednesday.

Collin  21:06

So I'll probably be grumpy

Brandon  21:09

next week, just because like, I'll have to sit and room all day listening to like, really boring, nonsense. And no, like, so. Me and my roommate

Aaron  21:21

been in my classroom yet? So? I haven't I haven't done anything. I haven't. I haven't really even less than five lesson plans, or whatever. Like, it's still doing. Like the floors. And so I just haven't been in my classroom. Outside. Yeah, so I'm a little annoyed. Like, I get in there. And so like, make sure my theater works. All that stuff. Because yeah, when the time hits, and they're like, Oh, thank you do this, like I'm gonna be rushed. Not very happy. And then we got like softball games and tournaments, like, like the first week, and so everyone just needs to chill for a second. Let me get my classroom.

Brandon  22:02

I gotta get in there and make sure all my stuff is there. And then like, put my stuff rock? Well, I mean, I put them all up on the shelf that doesn't move. So they better not touch my stinky rocks. Listen to

Collin  22:12

me. Also,

Brandon  22:14

every year, like, it's one of those gripes I have where like, they I draw them a map. And I put it on my board. And I say, please put my things like this. And used to that's what they wanted you to do. Right? That's what they wanted, so that they could put all this stuff because like, again, they take everything out of the room. Not everything, but a lot of the stuff out of the room. And they do all the floors and all that stuff. And they put it all back in there. And I give them a map. And the last two years they have not even looked at when they bought all my stuff.

Collin  22:55

It's fine. So I

Brandon  22:58

didn't have like move my desk somewhere. Like that's not where it goes. Like last year, they left my big giant bench that sits under the window that's left in the middle the room. I was like,

Collin  23:07

whoa, what? What do you know?

Brandon  23:13

Why did you do that? That's not so I just slid across the room. I didn't care. They're all like make sure you lift up or have somebody No, I slid that sucker. Like

Collin  23:25

blam. Get over it. Suckers. where it's going. So Oh, I'm just always

Brandon  23:35

excited to see what state they have left my room in mind. Guys. I laid up everything for you. I gave you a map. I cleaned everything. Just put my desk back over here. Now I was leaving the middle of

23:49

the window.

Brandon  23:50

That's where the computer cord is like it literally can't go anywhere else. What are you doing?

Collin  23:56

Yeah, but what if it didn't add do well? Never thought about before? What if it didn't know needs to go back in the corner? Trying to open your mind to more hospital now.

Brandon  24:07

So that's next week this week. I just been like mess around the house. been reading some more.

Collin  24:12

Okay, Susan had to go back already. Oh, really? Yeah.

Brandon  24:17

To get ready for her new position.

Collin  24:22

Is that she's super stoked, right? Like she's super excited. And so

Brandon  24:29

she's just trying to get a bunch of stuff ready. She like made some stuff for the it's like stinking amazing looking. I'll see like, signs and stuff for the library. And so

Collin  24:41

it's pretty awesome. She's been crafting away. And she's been getting

Brandon  24:48

stuff ready at school. So I've been sitting home was reading I cleaned my desk a little bit. Ah, actually a lot of it because as as noted on the show Previously, I m a Pilar of things.

Collin  25:04

And my desk

Brandon  25:06

was becoming quite unusable with the amount of things piled upon it.

Collin  25:14

Because I don't use it all that often. Right? And

Brandon  25:17

so, I was like, Okay, I'll just put this stuff here, blah, blah. And until like, after about a year of that,

Collin  25:23

like, there is

Brandon  25:27

what desk, there's just a pile of stuff. So I haven't gone through there. dusted everything. I threw away a whole bunch of stuff. Because I have this habit of like, I get like a paper or something. And then I go like, Okay, I was put here for when I, you know,

Collin  25:41

whatever. And then he just slowly turns into a pile of junk.

Brandon  25:47

So like, Oh, here's my dentist, Bill. Here's this blah, blah, blah, blah, just pile right. And so I threw a whole bunch stuff away. I went through some other piles ahead of some like school stuff. And someone was like, just so old. I was sick. I don't

Collin  26:00

need this. I'm throwing it out. Hmm. So

Brandon  26:04

it's been sort of reorganizing stuff. Customer room inherence can nice stuff.

Collin  26:09

Have to a room for more stuff? Yeah.

Brandon  26:13

And doing some laundry, the little bit of laundry that I've done, like my

Collin  26:17

socks or whatever. And that's

Brandon  26:19

about it. I also, as because of a few weeks ago, I have purchased the Halo Master Chief Collection. We're playing that too. That is when I realized that I was in here, right the other day, and I was like,

Collin  26:37

yelling probably. I had

Brandon  26:41

the TV was on real loud. Not real loud. But Susan was like, What is going on in there?

Collin  26:45

And then I thought to myself, can I actually explain

Brandon  26:50

what's happening in this game right now? I can't this too weird. I can't. Nevermind. It's nothing. Like I just I'm stopping the bad guys from doing a thing. Don't worry. That's about it. Because like,

Collin  27:02

it's too weird to like, say out loud.

Brandon  27:06

You sound insane. It's another one of those things where if you tried to explain the

Collin  27:14

plot, isn't that crazy person

Aaron  27:18

experienced with rocket it'll like yeah,

Brandon  27:21

it's it's similar to that. Right? Like, okay, well, there's these. This, right? Nope, nope, not

Collin  27:27

gonna do it. I'm just gonna that's the other big thing I've been doing this week is that shouting at my TV? Playing on hardmode wondering why I forgot that the word hogs are

Brandon  27:44

impossible to drive. I forgot about that. I can't know. Yeah, other than that, as digging around, I found some of the stuff that's gotta go back school. So I would get my backpack ready. Like okay, this gotta go in there who's might have heard who's this book I got. Here's my charger thing, just so I'm slowly becoming ready to take it all back to work next week when I start.

Collin  28:13

So Erin, I wanted to pick your brain. You said you have scrimmages and stuff coming up. What? What does it I have no clue what it means to prepare for us a season of softball. What kind of thing are you trying to put together or start working on now that you're ready.

Aaron  28:36

So if there's a certain time where you can start due to whatever they Athletic Association you're under. So every coach is different. Everyone kind of has its own different focus. Some coaches are more like offensively oriented. And are you physically oriented? depends on the kind of kids that you have. Yada. And so what we've been doing the head coach is her first year coaching ever. So it's kind of a lot of getting, you know, your whole new coaching staff on the same page, getting kind of like you know, just seeing especially if you're not if you're new to the area you don't know the kids you don't know the background, you don't know what they're, they're good at. And so you spend a lot of that time in the first few weeks of just kind of growing pains like what do you people that prepositions saying what they're good at what they're not good at, kind of evaluating like what you have and kind of gearing the season toward that. And then you just kind of go through the basic stuff. I know. The other place I've been with baseball and softball is a bit more things of, you know, having a girl show out or the kids show up. And then they do like stretches and throws and then they always focus on trying to hit every single day, kind of pitch every single day, every single day. And then just working out there outfielder infield this this week has been more like for me because I kind of like, Hey, I'm taking pitches because we had thrown in, like, a week. So we're doing that. And everyone's like, Oh, yeah, okay. Just kind of see like what we have to work with. And then we just kind of build our offense around it, saying what is, you know, what, who can hit who's fast? He's not, you can definitely find those things out within like, first, like day of like, oh, man, this, this is really good. And like, oh, this person, probably not gonna see the field for a while. And that's why you have scrimmages, you're a good number, maybe it's probably about to have two or three scrimmages for the season starts. Because that way you can kind of that's where your, you know, your mad scientist lab comes in, and like, Hey, I know you've been playing this position, but I want to see what it looks like when you're here. And so you can move, whoever you need to around just to kind of accommodate like, hey, look, you're really strong here. But I would really like to hear because you give us the best chance of winning. And then just kind of going off of that.

Collin  31:25

In our instance, we have a lot of speed, we have a lot of girls that are just super fast, and who are really good at Bass running, maybe not so strong and hitting.

Aaron  31:39

And so that's why we have to come in and be like, alright, so looks like we're gonna be you know, bumping a lot. So we need to do this here. And then we need to move these people here and try to change the lineup to accommodate was out, we don't have a lot of kids that are just going to slug it out in the park, we don't have like, any of those girls that they could with want to work. But with the season starting next week, we there is no way that we can, you know, we're gonna make improvements as the year progresses. But it is, you know, the first few weeks of softball are kind of rough, because you're still trying to get the vibe of everybody trying to get a feel. And you know, yes, we have practices for that. But you know, some kids get a surprise you or you might get a move in. And yet the rearrange your entire lineup. So it just kind of depends on what you have and who you have. And with, you know, also your coaching staff with Irving, a new coach in general is a lot of, hey, we need to be doing this little details we need to be, you know, getting these kids acclimated to this, and then also having to bounce junior high at the same time. So there's a, there's a lot of moving parts to a lot of things. And if if you're doing poorly, because we have a lot of that feeling of like, oh, there's a lot going on, like yeah, a lot of these kids never had true softball coaches. And so it's like, oh, there's a lot of stuff to do. And you're kind of gasping for air over the corner. And you're like, yeah, so if there's a lot to do that and tomorrow, we're going to kind of see what we have to work with it. We can scrimmage against each other all day. But we've got to see, you know, how our girls do in certain situations. And that's the fun thing was primitives. You can go to the other coach and be like, Hey, can you do this with your person cuz I want to see what our our kid does with this and sure, like, Hey, I'm fired. Can you give us two strikes I want to see what he does under pressure and things like that. So it's just kind of fun to play around with that's kind of where your you know mad like I said mad scientist lab comes in of like, what you want to see and what you have. So it'll be it'll be definitely be fun to the junior high and high school tomorrow.

Collin  34:13

High that three? I suppose that or something? Maybe if I remember correctly. So on the exit our first game of the year is Monday. So yeah, there's a lot

Brandon  34:34

that's crazy. It's a lot of stuff to do for

Aaron  34:40

me the other big thing is that like, especially big because I've been going to practices for two weeks, three weeks and I'm still finding out like where certain equipment are and like kind of meet new people and trying to like offer balance talking to parents and dealing with other kids. because I'm on a lesson plan, so it was just like, it was the one that thing that often in Oklahoma is like, it starts before school starts until you're having to, you know, I'm already gonna have to miss some days off softball games. And so the first few weeks are like, the first few days are gonna be like, Hey, isn't my thing. And yeah, so is Bill this and this what we're doing AI by, like aI game. So there's a there's a lot that does that. And the one thing about like with baseball is like, you know, completely different season like at the tail end and so things are winding down. The softball is hey, here's a game off by like that. I don't know your name back. What's going on? Yeah, I met some of the football coaches. And I'm just like, sorry, you're important because I have to talk to you. Because I'm gonna be announcing the football game. Like, I don't know what your name is. Oh, yeah. Go see, Chad. Are we doing practice?

Brandon  36:16

At least when you talk to them, you can just be like,

Aaron  36:18

Hey, Coach. Yeah, that is the one saving coach. It's really funny when you go to coaching clinics, and you're going to row and you're like, Hey, coach, and then like, 20 people turn around. You're like, I don't know your name. Man. Yeah. Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, I have a game plan of what we'd like to do. But knowing our luck, it will completely fall through the roof. Because I have a certain cable show up. And so I'm like, I have to sign up. I need to see when people are

Brandon  37:07

they don't show up, they can sit on the bitch. Ride the pine. Right.

Aaron  37:13

That's what three years now. And one one thing that I've never like, had to deal with is like our art. So our school is a little bit is a lot bigger than a lot of places. And especially in athletics, they like to take care of the coaches. So we are actually sponsored by Under Armour. And they give certain sports kind of like a certain amount of money for my coaches, wagons. And so we

Collin  37:49

add, at the end of practice, are super. I'd love to hear like Hey, guys, hey, come see me. You guys gotta figure stuff out. Right? But like, no, yeah, you guys get stuck. Take out your gear. Like

Aaron  38:07

what? So we sat there in his office for an hour and a half. Going through the underarmor catalog. I was like, we we buy this? And he's like, yeah, that's why you're different. You have it. Like that's why we're doing this stuff. And we'll get the underarmor or the school logo on the thing. And there's like, oh, this seems like a lot like no, you can use and buy you know, if you have a budget, don't go crazy with it. Like you got whatever you want, though. It felt like weird, like, getting a setting limited and like going shopping. I don't want to spend too much like no, you can do this. It's fine. And yeah, that's another you're always learning something and coaching or just you know, and teaching in general. And that was one thing that I've never like would have imagined. Like, hey, you can pick out your gear. But the other school that had we didn't have we never had enough money for gear, right. Oh, oh, all right. Well, I'm big into gear. Okay, so I mean treated it's kind of nice boiled. I want to be other coaches are like oh, and your all your hard work is getting boiled down to this. I get to do shopping.

Brandon  39:25

And that's pretty good. And my school they just give us really ugly T shirts every year. Like here you go. You can wear this with your jeans on Wednesday

Collin  39:34

ugliest shirt in the

Brandon  39:35

world like that's what oh and

Aaron  39:36

I get to wear shorts. wantI Oh, what

Brandon  39:42

are new. We used to be able to wear like jeans anytime we wanted to as long as we had like a nice shirt, whatever. But our new superintends like very professional, or uses a professional business workplace so you cannot do that anymore. Like

Aaron  39:59

loser Once

Collin  40:02

I get to where we're sort

Aaron  40:07

of professional, I can't be like all ratted whatnot. But yeah, they're like, Well, since you're, you know, you have so many athletic periods and you have to move around a lot like, Yeah, that's fine. We want to be comfortable and we want you to do a tan and that way you're not dressed like wow, getting

Brandon  40:23

the gym teacher treatment. Like everyone's getting yelled at professionally, like, you can just keep wearing your sweatpants.

Aaron  40:32

That's fine. We prefer that.

Collin  40:35

I guess I'll have to wear like, either like a pullover or like, polo or something. But um, like, the wear shorts. Yeah.

Aaron  40:47

And kind of so. Yeah, the first question I have my principal and he's like, do a short sound like, really? That's why you crying

Brandon  40:59

I keep my classroom too cold for wearing shorts anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Yeah.

Collin  41:02

Freeze them out. Jim.

Brandon  41:06

Tip down in the sixth grade classroom, buddy.

Collin  41:10

Yeah. You know,

Aaron  41:17

I got also we got in this week, all that stuff. Myself and then going to work out more like we've been going to this one thing, we got to live in a local gym here. And you know, all the reverse the athletes on all the high schools, I really could totally do this. And I'm like, I'm 31 I can't do this. Like, I'm extremely insane. I'm in a lot of pain right now.

Collin  41:46

I'm having fun. Nice, very busy indeed. Well, I Excuse me. Did I wonder I should have confirmed this before we got on the call about remembering what our calendar was that we're supposed to do for this week? Oh, yeah. Okay. Erin, did you remember what our challenge was this week? Nope. Okay. Sorry. We can delay till next week. Or we can ride with it. See how it goes? What do I do?

Aaron  42:33

I can I can do some researching while while you do this. So

Brandon  42:37

did you remember what it was just now? Okay, so Aaron art, our task was to just say what our favorite movie that had sharks in it was.

Collin  42:47

That's what we chose. Yeah,

Brandon  42:48

there's not Jaws very important here. Because like, as that's an important stipulation, because when you're talking about shark movies, like usually any list you see that's like, at the very top, if not the top, it's in the top, like five, you know, so I figure in order to make sure that we dissolve it and go, it's just, we should say.

Aaron  43:12

I mean, I already have three right that right now. So

Brandon  43:17

I have a just t shirt and hat lab. So well, we can just laughter we say our one we could talk about any other shark movies that are good, right? You know? We could we could keep going. Right? It doesn't have to be just one. Like, they just favorite shark movies. Right? Okay, hey, we should I should at least say I'm not going to speak for anybody else. But for me personally I does. It is just right. Because it's like really good. And it's like really suspenseful. And it kind of defined the genre. You know? It did. It's a very genre defining movie.

Collin  43:48

You know, the knees out of everything else. We're gonna say, hey, what? No, I'm

Brandon  43:53

saying now. I'm saying this for JAWS one only. Okay, like Jaws The Revenge. No,

Collin  44:00

no. Oh, no, they fall out.

Brandon  44:01

It's downhill. I think. By the time you get to what like, yeah, yeah, just just three is down there. Everything after the first one is just terrible. Yeah, so when we do our when we do our list of best movie series, at a later date and time, a movie that will movie franchise that will not be on that list is Jaws, right? Because the first one is good. It's like amazing. And the second one is like a pretty good movie. And the third one is like what on earth? Is this happening? Why then it is Quaid shows up like what the heck is going on why

Collin  44:38

things have gone off the rails? Very bad. So yeah, I have I have a secret that I'm gonna I'm gonna write down my answer right now for what Aaron's is. Okay, I like it. prediction. I have no idea what addiction pain To be okay. Okay, oh, I'm gonna make another prediction here, right then what?

Aaron  45:08

Documentary count? Or is it just has to be like pure movies,

Brandon  45:11

whatever. I was thinking about like cinema, cinema movies. Okay? Yes, we can mention

Collin  45:19

that documentaries after that'll be the bonus round. Okay. Yeah, for sure. So, um, but yeah, that's a little I'll say, I have a bit of a bit for air. I have no idea what brands let's put you in a corner in theory. Oh, who wants to lead us off? You can. Okay. Okay, so I? Well, I think before we do this, we have to define personally like, what a shark movie is? I don't think at first I don't think it is necessary, or important that the shark be at the center of like, villain hood? Or like, like, like, or like the main like, antagonist in in the movie? I don't think that is necessary. I think, unfortunately, when you type in shark movies, all the ones that come up are the pet the shark as like,

Brandon  46:23

that's, that's true, right? I think that the majority of them do fall into the category of like that. The what's it called in, in the literature when you do the man versus nature? Yeah, right. That man versus nature conflict. Right, where it's like, a man or person, whatever, against nature, or some kind of animal. Right? Where they're pitted against each other, not necessarily in like a It's not like a hero villain type of thing. It's usually some kind of like, survival, like one of them is going to be the only one to live at the end. Right? That's normally the way that this happens. Yeah. So it's like a very man versus nature. Very, like one on one.

Aaron  47:15

Right? Only

Brandon  47:16

only one will survive, right? It's like Battle Royale. Right? There's.

47:22

So that's, that's the normal

Collin  47:24

way.

Brandon  47:25

That do you think about this kind of conflict? Right? It's very man versus nature.

Collin  47:32

One is trying to just end the other one, you know, to whatever. Yeah. And that's, I think that's where most of these get pigeonholed. And if you scroll down through long list, that's pretty much all you will see. I'm either telling stories or whatever. And it's no different.

Brandon  47:54

I figured you were you always pull out some weird thing. You'd be like, my favorite movie is sharptail. Like,

Collin  48:01

oh, man, can we back up a second? You know, there were no movies with sharks that were done by the Muppets, or by like, 90s Darkwing Duck or anything like that. So bro. I, I play it straight this time. Because I actually do have one that I like, and I like it because it is probably it terrifies me. Because it's one of the movies. And I don't know what kind of genre of movies this is. But they take like, one one event of like, pretty normal everyday event event and then they track it to like its ultimate like, worst case scenario possible. Conclusion and outcome. Right?

Brandon  48:43

Oh, no. This is Collins worst nightmare. This is like what he thinks about.

Collin  48:47

Yes. So I am I am picking because it is fascinating to watch. It has some some rough spots around it. I actually really do like the movie open water from 2003 Oh, there we go.

Aaron  49:01

This is a survival. What Aaron got my way.

Collin  49:05

So this is a survival horror film. And it sets the precedent here. First off, this was bait for like $120,000 and that somebody bought it for 2.5 million. So it's like great return on investment here. But the premise here is a couple goes on dive excursion. Go do their dive, and they come up. Both gone. They are adrift at sea and now they they survive. And I like this because while yes, the sharks play a role in being terrifying and menacing. There's also the survival at sea now, right? There's exhaustion, there's hunger, there's dehydration, there's delusion stuff. There's all sorts of other things going on. And it's also a relational thing of like there's very much like oh, yes, husband and wife bickering about what the other did and why the other one is at fault for this kind of thing. And like having to overcome that. And ultimately, like, an idea, you know, no spoilers here blue spoiler Horner, right? Like, they come to this event and how it's both a mixture of like, yes, sharks, but they're not like, it's not just all about sharks, like it's very, it's survival horror. So it's very human centric about people arriving against the elements, which also does include sharks, who are trying to eat them, and then eventually do and bleeding out. It's just, I like how it's framed and putting people in that situation again of like, diving. And then like, what's the worst case scenario that could happen from this, like, stranded and sharks around and you must survive, and they don't. And that's another thing about this, like, that's what makes it so terrifying. Of it's not the like, oh, and the last minute they get saved, or whatever. It's like, no, that's not not what happens here. So it's, it is one of my, it's one of my, yeah, I'm gonna say favorite short film, because of the realism of it. And just how terrifying of a scenario it is where it's kind of one of those like, I can't like, it's painful to watch, because of just like, this is one of the things it's on my, like, horrified by lists. In the world, but how it's just like, every little thing, because even like, like, like, jellyfish play a role in this being stung, and like it's agonizing to them as they go through this. And then like, it's been like, there's the storm and it again, it's, the sharks do play a role. But there's so much else going on that lead to them succumbing to that, that. Because ultimately, you could say, well, you know, the biggest villain of this is like, just time and the ocean, right? It's not just the sharks, it's a bigger picture and slice than that. But they do play that role of, of being omnipresent. And you can imagine this set in a different scenario where you know, you're in the Rocky Mountains and the wolves are circling and growing closer and closer as your fire gets dimmer and dimmer, and are they going to survive the night or not? In that kind of battle that goes back and forth. So I it's a, it's a horrifying thing to watch and think about and contemplate, especially for somebody who loves scuba diving. I think it's, I think it's good. And I guess it's one of those, like, I can't look away, and it's also not like, again, the other thing that shark movies tend to do is like, they go either like ultra realism to Docker documentary level, they span all the way to the totally absurd, and I'm sure we'll talk about them along that spectrum, or we will this and this kind of falls like it's not a documentary and sure some of the things don't leave, like, I don't know if I would put it like, it kinda just kind of sits right in the middle there, for me at least and how I view these not necessarily as a shark biologist or anything like that, but just like, okay, like, this is believable for what's happening right now when you're in it. Um, so for that reason, I really liked them all. So I don't know if you guys seen that one.

Brandon  53:10

I think I did. Like when it came out, like a long time ago. Sure. That's early 2000s. Maybe

Collin  53:16

right. 2003

Aaron  53:19

tries. Yeah, yeah. And you see them. Yeah, I think it was kind of I never saw it in theaters. It was kind of one of those things on like, USA, or something like that. And like, Oh, what's this? And then I like the slow theater. prevenzione is like, the middle the ocean and the bottom. And you like, you know, something there but you can't be like, freaking out. So that was actually on my list.

Collin  53:47

Oh this choice? I'm surprised you played it straight. You always pick like

Brandon  53:58

the weirdest movie of all time. Like,

Collin  54:03

proud of you. Look at me next time here. Well, that's alright.

Brandon  54:10

I'll go next. I column would you write down for my pick? Oh,

Collin  54:14

oh, I didn't I didn't have Finding Nemo in the shops that are in there. No, I didn't. I didn't guess I don't have a guest for you. Because I don't know where you're coming from. So.

Brandon  54:24

Okay. So I am a person that likes the man versus nature movie, right? I like the vague. A lot of these are classes like Thriller Horror. You know, and this is probably the only type of horror that I like.

Collin  54:39

Because it's thank figures in

Brandon  54:43

so many different directions. You know, it's like a survival How are you struggling to survive in the face of like, near insurmountable odds. But it's a natural threat, right? So it's a little more interesting. So my pick is 26 teens, the shallows.

Collin  55:02

Okay, AEI

Brandon  55:05

starring Blake Lively.

Collin  55:07

And a shark.

Brandon  55:09

That's basically it. Right? Okay. So this movie is kind of cool because it's like, it's kind of like Colin was saying, like, it's pretty much

Collin  55:19

just like this, the most

Brandon  55:21

even to this movie could like actually happen to you. Right? It's pretty straightforward. The end is a little bit like, whatever, but like, for the most part, the shark in this movie is just doing like Shark things. Right? It's not necessarily like, evil monster that's like, just gonna, like eat everybody like Jaws is you know, because Jaws is like, even though I do love that movie a lot. It's pretty over the top and like,

Collin  55:49

the shark is the bad guy. Right?

Brandon  55:53

In this movie, the majority of it is just like

Collin  55:56

it's a shark do in Shark stuff. You know,

Brandon  56:00

the the basically the plot is ladies out surfing alone

Collin  56:04

by herself on a secluded beach. So step number one, don't

Brandon  56:08

do that. Number two, she's like, out there surfing. And like basically it kind of transpires that it's it's kind of low tide, tides going out surfers wrap it up, but there's a whale carcass. That's like right there. Right, just off the shore. And we all know where there's whale carcasses there sharks. kablam. So this shark has, like, come up to the whale carcass. And as I guess it's probably eating the whale carcass. It also decides, hey, I should eat this surfer person, right? So it attacks the surfer person. So tax blink lately. Oh, no. They're gonna miss Nancy. And it's when we remember correctly. Yeah. So she's like, stranded on this rock. Right? She gets out of the water from this attack the shark like attacks are on your surfboard. She gets out of the water. She's on this like rock that's kind of out in the ocean.

Collin  57:07

At low tide. Right.

Brandon  57:11

And that's in the shark is kind of swimming around between her and the whale carcass and needed, right. So it's just kind of in the area the whole time. But it's all riled up,

Collin  57:19

because it's eating whale huggers. And she's just stuck on the rock. And it's like,

Brandon  57:28

the main conflict of the movie is basically like, Okay, I'm injured. I'm on this rock. Shore is 200 yards away. But there's a big giant shark in the water. That's hungry. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, and I kept saying that it's like low tide. So throughout the course of the movie, the tide comes back in. And she's slowly running out of rock. Right? So they handle that part, kind of interestingly, it's kind of interesting little twist, they put on it there to like, make it that time and time sensitive, right? gotta figure out a plan.

Collin  58:04

I think you have left out. My Vague Memory of this is that there's a very important character they think you've left out which is the Steven Segal. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

Brandon  58:22

makes friends with a seagull.

Collin  58:26

I mean, come on.

Brandon  58:30

He does play an important role cuz she like, she has her surf GoPro with her. So she's like, Well, I'm gonna die. So like, she likes video records a message to herself or to her sister. Right? And then she like attaches it to Steven Segal and he like goes away towards this other than the seagull. Okay, that's basically the only characters there is another random like, there's the dude that brings her to the beach. Right whenever her sister but the majority the movie is like gladly. unrack with a seat. Yeah, so it's pretty good, right? It's pretty believable. For the most part. The end. The end is a little bit like, okay, whatever. But like, it's a little overplayed for dramatic effect. Right. But like, the final confrontation between her and shark is a little bit like that's why when you're watching it for the first time you still are like, right, so it's all good. I really liked that movie. I remember we watch that in the theater. We came out really good movie theater. Right? It's really, really please get on the big screen. Yeah, but it's pretty good, right? It's nice, simple, straightforward, stripped down story.

Collin  59:46

It's pretty, it's pretty good. I

Brandon  59:47

like that one a lot. So my pick is the shallows.

Collin  59:52

1616 Okay. Like Aaron,

Brandon  59:57

what is the movie that you like the house tracks in it?

Collin  1:00:00

I kind of figured out what I want to start with first. I want to I don't want Collin to win me so I'm going to go a different direction this movie is not very good. I just want to make that very clear. But um but one thing about walking out when

Brandon  1:00:26

I was younger remember these are movies that you like yes

1:00:30

I do like it. I hate this

Aaron  1:00:32

like it's not like the cinematography fantastic. It's just it's weird because when I when we were younger, going to waterpark

Collin  1:00:45

kind of terrified me. Because it was like

Aaron  1:00:53

I can't see the bottom. Maybe a little like, what if there's a shark in it? And when I've watched this movie, although yes it is the older it pours down into me like all my fears are they all child's come true? I'm talking about job three and what's your face running around in a water park? Where there's a shark on the loose? Like just by terrified me. And so I would like I was sitting watch this movie. Like y'all man leggings is waterpark, you know, but the other animals and they were both and so like, having my like fears, like on screen. Fear. And so and then I got older, like wow. Oh, it's coming through the dining room, the dining room scene where there's often they're like eating like dinner or something. And there's like a fish tank. You just see this like really poorly animated art coming through and it crashes through the glass and then we're flooding the shark. To me, that was kind of the rail like fear of sharks, is like it's a it's a body of water. It could be anywhere. I felt like Dennis Quaid and so the night theme where they're gonna go through and like, fingers was like feel like a little light in things. Like maybe the shark kinky here like that was also another thing that terrified me because it dove at night with a shark. Yeah, so poor for animation was not anywhere close budget wise, or popularity wise as the older movie, but I can't because it was one of those movies or like, like low budget like, oh, man, this could be like a real thing. So that's that's job three for me.

Brandon  1:02:59

All right.

Collin  1:03:01

Shocker. I did not write

Aaron  1:03:02

I will I will wait to read off my entire list.

Collin  1:03:07

Later. Oh, dear. Yeah. Well, yeah. Anyway. Well, I hear well, I actually I didn't prepare a second one. So I just had one.

Brandon  1:03:31

I have I have. I will I have to say if I did not say this.

Collin  1:03:38

I'm going to get

Brandon  1:03:39

beat up by my wife later. Not really just joking. But like, Susan's favorite shark movie. I have a bonus. I have the Susan favorite shark movie of all time.

Collin  1:03:50

Is it? 2017 trailer park shark?

Brandon  1:03:53

No. Okay. That sounds hilarious, though. Yep. Gotta love those Sci Fi Channel original shark movies. Yes. I have talked about those before on here. Ozark Shark. Shark tapas.

Collin  1:04:06

Yep. All those good.

Brandon  1:04:07

More on those in a minute. Sorry. Anyway. I feel like we should close with those because that goes into the utter absurdity. But Susan's favorite cat shark movie bonus is of course, the 1999 sci fi great, deep blue sea. She loves this movie very much. It's her favorite anytime it's on TV. She's like watching it. Right now. There's a few movies on.

Aaron  1:04:38

I've gone out of my way just to find it on Netflix and watch it twice in one weekend.

Brandon  1:04:43

Yeah, there's there's a couple of movies with her that like she's a big fan of this like disaster kind of movie thing. Right? So like, if there are certain movies if they're on TV or watching them? Yeah, and that's it doesn't really matter. That's all we're doing. Right? That's that's We're traveling, but she loves Deep Blue Sea of Lot. So if you don't know de Lucia is basically the premise listeners is there's this like underwater research facility for some reason. And they're doing

Collin  1:05:18

tests to

Brandon  1:05:19

fight Alzheimer's disease on like, genetically engineered sharks. And the sharks like, become in super intelligent or something and they start, like, destroying the facility and escaping and eating everybody and they all have to escape and LL Cool. J is here with a parent. Right? So Samuel Jackson is there too. So? Yeah, that's the incredibly vanilla Kool G Rap Song. That's important news. But the movies like, if you'd like those movie, like, it's not like, it's not the on the serious end of the spectrum, right? It is not an open water. It's kind of more towards the other end where it's just like, is about it is still about survival. It is about escape. Right from this situation. But the sharks in this movie are much more like, monstrous in that their their goal is to eat you

Collin  1:06:23

only like cutting and the villain with like, a plot in the

Aaron  1:06:30

Yes, like, yes. So they're it's kind of like, Jurassic shark. Right? It's

Brandon  1:06:35

like, they're their goal is to eat you. So that's what they although. Hey, man, Jurassic shark. That's there's a movie idea right there.

Collin  1:06:46

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is already taken. It is.

Brandon  1:06:50

I mean, probably my personnel

1:06:53

better shark.

Brandon  1:06:56

Someone hadn't made that I'd be upset. But oh,

Collin  1:06:59

that knows like,

Brandon  1:07:00

Oh my God. Yeah. But yeah, that's her favorite movie. She loves Overwatch. She likes the action he bids, right. There's very, like, it's kind of that good. It's like classic like Hollywood, like over the top, like, set pieces. It is a lot of practical effects. This is 1999. So like, it is all the actors like swimming around in this like crazy water. So like, on that level? This movie is super impressive. Right? Yeah, this set design in this movie. And like the effects like the real effects are, are pretty great. Right? And I think that really adds a lot to the feeling of like, Oh, wow. And like the emotions you get in the movie like, Oh, crap, that's crazy. That person is bad to get eaten. Because it is all practically done. So I think that really adds in, it makes that aspect of the movie actually really good. Because the set is really big. And it's like this big, weird, really elaborate, underwater research facility. You know, I mean, there's sharks, I guess the movie should be in the water, I guess I don't know. But like,

Collin  1:08:08

it's all really cool. So that

Brandon  1:08:11

all the set design, all the practical effects, all the water areas, they're all like, parts of the stuffs are collapsing, and they're closing off the tunnel. So they're like swimming through all this stuff. It's actually really cool. That part is really impressive. So there we go. That's about another movie I want to mention is the bonus. Susan favorite. Deeply see.

Collin  1:08:31

Oh, okay. Yeah. Boom. Well, Aaron, did you have other lists on your list that you wanted to get to before we go into the absurd side of things or the rest of your list of

Aaron  1:08:48

mine? Sorry. pretty absurd.

Brandon  1:08:51

Just read some names of others that you like, personally, that you like, so

Aaron  1:08:55

deep blue sea, obviously. I've only watched it once, but it's called the USS Indianapolis. About the ship and world war two there. Yeah, so

Brandon  1:09:07

that's a true story,

Collin  1:09:08

though. That's crazy. That that's the one I wrote down when I because I was like, that's, like, screams Aaron. It's history. And we're talking about sharks. In naval. Yeah, so that's moving boy, guys. Um, yeah, that movie

Aaron  1:09:30

is I've only seen it twice. I didn't I wasn't gonna like it the first time. But as I kind of like understood, like, went back and like read it, you know, understood like, oh, this actually like, was answering use as a necklace. Josh's three, my personal favorite just because you guys said no job at first um, I put by who loved me. And I think that was

Brandon  1:09:58

that was one of my all time

Aaron  1:10:00

My favorite characters in the James Bond period was playing his game

Brandon  1:10:06

on Nintendo. There we go. I mean

Aaron  1:10:08

email. Bruce. Great white shark was one of my all time favorites because it was like, like, oh man, here's like a super cool like, with uncharged things like this are friends not food. And then like, oh, wonder water. What happened? Rampage?

Collin  1:10:29

Three sharks, obviously, ah street

Brandon  1:10:32

sharks. There we go.

Aaron  1:10:35

One one movie that I know I've watched one because I thought it was gonna be like one of those like weird cheesy movies called Soul Surfer. It's about the girl that lost her arm and she was scared to go back out surfing. The two went back out. And then Sharkboy and Lavagirl as the reason I think it was it was all the stuff I had on my list. So there we

Collin  1:11:02

go. Yeah. Off the absurd list pretty fast. I think that's why, why do you think absurdity just like follows shark movies? Why is it Why is it a chum in the water? For the ad shark to just anything? And make it just insane? Yeah, I don't know. I think that tends

Brandon  1:11:25

to happen with a lot of animal movies like demand versus nature that ended up being like animal based. But you're right, there is something about sharks that like it veers real hard into like,

Aaron  1:11:39

crazy town. I think a lot of it comes from people, you know, fear of kind of like the ocean, you know, because there's a lot of people that are like, the and I think a shark is just one of those easy animals where you don't really have to like mentalize it because it's been around for so long that it's just like, for 1000s of years, people have been scared of shark behavior, and all that stuff. They don't really have to do a whole lot do it. The app was pretty easy as I go ocean, boom, shark.

Brandon  1:12:13

I mean, that's true. It is just a giant torpedo with massive teeth. Right? So

Collin  1:12:16

it's not like I think

Brandon  1:12:19

that's all I'm saying, I think you're onto something because like, it's not, it's not like there, you have, you don't have to do a lot of work to make people afraid of a shark. Right. And a large number of people already are irrational, you're not that has nothing to do with it. They are right. And they are just like giant.

Collin  1:12:37

I mean, if you look at a shark, you just like, ah, that is

Brandon  1:12:41

kinda scary looking. Right? It's like a bag, especially like, most of these are great whites, obviously, right? Because that's the big boy. But like, there's other ones show up in that movies, too. But like, these big sharks, they're humongous, right? Like, nothing really prepares you for seeing something that's like 17 feet long and full of massive teeth is just going to eat you. You know, I mean, like, which adds, it's not really a big step for somebody to be afraid of that

Collin  1:13:12

we have to make sense of, it's already terrifying. Why do you have to make it into a tornado? Like,

Brandon  1:13:18

that's true. I feel like I feel like the reason is like, it is a good starting place, the shark movie, but then you end up with a large number of movies that are the same. And so then you then you sort of diverge into the Sci Fi Channel Original Movie of like,

Collin  1:13:39

mosaic shark, right? You get these bizarre things, you know, and let's be real. You don't have to

Brandon  1:13:52

have a lot of special effects for shark movie, because a lot of the time you don't see it.

Collin  1:13:57

Right? Josh's prove this to us. You know,

Brandon  1:14:00

like a lot of a lot of the movie is like, the dread of it being there, but not seeing it. You know what I mean? So like, then, all of a sudden, like you don't, you don't have to have a big, like, a super big budget to get a shark because like a majority of the time you don't have to look at it. Right? You just see you know, it's there. You see some like ah, but like,

Aaron  1:14:23

and then the debt, you know, so that could be another reason. I think another reason like this was a movie that came out with the last report called The mag which talks about the Megalodon and it's like, Oh man, this leads to think like oh, is it and I think people's fascination with sharks. But you know, besides the fear the fascination is you know, Shark Week, although it Yes, it has dipped in the past few years. Dark whiskey is still moderately popular.

Brandon  1:14:56

This week. This year was really good. Actually the shows on a dish They were super good.

Aaron  1:15:01

With, you know, Michael Phelps racing a great white shark, like, come on.

Brandon  1:15:06

There was none of that. Well, there was, you know, there was one exception, but other than that, it was

Aaron  1:15:11

like, it is still pretty popular. And people are still fascinated, because, you know, we don't really understand that much about the ocean. You know, we only know like, what, all percentile or percentage of it. Yeah. And people always like, oh, man, like, Is this really the thing? And so like, seeing that on screen, I think is kind of huge for people, because it plays that fascination. And then there's that fear of like, the next time you go out to the ocean, what will you see? Oh, that's just how I feel because I'm crazy. And I pick John's theory as the number one movie. So I don't really get to much today. But I think a lot of that stuff plays into a lot of that, you know, oh, when, you know, when I was younger, I watched shark jaws, which was based off of the true events of what was I knew from New Jersey, New York.

Brandon  1:16:07

1916, something like that. And I remember Yeah. And

Aaron  1:16:11

then like, just like, it's always gonna be in the back of your head. Like, what just happened to me is there's gonna be a thing here. I think it just plays on generations of like, you know, that movie Jaws like scary and like, Oh, silly sharks. And you're like,

Collin  1:16:29

Yeah, I

Brandon  1:16:30

have I have a memory. Right. I talked to I remember mom talking about this once. A long time ago. She said that they lived on the lake, right? And so she saw jobs in the movie theaters, with Barb, obviously, probably Cindy, too, let's be real. And she said at all after that, forever, like she'd be out of the lake. She'd be on her floaty with her legs dangle in the water. And then all of a sudden, she just put her feet up. Right, like right, you know, and it's like, that's 100% irrational, because it's a lake in the middle of Illinois. So like, that's silly. But Aaron's onto something right there. There's this like,

Collin  1:17:15

this, like phobia slash fascination with the shark,

Brandon  1:17:21

right, because it is a big, giant, scary thing. But it's also super stinking awesome. Right. There's so cool. Right. So I think that balance is just what makes it makes people like this movies. You know?

Collin  1:17:37

I think it's a big part of it. Yeah, I agree. I think it is the realism. It is a very, very, very primal fear, where you get an immediate reaction to it, that you can't not react to, in certain situations. I feel like yeah, because it is so basal. That, then I think what's important is, how does the movie play on that? Does it throw them in, in a tornado? Or does it keep them in a believable because again, it is scary enough to be in deep water and not know what's underneath you? And then to have a thought of a shark immediately? It doesn't matter? Like I'm sure even some experienced divers still go? Yeah, it's still just a quick, they have to calm down. Like it just to get into that mindset. But it's it i That's what kind of separates those good movies from the

Brandon  1:18:35

more outlandish ones is, what it does with that fear, and how it how it interacts with. Yeah, and I think there's a, you know, there's a, even if you are an experienced diver, right, there's this thing that's like, you're like, oh, yeah, I've dived with sharks, a whole bunch. I've done this all the time.

Collin  1:18:55

But it only takes one time. You know what I mean? And I'd

Brandon  1:19:00

like for it to go wrong. You know what I mean? There's, there was a show on Shark Week this week. It was actually really or this this year. I mean, it's actually really good. It was about this guy whose name I can't remember now. This is gonna make it bad. But he was that guy, right? He died of sharks a whole bunch and whatever. And then he like, he was out this one time and he was in the face, like clear plexiglass thing, like observing shark behavior or whatever. And the shark just nailed him. Right. It just came right up. It just blasted right through the Plexiglas and didn't really hurt him. But it like emotionally was it was not good. Yeah, I mean, oh, because his confidence like gone. Oh, I've

Collin  1:19:39

I've seen the light of the underwater GoPro of they're, they're filming some guy and then the shark comes up behind him and he just catches a glimpse into out of his out of the corner of his eye and you see this like the whole body just freaks out. Yeah. tries to pull away it's instinctual. Yeah,

Brandon  1:19:57

because like your experience is like whatever but like If there's still that thing in your brain that's going run, right?

Aaron  1:20:05

Yeah. Go ahead here. Oh, there's a video. I think I put it in the family act like a long time ago. But if I if the camera guy, there's a guy that's going in front of them, like he's on like the bottom can't be like five feet by them, and all sudden a Great White just comes up and like nudges his head and turns away and like it comes out of nowhere. Yeah. And that like, like, oh man, like, I've been doing this for so long. And then just like, how could you miss that? Like, where did it come from? Yeah. And just just the raw. I think another big thing that scares people is just like, how, number one how big they are? And how like, strong they are. And like, just one bite? Yeah. And that terrifies me. So,

Brandon  1:20:51

and we don't understand a lot of stuff about their behavior. Like we don't know why they do the things they do.

Collin  1:20:55

You know, like, a lot of

Brandon  1:20:58

that's one thing that Chuck we touched on this year, a lot was like some sometimes it is like, like when when a shark quote unquote, attacks a person. It's like, Miss identification, right? They thought you might be edible. And it turns out, you're not. Oh, no. And other times when a shark quote unquote, attacks a person, it's, it's a shark saying, Get the heck away from me. I don't know what you are. And I don't want you here. You know what I mean? And the only way they can do that is with its mouth.

Collin  1:21:31

Like, you know, when they go ahead, that kind of to you like that dog will do a corrective nip against you. But whenever that is the it's the size of a, you know, a bus. It's like, oh, yeah, that's gonna out. Yeah,

Brandon  1:21:47

it's gonna hurt a lot more. You know that because they have some of that behavior where it's like, sometimes they like nudge the surfboard. Yeah. And then they come back and bite it. Like, the nudge was the, hey, you need to leave. And then when you didn't leave, it's the next step is caught because like, they when they do that to other sharks. That's what they're telling them. Get. This is my turf, get out of here. But it's a much more aggressive

Aaron  1:22:14

bite, right? It's like a biome.

Brandon  1:22:16

Like, I'm not messing around here. But it's like the dog would it like bites at you like, Nope, this is my spot. Don't Don't be coming over here. I wonder like bites and another dog, you know, the guy better. But when, like you said, when it's a bus size, like a mini bus. This is not going to end well for anybody on the receiving end of that.

Collin  1:22:35

Yeah, and then what would be a

Brandon  1:22:37

pretty like, because to another shark? That's pretty messed up by it and it's gonna hurt but like to anything else? Dead. Right? Through. It's treating you like another shark and another shark can kind of handle it. Right? It might not. It'll be a big scar on it. But it's not going to die. For the most part the can but like, if it's real serious. But if it doesn't take you, it's over for you, man. Like, sorry. Like I think that's probably the thing that makes people afraid. They don't understand what the shark is doing. And it's not just people it's like, nobody knows. Me. It's like a mystery. Like sharks are very mysterious because they like Aaron said they're in the ocean. The ocean is this kind of like mysterious, great unknown area. You know? Because not only is it vast we forget it's deep. Right? There's a lot. There's a lot of area for things to be happening that we don't know about what's going on. So it's it's this very, like mysterious thing where it's hidden Miss mysteriousness is afraid, right. So I think that really, it's just like the perfect animal to trigger that response in people. And to put it in a movie. You know, I mean, so like, whereas other animals like lions, do it too. You know, like, if you see ghosts in the darkness, right? The other terrifying Yeah, yeah. Crocodiles. Other things that will eat you. Yeah. Shark has an extra mystery factor about it. Yeah, the environmental stuff. Yeah. The environment that it lives in. That is like, the environment that it lives in is not welcoming for us. Just in general. Right. Like, we're not supposed to be there. Like, we don't thrive in the environment. We can be in it, but like, we can't, like, thrive there. Yeah. And it's like

Collin  1:24:31

the fish, right, like? Yeah, that's a good point, too, is most of those movies also have the added element of the environment like the lions, those are typically in movies, like not terrifying until like, nighttime, or like, yeah, in when you are treated or lost, or with crocodiles. It's backed by us with murky water at nighttime with other circumstances going around. Yeah. It's putting people into a totally unfamiliar on their turf scenario where that fear really does ramp up. Yeah, and the water is just like,

Brandon  1:25:12

a big place for humans because, you know, it's not the natural environment of the human. You know what I mean? Like, it's thing we need, it's important to us. We don't live there. Very well. Hardly, you know, so like,

Collin  1:25:28

not our natural habitat as it were. So I get to the point. Yeah, I know. That's agree. So we got openwater shallows s3 and bonus many others from the Susan coming in here with deep Lucy threw

Brandon  1:25:49

out, we gotta we gotta we gotta touch on it because colin has been dancing around the subject of, of the cheesy shark movie. Oh, man. Back,

Collin  1:25:58

we got to mention it, we have to, we have to at least say it. I'm not going to link to it. Because nobody wants to do that back to the routine. Some campy came out. And I don't know what was in the water, almost 1010 years ago at this point, but the world was ready for tornadoes and sharks to just explode onto the scene was, I think it was just the complete and total absurdity of it. I also think I think it is, it was it was also kind of like, how easy the, the meme of occation of it, like really helped it spread, because everybody used terms of that, because it was so cheesy and campy of like, like, the Weather Channel was using it. You know, note, all sorts of institutions, and people were able to play off that to make it a thing. And it's just it really did just cemented itself in the minds of people like that. Movies That kind of bring everybody together. So they have a cultural impact for that. And unlike other trash movies, and TV shows and things like that, but I really think it was just the total and utter absurdity of the entire thing that made people go Havlat

Brandon  1:27:14

Well, I think the other thing about it is

Collin  1:27:18

like, it knew it

Brandon  1:27:20

was absurd. Yeah. Right. It was very self aware. So Sharknado is not as it's not like when some of these movies that are bad, they take themselves seriously. And it makes a movie, like kind of not fun to watch. Because like, you know, it's bad. And you're kind of watching it in it, like so bad. It's good. But like the movie thinks it's serious. I mean, Shark net and zero point. Did Sharknado ever take itself? Seriously, it was very self deprecating, right? Tired of the, especially in the way there's six of these movies. So there's in the five

1:27:56

sequels.

Brandon  1:27:58

It got more and more and more, like,

Collin  1:28:01

silly.

Brandon  1:28:03

Right? And it really played into the silliness with all the cameos like people would just be in the movie to get eaten by a shark. Right? Oh, yeah. Like, like, there's like others Osborn got eaten by a shark, right? That was just in Cameo because it was silly, right? Like people that you hadn't thought about in years, like all of a sudden, here's Bret Michaels. Like what are you doing here? Bret Michaels? What,

1:28:25

what?

Collin  1:28:27

Why take could take part of that, that meme for a little bit and be part of that cultural moment.

Brandon  1:28:34

They're on their show. And I think but the thing that makes it hilarious is like, you know, you know, when you're watching the movie,

1:28:42

and you go like, Oh, man, you know, it'd

Brandon  1:28:44

be hilarious if this happened. Like Sharknado was just that

Collin  1:28:49

the entire time, right? Like

Brandon  1:28:50

the dude wouldn't be funny if they did this.

Collin  1:28:55

And then like, they just do that.

Brandon  1:28:57

That thing that you made up in your head? That would be like super silly, right? They just do that the whole that's the whole movie. The whole premise. Yeah. And they really like played into it they played into the pop cultural aspect but the next one's like you know the names of the movies like all that stuff like it's just

Collin  1:29:17

silly Well, I think that to have because they were so cheaply produced rushed through it could kind of feed on itself for a while of like, Yeah, cuz

Brandon  1:29:29

they they came there was like when they were like, one a year. Yeah,

Collin  1:29:32

yeah. Where it's just like, they were able to very much in real time almost like a TV show. play into what was going on. And keep that going of like, the more absurd feeding off that and you never quite got to the point where you I think, for a while these people weren't able to wake up from the on the binge that they were out of the movies and go okay, this is actually this isn't actually good. admit that Yeah, but it was feeding into it.

Brandon  1:30:03

It's one of those things where it's not good. But it is kind of fun to watch. Right? Like, you just it's silly, fun movie if you if you just want to like sit on the couch on the weekend eat popcorn. This is the movie. Oh, yeah. Right. This is it's silly. You can laugh at all the jokes you can be like, Who's that person that I think I should know. You're like furiously googling Who the heck was in this movie to be like, because what happened last time we watched it right? There will be a person that movie. Like, I feel like I'm supposed to know who that was. And I don't like Who was that? He was, oh my gosh, that's this person from Baywatch. Or that's this whatever. Like,

Collin  1:30:41

you know, it's just, it's very, like, all that stuff

Brandon  1:30:45

is like it makes it interactive. You're like thinking about it? Because it is camp? Because it is silly. Because it is self aware.

Collin  1:30:52

Right. You know that. Tara Reid being a robot doesn't make any sense. What she is, so like, whatever. I don't know that.

Brandon  1:31:06

Gary Busey shows up at one point out, remember, like, whatever. Like, it's just a whole bunch silliness. But it's like, fun to watch silliness. You know, it's definitely so bad. It's

Collin  1:31:17

good. You know, like, the running gag

Brandon  1:31:21

of the today show just like reporting on the weather. Right? It's just like Al Roker. Exactly. Yeah. Playing Al Roker. Like, what? What is happening?

Collin  1:31:31

Really made? Yeah, it made it part of just like, oh, it's again. The it made it part of the culture at that point. Right. And yeah, that is I think that like you said, like, that is part of what made it so successful. And they were able to defeat it that I think again, but it then then other people tried to write to do that. And they just ended up making, because they didn't have the societal, the culture aspect and the tie in to what was going on. The other movies, they were just ridiculous, and they weren't fun, as you keep saying like they weren't. They didn't have the wherewithal themselves that does not lead to less serious. People may make parodies. But I think that's different than Yeah.

Brandon  1:32:19

Yeah, I think you're right, because this isn't the parody of a shark movie. Right? Right. That would be something really weird, but like, this is just some sort of really bizarre, very self aware. Movie meme, right? Like what it is like, it's like, it's so strange. But it's so like, hilarious. Like, even though I've watched it, and I go, like, I objectively know, in my brain like, This is bad. It's still like really fun to watch. It's just like a good time, right? Like it's just silliness. Right? It's just silliness on a movie. So that can be good to be the movie silly in the movie knows it's silly. That's important. If it knows it, and it leans into it, that can make at least an enjoyable experience anyway.

Collin  1:33:16

So watch our list. Don't watch anything else other than what's on your list, and you'll enjoy getting

Brandon  1:33:27

let us know your favorite movies featuring sharks that we did not mention listeners. So let us know what we missed. Let us know if there's ones because maybe we maybe there's better ones that we haven't seen. Let us know.

Collin  1:33:45

And we'll look forward to hear that. Love you guys. Bye bye.