train life

Aaron loves card tables (from the 1970s). Collin loves trains. Brandon loves Batman.

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SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin Funkhouser, Aaron

Collin Funkhouser  00:00

Oh hi. Oh, hi. Working. It's fine.

Brandon  00:09

The button has been pushed. Look at that.

Collin Funkhouser  00:10

Oh look, things are going fine. We're all on. It's fine. We're all it's all good. We're all good how's it going?

Aaron  00:24

Good. How are you guys doing?

Collin Funkhouser  00:25

Good what's what's new? Oh?

Aaron  00:30

Not a whole lot. This is probably the first free weekend I've had in a long time to actually do anything and conversate

00:39

What was that word?

Aaron  00:40

conversate

Collin Funkhouser  00:42

No, I don't know that waiting all the

Brandon  00:43

all the kids are using it. What are you doing?

Aaron  00:45

federal actions at the same time. No baseball seasons getting started. I spend a good chunk of yesterday getting schedules made practice schedules made workouts made. Thankfully, it's been cold so I haven't had to spend too much time working on the field. And that's been practically my whole life for for since softball. But yeah, that's what we got going on.

Collin Funkhouser  01:12

Oh, good. We have We are recording in person too. So that's exciting. I think. Yeah, it's an awkward table with one few too many mics. But few. Last two. Yeah. Last mics.

Brandon  01:28

Not enough. That's That's how math works. Okay.

Aaron  01:34

The childhood table that we grew up eating Thanksgiving on and it's true fold out folding up table. So Scott's got some history got some miles on it. I mean,

Brandon  01:43

you know, card tables from the 70s are just where it's at. Really? I feel like they're under appreciated format. Just need to show more love to 70s car tables, right? That's that's the vibe here.

Aaron  01:55

When I whenever I go somewhere and they're like, Hey, go go get the kids table. I automatically think of a slight brown

Collin Funkhouser  02:02

square foot were folding table

Aaron  02:04

from the 1970s

Brandon  02:05

Are they still making you sit at the kids table? That's a little rude. I

Aaron  02:08

feel like I'm just saying just in general. Is there a kid's table somewhere like this is my first thought we could be at a fancy dinner. We could be at a you know, a banquet or something. And it's like, oh, the kids tables over there and I'm like, is it round and

Collin Funkhouser  02:22

kids tables must be squared all times. Otherwise, that's true. With a weird top on it. Faux Leather like it's a soft top but like well, man this is great fully work milking shrew. It's really loud.

Brandon  02:42

I'm holding this so that I can I am the boom right now.

Aaron  02:47

I have the boom

Collin Funkhouser  02:53

Oh, man. Well, yeah, I mean, it's been it's been a lot been snows coming. So we're gonna get some fun weather allegedly.

Brandon  03:00

So hold on, we gotta wait till it's actually falling.

Collin Funkhouser  03:09

Right? It's actually sticking to because otherwise it doesn't.

Brandon  03:14

Doesn't count. It's true. Because technically it snowed yesterday then. It

Collin Funkhouser  03:17

didn't Well, it stuck. So

Brandon  03:19

a little bit. Much to the delight of Susan. She was very enthusiastic. She

Collin Funkhouser  03:24

did not stop grinning the entire time.

Brandon  03:26

She also didn't want to come inside. I was like, we have to go in it's called she's like, No, it's so pretty like Well, hold on. It's actually freezing now. All right, my ears are falling off.

Collin Funkhouser  03:37

The snow is blowing so hard right now. It's not okay. Oh, yeah. So we survived that and off off to to new things. But yeah, we we went out another I told you we wanted another train ride. I showed you those pictures. Yeah. So it's firmly firmly getting better at train life. So it's it's it's very important now. I think it's becoming our second trip it's very integral to us and how we operate as I see bright futures for us

Brandon  04:12

the trip to Kansas City by train integral functioning society rarely

Aaron  04:19

ever seen anyone so excited since the 1980s when trains were on the railroad

Collin Funkhouser  04:27

definitely not part of my personality to do one thing one time and be like, this defines me forever.

Brandon  04:36

This is how I am now forever and all

Aaron  04:41

known as a train guy. Kind of thing. No, no if you know what this picture is when you see you have like kids will look at you know a list of these things and define the rest of the life ones like a medieval knight one's like a dinosaur one's like a train. Right now,

04:58

this week. A

Collin Funkhouser  05:00

dinosaur last week.

Brandon  05:04

Aaron wait till he finds out about Dinosaur Train.

05:12

Witness

Aaron  05:17

Oh, have you gotten to the point where you can identify trains? No,

Collin Funkhouser  05:20

I'm not one of those. Train spotter? No, I'm not a train spotter at all. So out

Brandon  05:27

there with his camera, right, spotting them. I

Collin Funkhouser  05:31

feel like that's a it's more of a European thing more of a British thing or is it a European?

Brandon  05:36

Yes, I Yeah. There's

Aaron  05:38

some people on social media that all their pages that they post are all trains like, oh, I this train is coming. It's this model. And I love and then like shows like they were recording action of them seeing it for the first time. There's no moderate ones. I go, Hey, there's this train. But then there's like the train spotters to go I can't believe that there's trains coming in. And then drives by like, that was amazing. Yeah.

Collin Funkhouser  06:02

There's a guy on YouTube. I know that is the British guy that's just like, Oh, and here's the here's the train come Have you seen

Brandon  06:09

this very British thing to do? You know. So all of my exposure with YouTube train spotters. They, some of them cross over nicely to train hopping videos. Oh, which I've talked about before. So a couple of them are like, they're like, into trains. They're like, Oh, that's really cool. It's this kind of bloke or whatever. And then they like sneak ride on a freight train and are and are like going across Germany illegally. You know, there's that that's the crossover that I have.

Aaron  06:46

Yeah, I had to do a quick quick YouTube search. His name was Francis Borgess is that British guy but like the camera work that he has. He has a GoPro like attached, pointed at his face. And it catches like his reaction when he does it. Yeah. So

Collin Funkhouser  07:02

yeah, yes. You see you don't really sometimes some of his early ones you don't see the train coming in. You just see his like really excited face. Yeah. And him describing the train and then later, he'll edit the train coming in. Oh,

Brandon  07:14

yeah. I feel like it's better if there's an actual train in the picture. Like, other train enthusiast can see it too. Right and hog the train to yourself, guy come on.

Collin Funkhouser  07:28

No, no, yeah, we did the train. And that was our highlight for this week. I think really, really it was they have a it was really full on the train. The guy said they had almost 200 people riding it. So they're almost at capacity. So it's a bit kind of interesting to see. But it was it was the weekend between it was the weekend before New Year's so they're a bunch of people moving hither to the Radeon apparently by train so

Brandon  07:59

all our European friends are also laughing at you like 200 people on a train yeah amateur get out I don't

Aaron  08:05

have the have you looked up the Polar Express with the kids did that this year not the amazing documentary The movie about like the actual like narrated

Brandon  08:15

by Tom Hanks narrated

Aaron  08:19

by Tom storyboarded Santa alzolay by topic

Brandon  08:23

but there are spoilers for Polar Express Wow. But

Aaron  08:27

there was there was a hole there I have a few people on Facebook that like that was like the highlight of Christmas but like tickets are super expensive. It's very like It's like hard to get like like you're on like a waitlist.

Collin Funkhouser  08:38

Well, they did they do one. I don't know if it's the Polar Express but the Amtrak firehouse does one but just between two towns. Yeah. That's kind of a thing where Santa comes on and go ride but yeah, it was a short very short version. Yeah, yeah. We don't go all the way to the North Pole with this one. It's just that's just do that. Gosh, that movie is so so that I use this a lot more frequently than I probably should because it kind of cheapens the meaning of it. But like, what a fever dream that movie was when especially when they're drifting the train on ice. Flaming again, spoilers for movie refused.

Brandon  09:17

I just want to talk about for a second here, Colin. Colin, do you like the movie Polar Express? i Oh, yeah. Here's Collins inconsistency, right. Colin? complains in moans and cries that The Hobbit is split into three movies. I'm gonna complain and moan and cry. The Polar Express is an hour and a half log book is 12 pages long. Right? And it's mostly pictures. And then we'd have an hour and a half movie of weird CGI Tom Hanks playing every character, like some sort of like Eddie Murphy. Yeah. Or Yeah, whatever that very playing everybody. Oh, yeah, Tom Hanks getting an election I'm gonna play every year.

Collin Funkhouser  10:06

Fair point. Fair point. Well, look, but also, yeah, okay, well, I'll just go sit over here we have been having discussions with the kids as far as like, because we've read through the Hobbit, right? We're starting to read the fellowship right now, right. And at some point I want to go, once we get far enough into the book, I want to be able to sit and kind of watch that part of the movie to like, I really want to wait till we're done with the book to then go back and watch that run. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to have that discussion of how there are not three books or three three movies for The Hobbit and that we don't watch those. They're not real. It is

Brandon  10:48

going to be kind of rude. Because if they ever come to my house, I'd be like, Yeah, I got them right here in Washington right now. No,

Collin Funkhouser  10:55

this didn't exist. They're not real. No similarity. No pre neck into there just yet. You

Aaron  11:04

haven't read that the graphic novels version because that's when I when I broke into the hobbit that what we did you know, many moons ago. It's like the only time the only thing that I knew they existed of the actual books was like, the graphic novel of The Hobbit. And I was like, Alright, this is the only thing that there is. So when people actually start hand me the book, I was like, there's more to this. Why is there more of this? Oh, are there no pictures? How am I supposed to know what's happening?

Collin Funkhouser  11:31

Yeah, it well, it's, uh, yeah, it was a we they really enjoyed the book. So and they're enjoying the I mean, the the lord of rings is a lot denser. Right? So I'm having to stop like, we're just now getting through the council L Ron, like where are just kind of to the chapter the ring goes south. And, man, that's a slog of lightning. So this person saying this, and the reason they're concerned is because there's like, there's a lot more background like exposition to get through that, because it's just a lot of like, basically people sitting and talk definitely not ready for the summary of

Aaron  12:04

what's the Amazon TV series called?

Brandon  12:07

The Rings of Power, whatever. Yeah, that's about the Second Age stuff that's like The Unfinished Tales the bit there's a bit in Summerlin about that very much, but they never got the raid they like they think it was they couldn't get the rights The Silmarillion because it told him to say it's like no one is touching this ever though. Yeah. I gotcha. And I still haven't watched that yet. I keep meaning to and then well, like I yeah, I want to but I have to I would. So as far as my Amazon watch list currently these days goes I just found out yesterday that James Mays new travel show was on so yeah, it's gotta watch that. It's mainly Yeah, man, India. Yeah. So upcoming on that one listeners they go and then I watched season two, reacher came out recently. And I've watched the first couple episodes of that, because I really liked that show. That's about it for my Amazon watching. I haven't decided if I haven't gotten the mood to watch Rings of Power. And I also don't know if I want to continue hate watching we'll have time, right because because, like, the first season it was so annoying to me. And but like, still, they did just enough to where I was like, Well, I kind of wonder what happens, right? Like, what's going on with this weird guy like what's happening? Like, I need some closure on some of these characters kind of so I kind of want to watch it but also I don't because watching it the first time was such a horrible slog. I was I was barely making it through to the end. Right. I was I'm sorry Rosamund Pike. I know that you put a lot of work into this, but I I just don't know. I don't and this is again, this is somebody who's not a preexisting fan of Wheel of Time I haven't read it. I don't really want to read it because I read somewhere that someone's like yeah, it books seven it gets really good I was like, excuse me that's not something I want to do and so yeah, I haven't I haven't watched Have you watched it? Did you watch Yeah,

Aaron  14:17

as a Lord of the ring person I felt it was my my duty and my obligation to watch Rings of Power if you're a fan of The Lord of the Rings, watch it just so you can say you watched it it has Lord of the Rings in the title mixed bag for me like I thought some parts are interesting but I wasn't like grasp to the whole time like watching like any of the other other Lord of the Rings movie it was like a kind of a cash grab or if they just wanted to fill the void of Action Fantasy but watch it through once you'll be good to go. Like it's got some it's got some interesting like oh hey like That makes sense to hear and then it like completely forgets about it. But if you're a Lord of the Rings fan, watch it, get it away. Say you did move on.

Brandon  15:11

Does it have some My biggest problem with like, we'll have time and some other shows that have been on Amazon, like the ones Amazon produces is the pacing problem, right? Like, it feels like some episodes take years. And then other ones like are over in like five seconds. But they're they're both like the same amount of time. So like, I feel like sometimes like shows produced specifically for Internet don't like they don't flow correctly. And I don't know why that is. Right. I don't know if that's just a me problem. I don't know if I'm such a maybe I'm just too old. And I have like a television mentality of where I'm thinking about how shows and things like or even miniseries like they every episode needs to fit into a block to progress through a season. Right? So does it have that or is it just like badly written,

Aaron  16:04

it's so the size of the writing and some of the acting there's, there's a channel on YouTube that I've watched that kind of summarize up, like, if you like politics, and talking, Raisa power is perfect for you know, there are some action pieces, but it's not anything like mind blowing some of the characters, I cannot tell you what their names are. Because I just they're like, oh, there's this person. And then like, background exposition, and then it's like, Alright, enjoy it. It's like, Who's this guy? What is he supposed to be doing? Like somebody like the minor characters are the characters that you're like, supposed to root for? Like, can you just like, something happened to you so we can move on, you're kind of taking up the screen and to your scowling face isn't really like, doing it for me, because there's characters that are supposed to be you know, they they have, they have the elves, they have. They're not hobbits, they're like, like a subspecies of hobbits. And then like the introduce some like the other characters, and they talked talked about you visit some of the kingdoms that no longer exists, like, which is kinda cool. But even it's like, this is an old an ancient powerful city. And, like, what, like, can you give more?

Brandon  17:19

That would be new menores?

Aaron  17:21

Yeah, so yeah, so there's new menorah? And it's like, looking at Granite City. It's like a kid, like who's doing a, like a group project? And it's like, oh, man, like, oh, I want more information. No, you're not gonna get Okay. Well, next slide. And so there's a lot of that there's, the plot is, you know, they're they're trying to, you know, search out the evil that was once there and there's kind of like a revenge quest. That's kind of like, supposed to be like pushing the whole plot. And you kind of forget after like, the second episode, that that's like, what the point of the story is, and kind of how it's it's supposed to, like piece all these or have all these things pieced together. And at the tail end is supposed to be like, boom, Mic drop. But you're like I saw that coming, like halfway through episode one. Like, I'm not super surprised. So it's watch it just because of your Lord of the Rings fan. But that's about as much don't don't get too hot for it, because I think they're like, oh, season two's coming along. And everyone's like, nasty isn't happening. It's like, oh,

Brandon  18:23

that's what I heard too. And I feel like that is just sort of a problem indicative with like, trying to adapt anything token anyway. Because in a lot of fantasy, and this might be the Wheel of Time problem also, right? As a person who has never read the book, I don't know. But like, that is a fiction. And like Tolkien's fiction, it's so dense. And like, when Tolkien writes, it is expository. Especially this is a person who's read The Silmarillion multiple times. So like, I feel like, I have a leg stand here on this. It's very like, and then and then but you know, that's like a history book. So they're trying to and all the material that comes that they they're allowed to use for the Rings of Power is like, pieces that are a history book, and some random notes. So like, they don't really have a lot of like, action material anyway. Because it's like, oh, here's this person standing and talking. And he was before the council again, like, oh, wow, cool.

Aaron  19:29

It kind of goes along with that if the TV series House of the dragon is is a great HBO miniseries based off of Game of Thrones, but if you read fire and blood, it is literally written like a Maister wrote it as a history book. And that's not an exaggeration. It's like it because it goes into chapters where it's like, we don't really know much what happened during this time, but we can only assume that blah, blah, blah, and then it's like in 566 and Oh, because it because I have it and I'm reading through it. But like problem with it, especially with Game of Thrones that like, especially with Targaryen. Everyone's named Aegon. Everyone's named, you know, the saris. And so it gets to a point where, like, who am I talking about here? And so like, it's kind of cool being a history person like reading that aspect as it's a history book. But like when you watch the show, yeah, I guess I got to the point where it mentions it, the the series in the book, but it's like, maybe a few pages. And it's like, and then like, you go to the TV series, and it's just like, alright, you we had to hit this talking point, this talking point, this talking point, makeup, everything else. And in the way that the Game of Thrones people did it. There's a lot more like intrigue, there's a lot of more things that grab your attention. With the Rings of Power. It's like, yeah, there's talking points that they have to hit. But it's like, let's show more images of them walking. They like that. And Lord of the Rings, oh, let's have an image of or, you know, a 30 minute scene where elves are discussing politics and trade rights, that's injured. They like that before. And so there's a lot of things like that, that just like, can you hear me this up? I don't know who's talking, I don't care. There are some parts where the dwarves are actually playing more of like a part in it. And so actually saying like Dwarven society, actually into it instead of like, with the original, like, you know, The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings, like there's dwarves, somewhere, but it is actually like, shows you like in the in depth part of like door holes. So that's kind of cool. But again, it's like, I don't know who these people are. They're not much injury for me to try to like care for them that much. It's like, ah, insert name. And then they never say their name again. So you have like, take notes when you when you watch it, but it it's if you like Lord of the Rings, watch it, but just just go to hassle dragon instead, it's fine.

Brandon  21:58

So I feel like that's where television is helpful as a media because then you have a face to go with the name, right? Because like, when you read The Silmarillion, you have the same you have the targeting problem, right? Especially the First Age. Everybody's like, it's like finway and fin gall fin and fin rod and fail and like fan or any like i Why did you do this? I don't. So try to remember who's who is a little bit tricky, right? So if you had a face, that'd be good. Right? And do you think that it's just a product of like, the time that like, it appears that George's writing seems to attack adapt better? For like television, right? Do you think it's like his like, just style like it's it's much, much more modern, and like, his just generally is a lot more like political intrigue, it's like more drama filled, whereas like, Tolkien stuff is much more like it's calmer. It's more subtle. It's more like, stoic in a way right? And not not worse or better. Right? I'm saying it's just a different vibe. Right? And I feel like, I feel like maybe that's part of the problem, too, is like, because when you read Tolkien Second Age stuff, it is kind of just like, yeah, like, when he's describing like, the great evil, it's just like, he's a bad dude. But when like, George is talking about somebody, it's like, very detailed and very, like, well, and because he's like, a more modern sensibility, like playing on like modern readers and stuff. Do you think that's part of it? Maybe

Aaron  23:27

I, there's sometimes like, when I read certain books, and, or just any sort of illustration, it's like, yeah, this was made for TV. That I don't know if that was like the author's like, intense because like, when I read some of these people, who like, the way they write it out, and the way they they are detailed, like, oh, they they have a future that this is going to be on TV one day, I think with Tolkien like that he'll, that wasn't his thought, because I know that wasn't like really such a big thing back, you know, back then. It's I think with with him being kind of more of a A writer for like, again, like an older audience, or someone who could, like start old and kind of move from there. With it, I don't think that was his intent that like, oh, one day this is gonna be, you know, on the big picture with with Martin, I think that was you know, he started out kind of the same way. But I think with the popularity he he has, if you read book one of Game of Thrones, it's, it's different than like Book Two, although there wasn't that much of a difference, like timewise. But like when you read the books, especially in the earlier seasons of the TV, so it's like almost like and I don't know if that was intentional by the directors, but it's like, oh, this was the way it's written. Like, that is a like textbook scene in the TV series. And so it he didn't know if he adapted his writing for like, hey, I want this to be on TV one day. Boom. Here's literal the script. I just wrote it in this book. Go for him so much. 30 of the audience kind of held plays a part of that. And so if it means you're just writing to write and have fun of that, as you know, with Tolkien and creating this, this world and all this background stuff, I don't think he had any intention that it was gonna be, you know, a TV series or, or a movie one day, I

Brandon  25:16

think, too, it might be a part of that. Like, before writing a book, George had seen a movie. Right? Like, he had watched television, like those mediums existed. And so like, I think they probably influenced him just because just just because of the environment of living, and being born, you know, like, later. And because they overlap, I don't remember when George was born, but like, didn't talk it died in the 70s. So like, he was, he was alive, like, wait or so. And Tolkien was like a little kid and stuff, there is no TV, there is no movies, right? Like, you get the radio, right. Yeah. And so like, just like being exposed, and like, so Tolkien would just read books only. And so when he would write, that was his influence. And whereas, like Martin like, and like later writers, like just the fact that you have watched television influences the way that you think about storytelling, or the fact that you have seen a movie, right? You now can think about stories in a slightly different way. Like, your plot diagram kind of goes a little bit differently. And you can think about things differently, just because you're exposed to different media, right. And so I think that might be part of it too, like, just come from a different time, even though they're both like, medieval high fantasy ish thing, right? Like when you're writing during, you know, the World War One. And you're talking about, like, overcoming obstacles, right? Or if you're writing through, like, the, the, you start rattling, he started, okay, the first Martin book, the whatever the Game of Thrones book came out in 96. So he could have started writing that in 1847, for all I know, but like, that's a very different, like the 90s. And like, the late 80s, early 90s, like all the crazy like global political insanity, right? Like, that's just a very different environment to be in. And so some of that just like automatically transfers into your writing because like you're exposed to it people are familiar with like, more like high drama, stuff like that. So that's another thought about that for it's very interesting thought plan.

Collin Funkhouser  27:33

Yeah. Especially if you think like Tolkien's. He's reading Beowulf and transcribing that from its original language and making that thing and that, yeah, as you become exposed to different new media types, it changes how you can process a story, how you can show a story, how you can put pieces of the puzzle together. And I think that's really true, especially with with Martin of, they're kind of in the same genre, but he's pulling from a lot more modern sensibilities, and the way stories are told, but we tend to think, Oh, he's writing a book. So he's writing a book, but it's like, Yeah, but he's writing a book influenced by a lot of other media going on at that time, even though he's, he's notorious for being, you know, cut off from the world and that kind of stuff. And you know, and how he writes and things, but I think you can't but help it.

Brandon  28:23

Yes, true. I feel like if you have seen Twitter, your writing? I don't know. But yeah, that's a good point. Like, maybe that's why he hasn't finished a book. He's got too much media influence. No, got DC afraid to end the story.

Collin Funkhouser  28:43

Well, plus, he's got a, I don't have a fully resolved, like what canon is going to exist, the HBO version of the ending versus his own ending, like what the overlap is, or isn't going to be? Well,

Brandon  28:54

if he never finishes the book, there is no the only candidate ending.

Aaron  29:00

Well, because I know like, whenever they're writing, it's like, I want it to end this way. But in the lead up of how the end he was kind of vague about, but there's a thing when the last season occurred, it's like, Oh, George didn't interview and it's like, no, I told him like, this is what I want. And like that, was it No, like no other, like, lead up details, like it has to end this way. And so there's from the start of the last season to the end of last season, there's a huge chunk of you don't know what happens going forward, but we just, you know, try to kind of kind of come up with an ad lib. No, you have you have the answer, but none of the questions do anything.

Brandon  29:44

So who knows? I don't know. Nobody. I'm never gonna get to read Winds of Winter. So at this point, too. I feel like I haven't read the books. Since the last one came out, so like 2015 that come out somewhere in there. Yeah, I feel like that's the last time I read them. So they'll be like, if I do read that book, it'll be like, oh, so until Okay. Hold on, I go back

Collin Funkhouser  30:19

and reread all the other ones

Brandon  30:21

big books to go back and reread now.

Collin Funkhouser  30:24

I don't know exactly that needing something to do with your time, that's for sure. Yeah.

Brandon  30:31

I'm not gonna do it until, like, I actually have a publish date. Like, I'm not gonna start not gonna even be another 10 years. Yeah. Can I have to reread them twice? Dang it. Ah. So segwaying into a brief aside here of a television show, that is slightly better than has any right to be right. Oh, Susan and I over break have been binge watching. Swat. Right. So it's like, it's like a modern, it's like, based on the 1970s TV show, or movie. And it's like, I don't know. It's about like, Los Angeles SWAT team or whatever. And this show just sounds like a normal cop show. But it's actually not too bad. It's pretty good. But the most important part about this show, right? Are the characters pretty good? Yeah. Are they a little too overdramatic? Sometimes? Yes. But like they're at least attempting to tackle in their own way some of the modern problems that are faced with like police and stuff like that right so they're, they like address these things, which is nice where other cops soldiers like anyway, here's the back right. So like they mentioned that it's like you get kind of like a you know, they talk through this thing is raging. But the best part about this show is I don't know who the cinematographers are, but they they just go HAM like I know they they've just been told like yeah, just go for it and some of the shots in this show are in same

Collin Funkhouser  32:12

for like car chases or like

Brandon  32:14

literally anything like why the other day they were going into this like warehouse thing with like, night vision. And one of the dudes got punched in his night vision goggles fell off, and they're on the floor right? Cut too wide shot, where you can just see the shadows moving and the green glow. The camera the camera, then swoop zooms into the night vision goggles. So then you're looking through the lens that are sitting on the floor. And then yeah, from the floor angle. You see the action happening from the floor? Wild.

Aaron  32:47

Oh, wow.

Brandon  32:49

Insane. Like these people. I don't know who they are. I don't know what they're whoever's do whoever's just letting them go hand. Right? Good job, because they're like, they're, they do love the modern. I've noticed it a lot. Actually. I first started noticing this in Shark Week, believe it or not, but the modern, the modern like because drones are so popular. Right? Um, you can get like crazy shots with drones. They'll do like drone like chase things and like crazy. But like the 100% overhead, straight down shot with the most overused camera angle. Since drones became a thing like they do it in Shark Week, all the time. And this show has it just everywhere.

Collin Funkhouser  33:37

Oh, it's just I was just looking at something came across my social medias where the guy it was camped out and like, most crocodile infested part of the world wherever he shot it all via drone. And it is all of these overhead shots. And at first you're like, oh, wow, this is really cool. But then, like, you lose sense of scale of. It's so disorienting to see it from that position of like, oh, that actually needs to be used really sparingly before this actually makes any sense sometimes

Brandon  34:08

where it's like they did one the other day, they were like going through the alleyway. And they did the over and then the drone was like following. Okay, so it looked like a top down like scrolling dungeon crawler thing but like so, but I was like, the camera people in the show just need to be acknowledged like the acting is pretty good. Storytelling is good for the most part a little too much like machismo sometimes it's a little heavy handed. Okay, calm down a little bit. But the camerawork is the star here like it's really okay so my segue that I was thinking about, right so this my train of thought here is Swat. So now if you remember, during the early 2000s, you might be going Wasn't there a SWAT movie was Samuel Jackson. There was, well, yes, and there was your correct. Good memory. And so again, it gets based on like a 70 show or something. So like, the character names are all the same, but the characters are very, very different right now. It's the 2000s one is like, it's like Michelle Rodriguez. She was big in 2000. Right. Colin Farrell, and of course LL Cool J because the ladies love cool James. And I want to know your thoughts. And Colin on on during the 2000s I just remember that. Pete Hollywood seemed to be trying to make Colin Farrell just a big thing. He was in literally every movie ever. And so what are your How do you feel about Colin Farrell? What are your thoughts on this?

Aaron  35:47

I know he's he's a good actor. But every time I watch like Alexander the Great, I had to turn it off. Because I'm like, does Alexander the Great have a like, what did he have to have like a Scottish and Irish like accent in it or whatever? It's like, no, it's like the acting even in that movie just over the top. And that comes from 90% Colin Farrell. And then like a slight, you know, sliver from Angelina Jolie. And oh, who's the other? Anthony Hopkins? Isn't that movie to know. Yeah. It's like, you know, trying to, you know, comfortable trying to like carry that movie. And like the action pieces. Yes. You know, the time period the the authenticity, authenticity of like, the armor, yes. But then it's just like, Colin Farrell, shouting through, you know, a good chunk of that movie. And then when I watch things like Swat, you know, going from Alexander the Great to that. It's like, I can't, like he's, he's gonna do something wild and crazy and sporadic and like, that's his character, just like, you know, he's a wild card. You don't know what he's going to do next. And I think every movie during that time period, like that was kind of like his character stick. He's like, Oh, man, he's a wild card. He's gonna you know, fly over handles and enact crazy and so you know, that kind of rinse wash repeat character. And I got to see what movies he was in. Well, so

Brandon  37:17

I pulled up. IMDB

Collin Funkhouser  37:19

here and Brandon's got you.

Brandon  37:22

So like, starting in 2002. Low. Like Tiger land. American outlaws hearts war Minority Report. Phone Booth. The big breakout Yeah, phone booth, right. Daredevil, SWAT movie. There's just like, 20. Bill. Like, it's just Colin Farrell everywhere. And I agree, Aaron that I don't. Don't really think Colin Farrell is the guy to carry your movie. Right? I just feel like I've seen a lot of these movies. And they're like not, they're just not right. It felt like they were trying to make the 2010s or the early 2000s. The decade of Colin Farrell and he's just like to what

Aaron  38:03

was called What was Tiger land?

Brandon  38:06

I don't remember exactly.

Aaron  38:09

Daredevil. Oh, he was bullseye. That's right. Yeah, the bad guy.

Brandon  38:12

He's a bad guy. Weirdly.

Collin Funkhouser  38:15

Just put him there. It was a Minority Report.

Aaron  38:17

Yeah. New World as Miami Vice, every single like character that he played was some sort of like, you don't know what he's gonna do next. He's acted wild. Oh, Merry Christmas. Thank you. We have a slight slight break in the action here. But

Collin Funkhouser  38:42

Hi. What did you just deliver? Coins and coal? Thank you very much.

Aaron  38:52

Do we need to ask her about her opinion about Colin Farrell here.

Collin Funkhouser  38:54

Do you have do you have opinions? No.

Aaron  39:03

Thank you. Really? Oh, it's 2020 Yeah, but I mean I'll even like some of these like the like the early 2,000x which I can pretty much summarize an action scene there's a character shooting there's about 12 Camera breaks in the span of like five seconds and you know then a shown an image of ammo on the ground because that that sudden like it is probably smoking too. Okay. I really I really liked the long take it's not like you know, was it 1914 but World War One movie that was like all one continuous like oh yeah shot that was cool. Again a lot of these early action films like The the go to thing to

Collin Funkhouser  39:46

such giant spider running across the floor right now. Hold on, keep talking. Well, coming back,

Aaron  39:52

was that you know? Camera Camera Camera Camera Camera Camera. camera and I think like a whole lot of that really kind of like in when you're young kid like you like actions, like best move ever but like watching it now. It's like I don't know what's happening. It's exhausting. Keep the camera on one person for more than like five seconds please.

Brandon  40:18

This is the Bourne identities fault. Yes. Right? This movie made it cool because like when that movie did it, it was like new and interesting and exciting. And then like, other people were like, oh, everyone really liked that. We should do that too. But then they did it like worse. Yeah. And so it was just

Aaron  40:38

it just it just constant what does that call them cinematography when it's just like the like the the cutaways Yeah, cut, cut, cut, cut cut and it's like I don't stop I don't know what's happening. And I a lot of those movies that he is in during those that that span of popularity, were like that even like in some of the scenes in Alexander like if they could just stay the camera on like this certain scene for more like for like 10 seconds. Like, you know, the the battle with

Brandon  41:13

Darius Darius, like

Aaron  41:15

that the Gaga mela Oh yeah, the battle Gaga Mela. Like that seems like if you just straight on phalanx for like 10 seconds. This would be actually pretty like watchable movie, but it's not. It's like marching forward, they've had to stab the horses. They're charging, like one guy's impaled and it's like cutaway.

Brandon  41:37

So they have too many cutaways in the movie, phone booth. A man a movie about a man trapped in a phone booth

41:46

gave a go anywhere, like he's just standing there.

Aaron  41:50

But I know that even even with a movie like that, like his his character, or it's like calm for five seconds. And it's like, that's like the sudden outburst like, you know, in Swat that was his character. He was he was he was a pistol he was, you know, he was a rogue. Like, I don't know, if I want this guy on my team, he can't be trusted. And then something happens, like see proven right. And then something else happens. Like, I guess I was wrong about you, like almost every character that he faces, and then even Alexander, going back to it. And she's like, I hero, I'm the leader of I'm the king. Just look up Zeus like, can you stop shouting? Like, chill out? So I think that characters is no matter what he's playing during that time period are the exact same.

Brandon  42:38

That's a good point. And I should point out in in the new show, didn't want the modern show Swat, right? Because in the in the in the movie, he's playing the character, Jim St. Right, which is the name of the guy and although that's the name, that they all have the same name, right? But the guy in this show, like he's it the first couple seasons, he's like that, too. But it's like, much more subtle. Right? It's like much better on television, right? It's it's far superior to like, the, like, he does like Roby things, but he doesn't like, quieter and like, you have like, the motivation for why he's doing it. And so you like have sympathy for him and you understand where he's coming from. You do still go like, if you just talk to somebody, this problem would go away, but it's fine. There's a lot of that, like, I'm gonna handle it mile away. Calm down, stop contrived. Yeah.

Collin Funkhouser  43:33

Colin Farrell. It's crazy. He's only 47 which is a bit hard to believe because, again, he's been around for, I mean, most of our lives in his in his acting career, but yeah, he's always played the same character. And it was just, it was never different. But it's so weird because he's show acclaimed, like, people love him as an actor. Because he's been in so many different films, right? They're like, Oh, that means he has breadth and what he's able to do, but I don't know if he does all those. Well,

Brandon  44:06

I don't know if you want to be like, Yo, I'm a great actor. Did you see me in Miami Vice? Yeah.

Collin Funkhouser  44:11

Wait a minute. Answers. Probably. nulu Yeah.

Brandon  44:16

I can't find the name of that where he is in some like, movie that I watched not too long ago. One of my friends maybe watch it like a movie about gangsters or something. Like a English gangster movie.

Collin Funkhouser  44:27

He played the penguin in the new Batman movie. Did he? Yeah. Yeah. With patents in with the patents that played? Oh, yeah, he was the he was the penguin. So there's

Brandon  44:40

a gentleman that's a movie that I suppose that about. American expatriate became rich by building a highly profitable drug ring in London. When word gets out, he's looking to cash out his business is soon triggers an array of plots and schemes including bribery and blackmail, from Shady Characters who want to steal his domain It's a Guy Ritchie movie. It's a Guy Ritchie movie. Yeah, it's not named. I mean, it's a garbage movie that isn't like lock stock and two smoking barrels. So like it's not, it's like not quite as good as that or snatch. It's trying to be those movies. Yeah, but it's not quite as good as those movies are. Which is unfortunate to there was like something there was like something there, but I just wasn't. I felt bored. Hmm.

Aaron  45:29

I will say I did like the Batman. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did like that. Okay.

Collin Funkhouser  45:33

I knew there was lots of worry and concern about how pets its hands and right. Okay, I

Aaron  45:42

watched this one thing that talked about like the evolution of live action Batman's, and the last few. Batman's, like, all encompassing, like different parts of the Batman. Ben Affleck was like character like, encompasses like the grittiness of like Batman after doing it for so many years, and how he's kind of like more from when he started to what he is now. Christian Bale version was like, like, this is what Bruce Wayne is like he is a a philanthropist. Playboy loves spending his money and in the Robert Pattinson is character like he's like this like it's it takes place when he's first starting out as Batman. And how like his only reason for doing Batman has vengeance. And then like that, that arc that he'll go, Hey, this is actually not what Batman is, is like of justice. Like, this is the reason of why he's doing it. So all three of those Batman's, like, take, like a certain part of what Batman is. And I liked I liked watching that learning it now it's like, Oh, hey, like watching the Batman. It's like, oh, this is you know, Bruce Wayne. Like when he's first starting out. Like he's still trying to figure out what he's supposed to do. Like how he's supposed to do it. You know? Yes. Running in the beating thugs is like, obviously what you do as a Batman. But the reason why he does it, it becomes different. And all three of them play a huge part. But I really really liked this version, although you have to watch it at night. Okay, because I think I watched like, I think Shelby was at work or something's like, what's the Batman? And like, I turned it on. It was like, one o'clock in the afternoon. And I just shut like all the blinds and shutters in the house and I put blankets on the window just like watch it

Collin Funkhouser  47:35

because it's like dark. Yeah, I'd say it's shot so dark as a movie. You can't you can't bear to see it's like no, we don't actually want any lights on in the studio. Everyone turned them off. And we'll fill it every hour.

Aaron  47:46

Not like not like moody dark, like

Collin Funkhouser  47:48

visually dark. See?

Brandon  47:50

See people people that are always like, they watch a movie and they're like, well that's not what it actually look at it look like at nighttime. It'd be way darker. Like, yeah, but the point of the movie is to see that thing. Right Okay, so so maybe don't shoot a movie at night for real with no lights like okay. Not very unhelpful. Yeah, like I understand that's not real but it's also a movie wrong, right? Yeah. Also, I want to know Aaron on the spectrum of of Batman Where does Where does Val Kilmer Batman reign? What is his deal? What is that?

Aaron  48:27

So with? And even with George Clooney, is they they kind of you know, the the fantasy aspect of Batman because like even even with DC there's always it's supposed to take place, like in the realm of realism. But then there's always like the one character that's like this guy's wait like out of left field and so with with George Clooney and Val Kilmer is Batman. It's supposed to be like the the split with a symbol of Batman supposed to be even in a realm of, of realism and in fantasy? Like this is what Batman is, like the figure of it and what he's supposed to do now the when you get to the part of Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Uma Thurman, you know, hard left turn, but even with old

Brandon  49:17

Tommy Lee Joe,

Aaron  49:19

Tommy Lee Jones, who was the 80s Batman.

Brandon  49:24

Oh, Michael Keaton,

Aaron  49:26

Michael good even like even with him like the, the Oh, what was it like the the realism of how the world is like, how the world treats the unknown or the downtrodden because the penguins character, like started out with relatively good intentions. And then like, society made him that way. It's anything like what the Joker and so it's Michael Keaton's version is again, dark, dark movie. It was also directed by Tim Burton, so It takes a just a darker twist in general. So with with that character, it's, you know, like the look at, you know, not just not just the hero, but you know, there's a lot of scenes with the penguin. And you know how, like how society has treated and treated and not help out these individuals and like, look what they become. And in the 2020, the Joker with Joaquin Phoenix, Yeah, same kind of thing. And so, you know, Batman is Batman, but he's Batman like with the villains because most of these characters like some something with villains, most of these characters have, you know, some sort of backstory that made them that way with a joker. You know, he's he started as comedian, and like, his wife got sick. And so he started here and he needed like money and so he turned to a life of crime and then he was severely injured. And that's what he you know, he became this way and, and Batman's characters throughout, especially with the newer ones with the Batman. not be confused with Batman, but the Batman. You know, this is what society has neglected. Spoil or the Riddler character was was neglected by, you know, all forms of public services and so that's why he became the way he did. And that's why Batman kind of changes like okay, I'm not doing this for vengeance. I'm doing this for justice and to actually do some good not just beat up people just because I can.

Collin Funkhouser  51:31

So I guess this goes down to favorite Batman,

Aaron  51:35

obviously.

Brandon  51:37

Okay. Well, the the actual right answer is Kevin. When Aaron said that I thought was, I faded since the night but I feel like I feel like the the reason that I like badminton, right, the very best, is that kind of what you're talking about as the, like the villains make Batman. Interesting? Yeah. Because kind of like the psychology of almost every Batman villain. Is that, like, the villains motivation. And Batman's motivation are like, oftentimes, very similar. It's just like, how they go about getting to the problem, right? Finding the solution is the different path they take, right? Like a lot of Batman villains, like Batman could have become a lot of the villains that if he would have made different decisions, right, like that, that, to me is where it gets really hard, especially ones like Hush, right, some of the coons like that, or like, even Victor freeze, right? Maybe not the only Arnold version, but like,

Collin Funkhouser  52:49

definitely the,

Brandon  52:50

you know, like, you know, the his motivation is he just wants to save his wife. Right? He's trying to save Nora, you know, that's it. Like, that's all he wants to do. And, like, he does all kinds of criminal behavior, but his motivation is to save Nora. Right? Like, and that's what makes it really interesting to me is like Batman is not only usually fighting like, this, like bad guy, he's also kind of like fighting himself a little bit because, like, he, he oftentimes can see why they're doing it. Right. And I feel like that's a really interesting thing that you know, that psychology psychological aspect of that of like, why the bad guys are doing things, right. What's their motivation? I feel like almost every Batman villain has some kind of motivation, right? I don't know about like the Mad Hatter or, you know, Killer Croc, but like they, you know, they have some kind of motivation for what they're doing. And it's like, clearly defined, right, like, Pamela Isley just wants to save trees. But also kill all the people in Gotham so that more trees can live. Okay, well, we started out strong and then we took a bad turn. Yeah, that's

Collin Funkhouser  54:10

the first half Not gonna lie. It's the second part was step two.

54:15

Step two is the problem.

Collin Funkhouser  54:20

And you see that I think a lot of where you see it, particularly with just like the Joker, like in most movies, and even then the animated TV show of like, The Joker will outright say like, you need me Batman, like, like, you need me. And at the time, it was like, Oh, that's right, because Batman needs somebody to fight but like, really, it's like, no, Batman needs reminded of where Batman will go if he's not on the right path here. So he needs to see the end result of the Joker to keep him from going there.

Brandon  54:52

Yeah. I feel like that's something that the I don't know. You probably did it. But did you ever play the Arkham games area? Oh, man. That game game does such a great job of doing that. Especially the second one. Well, the first one too because the it's the Joker is still it's Mark Hamill still. Yeah, in the beginning. Oh my. Oh that's actually mark Campbell's best contribution to cinema history is just being the Joker. Like it's incredible. But like, those games do a really good job of doing that too. They like really pull in it's like it's like a really good mesh of like the the animated series and like some of the movie stuff like pulled all in together. President Kevin Conroy did the voice of Batman in some of those games too,

Collin Funkhouser  55:39

didn't he? Yeah, he

Aaron  55:42

will have to look it up. But yeah, he like even from the animated series of the popular from that, like the voices a lot of those voices are in like the later movies or in like the video games. Yeah.

Brandon  55:54

So it's like, it's like pulling that university there. But like, again, it's like really motivational thing and, and like the Joker is like the main bad guy in the first two brothers, like, the other backgrounds are there. He's like, manipulating them to do his thing or whatever. But like, but they Yeah, that's the motivation that comes as the Joker is basically saying like, you do need me because yeah, because I you need me to be because you wouldn't exist without me. Because I'm the reason that we need a Batman. Yeah, but also, you're this close to being me. Yeah, like one wrong move bats and in this zip

Collin Funkhouser  56:36

No, it's it's it really has a lot of depth to it. And that internal struggle is really apparent to that very humanizing him in that aspect of that continual internal fight through through what he does. You

Aaron  56:48

asked about who the favorite Batman is. Oh, yeah. And also kind of with the other stuff like you need me. I'll say we'll learn it's Lego Batman. talks a lot about about like, I can do this alone. I am Batman. Like, well, no, you don't like guys are like you have to do it alone. But even the Joker isn't like no like, I am your archers is not Yeah, I have no orchard. It was in like the kind of like that being alone. It's like, well, you don't necessarily have to do it. And so I think a lot of that, but I remember watching that movie for the first time, and I liked the Lego movie. And I was like, Well, you know, like a Batman might not be that good. It's really funny. It's, it's definitely like a different take on Batman. But I just like the like the humor that goes into it. And the visualization because you know, when you think of Legos, you always think of Lego and Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Harry Potter. It's like, oh, you know, like, like, this is good. Like, what? How's it gonna do and like movie form and the Lego Movie, but like a movie too. And Lego Batman? Knock it out of the park. Lego

Brandon  57:56

humor is vastly underrated. Right? As a person who's played many LEGO games, I definitely have played Lego Indiana Jones, an underrated gem of video game. Right. The backstory here is that Eric got that for like, when he first got to Xbox. I think it came out. I was like, Lego guys. I was older. Right? Well done, Aaron. So I was like, Lego That's dumb. And I started playing it. I was like, nope, nope, this is the sickest thing ever. So I've definitely played Lego Indiana Jones. I played Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. The Lego Batman video game. The Harry Potter one. The Harry Potter ones are sick too. I I didn't play I only play one of the Star Wars ones. And like, oh, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings one. And last summer. I definitely played like Lego city or whatever. You're like a police Lego guy. It's like open world Lego. Yeah. But the Lego humor in general. It's so funny. I don't know why. Like the visual. It's all just like weird visual gags. It's hilarious.

Aaron  59:06

In the, in the earlier games, they didn't use like any voiceovers, they only used like, sounds from the movie. And so, but like, like the visual humor or with a you know, the visual comedy of it, like plays in such an epic role and do it and just like the exploration and the creativity, that's like, oh, you know, Legos, like, Yeah, whatever. But like when you actually play it, like, this isn't actually like a game that like you have to like solve puzzles, build things and and follow the story which, you know, imagine like a, you know, seven year old kid trying to recreate Indiana Jones via Legos and like, perfect. And so those games are fun I on my Steam wish list. I do have the Harry Potter franchise that I have not bought yet but I shouldn't get the winter sale on it.

Brandon  59:56

I have that that's that's one of the games that you My goal at some point is to make Susan two player Co Op. And I just she can't see the other person, right? I want to I want this to happen. Like

Aaron  1:00:13

maybe maybe we should maybe we should do that we should do a podcast of us playing you

Collin Funkhouser  1:00:19

guys have to screen record though.

Brandon  1:00:21

I don't know if my computer can handle that. I also want her to play because she doesn't like video games at all. My other goal is I want her to play la noir with me and just make her answer all the questions. Like

Aaron  1:00:37

you from part. Yeah,

Brandon  1:00:39

I'm gonna have the controller she's just gonna tell me what to do. Because that's a game where you play like a detective in the 1940s. It's all about like, trying to solve a crime. You ask people these questions, you have to like respond to them. And so like, I want her to be tell me what buttons to push. Yeah. All control character. Okay. I want her to be like, telling me what buttons to push. I'll drive the car. I'll do stuff. Okay, I'll drive Cole around. Denise Ed itself doing dumb spoilers for LA Noir. Wow. Phillips is more on redemption arc at the end Doreen. Well, I think she would like the visuals of 1940's Los Angeles, and she loves like detective things and like mystery solving. So I just want her to do that. But I want to I want that to happen. That would be so funny, I think.

Collin Funkhouser  1:01:32

Yeah. Yeah, we'll have that be. I will. We'll see what we can. I don't know. I don't have external forces we can do to make that happen.

Brandon  1:01:45

Yeah, I'll let you know how that goes. But

Collin Funkhouser  1:01:56

yeah, well, real quick. as we as we wind down here. I think I think I was supposed to write your turn. It's my turn. So this is I have a haiku that I wrote. Oh, yeah. That Hold on. I need to find.

Brandon  1:02:13

I don't exactly know how this got started airing. But we have been ending every show with haiku.

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:19

Now, this one. Okay, there it is. Okay, so this one, I'm a little worried. You should be not gonna lie did not have one until this morning.

Brandon  1:02:28

Hey, you know, when inspiration strikes, you just got to take advantage of it.

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:33

This is greatly influenced by last night.

Brandon  1:02:38

context. For some listeners, here's how last night when I was not sleeping yet. Everyone had gone to bed except for Colin and I and we were downstairs just like chillin on the couch talking. And we were flipping through the television. Dad has like, weird antenna television. Okay. And we found the Branson tourism channel.

Collin Funkhouser  1:03:06

And it's so it's so

Brandon  1:03:08

bad. We thought about just pulling out the microphones and recording ourselves watching it just when we react

Collin Funkhouser  1:03:15

to commercials. Yeah. Oh, it was it was just all the worst that comes from Branson is just distilled into these, like really long commercials. They're long form. I think that's what Marshall infomercials for these very specific places in Branson. And man, they just some of them are beautifully shot, but just

Brandon  1:03:40

cringe and is about good. Six out of 10 of them contain Johnny Morris.

Collin Funkhouser  1:03:44

Yes. Turns out, he's a big proponent of paying for those things there. Oh my gosh. So what kicked this off though? The very first commercial we saw when we turned to this channel was for Yeah, the thing that was for this it's called jiggling George.

Brandon  1:04:05

That was and we just saw the end. And so we went what was

Collin Funkhouser  1:04:10

that? What was that? What was that? Because Okay, let's let's go back to some of our early foundations Had this been in late 90s, early 2000s. We would never have seen this commercial again. Right? And it would just been lost to time and we've been like trying to scramble and find what this was but because we have the internet

Brandon  1:04:27

and they station was playing these commercials on a loop on Hulu, but they have like four

Collin Funkhouser  1:04:31

different commercials.

Aaron  1:04:34

So it's like the old travel things that you go like to a hotel? Yes, come see beautiful historic downtown Branson? Yes. I

Brandon  1:04:42

think this is the channel when you go into a hotel in Branson. When you turn the TV on. This is the channel that's on first.

Collin Funkhouser  1:04:48

It must be it must be so anyway. So this is the same. It's an exercise machine. Don't think it's an exercise. Now also.

Brandon  1:04:55

The listeners the commercial that we saw five I've seconds of a man in a lime green and polka dot suit with a striped vest and a weird tie and just a baseball hat and a baseball hat. And he was saying something about jigglin, George, Colin and I looked at each other with.

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:18

So this is this is a machine that later we found out not through this commercial because we did our research while we were watching. This is a machine that you lay in bed, and you put your feet on to, and then it shakes your legs, back and forth, left and right, left and right, left and right. That's all this

Aaron  1:05:38

juggling George's New Life bed exercise is the world's only bed exercise or a bit kind. Yes. Totally bed friendly to most beds on the floor for $449.

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:52

Yes, it's $500 and you lay down just shakes your ankle, you hook your ankles into this whole thing. And then it just shakes you back, but there's a video in there. So I'm saying it jiggles. Some say there's a video in there where they pan across people testing. It's just six people in a row.

Aaron  1:06:12

I've seen this guy with the

Collin Funkhouser  1:06:14

legs going crazy. It looks so comfortable. And it's supposed to be like oh, it helps joint pain because it increases blood flow through nitrous oxide and blah blah. Basically what we've derived is that this guy, the guy who's horrifying this would make that's a cutscene from the latest Saw movie. It's so ridiculous. We are 100 I am well I am 100% convinced that this guy looked at what the gyms of the 40s and 50s were and what we need, we need more jiggling in the gym. We that's what we need. We need a little vibrator thing to come back and shake your hips back and forth to make

Aaron  1:06:58

most of these people have like headphones on their eyes covered.

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:01

It's a scene it's two movies. Yeah, if if the matrix had in the saw had crossed over this would be where they're plugged in. They're cut off from reality and they're being tortured like that's what the stick

Brandon  1:07:13

here Aaron is that if you go there you can do 15 minutes free on one of those machines

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:20

and it'll change your life yeah,

Brandon  1:07:21

allegedly according to the testimonials your life will never be the same again.

Aaron  1:07:25

Yes So is this a clinic or you just like it's a shoe store? Aaron

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:30

Aaron is a shoe store

Aaron  1:07:33

it's a shoe stone I've heard of business and again improving your health in 1969 Yeah yeah online shop. Yeah fascinating. All right. Carry on

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:44

all right so with with that with that knowledge I wrote this haiku

Brandon  1:07:55

says too many brands and themed haikus

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:56

too many were yeah right what

Brandon  1:07:59

about Dino

Collin Funkhouser  1:08:02

it's getting bad here. Yeah, so this one right okay. legs shake beds a stage jiggling George's dance routine fitness with a twist and that's good look like I am just I'm just being used but as a muse for for the content. It's mine. It's just it's being funneled through me. So none of this was an endorsement or sponsored by anybody. Non sponsored and please for the love of everything. No. And that's it. There you go. So So that's well should probably. Okay. Love you guys.

Aaron  1:09:13

Let me do it.