Collin should have just started an HR company. Brandon definitely, for sure, wants to get into NFTs. Aaron’s Baseball field stuff is going well. He also got engaged! SO let the wedding planning commence. Brandon attended a conference. PLUS… the long awaited hand rake review is here.

HR business
Gary Vee….
NFT for oh brother
MSCHF and Warhol
Aaron says the Baseball field is coming together well
Ooooh and proposed to Shelby
She did say yes
Wedding planning!
Brandon went to a concert
Post Modern Jukebox
Mildly stomp-esque
Collin reviews his hand rakes
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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, Cullen, and Aaron, on this week's show, wedding planning.

Brandon 00:19

If I had to start it all over again, I would just found an HR company where employed where businesses, small, medium sized businesses would hire you to handle all their HR issues.

Collin Funkhouser 00:34

And just make gobs of money for people's awful mistakes and live a happy life.

Brandon 00:45

Wow, no one's better better today. Are they answering? No. Yeah. Turns out when you hire people, you have HR stuff. And then it's, it's trying to be compliant and stuff, and learning all of those things.

Collin 01:05

Yeah, I will say thankfully, they have taken a quote unquote, HR manager position, and just turned it into like, a monthly subscription, where you get access to like, a HR person that you can reach out to any questions and they like, review your documents for your, for your company. And make sure you're not being like, just totally awful. They'll have to be a little awful, but not totally. And it's actually a really nice.

01:34

That's crazy. I did not know that such a thing existed. Yeah, I know. I mean, I'm not surprised really now that I think about it. But like, yeah, would not have been of course, I'm not again, I'm not very business he.

Brandon 01:49

So like, these are things that I don't Yeah, no, I, I didn't know either, really about it. And then the company that handles are over HR and stuff, or Sarovar. Payroll has, like these all these tools for like, onboarding, and you can link it to all these different apps and things. And then they're like, oh, yeah, we also offer HR. And I was like, what? Tell me more. And it's great. They've got like this big library of documents that they that it's they're just big templates, and they'll auto plug all of your business information into them when you download them. So you can just, you know, have all this stuff on hand to use so that you're being compliant to word I've been using a lot today. Am I compliant? You've already used it like 12 times, and we've been recording for like, a minute. So I know by now. So there we go. So I have lots of buttons to click which obviously, I mean, I love I love I could look at here's like, Ooh, there's a drop down here. Look, I can look at federal laws at a glance. What at a glance federal laws.

03:09

Wow, just Just what I always wanted. I know that helped me. As I say, you need to get step away from them and use don't go near those things.

Brandon 03:22

Oh, man, yeah, that's good stuff. These are things that I don't understand. It. Like I've mentioned several times in the past, I'm sure. Every time at the beginning of the school year when our like, person lady has to stand up there and talk about this kind of thing. I'm just like, I just sort of stare at her. Like, I don't understand. Literally any of the words that you just said to me. So I don't know. i Yeah, like, like any questions like I know, we're gonna go with no cuz. Yeah, I immediately start looking for the translator. Because usually when somebody from HR or like benefits is there, I'm like, there. No, nevermind, I'm out. I think you're not going to be able to use word that makes sense to me. Oh, yeah, the eyes word. The the worst one is this. There's a lady that comes from like, I don't really know, like the outside some sort of outside agency that we contract through. I think it has to do with like, retirement stroke investments. Yes. And she will come and she will say words and she'll be like, she's talking. And I

Collin 04:43

actually have no idea what she's saying. Right? She's like saying all this stuff and like, she's like, Yeah, but you know, if you do this, blah, blah, but then this way, blah, blah. I'm like

Brandon 04:55

I don't know what any of those words are. Yeah, yeah. It just gets, it just gets worse when they talk about certain things. And yeah, the outside. People that come in that are contracted through or even worse, because they literally their entire job is just to go from business to business or place of employment to place of employment and give the same presentation and pass out the same forms and then say any questions, and you're like, No, these words have become meaningless to you. It's losses. A lot of fun. Yeah, right. I mean, like, Yes, I think it's one of those things where like, they deal with that stuff, like day in and day out. And so they know exactly what they're talking about. But I don't know. Right? And because I

05:41

don't do things like that, that doesn't interest me. I don't care. I don't, I don't have any interest in any of that world at all.

Collin 05:51

And, like, I just, I have a hard time understanding it. And I kind of tune out and zone out. And I understand some of it's important, right, but like, not enough to me to matter at this current juncture, right. Like, I don't care what you're talking about, right? Like,

06:13

you know, all these POA they always call these like people like oh, well, whoever Who's that? I was talking about the other day. Who's the like the big famous guy that's all over the internet. Oh, that Gary Vee idiot. He's always like, you know, do this. These are the things that you do. Blah, blah. I'm like, Sir, sir, you have millions of dollars to shave off. Okay, like, me? I'm throwing shade at the Wii Meister? The Yeah, I don't care about Chuck spinner.

Brandon 06:39

I don't know what his name is. I don't know. Whatever. I don't care. He's all blabber on about like, if t this interview, hot market like, dude, these aren't real things. Calm down. But like you if you want to spend all your money on pretend online things, that's fine. It doesn't matter. It's made up. Sure. Go for it. I don't care if somebody can make some money on it. Cool. I don't care. I'm not. I don't. I mean, obviously, you pay attention to him. Because, you know, this is like, all the time on. Like, he's just like, I don't know what it's happened. But he'll just like, show up on my newsfeed like, what did I accidentally click on to see your face go away?

07:19

Right? You're needing you're needing that. Right? Your need. I'm not trying the universe is trying to tell you like one of my friends is talking about this stuff the other day talking about like investing in stocks, aka by wire I don't.

Brandon 07:30

But again, again, I say these things. I say all these things fully aware that many of the things that I find interesting, no one cares about either. Mm hmm. Right. So I am aware, I want I want the listeners to know I'm not just a grumpy old man. I mean, I am that but I am also a self aware, GRUMPY MAN. Because I know that I'm not interested in that stuff. But I know that you are also not interested in like, I don't know. Guitar fuzz circuit typology. I know that you are not interested in that and don't want to hear me discuss with you the distance between two three and four transistor circuit diagrams, that is not of interest to you. Right? You don't care. And I, I, I accept that. And that's fine. You know, it's right. Like we're like, I know, you don't want to have a conversation about like, I don't know, the evolution of cuneiform writing. Like, I know, you're not interested in any of that. So like,

Collin 08:45

cool, but like, yeah, it's people hit those certain, those certain level of interests at different times. Right? And they solve them in different ways. Like, I know, people who, like we're like, Ooh, I need to save for the future. So they like dive in and learn everything they can they basically become like, like, like, semi professional day traders, right? Where like, that's like, they manage everything themselves. Like that's one way and then there are people who are like, yeah, there's just somebody like or like you know, like I have a fun through my company or you know, for as a teacher, like, that's where things go and I don't really have to worry about it and they go like you're interested in it just enough to like start and then you put it on autopilot. Like okay, well, anyway,

Brandon 09:32

yeah. Mine isn't even that much. I like sign this paper so we can start this thing like, okay, whatever.

09:44

Fine, whatever. Okay. Like I again, I fully understand that some that like, not everybody has the same interest, which

Brandon 09:51

is good, right? And world would be very boring. If everybody talked about the same thing out there. So like, I get it

10:00

Right, but also I don't stand up here and like try to shove my wish stag throat right so go away I don't want to hear

Brandon 10:10

no, I think I'm hearing that we got to gotta get gotta get some NF TS for the old brother. I don't know what we

10:19

don't even know what those letters actually stand for. So get on, get a blockchain and do some stuff guys are

Brandon 10:26

no harsh words that I've heard. You know whenever you say blockchain the first thing that comes to my mind is actually block and tackle from moving logs and stuff right as the first day but you know it is it is a decision you can make guess Aaron Aaron what what are NF T's look like for our own brother store?

Aaron 10:55

I have no idea what NF T's are. I mean, either. No, I have no business savvy I the same thing with Grant every time there's a guy that's on there that talks about like, you know, if you want to get better, and you got to maximize this? I don't. I don't know who you are. I don't know where he came from. Why? Why are you so angry? So I just leave it alone. Do this.

11:18

That literally means nothing. And if people are like, oh, you know, teach financial literacy class, like what, but there's no. So I don't I don't know what any of those are. I'm so sorry. I

Aaron 11:31

can't acronym scare me. So Aaron, I

Brandon 11:34

don't think anybody actually knows what it is. That's what I've from the little that I've read about it when it shows up in articles or thing like, like ads before videos?

11:44

I don't think anybody knows. No one is sure. Like that? No, they say words. But I'm going. That sounds made up.

Collin 11:54

Because it is most like yeah, the best I can understand is imagine that we were a piece of art that was sold that you could verify its legitimacy. And its entire history of transactions with it. So that you could actually still make multiple copies of them. But they were each individually marked in the digital world.

Brandon 12:26

Alright, so why do we care about that? Well, because why is that important? We have those same things in the

Collin Funkhouser 12:33

physical world, right? Like we have some Remington firearms that have the serial numbers like 00 21, and 00 22 00 23. Those are physical objects. In the digital world, if somebody sends me a photo of a Rembrandt, I can just copy and paste that and distributed that all over the internet. Now imagine Rembrandt made it in like word paint, but then locked it into an NF T, which made that we could confirm that that was the original, and then trace it over time. And then they also have links, links to them. This is the this is the part that

Brandon 13:12

I do like that. Each time it's sold, you can actually set it up. So that the originator the person who the original artist gets a kick back from every transaction that that every time it passes hands 10% or whatever, immediately goes to the original owner. But why? I think it's a way because like, I mean, like yeah, if you if you like is that just because I need more control of my stuff. If I read a book, right physical paper book, and I sell it, and then like, somebody buys it, and then they resell it. I don't deserve that money. I already sold the book. Sure. Right. Like it's, it's, it's, it seems weird to me that basically you're generating infinite money, right? Because if I make a pretend online poster, right, and then I sell it, and then you buy it and you didn't use sell it to someone else for some reason, Chris, first of all, I don't know why you would how that would even work. That seems dumb to me. But like, why would I I don't deserve any more money because already sold at once. Right? I can't Why would you make profit off of selling a thing over and over and over again? Yeah, I think same, the same one thing? Yeah. Right. That doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Why should you be able to do that? Well, I think I think I think it's that's just one use of it. I can definitely see in a realm where digital makes things infinitely copyable it is one way to wrest control back and if we set aside the finances for a moment, it at least allows things to identified as this is the original, this is unique thing. And when you think back to like, the one thing, I think for the artists and creators, that's where I really see a lot of the benefit for them to go, No, this is a copy, right? Yes. But here's what I'm saying. Yeah. If you are so concerned about that, why are you working in a medium that is infinitely copyable? Well, because that's, that's where the audience is. That's where the money potentially, right? Like, like, if I wanted to, if I was an artist, sure, I could go out and I could run a print of 1000 vinyls, and then those are originals, right, you're not going to be able to really copy those. But that's not really what the market is. So it's trying to take that physical, tangible aspect, which in a sense, to me kind of defeats the whole aspect of a digital world that I can copy paste it a billion times. But from a crater from an economic standpoint, I understand the drive to do that. Of like, so I'm looking at I'm looking at my wall right here. Okay. I have a Picasso painting hanging on my wall. Yeah, right. Clearly not an original Picasso painting. Right? It's a poster. It is a copy of an original work. But why is that bad? Yeah. Why does Pablo Picasso estate deserve part of the $12 that I paid for that poster?

Collin 16:34

Because he made it originally. Now, right, the

Brandon 16:38

original print has a number. And for some, for some archaic reason, we have assigned artificially high value to that original work. Correct. There's no reason that that painting is worth more other than we have assigned it cultural significance. And we have artificially inflated the value of that piece. Right? This painting this poster I have. It's bigger than the original work. Right? But it retains a lot of the same elements of characteristics. It's just not the original. And does that mean that is actually less value? Because Pablo Picasso didn't breathe on it? In my eyes? No. But I know that in the rest of the world's eyes. Absolutely. Yes. Right. Like you were talking about, like the Remington thing, like, oh, this gun was this is number one. Right? That's not to me. This is just to me personally. That is not important. It doesn't matter. I can write and I know that I

17:48

apparently in the minority here, right. Gary Vee would be spitting and throwing things at me, right? Just cursing me profanely for being a moron, I imagined.

Brandon 17:56

But like, oh, it's, it's the only reason that these things are worth money is because we artificially assign them value. Right? Just because you're a digital artist that made a painting. Mm hmm. It doesn't, it doesn't mean it's good. It doesn't mean that it has the value, right? There's no value intrinsically in a painted piece of canvas. There's no value intrinsically in a piece of digital art. Right? We had to assign it that value. Yeah. And there's lots of other like, cultural sociological reasons that go into it. But ultimately, it's worthless. Right, it's just it's made up. We've, we've assigned it this value. So I don't understand. Continuing continuing to like artificially inflate things and like coming up with really, really convoluted reasons why this piece of art is worth money, right? Like, oh, there's only one like, okay, cool. There's only one

19:02

of my sketches I drew in my middle school margins notebook, but nobody cares. Right? It's not important. Just because there's one have something doesn't mean it's good or useful, right? So this just does that whole world and other things I don't understand like, why, why do we just be like, Oh, no, this word a lot of money. Who said, the person that made it? I don't really think I should take their word for how much it's worth.

Collin 19:32

Because I think they might be lying to me, I think. Yeah. And that and that is that is hard, because there are people who will say, right, like, originality actually means something like they're like, like originality, knowing which one's real. Which one's not.

Brandon 19:51

In in a world of copies, I think it's important like we do spend a lot of time discerning

Collin 19:58

I guess I guess to you your rebuttal to that would be like, well, to what end? Like why does it matter whether this painting was by Michelangelo? Or not? Do you like the painting or not move on? Yeah. And this kind of gets to something. I don't know if you saw this piece come out.

Brandon 20:15

It's the so there's all these prankster artists out there Banksy is one of them. You know, he shredded his artwork. That was the auction. I like so funny. And then it like totally backfired it or did it? Like will we ever Yeah, right. That conspiracy theory of like, oh, yeah, now it's worth this one. Because it's not performance art, bro. Dude. Yeah, no, this is an artist called mischief. M S C, H F, they bought an original Andy Warhol painting, made an egg literally an exact replica of it made 999 exact replicas of it using a not not just a photocopy process, but an actual drawing process, you know, where it traces on one side and uses the other, shuffled them into a deck and is auctioning them off.

21:11

And see again, now your bot now that the value of this is not the art,

Brandon 21:16

it's the performance? Yeah, right. Now, apparently that has some value. Yeah. And basically, he's saying like, the other robot generated fakes. And he's selling them for 250 bucks apiece, and one of them might be held, right. There's a there's a one in 1000 chance. And

Collin 21:40

I thought that was a very interesting kind of take on kind of backlash against what we're talking about here of like, no, let's preserve preserve the originals. And we only want originals. And meanwhile, mischief is overhearing like, what if we made it more confusing? Wouldn't that be fun?

Brandon 21:58

Well, not only that, like what? You know, I mean, to me again, like if if there's only one in the whole world,

22:09

right. And you're paying for the exclusivity of being the owner of the one thing, right.

Brandon 22:16

Like, to me, that kind of defeats the whole purpose of again, we're just talking about art, right? That piece of art was of art anyway, because it's for people to see it. Yeah. Right. And like to experience an emotion from it.

Collin 22:33

You know, and so I feel like

22:36

that, it, that emotional response, and that emotional connection, and the thought provoking nature of pieces of art

Brandon 22:45

are not they don't only show up when you look at the original,

22:55

right, if you look at have a mild obsession with Goya, right, so let's talk about Goya minute, if you look at

23:04

the Black Paintings, okay. They are distressing. And they will make you like critically examine lots of things. You don't have to see the original

Brandon 23:15

ones. Right? You can look at a picture online of Saturn devouring his son and be like, Yeah, I don't like this. Right? You don't you don't have to do that. And I know this is a bad example because he painted that like without people wanting to see it. But like it's a visceral response to something in his life that he painted. And when you look at it, it comes across very abruptly. And it doesn't matter if you're looking at the original on the

23:49

wall or a photo on the internet. Right? You look

Brandon 23:55

at this one I have that blue man that Picasso blue man, and I'm here I think it's what's called probably saying the wrong name. Sorry, because it's easiest. I really like this painting. Right? Like, I just really like it's you know, it's a lot to me on certain level and you can kind of see that it's the guy he's very forlorn. Everything is blue raises the blue period costume clearly. Where like, the whole thing is blue. It's very depressing. It's very dour. The look on his face is very sad. Right and the only warm colors in the entire painting are the guitar he's holding. Right? Everything else is cool, pale, sad. Our colors except for the wood on the guitar is a light brown. And so the you are kind of understanding that the only warmth and affection that this man has comes from that instrument. Right? And this says a lot of things but I don't need to see the brushstrokes of the original Picasso to understand that. Sure. You know what I mean? Like So I feel like it's just, to me, it's silly. Like, ultimately, it's silly to like, I don't understand exclusivity. Right. Like, I'm the only one that has this, like, cool. I guess. I don't. That's not something I understand the feeling about.

25:20

Like, it's not something I've ever wanted for my life. Like, I have like one of the 50. Like,

Brandon 25:29

cool, like, doesn't matter. Are you gonna use it or not? Like, yeah, the thing is gonna be useful to your life. Could you? I mean, if you drive enjoyment out of that, that's fine. You too, you go for it. But like, that is just a psychological aspect that I don't really follow along with that. Well, I kind of like, don't get the point. Right. I mean, you like what you like, you want cool stuff. You want cool stuff, you know? Yeah. Like, do I care that that one weird NFT the ape thing like sold for the wrong amount of money? Because people don't understand how decimal points work. Now, kind of funny, but like it's not like, who said that was worth that much money? Exactly. Who said? Yeah. Some random dude.

Aaron 26:15

Like, the artist, again, don't trust artists when they talk about how much things worth? Because the average? Totally, that's $2 million. Obviously, clearly, what are you talking about? Yeah, every Everyone knows that. This is a you know, it's all fake money fake. It's not real. That's true. That is also true. Aaron, any, any, any updates that you want to? You know, share, or talk about, ah baseball fields coming together for a fundraiser or for softball. And then as the week of, Oh, you just sort of, say testing and so we got this week. And then lastly is Friday. And then we got Christmas break. So yeah.

27:18

Nice. Nice to meet in fts. Yeah, that's that's the only thing in your life that he wants listeners know that. Okay. All right. That's cool.

Aaron 27:25

He didn't take a hike up some steps yep, yep. Yep. When wouldn't propose Saturday, shall we? What up super Huska. had practice of emergency heal. And then her mom her mother was. And so because it was our two year anniversary Tuesday. But didn't have I didn't have the ring yet. Because I so I took I took meanies rain. And I took her grandmother, her great grandmother's bad get her ring. I put them together. And so my mind was like, oh, ring down will take about a week or two. And the guy's like, no, about four to six weeks. So it kind of fell moderately. He's like, Well, you know if your your anniversary is seven. I'll have it done. Oh, whatever the Tuesday was, yeah. Like I'll have it done by like the eighth or the ninth. And they're conveniently having to have it done on the last Thursday, which was I guess it was a night. It kind of planned out because she had stuff at her school. She had to stay late for I had stuff at my school. I'd stay late for it. I'd like oh, let's just celebrate our anniversary over the weekend. It's fine. Ha ha ha. Nice. Oh, shucks, mom. Because I just I wanted someone there to take pictures of it. And so, I mean, her mom was a ruined surprise. And she like because I was I wasn't gonna tell her where we were going. I just wanted to be like, oh, let's get up early, go on a trip. And so the original plan was to go to a place called bluestem falls, which is outside of Alaska, but it was too cold. And so I was like, Alright, fine. Let's just go do something else. And they're her mom's like, why don't we do? Why don't we just have breakfast, and then we kind of go from there. We, we did that. So one of their, um, I had, I had meanies old remarks, her rings them and so has a little note that he wrote to me in it. And so I had that but the problem is, especially when it's cold and you have to wear like joggers. Very noticeable. So I keep like moving this gigantic box around in my pockets. Someone's completely oblivious. Thankfully, you saw, we're going to go there and in the few hours and then how are no real anniversary like afternoon like, I'll just go up there and have breakfast with a mom no big deal. So we go there, go to the merchant deal. Shop around for a little bit. And then we go for a walk and I kind of planned it with her mom, like I look, there's some stairs that lead up to the courthouse. They're about to get to the overlook is on a hill that overlooks city, beautiful. That's kind of where one of our first true dates were. And plus, I credit a Husker during my time with DHS. That's kind of where we got reconnected because I did training in Oklahoma City. And if it wasn't for that job, and pasta, I don't think I would have ever re met Shelby. So we're gonna be stairs. But Shelby in her wonderful sweetness, just like, takes off up the stairs. And I was like, Oh, we're running. Off. And if you guys have come down, there's this other downtown for Huska where they actually shot a lot of the scenes for the kill of the flower Moon there. AirStep Lee had like up a hill, and there's a road and then it goes up another hill to a courthouse. So it's kind of like a two big hill. So me there are a lot of stairs. And so I'm thinking she's just going to go to the first time so good enough, fine. No, she takes off, like Rocky Balboa up there are having to like truck after her. And we kind of planned it or like, you know, like we're gonna say a code word. And blah, blah, blah. But but the problem is when we both got to the top, her mother myself, Shelby was up there like looking around. We were both like, gasping for air. And so I was like, this heavy. You see that over there? The good old like, Hey, what's that over there? Right? And she turned and thankfully her mother had less than ready. And it just, it just happened. And she turned around. And I don't know if you guys can see the video. Yeah, of it. Yeah, we did. We were the first reaction was with epic but it and people were like, this is like I said chubby held the ring. He's like, Oh, and like she said something in that she like takes the ring. And some people are like well, have you asked her? I'm like, technically I did. Because I was like, Well, you were married me afterwards, but I was just gasping for air time it's like show me and then she was with me. So she she said yeah, I think it's funny given the video you hear her say thank you. Did you like take the ring? Then she says yes. Yeah. We rejoice the merriment he was not expecting that rain. He was actually expecting like her grandmother's rain for her great grandma's rainy because her mom told her that she was getting resized and so like oh you know do the COVID we have to wait longer and so she she was being a little nosy she almost ruined surprise like a weekend and fans had been in the ring. I started taking it out and thing it's pretty and just looking at it like that so I had to hide it like seven times because you nosy

33:56

and then like the night before she was all like when is it gonna happen? I don't know. Another very

Aaron 34:06

Penny there. You're fine. And he thought I was gonna propose on Christmas. Oh, and my actual original plan was to do and when we did the family pictures. However, miscalculation on timewise I didn't have the ring like at all like it was still like he put it all together. So I was like, Sure. Wait, so I just had like contingency plan. Plan. And so yeah, we call it we called everybody in called you guys. All Dad. You're getting breakfast somewhere near the diner stuff in the background, but he's happy face I FaceTime. I'll guarantee emeritus. They were super stoked, which we're actually going to see this weekend. And because they'd never met her, so we're gonna go go do the Family Tour. thing. So yeah, it was it. You know, he is very excited. I'm very excited. We're already planning things and looking at wedding venues. And he's already got stuff for bridesmaids. And I'm like, Whoa, I don't know if I have that many friends. So I just have to start pulling people that I need out the street to be like, Hey, here's the invite back. So thing so so yeah. So and we're going to look at venues when we come back, and city. Oh, yeah, we're looking at the stuffing in Oklahoma. Then you eyes. Something, but yeah, it was it was very wonderful moment. That's the most best decision I've ever made.

36:03

Right. Am I saying that just because she'll be looking at me. Yes.

Brandon 36:10

Aaron blink twice?

Aaron 36:12

No. I think the venue, procurement is probably the weirdest, most stressful thing in the history of the universe. Right. Like that's that's a that's a fun, fun time. Yeah. So I mean, there's, there's there's different options that we're looking at. We're having having price. Autos, but there's, there's a lot of things that we're just looking at, as like, was was really pretty or oh, this place was really good food. Our biggest thing that we both agreed on is like we're going to have good food regardless. So that's our that's our number one thing at the moment. Like, I don't care about where it is, as long as there's good food, I'll be will be happy.

Brandon 37:04

So yeah, you have to go pick out cakes that you won't eat. That's fun.

37:11

I love that. It's inconvenient because so we started planning this stuff. What is the start of baseball and softball season? So I'm like, Oh, no.

Aaron 37:23

So I'll be helping. I'll be on FaceTime a lot on a school doing stuff but I will I will be he's also looking at me now will be helping facilitate any decision making that is decided endorsed elected

37:38

for the betterment of our wedding. Yes, I helped a lot by staying out of the way.

Aaron 37:46

Tell pray to going out of the way so it's true.

Brandon 37:52

So Susan was just like, You know what? Nevermind. I'll do this and like this is yeah, okay. If you just do, yeah. Oh, Shelly. Shelby has an Excel sheet in use. Later. Yeah. Yeah, the deciding factor in our venue? Was the lady was like, Yeah, we have chefs in the kitchen and we take everything and I was like,

Aaron 38:23

done. Okay. That's probably what we we look at is that it's, it's all all inclusive.

Brandon 38:32

It was, it was more expensive, but I did not care. It was worth it. Just like okay, all we had to do was like find the person to bake the cake was like,

Aaron 38:38

done. Okay, what am I got? It might have a context or photos and make making by the way, there you go. See? Again, guys, I'm printing out the calls with them. So but yeah, that the other big thing that we talked about is, as we're both coffee drinkers, we were thinking about having like a little coffee bar there. And it food is the way we're thinking about getting like a food truck. Like a little taco truck or something. We thought about getting like a little coffee car because you can rent those but we're also just gonna possibly just give us 1000 copies. There are people who like iced coffees and lattes because we there was one day we went to the same coffee place like was this like,

Brandon 39:24

are you getting married at breakfast time? This was happening. Isn't am wedding. I am Oh dear. I don't know. I will require obviously you must have the the official Oh brother. A breakfast item of the egg Sam Yeah. Would you the egg egg cart. What type of Aaron Aaron, you've got their chef behind there you've got the coffee bar you have the egg BB and they have three things they have scrambled over easy and sandwich and said

39:55

Do you like your sandwich bro? a caterer serve brunch that might be about as long as they have eggs because we are taking an egg picture anyway, just so you know. It can be unofficial with a phone. Okay, not the official wedding photographer, but you can actually go sit in the other room. Bring Shelby over here. We need to plan this out. Yeah, okay,

Aaron 40:21

we got this. Enjoy. I mean, I knew I wanted to be in at least a two year timeframe. Because like, I felt like that was like a good amount of time. It was like, having this built up plan all the time. But like my plan had been put to the side because like, well, crap, I don't necessarily have a rain. I'm like, Oh, well, I'm gonna do it in fall, like a while all the leaves are dead. And like I had I had like, between here and here, and her mother really, really helped me out with like taking the rain, because they'd be like, oh, so what kind of flirt baguettes Do you want? Oh? What? Ordering bread on the side. Okay, so you're like, oh, it's like, Oh, what if we do or who do a white gold? What is placed on the side like, Oh, right. So that he helped me kind of pick out because you knew she knew the color. I knew the size. And the lady that we worked with was just like, he came up with all these amazing things that we that we use. And she she had a blast, and she would text me pictures off and on. And she she was more hype than like we were or when whatever for the rain. So she she was wonderful to work with. There's a place in Owosso that I forgot. But this place has it's really fancy but they have these dogs that just like walk around. They're like older dogs. And they're really sweet. And that's partially why I use them because it's close and they have dogs. what's up what's up. John Kohler and John Kohler was oh, by the way, shout out. Yeah, so they have these really cool dogs. They have a really old Doxon he is so sweet.

Brandon 42:24

That my baby the decision of why bothering but yeah, so that was those are fun. Or those are weekend excursion. And it was it was a blast.

Aaron 42:39

Very exciting. She says she cannot wait to be your old sister in law. Oh, yeah.

Brandon 42:46

Lovely. Whoo. And my little more enthusiasm to that. Come on. Give us some credit show. Yeah, come on, man. Everybody Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Ray So now the venue hunting need to go 75 different places, and they're all slightly not right. And

43:20

I guess I see she has she has a spreadsheet and I thought she was joking. But she showed me

Aaron 43:26

why why would you think so there's, it's, it's a mixture of like, Alright, so there's a video in Springfield that she looked at. And she she thinks it's gorgeous. Like, trying to find like the happy medium between like her family traveling and our family traveling. It's more likely going to be possibly here in Oklahoma because there's so many that are just significantly cheaper, but offer more. I told her we're probably going to be a baller on a budget for a while. And so just to get just get some things acclimated and get set up. But we're, yeah, we're looking at one. Wherever it's 22nd is we're going to one that's like, near a lake. More also, we're not I guess we're looking at having it not in like typical like wedding even, like during the spring or summer. It'll mostly kind of be like, fall. Ish, or winter,

44:29

but it's December maybe. I'm sorry, December is a good month to get paid. I've heard I've heard that. It's a good time. January's a good one to man. Awesome winter weddings. Oh, no,

Aaron 44:41

this man. About that. She's like, What did what did your oldest brother? Get them? Like

Brandon 44:50

an emergency. Like, we thought about Holland and made like, January and you're like, oh my gosh, I know. Hey, it'll be fine. We'll be right don't worry about it. February. Yeah, I'm loving for February. Even worse weather

45:08

obviously might be where it is because a lot of the venues are significant, like the prices drop in February. I'll be like, perfect.

Brandon 45:15

So if the winter has been anything like this, we're like, oh, man, it's winter. It's 65 degrees. Oh, like, first out, I would like to cast your mind back a year ago. I know when it when December was like, Nah, December was like 60 takes five degrees. And then January came. And then February came

45:42

snowpocalypse 2020 I didn't I didn't go to work for two weeks because it was so much snow outside my house. So there's a there's a venue that has a has a like, like several $1,000 off in March, but has like this coming March into like, do you think we can get planned in like three months? Like,

46:09

no, absolutely not. No, no, fine. So she's like, but we do get it super cheap. And

Aaron 46:14

I was like, No, it'll give them like, Let's enjoy this all of a sudden Russians things so yeah, I don't want to do that. It was yeah, it was. It was pretty awesome experience. I had no idea what I was doing. I just found myself on one the chatroom were almost dropping a box down the stairs. Now. There's a got caught my jacket and I was pulling it and I was still trying to keep her distracted. I was just like pulling it and then like her box, but these boxes just like hard to open. Like fidget fidget, fidget, fidget fidget got it. And here it is. So gasping for breath. But in the most in, in between our

47:06

air intakes. Hmm. To say yes. So a cap that takes you back to

Aaron 47:13

your mother. Your mother said I can't if I have to lose your receipts I can't take back.

Brandon 47:21

Wow. Dang. Encouragement insights courier will say it's encouraging words. Yeah, yeah, that's right, man. COURAGING Oh. I'm interested to know more about these spreadsheets. If I may, for a moment, what are in the columns? What do we how are we what are we categorizing wedding venues? Or

Aaron 47:48

venues? What are we talking about? Like what was in the column? What are the categories? Alright, so So venue, yes, look like location? Guest list number catering, flowers, flowers, if it provided or not? Food provided or not? Everything else. It takes provided or not. And then like entertainment. Yeah, like, the whole whole shebang of things if they provide, like their contact information, website, email, phone number, all that stuff. And so she can just pull it up willy nilly. She had a final this weekend. So she had a lot of free time. Sure.

Brandon 48:31

I didn't see here anything in there about bounce houses. So you might want to look into that

Collin 48:36

trough or the early No, obviously.

Aaron 48:44

It needs to be rated a little bit higher. Wait. Like, like, like my ways sorry. But yeah, so things like that. But there's how many around here? Yeah. Sorry. And there's Yeah, so one one very, and then there's like 16 here. It goes on. But it shows him on his thoughts on not the one of the very

Brandon 49:24

I mean, that makes sense. Because you live in

Aaron 49:26

Canada. Yeah. It would make most sense to how to get paid Where do you live naked? Living in Missouri. Here without true, you guys in the parking lot and then afterwards, we just come in here and party. Okay. We're super, super low. Like well, people. That ain't egg party. Egg party. Yeah. eyes that. I mean, schools almost done. Got my observation done today. Most of our teachers are pretty high for me, like teachers who are just do something stupid like that. I was like, hey, now I didn't know I was gonna be observed today. And we had two days of state testing. And I was like, Yeah, we're gonna put on a movie and I'll get it set up and then we'll walk in, I was like, um, we're walking in millinery on self isolation, and how the effect and the mental effects of bullying during the holidays as a the social impact on on a community, and my students were really confused or critical started laughing like, are you watching the Grinch? I'm like, we are playing a movie. I got really good scores. But yeah, that was my week's been very interesting. At least.

Brandon 51:01

You know, good times. can be fun time. And do anything new. The next thing I tried to survive the last week of sixth graders, always challenging. So making it Yeah. Oh, yeah. Did you do anything cool. Wow. Actually, no. Last.