what’s the deal with Myst?
Aaron visited a museum. Brandon visited a museum. Collin visited a museum. We’re lost in Myst.
Aaron mowing
Brandon’s training a playlist
Greatest Driving Song: https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Greatest_Driving_Song
What is Myst about..what’s the deal…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
Brandon went to the Farmers Market
And visited a local history museum
Aaron visited Little Richard…not that one
Collin when to a museum
And another museum
Chapters 10, 11, and 12
Quote - a man who carries a cat by the tail, learns something he can learn no other way
Collin’s Haiku
Ladden thick with facts,
Silent wisdom on each shelf—
Worlds within their grasp.
Brandon’s Haiku:
Tennis uniform
Collared versatility
Set free from the court
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SPEAKERS
Brandon, Collin, Aaron
Collin 00:05
Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Colin, and Aaron. On this week's show, what's the deal with a boy?
Aaron 00:26
What's up? Good. Yeah. How's the how's the grass? Oh, good. Changing topics. It's honestly not bad. I just have I've complained about this 1000 times, but I've got three fields, one main water source, and just little old me to mow everything. Mowing to the feet to the fields isn't like bad. But it's the baseball field that just takes so, so long. And it's a different kind of grass that trying to grow in. Because during baseball season, it's completely different graphs, besides what it normally is. And so I got to calculate to that. And it just takes so long to do.
Collin 01:19
I think I got there at like 11 today. And I got done at like, five. So
Aaron 01:28
it just takes a really, really a long time to take care because I gotta get the one mower out. And then I gotta do what I can and then I got to put it back and I gotta get the other one. So it thankfully, it's raining here. So that that will help out tremendously. But I am sunburned. I am a little dehydrated a little bit. But other than that we're doing good. So.
Collin 01:51
So you're being dad is what you're doing. Well.
Aaron 01:59
One of my fields out of the three looks looks like dad's grass. The other two not so much. So it's it's a constant jostle
Collin 02:10
of, of headache that I'm dealing with.
Aaron 02:16
But yeah, other than that, no, it's that's what I've been. That's what I've been doing literally all day. Today was was just mow constantly. So I I'll stay I'll put my earbuds in. And I'll just listen to music and I will just derive for hours. Just normally in circles, but I will I mean yeah, but that's so that's the that's what that's what I've been up to today, honestly. So
Collin 02:49
what's the what's the preferred mowing playlist include? Now? Geez, I do need to know this. Um, I don't know if he knew. I'm so
Aaron 03:03
anyway. Okay. It depends. It depends on the mood. So I have
03:10
these knowing how happy I'm happy right now.
Aaron 03:13
My accumulative collection, if you look at my Spotify playlist, it'll be like little blip bits of Oh, Erin was definitely in a country mood. When he put this on his like to play list or, Oh, Erin was in A. Phil Collins moved. When he was, you know, kids, there'll be times I'll be sitting there like thinking of a song. And like, I'll find it. And then if you think about Spotify, there'll be like the songs that are like this song that you've selected on the playlist. And so, therefore, a song that will play just like the song I liked, will pop on some like, Well, I gotta clearly add that to the list. And so there'll be like a weird influx of, of certain music. So if we look at what I have now on at least just looking at the top list weirdly have some Florida Georgia Line. I have a barbershop quartets star bomb. Ninja sex party. George Strait, weirdly boozy.
Collin 04:31
What else is on here?
Aaron 04:34
Jack Black. And they got it and then and then it jumps to a playlist of the greatest showmen. Then it has a few songs from what does that Les Miserables that has a few songs from Hamilton. And then that right and then it has a few songs on here from the Oklahoma State marching band follows me try a few random songs Bon Jovi's on here. Skillet, some
Collin 05:12
ot pain.
Aaron 05:14
You go. And then yeah, so that's just like the first like 40. Okay, I have, I have a lot of songs that I'm like, I'll be sitting there listening to the radio, or something on some social media thing will pop up like this. And then I add it and then it's, it's goes crazy. From there.
Brandon 05:32
I had to traumatically I had to retrain my spent all day today retraining my Amazon playlist thing. Right. So like, I don't know what happened. I don't know what in the world is going on. But I was driving out to my friend's house yesterday, I was gonna go play some music out there. Right. And so, obviously, you gotta listen to some rockin jams as you're going. Alright, I was like, so I turn on the Apple Music thing. Or not having music, the Amazon music thing, right? And there's like a thing on there that it's just like it. Yeah, like based on the stuff that you normally pick. It's like a soundtrack they'd like they called like my soundtrack or something I don't remember. And it like just puts that kind of music on shuffle, right? So I'm loading up the car yesterday I get in the car I get my thing set up. I hit the deal. And like Billy Eilish music comes on. And I was like, What in the heck is this? And the reason I thought about this because this then I skipped it. I was like something's wrong here and then that should boozy thing. I've never heard of this before. I don't know what it is. Didn't want it. I didn't even give you time because it was not social distortion. Mostly because that's what I want. Fair enough. And so when you're expecting that and you get this other thing I was very distraught. So I've been today, like playing things being like, Okay, I want this and it's like finding things to remember this is me. This is what I want to hear. You'd like random 90s Punk songs. That's what I need. Just all of them. Like I don't care. Like no, no, no of skipping the Green Day stuff. Go to like, you know, all the all the crazy stuff. That's what I want. Like.
Collin 07:23
Yeah, so amazing. How quickly those playlists get thrown off. Like it's weird that you didn't it was really good, right? I don't want Billy Eilish Give me some more real big fish. Right. That's what we need. rocking around the car.
Aaron 07:39
I will saw say I went from Oh, who was also dead gamut. I gotta go back to my playlist, y'all. So I have no say anyway,
Brandon 07:49
while you're looking one thing that I noticed that Aaron and my playlist seems to have in common, right? Is a car music. Right? It's important that it's like singable, right? I need to sing along with especially want to go into band practice, like a warm up, right, you know, get going but like, you know, I think it's great whenever you're rock driving in the car, summer window down, right? Really annoying music really loud. Singing along is very important. So I feel like Aaron and my players have some of this in common because a lot of the artists that he know that he mentioned that I know of like a lot
Collin 08:26
of that stuff very singable
Brandon 08:29
sing along, I'm envisioning Aaron driving the the lawnmower doing the Phil Collins like airdrome filter. That's really the first introduction that has happened. I mean, I wouldn't be disappointed if it didn't happen. Let's be honest.
Aaron 08:48
I will say I'm partially proud of this. But it went from a jump from m&ms Rap God to Billy Joel's Piano Man. I don't know how that happened. But I was it was today I was just going around because I had. So I have the the infield has to be taken care of differently than the outfield. So I have to get a different mower, because I might have not voted a while. So in my transition to getting the different mower wrap gun came on and not going wild busting it up, do my do. And then after the six minutes, which I completely forgot how long that song is.
Collin 09:31
I was like, alright, you know what, I'm good. You
Aaron 09:34
know, no one no one else is around. It's just me up here. Just vibin doing what I do. And then the opening sequence of piano man came up and I'm like, Oh, do I have enough in me to do this? And the answer is yes. Yeah. Good. But this brings up this brings up an important question that I heard on the radio the other day because there's some times where I actually do listen to like the sports talk radio That's out of Tulsa, Oklahoma City. And they ask the question about like commuting to work in some way, shape or form. In the morning music compared to the evening music, what is there a tangible shift of in the morning, I want something that like gets me going, that's like, pump up that's like loud. But in the evening, I want to listen to something a little bit slower, a little bit calmer. But some people on the radio or that they talked about this, it's like, why I actually like to reverse because at the morning, I want to wake up, I want to listen to something like soft. And then the evening, I want to crank it up. So what is your thoughts on that? Oh,
Brandon 10:43
that's a good question. I don't know if I've ever consciously thought about this before.
Collin 10:49
But I feel like I want it
Aaron 10:55
went on the radio or like music in general, like when I put it in just just music in general because they talked about like, you know, some people who do listen to the music, like on the radio, go into work, some people listen to the the morning talk show stuff, which I
11:10
don't like, I don't like to talk show stuff that I want. It
Aaron 11:13
was just the difference of Do you prefer, you know, loud, you know, amp up music in the morning or just do something that's like more upbeat? Yeah. As compared to the afternoon when like you're driving home or something when you kind of like, just want to wind down
Brandon 11:27
I think, I think I don't, I don't really like listening to like, calm relaxing music in the car. Yeah, right. I think. I think like in the morning, when I go to work, I want it like, upbeat like, you know, and then when I come home, I also want upbeat music. I don't really like calm relaxing music in the car. I've tried that before. Listen, like NPR stuff, you know? And like, it's too relaxing. For driving. Yeah, right. Like it for me personally, right? Like I like to be like, you know, just some energy. And I don't always want like the same level of energy. Like,
Collin 12:04
I don't always want like, you know, like heavy metal or something. But like,
Brandon 12:11
I do generally want pep in my driving soundtrack. Right. I think that's important for me personally, I just again, I like singing along to that song that's on the radio. Boom. There you go. deep cut. Thanks, gentlemen. For that one. I think that's what I like. I don't know. That's what that's what I like most I think.
Collin 12:30
I mean, I haven't heard the either of you really talk about the definitive greatest driving song as voted by Top Gear.
Aaron 12:39
Anything from Bob and Tom? No, no,
Collin 12:43
no top gears here. They did back in the oil was one of the early seasons remember, they put out the call for the greatest driving song of all time? Vaguely. This okay. I think it was something by Queen I don't remember. I don't remember.
Aaron 12:57
But that sounds about right, though. Yeah.
Collin 12:59
Yeah, I It depends. I mean, I find myself when I'm driving for long distances. I don't really like calming music either. It needs to be needs to be peppy. I will say Yeah. Yeah.
Aaron 13:15
For my commute, because I drive an hour to work almost every single day. And then during the school year, it's literally every single day. Yeah. My brains kind of weird because sometimes, like, depending where I left off the day before, like, I'll just let it continue. But other times, it's like, nope, like I start from the beginning. And my brain gets weird whenever, like, my playlists shuffled. Because then like, I know what I'm expecting in the next song coming up. And I'm like, No, I don't like that. No, no, I don't like it. Don't shuffle. Don't like I don't like shuffle.
Brandon 13:49
I don't like shuffle. i i Amazon does this sound like I'd haven't tried it in a while but like, you can't play an album. Right? It was shuffling the album and there are no that is illegal, right as a card carrying member of the CD Kids Club. Right? Like I when you're listening to like a whole album, right? Especially in the car because it's it comes up more often because they just goes back to back to back to back right there. The song order is important, right? Like whenever I listen to some songs sometimes on like Spotify or Amazon like, I will start humming the next song. It's on like the CD, right? And I'm like, oh, no, and then it goes to like something. Yeah, your brain knows what's next. So there is definitely some that like some I don't care because I they weren't like big, heavy rotation things for me. But like there are there are definitely certain ones where like, I don't like to listen to just like I don't like to shuffle because there's no need to go. My brain says they're in this order and they need to be in that order. That's what they need to stay.
Collin 14:58
Yeah. Oh good. Well, and even some of those some albums, they're designed with the intros and outros to kind of match one another to, you know, so there's that, as well, if you don't kind of get that seamless transition between the songs when they're getting around that choice.
Aaron 15:16
I had the big mistake of because there are, like, playlists, and like, like whole, I guess, CD words of artists on Spotify, but like listening to things, like for example, I might have been listening to the soundtrack of The Book of Mormon the other day, which is absolutely hilarious. If you listen to each one individually, and like it, it, they don't save an order they save in the order of which you like it. And so if you let you go with the playlist of the songs go in order, and I made this mistake the other day when I was listening to Phantom of the Opera, because it was like, You know what, I just I just want to like just built it on the way up there. I got an hour. I just want to let it go. And so, but I saved them not to the right order. Oh, no. So it was like music of the night. And then it was like the chandelier song afterwards that you do that to me. So that I had to go back and literally like just like the whole playlist just so I can listen to things and it was so annoying. Good. This song is next and then it wasn't I was so mad. Yeah, but it but I learned that over time. But if you look at my playlists there are some other songs that are still back out of order from like when I
16:45
think is reordering and playlists that's important as important feature that needs to be in there. I don't know why you would not want that. Right? Because some days you know, he's got to get in the right spot. So
Brandon 17:02
it's like air drumming. Air drumming mowing, this is great.
Aaron 17:07
I do have to be careful because I am literally out in the middle of nowhere sometimes and I'm like I forget that volume kit or you know vocals carry bass true. Oh, yeah. I get it I get after it every once in a while. But there's I think it was like mowing during the school year. And like the kids had just gotten out. And it's like oh geez, I probably shouldn't sing as loud especially on some of these songs with like you know T pain coming up next.
17:38
Oh, yeah, true. Yeah, you gotta
Aaron 17:42
wait. I have a question for you real quick since Colin is King
Collin 17:47
indisposed the game missed. Yes. What the game about
Aaron 17:58
so i i have on my stupid steam Wish List ever since I got steam. Okay, like the first thing on there because it's like, it's always like $1.50 And then I watched some like playthrough person for five minutes and I was like, I can't I don't know what's happening. So what is missed about did we talked about this before? Because I am kerfuffle beyond that
Collin 18:22
if we did it was a very very long time ago so it's deserving of a revisit. I will I will also add that I have an emulator on my phone to play Miss yes gotta be real. Like missed on a tiny little phone screen is not that great. I really Yeah. It doesn't doesn't quite have the same impact and clicking on things is a little heart.
Brandon 18:53
I was wondering if you asked this because I think I think recently like Riven just got like remastered and re released the sequel to miss Yeah. Oh
Aaron 19:02
my gosh, there are two aren't there?
Brandon 19:04
There's very think there's more than two. I can't remember exactly how many there are. But there's a lot Yeah, so it's like Boyd's puzzle game. Right. You're trying to like solve a mystery.
Collin 19:17
There's a dude trapped in the book. Right? In also two of his sons trapped in other books. Yeah. And I think
Brandon 19:34
like the implication is that like one or both of the sons are villains. Right? They were trapped in other books because of their nefarious it like dad put them in there. Gotcha. Because they were trying to like do something thing. I don't remember exactly. It's been a very very long time since I missed I don't remember the pole. Exactly. But yeah, it's you're trying to solve have
Collin 20:00
like, I think you're trying to rescue
Brandon 20:03
you can into rescuing the dad guy. Right? Like,
Collin 20:10
cuz he is the guy that like made all of the stuff. And like he he's the one that like,
Brandon 20:19
built the thing and made the books and there's like
Collin 20:24
something about
Brandon 20:27
ages. I don't remember exactly but like, yeah, that's pretty much it you got to keep traps and you have to be trying to free the guy. I don't know if there's like one ending or not, but I'm not sure I
Collin 20:40
think there I think there is because I remember as you're trying to free the the brothers right? And you can you can you can get free either one or the other. Right? Or is it? Yeah, I don't remember. Don't remember.
Brandon 20:59
I haven't played that game in a billion years. I did watch a playthrough of it. Like, let's play thing. But that was also probably five years ago now. But oh, yeah, it confirmed the game has several endings, depending on player action. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Depending on which book you give the brother to? Or which brother you give the book to? That was not how sentences work or anything. What the heck? can make a big thing here? Yes. But like, there's a whole, there's like all the different like,
Collin 21:36
like on the island. Right?
Brandon 21:38
Each little place takes you to an area and you have to get a page. Right? And the more pages you get, like, the more the guy can tell you about Sofia, like you add them to the book. Right? And he can like, like, tell you more information. So you have to like get more pages. Because it's like when he's talking to you. It's like all like staticky and like cutting out you know, like, remember that. Yeah. And it's like really weird. And then like, you can get more pages and it gives you more information, you have to go to each of the common or how many different places there's like the lighthouse thing and like the ship thing and like the rocket deal. And
Collin 22:15
like the observatory, doodads a whole bunch of different
Brandon 22:22
things. And layout. You have to go through and solve all those puzzles and stuff to get the pages. Treehouse
Collin 22:28
is the coolest one. Visually,
Brandon 22:30
my opinion is gonna go ahead and just take that right now. Fair enough, Treehouse level is the coolest. It's visually striking, because I can still remember what it looks like. And I can't remember a lot of the other ones. So something about the treehouse level really pulled
Aaron 22:51
it just something that popped up on on YouTube. And then there was another guy that a watch. It's like, what are some of the top video games that you remember your childhood? And like, I remembered a few of them. But I also remember mostly watching you play a lot of those games, and thinking therefore I could play those games. But then I remember, I am a child and I'm really bad at like problem solving problems and solving games. And so I was like, it was gonna be stupid. So I'd like never picked it up since. But then try to watch other people play it like remembering it and then remembering like you writing down like because they get the book out of the packet. And you realize a book. Yes. Like writing like the notes and stuff down. Like in that book. I was like, this is the most like intense, like game I've ever seen. And then I played it used.
Brandon 23:43
It was hard. It was very confusing. Right now this is like, this is also listeners. Remember, this is before the internet exists. So like, you get stuck and missed. Or you're stuck forever. And that's pretty much it right? You're not really gonna. There's nothing to do now. You're just stuck. You can't fix it. And you'll never know what to do. And
Collin 24:08
that's it. That's
Brandon 24:11
no guide for Ms. Right back in the day. You
Collin 24:17
hope for the best. Yeah.
24:18
So I don't I don't exactly recall the whole entire plot of Miss. But that's,
Aaron 24:23
that's what that was more than I was anticipating. Because when you say oh, yeah, the plot was like there was a plot to that. I mean, so yeah, that helped. That helps that in moderation then so that was
Collin 24:35
delivered to you through garbled conversations with the guy.
Aaron 24:41
I remember that part. But I was like, Why is this person talking to you?
Brandon 24:45
I remember the part where he's yelling at the very beginning. He yells about like more. All you can hear is like more pages. He's like writing more pages. That's all you can hear. So you have to like go manual tell you more. Yeah,
Collin 24:59
it's just like what Well, what?
Brandon 25:01
What do you mean? Where do I find what the heck is going on?
Collin 25:07
Oh, no it's very difficult to deal with but you know, it's fine. It's just worry not. Oh, yeah.
Brandon 25:26
My big excitement for the week is finally went to the farmers market. So that was exciting. They go, I was fun. We finally made down there. We're like, hey, yeah, I think we're talking about we should probably do for a long time. We spoke I do that all right, guys. Sweet produce, right. buying produce off of a random table for like, $1 Oh, pretty sick. I'm not gonna lie. Kinda kind of into that. That was.
Collin 26:04
It's great. Just to walk up with my favorite is whenever it's literally still in the bed of a pickup truck.
Brandon 26:12
is wonderful. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I think we may go back this week. See what's up. Right? What? So farmers market adventure. I was pretty exciting. Lots of pretty cool vegetables. Right? There was actually a lot more than I thought there was gonna be right I didn't really know what to expect. There was a lot there was a weird it's a weird, it's not like it's not like super big.
Collin 26:32
Right? Because, you know, small town Farmers Market whatever. Like
Brandon 26:37
there was a pretty decent amount of stuff. And then there was also some other people like Randy like the random like, sell other stuff. People like oh, here's my like
Collin 26:48
beaded accessories
Brandon 26:49
crafting and you laugh people where they crash. People are there to the craft people are there. There's a couple bakers there. That was kind of neat, right? Sure. But like, Susan wanted to get some bread, but we'd already bought bread for this week. So she's right, it was like we jet. Yeah. So we went to the farmers market after went to the grocery store. That's the wrong way around to do this. Yeah, that's not that's missed, missed. Oh, we didn't know. We didn't know didn't know. Right. That's true. So that was cool. Then, then the excitement. We also were walking to the car. We're with our friend, right? And we're standing there. And we're like, Hey, we're staring at the entrance to the local history museum.
Collin 27:37
We're like, Ha,
Brandon 27:41
that's also a place where we've said, we need to go. Ah, let's go right now. Throw in the car. Let's go. Is rad in there? Right. It's really cool.
Collin 27:58
Nice. Okay, so this is what what? Industry history museums made a lot of different things like what what was the surface of this one?
Brandon 28:06
So it's like before the town? Right? Cool. That's what it's all about. It's like all local town history in there. And have something for you guys keep talking shit. Okay. So like in the, in the bottom, the bottom is all like, redone. It's like an old historic building, like right on the main old downtown, in the old downtown buildings, right, you know, classic Midwest, downtown brick building things. It's in there. And so the downstairs is all filled out. They have like a huge, like, Research Center, where it's like, every, it's like all kinds of books and stuff. And like historical documents and things from the town or just in this bookcase. You can just Oh, which is kind of neat. And then have like exhibits downstairs of like, famous happenings, right? Like, there's more detail about like the Trail of Tears stuff that was around here. Right? There's more detail about like, some important historical families and some like just like stork landmarks, right? So and then in the back, they have a giant room. It feels giant enough it's actually jibe with they have a really big room just about like railroad stuff. Right? So they have all these displays of railroad. They're building like a model train thing in there. That's cool.
29:34
Apparently, we were a very important railroad hub. We had we had a turntable. Oh, what way? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I
Collin 29:44
saw a picture. I was like, well,
Brandon 29:47
we'll watch. This was a big, big, huge steam turntable being I was like, wow. And there's a bunch of like artists X, they have a bunch of stuff from the railroad, right? Lanterns and jackets and all. It's all just tons of stuff. And the wall, they have all these real cool pictures. And some of them are like, like, there's like Theodore Roosevelt at a stump stop, like in town.
Collin 30:17
There is areas right there.
Brandon 30:21
Truman and Dewey both here, also. Right. Right. So that's kind of cool. Behind that they had like, a room that was like, build us the history of like the school. Right? So they had pictures of the old school, all the different schools throughout the years and all that stuff. And actually cool NNm they just got, like, every volume ever printed of the local newspaper, in these massive, like, wizard folio things right? We think of like, it's like seats, a bound thing. It's like the size of a newspaper, but it's like six inches thick.
Collin 31:03
And they're just stacked.
Brandon 31:06
Got them. And they're just all those. I don't know, I don't know if the paper had them. I don't know if like the paper donated them to the bank. Don't delay didn't say, of course, these nosy ladies and they're associated. You said, Oh, they're back. They used to go check them out. Of course. So they weren't really organized into anything yet, because they literally just got them so they're just on the back on the floor. They were stacked up across the entire wall. Whoa, like chest? Huge, like the earliest what I found was like 1929 It was insane.
Collin 31:42
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Brandon 31:46
Cool. And then they had another room that had like, local military history, like people and like important people. And then they just had like, random stuff. Like they had one little cabinet that was like, about old restaurants that used to be in town. And like, they had a whole thing about like, the churches and stuff and it had like old like, directories and like pieces of the church and all that kind of stuff. Right?
Collin 32:15
Old like businesses
Brandon 32:17
like the car dealership, and the manufacturing stuff that was around like, just kind of all that kind of stuff. Like this is what was here and all that, you know, like, a lot of signage from old stores. They had one like frame display of like older, like bags, right from when you would go to the store is like the bag to get these had them and they displayed them on the safe.
Collin 32:41
Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it was neat.
Brandon 32:46
And then there's like a another room I guess this is like a huge building right? Then the other one is like it's empty. It's mostly empty. It's like the it's like a hall like they use it for like, like a banquet hall thing. There's like table stuff in there. You can like rent it out, I guess. I don't know. But on the wall they have all these like big framed old pictures of like, just all over town, like old Christmas parades. And well just like all kinds of stuff right? There's one that was really cool was a horse and buggy in like a snowstorm. Like right on downtown St is like 1811 I was like 1900 Maybe like very old stuff. Really cool. And then they had they had a small hole just soda counter
Collin 33:33
in there for the whole thing. Everything.
Brandon 33:40
And he said he said it was in an old building somewhere else actually. And then it got pulled out it sat in the barn for like a billion years and then the family that had it they like got it out and restored it and then they like it's on loan from them. So it's like a counter the seats behind the counter everything is there all the little station stuff he said the only thing that the valve or
Collin 34:06
the soda is broken. Ah the other than that the holes everywhere. Wow. So they do like
Brandon 34:12
same thing with like, sometimes they serve ice cream on it sometimes for like, yeah, they just serve is like you can't use the soda water thing because the little valve thing in there whatever that whatever is in there is apparently hyper specialized
Collin 34:26
and hard to get. So everything else works.
Brandon 34:35
So, so that's really cool. Like it's just tons of like really cool. Just like stuff, right? Just like little things from all over and it was really cool. A lot of stuff Susan recognized. There's like old like, random cash register from a business in there. And you know, it was neat.
Collin 34:49
But then my favorite part. There's an upstairs, right? So you
Brandon 34:56
go upstairs, they put an elevator in this building. You go upstairs, and the guy's like yeah, Week, you know, the funding is on and off sometimes. So he's like, we kind of ran out of money for the remodel of the upstairs. The upstairs is all the old business offices. Right? That used to be in this building. And like, yes, it's really cool. Like there's a big hallway. And then on the side, there's just these doors with like, the frosted glass windows on him. Just all the way down the hallway. That's it. Wow. And it's like, it's, it's cool because it's not finished, right, they were started to do some renovations. And then they kind of ran out of money to like fix it. So they just put exhibits in there anyway, actually makes it cooler because there's like exposed brick and like broken plaster.
Collin 35:50
Oh, like,
35:52
like the, you know, the wood slats that have the plaster covered in them. It's all there exposed. You can see it all. But all these doors are here to have all these frosted glass on it. And one of them is like
Brandon 36:04
the dentist or doctor, whatever they used to be there. It's just like set up just like a doctor's room would have been back in that time. It's just frozen, huh? Yeah, yeah, they brought it back in. Because he said they said later he moved out. But they brought it back up here and put it all back in there. And it's like, it's the chair and the table with all the little stuff and stuff on the wall. And there's all kinds of little things everyone is crazy.
Collin 36:29
That's neat, that they that they kind of have that whole thing staged up the way that it was at that time. And
36:38
one of them looks like a they haven't said they just have like houseware stuff and one of them. Right, just like old stove and old ice box and a kitchen table. And you know, just like things from that time period when this building was being used, right. But this is really neat. And like, not all the rooms have stuff in them because they're still trying to get stuff in there. But like, Sure, it's really neat. It's really cool.
Brandon 37:00
Then, that the last part upstairs is they have sort of rebuilt the old like theater that was in town. Right? That That building is now torn down. Like in the in the hallway, they recreated the marquee sign. Right. And then they have like a very small scale, like some of the old seats set
Collin 37:24
up in this little room.
Brandon 37:28
Like how they would have been in the old old theater. Oh, see, get a feel for that. Yeah, so you can see they've been donated, like they're sponsored by people that paid to help, you know, refurbished and stuff. And so they got little plaques on him. But you can like sit in them. And kind of like, see what it would have been to have a screen set up in there. They were just like playing a silent movie on the like a player. Right. But it was kind of like, that's the vibe, it would have been like, right? The room is decorated, like the theater was outside of that room. They have like, another room with like, a bunch of memorabilia that they found in there, like old movie posters. And the popcorn machine is in there and just all kinds of stuff. Right? It's really
Collin 38:05
cool. It was really neat. Oh, definitely,
Brandon 38:10
definitely fun time. We spent like way too long in there. But what's cool look at this, look at this, look at this. So there's really cool times like really old railroad stuff. It's kind of weird to see like, Oh, I know what this building is. Oh, yeah, I see this. I see.
Collin 38:29
That was our big adventure for the week was a local historical museum. Tour. How? Yeah, that's fun. That Aaron has sent us a so well. Okay, so this museum real quick. It sounds like he's still putting it to get there. Like, what's the status of it? Or has it been around for a while? Or is it one where their spec renewed interested in anything? I think it was from the local historical
Brandon 38:59
society. Okay, right. And they opened this building a few years ago, trying to like consolidate a bunch of stuff into a central location. And there is like a local historical society with like, members and stuff and they like, pay that for the they do that and they fundraise to do like the upkeep stuff on the building. But part of the like, downtown like restoration project, right to like, because like one of the buildings on there. They're like, they took off the, at some point, probably in the 70s. They like concrete phased it, right? So it's like all these brick buildings and then just like one big slab of slate gray, they peeled off the facing, and I'm trying to like restore some of the facades of the building and I think they they injunction with the city or doing some of that stuff. Right. So I think it's just kind of like a preservation little
Collin 39:50
thing. Right?
Brandon 39:52
It's I think it's somewhat ongoing. Right, and they're always probably looking for more stuff.
Collin 39:58
and like,
Brandon 40:02
it sounded like they wanted to continue refurbishing the upstairs part of the building, even though I think it's really cool like it is, but like, are you talking? They probably want it to be like more finished in a more time appropriate thing. Right. But like but so that I think that's it seems to be kind of an ongoing because we talked to one of the guys too. So that kind of seems what he was talking about, like, want it to be an ongoing preservation whole
Collin 40:31
situation. Right. Yeah, especially. I mean, I, I know, museums are really important to have, especially local museums where people are trying to preserve the local history, right? Like, that's an ongoing thing, as there's always going to be another aspect to a story, somebody's cleaning out a bar, and they get something out of the attic, you know, their family gets things out, it will never stop. But that's kind of what makes it cool. I mean, the longevity of those things is really hard, right to staff that for the next whenever, but it's that's really neat. That's really cool.
41:04
Yeah, so it was really fun. So we're probably gonna go That We might try to take Susan's mom in there. Because she'll just like
Collin 41:09
looking at some of the stuff you know, it'd be cool, but I thought I was really neat. So I enjoyed it a lot. That's great. Yes, there was this thing you sent me? Yeah, you shouldn't. So is this.
Aaron 41:20
So the, my town, my city has a little like, History Museum of its own, as well. I have a feeling of mine, or ours is like weirdly smaller. Because it's in downtown of where we live, which is literally in walking distance. It's in this little bitty house. That I guess it was like one of the original parts of that town that's kind of been like, updated over the over the years.
Collin 41:47
There's 12345 rooms, maybe
Aaron 41:54
into it. And like it has like a lot of stuff. There's a city historical society that's been they have like meetings and stuff. And it's mostly put on by like elderly couples that are that are pretty wealthy, with some like city assistance, to kind of help keep the upkeep it'll there was no charge to get in. And it did, we walked in and there's these these two little ladies just didn't know what ours was like. It was just like, Oh, hello. And they're like, kind of surprised that we're there. But it's like, are you guys open? And they're like, Oh, sure. Like, what does it cost? Like, oh,
Collin 42:38
nothing like Oh, okay.
Aaron 42:41
So we walked around there the military part history, they did have a cool room that was dedicated to like, the, just the schools of the, of the area. And so like that, that was kind of neat to see but what I sent you this weird story of this local farmer's like, dog that gots duck, while they're like out hunting or something, and it ended up on like the news. Like that. It was like one of the first times the city that I lived in was, like, televised or like on the way I can't remember what year it was. It's been a while since I looked into it. But it they just talked about, like, oh, the city city of Watsonville has, you know, finally been put on the map because of this incident. And so there's a statue of this dog that was actually like in the city to commemorate the dog that
Collin 43:38
was trapped. The dog lived.
Aaron 43:42
But it was just like that. That's what that's what put our city on the map first. And my city does have history with, you know, the Native Americans and all this other stuff. But it's like the one thing that was that put this town on the map. First was this story of some guy's dog that got stuck in it like it's a cute story. And you're reading it and it's like that. Like I don't know if you guys can zoom in on the probably
Brandon 44:12
a little bit. But it's fascinating. Isn't it? Just like crazy like Yeah.
Collin 44:18
So raccoon into the narrow cave,
Aaron 44:20
right? Little Little Richard 1959 Put a wasum on the map name for the popular rock and roll singer with a blue tick count and he and his owner were hunting east of the town around some old limestone caves on the hillside. Little Richard tastes a raccoon one of the narrow caves where he slipped and his shoulders became wedged between some rocks attempts to rescue him fail his story was quickly picked up. The area newspaper then televised as people tried to get him loose. CBS, NBC and ABC all sent crews to the city many different things we're trying to get little richer to lose. Nothing worked finally since my favorite, right. Finally somebody suggested dynamite. Dynamite expert was flown in from Kansas City. People were asked to donate pillows to stuff in the cave around Little Richard to protect him from the dynamite. The dynamite worked and Little Richard was finally freed after having been stuck in the cave for which is crazy six days. He spent he spent three days in a veterinary hospital in Tulsa, and then came home in a limousine. Little Richard became an honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce and received many other attributes. The first of these research candles a division of carnation Company of New York, installed a concrete canine drinking fountain in Rayleigh Park. This was the first Friskies fidelity award presented to a town, the foundation, or the fountain is now located on the south side of historical museum, which we saw and it was crazy. But yeah, that was, that was the thing that out of all of the little knickknacks, and historical pieces, newspapers, radio stuff, whatever. Like, it was just like, tucked away in a little corner of this little museum. And that's what drew us there. And I'm like, Are you kidding me? And so we are fascinated by it.
Brandon 46:21
It's crazy how the law is a law and we're here to name this law, but like, it's this this apparently newspapers and old television broadcasts function the same way as the internet. If there is a dog, people will watch it. Absolutely.
Aaron 46:39
Absolutely.
46:42
It's a fundamental law media, right. There's a dog in peril. Right. Obviously, literally, apparently, that was
Aaron 46:57
that's what you do in 1959. Oklahoma duck. Yeah.
Brandon 47:01
I like to imagine that some guys like yeah, got some dynamite back. I mean, what?
Collin 47:09
Anyways, let me get right. Yeah. Let me call my dynamite expert. Ring green. Why is your? Is your phone in your house ringing?
Aaron 47:21
Don't worry, I got a dynamite guy. So of course, I guess I guess I guess that's a makeshift for all little district history museums. Kind
Collin 47:30
of nationwide. So that's neat. Yeah. Well, interestingly, there's a connection between Aaron story and some stories from my week this week. Oh, yeah. You weren't dynamiting any dog pacifically dynamite. Dynamite was what led to the discovery of that went that developed a museum that I attended, I went to this week, I went to the Missouri Institute of Science that was really founded after the River Bluff cave was blown open, once he three years ago, which is insane. So the River Bluff cave in Springfield was discovered as they were trying to extend a road that I routinely drive on now. And while they were doing this, they set off some dynamite as you do, apparently, because he had the blast. And they were like, Oh, what's this weird hole. And then they found the giant short faced bear. They found claw marks from the North America and lion. They found all sorts of things in this place. And have ended up developing a lot of that now goes into the Missouri Institute of Science now on the South side of town, and I can't please, I knew this place was there. It's been there for a long time. And finally, this week, I was like, You know what? We're taking the kids and we're going we're just gonna go see this place. I have no idea what this what's in here. Look at this accidental theme of the week. Look at this. Look at this almost. I know. I said to myself self, we're going going to go and this museum is wild. Um, first off, they have the they have Henry Henry was not found in Missouri. He's having Wyoming but he is the world's largest Triceratops. Okay, they have this skeleton there. They've got about 58% of it. And they are doing this thing where they're combining 3d printed bones with the actual bones so that you can see what it looks like if it were complete. Yeah, but you can see like, oh, that's real, that's fake. And they'll even print the rest of a bone. So you can see how like, like, oh, we just have the femur. He would just have the head To this bone and we don't have the whatever, whatever. So you walk in and you're like, Oh, I was not expecting a giant Triceratops. Just staring at me. They're like, like, Oh, would you like to go see the mammoth tusks and would you like to go see the shark teeth? And would you like to go see the thing? But yes, but yes, I would. For the bathrooms, okay, bathrooms, you hey, there just bathrooms? No, no one of them. All of the elements in the display case are naturally glow in the dark. Because of the minerals and stuff that are in there. The other one has fossilized. fossilized poop. Yes, it's just my favorite. Okay, this was amazing.
Brandon 50:44
I didn't ask to see the bathroom at the local history museum. I'm
50:46
gonna have to go back for sure. Now, I gotta go. See what they have in there. Because these failed. I'm sorry, guys. I did not know.
Collin 50:52
Every place. Okay. So then then they actually have some displays of River Bluff cave cars get this this place is the the actual location is secrets. They don't let want people going over there interfacing because it is an active research center for what the what's in there because it's completely untouched by humans. That was the other thing that made it so unique. So they have like, oh, look, here's the skull of the short faced bear that they found. And here's this other thing that they found. And here's this Oh, would you like to hold this? This femur, and you know this stuff? And my favorite part about this, though. And when we stood we were standing there looking at this, I says to the kids, who do you think would like this? And they both turned and went? Oh, Uncle Brandon, because so enthusiastically, because because they had the minerals in order, silica based calcium based, everything they had, they had all like they had a whole periodic table with elements that with minerals and rocks that were supposed to go to each one of those. And they were in display cases that if you went over and ask Butch, the very, very nice museum docent or his wife, Joe, they would just bring them they would just hand you samples from the display case. Yeah. You know, and it was they're all arraigned and like, all sorts of varieties and all sorts of things. Just like so many, so many things. It was way it was overwhelming. It was like a jeweler store worth of rocks and minerals. Which was crazy. Absolutely crazy to see that. And I was like, we've definitely had to come back here because a lot of this is way over their heads right now. Like, how do I like trying to explain all this up? They've got old mining equipment out there that they actually used up in Galena where they mice galena
52:58
turns out and then and then he goes, Oh, would you guys go like to go look for some fossils? And we were like,
Collin 53:06
yeah, what is happening right now? Absolutely. And he hands us all little sandwich bag and goes, well, there's a trail, you hike up the trail and up at the top of the hill, you'll see an open spot and you can hunt for fossils there. I was like, okay, cool. So one of the things about Missouri used to be a seabed and so we have lots of what lying around everywhere in our sedimentary rocks, right? crinoids crinoids state fossils, Missouri State fossils, Missouri, and so really don't weigh so much where the Missouri Institute is, you walk up, you walk up on top of boy, what a road cut, and just go everywhere, and they're everywhere up there, because they were everywhere. And you're on top of a rocket looking for these and you're just finding stuff. And he was like, yeah, if you find any other cool stuff, just let us know. You can take it with you. Just you keep whatever you can find up there. So we're just one picture of it. You know, we spent like, literally 45 minutes or an hour outside just on top of this road cut, walking around Gill and stuff back looking digging and sifting. Lot of fun, a lot of fun. So yeah, we got to go to the Missouri Science Institute where back showed us and what was cool is we we came back and then he poured out what we had found and then was able to go like okay, here's what this is. Here's what this is. Here's the part of the Crinoid here's how this, here's you can put this stuff together. That was so cool to actually come back and have them go, oh, this is neat what you found and because we're just kind of grabbing stuff up there. I mean, it's not Yeah, they're not that they're not complex organisms. So it wasn't that hard to do. But like, like two parts, but Right, right. So you know, you can see stuff. And then just before we're leaving, she says Did I show you our diamond? And I went excuse, you know, I did not know you had a diamond. And she said, Well, let me share with this about you their previous or one of their big benefactors. And like his personal people who spearheaded this. His name was Dr. Hoover. And he was like, a geophysicist. And he was producing research papers into his 80s. And like world renowned traveled the world. And one of his favorite places to talk about was in Brazil, and the geology of Brazil. And he had this theory, because it was kind of weird, because you can go to streams and rivers in Brazil and pan for diamonds, like they used to pan for gold out in the west, they still do pan for gold in Brazil. And they were like, Where are these coming from? We don't know. And, and he had a theory of what was happening here. He had a theory of the previous volcanic history of Brazil, that diamonds were actually being ejected in conglomerate, apparently, and thrown distributed all over these areas. And this was just a theory, but he presented it and did all the research for what that would look like Mullah and like won awards for this and everything. And but they just how do you prove this? Like how in the world do you prove this kind of thing? And
56:28
so you have to find conglomerate diamond? You have to find it in conglomerate, right? Yeah. Well,
Collin 56:35
he passes away. One week later, the guy who's leading the Missouri Institute now who's actually the State Geologist, is presenting down nothing in Brazil. And he's presenting on this topic, and this lady over here them and she's a vendor, and she was also she's a local, she's from Brazil, and she's attending this conference about geology, whatever. And she goes, Oh, well, I've got one of those. And he goes, I'm sorry, what? And she goes over and she got a picture of her phone. And she shows this picture of a conglomerate. And if you look in the very, very center of this, there is a three to four carat diamond buried in it. She said, I was wondering what this was because we pulled this from the dig. And we thought it was kind of weird. So they, she donated it to the museum. And now it's a well, here is proof of this theory right? away that diamonds were distributed across Brazil. And it's just sitting there in the middle in the corner of this little place, tucked away on the South side of town. And I was like, well, that's something. So
Brandon 57:48
that makes sense in some way. Because to get conglomerate conglomerate is of course, sedimentary. Right? So it means that you would have to have it, that I wouldn't be trapped in sediment. And then, since so much of south of Brazil in particular is like flood plain, right, there will be massive erosion and that stuff can travel for who knows how far? Right. So that makes sense as a vehicle for travel at some point, right, especially with like, volcanic activity in the Andes Mountains. Right. It's it's not unfeasible that something would wash all the way across the continent.
Collin 58:29
You know, because it happens now. So, yes, yeah. So it was just a look. Here's an example of this. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, that was fun. And then, and then we were trying to figure out what else we were going to do. So the next day, we went to the the Springfield Art Museum, they, I've walked in a long time. I know, I've walked in, and the lady said, first time I went, Oh, I've been here before. And she went, Okay, I went 30 years ago, and she went, oh, probably changed. First time in a long time. Talk to you, sir. They still they still do have the French frankly. Yeah, that's important things. Things that art museums don't like you joking about. She was going through like, over here's the state or here's this thing, do this thing. This thing. And I was like, okay, cool. And so the items, you have 30 day loans on those when we're done, right? She she would please do not take the items from the local history museums got jokes, right. Those who have not today. No, no, no, they're very, very serious people. They have like art kits out front that you could take for the kids to do for something something. We had them and she was oh, I'll need those. Because they have things in them that we don't want taken into the into the museum. him and I went, we can't, we can't add to the pieces in there. And it's not a living collection. And I was like, fine by
Aaron 1:00:11
surprise Colin was kicked out of this
Collin 1:00:13
sounds like, right? I only I only went to I only went for two jokes. I figured if it was for three years, they'd probably be like,
Brandon 1:00:20
security's true or yeah, you would have had to say in the parking lot.
Collin 1:00:25
We had several collections they had the voters Choice Awards have, you could vote on your favorite piece submitted by participants out but then they actually had three other exhibits from the permanent collection there. One of them was called like, breath, mindfulness and distance. And basically they combed through all their archives and just brought everything out that had clouds in a painting, because it was about is basically like they want you to do like an exercise of indoor cloud spotting, or like, relief kind of thing. So anything that's a showcase different artists, another one was about stratocumulus series. That was funny. And then they had another one about like, I was a lady who lived in Arizona who did bronze sculptures of indigenous peoples and kind of like, but that was my favorite one was one on Renaissance manuscripts, where they actually have copies of manuscripts from the 14th like 13 through 1600s. Whoa, and like wood cuts, and the different colors one like they had one from a they had a thing on display from like, an original Latin Vulgate Bible and different texts like that. So you can actually see and go, Oh, well, this one is all hand done. This is the woodblock and they actually had some original tools that we used in doing the woodblock stuff. And they had, it was also about all the history of bookmaking and things like that. And typesetting, they had an original like a not an original, but like a very early version of typesetting. there as well. That was fascinating. That was my absolute favorite part of the entire museum, just because of how when we talked about oh, yeah, the printing press was important because it blah, blah, blah, but like being able to see a fight, Oh, right. You couldn't do this on mass scale at all. And like, here's an example of like, the best technology was a literal woodblock carved. That's not scalable. But printing press. Absolutely. So I really enjoyed that part of the museum. Very much. So recommend that. Very well. Yeah. So there's another another plus one to another museum. How about that? Ah, nice. You there. So this theme we have exciting, I
Aaron 1:02:53
will say one of the coolest things I did in college at Oklahoma State they had in the library. They had archives. And they had some of like, the 13 1400s like pocket Bibles, or like the prayer books, oh, that were like, that felt like the same as mine. And they took us down there a few times, just to show us how to like how they took care of them. And then we had to present to like one of like, the freshmen history classes that's like, you know, the freshmen don't care but it does was really cool. It's like this is really old. You're not old, you're babies but like look at it, don't touch it. But like you're really like this is old old. And so the way that Colin like described it, it's like oh, that's like really cool. So cool, but
1:03:46
quick and highly recommend to finish off here, speaking of the Middle Ages. Got
Collin 1:04:04
that we shall do go. So just a quick, quick
1:04:10
round off through here through the next chapters of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court here.
1:04:18
These are more weird ones.
Brandon 1:04:19
Right? Especially the first 110 is a bit odd. Right? He's trying to tell us something again, I'm not entirely sure. Exactly. What if you just have a lot of thoughts here. Every 10 starts off with he's just gonna go ahead and industrial revolution the Middle Ages. This is a plan, right? We're like, Oh, yes.
1:04:40
We're just running telegraph wires and do in schools. And like, what is going on with tears like he's really very weird. He's he's also just
Brandon 1:04:54
this is the so the analyst champion. He's like, challenged to some sort of duel later. later, right like that, and then he's not worried because the guy's going grayling, and he'll be excellent. And so he's like, could be several years. So now I'm going, going for it right? The iron and steel Missionaries of my future civilization, I just sort of industrial revolution ing things here. He does have a very interesting point where he's talking about the schools
Collin 1:05:23
and keeping and, like, do it
Brandon 1:05:28
and he's like, trying to stay away because he doesn't want the wrath of the church to fall upon him. Right. But he does make an interesting point here again, I think this is probably some tween peeking through right where he says like, the spiritual wants and instincts are as various in human family as physical appetites, complexions and features. So he's like, I don't care about that let let him do whatever they want. He's like, it would be easy to make everybody follow mine. But that's not the right thing to do. So we're not tonight make everybody a Presbyterian without trouble. Without Yeah, French. Easiest thing to do, right? And then then the rest of the champions just him kind of going on and on and on about all the things that he's going to do. Like, there's newspapers starting. Boy, Clarence is back. Gonna be a newspaper editor yet some day.
Collin 1:06:24
This whole chapter just like he makes that switch when he's talking about like, does it I don't want to United Church Mighty is conceivable, blah, blah, blah. And then he transitions right into how mines are royal property. And it's very much a right like, Okay, now let's get down to actual business of like, industrializing this this place. And yeah, making it's just kind of an icon kradic Well, I can't help but think that the only reason he really they truly wants to do this is because he's tired of not having modern conveniences for himself. I really feel like that's accurate. Like, I really feel like that's what he wants. Yes, yes. I
Brandon 1:07:08
feel like that is true, too. Right. So till we get through that chapter, kind of just weird. It's kind of whatever. And then 11 and 12. We had up again, we're back. This book, the way that this book is written. Right so far, it reminds me a bit of Moby Dick. Right? Where it's like, story, story, story story, whale anatomy. Story story, whale anatomy. Yep. Story story, fishing history. You're like what could go out? And so this is just like, it's like story, story story. Mark Twain talking to you about things and philosophizing that you story story. Mark Twain talking to you again.
Collin 1:07:50
The pacing is odd. Like it's puts it up into weird spots.
1:07:55
But that's what it reminds me. Yes.
Collin 1:08:01
But now in in chapter 11, we get this like he's got a,
Brandon 1:08:08
you know, been fooling around too much. You've got to make yourself worthy of this duel that you're gonna have against this guy. So you got to go and prove yourself right on you have to go on a quest is well, you have to go a quest thing. Right? And so that's what he's got to do. He's got to go a questing and so he gets his quest. Right to make him worthy of his fighting which they'll surely find him any day they're all looking for him now. So
Collin 1:08:41
Right. There appears to have stolen
Brandon 1:08:47
a bit of questing from like, Sir Galahad. Right. I don't remember exactly. But like, he's at the core and they're talking and a lady comes, right and she's like, Oh, hell, we're trapped in a castle and he's going on about like, how do you believe in these people had nobody ever asks him anything? How do you believe that this is true? What's going on here is ridiculous. They can't be trustworthy. This is too insane right there. Their their castle full of like 40 Women is besieged by giant Cyclops or something. And they're like, just like,
Collin 1:09:26
What are you talking about? Yeah, yeah. Which would you believe it the king in the whole roundtable? We're in raptures over this preposterous opportunity for adventure.
Brandon 1:09:39
Yeah. And he was like, Nah, I'm good. Everyone's like, I want to go Pick Me Pick Me and he's like, this is lame. I don't like it. Think about this. Like Hugo is like God. Dang it. So he tries these fins a very long time, like, trying to get particulars out of this woman.
Collin 1:09:58
Right here. just so frustrated that she can't answer his questions like What direction is it? Let's How far is it? Oh surely I don't know for the path is windy. Where did you cut? Yes, exactly. Yeah
Brandon 1:10:18
so he finally just gives in and he's got to get set to go of adventuring.
Collin 1:10:22
Right? And now we come to a part that
Brandon 1:10:33
he's got to get he's got to get suited for adventure.
Collin 1:10:36
Right? Anything you want to say about anything else for that famous anything else? No, no, no, that's fine. Yeah, he's frustrated. I think people are in awe of him are astonished by you know how he's he's acting and such because again, he's he's still a peculiarity it because he's, he's not proud this time. Yeah.
Brandon 1:10:54
So now he's got to get he's got to get adventure. ready right now here. Here's where we have. Here's where we here's where Mark Twain helps perpetuate historical inaccuracies. Not that this book is just the most historically accurate thing of all time ever anyway.
Collin 1:11:09
But
Brandon 1:11:12
he starts talking about the armor that he's gonna wear. Right? And he starts talking about how getting dressed is difficult. Okay. And like, is getting dressed in a suit of armor difficult?
Collin 1:11:25
Yes, yes. Yes, it is. That's, you know, the point, right?
Brandon 1:11:31
Yeah, know, he's talking about the stuff. He's talking about chainmail and all these things, but like, the way that he's talking about the armor, right? He commits one of the faux pas. He says, Oh, I can't get on my horse. By myself. Right? Yeah, right. Historically speaking, if a knight is unable to get on a horse himself,
1:11:54
it is a useless endeavor. And why would you create armor? thusly? Right. Right. Now, this is asking theories about this. Aaron, I
Brandon 1:12:05
need your help here for this one. Right.
Collin 1:12:08
So, so
Brandon 1:12:11
what what Twain is describing in here, except for the weird extra chainmail that he's going on about is
Collin 1:12:17
clearly tournament armor. Right. And so I think that
Brandon 1:12:28
some of the reason that we have this idea that medieval armor is like so unwieldy and so terrible is because we have a lot of survivorship bias of
Collin 1:12:41
tournament armor sets and thoughts Yeah, because like
Aaron 1:12:51
trying to think of any major battle that happened during this time period that most of the armor would have been like collected or like absolutely destroyed but yeah, the only armor that would be like professionally left over in good condition were you know the backup armor to all these knights so
Brandon 1:13:11
yeah, yeah, and I think you know, Knights are already like rich people so like we have more of their stuff anyway because like the nobles, right knights or nobles, that's another thing you can't forget here, right? It's not like not random dude. Not random farmer.
Collin 1:13:24
He doesn't have armor. Yeah, because this is like expensive stuff. But like, the way he's talking
Brandon 1:13:30
about things and like how he's buckling in the fact that he says, I had to buckle my helmet to my
Collin 1:13:36
breastplate.
Brandon 1:13:40
I may be slightly wrong here, but I this feels tournament armor to me. Right? They're talking about like big helms like that. Like these are tournament thing. And so.
Collin 1:13:51
So here's my thought that yes, tournament armor.
Brandon 1:13:58
A knight cannot get on the horse himself. Because tournament armor is specifically over engineered
Collin 1:14:07
so that you don't become dead in a tournament. Right?
Brandon 1:14:11
So it's different than your normal run of the mill battlefield armor. Like it is thicker. It is bigger. It is heavier, because you don't need mobility
Collin 1:14:23
to joust you just need to survive
Brandon 1:14:30
Yeah, it really is. Yeah, keeping you alive. I think because we have like a lot of this like really expensive like tournament
Collin 1:14:37
armor preserved right? That we get this idea from
Brandon 1:14:47
like, that has persisted into like movies and stuff that like armor is just like unwieldy and you can't walk around in it.
Collin 1:14:54
But of course, if you couldn't walk around in it, why would you wear it to fight a war and it doesn't really It doesn't make any sense. Well, again, yeah, that is the that. I think, I think, yeah, it's valid, because there's a lot more utilitarian stuff to around it, as well have the ability to move in the armor is important and move from one thing to another. I think that, yeah. And also in tournaments, it's much more showy. Yeah. And it's much more. It's meant to be seen by people. Yeah.
Brandon 1:15:42
That was just my thought was reading this was like, this is weird. I don't know. What's going on here. Strange. But there you go. So that's, he's, uh, he said, offers journey here. It's ready to go. And then our last chapter is just him journeying and talking about how terribly uncomfortable it is. To ride around
Collin 1:16:01
in this armor. Yeah, fair, fair. Play. The title is called slow torture. So I think that really tells you a lot. And I don't know if this chapter was really, so much more as meant to be an allegory about these kinds of stories. And about think it is laborious, the tale of the venture is meant to be slow torture to the listener.
Brandon 1:16:27
Yeah, because again, famously Twain not a big fan of King Arthur stories, right? That's definitely you can definitely see here but yeah, he's talking about like, how just an efficient it is to ride around everywhere. In Full Armor. How uncomfortable and I do like, what he's talking about the eaching thing where he's like, Yeah, you know, everyone's experienced this, like, yep. Yep, I relate to that. 100% Like, it is itchy, like, oh, it's not that bad. And then the second you can't scratch it. It's the most
1:16:52
terrible thing of all time. Right. Like, we talked about getting the fly the flag goes into his helmet, and we can't play out
Collin 1:17:01
and he's like, this is the worst thing of all time. This is absolutely the worst thing ever. And I love he just everything is is bothering him like this fact of like, it would hang a man that would make a suit of armor without any pockets in it. Yeah, that's.
Brandon 1:17:19
Oh, man. Oh, this part did make me think I have a little connection here. Because I thought he's taught he goes
Collin 1:17:26
on and on and on about. He can't get his handkerchief. Maybe think of Bilbo. Right? Yeah, we have his handkerchief in his pockets. And his helmet and some of you out? Yes, this is about Bilbo like my handkerchief. No. Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of we started whining about his handkerchief. I was like, oh, oh. Sounds like a pillow. Well. Yes, picturing the handkerchief it was a bitter and aggravating to have the salt sweat keep trickling down into my eyes. And I couldn't get at it seems like he's like, seems like a little thing on paper. But it was not a little thing. It was the most real kind of misery. Video, and you start to understand that it's really our buddy here is really not. Not made for the stuff. No. And then there he
Brandon 1:18:24
is. He also is enjoyed by this lady that he's with because she just like, won't stop talking to her. And he's just like, can you please just not? Well, she did help him with the helmet. So he's, you'd be nice to her about that. But then she just talks. She was a perfect Blathers guide, actually, is what he says here. So can you just like she like talks and talks and talks and talks about like, doesn't say anything, right? And he's just he's, he's in anguish. He's uncomfortable. He's too hot. kind of fly in his nose. He can't ah. And this person will stop chattering in his ear. And he's not very, not very, not feeling very adventurous. Currently. That's where we are.
Collin 1:19:12
Ah, such. Again, the writing on this Yeah. called her bladder Skype. I mean for jaw jaw, jaw tuck, tuck, tuck, Jabber, Jabber, Jabber. Just as good as she could be. Had mine at her meal that morning. Anyways, it just again, is. Yeah,
Brandon 1:19:31
he's really having a rough go. He's already tired of adventuring. He would much rather be industrializing and doing weird things than somehow setting a telegraph cable in you know, sixth century England.
Collin 1:19:47
That's the thing that yada yada yada here of like, real quick, I do need to say that. The one liners that Hank throws out here are just fantastic evening The last line of this chapter, take a rest child, we're using up all the domestic air, the Kingdom will have to go importing it by tomorrow, and it's low enough Treasury with that.
Brandon 1:20:11
I'm gonna have, I'm gonna have to use that I'm gonna have to adapt that.
Collin 1:20:17
Somehow, because that's a good one. using up all the air it's really good. Yeah. So it's very, I'm, I'm still I'm still unsure as to where exactly, Hank is going to end up, because I don't really see. I don't I don't know what's going to happen with you.
1:20:40
I'm not really sensing and just the ton of character development here. Now. It's not really
Brandon 1:20:47
setting the stage for that. He doesn't really see the person that's gonna, like, learn a lesson.
Collin 1:20:55
In any way, shape, or form. No, no, absolutely not there. Yeah. We tend to get his just desserts here basically, or something. Or maybe he'll don't come away completely unscathed and just ends up back in modern time. Yeah, I
Brandon 1:21:12
don't know. Well, we know he ends up in modern time somehow, because he's relaying this story to Mark Twain. That's
Collin 1:21:16
where narrator is. I can't Yes, yes, he is. Yeah, we've got to figure out what is so somehow
Brandon 1:21:25
Yeah, right now, even though you know, we're not super far into the book. Like to add ad Not really. Getting good strong. Like I don't understand. Yeah, I don't see a resolution. Right. Like I don't. Yeah, hard to see what's going on here. So Well, that remains to be seen. We'll see how it goes.
Collin 1:21:46
But yeah, there we go. I like it. really well so far. But I have some my Mark Twain quote of the week. Oh, yes. I have some advice for Hank. From Mr. Mark Twain himself.
Brandon 1:22:03
A man who carries a cat by the tail. Learn something he can learn in no other way
Collin 1:22:15
Yeah. Okay, I mean, yes.
Brandon 1:22:23
Oh, yeah. So okay, maybe that will spur his character on who knows? Who knows?
Collin 1:22:30
Who knows? Well, and then I have a make do Haiku, too. So I do need to present that. Alright, thusly. Okay. Thanks.
1:22:46
laid in thick with backs silent wisdom on each set shelf worlds within their grasp.
Collin 1:22:53
Oh Mm hmm that's a good we'll get your true encyclopedias while they last folks. You go. I like it. Yes, good. You go good. I wrote went to the site. Now I save it for next week. No, no go because we need to get caught up by last week's up. All right.
Brandon 1:23:20
So here we go. Here's mine. Then. The two for one special
Collin 1:23:25
where to find notes after
Brandon 1:23:27
that. Okay. Maybe got it already.
Collin 1:23:35
Tennis uniform. Collared versatility set free from the court
Brandon 1:23:52
we had a much too long conversation about polo shirts last minute. It was the exact right amount. Context. Yeah, so context. Did did rock a polo today as well. I learned I learned today. That a little fun fact. Ben tackling for hear Rene Lacoste is credited, widely credited with the invention of the poetry. Really? Yeah. Did not know that. Well, it turns out from what I read briefly on the internet today when I was thinking about this, is that apparently before 1927 or whatever, tennis whites consisted of a starched white long sleeve button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up in flannel pants. And he was like, No, this sucks and it's hot.
1:24:56
Short Sleeve with a collar And then they started putting a little crocodile on there because that was his nickname. Because he was so vicious on the court. He was a tennis player too, apparently. So I go 1918 33 Yeah. Well so it was originally a tennis shirt and then later rebranded by Ralph Lauren, because polo players started wearing
Brandon 1:25:26
Wow. And the Oxford collar also was a polo invention. I learned that because they needed collared shirts but they wanted the colors to stay down so they had the little button garment history for today. Yeah, I
Aaron 1:25:41
did not I did not know this. I didn't I
1:25:43
didn't know this until like three hours ago. So that's something all right. Okay, well with that nugget of knowledge I can I can sleep easy tonight.
Collin 1:25:56
Yeah, they go. Okay. We'll, we'll have to see what else we learn next time. I like it. Love you guys. Bye