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We ponder who needs Zoom Webinars. Answer? No one. Brandon has been invited to too many things. Collin played tick-tack-toss.

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Collin  00:04

Music. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out. Your host, Brandon McCallan, on this week's show, Zoom webinars, Ahoy, ahoy. How's it going? Good. Caught me off guard. There, sorry, buttons everywhere we're doing here, cut off guard, not unlike many people on the Florida coast right now. Oh, I could Yes. Wowzers. Holy moly. Yeah. No good. Nope.

00:42

Gee, extra pad.

Collin  00:45

No. We have a friend down there whose husband is a lineman, so he couldn't leave, basically. And yeah, so they made the decision of, like, well, like, we don't want the rest of the family to be separated from you while you're down here, and they live like, 30 miles inland of Tampa. And I, just before we jumped on, I looked and she had posted this morning saying, basically the the eye of the hurricane was going to pass basically five miles from their house. And I was like, Oh yeah, holy cow. Well, okay, that's fun. So, yeah, there's a lot going on down there. Yeah, the my, one of my students dads, is like, a emergent. He's, like a, he works for some sort of company that does, like, emergency response stuff. I don't know exactly, oh, but, so he was already down there, and then he basically, like, they're like, Nope, you gotta go home, but you'll be back next week. Yes. So it was not, yeah, it's real. Don't unpack, yeah, bag, but you can't stay here because No, no, run away. So yeah, it's real. It's pretty bad. So I hope all the Floridians are okay, because it's, yeah, it's pretty gross. It's like, right now too happening. So it is indeed, yeah, I found myself going on trying to find all these, like, live cams, so I could be in like, six different places around the state. Oh, yeah. And I was like, I don't know what I'm doing here. I need to not watch this. This is kind of not good. Like, what am I hoping for? I'm like, I'm only watching this because I'm gonna be like, let's see some palm trees flying through the air. Sucker, right? Like, that's not okay. So I just okay. So that motivation may be slightly skewed, but like, it's the same reason why you watch like the because I watch some storm chasing people in the, you know, that live stream and stuff on the internet. So like it, I do it just to be informed. And oftentimes they are like, saying things, but there's a person there, right? So that's a little bit different than just a live cam, because there's nobody providing any sort of like commentary or like knowledge imparting, right? It's just like a picture. So I guess it's interesting that you can see what's happening, but like, it's a little less educational, perhaps, right, because it's also going well. I haven't been watching these same six web cameras for the past, you know, like five years. So I was really like, oh, yeah, how much water? Is too much water? And what does this actually mean? Is, this, is this getting, yeah, you don't have any background knowledge, like, no context for what's happening, yeah? Yeah. Something like, exactly this is, this is actually really unhelpful, because I'm just gonna go watching one, and Megan was like, how's it going? And I went, it's pretty wet, and we

03:51

assume not good, but

03:53

a lot of water, and I have no comparison,

Collin  03:57

yeah, there's no nothing to compare it to. So it's like, I'm just going to actually close out of this. Yeah, that's what I thought I was getting. That's fair, that's okay, like, but anyway, so yes, that's that's been going on. I, yeah, yeah, I I open up zoom, and up at the top it said, for limited time, save 15% off your first year when you purchase zoom webinars, 500 don't wait. Offer ends. And I was like, I What does that even mean? I don't know. So I clicked on, get offer and, oh no, I'm signing in on stuff. Anyway. I was like, I'll do that quick use for a webinar. Oh, that means you can have 500 people on your Oh, my gosh, okay, a lot of I have. Yeah, okay, I have just stumbled across a checkout window that I don't I'm going to x out very quickly after I briefly describe this the if you want 500 people to attend your zoom webinar and allow to have 100 panelists, this is $700 a year. What now I would just like for you to know this. It starts at zoom webinars, 500 What number do you think it goes up to? Oh, I don't. I don't think I probably want to know the answer to that. I don't know. Okay, it would be zoom webinars, 1 million words. Why? I don't know why you would need a million. Well, what could they? What could you possibly do with that many? Why? In case, in case you were wanting to know that the Zoom webinars 1 million, it's just, it's not an annual plan. It is just for a single use event. So if you hosted an event and you expected to have a 1 million people watching, you would have to buy this every time you did an event. And this license, my friends, is $100,000 and I can click a button here to place order and put it on my credit card if I wanted to. Okay, so I have a question. Um, zoom, okay, why? Who is going to use that? What's the purpose of that, right? Do you Do you not know that like Twitch exists, right? Right? Like YouTube Live. YouTube is a thing that you can just have, right? And so I don't, I don't like who is, what's the point of doing that? Right? Yeah, Beyonce is not doing this. She's not doing a zoom call. Is this, you know what this is? You know what this is? Brandon. It's for sales and marketing people who have a have a big marketing budget, and they need to spend it on something for like, expense purposes. And they're like, Ha, this is not, not just like, oh, I can actually do this for, like, much less cost somewhere else. Like, no, no, I must have this budget of stuff for thing like, what that doesn't mean, arbitrary nonsense. That's what exists for, okay, people, no, here's it is. It's for people like Tony Robbins, oh, you gross. Why would you say that? Tony Robbins, it's for people like Tony Robbins, I got an icky feeling when you said that this is fantastic, or that was that with the weird guy that was the Kevin O'Leary guy, or whatever him, yes, the Shark Tank guy who like, is very out of touch with things is you. He's the baldy guy, right? Yes. He is like, okay, he's, he's the guy that like. So Australia just made that rule, and they're like, listen, employees don't have to answer you after hours. They don't have to answer work calls or emails after office hours. And his response was, but why not like? What you okay, you really don't get it. Do you like, I guess, the most out of touch thing I've ever heard in my life, like he justified it with, Oh, yes. But you know, in certain business applications, you know, they move quickly, and things change quickly, so my employees need to be able to be reached at any moment, be at my beck and call at all times. And I was sitting in this, I was, I was actually sort of reading his interview in Ebenezer Scrooge voice. Because this is like, Yes, this is just like he's simultaneous being

09:36

like, Bob Cratchit, where are you?

Collin  09:40

It's like, we like, if, if the end of a Christmas carol wasn't a joke, right? When he's like, Oh yes,

09:46

I'll play a trick on old Bob. Ha,

Collin  09:48

you're like, first of all, it's not a very funny trick. It was like, You terrorizing his family. This is, yeah, like, you just acting like the normal insensitive jerk that you were. Not like, What a funny little break we're gonna play, but it's like, it's like, Kevin O'Leary was like that. He's like, channeling that part. He watched A Christmas Carol, uh, he watched the abridged version where Scrooge didn't get visited by any ghosts. He just stopped at the beginning. He saw him kick Fred out of things like, Yeah, I'm gonna stop here. This is the best movie ever. Oh, my goodness, right, yeah. Like, we hold on, you missed. You missed all the rest of it. What do you mean? You missed the ghost, you missed the growing and you don't understand how, how growing opportunities work, like, what? How? No, I just learned. I learned all of my management material from the first half of Christmas. Yeah, the first, the first third, right before the everything before the bell tolls. One, yeah, in his mind, Scrooge just had a fantastic night's sleep. Yeah. He's like, Scrooge got up the next morning and was like, oh, man, this is great. And then he proceeded to make Bob Cratchit work on Christmas, like, dang it, dang it, missed the point entirely. So I have, I have closed out of that window

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and I will,

Collin  11:18

that's good for safer that way. Jeez, put there's a little X right there. I'm gonna say no, I do not want that Offer. Offer go away. Do not want that offer. Sam, I am no, oh my gosh, jeez. No, no, no, yeah, that's a man, that's what else, what I mean, was done now, I know how's your week been going? Pretty good, right? It's not too bad. No, no mass Tony Robbin asks, Zoom calls, right? That's so that's good, right? I consider my weakest success, because that didn't happen. So that's stressful. Part is that we have the busiest Saturday in history of ever, this Saturday, and oh, not entirely sure how we're gonna handle this situation. Okay, what's happening? Um, so we have apparently been, we have been invited to two weddings and a quinceanera on Saturday. Oh my gosh, yeah. So trying to figure out how a person schedules this and tries to go to all the things, or at least show up a little bit at all the things, is, um, tricky, right? Like, I don't, I don't really know what. It's gonna be rough. It's gonna be a rough time. So enough. This is gonna be very hectic and not restful. Are they like, okay, are they at least spread out? Yeah, okay, yeah. To like, spend 15 minutes here and 15 minutes here and 50 and 15 minutes here, because they are spread out, but the one so there's, there's this really annoying problem where there's, like, one wedding, and then it's kind of like early it's, it's kind of like an all day event. I'm not entirely sure exactly what it's going to be like, because it is a, like a Hmong celebration thing, okay? And it's just, like, starts at noon and goes to, like, question mark. So I know, I think they've already officially been married, right? So it's like, kind of a reception, kind of, right, sort of a little bit. But there's also some, like, very serious family things that are happening. So like, I don't, I'm not 100% sure, not like serious, but like, traditional things occurring, right? Okay, so I like, I don't know. Yeah, I didn't mean, like, serious, like, NAMA or anything like that. No, no. Like, that turn into like, but like, there's, like, official things happening and but so I don't know exactly what that's going to be like, Okay, right? And then the the quince, a thing starts at like six o'clock, so it's like way later, but in there's a wedding in between that is like an hour away, which is annoying. So like, I feel like, go drive to that, spend some time there, and then, like, just basically turn around and come back. Yeah, so that's the part that is annoying me, is the distance traveled in the middle the travel to. Time for the middle, because the two of the other ones are like, taking place across town from each other, ah, and so like that, that wouldn't be necessarily a problem, no, no. Except for this other thing that's happening, it's like we gotta drive a walk way away and then and then return. So that's perturbing. So it's going to be hectic day, so I'm really not looking forward to that. Yeah, yeah. Just be like,

15:34

go everywhere, all to things.

Collin  15:37

Take a nap when you can. Yeah, I'm kidding, so I don't know. So that's pretty much all we got going on here, nothing. But everything else is going to pre normally, first quarter is wrapping up, right? So gonna get in all this stuff, like looking all these missing assignments and going, um, excuse me. Would

15:59

you like to do these maybe, because that would be good. Yeah,

Collin  16:02

we need to maybe talk. Yeah, maybe you need to talk. Maybe need to get on track here. So that's being the struggle to adjust to the sixth grade. Life is real for some people. So sure it's not going particularly well for some people. It's a little difficult for them, so that's kind of hard to find solutions for like, how do I help them, but also hold them accountable at same time to be like, Yo, do you need to do this? Like, what are you doing? Like, why are you what are you doing during your class time? Because it's not working. I know that because everyone else is done. Yeah, if you were to do a self evaluation right now, yeah, like, how would you say you use your time poorly or really poorly? Those are your choices on your because it's not, none of this is bad is, I mean, that is hard. I know, again, that transition that you're talking about, because some of that is stepping up into responsibility. Some of it is not having the tools, a lot of times, because they never had to do that. So it's like, oh, I you know, I've weighed and tested myself and found, you know, I've been found wanting, because I I just don't know what I don't know, and didn't have anything prepared for this. So that's a lot of times, don't know, don't know where to begin, or that it is an issue, or kind of how to make it better, right? So it can, I'm sure it can feel, kind of, how do I even get out of this hole? Yeah, so that's what we're working with, with several people, like, we've, I've talked to some of them, and we've been trying to figure this out. So, yeah, it's been a little crazy. Somebody accidentally scheduled, like, to, like, kind of research presentation, projects like at the same time. I don't know who did that. Oh, wait, it was me, self evaluation. I know I was trying to figure out where it works. So I have made some notes for next year about how to improve, streamline this process. Because it was not, oh, I was kind of like, yeah, that's weird. Oh no, oops, sorry, everybody. Again, it would probably be more fine, like, if a thing like that happened towards the like, middle to end of the year, because they'd be more used to, like, workflow things, right? Trained up a little bit better, you know, but, uh, right now, didn't Oopsy daisy. So yeah, we gotta get so, you know, it's all right. We'll get it figured out. Yeah, it wouldn't have been so bad. But, like, I had this project I was gonna make him do and I wasn't gonna make him present it. And then, like, a whole bunch of people were like, but we want to present this. And I was like, what? Well, we don't really want to quash that, so I guess we'll try to fit it in. So I'm kind of, like, half winging it and trying to figure out, how do I fit in this? Because this is slightly more than I anticipated taking on at this time, right? Like, didn't really want to do a presentation in this class, right? I wanted to do it in the other one, because the other one's, like, already scheduled, locked in, right? I was like, I have a plan for that one, this one, they're like, oh, no, can we present it to I guess, like, that's Sorry everybody. So, yeah, I don't really. I'm trying to figure out how to deal with. At so I don't know. I think what I may do. I don't know if I want to just, like, be like, All right, we're doing it right now, and, like, just let him do it. Or if I want to, like, spread it out and be like, Okay, I can do this many today and then the next day, all right, I'm gonna do this more, this many more, right? And kind of, like, spread it out longer to fit it in with some of the other things that we have to do. Or if I should just be like, alright, just forget it. We'll just take one day do it bling. Be Done. So I haven't quite figured out how I want to do that. Yeah, because then, because the problem is, I know a lot of times you'll go, you may go, oh, well, I would think, Oh, I'll spread this out that way. It doesn't take up that much time. But also, knowing how horribly messed up schedules can become, of like, if I spread this out too much, yeah, very there's, there's a non zero chance that I don't actually get to everything. Yeah, right, right? And then, like, next week, one day, I can't remember if it's Wednesday or Thursday, we are doing, like, our end of the quarter, like trip thing for like, good behavior stuff, right? And so, oh, that day will be lost, yeah? See that kind of like, Yeah and like, so I don't know it's very Yeah,

21:26

I messed up here. I don't know what.

Collin  21:30

I'm sorry. Oh, well, so that's what I have. Jilly with you. My training has gotten a bit wonky, and it's 100% my fault, but I want to figure out what to do with that. About it, to fix pay. Yeah, it's been sort of what I've been doing, and being too hot and having zero rain. That is the oh my god, other thing I've been doing again, I'm sorry. I'm complaining we're having no rain Florida. Who's getting all the rain, trillions of gallons. Yeah, yeah, I would gladly take some. We would too. I mean, the days have been beautiful. It's actually been we've been we know again, like days are nice, Temperature wise, need to get outside as much as we can and do stuff you but also knowing that like we because I don't want to just be inside all of the time, because then when we have to be inside, then it's really annoying. So we've been trying to be outside and do things we did. Got did some more of the family adventure book this week. We did, ah, well, hey, we did two things, actually, one of them is quite apropos. It is was an outside event, and we did have to buy some things. Have you ever heard of a Texas snowball? Okay, so it seems to me that I have heard this phrase, but I currently have no context or reference about what it is or where I would have heard it. But this the the phrase itself sounds familiar, but that doesn't mean I know what it is, when I heard this, I went, why does that? It's like distant down the hall of my memory. Yeah, there's a faint glow, right? That's all that is. But basically, what we had to do is we had to go buy socks and a bunch of flour, and then we filled the socks, not filled, but we put two cups of flour in each sock, tied off the socks, and then had a snowball fight in our backyard, because when you get Okay, when you hit with the the sock, it expands, and a little bit of flour goes. And so it's a flower fight, basically. Now I will say two things. One, if you want to do this in the future, get as thin of socks as you can. The Yeah, big like, well, like, cushion sports socks, because they were cheap, they were on sale, I just was like, Oh, here's a here's a 12 pack for, like, $3 Awesome. Well, the problem is, is that they're very thick, and so they don't OOF as much. And then when I tied them, I tied them a bit too tight so the ball was already hard and didn't have a lot of room to expand. These hurt. No, no. These were quite painful. Oh no, especially when I didn't take the time to cut off the excess sock of the part of the two. Tube tied it off, at which point Noah was just hanging on that, swinging it around like your face, yeah, smacking people, ah, this, yeah, yeah. Mistakes were made there. I am glad that before we started. My neighbor was over on the side of his fence sanding a table. And so I popped my head over, and I was like, Hey neighbor, heads up, you're probably going to hear some screaming and some yelling. Everything is fine. It's perfectly fine. Anyway, have fun with your table. Bye, because very soon there wasn't, like, laughing hahas. There was like, oh it,

25:45

oh my gosh.

Collin  25:51

Too vigorous with the Yeah, yeah. So once we once a little bit of it kind of loosened up. It became a bit nicer, such a hose to that that they said, dress socks. Well, they had said, like, wanted to make it, like, really messy. What you do is you get that powdered chalk and put it in a ho in hose, yeah, and then, basically, that's, like a one hit, like, or whatever. So I was like, next time, we're gonna do that. And so the kids spent the rest of the afternoon taking those socks and just slamming them as hard as they could on our deck, on our driveway, on the side of the house. And so we just have these big like pots of flour all over the place. And because we have no rain, they're going to be there forever. Those are just going to be there for a very long time. Additionally, once the kids started to realize that these are fun to think the row I then had to get out my very, very, very, very long ladder and hanging up to the top of it so that she could get them off of our roof. Oh, no, they're out of the tree, out of the

27:17

gutter, gutters,

Collin  27:19

trees everywhere. They're everywhere, everywhere, like we don't throw these up in the air anymore. Okay? They stay down here. Stay down here. Our next activity was much more mundane. I used duct tape to create a gigantic tic tac toe board on our driveway, we had to stand quite a ways away. The instruction said 20 feet, but that's a long ways away it is. That is a long 20 feets a long way I did. We then went to the to Walmart, and we bought beanbags to throw. Okay, okay, okay. However, when I arrived back home, I realized I had socks filled with flour that could have done the same thing. That is

28:04

true. You could have just

Collin  28:07

but now then we have $30 worth of bean bag. So the socks with flour will eventually dissipate and go away. Yes, bean bags will be a nice bean bag canvas, yeah, yeah. Good sturdy ones, yes. So then we played tic tac toss in groups, of course. And so we had to alternate one goes throws one who tried to work as teams to strategize and get stuff done. And I think we got cat every time, except for the very last one, where the kids pulled it out. So they managed to do that. So my driveway still has a giant tic tac toe board on there. So it's open to the public. If anybody that says not go home, neighbors are gonna get there throwing socks full of flour at the dictator actually would be, you know, you know, doing like a block party or something. It's just giant, like eight by eight grid board thing that, you know, it's huge. So it was fun, and just stayed 20 feet away, that's pretty big. So yes, we stepped a bit closer because accuracy. Well, that's fair, but that's nice. Well, I do have a surprise for you this week. Oh no, I do. I have a surprise movie review with brandy. Oh yeah, I'm finding my notes. Where'd they go? Ha, I'm here they go. Surprise movie review. I have taken it upon myself this weekend to watch none other than. 1949, a Connecticut, Yankee King Arthur's course, yes, oh my gosh, I knew that this movie existed, right? There's not actually very many movie adaptations of this story. There's several, like, made for TV movies that I found I did not want to watch those because, you know, that's like a flag for like, maybe not. There is a 1949 version. I kept seeing this pop up anytime I would do a quick search or look for something around this, it was over my periphery, and so I just pulled it up again, and I was like, Oh yeah, there's, it's got, oh, who's the who's people in this? I This is, yeah, so the top bill on this, and I'm like, what? Yeah, that was the first thing that got me off guard, because I just clicked on I started watching it, and then it was like, starring Bing Crosby. And I went, what was happening? Bing Crosby? I was just sitting there watching on my phone, and Susan walked by and she goes, Why are you watching Bing Crosby? And I was like, You're never gonna believe this. But this was unintentional. He's playing Hank okay, it's

31:21

weird. I don't know what.

Collin  31:24

So, yeah, the fact that Bing Crosby in this is very weird, because that means that all of a sudden, there's like, five songs in this movie. They just like, come out of nowhere, and it's like, oh, they're singing now, like, the what I I find I would, yeah, that sounds confused. Where do the songs go? Yeah, they're, they're not real long, right? They're not like, big numbers, but, like, there's one of them that happens when he's going with the king, right? They're journeying with the king. There's one that happens at the beginning, during, like, before he goes back in time, right? He's, like, singing with, like, a group of kids in his blacksmith shop. Surprises a blacksmith, right? That's the first part of the story. Um, so like the, the first part the, the first weird thing about the story, other than there's like random songs in it, is that it does, like they shift the timeline slightly. He is a blacksmith slash mechanic in 1912 okay. And he goes back to Arthur E in Britain in like 528, okay. So that's like this, you know, time here and but, but he is like, so he's like a village like, so, instead of being like engineer guy or whatever, he's like a blacksmithy village workshop dude, yeah, and he has in his possession, like an almanac thing, like, like the the book that we talked about the one time with, like the, You know, the desk, the desk reference book thing, or the pocket reference book he has right here. He has like that. That's what he has. And so that's what he's referencing through the whole movie later on to when he's like, oh, oh, hold on. Let me check and he, like, is flipping through the book to find things Okay. That makes okay. He's not just this weird, like Savannah savant. Yes, he has like us. He has like a thing that he brought back with him that he is using to, okay, do the thing, right? But so anyway, the movie starts. He's in the castle, doing the tour of the castle, right? And he's, it's kind of the same, right. But then he meets the proprietor of the castle, who is like, want to see him, because he wants to know what this weird dude is asking the question. So there's no Mark Twain in the story, sadness. And then, then he goes to the flashback, where he is, uh, he is taking a horse back to somebody, and the horse, like, it's through a storm, and he, like, gets thrown off the horse, and this is where he bonks his head and then wakes up with Sir sacramore, like, Kicking him, being like, I've captured you now. Haha. They changed the beginning, and then then he goes to the thing, and it is him, like, embellishing the story, that part's in there, right? Embellishing story. Oh, he's a monster. He's the greatest and tallest of beasts. And there's, like, some eye rolls from the people in the crowd. It's kind of funny. And then he's like, No, I'm not. I'm a wizard. And he like, strikes a match. And he's like, ooh, look, ooh, ah. And they're like, proclaiming him to be, like, put to death, whatever. And he like, shines a little magnifying glass lens on the paper and burns it up. And that's how they they're like, oh my gosh, he's so proud. Powerful. That's how it's okay. Interesting, yeah. And then the part where he's like, Oh yeah, no, just give me half the kingdom and whatever. And a little in a blacksmith shop. He just wants a little shop to tinker in. And that's, that's how that happened. And he goes to a party, and he like, you know, makes the the part of the party where he like conducts the orchestra, you know, because it's Bing Crosby, so he like makes him play some, like, Jazzy number, and they dance. And he dances with the girl, uh, who turns out her name is, like, sir, miss. What's her name, Alison, or something. But that's that's ends up being Sandy, right? He that's okay, Alice, and it's Alice and what he calls her Sandy, so that's her okay. But Sandy is actually betrayed in the movie, Sandy is betrothed to Lancelot, right? And so he is he when he ends up so the the pacing and the, there's some of the events that are in the book, but they're all out of order, and it's really bizarre, right? So, like he, he gets in a, you know, Lancelot hears about this because Morgan le Fay and Merlin tell him, you know, because they're the villains in this, Merlin's still a villain. But he tells they send a thing to Lancelot apes. Lancelot, this dude's after your girl. And so the duel that he ends up having against her Sagamore in the book is actually against certain Lancelot in the movie, right? And it's right here at the beginning, like he, like, does the thing. He has a little blacksmith shop. He's hanging out with Sir Sagamore because, it turns out, in the movie sir Sagamore, his first name is, you guessed it, Clarence. So they combine sir Sagamore and Clarence into one person. So it's like his little sidekick. He's not quite as witty or smart as Clarence, but he is, like, Beefy, like Sir Sagamore. So okay, you know, they combine that character into one person. So instead of, like, having extra they that's one person. So it's Clarence Sagamore, but he just calls him saggy the whole time. So that's a little bit weird. But so he has the duel against Lancelot, which is where he, like, does the um, lasso thing, right? Where he can't get up on the horse in the armor. So he goes, Hey, is there any rules against it? And then he he does the lasso joust against Lancelot, right? So he lasso just Lancelot, uh, unseats him there, right? And then everything is going well, but he's so pompous. And like, Haha, I'm so amazing that. Sandy's like, That was rude. You owe Sir Lancelot an apology. And he's like, why he tried to kill me? And she was like, You're so uncouth, and just walks off. And he's like, Well, hold on. So, so there's a tiff there. Right after that, he goes back to his blacksmith shop, hanging out with his boy, sir claret sagarmore, and he, gosh, he this is where the girl comes and meets him and asks him for help, because his family, her family, has the plague, right? Oh, so we have a belief, a very brief plague house thing, where they go and he meets the mom, and the father's already died, and the brothers have already died. With the brother. We don't see the brothers come back. That's not a thing that happens. We just like everyone's dead, and the mom talks about how unfair the kingdom is, and blah, blah, blah, and this is what inspires Hank tank King Arthur OUT TO SEE the kingdom. Oh, okay, so as they're traveling, there's another song here somewhere. Okay, sing makes sense. A song they also, he also he also sings a song with Sandy. And he sings a song at the beginning with the children in the blacksmith shop, because he's, like, talking about him, that's the thing that happens. And he goes back in time and, like, the kids hang out his black shop and see what heck he's making. Because he's making, like, all kinds of crazy stuff. Like, you see him making the pistol right. Check off pistol here. He's like, putting it together with a diagram from the almanac. And so he goes out a journeying with the king. They do put the part in where the king, like, won't stand up, because he's like, itching his foot, and he's like his feet hurt from traveling, so when the nobles walk by, he can't be bothered to stand up, and then they just get captured and sold the slaves immediately, like that. Just immediately happens, oh, and then they get taken to the slave market, and that is where Merlin buys them. Merlin buys them at the slave market. Hey, right. Right? They're trying to sell them. And they do do the thing where Hank brings, like, a pound in the they offer the farthing for the king, and he gets really mad, so they left that part in there too, sure. But then Merlin buys them, right? Because he's going to send them off to the mine to just work till they die so he can take over the kingdom, right? And whatever. But ALA, the sandy comes back, she hears that they've been kept. Oh yes, here's they've been captured. And they come back, and Merlin captures all of them, right? They go out. At some point in here they're going to be executed, and this is where Hank remembers about the Eclipse. So they put it's like, at the very end the eclipse happens, and Hank whips out his little almanac thing, and he goes, oh,

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oh my god, what is today? King? I hate but he gets

Collin  40:57

it from the almanac. Then he does the magic words by yelling like capital city's names and all this stuff, which is also hilarious, perfect. And then we, like, he escapes and but they take Sandy captive, and like, Hank rushes off to save her, and then, like, Sagamore goes off and he they escape from the thing and those stuff, but Hank goes off to save her. He gets the pistol with him. This is where he shoots the dude in the armor. It's one of Merlin's people. He shoots him plan, and then, like, he gets whacked on the head during the duel, and that's how he comes back to modern time. Boom. But plot twist, right? The person, like they do, they pull a little wizard of oz on you because, like, the guy that owned the castle that Hank's been talking to the whole time is the same actor that played King Arthur, really, yeah. So they kind of Wizard of Oz, you a little bit, and, like, there is a painting downstairs of, like, you know, they have all the coat of arms of the people in the museum, and that's how he, you know, talks about it. And then they have, like a painting of Sandy down there, and he goes down in, the guy that owns the castle is like, I

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think you should meet my niece. She's

Collin  42:30

down on the thing over there. And he goes down, and it's the same actress that played Sandy, right? And they have, like, a little moment, because, like in the flashback part. There's this part where he, like, winks at her. He was winking at her, and she's like, What are you doing? And he's like, Oh, where I come from, that's how we, you know, you know, show affection or whatever. And then when he meets the totally not Sandy at the end, sure, she winks at him. And he's like, what's going on? That's, that's where the movie ends. So it's like, oh, still ambiguous. And there's like, big swelling music, because they're like, back together, whatever. But like, it's a bit ambiguous. And like, what really happened? Oh my gosh. So like, it is a much more lighthearted jaunt. Again, Bing, Crosby singing. The costuming is just as bad as you think it is, right? Maybe 1949, movie about bitty bull England. It's, it's not good, but, like, it's not good in a way that is acceptable, right? It's like, it's so bad that it's like, charming, kind of like, sometimes you're like, oh, oh, no. What are you doing? What happened? Pick some of the guards have, like, a halberd at some point. You're like, it just looks foam. You're like, what? What even is happening right now? Like, 1949, best, right here. That's when I feel good. Yeah,

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so overall, it's not too bad. It's

Collin  44:04

pretty short too it's only, like, 106 minutes. So that's handy. Barely got started, really, yeah, really got started. They cut out a lot of stuff, and it was a little confusing, because they put, I mean, confusing for me specifically, only because I had, we just read the book, like, just finished it, like, two weeks ago. So the everything being in the wrong order was a little bit like, what? That's weird. But again, you gotta there's the cut out all the, like, super political stuff. They cut out, like, the really dark stuff, right? To make it more like of a light hearted jaunt, romantic affair, adventure situation, right? But it was very it was kind of interesting to watch it, right? So that was what I did. This week for my homework. Yeah, I definitely feel the much lighter take on it and more just kind of the mystery of, I don't know, like, what is this kind of thing versus, like, some very serious, deep, you know, thought, emotionally distressing, like the book, right? Because that's pretty that's some pretty serious stuff. So that makes sense, though, as of why they would, you know, do, yeah, do it that way, I guess. But yeah, and they shifted the time period a little bit, probably just to for just random costuming reasons, right? You know, even though it was, it said it was like 1912 and you're like, they're just, just the same. I don't really know what's really looked different, yeah, yeah, like that. You know, they try super hard, but they're like, Okay, whatever. I guess like, or at the beginning was supposed to be like 1929 and then it flashed back 1912 and it was kind of weird. I don't really understand timeline was a little bit wonky, but, you know, it happens in time travel movies. But yeah, I thought was pretty good. It got me thinking. It may be a movie that should be remade in a more modern time, right? Not necessarily to, like, be a dark, terrible, like, depressing time travel movie, but, like, if there hasn't really been a movie since 1949 right? It's right. It's ripe for a remake, right? And I have a question for you about this remake. Do you think a Connecticut, Yankee in King Arthur's Court would be prime pickings for a muppet remake? I mean, isn't everything prime pickings for I mean, yes, but also yes, but yeah, this is what I was thinking about right after I watched the king Earth, after I watched the movie The 1949 version, I was like, you know, I wonder what a muppet version of this would be like, my goodness. Okay, so, so, yeah, here's the question, here's, here's the important question, who plays Hank? Yeah, I mean, because I think the obvious answer there would, you know, people say to Kermit, because he's kind of the, the hero, lead character, yeah? But I don't know if, because there's, there's a weird, I don't know. I always got the sense that there's kind of, there's kind of a little little bit, a little bit of a dark side to, uh, to Hank? Yeah, the book and so no, so is Hank Gonzo? Yeah, that. I think Hank has to well now, so here's the thing, who then plays Merlin, because if someone's gonna believe that they're like a passionate wizard, it would be Gonzo. That's a good point. That's a good point. That's tough. Um, I was thinking you could go, you could do Hank is Gonzo Sandy's Chicken, chicken,

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right? That would be kind of funny, but,

Collin  48:41

yes, that's true. Do you need a villain, right? But Merlin could be one of the, like the people, actors that are in the movie, right? Sure, yeah, you could have him, but, or, you know, if you want to think more, just like most of the actors are, are Muppets, then, yeah, who? Yeah. Because I would think Hank might be Gonzo. Might be a good Hank. But who would be Merlin? I guess you could have Rizzo be Merlin. That'd be kind of Rizzo. You know what? Actually, Rizzo would be an amazing Merlin. Because Rizzo, Rizzo is a character like, He's perfect for those he needs to be in scenes. But, like, main character energy, he doesn't really have that. But like, Merlin just, yeah, pops in and pops out, does some crazy stuff and disappears. He tries to, like, foil, yes, foil, honestly trying to foil. And then, like, he just gets, like, literally runs away with his tail between his legs. So, like, maybe Rizzo. Rizzo. I think Rizzo may be a good Merlin with gonzo's or the shrimp guy. Oh, I'm really looking forward to Fozzy bears King. Arthur fozzi could be king. Arthur Fozzie could also be sir Sagamore. Oh. Yeah, I definitely want Sam the eagle to be certainly, it's a lot. Yeah, that's definitely confirmed. Yeah right, yeah. Who else we have here, Sandy, yeah, see if it's a chicken that just makes sense. So that kind of like takes care of itself. Yeah right. Like, yeah, Miss piggies. Queen Guinevere, I guess. Yeah, yeah, could you could do Kermit as Arthur, but then, like, Arthur's supposed to be, like, weird, right? And, like, not really with it, so that doesn't really make for that's why I like, I like, Fozzy, yeah? Yeah. You can have the Muppet band in the ballroom scene, right, obviously, where they're all playing the thing, you can have Muppet band there. So that's important, perfect. But like, Yeah, but yeah, where do we? The problem is, where do we? Where do you put the Kermit piggy situation? Right? Where do we? Where do we fit them into the movie? Because there's not a lot of relation. The only real relationship in the whole movie, other than the like, is Hank and Sandy right outside of like the whole Lancelot quinevere thing, which you know that maybe, maybe don't put that one right, like, so, so the problem is, if you're gonna have that, you need that. But they didn't do it really in like, they just added and, like, changed some stuff in the Treasure Island movie, yes, because she was, like, thin gun, right, which is not a romantic part. And they just, like, made it go in there. So we're gonna have to write in, change some character design here for this. Because, yeah, oh yeah, see, I think, yeah, because I think if the shrimp is Merlin, then you have to have Rizzo be Clarence. Ooh, right. The Hank is Gonzo, Rizzo can be Clarence. I think that might be good. That would have better team. Yes, right, yeah, can't forget that, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be important. So yeah, we set to find a place for Kermit here. This is the Yeah, I don't know what to do about the Kermit. PD, I don't know because, well, I mean, you could, so I I'm trying to put some piece of does he play Mark Twain? Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe. But he'd be good. That's it would be a different take, because Kermit again typically lead and everything, but, yeah, but I think that that would be a different way to to kind of frame this of he's the narrator. He's Mark Twain in those instances of needing to talk about the story. Yeah, they could be in it. Like, kind of like, how Gonzo was Dickens, right, exactly like that. This is what I'm thinking. Yeah. Because, because Gonzo is way more of just Yeah, way more uh, kind of energy, yeah. Because, if you're gonna have the Muppet be a lead person, you do need to have somebody else do that stuff because, like, because Kermit wasn't, like, the lead man in Christmas Carol, but that's because you had Michael Caine and, like, Yeah, I mean, oh so. Like, absolutely so. But he did play more of a lead part in Treasure Island movie, because He was the captain or number. So that's what he like, he was the captain of the boat, and then piggy was the maroon sailor, and that's what, okay, yeah, I'm,

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it's all coming back to me. I'm

Collin  54:09

saying I'm moving a long time. So, yeah, so we gotta figure out where to put Kermit in here. But I feel like, feel like this could potentially be, like, if they stay, you know, again, you don't want to go on to the too dark. You go a little bit dark. Because, again, Christmas Carol, a little bit dark, right? Yeah, a little bit dark. With the whole Deadman Tell No Tales stuff, the whole, like, you know, betrayal, right? Um, dead, Tom, obviously, and Tom, Tom's dead. Tom's dead. Course, he's dead. That's why he's called Dead Tom. Oh. So yeah, Pepe, Merlin. Pepe is Merlin. Gonzo Hank, chicken for Sandy. Oh, this and then, yeah, like Fozzy. Arthur is good. Rizzo Clarence, good, yeah. This is, it sounds solid to me. You can have the band in there, playing at the castle thing, doing the stuff. You can just have a bunch of the other random people be Knights of the Round Table, right? Oh yeah, Sam Lancelot, obviously. But then you can have the other ones be like Galahad and Sagamore and like all the stuff. You know, instead of a gun, he can just shoot the cannon at him, right? He can shoot himself out of a cannon at this, yes, that's why. Oh, see, it's Gonzo, right? So instead of, instead of shooting, he shoots himself out of a cannon, and it knocks them off the thing. And what it is, so imagine, okay, so what is it's a scene where the camera looks at the person charging in the in the suit of armor. And then it pans immediately back to Gonzo. And then it looks back to the person in the Institute of armor. And it looks back to Gonzo, and he's in a cannon. And he came out of nowhere, his helmet, yeah, just like nowhere. And then, oh, Sandy can light it right? Yes, he has the chickens light one side, so Sandy can light the cannon and fire him off with his little helmet, his little stars crash helmet, right? Just wows into the person, yes, just blasts him right off the side. And he wins. But he like, you know, he's doing that, like on the ground, where he's, like, all dizzy and stuff, where he always does that. And so he's like, Oh, but he wins the fight because he like, smashes him off the horse. This is, this is magnificent. That'd be good. And he could do the lasso thing, right? Yeah, I think Gonzo is just made for Hank. I think that's really, that's what we've learned, yeah, is what we've learned here. So, yeah, we've got to find, yeah. Just gotta figure out where to put Piggy and Kermit and I think we ship it. I think we send it out, right? I think that's, yeah, can work on casting some random people to be like, you know, other random side characters. But think the main crux of the story here is tied down. I like, I like Gonzo as Hank it just feels right, you know? Think It does, yeah, no, I think that that, that I do like, I think that that's the that's what it needs. Because, again, like the whole Kermit being the lead. I think that that's, I don't think that's exactly what is necessary here. So, yeah, I don't think so either. I think he needs to be, like, I don't really know where to put him, right? They have to be there somewhere. We have to find, like, a, just a side part for them to be, like, in it. And, like, not really, you know, they can be in there, they can do the thing, but it doesn't have to be like a main character person. Because I really feel like Gonzo has to carry this movie, like it's important that this happens. I agree. You know, actually, I think I just thought the person that should play the buffet, that should play Sagamore is the big, I don't know whose name is like, the big monstery guy. You know, the big, tall, brown, Shaggy haired guy. Yeah, I don't he should be. What is Sir Sagamore list of Muppets? Let's go. Oh no. Well, scroll, scroll, yeah, because I don't know what he's called. Oh, the Swedish Chef. Can just be in the castle, right? He's serving everything. He's going around, yeah? But there, yeah. I don't know who it is, but that's the guy who should be. I Who should be the SIR Sagamore? Because sir Sagamore, when he catches Hank originally, he's talking about how he's a monster and how he's like, big and scary. And so if that dude was telling the story about how Gonzo was the big and scary one, it would just be really funny, right? It would just be really funny, like, console being, like, looking at him sideways, like, right, like, do his little shoulder shrug, yeah. I think that would be good. That'd be funny. That's necessary. I think that would be good. Oh, we gotta put Dr Bunsen and beaker in there too, somewhere. They can help. They can be he can they can be part of the, oh, the lab crew, the Clarence, the lab crew, yeah, the clearance, like, experiments, yeah, that they set up. They can just be the lab techs. They can help them set up all the stuff right when they. Vent radio. They can it can be them working on stuff, yeah, and they're just constantly every time he's like, all those cut scenes where he's like, looking around, he's like, Oh, look at all the the wires, like they're over, like they're walking over and like, coming up to talk to him and confirming clearance. And then they're just like, tinkering stuff. Yeah, they're like tinkering with things, or, like, making stuff. They're like, blowing up things in the background, right? Like, Yep, yeah, that would be good. Oh, it's sweetums. His name is sweetum sweetums. That's who it is, the large Harry ogre thing. We should be sir Sagamore, because that would just be the that would be the best, I think, because he's got the most screen time of most people of the other nights, the other nights are in there randomly. But you could just, like, throw random dudes in there right when they're being captured and sold off. You should have Statler and Waldorf there echoing them, right? Yes, yes, and Fozzie just looking more and more incredulous

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as Yeah, the stress fight, yes, yeah,

Collin  1:01:12

see, I, I, I'm, I think with these quick notes, we can just ship this off immediately, yeah, I may just plug this into uh, AI and see if I can start getting,

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Oh dear, oh no,

Collin  1:01:23

oh man, yeah, hey. Well, we'll work on those notes and see if we can send those off to Disney. I guess Disney owns everything, right? That's true. I think they do. So that means it'll never get done. Never gonna get a useful nothing movie again.

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No, that is unfortunate.

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Draft. Well,

Collin  1:01:56

I'm glad you did the movie review and you watched that kudos. Did that did, but I seem to have forgotten to ride a haiku in all of this thinking about Muppet movies Drat, so I will owe you one the next time that works. Does no worries, no worries at all. All right, I got so sidetracked with this watching the thing that I forgot all about it till just right now, darn it. Oh no, no, that's good. I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna see, do you think think more about this? See if I can nail this down more. But I like where this is headed. I think this is good, and we will, man, now I want to watch this?

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There you go. Dang it,

Collin  1:02:46

hey. Well, with that great disappointment and hope for the future, maybe, yes, we can put this together. I'm gonna go find it. Video Chat. I will try and find something and send this out and make this so we can visualize what this would look like. And this is magical. Look forward to be just pointed by, thanks, Disney, yeah. But with that, we will did it too. All right again, next time, love you bye, bye. You