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podcast, mobile recording, family trip, international travel, client acquisition, echidna rediscovery, Captain Cook, Kansas City Chiefs, stadium renovation, pirate treasure, sailor jargon, Captain Smollett, mutiny, dramatic irony, blueberry picking, blueberry processing, freezer jam, bagels, cream cheese, dehydration, baking sheet, parchment paper, freezer space, bagel history, Lake Part Two, annual event, pancakes, muffins, Susan's book, live meeting

SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin 00:04

Foreign Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, it's not fine. Jim Ahoy, Ahoy,

Brandon 00:21

what's going on? Not a lot. How are you

Collin 00:24

I think I'm fine. I'm trying to remember where all of my buttons are. I'm doing mobile recording right now. Oh, so hold on. Put here. My levels are very off, and I'm not in a good position because I forgot to test this before I jumped on so it's finer.

Brandon 00:46

Sound fine over here to me. So that's okay. I'm sure

Collin 00:49

it's fine. Sure nothing could go wrong. No, of course not.

00:59

Oh dear. This is all gone wrong.

Collin 01:03

Really, really, it really has just, don't have enough on my my mobile recording studio. Sorry for all the mic noise. There's just no room for anything. I'm so proud. Here's a lot of my noise, but it's fine. It's fine. It's the fully work people. Oh yeah. They go, um, Nope,

01:24

it's fine.

Collin 01:26

Oh my gosh. Um, your dad's, where are you? I am? I am a dad's, uh, out in a out in the woods somewhere. You know what? You know what? How this week has gone. I wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if, if I was recording, I did think for a minute I am going to have to record like, tethered to my phone on the side of a road. One of these days, I'm just like, I hate trying to find more time, more time. Just like, Oh my Oh, my goodness, I I have a suggestion for next year when we decide what, what time to do the family trip. Oh, not, not end of June. That's just all I'm gonna say. Not, not, not sure i

02:15

Okay, but

02:16

that will we only

Speaker 2 02:20

did. Sorry. This is my fault, right? Because I'm going to be gone. I know July

Collin 02:28

international traveler over here,

02:30

my bad, yeah, so

Collin 02:34

sorry. Oh, my gosh, no. It's fine. Just I last it's also not good. Like last year, June was down for us, like it was a dip in a month, as far as, like, busyness and stuff. And so I really didn't think that there would be much of an issue. And then all of a sudden it was like, dear Lord, what a surprise what is happening right now in my life,

Brandon 03:08

which really is quite weird. Like, I don't know. Like, are these people going, I gotta,

Collin 03:14

I don't know. And like, that's the thing, too. Of it's not even, it's not even, like, it's all these new people that are that we're getting. It's all of them. I all of my old clients who didn't use me at all last year are like, oh, yeah, about that. And we're getting our annual it's our, well, that could be too Right? Like, didn't do anything last year, right? So this year they're gonna do a thing, right? Like, that's how we do stuff. Like, every, all the time, so every couple years, right? You got to go. So, like, maybe that's it too. Like, it just hit a certain type of way last year, and now it's like, oh, surprise, yes. Now other people are yes, we have now this like, we've grown our baseline over the last year of true clients, but we are now getting the our quote, unquote, annually reoccurring clients. Of like, every other year they come back and, boy, that's, that's I, I can't, I can't do that. We've had people who have been reaching out to us, who first used us four years ago, fell off the face of the earth. Haven't heard a so a sound from these people. And then they're like, Hey, I'm traveling in a week. I'm a previous client, and I'm like, blowing the dust off of my old records. Like, what? Yeah, you gotta find the binder. Like, who are you?

04:45

You used our service once. Five years ago,

Collin 04:50

I like I had one person who used this one time, okay, then a year later, they booked us. Yes, and they immediately then canceled. And we have a cancelation policy where, like, depending on when you book and how, you know soon after you cancel, like you get charged to some money. And they remember, they booked us one time, then a year later, they booked us and then canceled, and I charged them money, and they said, Well, I would think as being a reoccurring client, you would make an exception for us. I was like,

Brandon 05:28

mean, they are technically every technically they are repeat, repeating. Yes, right. Technically they are correct, right? Now, I think there's some semantics to be dealt with here, but some say are, in fact, the

Collin 05:48

strictest definition. They did come back, making him repeat, yeah. Anyway, I but I had my, my strangest, most high stress client acquisition yesterday.

Speaker 2 06:07

That's saying quite a lot for you. This one takes like, this is, I don't know that is a that is a loaded statement. I'm a little scared now.

Collin 06:20

This one takes the cake. Never in 13 years, never in 13 years have we done this.

Speaker 3 06:28

Okay, I got a call from a lady, and turns out

Collin 06:36

there is a familial connection with this person that didn't influence how we move forward, right? But this person called, allegedly, who's kidding? Like it's an old boy scout connection, ready for this? Wow. Okay, person who lives in Springfield, I'll just say that. Okay, that's fine. You can text me later. It's fine, okay? They called me and they said, hey, my good they live in Springfield. They said, Hey, okay, my sister lives in your hometown, so in the town that I actually live? Okay, yeah, we are both traveling in Florida right now. She had a neighbor in her apartment who was supposed to be checking on her cats.

Speaker 3 07:18

That was a week ago. The landlord came in today and the cats have not been checked on. Ah,

Collin 07:28

I talked I talked to my daughter in law, who's a vet in Springfield, and they recommended you to us because they knew that you served both Springfield and this other location. And I'm like, this is really niche already. Like, this is, yeah, this is, this is very confusing, right? Like, what is, what in the world is going on? Like, there is exactly one company who could solve your problem right now, and it is, in fact, mine.

07:54

It is I,

Collin 07:58

and, and, so I was like, well, like, put your sister on and call, talk to her, and she's, like, super freaking out. Like, obviously, because she just found out from the landlord that, like, that's fair, her apartment is maybe pretty trashed, yeah, because it's been over a week and the cats have not been touched, and she's supposed to be gone hoard until the end of the month. Like, oh, oh no, yep. And I'm like, Well, I literally have and it again, because of my town that I live in, everything is very close. And I'm like, I said I can be there in 10 minutes,

08:40

and I just

Collin 08:41

need to, have to, I have to. But also she didn't have a key for access, so thankfully, she called me while her landlord was still in his office, so I could go over there talk to them. Yeah, get the key access. Yeah, I'm an emergency guy. Hooked me with her permission, and he's like, who are you? Like, why? Are you here? Like, where are you from? Like, solver, I'm here to take it out of the way. I'm here and I spent, yeah, I spent two hours cleaning. Oh, my goodness, and I didn't even get done. Oh, my God.

09:27

Wowzer,

09:28

yep, yep, and,

Collin 09:31

and, and, you know, and then she I'm like, Well, look like I just told us that here's the plan, like, here's what we do. I'm going to come over, I'm going to do a deep clean get everything set, because right now, your cats aren't happy. They're stressed to the max. Their home is not clean and they have no food, so I have to come in and get it up to a point where they're going to be comfortable to use the home again as their Wowzer. And then I said, and then after that, I'm going to come over. We're going. Come over every single day. And even with that, the person was like, well, like, it's okay if it's not every day. And I'm like, Look,

Brandon 10:08

this is what happened already once. That's not how we roll around here. And that

Collin 10:12

was the other thing. She was like, Oh, well, my neighbor is such a nice person. And I could not stop myself. Clearly, they're not, I said, I said, before I realized, I said, and look where that got us. Was like, I mean, fair, that's fair, right? Like, Oh, yeah, so I I'm like, Look, we are coming over every single day, and here's what you're going to get from us. And I went over, I sent her 75 photos my first visit, with four walkthrough videos of various aspects of the apartment, showing her, like the before and the after, and where the things were and how things were and how it was staged, and what I had found and like, what I had moved and what's over here, and where the cats are, like, just like, and I'm playing, I turn on the TV and here tell how's your pet tip, peaceful pet music, calm music for pets on YouTube. She's based out of Florida. She makes these 18 hour loop videos that just play calm music in the background, so you can play for your pets while you're gone. Yeah, just have sound. Just have sound, right? I'm playing that. She'd also set it to 80, with and auto on the fan. Oh, so

Brandon 11:33

I was like 80, I know you're gonna be gone, but like, they're still living things in your

Collin 11:38

house, right? Like 78 not 8070. And the fan is to run non stop to ventilate this like they were almost there. Was like, the kid, the water was all over the floor. They were basically, they were, like, one or two more days before they were out of food entirely, like, and I'm just like, I'm leaving this place, just like in shock of what I had just walked into. And I was even over again to there today, tag teaming with my employees. She was taking care of the cats and scrubbing bowls and feeding and scooping litter. I was using the thankfully, the client had a little carpet cleaner that I was able to go into. Like, yeah, individual spots. Shot it with what resolve, or whatever. There's the big foaming carpet spray, and then using the machine and going around and like, and still, like, I clean carpet, still for another half hour, spot treating stuff, not doing full carpet stuff,

12:39

but just little spots.

Collin 12:41

And well, you know, that's one way to get a client.

12:47

Yeah,

12:49

not the preferred way, I guess. But

Collin 12:51

no, not for anybody. And, and, honestly, like, if that had been in our remote area, like, if it's Springfield, like, I, we, I, couldn't have done that. Like, no and, and it was genuinely I had, I just happened to have, we had just dropped the kids off at art camp, and they have a three hour art camp window, and I'm like, I have exactly two hours before I need to then come back and pick up my kids from camp. So like, yeah, Wilder, let's do this.

13:24

That's nuts. Yeah,

Collin 13:26

yeah. Not recommend. Not recommend. So that was yesterday, and I was trying to get to bed. My brain was still in home detailing mode. That's how I went to that's I went to sleep at 1230 this morning. My brain still needed some soothing sounds, right? Need some Yeah,

Speaker 2 13:57

yeah. Like those videos of people that are just like you seen the walking videos, right? There's a dude. There's one. It's just like, they're like, really, really long, and it's just like they'll just be, like, walking through like a garden, like a park, or like walking through the city. There's some that I've watched before, like, to have because sometimes I do. I put a like, when I'm working, not that I work at home very much, but like, when I do, I, like, put my headphones on it just to have, like, a noise to, like, you know, distract. It's just like a dude, like, walking down a street in the city. That's it. That's all the video. Just like walking, I don't or like, a smaller town, right? But it's just like, ambient walking. Sometimes it's raining. Sometimes it's just like walking. And there's like, cars driving by and like other people walk away. It's like, one of those things, just like,

Collin 14:50

No, I have never heard of this before. I am, I'm, yeah, okay, oh, I am watching a walk through the forest with me, come fairies, come friends. Ones, let the magic begin.

Speaker 2 15:01

Okay, yeah, I've not watched that one. But like, I have even sometimes, like, when I'm reading a book, right, something that I do, I haven't done this in a while, actually. But like, if, especially if, Susan is working on stuff right in the apartment, so, like, we're both, like, I'm trying to read and she's trying to I'll put my headphones in and like, if it's a book that, like, takes place in an urban environment, right? You hit the urban background soundtrack, right?

Collin 15:30

Bang. The problem with these, this one, at least, is that there's cut scenes

Brandon 15:35

I don't want, no other ones I watched. It's just like a loot. It's basically just, like six hours of just like ambient looping. I Right, like,

Collin 15:45

I watched one. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, I watched one. What was this? We were in a we were in an Indian restaurant and waiting for our food. And they had a, they had a video playing of a guy who was walking across New Delhi or something like that. Oh, yeah. Okay, there you go. Yeah, yeah. And so I that's when you said, like you're walking in an urban Oh, wait, I have seen this. Yeah. There you go. So maybe some of that just noise, yeah, yeah. Here it is. It's an hour long. One, yeah, okay, this is good. It's in 4k It's a walking tour. It's just a guy with like, a GoPro strapped to his head. It's great. It just yet starts on one end. He just walks through the markets. Yeah, doesn't do anything, right? Yeah? You what? That's kind of sweet, right? Yeah, yeah. It's really neat. I want to include that, yeah, yeah, this is the one. Why didn't I? Yeah, yeah. Oh. And then, right? We were doing a study, a unit study, on the kids with with the kids, like global cities, and we were trying to show them, like, what life was like in different towns, right? Because it's weird. Oh, yeah, of the US. And so it was like, how do I show them some pictures? Soon, that's what I'll do. I need strap your GoPro to your head. I need to walk.

17:13

Here we go. What's up?

Collin 17:17

And so imagine, imagine I did that, right? We have the oh brother walking tour channel, and it's like Oslo

17:22

Copenhagen, Springfield.

Collin 17:29

This is go to the nature center, see, or the Greenway trail. Yeah? Do Here we go. Oh, sorry, distracting. Oh yeah. Anyway, so they all send us pictures. We'll hit them up. Yeah, absolutely no. We had shown them. I had gone back to this video to show them, remind them, like, Yeah, this is what life is like in New Delhi. So, yeah, that's really neat. Yeah, I definitely needed one of those. And Megan asked me the other day. Well, I asked her technically, and then I said, How do you fall asleep? And I just tried to describe her how I fall asleep. And she said, I think that's in a textbook somewhere for doing. But like, Chris. I said, How do you fall and she's she, she is one of those who will watch a video until she falls asleep. And that's how she falls asleep, that's and I'm like, but what are you like thinking about? Like, what's going on in your brain? And she's like, I'm just watching the movie.

Speaker 4 18:39

That's the point of the video, right? You not, right? That's what I do. I have to have, like, uh, usually I turn the TV, like, just the TV is just on to, like, something, usually something innocuous, like cooking show, or, like, random Law and Order episode, or, you know, like, nothing, like, super interesting, right? And it's just, like, you just close your eyes and you just listen to the thing,

19:01

boom, I

Speaker 4 19:02

sleep. Like, that's how it works, usually, not all the time if I go to sleep, especially now in the summertime. Like, if I try to go to sleep and I can't, I just get back up again. Like, we're not even we're not ready, we're just down. I'm not gonna sit here and be grumpy in bed. Nope. Get back up, go read, do something else, whatever

Collin 19:23

I will. I will tell you how I do this, and you let me know how weird this is. This

19:29

is gonna traumatize me. Isn't

Collin 19:32

No, I'm laying down. I have to have there has to be noise on, like a fan going. Has to be cold, okay, obviously, cold room,

Brandon 19:40

ambient ship sounds. That's what I need for. Oh, there we go.

Collin 19:49

The sounds of rigging on the high shadow, yes, hammocks. It's basically what it is. I think this is just how. My brain is wired normally during the day is that it races and I might I it's hard to slow down, and so never would have guessed that I know right? And so when I go to fall asleep, I have to put myself in a situation and scrutinize over every detail of everything that's going on. So it's not like it makes

Brandon 20:27

going to sleep the most stressful thing. No,

Collin 20:30

no. So here's what I typically do. I typically start at the top of Dad's driveway, and I walk down, okay, I'm understanding, okay, right? Okay, you're focusing on other things, right? Yes, okay, that's what I'm doing with the law and order episode, okay, listening to the sounds instead and hyper like, visualizing everything around me, like, where the trees are, where the grass, how the grass is moving, like, what, what are the clouds going on? Like, like, putting myself in real time in a situation, and that is what will ultimately put me to sleep.

21:10

Yeah, that's kind of weird.

Collin 21:12

Well, that was the silent work that followed when Megan said,

Brandon 21:18

whatever I mean, like, I don't like to, like, I don't know that would be good, I guess, if you're in a place where, like,

Speaker 4 21:25

there's no sound, right? Because I don't like that, right? Oh, there's like, no, it's like, just dead quiet everywhere. Like, I can't deal with this. Like, what is happening? Like, no, like, I need something. Like, when I was a younger I used to, like, have the radio, right? You know, similar idea, just like the radio on, like, but like, barely on, you know what I mean, like, mega quiet,

Speaker 3 21:50

like that. Just have some kind of something, right?

21:55

Because, right, like, it was too quiet. It's annoying,

Collin 21:57

yeah, no, I haven't got to have that white noise going, for sure. But I used to be able to fall asleep to podcasts and like that kind of stuff. That's just talking. I can't, I can't anymore. Now I listen. I want, well, yeah, I'll even go back and listen to old episodes, ones that I know I've heard before, just like, and have it on real low. But yeah. Then I'm like, No, my brain is attuned, and I am listening to this, and I'm That's true, yeah? And I can't, I can't have words, no words, nothing moving. So that was that evaded me last night for a very long time. But here we

22:35

are, that's fair.

Brandon 22:38

Yeah, I had the opposite, like we had like I am at the point now where I like, I'm not going to like, I have always struggled just like, going to bed, right? Like, I don't go to bed at like, I know people, my friends, are like, Oh yeah, I'm getting ready to go to bed. It's like, 10 o'clock. I'm like, bro, what?

Speaker 4 22:57

Why? Whatever. Like, Susan goes to bed much earlier than me, so I'm just like, up, right? I'm always been like this, just up, right? Well, now it's summer, so it's, it like, exacerbates and gets worse very quickly, because I don't have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, right? So I'm up all night or whatever, not all night, but like, I'm up late and whatever, and then, like, but for the past two days, Susan's had to get up early

Brandon 23:21

for doing stuff like she's been doing, like, garage sale stuff with like, one of her friends, like, you know, just

23:25

Yeah. And so

Speaker 4 23:28

the past two days, she's been up at like, five o'clock and I'm like, I can hear her going about her day, right? She says she's being quiet. She

Collin 23:38

can hear me right now, probably, but she's not as sneaky as she thinks she is, right? She's like, get up brain or whatever. Like, fine, but it's like,

23:49

so all day I just feel like

Collin 23:53

I'm very tired. I didn't sleep, and

Brandon 23:59

then I was asleep, but then I cut up early under not of my own version.

Collin 24:03

It's fine, you could say under duress. Yeah,

24:15

it's fine duress when she comes

Collin 24:17

in here, oh, here's COVID. Hi. I can hear you. Anyway, yeah, this, this week has been a lot, but I found, I found some good news articles did that I wanted to bring up, Wow, I love good news. All the world is only full of bad news currently. So so other people may have heard of these already, but that's fine. I don't care. First good news, and I'll include links and show notes attenboroughs Echidna was rediscovered. Covered by using indigenous knowledge with camera trapping. Let's go a once thought extinct Echidna on New Guinea is now no longer extinct and has now been found because of basically, they talked to people who live there, and they said, Hey, is this still around? And they went, Yeah, it's over there. Yeah. And then they set up a camera,

Brandon 25:24

okay, like, it's fine. This does happen a lot in places like New Guinea, right? Because, like, you, I want you to people in the United States, right? International listeners may have a different perspective on here, like people in the US, you think, like, oh, yeah, you know, I've been to a place where there's no people you know, like Wyoming, right? No, no, no, no. You know New Guinea

25:48

is nuts. Like, how

Brandon 25:50

you for sure that something is not alive somewhere in the middle of a forest in New Guinea, right? I know, yeah. Like, come on, you. It's very difficult. I feel like to be like, Yes, this is absolutely extinct.

Speaker 5 26:05

What? But is it right?

26:10

Like, well, where does it live? Well, it lives in New Guinea,

26:13

bro, no, it right, I don't believe

Collin 26:18

you Yes, yeah, and that's a good point, because it's also it lives in a narrow band in the mountains. And so they in, like, the remotest place ever, yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah. And so they just hadn't seen this in what did it say? Named after was described as a new species in 1998 after having been collected in 19 so just yesterday, one, it was just Yes, yeah. And basically, they had one, basically headphone one. And they were like, well, we don't know where this is, and we haven't seen it in 2020 they're like, We haven't seen this in over 20 years, but they deployed cameras two years ago and found it. And I love how they like one of the shots is, is of the echidna walking away, and the way it lifts up its its foot, they get a full picture of its pad, and they can and they can, and that was one of the key identifying features of the bottom of its foot. I'm like, now that was a very fortuitous shot, because no

27:31

planned perfectly.

Collin 27:34

You know, they could be like, to the left, please. Yeah. So this made me very excited, because echidnas are freaking adorable. Do love echidnas? Right?

Brandon 27:47

I think they're adorable. Yes, I think that's generally my go to answer when people because, like, in the elementary school and middle school setting, like you were often asked questions like, What is your favorite animal? Oh, yeah, right. It was just a thing that kids ask you, like, out of the blue with no context or background, they'll just ask you this question, so you got to be prepared. And I think Echidna right, is definitely one of my go to answers Number one, because I find them fascinating. And number two really catches people off guard. And I was like, what? And not expecting that, no, not expecting you to say, Bill Echidna, right? They're not ready for that in their life. So that is the other reason I like say that, because it's really funny. It's good,

Collin 28:31

yes, yeah, and they're just so cute. And I learned in this research paper that echidnas, they they feed by poking their nose in the ground searching for invertebrates. And this is the long nose echidna. Yeah, those are called nose pokes, and that's adorable and good name. And they can look for Echidna activity by identifying nose pokes in the ground, and I just, I love that so much. That makes me really happy.

Speaker 4 29:07

So the real question is, what do Australian scientists call them? Because we know that it has to be a shorter version of that, so they're probably just gonna, I was a pokey tracker. Like, that's just like,

Collin 29:23

something crazy. Sorry for the bad accident, ladies and gentlemen, it's true. Perfect. Yeah, know that. You know it's true. So, yep, you know you can't deny it. So don't try. Don't try. So that was my, my first bit of good news, and then not but three days ago. But wait, but wait, if an echidna, we're not more enough Captain Cook's HMS endeavor. Oh, I saw that found in the waters off Rhode Island. Yeah. What I absolutely love about this is that in the article, it does admit. That's what, like, 30 or 40 years ago, somebody was like, it's probably over there, right? And then they just, like, never got around to never got it, yeah, to it. And there it is. We've found, and that's, that's

30:14

pretty crazy. I'm

Collin 30:16

very excited about this. Yeah, good old Captain Cook. Yes, yes. So found the endeavor. Oh, yeah, so that's pretty sweet, yeah. So that was my other good news. It was good news, right from this week, right? I only have more things to rant about this week, right? I have Brandon's rant of the week, right? So, so I know

30:43

it's a lot of political

Speaker 4 30:45

mess going on in the world, but I do have a somewhat political topic to talk about. I want to talk about the Kansas City Chiefs, right? I want to rant about this nonsense for a minute, right? Just minute right in the gall of professional sports teams in the United States, right? So international friends, I do need your help to understand. I want to know if there's like a difference, if this works differently other places, right? I need to know how this works.

Speaker 3 31:16

But currently, the chiefs are whining because their stadium is not like new enough, right? Granted, is Chief stadium old? Yes, right? What

Collin 31:28

do they just want to renovate it so they can charge

31:31

even higher ticket prices for people?

Speaker 3 31:35

Yes, also, yes, right. So they've decided that they're like they want the people of Kansas City to pass a tax referendum to finance their stadium upgrade. This is garbage, right? Like what in the world the chiefs are worth somewhere, at least online rough estimates I found briefly by googling today, four and a half billion dollars right their renovations are going to cost somewhere around $1 billion and they want the people of Kansas City and Missouri to pay for at least half of this, yeah, the nerve

32:28

right. Then they talk about, like,

Speaker 3 32:30

oh, it brings economic, you know, stuff to the area, like that might

Brandon 32:39

be true, but that benefit is dwarfed by the benefit that's going

32:44

directly to you,

Brandon 32:47

right? Like, if the city's getting some money, you better believe the owners of the chiefs are getting even more,

Collin 32:55

even more money, right? There's all this like

Brandon 32:59

nonsense, right? Like, Oh, my. My least favorite part about, my favorite part about this, rather, is like, the people are like, Oh, move the Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas City, Kansas. First of all,

33:13

Ew, why nobody

Brandon 33:16

wants to go to the Kansas part of Kansas City. Okay, that's not, that's illegal,

Speaker 3 33:21

right? Second of all, like, like, it doesn't really matter that much, right? They're like, oh, we'll give you, like, many, many dollars if you move the entire stadium to the Kansas half of the border. Yeah, wait, what do you mean you're gonna give them money. Like, that's that no Hold on What? What? Exactly backwards discussion is happening here, right? Like you're already the chiefs are already gonna be using the infrastructure, the roads and stuff paid for by the city, right? You're gonna give them land and money to build a state like, what? What is this? Yeah, why would you do that? Well, and other other teams do this too. There

Speaker 4 34:17

are some owners that just, like, finance it themselves, because these people are multi billionaires, and if they want new stadium, they can just buy it, right? It's not like they won't even notice money's gone and be like, Man, whatever, but like, why? How is this the duty of a citizen who may not even care about football that is to pay for your ridiculous Stadium. This is why the Rams left St Louis, because St Louis was like, No, you're dead. No, no one cared that. Get out, right? Like, I

Speaker 2 34:56

know that for all intents and purposes, the Rams were a worst team. Oh. But, you know, still, right, they're leveraging this, like, ridiculous Super Bowl streak here, like, oh, that means we could get more money from these sucker taxpayers. I mean,

35:10

fans of the tea,

Speaker 2 35:16

they're just watching this unfold as, like, they argue about this in like, the State House of Representatives, you're like, Guys, seriously, right now, like,

35:28

what? Right again? Yeah, it's

Speaker 2 35:32

not gonna fund the schools, but you're gonna give the Chiefs money. The Chiefs don't need any more

35:37

money. What do you stop it?

Collin 35:41

Well, and it shows the mindset of how these city teams or whatever are viewed as like a public good or a public asset, when in fact, they are private entities. And that is the distinction of Green Bay Packers. Well, okay, I know that's true. Over to the side, yes, okay, yes. But it's like, whenever we had somebody who came to us who wanted us to help them get a non profit off the ground, and then halfway through, they said, You know what, actually I'm going to retain and they were like, here's going to be the board structure. Here's going to be how we set up governance and all this stuff. And we're going to we're gonna we're gonna help fundraise, and we're gonna get community involvement to make this a thing. And Meg and I were like, yes, here we are. We're doing this thing. And then they went, actually, I'm gonna go ahead and just maintain control and ownership of this, and I'm gonna keep it a for profit for right now, but I'd still like to have all the volunteers, of the volunteers helped me get off the ground and contribute their efforts to make this a success. That's no and I remember going free labor, that's not but you're running a business, right? Like and now you're asking the community to help. Hey, yeah, you're a business. No, that's not how this works at all. Like you can talk about community mindset, and we're all a family here, and we're all about the like you can talk about that, but you're a business, and so if you want something as a business, you pay for it, right? Like, if you want to have the community director, you pay that person, oh, you can't afford them. Well, then you don't get, I don't get one. Sorry, yeah, right. Like, like, Oh, you want stadium upgrades. Then you pay for them. Oh, you can't afford them. Then you don't get the upgrades right, like, run your business better. And I just, I It's really frustrating when they're like, Okay, well now we'd like a handout from the citizens of the state and city to help us build this so that we can make more money. What I I'm really with you on this.

Brandon 38:02

These are the same people that talk about bootstraps and right like, oh well, you're poor. Well, you know, you should just work harder. If you thought about that, you thought about working harder, you wouldn't be poor.

Speaker 3 38:16

Bro, wait a minute. You want free money from the taxpayers in the government to put in seats. What happened to bootstrap bub? Where'd that go? Yep, yep.

38:34

And then I look at like, I don't know, like

Collin 38:37

any big project like that is going to have some sort of incentives, because then I think of the the Las Vegas I right that cost over a billion dollars to make. Yeah, for question mark reasons I don't really know, but, like, I don't know. I just You can go out and spend money however you want. Like, you don't just, if you have it, go ahead, but anyway,

Brandon 39:09

if I do that, and then I run out of money, and you go, Sucks to suck, loser, what do you do? Right?

Collin 39:15

You manage your house better, buddy. Yeah.

Brandon 39:18

Like, wait, wait, no, hold on. What is going on. So that's, yeah, that's that was always fun to complain about a little bit going on for weeks. And I'm just like, this is

Speaker 3 39:29

the most idiotic thing ever. So dumb. Why is this a thing that we're talking about a complaint is absolutely ridiculous. So yes, there you go. Sorry, that's,

Speaker 4 39:47

that's it. That's all I wanted to talk about today. Is poor usage of taxes, right? That's a, they go an actual, by the way, that's an actual political take. How do you spend taxes? Me, there you go. That's just in case you're curious. That is,