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Ep. 314 - Give me a second here...
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Ep. 314, Recorded 3/5/2026. Archie Madness. Bottomless Soda. Thanks, Lisa. Apple makes us blush. Ninety-four feet at a time. Four pounds of math. Track and Afield. Ticket to Ride. Everyday I’m Hustlin’. Religion & Politics. Batteries not low.
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Editing Podcast Content
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Cutting room floor.
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That would imply an edit.
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There was actually some editing last week.
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Okay.
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We can get to that.
Show Theme Introduction
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You wouldn't.
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Oh, no, no, no, no.
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I was just, you could take credit for that.
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Yeah.
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We're behind.
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It's fine.
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Okay.
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Where are we at?
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Oh, top of the show.
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Great.
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Well, levels, levels, levels, levels.
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My levels levels disappeared.
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I see him on my side.
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OK, well, then we'll live with it.
College Basketball Tournaments
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So this week I was discussing postseason tournaments with toddler Matt Damon.
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Sorry, wait, we're talking basketball.
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Yes, I just kind of launched right into that with no context.
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Well, it's not unusual for one of our cold opens, but sure.
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Yeah.
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So specifically here, college basketball.
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Awesome.
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OK.
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So you know how the NCAA tournament, men's tournament, but tournaments now, is March Madness?
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And the Missouri Valley, because it's in St.
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Louis, is Arch Madness?
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Oh, is that, wait, is that why?
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Because it's in St.
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Louis?
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I just assumed that Archie Manning was like the, that makes a lot more sense, to be honest.
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I didn't know.
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Anyway,
March Madness Trademark Origins
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sorry.
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Right now, Amy is probably reminding you that some guy in Illinois first coined the phrase March Madness, referring to the Illinois State High School basketball tournament way back in 1939.
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Yeah.
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Yes, but it was the NCAA who actually trademarked the phrase in 1989.
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That's right up there with the Big Ten.
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Anyway, sorry.
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Because of course they did.
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Yes, sure.
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Yes, that's when they made it official.
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Sure.
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After Brent Musburger resurrected it in 1982.
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Got it.
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And then the NCAA went, hey, hey, yeah, we can make money off that.
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Hold on.
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Are we going to owe somebody money because of this segment?
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We should just be referring it to as the big tournament.
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Anyway, I don't think so because, you know, we're doing a critical analysis of the history of these phrases and we're not using it to make money.
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And we can absolutely prove that we're not making money off of this.
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Good, good, good.
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Safe.
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Thanks for that.
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Yeah, right.
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Okay.
Starch Madness Introduction
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So let's go back the last five minutes.
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Sorry.
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What were you and Jake talking about?
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March madness, arch madness.
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Did you know that the big sky conference now calls their tournament starch madness?
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Seriously?
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What?
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Why, why would they do that?
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Well, it takes place in Idaho and their logo is a basket of fries.
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That's terrible.
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I mean, that's absolutely terrible.
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But now that I think about it, it's 100% better than there are other options.
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What's that?
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The Tuber tourney.
Hosts Introduction
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Hi, toddlers.
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Welcome to Talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prenz, where failure is always an option.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, Todd.
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Hey, how's it going?
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Pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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How are you?
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Not too bad.
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While you were reading the opening, I was quickly actually Googling.
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Are potatoes tubers?
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Because what I didn't want is somebody to come out with a Arnold Schwarzenegger clip.
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It's not a tuber.
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It's not a tuber.
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We're clear.
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We're clear.
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According to the internet, potatoes are tubers.
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Not helpful.
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Which means we may or may not have gotten that one right.
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Okay.
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Anyway, how are you doing?
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I'm fine.
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But real quick.
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Yes.
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Are you positive that it's starch madness or is that just one of those jokes?
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Did you just do like a five-minute cold open just to get us to a dad pun that you made up?
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No, no.
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It really is starch madness and it's been so for the last two years.
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This is the second year of starch madness.
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Got it.
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Okay.
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The other thing about, while we were looking at, Jake and I were looking at tournament brackets.
West Coast Conference Format
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Have you seen the West Coast Conference tournaments bracket, how they design theirs?
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I haven't seen a second of college basketball in four years.
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So, no.
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So this is the conference where St.
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Mary's and Gonzaga always vie for who's going to win, right?
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And everybody else is kind of an also-ran.
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And they know that one of those two teams, and quite often both of those two teams, deserve to go to the NCAA tournament.
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And not only deserve, but realistically, those two teams are the only two teams that the West Coast Conference has a shot at making a dent in the tournament.
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Right.
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Most years.
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But if they don't win their conference tournament or realistically at least make it to the conference tournament final, if they have a really good year, they're not getting in as an at-large.
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Okay.
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Right.
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So they've structured their tournament.
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So with 12 teams, there are nine rounds of the tournament.
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And so the last, the 11 and the 12 have to play on one side of the bracket.
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And if you win, you get to keep playing.
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So it's more like a ladder.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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to play the team that's next ahead and play the team that's next ahead.
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And so it gets all the way out.
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So the number one team and the number two team only have to win one game to make it to the conference tournament finals.
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So you really only, if you're one or two, have to win two games to get to the NCAA tournament.
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But if you're 12th, you have to win eight games in a row, to win eight games in eight days.
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It's stacked.
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As you were explaining that, I'm like, that doesn't make any sense.
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But I remember that from somewhere.
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And this is, I'm pretty sure about eight seasons ago, Rue did that with a lip sync battle to figure out who was going to continue, where the bottom person just had to keep going.
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I'm pretty sure they stole that from Rue.
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I'm just going to say.
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And if they did, Rue's going to want payment.
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Rue gets paid.
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Anyway, okay.
Listener Feedback
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Feedback, follow-up, and updates.
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We had a chance, Amy and I had a chance in the car to get caught up a little bit when we drove over to Quad Cities and back.
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She had a little bit of crotch enhancement feedback.
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Who wouldn't?
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Who wouldn't, right?
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And what she said was, you just keep bringing these stories up to get a rise out of Todd.
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Okay.
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Please, please tell me you said, no, I'm just trying to inject a little bit of humor here.
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Solid work.
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I had planned to put this little note in follow-up, but because Danny texted us it, it's going to go under feedback.
Cardinals' Concessions Offer
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Todd, did you see that the Cardinals have announced unlimited $29 concessions in Big Mac land for 2026?
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This would be the St.
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Louis baseball Cardinals, correct?
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It would be.
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So if you are sitting in Big Mac land, you can buy unlimited concessions for the game for $29 included hot dogs, chicken tenders, brats, nachos, French fries, popcorn, peanuts, kettle chips, ice cream cups, and Coca-Cola fountain products.
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Sadly, no Cracker Jack.
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So, so three things come to mind.
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Number one, when Danny sent us that, he said, oh, sorry.
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When Danny sent us the, the tweet or whatever, the X or the grok or I don't know, whatever it's the person who said it said making sports and live events comprehensively affordable and accessible for working class people will never be a bad business decision.
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Okay.
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Two things.
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Actually, there's two things on that.
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Number one,
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They announced it.
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We haven't seen how it plays out as a business decision.
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Let's wait till the end of the year to see if it's a bad business decision.
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Number two, oh my goodness, $29, all you can eat.
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Thank goodness they're really making things affordable for working people.
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If you take a family of four to the baseball game and you buy the unlimited, right, you've dropped what, $116?
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Right.
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To eat at the baseball game in addition to the tickets and the parking?
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Well, it includes your ticket.
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It's a $29 ticket package that includes unlimited concessions.
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So at least your ticket is included.
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And that's normally a, I don't know, $10, $12 ticket out there.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So maybe two other things.
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Number one, when I told Lisa this, she goes, they're just copying the Savannah Bananas.
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Because that's how the Bananas do all their games is all in price on food.
Cardinals' Strategy
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Like, hmm.
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Who said Major League Baseball couldn't learn anything from the Bananas?
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And the other reason, and I thought, the story I read the day before was talking about how for the first time in 30 years, the Cardinals...
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have no chance at winning any games.
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They've completely, they've traded everybody you've ever heard of and anybody you're ever going to hear of.
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It's complete rebuilding.
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They've had losing seasons before, but even going into those seasons, there was like, they got a chance at the playoffs.
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They have torn this thing down to the studs.
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And somebody's like, well, why is anybody going to come and watch these bunch of people you've never heard of?
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I don't know.
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How about we do $29 bratwursts?
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As many as you can eat.
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Boom.
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Golden.
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So you can pay the players or you can just do a meal deal.
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Also, it says, by the way, just on the sign, it says bottomless soda.
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I got to be honest.
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That's how they're saving money.
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If you have a bottomless soda, you can't take it to your seat.
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I'm going to be thirsty the entire time because no bottom.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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If you want the bottom in your cup, that's $13.
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I didn't have...
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I have any other feedback this week.
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Did you catch any feedback?
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This isn't directly feedback.
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It's it's kind of it's it's adjacent.
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But Lisa and I every night we do the we do some of the New York Times games, as I know you do, because the New York Times puzzle keeps telling me, hey, DJ is playing this and like, OK, fine, whatever.
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Anyway, they've come out with the with the MIDI puzzle now.
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Right.
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They love it.
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They have the crossword, the mini, and now they have the MIDI.
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OK.
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A couple of days ago, like 11, no, like 10 down, 8 down or something, was a three-letter puzzle, and the answer
Apple Product Releases
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was Manning football player.
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Answer, Eli.
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To which Lisa says, what?
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That shouldn't be clue number eight.
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It should be clue number two.
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Just saying.
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Just saying.
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New York Times.
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Let's get on that.
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Clearly, they're not listening to the pod.
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Yeah, we got to fix that.
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Any corrections from last week?
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No corrections.
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Any follow up?
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Empty board of follow up.
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I do have I've got other stories that I suppose I could have put in follow up, but I have put them in other places in the rundown.
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OK, OK.
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OK, well, this is we're flying through this.
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Hey, that does mean we have time for Todd's Tech Corner brought to you by the Taylor Center for Technology Policy.
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Real quick, Apple released a whole bunch of products this week.
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There we go.
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Yeah.
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The I asked, the only thing I asked for was a white MacBook.
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Pink?
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Check.
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Yellow?
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Check.
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Blue?
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Check.
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Gray?
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Check.
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White?
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Nope.
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Yeah, well, I mean, they did release four others, so I think...
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I'm not sure to be completely honest how they would make the aluminum white.
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That would be more difficult, but.
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They made it blue.
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Well.
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You're telling me they can't throw a tint on there?
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Dark blue.
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I know.
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Yeah, that's.
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Yeah.
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They made a yellow.
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Citrus.
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You can get a yellow MacBook.
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Citrus.
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Thank you.
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Citrus.
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I sit corrected.
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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And it's not pink.
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It's blush.
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It's not blue.
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It's indigo.
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On the other hand, you can now get an Apple laptop for $599.
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$499 if you're a teacher.
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$499 with the education discount.
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So, yeah, there you go.
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So, anyway, new stuff.
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You're going to need more RAM, but okay.
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Not if you're not doing that much.
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If you're surfing the web, you're fine.
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Yeah.
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I suppose that's fair.
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Yeah.
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They did point out at this point, you can buy a Mac laptop for $599 and get an iPhone 17E, I believe also for $599, and you can have yourself a 13-inch MacBook computer and a phone for less than the highest priced iPad Pro without the case.
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So true.
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There you go.
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Apple, the value company.
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That doesn't sound right.
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That doesn't sound right.
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In more ways than one.
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Anyway.
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Okay.
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That's cool.
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Did you, did you, did you get to go to the screening at the white house?
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That was awesome.
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Anyway, how about you?
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Uh, how about tech?
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Uh, how about technical corner?
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I, I am, I'm officially done reffing for the year.
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Uh, and I tallied up at the end of the year, my numbers,
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On your spreadsheet?
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On my spreadsheet.
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Yes.
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You keep track of.
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Okay.
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36 nights.
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Okay.
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52 varsity games, 63 total games, and a grand total of 3,721 miles traveled this season.
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Look at that.
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94 feet at a time.
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Yeah.
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No.
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Well, there's plus there's that plus there's that distance.
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No.
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Oh, you meant traveling to.
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Sorry.
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I thought you were talking about that.
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You did 3000 miles up and down the court.
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I was like, man, that's a lot.
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Considering you're saying that it was the it was the mileage to get there.
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OK.
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OK.
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If if I had to if I had to average.
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I'm guessing I ran about 300 miles.
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Okay.
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Over the course of the season.
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So if I added that 300 miles to my 3,700 miles traveling, I would then get to 4,000 miles.
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Sweet.
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There you go.
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But yeah, I, there was, it was, um,
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36 nights, we were averaging 100 miles a night.
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It was a long season, but it was fun, and it's over, thank God.
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Now you have time to get out of running shape, back into golf shape, so that back in October and November, you can go...
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So see the seasons here and I, um, I walked a couple, I, I, I, I didn't take the cart for a couple of nine holes.
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I should be good to go next week.
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Hey, Dwayne, what'd you learn?
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Wasn't good to go.
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Okay.
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This is no, but I could get me, I could get myself some of those issues.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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Not a problem.
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As long as they're in all black, I'm fine.
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Those will be the ones that come in white.
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Of course they would.
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Should we, I think let's do this now.
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And I'm here, Yas Queen, to remind Todd of the mess Todd made when he answered wrong.
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Todd, Todd, Todd, ought to know.
M&M Color Experiment
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That's right.
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It's time for one of America's favorite games.
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It's time for Todd ought to know.
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Todd, this week when I was at Costco, I texted you a picture.
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Oh yeah, you got the big jar of the peanut M&Ms.
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I did.
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The 62 ounce.
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And just to remind everybody, when you were quizzing me about the colors and quantities and ratios of the colors of M&Ms.
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Yep.
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Remember that?
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Yep.
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Who could forget?
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Right.
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And so then I tracked.
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Yep.
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quantities, totals.
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And what was the conclusion, Todd, that was reached, really?
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My conclusion was that your sample size was too small.
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Your conclusion was that my numbers were complete BS.
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Would you?
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The polling's wrong.
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The polling's wrong.
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Stop the count.
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Stop.
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No, wait.
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Sorry.
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Hold on.
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So would you think that...
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in a tub of four pounds, nearly four pounds, smaller now because I've eaten some, um, nearly four pounds of M&Ms.
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Do you think that the ratios would be closer to accurate or not?
00:19:22
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Todd?
00:19:24
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Can I, can I ask a clarifying question?
00:19:26
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Sure.
00:19:28
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Did you buy a four pound tub of peanut M&Ms and take every single M&M out and count them all and then come up with a ratio and then put them all back, put most of them back in the jar?
00:19:41
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The answer to that is yes.
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Yes, you did.
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Are those the good sheets?
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What did you put those on?
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That's okay.
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They have a hard outer candy shell.
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They won't melt.
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So that's fine.
00:19:56
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Right?
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Yes.
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So I opened the jar.
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Yeah.
00:20:00
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And I dumped them out into a single layer on a dish towel.
00:20:07
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Yeah.
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And then I took that picture.
00:20:08
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Okay.
00:20:10
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You know what I did then?
00:20:11
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You asked ChatGPT to figure it out for you.
00:20:14
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That's exactly what I did.
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Do some stuff.
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Do some, give me, can you count the total number of M&Ms in the picture?
00:20:22
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Todd, how many without counting or running them through?
00:20:28
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Todd, do you want to guess how many total M&Ms are in that picture?
00:20:31
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Okay, hold on though.
00:20:33
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You said that you asked chat GPT how many.
00:20:36
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So the question is, do you want me to say how many are there or how many chat GPT told you are there?
00:20:41
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Because those two may not be related to each other in any way, shape or form.
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I will tell you the chat GPT did tell me that the realistic margin of error because of partially hidden or oddly shaped candies is between two and 3%.
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But I do have a number according to chat GPT of how many candies are there.
00:21:04
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I'm going to say 175.
00:21:06
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Do you want to try again?
00:21:09
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Sounds like I do.
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I've sorry.
00:21:11
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Wait, breaking news.
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I've been informed.
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I do.
00:21:13
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Okay.
00:21:18
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Unless, unless I just nailed it exactly right on, and you're like, do you want to guess again?
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And this is how you mess with me and go, nope, it's 175.
00:21:29
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Hold on.
00:21:30
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Let me, let me, let me, let me just think about this.
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One, two, three, four, five, six.
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Just give me a second here. 225.
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1,258 individual M&Ms.
00:21:48
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Oh, I was just counting the blue ones.
00:21:51
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And then I had it break them down by color count.
00:21:55
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I could have also had them estimate the weight because it knows the average weight of each peanut M&M.
00:22:01
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The estimated count by color.
00:22:03
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You were just counting the blue ones, you said.
00:22:05
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And what was your number?
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175 to 225.
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ChatGPT thinks the number of blue ones was 124, Todd.
00:22:14
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Do you want to guess how many brown ones are in there?
00:22:20
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Let me ask you a different question.
00:22:21
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Was there any of those that ChatGPT said was between 175 to 225?
00:22:27
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No.
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Damn.
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Because whatever it was, that was the one I was guessing.
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But apparently the browns look very, if I remember correctly on the numbers I gave, brown was at the bottom.
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It was like five or 6%.
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And just looking at this, brown is highly, is absolutely the lowest color on here.
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The least frequent number.
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I'm going to guess there is...
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I'm going to say there's 22 Browns.
00:23:01
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There's 50 Browns.
00:23:04
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Okay.
00:23:05
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All right.
00:23:05
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I'm really bad at this.
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But when I just went through and counted the number of Browns, I got 50.
00:23:15
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And when chat GPT went through and counted the number of Browns, do you know what it got, Todd?
00:23:19
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Here's another number for you to guess.
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This is 3.2 million.
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This is now turned into Todd.
00:23:24
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Guess a number 438.
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Yeah, there we go.
00:23:28
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There we go.
00:23:28
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That's the chat GPT we're looking for.
00:23:30
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That's what we, that's the chat GPT.
00:23:32
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We know and love.
00:23:33
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Now I'm starting to question the validity of the 1,258.
00:23:43
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Because yellow, you didn't do the work.
00:23:46
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I did not do the work.
00:23:48
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It says that yellow is the least populated.
00:23:51
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That's not, that's, that's nowhere near accurate.
00:23:54
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That is nowhere.
00:23:54
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The yellow and the green and the blue for me are probably the most, but you can't discount orange, but the Brown is absolutely the least.
00:24:05
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Yes.
00:24:06
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Yeah.
00:24:07
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You know what I should do?
00:24:08
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I should turn this into a health and human services report because it is so accurate.
00:24:14
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Your bag is wildly brown heavy.
00:24:17
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Where is it coming up with this?
00:24:22
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You know what this is?
00:24:24
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Ta-da-da-no.
00:24:24
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Ta-da-da-no not to use chat GPT for this.
00:24:27
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That's exactly what it is.
00:24:29
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Okay, between now and next week, I'm going to run this back through and make it do it again because this is not even close to being right.
00:24:36
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Okay.
00:24:36
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You know what I need to do?
00:24:38
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I need to now go run it through Claude.
00:24:42
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I'm doing that right now.
00:24:44
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Yeah.
00:24:47
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I would say actually what you probably want to do because you're using a picture, uh, you could run it through multiple and see how they all compare.
00:24:55
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And that might be, you know, like, Hey, this has got anyway, whatever.
00:24:59
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The one you probably want to use for this is probably Gemini.
00:25:04
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Gemini generally is considered to be the one with the best with the multimodal, uh, entry.
00:25:09
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So, uh,
00:25:11
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But yes, run it against Claude or run it against Gemini and then see, see who did, who did the best.
00:25:16
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That sounds like I've got, I just generated homework for myself.
00:25:18
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Fantastic.
00:25:19
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A lot of it.
00:25:20
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Nobel for me this week or for you.
00:25:23
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Yeah.
00:25:26
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Yeah, pretty much.
Marathon Misdirection
00:25:27
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Are we, are we ready to move on to the Scott Frost Memorial idiot of the week?
00:25:31
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Or are you just going to nominate me for that segment?
00:25:33
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Yeah.
00:25:36
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The problem is I'd have to narrow it down as to why, and I'm not, like, there's multiple opportunities there.
00:25:44
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No, let's move on.
00:25:45
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I can, Claude and I will continue that conversation later.
00:25:50
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So, okay.
00:25:52
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So, hey, here's what I brought, speaking of Idiots of the Week.
00:25:56
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Last weekend in Atlanta, the U.S. National...
00:26:02
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Sorry, the U.S. Half Marathon Championships was run and on the line potentially was the U.S. Places for the World Championship later in the fall.
00:26:15
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How did how did you finish?
00:26:17
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Did you train for this?
00:26:19
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No.
00:26:22
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Turns out I think my invite was lost in the mail.
00:26:24
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Oh, okay.
00:26:25
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So I didn't get my opportunity to go, which is probably okay given the way it turned out because in the women's race, there were multiple people were leading, including Jess McLean was clearly leading the entire field with two minutes remaining.
00:26:44
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And then behind her was Emma Grace Hurley and Edna Kurgat.
00:26:50
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And very close to the finish line, there is a motorcycle in front, the follow me motorcycle to clear the course.
00:27:00
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Right.
00:27:01
Speaker
And the motorcycle makes a turn.
00:27:05
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So the leaders running the race follow the motorcycle because that's what you're supposed to do.
00:27:10
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Right.
00:27:10
Speaker
Why wouldn't you?
00:27:12
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Yeah.
00:27:12
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Well, the reason why you wouldn't is because that wasn't on the course.
00:27:16
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And so the three leaders were taken off the course and
00:27:21
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so that other people then passed them.
00:27:24
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The person who was leading, Jess McLean, finished ninth after realizing this isn't the course.
00:27:29
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All three of them had to turn around, run back down, and then finish the race.
00:27:37
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So yes, the three people who should have won came in ninth and lower, 12th and 13th, because of the follow me bike.
00:27:52
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The Atlanta Track Club, which was holding this, felt really, really bad about this.
00:27:59
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And so an appeal was filed, I believe, with U.S. Track and Field to say, hey, this wasn't fair.
00:28:06
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And there an answer was, you're absolutely right.
00:28:09
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It wasn't fair.
00:28:09
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But we've looked at the bylaws, and there's nothing we can do.
00:28:14
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So the results stand.
00:28:17
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Atlanta Track and Field then a couple of days later did award the
00:28:22
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who should have won the equivalent prize money had she won, which is about $20,000, I believe.
00:28:28
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And the next two people got $9,000 each.
00:28:31
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However, they didn't win the US half marathon championship.
00:28:35
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They just won the money.
00:28:38
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They just gave them the money.
00:28:40
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They also didn't get their places for the world championship.
00:28:45
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Now,
00:28:46
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The U.S. track and field have said that the places aren't determined until later.
00:28:52
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So this would have given her an automatic qualification.
00:28:55
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But the U.S.A.
00:28:56
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track and field said that the team is not officially selected until May and it will review them.
00:29:01
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We'll review the events carefully.
00:29:04
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Now, how could this happen?
00:29:05
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Apparently, there was some sort of incident and incident.
00:29:10
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Not totally clear whether the person who was supposed to be driving the follow-me bike had to then get on a different one.
00:29:18
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It may have been a backup driver.
00:29:20
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And the backup driver, right before the finish, there was a place for the police escort and other support vehicles to pull off the course.
00:29:29
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And so the person who was on the motorbike was just like, well, I guess we're all turning here and turned off.
00:29:37
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Oops.
00:29:39
Speaker
You know...
00:29:41
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This is why we practice these things.
00:29:45
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This shouldn't keep happening, especially at the national championships.
00:29:51
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Can you imagine if like in the in the NCAA final tournament, we were talking about college basketball, like the game just got really weird and it was everybody was missing and shots and everything.
00:30:04
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And then it's like, oh, hey, turns out, by the way, one of the baskets was set at 11 feet, five inches are bad.
00:30:10
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Like, don't we check this stuff?
00:30:13
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Yeah.
00:30:14
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I will say, though, so, hey, Atlanta track and field, got to do better.
00:30:20
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Got to do better.
00:30:22
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I would say the next time you hold the U.S. national, the U.S. half marathon championships, do better.
00:30:28
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I do kind of wonder if they're not going to have that opportunity for quite a while.
00:30:33
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You had one job, 13.1 miles.
00:30:34
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Guys,
00:30:38
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I will say, however, that there is a definite non-idiot out of all of this.
00:30:45
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So the winner of the race afterwards
00:30:51
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last name Born.
00:30:53
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After the event, she said, I do not feel like the winner of the 2026 USA TF, USA Trek and Field, half marathon championships because I know that I should not actually be the winner.
00:31:04
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She called for the three who had been leading the race to represent the US in the world championships and said, quote, if a spot on the world championship or the world team for Copenhagen is offered to me, I do not plan to take it regardless of who it goes to because I did not fairly earn it.
00:31:20
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Wow.
00:31:22
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I mean, that's a different reaction than the Canadians and the whole curling thing.
00:31:26
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But, you know, it takes all kinds, right?
00:31:28
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So anyway, listen, just go straight here.
00:31:34
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There's a big finish line.
00:31:35
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Nah, I got it.
00:31:35
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I got it.
00:31:36
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Nah, we're good.
00:31:37
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Anyway, there you go.
00:31:38
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So small races, yeah, they can have a mismeasurement.
00:31:44
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National championship measurement.
00:31:46
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It's fine.
00:31:46
Speaker
You know what?
00:31:47
Speaker
It's fine.
00:31:47
Speaker
Nobody, nobody, nothing's riding on this.
00:31:50
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Anyway, congratulations to somebody.
00:31:52
Speaker
Who'd you bring?
00:31:54
Speaker
I brought you two options.
00:31:56
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Okay.
00:31:58
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Option number one, LA Metro's got jokes.
00:32:01
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Okay.
00:32:02
Speaker
And option number two, side hustle.
00:32:05
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Okay.
00:32:07
Speaker
Let's go with side hustle.
LA Metro 'Ride the D' Shirts
00:32:09
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This story is,
00:32:12
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We may cover the other one as well because it has to do with trains.
00:32:16
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Ooh.
00:32:17
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Do you want to change?
00:32:21
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Yes, please.
00:32:22
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LA Metro got jokes.
00:32:24
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So just this last week, many people were excited for the LA Metro's D line extension.
00:32:32
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It's going to run.
00:32:33
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It's the purple line that's going to extend through Koreatown and Beverly Hills.
00:32:38
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It's going to officially open on May 8th.
00:32:41
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And so everybody's really excited about it.
00:32:46
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And so they started offering merch, Todd.
00:32:49
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Have you seen the merch that was offered?
00:32:52
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I have not.
00:32:53
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No.
00:32:55
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This is.
00:32:56
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I think I'm going to now.
00:32:58
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This is the D line.
00:32:59
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It's a black T-shirt.
00:33:02
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Oh, dear.
00:33:02
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Okay.
00:33:03
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All right.
00:33:04
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Huh.
00:33:05
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Wow.
00:33:07
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Okay.
00:33:08
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So just I'm going to say something, but before I say it, just to draw the mental picture.
00:33:13
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So, so,
00:33:16
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I'm assuming, so D in this is, there's a purple circle with a white D in the middle of it, which would tell you which line it is, similar to like what you would see in New York City for the subway, right?
00:33:31
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They have circles, right?
00:33:32
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Yep, yep.
00:33:33
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It's the purple line, and it is the Metro D line extension.
00:33:37
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Yep, yep.
00:33:37
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So it's kind of like the logo of the D line.
00:33:41
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However, the black T-shirt...
00:33:45
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says, ride the D. T-shirt sold out.
00:33:54
Speaker
How could it not?
00:33:56
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I could have put this under follow-up.
00:33:59
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Now, this is how you sell a T-shirt, people.
00:34:03
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Right?
00:34:04
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Exactly.
00:34:04
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Could have put it under follow-up because we've covered T-shirts selling out recently.
00:34:10
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But I decided that I would put it under idiots because...
00:34:14
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Whether they intended to or not.
00:34:16
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They intended to.
00:34:17
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They intended to.
00:34:20
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There is no possible way that.
00:34:23
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You know what?
00:34:24
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Sorry.
00:34:26
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Yes.
00:34:26
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The only way that they didn't intend that is if they hired the same crackpot team that did all of the Major League Baseball hats.
00:34:33
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Yeah.
00:34:39
Speaker
Can I see some of your work?
00:34:41
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Hey, the assholes.
00:34:43
Speaker
Strong work.
00:34:45
Speaker
What have you come up with for us?
00:34:47
Speaker
So the other story, actually, we probably have time for this.
00:34:54
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This story happened back in August and toddler Matt Damon and I just discovered it today.
00:35:01
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Have you heard about the men's basketball program at Cal State University Bakersfield?
Basketball Coach Scandal
00:35:08
Speaker
No.
00:35:08
Speaker
Should I have?
00:35:10
Speaker
California school hired a coach, but police say he moonlighted as a pimp.
00:35:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:18
Speaker
The men's team was last place in the Big West Conference, but when it comes to scandal, the school could be a top contender.
00:35:26
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The department has been in upheaval since August 29th.
00:35:29
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I'm like, how have we not been covering this story?
00:35:32
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It really feels like a miss out of talking to Todd.
00:35:37
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Because then men's basketball coach Rod Barnes opened an anonymous email from a tipster who alleged that one of his temporary assistant coaches, Kevin Mays, Kevin, was working as a pimp across four states.
00:35:55
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Other lawsuits, internal investigations, dismissals, and finger pointing have only served to deepen the department's sense of crisis.
00:36:03
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So Mays, who is still being held without bail, faces a hefty rap sheet of 11 criminal and misdemeanor charges, including felonies such as pimping.
00:36:16
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This is now paragraph seven in the article.
00:36:20
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He was also charged with possession of automatic firearms and high capacity magazines, possession of methamphetamine and marijuana with intent to sell.
00:36:29
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And separate charges cited him for possession of more than 600 images of youth or child pornography and distribution of obscene matter involving someone under 18 years old.
00:36:39
Speaker
Kind of buried the lead.
00:36:40
Speaker
But you know what gets clicks?
00:36:42
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Coach was a pimp.
00:36:44
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By the way, he's pleaded not guilty on all charges.
00:36:49
Speaker
Please.
00:36:51
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:36:52
Speaker
Please.
00:36:54
Speaker
Given the current state of college athletics and the amount of money flowing around, I'm assuming his defense is going to be, I told you I was a college coach.
00:37:05
Speaker
Like, listen, is there much difference?
00:37:11
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I thought this was part of the NIL package.
00:37:14
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Yeah.
00:37:17
Speaker
Here's my question.
00:37:18
Speaker
Here's, here's my question.
00:37:20
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Okay.
00:37:21
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Look, I'm going to be flipping about this because that's all, that's just terrible.
00:37:24
Speaker
That's just terrible.
00:37:25
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But at this point in 2026, every time I hear just terrible news, which is about every four minutes, the only way to get through this is to take it and turn it and try to make something funny out of it.
00:37:37
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A lot of times I can't do that, but here's my question.
00:37:40
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Okay.
00:37:40
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So.
00:37:43
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was the pimping business doing so bad that he needed to get a job as a college assistant basketball coach?
00:37:51
Speaker
Or did the college basketball coach thing pay so little?
00:37:55
Speaker
Like which one was the side hustle?
00:37:57
Speaker
I'm not clear because here's the thing.
00:38:00
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Neither one of them was covering his bills because he had two jobs.
00:38:06
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I think he was doing both poorly.
00:38:10
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Mays took the job as a temporary assistant coach in June at a salary of just over $3,000 a month.
00:38:17
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Okay.
00:38:20
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Yep.
00:38:20
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Yep.
00:38:23
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No mention in the article of how much he was making pimpin'.
00:38:32
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In his application, he wrote to the school, I gained lots of experience dealing with learning to lead young men and help them navigate the D1 experience in a successful manner.
00:38:45
Speaker
Sorry.
00:38:46
Speaker
C-sub helped me tremendously, and I look forward to giving back.
00:38:51
Speaker
Sure.
00:38:54
Speaker
That's a different kind of D1 experience.
00:38:58
Speaker
The only thing that could have made this any better is
00:39:01
Speaker
is if you would have now told me that when he showed up for his arraignment, he was wearing an LA Metro ride the D t-shirt and you brought them together.
00:39:15
Speaker
Two separate, separate stories.
00:39:17
Speaker
Absolutely separate stories this week.
00:39:19
Speaker
Nope.
00:39:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:22
Speaker
Things are a mess in Bakersfield, even more so than normal.
00:39:26
Speaker
I was going to say,
00:39:28
Speaker
And this doesn't even make the top 10.
00:39:31
Speaker
So Jake's like, how is this not a national story?
00:39:36
Speaker
How has this been going on since August 29th?
00:39:38
Speaker
And it's not a national story.
00:39:41
Speaker
Well, here's how you make it a national story.
00:39:44
Speaker
The last paragraph of it.
00:39:46
Speaker
Brett Favre cannot be reached for comment.
00:39:48
Speaker
Whoa, stray.
00:39:49
Speaker
What?
00:39:50
Speaker
Wait.
00:39:52
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:53
Speaker
So, so there was that.
00:39:54
Speaker
Are you watching anything good?
00:39:57
Speaker
I don't know if it's good yet.
00:39:58
Speaker
And this just happened tonight.
00:39:59
Speaker
So Formula One is back this season.
00:40:02
Speaker
The race is Saturday, Sunday in Australia.
00:40:06
Speaker
So Free Practice 1 and Free Practice 2 are tonight.
00:40:12
Speaker
So this is now, this is Apple TV now has the US rights for all of Formula One.
00:40:20
Speaker
So you have to, if you want to watch, you can watch all of it, but you have to subscribe to Apple TV.
00:40:28
Speaker
And so I watched Free Practice One just to see.
00:40:30
Speaker
A couple of interesting things.
00:40:32
Speaker
Number one, they talked about this last week.
00:40:35
Speaker
They do a lot less compression of all of the video.
00:40:39
Speaker
So if you watch it on Apple TV,
00:40:41
Speaker
It actually looks better.
00:40:44
Speaker
Not like, oh my goodness, I've never seen anything like this.
00:40:48
Speaker
But it's much closer to 4K than even what you thought was 4K before because they generally do a really good job.
00:40:54
Speaker
They just do less compression.
00:40:57
Speaker
You can, the default commentary is from the F1 TV group.
00:41:03
Speaker
So, but you can also watch the Sky broadcast if you want, if you're used to Crofty and Martin.
00:41:12
Speaker
They have a track map with all the drivers on it.
00:41:15
Speaker
They have a driver data screen and then onboard cameras.
00:41:21
Speaker
And you can pick up to four screens at once to watch.
00:41:24
Speaker
So you can flip between all of those.
00:41:27
Speaker
You can put which screens you want.
00:41:28
Speaker
Remember last couple of years, you listened to Sky Sports and they're like, hey, if you want to watch onboard cameras, press the red button on your Sky remote or Sky glass remote.
00:41:38
Speaker
Now with Apple, you can actually do all of that.
00:41:41
Speaker
So there's quite a bit there.
00:41:43
Speaker
So anyway, watching F1 and seeing how Apple handles F1.
00:41:48
Speaker
Also, haven't watched it, but adjacent to that, last week, Apple and Netflix announced that the latest season, season eight of Drive to Survive, is now available for Apple TV subscribers.
00:42:02
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:42:03
Speaker
And in exchange, Apple is giving Netflix the ability, they get to broadcast the Canadian Grand Prix with Apple.
00:42:11
Speaker
I mean, Apple will broadcast it, but Netflix will also broadcast it.
00:42:14
Speaker
So anyway, there you go.
00:42:17
Speaker
Apple's taking on another sport.
00:42:18
Speaker
So seeing how that works.
00:42:23
Speaker
That is helpful information.
00:42:24
Speaker
If someone would listen to our podcast quicker,
00:42:29
Speaker
It would be helpful for her to know that information for when she tries to turn on the race this weekend.
00:42:36
Speaker
Where's the race?
00:42:36
Speaker
Not on ESPN.
00:42:38
Speaker
Nope.
00:42:38
Speaker
Where is it?
00:42:39
Speaker
It's on Netflix?
00:42:42
Speaker
Nope.
00:42:43
Speaker
Peacock?
00:42:45
Speaker
Did you try Peacock?
00:42:48
Speaker
To be.
00:42:51
Speaker
Anyway, public service announcement.
00:42:52
Speaker
Anybody who's following F1, you have to subscribe to Apple TV if you want to watch Formula One this year.
00:42:59
Speaker
Anyway, that's what I was watching.
00:43:00
Speaker
By the way, now there's 11 teams.
00:43:04
Speaker
So there's 22 drivers.
00:43:06
Speaker
And they changed all the rules this year.
00:43:07
Speaker
So the cars are smaller.
00:43:09
Speaker
And they've got all new engines.
00:43:10
Speaker
And multiple teams can't even make it through an hour-long practice.
00:43:15
Speaker
And at least one team with a lot of money is planning on running about six laps and then parking the car because their engines will explode.
00:43:26
Speaker
So things are going great.
00:43:29
Speaker
Oh, Formula One.
00:43:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:31
Speaker
If you want to watch, I don't know that the racing is going to get any better, but many of the cars won't make it through this race.
00:43:38
Speaker
So if you just want pure chaos, now's the time because nobody understands how these new cars work.
00:43:43
Speaker
So there you go.
00:43:44
Speaker
How about you?
00:43:45
Speaker
What are you watching?
00:43:47
Speaker
So on.
Musical 'The Outsiders' Review
00:43:50
Speaker
On Saturday night, we went to the Civic Center and saw the outsiders.
00:43:55
Speaker
Oh, you did.
00:43:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:57
Speaker
Did you like it?
00:43:58
Speaker
touring production of, and it won several Broadway, it's won several Tony awards, particularly for set design, which was fantastic.
00:44:10
Speaker
I thought the voices blended really well.
00:44:16
Speaker
Really quick.
00:44:17
Speaker
Yes.
00:44:18
Speaker
If, if somebody, if you ask somebody, how was the musical?
00:44:22
Speaker
And the first thing that comes up is set design.
00:44:28
Speaker
I mean, I'm not exactly selling it, am I?
00:44:32
Speaker
That's kind of like, oh, hey, you.
00:44:35
Speaker
Hey, I went to the Super Bowl.
00:44:36
Speaker
How was it?
00:44:37
Speaker
The concessions were awesome.
00:44:41
Speaker
Oh, my goodness.
00:44:42
Speaker
Anyway, please, please continue.
00:44:45
Speaker
Here's the thing.
00:44:45
Speaker
We really liked this show.
00:44:48
Speaker
It was really, really good.
00:44:51
Speaker
We did read this book at Iowa Falls.
00:44:55
Speaker
We say we don't read books at Iowa Falls.
00:44:57
Speaker
But the ones we do, we remember.
00:44:59
Speaker
Yes, we do.
00:45:00
Speaker
So we read this book.
00:45:01
Speaker
Yeah, both of them.
00:45:02
Speaker
This and A Tale of Two Cities.
00:45:04
Speaker
That was the one that was in my mind.
00:45:05
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:08
Speaker
We also read Romeo and Juliet because we watched the movie.
00:45:14
Speaker
Yes, we did do that.
00:45:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:15
Speaker
So, okay.
00:45:16
Speaker
So we read three books.
00:45:18
Speaker
The classics.
00:45:19
Speaker
One in each class.
00:45:21
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:24
Speaker
I will say, and Amy and I've had this conversation, some of our friends on Facebook posted, you know, and going to the show, and I've seen posts about, you know, how this book really touched me.
00:45:35
Speaker
It changed my life.
00:45:36
Speaker
It was, you know, it's like, you know, people have, you know, it was, it was eye-opening or, you know, it was, you know, I identified with these characters.
00:45:44
Speaker
To me, right at the time, at the right age, all that.
00:45:46
Speaker
Exactly.
00:45:46
Speaker
At the age that I was, I never had that reaction to this book.
00:45:50
Speaker
I also pulled a Todd,
00:45:54
Speaker
because I would swear that I have never seen the outsiders movie.
00:45:58
Speaker
Todd, have you seen the outsiders movie?
00:46:02
Speaker
I am 99% certain I have not.
00:46:05
Speaker
And yet I could sit here and go Ralph Macchio and Rob Lowe and Matt Dillon and several other people.
00:46:14
Speaker
I mean, it was a who's who of people that turned into the Brat Pack.
00:46:19
Speaker
Patrick Swayze was in it.
00:46:20
Speaker
Wasn't in the Brat Pack, but he was in it.
00:46:22
Speaker
Huge movie.
00:46:24
Speaker
Never saw it.
00:46:26
Speaker
Right.
00:46:26
Speaker
So I didn't have any visuals going into this.
00:46:30
Speaker
And it's probably been what?
00:46:33
Speaker
almost 40 years since we read this book.
00:46:36
Speaker
Sure.
00:46:36
Speaker
That sounds about right.
00:46:37
Speaker
Thanks for bringing that up.
00:46:39
Speaker
Right.
00:46:39
Speaker
Yep.
00:46:42
Speaker
But I, I mean, I, and so I generically remember stay gold pony boy.
00:46:47
Speaker
What else?
00:46:49
Speaker
I remember more about stand by me than I remember about this, the book and the movie, both.
00:46:57
Speaker
All of that said, the music was great.
00:47:02
Speaker
The and the stage production, the dancing, the choreography, the whole thing.
00:47:08
Speaker
Again, we we talk about, you know, well, yeah, we saw Kimberly Akimbo.
00:47:14
Speaker
You appreciate shows like this.
00:47:18
Speaker
Because you also see shows in this season like Kimberly Akimbo, which was fine.
00:47:24
Speaker
This was great.
00:47:28
Speaker
Have you seen this show?
00:47:30
Speaker
No, it's on Lisa's list to want to see.
00:47:34
Speaker
It was the theater next to slash sharing a wall with in New York.
00:47:42
Speaker
It was literally sharing a wall with operation mincemeat.
00:47:46
Speaker
Oh, it was next door.
00:47:47
Speaker
And actually had we had more time in New York scheduled or not run out of town by the blizzard, um,
00:47:57
Speaker
that would have been the next show up for us to go see because she really wanted to go see it.
00:48:02
Speaker
So we're hoping to see it sometime in the next year, whether that's the touring production coming here or I believe there's a, it is transferring to the West end.
00:48:13
Speaker
I don't know if the transfer is going to be when we're going to be there, but we're going to, we're going to try to see it sometime in the next year.
00:48:19
Speaker
You should see it.
00:48:20
Speaker
It's really good.
00:48:21
Speaker
Yep.
00:48:21
Speaker
Really enjoyed it.
00:48:22
Speaker
I, I would go see it again.
00:48:26
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:48:27
Speaker
I don't.
00:48:29
Speaker
How many times did you fall asleep?
00:48:31
Speaker
None.
00:48:31
Speaker
Not a single time.
00:48:33
Speaker
High praise.
00:48:33
Speaker
Yep.
00:48:34
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:48:36
Speaker
That's like the Dwayne scale.
00:48:38
Speaker
It's like instead of five stars, it's how many times did you fall asleep?
00:48:43
Speaker
No naps.
00:48:45
Speaker
High bar.
00:48:47
Speaker
The other thing that we watched this week was Song Song Blue, the movie with
00:48:56
Speaker
Wolverine.
00:48:57
Speaker
Wolverine.
00:48:59
Speaker
Wolverine.
00:49:04
Speaker
And oh, shoot.
00:49:05
Speaker
Now I'm drawing a blank.
00:49:05
Speaker
Goldie Hawn's daughter.
00:49:08
Speaker
Kate Hudson.
00:49:09
Speaker
Thank you.
00:49:09
Speaker
Yes.
00:49:10
Speaker
I couldn't come up with that, obviously.
00:49:12
Speaker
And it's really good.
00:49:13
Speaker
But I like Neil Diamond music.
00:49:15
Speaker
If you like Neil Diamond music, you know, do you know this story?
00:49:21
Speaker
Not exactly.
00:49:22
Speaker
I've heard a little bits and pieces from from all of this, but I yeah, the two of them play two people from Wisconsin who have a Neil Diamond experience show.
00:49:36
Speaker
It's cover band, more or less.
00:49:38
Speaker
But they don't just do a Neil Diamond impersonation.
00:49:44
Speaker
It's a Neil Diamond experience that you're going to.
00:49:48
Speaker
But it's not just that.
00:49:51
Speaker
It's how their family comes together, the trials and tribulations that they experience in their lives, and all set around Neil Diamond music.
00:50:02
Speaker
And it's really good.
00:50:04
Speaker
So we watched that the other night, too.
00:50:06
Speaker
So that's the other thing.
00:50:07
Speaker
And...
Movie 'Song Blue' Review
00:50:08
Speaker
Todd.
00:50:09
Speaker
Yes.
00:50:10
Speaker
Peacock.
00:50:12
Speaker
Oh, that's what's on Peacock.
00:50:14
Speaker
I knew there had to be something there.
00:50:15
Speaker
Yep.
00:50:16
Speaker
Sure.
00:50:17
Speaker
Sooner or later you find something it's on Peacock.
00:50:20
Speaker
So if you want to watch that two hours of your life, it's actually pretty good.
00:50:27
Speaker
So by the way, really, really quick.
00:50:28
Speaker
Just point out.
00:50:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:31
Speaker
I probably watch Peacock more than I watch any other streaming service that we have other than probably YouTube or I mean YouTube TV, but I probably watch.
00:50:39
Speaker
I make fun of Peacock a lot.
00:50:42
Speaker
We do a lot.
00:50:43
Speaker
Yes, but it's also home of the English Premier League.
00:50:46
Speaker
And so I watch Peacock a lot, not the other stuff, but still engagement.
00:50:54
Speaker
It counts.
00:50:55
Speaker
And I just keep thinking, please don't mess this up.
00:50:57
Speaker
I can just I can turn it on and I can watch.
00:50:59
Speaker
Please don't mess this up for me.
00:51:01
Speaker
like you did the rest of this stuff.
00:51:03
Speaker
Anyway, nevermind.
00:51:04
Speaker
Sorry.
00:51:04
Speaker
That's great service.
00:51:05
Speaker
Yeah.
Faith and Government Intersection
00:51:07
Speaker
So the thing that I learned this week, because it's Lent, our church is doing a series on Wednesday night.
00:51:15
Speaker
And I don't know why they landed on this series of topics, but it's faith and government.
00:51:25
Speaker
and the interrelationship of and and how how it's intertwined and should be or shouldn't be or whatever.
00:51:32
Speaker
Anyway, it's this Wednesday night discussion series.
00:51:34
Speaker
So last night we went to it.
00:51:38
Speaker
Last night we went and sat around for an hour, had dinner and talked and and whatever.
00:51:43
Speaker
Anyway, there was a presentation and the focus was on the faith of the founders.
00:51:51
Speaker
And so the things that I learned that I took away from that were, A, James Madison, much more religious than I remembered.
00:52:03
Speaker
Thomas Jefferson, much less religious than I remembered.
00:52:09
Speaker
And Benjamin Franklin, absolutely not as religious as anything, because my favorite Ben Franklin quote is now.
00:52:18
Speaker
I mean, it used to be, you know, God wanted us to be happy, so he gave us beer.
00:52:22
Speaker
It used to be my favorite Ben Franklin quote.
00:52:24
Speaker
It is now.
00:52:27
Speaker
I have some doubts as to his, meaning Christ's, divinity, though it is a question I do not dogmatize on, having never studied it.
00:52:39
Speaker
and think it needless to busy myself with it now when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
00:52:51
Speaker
Which is something that he said shortly before his death.
00:52:55
Speaker
Why spend any time on it?
00:52:57
Speaker
I'm probably going to know for sure pretty quickly.
00:53:01
Speaker
Thanks, Ben.
00:53:03
Speaker
I hope he applied that to other areas of his life and not just that one.
00:53:10
Speaker
Anyway, that's what I learned this week.
00:53:12
Speaker
Interesting discussion.
00:53:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:16
Speaker
Politics and religion in 2026 in the United States.
00:53:20
Speaker
How could that go wrong?
00:53:25
Speaker
Sounds fun.
00:53:29
Speaker
So I learned this week a little less heavy.
00:53:33
Speaker
Almost have to be.
00:53:35
Speaker
Sorry.
00:53:37
Speaker
Yes.
Smoke Detector Anecdote
00:53:39
Speaker
So this is hot off the presses.
00:53:40
Speaker
I learned this today.
00:53:42
Speaker
This morning, Lisa hopped in the car with the dogs and headed down to the disclosed undisclosed location.
00:53:49
Speaker
And I will be joining her tomorrow night.
00:53:51
Speaker
And then we'll be down there for the weekend and come back up.
00:53:54
Speaker
We haven't been down there for, this was about three weeks.
00:53:58
Speaker
Lisa got there and checked on some stuff.
00:54:03
Speaker
Apparently, she sent me a picture of a thing on our back patio and said, what is this?
00:54:08
Speaker
Those are always fun.
00:54:10
Speaker
I think the neighborhood cat who is now using our outdoor patio furniture because we're not home had one of the largest hairballs I've ever seen.
00:54:21
Speaker
I literally said, how big is that?
00:54:24
Speaker
And she used a pen as a reference and I'm like, maybe somebody should check on the cat.
00:54:29
Speaker
Some of our yard ornaments had been blown over in what was probably a windstorm and a bird has now built a nest on top of our outdoor TV because we're not there.
00:54:39
Speaker
And so now federal law says we got to let that just be until like can't touch the nest.
00:54:46
Speaker
And the birds up there, like the bird sitting there all day, just like this is where my nest is.
00:54:51
Speaker
And my thought is, listen, cat, the cat is sitting on, is sleeping all over the cat, all over the outdoor couch.
00:54:57
Speaker
And there's cat fur everywhere.
00:54:59
Speaker
And yet didn't scare the bird away.
00:55:01
Speaker
Anyway, not what I learned.
00:55:03
Speaker
Then I get this text.
00:55:05
Speaker
Something is beeping and announcing low battery.
00:55:09
Speaker
What is it?
00:55:11
Speaker
And I'm like, okay,
00:55:14
Speaker
We have, of our smoke detectors, we have one that I think speaks outside of our bedroom, or it could be one of our UPSs, but I don't think it speaks, or it could be our alarm system.
00:55:25
Speaker
She's like, it's none of those.
00:55:27
Speaker
And I'm like, okay.
00:55:29
Speaker
And she's like, how do I find it?
00:55:30
Speaker
And I'm like, you just got to kind of triangulate based off of the thing or whatever.
00:55:34
Speaker
And then she said, it's the smoke detector in the entryway.
00:55:38
Speaker
And I said, what smoke detector in the entryway?
00:55:41
Speaker
And she took a picture of it and our entryway, when you come in, it's not that big of a house, but there's like a, like the entryway has like a 12 foot tall ceiling when you come in.
00:55:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:52
Speaker
And we have a nice like game of Thrones kind of chandelier hanging down in this space.
00:55:58
Speaker
What, what confused me is I replaced the smoke detector batteries twice a year.
00:56:06
Speaker
Spring forward, fall back.
00:56:07
Speaker
Which, by the way, this weekend, spring forward.
00:56:11
Speaker
And I've been doing this since we built the house in 2017.
00:56:13
Speaker
The first couple of years, we weren't there every time.
00:56:17
Speaker
But when I got back, I always made sure.
00:56:18
Speaker
And I've swapped them all out.
00:56:20
Speaker
And I swap out the one outside of our bedroom.
00:56:23
Speaker
And I swap out the batteries in our bedroom and in the office and in Lisa's office consistently consistently.
00:56:31
Speaker
And then she said the smoke detector in the entryway.
00:56:33
Speaker
And I said the what?
00:56:39
Speaker
So what I learned was the smoke detector slash I think it's a smoke detector, maybe slash carbon monoxide.
00:56:45
Speaker
I don't know.
00:56:46
Speaker
Anyway, how long could the AA batteries in that last?
00:56:51
Speaker
I'm pretty sure the answer is not almost nine years.
00:56:57
Speaker
Because we built the house in 2017 and I have never changed the batteries in that smoke detector because I never realized, I never looked up in the entryway that far up and went, Hey, there's a smoke detector up there.
00:57:12
Speaker
Anyway, so that was fun.
00:57:13
Speaker
She was letting me know that it was beeping about every 30 seconds and every 90 seconds announcing loudly, low battery.
00:57:21
Speaker
And she had to get on a number of calls today.
00:57:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:26
Speaker
And
00:57:27
Speaker
Do we have a ladder that can reach it?
00:57:29
Speaker
We do.
00:57:31
Speaker
Oh.
00:57:33
Speaker
Is Lisa going to climb up the 12-foot ladder?
00:57:36
Speaker
No.
00:57:36
Speaker
She is not.
00:57:39
Speaker
She's like, I will go insane if this doesn't get fixed by the time you're down here tomorrow night.
00:57:43
Speaker
I'm like, you know what?
00:57:46
Speaker
Find a handyman service.
00:57:48
Speaker
Is this a problem that money can solve?
00:57:50
Speaker
Is this a problem that toddler 2016 might be able to solve?
00:57:56
Speaker
Here's the thing.
00:57:57
Speaker
You start calling your neighbors and saying, hey, can you climb up a 12-foot ladder?
00:58:01
Speaker
You take on more risk than you.
00:58:08
Speaker
You know what?
00:58:09
Speaker
Climbing tall ladders, hire a professional.
00:58:12
Speaker
I loaded my ladder into my truck when Jake and Nicole were moving.
00:58:17
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I loaded my ladder in my truck and took the ladder over to Jake's house and said, hey, here you go.
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Congratulations.
00:58:25
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Yep.
00:58:26
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Am I climbing the ladder?
00:58:27
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No, I'm not.
00:58:29
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Because it was windy and it was a long way up there on the outside of the house, which it was, yes.
00:58:36
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Yeah, that's another story for another time.
00:58:39
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But oh my God, yeah, no, yeah, that's a job for the professionals.
00:58:43
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And as it turned out, our professional actually solved that problem.
00:58:46
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Yes.
00:58:46
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So what did I learn this week?
00:58:48
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Yeah.
00:58:49
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We have four smoke detectors in our, sorry, what?
00:58:53
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We have five smoke detectors in our house.
00:58:58
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Good to know.
Outro and Credits
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00:59:12
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00:59:26
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00:59:31
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00:59:38
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Todd.
00:59:40
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So I was trying to come up with something witty to talk about here about that t-shirt.
00:59:45
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So while you were doing that, I just Googled ride the D. Nope.
00:59:49
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Oh, no.
00:59:50
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Nope.
00:59:50
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Sorry.
00:59:51
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Sorry.
00:59:51
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Nope.
00:59:52
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Didn't think that one through.
00:59:54
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I don't have anything witty to say.
00:59:55
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And I also now need to destroy this web browser.
01:00:00
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So, whoops.
01:00:03
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Did you know that that has a second meaning?
01:00:12
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At this point, you really have to be wishing you had circled back to the M&M question.
01:00:18
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Let me see this.
01:00:19
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Oh, well, here's something helpful.
01:00:20
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If it's purple, you should have that looked at.
01:00:23
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You know what?
01:00:23
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I'm going to stop.
01:00:29
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Clearly something we're going to need to clean up next week.
01:00:31
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Until then, we're talking to Todd.
01:00:40
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Here, I did part of your homework for you.
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Whoosh.
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Approximately 900.
01:01:11
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That seems better.
01:01:12
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And about 50 browns.
01:01:13
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See, bingo.
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There we go.
01:01:15
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Thank you.
01:01:16
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Was that Gemini?
01:01:18
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No, this is Claude.
01:01:19
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And by the way, it's not just a count.
01:01:21
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It's a pie chart.
01:01:25
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Also, in my version of the pie chart, all of the pieces are interactive and you can click on them.
01:01:32
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Claude's way better.
01:01:33
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None of us are going to have jobs in two years.
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Hopefully this podcast thing works out.