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Ep. 327 - Visiting Pelican Sniffer
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Ep. 327, Recorded 6/4/2026. New TV, who ‘dis? The special one strikes again. Todd’s punch list. Dewayne is cured. HOF Franchise tags. "Secret” codes and unmanned ag stations. Petco prices. Photobombers. London Eats. AC is important. LaJolla in bloom.
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Transcript
Podcast Confusion and Kevin's Absence
00:00:01
Todd
How do I, I don't remember.
00:00:01
Talkin2Todd
we
00:00:02
Todd
How do, how do I know if this thing's on? Is this on?
00:00:04
Talkin2Todd
and
00:00:04
Todd
Yeah, it's on. Kevin, Kevin, buddy.
00:00:07
Talkin2Todd
We good?
00:00:07
Todd
Are you? Yeah, i think we're good. Okay.
00:00:10
Talkin2Todd
Okay.
00:00:10
Todd
yeah Kevin's not here. I have no, I haven't seen him in weeks.
00:00:14
Talkin2Todd
Summer vacation.
00:00:15
Todd
Yeah.
00:00:16
Talkin2Todd
you he went on hiatus like we did, never came back.
00:00:20
Todd
Did you, did you tell him what we we're recording this week?
00:00:22
Talkin2Todd
Nice.
00:00:22
Todd
I thought you were going to tell him. Wait, was I supposed to tell him? Oh, crap. Hey, buddy. All right. what Oh, levels, levels.
00:00:30
Talkin2Todd
Levels, levels.
Format Changes and Bad Ideas
00:00:34
Talkin2Todd
i So I think we need to alter the format of the show for this week.
00:00:38
Todd
Sorry, wait, wait, what?
00:00:41
Talkin2Todd
Well, since we were on hiatus last week, i mean, we're both on vacation, right? Last week, we should spend the entire time sending each other pictures that we took during our vacations and then just describe them to the listeners for the entire episode.
00:00:57
Todd
Look, look you've you've had some bad ideas during our run here.
00:01:02
Talkin2Todd
Yeah, who could forget the all zucchini all the time programming?
00:01:07
Todd
Also, don't forget the theme song that was all farting.
00:01:11
Talkin2Todd
For the record, only one of those two things are true.
00:01:14
Todd
Toddlers, you get to figure out which one.
00:01:18
Talkin2Todd
Sorry, bad bad ideas, where were we? Yes, please continue.
00:01:22
Todd
Okay, but this... This is not one of them. Let's get
Official Start and Volume Mishap
00:01:25
Todd
into it. Okay, so here we are filling up with gas before we leave town.
00:01:31
Talkin2Todd
Buckle up, toddlers.
00:01:53
Talkin2Todd
Hi toddlers. Welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prince where failure is always an option. Thanks for joining us. Hey Todd.
00:02:03
Todd
Hey, how's it going?
00:02:05
Talkin2Todd
Pretty good. Pretty good. How are you?
00:02:07
Todd
Not too bad. Not too bad. While you were doing the opening, i hit the button to lower the volume by one notch, and then you just went away, and I thought, oh, no, not again, and then I realized, wait, that's the mute button.
00:02:20
Todd
Okay, no, no, I'm on my speakers. No, I'm good. I'm good. Everything's... I know that's not inspiring confidence.
00:02:24
Talkin2Todd
No, no, no, really.
00:02:26
Todd
It's fine.
00:02:27
Talkin2Todd
I know how to do this. I know. I can, no, I can podcast, really.
00:02:31
Todd
Yeah. Yep. Yep. No, no. Yep.
00:02:35
Talkin2Todd
so So you sent me the picture of you guys filling up with gas on the way to leave town.
Vacation Mishaps and Stories
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Talkin2Todd
On our way to leave town, between our house and the airport, we're driving the truck and a rock hits the windshield and boom!
00:02:41
Todd
Yep.
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Talkin2Todd
and I've got a About the size of a good quarter, solid quarter, spider, right in the middle of my windshield right now.
00:03:05
Talkin2Todd
I'm like, oh, this is starting out great. This is a great way to go on vacation. So getting that fixed tomorrow.
00:03:13
Todd
Sweet, sweet.
00:03:14
Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
00:03:14
Todd
Are they are they are they just they're just passionate or they give me a new windshield?
00:03:18
Talkin2Todd
They think they're just patching it. At least the guy on the phone thinks he's just patching it. And I right now also think he's just patching it, but I could be wrong.
00:03:30
Talkin2Todd
We will. Toddlers, stay tuned. Content begets content.
00:03:38
Talkin2Todd
Okay, so anyway, we're we're not really going to do this the entire episode, right?
00:03:41
Talkin2Todd
For the entire, we're just, that was just, okay.
00:03:41
Todd
Yeah. No. Yeah. That was just a bit.
00:03:44
Talkin2Todd
Okay. That was just a bet.
00:03:45
Todd
So we just set up a premise and then we we, you know, try to deliver on it. On the other hand, we probably, we both have travel stories. So I think we will be getting to some travel stories, but probably not with pictures.
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Talkin2Todd
Hopefully not with pictures.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes.
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Todd
Yeah.
00:04:00
Talkin2Todd
Okay. Feedback follow-up updates that we caught while we were out. I had nothing from toddler number one.
00:04:07
Todd
Yeah. We listened to the last two episodes while driving to San Diego, but that was at the beginning of a vacation two weeks ago. So who knows? We're going to call it clean.
00:04:19
Talkin2Todd
We did. Oh, wait, wait. We did listen. We listened to the last episode. We didn't listen to the episode out of time, but we listened to the episode before. So we skipped like two months worth episodes. Listened to the episode where I changed out the TV.
00:04:36
Todd
Yes.
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Talkin2Todd
Amy, that's a different TV in my basement.
Humorous Household Incidents
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Talkin2Todd
She apparently did not notice that it's now an insignia and no longer a Toshiba. So.
00:04:47
Todd
with with feet and a working remote.
00:04:50
Talkin2Todd
Thank God.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
But it works. She was watching it today. So, so yeah. So educational podcast, Amy learned she got a TV.
00:05:01
Todd
I will just I will say, no, we did. We did listen to the episode out of time. Lisa enjoyed it. Once again, i just remembered how diabolical that game was. We had no chance.
00:05:12
Todd
The fact that you even got to 10 is amazing. And in the car, she looked at me. She goes, you you really are a bad at these games. i'm like Yes. Yes, I am.
00:05:24
Talkin2Todd
Let's see, from Toddler401k. This is not financial advice, but construction updates is my new favorite update. So if you guys wanted to keep doing house projects, I'd be mostly okay with that.
00:05:38
Todd
yeah keep it Keep it under a dollar amount.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes, see, right?
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
We got a thanks, Eli, from Lisa. Apparently, in the episode at a time, that's
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Todd
Yep.
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Talkin2Todd
That episode deserves a toddy. Okay. Last follow-up, Dwayne's reaction to the U is probably one of the best moments of the pod to date.
00:06:04
Talkin2Todd
In my mind, it ranks right up there with the food truck drag race. it it Yep. Todd absolutely broke me with that. Yep.
00:06:16
Talkin2Todd
Also, he was screaming, give him a bell on the famous cock answer. And then you did. So, so toddler 401k was happy during his listen.
00:06:30
Todd
I'm glad that we provided some entertainment.
00:06:33
Talkin2Todd
We do what we can. Toddler Matt Damon, glad Todd covered the whole Southampton scandal this week. I was following it, but he did a great job covering the lawsuits. So thank you for that.
00:06:46
Todd
It's what the people come for discussion about lawsuits of English second tier football. It's what we're known for batting bread far. This is awesome.
00:06:55
Talkin2Todd
Clearly. Toddler number six, I knew Todd was gonna make a joke about newspapers.
00:07:03
Talkin2Todd
I gotta tell you, that joke delivered.
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Talkin2Todd
welcome. Number two, Marge, that's my grandmother and his grandmother, Marge is pissed at your commentary on carrots and jello salad.
00:07:18
Talkin2Todd
He's not wrong.
00:07:22
Todd
Because we we put too much carrots in it or not enough carrots in it.
00:07:27
Talkin2Todd
Just the fact that we were criticizing the fact that they existed at all, I think, would be the would be what Marge would have a problem with.
00:07:31
Todd
okay. Okay. all right. Yeah.
00:07:35
Talkin2Todd
Going to need a full report on the New York and New Jersey DAs investigating FIFA. He also recommends a guest speaker, my father, attorney extraordinaire.
00:07:48
Talkin2Todd
So, yeah.
00:07:48
Todd
Here's problem. Here's here's thing.
Guest Speaker Ideas and Legal Humor
00:07:51
Todd
I hope you get a friends and family right because if what we tell a lawyer is, hey, can you review this case and then come and talk about it? We're going to get billed in six minute increments for this. So I don't know. We're going to need some more advertising.
00:08:06
Talkin2Todd
Maybe we can hit up the legal eagles.
00:08:08
Todd
That'd be great. Or, hey hey, Larry, what do you think about this? do you want my professional opinion? Absolutely not. We can't afford it. Just just your regular opinion, please.
00:08:15
Talkin2Todd
we get but but
00:08:17
Todd
Can we afford that?
00:08:23
Talkin2Todd
And lastly, at a toddler number six on the press two, his guest was porno hotline.
00:08:27
Todd
Yeah.
00:08:33
Todd
You know what?
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Talkin2Todd
Like, okay.
00:08:33
Todd
That might be less offensive than what they were doing in Seattle.
00:08:37
Talkin2Todd
you may be correct.
00:08:40
Todd
I mean, at least people would be like, okay, cool. Matter of fact, you know, if they did that, that could probably be how they can fund. Okay. Synergy. If they did that and then charged people for the hot, for the, for the phone call, you could use that money to pay for the actual transcription or the translation service.
00:08:59
Todd
You know what? Just call us. We'll take care of whatever you need.
00:09:03
Talkin2Todd
We had, this wasn't really It was more of a follow-up,
00:09:09
Todd
Yep.
00:09:11
Talkin2Todd
but Toddler818, Michael said he can confirm that he did know Greg Abel's name as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. It did help that Berkshire Weekend was a couple of weeks prior. The guy apparently lives in Des Moines. That was something that I learned last week.
00:09:29
Todd
Look how far Berkshire Hathaway is falling. Their previous CEO lived in Omaha. Now their new guy is like, Omaha is too glitzy for me. I need to go someplace a little little more off the beaten path.
00:09:42
Talkin2Todd
is there Is there some place where two major interstates connect that's not Omaha in the
Sports Updates and Managerial Changes
00:09:50
Talkin2Todd
Midwest? Yeah, hey, let's, yeah, there yeah, sure, yeah.
00:09:55
Talkin2Todd
How do we feel about some follow-up?
00:10:00
Talkin2Todd
Okay. Okay.
00:10:02
Todd
A while ago, we talked about Jose Marino, who is the football coach who has been paid enormous sums of money for teams. Teams pay him pay lots of money to get him. And then usually before his contract ends, they pay lots and lots of money for him to leave.
00:10:19
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:10:20
Todd
His nickname that he gave himself, by the way, when I say his nickname, he named himself the special one.
00:10:30
Talkin2Todd
Yeah, I don't think that's allowed.
00:10:31
Todd
Well, anybody that calls him that might be special, but in a different way. Anyway, guess what? He's back.
00:10:39
Talkin2Todd
of course he is. Oh.
00:10:40
Todd
Maybe. he has signed He has signed a three-year contract to become the next coach manager of Real Madrid. arguably the largest club in the world. He was there before, and now they're bringing it back in. Real Madrid has been a complete disaster this year. They've been infighting. They've had interim coach.
00:11:00
Todd
There's an overall vibe that they assemble a huge, large amount of star players, and none of them want to be coached. So they're all doing individual things. So the president of the club said, I know to how to solve this, and he signed Marino to a three-year contract.
00:11:18
Todd
One small thing, however. The presidency of Real Madrid, like all the clubs in Spain, is a position that's voted on.
00:11:30
Todd
There is a vote of who is the next president of the club, I believe, this Saturday. The person who is running against him has said...
00:11:43
Todd
If he's elected, there is no way that Marino becomes his head coach. He has somebody else in mind. So understand this. Marino left his previous job and has a contract in place for the next three years.
00:11:59
Todd
And by Sunday, the new president of the club may say, i don't want you. Depending on how the contract is written, he may set a new record for himself in which he gets paid to leave before ever coaching a game. Normally, he's there a year and a half before he pisses everybody off and they pay him to go away. He could get three years worth of pay for never showing up to work.
00:12:23
Talkin2Todd
Look, I can tell you how this one's going to play out already.
00:12:28
Todd
Yeah. I mean, that's that's insane. Also, let's see. Oh, speaking of the Southampton cheating scandal that toddler number six referenced.
00:12:40
Todd
So documents of the investigation came out and it was clear by the documents that the manager of the club is the one that sort of made low level employees do all of the spying.
00:12:40
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:12:52
Todd
The low-level employees basically said, it was pretty much made clear. if i didn't go do this I knew it was wrong, but if I didn't go do this, he would fire me. And so it's the the investigation basically said it was absolutely the for the three instances of spying that they were caught for and that they got kicked out of the playoffs for and that they got to points deduction for. It's absolutely on the manager.
00:13:15
Todd
The chairman of the club said, yep, that was bad.
00:13:21
Todd
But I'm not going to get rid of the guy because I think we were punished too much for it. And that's not his fault that we got over punished for cheating.
00:13:32
Todd
Now, he did point out he left it. He left the door open because it's entirely possible the club has been punished. But this dude might be punished and suspended. So the chairman did say, now, if he's suspended, obviously, we're going to have to have a manager because I can't have a manager who is suspended, which tells me, look, I'm not going to fire the dude.
00:13:53
Todd
If you want to fire him for me, like, and if he has to go away, if that's coming from you, I don't have to pay him.
00:13:55
Talkin2Todd
And if he has to go away, out of my hands. Yeah, that's on, you right. Yes.
00:14:01
Todd
But if i if I fire him, I have to pay him or we get into a lawsuit.
00:14:04
Talkin2Todd
Right.
00:14:05
Todd
So what I'm telling you is I'm going to keep him. Please, somebody, please, please take care of this for me.
00:14:10
Talkin2Todd
Somebody do my job for me.
00:14:12
Todd
Yeah, yeah.
00:14:14
Talkin2Todd
by By the way, I thought it was fitting there. You gave credit to toddler number six and overlooked toddler Matt Damon in credit for that story, which is very Matt Damon.
00:14:24
Todd
Oh, I did, didn't I look at that? I looked at the wrong note. Oh.
00:14:31
Todd
Do you just want to pencil in the actually for next week? Like, yeah, it's lit. It's literally even in the rundown and I can't. yeah
00:14:41
Todd
All right. At the end of May.
00:14:46
Todd
Waymo writers were noticing that. They went to get Waymos to like take them to the airports and stuff in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Miami, and Phoenix.
00:14:58
Todd
And suddenly, the Waymos were going completely out of the way to go do the to go
Waymo's Mysterious Freeway Avoidance
00:15:05
Todd
do these rides, to get to the airport. like Things that should take 15 minutes were now taking like 45 minutes.
00:15:12
Todd
What people figured out was... the The Waymos were no longer driving on freeways.
00:15:22
Todd
Now, fun fact, Waymo didn't address, didn't tell anybody. They didn't put in their app, hey, by the way, we're not taking freeways. They didn't put anything on their webpage, hey, we're not taking freeways. They didn't tell any federal or state regulators, hey, we're not taking freeways. Suddenly, out of the blue, the Waymos just stopped going on freeways.
00:15:44
Todd
When asked for a comment, Waymo didn't reply. And then after a few days, the Waymo started taking the freeways again. i don't know what's I don't know what's worse, them saying we have a problem with our cars or them having a problem with our cars and not saying it.
00:15:52
Talkin2Todd
is
00:16:00
Talkin2Todd
what does this Is this in any way related to the Waymo that drove through the flood? Unoccupied Waymo, but the car drove into floodwaters and all Waymos were grounded at that point.
00:16:17
Todd
I don't think so. I think this is a different problem.
00:16:20
Talkin2Todd
Of course it is, because
00:16:21
Todd
Yeah.
00:16:24
Todd
Yeah. So, so there's that.
00:16:25
Talkin2Todd
Fantastic. Thanks for the Waymo update. Yep.
00:16:28
Todd
Yeah. And then normally, you know, what, what's the old adage?
00:16:34
Todd
Dog bites man, not a story. Man bites dog. Now you got yourself a story.
00:16:39
Talkin2Todd
Right. yeah Yep. Now that's a story. Yes.
00:16:42
Todd
Yeah.
00:16:42
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
00:16:43
Todd
Okay.
00:16:44
Talkin2Todd
Yep. I saw this story.
00:16:46
Todd
Yeah. So this was, this is sort of in your general neck of the woods.
00:16:51
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:16:51
Todd
Scottsbluff, Nebraska, I believe. There was a police responded to a shooting at a convenience store And when they got there, they
Bizarre Dog and Shotgun Incident
00:17:02
Todd
did see that a shotgun had gone off and had from inside of a car and had damaged a car and hit at least one woman.
00:17:12
Todd
She took a pellet to the arm, so wasn't life-threatening. And so then when the police started investigating, what they determined was...
00:17:24
Todd
Inside the car was a loaded shotgun with a chamber with with a shell already chambered and a dog in the back seat with the shotgun. there They believe that the dog was walking back and forth and somehow fired the gun.
00:17:40
Todd
Now, I look at that and go, do is that really what you think? because Or do you actually think that the that the dog went, I know how this works, and I'm sick of sitting in the back seat, and they don't want to tell anybody that because once the dogs figure out how to use the guns, we're going to have some problems.
00:17:57
Todd
Anyway, dog shoots woman, Nebraska, feels like it should be a Florida man story.
00:18:04
Talkin2Todd
Dammit, Sally, I said no more begging strips.
00:18:09
Todd
You do not put baby in the corner.
00:18:14
Talkin2Todd
Let's see, I had one World Cup price watch update.
00:18:16
Todd
Yeah.
00:18:20
Talkin2Todd
We followed,
00:18:20
Todd
Somehow going down and up at the same time.
00:18:23
Talkin2Todd
yeah So over the last 60 days, the average group stage get in price is now down 16% per ticket data.
00:18:34
Talkin2Todd
And prices have sort of stabilized over the last two weeks. while the game of chicken continues. I'm not buying, maybe they go down. I'm not selling them. I'm not lowering the price because people are going to buy. So there's this standoff. By the way, the average get in the door price for a group stage ticket, Todd?
00:19:01
Todd
$106. On the secondary market?
00:19:05
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:19:06
Todd
Oh. Yeah, I'll stick i'll stick with $106.
00:19:11
Talkin2Todd
$592. That's a different number.
00:19:14
Todd
Oh, I thought you said, what would you be willing to pay to get into a game?
00:19:17
Talkin2Todd
that's a that's a That's a different number.
00:19:17
Todd
Not what not what they're charging. Sorry.
00:19:21
Talkin2Todd
that's a different number
00:19:22
Todd
Different. It's a completely different number. Along with that, though, I will point out. So there was concern about how hot many of these matches are going to be because they're taking place in the in the United States during summer in the Midwest,
FIFA's Hydration Breaks and Commercials
00:19:36
Todd
Kansas City.
00:19:37
Todd
And so, yeah, so FIFA decided.
00:19:38
Talkin2Todd
New York. Yep.
00:19:41
Todd
So there's already rules. and We've even talked about this in the NWSL. There are rules that FIFA has in place that if the wet bulb temperature exceeds a certain amount, then you take a a hydration break midway between the first, midway in the middle of the first half and the middle of the second half.
00:20:02
Todd
Because everybody's worried about this, FIFA said, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, hydration breaks. But in order to be fair to everybody, every game will have a three-minute hydration break in the first half and a three-minute hydration break in the second half.
00:20:17
Todd
You know, to be fair, local U.S. rights holder Fox Sports then said, yeah, so basically you're putting a three-minute commercial break in the middle of a game that doesn't have any commercial breaks. And so Fox has been selling the commercial time during that. So there will be commercial breaks. So they're stopping the game for commercials. i mean, sorry, hydration.
00:20:40
Talkin2Todd
Hydration.
00:20:41
Todd
Because it's very important.
00:20:42
Talkin2Todd
height Hydration. Yes, that's why.
00:20:44
Todd
Also, that then there was an additional question about, well, will coaches, this is only supposed to be for hydration. This isn't supposed to be to stop the game in the middle of it and make change your tactics.
00:20:57
Todd
There was an ask. can coaches use iPads or anything they have during these hydration breaks? And FIFA said, yeah, they're allowed. So if they're allowed, yeah, they can they can do this. the The only thing that's not allowed, fun fun fact, the players cannot leave the field of play during the hydration break because technically the game is still going on.
00:21:21
Todd
So they can't step off the pitch, and the coach can't step on the pitch. Anyway, now, this is all because this whole hydration thing, it's going super hot. This is super dangerous.
00:21:34
Todd
Although, to be completely honest, I don't understand how world-class athletes can't run for 20 minutes. And we know from the Premier League that in a 90-minute match, the ball's only in play for 50 minutes. So really, you're talking about...
00:21:48
Todd
maybe 15 minutes of exertion, and then we're gonna need orange slices. Whatever, fine. But
00:21:57
Todd
two weeks ago, FIFA said, because it's going to be so hot, spectators will be allowed to bring in empty water containers. So they have to be empty, unscrew them, so that they can then go and use water in the stadium for hydration.
00:22:13
Talkin2Todd
Sure.
00:22:14
Todd
Yesterday, FIFA changed the guidance and said, to be clear, no water containers are allowed to be brought in from the outside.
00:22:23
Todd
Because it's going be so hot, you're going to need to buy the water. I wonder how much the water is going to cost.
00:22:31
Talkin2Todd
Toddlers, sounds like a mission.
00:22:31
Todd
Oh, yes. Speaking of, oh, speaking of concession prices.
00:22:38
Talkin2Todd
Oh, did you get one?
00:22:40
Talkin2Todd
Oh, unscheduled update here.
00:22:40
Todd
we have travel
00:22:42
Todd
We have travel
Home Renovation Chronicles
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Todd
stories, so let me get to that later.
00:22:46
Talkin2Todd
OK.
00:22:47
Todd
That's a reminder to Todd that I just did out loud. That's not how that works.
00:22:49
Talkin2Todd
Excellent.
00:22:50
Todd
Okay.
00:22:50
Talkin2Todd
OK. Oh, you know what it's time for? It's time for Danny's favorite favorite segment.
00:23:06
Talkin2Todd
Still cracks me up. You still have a basement full of stuff. How's your house?
00:23:11
Todd
Okay, so we've got multiple projects going on. it's it's It's all the same thing, but so I'm going to divide these projects up. So I showed you our family room, which had a fireplace and had two doors.
00:23:24
Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
00:23:26
Todd
Now doesn't have a fireplace and has one door. So family room, new floor, painted baseboards, outside of the house stuccoed, tick, family room done.
00:23:40
Todd
Living room. Nope.
00:23:45
Todd
Living room. Ripped out the carpeting, put in new put in new flooring, redid the baseboards, and had to do remove some glass blocks that were overlooking and put a new put up a new patch that wall, paint it.
00:24:01
Todd
Living room. Done. Tick.
00:24:06
Talkin2Todd
like Excellent.
00:24:07
Todd
a Guest bathroom. Take out the old flooring, put in new flooring, new toilet, baseboard. That project.
00:24:17
Todd
Tick.
00:24:20
Todd
Master bedroom. Closet had a door that that opened out the wrong way, so two doors smashed into each other, and it was like a logic puzzle to get in and out of the room. Which door do I move?
00:24:33
Todd
Door reversed, painted, put all back together again. Master bedroom. Project. Tick. Done.
00:24:42
Todd
master bath Master bathroom.
00:24:43
Talkin2Todd
Wow. Oh.
00:24:46
Todd
Rip out all the flooring, rip out the existing vanity, rip out the toilet, put in new flooring, paint, new toilet, put in a vent, new vanity, take out the old mirror, put in two separate lighted mirrors, and redo the electricity so that we have more plugs.
00:25:01
Todd
That is not done yet. ETA on that is Monday. So that one's not done, but that is the last of the projects of this round. So family room done, living room done, master guest bathroom done, master bedroom done, master bathroom, scheduled to be done by the beginning of next week.
00:25:22
Todd
How about you? How's how's how's your shower going?
00:25:26
Talkin2Todd
This is, I i gotta to say, Todd, this is starting to sound like Todd's House of Theseus.
00:25:28
Todd
Yeah.
00:25:33
Todd
we We bought a nice house and we're making it nicer.
00:25:38
Todd
Kitchen is still
00:25:38
Talkin2Todd
And none of it is, none of it is original. It's a brand new house.
00:25:44
Todd
quite a bit. No. Well, we're already talking with the contractor about phase two.
00:25:51
Todd
Specifically, kitchen is going to need to be done. And then after they put in the new baseboards and the new door molding in the new places, you you suddenly go, wait,
00:25:59
Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
00:26:03
Todd
The house, these rooms don't look like they were built in the 90s. They look new and modern. How much could it be to put in new baseboard and door trim and just call it good and the rest of the house?
00:26:14
Todd
So anyway, there are some rooms we're not going to touch other than baseboard.
00:26:19
Talkin2Todd
okay
00:26:20
Todd
So, but yes, we're, the project expanded a little bit, if I'm honest. It did expand a little. there There were some change orders.
00:26:30
Todd
Change orders occurred.
00:26:31
Talkin2Todd
Yeah,
00:26:32
Todd
How about you? How's the shower pan?
00:26:35
Talkin2Todd
okay.
00:26:38
Talkin2Todd
I think when we last left the shower pan, it was in transit to our house.
00:26:44
Todd
And you were hoping you were hoping that it was going to arrive at your house before you guys left because otherwise it was going to sit on your front porch while you were gone.
00:26:53
Talkin2Todd
Correct.
00:26:54
Todd
Yeah.
00:26:54
Talkin2Todd
So got a phone call
00:27:00
Talkin2Todd
that, no, I got a notice on my phone, got a notice on my phone that it was not going to be delivered until Tuesday, which is the day we were getting on a plane.
00:27:13
Talkin2Todd
And so I got on the horn to the shipping company and said, so what's the deal? They're like, well, yeah, it's here. This was Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend, Friday afternoon.
00:27:25
Talkin2Todd
I'm like, can somebody come and pick it up this afternoon? i mean, is there a chance you can still deliver it this afternoon?
00:27:32
Todd
Okay.
00:27:32
Talkin2Todd
No, it's too late. No. Can somebody come and get it? Well, we're going close here in about 15 minutes. No, I can't really get home. At this point, I'm at Drake Stadium watching my niece run in the state track meet.
00:27:48
Talkin2Todd
So she runs and then I get up and I go out and I get on the phone again with them. Okay, so I'm like, so is there an option for somebody to come and pick it up?
00:27:58
Talkin2Todd
I don't know, tomorrow, Saturday, is that a possibility? Sure, yeah, we'll set it out on the dock. You can come and pick it up. Fantastic. So then I get on the phone with my contractor. I'm like, okay, Zach, here's the deal.
00:28:11
Talkin2Todd
While I know this is my pan, this is not my problem. You're going to need to scramble somebody on Saturday to go over and pick this up and deliver it to my house.
00:28:23
Talkin2Todd
Yep, I can do that. So they did. They sorted that out, brought it yeah and put it in my garage on Saturday.
00:28:26
Todd
Ooh.
00:28:32
Talkin2Todd
And there it sat the entire time we were gone. we get we we get home on Sunday.
00:28:37
Todd
It was, you know, it wasn't sitting.
00:28:39
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:28:40
Todd
It was acclimating.
00:28:43
Talkin2Todd
Yes, thank you.
00:28:43
Todd
Isn't this a plastic pan? Shut up. It's just, it was acclimating.
00:28:47
Talkin2Todd
It continued to cure on the floor of the garage.
00:28:49
Todd
Yes. Yes. In heat. Yes.
00:28:52
Talkin2Todd
Yes, sure. Clint shows up on Monday and we they did not deliver a faucet.
00:29:06
Todd
Okay. Do you need that first shower?
00:29:07
Talkin2Todd
Huh, you might. Do you want us to use the old one? I'm like, well, we paid for a new one.
00:29:15
Talkin2Todd
So that was a delay on Monday morning while Clint went to two different stores to get what he needed for that. And then the installation started, except when he dropped the pan in, they had measured it wrong.
00:29:38
Todd
Sorry, don't mean to laugh, but I'm going to.
00:29:42
Talkin2Todd
And the center hole was off by about a half an inch.
00:29:49
Talkin2Todd
And there was no wiggle to it.
00:29:52
Talkin2Todd
So then the next thing Clint had to do was take the pan back up. He hadn't secured it or anything. So up the pan goes. He then has to cut into the floor and move the floor drain by about a half an inch so that everything lines up.
00:30:11
Talkin2Todd
And then he puts it in and everything is there. And at this point, it's now 4.30. And he has spent the entire day retrieving hardware that should have been delivered And fixing a floor drain that he shouldn't have had to fix to begin with, had the measurements been correct. And he's like, you know what?
00:30:36
Talkin2Todd
I am tired. We're going to tackle this tomorrow. I'm like, that sounds like a fantastic idea.
00:30:42
Talkin2Todd
So in the meantime,
00:30:42
Todd
4.30 on Monday, he's like, okay, ready to start.
00:30:46
Talkin2Todd
Right. Yes, pretty much. and And we put the pan in and there was a gap in the front between the pan and the tile that wasn't going to change.
00:30:57
Talkin2Todd
And we're now we're like, oh well, now what do we do? do we Do we shim everything out and move the floor drain again or What? I don't know. So I don't know. so anyway, so when Clint leaves, he gets on the phone with my contractor and with the company that sold this company.
00:31:17
Talkin2Todd
pig in a poke to us and he got further instruction. So he came back on Tuesday morning. He's like, oh, so the outside edge that's sitting on the floor in the garage that goes right where that gap is. And so we're going to cut and we're going to cover that and it's going to fit in perfectly. And by golly, if it didn't, it was per everything at that point, then it was perfect. And Clint's just cooking along and we're he's putting putting sides up. He's, you know, boom, boom, boom again gets to five. like He works all day on this shower, gets to five o'clock. The doors are not up.
00:31:53
Talkin2Todd
The shower faucet and and shower head is not installed. He's like, you know what? I think I've had a day. I'm like, you know what? I think that sounds great.
00:32:04
Talkin2Todd
He said, okay, are you available tomorrow morning? Yep, you can come. Come tomorrow morning. I've got a meeting at one o'clock, but you've got all morning tomorrow morning to finish it up. Gets to about 1215, and I can see that he is not going to be done in time for me to get to my one o'clock meeting. So I moved my one o'clock meeting, I'm like...
00:32:22
Talkin2Todd
My meeting got canceled. You're good. Take your time. There's no need to rush. He spent the entire day on, this was a day and a half project that took three days plus how many weeks? I don't know. Anyway, this was a really, really long project, but we now have doors installed. He does need to, it it needs outside trim to just finish it. So that's being shipped to my house. And when it shows up, Clint will come back.
00:32:52
Talkin2Todd
and install the outside trim but as of this moment well not as of this moment because it still has to cure for 48 hours before we can use it but as of saturday my wife will have a shower that she can actually use
00:33:10
Todd
Here's what I heard though. The trim's not there and it's being shipped. I still have a chance to get my last project done ahead of the trim being installed.
00:33:22
Talkin2Todd
Yes, you do. It is a race.
00:33:25
Todd
Hey Juan, how quickly can we do this, man? Like i I'm sure that paint doesn't need to dry.
00:33:30
Talkin2Todd
God.
00:33:31
Todd
Just go ahead and just put the thing in. It's okay.
00:33:37
Todd
So what this says is construction updates lives for another week.
00:33:42
Talkin2Todd
It does. Yes.
00:33:43
Todd
Yes.
00:33:44
Talkin2Todd
should should we I can see where the time is. Should we move to Ta-La-Ta-No?
00:33:48
Todd
Yeah, we should do that. Sure.
00:33:59
Talkin2Todd
That's right, that sound means it's time for todd ought to know. Something that Todd ought to know this week. Todd, trivia question for you. Ready?
00:34:13
Talkin2Todd
Where did my trivia question go? here it is. What franchise drafted two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in the same draft?
00:34:30
Todd
by quarterbacks, I'm assuming we're talking to NFL.
00:34:33
Talkin2Todd
Two Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacks. That is correct.
00:34:35
Todd
Okay. Just, just making sure this isn't one of those stupid ones of just, well, it's an actually Australian football league. Damn it. I'm supposed to know that. Well, I mean, if you were, if you were thinking this through, you should have known.
00:34:45
Talkin2Todd
Yes, it's something Todd ought to know.
00:34:48
Todd
I mean, you're the one that keeps bringing up European soccer. Fine. We're going to bring up Australian football. I,
00:34:56
Talkin2Todd
For bonus points, name them.
00:34:56
Todd
drafted
00:34:58
Talkin2Todd
But let's start with yes.
00:35:00
Todd
I mean, here's the thing. Just because you drafted him doesn't mean they went into the Hall of Fame with you. But because my first thought was, well, we can safely rule out the Bears.
00:35:11
Talkin2Todd
a that is, you're correct. That is not the correct answer.
00:35:16
Todd
Yes.
00:35:17
Todd
Yeah.
00:35:18
Talkin2Todd
And,
00:35:19
Todd
For all the Bears quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame.
00:35:24
Talkin2Todd
right. And you are also correct that neither of these two players are in the Hall of Fame for the team that drafted them.
00:35:34
Todd
for reasons I'm not sure why I'm going to say the Atlanta Falcons.
00:35:39
Talkin2Todd
That's a good guess.
00:35:41
Todd
Cause I know they got one.
00:35:47
Talkin2Todd
Is not correct. do You want to try again?
00:35:50
Todd
right. Well, there's only 31 more to go. So, all right, buckle up.
00:35:55
Todd
Let's see. How about the Dallas Cowboys?
00:35:59
Talkin2Todd
it is That is another good guess. That is not correct. And neither of these two guys ever played for the Dallas Cowboys.
00:36:06
Todd
Okay. All right.
00:36:07
Talkin2Todd
You give up?
00:36:09
Todd
I'll do one more.
00:36:10
Talkin2Todd
Okay.
00:36:12
Todd
How about the New York football Jets?
00:36:15
Talkin2Todd
It is not the New York football Jets either.
00:36:17
Todd
but i wish it I wish it was. Wouldn't that be great if the Jets had drafted two Hall of Fame quarterbacks and they never played for the Jets?
00:36:19
Talkin2Todd
But...
00:36:25
Todd
Come on. That's about the most jetty thing you could possibly do.
00:36:28
Talkin2Todd
It really is. Well, your other guess could have been the Browns.
00:36:32
Todd
That those, to be honest, the punchline for that joke could be either one of those.
00:36:34
Talkin2Todd
Yes, yes, sure. Yes. Could be either way.
00:36:37
Todd
Yes. Yeah.
00:36:39
Todd
Yeah.
00:36:39
Talkin2Todd
The answer to the trivia question, which franchise drafted two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in the same draft? The answer is in
Unexpected Sports Trivia
00:36:48
Talkin2Todd
1979, the Kansas City Royals.
00:36:52
Talkin2Todd
In the fourth round, drafted Dan dan Marino. And in the 18th round, they drafted John Elway.
00:37:00
Todd
So franchise, I see what you did there.
00:37:03
Talkin2Todd
The key word there was franchise.
00:37:06
Todd
I'm also going to point out,
00:37:08
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:37:09
Todd
no offense meant, this is why the Royals suck, because they were drafting quarterbacks.
00:37:11
Talkin2Todd
Sure.
00:37:13
Talkin2Todd
but
00:37:19
Todd
Everybody else is drafting like people who who hit home runs and can pitch, and they're like, I like the cut of his jib, the way he throws that spiral. We should get him.
00:37:28
Talkin2Todd
This was 1979. They did win a... They went to the World Series in 1980 and they won in 1985, so they weren't totally bad.
00:37:38
Todd
Yeah.
00:37:39
Talkin2Todd
But yes, sure. Okay.
00:37:42
Todd
That would have meant that they drafted, were both of them coming out of high school then?
00:37:46
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:37:48
Todd
Because they were both in the class of 83. So, yeah.
00:37:50
Talkin2Todd
Yes, that's correct.
00:37:52
Todd
At this point, I'm kind of, again, i was gonna say, no offense meant, but I actually mean this one a little bit. I'm kind of surprised that they did they haven't built some statues to those guys and said, look what we did.
00:38:04
Todd
Yeah.
00:38:04
Talkin2Todd
Look what, if either of these guys had been better at baseball. Nevermind. Let's see, we've got, that was Todd Audenot. Idiots? How about the Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week?
00:38:19
Todd
I think both of our idiots are going to be covered in our travel stories.
00:38:23
Talkin2Todd
okay, fantastic.
00:38:23
Todd
So, yeah. Yeah. Do you want you want to talk about going to Seattle?
00:38:28
Talkin2Todd
Sure. And I'm actually going start with my idiot. So Amy and I bought tickets to go.
00:38:32
Todd
OK.
00:38:34
Talkin2Todd
We bought the combo ticket to go up in the Space Needle for Sunset, which was really cool, and do the Cholulie Museum, Glass Museum.
00:38:45
Talkin2Todd
So we we bought this combo ticket. And so we went through the museum and Amy had a problem loading the tickets onto her phone. So we just went up to the desk and they printed out the ticket for us. So that we had we had two actual hard tickets to scan to get in.
00:39:03
Talkin2Todd
Fantastic. Great. So we just zip in, we go, do the Chilili Museum, and then eat because we spent most of Seattle eating and then went over to the Space Needle and the tickets wouldn't work over at the Space Needle.
00:39:16
Talkin2Todd
So the guy behind the ticket counter gets on the radio and calls for help. Another lady comes over. She can't make it work either and then goes to log in on the laptop there at the ticket counter and doesn't remember the password to log in to the laptop at the ticket counter. So she gets on the walkie-talkie. hey
00:39:51
Talkin2Todd
does anyone know the password to the laptop at the ticket counter? Which goes to everybody.
00:39:59
Todd
Everybody. Yeah.
00:40:01
Talkin2Todd
And anybody within earshot of everybody, right?
00:40:03
Todd
Sure.
00:40:05
Talkin2Todd
Because they weren't they weren't using the ones that stick in your ear.
00:40:05
Todd
Yeah.
00:40:08
Todd
Earpieces.
00:40:09
Talkin2Todd
They're just, you know, open, whatever.
00:40:09
Todd
Yeah.
00:40:12
Talkin2Todd
Back comes the answer from someone. Yes.
00:40:16
Talkin2Todd
It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. two three four five six seven eight nine
00:40:23
Todd
I mean, is it's at least a minimum of eight characters. So, yeah.
00:40:26
Talkin2Todd
It did, yep. but I'm not sure whether the idiot is the person that devised the password or the one who read it over the intercom.
00:40:38
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:40:42
Todd
Sure. I don't...
00:40:45
Talkin2Todd
One or the other, maybe both. My Seattle Idiots, there you go. Do you wanna alternate on these?
00:40:53
Todd
no, we'll, I'll let you go and then we'll, we'll go.
00:40:58
Todd
Yeah.
00:40:59
Talkin2Todd
i had been I hadn't been in Seattle for 10 years. Amy had never been. And even when I was there, I was there for work. I barely made it one time to Pike Place Market while everybody was closing up. So I saw almost nothing when I was there.
00:41:16
Todd
Yeah.
00:41:16
Talkin2Todd
And so we did the market. We did the needle. We did the Chulhu Glass Museum. We did the Museum of Flight.
00:41:24
Todd
there There you go. Okay. did you Did you enjoy it?
00:41:28
Talkin2Todd
I'm like, you know, we've got we've got a day. It's close. It's not that expensive. And you can get in
00:41:40
Talkin2Todd
some airplanes that I can't normally get in.
00:41:43
Todd
Yes.
00:41:43
Talkin2Todd
Right?
00:41:44
Todd
How did you enjoy the Concord?
00:41:46
Talkin2Todd
It was small.
00:41:49
Todd
Yes.
00:41:49
Talkin2Todd
And really cool and really cool. we got in the Concord, we got in the air force one that LBJ used to fly to Dallas in 1963.
00:42:06
Talkin2Todd
The one that he flew home on is in the Air Force Museum that's in our Ohio. So, but we saw the one. we We were in a 747.
00:42:19
Talkin2Todd
Huge plane. We were in a Dreamliner, which was really cool. we saw We saw a pair of Migs.
00:42:31
Talkin2Todd
They were inverted.
00:42:34
Talkin2Todd
It's because we were, right? we yeah We saw F-14 Tomcat. We saw all kinds of, we saw SR-71 Blackbird. We saw, it was it was pretty cool. I'm like, you know, this might be a couple of hours.
00:42:47
Talkin2Todd
We were there for five hours.
00:42:51
Talkin2Todd
It was, that was great. It was, that was really great. On Friday, I played Chambers Bay, which is like top 12 on the list of courses you can play.
00:43:04
Talkin2Todd
The front was intimidating. I'm not going lie. I did not score very well on the front. I mean, I was, I was all right, but I'm like, I looked at, and so I had a caddy because this is a walking course. Nobody, nobody rides.
00:43:20
Talkin2Todd
There are no golf carts. It's a walking course. You get a caddy off you go. And I looked at my caddy after about three holes. so Really? I do know how to play golf. I swear I do.
00:43:30
Todd
Bye.
00:43:31
Talkin2Todd
And then I was three over on the back with a birdie on 17. So, uh, and would have been better if I hadn't taken a double bogey on 15.
00:43:42
Talkin2Todd
Uh, I was cooking on the back. The back was, I really, really came into it. and then on the last day, no same day we went, drove up Mount Rainier.
Seattle Trip Highlights
00:43:55
Talkin2Todd
and got and parked and hiked and took pictures of waterfalls.
00:44:01
Talkin2Todd
Really cool. really, really big trees. as hot We only got to about 5,600 feet, which is where the inn was and the ranger station.
00:44:12
Talkin2Todd
And there was one more waterfall, but the trail was snow packed and covered with snow. And we were not built for that at 38 degrees.
00:44:22
Talkin2Todd
We were not prepared.
00:44:23
Talkin2Todd
And we said, you know what, let's get in the car and go have dinner. So we did. So, yep. So that was the Seattle trip. lot of fun. Highly recommend it. Uh, there's some really, really good food stayed in an Airbnb downtown.
00:44:38
Talkin2Todd
So everything was really, really walkable. highly recommend Seattle.
00:44:44
Todd
Excellent. By the way, the 747 that you were in, that's the first one that was ever built.
00:44:47
Talkin2Todd
Mm-hmm.
00:44:50
Talkin2Todd
Yes. Yeah.
00:44:51
Todd
Also, you said it's a huge plane.
00:44:53
Talkin2Todd
Uh huh.
00:44:53
Todd
That is the smallest version of the 747. That's a 747-100. They then made the 200, the 400, and the 800. That's the tiny, well, there's a small one, the SP. But mostly speaking, that's the small one. That's the pocket one.
00:45:11
Todd
Then they got big after that. So,
00:45:13
Talkin2Todd
Dang.
00:45:15
Todd
Great, Todd. Nobody asked for that. I and i know. that's That's what makes it special.
00:45:19
Talkin2Todd
How about you? How was San Diego?
00:45:21
Todd
San Diego was good. It was good. we left on a Sunday afternoon and we were going to drive, uh, from the end closed location should be about six and a half hours. Get up. So it's going to be seven hours.
San Diego Driving Challenges
00:45:33
Todd
sucks. And we have to we have to drive from the end of the closed location. We drive through Las Vegas and here's what I'm noticing. So got Apple maps. We're now in the car. We've it's a, so it's a, it tells us when we're going to arrive.
00:45:50
Todd
And it tells us that we're now seven hours away. We have driven for two hours. And it's still telling us that it is seven hours away.
00:46:00
Talkin2Todd
And you've gotten further away.
00:46:02
Todd
The closer we get, we are literally not getting any closer according to the map.
00:46:09
Talkin2Todd
That's not good.
00:46:11
Todd
time-wise.
00:46:12
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:46:12
Todd
the The more time we spend in the car, like literally time has stopped. not Not ideal. And at one point I was getting a little frustrated with this. And I was like, what kind of time vortex are we? Like at this rate, I will be in San Diego and it will tell me it's going to take seven hours to get to the hotel.
00:46:33
Todd
Like that's...
00:46:37
Todd
One of the reasons for the backup is because of the agricultural inspection station just across the California border on I-15. Is it manned?
00:46:48
Todd
No. Does it slow down traffic to a complete crawl? Yes. Yes, it does. Hey, listen, California, do what you want to do. like I get and all. But like if you're not going to man it, can we just Just go.
00:47:04
Todd
I was telling somebody this about this at work who hasn't ever lived out West. And I was, because, and he's driving down to San Diego. And I'm like, by the way, when you get outside, it right outside of Nevada, when you cross the the border, there's agricultural inspection station. he goes, wait, what?
00:47:17
Todd
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a toll booth. It goes all the way across. He's like, Wait, what do you mean? It's a toll road? Like, no, it's not a toll road. But they basically slow down traffic. It's like a toll plaza and you slow down and they can put people out there. What are they looking for?
00:47:31
Todd
Fruit, like from the fruit flies. This is when the whole thing is like, so you have to slow down. Well, yeah, because it's very narrow. OK, what are they looking for? Right now, nothing because they're not there. So wait, you slow down.
00:47:42
Todd
Yes.
00:47:42
Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh.
00:47:44
Todd
To look at nothing. Yes. And this caused an hour-long traffic jam on a Sunday. Yes. California is a weird place, man.
00:47:55
Todd
Anyway, that was my idiot of the week was the unmanned the unmanned California Agricultural Inspection Station that still added one-hour delay to our drive because we were in stop-and-go traffic for an hour to get through an unmanned inspection station.
00:48:10
Talkin2Todd
And then once you're through, it's clear sailing.
00:48:11
Todd
That's great. Well, no, because they also built it. This is fun fact. So they built it. As soon as you get through your your're clear sailing for a quarter a mile and then the road bends to the right and then you go up a mountain pass.
00:48:24
Todd
So everybody just gets through and gets speed.
00:48:24
Talkin2Todd
Oh.
00:48:26
Todd
And then, oh the semis are going up a mountain pass and then you're crawling up a mountain pass. And then and that's great. On the way down, then you pick up speed until you get to the mountain pass outside of L.A. And then you got to crawl up the mountain pass again. So California is big state. There's a lot of empty stuff there.
00:48:47
Todd
Baker. Wow. OK, good luck. Anyway, we got to San Diego. We're standing to get right across the street. pull What pulls up in front of us?
00:48:59
Todd
Lisa, is that a Waymo? It is Waymo.
00:49:02
Talkin2Todd
Sweet.
00:49:02
Todd
i've never seen one I've never seen one. Well, now you have. Was there anybody in it? No, but it was moving on its own, so we're going count that as a victory.
Autonomous Vehicle Success
00:49:10
Todd
it It wasn't stopped. The door was closed.
00:49:13
Todd
It wasn't honking or flashing its lights. It was just going with traffic. So another successful non-trip from Waymo.
00:49:21
Talkin2Todd
Like Todd goes up and tries to open the door just to...
00:49:24
Todd
Yeah. I'm just lucky that like the the LiDAR scanner didn't pick up my face and then just flipped me the bird. like Stop it. We know who you are, and we're not impressed.
00:49:35
Talkin2Todd
We know we've been listening to your podcast.
00:49:40
Todd
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:41
Talkin2Todd
You have a podcast?
00:49:42
Todd
yeah So we did we did we did a bunch of the things. We did the tourist things. So Sunday night, we went to Little Italy on Monday, which was Memorial Day. We went to La Jolla and then realized that that was the stupidest thing we could do because all of San Diego had gone to La Jolla for the beaches on Memorial Day.
00:50:00
Todd
So after we got out of traffic, we left La Jolla.
00:50:00
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
00:50:03
Todd
And instead, we said, you know what? There's a baseball game. So we went to Petco.
00:50:08
Talkin2Todd
Nice.
00:50:08
Todd
By the way, at Petco, we did cover some concession prices. Okay.
00:50:18
Talkin2Todd
Excellent. 1625.
00:50:19
Todd
Dwayne, a can of Bud Light at Petco Park. How much?
00:50:28
Talkin2Todd
te twenty five
00:50:29
Todd
Oh, you overshot. $14.99. Premium beer.
00:50:32
Talkin2Todd
okay
00:50:34
Todd
premium beer By the way, that's what it's called, premium beer. No idea. It's like the generic premium. It's like a white can that just says premium beer on it.
00:50:41
Talkin2Todd
It says premium beer, premium in big letters, beer in small letters.
00:50:43
Todd
Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:47
Talkin2Todd
Let's stick with 1625. Oh, damn. 1799? Dang.
00:50:51
Todd
Oh, no, if the premium is $18.99.
00:50:53
Talkin2Todd
oh damn
00:50:55
Todd
If you want a souvenir beverage, which includes refill on the day of purchase only, for soft drinks, basically.
00:51:03
Talkin2Todd
seventeen ninety nine
00:51:05
Todd
Oh, you're going to love Petco Park. It's $10.99.
00:51:08
Talkin2Todd
dang
00:51:09
Todd
And how about a Friar Frank, which is a hot dog.
00:51:14
Talkin2Todd
Uh... 850?
00:51:14
Todd
It's not a Padre named Frank. It's an actual hot dog.
00:51:22
Talkin2Todd
Ho ho!
00:51:25
Todd
Holy crap. It's $8.49. Yes.
00:51:27
Talkin2Todd
oh
00:51:28
Todd
yourself a bell.
00:51:31
Todd
All right. Oh, however, though we did that Carl Strauss Brewing Company. They did have some specialty cocktails. Dwayne, how much is a home plate margarita, which includes cut water, tequila, blanco, lime, and agave?
00:51:47
Todd
Single.
00:51:49
Talkin2Todd
Does it come in a souvenir glass?
00:51:53
Todd
I don't believe it does. $17.99.
00:51:57
Todd
seventeen ninety nine
00:52:00
Talkin2Todd
Same as the beer.
00:52:03
Todd
If you want to double, how much is that? $29.99.
00:52:05
Talkin2Todd
twenty four ninety nine
00:52:10
Talkin2Todd
dead
00:52:12
Todd
Yeah. That is also the same prices for the spicy strawberry margarita, the watermelon fizz, the pineapple on deck, and then the sour bullet.
San Diego Zoo Adventure
00:52:24
Todd
or boulet bourbon with sweet and sour mix, squeeze of lime. Do you want to guess what a double bullet?
00:52:30
Talkin2Todd
That's going to be bullet. That's going to be bullet bourbon.
00:52:33
Todd
They just...
00:52:33
Talkin2Todd
It's not belay. It's not a French bourbon.
00:52:37
Todd
Look, if you want me to pronounce a bullet, get rid of that damn eye out of it. How much is a double of that?
00:52:42
Talkin2Todd
went the wrong direction.
00:52:43
Todd
$32.99. $32.99.
00:52:49
Todd
thirty two ninety nine
00:52:51
Talkin2Todd
went the wrong direction
00:52:53
Todd
Yes. Apparently that's a premium boulet. The following day,
00:53:01
Todd
the following day we went to the San Diego Zoo. First time I've ever been there. That place is fantastic. That's just, that's, a that is amazing.
00:53:07
Talkin2Todd
Amen.
00:53:09
Todd
Like how that's in the middle of the city. That is just, that's just incredible. Dwayne souvenir sipper fountain beverage. Yes.
00:53:20
Todd
of soft drinks with free refills in the day of purchase at the San Diego Zoo. As a reminder, Petco Park 1099.
00:53:29
Talkin2Todd
Is it in the shape of an orca?
00:53:33
Todd
It is not because it's the zoo, not SeaWorld, and they don't have any orcas at the zoo because that's not what they do.
00:53:36
Talkin2Todd
Oh.
00:53:41
Talkin2Todd
Sorry. Yes. OK.
00:53:46
Talkin2Todd
12 bucks?
00:53:50
Talkin2Todd
Dang. The zoo is expensive.
00:53:54
Todd
Zoo is super expensive. Souvenir Draft Beer. 18.99.
00:54:04
Todd
Souvenir Popcorn Bucket.
00:54:07
Talkin2Todd
$12.99. Pretty close. That...
00:54:08
Todd
You overshot 11.49.
00:54:11
Talkin2Todd
pretty close
00:54:12
Todd
Yeah. Saw the zoo. Then we went to the following day. We went to the USS Midway. By the way, I was out on the deck. Saw one of the docents. I said, hey, Dwayne says hi. Dwayne says, hey.
00:54:24
Todd
And he said, who the hell is Dwayne? So
00:54:29
Todd
that worked out well. Yeah.
00:54:32
Talkin2Todd
that That was another tour that lasted way longer than I thought it would when we did the USS Midway. We closed that boat down. Sorry, ship. The boats are the things that go on the ships. That's a ship.
00:54:45
Todd
So we did have some AI kind of help guide us as to what it was going to take. And when it constructed it, it said plan for five hours at the USS Midway. And I told Lisa, i'm like, look, we won't we won't be there that long because like this is more for me.
00:55:02
Todd
She'll enjoy some of it, but this is more for me. Son of a gun, we spent five hours there. and we and And Lisa's like, that it That was a good five hours. We did second India of the week, however, on the deck. they have They have some jets, and you can get in them, and then people can take pictures of you sitting in a jet.
00:55:22
Todd
And went to do that, and so I stood in line, stood in line, and I get in it, and then and then there's a guy, Lisa's on the deck shooting upwards, and there's a guy on the platform basically like ready to step into the jet,
00:55:23
Talkin2Todd
Yep. Yes.
00:55:39
Todd
right behind me at which point she's lisa's like can you sir can you move he doesn't really speak much english turns out he's from belgium his wife is next to lisa yelling at him get out of the way in belgium and he's doing this i don't what i don't what so lisa took the pictures and then she's like we're gonna take those again i'm like i'll fix it she's like what do you mean i'm like i'll just i'll fix it like don't worry
00:55:40
Talkin2Todd
yes
00:56:03
Talkin2Todd
Right. I'll just AI him out of there.
00:56:06
Todd
Yeah, and by the way, here's how you AI them out of it, right? In Apple Photos on the iPhone, you just go in and you hit the remove tool and you just rub your finger over the guy and then poof, he's gone.
00:56:15
Talkin2Todd
Yeah. And poof, he's gone.
00:56:16
Todd
And she's like, yeah, poof.
00:56:17
Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
00:56:18
Todd
And she's like, wait, can my phone do that? Yes.
00:56:21
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:56:22
Todd
Why does anybody tell us about this? So for the Belgian guy who was completely oblivious also, and then on our we decided to come home a day early because a high temperature there was in the mid-60s.
00:56:34
Todd
So we left to go where it was warm, but we went back to La Jolla. this time to go see La Jolla because before we were just in the car in the in the line of traffic and never actually got out of the car.
00:56:53
Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh.
00:56:54
Todd
Last guess, though, we also, we did take a picture just out out on the boardwalk right on the water. Garnitas Sweet Shop.
00:57:04
Todd
So just right here, kind of like between the midway and like if you walk south along the water. Representative of any number of concession stands out here.
00:57:15
Todd
Duane, Soft Serve Cone.
00:57:18
Talkin2Todd
on the beach in San Diego, $7.99. $17.99.
00:57:21
Todd
Yeah.
00:57:21
Talkin2Todd
Oh, okay.
00:57:23
Todd
Want want to take another run at that a little higher?
00:57:28
Todd
1045 for a soft serve cone. Hot fudge Yeah.
00:57:34
Talkin2Todd
oh i'm going to go with my first guest seventeen ninety nine
00:57:42
Talkin2Todd
yeah we shot but still Soft serve with melted chocolate on it.
00:57:49
Todd
In a cup. Oh, and you also get you get whipped cream and a cherry on top. Yep.
00:57:53
Talkin2Todd
why wouldn't you?
00:57:54
Todd
Yeah. And then a churro sundae, which is vanilla soft serve, churro bites, caramel drizzle and whipped cream.
00:58:01
Talkin2Todd
Oh, that sounds good. Let's $17.99. same price,
00:58:04
Todd
1445 as well.
00:58:05
Talkin2Todd
oh same price okay
00:58:05
Todd
Yeah. San Diego is expensive. On the other hand, the zoo is really expensive. But anyway, but we got to see pandas and we got to see koalas being fed. So at that point, what do you care how much of the lunch costs?
00:58:14
Talkin2Todd
oh
00:58:17
Todd
Like, I just want to see if I just want to see a koala being fed like that's just that's just awesome. Anyway, there was our, and then we, and then we, and then we drove back. You don't have to go through the inspection station as you're leaving California.
00:58:28
Todd
They're just like, get the hell out. So you don't.
00:58:30
Talkin2Todd
They don't care what you take away. They only care what you bring in.
00:58:32
Todd
the Yes. Take nothing but memories, but please don't bring in oranges in. I think that's the sign. I don't, is that, is that from the Bible? No, that's not.
00:58:42
Talkin2Todd
I think so. Yes. Yes.
00:58:43
Todd
Okay. Yeah. I think that's a
00:58:45
Talkin2Todd
Yes. And it was there that you carried the oranges.
00:58:45
Todd
Yeah.
00:58:47
Talkin2Todd
Yes, that was.
00:58:55
Todd
You've been watching anything good.
00:58:56
Talkin2Todd
While we were in Seattle, we went and saw the Mandalorian and Grogu movie in an IMAX theater.
00:59:05
Todd
Ooh. Okay. How was that?
00:59:08
Talkin2Todd
Five jump scares for Amy.
00:59:11
Todd
Hmm.
00:59:11
Talkin2Todd
The monsters are really big in IMAX and it's really loud.
00:59:14
Todd
IMAX.
00:59:17
Talkin2Todd
Could this have been a four part series on your TV? Yes, it absolutely could have.
00:59:27
Talkin2Todd
Was it entertaining? Heck yeah. Yep. It was. Did I love it? I really liked it I'll probably watch it a couple more times when it comes to Disney Plus on my TV. It was fun, which is really all I ask for in a summer summer movie. Didn't have to think too hard.
00:59:43
Talkin2Todd
It was fun. Baby Yoda's cute. Does what it says on the tin. How about you?
00:59:52
Todd
we We had tickets for that the Friday night of opening night, opening weekend, or no, Saturday of opening weekend. But we had a bunch of other stuff to get ready, and that was the night before we were going to leave on our trip. And at about 3 o'clock, we both looked at each other and went, Lisa's like, I'll go if you want to go, but I don't think I want to go to the movie tonight. And I said,
01:00:17
Todd
I was trying to figure out how to say I don't want to go to the movie tonight. Great. let's we'll just We'll be fine. we'll we'll We'll get store credit at the movie theater. That's fine. Anyway, so we haven't seen that yet. Instead, what we've been watching, because we watch on YouTube, we've talked about there's Tom the Taxi Driver, and we just watch Shift videos going through London. We just like watching people driving through London. We are now watching a channel called London Eats.
01:00:42
Todd
It is a gentleman who delivers for Uber Eats and Deliveroo and Just Eat on an electric moped.
01:00:53
Todd
Not that. A real moped. And he just films he films himself driving through London during the day, at night, overnight. And we get to see different places of London than we do with the taxis because the taxi normally picks people up. This guy is delivering pizza to places you shouldn't go to at 2 o'clock in the morning. But he's delivering pizzas.
01:01:15
Todd
the The one phrase we have picked up, though, is every time he sees a police car driving by, and this is the motto for his channel, it's all kicking off, mate. So that's now that's now the the catchphrase of the month of in this household of just like, I don't know it's all kicking off, mate.
01:01:32
Todd
So there we go. London Eats.
01:01:35
Talkin2Todd
I thought maybe this was little clips from the old Hawaii Five-0 series of restaurants, of where Jack London eats.
01:01:46
Todd
Jack London Eats.
01:01:49
Talkin2Todd
was not though This was not that.
01:01:51
Todd
No, but that gives gives me an idea for a new YouTube channel.
01:01:52
Talkin2Todd
Because...
01:01:55
Todd
I mean, I could probably. Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:58
Talkin2Todd
Aloha. Aloha.
01:02:02
Todd
Yeah.
01:02:04
Talkin2Todd
uh the thing that i learned this week i can i'll be i'll be quick and get out we came back from seattle to a non-working air conditioner yeah so yeah so the thing that i learned
01:02:16
Todd
Oh, that's a problem. Good news. hey Hey, Clint, can you just fix the...
01:02:22
Talkin2Todd
no
01:02:24
Todd
Yeah, I got to order a part. Got to ship it in. It's custom made.
01:02:27
Talkin2Todd
a Uh, so we've been without air since we got back. Uh, the HVAC folks showed up this afternoon. That was as soon as they could get in, showed up this afternoon. Yes, we have a slow leak in a coil in the furnace, which is not yet 10 years old, which hopefully will work in my favor,
01:02:53
Talkin2Todd
but they have in the meantime, recharged our air conditioner and it is now cool in my house again. they will order a part tomorrow and then we'll see how many thousand dollars has cost me.
01:03:08
Talkin2Todd
So that could have gone in, that could gone in construction updates.
01:03:08
Todd
this go have to be This is going to have to be custom yeah this is gonna have to be customm made in Wisconsin and then cured and then shipped down. Oh, my.
01:03:16
Talkin2Todd
Uh, how about you? What'd you learn this week?
01:03:19
Todd
So the second time we were in La Jolla, we're walking right along the edge of the beach and Jolla, most of the beaches have been overrun by either sea lions or seals.
La Jolla's Mystery Smell
01:03:29
Todd
They're just everywhere.
01:03:30
Todd
And we're like, oh, my God, look at all those. And that's adorable. And then all of a sudden, it's just the smell just punches you right in the face. Like, like. It is terrible. And well, here's the thing.
01:03:40
Talkin2Todd
They're nasty.
01:03:42
Todd
And this is what we haven't figured out. So, and by the way, we're used to, we're used to walk around in London. And what I will tell you is London does not smell good. Okay. It just doesn't matter. of fact Most big cities don't, we have this, we have this thing. You're not in a big city until you get a massive waft of, of urine, by the way, speaking of which,
01:04:00
Todd
The entire time we were in San Diego, you're walking around downtown, the entire time, the entire time, nothing but just getting hit with wafts of urine. Like the whole town just smells like urine. Lisa looked it up and said, what is with the urine smell? Turns out you wouldn't believe how many articles explain about the urine smell in San Diego. The reason is because lots of people live downtown.
01:04:21
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
01:04:22
Todd
Lots of people have pets and dogs. We saw them a bunch and the pets go outside, but they get very little rain.
01:04:25
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
01:04:28
Todd
So even though they're relieving themselves outside, it turns to crystals and it doesn't get washed away. Also, there's also a very bad homeless population as well.
01:04:34
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
01:04:38
Todd
Take that for what you want. So
01:04:39
Talkin2Todd
Well, if you can, if you can be homeless anywhere in the United States, be homeless in San Diego.
01:04:43
Todd
San Diego is not bad.
01:04:46
Talkin2Todd
Absolutely.
01:04:46
Todd
Yeah. yeah
01:04:46
Talkin2Todd
If i yes.
01:04:47
Todd
So top tip.
01:04:50
Talkin2Todd
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
01:04:50
Todd
So. Yeah.
01:04:56
Todd
Yeah. So we spent four days walking around smelling nothing but urine. And then we went to La Jolla and then it got bad. And here's what we figured out, though, was I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's the sea lions.
01:05:09
Todd
But as we were doing that, there was also a massive amount of pelicans that were also there. And so now lisa and I are like, and this is so bad. You almost don't want to, you don't want breathe through your nose and you kind of don't want to breathe through your mouth because you can taste it.
01:05:26
Todd
And so we're doing this conversation. I think it's the sea lions. I think it's the pelicans. I don't know. Should we go back to the sea lions and take a big whiff? I don't want to do that.
01:05:33
Talkin2Todd
That doesn't sound like a good idea at all.
01:05:34
Todd
Like, like, like, here's the thing. I like to know lots and lots of things about things that I don't need to know about. Here's the thing. This smell is so bad. I absolutely do not need to know. All I know is there is something to La Jolla that smells so bad. I don't need to know the source. All I know is the source is in La Jolla.
01:05:54
Todd
Time to get in the car and let's go. i got to go shave my tongue.
01:06:08
Talkin2Todd
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01:06:21
Todd
Wait, no, no, no, no. that's the The AI is going to pick that up and that's going to be a problem for me.
01:06:33
Talkin2Todd
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Todd
Great. This is how you get canceled. This is what happened.
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01:07:02
Talkin2Todd
Todd?
01:07:03
Todd
Sorry to hear about your problems with air conditioning. de Do you know it would have solved your problem?
01:07:09
Talkin2Todd
I don't know.
01:07:10
Todd
If you would have put in a mini split, you'd at least have something working right now. Have you heard the good news about heat pumps?
01:07:15
Talkin2Todd
and the Have you heard the good news about mini splits? I have, as it turns out. we went to the base We just went to the basement. The basement's been fine. Basement's been super. In fact, last night we thought about breaking out the new sofa, the new the new pullout sofa down in the basement because the basement has been decent. But when we open the windows, it gets down to the mid-50s overnight. And so that's fine. But boy, during the day, it's been, it has been It's been mid 80s. It's been fine. It's not been brutal. There have been a whole lot worse weeks to not have air conditioning in the state of Iowa.
01:07:55
Talkin2Todd
but But we're glad we're cooling off now. Oh, sweet Lord. Another house update.
01:08:03
Todd
I'll send you a brochure.
01:08:05
Talkin2Todd
Oh, awesome. Thanks. We can clean that up next week. We'll be back. We're here. We're talking to Todd.
01:08:43
Todd
Hey, hey amy we could go we could just go sleep in the in your office. Oh, wait, is that a new TV? Wait, when did you turn the couch into a bed?
01:08:56
Talkin2Todd
It's magic. It's magic.