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Ep. 312 - Robert Slay, please, that's my father
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Ep. 312, Recorded 2/19/2026. Taxi! Just E-Do it. No ads, please. Door-Mo. Gold, but no gold. Money or Nazis: Olympics Edition. All-In Ticketing. Hole Milk. Newton goes batty. Todd crawls home.
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F1 Season Kickoff & Quiz Fun
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Levels, levels.
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Levels, levels.
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So we're about to start the F1 season.
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Yep.
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Practice.
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I mean, if you can call it that, looking at you, Alpine, has already started.
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Actually, Williams.
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It started for everybody but Williams.
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They're just backing up for a running start.
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You guys go ahead.
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You guys go ahead.
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Go on.
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We don't want to crowd the track, you know.
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So quick quiz for you here.
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Yeah, sure.
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Why not?
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Can you name an F1 champion from the UK?
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Oh, I mean, geez, you've got Lewis and Lando and Jensen and Nigel.
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I mean, there's there's even more.
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But OK.
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Yeah.
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Nice.
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Good work.
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Thank you.
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How about a champion from Germany?
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Well, I mean, you've got Schumacher and you've got Vettel.
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There's there's a couple.
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How about from the, does, has the United States ever had an F1 winner?
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How about a winner from the United States?
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Mario Andretti.
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Oh, okay.
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How about from Austria?
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Oh yeah.
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Nicky Lauda.
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Lauda.
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Sorry.
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Sorry.
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I missed that.
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Lauda.
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Lauda.
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Can you name an F1 champion from Austria?
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Yeah.
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Hi, toddlers!
Behind the Scenes of 'Talking to Todd'
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Welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prince for 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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Not too bad.
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That was so dumb.
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Behind the scenes, behind the scenes.
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That one that Dwayne wrote broke him.
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As soon as the theme music, he's like, yeah, that may have gone too far.
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I mean, I'm proud of it, but it may have gone too far.
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That was stupid.
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That was so dumb.
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But what it reminds me of is my favorite scene in Taxi.
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You remember the scene in Taxi where Jim has to go and take the written test for his license?
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No.
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And so they're in the room.
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They give him the test.
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He walks over to the little desk and then the gang is still gathered around the counter waiting for him while he's taking the test back behind him.
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And he gets to like the second question in a loud whisper.
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What does a yellow light mean?
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And one of the guys says, slow down.
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Jim, what does a yellow light mean?
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And this goes on for five minutes.
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Who said 70s comedies didn't have good pacing?
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Oh, my God.
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Just absolutely Christopher Lloyd, just killing it.
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Oh, sweet Lord.
Nike's Futuristic Footwear
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That was, yes, there you go.
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Feedback, follow up and updates.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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From Sarah Judson Brown.
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Yep.
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So the rumor, remember the week, the thing that you learned from,
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Was that you needed to train more before you go run a half marathon?
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I wish I could say I didn't remember that, but yes, I do remember that.
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Yes.
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And I believe the commentary ran something along the lines of, it's not like if I don't train, I can just go buy an e-bike.
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I believe you said that.
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Yeah.
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Because...
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Two years ago when we did RAGBRAI, I didn't train and I just went and bought an e-bike.
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Yes.
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And Sherry has given me no end of shit for it ever since.
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So knowing all of that, from Toddler Negative 18 this week, I got an email about a story from Nike, which is creating an e-bike for your feet.
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How bionic sneakers could change human mobility.
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Nike World Headquarters are going to launch the... Todd, have you heard of this?
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I saw a headline and I actually thought about it.
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I'm like, well, there goes that problem.
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The Project Amplify footwear system is aimed at a broad audience.
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Amplify is designed for that everyday athlete to give them the energy they need to go further, to go faster, with greater levels of confidence.
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It's like an e-bike for your feet.
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They it's a fairly standard looking sneakers with a carbon fiber plate running through the soles.
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And the sneakers are attached at the back to close fitting 3D printed titanium leg shells that cinch to the calves that propel you along so that you look like Robocop.
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Did Nike watch that entire movie or just the cool beginning of it?
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Just quick question.
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Did you make it to the end?
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battery powered complex motors, sensors, and circuitry.
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They, they weigh a couple of pounds and it learns how your ankles are moving, how long your steps are and takes the algorithms and customizes them for you.
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So when it turns on, it feels natural and smooth and you can toggle between walk and run mode, Todd.
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Hmm.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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When activated, the leg shells pick up the heels and propel the feet purposely forward.
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Yeah, I don't.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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I'm out.
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If I could get me some of these, I could go do a half.
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Okay.
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Okay, everybody, you just heard that.
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Dwayne is planning on getting some of these, and then we'll go knock out a half.
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According to Nike, oh, no, I'm not.
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According to Nike, Project Amplify is designed to have enough battery life, roughly, to enable the wearer to complete a 10K run.
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The batteries are rechargeable and can be switched out for a fresh set if the wearer wants to go for longer.
Podcast Ads & Dog Surveillance Humor
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So again, I'm going to need to have the batteries at about halfway.
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Yep.
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Everybody else is, everybody else is drinking some water, some Gatorade, getting some goo, maybe grabbing a banana and you're over there swapping out batteries.
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Doing this.
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That was a tough one.
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Wow.
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That going uphill.
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Am I right, people?
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I am number one.
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How did you know?
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Oh, not that.
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Oh, not that.
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That's wrong finger.
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Sweet Lord.
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Anyway.
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Yeah.
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Electric bike for your feet.
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That's that's which is I mean, I'm going to be honest, that sounds ridiculous, but that's much better than electric feet for your bike.
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I don't you know, I just I don't even know what that is.
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And I don't want it.
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I just don't.
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Ew.
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Ew.
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And toddler thirty one eighty seven.
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Sherry.
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Hi.
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Related story, I guess.
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She wanted us to know that she paid for the version of Talking to Todd with no ads.
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And there was an ad last week.
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It wasn't a good ad.
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I could argue that it wasn't an ad right until the point where you dropped the promo code.
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And then I'm like, you know, that's... On the other hand, Sherry, don't worry.
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That wasn't an ad.
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I can guarantee you it wasn't an ad.
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Because generally, ads mean you get paid.
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And we didn't get paid.
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So that was like a volunteer ad.
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Again, it doesn't help you, but if it makes you feel any better, it doesn't help us either.
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So we're all in this together.
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The only person it might help tangentially is Lucas if you bought the one piece of software to then be able to buy the second piece of software from Lucas for the game.
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There you go.
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But again, you're right.
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Yeah, it's not helping us.
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Once again...
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Our side hustle isn't a side hustle.
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We need to be hustling more.
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We also got more follow-up from Toddler1059 because Wrigley was on a walk.
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Did you see this email?
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Oh, I did.
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Yes.
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From Yvonne.
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Oh, my God.
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It's as if you were right there with us translating every thought going through Wrigley's head.
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Were you actually watching us through the ring doorbell camera?
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I'm still laughing.
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Unfortunately, one of the talents I have is channeling what dogs are thinking and verbalizing it.
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It's not useful.
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And by the way, most of the time for ours, you know what it is?
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Snack.
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Snack.
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Snack.
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Snack, snack.
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But yes, I took a guess at it.
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And no, we weren't using the Ring Doorbell camera because your dog wasn't lost.
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So therefore, I didn't need to use the creepy AI stuff that is only for use of surveilling dogs and nothing else.
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Nothing else at all.
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It's fine.
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Please go about your business.
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Nothing to see here.
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Yeah.
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So Todd Prince dog whisperer strikes again.
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That was snack.
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And from toddler number six, David Batchelder, when I played golf with him on Tuesday for his birthday, we played golf in Iowa last week on David's birthday, which he has never done before.
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It was 67 here.
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Yeah.
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So from David, I could still tell what the schools were even with your bleeps.
00:11:07
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Was that intentional?
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Sure.
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Those bleeps were brought to you by plausible deniability, plausible deniability that says, look, I made an effort.
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You can't blame me, even if it wasn't a great effort.
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Plausible deniability.
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Sorry, Sherry, that sounds like another ad.
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Damn it.
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Use promo code hashtag itain'tme for 10% off of plausible deniability wherever you get.
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If you've seen any of our show art for the last six years, you know what I'm talking about.
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Good enough.
Olympic Mishaps & Medalist Payments
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Is he writing the card or did we just hit him?
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I don't know, but it's done.
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That was, if you didn't know, last week's show art was Sean White on a snowboard.
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And after the performance he gave at the opening ceremonies, I'm guessing Todd would have liked the car to hit him.
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No, you know what?
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No, no, I'm not that bad.
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Mostly because then I would have had to listen to him.
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Hey, you hit me with the car.
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I don't want to hear you.
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Just, yeah.
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I got hit by a car in Austria once.
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Did I tell you about that story?
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Sweet Lord.
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Speaking of Olympics, did you see Olympic crotch story number three?
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To be completely honest, I'm starting to lose track.
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So crotch story number one was the suits and crotch story number two was injections.
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Yep.
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Crotch story number three was the guy on the downhill course.
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who split the gate one foot on one side of the pole and the other foot on the other side of the pole.
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You're not supposed to do that.
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You are not supposed to do that.
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And the commentary live was absolutely hilarious.
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And if you haven't seen it, you should go find that.
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But you can only find it on official Olympic channels because anytime you post anything like that on any other piece of social media, they file a copyright claim and it's almost down immediately.
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But definitely go find it if you can find it.
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The inherent problem of finding that is, once again, we'll just point out, if you go to Peacock or you even go to official, if you typed in official Olympics,
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crotch incident, even then that's not going to narrow it down for you.
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You're just going to, you're going to have to scroll, scroll, scroll.
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Yeah.
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You remember how you quizzed me on one of the Dwayne guests.
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Was it Dwayne guests a number?
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Anyway, you quizzed me on where bowl games were and what their titles were and who owned them and that kind of stuff.
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Yes.
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And the reason why you're confused is it was during Dwayne guests a number in which Dwayne guests no numbers, but guests 15 other things.
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That's why you're confused.
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Yeah, I'm like, was this, because I wasn't guessing numbers.
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Okay, right.
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Yes, thank you.
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So there are three bowl games that have already been canceled for next year.
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Okay.
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The Detroit-based Game Above Sports Bowl, the Bahamas Bowl, and the LA Bowl.
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Three bowls canceled for next winter already, which is, in my estimation, that's a good thing.
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We could stand to cancel about 12 more.
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Well, at the rate we're going, there'll be the playoffs and that's it.
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You know what?
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That's just fine.
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Did you have some follow-up?
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Yeah.
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Hey, do you remember?
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Remember, I think I was also a Dwayne Guessen number.
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I was asking you, remember I was talking about the tow truck drivers that were getting paid to shut Waymo doors?
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Oh, I saw this story.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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So apparently Waymo has said, why are we using tow truck drivers when there are other apps that can do this, including DoorDash, which ironically, right?
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So normally DoorDash is dash to the door.
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In this case, it's literally like, hey, this door is open.
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Can you dash to it?
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There was a Reddit post showed that a DoorDash driver in Atlanta was offered $11.25 to close the door of a nearby Waymo.
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$6 guaranteed.
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And then the other $5 and change after they had confirmed that the door was actually closed.
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You don't even have to actually close it to lock in six bucks.
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My thought, though, is if this works, if that works anyway, like most of our DoorDash and delivery systems work, mostly they say, I did it and take a picture.
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And then Waymo goes, that's not my door.
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And then they have to post on a social media.
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Whose door is this?
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Does anybody know where my door closer is?
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Yeah.
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Anyway, according to Waymo, Waymo and DoorDash said in a joint statement that they are always looking for new and flexible ways for DoorDash delivers to earn money, adding that future Waymo vehicles will have automated door closures.
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Waymo didn't say when that capability will arrive.
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For the first six months, it's just going to be a dude sitting in the car, not driving, not talking to you.
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After you get out, he just closes the door.
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What's that?
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That's our safety door driver.
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What?
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Yeah.
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Is he driving the car?
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No, no, no, no.
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He just closes the door.
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Sweet.
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And then eventually it's going to be the guy that's in the trunk.
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Hey, hey, there's a guy in my trunk.
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Don't worry.
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He's just there to close the door.
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What?
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For your safety.
Tech Speculation & Apple's March Event
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Also for follow up in the, I'm not sure if this already existed or me going off on Sean White and the opening ceremonies led to some device in our house hearing this and then some AI generated a video because we didn't watch it.
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But we were going through YouTube last night.
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I don't want to see that.
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I don't want to see that.
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And we came up with a video.
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Why snowboarding hates Sean White.
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And I'm like, I'm not going to watch it, but I got to admit.
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I'm curious.
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I also have thoughts.
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I want to see if your thoughts, if the reason why you hate him are the same reason I hate him.
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Again, didn't watch it.
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Don't feed the trolls.
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Do we have anything this week in the Taylor Center for Technology Policies Todd's Tech Corner?
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There's Apple announced an experience, not an event.
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I don't know.
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Maybe it's roller coasters.
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I'm for May.
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Sorry, March 4th.
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So it's entirely possible that the week of March 4th, a whole bunch of stuff that should have been announced in the last six months might get all announced over many days.
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We'll see what they announce.
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It's fine.
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More stuff's coming.
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New Mac books are coming.
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New MacBooks potentially, they're finally, they're going to introduce an actual brand new MacBook.
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So not the Pro, not the Air.
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There are rumors that they are going to be introducing a lower end, potentially just called MacBook, with a phone chip in it.
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So it's below the Air in price.
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And in fun colors, potentially.
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Well, for Apple.
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Anyway, so... So gold and silver.
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Gray, dark gray, slightly, slightly lighter gray, slightly lighter, darker gray.
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What?
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Just go with it.
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I want them to come back out with the white plastic MacBook.
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Come on, man.
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Never going to happen.
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Never going to happen.
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Never going to happen.
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I still have mine.
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Yeah.
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Still have it sitting in the corner, holding the door open.
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And what percentage of white is it at this point?
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Like on the palm rests?
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Because that was one of the problems.
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Hey, I got this white plastic iBook MacBook.
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Like, it's great.
00:19:32
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What could possibly go wrong?
00:19:34
Speaker
That is disgusting.
00:19:35
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Yeah.
00:19:39
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Also, the first couple of years of those, the plastic they used at the wrist rest eventually shattered into sharp, jagged pieces right where you put your.
00:19:50
Speaker
So it was dirty and dangerous, which.
00:19:54
Speaker
That's that's not what Apple's going for.
00:19:57
Speaker
Apple, we're dirty and dangerous.
00:19:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:02
Speaker
That's L.A., not MacBooks.
00:20:06
Speaker
But okay.
00:20:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:07
Speaker
So anyway, something come.
00:20:09
Speaker
How about for technical corner?
Olympic Trivia & Controversial Sales
00:20:12
Speaker
I will have something for what I learned this week.
00:20:15
Speaker
So I have been reffing for well over 20 years now, and I had something happen last night that has never happened before.
00:20:24
Speaker
So teaser.
00:20:27
Speaker
I'm looking forward to hearing which call you got right.
00:20:32
Speaker
Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:20:35
Speaker
Oh, come on.
00:20:35
Speaker
Come on.
00:20:36
Speaker
Seriously, you didn't see that coming?
00:20:38
Speaker
I did not see that.
00:20:39
Speaker
I should have.
00:20:40
Speaker
I totally should have seen that coming.
00:20:43
Speaker
There are coaches all over Central Iowa just laughing at that one.
00:20:47
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Just laughing.
00:20:49
Speaker
All right.
00:20:50
Speaker
All right.
00:20:50
Speaker
Well, something to look forward to.
00:20:51
Speaker
But before we get to that, what's up next?
00:20:54
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Oh.
00:20:55
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And I'm here, Yas Queen, to remind Todd of the mess Todd made when he answered wrong.
00:21:01
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Todd, Todd, Todd ought to know.
00:21:05
Speaker
That's right.
00:21:06
Speaker
That sound means it's time for one of America's favorite games.
00:21:08
Speaker
It's time for Todd out to know.
00:21:11
Speaker
Todd, we've been talking about the Olympics a lot lately.
00:21:14
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We have.
00:21:15
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We have.
00:21:15
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And I am going to ask this week.
00:21:17
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I'm going to ask you to guess a number.
00:21:19
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Actually, I'm going to ask you to guess several numbers.
00:21:22
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Sure.
00:21:22
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Guess what?
00:21:22
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Good news.
00:21:23
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You can say guess a number and then just ask me as many as you want.
00:21:25
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That's how I do it.
00:21:28
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as has been pointed out multiple times.
00:21:31
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So not only do athletes who win gold medals at the games, get the gold medal.
00:21:40
Speaker
Sometimes they actually get paid cash.
00:21:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:45
Speaker
Sure.
00:21:46
Speaker
If you are an American athlete and you win a gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
00:21:53
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Okay.
00:21:56
Speaker
How much money are you paid cash, Todd?
00:22:00
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Hmm.
00:22:01
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Okay.
00:22:01
Speaker
All right.
00:22:02
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That's a good one.
00:22:04
Speaker
Before or after taxes?
00:22:07
Speaker
I don't know that.
00:22:08
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I'm guessing this is before.
00:22:09
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I'm guessing this is before.
00:22:11
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Yeah.
00:22:11
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Okay.
00:22:12
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I'd like to think that it's tax-free, but I can guarantee you it's not.
00:22:16
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No, no, no, no.
00:22:17
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You have to be a billionaire to get tax-free money.
00:22:19
Speaker
Sorry, what?
00:22:20
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:22
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Let's see. $200,000.
00:22:27
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Wow.
00:22:29
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If you were guessing, okay, I'll get to that later.
00:22:33
Speaker
You're high.
00:22:35
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:36
Speaker
All right.
00:22:39
Speaker
Let me ask you this real quick.
00:22:40
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Yeah.
00:22:41
Speaker
When you say they're getting money, do you know who is paying them?
00:22:45
Speaker
I'm just curious there are stories about other people giving Olympians money.
00:22:49
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And so I'm just trying, is this from like the U S Olympic committee kicks in some money?
00:22:53
Speaker
Is that what this is?
00:22:54
Speaker
Yes.
00:22:55
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This is according to USA today's official inquiry of who gets paid.
00:23:01
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Okay.
00:23:01
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I'll say 75,000.
00:23:01
Speaker
Uh, no, you're, you still can't get a bell.
00:23:08
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That answer for gold is $37,500.
00:23:14
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Sure, why not?
00:23:15
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Yep, that's worth four years.
00:23:19
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For silver, it's $22,500 and $15,000 for bronze.
00:23:27
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Oh, I thought for bronze it was... Oh, sorry, I thought silver would be steak knives.
00:23:36
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And bronze, you're fired.
00:23:37
Speaker
That's a good reference.
00:23:42
Speaker
Thank you.
00:23:43
Speaker
Okay, so among the 25 countries who responded to the inquiry, where does the United States rank, Todd?
00:23:56
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Okay, so I'm just going to give you my thinking.
00:23:58
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Sure.
00:24:00
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Show your work.
00:24:01
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Yep.
00:24:03
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And I hate to say this.
00:24:05
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Sorry.
00:24:06
Speaker
In most cases...
00:24:08
Speaker
unless it's a really bad or stupid thing, when the question is, where does the U.S. rank in the world?
00:24:15
Speaker
You're better off guessing somewhere around 25th to 30th is usually where we end up on a lot of lists of good things.
00:24:28
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So I'm going to say 27th.
00:24:32
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Out of 25 countries who responded.
00:24:35
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Oh, 25 countries that responded.
00:24:37
Speaker
Oh, you know what?
00:24:38
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I'll say 25th.
00:24:39
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We're 15th.
00:24:41
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Oh, yeah.
00:24:41
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Should have.
00:24:42
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Yeah.
00:24:42
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OK.
00:24:44
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So.
00:24:47
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The highest respondent.
00:24:49
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Todd, do you want to guess which country is the highest respondent?
00:24:55
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I was going to say Switzerland because they're up in the Alps, but I think you're talking about a different highest.
00:24:59
Speaker
OK, sorry.
00:25:01
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Norway, because it's further north.
00:25:03
Speaker
It's further north.
00:25:04
Speaker
It's higher.
00:25:05
Speaker
Higher on the map.
00:25:08
Speaker
Anyway, yeah.
00:25:10
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I know that Ukraine gives 200,000, which is shocking given the fact that they're in the middle of a war.
00:25:20
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Number one, I'm going to say France.
00:25:26
Speaker
The answer there is Singapore.
00:25:29
Speaker
which is competing in just its third winter games.
00:25:34
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Todd, you want to guess how much Singapore will award for a gold medal, which is the most of any country?
00:25:40
Speaker
Billion dollars.
00:25:41
Speaker
$788,907 when converted to U.S. I was going to say that's an oddly specific number.
00:25:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:46
Speaker
Do you know what's unique about that?
00:25:49
Speaker
Um, no.
00:25:59
Speaker
Not only has Singapore not awarded a gold medal, they've never been awarded any medal at all.
00:26:08
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It's a promise that they don't have to worry about fulfilling.
00:26:11
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Okay.
00:26:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:16
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We're going to pay $2 million.
00:26:18
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:21
Speaker
You know what?
00:26:21
Speaker
If somebody manages to do it, then we'll figure that part out.
00:26:25
Speaker
Fantastic.
00:26:25
Speaker
Fantastic.
00:26:29
Speaker
Hey, by the way, real quick, what did you say it was in US dollars?
00:26:33
Speaker
$788,907.
00:26:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:34
Speaker
All right.
00:26:35
Speaker
I'm going to throw this out.
00:26:39
Speaker
I just did the conversion.
00:26:41
Speaker
Do you know what that equals in Singapore dollars?
00:26:43
Speaker
A million dollars?
00:26:44
Speaker
A million dollars.
00:26:46
Speaker
See, there it is.
00:26:47
Speaker
There we go.
00:26:48
Speaker
I nailed it.
00:26:48
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:49
Speaker
You know what?
00:26:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:51
Speaker
Fine.
00:26:51
Speaker
I'll...
00:26:53
Speaker
Does that make you feel better?
00:26:54
Speaker
It does.
00:26:55
Speaker
It shouldn't, but it does.
00:26:57
Speaker
I watch everybody else winning gold medals.
00:26:58
Speaker
I want a gold medal.
00:27:00
Speaker
Nope.
00:27:00
Speaker
I'm not going to do that.
00:27:01
Speaker
Nope.
00:27:01
Speaker
Nope.
00:27:02
Speaker
That sounds too much like something else.
00:27:03
Speaker
Anyway.
00:27:04
Speaker
Sorry.
00:27:04
Speaker
Please continue.
00:27:05
Speaker
What?
00:27:05
Speaker
No.
00:27:06
Speaker
Todd, would you like a peace prize?
00:27:10
Speaker
Second place, Hong Kong, $667,747.
00:27:12
Speaker
Again, I'm guessing it's a million.
00:27:19
Speaker
Sounds about right.
00:27:20
Speaker
Sounds about right.
00:27:21
Speaker
Third place, Italy, $213,418.
00:27:22
Speaker
And Poland, $211,268.
00:27:23
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And Slovenia, $162,672.
00:27:24
Speaker
Which makes me think Ukraine didn't respond to the survey.
00:27:25
Speaker
That's entirely possible.
00:27:27
Speaker
They may have had other things to worry about.
00:27:28
Speaker
Well...
00:27:45
Speaker
It was a USA Today survey.
00:27:47
Speaker
They're not exactly returning our phone calls right now.
00:27:50
Speaker
Yes.
00:27:52
Speaker
Just putting that out there.
00:27:53
Speaker
Anyway.
00:27:57
Speaker
By the way, just because I was trying to figure out.
00:28:00
Speaker
So after we got done with all of those, I found the CNBC article, which has the exact same information on it.
00:28:06
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:06
Speaker
Dwayne, did you have who is last on that chart?
00:28:09
Speaker
I have three.
00:28:11
Speaker
I have three countries that don't pay their athletes anything.
00:28:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:17
Speaker
All right.
00:28:18
Speaker
Is that on your list?
00:28:20
Speaker
No, these are all the respondents.
00:28:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:22
Speaker
So do you know who the three countries are?
00:28:24
Speaker
That was my last question for you.
00:28:26
Speaker
Do you know who the three countries are that don't pay their athletes anything?
00:28:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:32
Speaker
North Korea.
00:28:34
Speaker
Possibly, but not on my list.
00:28:36
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:36
Speaker
All right.
00:28:37
Speaker
Fair enough.
00:28:40
Speaker
I'm now realizing any joke I make about a country not paying their athletes is probably, not probably, is racially intolerable.
00:28:50
Speaker
And I shouldn't like, I'm like, oh, that would be fun.
00:28:53
Speaker
That's not funny, Todd.
00:28:55
Speaker
No, let's see.
00:28:56
Speaker
I will say Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.
00:29:06
Speaker
So I'm, I'm getting, you know what?
00:29:10
Speaker
I'm going to give you a bell for Norway, but I think that that's because they win too many medals to be able to bankrupt the company, bankrupt the country and they have oil money.
00:29:21
Speaker
They have oil money and they can't afford to pay out for all of that stuff.
00:29:26
Speaker
So the answer, according to USA today is Norway, Sweden and great Britain.
00:29:33
Speaker
Hmm.
00:29:34
Speaker
You know what?
00:29:35
Speaker
Old white guy, make jokes about them all.
00:29:38
Speaker
You can make jokes about them all day.
00:29:41
Speaker
They don't get money, but they just give them some stuff they stole from Egypt about 100 years ago.
00:29:46
Speaker
Here, you can have, somebody said you could have this.
00:29:49
Speaker
Like that?
00:29:50
Speaker
That's what I was looking for.
00:29:52
Speaker
There we go.
00:29:53
Speaker
Oh, don't worry.
00:29:53
Speaker
We found it.
00:29:57
Speaker
You what?
00:29:58
Speaker
Not sure you broke into the pyramid and stole it.
00:30:01
Speaker
But other than that, yeah, sure.
00:30:02
Speaker
You found it.
00:30:03
Speaker
Sure.
00:30:04
Speaker
By the way, the country that responded, this is according to the National Olympic Committee Sports Association.
00:30:11
Speaker
Anyway, the country that is on here, maybe this is more than 15.
00:30:15
Speaker
The one that they said, New Zealand.
00:30:18
Speaker
New Zealand pays an equivalent of U.S. $3,000.
00:30:23
Speaker
Now, my thought is, if you know that Singapore is on this list for gold at 792,000 and Hong Kong at 768,000, Malaysia is up there, Kazakhstan is up there, and then you're like at 3,000, before you answer 3,000, here's what you say.
00:30:40
Speaker
You go, wait, what do other countries pay?
00:30:42
Speaker
And you're like, really?
00:30:43
Speaker
Would you like to answer our survey?
00:30:45
Speaker
No.
00:30:47
Speaker
No, I would not.
00:30:49
Speaker
Although New Zealand, here's the reason why, like this time at least,
00:30:53
Speaker
New Zealand, they only have $3,000 left because they got to fly them all the way around the world.
00:31:00
Speaker
Like, look, we spent the rest of it on airfare, especially for you bobsledders.
00:31:04
Speaker
Do you know how much it costs to ship a bobsled?
00:31:09
Speaker
Sorry, a bobsleigh?
00:31:10
Speaker
There we go, I think.
00:31:13
Speaker
It's formal.
00:31:14
Speaker
That's a Robert's sleigh.
00:31:21
Speaker
Robert's sleigh, please.
00:31:22
Speaker
That's my father.
00:31:27
Speaker
Okay, what's next?
00:31:31
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:31:32
Speaker
Duane, do you want to introduce the next one?
00:31:38
Speaker
Well, you wrote... Duane, this is a return of America's actual favorite game.
00:31:46
Speaker
This is a return of America's... I suppose I need to set this up a little bit.
00:31:51
Speaker
The famous quote by Don Olmeyer, the answer to all your questions is money.
00:31:57
Speaker
And the Todd corollary, Todd.
00:32:01
Speaker
The answer to all your questions is money, but sometimes it's Nazis.
00:32:06
Speaker
And unfortunately, it's Nazis more often than you think it should be.
00:32:12
Speaker
So anyway, so I don't have the...
00:32:18
Speaker
I don't have Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber, all us loaded into the soundboard, but just let it play.
00:32:24
Speaker
Thank you.
00:32:24
Speaker
Appreciate that.
00:32:25
Speaker
But it is time for the toddler's favorite game, which is money or Nazis.
00:32:30
Speaker
Todd, what do you got?
00:32:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:32
Speaker
This is money or Nazis Olympic edition.
00:32:35
Speaker
Of course it is.
00:32:36
Speaker
So. 1934.
00:32:40
Speaker
No, but you're close.
00:32:42
Speaker
So, Dwayne, a piece of Olympic merch, official Olympic merch, was available from the official Olympic Heritage Collection.
00:32:57
Speaker
For this Winter Olympics, they released the Olympic Heritage Collection, and a piece of memorabilia was sold out.
00:33:06
Speaker
Dwayne,
00:33:08
Speaker
What piece of memorabilia was sold out of the Olympic Heritage Collection?
00:33:15
Speaker
Todd, I believe this was a poster from the 1934 Munich Olympics, which featured Adolf Hitler.
00:33:22
Speaker
Close.
00:33:23
Speaker
It was the 1936 Berlin.
00:33:25
Speaker
So, yeah.
00:33:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:28
Speaker
But yes, it is.
00:33:30
Speaker
It is artwork from the 1936 Berlin games, which were used by, as this points out, by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to promote their anti-Semitic and racist regime.
00:33:42
Speaker
The T-shirts sold out.
00:33:45
Speaker
It was a T-shirt, not a poster, and it sold out.
00:33:48
Speaker
It was a T-shirt of the poster.
00:33:50
Speaker
So they screen printed the poster from the Olympics on a T-shirt and then put it out for sale.
00:33:57
Speaker
When people noticed that it was no, people then were like, I don't know that that's a great idea.
00:34:02
Speaker
And then they looked and that was listed online as out of stock.
00:34:07
Speaker
So the athletic reached out to the IOC and said, quick question, did you sell out of all the T-shirts or did you withdraw it for sale after everybody said, I don't know that you should be selling the Nazi Olympics T-shirt?
00:34:25
Speaker
According to IOC spokesperson, it sold out.
00:34:31
Speaker
which also meant they sold out.
00:34:33
Speaker
But anyway, it sold out.
00:34:35
Speaker
According to them, quote, while we of course acknowledge the historical issues of, quote, Nazi propaganda, unquote,
00:34:43
Speaker
What?
00:34:44
Speaker
Related to the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games, we must also remember that the Games in Berlin saw 4,483 athletes from 49 countries compete in 149 medal events, they explained.
00:34:57
Speaker
Many of them stunned the world with their athletic achievements, including Jesse Owens.
00:35:01
Speaker
The historic context of these Games is further explained at the Olympic Museum in Luzon.
00:35:07
Speaker
For the 1936 edition, a number of T-shirts produced and sold by AOC is limited, for which is why it's currently sold out, because it's a limited collector's edition.
00:35:16
Speaker
Yes, it's Jesse Owens fans that bought all those shirts.
00:35:21
Speaker
Let me see if he appears on the poster.
00:35:25
Speaker
Nope.
00:35:25
Speaker
Nope.
00:35:26
Speaker
Nope.
00:35:27
Speaker
So, anyway, so, Dwayne, I'm going to ask you now, with all of that context, money or Nazis?
00:35:37
Speaker
I, okay, so I think the reason they offered it for sale was money, but the reason it sold out was Nazis.
00:35:52
Speaker
Give yourself a bell.
00:35:53
Speaker
That is the exact answer that I came up with.
00:35:56
Speaker
Yes.
00:36:01
Speaker
Because one of the things we've learned is if it's from a large international or national sports organization, the reason they do anything is for money.
00:36:13
Speaker
But they just offered it for sale.
00:36:16
Speaker
Doesn't mean anybody had to buy it.
00:36:18
Speaker
Nope.
00:36:20
Speaker
But somebody obviously did.
00:36:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:24
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:36:27
Speaker
Anyway, the return of our favorite game never disappoints.
00:36:31
Speaker
I don't remember why it's our favorite game now that I say that.
00:36:34
Speaker
But anyway, yes, there we go.
00:36:36
Speaker
You know, for a while we were cooking.
00:36:38
Speaker
There was a lot to cover and then there wasn't.
00:36:40
Speaker
And yet now somehow there's more.
00:36:43
Speaker
I don't know.
00:36:44
Speaker
I can guarantee you this is not making the cover art this week.
00:36:49
Speaker
Excellent.
00:36:50
Speaker
And also, by the way, just as a protest, please also don't put Jesse Owens on the cover because again, did you guys just run over Jesse Owens?
00:36:58
Speaker
No, that's not go viral for that.
00:37:06
Speaker
And swear to God, do not put us in those t-shirts.
Political Blunders & Unusual Sports Events
00:37:10
Speaker
This week's podcast seems to be skewing political.
00:37:14
Speaker
And yet here we go to the Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week.
00:37:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:20
Speaker
I was going to say, oh, what did you, oh, I see why you set it up that way.
00:37:24
Speaker
Dwayne, what did you bring?
00:37:26
Speaker
So last week, our esteemed president.
00:37:31
Speaker
Our dear leader.
00:37:33
Speaker
Thank you.
00:37:34
Speaker
Yes.
00:37:35
Speaker
Was, I believe, in the Oval Office signing a proclamation.
00:37:41
Speaker
I call it a proclamation.
00:37:42
Speaker
He may have called it an executive order, but it doesn't have the, it's just.
00:37:47
Speaker
It's a word I just made up.
00:37:48
Speaker
I don't know why we never use it.
00:37:49
Speaker
It's called a proclamation.
00:37:55
Speaker
Sorry.
00:37:55
Speaker
This is why we don't, this is why we don't even dip into this because we lose containment.
00:38:00
Speaker
Please continue.
00:38:02
Speaker
But the announcement, the announcement was about, I can't even get it out.
00:38:09
Speaker
The announcement was about whole, was about whole milk.
00:38:16
Speaker
And the president made sure that he distinguished that it was whole with a W. Well, because many people didn't know that that's whole with a W. That's right.
00:38:31
Speaker
Yeah, W-H-O-L-E.
00:38:37
Speaker
Because whole milk.
00:38:42
Speaker
I don't even want to know what that is.
00:38:45
Speaker
The scary thing is he was willing to sign the proclamation without the W. And apparently at some point looking it over, he's like, oh, that's with a W. Well, that's interesting.
00:38:55
Speaker
Didn't bother him before.
00:39:00
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:39:00
Speaker
I don't know where whole milk comes from.
00:39:03
Speaker
I don't want to know.
00:39:06
Speaker
But but thank God we can get it now.
00:39:09
Speaker
Please, for the love of God, whole milk with a W. My idiot of the week.
00:39:18
Speaker
Todd?
00:39:20
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to call this a palate cleanser from that.
00:39:23
Speaker
Thank God.
00:39:23
Speaker
Hey, I'm going to send you, I'm going to do something that everybody loves.
00:39:28
Speaker
I'm going to send you an image.
00:39:30
Speaker
Oh.
00:39:31
Speaker
And so, sorry, right before I send it, we're watching the Olympics, watching curling, as you do, right?
00:39:42
Speaker
And turns out,
00:39:46
Speaker
that within a month or so, the world championships of curling are going to be in the Salt Lake City area.
00:39:53
Speaker
Now, what I find is very odd is I thought the Olympics were the world championships.
00:40:00
Speaker
And I know some sports have their world championships before the Olympics.
00:40:04
Speaker
It's sort of like you went to the Olympics.
00:40:07
Speaker
Cool.
00:40:08
Speaker
A month later, now you have to go to the world championships.
00:40:11
Speaker
I don't.
00:40:12
Speaker
Anyway, whatever.
00:40:13
Speaker
So they're going to be within the Salt Lake City general area.
00:40:17
Speaker
And I'm like, you know what?
00:40:19
Speaker
If it's going to be that close.
00:40:21
Speaker
It's at the same location that the 2002 Olympics used for curling.
00:40:26
Speaker
And Lisa and I went there.
00:40:28
Speaker
So we've been to the facility.
00:40:29
Speaker
We've watched world-class curling there.
00:40:32
Speaker
I thought we should go there.
00:40:33
Speaker
So I'm wondering what the tickets were going to cost us.
00:40:35
Speaker
So, Dwayne, here is the information on the ticketing site that is incredibly helpful and very clear.
00:40:46
Speaker
Just go ahead and take a look at that.
00:40:48
Speaker
Okay.
00:40:49
Speaker
So from eTix.
00:40:51
Speaker
Yep.
00:40:52
Speaker
At the Weber County Ice Sheet.
00:40:55
Speaker
It's Weber, but you know, you shouldn't know that because stuff's weird.
00:41:00
Speaker
This venue uses all in pricing.
00:41:03
Speaker
Period.
00:41:04
Speaker
Stop right there.
00:41:05
Speaker
So Dwayne, what do you think that that means?
00:41:07
Speaker
All in pricing.
00:41:09
Speaker
It should be one total.
00:41:11
Speaker
And, you know, OK, so maybe they put tax on after that, but there shouldn't be any extra fees.
00:41:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:18
Speaker
OK, now please continue.
00:41:20
Speaker
Please go with with the second sentence.
00:41:23
Speaker
The total price listed includes ticket fees.
00:41:27
Speaker
Awesome.
00:41:28
Speaker
Hey, look right there.
00:41:28
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:41:29
Speaker
Now, if they just stop right there, that's awesome.
00:41:33
Speaker
How about sentence number three?
00:41:35
Speaker
Taxes are calculated upon checkout.
00:41:37
Speaker
Which is what you'd expect.
00:41:39
Speaker
Yes, exactly.
00:41:39
Speaker
So you got all the fees, all the pricing, all the everything, plus your taxes.
00:41:44
Speaker
Perfect.
00:41:45
Speaker
No notes.
00:41:46
Speaker
We can stop here.
00:41:47
Speaker
Wait, there's sentence number four.
00:41:49
Speaker
Dwayne.
00:41:50
Speaker
A processing fee may apply and will be shown at checkout.
00:41:54
Speaker
Wait, what happened to all in?
00:42:01
Speaker
This venue practices all in pricing.
00:42:04
Speaker
Sure it does.
00:42:05
Speaker
All ticket fees are all, sorry, total price includes all ticket fees.
00:42:10
Speaker
Thank goodness.
00:42:11
Speaker
But a processing fee isn't included in ticket.
00:42:15
Speaker
Look, you don't have to claim that it's all in pricing.
00:42:20
Speaker
Nobody made you write that.
00:42:22
Speaker
Nope.
00:42:23
Speaker
You didn't have to say anything.
00:42:24
Speaker
You could have even take that sentence out.
00:42:27
Speaker
And if it says the total price list includes ticket fees, taxes will be collected, and a processing fee, you'd look at that and go, thank you for telling me.
00:42:34
Speaker
Yeah, I appreciate the information.
00:42:36
Speaker
That's fantastic.
00:42:37
Speaker
That's what I would expect.
00:42:39
Speaker
But once you open it with all in pricing...
00:42:43
Speaker
Just open your wallet and put all of the money in.
00:42:47
Speaker
That's what that means.
00:42:49
Speaker
Just all in.
00:42:53
Speaker
So thank you to the Weber County Ice Sheet, home of the 2026 World Championship curling for curling.
00:43:02
Speaker
And they're all in, in quotes, pricing.
00:43:09
Speaker
Do you know what's happening in April of 2026?
00:43:14
Speaker
Uh, no.
00:43:17
Speaker
Rock League.
00:43:19
Speaker
Have you heard of Rock League?
00:43:21
Speaker
Do you know what Rock League is?
00:43:23
Speaker
Hashtag, hashtag, let's rock.
00:43:27
Speaker
Oh, would that be a curling league?
00:43:29
Speaker
An upcoming professional curling league operated by the curling group who also own the Grand Slam of curling.
00:43:39
Speaker
Six teams with elite global athletes.
00:43:42
Speaker
These are curlers.
00:43:44
Speaker
Excuse me.
00:43:44
Speaker
Sorry.
00:43:45
Speaker
Side note there.
00:43:46
Speaker
Elite global athletes, 10-person rosters, five men, five women, and a high-energy atmosphere designed to modernize the sport.
00:43:57
Speaker
A seven-day, six-team condensed event in Toronto in April of 2026, followed by a full season in 2027.
00:44:06
Speaker
Never going to happen.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yes, you do it now.
00:44:13
Speaker
You do the grand slam.
00:44:14
Speaker
You do the Olympics.
00:44:15
Speaker
You do the championship right after the Olympics.
00:44:18
Speaker
You do this thing in April when you're still kind of sort of maybe thinking about curling.
00:44:23
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's kind of cool.
00:44:24
Speaker
And then we're done.
00:44:25
Speaker
We're done with this for four years.
00:44:28
Speaker
Rock league.
00:44:29
Speaker
It's a thing.
00:44:29
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:31
Speaker
Two things.
00:44:33
Speaker
One, I'd pay money to see banana ball on ice.
00:44:41
Speaker
Now, is that curling?
00:44:43
Speaker
Not necessarily, but on the other hand, could it be curling and banana ball?
00:44:46
Speaker
Sure.
00:44:47
Speaker
Why not?
00:44:48
Speaker
Let's do this, right?
00:44:51
Speaker
If it's entertaining, I'll pay for it.
00:44:53
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:54
Speaker
Second, while you mock all of this, we were watching one of the Olympics.
00:45:00
Speaker
It was one of the downhill, one of the Alpine ones or whatever.
00:45:03
Speaker
And they were talking about Michaela Sheffrin has won 108 medals on the World Cup circuit and a Grand Prix.
00:45:13
Speaker
They were talking about how somebody had won something in the Grand Prix.
00:45:16
Speaker
And Lisa just made a comment about...
00:45:19
Speaker
what are these things?
00:45:20
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, you know, in Europe, like people go to these events.
00:45:24
Speaker
And she's like, wait, what?
00:45:26
Speaker
And I'm like, no, no, no, no.
00:45:27
Speaker
They pay to go to these events.
00:45:30
Speaker
Also, you know, track and field, you can be a professional track and field athlete and they have top tier events throughout Europe and Asia where tens of thousands of people show up to watch events and people win real money.
00:45:48
Speaker
And she's like, really?
00:45:49
Speaker
And I'm like, yeah.
00:45:50
Speaker
And then the conversation then is like,
00:45:54
Speaker
that seems nuts.
00:45:54
Speaker
And I'm like, I don't know.
00:45:55
Speaker
We watch baseball and a lot of people don't.
00:46:00
Speaker
So like, like to your point, I can't imagine anybody's watching curling.
00:46:06
Speaker
You know what?
00:46:06
Speaker
You got a bunch of people in Norway and Sweden going as a fighting words.
00:46:12
Speaker
Also watching curling.
00:46:13
Speaker
She's like, I'll give you this.
00:46:15
Speaker
Is it a sport?
00:46:16
Speaker
I don't know.
00:46:17
Speaker
It's not super athletic.
00:46:18
Speaker
And I'm like, look, going 110 feet down with a broom without falling on your butt repeatedly.
00:46:23
Speaker
That's actually pretty difficult.
00:46:25
Speaker
Growing up in Iowa.
00:46:26
Speaker
I can tell you it's very difficult.
00:46:29
Speaker
It's a talent.
00:46:31
Speaker
I don't know that it's a sport.
00:46:34
Speaker
It's a competition.
00:46:38
Speaker
I don't know that it's a sport.
00:46:40
Speaker
R-O-W-D-I-E.
00:46:42
Speaker
That's the way we spell Rowdy.
00:46:45
Speaker
All right.
00:46:46
Speaker
I got that.
00:46:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:47
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:47
Speaker
Point taken.
00:46:48
Speaker
It is a competition and you can drink while doing it.
00:46:52
Speaker
I may be interested in this.
00:46:57
Speaker
How do I start a curling league?
00:47:00
Speaker
Oh, there are several in Des Moines already.
00:47:02
Speaker
I just have to join one.
00:47:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:04
Speaker
Excellent.
00:47:04
Speaker
Oh, I don't have to start anything.
00:47:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:06
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:10
Speaker
Did you have any travel stories?
00:47:12
Speaker
No, no travel stories this week.
00:47:14
Speaker
You watching anything good?
00:47:16
Speaker
We started watching season two of the artful Dodger on Hulu on Disney plus because eventually Hulu is going away and you can only watch Hulu on Disney plus anyway, whatever.
00:47:26
Speaker
So yeah, season two, we watched the first episode after it's been gone for like two years.
00:47:32
Speaker
So yeah, getting back into that.
00:47:35
Speaker
How about you?
00:47:35
Speaker
What'd you guys watch?
00:47:37
Speaker
I not Amy, but I, that's right.
00:47:40
Speaker
Cause cause you're, you're, you're, you got the house to yourself for the week.
00:47:44
Speaker
I do.
00:47:44
Speaker
So I watched the revival of the Muppet show also on Disney plus.
00:47:48
Speaker
Sure.
00:47:49
Speaker
Have you watched this yet?
00:47:51
Speaker
Have not.
00:47:52
Speaker
It is fantastic.
00:47:55
Speaker
If you liked the Muppet show, not the movie, not the Muppet Christmas Carol, not this spinoff, not the electric mayhem, not the, I don't know, God knows what, not Fraggle.
00:48:08
Speaker
Well, I liked Fraggle Rock.
00:48:09
Speaker
Don't get me wrong.
00:48:10
Speaker
But the, like the, the spinoff show that they kind of sort of tried to do the Muppet show again, but not really.
00:48:18
Speaker
This is...
00:48:19
Speaker
The Muppet Show.
00:48:21
Speaker
Just like it was in the 70s.
00:48:23
Speaker
Sabrina Carpenter is the guest.
00:48:26
Speaker
It's fantastic.
00:48:28
Speaker
It is amazing.
00:48:29
Speaker
Everything.
00:48:30
Speaker
If you like nostalgia, yes.
00:48:33
Speaker
Yes, I am all in.
00:48:35
Speaker
I would love to see them do another.
00:48:37
Speaker
Just, you know what?
00:48:38
Speaker
Don't overdo it.
00:48:39
Speaker
Do five more and then take a year off and then do five more.
00:48:44
Speaker
And then don't, don't saturate the market with this, but you know, do it, do some more of this.
00:48:50
Speaker
This was really good.
00:48:52
Speaker
And it looks like these Muppets haven't aged a year since they've been on.
00:48:57
Speaker
That's true.
00:48:59
Speaker
That's yes.
00:49:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:00
Speaker
I mean, they've had some work done.
00:49:03
Speaker
The foam is in perfect shape.
00:49:07
Speaker
The voices are close.
00:49:08
Speaker
The voices are very, very close.
00:49:10
Speaker
You got to admire that.
00:49:13
Speaker
We also on on Super Bowl Sunday, actually.
00:49:16
Speaker
So this is a bit of a callback on Super Bowl Sunday.
00:49:19
Speaker
Instead of watching the football game because we didn't care, we went to the Civic Center and saw Kimberly Akimbo.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:28
Speaker
Have you guys seen this?
00:49:30
Speaker
I have not.
00:49:33
Speaker
And I say, Lisa, I would say we have not, but apparently there's a number of things that Lisa has seen that I haven't.
00:49:39
Speaker
And I'm trying to think.
00:49:40
Speaker
I don't think either one of us has seen it, though.
00:49:42
Speaker
But I could be wrong.
00:49:44
Speaker
So do you know the premise?
00:49:47
Speaker
No.
00:49:48
Speaker
So the premise is this...
00:49:51
Speaker
Teenager, the 16 year old girl has a disease where she ages, a real disease where she ages four times faster than normal.
00:50:01
Speaker
So she looks like a 75 year old woman.
00:50:04
Speaker
Okay.
00:50:06
Speaker
And the average lifespan of a person with this disease is about 16 years old.
00:50:13
Speaker
So it's about all of these teenagers and Kim.
00:50:20
Speaker
And the dynamics.
00:50:22
Speaker
It won the Tony for best musical the year it came out.
00:50:30
Speaker
You know how we have buckets of these things about this thing?
00:50:36
Speaker
I am sad that I actually saw it.
00:50:40
Speaker
I'm a worse person for actually seeing it.
00:50:43
Speaker
I never, ever, ever even hear this thing again.
00:50:46
Speaker
And then things that you love that are on our top five-ish, right?
00:50:50
Speaker
This is in neither of those buckets.
00:50:53
Speaker
Was it cute?
00:50:54
Speaker
Yes.
00:50:55
Speaker
Were any of the songs memorable?
00:50:57
Speaker
No, I did not walk out humming any of the songs, but it was, it was fine.
00:51:02
Speaker
And you know what?
00:51:03
Speaker
What do you say?
00:51:06
Speaker
Well, you need the fine ones so that you can appreciate the great ones even more.
00:51:12
Speaker
Exactly.
00:51:12
Speaker
This stuff isn't easy.
00:51:14
Speaker
It's not easy.
00:51:16
Speaker
It's not.
00:51:17
Speaker
It is.
00:51:18
Speaker
And we walked out and Amy's like, this won the Tony?
00:51:25
Speaker
How did this win the Tony?
00:51:28
Speaker
When it came out, what was it up against?
00:51:31
Speaker
Was it up against absolutely nothing?
00:51:34
Speaker
How did, what did, how?
00:51:38
Speaker
So then I had to go look.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yep.
00:51:41
Speaker
Because it came out in 2023.
00:51:44
Speaker
Todd, do you know what musicals it was up against for the Tony nomination for 2023?
00:51:53
Speaker
Kind of, because I was looking it up.
00:51:56
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:51:58
Speaker
And actually, I mean, I think it was, let's see, it was Shucked.
00:52:04
Speaker
Which I liked it better than this.
00:52:06
Speaker
Some Like It Hot.
00:52:07
Speaker
Also liked it better than this.
00:52:09
Speaker
And it wasn't great.
00:52:10
Speaker
New York, New York.
00:52:12
Speaker
Was that nominated?
00:52:13
Speaker
Didn't see it.
00:52:14
Speaker
It was.
00:52:15
Speaker
It was nominated.
00:52:16
Speaker
And Juliette.
00:52:17
Speaker
And Juliette, which we've seen and I really liked, but it's a jukebox musical.
00:52:20
Speaker
It's not going to win Best Musical.
00:52:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:24
Speaker
And this, that it.
00:52:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker
That was it.
00:52:26
Speaker
Those five, two, four, five.
00:52:28
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:30
Speaker
I like shocked way better than this.
00:52:33
Speaker
Maybe it was all the dad jokes.
00:52:35
Speaker
It's probably all the dad jokes.
00:52:37
Speaker
It must've been all the dad jokes.
00:52:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:38
Speaker
But yeah, corn pudding.
00:52:41
Speaker
I, yep.
00:52:42
Speaker
I, I walked out of the theater after shocked humming corn pudding.
00:52:47
Speaker
So, you know, whatever.
00:52:49
Speaker
Anyway, Kimberly Kimbo.
00:52:51
Speaker
That actually might make an, I walked out of the theater humming corn pudding might be a reason why shocked didn't win.
00:52:59
Speaker
I'm just going to be, I think that's a fair point.
00:53:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:05
Speaker
We also at the end, that was that was downtown of the Civic Center in Des Moines.
00:53:10
Speaker
And then now, Sherry, I'm sorry, this is a plug.
00:53:13
Speaker
If you're in the greater Des Moines area and you have never seen the mousetrap Agatha Christie murder mystery play, which is the longest running play in the West End.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yes.
00:53:30
Speaker
The Des Moines Playhouse is currently doing the mousetrap.
00:53:33
Speaker
And on Friday night, Amy and I went and saw it.
00:53:37
Speaker
Sorry, wait.
00:53:39
Speaker
Amy and I went to the theater.
00:53:42
Speaker
I saw it.
00:53:44
Speaker
Amy took a nap.
00:53:47
Speaker
Oh, OK.
00:53:50
Speaker
And, you know, the secret of the mousetrap is, you know, you're admonished to not give away.
00:53:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:57
Speaker
Yes.
00:53:57
Speaker
Don't give away the ending.
00:53:58
Speaker
Don't give away who the murderer was.
00:54:00
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:00
Speaker
And I went into it not knowing.
00:54:02
Speaker
I mean, knowing that was everything that I knew about other than it's an Agatha Christie murder mystery and you're not supposed to give away the ending.
00:54:12
Speaker
So, yes.
00:54:13
Speaker
And it will never be made into a movie until after it has stopped running on the West end for more than six months.
00:54:21
Speaker
And it's never stopped running on the West end.
00:54:24
Speaker
So, uh, so you can't like go and watch it.
00:54:26
Speaker
The closest you can, you can, uh, the closest you can get is a movie that was made about a murder that happened in the theater where the mousetrap is playing.
00:54:40
Speaker
That's as close as you can get.
00:54:41
Speaker
So if you think you've seen the mousetrap on screen, you haven't.
00:54:46
Speaker
It was fine.
00:54:49
Speaker
By the way, when you say it's the longest running one, it premiered in 1952.
00:54:56
Speaker
Right, yeah.
00:54:57
Speaker
Originally written as a radio play in 1947, premiered in 1952, and has never stopped except for one year during COVID.
00:55:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:08
Speaker
And in March of 2025, it hit its 30th, 30th thousandth performance.
00:55:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:20
Speaker
So, yeah.
00:55:22
Speaker
They did.
00:55:22
Speaker
Good news is, though, good news is Amy can't tell the secret.
00:55:26
Speaker
She she was awake for the reveal.
00:55:29
Speaker
Oh, OK.
00:55:31
Speaker
But she'd had a really long week and we sat there and she kind of curled up on my shoulder and I'm like, oh, OK.
00:55:39
Speaker
It was fine.
00:55:41
Speaker
Again, it was written in the late 40s.
00:55:45
Speaker
It feels like a play from the late 40s.
00:55:49
Speaker
Whatever.
00:55:51
Speaker
Again, I appreciate a whole lot of other things more now.
00:55:58
Speaker
Yep.
00:56:00
Speaker
Anyway.
00:56:04
Speaker
So I promised...
00:56:06
Speaker
Uh, or I, I previewed, I previewed a threatened, promised, you know, same thing, something that had never happened.
00:56:14
Speaker
So we're in Newton for a playoff game.
00:56:16
Speaker
Girls playoff game last night.
00:56:19
Speaker
Uh, competitive game, fun game to work competitive game.
00:56:23
Speaker
We go in for halftime, come out at halftime.
00:56:27
Speaker
Girls are warming up.
00:56:28
Speaker
We're standing around clock counts down and we're
00:56:34
Speaker
I go grab the ball, throw it over to Alan and into the gym swoops a bat.
00:56:44
Speaker
Sweet.
00:56:46
Speaker
And it just starts dive bombing in the gymnasium.
00:56:53
Speaker
And it was and we're like, OK, well.
00:56:59
Speaker
Now what?
00:57:02
Speaker
because we're not going to play with this going on.
00:57:05
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So we sent the teams to their bench and we, and, and, and so we just kind of start standing around and watching the bat fight.
00:57:13
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Cause at, and at one point, so I'm standing in front of the student section and they're like, it's a bird.
00:57:18
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I'm like, Nope.
00:57:19
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Immediately.
00:57:20
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As soon as I saw it swoop in to begin with, I'm like, Oh shit, that's a bat.
00:57:29
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And so I go, I walk over to my partners and we're standing around and we're talking about it.
00:57:33
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We're watching and, and, and one of the assistant ADs says, well, we've got an auxiliary gem.
00:57:40
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I suppose we could move the game over there.
00:57:41
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And Mark's like, no, no, no, hold on.
00:57:44
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Let's just see where this goes for a minute, because if we have to change gems, it's going to be 45 minutes before we get going again.
00:57:52
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So then across the floor,
00:57:57
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walks a custodian and a butterfly net.
00:58:04
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This isn't my first time I've had to deal with bats.
00:58:07
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I looked at the AD and said, has this happened before?
00:58:11
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Yeah, this isn't the first time for us.
00:58:15
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So the way the Newton gym, which was built in the
00:58:21
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In the late 70s, I think the gym is down low.
00:58:25
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There's stands on the side and then there's there's permanent seating on the end up behind the basket all the way up to the ceiling.
00:58:35
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OK, not they're not bleachers that you pull out.
00:58:38
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They are permanent built in seats.
00:58:43
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And so the bat is up in that area, swooping around, and the janitor goes up, stands on the benches, and starts swinging the butterfly net at the bat.
00:59:01
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And every time he swings, the student section, whoa!
00:59:05
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Whoa!
00:59:07
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Whoa!
00:59:10
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It was an absolute laugh riot.
00:59:13
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And then when he actually, when he finally caught it and this went on, this went on for a good 15 minutes that he was swinging and missing.
00:59:23
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And I'm like, do we have a lacrosse team around here?
00:59:26
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Is there anybody that plays lacrosse?
00:59:29
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Because this would be over like that if we had a decent lacrosse player right now.
00:59:34
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Or do you guys have a Quidditch team?
00:59:37
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Also good team.
00:59:38
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That would also help here.
00:59:42
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The, when he catches it, the roar that went up from both the visiting and the home student section, the place you would have thought somebody hit a three to win the game.
00:59:55
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It was absolutely hilarious.
00:59:58
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And like, well, I can say this has never happened before.
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I don't know that.
01:00:05
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Newton has had bats delay basketball games before, but they've had bats in the building before that they've had to catch, which is why the janitor was prepared and knew where the net was and all of this kind of stuff.
01:00:19
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But no, in 20 plus years of reffing, never had a game delayed by bat.
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01:00:26
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Quick question.
01:00:27
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Did you have to, do you have to like write that in a game log or somewhere?
01:00:31
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15 minute delay bat?
01:00:34
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I have a tracking spreadsheet of every game I have ever officiated.
01:00:41
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Okay.
01:00:42
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This one will get a note as the bat game.
01:00:47
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That's what I learned this week.
01:00:48
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Bats and Newton.
01:00:49
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How about you?
01:00:51
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The first, I know you guys have had some winter storms this year.
01:00:56
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I mean, it's been 60 degrees.
01:00:58
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You what?
01:01:00
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With snow tonight.
01:01:02
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Yes.
01:01:03
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So Salt Lake City had its first measurable snowfall in like 280 days this week.
01:01:10
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Yeah, it's fine.
01:01:10
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It's fine.
01:01:11
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It's cool.
01:01:11
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That's great.
01:01:12
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Ski resorts are doing great.
01:01:14
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They're not.
01:01:15
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But this is down in the valley.
01:01:16
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And when I say snowfall, I mean, out of my office, I think we probably had six, seven inches.
01:01:21
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It was just coming down all day.
01:01:23
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And one of the people who I work with moved out.
01:01:30
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He moved out from Virginia, Maryland.
01:01:33
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Moved out.
01:01:34
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He's been in snow before.
01:01:35
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He was in Colorado.
01:01:38
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But he was like, man, drive home is going to be terrible.
01:01:40
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And I'm like, yeah.
01:01:42
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I said that.
01:01:43
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You just, you got to watch out.
01:01:44
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He goes, oh, he goes, I'm assuming everybody out here is, is, you know, used to driving in snow.
01:01:48
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I'm like, well, it's, it's been a while.
01:01:49
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I said, but, but even for people who are used to driving in snow, understand this.
01:01:56
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The first time it snows in a season, everybody forgets.
01:02:02
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what it's like to drive in snow.
01:02:04
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Right.
01:02:04
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Amen.
01:02:04
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Absolutely.
01:02:05
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Everybody's, everybody's driving fast.
01:02:08
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Everybody's going to, you know, sliding through.
01:02:10
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Whoa.
01:02:11
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Like I said, normally, however, normally it stops snowing, let's say in March, February, March, and then you just have to make it to like November.
01:02:22
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Okay.
01:02:23
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Okay.
01:02:24
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This might've been February or March, but we're now into February again.
01:02:31
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And people don't think of, well, it's February.
01:02:34
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This is the first snowfall.
01:02:36
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What you need to remember is this is the first snowfall and everybody's going to be cocky because it's the middle of February.
01:02:43
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Oh, I've dealt with snow.
01:02:44
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It's been close to a year.
01:02:50
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watch out.
01:02:51
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And his comment was, he's like, I can see what that'd be a problem.
01:02:55
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Yes.
01:02:56
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So the good news is what actually happened was everybody realized that everybody else wasn't used to snow.
01:03:04
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And so we just all crawled home.
01:03:05
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It was just on the interstate, on the freeway.
01:03:11
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I think at one point we were doing a solid 21 miles an hour.
01:03:14
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Yeah.
01:03:16
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on, on four, on three lanes, everybody's just 21 miles an hour.
01:03:21
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Like I got this, like, yep.
01:03:23
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You know what?
01:03:23
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This is, you know what?
01:03:24
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We're all going to get home eventually.
01:03:26
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Like if we just keep moving, um, then nobody has to tap their brakes.
01:03:30
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Nobody's stopped.
01:03:31
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Nobody go fast, but nobody stopped.
01:03:33
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Yeah.
01:03:33
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Please don't stop because if you stop, then everything's going to all fall apart.
01:03:36
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So, uh, anyway, that's what I learned was, um, I will also say, here's the other thing I learned though.
01:03:41
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Um, I had to go out and I had to brush off the car.
01:03:44
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after work and it was still snowing and I'm standing in about a foot of snow because stuff got kind of moved around.
01:03:51
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It took me 10 minutes to get all the snow off and scrape and I'm like, I don't miss this.
01:03:57
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And I'm like, when's the last time I've had Tim's winter 2019?
01:04:05
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Yeah, you know what?
01:04:06
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You know what?
01:04:06
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Don't miss it.
01:04:07
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Don't miss it.
01:04:09
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So what did I learn?
01:04:09
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Like, you know what?
01:04:10
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It turns out if I never have, if I would have gone from 2019 for the rest of my life and never had to stand at a foot of snow while scraping and brushing snow off while it continues to snow, I would have been fine.
01:04:26
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I would have been absolutely fine.
01:04:28
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So that's what I've learned is, you know what?
01:04:30
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Yeah, oh, it's beautiful.
01:04:32
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And yet I can do without it.
01:04:48
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01:05:26
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You said that the reboot of The Muppet Show, what you really wanted to see was like five or six episodes a year.
01:05:34
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Just do five or six and then wait another year and come back out.
01:05:37
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What you've literally described is you've now made The Muppet Show into a British television series.
01:05:44
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Yes, I have.
01:05:45
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You're right, I did.
01:05:46
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That's exactly what I did.
01:05:50
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Yes.
01:05:51
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Every British show, except for the chase and Eastenders and coordination street.
01:05:56
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But other than that, yes.
01:05:59
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Yeah.
01:05:59
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What was the show that ran for like 18 years and did 40 episodes?
01:06:05
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Yeah.
01:06:05
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Yeah.
01:06:05
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One of those.
01:06:06
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That's, that's exactly what you're describing.
01:06:08
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Yeah.
01:06:08
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It was wildly popular.
01:06:10
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Yes.
01:06:11
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Why does, why does Kermit now have an English accent?
01:06:14
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Don't ask.
01:06:15
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This is exactly what we want.
01:06:21
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Oh, great, great recommendation.
01:06:23
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Muppets as in English, as a British TV show.
01:06:27
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I'm guessing we're going to have something to clean up next week.
01:06:30
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Until then, we're talking to Todd.
01:06:38
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Thank you.
01:07:02
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If it flips the other way, though, I think a lot of British people would be confused.
01:07:06
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Because they're cockney rhyming slang or something.
01:07:09
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They're like, what the heck's a fozzy bear?
01:07:12
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Don't ask.