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Ep. 328 - This One Time at Ref Camp
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Ep. 328, Recorded 6/10/2026. Ich habe ein Podcast. Just a little trim. Not that kind of fantasy. Siri just spins. The price is right. Hallucinations. Contractors (but not that kind). Radar rules. Locked out.
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Humorous Vocal Warm-Ups
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No, I wasn't yawning right before we started. That was not a yawn. That was just a jaw stretch. That's what happens when we get to talking to Todd after dark. Part of part of my vocal warm-ups.
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oh Shibboleth. Oh, sorry.
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Oh, that's going to be a good one. It's after dark. Okay. Fantastic. Levels, levels? Levels, levels. So I have an um actually for this week.
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So last week during construction. actually. Thank you. You're Last week during construction updates, i I also forgot that we are also doing our laundry room as well.
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So in the middle of listing out the seven projects that you did, you managed to forget the eighth? is that what you're telling me? Yes, that's that's exactly right.
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Almost all of which you've completed before my shower. Yes, all of that is 100% correct. Great. so um So are you done yet?
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Yeah. Really? No.
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Hi, toddlers. Welcome to Talking to Todd.
Podcast Introduction: "Talking to Todd"
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It's a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prenz, where failure, construction updates, always an option.
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Thanks for joining us. Hey, Todd. Hey, how's it going? Pretty good. Pretty good. how are you? ah doing good doing Doing good. Doing good. Doing good. You'll notice there's less stuff behind me now. I so i do notice there is less stuff.
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Yes. So that's good news. And that's a ah that's a preview for for construction updates. So ah yes, just we're just America's favorite newest update segment. Construction up. No, that's not it. I don't. Anyway. Yes. um Yes. News to come.
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Excellent. Excellent. So for our feedback follow up and update segment.
Listener Feedback and Accent Humour
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Yes. Our follow up is really light. True.
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But we had tons of feedback. We did. We had we had we certainly had some. Yes, we did. ah Toddler number two. ah Yeah, she, ah she drove down to the undisclosed location this, this past weekend. So she got to listen. So I was getting some text messages via Siri. So I am translating what I received.
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um Siri's fine. You know what? It's going to, it's getting better too. It's going to be awesome. You can change the voices on some phones anyway. ah Nevermind. Um, So when I explained the catchphrase that the London Eats ah guy does, she ah she told me, i believe the text message was, I heard you when you recorded it.
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You did a lousy job with the accent then. And on un-listen back, I stand by that.
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Okay. So notice I'm not even touching the, I'm i'm not even, I'm not, I'm just, this is like when you make an, when you make a correction, don't repeat the error, just reference the error. so Would you like to give it another try? Nope.
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I would not. Punching out. Nope. I said what I said. i did it poorly and I
Jack London vs Jack Lord Confusion
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think we're done. And then i got this wrong Jack.
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Actually. Yes, we're jumping ahead into the um actually section. i was thinking of Jack Lord from Hawaii Five-0, not Jack London. Jack London wrote Call of the Wild and White Fang, among other things.
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White Fang famously set in Oahu. see
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Yes. Yes. That was where it all happened. Uh-huh. Yep. Right there. on I remember the scene on Waikiki Beach clear as anything. Yeah. That was a great, I love that movie, the cinematography with Diamond Head in the background and the, it was just amazing. I'm telling you. Yes. That's, that's how it's done.
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Yeah. So anyway, was on me. That was mine. I will own that. Ron Jack. That is, yeah that is also why Jack Lord and Jack London,
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we're in the show where that was the show art last week because I recognize that. as I'm like, to you know, as I'm saying, it doesn't seem right. sounds right, but I'm going to keep going confidently. You know what? Just stick with it.
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A clipboard and a smile, a quick board and a confident wave will get you into any building in the United States as well. You know, that's ah that's Jack London. son You know what it is. Okay, sure. We'll go with it Yeah, sure. Whatever. Toddler401K.
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Yes. He has coworkers that are going to the Kansas City World Cup match. Please stay tuned for concession prices. Apparently, that's as much of a warning as it is a preview for some of the toddlers.
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There you go. You're welcome there. Item number two. By the way, Dwayne, quick question. yeah Can you walk to the
Kansas City Parking Chaos
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Kansas City Stadium?
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No, you cannot. Okay. Not only that, you can barely walk there right now to go to a Royals game. Parking is terribly screwed up.
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Not to mention the fact that some of Kaufman's stadium is broken and they have yeah the zero intention of fixing it. Stop talking about the roster. What about the stadium? oh
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You're not. You look, looking at you bullpen, looking at you. We're broken and we have no intention of fixing it. Catch the Royals fever 2026. Like you say, how how bad could parking be screwed up? There's not that many people attending the games.
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That's also fair. Fountains up, baby. Fountains up. Let's see. Also from Danny, uh, without the vision in MCU, he would not have gotten the ship of Theseus joke.
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So it turns out MCU educational movie series. There it is. Yep. Basically documentaries.
Todd's Belgian Language Mishaps
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That's, that's what I'm saying. Yep. Yeah. Uh, let's see. Also this week we got from Danny,
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I believe this was really directed to you in case you need this in the future. Todd, do you know how you say i have a podcast in Belgium? ah Yes.
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Ich habe ein Podcast. Which was also followed up with... Well, to which I replied with... I don't know. Dankj.
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Dankj. Dankj. Nope, that's not it. Damn it, Mike. eat and that's You say donkey? Yeah. Basically, it's dankj, but Belgianized. Yes. Also, the answer to... Wait, you have a podcast?
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is ya dat week. Mark that down. Great. What would have been really helpful is first of all that two weeks ago and instead of do you have a podcast is can you get out of my picture?
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But we'll take what we can get.
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One step to the right one, just one, just, you know what? If he could just move just around the corner, that would be helpful. Just like in the ECA. That's what I'm saying.
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Uh, let's see from Yvonne and Wrigley. Were you aware of this update?
LEGO La Sagrada Familia Feature
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Todd? Did this come direct? This only came to me. think this only came to me i got an email from yvonne okay yes i think i it may have come yes uh-huh good and while we're on the topic of legos on cbs sunday morning they covered the logo the lego unveiling of the largest set ever the replica of barcelona's la sagrada familia and while the church is still under construction
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after 144 years, amateur builders can finish the 12,060 piece 24 inch tall miniature if they have the patience and the money. So talking to Todd covered it first.
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cbs sunday morning a little behind the curve just that's what we're saying they to be honest cbs news had some other things they've been working on so like covering legos was sort of lower in the inbox of things what's going on this week oh you know i'm gonna go cover some legos just' go to listen one of my favorite I'm going to go listen to one of my favorite educational podcasts and see if I can get some story ideas. Have we covered the Brett Favre thing? and Oh, who we have. Okay, I'll find something new. Okay.
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Yeah. Does anybody know that Jack Lord and Jack London aren't the same person? We should look into that hey
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Breaking news. Just in case you were wondering. how Both of them dead. for whatever that's worth. Well, at least they've got that in common. I don't, what am I supposed to do with that? what theseful dead I
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and wasn't wrong on that part. What was the follow-up that you brought? Our lone piece of follow-up this week. Yeah, you know the world cup ah World Cup is starting, as we record, World Cup is starting tomorrow, ah Thursday. And the ah U.S. men play Friday. So depending on when this is released, World Cup has started. We've covered all sorts of pricing stuff.
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The World Cup, FIFA has come up with, Dwayne, don't know if you've seen this. this is a We're going to do, Dwayne, guess the number officially later. But did
Critique of FIFA's Shout-Out Program
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you see the story that FIFA is going to allow you to put your name on the scoreboard?
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For a small price. Okay. Yup. Any, is it just my name or is it, you know, like Jerry Jones's big, huge ass scoreboard and my name's up there with 500 other people. Well, okay, so this was going to be my idiot of the week, but I got a different one. So according to, it's a super shout out program.
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The governing body has listed all 72 group state matches and um you can pay a fee to have your name shown on the stadium scoreboard. The page advertises that a shout-out slot you can reserve your name appears, quote, during the match and, quote, at the right moment in the right game.
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However, if you read the terms and conditions, super shout-outs will be displayed during pregame and will not be displayed during live match play. so So by saying it will appear during the match, it won't actually appear during the match. It'll appear before the match. Yeah.
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Availability is limited and processed on a first come first serve basis and exact duration and placement are not guaranteed. So is it up there for more than a tenth of a second? Can't tell you. Where is it up in the corner? I don't know. Is it with everybody else's names? Can't guarantee. Dwayne, for that opportunity, now that you've seen the fine print, how much would you pay?
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$79. And you saw the article. I saw the article. By the way, I'm not even giving myself a bell for that. because I saw the article. Here's the thing, though. Did you hear what I asked you? How much would you pay?
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How much would I pay? Oh, that's different. Yeah. i'll See, and so you know you got that answer wrong because there's no way you would pay $79 for that.
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that One would have to pay $79. Should one want to do so, yeah you could pay $79. Yes. yeah So anyway. How much would I? Yes. No. Yeah. um Thanks. Thanks for that. FIFA.
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Yeah. ah Yeah. So there we go. More FIFA shenanigans.
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ah Let's see. Oh, it's time for construction updates.
Construction Projects Update
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Yeah, are you going to make it all 220? Yeah, 220, 221, whatever it takes.
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Well, you sound like a pretty handy guy. ah According to Zach, my construction manager, the trim pieces...
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that need to be added on to finish my shower should arrive on Friday and might be installed sometime next week. In the meantime, I have successfully used my shower.
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Small steps. when he When he said that your trim pieces are arriving on Friday, did you ask the all-important question, where? or Or really, which Friday, frankly? well that That too. But when you say arriving, like is that the loading dock? Is that... why i I chose not to drill down, even though I should have, clearly.
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Yeah. I mean, it all sounds it it sounds like it's on the up and up, so you're in good shape. But at least it's usable. It is good. The good news is I have a bathroom again.
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Perfect. ah Just in time for my mother-in-law to come visit this weekend so I can get the hell out of her bathroom and use my own. So there you go. I thought you were going to i thought you were going to be nice and offer her your guys' bathroom. So with a nice brand new shower.
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yes Guess that's not on the table. Okay. Funny, funny, funny guy. have i How about you? So you now have eight projects, are all eight complete? Well, so I forgot the laundry room last week because it's attached to the family room, but technically Lisa pointed out it's a completely separate project.
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Here's the We weren't going to do anything in there. And then we were we were doing the floor in the family room. And then it was like, well, we could just take the floor straight into the laundry room. Well, if we're going to do that, um this house was built in the in the early ninety s And so the bottom half of the laundry room, the wall is covered in red tile.
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halfway up and then a nice decorative tile border all the way around and a built in, it had a built in a small ironing board um behind the door. So you could either iron, you could, you you could either leave the door open or iron. You couldn't do both anyway. So once we got to, it's like, i don't know, man, just take it down, just take it down. So that got all completely done.
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So this, this kind of sounds like a Prince family basement project. We bought a TV that was too large. So we, we went out and bought, we just went out and bought a brand new, uh, entertainment set to put it in. yeah so yeah. But then the entertainment center kind of, kind of overshadowed the rest of the basement. So then we had to redo the entire rest of the basement.
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There, there are similarities. Yes. Yeah. Um, Updating from last week of of all of the so so all of the projects are done.
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ah and as a matter of fact, they came home from work tonight and even they had they had ah the master bedroom. All the furniture is back in the places it was for the last three weeks. It's been all covered in plastic and moved out of the way.
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The master bath is not quite done yet. So flooring's in, paintings in, toilets in fans in. The new vanity is in.
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Looks like tomorrow they have to finish the plumbing on the vanity. Uh... And then I think we're done. i I think i it's looking like haven't talked to them. I would think that we're we're going to be wrapped up tomorrow. They have cleaned the garage. They've already shopped back the garage. The garage is cleaner now than when they showed up.
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always a sign of a good contractor plus yeah so they've already cleaned most of the stuff up uh so i'm expecting now here's here's a problem uh tomorrow i'm leaving work and i'm hopping on a plane to get to the undisclosed location so uh they might finish this thing up tomorrow and we won't know it until we arrive back saturday night so um there's a Unless our contractor says, I'm done.
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here's the i need my last check. ah Otherwise, we'll know on Saturday. But tomorrow, looking good. Excellent. You seem very happy about that.
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It was a race, and i'm in once again, whether racing you or I'm racing Sherry, I'm not winning.
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Ah, yeah. So really looking forward to late tonight. I'm like, oh, I left that in my dresser five weeks ago or in the side table of the bed. And then that got covered up by the bed and the plastic. And I'm like, that's where I left that thing. Oh, yeah. I've been looking all over for it. So anyway, yes. So we'll probably good news. Hey, Danny, be construction updates going to be around for at least another week.
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Excellent. I did want to just a little quick dip into Dwayne's technical corner.
Summer Referee Camp Insights
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Yeah. Yeah. Last weekend, I went to a summer referee camp.
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This one time at ref camp. This one, this one time at ref camp. Yes. That's exactly what we've got. Yes.
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It was, i so I worked two and a half games. and I gave out zero technicals. It's summer What kind of camp is that? Yeah. Well, you're supposed to practice everything, right? And I'm like, how am I supposed to practice everything if I'm not giving out technicals?
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Not really. For no apparent reason. Like, be top of your form where the player and the coach has no idea, and you just look at them and go, you know why? And they're like, I really don't. And you're like, any more backtalk? And it's another one. And you're hitting the showers. And the people are like, what is going on? And you're like, this is the best fantasy camp I've ever been to.
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I thought this was a camp for refs no live out what they wish they could do. So we went, there were, there were no personal fouls counted.
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There were personal fouls given. Yes. But you couldn't foul out. There were only team fouls counted. So when you finally got to eight team fouls and a half, then we started shooting free throws and at i don't know.
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So we just started calling fouls because it was stupid, insane. But finally, it was I'm going to say, having not watched basketball with a whistle in my mouth since mid February,
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um late February. um By the way, also everybody, he does, he's not talking about reffing. He's talking about when he sits at home in his couch and he watches some college basketball. He just puts a whistle in his mouth because it makes him feel better. Like he's just for the feeling. Yes, that's right. Yes. yeah And I haven't, so and,
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And since college basketball went all the way through the end of March, and I haven't done this since mid-February, that tells you, okay, so I'm finally, I'm really i'm really out of out of out of practice. And you could tell, boy, that first game, I'm like, oh my God, what in the word at what point do I stick my fist in the air? And when do I, I'm like, my God. but I'm pretty sure I just whistled that guy for clipping and gave him 15 yards.
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not sure how this works. don't think that's right. Meanwhile, I'm standing over on the sideline trying to give a report. I didn't know what was going on. Anyway, ref camp. Catch it. see See, okay, this makes a lot more sense. I thought ref camp, you go away to camp.
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to go do like fun stuff. I thought ref camp was like, so you get to referee games. And when you were like, when you blow the whistle, the player goes, you're right. I did foul him. Thank you for catching that and correcting my behavior.
00:21:13
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See that is rough fantasy camp. Right. Right. And then, and then you you know, you, you blow a foul, uh, you, you blow your whistle and the coach who's standing right there goes, man, I,
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That is an incredible call. i Most people wouldn't have seen that, but you have eagle eyes and you obviously that's well within the rules. Thank you so much. I will correct that behavior from my team.
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Like just just a week of that. which i i will say that I have Rarely, but I have gotten that kind of comment from the coach before as I'm going as i'm going by. Boy, that was a really good call.
00:21:57
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Almost like he was surprised that I made it I mean, I've read the scouting report on you and nowhere did it say that you were capable of that. So that just was impressive. I was really impressed with that call. That was, yes, I did not expect that out of you anyway. Okay. Uh, it is, oh, okay. Oh, hey laid long enough wait, before we get there, wait, before we get there, do we want to take a quick, quick trip into, uh, into, uh, the, uh, Todd's tech corner brought to us by the Taylor center for technology policy.
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Oh, it's worldwide developer conference week, isn't it? It is. And so I thought recap it. I thought I'd recap it for everybody.
Apple WWDC Humorous Recap
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ah Three main things coming in September, or October. Number one, everything's getting better and faster. Number two, it is we're going to try to, if you've got kids, we're going to try to help parents control their phone usage.
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That's cool. Sure we are. and then And then number three, we've got AI that works. Seriously, no, it really works. like We're not lying this time. um And to prove that point, they actually did demos on their video where they asked it. And then and then on a video, they just waited for the circle to go.
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Like they could have edited it out, but they were like, do you know, do you know how you know that this is, that this is a live demo, a live to tape demo? Because we're all just watching a circle go around go. Yeah, that takes, that's probably about the time it takes for AI to work.
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So anyway, all coming in September, October. stuff's getting better trying to help kids you're going to able to siri might actually do something so there you go there there's a whole recap more to come in september and and probably several times between now and then maybe we'll see or not i don't you know who knows yeah so there you go boom look at that new record so what's up next
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Dwayne's never going to guess it. Who, me? Never ever going to guess it. I don't know. No, Dwayne's never going to guess it. Yas, Queen? Never ever going to guess it. That's right.
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That sound means it's time for America's Favorite Game. It is time for Dwayne Guess a Number.
Survey on Fake Sports Jerseys
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Todd, what'd you bring this week? Okay. Speaking of World Cup, and we've talked about, by the way, we talked about jerseys and how much jerseys cost. We did that a couple of weeks ago. Story in the Athletic.
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Sorry. Kits? Well, kits would be the whole thing. Okay. So kit, sorry, a kit, kit would be like, yeah, you could call it a piece of kit.
00:24:38
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But if you said I'm, you have the, the full, the full kit, that's where you have the, the shirt, the shorts and, and the socks. Yeah. So, okay. Okay. So just jerseys.
00:24:50
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Yeah. At one point there were, No, that's hockey, but although this is in Canada, so wait, I don't, oh crap, broke my brain. um at one point They used also to also be called strips, but nobody calls them that. I don't you hear that anymore. um Anyway, sorry, I'm sorry. Toddlers. I'm so sorry.
00:25:09
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Where were we? Okay. Okay. So let me explain how the pyramid of English football works. Okay. So anyway, no, no, no. So according to the athletic police make the quote, largest known seizure of fake soccer jerseys in Canadian history before the world cup.
00:25:25
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Did you see this article? I did not. Those rascally Canadians. Yeah. With faux jerseys. Yes. Because they're French. No, it's faux jerseys.
00:25:36
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Faux jerseys. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice. I like, need to be culturally sensitive. You're welcome. A. Is that a faux toque?
00:25:50
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I got to roll them down to Tim Hortons and catch faux jersey. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Police seized $3.5 million dollars worth of items, which were 16,000 jerseys and flags, proposing to be branded branded, including Nike, Adidas, or Adidas, and Puma. They also found two counterfeit World Cup trophies.
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i just Everybody gets a trophy. Any peace prizes in there? Sorry. I was going to say one, one said, if found, please return to Washington, DC. Anyway, that's not,
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but sorry. That's not what, what Dwayne gets the numbers about though. I told you that story so I can, so I can ask you this question. Welcome come to talking to Todd after dark. Yes.
00:26:36
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Yeah. So at the end of it, again, this is, this is a story in the athletic, which is generally subscribed to people who follow sports. Right. Okay. The Athletic had recently done a survey of subscribers. So again, this is people self-reporting, but you know hey, why not?
00:26:55
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yeah Oh, they did this last year and had asked, what percent they asked have you ever they've asked three questions. Have you ever bought a fake shirt? do you can Do you intend on doing so?
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And why did you buy the fake shirt? Dwayne, according, so from The Athletic, and I believe this probably isn't just soccer, this is all athletic. Last year when The Athletic asked its sports subscribers, have you bought a fake shirt?
00:27:26
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What percentage of respondents said yes, they had bought a fake sports jersey or shirt? I'm going to say 75%. You know what? Give yourself you know what give yourself a bell
00:27:43
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But you were low. 78% of all respondents had said they had bought. Yeah. Okay. that Yep.
00:27:53
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Now. Sure. well That's on track. How many, what percentage of people said they intend to continue doing so? 98%. This lulled you into a trap. Only 66% said they were planning on continuing.
00:28:09
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Oh, because what they bought was crap. I was going say the other 12% either found out it was crap or got hives. So this doesn't, this doesn't feel good. don't know. Should that be red? Okay.
00:28:23
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And then of the people who said that they had bought a fake shirt, I'm going to ask you first, what do you think the number one, the number one reason on the board, why did they say that they bought a fake shirt?
00:28:37
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I'm going to say price, Bob. Price. Give yourself a bell, even though it's not a number.
00:28:45
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I'll take it. Okay. Two out of three here. That's not bad. One last number though. That was the number one answer on the board. What percentage of people said cost was a factor?
00:28:57
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980 million. Basically 89%. 89% of there is nothing in the United States that 89% of everybody agrees to at this point, except I buy the fake shirts for price. Okay.
00:29:15
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Are they cheap? Yes. Am I willing to try it once? At least once? Maybe again? 69% of the time? Sure. Why not? I don't know. 80% of us are willing to try it once and two thirds of us are saying, I'm going to do that again. oh yeah, it's it's almost as if the ridiculously high markup on the $7 or $10 shirt is driving people to not want to pay hundreds of dollars.
00:29:39
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Huh? I don't know, man. i Economics. Who knows? i don't I don't understand that at all. by the way ah just By the way, just a fun fact here for a quick business meeting.
00:29:50
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ah We rebooted and you played the bell and I didn't hear it. So once again, Zencaster, thank you, Zencaster, for providing sometimes our our recording capability.
00:30:05
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Anyway, good news. This isn't the first time this happens. We know how to deal with this now. Thanks, Eli. Uh, let's see, should we do, let's do some idiots.
AI Transcript Analysis Anecdote
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Sure. My first idiot this week is Zencaster. Zencaster for some of your podcasting needs Zencast. Occasionally. This is like three out of every four weeks.
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Idiot number two. So you remember last week when in the Todd out of no segment, do you remember the question that I asked you I just listened to the, I just listened to the episode to today ah in preparation for this. And to be completely honest, no, blanked it out.
00:30:51
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What franchise drafted two hall of fame quarterbacks? Yes. Yes. Yes. So, uh, toddlers, a little peek behind the curtain here, what we've been doing here lately. Maybe you know this, maybe you don't, maybe you listen, maybe you haven't been listening. Who knows?
00:31:06
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Maybe you do. We take the transcript of the episode and we load it into Claude. and have Claude tell us what it thinks our titles ought to be, our segments ought to be, kind of gives us a summary of the podcast. That way I don't have to go back through. what One of the benefits...
00:31:30
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using really big air quotes there, of Zencastr is that it does all of the editing for us and I don't have to you know manually edit it anymore.
00:31:42
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But that also means I don't listen to it. So we've been having Claude do this summary, right? of the episode. Yes. And so we give it some explicit, we give it some explicit directions.
00:31:55
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Yes. We give it, we give it some parameters and say, go through and look at this and ye give us some title suggestions based off of this. Yeah. And, and at times it's very interesting to what it comes with because normally it gives us not just titles, by the way, we also explicitly say you only use things that were specifically said. Yeah.
00:32:13
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It then comes through and says, here's this quote and here's who said it. And then it gives a summary of why it thinks that it's a good title. By the way, it thinks both you and I are a genius. I will just say this, this, this, this pithy comment from Todd sums up an entire conversation with one of the great lines of the show.
00:32:35
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Wow. Well, thank you. I am so glad you set it up like that. Yes. Claude's rundown for me, summary for me of segment four, Todd ought to know yeah NFL draft trivia suggested title.
00:32:51
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We can safely rule out the bears. I'm just going to read this verbatim. This is the, okay. So if you remember the segment, I asked you which franchise franchise, you specifically said, which franchise which fran drafted two NFL, two hall of fame quarterbacks.
00:33:09
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In the same draft. In the same draft. And I said, i we're assuming we're talking about the NFL, and you said NFL quarterbacks. And then you repeated, which franchise drafted two?
00:33:21
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NFL quarterbacks. Yes. NFL Hall of Fame quarterbacks. The answer was the Kansas City chief kansas city Royals. Royals. Royals. Yes. Because they drafted...
00:33:34
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Montana and Marino in the 1979 draft? ah Marino and Elway. Marino and Elway. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Even I'm wrong. Montana was already was drafted in the 79 draft by the Niners, I believe. By the Niners already. So all three of them. Excuse me. I'm just going to have to draft some knowledge. But those two were high school baseball players when they were drafted for baseball.
00:33:58
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Yes. In 1979. Okay. okay So all of that we covered in our discussion. Ad nauseum and a lot longer than some people wanted to hear. Yes.
00:34:10
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So what came back from Claude suggest a title. We can safely rule out the bears. Todd Dwayne quizzes, Todd, what NFL franchise drafted two hall of fame quarterbacks in the same draft. Todd eliminates the bears immediately.
00:34:28
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for all the Bears quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame. Guesses the Falcons. Good guess. Wrong. The Cowboys. Wrong. And the Jets. Wrong. Before giving up.
00:34:39
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The answer, the San Francisco 49ers drafted Joe Montana and Phil Simms in the same 1979 draft. Neither is in the Hall of Fame as a 49er. Sims never played for them. And Montana's jacket says San Francisco, but he finished his career in Kansas City. Bonus follow-up, Dwayne also asks about the Pittsburgh Steelers drafting both Johnny Unitas and Lynn Dawson in 1955, both Hall of Famers, neither of whom played a meaningful game for Pittsburgh.
00:35:10
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Todd notes that for a franchise famous for drafting quarterbacks, well, they had a terrible track record early on. For the record, Phil Sands was drafted by the Giants in the first round of 79. And as the seventh overall pick, Montana went in round three as pick number 82. For 1955, the Steelers drafted Johnny Unitas.
00:35:31
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And Lynn Dawson wasn't drafted until 1957 as the fifth overall pick by the Steelers. My God, Claude! At which point I said, Claude, maybe you should go back and check that again. The response I got back, you're right to flag that.
00:35:50
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Let me go back and read that section carefully. Rereading the Todd out of no segment, you're absolutely right. And I apologize for the fabrication. Here is the corrected segment summary, which Claude actually got right on the second try. I trust nothing. Yeah.
00:36:16
Speaker
We're not asking for a great deal. and This isn't rocket surgery, people. Read the transcript. Actually read the effing transcript and just give me a summary.
00:36:28
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Don't make things up. Just read the summary.
00:36:34
Speaker
we we don't We don't talk about our day jobs here very much. You somewhat, me um almost never. Right. this is This is why when i when I go to meetings and pretty much ever at best case, every other meeting I go to are executives asking, why aren't we deploying more AI? Right.
00:36:58
Speaker
And I just want to go because of the 49ers didn't draft Phil Sam's. And then that makes me seem like a crazy man. So I can't say that.
00:37:11
Speaker
At your next meeting, you're going to say, you know, talked about this last week on our podcast. On my podcast. You have a podcast? You have podcast? It's been doing podcast. um
00:37:22
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ah
00:37:26
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Yeah. And then Claude says, that was a great, that was a great translation of, I have a podcast into Filipino. Todd was, Todd learned, learn how to speak Filipino because he was born there and spent, was there, went to high school there and was ah lived there in the Manila until he was 37 years old.
00:37:48
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Yeah. You want to check that? You are right. That is totally wrong. Yeah.
00:37:55
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Oh, my God. i just I I I simply can't with Claude right now. So anyway, my idiot of the week, Claude.
00:38:07
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Todd, follow that.
Taylor, Texas Land Deed Controversy
00:38:11
Speaker
Yeah, well, this is this is a different this is the different scale of idiocy. This one's over many, many years. So as reported by 404 Media, ah the city of Taylor, Texas, in 1999, paid $10 to the Bland Family Farm because the head of the Bland Family Farm wanted to give 88 acres to the city to turn into a park.
00:38:38
Speaker
So he sold 88 acres of land. They had to pay something for it, right? There has to $10. we go. Okay. here we go okay The original deed said that the land was granted to the, quote, Texas Park and Recreation Foundation, a Texas nonprofit corporation, to be held in trust for future use as parkland by Williamson County, Texas.
00:39:03
Speaker
That was part of the deed. Okay. In the years since, the deed kind of started moving around a little bit. ah The Texas Park and Recreation Foundation granted it over to another nonprofit called the Williamson County Park Foundation in 2003, so four years later.
00:39:20
Speaker
And then one month later, that nonprofit organization just gave the land outright to the city of Taylor. Okay. 2008, the city sold that land for $15,000 to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation.
00:39:37
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oop And it has been sat undeveloped since then.
00:39:43
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Until last year, when the Taylor Economic Development Corporation sold the plot to a company who is currently developing it for $10 million.
00:39:54
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dollars Now, yes, you in the back. Yeah. That seems like a problem. Well, if the developer was going to turn this into a park, it was deeded to be turned into a park. Now, somebody made $10 million dollars on it.
00:40:15
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Dwayne, do you think the developer paid $10 million dollars for this plot of land to develop it into a park? Did they want to develop it into a ballpark?
00:40:25
Speaker
No. Okay. Well, then I stand by my answer. This seems problematic. It gets worse. Do you know what they what they're going to build there? An oil refinery?
00:40:39
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Think of what is what is the current version of oil refinery in our economy. Are they putting a data center on it? They are building a data center. Jesus Christ.
00:40:53
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In land that was given to the city and deeded to build a park, somebody said that would make a great spot for a data center. It was Texas. My first choice was oil refinery. My second choice would be data center. Yeah.
00:41:11
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Yeah. Jesus.
00:41:15
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Yeah. $10 million dollars seems like a bargain. Okay.
00:41:21
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Yeah, interestingly enough. So now now there's discussions about is there going to be a lawsuit because the deed specifically doesn't allow this. And the city is saying, hey, man, we sold it.
00:41:32
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Contract's a contract, at which point the people are saying the contract says it can only be used for a park, at which point the city says... Our contract of selling it for 10 million is a contract, but that portion of the contract is no longer null. that That contract is no longer enforced. So then the answer is wait. So not all contracts are contracts. And they're like, yes.
00:41:55
Speaker
So anyway, things are going great in Texas. Not the first time I think we've said that on here, and it's probably not going to be the last. So hey, kids, do you want to go down to the data center park?
00:42:05
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and start huffing the methane coming off of yeah off the portable generators and getting that hum going, it'll be great. You can bat some electrons around. You can just, you know.
00:42:19
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Stand here. Just stand. Everybody stand here and watch your hair just be pulled towards the building for no apparent reason. This is awesome. Data Park and Science Center all one. All in one.
00:42:34
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So ah there you go. um Unfortunately, well, fortunately unfortunately, this is how we get like three years worth of follow-up now. Every three months, I just get a random news story about Taylor, Texas and their fight over their data center. So anyway, what have you been watching this week?
00:42:51
Speaker
ah The new season of Clarkson's Farm dropped on Amazon Prime. Oh, Apple TV notified me of that. yeah But Lisa was gone and we haven't watched it yet. We are two episodes in.
00:43:04
Speaker
And if we can get done, it's talking to Todd after dark. Amy's going to be asleep by the time I get to bed. We will not be watching another episode tonight. it It is absolutely worth your time. If you are into this show at all, it's, oh my God, it's yes.
00:43:18
Speaker
Yes. All your favorite characters are back. Yes. All the shenanigans. Yes. ay All of your favorite characters from past seasons ooh already make appearances in episodes one and two.
00:43:32
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. The writers are doing their job. there's a There's a wall that falls over and Amy and I, oh boy, Gerald's going to have some work to do now. or around from canmby rock you Yes. Yes.
00:43:48
Speaker
And we watch it with the subtitles. Undistinguishable mumbling. yeah I don't know what to tell you, man. i don't I don't know. we do this We do this professionally, and I don't know what that is. I don't know what saying. Nobody knows.
00:44:01
Speaker
nobody Nobody knows. So we're watching Clarkson's Farm. How about you? I've been watching a little bit of the Stanley Cup finals. um that's That's been going on. um And then ah the other one, and i just... This is a listen or watch.
Toddler Jesse Taylor's IT Career
00:44:16
Speaker
So there is a podcast that is also a video podcast on YouTube called Career Downloads. And so it's available on YouTube or any of your fine podcasting ah players. This week's episode has our very own toddler, ah Jesse Taylor, ah spending about an hour and 20 minutes talking about his career in IT and how he got into technology and some of the jobs that he's had and lessons that he's learned from technology. So ah if if you want to... if you want to
00:44:47
Speaker
hear more from Jesse. ah Again, it's Career Downloads is the name of it. I will tell you this, if you want to learn, it is a technology podcast ah and you will hear about installing XSERVs and ah the difference between ah Active Directory and Apple authentication systems. So just be forewarned.
00:45:10
Speaker
Really? Yes. Toddlers, I'll link to this on our Facebook page. Yeah. So there you go. Excellent. hey Hey, Jesse.
00:45:21
Speaker
I am looking forward to it. Outstanding. Cool. So there you go. By the way, so technology that leads into what did we learn this week? I'll go first because I think you've got a better story. Okay. So so we we cover a lot of idiots here with i around technology. We talked about the Waymos. We talked about the data centers.
00:45:38
Speaker
and you know, made fun of Siri already, already this episode.
Bike Radar Technology Review
00:45:43
Speaker
It's by the way, it's totally good. It's totally fixed. We'll see. However, occasionally you get the speed, you get some technology and you're like, this is actually really cool.
00:45:57
Speaker
Okay. So over Memorial day, uh, REI, had a big sale. And one of the things that I was looking at, and I've been looking at for a little while is over my shoulder, by the way, is, is, is, is the bike, the, the night, the bike I got last year. And it's now, it's now up here in Salt Lake city in the undisclosed location. I've got a very nice trail system. That's pretty easy to get to. And I can ride 30, 40, 50 miles on trails, never have to cross roads.
00:46:28
Speaker
Salt Lake city has some trails, but, But it takes a while to get to them. So if I'm going to ride this bike, going to have to ride out on the roads. Great. That means you got to pay attention to traffic. You got to, you know, all of that.
00:46:40
Speaker
They now make radar for your bike. I don't know if you've heard of this. So there are different companies that make this. Garmin is one of them. And there are devices that you can put on your seat post. And it has an integrated ah brake light.
00:46:56
Speaker
And it's literally a radar system. And it can actually even ah make your taillight flash or get brighter as cars get near you to say, like, look at me, look at me.
00:47:07
Speaker
You can use it with an app on your phone or if you get a Garmin, a bike computer head unit and you put it there that tells you you know how far you're going. It's got maps and it's got GPS and all sorts of stuff on it. But what it also then does is if you're if you're writing,
00:47:23
Speaker
On the side of the monitor, when it notices a car behind you, it turns the side to either yellow or red, depending on how fast the car is coming up behind you. And it gives you a series of dots and it shows you if the car is further away, it's at the bottom of the screen. And then it shows the dot getting closer to you.
00:47:43
Speaker
And if there's three cars, there's three dots. And I thought, I've watched some YouTube videos and people are like, this is this is game changing. Like this is amazing. It really works. So so it was on it was on a pretty big sale for Memorial Day. Bought it.
00:47:57
Speaker
Earlier this week, I finally got it on the bike because we, after vacation or whatever, and I went out. Sunday night, I went out I just rode around the neighborhood. um And I figured there wasn't a lot of traffic. It's pretty calm. Don't get on the big roads or whatever. And I rode for, i don't know, 30 minutes, 40 minutes or something.
00:48:15
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What I'm going to tell you is this. The bike radar is amazing. like It is absolutely amazing. It is letting me know that there are cars behind me and that they're coming up. I have a general idea of how far away they are. It's giving you audible alerts and visual alerts.
00:48:30
Speaker
It's also letting me know that there's nothing behind me so that as I'm riding and I need to kind of like go around a parked car that's parked right in the middle of the park. bike lane. It's a bike lane, not a park lane. You son of a, it's not a data center lane either, but it's just anyway, if I have to leave the bike lane, I know that there's nothing behind me still look, but I have a pretty good idea.
00:48:53
Speaker
Here's what I learned. This is freaking amazing. Don't rely on a hundred percent, but it is really, really nice. And I can't imagine riding around in traffic without this now.
00:49:05
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Radar for your bike. Yes. Wow. Yeah. He lets you, by the way, that's just lets you know when five o'clock Charlie's coming.
00:49:16
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That's a
00:49:20
Speaker
that's an old reference. So what's really funny is the other thing the other thing that we're watching around our house is mash.
00:49:31
Speaker
It's almost like i knew. i didn't. It is. It's almost like you knew. Amy decided, i don't know, a couple of weeks ago, there was she needed something to fall asleep to. And you know we've seen all of these over the years.
00:49:46
Speaker
So I'm not watching every one of them because I've seen all of them at least twice. I don't know. Anyway, and we're so we're somewhere in the middle of season four right now.
00:49:58
Speaker
of mash. Oh, is this the one where Hawkeye pulls a prank and then he's going to, uh, he's going to face some serious consequences from the general, but then the helicopters come in and he's a damn good surgeon. and We need him to save lives. And, uh, at the, no, you're confusing that with the other one where, Oh, the other one. Okay. Yes.
00:50:19
Speaker
Yeah. no on it or No, no, no, no, no. You're thinking of the other one, not the second one, but the C that's, that's because, Yes, there were these shenanigans going on.
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, the one with the shenanigans. Yes. Yeah. youre with The one where they raffle off the nurse? No, the other one where they raffle off the nurse. No, never mind. Not all of it aged well. Anyway, what did you learn this week?
Power Outage and Neighborly Humor
00:50:45
Speaker
So we were supposed to record regular time tonight. Yes. And a storm came through Norwalk and knocked out our power. And which is really rare in our neighborhood because all of our lines are buried.
00:51:01
Speaker
Right. So we're like, okay, well we're looking, we look at our windows, Samuel sons are out. Sean and dusty are out. don't know. Anyway. So we're like, okay, everybody's down.
00:51:12
Speaker
So Amy gets on the Facebook page on the Norwalk Facebook page. Apparently, you know, one of the, A tree fell on something, hit a main line into town. All of Norwalk's town, who knows how long. So I text you, hey, may make it difficult to record tonight.
00:51:29
Speaker
We'll see what happens. the So where I was in the middle of making dinner. the ground beef was already browned, which was great. So I was able to put all of the rest of dinner together with Amy holding a flashlight over the stove and, and put everything together into the pan and then straight into the fridge with it, which we would then later heat up when the power comes back on. So all of this, so then we're just sitting around and then there's a knock on the door.
00:52:03
Speaker
And it's it's Reagan from next door. You remember Reagan from next door? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ah Yeah, former former cast member here on ah on this show. Yeah. Right. Yes. So Dusty and Shauna and Reagan, who live next door.
00:52:17
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Reagan is knocking on the door. Hey, we're locked out because they had been at baseball practice for Reagan.
00:52:29
Speaker
House is all locked up. They come home. The power is out. None of them have actual keys to the house. Okay. Okay. Well, do you want to just hunker down ro for a while?
00:52:41
Speaker
And the garage door won't open. And the garage door won't open. Which is how they would have normally got in. Exactly. Yes. So you want to just hunker down here for a while? Sure. So we we sit around. i Can't open the garage door with your phone? Nope. They don't have that technology. Can't. Where's where's the extra keys? Extra keys are, ah well, they would I suppose they would be in the garage.
00:53:04
Speaker
truck at the airport, but that's also locked and the extra keys to the truck are, oh, in the house. Okay. So that's not going to work. Good plan. Good plan. yep say it was It was a good thought, right? Can you unlock the truck remotely? No, you need to sync the phone with the truck because that apparently hasn't been done in a while. So can't do i okay so we're working through all of the potential technology solutions.
00:53:29
Speaker
um And it's, it's just Shauna and Reagan that are with us because dusty is stuck in the Atlanta airport. Still don't know if he's even home yet because he was stuck in the Atlanta airport delayed because of the weather, not flying home. So dusty can't come and bail them out. So Shauna and, and Reagan and I are hanging out and I'm like, well, you know,
00:53:54
Speaker
I've seen videos where someone will take like a coat hanger and shove it up through the gap in the garage and pull down on the garage door opener.
00:54:11
Speaker
Yes. and unlock it so that you can then lift the garage door up and and break into someone's house, right? Which is why you should not have that little rope hanging down because they could fish through the little gap up top and pull the rope through and then open your garage door and then rob you while you're gone.
00:54:35
Speaker
I've seen videos of this. Yeah, suppose we could try that. So I tried that tonight. What I can tell you, what I learned this week, what I learned tonight actually is that I have zero chance of blindly opening a garage door with a coat hanger.
00:54:57
Speaker
There is zero chance that that will ever work. Yes. from From that story, three things. Yes. Number one. Can't wait to read the police report about in the middle of the in the middle of the blackout that some dude was working on a coat hanger trying to open this door, send police quickly. Okay.
00:55:19
Speaker
Number two, while going through all of your options, do you have a spare key? do you have the other spare key? I don't know. Do you have a do you have a garage door opener? Did you say this? Do you have a brick? Because if you have a brick, you can get into the house.
00:55:32
Speaker
I'm just going to say. That's not wrong. That's not wrong. It wasn't an emergency. We didn't have to go for the emergency bar brick. Okay. Just, just you were enumerating numerous items and I'm like, at some point you have to get to break.
00:55:46
Speaker
Um, number three, What I thought you were going to tell me, because you texted me all of this. What I thought you were going to tell me was that you hopped in your truck. You drove down to downtown Main Street, Norwalk to figure out where the power line was down. And you're going to see all these guys. You're going to see the you know the utility guys out there or whatever. And then you're going walk up and you're going to go.
00:56:07
Speaker
What is 220, 221? How are you guys doing? Sir, go home.
00:56:17
Speaker
Don't you have a shower you need to take?
00:56:31
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00:56:50
Speaker
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00:57:14
Speaker
Todd. i'm so so I'm assuming when, if CBS News was covering the the new Lego set of the Sagrada Familia, i'm I'm assuming that there's probably a small structural problem with it if CBS was interested in it. I'm assuming if you put it all together, you're going to find out that it's leaning way right.
00:57:34
Speaker
Am I frozen again? oh my God, don't tell me a... I mean, it's not Pisa... On that note, I'm i'm pretty sure we're going to have something and we need to clean up next week.
00:57:50
Speaker
Until then, we're here. We're talking to Todd.
00:58:23
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I feel like we need to really clean. it We need to end this really quickly before it cuts off for the fourth time. Zincaster, if you're listening, sweet lord.