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Ep. 311 - Marky Mark and the Funky Trees
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Ep. 311, Recorded 2/11/2026. Cold Open. Feedback, Follow up, and Updates. Todd’s Tech Corner. Dewayne’s Technical Corner. America’s Favorite Segment. The Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week. What we’re watching. What we learned this week.
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The absurdity of real-world events in comedy
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Levels, levels?
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Levels, levels.
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You know, it's getting harder and harder to write outlandish cold opens.
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What do you mean?
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I mean, sometimes we take a premise from the real world, we exaggerate it for comedic effect, and then, boom, we have a cold open.
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I mean, comedic is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, but sure.
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We've been, what's the problem here?
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We've been doing this for the last six years.
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Okay.
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The real world is getting so insane.
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It's hard to even exaggerate at this point.
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Do I, I've got my finger on the other theme button here.
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Do I need to play this?
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No, no, no, no, not that.
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I mean, yes, like all of that, but for tonight, no.
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Have you read the rundown?
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Look, take last week.
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Okay, last Wednesday night, we recorded the show and talked about the Olympic crotch enhancement controversy.
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Then, between when we recorded it and when you released it, Danny reached out to us to ask if we were covering the Olympic crotch enhancement controversy.
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What's the problem there?
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We're usually, we try to get in front of these stories.
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I mean, how far ahead of the curve were we on the Brett Favre thing?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There's a, there's a joke there that I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave.
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Cause this is a family podcast.
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Anyway, look, that's not the problem.
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Okay.
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We had to explain to Danny that we covered a different Olympic crotch enhancement story, not the one he sent us.
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Seriously.
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I can't keep up with this.
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It is getting way, way too insane.
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You, you sound worked up about this.
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So
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Are we not covering the other Olympic crotch enhancement story this week?
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Oh, no, no, no.
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Oh, no, we're covering that.
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Oh, see, there you go.
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Good, good.
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We're back.
Introducing 'Talking to Todd' podcast
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Hi, toddlers.
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Welcome to Talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Wayne Johnson and Todd Prins, where failure and apparently crotch enhancement 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, pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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Better than some people.
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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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I, I, I admit as we were doing the cold open, I realized we inadvertently created a drinking game with a phrase that maybe we, maybe we, we didn't mean to, but yeah.
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Oh, oh my goodness.
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Okay.
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So, sorry.
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Quick side, quick side note.
AI-generated podcast chapters: Helpful or harmful?
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Apple Podcasts in the last couple of months, they announced an enhancement to Apple Podcasts.
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See, there we go, enhancement.
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They're using AI technology.
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Of course they are.
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Everybody is.
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Not only are they doing transcriptions, which they've been doing for a few years, but they are now creating chapters for us in our podcasts.
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So if you are listening to this show on Apple Podcasts,
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chapters will come up and they make up names of the chapters.
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If we put our own chapters in, it would honor them, but since we don't have chapters.
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So Lisa was showing me on CarPlay, she's like, look, well, look at that.
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That's not the name of the episode.
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I'm like, no.
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And then it changes.
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And I'm like, oh, it's trying to figure out the chapters.
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And then it looks at what you're talking about and puts right on your CarPlay screen the name of what it thinks that you're talking about.
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I now regret writing that cold open because I'm very, very concerned about what the AI is going to pull out.
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I'm sure it's fine.
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Are we going to need to mark this podcast as explicit?
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Because we've never had to do that before.
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Yeah.
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Well, let's see what the AI does.
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Okay.
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Sorry about that.
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Please continue.
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Okay.
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So let's launch into our first segment, feedback, follow-up, and updates.
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I wonder if... Hint.
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Hint.
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Claude, you get that?
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Okay.
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Anyway, feedback, follow-up, and updates.
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What do we have in here?
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Let's see.
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Did you have anything from toddler number one?
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I did not.
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Okay.
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She's been sick for two weeks.
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She is recovering thanks to better living through medicine and chemistry, which is great.
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But she's barely left the house for the last two weeks, let alone gone anywhere.
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I don't want to listen to any of this stuff.
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No.
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Yes.
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No.
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So no, no feedback from toddler number one.
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We last weekend got to, we got
Listener feedback and potential guest appearances
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caught up.
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We listened to, I think three or four episodes.
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There was quite a bit of feedback from Lisa.
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However, I think it might be, it might be useful to have her on to deliver some of the feedback.
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So maybe that's next week.
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She had a detailed, detailed explanation of the Hermes bag, 150,000 bags a year.
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number.
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By the way, she got, she did not come up with 150,000 either.
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She, she did not get anywhere near there, but then she's like, oh, you know what?
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That kind of makes sense.
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And then she started breaking it down.
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And I said, would you like to come on the show and explain all of this?
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And she says, certainly could.
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So, um, maybe we'll have to see if we can get her on to, uh, to break down that number for us.
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We were so focused on whether or not we could, no one considered whether or not we should.
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Yeah.
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But sure.
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Why not?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Sure.
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More Birkin content.
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That's what, that's what the toddlers are going for.
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Let's see.
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We did.
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Hey, by the way, we did get an email.
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This one's hot off the presses.
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Yvonne sent a feedback to us just a couple of hours ago.
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It was entitled proud dog mom moment.
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Okay.
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Delighted Wrigley received so much airtime this week.
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Ironically, as art imitates life, I was walking past the now disclosed undisclosed location this morning.
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Thank you.
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And it took a good three minutes to convince Wrigley to continue the walk and that no friends were home.
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I'm telling you, it's a real thing.
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But I want to go see them.
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But I want to go see.
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They're not home.
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But I want to go see them.
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Seriously, they're not here.
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Let's just go check.
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No.
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Maybe they didn't hear me.
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Yeah.
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I'll bark a couple of times.
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Let's just go ring the bell.
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Let's just go see.
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They're going to want to see me.
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So there you go.
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She was listening to that as he was having that, as he was trying to go visit.
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Anyway.
Pop culture debates: Movies and music preferences
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How about you?
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What else do you have on feedback?
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Let's see from toddler Matt Damon.
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Yeah.
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If you remember correctly, he had a list of like a dozen baseball movies that he liked better than Field of Dreams.
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Yes.
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My ranking of Major League Two is less about Major League Two and more about my thoughts on Field of Dreams.
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Mm.
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Got it.
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Makes sense.
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Also, I'll take Martin short in The Hobbit, but only as Jiminy Glick.
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I mean, that would be that would be an artistic choice.
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That's one way to play it.
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He's the right height for a hobbit.
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He's got more elfin ears, though.
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I don't.
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Anyway, yeah.
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Which hold on, which elves are Lord of the Rings elves?
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Are they the good looking ones or the ugly ones?
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They're the good looking ones.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They're the, yeah.
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The Harry Potter ones are the ugly elves.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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Yes.
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Don't cross the streams there.
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Not the same.
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Not the same elves.
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Nope.
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We had a lengthy conversation with Greg and Sherry about what songs would be in our James Taylor top five ish.
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yes i believe i believe sherry did or did you start this with posting i started that little disaster yes yeah because james was on the colbert report uh the stephen colbert shop yes whatever whatever it's called now
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And Steven challenged him to name his top five James Taylor songs.
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And he could only come up with two.
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The other three that he named were songs that other people liked.
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Yeah, I mean, let's be honest, right?
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Like, it was a big flex.
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Well, I don't know.
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Let's see.
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You know, I was playing with Dylan, and he said he liked this.
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So I guess I should include it.
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I was playing with Bruce, and he said he liked this.
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And so I guess I should probably include that.
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And then I ran in, I was working with Paul McCartney, and Paul said he liked this.
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Cool.
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So, James, you know some people.
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Okay, got it.
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But that led to the discussion of, okay, those were his five, sort of.
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And then you listed your top five, which, Dwayne, how many did you include in your top five?
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Nine.
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And then I added another one later that I had forgotten.
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So I came to my top five-ish with 10.
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Sherry did manage to, to submit five.
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Actually, you can close your eyes, shower the people, frozen man, sweet baby James and handyman, all of which made my top 10 plus sun on the moon, Carolina in my mind every day, October road and handyman.
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You added Shower the People live version, which was an excellent note.
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That's a different song.
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It really, yes.
The nature and impact of top five lists
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Yeah.
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Arnold McCullough.
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Yes.
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And I added I will follow.
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That was the other one.
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Greg submitted his entire discography and moved on.
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Thanks, Greg.
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They're all good dogs, Bront.
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So yeah, five is arbitrarily stupid, according to Sherry.
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So, oh, you also wanted to add copper line.
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And as long as we're putting together a James Taylor playlist, why not?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Sherry did point out five is arbitrarily stupid.
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Even James couldn't come up with his own five.
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I did point out, however, just to defend this, how do we have silly arguments over unimportant things if you don't enforce arbitrary rules?
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Without give me your top five or who is on your Mount Rushmore debates, sports talk radio would have like 40% less content.
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Wait a minute.
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Now I see Sherry's point.
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Okay.
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And Greg's like, there's no rules whole thing.
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I got to move on to something important.
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Like where the Bears are going to build their stadium.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Like in Fort Dodge.
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Seriously.
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Uh, let's see.
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So that was, that was, that was, that was a feedback, right?
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Okay.
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That was all the feedback.
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Well, by the time we covered them by the, when we covered the minion story, the minion ice skater story.
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Yes.
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It was a thing by the time we released the podcast, uh,
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Universal and Illumination and Comcast and NBC read the room.
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I believe they listened to our podcast.
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Without us having released it.
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Look, they run the Internet, so they probably have ways.
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Well, we're recording this on the Internet already.
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Yeah.
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So somebody.
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Yes.
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My guess is somebody is always listening.
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That's not a guess.
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Uh, anyway, uh, they came to their senses and granted him whatever kind of waiver he needed in order to be able to dance like a minion on ice skates.
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Banana.
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Anyway, I'm just imagining here's what happened.
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Somebody in legal got ahold of this and sent the letter.
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Yes.
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And then he said that became public.
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And then somebody in marketing ran down the hall loudly yelling, what the hell did you do?
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I thought we were supposed to protect our trade.
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Not this way.
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On the other hand, you did get us a lot of exposure.
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Is it great?
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No.
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Can we work with it?
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Probably.
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Now we look like the good guys after we were the bad guys.
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Okay, we'll spin it.
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Stop helping me.
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Just stop.
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Stop helping me.
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15 years from now, that lawyer is going to have his own Netflix special starring Channing Tatum as Letterman.
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He was the guy who brought down the Olympics.
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I thought there'd be more to this.
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Nope, that's about it.
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No, not really.
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So I'm not really sure whether it's an actually or not.
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I mean, we were right at the time.
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It was true when we recorded it.
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I'll tell you what I know, true or not, Joanne.
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Let's see.
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And then Danny wanted us to cover under follow-up.
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The next segment.
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The next segment would be follow-up.
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Next segment.
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This is another chapter.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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Follow-up.
Olympic controversies and bizarre stories
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Follow-up.
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Danny wanted us to cover the other crotch enhancement story in the Olympics.
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Todd.
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So last week when it was a simpler time, we were discussing the
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how the ski jumpers, I believe from Norway, were alleged to have added extra material to their suits to give a bigger cross section to create more lift.
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Well, if you have extra material in your suit that you don't need, people consider that cheating.
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So somebody had the good idea that if the men took a syringe and injected a fluid in the
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wherever you want to inject the fluid, then you got fitted for your suit, you would need extra material.
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Therefore, it wouldn't be illegal.
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It'd be stupid, but it wouldn't be illegal.
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What concerns me, by the way, is I said fluid.
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Because I'm going to be completely honest.
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I saw the headlines and I'm like, I don't want to read this.
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I don't.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Like, look, I did my tour of duty on Favre.
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I don't need to read this.
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But multiple places, they use the word acid as a part of the injection.
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And I thought, well, that's not going to have the effect you want.
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Short term effect versus long term effect.
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Well, it's the short-term effect to get the long-term effect, but that's a different thing.
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That's not.
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That's a different kind of crotch enhancement.
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Jesus.
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I just read.
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I literally, though, I read that and I'm like, well, I don't even know what to do at this point.
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I just I don't.
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I don't.
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Also, the story is blowing up.
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Were you sitting on that for a while?
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No, actually that just came to me.
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That one just came to me.
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Yeah.
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Sorry.
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I was just wondering if this entire thing you came up like, like on Saturday morning, you were in the car headed to referee a game and you're like blowing up.
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All right.
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I just got to get us.
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I just, I got the, I got the end point.
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I just got to get Todd to talk in this and I can get us to that point.
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Yeah.
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About four or five minutes.
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There we go.
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That's the rest of it.
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I don't just, we go from the premise from there.
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Okay.
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So setting that story aside, let's see, what do we got next?
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Todd's tech corner as brought to us by the Taylor center for technology policy.
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Yes.
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However, that will be co that will be guest hosted by Dwayne on this episode.
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Oh, well, I just have just an announcement.
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So as we all know, toddlers, you've heard me promote Wakey Wakey over and over.
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This is not promotions.
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This is Tech Corner.
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The little piece of software where we were talking about using wine or whiskey or whatever to play Wakey Wakey on the Mac and that whole thing went bye bye.
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So wait, wakey wakey didn't go bye-bye.
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Wine went bye-bye for wait, but usually does lead whiskey went bye-bye.
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Please continue.
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I'm just, so I'm not going to diagram this sentence is what I'm saying.
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Okay.
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Crossover is the piece of software that you can use to run windows programs.
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on a Mac.
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It's called crossover.
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You can Google it.
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And right now it's on sale through February 17th for 26% off.
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So, um, there's a code, just Google crossover and Mac, and you can find it.
00:19:03
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Uh, and the code is, uh,
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I'm going to now sound like I'm actually doing an ad read.
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CXRX26 is the code to use to get 26% off crossover.
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And it is absolutely endorsed by talking to Todd.
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No, that's not what we do around here.
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Anyway, if you want to play Wakey Wakey on your Mac or anything else that you can't play on your Mac, get crossover and you can do it right now at 26% off.
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And I highly recommend because that's how,
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co-hosts of Talking to Todd play Wakey Wakey.
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Is that the ad read we were looking for?
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I mean, it's not the ad revenue we were looking for, but I guess it is the ad read.
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Okay.
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Okay.
00:19:53
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So following off of Todd's tech corner, technical corner,
00:20:00
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Are you saying this is another chapter in our show?
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This would be another chapter.
00:20:03
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Dwayne's technical corner?
00:20:05
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Okay.
00:20:05
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Yes, this would be the next chapter in our show.
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That's right.
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So I've got... We got to get better at that, by the way.
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I mean, there's two on point.
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That's no good.
00:20:18
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So I have one regular season game left this year.
Humorous tales from basketball officiating
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I've had a couple of stories of things that I've heard from fans in the crowd that I thought maybe would be, I might share.
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Okay.
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Cause we were out in, we're out in Nottoway Valley a couple of weeks ago and I'm, and the game is, and the game is, we're live, ball's live.
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And I'm in a position where I'm standing right in front of student, the student section, home student section.
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And the ball gets loose and goes the other way.
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And from behind me in the student section, one of the kids yells, Tripper.
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And I'm busy running.
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So I'm running.
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Off we go.
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Down to the.
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Big three companies, three companies fan.
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Apparently, apparently was.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And then when we came back down to the other end, there was a teacher or administrator or something sitting next to the student section.
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And we were at a break and I looked at him and I said, so did you hear one of the kids yell trip her?
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Yeah, we're not going to do that.
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And he stands right up, turns around, faces the student section.
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Okay, which one of you morons yelled trip her?
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which was fantastic.
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I'm laughing right there on the court.
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I'm laughing, you know, because, you know, while trip her, isn't, it's not nice and it's not good sportsmanship.
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You know, the way it was handled was, was funny.
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And, you know, and, and we just moved on right on Monday night, we're down at twin C and the athletic director,
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is one of the bench personnel.
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I don't know if she was running the clock or the shot clock or something.
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Anyway, she was on the bench, so she was otherwise occupied to the extent that no one is chaperoning the student section, which clearly needed chaperoning because at one point during the game, one of the kids yells, punch him in the throat.
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And again, we were at a break and I turned around, stared down the student section and this girl in the third row looks at me and goes, huh, sorry.
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She gave herself up.
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At which point I walked across the floor, motioned to my partners that we were going to take a timeout, sent the kids to the bench, walked across the floor to the athletic director and told her, one of your students shouted, punch him in the throat.
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And she's going to need to leave the gym because we're not going to do that here.
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She's like, really?
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I said, yes, she's gone.
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At which point she got up from the bench, walked across and escorted the student out of the gym.
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You can be loud.
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You can be funny.
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Even really at this point, clearly the line is you can say that you want to trip someone, but you can't threaten physical violence against your opponent.
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That's where I draw the line.
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I found the line.
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Wasn't exactly sure where it was.
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Figured out that's where it was.
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Yes.
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We're not going to do that.
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Yeah.
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Let me, let me throw out a scenario that you probably didn't consider.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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I'm going to,
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You have a couple of pieces of information and you made some decisions based off of that.
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I did, yes.
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Which is you need to do.
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I get this.
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But what if, let me throw this out.
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What if that girl who just got escorted from the gym, somebody on their own team, the home team, right?
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What if somebody on the home team had just broken up with her and that shout wasn't for her team to punch the opposing team in the throat?
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She was encouraging the road team to exact revenge.
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On an ex-boyfriend?
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On an ex-boyfriend.
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Did you consider that?
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Let me ask you this.
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Did you consider that that was a possibility before you had her walked out of the gym?
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I have to say no.
00:25:08
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Honestly, I have to say no, but that's why I bring these stories to you, Todd.
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Thank you.
00:25:13
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That's a valuable lesson.
00:25:14
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So next year, before you do that, I want you to stop and think, could there be another explanation for this?
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Well, I had one kid earlier this year claim that
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When he shouted, that wasn't a foul, that he wasn't talking to me.
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He was talking to his dad in the stands.
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Okay.
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Fair enough.
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Bald face lie.
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But sure.
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Why not?
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Yeah.
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I mean, man, I, you know, give the kids some credit for it, at least to come up with that.
00:25:51
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I mean, I, again, this is where you get to the point of,
00:25:57
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Man, you can't, what is this?
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What is this?
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I can't believe you're taking all the fun out of the game.
00:26:02
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This is, that wasn't taunting.
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Okay.
00:26:05
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No, no, no.
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Here's the thing.
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Like, look, look, if your opponent's directly in front of you and you do that, that's taunting.
00:26:11
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If, if you do it 270 degrees in any other direction,
00:26:17
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Exactly.
00:26:18
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That's celebrating.
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That's celebrating.
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What he was saying was that wasn't directed at you.
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That was directed at a 90 degree angle, even though he may have been looking at you.
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Okay.
00:26:31
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So last night.
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Yeah.
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Jesus.
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I'm just unloading right now.
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Sure.
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Why not?
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Last night.
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where I called a foul down low in the girls game report, turn around, we're going to shoot free throws.
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The two knucklehead assistant coaches behind me with my back to them, one of them said, wow, I really wish we could get calls like that.
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And I turned around and I looked at him and I said, sorry, are you the head coach?
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I was talking to him.
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I wasn't talking to you.
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Sure you were.
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And I turned around and off we went.
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I didn't hear a peep out of him the whole rest of the game, not the whole rest of the game.
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Knuckleheads.
00:27:13
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I'm now, I'm now realizing that if I was involved in either the coaching staff or in the crowd of a game that you, that you were the referee of the odds of me seeing the end of the game are incredibly low.
00:27:38
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You know, here's the thing.
00:27:39
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I said, I said, I've got one regular season doubleheader left here.
00:27:43
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Yeah.
00:27:44
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Everybody is cranky at this point in the year.
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Everybody is cranky.
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I'm just going to put that out there.
00:27:50
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Yeah.
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Because, I mean, here's the thing.
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And this is, this is why I keep, you know, Lisa, we watch games and Lisa's like, man, you'd make it to me.
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She's like, you'd make a terrible official.
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And she's not wrong for a variety of reasons.
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Yeah.
00:28:05
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Because the level of knuckleheadedness that I would put up with, in theory, is a significantly small amount.
00:28:12
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On the other hand, what did the coach say behind your back to you?
00:28:18
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I was talking to him.
00:28:19
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I wasn't talking to you.
00:28:20
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What was his statement, though, he made?
00:28:22
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Oh, I wish we could get calls like that.
00:28:25
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Because my first instinct would be to turn around and go, and I wish your team was playing better so I could give you calls like that.
00:28:30
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But neither one of us is getting anything that we want tonight, so let's just get through this.
00:28:34
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turn around and go to the other end.
00:28:37
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No, I really can't say that.
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You might want to.
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You don't know how much I would want to.
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Hey, remember, remember, you can say anything in your last game as a ref.
00:28:49
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Sometimes you just sometimes it's decided before the game.
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It's your last game.
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And sometimes you decide during the game.
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It's your last game.
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But on your last game, you can say anything you want.
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I said that in the locker room last night.
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Somebody suggested we go out sleeveless in shorts.
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Sleeveless ref jerseys and wear shorts.
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And I'm like, we can do anything we want if it's our last game.
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Sure.
00:29:19
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Oh, okay.
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So, yes.
00:29:22
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So we haven't done a ton of technical corner this year because I have not given very many technicals.
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But it's not that there haven't been stories.
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There just haven't been technicals.
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Oh, which means it's probably time for this.
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Dwayne's never going to guess it.
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Who, me?
00:29:40
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Never ever going to guess it.
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I don't know.
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No, Dwayne's never going to guess it.
00:29:43
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Yas, queen.
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Never ever going to guess it.
00:29:48
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That's right.
00:29:49
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That sound means it's time for America's favorite segment, Dwayne Guess a Number.
Betting absurdities at the Super Bowl
00:29:56
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Okay, Todd, what did you bring this week?
00:29:58
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Okay.
00:29:59
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Just so everybody's clear, right up front, Dwayne's going to get to guess two numbers.
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These are both... Thanks, Eli.
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That might be my one for the year.
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These are both... Last weekend was the Super Bowl, and these are Super Bowl-adjacent numbers, although they don't have anything to do with sports.
00:30:17
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Okay.
00:30:17
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Hey, by the way, Dwayne, what did I label this segment as?
00:30:21
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You called it Murky Mark and the Funky Trees.
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Yes.
00:30:25
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Yes.
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So number one, uh, number, number, number one.
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Yes.
00:30:31
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Number, number one.
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That would be, that would be correct.
00:30:34
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Doesn't sound like it.
00:30:35
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Have you heard about the non-betting betting platforms that have popped up everywhere?
00:30:41
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The prediction markets?
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Polymarket?
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Polymarket, also Calci.
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Calci's a big one.
00:30:49
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I don't know if you've heard of that one.
00:30:50
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I'm not familiar with that one.
00:30:51
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Polymarket won a cracker, but yes.
00:30:53
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Okay.
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Okay.
00:30:55
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So they will let you trade on the futures of anything, which is basically betting, but they're saying they're not betting.
00:31:03
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That's a whole idiot story onto itself.
00:31:05
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As long as it's yes, no questions.
00:31:07
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Yes.
00:31:08
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So...
00:31:13
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There was a market that you could place money on, not betting, whatever, on Kelsey that for the Super Bowl, you could put money down on whether a certain celebrity would attend the Super Bowl or not.
00:31:33
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Okay.
00:31:35
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So the question is, will this person attend the Super Bowl?
00:31:39
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Yes, no.
00:31:40
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There were 32 of them.
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The number one person was Mark Wahlberg for reasons that aren't totally clear.
00:31:58
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According to David Purdom, who covers sports betting, I believe, for ESPN.
00:32:06
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He noted how much money was wagered on Kalshi regarding the question of whether Mark Wahlberg would attend the game or not.
00:32:16
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Dwayne, how much money was wagered on Kalshi on the question of will Mark Wahlberg attend the Super Bowl or not?
00:32:28
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And this counts people voting both yes and no.
00:32:33
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Yeah, it's people... Total wagers.
00:32:36
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Total dollars wagered.
00:32:37
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Total dollars wagered on the yes and no side.
00:32:40
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So you want me to wager a guess on the wagering?
00:32:45
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Exactly.
00:32:46
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You figured this game out.
00:32:48
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I have.
00:32:48
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Yes.
00:32:49
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Okay.
00:32:51
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I don't know the foggiest idea.
00:32:53
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So full disclosure, earlier this week...
00:33:00
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Maybe yes.
00:33:02
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Uh, there was on Monday, there was a what a day podcast totally focused on sports wagering and they covered these kinds of questions and these kinds of markets where you, you know, so you, you bet
00:33:23
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you know, everything's a dollar.
00:33:25
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And so you're buying shares of 20 cents on the dollar to figure out how much you're going to actually win.
00:33:30
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And there was kind of a deep dive into like questions like this specifically where someone can affect the outcome just by showing up at the Superbowl if they know that their name is on the betting list.
00:33:45
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Right.
00:33:46
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So it doesn't exactly seem fair.
00:33:48
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And the prediction markets specifically don't limit the
00:33:54
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Mark Wahlberg could have put his own money on this.
00:33:57
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Yes.
00:33:59
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And then made a decision on how to get his money.
00:34:03
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Yes.
00:34:04
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Yes.
00:34:05
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Yeah.
00:34:05
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There's no, there's, there's, there's,
00:34:09
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There's no regulation over these at all.
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None at all.
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None at all.
00:34:14
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None of it.
00:34:14
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Okay.
00:34:15
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I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a hint though.
00:34:18
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Okay.
00:34:18
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So, so Mark Wahlberg.
00:34:20
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Long enough to get a hint.
00:34:22
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Fantastic.
00:34:22
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Got to move this along somehow.
00:34:24
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Okay.
00:34:25
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So, so there were 32 celebrities that you could put your wager on.
00:34:31
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Okay.
00:34:32
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Mark was, Mark had the most money put on him.
00:34:35
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The second highest celebrity that you could wager was,
00:34:41
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was President Donald Trump showing up.
00:34:44
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And the amount of money that was wagered on that after he said he wasn't going to show up was $4.6 million.
00:34:56
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Oh, wow.
00:34:57
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So that's number two.
00:34:59
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That was second.
00:35:00
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Will the president of the United States show up at the Super Bowl?
00:35:04
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$4.2 million took both sides of that.
00:35:10
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So how much money was wagered on Mark Wahlberg?
00:35:13
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You know, and in my mind before getting that number, I was going to say, I don't know, three and a half mil.
00:35:18
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OK, so that seems low.
00:35:20
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And I think it has to be just a crazy number just because of how you're talking about it and that Trump and we know that Trump wasn't going to be there and he still got four point.
00:35:32
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I don't know, 16 million dollars.
00:35:36
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You're low.
00:35:37
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Jesus.
00:35:41
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Am I still low if I double it?
00:35:44
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Oh, you'd go over at that point.
00:35:46
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So you're in there's your, there's your range.
00:35:48
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$25 million.
00:35:48
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You know what?
00:35:50
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You give yourself a bell for that.
00:35:57
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$23.7 million were wagered on the question.
00:36:01
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Will Mark Wahlberg show up at the Superbowl?
00:36:06
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Fun fact, as of Monday night,
00:36:09
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Kalshi had yet to settle the market on whether he was there or not.
00:36:14
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So nobody knows.
00:36:16
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Well, in the meantime, Mark knows in Jenny McCarthy might.
00:36:21
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Yeah.
00:36:22
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Well, and the might wait, is she with Mark Wahlberg or Donnie Wahlberg?
00:36:28
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Did you get the wrong Wahlberg?
00:36:29
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I think I may have gotten the wrong Wahlberg that, that,
00:36:33
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statement stands on its own jimmy he still might know sure you might i might jenny mccarthy might who knows exactly i'm just naming random people yes yeah because and here's the crazy thing
00:36:47
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As of Monday night, because they hadn't settled it, you could still trade futures on it.
00:36:53
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Oh, sweet Lord.
00:36:54
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So by Monday night, no was trading at 98% probability.
00:37:00
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So this is 24 hours after the event and people are still trading on if something happened or not.
00:37:08
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Okay.
00:37:09
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That's, that's number that is, that's the first one.
00:37:13
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Okay.
00:37:13
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Okay.
00:37:15
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Number two, number, number two.
00:37:18
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Did you happen?
00:37:19
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I know you guys were at the theater, but did you happen to see any of the halftime show?
00:37:25
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I caught replays.
00:37:26
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Yes.
00:37:27
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Okay.
00:37:28
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Did you see all the trees on the field?
00:37:31
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The people dressed up as trees.
00:37:34
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The people dressed up as trees.
00:37:35
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Yes, I did.
00:37:36
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Okay.
00:37:37
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Okay.
00:37:38
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So which to me, I don't know, looked like sugar cane, but okay.
00:37:43
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Yes, sure.
00:37:44
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Trees.
00:37:45
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Okay.
00:37:45
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Whatever.
00:37:46
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So as you pointed out, those are people inside of there.
00:37:50
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Got to get them on the field some way.
00:37:52
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That was a pain gig.
00:37:56
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These, the, everybody's, nobody on this field is performing.
00:37:59
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Nobody's performing for, they're not volunteering.
00:38:02
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These are paid gigs.
00:38:04
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Dwayne.
00:38:05
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How much did the person, Todd, use your words, how much did a person dressed up as a tree get paid for the Super Bowl to participate in the Super Bowl?
00:38:21
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Let me put it this way.
00:38:22
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To participate in the Super Bowl, how much did they get paid?
00:38:25
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Yeah, I said we were at a performance.
00:38:27
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Little did you know, I was actually tree 428.
00:38:30
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It's going on my resume.
00:38:37
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I'm just going to throw this out from Superbowl.
00:38:39
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Instead of saying tree 428, you want to call yourself left tree.
00:38:43
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You're probably going to get more.
00:38:45
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I just, I think you're right.
00:38:47
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I think I would get more traction that way.
00:38:49
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Yeah.
00:38:49
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Yeah.
00:38:50
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Yes.
00:38:51
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Yeah.
00:38:51
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Left tree, left tree killed it.
00:38:56
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I think they made $238.
00:39:01
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I'm going to tell you, by the way, not just for the, not just for halftime, but they did have to participate in rehearsal.
00:39:07
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Right.
00:39:08
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So yes.
00:39:08
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So they got paid for the rehearsal and the performance, which they had to be early for to be in makeup.
00:39:16
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I'm guessing it's SAP.
00:39:17
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Okay, sure.
00:39:18
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Yes.
00:39:18
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Okay.
00:39:19
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You're going to leave that one alone.
00:39:20
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Okay.
00:39:20
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I get it.
00:39:22
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Do I need to, do I need to make another guess?
00:39:24
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Am I going to go out on a limb here?
00:39:28
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You don't even need me for this portion.
00:39:29
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So I'm just, you just keep, just let me know when you're done.
00:39:32
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I'm going to, I'm going to go grab something to drink and then you just keep doing this and then just, you, when you're done, let me know.
00:39:37
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Yep.
00:39:37
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So no roots.
00:39:38
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Here we go.
00:39:38
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Yes.
00:39:38
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Let's do it.
00:39:39
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Okay.
00:39:42
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I guess $238.
00:39:43
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Was I right?
00:39:45
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Uh, you were low.
00:39:48
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Really?
00:39:49
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Good for performers.
00:39:51
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Yes.
00:39:52
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Want to take another one?
00:39:52
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Want to take another shot? 750.
00:39:57
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You're still low.
00:39:58
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So the way the math works out is the people who played the trees were paid $18.70 an hour.
00:40:03
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Okay.
00:40:04
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And between rehearsal and the show, they put in about 70 hours worth of work.
00:40:15
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So total pay for this gig was $1,309.
00:40:17
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Okay.
00:40:20
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Wow.
00:40:21
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Which I think if I'm not mistaken is more than bad bunny made for performing.
00:40:28
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Supposedly they cover, uh, the NFL covers the cost, but they don't pay the performer.
00:40:32
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Exactly.
00:40:34
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Yeah.
00:40:36
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Oh, that's a better question.
00:40:38
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Who made more money left tree or bad bunny?
00:40:45
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Yeah.
00:40:46
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All right.
00:40:46
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So I can't give you a bell on that one.
00:40:48
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Nope.
00:40:48
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You were under, however, it does point out that being a tree for bad Bonnie is a much, much better job than being a full-time delivery driver for Amazon.
00:41:01
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Yeah, but the gig only comes along once a year.
00:41:04
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True.
00:41:05
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I get that.
00:41:06
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But at 10 cents a package, it's going to take you a little while to make that up.
00:41:10
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Anyway, there you go.
00:41:10
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There are some Super Bowl adjacent, Super Bowl adjacent numbers.
00:41:16
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I brought you two stories for our Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week this year.
Chaos at El Paso airport: A drone incident
00:41:31
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uh, the two stories, both of these, I'm looking at these, which I just, unless you're messing with me, it feels like both of these needs the other theme.
00:41:40
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Both of them do need the other theme.
00:41:42
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One of them is a bridge too far.
00:41:44
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And the second one is El Paso.
00:41:50
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Um, let's go with El Paso.
00:41:54
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So the summary, did you, so did you see this morning?
00:42:01
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I did see that people trying to leave El Paso, a city of 700,000 people, were notified that the airport was shut for 10 days on no notice.
00:42:15
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Yes, on no notice.
00:42:17
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So as best as I have been able to pull together today, the Department of Defense...
00:42:27
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war was messing around with some new anti-drone laser systems and ended up shooting down a party balloon.
00:42:37
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The FAA was unaware of the new system.
00:42:41
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They freaked out a little bit, rightfully so, and then requested assurances that the DOD wouldn't put any commercial air traffic at risk.
00:42:53
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At which point the DOD either couldn't
00:42:57
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or wouldn't provide such an assurance.
00:43:01
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At which point the FAA shut down El Paso's airspace.
00:43:06
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Then panic ensued.
00:43:10
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Look, the Air Force has a base right next to it.
00:43:13
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Stuff is going to happen.
00:43:15
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There are drones and there are anti-drone technologies, but...
00:43:22
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If we can't tell the difference in our systems between a commercial airliner and an unmanned aerial, yeah, we have bigger problems.
00:43:38
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Namely that our departments aren't communicating with each other.
00:43:42
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They're all idiots for the record.
00:43:45
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Just going to throw that out there.
00:43:47
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Todd, as our resident air expert, do you have comments on this?
00:43:54
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I don't.
00:43:57
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What do you want me to say here?
00:44:01
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The FAA announcing that an entire metro city's airspace is shut down for 10 days on no notice.
00:44:08
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And then a couple of hours later saying, just kidding, never mind.
00:44:12
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We're good.
00:44:14
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This isn't the way you're supposed to run an air traffic control system.
00:44:18
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I'll just put it at that.
00:44:20
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Like just, anyway, yeah, that's.
00:44:26
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The last time they shut anything down like this was 25 years ago for the record.
00:44:31
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Did a better job then.
00:44:33
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Yo-yo.
00:44:34
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Yeah, so.
00:44:36
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Yo-yo had reasons.
00:44:40
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Anyway, yeah, El Paso.
00:44:43
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When you put this on here, I was thinking, was Dwayne supposed to be in Texas this week?
00:44:49
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Is this why he's home?
00:44:51
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There I was.
00:44:53
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I was over Wichita.
00:44:54
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And suddenly the pilot says, I don't know what to tell you, man, but we're going back.
00:44:59
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I don't know what to do.
00:45:01
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I mean, have you been to El Paso?
00:45:05
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I don't believe so.
00:45:08
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Nothing against anyone who lives in El Paso, knows someone in El Paso, loves someone in El Paso.
00:45:13
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I've been to El Paso.
00:45:15
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El Paso is no Jack Kennedy.
00:45:18
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I spent a month there one weekend.
00:45:23
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It's fine.
00:45:23
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Yeah.
00:45:24
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Yeah.
00:45:24
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I was looking to verify.
00:45:25
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I'm like, where was I?
00:45:26
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Oh, I was in Lubbock.
00:45:28
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So, you know.
00:45:29
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Same thing, only different.
00:45:32
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Yeah, that was awesome.
00:45:35
Speaker
How about you?
00:45:36
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What did you bring?
00:45:38
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Did you happen to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics?
Commentary critique during Olympics Parade of Nations
00:45:41
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Not a single minute of it.
00:45:43
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Okay.
00:45:45
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Consider yourself lucky.
00:45:46
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So we watched it.
00:45:52
Speaker
You know, NBC wants to do the opening ceremonies the same way they do parade coverage, right?
00:45:59
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Which is...
00:46:01
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You've got to explain what's happening on stage, which to be honest, you kind of need to explain what's happening on stage.
00:46:06
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Cause I don't know what this means or whatever.
00:46:08
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And they're throwing out the whatever.
00:46:09
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Fine.
00:46:10
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We started watching that and Lisa's like, and because that happened, that happened in the, uh, around noon, our time we were watching it Friday night.
00:46:19
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And Lisa's like, I don't, I don't care about all of the history of Italy through modern dance or whatever.
00:46:25
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Just, I just want to see the parade of nations.
00:46:27
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You just want to see the athletes.
00:46:28
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Like this is about the Olympic games.
00:46:29
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Let's, let's see the athletes.
00:46:31
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So we fast forward and we get to the parade of athletes and they did something really cool because they
00:46:37
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There are four different geographically dispersed locations that are having this.
00:46:41
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When I say geographically dispersed, I believe between Milan and Cortina is over 400 kilometers, so more than a couple hundred miles.
00:46:49
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So not all of these athletes could even get to Milan for the opening ceremonies.
00:46:55
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So they had a parade of athletes at all four locations.
00:46:59
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So the athletes would come out in Milan, and then the ones that were in Cortina would also come out
00:47:05
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through like a similar arch and then they, so they could show all the athletes, which was very nice.
00:47:10
Speaker
That's fine.
00:47:11
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That's not the idiots, but they wanted to have the, uh, they wanted to have a former Olympian there to talk about what this means.
00:47:20
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So they invited Sean White noted snowboarder.
00:47:25
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Sure.
00:47:26
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So here's how the parade of nations went.
00:47:29
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Argentina.
00:47:31
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And as the Argentina athletes are walking out, Sean said, oh, Argentina is a great place.
00:47:37
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I go there.
00:47:38
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I go there every every summer you go down to because it's great skiing.
00:47:42
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I love it down there.
00:47:43
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It's an amazing, great people, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
00:47:46
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Oh, OK, cool.
00:47:49
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Austria.
00:47:50
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Sean jumps in.
00:47:51
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You know, I had some great races in Austria and it was amazing.
00:47:55
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And they've got these places here and I had this like great food there.
00:47:59
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Okay.
00:48:00
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Australia.
00:48:01
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Sean jumps in.
00:48:03
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So I've been to Australia a couple of times and I had some great stuff here.
00:48:07
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Like, okay, great.
00:48:08
Speaker
We get this right.
00:48:10
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Then it continues because it's not just Sean's travel log.
00:48:15
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Then you get to...
00:48:18
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You get to Japan.
00:48:20
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Oh, I won some medals there and that was a great Olympics for me.
00:48:24
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And okay, fine.
00:48:26
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Yes, yes, we know.
00:48:27
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And for the countries he hasn't been to, he then is, and I'm just going to make this one up, let's say Canada.
00:48:34
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Okay, he's been to Canada, but Canada.
00:48:38
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Oh, this is where I founded a business with another guy and our business does really good up there and we sell these things.
00:48:47
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It got to the point, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, here's the note I took to remind myself and I'm going to bleep myself.
00:48:55
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This is the entire note to myself.
00:49:01
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It says, idiot of the week, Sean White, period.
00:49:05
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Shut the up.
00:49:07
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That's the whole note.
00:49:09
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We turned off the volume.
00:49:13
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So we didn't have to hear Sean White make the parade of Olympic athletes.
00:49:19
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Every single country, he had a story about him, about his snowboarding, his business, or athletes who he was supporting from that.
00:49:30
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It was literally...
00:49:33
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The problem I have, I'm just going to be honest, right?
00:49:35
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I was like, Lisa's like, you would think that somebody, a producer would be getting in his ear and telling him to knock it off.
00:49:41
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And I'm like, I think the problem is, I think this is what they want.
00:49:45
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They want his perspective.
00:49:47
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She's like, nobody wants this.
00:49:49
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That's what we paid for.
00:49:53
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And if you look at reaction, if you want some fun, because most news stories now are just people that go take screen grabs from X and call it a news story.
00:50:02
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But if you want to have some fun, just go look at reaction to opening ceremony, Sean White.
00:50:08
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You will find...
00:50:11
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Hundreds or thousands of people who shared this same level of for us.
00:50:15
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Just shut up.
00:50:17
Speaker
I just let the athletes tell us something about the damn country other than what month and year Sean White was there.
00:50:25
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Like, I don't.
00:50:25
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This is like a worst game of where's Waldo because you know where Waldo is every damn country.
00:50:31
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Anyway, just.
00:50:33
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Oh, anyway.
00:50:34
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Cool.
00:50:35
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That was good.
00:50:36
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Olympics.
00:50:37
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Gotta love him.
00:50:38
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But not Sean White.
00:50:40
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I feel better now.
00:50:41
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Thank you.
00:50:44
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Got that off your chest.
00:50:46
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Thank goodness I have a podcast.
00:50:49
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So you've been watching the Olympics.
00:50:51
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That's what we've been watching.
00:50:52
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What have we been watching?
00:50:52
Speaker
The Olympics.
00:50:54
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Sometimes with the sound off, but we've been watching a lot of the Olympics.
00:50:58
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How about you?
00:50:58
Speaker
What have you been watching?
00:51:00
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Curling.
00:51:02
Speaker
I watched a little bit of Schemo.
00:51:05
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:51:06
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Okay.
00:51:06
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Which we covered last week.
00:51:08
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Yeah.
00:51:09
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It was the part I was envisioning that they were just random climbing.
00:51:16
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They were climbing sections that have been specifically set up to practice their climbing.
00:51:22
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Yeah.
00:51:24
Speaker
Which, you know, isn't like off-roading.
00:51:27
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I thought it would be more like off-roading, but, but it wasn't still cool.
00:51:32
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But not what you thought.
00:51:34
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No, it was not what I thought.
00:51:36
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Also, I watched us come in nearly dead last in biathlon.
00:51:40
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And one of my friends commented about how we should really rethink this whole invading Greenland thing because everyone's kicking our ass and skiing and shooting.
00:51:52
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I'm like, yep, we're not good at this.
00:51:56
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This is not going well.
00:51:58
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This is fantastic.
00:51:59
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On the other hand, every four years when biathlon comes around, everybody makes fun of, why the hell would you have a sport?
00:52:06
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Why would anybody ever need to do cross-country skiing and shooting?
00:52:11
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Now everybody goes, oh, I get it.
00:52:14
Speaker
I get it.
00:52:14
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Yeah.
00:52:15
Speaker
It didn't start off as a sport, did it?
00:52:17
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Yeah.
00:52:18
Speaker
Huh.
00:52:18
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That makes sense.
00:52:19
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But we did want to know who was fastest.
00:52:24
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Yeah.
00:52:26
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You get a medal.
00:52:27
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You don't.
True crime recommendation: 'Rogue Agent'
00:52:29
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We watched a movie called Rogue Agent on Netflix.
00:52:33
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Okay.
00:52:34
Speaker
Have you seen this?
00:52:36
Speaker
I know.
00:52:36
Speaker
It's a couple of years old.
00:52:40
Speaker
It's a true story about a guy who says he's a MI5 agent.
00:52:50
Speaker
Oh, I've heard about this a bit.
00:52:53
Speaker
and then convinces these students that he's an MI5 agent and then basically kidnaps them and then changes his identity.
00:53:05
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It turns out he's not an MI5 agent.
00:53:07
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Spoiler alert.
00:53:08
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Shocker.
00:53:10
Speaker
And then convinces others along the way with this story, this
00:53:19
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because he's a con man.
00:53:21
Speaker
True story.
00:53:22
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And it's on Netflix.
00:53:24
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Just a movie, not a series.
00:53:28
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It is intense.
00:53:29
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It's very good.
00:53:31
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It's very good.
00:53:31
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That's the thing that we're watching.
00:53:32
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Just one thing this week, plus the Olympics.
00:53:35
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That's what I brought for the what we're watching segment.
00:53:41
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So the last segment of this week and every week.
00:53:45
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What'd you learn this week?
00:53:47
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Yeah, so I learned this a couple of weeks ago, but I brought it this week because we've had some other stuff to discuss.
00:53:56
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So Operation Mincemeat, which we've covered here many, many times.
00:54:01
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Is that any good?
00:54:02
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Sorry.
00:54:02
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It's pretty good.
00:54:03
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It's pretty good.
00:54:06
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It's one of the ones in my top five of eight.
00:54:09
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Anyway, so the original cast who have, many of the, three of them have written in it, where three of the four people that wrote it are in the cast.
00:54:21
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The cast that originated this on the West End, after that, they went and opened it on Broadway, and they have been performing on Broadway, and that's the cast that you've seen, right?
00:54:33
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Yes.
00:54:34
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Yeah.
00:54:35
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We saw on the West end, the first time we went, we saw four of the five.
00:54:40
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And then last May, while I was in New York, I saw, I saw all five.
00:54:46
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They announced that after nearly seven years of playing these characters, I,
00:54:53
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that the cast is going to, they're handing off the parts to the next cast in Broadway.
00:55:03
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So it's going to, an American cast is actually going to take over.
00:55:06
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And their last performance was scheduled to be the matinee on Sunday, February 22nd.
00:55:16
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And I said, hey, the last cast, I mean, their last show is going to be on February 22nd.
00:55:23
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So I looked.
00:55:25
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Uh-huh.
00:55:27
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Completely sold out.
00:55:28
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There's a wait list.
00:55:31
Speaker
That's unfortunate.
00:55:33
Speaker
Are tickets available on a secondary market, Todd?
00:55:37
Speaker
I don't know because we bought tickets for the Saturday night performance on the 21st.
00:55:45
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Good for you.
00:55:47
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So next weekend after work on Friday, we will be flying to New York to see what we thought was the second to last.
00:55:55
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They since have added another show on Sunday night, which by the way, if you bought tickets for the Sunday matinee thinking this was the last performance of the original cast.
00:56:05
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And then they said, you know what?
00:56:07
Speaker
There's another show.
00:56:09
Speaker
What?
00:56:11
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Anyway, so this will not be the penultimate performance, but it will be the penultimate, penultimate performance.
00:56:18
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Anyway.
00:56:19
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I think that's how that works.
00:56:20
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Yes.
00:56:21
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Yeah.
00:56:21
Speaker
I'm sure that's how that works.
00:56:22
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So yeah.
00:56:23
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So next weekend we're flying to New York.
00:56:26
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And going to see the original cast one last time.
00:56:30
Speaker
Nope, that's a different show.
00:56:32
Speaker
Perform Operation Mincemeat before they wrap up this six or seven year run of doing this.
00:56:40
Speaker
So what I learned was, well, that performance is sold out.
00:56:44
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I wonder if there's tickets available.
00:56:45
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Yep, right here.
00:56:47
Speaker
And bought.
00:56:47
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:56:49
Speaker
So that's what I learned.
00:56:52
Speaker
How about you?
00:56:53
Speaker
What did you learn?
00:56:54
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Well, you know what?
00:56:55
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I'm going to go.
00:56:55
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We're also going to New York City this summer.
00:57:00
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Have I told you this?
00:57:02
Speaker
No.
00:57:03
Speaker
So Bon Jovi is doing a residency basically at Madison Square Garden.
00:57:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:11
Speaker
He's not singing, is he?
00:57:12
Speaker
What's that?
00:57:13
Speaker
He's not singing, is he?
00:57:14
Speaker
He's just...
00:57:17
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He's just moving in for a while.
00:57:19
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He's moving in for, well, the Knicks are away.
00:57:21
Speaker
He's just moving in.
00:57:22
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It's his residency.
00:57:23
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He's getting his mail there.
00:57:25
Speaker
You could just kind of hang out with him.
00:57:28
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No, his voice has recovered apparently very nicely after the surgery.
00:57:34
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but not so much that he wants to perform every night or wants to go on the road.
00:57:40
Speaker
So they announced these shows on tour and I'm using tours.
00:57:46
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Tour's doing a lot of work there.
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It's like Thursday and then Saturday and then Monday and then Wednesday.
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If you get the pattern here, he's taking a night off every time between sometimes two nights off between concerts.
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But it's all at Madison Square Garden, so he doesn't have to travel.
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And frankly, he can probably sleep in his own bed every night.
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So in July, we're going to go.
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to New York City because this came out and I saw I for Christmas I got I think it was Christmas.
00:58:21
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Maybe it was her birthday.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, I bought Amy tickets to go and the kids are going to go with.
00:58:26
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Hey, Lucas and Anna, do you want to go see Bon Jovi?
00:58:29
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No, I think we'll find something else to do that night.
00:58:31
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Yeah, that's kind of the answer we were expecting.
00:58:36
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Yep, that's pretty much.
00:58:37
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Yep, that's what we were expecting.
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Yep.
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But so because we're going to be there, not just for the concert, I've been tracking other Broadway shows that are going to be out or might still be out or might have extended their runs to still be available.
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And to my delight,
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the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has extended their off-Broadway run past July.
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So I don't know what else we are going to see, but that announcement happened this week, just this last week that they were extending their run.
00:59:22
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This was on my list of my top five-ish musicals.
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So I think that that is one of the things that is going to be on our list when we go see.
00:59:34
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So have you seen this?
00:59:37
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I have not.
00:59:37
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No, we have not.
00:59:38
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Never?
00:59:38
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You've never seen it?
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You guys, if you've got time when you're in New York and it works into your schedule...
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It's so much fun.
00:59:50
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Anyway, that's what I learned this week.
00:59:53
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Very Broadway heavy edition this week on this week I learned.
00:59:59
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Yeah.
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01:00:20
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01:00:22
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Don't think that's, I don't think that's right.
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That's not what they call them?
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No.
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Okay.
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01:00:55
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Todd.
01:00:57
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Two things.
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One, it sounds like it's entirely possible that the snow in New York City will not be melted by the time we go there next weekend.
01:01:07
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And given some reports, it may not have melted by the time you go there in July.
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So just keep an eye on the weather.
01:01:14
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I heard they got a lot of snow.
01:01:16
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Also, while you were recommending this, I have pulled up the ticket site for the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
01:01:27
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And I'm just going to say this.
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This is off-Broadway?
01:01:30
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Yes.
01:01:33
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Off-Broadway prices are more than West End prices.
01:01:39
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Every time you just think, oh, how bad could New York prices be?
01:01:42
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Oh, that bad.
01:01:42
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Oh, yeah, that bad.
01:01:43
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That's a...
01:01:46
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Am I in the cast for that much?
01:01:47
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Like which, which role do I get for Putnam?
01:01:50
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You can be yes.
01:01:53
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Oh yes.
01:01:54
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Some people are selected to go on stage during the performance.
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Yes.
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Excellent.
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Excellent.
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It's my life.
01:02:00
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Which song would you like me to do?
01:02:03
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Not that magic foot.
01:02:06
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I want to do magic foot.
01:02:07
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No, I could do magic foot.
01:02:10
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I could do something from a Vita.
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Would that help?
01:02:15
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Can you spell it?
01:02:18
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I'm sure we're going to have something we need to clean up next week.
01:02:21
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Until then, we're talking to Todd.
01:02:30
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Thank you.
01:02:55
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I also know some stuff from Book of Mormon.
01:02:58
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How about Hasadig Eiba?
01:02:59
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No.
01:03:00
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No.
01:03:01
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Don't?
01:03:02
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No.
01:03:02
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That's shocking.
01:03:06
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I could spell it.
01:03:07
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No, that doesn't help.
01:03:08
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Okay, never mind.
01:03:09
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Not helpful.