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Ep. 315 - Step away from the camel
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Ep. 315, Recorded 3/11/2026. Tourney Talk. Wrong show there, puddin’. All-In Again. Stop the Count! Not my humps. Horny in Detroit. Thanksgiving comes early. Try the lemon pepper wings. Penn is Gr8. Restocking stuffers. It’s a jungle out there.
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Introduction & Podcast Feed Update
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So this is going at the beginning of the episode.
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Is that what we're doing?
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I don't know.
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I don't have a script.
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I only, I only work off of scripts.
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You know what?
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Sure.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Uh, so Hey everybody, if you didn't catch the bonus episode that we, that we dropped a couple of days ago, we're moving.
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Uh, there's a lot more information in the bonus episode.
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Not really, but just enough for you to understand what's going on.
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Not that it really matters.
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Hopefully, hopefully none of it matters.
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Hopefully none of it matters.
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And you recognize and you don't recognize that we moved at all.
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And it's just totally seamless.
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Maybe.
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But if you are listening directly on Podbean or the Podbean app, and we know that some of you are.
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I'm looking at you there, Batchelder.
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In the upcoming weeks, you are going to need to find a different podcast player to listen to us.
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Apple Podcasts, any others, we can help you out.
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Everybody else should be fine.
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Keep listening through Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube or Amazon.
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That's all fine.
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But we are going to be moving where the feed is.
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And we don't want you to all of a sudden one Saturday go, hey, we're talking to Todd.
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Did you guys miss it?
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I haven't missed it, but it's not here.
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We don't want that to happen.
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So if you need any more help with that, the bonus episode talks about it a bit more.
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And if you still need some help from there, just reach out to one of us.
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Thanks, everybody.
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Levels, levels.
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Levels, levels.
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I love you.
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You're on the right one.
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For a second there, I thought we were just doing some like improvisational jazz, like some bebop.
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Like, you're just going to start doing that.
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And then I'm just going to start reading some sort of like slam poetry.
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And like, man, I don't know where we're going with this, but sure, I'll follow.
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You know what?
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The rain.
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The rain.
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It's a musical episode, you know, because Harry Styles dropped a new album this week.
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Did you see this?
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I did not.
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My Harry Styles news alert, I guess, didn't fire off.
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So the album is titled Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally.
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Oh, oh, I can I can absolutely tell that that isn't targeted to me.
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It's not disco.
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I never want to disco occasionally.
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It's it's disco.
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Never.
Casual Banter & Harry Styles Discussion
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Hi, toddlers.
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Welcome to Talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prins, where failure is always an option.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, Todd.
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Hey, how's it going?
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Pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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How are you?
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Uh, not too bad.
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Not too bad.
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Uh, yeah.
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So I didn't, sorry.
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I didn't, I didn't know that that Harry dropped another, although that would explain why he's going to be on Saturday night live next week.
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Isn't it?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah.
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What if, what if you want to disco all the time and kiss occasionally also not the album for you?
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That's going to be the followup album.
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He's sets it.
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He's setting it up.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I thought maybe it was, I don't know, 70s rock.
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It's Kiss all the time.
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And it's disco occasionally.
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Oh yeah, that was a 95 KGGO for a while.
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Wasn't it?
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It was.
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Yes, that's exactly what that was.
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Wasn't there.
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Oh, you know what?
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That was, you know what?
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That was KIFG's slogan for their morning radio before for the original one was kiss all the time, disco occasionally.
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Then they said, that's not working.
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And then they switched to love is you, love is me, love is KIFG.
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And then, and then the people who are writing those slogans got fired.
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That's not true.
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It was the station owner that wrote all those.
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He didn't get fired.
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I don't love radio in the morning.
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Can we go back to that disco occasionally thing?
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Oh, Lord.
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Let's see.
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We should do some feedback, follow-up, and updates.
Feedback and Listener Interactions
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Yes.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Danny was today years old when he found out how the WCC runs their tournament bracket.
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Yeah.
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From on the scale in the WCC.
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Yep.
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That was the only piece of feedback that I got this week.
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If I got more and I've forgotten it, I apologize.
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Toddlers.
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Yeah, I've got some additional, well, I have some feedback, but it's not in feedback.
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It's in, it's in actually.
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So.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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Actually.
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What do we do?
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So Lisa, Lisa and I, we were, we're driving back from the disclosed undisclosed location.
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So we got to listen to the last three.
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We got listened to the last three episodes or the last three episodes.
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She had some notes.
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You, I believe said that you walked out of shocked singing corn pudding.
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That was from Schmigadoon there in lies the correction.
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She's like, she, he didn't walk out of shocked singing corn pudding.
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If he did, it's because he was thinking of Schmigadoon season one.
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It was the third song of the first episode.
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Of the Apple TV plus at the time musical comedy.
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Schmigadoon.
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Now I, I said corrected.
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I believe there is a song in shocked called corn, but corn pudding comes from Schmigadoon comes from Schmigadoon.
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Yes.
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Thank you.
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I, yep.
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Lisa was not impressed.
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I will just, I will just say that not impressed.
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Anyway.
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There you've been duly chastised.
Event Planning and Ticket Fee Frustrations
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Yep.
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Do we have follow-up?
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So I got, I'm going to, I'm going to be next week in Atlanta and I'm going to have a free night.
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So I was looking to see what might be available for,
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for me to go see whether that was, you know, a concert or a play or a musical or just something going on.
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Cause since I'm, I'm there on a Thursday night and I got nothing going on and I can, you know, do whatever I want to.
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So I went to go see what, what might be playing and how I could buy tickets to it.
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So Todd.
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All right.
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AXS, AXS marketplace.
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Hey, it's, oh, oh, look at that.
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It's come from away.
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Excellent.
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Yep.
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Great.
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Oh, and I knew how much you liked it and I knew it was playing.
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I'm like, oh, I could go see this.
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I wonder how much tickets are going to cost me.
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Well, important information.
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This event is using all in pricing.
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Interesting use of capitals there.
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I'm not, anyway, it then says,
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That means you will see the total price of the ticket up front, including mandatory fees before taxes, parentheses, if applicable.
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And then you have to acknowledge that statement.
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I do.
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And then the little note to the left of the important information, Todd says.
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The one that says any applicable taxes are added at checkout.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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So it's not all in.
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Yes.
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It's all in pricing.
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Plus taxes.
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Plus taxes.
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Which this is the back is they capitalized all in all in and the P in pricing.
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So, so there's your mistake.
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See, here's the thing.
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if it was lowercase all in pricing, then you would think that it means all in pricing.
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But because it's capital A, oh, it's capital I, maybe, I don't know, font's weird, and capital P, that's a proper noun, which means that might be a trademark thing, all in pricing.
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What does that include?
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Absolutely nothing.
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But you can't say that.
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Nope, we trademarked it.
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Nope.
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We can say anything we want to.
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And as it turns out, we can charge anything we want to at any point in time.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, I had my own little run in with all in pricing this week that I am like, I'd never seen it before we talked about it.
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And now I saw it a week later.
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It's everywhere.
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So there was that.
Camel Beauty Pageant Controversy
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And then from the watchful eyes of toddler negative 18, I
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This is follow-up from two different kinds of stories.
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One is an animal story.
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And the other one, well, I'm just going to have to read the headline.
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Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables.
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Camel owners had used injections to enhance the camel's lips, dermal fillers around their noses, and silicone wax to enlarge the humps.
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The camel beauty pageant in Oman, again, plunged into chaos as 20 of its competitors were disqualified.
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The part that jumped out at me...
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the disqualified camels had received a mix of injectables, including hyaluronic acid injections for pouty lips.
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Todd, where have we read hyaluronic acid injections?
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Wasn't that the preferred substance of some of our ski jumpers who were injecting that into, let's just say their body to enlarge their bodies, not to have enlarged poutils,
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Thing is, is that they weren't doing it to enlarge their bodies.
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They were doing it to enlarge their suits, which makes me think you're injecting it wrong.
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But apparently somebody looked at that and said, you know what?
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I can make that camel look better.
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Almost anything would make the camel look better.
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Let's be honest.
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Anyway, that's why it's in follow-up is because of the injectables, which we've been covering now since the Olympics started.
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You know, if you find, I'm just going to say this.
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Look, look, not everything's for everybody.
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I get that.
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Go off and do your own thing.
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That's great.
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That's fine.
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I will say this.
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If at any point at like two o'clock in the morning, you find yourself injecting your camel from
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with, with, with, with some enlargement fluid and lip filler.
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At some point you should probably just put everything down for a second and say, is this where I thought I would be at this point in my life?
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Like, like what led me to this?
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And I, am I a good with where I am?
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Put down the needle and step away from the camel.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Jeez.
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Okay.
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It could have been an idiots.
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Instead it was in followup.
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What did you bring for followup?
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All right.
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So this also comes from Lisa.
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Okay.
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So she was listening and heard, she heard your followup about, Oh, I got the small packs.
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And I said, the sample size was too, was, was not, was too small.
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Okay.
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So then you brought the jar and she's like, he didn't go through and count those by hand.
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And I said, oh, no, no, no, wait for it.
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ChatGPT.
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And you said that ChatGPT said there was like 1,200 in those.
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And we buy these from Costco.
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We have them in our pantry.
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And her comment was, that didn't sound right.
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And Duane didn't do the work.
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So two nights ago, she got out a full four-pound peanut M&M's jar from Costco, put on something on the TV, got out a big bowl to dump them into, and then a series of smaller bowls to sort them into, and hand-counted an entire bowl.
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Costco peanut M&M jar.
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Are there numbers to report?
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Can I put them into my spreadsheet?
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I am so excited right now.
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Yes, you can.
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So, so Dwayne, what number did you, do you remember what number chat GPT came up with, with the overall total number?
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It was, it was something like 1200, right?
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Hold on.
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I believe it was 1258.
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Give me a second.
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Okay.
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I should have, I should have warned you that we were going to be doing some math on this.
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I think we've proven at this point that I don't do math at all.
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And neither does chat GPT.
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But anyway.
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Neither here nor there.
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Okay.
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So according to the chat GPT numbers.
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Yes.
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1,258 M&Ms, 438 Browns, which we know was not correct.
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Correct.
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We counted the picture and it was 50-ish.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah.
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So we know all of those were wrong.
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Okay.
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So total number counted by Lisa by hand.
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Do you want to take a guess what the actual retail number was that she counted?
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This is not doing guess number.
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That's later.
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Do you want to just take a guess as to counting by hand?
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I believe, I believe Claude came up with around 900 total is what Claude.
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When I put it into Jim and I, that Jim and I did the, about the same thing.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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About 900.
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Okay.
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True, true count per Lisa print.
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719.
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Dwayne is now updating his spreadsheet.
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Well, because it's a spreadsheet, when you give me each of the individual breakdowns, it will add it up itself.
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Okay.
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So the number one color, blue, 184, which equals 25%.
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Yes.
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Coming in a close, actually three of them are very close.
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Coming in a close second is orange at 179, which gives you 24.89%.
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And the target for blue and orange is each 23 on within the margin of error for both of those.
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Honestly.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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Green came in at 175, which is 24%.
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Yes.
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Over indexed on the green.
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Oh yes, absolutely.
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Green was a big winner.
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Keep that one away from Tucker Carlson.
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Okay.
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Hashtag, if you know, you know.
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Next one up.
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No.
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And then we get sort of a clump at the lower end too.
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Yellow had 62.
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Okay.
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Which is 8.6%.
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Brown at 61.
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And red, sorry, that's 8.4%.
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And red was pulling up the caboose with 58, which is an 8% total.
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Okay.
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Here's the thing.
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The only thing that any of this proves is there is zero consistency.
AI Errors & M&M Counting Humor
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Because when we ran it through Claude and through Gemini, we got numbers that were much closer to these numbers.
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Yes.
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In terms of actual.
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And again, it's entirely possible that.
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Lisa wasn't counting the one that we gave to Claude in Gemini.
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She was counting a different one.
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So there might be some variability.
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But anyway, well, we've learned two things.
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Number one, there's no consistency here.
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Number two, some people just like to count stuff.
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Like that's...
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Raising my hand over here.
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There it is.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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By the way, if anybody wants to know.
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No, I don't.
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I don't like to count stuff.
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Which is why you use ChatGPT.
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I like to use ChatGPT to count stuff.
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Yeah.
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I, by comparison, like to plug things into spreadsheets.
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I don't like to count stuff.
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You just want the numbers.
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There's a difference.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Give me the raw numbers, not the raw peanut.
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Yeah.
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In case anybody's wondering, it's like, wait, how did Lisa do that?
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So by the way, in case you want to count four pounds of painted M&Ms at home as well.
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So she would dump some into a large bowl and then she had six smaller bowls and she would count up to 50 of that color.
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And then when she hit 50, she would
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Then those went back into the container and then there was a hash mark for 50 and then count 50 more and then dump those in and then count up how many was left that didn't get you to 50.
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So it wasn't like put 67, 68, oh, where am I?
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No, no, no.
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Just keep it.
00:19:05
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Keep it to 50 and then move on.
00:19:07
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So anyway, there you go.
00:19:08
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Okay.
00:19:08
Speaker
Because when you ran it through Claude, you got an estimated total of approximately 900 M&Ms.
00:19:16
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Yes.
00:19:18
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With yellow being heavy.
00:19:19
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This is the estimate of my picture.
00:19:22
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Yes.
00:19:23
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Yellow being 3% heavier than...
00:19:28
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than the allocated estimate at 26.9%.
00:19:32
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Yellow at 21, green at 18.7, again on point.
00:19:35
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Blue at 16, red at 11, brown at 5.8%, right at about 50.
00:19:37
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Again, well below the 12% that it could have.
00:19:39
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But when I ran it through Gemini,
00:19:54
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it gave me brown at 54.
00:19:57
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That's the only one that I think is actually correct because it put red at 35 and we know that's not right.
00:20:06
Speaker
And gave us a grand total of 398 M&Ms, which we know to be low.
00:20:12
Speaker
That's, that's not, no, that's not it at all.
00:20:14
Speaker
But it's also not 1258.
00:20:15
Speaker
We've sweet Lord.
00:20:18
Speaker
I'm just remember that's the thing that's going to take our jobs.
00:20:23
Speaker
Yes.
00:20:23
Speaker
AI is failing.
00:20:24
Speaker
At least it's like, you know what?
00:20:25
Speaker
I can handle this.
00:20:26
Speaker
Give me the jar.
00:20:27
Speaker
Give me some, give me some bowls.
00:20:29
Speaker
You know what?
00:20:29
Speaker
We'll just solve this.
00:20:30
Speaker
We'll just, you know what?
00:20:31
Speaker
Just, we're just going to brute force this thing.
00:20:37
Speaker
Anyway, there we go for follow-up.
00:20:38
Speaker
There we go.
00:20:39
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Okay.
00:20:39
Speaker
Fantastic.
00:20:42
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What's, oh, okay.
00:20:45
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Okay.
00:20:47
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Dwayne's never going to guess it.
00:20:48
Speaker
Who, me?
00:20:49
Speaker
Never, ever going to guess it.
00:20:51
Speaker
I don't know.
00:20:52
Speaker
No, Dwayne's never going to guess it.
00:20:53
Speaker
Yas, queen?
00:20:54
Speaker
Never, ever going to guess it.
00:20:57
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That's right.
00:20:58
Speaker
That sound means it's time for America's favorite game.
00:21:01
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It's time for Dwayne Guess the Number.
NBA Air Horn Malfunction Incident
00:21:04
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Okay, Todd, hit me.
00:21:06
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:07
Speaker
A couple of weeks ago, you told us about you had to delay a basketball game at a disclosed, undisclosed school because a bat got into the gym?
00:21:20
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Yes.
00:21:21
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Yes.
00:21:21
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Okay.
00:21:23
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Similar concept, slightly different.
00:21:26
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At the end of February in Detroit, an NBA game between the Pistons and the Cleveland Cavaliers was delayed.
00:21:37
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With seven minutes and 24 seconds remaining in the third quarter, the air horn attached to the video board went off without anybody telling it to go off.
00:21:51
Speaker
Oh.
00:21:51
Speaker
And it stayed on.
00:21:53
Speaker
Dwayne, how long did the air horn stay on that required them to pause the game for the entire length until somebody could figure out how to turn the air horn off?
00:22:09
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Anything more than 30 seconds is disruptive.
00:22:13
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Yes.
00:22:15
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Because if it's going off, you can't.
00:22:19
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you know, have a shot clock violation or an end of quarter violation.
00:22:23
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Any, I mean, anything is disruptive.
00:22:26
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And how long did they wait?
00:22:27
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And nobody in the stadium could hear anything.
00:22:31
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Right.
00:22:32
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Yes.
00:22:34
Speaker
How long did they let it go off before they stopped the game?
00:22:38
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No, no, no.
00:22:39
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They immediately stopped the game.
00:22:41
Speaker
How long was the game stopped until they could rectify the air horn on top of the scoreboard going off?
00:22:49
Speaker
How long was the game delayed?
00:22:51
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NBA game, multi-billion dollar arena, TV cameras.
00:22:57
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This is the top level of sports.
00:23:01
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This is a top pro level league here in sports.
00:23:05
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And was this in Atlanta?
00:23:07
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In Detroit.
00:23:08
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In Detroit.
00:23:09
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Oh, okay.
00:23:10
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What I'll also tell you is when it first went off, everybody was looking around and thought that the score, the horn on the scores table was going off.
00:23:16
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And then they quickly realized it's not the horn on the scores table and it's not the horn on the baskets.
00:23:22
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It's the horn on the, on the video board suspended above the floor.
00:23:32
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Oh God.
00:23:34
Speaker
Uh, 28 minutes.
00:23:36
Speaker
Uh, you went a little long.
00:23:39
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:23:40
Speaker
Yep.
00:23:42
Speaker
16 minutes close enough.
00:23:43
Speaker
You can give yourself a bell.
00:23:46
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Can I give myself a horn?
00:23:47
Speaker
Sure.
00:23:51
Speaker
You didn't have that though.
00:23:52
Speaker
Did you?
00:23:52
Speaker
I was like, you've got one.
00:23:53
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Sure.
00:23:56
Speaker
The game was stopped for 13 minutes.
00:24:00
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Oh God.
00:24:01
Speaker
At which point near the end of 13 minutes.
00:24:06
Speaker
There was the, this is from the athletic.
00:24:10
Speaker
After what felt like much longer than 13 minutes, longtime Pistons PA announcer John Mason let patrons know they'd have to turn the video board off entirely and then use a handheld air horn for stoppages.
00:24:26
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Oh, God.
00:24:29
Speaker
Shortly after the game resumed, the video board turned itself back on and the buzzer was fixed.
00:24:36
Speaker
Did you try turning it off and turning it back on?
00:24:39
Speaker
Somebody just click, click, click, click.
00:24:44
Speaker
As soon as I read this, I thought two things like, man, it would suck to be in that arena for 13 minutes of this, the air horn buzzer thing going off just, just constantly.
00:24:53
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And then my next thought was doing had more fun with the bat.
00:24:57
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I mean, because you're talking about the student sessions like, Whoa.
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:02
Speaker
And meanwhile, everybody else is just like, I can't just, just make it go away.
00:25:06
Speaker
Just turn this, turn it off.
00:25:08
Speaker
Please turn it off.
00:25:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:11
Speaker
So there you go.
00:25:13
Speaker
Now you can say next time you have to delay the bat, here's what you can say.
00:25:17
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At least it's not the buzzer.
00:25:18
Speaker
Uh-oh.
00:25:20
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I just said it.
00:25:22
Speaker
Anyway, there you go.
00:25:26
Speaker
I...
00:25:28
Speaker
I'm going to have to ask Alan and Mark whether or not the bat incident lasted shorter or longer than 13 minutes.
00:25:37
Speaker
Over, under.
00:25:38
Speaker
Over, under.
00:25:39
Speaker
We could play the over, under game, but it felt like a really long time.
00:25:44
Speaker
It was probably about 15 minutes that we were delayed.
00:25:48
Speaker
Oh, my God.
Thanksgiving Article Timing Mishap
00:25:49
Speaker
By the way, speaking of games, I brought a modified guess the headline game for tonight.
00:25:55
Speaker
Okay.
00:25:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:25:56
Speaker
Hit me.
00:25:58
Speaker
So I'm going to send you, I'm sending you both the picture and the headline and the subhead.
00:26:06
Speaker
And you can even read a couple of the first lines of this.
00:26:10
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Dwayne, what I'm going to ask you is guess the date.
00:26:14
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I guess the date that this story ran.
00:26:17
Speaker
There you go.
00:26:20
Speaker
Is this like the Nebraska head coach?
00:26:24
Speaker
story about Nebraska petitioning?
00:26:28
Speaker
I will say this, not quite as bad.
00:26:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:31
Speaker
This happened, I'm going to ask you, this happened within this century.
00:26:34
Speaker
So let me put it that way.
00:26:37
Speaker
Okay, so this looks like it's from Apple.
00:26:40
Speaker
Yep, it's from Apple News, from a Time article.
00:26:44
Speaker
Time magazine, and the picture is of a security checkpoint.
00:26:50
Speaker
Which you would naturally assume would be a story about the TSA slowdown with the government shutdown right now.
00:26:57
Speaker
Yeah, travelers wait in a security checkpoint line at O'Hare in Chicago, Illinois on November 22nd, 2024.
00:27:03
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:06
Speaker
That's weird.
00:27:07
Speaker
Says the slug line.
00:27:08
Speaker
Yep.
00:27:09
Speaker
How to travel with less stress this Thanksgiving.
00:27:14
Speaker
Nearly 80 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more for Thanksgiving.
00:27:18
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Here are some travel tips.
00:27:21
Speaker
Dwayne, please guess the date line on this story.
00:27:27
Speaker
Monday, March 9th, 2026.
00:27:29
Speaker
You know what?
00:27:32
Speaker
Give yourself a bell.
00:27:37
Speaker
Oh, it's yesterday.
00:27:37
Speaker
It was Tuesday, March 10th.
00:27:39
Speaker
I'm like, it couldn't have just been yesterday.
00:27:43
Speaker
Surely I'll go back an extra day.
00:27:45
Speaker
No, I could have been on the nose, but I overestimated my sweet Lord.
00:27:51
Speaker
Well, just in case, you know, somebody, my guess is somebody had this in their outbox and then restarted their computer and
00:28:02
Speaker
And then it released the story.
00:28:04
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:05
Speaker
Lisa sent this to me and she's like, they're either really late or really early.
00:28:09
Speaker
And I'm not sure which one.
00:28:12
Speaker
This is, this was supposed to be an Easter story.
00:28:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:17
Speaker
Or, and hear me out, somebody knows that the government, the Department of Homeland Security shutdown is going to last a lot, lot longer than anybody actually expects.
00:28:31
Speaker
So somebody is telling you, you need to start planning in March for your low-stress Thanksgiving travel because it's going to be bad.
00:28:41
Speaker
Well, I saw a story this week.
00:28:44
Speaker
I can't remember which airport it was, but it was a big one where they were.
00:28:50
Speaker
They sent out a notice to travelers that they were expecting four to five hour long lines to get through TSA.
00:29:02
Speaker
And this is important.
00:29:03
Speaker
The, the, the followup reminder to that was that you're not allowed to check your bags more than four hours before your flight.
00:29:14
Speaker
Hmm.
00:29:16
Speaker
But the line to get through TSA after you check your bags.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yep.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yep.
00:29:23
Speaker
Maybe longer than four hours.
00:29:24
Speaker
Maybe longer than four hours, which causes a problem.
00:29:28
Speaker
Here's the thing.
00:29:29
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:31
Speaker
Airline has their four-hour rule.
00:29:33
Speaker
It's not a problem for them.
00:29:35
Speaker
TSA has the long lines.
00:29:38
Speaker
It's not a problem for them.
00:29:40
Speaker
That sounds like a you problem.
00:29:42
Speaker
But I can't do both.
00:29:45
Speaker
I don't know what to tell you, man.
00:29:46
Speaker
I don't know what to tell you.
00:29:47
Speaker
I just work here for no pay.
00:29:53
Speaker
We're not in travel stories.
00:29:55
Speaker
I'll just say this.
00:29:55
Speaker
I did take a flight Friday.
00:30:00
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The fact that the TSA people that I interacted with were polite and smiling and saying, you're good, have a good flight.
00:30:10
Speaker
Like they're better people than I am.
00:30:12
Speaker
Cause at this point, every single one that I dealt with was polite and friendly.
00:30:19
Speaker
And you wouldn't tell that they're not getting paid and yet they're still at the airport.
00:30:25
Speaker
So good on them.
00:30:27
Speaker
That can't last forever.
00:30:30
Speaker
Nope.
00:30:31
Speaker
And I've got to get on a plane next week.
00:30:34
Speaker
You should probably maybe get to the airport now just to be safe.
00:30:39
Speaker
During spring break, I'm headed to the IEA.
00:30:44
Speaker
Well, at least you're not headed.
00:30:46
Speaker
You're not headed towards the southeast where all the spring breakers go.
00:30:50
Speaker
Yeah, Atlanta.
00:30:51
Speaker
That's where I'm going.
00:30:52
Speaker
Yeah, you're not making that.
00:30:53
Speaker
Yeah, I'm screwed.
00:30:55
Speaker
Absolutely screwed.
00:30:58
Speaker
What did we bring for idiots this week?
00:31:00
Speaker
I think I've got one for you.
00:31:02
Speaker
Okay, just one.
00:31:03
Speaker
Excellent.
00:31:04
Speaker
Yes.
Cancelled NBA Tribute Night Discussion
00:31:05
Speaker
So this story came to us courtesy of ESPN.
00:31:11
Speaker
This story was actually published on Monday, the 9th.
00:31:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:17
Speaker
The Atlanta Hawks were planning...
00:31:22
Speaker
to have a Magic City tribute night, but the NBA canceled it.
00:31:30
Speaker
This is part of the city thing, right?
00:31:32
Speaker
Where each team is supposed to celebrate something famous about their city, right?
00:31:40
Speaker
Isn't this like the city jersey kind of thing?
00:31:42
Speaker
And like, hey, celebrate your local roots.
00:31:45
Speaker
Pick something that your city's famous for.
00:31:49
Speaker
And the Hawks picked Magic City.
00:31:52
Speaker
Right.
00:31:53
Speaker
What's the problem there?
00:31:54
Speaker
I've never heard of Magic City, but I'm assuming it's, is it like a civil rights thing or something from Atlanta?
00:32:02
Speaker
Well, no.
00:32:05
Speaker
And I thought maybe it had something to do with magicians, right?
00:32:11
Speaker
Yeah, sure.
00:32:12
Speaker
Big magicians club or a museum, perhaps, of magic.
00:32:19
Speaker
called magic city.
00:32:20
Speaker
I thought maybe that was, was what it was.
00:32:23
Speaker
You know what?
00:32:23
Speaker
Atlanta is Atlanta has become a massive place where like most of the Avengers movies were shot mostly in Atlanta.
00:32:33
Speaker
Yes.
00:32:33
Speaker
So maybe like movie magic, like this is where the magic happens.
00:32:36
Speaker
Right.
00:32:37
Speaker
Also, also not true.
00:32:39
Speaker
No, no.
00:32:40
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:41
Speaker
I give up.
00:32:41
Speaker
What is, what is a famous magic city in Atlanta?
00:32:46
Speaker
Atlanta announced the plan last month, calling it a tribute to an iconic cultural institution, including the club's lemon pepper wings, which are apparently famous, a version of which is named for former Hawks guard Lou Williams.
00:33:06
Speaker
There was also supposed to be music and exclusive merchandise.
00:33:12
Speaker
So they're doing this up big.
00:33:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:16
Speaker
And what's, and what is the cultural, uh, what's the cultural impact of, uh, magic city?
00:33:21
Speaker
Uh, it's a strip club, a world famous strip club, apparently.
00:33:25
Speaker
Apparently.
00:33:26
Speaker
Let me get this straight.
00:33:29
Speaker
The Atlanta Hawks could pick anything in Atlanta to celebrate for their cultural heritage.
00:33:36
Speaker
Coca-Cola.
00:33:37
Speaker
Sure.
00:33:38
Speaker
CNN.
00:33:40
Speaker
While it lasts.
00:33:42
Speaker
Good thing I wasn't taking a drink there.
00:33:48
Speaker
Yep.
00:33:49
Speaker
Yep.
00:33:49
Speaker
And they picked the, the, the Buckhead district.
00:33:52
Speaker
Wait, maybe hold on.
00:33:54
Speaker
Sorry.
00:33:55
Speaker
And they picked, you know, you know, you, you, you know what says cultural icon to the NBA team strip club.
00:34:05
Speaker
Did you, this isn't what I learned this week, but did you know that Jamie Gertz is a primary owner of the Hawks?
00:34:14
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:15
Speaker
She married her husband is a billionaire.
00:34:19
Speaker
Financier of some kind, I believe.
00:34:23
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:25
Speaker
I mean, I knew she was, I knew she was rich.
00:34:28
Speaker
Like she's like the wealthiest actress.
00:34:32
Speaker
Not that she's much of an actress anymore.
00:34:34
Speaker
I don't think she does a whole lot of acting anymore.
00:34:37
Speaker
Now she just runs this global empire, but she's like the wealthiest actress in the world because she married this billionaire.
00:34:43
Speaker
But what I didn't know was that she's the primary owner of the Atlanta Hawks.
00:34:49
Speaker
I'll be darned.
00:34:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:50
Speaker
I guess I learned that.
00:34:52
Speaker
I believe canceling this promotion is the right decision for the broader NBA community.
00:34:59
Speaker
The Hawks have ties to the club.
00:35:01
Speaker
Gertz was actually a producer for a five-part docuseries that explored the club's history
00:35:08
Speaker
its place in black and hip hop culture and what it means to the city.
00:35:13
Speaker
The club being the strip club, not the basketball club, not the Hawks.
00:35:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:20
Speaker
The collaboration and theme night is very meaningful to me.
00:35:24
Speaker
After all of the work we did to put together magic city and American fantasy Gertz, who is also a filmmaker and actor said when the promotion was announced.
00:35:36
Speaker
Hmm.
00:35:41
Speaker
You know, I'm going to Atlanta next week.
00:35:43
Speaker
You were looking for tickets.
00:35:44
Speaker
I was looking for something to do on Thursday night.
00:35:48
Speaker
Apparently that's the number one cultural attraction that has great historic value.
00:35:53
Speaker
If you want to understand Atlanta, the best place to go is to go have some lemon pepper wings.
00:36:00
Speaker
Apparently.
00:36:02
Speaker
And...
00:36:04
Speaker
go take in magic city.
00:36:07
Speaker
Just be clear.
00:36:09
Speaker
I am not encouraging you to do that.
00:36:11
Speaker
I want to be real clear that that it was, I was simply, I was simply playing in the space with you, but that is not encouragement.
00:36:18
Speaker
I don't see any, I don't see any way this happens.
00:36:22
Speaker
Uh, anyway, uh, yeah, the iconic cultural institution of magic city is,
00:36:32
Speaker
Their celebration canceled by the NBA, not the Hawks.
00:36:35
Speaker
The Hawks didn't cancel it.
00:36:37
Speaker
The Hawks were still all in.
00:36:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:40
Speaker
The NBA said, ho, ho, ho.
00:36:43
Speaker
Hold on.
00:36:45
Speaker
Todd, what did you bring?
00:36:48
Speaker
Now I feel stupid because I just went out and got a little ha-ha joke.
00:36:53
Speaker
So as a part of celebrating America's 250th birthday, the state of Pennsylvania has redesigned their license plates.
AI Misinterpretation of License Plates
00:37:03
Speaker
So it says Pennsylvania.
00:37:05
Speaker
It has a picture of the Liberty Bell on it.
00:37:07
Speaker
And on the bottom, it says, let freedom ring.
00:37:10
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:37:11
Speaker
That's great.
00:37:12
Speaker
They wanted to make the license plates easier to read.
00:37:19
Speaker
And one of the problems that they have is people have a hard time figuring out, is that a zero or is that an O?
00:37:27
Speaker
So they said, oh, we know how to fix this.
00:37:30
Speaker
So the zero that they're using now has a slash, a diagonal slash through it.
00:37:35
Speaker
So that's part of the official font so that you can tell that that's an O, not a zero.
00:37:44
Speaker
That solved one problem and created another one.
00:37:49
Speaker
The automatic speed cameras and license plate recognition systems used by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
00:37:59
Speaker
looks at the zero with a slash through it and says, that's an eight.
00:38:04
Speaker
Oh God.
00:38:05
Speaker
So they have been sending out speeding tickets and red light tickets to the wrong cars because the license plate reading cameras think that the license plate includes an eight instead of a zero made a more legible, but not for the robots.
00:38:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:26
Speaker
Now, as this story in BGR points out, the easiest solution would be to change the font on the plates.
00:38:34
Speaker
But Pennsylvania said, no, no, no, no.
00:38:37
Speaker
We're going to just have to recalibrate the system, and then this one, and train the software to better detect the new character.
00:38:45
Speaker
You're using AI, aren't you?
00:38:47
Speaker
Cause you got to train the AI.
00:38:49
Speaker
Yup.
00:38:51
Speaker
You know what?
00:38:51
Speaker
We're gonna have to train it better.
00:38:52
Speaker
You know what that is?
00:38:53
Speaker
Everybody who, who works in the department at the Pennsylvania DOT.
00:38:56
Speaker
Every time you try to log into the system, you got to play the click the license plate.
00:39:00
Speaker
Which one has an eight?
00:39:03
Speaker
Are you human?
00:39:04
Speaker
Which one has the zero?
00:39:05
Speaker
I don't even know if I'm human anymore.
00:39:06
Speaker
This sucks.
00:39:10
Speaker
They said that the new font was developed in consultation with the Pennsylvania State Police and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
00:39:17
Speaker
The Slash to the Zero was also a best practice recommendation from the American Association of
00:39:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:24
Speaker
Hold on.
00:39:24
Speaker
Sorry.
00:39:25
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Got to make another run because there's the American association of motor vehicle administrators.
00:39:30
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Man, that say what that has got to be when they go to Vegas, that's a party.
00:39:38
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That's, you know, right.
00:39:39
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I bet you, I bet you they've hung out at magic city before anyway.
00:39:43
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So in order to make the license plates more readable, they made them less readable to the robots.
00:39:48
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Now people, the wrong people are getting tickets and
00:39:51
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Now, hey, Todd, come on, cut him some slack.
00:39:55
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I mean, you know, he could have broken it in.
00:39:58
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Here's my thought.
00:40:00
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At the point, yes, you need to train the camera systems.
00:40:04
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Do you know when you should do that?
00:40:06
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Before you release the license plates and print millions of them, not after.
00:40:13
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Nobody said, hey, I wonder if the license plate readers are going to be able to, you know what, it'll be fine.
00:40:17
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It'll be fine.
00:40:18
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Okay.
00:40:20
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Jeez.
00:40:21
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Good project manager or something.
00:40:23
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Anyway, there you go.
00:40:23
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Let freedom ring.
00:40:25
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Actually, now I think about it, it says let freedom ring.
00:40:27
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What that means is you're free to speed because somebody else is going to get your ticket.
00:40:31
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So you know what?
00:40:32
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Oh, now I get it.
00:40:33
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I get it.
00:40:33
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Okay.
00:40:34
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Go nuts.
00:40:35
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Yeah.
00:40:36
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Hey, Todd, quick Todd, I don't know.
00:40:38
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Yeah.
00:40:39
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Do you know without Googling what the 250th anniversary is called?
Discussion on Semi-quincentennial Term
00:40:49
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Okay.
00:40:50
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All right.
00:40:50
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All right.
00:40:51
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Hold on.
00:40:52
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Hold on.
00:40:53
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The 175th anniversary of the founding of the United States was the sesquicentennial.
00:40:59
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Was that the 175th or was that the 150th?
00:41:02
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Oh, maybe it was.
00:41:04
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I thought sesquicentennial was the 150th.
00:41:07
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I could be wrong about that.
00:41:10
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Anyway, yes.
00:41:13
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Sesquicentennial is one of them.
00:41:17
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I know you get silver.
00:41:18
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You're correct.
00:41:19
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It is 150.
00:41:20
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150 is sesquicentennial.
00:41:22
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See, here's the problem.
00:41:23
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I know that one.
00:41:24
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I don't know 250.
00:41:24
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I do know that you get silver, I think, for it.
00:41:28
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It's not paper.
00:41:28
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It's silver for 250 years.
00:41:30
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I'm pretty sure that's... I read that somewhere.
00:41:33
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10.
00:41:34
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It's 10.
00:41:38
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I'm going to say it's the...
00:41:43
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I'm trying to come up with something really cool that includes quarter, hundred, quartile centi millennium minination.
00:41:56
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Semi quincentennial.
00:42:00
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Oh, that sucks.
00:42:01
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Yeah.
00:42:02
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It's a terrible word.
00:42:03
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No, no, no.
00:42:04
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But it doesn't even get its own thing.
00:42:05
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It's a semi, what is it?
00:42:08
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Semi quincentennial.
00:42:11
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Okay, well, now I know what the 500 is.
00:42:13
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The 500 is a quincy... Yeah.
00:42:15
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Quincentennial.
00:42:16
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Yes.
00:42:17
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This one doesn't even get its own thing.
00:42:18
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It's a half a one.
00:42:21
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Well, that... Wake me when we get to the other one, the big one.
00:42:26
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When we get to the 500?
00:42:27
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Yeah.
00:42:29
Speaker
Which means we're going to freeze you, right?
00:42:30
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Are you arranged to have your head frozen, Ted?
00:42:34
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Oh, we're not getting there.
00:42:39
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That's...
00:42:40
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Don't worry about that.
00:42:44
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That may be the title of the episode.
00:42:48
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Are you getting your head frozen, Ted?
00:42:50
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Okay.
00:42:55
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All right.
00:42:56
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Where are we at?
00:42:58
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We are, oh, what are we watching?
00:43:03
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I talked about it this last weekend or the last week.
00:43:06
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So this list last weekend was the first Formula One race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix on Apple TV.
00:43:14
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So I watched the race Saturday night.
00:43:17
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There was a shocking amount of passing for the first half of the race.
00:43:22
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That's what Amy said.
00:43:25
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I mean, I'm going to say this, there were multiple passes for the lead on a single lap that continued.
00:43:33
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There's absolutely great racing going on for the first half.
00:43:36
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By the second half of the race, everything kind of settled down into standard Formula One, we're at a parade.
00:43:42
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However, so that's what we're watching.
00:43:44
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Now, what I'll say is the first half was one of the more exciting races I've seen in years.
00:43:51
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which of course meant after the race, pretty much every single driver said, this sucks.
00:43:56
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This is not racing.
00:43:57
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This is terrible.
00:43:58
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We need to go back to the old rules.
00:44:00
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This isn't Formula One.
00:44:02
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And I'm like, maybe there's the problem.
00:44:04
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Maybe I found the problem.
00:44:06
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We've got passing.
00:44:07
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I don't want passing.
00:44:08
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I'm a race car driver.
00:44:10
Speaker
What?
00:44:11
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Anyway, so did you or Amy watch it?
00:44:16
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Amy, I was...
00:44:19
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Well, I'll tell you what I was doing over the weekend, but it was not in front of the TV watching F1.
00:44:24
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I'll tell you that a little later in the show.
00:44:26
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Amy started to watch Fell Asleep, and she ended up watching the 30-minute Apple recap, which she said was fantastic.
00:44:38
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That actually sounds pretty good, because that actually would get you all of the passes and none of the parade.
00:44:46
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Yeah.
00:44:49
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That'd be their slogan.
00:44:51
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All the passes and then the parade.
00:44:54
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I think that sounds pretty good.
00:44:55
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Yes.
00:44:57
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Sign me up for that.
00:44:59
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We ended up watching season three of The Night Agent dropped on Netflix.
00:45:06
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Okay.
00:45:08
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And it's 10-ish episodes.
00:45:11
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Okay.
00:45:12
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Season three is better than season two.
00:45:14
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Season one was great.
00:45:16
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Season two was meh.
00:45:18
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Season three is better than season two.
00:45:21
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Really enjoyed that.
00:45:22
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Anyway, I guess I am recommending season three.
00:45:25
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I wasn't exactly recommending season two, but it's on Netflix.
00:45:31
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Oh, excellent.
00:45:32
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Yep.
00:45:35
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This week, this week, actually, I learned...
Drake University's Basketball Season & Bourbon Trip
00:45:39
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Well, as we have probably documented, the Drake men's basketball team has not had a very good season, but they went down to St.
00:45:49
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Louis.
00:45:50
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They were almost a record-setting team, though.
00:45:52
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Let's be honest.
00:45:54
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Yeah, but in the wrong direction.
00:45:57
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Oh, sorry.
00:45:57
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Sorry to bring that up.
00:45:59
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Oops.
00:46:01
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Like, they lost their last nine conference games, and that hadn't happened since 2017.
00:46:11
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But they went down to St.
00:46:13
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Louis and won their first round game.
00:46:16
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And then they won their second round game.
00:46:18
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And a nine seed had never beaten a one seed in the history of the Missouri Valley tournament.
00:46:27
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And we were all fired up.
00:46:28
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And so my buddy Rick said, hey, I'm
00:46:32
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I bought an extra ticket.
00:46:34
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Once you come down, go to the, go to the ball game with me on Saturday.
00:46:37
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So Saturday morning, I got up at eight o'clock and drove five and a half hours down to St.
00:46:41
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Louis, picked up Ray, went to the basketball game and watch Drake, get their heads beat in.
00:46:50
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And I'm like, Oh yeah, that's the team.
00:46:52
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I know that's right.
00:46:53
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Hey, Hey, I watched, I watched those guys play.
00:46:55
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Yep.
00:46:56
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Yep.
00:46:57
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Um,
00:46:59
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Point guard, Andrew Aaliyah, who's been around for three years now.
00:47:03
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He's the only guy that we know.
00:47:04
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That's not true.
00:47:05
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He's the only guy that's been around for three years.
00:47:08
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Three years, three different head coaches.
00:47:10
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We love Andrew.
00:47:12
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Andrew got hurt in game two, was not available to game three.
00:47:15
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I'm not sure it would have made a huge difference because the Bulldogs didn't shoot very well.
00:47:21
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But anyway, got to drive down, got to spend time with Rick and Dawn, went out to dinner.
00:47:26
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And also...
00:47:30
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Because I was in Missouri.
00:47:32
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I restocked my bourbon collection.
00:47:36
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Excellent.
00:47:38
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Because why wouldn't you?
00:47:39
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Because as we have documented, the liquor laws in Missouri are very, very, very different than the liquor laws in Iowa.
00:47:48
Speaker
And you can actually get stuff.
00:47:50
Speaker
So I got...
00:47:52
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four bottles of Buffalo trace because I can.
00:47:55
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And then I was just walking along the shelf, looking at, you know, what else, what, what else could I buy?
00:48:01
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Because I could buy anything that I wanted to pretty much.
00:48:03
Speaker
Cause they've got it all.
00:48:05
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And then it's like Pennsylvania, let freedom ring.
00:48:07
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Yeah.
00:48:09
Speaker
Let freight them ring.
00:48:12
Speaker
Is that how that works?
00:48:13
Speaker
And every year Woodford Reserve does a commemorative Kentucky Derby bottle with a painting of a different horse on the front of it.
00:48:25
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And Amy and I had texted back and forth about, oh, hey, the new bottle's out.
00:48:28
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We'll have to keep our eyes open for it.
00:48:30
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And I'm walking down the aisle in St.
00:48:32
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Louis and boom, there's the Woodford Reserve bottle.
00:48:35
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So I learned that it was out and then capitalized on it.
00:48:40
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And because I made the trip to Missouri, I also was given an edict to bring back a case of Amy's favorite Schaffley white lager, which is also very, very good.
00:48:53
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And they had that.
00:48:54
Speaker
So
00:48:57
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Made a BEE double RUN over the weekend to St.
00:49:02
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Louis, watched the Bulldogs get beat, but did restock the shelves.
00:49:07
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So there's that.
00:49:12
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So it wasn't a total loss.
00:49:14
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It was...
00:49:15
Speaker
I mean, the game was.
00:49:16
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The game, right.
00:49:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:18
Speaker
It was absolutely total loss, but the weekend wasn't.
00:49:22
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Yeah.
00:49:23
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Just the, yes.
00:49:24
Speaker
Fair.
00:49:24
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Thank you.
00:49:25
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Great.
00:49:25
Speaker
By the way, when you tell the story from now on.
00:49:27
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Yeah.
00:49:29
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I'm just going to make, I'm going to make a slight alteration.
00:49:31
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Okay.
00:49:33
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Got up Saturday morning, drove to St.
00:49:35
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Louis specifically to restock the liquor cabinet and see some friends.
00:49:43
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While I was in town, I thought, hey, I could drop in and watch the Drake game.
00:49:52
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It didn't go so well, but that's okay because the primary focus of the trip, the trip was a total success.
00:49:58
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The primary focus of the trip was to restock and see friends.
00:50:03
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It's a shame about Drake.
00:50:05
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Just...
00:50:07
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Just a thought.
00:50:08
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That's a great note.
00:50:09
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That's a great, thank you.
00:50:10
Speaker
That's a vastly improved story that direction.
00:50:14
Speaker
It's not nearly as funny, but it's also not nearly as sad.
00:50:18
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So I did not, for the record, pass the Ebert test.
00:50:28
Speaker
I was not awakened on the ground in St.
00:50:30
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Louis for more hours than it took me to drive there and drive home.
00:50:36
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That's okay.
00:50:37
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I've been to St.
00:50:37
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Louis.
00:50:38
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You didn't need to be awake for much.
00:50:39
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How about you?
00:50:42
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What did you learn this week?
Humorous Wildlife Encounters
00:50:44
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So last weekend, we ventured back down to the disclosed undisclosed location.
00:50:50
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And we had...
00:50:54
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We had gotten off of our regular schedule where we, we, a lot of times we try to go down like every other weekend or so.
00:50:59
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And then because of operation mincemeat and some other stuff, we kind of, we got off of that.
00:51:04
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So Lisa got down a day earlier than I did.
00:51:07
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So we had been gone, I think 19 or 20 days.
00:51:11
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Hadn't even been three weeks since we had left.
00:51:15
Speaker
You ever see the stuff like on the Discovery Channel or whatever is like, what happens when civilization collapses?
00:51:24
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How long does it take for nature to take back over whatever we built?
00:51:32
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Have you ever seen any of those videos?
00:51:35
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Oh yeah.
00:51:36
Speaker
Yes.
00:51:37
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Yeah.
00:51:37
Speaker
Like a stadium I've seen, you know, like overgrown stadiums or, you know, yes, I've seen some of those.
00:51:43
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Yeah.
00:51:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:44
Speaker
Well, here's what I found.
00:51:46
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Um, it won't take long because in the 19 days that we were gone, we came back to a jungle of weeds all over the art.
00:51:53
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Mind you, this is the desert where stuff doesn't grow and weeds are all over the yard and not the easy weeds to pull out the desert weeds.
00:52:03
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Uh,
00:52:04
Speaker
They dig in really deep and they break off very easily to survive.
00:52:08
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So you got to like dig those things up.
00:52:10
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So we just have, we have like, there was, there was like a, like a foot tall weed that had grown in 19 days.
00:52:17
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Okay.
00:52:18
Speaker
Also, Lisa sent me a picture.
00:52:21
Speaker
What is that?
00:52:22
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Turns out that was the largest hairball I've ever seen because we have the cat.
00:52:27
Speaker
And then also a bird has now made a nest on top of our outdoor TV.
00:52:33
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We named her Trish and Trish doesn't care that we come and go because she's sitting on her.
00:52:38
Speaker
So basically,
00:52:42
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Within 19 days, a cat has moved in, a bird has moved in, and the weeds are taking over.
00:52:48
Speaker
And we're like, I don't understand a single thing of what's going on back here, but we can't be gone for 19 days anymore because if we were gone for, let's say, four weeks, I'm not even sure the house would be standing.
00:53:01
Speaker
This is nuts.
00:53:02
Speaker
And what I learned was, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:04
Speaker
We're going to have to keep going down there.
00:53:05
Speaker
And maybe I need like a robot mower or something.
00:53:08
Speaker
Do you have grass?
00:53:08
Speaker
Oh no, we don't have any grass.
00:53:09
Speaker
It's just, it's just to kick the, just to get the weeds kicked, the weeds knocked down occasionally.
00:53:14
Speaker
And scare away the cat.
00:53:17
Speaker
The scare away the cat that didn't scare away the bird.
00:53:19
Speaker
I don't, here's the problem.
00:53:21
Speaker
Realistically, I,
00:53:23
Speaker
Knowing the way things would work, if I had a robot mower, I would be looking on the security camera, and at some point I would see the cat riding on the mower with the bird sitting on top of its head.
00:53:33
Speaker
And everybody's just like going around.
00:53:35
Speaker
It's not getting any of the weeds.
00:53:37
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It's just going in circles, and the cat just looks pleased as punch.
00:53:42
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00:54:23
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Todd.
00:54:24
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Two things here to end.
00:54:25
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Number one, sorry to hear about Drake.
00:54:27
Speaker
Quick question.
00:54:28
Speaker
Who won the Missouri Valley basketball tournament that you went down to see?
00:54:33
Speaker
I don't know that I was paying attention.
00:54:35
Speaker
Who's that?
00:54:35
Speaker
What's that?
00:54:36
Speaker
I don't know that I was paying attention.
00:54:37
Speaker
Who is that?
00:54:39
Speaker
That would be the University of Northern Iowa.
00:54:42
Speaker
I believe that's your alma mater.
00:54:44
Speaker
Hail Panthers.
00:54:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:45
Speaker
Number two, and then getting back to the show, I understand that the camels, yeah, this was for a beauty contest and then they were injecting them in all this.
00:54:53
Speaker
I don't care how the beauty contest, what I really want to know is how did the camels fare in the ski jump competition?
00:55:02
Speaker
Better than in the swimsuit competition.
00:55:09
Speaker
It'd have to be.
00:55:13
Speaker
AI is amazing.
00:55:15
Speaker
Yeah, I don't.
00:55:20
Speaker
Those humps are plump, man.
00:55:26
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:55:29
Speaker
Definitely something we're going to have to clean up next week.
00:55:32
Speaker
Until then.
00:55:34
Speaker
We're talking to Todd.
00:56:05
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I wanted to give you an option for the show art.
00:56:10
Speaker
Oh, that camel's going on the car.
00:56:12
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:56:15
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Yeah.
00:56:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:16
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What I like about it is AI also put a whole ski jumping bib on it and some sponsors.
00:56:22
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So that was nice, but he's not going to get very far because he's not wearing a skin tight suit.
00:56:27
Speaker
So you plump for nothing.