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Ep. 309 - Bananas & Batteries
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Ep. 309, Recorded 1/28/2026. Amy votes. Lisa gives kudos. Toddlers weigh in. Bike rides near and far. Amazon Goes. Self-driving car. Dewayne has this game in the bag. Cap’n Kangaroo. Stapleton Stroopwaffles! Marriott Tech Corner. Preston takes over.
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Audio Adjustments & Opening Jokes
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Okay, levels, levels?
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Levels, levels.
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Okay, we live with it.
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Fine.
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Yep.
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So I was updating our rundown to include the latest episodes and titles.
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And instead of writing, show me the money for our latest episode out of time, I wrote, show me the monkey.
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I mean, I mean, that's, that's the kind of hits peak talking to Todd, right?
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Movies and rogue animals.
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Hey, Hey, show me the monkey.
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Show me the monkey.
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Yeah.
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We got more of that this week.
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Great.
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Buckle up, toddlers.
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Hi toddlers.
Podcast Introduction & Listener Corrections
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Welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prince 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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Oh, pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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How are you?
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Not too bad.
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Not too bad.
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Here in Salt Lake City where there's no snow in the mountains, but there is snow in the valley.
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So that's awesome.
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Yeah.
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Can you ski?
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No, but you can slide your way home.
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That's awesome.
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Anyway.
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Oh, well, that's helpful.
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I don't even know how that works.
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I don't even understand how that works.
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But...
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Yeah.
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Luckily, every luckily everybody's enjoying themselves at the last Sundance in Park City and they don't have to worry about the snow.
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So just the traffic and the crowds and all the other stuff.
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So, yeah.
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The so we've got we were off last week because I I ref five games in six days and the sixth day I spent in the gym.
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So that's why we had to do an episode at a time.
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I was meeting myself coming and going and we just couldn't find time to make it work.
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Anyway, so we've got like two weeks, two weeks full of feedback, follow up and updates this week.
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Okay, we should.
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I'm a little concerned, but let's go ahead.
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Well, as is typical,
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Our episodes out of time generate outstanding feedback and plentiful, plentiful and outstanding is how I would describe our feedback.
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But before we get to that, number toddler number one got almost caught all the way back up.
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She had several items.
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Number one, you need to stop calling it the undisclosed location because it has been disclosed.
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I understand.
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I made 300 episodes and then I screwed it up once, twice in one episode, twice in one episode, but I'm not hanging a lantern on it by calling it out.
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No, but our marketing director does every time she gets on a plane.
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Oh yes.
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Well, so you need to stop saying undisclosed location.
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You don't have to say the name of the city that you're in.
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You can just say the disclosed location.
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You know, that was the no, no.
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And yet, thank you for the note.
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I will put them with the other notes.
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Let's see.
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Hold on.
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Rename the podcast.
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Put that there.
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Undisclosed location.
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I'll put that there.
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Same pile.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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At some point, well, yes.
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Outstanding.
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Yep.
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Yes.
M&Ms, Feedback & Church Humor
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Item number two, Eminem trivia.
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Yes.
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The candy, not the singer.
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Right.
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She also had brown as the largest percentage and green as the smallest percentage.
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Yep.
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We live in the same house.
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We share a brain.
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There it is.
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Yep.
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And apparently a lot of brown M&Ms, I guess.
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Yes.
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Yes, we do.
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We fight over them because, you know.
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And item number three, you guys chickened out on guest of the year again.
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By the way, her vote was for Hannah.
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It's like, pick one.
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Be a man.
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Pick one.
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She voted for Hannah.
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Congratulations.
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We didn't even have a vote this year.
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And yet somehow Amy managed to vote.
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Here's the thing.
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When she can vote, she doesn't.
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This year she couldn't and did.
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Let's hope that that is the only time this year when you're not allowed to vote and still try to.
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Anyway, moving on.
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That's not what is that in reference to?
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I don't know.
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Nothing.
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That's fine.
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Making a note.
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Note taken.
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Okay.
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Note taken.
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I did have some feedback from Lisa on your Taught Outta Know with the Joan Jett, and I thought, this is not going to go well.
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And she's like, this is easy.
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Saw him there standing next to the, what is it?
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Next to the record machine.
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The record machine.
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Do you need a refresher?
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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For anybody that missed that episode.
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Yeah.
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So she also thought it was standing and she said, yeah, that was a really good Todd.
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I don't know.
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That was a good one, which by the way, so you know, so you're aware by saying, you know, that was a good one implies there are ones that are not good ones.
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She didn't say that, but the only way that, Hey, that's a good one can work.
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Anyway, take the win.
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Just take the win.
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She's not wrong.
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Related anecdote.
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We were in church on Sunday and I really enjoyed the music in church on Sunday.
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And Amy, and I told Amy this and she said, you should tell Don.
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And Don is our music director at the church.
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And after we, after the service was over, I was walking down the hallway and there's Don.
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Don, the music this week was fantastic.
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Thank you very much.
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This was great music this week.
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Awesome.
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Thanks.
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I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
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Super.
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Again,
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I don't regularly talk to Don.
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I don't tell him how much I dislike the music every week in church.
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I don't.
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Hit the high notes.
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Just, you know what?
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Hit the high notes.
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He hit.
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He did.
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He was.
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Yep.
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Don was on it this week.
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I just got to say.
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Let's see.
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Okay.
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So we did this episode at a time that was sports movies.
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Yes.
Sports Movies & Listener Preferences
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And we got feedback from Sarah.
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Toddler negative 18.
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I listened to Show Me the Money.
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I can absolutely confirm that Caddyshack was one of John's favorite movies, if not his most favorite.
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Also, Chariots of Fire was not on your list of sports movies, but was another one of John's favorites.
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Good to know.
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Noted.
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I will say, I've seen just a little bit of the feedback coming in.
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Once again, I'm just going to preface all of this with, these were our favorite movies.
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You're lucky that I even had any to talk about because a lot of people are like, I can't believe you left that off this list.
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And my thought was, well, because I haven't seen it, which shouldn't surprise anybody.
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I had a very small pool of movies to pick from.
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Yvonne, oh, no Brian song from a Bears fan.
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Disappointedly signed toddler 1059.
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Like, yes, I forgot Brian's song.
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Yes, yes.
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I sit corrected.
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From the dino toddler.
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Dodgeball.
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The movie, not the sport.
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True underdog story.
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Yes, the movie.
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Also, I got, has Todd seen this movie about 80% right?
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Just by asking myself if I'd seen the movie.
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Let's see.
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From Doug.
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Doug.
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Just ending episodes out of time cold, mid-sentence.
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I'm not saying I wanted more of that episode at a time, but I'm saying it lacked closure.
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Much like American Underdog.
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According to Doug, movies we missed.
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Any Given Sunday, Friday Night Lights, Happy Gilmore, not Happy Gilmore 2.
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just happy Gilmore and blue chips to name four that are some of my favorites that I was waiting to hear.
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That was from Doug.
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And by the way, I will say,
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Any Given Sunday, not one of my favorite sports movies.
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Nothing wrong with it.
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I've seen it.
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Nothing wrong with it.
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It's decent.
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What I will say is if you really want to get the whole movie, just do Any Given Sunday Al Pacino locker room speech and the inches we need are in this room.
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That alone, like that's, oh, what is it?
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Have you seen any Al Pacino movie?
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Yes.
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You know when he does his thing?
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What's his thing?
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If you've seen a movie of his, you know what it is.
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This is him doing it as a football coach.
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Also from Doug, Big Lebowski is a sports movie.
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From David Batchelor, toddler number six, Big Lebowski is a sports movie.
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Those two locked up.
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Let's, oh, Jake, toddler Matt Damon.
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Unpopular opinion.
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Field of Dreams isn't even in my top 10 baseball movies.
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We were having this discussion at dinner the other night.
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Amy, Nicole, Jake, and me.
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Yep.
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According to Jake and Nick and Amy, in no particular order, movies that rank above Field of Dreams, Moneyball, Bull Durham, Mr. 3000, and
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Mr. Baseball, The Sandlot, Major League, Major League Two, Little Big League, which is a highly underrated movie, The Bad News Bears, Bad News Bears 2, Angels in the Outfield, and The Babe, not the pig movie.
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I was going to say, wait a minute.
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Also...
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Fever Pitch, for the love of the game, everybody wants some The Natural 61 and 42 plus A League of Their Own.
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All of those movies above Field of Dreams.
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Hmm.
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Okay.
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There you go.
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Noted.
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One man or supper club's opinion.
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There it is.
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It's, Dwayne, it's almost as if people are almost suspecting that when we do these episodes out of time, we're taking opinions just to generate more feedback.
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I'm not saying that's what we're doing.
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But I'm not not saying that.
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That would take planning there, Napoleon.
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Good point.
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Let's see.
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Oh, some non-sports.
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Major League to Major League to ahead of Field of Dreams.
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OK, hold on.
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Wait a minute.
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I mean, Major League, I get I get sure.
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He didn't say Major League back to the minors.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Sorry.
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I just, everything was processing there and I'm like, wait, no, that can't be right.
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That can't, no, that's a, Hey, look, I'm not, that's one of those.
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I'm not, I'm not saying I'm just asking the question.
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Oh God.
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Wait, I'm just asking the question.
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What's so good
Cookie Speculations & Birthday Brunch Anecdotes
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about that one?
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Oh, okay.
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Anyway, sure.
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All right.
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Any other feedback?
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Some non-sports feedback from Danny, toddler 401k.
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If you ever want to do a guest pod about weird stuff in old houses, you let me know.
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I was laughing out loud at your stories, Todd.
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As soon as you mentioned the Alexa light switches, I thought, well, I didn't have a ground.
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That ain't going to work.
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And then you mentioned getting one that will work.
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I have a couple.
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Let me know if you find any that you actually think work.
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By the way, his house turns 150 in two years.
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And then separately, he wants to talk into Todd cookie episode at a time.
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I don't know if we focus on cookies or if he wants us eating the cookies or what.
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That comment, that piece of feedback just stood alone without any follow up.
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Just cookies.
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Okay.
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Oh, you know what we could also do?
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We could just open up our browser and spend 30 minutes reading off the companies that have left cookies on our computer.
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That would be all of them.
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Be more specific in the request.
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Do not give us, do not give us room to operate.
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Oh, that's not what I wanted.
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I mean, I did listen for 25 minutes, but it's not what I wanted.
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Let's see.
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Oh, we went...
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So when Amy and I were in Chicago for the Bears game, we had brunch with Greg and Sherry.
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Content from the brunch.
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Getting old, falling down, forgetting your car keys with a three degree wind chill, not seeing your companions in the restaurant due to transition glasses, and not hearing them either.
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Happy birthday, Dwayne.
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It was a birthday brunch.
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And yes, I'm old.
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Was that in reference to anybody we know?
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Yeah, that would be me.
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I am, once again, the very senior fellow.
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Yeah.
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About time to put an air tag on him.
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Keep track of him.
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Well, you're going to want to do that on Ragbri.
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Oh, hey, speaking of, did we talk about the Ragbri route?
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We have not.
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That got released.
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You said it was going to be released, but we haven't talked about it yet.
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I did see something around it.
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Yes.
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Okay, so if we're moving to follow up, the Ragbri route got released.
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The closest to Des Moines that happens would be Guthrie Center to Boone and then Boone to Marshalltown?
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Yes.
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You know how we did RAGBRAI and then we took a year off and then we did RAGBRAI again?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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I remember that.
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I'm liking that schedule.
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Because any other schedule might involve me sleeping in a tent and that does not happen.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh, hey, they're going kind of near the center of the state.
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Yeah.
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but not close enough.
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Okay, cool.
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Still not close enough.
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Nope.
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Yep.
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I mean, Boone is not easy.
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Marshalltown.
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Nope.
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Also not.
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Nope.
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You know what?
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Amy said, I would drive you up there and drop you off in Boone if you want to ride to Marshalltown and then pick you up at the end.
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Like, okay, well maybe I'll think about that.
00:17:07
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On the subject though of routes for bicycle events...
Tour de France & Sporting Highlights
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While we've been off the beginning, the beginning, I don't know if it's the whole thing, but I absolutely know at least the first three stages of the 2027 Tour de France has been announced.
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So the 26 routes already, everybody knows where that's going, but they made a big announcement about the first three stages of 2027 because the Tour de France is going to be starting in the UK.
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So the Grand Depart leaves Edinburgh and goes to Carlisle over by the Lake District.
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And then day two goes from Keswick down to Liverpool, straight through the town that we stay in when we go to the Lake District.
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So July 2027, we now have booked the place, the Airbnb that we stay at in the Lake District for...
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For the week, it is entirely possible, depending, there's only two ways to get through this town.
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One of them might be come out the front door of our place, take four steps, and then stand and watch the Tour de France go past.
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If it's not that route, it is come out, walk five minutes down to the pub that we go to and stand at the corner by the pub and watch the Tour de France go past.
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So we've already made travel arrangements for July 2027 to spend time in England so that we can watch the Tour de France.
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You know, that makes sense somehow, somewhere.
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Yes.
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Last year, they were in three countries that weren't France, I believe.
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Well, this year, technically, they are also doing three countries that aren't France because they're starting in Scotland, then they're going through England, and then the third day, day three, they're going to be going through Wales.
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How many countries are in this country?
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Four.
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Cool.
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Four.
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Thanks.
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Toddlers, stay tuned for more bicycle content later in the show.
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I think, I think that constitutes all of the feedback.
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I told you we had a lot of feedback.
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It's going to be a bit.
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Yeah.
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I, I did have one.
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Um, actually.
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Two weeks ago, you talked about the one point slam ahead of the Australian open.
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Yes.
00:19:42
Speaker
Yes.
00:19:43
Speaker
The amateur tennis player from Sydney, Jordan Smith, that's a guy who won this year, walked away with a check for a million Australian dollars, which is only 661,000 US dollars.
00:19:55
Speaker
Only.
00:19:55
Speaker
Only.
00:19:55
Speaker
Right.
00:19:56
Speaker
That's probably before taxes.
00:20:06
Speaker
He did defeat Carlos Alcatraz.
00:20:08
Speaker
He did defeat Yannick Sinner, or maybe didn't.
00:20:12
Speaker
They also got defeated.
00:20:17
Speaker
And per your note, women's world number four, Amanda Anasimova, was in there.
00:20:27
Speaker
He did beat her and then beat Joanna Garland in the final.
00:20:31
Speaker
So he beat two women.
00:20:35
Speaker
to advance to the final.
00:20:37
Speaker
But anyway, just wanted to follow up on that so that we were kind of iffy on the exact details of the Australian one point slam.
00:20:49
Speaker
That doesn't sound like us.
00:20:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:52
Speaker
Thanks.
00:20:53
Speaker
Thanks for cleaning that up.
00:20:55
Speaker
You're welcome.
00:20:56
Speaker
Hey, happy to help.
00:20:59
Speaker
Let's see, how much follow up do we have?
00:21:01
Speaker
Just a couple of pieces here from
Retail Changes & Self-Driving Cars
00:21:03
Speaker
me.
00:21:03
Speaker
Do you remember, I don't know, six, nine months ago in Idiots of the Week, do you remember me talking about the Amazon stores, the brick and mortar stores where you could go in and according to them, they had AI so that you could just, you just pick stuff up and put it in your basket and you could walk out.
00:21:21
Speaker
And Duane, do you remember...
00:21:22
Speaker
Do you remember what the Amazon still denies this, but but what basically all of their AI was?
00:21:30
Speaker
It was guys watching on video and then marking what you bought.
00:21:34
Speaker
Yes.
00:21:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:37
Speaker
Apparently the whole concept is not, is no longer working from Amazon.
00:21:42
Speaker
They have announced that they are closing all of its Amazon go and Amazon fresh physical stores in a shift to focus to its online same day delivery service and also expanding whole foods.
00:21:55
Speaker
So all of these stores or most of them, they were a little unclear are going to be converted into whole food stores.
00:22:01
Speaker
which by the way, do not pick stuff up at Whole Foods and walk out without paying.
00:22:05
Speaker
They will, that will be a problem.
00:22:09
Speaker
And according to them, they're looking at this whole same day delivery thing.
00:22:14
Speaker
And according to the company, they said that being able to buy batteries and bananas in the same order is proving to be popular with customers.
00:22:23
Speaker
And my thought was, how many batteries do you need if you're constantly buying, like bananas,
00:22:30
Speaker
go off very quickly.
00:22:31
Speaker
Batteries last a long time.
00:22:35
Speaker
And people are like, you know what I need?
00:22:36
Speaker
I need a banana and some batteries.
00:22:39
Speaker
I have my OnlyFans chat.
00:22:40
Speaker
Nope, nope, never mind.
00:22:41
Speaker
Let's not even worry about that.
00:22:47
Speaker
So anyway, so if you wanted to have some dude in India watch you on camera while you shop, I think you have very limited time to get yourself to an Amazon Go store.
00:23:03
Speaker
Other follow-up.
00:23:05
Speaker
What would be an episode of Talking to Todd without more Waymo follow-up?
00:23:11
Speaker
I agree he's yelling right now.
00:23:12
Speaker
A good one.
00:23:14
Speaker
But that said, so Waymo had a bit of a problem.
00:23:20
Speaker
There was a picture taken of, oh, guess what?
00:23:24
Speaker
This took place in Denver.
00:23:27
Speaker
So just be on the lookout.
00:23:29
Speaker
I can Waymo in Denver?
00:23:32
Speaker
Apparently, although there was a picture that somebody posted of a Waymo parked in a bike lane, like literally just parked on the side of the road, completely blocking a clearly marked bike lane.
00:23:47
Speaker
There's only about a dozen in the city.
00:23:49
Speaker
They're doing their training program right now.
00:23:51
Speaker
They're planning on fully launching this in Denver in 2026.
00:23:55
Speaker
But people were like, hey, what's going on here?
00:23:57
Speaker
And Waymo said, it's not their fault.
00:24:02
Speaker
car didn't park there, the safety driver parked there.
00:24:05
Speaker
So clearly they can't be held responsible for the car parking in a bike lane.
00:24:12
Speaker
Now, if I was allowed one follow-up question, quick, just one follow-up, who employs the safety driver?
00:24:24
Speaker
Oh, it's our car and it's our employee, but we're not responsible.
00:24:27
Speaker
It's his fault.
00:24:28
Speaker
Doesn't he work for you?
00:24:29
Speaker
Hmm.
00:24:30
Speaker
Not anymore.
00:24:31
Speaker
No, those are.
00:24:32
Speaker
Oh, I see how that's.
00:24:34
Speaker
Those are independent contractors.
00:24:37
Speaker
Yes.
00:24:38
Speaker
Okay.
00:24:40
Speaker
Good.
00:24:40
Speaker
Good to know.
00:24:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:43
Speaker
Anyway, so the Waymos in Denver aren't even using self-driving at this point.
00:24:48
Speaker
They're just, again, Amazon, dudes in India, Amazon.
00:24:54
Speaker
doing the AI Waymo.
00:24:56
Speaker
We have self-driving cars.
00:24:58
Speaker
The guy who's driving it, his name is self.
00:25:00
Speaker
It's it's Steven self.
00:25:02
Speaker
It's a self-driving car.
00:25:03
Speaker
It's Bill self because he's not.
00:25:05
Speaker
Well, no, he's Bill's.
00:25:06
Speaker
He's he's he's Bill's brother, Steven.
00:25:08
Speaker
He's not quite as famous.
00:25:12
Speaker
I, I can't decide which I'm less comfortable with an AI driven car or a remotely driven car.
00:25:21
Speaker
Oh, by the way, the safety driver, this wasn't a remotely driven car.
00:25:25
Speaker
The dude was in the car.
00:25:28
Speaker
What?
00:25:30
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:32
Speaker
Self-driving technology.
00:25:33
Speaker
It's amazing.
00:25:35
Speaker
Here's the guy in the car.
00:25:37
Speaker
Sure.
00:25:38
Speaker
Isn't that just a taxi?
00:25:39
Speaker
No, because then we would need a license.
00:25:42
Speaker
Yes, no, no, no.
00:25:43
Speaker
Yeah, we don't do that around here.
00:25:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:47
Speaker
So anyway, Waymo still, you know...
00:25:51
Speaker
You know, at this point, what I think Waymo needs to change their, I'm just going to give this one to them for free, marketing advice, you know, because, you know, we're very good at naming and slogans.
00:26:01
Speaker
You know, obviously we've got a lot of feedback about that.
00:26:04
Speaker
Yeah, brands, we're brand experts.
00:26:06
Speaker
Yep.
00:26:07
Speaker
Yep.
00:26:08
Speaker
I'm just going to throw this out.
00:26:09
Speaker
Waymo.
00:26:10
Speaker
It's like a box of chocolates.
00:26:12
Speaker
You never know what you're going to get.
00:26:13
Speaker
I think you might get to your destination.
00:26:17
Speaker
You might get to a parking lot.
00:26:18
Speaker
You might go in circles.
00:26:20
Speaker
You might go to Phyllis's house.
00:26:21
Speaker
Nobody knows.
00:26:22
Speaker
You might just park in a bike lane.
00:26:24
Speaker
You just might park at a four way stop.
00:26:25
Speaker
You just might go into a, you might go into a parking garage at three o'clock in the morning and then just start honking your horn for an hour.
00:26:32
Speaker
Like you never know, but you know, it's going to be entertaining.
00:26:36
Speaker
I think that clears us a follow-up.
00:26:39
Speaker
I've got, I've got something that probably could have been in Todd's tech corner as brought to us by the, by the Taylor center of technology policy.
00:26:49
Speaker
Taylor center for technology.
00:26:51
Speaker
For technology.
00:26:52
Speaker
Yes.
00:26:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:53
Speaker
I sit correctly.
00:26:53
Speaker
I want to get the sponsor read, right?
00:26:57
Speaker
I'm going to, what are they, what are they going to do?
00:26:59
Speaker
Stop paying us?
00:27:01
Speaker
The, I, I,
00:27:04
Speaker
I'm going to save it for later in the show.
00:27:07
Speaker
I, I, I had, like I said, I had five games in six nights, only one technical given out, out of all nine of those games.
00:27:21
Speaker
So.
00:27:23
Speaker
Wow.
00:27:23
Speaker
Kind or kind or gentler Dwayne.
00:27:29
Speaker
The transition lenses weren't fogged up where they, was it just like, yeah, I think that looks fine.
00:27:33
Speaker
That's cool.
00:27:36
Speaker
The, oh, oh, it's time for this.
00:27:40
Speaker
Dwayne's never going to guess it.
00:27:41
Speaker
Who, me?
00:27:42
Speaker
Never, ever going to guess it.
00:27:43
Speaker
I don't know.
00:27:44
Speaker
No, Dwayne's never going to guess it.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yas, queen.
00:27:47
Speaker
Never, ever going to guess it.
00:27:50
Speaker
That's right.
00:27:51
Speaker
That sound means it's time for America's favorite game.
00:27:55
Speaker
Dwayne, guess the number.
00:27:58
Speaker
What you got, Todd?
00:27:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:59
Speaker
This is kind of a follow-up from a topic we've covered before.
Luxury Bags & Cycling Mishaps
00:28:03
Speaker
Do you remember when I asked you to guess the price of a Birkin bag?
00:28:09
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:10
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:28:12
Speaker
Well, I'm not going to ask you to come up with the price of a Birkin bag.
00:28:16
Speaker
However...
00:28:18
Speaker
Jason to that there was a story in the Wall Street Journal that said the wait list for Birkin or Rolex is getting shorter.
00:28:26
Speaker
Cool.
00:28:26
Speaker
Like that's one of the most Wall Street Journal things to cover.
00:28:31
Speaker
So I was reading about this because what I was trying to find out was what's the waiting list time.
00:28:34
Speaker
Then I was going to quiz you on what the waiting list time was and what it is.
00:28:37
Speaker
And then what does that mean for the economy?
00:28:40
Speaker
They didn't cover that.
00:28:40
Speaker
They just said it's getting shorter with no actual information.
00:28:43
Speaker
However,
00:28:45
Speaker
they did put out how many bags, specifically the Birkin and Kelly bags, that Hermes makes every year.
00:28:58
Speaker
Knowing how expensive the bags were that we were talking about, right?
00:29:04
Speaker
The $20,000, $40,000 bags.
00:29:05
Speaker
Dwayne, how many of those bags at that price did,
00:29:14
Speaker
Do you think, and this is a rough number, so I'm going to give you some latitude here because it literally says roughly, which means they don't know.
00:29:22
Speaker
So how could you, but I'm still going to hold you to it.
00:29:25
Speaker
How many bags does Hermes make of the Birkin and Kelly models roughly annually?
00:29:32
Speaker
Well, I mean, they want to create, they want to artificially create demand by holding down supply.
00:29:42
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:29:43
Speaker
We talked about that, right?
00:29:44
Speaker
Like you can't just go in and buy it.
00:29:45
Speaker
You have to have a relationship and then one comes available and then maybe they'll let you buy it.
00:29:49
Speaker
You don't even get to pick the color or anything that you want.
00:29:52
Speaker
It's this one, take it or leave it.
00:29:54
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:55
Speaker
It's, it's McDonald's toys for grownups.
00:30:00
Speaker
You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.
00:30:03
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:06
Speaker
Uh, 2,500.
00:30:14
Speaker
You're not within the margin of error.
00:30:17
Speaker
And you're low.
00:30:19
Speaker
And you're low.
00:30:20
Speaker
And I'm low.
00:30:22
Speaker
You're low.
00:30:24
Speaker
Am I close?
00:30:29
Speaker
No.
00:30:29
Speaker
15,000.
00:30:32
Speaker
Still low.
00:30:33
Speaker
Last chance.
00:30:35
Speaker
Get out. 75,000?
00:30:41
Speaker
Nobel there.
00:30:42
Speaker
You're still a full Dwayne off.
00:30:43
Speaker
They make roughly 150,000 Birkin and Kelly bags a year.
00:30:55
Speaker
And they can't keep them in stock to the point where they have to manage the supply of
00:31:04
Speaker
keeping them in stock and making our people keeping them in stock and making them available for sale is two different things let's just be honest but but yes and again the kelly right i think the kelly is is i i'm hoping i get this right i think the kelly is the smaller and the less expensive of the two versus the birkin
00:31:25
Speaker
So it may, it may go to that, but to your point, how 150,000 bags a year and you're like, oh, I've got to buy this one.
00:31:34
Speaker
Cause I don't know that I will ever get a chance to buy this one again.
00:31:37
Speaker
Well, there's 149,999 of them also being produced that have to be sold.
00:31:40
Speaker
This year.
00:31:40
Speaker
Just this year.
00:31:41
Speaker
Can I get one at Goodwill?
00:31:54
Speaker
You might be able to go into TK Maxx or TJ Maxx here, TK Maxx in England.
00:31:58
Speaker
Maybe.
00:31:58
Speaker
Give it a shot.
00:31:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:00
Speaker
By the way, those two bags drive approximately 25% of Hermes' overall sales.
00:32:15
Speaker
roughly according to the person that is estimating for this luxury goods analyst so anyway sorry i gave you three chances at it and and you you didn't know you didn't even come anywhere close to be completely honest your numbers make a lot more sense economically than this number does but whatever well if you're making 150 000 of them and selling them each for 40k a pop that's how you get to 23 of your sales
00:32:45
Speaker
I am going to be very interested to find out if either of our spouses get anywhere close to this number.
00:32:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:58
Speaker
I mean, let's face it.
00:33:00
Speaker
Lisa's going to get far closer than I ever did.
00:33:02
Speaker
But still.
00:33:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:05
Speaker
Still.
00:33:07
Speaker
Wow.
00:33:08
Speaker
Starting the year off strong here with Dwayne Guess the number.
00:33:10
Speaker
I mean, I am, not you.
00:33:11
Speaker
I am starting off strong.
00:33:13
Speaker
You're a dragon, but that's okay.
00:33:17
Speaker
Let's do, should we do a couple of idiots?
00:33:19
Speaker
The Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week?
00:33:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:23
Speaker
What did you bring?
00:33:25
Speaker
I brought a story that I titled Thunder Down Under.
00:33:30
Speaker
I just saw that.
00:33:31
Speaker
I'm now slightly concerned for a different reason.
00:33:35
Speaker
Go ahead, please.
00:33:40
Speaker
I said we were going to talk about bicycle races again later here in the show.
00:33:45
Speaker
We brought the same idiot.
00:33:54
Speaker
The headline from The Athletic, Jay Vine wins tour down under after two kangaroos cause mass crash.
00:34:03
Speaker
I'm like, come on, this is Pete talking to Todd.
00:34:05
Speaker
We have rogue animals and we have bicycle racing.
00:34:08
Speaker
Come on, we can't not cover this.
00:34:11
Speaker
So I brought this as my idiot of the week.
00:34:13
Speaker
Two kangaroos jumped into the peloton, causing him and other riders to crash.
00:34:23
Speaker
He was the Peloton.
00:34:26
Speaker
They were, they were cycling at estimated speeds of around 50 kilometers per hour.
00:34:35
Speaker
It's about, about 30 miles an hour.
00:34:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:37
Speaker
For, for, uh,
00:34:41
Speaker
For the Americans in the audience, yes.
00:34:43
Speaker
31 miles an hour is approximately there.
00:34:46
Speaker
People always ask me what the most dangerous thing in Australia is.
00:34:49
Speaker
And I always say kangaroos.
00:34:51
Speaker
They hide in the bushes and suddenly they're out in front of you.
00:34:55
Speaker
Point proven today.
00:34:58
Speaker
One of them stopped, went left, went right.
00:35:00
Speaker
I couldn't avoid him.
00:35:01
Speaker
Frankly, I'm okay.
00:35:03
Speaker
But I'm thinking about Mikkel, who is his teammate who is also involved in the crash.
00:35:08
Speaker
By the way,
00:35:10
Speaker
The penultimate stage, Doug, was also disrupted with organizers forced to shorten the route.
00:35:17
Speaker
Do you know why, Todd?
00:35:21
Speaker
Uh, drop bears?
00:35:23
Speaker
Spiders the size of Volkswagen Beetles?
00:35:37
Speaker
No, there was an extreme fire danger rating with forecasted temperatures of up to 43 degrees Celsius.
00:35:46
Speaker
Americans, that's 109.4 degrees.
00:35:48
Speaker
Or any given Thursday on RAGBRAI.
00:35:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:57
Speaker
Anyway, this summer's Spanish Grand Tour will take place almost exclusively in the south of Spain, where temperatures could regularly exceed 40 degrees Celsius.
00:36:07
Speaker
Again, no mention of RAGBRAI, where we expect to consistently be, you know, hot and probably more humid.
00:36:15
Speaker
Just saying.
00:36:17
Speaker
So, yes, I brought the kangaroo bike story.
00:36:21
Speaker
Todd?
00:36:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's exactly what I brought as well.
00:36:25
Speaker
I will, you had a portion of a quote.
00:36:28
Speaker
I'm quoting from the ESPN store.
00:36:30
Speaker
Actually, it's the Associated Press story on ESPN.
00:36:33
Speaker
Vine said, two of them blasted through the Peloton when we were doing probably 50K.
00:36:39
Speaker
And then, I love his play-by-play.
00:36:42
Speaker
And one of them stopped and went left, right, left, right, left, right.
00:36:47
Speaker
And I ended up hitting it in its backside.
00:36:51
Speaker
By the way,
00:36:53
Speaker
three writers had to abandon the race because of injuries caused by hitting the kangaroos.
00:36:59
Speaker
And one of the kangaroos was, was also injured.
00:37:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:04
Speaker
And, and the question of course is, is, you know, who's the idiot here?
00:37:08
Speaker
And I'm like, you know, I, I couldn't pinpoint it.
00:37:12
Speaker
It's certainly not the writers.
00:37:14
Speaker
You're just riding along and all of a sudden, I mean, as you pointed out, I mean, Jay Vine said they wait and they hide in the bushes until you can't stop.
00:37:23
Speaker
And then they jump out in front of you.
00:37:28
Speaker
I mean, it might be the kangaroos who are like, this will be fun.
00:37:31
Speaker
Watch this.
00:37:32
Speaker
Hold my beer.
00:37:34
Speaker
Oh, wait, I've got a pouch.
00:37:35
Speaker
I'm fine.
00:37:36
Speaker
Or it might be the organizers who are like, well, thank goodness we haven't had any kangaroo-related incidents so far this, and we're done.
00:37:49
Speaker
Okay, that's cool.
00:37:50
Speaker
No.
00:37:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:52
Speaker
Once again, though, the tour of Australia.
00:37:55
Speaker
I was actually going to, when I started this, when I was going to bring this up, I'm like, Dwayne, what's the most Australian thing that could happen to the tour of Australia?
00:38:04
Speaker
Kangaroos?
00:38:05
Speaker
Yep.
00:38:06
Speaker
So there we go.
00:38:08
Speaker
Two for one on our idiots of the week.
00:38:11
Speaker
309 episodes.
00:38:12
Speaker
I don't know that we've ever done that before.
00:38:16
Speaker
We've come close.
00:38:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:19
Speaker
We have caught it in the pre-show occasionally, but we've never been this spot on.
00:38:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:25
Speaker
Maybe we're the idiots.
00:38:26
Speaker
We've been off for two weeks.
00:38:28
Speaker
What's the best idiot story that I have to share?
00:38:30
Speaker
And we both come to the same conclusion.
00:38:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:34
Speaker
I am.
00:38:36
Speaker
So I'm on the road this week.
00:38:37
Speaker
I'm in Denver.
00:38:39
Speaker
I'm at the Renaissance Denver City Park.
00:38:46
Speaker
Todd, also known as Stapleton.
00:38:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:38:50
Speaker
That's the one.
00:38:51
Speaker
Yes.
00:38:52
Speaker
Yep.
00:38:54
Speaker
I, my buddy asked me where I was going to go eat dinner tonight.
00:39:00
Speaker
I said in the hotel, because while you can leave the hotel, there's no guarantee that you're coming back.
00:39:11
Speaker
The area is rough.
00:39:13
Speaker
The capital rough.
00:39:16
Speaker
It's fine.
00:39:17
Speaker
The hotel itself.
00:39:19
Speaker
Great.
00:39:20
Speaker
Dinner was really good.
00:39:22
Speaker
No complaints there.
00:39:23
Speaker
It's really close to the office, the old office.
00:39:28
Speaker
Not close to the new office, so I probably won't be back.
00:39:31
Speaker
But anyway,
Tech Challenges & Nostalgic Stores
00:39:34
Speaker
I just know that I know you have a relationship with this hotel.
00:39:38
Speaker
Yeah, well, that sounds a little weird, but we've stayed there multiple times.
00:39:43
Speaker
Yes, we have stayed there for Broncos games and saw the San Diego football chargers there.
00:39:51
Speaker
So yes, the glass elevators, what I will tell you is the glass elevators opened up and there were five offensive linemen in there and they're like, oh, come on in, there's plenty of room.
00:40:00
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And Lisa and I were like, hmm, what the, let's see, you're each pushing 300, it was times five, that's 1,500.
00:40:06
Speaker
You know what?
00:40:07
Speaker
We'll just take the next one.
00:40:08
Speaker
We're fine.
00:40:09
Speaker
And then also gave the, I'm sure I told the story about us being stranded in Denver during the blizzard and a random stranger just got in our rental car with us.
00:40:19
Speaker
We'll get you to a hotel.
00:40:21
Speaker
Jeez, that's fine.
00:40:22
Speaker
Anyway, it was the renaissance in Denver at Stapleton that we then were snowed in for three solid days with just our carry-on luggage because we couldn't get our checked luggage.
00:40:32
Speaker
So we spent three days in there.
00:40:35
Speaker
So spent a lot of time, a lot more time than I had planned.
00:40:39
Speaker
On that trip, we had planned zero amount of time because we were flying to Kansas City.
00:40:43
Speaker
And I spent three days.
00:40:45
Speaker
Lisa and I spent three days in the Renaissance, Denver, Stapleton, to go to Kansas City.
00:40:51
Speaker
So anyway, yes, perfectly nice facility.
00:40:57
Speaker
I've done two different conferences here back when I worked for Soil.
00:41:01
Speaker
Um, and have stayed here a couple of different times beyond that for site visits and whatever.
00:41:07
Speaker
So yeah, I too am intimately familiar with this hotel.
00:41:12
Speaker
Conveniently located near nothing at this point, but other than, other than the freeway to the airport.
00:41:22
Speaker
The, but on the plane this morning.
00:41:25
Speaker
Yep.
00:41:27
Speaker
Is that going to load?
00:41:28
Speaker
I'm going to, I've got to text you a picture, Todd.
00:41:31
Speaker
People love this.
00:41:39
Speaker
I did not fly Delta because I was flying direct from Des Moines to Denver.
00:41:45
Speaker
I flew United.
00:41:46
Speaker
You know what they serve, Todd?
00:41:48
Speaker
Stroopwafels.
00:41:50
Speaker
Yes, they do.
00:41:51
Speaker
Yes.
00:41:52
Speaker
Oh, I need to take a picture of this and send it to Todd.
00:41:55
Speaker
Did you enjoy your Stroopwafel?
00:41:57
Speaker
I ate it.
00:42:03
Speaker
It's like voting present.
00:42:08
Speaker
Are you for or against this?
00:42:09
Speaker
Present.
00:42:15
Speaker
Seriously, I don't know how you don't like them.
00:42:17
Speaker
They're awesome.
00:42:18
Speaker
And you know what?
00:42:19
Speaker
By the way, that's also the good brand.
00:42:22
Speaker
They're not flying the knockoff stuff.
00:42:24
Speaker
They've got the good brand.
00:42:26
Speaker
That's okay.
00:42:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:29
Speaker
It wasn't awful.
00:42:30
Speaker
It wasn't as bad as I remember.
00:42:35
Speaker
There's their new slogan.
00:42:37
Speaker
Wasn't not awful.
00:42:39
Speaker
Not as bad as you remember.
00:42:41
Speaker
Stroopwafels.
00:42:46
Speaker
Have them in your next Waymo drive.
00:42:48
Speaker
Right.
00:42:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:51
Speaker
Have you been watching anything?
00:42:53
Speaker
Yeah, actually, we've made a concerted effort to say, you know, we should probably watch some more scripted stuff.
00:42:59
Speaker
So we've been watching a few more things.
00:43:01
Speaker
We watched, I don't know what this is.
00:43:03
Speaker
Is it a limited series?
00:43:05
Speaker
Is it just a movie over three episodes?
00:43:07
Speaker
I don't know.
00:43:08
Speaker
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials on Netflix.
00:43:13
Speaker
Three one-hour episodes.
00:43:16
Speaker
Agatha Christie, it's a murder mystery.
00:43:20
Speaker
Okay.
00:43:22
Speaker
Decent.
00:43:24
Speaker
You know, it's certainly something to watch.
00:43:27
Speaker
Anyway, there's that.
00:43:29
Speaker
It's got Helena Bonham Carter and, oh, who played the Hobbit?
00:43:35
Speaker
Martin Short?
00:43:39
Speaker
Geez.
00:43:39
Speaker
It was in Sherlock as Watson.
00:43:48
Speaker
Martin Short, geez.
00:43:50
Speaker
No.
00:43:51
Speaker
God.
00:43:52
Speaker
I think you were thinking of Steve Martin.
00:43:54
Speaker
Nope, not that one either.
00:43:55
Speaker
Nope, not that, nope.
00:43:58
Speaker
This is where Lisa's like, you really didn't know?
00:44:02
Speaker
It's Martin Freeman.
00:44:04
Speaker
There it is.
00:44:04
Speaker
Thank you.
00:44:05
Speaker
Not to be confused with Morgan Freeman.
00:44:07
Speaker
Yeah, different, different.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:11
Speaker
Just just sitting there, just in the corner, just reading.
00:44:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:14
Speaker
So, uh, seven dials, that's three episodes.
00:44:17
Speaker
We also started watching, um, on Fox slash Hulu is a show that is based off of a British show.
00:44:24
Speaker
The British show was called doc Martin.
00:44:27
Speaker
outsider doctor comes to small town to become the town doctor, you know, fish out of water kind of thing.
00:44:36
Speaker
Uh, this one is called, that's what they tell me.
00:44:40
Speaker
This one is called, uh, best medicine.
00:44:44
Speaker
Because if they called it doc Martin in the United States, people would think it was about shoes.
00:44:52
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:52
Speaker
Yep.
00:44:52
Speaker
I was assuming they would just get sued, but sure.
00:44:55
Speaker
Yes, that's fine.
00:44:56
Speaker
There is a link to this podcast.
00:44:58
Speaker
However, the main, the, the lead character, um, who is Martin, it's Martin best doc Martin.
00:45:06
Speaker
So it's Martin best, best medicine is played by Josh Charles.
00:45:13
Speaker
Oh, so there you go.
00:45:16
Speaker
Yes.
00:45:17
Speaker
And, and others.
00:45:18
Speaker
So we've watched, we've watched the first three episodes of that.
00:45:22
Speaker
And then like six to nine months ago, we started watching high potential on ABC slash Hulu.
00:45:29
Speaker
And then we just kind of drifted away and we were looking for some other stuff.
00:45:34
Speaker
And we're like, hey, let's go back and pick up high potential.
00:45:36
Speaker
And then it was like, where were we?
00:45:38
Speaker
I don't know.
00:45:38
Speaker
I mean, we probably would watch three or four episode seven.
00:45:41
Speaker
Hey, this is the next one to watch.
00:45:43
Speaker
So we've watched now a couple of episodes and we're getting back into a high potential.
00:45:48
Speaker
Fun show.
00:45:49
Speaker
You don't have to think too hard.
00:45:51
Speaker
Matter of fact, it's best if you don't.
00:45:54
Speaker
Absolutely fair.
00:45:55
Speaker
Yes.
00:45:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:56
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:57
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:58
Speaker
Just, just let it, just, just let it do its thing.
00:46:01
Speaker
It's fine.
00:46:01
Speaker
So yes.
00:46:03
Speaker
How about you?
00:46:03
Speaker
What have you guys been watching?
00:46:05
Speaker
We're continuing to slow binge our way through the West wing.
00:46:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:11
Speaker
Some nights we're binging a little faster than others, but we're watching it together.
00:46:16
Speaker
We're now into season five.
00:46:18
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:20
Speaker
Why didn't we like this?
00:46:23
Speaker
Cause season five is still okay.
00:46:26
Speaker
Is it?
00:46:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:27
Speaker
Has it, hasn't, hasn't completely gone off the rails yet?
00:46:30
Speaker
No, no.
00:46:32
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:46:33
Speaker
Good to know.
00:46:35
Speaker
Maybe he left a few scripts behind after he left.
00:46:40
Speaker
That's possible.
00:46:42
Speaker
Here's a few scripts to get you started.
00:46:43
Speaker
I'm going to spot you.
00:46:46
Speaker
The story by credit is still there.
00:46:49
Speaker
And then Eli Addy needed to do everything else.
00:46:55
Speaker
I don't know.
00:46:56
Speaker
Anyway, so there's that.
00:46:59
Speaker
We're continuing to watch The Pit.
00:47:01
Speaker
It is appointment television.
00:47:03
Speaker
Occasionally.
00:47:05
Speaker
Because I was so busy last week, we got to watch two episodes back to back.
00:47:09
Speaker
That's a lot of blood on the pit back to back.
00:47:14
Speaker
Just going to put that out there.
00:47:16
Speaker
Maybe not bingeable.
00:47:17
Speaker
Maybe it's good.
00:47:17
Speaker
They release it every week.
00:47:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:19
Speaker
At one point they put somebody's shoulder back in.
00:47:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:23
Speaker
When it was not just dislocated, but had come through.
00:47:28
Speaker
It was a compound dislocation.
00:47:30
Speaker
Yep.
00:47:31
Speaker
And they put it back in by hand.
00:47:35
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, that was really nasty, among other things.
00:47:41
Speaker
Anyway, so The Pit, we're still watching.
00:47:43
Speaker
And then on the plane this morning, I got halfway through a movie called Roof Man.
00:47:51
Speaker
Have you heard of this?
00:47:53
Speaker
Is this the, based on a true story of a guy, was it the guy was living inside like the, he was living inside or on the roof of like a Walmart or a Kmart or something?
00:48:09
Speaker
Or some undisclosed store?
00:48:13
Speaker
Toys R Us.
00:48:15
Speaker
Sure.
00:48:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:18
Speaker
And, and, you know, it was set, you know, this happened quite a long time ago because it was across the street.
00:48:24
Speaker
Hey, it was Toys R Us, which don't exist anymore.
00:48:27
Speaker
Yep.
00:48:28
Speaker
Yep.
00:48:29
Speaker
And it was across the street from a blockbuster video.
00:48:31
Speaker
I'm like, Oh, Hey, look at that.
00:48:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:34
Speaker
I thought you were going to tell me he had to run down to Radio Shack to get some batteries.
00:48:37
Speaker
But the Blockbuster also does date it.
00:48:42
Speaker
Because at that point, you couldn't just have Amazon order your bananas and your batteries.
00:48:46
Speaker
You literally had – we had to go someplace.
00:48:48
Speaker
We had to go to Radio Shack and give them our phone number to get the batteries.
00:48:52
Speaker
But you could get a banana phone.
00:48:55
Speaker
You could.
00:48:56
Speaker
Actually, yes.
00:48:56
Speaker
You could get the banana phone and the batteries.
00:48:58
Speaker
Good point.
00:48:59
Speaker
Good point.
00:48:59
Speaker
Hadn't thought about that.
00:49:00
Speaker
You know what?
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:02
Speaker
Radio Shack ahead of its time.
00:49:04
Speaker
Not really.
00:49:05
Speaker
Literally the name radio is in its name.
00:49:08
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:09
Speaker
So the slug line for this is this guy broke into 45 different McDonald's because they're all identical and stole the money out of the McDonald's.
00:49:22
Speaker
Blah, blah, blah.
00:49:22
Speaker
Right.
00:49:24
Speaker
And by the way, you just sound like Rue there a little bit.
00:49:27
Speaker
Although McDonald's is.
00:49:32
Speaker
Sorry.
00:49:34
Speaker
You okay there, Rue?
00:49:35
Speaker
McDonald's.
00:49:39
Speaker
Look over there.
00:49:39
Speaker
Beautiful benefactresses.
00:49:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:43
Speaker
But it was only like the first 10 minutes of the movie.
00:49:47
Speaker
Which, okay, fine, whatever.
00:49:49
Speaker
And then he's living in the Toys R Us.
00:49:54
Speaker
Well, then he goes to prison and then he escapes from prison, which is kind of interesting.
00:49:58
Speaker
And then he figures out how to live inside the Toys R Us, which is also kind of interesting.
00:50:05
Speaker
And I'm an hour into it, but the slug line was this guy that broke into 45 different McDonald's
00:50:16
Speaker
could be the show title right there.
00:50:18
Speaker
The, I'm like, this is, this is not the movie I was expecting.
00:50:23
Speaker
It's not that I'm not enjoying it.
00:50:25
Speaker
And I will probably finish the other half of it on the flight home on Friday, but I'm interested enough to see where it's going, but it's not what I anticipated.
00:50:36
Speaker
Sounds like they need some marketing help as well.
00:50:39
Speaker
Clearly.
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:42
Speaker
The reason I can't, so the thing that I learned this week, I got to the hotel, I got checked in, I'm here.
00:50:50
Speaker
I go to log onto the wifi and I can't, and it's telling me no.
00:50:55
Speaker
My room number and my name don't match up.
00:50:59
Speaker
Not on my iPad, not on my phone, not on my computer, blah, blah, blah, fine.
00:51:04
Speaker
Call the front desk.
00:51:06
Speaker
They give me the employee
00:51:09
Speaker
hidden network to try to log in.
00:51:11
Speaker
It won't let me log into that.
00:51:13
Speaker
She's like, Oh, okay.
00:51:14
Speaker
Well, you're going to have to call tech support.
00:51:16
Speaker
I called tech support for Marriott.
00:51:21
Speaker
I now have that number had to identify myself as a guest at this Renaissance Stapleton.
00:51:29
Speaker
They didn't say Stapleton, but they had to add me individually to
00:51:38
Speaker
approved by the IP address and the MAC address for each of these devices.
00:51:45
Speaker
So I'm reading them to the person in tech support and she's adding me as approved to get in.
00:51:53
Speaker
So that's the only reason we were able to record tonight is thanks to the tech support people.
00:52:03
Speaker
at Marriott who had to go behind the scenes and let me in.
00:52:09
Speaker
I didn't realize this was a thing and I'm still not exactly sure whether or not I should have done it, but I did.
00:52:19
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:20
Speaker
I'm no IT professional.
00:52:22
Speaker
Wait, no, sorry.
00:52:23
Speaker
I am.
00:52:26
Speaker
Thank you.
00:52:28
Speaker
That to me here,
00:52:32
Speaker
When I hear the stories like that, I think, is the problem gone?
00:52:39
Speaker
Yes.
00:52:41
Speaker
Is the problem solved?
00:52:43
Speaker
No.
00:52:47
Speaker
Amen to that.
00:52:50
Speaker
We have a workaround.
00:52:52
Speaker
How about you not need the worker?
00:52:54
Speaker
Now we can't figure out how to do that.
00:52:55
Speaker
So now we're just hand coding stuff in because guests love it when we say, can you open up?
00:53:01
Speaker
Okay, so open up your settings, go to general and then scroll down and then I need to find your Mac address.
00:53:08
Speaker
Like, oh my, what the?
00:53:11
Speaker
The little eye with a circle around it.
00:53:13
Speaker
Yeah, can you click on that?
00:53:14
Speaker
And then I'm like, okay, I know all of these things.
00:53:17
Speaker
I'm like, okay, fine.
00:53:18
Speaker
Well, you know,
00:53:21
Speaker
They apparently get paid by tickets closed.
00:53:24
Speaker
And the front desk gets a kickback on tickets closed.
00:53:29
Speaker
So there you are.
00:53:32
Speaker
But you've got your Wi-Fi.
00:53:33
Speaker
So, you know.
00:53:36
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:36
Speaker
That's what I learned this week.
00:53:39
Speaker
Not the worst, not the worst series of steps needed to take to get onto hotel Wi-Fi that I've ever had.
00:53:46
Speaker
And I'm guessing that you've never had.
00:53:48
Speaker
I'm putting that.
00:53:49
Speaker
No, just give me the code.
00:53:50
Speaker
Nope.
00:53:50
Speaker
The code doesn't work.
00:53:51
Speaker
Now it's expired.
00:53:52
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:52
Speaker
No, I'm still here.
00:53:53
Speaker
Like, what do you mean?
00:53:54
Speaker
I'm out of devices.
00:53:55
Speaker
I haven't even registered a single device.
00:53:56
Speaker
How can I be out of devices?
00:53:58
Speaker
No, I wouldn't want to upgrade.
00:53:59
Speaker
I'm already platinum.
00:54:00
Speaker
Why are you charging me to upgrade this?
00:54:02
Speaker
I don't understand.
00:54:03
Speaker
That, that, that every time.
00:54:11
Speaker
And scene.
00:54:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:15
Speaker
So that's what I brought to the party.
00:54:16
Speaker
What did you learn this week?
00:54:19
Speaker
Yeah.
Dog Health & Home Challenges
00:54:22
Speaker
So Sunday, early afternoon, I'm watching my Broncos, the Denver Broncos, host the AFC Championship game.
00:54:32
Speaker
And then a blizzard breaks out.
00:54:34
Speaker
And then some decisions are made in which they don't win the game.
00:54:39
Speaker
Cool.
00:54:41
Speaker
I was flippantly going to say, while they were in the bed, Preston...
00:54:47
Speaker
shit in the carpet.
00:54:48
Speaker
Um, oh, he developed, he developed, uh, he got sick and, uh, started having problems.
00:54:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:57
Speaker
That's fine.
00:54:57
Speaker
Every who's on a dog has been through this.
00:55:00
Speaker
It is what it is.
00:55:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:03
Speaker
Does mean every time he comes in from outside, we need to, we, he needs to get a bum wash because we got issues.
00:55:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:14
Speaker
That's Sunday.
00:55:16
Speaker
Yep.
00:55:18
Speaker
Sunday night.
00:55:22
Speaker
We go to bed about 10.
00:55:24
Speaker
He wakes me up at 12 and at two and at four and at six to go out.
00:55:33
Speaker
Every time we go out, go out.
00:55:37
Speaker
in the sink bum wash let's go back to bed okay cool I go to work all day Monday I'm getting texts this dog is destroying our carpet I can't go in the living room again thank goodness we bought the carpet cleaning machine all day Monday Monday night up at 12 up at 2 up at 4 you need to be washed
00:56:07
Speaker
All day Tuesday, it's a repeat.
00:56:11
Speaker
Now we're getting a little concerned.
00:56:12
Speaker
We're like, you know, 48 hours is kind of like as far as we should go.
00:56:16
Speaker
And by this point, we're both kind of tired because we both keep getting woken up here.
00:56:21
Speaker
I'm taking him out.
00:56:22
Speaker
And then the second night, Lisa's like, I'll take a shift.
00:56:24
Speaker
You take a shift.
00:56:26
Speaker
And we're like, God, this can't get any worse.
00:56:29
Speaker
That was our mistake.
00:56:32
Speaker
Because on Tuesday night, night three,
00:56:36
Speaker
Midnight.
00:56:37
Speaker
Time to go out.
00:56:39
Speaker
Two o'clock in the morning.
00:56:41
Speaker
He doesn't need to go out.
00:56:44
Speaker
Brixton, sleeping in the crate next to him, starts barfing.
00:56:49
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:56:51
Speaker
So, we spend the entire night.
00:56:56
Speaker
One dog needs to be cleaned up on one end.
00:56:58
Speaker
Another dog needs to be cleaned up on the other end all night long for the third night.
00:57:06
Speaker
There was a trip to the vet today for Preston.
00:57:08
Speaker
Was checked out.
00:57:09
Speaker
Did have an IV.
00:57:10
Speaker
Fluids.
00:57:11
Speaker
Probably not a thing.
00:57:13
Speaker
You just kind of have to ride it out.
00:57:15
Speaker
Here's some special food he probably won't eat.
00:57:17
Speaker
And also some cream for the back end of the dog, which has now been washed.
00:57:23
Speaker
somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 to 60 times, and he's getting kind of tired of it, so there's some cream.
00:57:28
Speaker
But what did I learn?
00:57:29
Speaker
At no point, at no point, even in joking, in the middle of any of this stuff, do you ever look at your spouse and say, well, at least it can't get any worse.
00:57:37
Speaker
Because once again, I just want to remind everybody, it can always get worse.
00:57:42
Speaker
Where Brixton was like, oh, I can help this.
00:57:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:57:47
Speaker
It's been a fun week.
00:57:49
Speaker
It's like we've had four Thursdays already.
00:57:52
Speaker
I just want to sleep.
00:57:54
Speaker
Thank God they're small dogs.
00:58:00
Speaker
There is that.
00:58:01
Speaker
Although at times you're like, how big of a dog are you?
00:58:04
Speaker
Where did you put all of that?
00:58:05
Speaker
Don't ask.
00:58:06
Speaker
Oh, my goodness.
00:58:21
Speaker
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Speaker
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00:58:32
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As you were telling me about Roofman, I had already jumped ahead to what you were going to tell me that was going to lead into what you learned this week, which is what I thought you were going to tell me was he broke into 45 McDonald's because they all have the same security.
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Then he gets arrested.
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He gets sent to prison, but he breaks out of prison.
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And I swear to God, I thought you were going to say, because it turns out that the same security software used at prisons is used at McDonald's.
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And so he knew how to get out.
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And I was so waiting for it.
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And then you said, and then he goes back to the Toys R Us.
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And I'm like, I'm not even worth watching this movie anymore.
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That's a story that needs to be told.
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They can't keep their ice cream machines working, but we can lock down both McDonald's and cell block C. Same thing.
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Just order extra large fries.
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That's the password.
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It could have been something, but it wasn't.
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It was not.
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Oh, maybe that's maybe maybe that's the sequel.
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That was quite a ride you took us on, Todd.
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That's what I was expecting.
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See, now everybody wants to see that version of the movie.
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God.
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I'm sure we're going to have something we need to clean up next week.
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Until then, we'll be back.
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We're here.
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We're talking to Todd.
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What I also learned this week is I'm really glad I wasn't a real fan and went to Denver in the middle of that blizzard to watch that crap fest.
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On the other hand, I would have had some travel stories.
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The, did you see?
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No, you didn't because the players disappeared when they tried to do the overlay.
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I'm like, did you see?
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No, you didn't.
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No, you didn't.
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You didn't see any of it.
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You didn't see any of the players.