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Speaker: Okay, let's dump this.
Speaker: Oh, hey, there we go.
Speaker: Hey, hey, we found it.
Speaker: Look at that.
Speaker: Hey, how about that?
Speaker: Maybe we can edit this out.
Speaker: Or maybe not.
Speaker: Who knows?
Speaker: There may not be anything to edit.
Speaker: Levels, levels.
Speaker: Oh, God.
Speaker: I've got waveform down below.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: There's a non-zero chance this won't work.
Speaker: And, by the way, we might have problems with Zencaster.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: So we had a listener contribution for a cold open.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Knock, knock.
Speaker: Who's there?
Speaker: Hike.
Speaker: Hike who?
Speaker: Unsuspecting Todd.
Speaker: Dwayne waits with bated breath.
Speaker: Sets the perfect trap.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Hi toddlers, welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prins, where failure and haikus are always an option.
Speaker: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker: Hey Todd.
Speaker: Hey, how's it going?
Speaker: Pretty good.
Speaker: Pretty good.
Speaker: How are you?
Speaker: Right there.
Speaker: Here's here's Todd's thinking quick.
Speaker: Come up with a haiku to be really funny to refer to that.
Speaker: And then a split second later, you don't have that skill.
Speaker: So five, five, seven, five.
Speaker: Is that your area code?
Speaker: Different.
Speaker: Oh, wait, no, that's universe.
Speaker: Five, seven, five, not universe.
Speaker: Six, one, six.
Speaker: Is the haiku universe is 575.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: That makes more sense.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Clearly.
Speaker: Thanks to ToddlerNegative18 for that contribution.
Speaker: If I had told you where it came from before, you probably wouldn't have played along.
Speaker: Oh, no, no, no, no.
Speaker: I was playing, I was, by the way, I was playing a different game in my head.
Speaker: You said listener contribution.
Speaker: And you said, I'm like, hmm, wonder who sent this in?
Speaker: Knock, knock.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I wonder who this could be.
Speaker: And then you said hike.
Speaker: And before I took a quick pause and I did the joke and I went, I see where this is going.
Speaker: Toddler and egg of 18.
Speaker: That could have been a game.
Speaker: That could have been a game.
Speaker: Hey, Todd, guess who sent that in?
Speaker: Guess who sent in this particular contribution?
Speaker: That would have been my first guess because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been Doug.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I think that's fair.
Speaker: Feedback, follow-up, and updates?
Speaker: Yeah, let's get to that.
Speaker: Toddler number one, you may need to explain hand-wavy, timey-timey to those of them that aren't in the Marvel Universe.
Speaker: I think that falls under those that know, know, and those that don't, don't care.
Speaker: If you know, you know.
Speaker: If you know, you know, and if you don't, you'd probably skip that really crappy Doctor Strange second movie, and you're better for it.
Speaker: Yeah, that's probably fair.
Speaker: The other podcast seems to be okay.
Speaker: It's just okay now.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: She's in June.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, if you want to keep doing it, can you make the other one a little shorter?
Speaker: Like the other one was 45 minutes.
Speaker: Still too long.
Speaker: Challenge accepted or not.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: We'll see how this goes tonight.
Speaker: You're recording from a even more undisclosed, undisclosed location.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, we're lucky if this makes it all the way through.
Speaker: Hotel Wi-Fi.
Speaker: You know, we've been on this road before, so we'll see.
Speaker: We've crashed and burned before.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So we'll see what happens here.
Speaker: How about Lisa?
Speaker: The one piece of feedback I did have from Lisa, she saw the episode coming out.
Speaker: It's only 45 minutes.
Speaker: Well, yeah, because we needed to record that.
Speaker: We had the other one.
Speaker: I don't need the explanation and I'm not complaining.
Speaker: I'm just saying 45 minutes.
Speaker: And thank you.
Speaker: That was a statement, Todd, not a question.
Speaker: Was she asking for more?
Speaker: Not, no, not just 45 minutes.
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There you go.
Speaker: Uh, also from toddler, negative 18 tarantula, hawk wasp sounds like you're just picking names of scary things out of a hat.
Speaker: I can do this.
Speaker: Velociraptor zombie IRS agent.
Speaker: Can you play this game?
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: Yeah, that sounds like what we did.
Speaker: Now imagine that that thing is flying outside of your window and you look it up.
Speaker: A velociraptor zombie IRS agent?
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or you look at the other thing and you find out it's a tarantula hawk wasp and you go, that can't possibly be right.
Speaker: Let me look at the next entry.
Speaker: Huh?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's not a thing.
Speaker: Click, click.
Speaker: Am I being punked here?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So speaking, speaking of tarantula, hawk wasps.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Toddler number six, David said that he was talking to his sister.
Speaker: She has tarantula hawks at her house in Denver, so they're apparently migrating east.
Speaker: Oh, no.
Speaker: And then I told my sister that she probably also has tarantulas in her yard.
Speaker: I bet you she really liked that bit of information.
Speaker: And then he shared the gruesome details of how the tarantula hawk wasp got its name.
Speaker: She thought it was termites, but after getting all of the information, she's now wishing it was termites.
Speaker: Hey, look, we've earned our educational podcast tag back.
Speaker: See, David, what did you learn this week?
Speaker: Talking to Todd has valuable real-world applications.
Speaker: Look at us.
Speaker: We are an educational podcast, right?
Speaker: See?
Speaker: We're here to solve problems or create new ones that you didn't even know that you had.
Speaker: But either way, plus minus.
Speaker: See, so if Sarah would have told me about her tarantula hawk wasps, I would have said she's crazy.
Speaker: But Todd?
Speaker: Todd's not crazy at all.
Speaker: It's coming from Todd.
Speaker: It's got to be legit.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This is from toddler number six, who you don't think is a real person.
Speaker: Well, I mean, we get lots of feedback.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So sure.
Speaker: On Saturday, when David and Michael and I were playing golf on every hole, we played gold, silver guillotine since there were three of us.
Speaker: Excellent.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Way to get in the Olympic spirit.
Speaker: Michael won.
Speaker: I got silver.
Speaker: David did not fare as well.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: What else we got here in feedback?
Speaker: Looks like Tyler 401k had a thought.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Oh, yes.
Speaker: Let me see if I can find that.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: So the opening.
Speaker: with the tuck wasn't tight the entire time I was waiting for you to talk about the pole vaulter who, who hit his junk on the crossbar.
Speaker: I would have bet a thousand dollars that that was what the title was referencing.
Speaker: Would never had, would never have guessed that it was Simone.
Speaker: There you go.
Speaker: Oh yes.
Speaker: Speaking.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Speaking of that, that was Lisa's other feedback.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Three and a half minutes in.
Speaker: Are we still in the cold open or did I miss the theme?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No, we're still in the cold open.
Speaker: Six and a half minutes in.
Speaker: That was, you took that long to get to that joke?
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yes, we did.
Speaker: Well, we did, but that's because we didn't have a, we went into that with Napoleon's plan.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: We went into that thinking, let's just do what we're watching because all we did was watch the Olympics all week.
Speaker: We'll just do that for the cold open.
Speaker: And let's just see where it leads.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And hopefully the joke will appear out of thin air and a joke appeared.
Speaker: And then we played the theme.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But it really was Napoleon's plan.
Speaker: We'll just show up and we'll see what happens.
Speaker: On the other hand, Danny thought we were telegraphing a completely different joke.
Speaker: Okay, land it.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Okay, here it is.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Now you're getting... Oh, didn't see that coming.
Speaker: Much like gymnastics.
Speaker: Maybe we landed it.
Speaker: Maybe we didn't.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Maybe we could just don't send it to the court of perpetration.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Is it too late?
Speaker: We're going to get to that.
Speaker: We're going to get to that later when we get to follow up.
Speaker: Did we have any corrections from last week?
Speaker: No, not on my side.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I didn't have any Royce white news.
Speaker: We always do that next.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: But I will say that I didn't Google Royce white news.
Speaker: So there may have been some, but I am going to spare you and everyone from anything here.
Speaker: Excellent.
Speaker: You're welcome, toddlers.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: Olympic follow-up.
Speaker: This could have gone under Todd Adano.
Speaker: It could have also gone under idiots.
Speaker: Did you see about the Olympian who was banned from the Olympic village?
Speaker: I don't believe so.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So she was a swimmer for Paraguay.
Speaker: She failed to progress past the women's hundred meter butterfly heats, which was apparently her only event.
Speaker: And that happened early in the games, like on day two.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: On day three, do you know what she did?
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: You would have thought she'd have won the Super Bowl because she went to Disneyland.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Went out, partied, went to Disneyland, posted it all over the internet because she's a TikTok superstar.
Speaker: And the Olympics...
Speaker: said that her presence is creating an inappropriate atmosphere within Team Paraguay.
Speaker: This is from the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.
Speaker: They booted her, not the official Olympic Committee, but the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.
Speaker: Her presence is creating an inappropriate atmosphere within Team Paraguay.
Speaker: We thank her for proceeding as instructed, as it was of her own free will.
Speaker: She didn't spend the night in the athlete's village, and she didn't spend the night in the athlete's village ever again.
Speaker: I mean, if she would have, I'm guessing there's probably a couple of videos of her being kicked out, which probably got her even more coverage on the TikTok than staying in the, anyway.
Speaker: Also under Olympic follow-up, did you see this?
Speaker: This is a stat that just stunned me.
Speaker: Sydney McLaughlin-Leveron, gold medalist in the 400-meter hurdles.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: World record holder in the 400-meter hurdles.
Speaker: Her time with hurdles was
Speaker: Would have qualified her for the Open 400 without hurdles.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: For the final.
Speaker: Would have qualified her, not just qualified her for the Olympics, would have qualified her for the final.
Speaker: They ran in the semifinal heat.
Speaker: They took her, I believe, semifinal time and overlaid her progress bar on the finals from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Speaker: and her time covering the hurdles, she would have finished sixth in the 400 without the hurdles.
Speaker: That's how fast she is.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: That was amazing.
Speaker: I thought that was incredible.
Speaker: And there are a ton of stats, right?
Speaker: I mean, we could just go stats heavy all for the next 30 minutes.
Speaker: That was amazing.
Speaker: And finally, the last piece of Olympic follow-up.
Speaker: Last week, I quizzed you about medal counts.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Did you see how the medal count finished up?
Speaker: We won USA, USA, and I believe we tied for gold.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: With China.
Speaker: With China.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: We had 40.
Speaker: They had 40.
Speaker: The next closest was Japan.
Speaker: Japan had 20 golds.
Speaker: We also won silver 44 to 27.
Speaker: China had the second most silvers.
Speaker: And we won bronze with 42 and China...
Speaker: had 24 of those great Britain had 29.
Speaker: Do, do you want to just out of curiosity?
Speaker: I know this isn't, but this, this is, this is something that I really think taught out to know which country came in fourth the most.
Speaker: Did you know this?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: I was going to say, why would I possibly know this?
Speaker: But given the amount of crap that I know that I shouldn't.
Speaker: Frankly, I'm a little surprised that you don't know this, but I'm going to.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Who came in fourth the most?
Speaker: I will say Great Britain.
Speaker: It was actually it was Italy and they came in fourth 24 times.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: They should get a medal for that.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Make a show title note here.
Speaker: What else we got?
Speaker: Do you have some follow-up?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So, hey, college football, we're getting ready for football season.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: And in...
Speaker: College football news, Coach Prime is already mid-season form.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: A report last Friday in Athlonsports.com by Steve Corder.
Speaker: There was an article that he published, Deion Sanders' chaotic culture turns into locker room violence in Colorado.
Speaker: According to a former player who was there, quote, it's like a real life Grand Theft Auto video game.
Speaker: There are many distractions with fights, guns, and money floating around.
Speaker: The environment is unlike anything I've come from before.
Speaker: There's also, it includes bullying, violence, fighting over gambling debts, and a general gun culture in the locker room.
Speaker: In response, Coach Prime has threatened there's going to be ramifications for him publishing that story.
Speaker: Not for the actual locker room environment.
Speaker: No, no, no, no, none of that.
Speaker: There's ramifications for him reporting this crap.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And at one point, Dan Libetard asked him if he's concerned about a legal action.
Speaker: And the reporter said, no reason to worry.
Speaker: I vetted my sources.
Speaker: I checked.
Speaker: I double checked.
Speaker: I have multiple people I trust.
Speaker: Once he talked to more than two, three or four people, I have to go with my gut and believe these guys.
Speaker: This was reported by Mike Florio of NBC Sports Pro Football Talk, who is a lawyer, and his comment was, frankly, the mere existence of the report is a triple dog dare to Colorado and Sanders.
Speaker: If it's not true, sue.
Speaker: If you don't sue, maybe it's true.
Speaker: So on the other hand, if you report a general gun culture and the head coach says there's going to be ramifications, you may not, the suing may be the least of your problems.
Speaker: So anyway, yes.
Speaker: I'm just hoping that Prime keeps all of his valuables locked up because you know he's had a problem with that before.
Speaker: I just, hey, coach, there's reports from players that there's guns, violence, violence and guns over gambling debts all going on in the locker room.
Speaker: I'm coming for you.
Speaker: Okay, well, that's one way to take care of it.
Speaker: So I'll just mark you down as not a denial.
Speaker: Also,
Speaker: I've got, since we, since we are, we get to follow all the fun of Waymo.
Speaker: Something else interesting has happened in San Francisco with the Waymo vehicles.
Speaker: Apparently.
Speaker: So if you've got, if you've got a fleet of robo taxis and they don't have any place to be during downtime when they're not being used, where would you put them?
Speaker: Well, you know, if you're Waymo, you've just been parking them in the streets and in the middle of freeways.
Speaker: And then people get all up in your business about, hey, you can't park your car here.
Speaker: This is a freeway.
Speaker: So they have, they have solved their problem and they rented a, they rented a parking lot overnight so that all of their self-driving taxis could go to the parking lot and then sit there during the night so that they could be ready to go.
Speaker: Unfortunately,
Speaker: So they start showing up sometime between 7 and 9 p.m.
Speaker: Sunday through Thursday or between 11 p.m.
Speaker: and midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker: We're talking, let's say, about 60 to 70 cars all show up.
Speaker: Okay, cool.
Speaker: At least they're safe.
Speaker: They're off the road.
Speaker: But around 4 a.m.,
Speaker: All 70 cars start honking their horns.
Speaker: Oh no.
Speaker: And do so for around an hour.
Speaker: And then they stop.
Speaker: The reason we know this is because people who live in the buildings around the parking lot have posted videos on YouTube of 60 to 70 Waymo cars every night starting to honk their horns for an hour at a time.
Speaker: See, I figured you were going to tell me they all showed up at different times.
Speaker: So parking wasn't a problem.
Speaker: But when it was time to get out, have you ever played the game on your phone where you're trying to move the cars out of the parking lot?
Speaker: Amy plays this game on her phone.
Speaker: It is super addictive.
Speaker: But the cars are parked all in in different directions.
Speaker: And you have to figure out where the exit is to get out of the parking lot without running over pedestrians.
Speaker: Waymo should do this.
Speaker: Or, or hear me out.
Speaker: Maybe Amy should be programming Waymo's because I think she's probably better at it than Waymo is.
Speaker: I think that's entirely possible.
Speaker: Oh, can we do, can we, should we move on to this?
Speaker: We that's right.
Speaker: It's time for one of America's favorite games.
Speaker: Todd ought to know.
Speaker: I already played a little bit of Olympics.
Speaker: Todd ought to know earlier, but the last thing, because we've done this four weeks in a row now, interesting Olympics things, this, this, the,
Speaker: In terms of total medals, we know who won, right?
Speaker: Oh, sorry.
Speaker: Wait, that was the old one.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: What would the Olympics medal table look like?
Speaker: Todd, what would the Olympics medal table look like if it was gold medals per capita?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: There's a couple of Caribbean, there's a couple of Caribbean.
Speaker: I saw something about this.
Speaker: There's a couple of Caribbean islands like St.
Speaker: Lucia, like destroys people.
Speaker: Um, cause I believe they've got what they hit.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: They have like one gold medal and like a hundred thousand people.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: St.
Speaker: Lucia.
Speaker: Number one.
Speaker: Very good.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Number two.
Speaker: Thanks, Eli.
Speaker: It's got to be another Caribbean island.
Speaker: It is not.
Speaker: No, it's not?
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: I know New Zealand.
Speaker: They won several.
Speaker: New Zealand pulls their weight.
Speaker: Yeah, New Zealand pulls their weight somewhere in this list.
Speaker: They're below six.
Speaker: I have a list that goes to six.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: And that doesn't include China.
Speaker: China's way down on the list.
Speaker: Yeah, the denominator there is really hurting China on that one.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: That's a real problem.
Speaker: Who won a couple like, oh, man.
Speaker: It's not Liechtenstein.
Speaker: It is not.
Speaker: And you said it's not Caribbean.
Speaker: It is not.
Speaker: Small country that won multiple gold medals.
Speaker: It's not, it's not Bermuda.
Speaker: It is not Bermuda.
Speaker: That would also kind of be a Caribbean country.
Speaker: That is absolutely not a Caribbean island.
Speaker: Bermuda?
Speaker: Bermuda.
Speaker: It's way, it's, it's like off the coast of.
Speaker: North Carolina.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: It's north.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: It's further north.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: You're right.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I was getting the wrong part of the triangle confused.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: My apologies.
Speaker: It's not Paraguay.
Speaker: I've been hearing they're throwing down some cool stuff over there.
Speaker: How many countries would you guess before you got to Netherlands?
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: Well, it would have been quite a few, but at this point now, based off of that question, I will guess Netherlands.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Netherlands 2, Australia 3, UK 4, Japan 5, US 6.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: But you got St.
Speaker: Lucia.
Speaker: See, Australia would be happy that the denominator, it's based on per capita, not based on square miles.
Speaker: Because then they really underperform.
Speaker: Big country, very few people.
Speaker: Right, yes.
Speaker: And almost all of their gold medals came in swimming.
Speaker: Almost all their medals, period, came in swimming, but yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah, overwhelmingly.
Speaker: What else?
Speaker: I saw something else.
Speaker: Oh, I mean, this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but I saw an infographic of the world's largest islands by area, all of them, in Oregon.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And yet Australia wasn't on the list.
Speaker: Because it's a continent.
Speaker: I know it is a continent, but it still feels like an island.
Speaker: Yeah, but if you're at that point.
Speaker: Madagascar is an island.
Speaker: It was on there.
Speaker: It's not a continent.
Speaker: I know, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker: I mean, technically speaking, North and South America is an island.
Speaker: It is surrounded by water.
Speaker: Those are separate continents, but they are all connected, as are Europe and Asia.
Speaker: As a single island.
Speaker: It's the American island.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: It's just really, really, really big, except it's not.
Speaker: But okay.
Speaker: Okay, fine.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: I, yes, I know.
Speaker: The whole thing is stupid.
Speaker: Well, you know what?
Speaker: I'm going to edit unless you make me leave.
Speaker: Nevermind.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Australia is not an Island.
Speaker: It's a continent.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: Do you know what the biggest continent was that was on that list?
Speaker: Excuse me.
Speaker: Do you know what the biggest Island was on that list?
Speaker: I want to, so, so, you know, we covered this in the West wing about map projections.
Speaker: I want to say Greenland because it's massive on the map.
Speaker: You would be correct, actually.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: However, it is not bigger than the continent, not an island of Africa, which it looks like on the maps, but it is still the biggest.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It is big.
Speaker: It's not that big.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: I'm going to give you a bell for that one too.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's, that's all I got for Todd.
Speaker: I don't know this week.
Speaker: I didn't bring a whole lot.
Speaker: I was busy watching the Olympics.
Speaker: Uh, do we have anything else under game time that we needed to cover?
Speaker: I don't, I don't believe so.
Speaker: Should we do idiots?
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: I think that's where we're at.
Speaker: Okay, super.
Speaker: The Scott Frost Memorial.
Speaker: Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week.
Speaker: Here we go.
Speaker: What'd you bring?
Speaker: So six months ago or so, I think we covered there was a there was an issue in chess that there was an allegation that one of the grandmasters in one of the top chess players in the world was cheating.
Speaker: I believe the allegation was that he was using a sex toy to give him.
Speaker: Do you remember that?
Speaker: I do remember that story.
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: I can see Dwayne's face.
Speaker: When I said there was a chess champion that was cheating, there was no recognition on his face.
Speaker: Like, no, that doesn't ring a bell using a sex toy.
Speaker: Oh, that's that chess toy.
Speaker: Oh, now I remember the story.
Speaker: Yes, now I remember.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: There's no reason for me to remember that.
Speaker: Remember a test story.
Speaker: Oh, sex toy.
Speaker: Oh yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That I remember.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: So, so we're, we're now in the chess cheating stories.
Speaker: This one, this person decided I'm going to, I'm going to be a little bit more direct, uh,
Speaker: on how I'm going to cheat.
Speaker: Amina Abekrova, who's a top-ranked chess player from a town near Russian southern border, was caught on video while... So during the match, her opponent fell suddenly ill and had to be treated by medics.
Speaker: She eventually returned to the competition and took second place.
Speaker: They went back through and looked at the videotape, and before the game, before the match started, a security footage revealed that she walked in and poured a small amount of liquid in front of her opponent's side of the board.
Speaker: Then she used the white king and used the king to spread the liquid out.
Speaker: When they started playing, her opponent started gasping for breath and said, I couldn't get enough air, to which point the person who put the liquid down said, oh, what is it?
Speaker: Are you feeling sick?
Speaker: The person who was sick continued to play until she noted silver droplets on the table that broke apart when she pressed them with her finger.
Speaker: She stopped the clock, lifted the board, and found
Speaker: In front of her was mercury.
Speaker: She poisoned her with mercury.
Speaker: Dang.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So, you know, I could get signals through a sex toy to maybe give myself an edge.
Speaker: Screw that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This is where we use the mercury.
Speaker: Big trouble for moose and squirrel.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So anyway, they do have a long standing rivalry.
Speaker: The person who was poisoned had claimed that she had caught the other woman looking at moves on a chess app in her mobile phone in a bathroom stall after she stepped away from the match, but while still playing.
Speaker: Anyway, yeah, this was an ongoing thing, and I guess she decided, like, okay, now I win.
Speaker: Moral of the story, don't play chess in Russia, I think.
Speaker: I guess.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That escalated quickly.
Speaker: Anyway, how about you?
Speaker: What did you learn?
Speaker: Or sorry, no, it's not what did you learn.
Speaker: It's Scott Frostbott Royal, at the end of the week.
Speaker: Who did you, I'm assuming you brought two, three, seven, I don't know.
Speaker: How many did you bring this week?
Speaker: I brought two for you to choose from, two headlines.
Speaker: Are they the same thing?
Speaker: Let me just ask you this.
Speaker: Are they the same exact story and you just gave two?
Speaker: They are not.
Speaker: They are not the same story.
Speaker: There are two different stories.
Speaker: Well, yes, because sometimes I will do that to you.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: Story number one, walk into the big house.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And story number two, I didn't ask for a vacation.
Speaker: We're on the cusp of college football.
Speaker: The big house has something to do with college football, sometimes with Michigan, sometimes with other stuff.
Speaker: However, I think I'll say I didn't ask for a vacation.
Speaker: Well, that's good because when I wrote the first story headline, it was because Jim Harbaugh was going to be the honorary captain for Michigan's home opener.
Speaker: But seven hours ago, he declined that offer wisely and
Speaker: And will no longer be the captain.
Speaker: But at one point this week, the recipient of a four-year show cause order from the NCAA was going to be the honor.
Speaker: There was no honor with Jim Harbaugh, but he was going to be the honorary captain for Michigan's home opener.
Speaker: But that's not the story you chose.
Speaker: Which is good because it's not really a story anymore.
Speaker: Mostly because you just told it.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So the other, the other one, and I'm, yeah, frankly, you can tell this story probably better than I, about six weeks ago, Boeing sent two astronauts to the space shop, to the space station, the international space station ISS.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And the plan was to bring them home right away.
Speaker: 10 day admission.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: It was a three hour cruise.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Thanks Gilligan.
Speaker: It's not going well for them.
Speaker: That's, I mean, that's from one perspective.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: I mean, there, so I was listening to a story on NPR about this.
Speaker: And they were interviewing the guy who's in charge of figuring out how to get them home because the vehicle that took them up, there's ongoing debate about whether or not it is capable of safely returning them to earth.
Speaker: And I want to remind our listeners that this vehicle was manufactured by Boeing.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: But in this story, the guy who's in charge used the phrase, we're working, he said, we're working night and day to figure out how to get them home.
Speaker: And failure is not an option.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes, he said it.
Speaker: Do you have thoughts?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So this is the second flight of the Starliner.
Speaker: It flew almost two years ago in an uncrewed remote, went up to the space station, docked, came back.
Speaker: During that time, some of the reaction thrusters didn't work properly.
Speaker: So they've spent a bunch of time to try to figure out how to make them work.
Speaker: And then they went up into space.
Speaker: and the reaction thrusters didn't work again.
Speaker: Also, multiple helium leaks were observed.
Speaker: So they docked to the space station.
Speaker: They said it was going to be a 10 day trip.
Speaker: Then they said, hey, they're going to stay up there a little bit longer.
Speaker: And at this point, it sort of made sense.
Speaker: And if you follow along on any space podcasts,
Speaker: As I do.
Speaker: Todd.
Speaker: Did you say podcasts?
Speaker: Plural.
Speaker: Plural.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Everybody.
Speaker: Everybody was talking about it, but it hadn't really made the made it hadn't made the news yet.
Speaker: And it was like, oh, OK, what's going on?
Speaker: And at this point through June and July,
Speaker: The story was, hey, they need to collect more data because part of the problem is in the trunk of this spacecraft.
Speaker: And when it comes back to Earth, that part gets jettisoned.
Speaker: So you can't look and see what the problem is.
Speaker: So you might as well look.
Speaker: They're in the ISS.
Speaker: They're safe.
Speaker: There's no reason to bring them back.
Speaker: Let's do a bunch of tests.
Speaker: Take all the time you need.
Speaker: Pretty much.
Speaker: Also, they took a mock-up of some of this out to White Sands, New Mexico, and fired engines out there trying to replicate the problem.
Speaker: So they were doing a bunch of work.
Speaker: Now, one small problem.
Speaker: They were firing the control thrusters while the spacecraft is connected to the ISS.
Speaker: So you can't fire them very long or you're going to change the ISS attitude or orbit.
Speaker: So those were little microbursts.
Speaker: Anyway, eventually somebody picks up in the mainstream media, astronauts are stranded.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And everybody in the space community says, well, technically they're not stranded.
Speaker: I mean, they're testing.
Speaker: But then they keep going on and on and on.
Speaker: And then it's like, it's not a good year for Boeing.
Speaker: Let's just like, Boeing doesn't know what, like, guys, what are we doing?
Speaker: If you have to say technically in your explanation, you're not winning.
Speaker: They are now, they're trying to figure out.
Speaker: So what it came down to was, it sounds like NASA believes that the spacecraft is not safe, isn't safe enough to return astronauts back to Earth.
Speaker: And by the way, there are some really weird calculations and safe enough for human travel.
Speaker: The odds that they require are
Speaker: aren't as good as you would think.
Speaker: Like around a one in 140 chance is enough to can be considered safe.
Speaker: And you're thinking, wait, what?
Speaker: That's, that's not, that's not new.
Speaker: That they make it or that they fail.
Speaker: A one in 140 chance that it fails.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Is still considered safe enough.
Speaker: That's better than the other way.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They've got a one in 140 chance that they make it.
Speaker: And that's the one that they're going with.
Speaker: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker: This isn't, this isn't end game.
Speaker: However, here's, here's this problem gets a little worse.
Speaker: There's only two ports that you can dock human rated spacecraft on the U S side of the ISS.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Port number one of the ports is taken up with crew dragon eight, which is where the crew that's up there right now, that's their spacecraft.
Speaker: And should anything happen, that's their lifeboat.
Speaker: Starliners at the other port.
Speaker: When crew nine dragon comes up.
Speaker: There's no room to park.
Speaker: They got nowhere to go.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: The parking lot's full there.
Speaker: Waymo.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Is he honking his horn?
Speaker: It's in space.
Speaker: I can't tell.
Speaker: So if they decide not to return the, if they decide that the astronauts can't return in this, they are going to still remotely return Starliner back to the ground, right?
Speaker: They're going to, they're going to do that, which is what they did on the first flight.
Speaker: Here's something funny.
Speaker: The autonomous software to let it return to the ground on its own, which it has already done.
Speaker: They never loaded that code onto this spacecraft.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Because why would you?
Speaker: And it's a couple of years old.
Speaker: So if they want to return it, they need a couple of weeks to upload.
Speaker: You think you think I have crappy Wi-Fi here in a hotel.
Speaker: Wi-Fi to the ISS isn't great and they have to load an entire program and then make sure that it gets all loaded correctly.
Speaker: There is even, there was a question of, can, does an astronaut need to flip a couple of switches in there for it to return an autonomous mode, which is kind of a problem because you have to be into like, anyway, so they can't let it return on its own right now and they can't return it with astronauts.
Speaker: And you can't just jettison it.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Can you just cut it loose and let it float away?
Speaker: No, because it won't float away.
Speaker: You now have a large spacecraft drifting right next to your manned.
Speaker: See, you can't just cut it loose because it won't go anywhere.
Speaker: Because it's moving at the same speed.
Speaker: Okay, yeah.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And while it looks like they're just floating, well, what's the problem with it floating next to it?
Speaker: Understand that the ISS and that spacecraft are traveling at 18,000 miles an hour.
Speaker: So if two objects traveling at 18,000 miles an hour happen to brush each other, things go poorly really quick.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So plan A, problem.
Speaker: Plan B, problem.
Speaker: Plan C, problem.
Speaker: Boeing, problem.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And it's not like they can just run up, you know, three dozen floppy disks.
Speaker: Well, they have no place.
Speaker: They have no place to dock.
Speaker: But they'd have to bring it up on the ship that has no place to park.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Now, the one thing I will take exception here is you said I didn't ask for a vacation.
Speaker: Understand, they're not on a vacation.
Speaker: They're on a work trip.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: This was supposed to be a 10 day work trip.
Speaker: If, if they can't come home on Starliner, they are on, they are crew on the ISS and they are doing work.
Speaker: The plan is when they send up the new spacecraft, instead of bringing four people up, they're only bringing two people up.
Speaker: And these two people now get to do full on jobs on the spacecraft on ISS.
Speaker: They take over and,
Speaker: doing jobs that they weren't supposed to be doing.
Speaker: They were supposed to be home by the end of June.
Speaker: They will be up there until February and it's a hundred percent of a work trip.
Speaker: So it's not like they're kicking back and looking out the window going, man, this is really beautiful.
Speaker: What do you mean?
Speaker: I got to clean the space toilet.
Speaker: I don't want to clean the space toilet.
Speaker: Oh, so, so what have you been watching besides the Olympics, anything or just the Olympics?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Just the Olympics.
Speaker: That was it.
Speaker: Oh, and we went all in on the Olympics, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker: There was a lot of Olympics being watched.
Speaker: And then Oliver and, hey, Seth is back, and he had some catching up to do.
Speaker: So that's mostly what we've been watching.
Speaker: How about you?
Speaker: So Bears, Hard Knocks.
Speaker: Bears are on hard knocks this this season.
Speaker: So that dropped last week.
Speaker: Actually, we're recording on Tuesday night.
Speaker: Amy's watching it while we're recording.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: That's OK.
Speaker: Don't wait.
Speaker: I know you won't.
Speaker: Amy's watching it.
Speaker: I've I've never watched hard knocks before.
Speaker: I don't care.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay, whatever.
Speaker: I mean, some of it's kind of interesting.
Speaker: Some of it's a little funny.
Speaker: Whatever.
Speaker: Just from what I've heard.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The off-season hard knocks that starred, that had the Giants in it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They got a lot of access.
Speaker: That was the actual behind-the-scenes stuff.
Speaker: And what multiple critics have said is somebody in the bears organization watched the giants one and said, that's a dumpster fire.
Speaker: We're not going to let any of that, any of that air.
Speaker: If there, if there is a single headline other than bears are on hard knocks, we have failed.
Speaker: This needs to be boring.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And calm.
Speaker: So I wouldn't expect anything, mostly because I think everybody saw what happened to the Giants and don't want to replicate that.
Speaker: And again, by the way, just want to remind everybody, if you want to watch a season at the interest, go back and watch.
Speaker: Was it the the Browns?
Speaker: Yeah, no, no.
Speaker: That's I mean, that was that was spectacular.
Speaker: That was everybody at everybody's throat the entire time.
Speaker: Is that what you're?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Is that the season we were talking about?
Speaker: the head coach hated the offensive coordinator.
Speaker: The offensive coordinator hated the defensive coordinator.
Speaker: The defensive coordinator hated the head coach.
Speaker: They all hated each other.
Speaker: It was amazing.
Speaker: They didn't care that the cameras caught that they hated.
Speaker: They would say, I hate you in front of the camera.
Speaker: They didn't care.
Speaker: I thought perhaps after it was done, I looked back at episode one of Bears Hired Knox and it felt a little like RuPaul's Drag Race in that the player that they spent a lot of time focusing on then got injured and is done and he had to leave the show basically.
Speaker: I'm like, oh, oh, oh, this is how they do this.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Because I hadn't watched hard docs before.
Speaker: I'm like, is it always like this?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: They didn't start it off with the guy sitting there in the locker room like, this is my year.
Speaker: I finally made it to the NFL and I'm going to make it.
Speaker: Yeah, they kind of did.
Speaker: Give it 47 minutes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Did you learn anything good this week?
Speaker: Did you learn anything this week?
Speaker: Sorry, say that again.
Speaker: Sorry, did you learn anything this week?
Speaker: Yes, number one, it turns out hotel Wi-Fi gets worse as you continue to record.
Speaker: But more importantly, the Olympics apparently worked.
Speaker: Lisa's been to Paris multiple times.
Speaker: I've been to Paris for about nine hours.
Speaker: We've also been to Charles de Gaulle multiple times, and that is not a pleasant experience, but whatever.
Speaker: We've always said, look, I've been to Paris for eight hours.
Speaker: I don't need to go back.
Speaker: I'm fine.
Speaker: And then for two weeks, we're watching this, and we're like, man, Paris is kind of a beautiful city.
Speaker: I mean, look at that.
Speaker: Yeah, I didn't see that while I was there, and I didn't... Oh, yeah, there is that.
Speaker: And yeah.
Speaker: So we're going back to the UK in October for a couple of weeks, two weeks.
Speaker: And the discussion was...
Speaker: You know, we got a couple of days that we were looking for day trips.
Speaker: Like, you know, go over to, you know, we might take the train someplace for like two hours.
Speaker: Well, a two and a half hour train ride from London on the Eurostar is Paris.
Speaker: So we're like, you know, maybe it wouldn't hurt.
Speaker: I don't, you know, maybe, hmm.
Speaker: As of today, we have Eurostar tickets to go for the day back to Paris to go visit the places that I haven't seen.
Speaker: Oh, I blame Snoop Dogg.
Speaker: I'm just going to say he seemed like he was having a lot of fun in Paris.
Speaker: I'm assuming I will also have a lot of fun in Paris.
Speaker: Oh, nice.
Speaker: That should be fun.
Speaker: Take lots of pictures.
Speaker: Give tours.
Speaker: No, take tours.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: How about you?
Speaker: What'd you learn?
Speaker: Did you see what they're going to do at Bristol Motor Speedway?
Speaker: I just sent you a text.
Speaker: No, and now I'm afraid.
Speaker: So the A's are going to play the Reds inside Bristol Motor Speedway.
Speaker: They did this a couple of years ago for a football game, and they laid down turf.
Speaker: AstroTurf over the top of everything that's paved in the middle for a football game.
Speaker: And they had like 150,000 people for this football game.
Speaker: Now this year, actually next year, they're going to, the A's are going to play the Reds and they're going to drop this baseball diamond and
Speaker: in the infield of the Bristol motor speedway.
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: So there's a guy that did some super in amateur distance math from home plate to the far edge of where somebody might be sitting in
Speaker: is 1,020 feet from home plate.
Speaker: It's like watching a football play at the one yard line from three and a half football fields away.
Speaker: I can't imagine how this is possibly a good idea.
Speaker: But they're going to do it.
Speaker: And that's what I learned this week.
Speaker: Wait, you said it's the A's though, right?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: It's the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker: It's not the A's.
Speaker: It's the Braves.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: Because if it was the A's, you can put that anywhere you want to.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: I was going to say, I mean, realistically though, I mean, yeah, you're a long, long ways away from home plate.
Speaker: On the other hand, you can, you're still going to be able to call balls and strikes better than most major league umpires from there.
Speaker: Yeah.
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Speaker: Hotel Wi-Fi sucks.
Speaker: Dwayne keeps breaking up bad.
Speaker: A lot.
Speaker: End of podcast.
Speaker: Rough.
Speaker: Sounds like I'm going to have some editing to do.
Speaker: We'll clean it up next week.
Speaker: We're here.
Speaker: We're somewhere.
Speaker: Todd's definitely somewhere.
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Speaker: Knock, knock.
Speaker: Who's there?
Speaker: Not Todd anymore.
