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Ep. 306 - The 6th Annual Toddies
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Ep. 306, Recorded 1/3/2025. Give the audience what they want… the 6th Annual Toddie Awards!! Guest of the year. Best Title (& Worst Title). Idiot highlights. T2T Wrapped. New Year’s Resolutions. No G, No Space, No Sports.
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Introduction and Welcome to the Toddies Awards
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Oh, here.
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Just here we go.
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I got it.
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Hold on.
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Levels, levels.
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Levels, levels.
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Hey, are we going to do a toddies this year?
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Well, I kind of thought we always do it.
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Yeah.
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You know what?
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I mean, you and I, it'd be fine if we skip it, but I know by popular demand, people want to know.
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About the toddies.
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So you know what?
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Given that this is going to be an episode out of time, we should probably make sure we give the audience what they want.
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No, actually, let's just give them the toddies.
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Hi, toddlers.
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Welcome to Talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prins, where failure is always an option.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, Todd.
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Hey, how's it going?
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Pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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Welcome to the sixth annual toddies.
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That's insane.
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It really is.
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It's just insane.
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Like you said, backed by popular demand.
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And by that we mean nobody, but that's fine.
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Nobody.
Recap and Awards for Guest Appearances
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Nobody.
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But we are episode out of time this week.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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And we've taken some feedback.
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So in the past, we have given out what, how many, how many awards during the broadcast?
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We get out what 22, 23 awards during the broadcast and the technical awards.
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Yeah.
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The governor's awards.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So we decided this year, we are going to tighten this up a little bit.
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There, there was some, some general feedback that, that maybe some of the categories weren't as, as important as, as we thought.
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However, if you've won in one of those categories in the past,
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Very important.
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Very important.
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But it's time to retire some of those.
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So this year we thought we just look back on 2025, hand out a couple of Toddys, do a little bit more recap, and then maybe spend just a little bit of time about besides talking to Todd, what does Dwayne and Todd spend their podcast time on?
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and see what our recap looks like.
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But which category is the one that we, which is the first category that we just can't let go of?
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I think we need to stick with guest of the year.
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Yes, absolutely.
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So if we look back through 2025, who did we have?
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You know, we had a pretty big guest lineup, didn't we?
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We really did.
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And there were a couple of years there where it was, where guests were lean.
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The cast appearances were lean.
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But this year, Danny made toddler 401k made two appearances.
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David Batchelder was on once with Danny.
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Hannah was on Lucas's girlfriend.
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Hannah was on.
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Sarah Judson Brown, toddler negative 18, was on.
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Lisa was on with a quiz.
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So Sarah had a quiz.
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Lisa was on with a quiz.
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And Jesse was on with a quiz.
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So all of those.
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Jesse from the Taylor Center for Technology Policy.
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Six different guests over the course of the year this year, Todd.
Favorite and Least Favorite Episode Titles
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Yeah, we appreciate it.
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We appreciate everybody.
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I mean, those are the ones that actually, I mean, if I think about both the episodes of Hannah and Danny with the Taylor Swift candles.
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So I believe that means we're handing out six toddy awards this year for the best guest.
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Yep.
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It's always a tie for guest of the year.
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Everyone gets a toddy.
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Everyone is guest of the year.
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Congratulations to all of you.
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You're welcome.
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We always do favorite title where we bring titles that are our favorite over the year.
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We've also been told that there needs to be a nomination for least favorite title.
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I believe it also came in as most hated title.
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Yes.
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Is another way to put it.
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Let's let's stick with the good ones first.
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Let's let's go through.
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Let's go through the good ones first.
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Yes.
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So we were supposed to bring our top five.
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Yes.
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How many did you bring?
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Six.
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Yeah, sure.
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OK.
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All right.
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All right.
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What do you what did you bring?
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So I started with episode 267.
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Can I lick it?
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That one was on my list.
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Also on my list, episode 273, They Can't All Be Wieners.
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Which I believe is also a nominee for the worst title of the year.
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It is.
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It is.
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It is.
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It is the, it's getting the Raspberry Award for best title and worst title.
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Yeah, it catches in both categories.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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Was that, was that on yours?
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Oh, no, I have more sense than that.
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That was not on mine for best.
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How about episode 291, Headwind and Regret?
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On my list.
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I also had our Ragbri episode, episode 282, All the Pickle Juice You Can Drink.
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I kind of skipped that one.
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Did you skip that one?
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How much pickle juice?
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So the story still cracks me up.
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We got done writing Ragbri and there was a jug of pickle juice there with a sign that said All the Pickle Juice You Can Drink.
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And Todd says, here's my dollar.
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I'm good.
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You don't want any more?
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Nope.
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That's all I can drink.
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That's none.
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I can't drink any of it.
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Yes.
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Oh, my God.
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Yep.
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I also had episode 260.
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Damn it, Todd.
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Pick the beaver.
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Also on my list.
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Yeah.
Idiot of the Year and Funny Stories Recap
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And my sixth one, episode 288, That's How Records Work.
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I forgot about that one.
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That one's pretty good.
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Did you have any that weren't on that list, Todd?
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Yeah, a couple that weren't on that list.
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Episode 255, my first guess was Lard.
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I don't even know what that was about.
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And actually, 256, I was warned, but I was not prepared.
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That was about the Trump grocery store in Florida that I visited.
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By the way, my first guest was Lard, was our most downloaded episode of the year.
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Excellent.
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And then it was at the beginning of the year and then it just kind of tailed off from there.
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Okay.
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Oh no.
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Like it, it has six times the downloads of our regular episodes.
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Really?
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Wow.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And then two others that I had episode two 96, I'm a smucker's mother.
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That was good.
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Yes.
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And, and episode two 94 with Lisa giving us a quiz.
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That's pants.
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I would say, however, of all of those, there's a special place in my heart for headwind and regret.
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It wasn't a Ragbri episode, but it was a Ragbri reference.
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Yes.
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Because that's what was in the envelope that I got from Ragbri.
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Your souvenir package.
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Yes.
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Oh, look, it's full of headwind and regret.
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Oh, classic Todd.
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That was fantastic.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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That may be.
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Yeah, that may be title of the year.
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Generally, we offer voting for these.
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I don't know that we're going to do that this year.
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That's a whole.
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I think we just pay a lot of work.
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I think we just pick headwind and regret episode title of the year.
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So worst title of the year.
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We had Lisa's nominee of they can't all be wieners.
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Episode 273.
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Did you have any other titles that were terrible, Todd?
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No, that one seems to top the list.
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I think that is the first and only time we've ever had anybody reach out and reach out specifically to nominate a worst title ever.
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If we're nominating all of the terrible pun titles, we would also have to put in 257 Reese's Pieces.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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If, if bad puns are the reason for the nomination, we're going to have to throw that one in there.
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So.
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However, I think we've got one nomination.
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I think we've got the worst.
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I think we have the worst title of the year.
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Worst title of the year.
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They can't all be wieners.
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Congratulations.
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How about we typically do pick an idiot of the year.
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We had so many idiots, Todd.
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Are there highlights that we want to call out?
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Well, yeah, instead of giving anybody an award, because I hate giving out awards to people for being idiots.
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So we thought we'd just review some of the high points just as a reminder of all the idiots that we've covered.
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So if we start back at the beginning of the year, I'm going to start off with the, do you remember the Lazio eagle handler who got fired because he posted a picture of his enhancement and then barricaded himself?
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The fact that Lazio has an eagle handler?
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Well, anyway.
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It's not all he's handling.
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Yeah, there was that.
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We had the virgin money AI chat bot that wouldn't allow you to use the word virgin.
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Strong tech work there.
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Speaking of AI, we also earlier in the year had the Google AI Super Bowl ad that claimed 50 to 60% of all cheese consumption in the world was Gouda.
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Which is not right.
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And they were using that to show how awesome their AI is.
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Speaking of internet stupidity, the YouTube 60-minute unskippable ad.
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Remember that?
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Handy.
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It's fantastic.
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HP put a 15-minute wait time into all of their support calls to drive down the number of support calls they have.
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We had Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell at a press conference announce the return of NBA to Seattle and then said he was just kidding.
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Good way to get constituent engagement.
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You remember the Major League Baseball hats that had dirty words on them?
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Oh, are those the Astros?
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Not exactly.
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Let's see.
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Oh, you covered several soccer stories, but I think my favorite idiot soccer story that you covered was the team that sold itself to itself so that it could make a profit.
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I think there was more than one team, but I believe that.
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Yes, they, they, they sold, they sold the women's team to themselves so that they could then make a profit.
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Yes.
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Oh, hey, don't forget about the fan that sued the NFL for $100 million because Shador Sanders was drafted in the fifth round.
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Oh, God.
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And it caused him mental anguish.
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By the way, I went back this week to try to find out whatever happened to that one as I was looking through all of this.
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Everybody covered it in May.
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Haven't found any follow-ups to that.
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Don't know if he's $100 million richer yet or not.
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We did cover the sheriff who lived on the wrong side of the road, I believe in a county in Georgia, and then had the map redrawn so that he would change counties so he could keep his job.
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Yes, because I learned that it matters where the primary bedroom is in the house.
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Yes.
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The guy, the guy that that decided to take the chairs with him from the stadium before they got torn down.
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Except it wasn't the last game.
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It was the second to last game.
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So he was asked to miss the last.
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He was politely asked not to return for the last game.
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Yes.
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We did cover Hertz using AI to check damage.
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Oh, yes.
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We covered that in multiple places.
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Oh.
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I'd be remiss.
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This guy was our idiot on several different occasions.
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The homeowner at Sun Valley Lake in Iowa.
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We learned about water levels.
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We learned about HOAs.
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We learned about fees.
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We learned all kinds of things from this idiot.
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The Sun Valley Lake guy.
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You could make a strong argument that we learned a lot more than he did.
Listener Appreciation and Podcast Highlights
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Yeah, because it cost him a million dollars, which he could have just paid the fine and moved on.
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We also covered some interesting competitions.
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I covered, I brought to us, I believe it was in South Korea, the space out competition that's been going on, I believe since 2012, where people just need to space out.
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At the same, at that same week, you brought us on the Ocho competitive pillow fighting.
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Yep.
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You, well, you, you brought, you brought us a story of Hunter Dobbins of the Red Sox.
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who said his dad was drafted by the Yankees, but he wasn't.
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He's like, I don't fact check my dad.
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We also have two soccer players from Europe who both posted the exact same heartfelt message when they changed teams.
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Heartfelt in quotes.
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Yes.
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What about when Wimbledon turned off the robot umpires intentionally?
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Or...
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The fake dentists in Czechoslovakia.
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That's a good one.
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That's.
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Sign me up for that.
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We covered the fact that the England women's rugby shirt sponsor didn't make enough shirts to sell them for the World Cup of women's rugby.
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What is it that you'd say that you do here?
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Limited edition.
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Very, very limited.
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Limited.
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Doing a lot of work there.
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And remember, it's because they didn't order enough shirts.
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They're the shirt supplier.
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What?
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Oh, hey, we also covered, more recently, we covered United Airlines for selling window seats and claiming in court that window, that being, paying for a window seat, no reasonable person would assume that that would mean that you actually get a window.
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Excellent.
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Speaking of windows, the windows ads on your Samsung, we covered, you covered those on your, on your smart, on your smart fridge, on your smart fridge.
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Yes.
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And, and the open carry laws for pythons in Arizona.
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And then you, you did bringing up the end of it.
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You, you brought, you brought to us another competition of competitive spreadsheeting.
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I did.
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Yes.
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And competitive gas pumping.
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Let's be fair.
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The competitive spreadsheeting people are probably not idiots, but the gas pumpers absolutely are.
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So that was sort of a quick year in review of a number of idiots.
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Notice, however, in all of those idiots, what we didn't bring up was some of our standard idiots.
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I do think we covered Waymo on at least a third of all of our podcasts.
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Yeah.
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If, if I, if I search for Waymo in this, in, in our rundown document, it appears 16, it appears 16 times.
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And I know we talked about them way more than that.
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I think we covered them probably a little bit more, but not much more than the rat tunnels in, in Las Vegas.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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That's yep.
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We covered, we covered that constantly.
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Idiots, idiots galore.
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We got, we got fantastic feedback all year.
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Feedback from Amy and Lisa is regular, but we would be remiss if we didn't shout out to the contributions that we got from Toddler Negative 18, from Toddlers 3187 and 17 in Chicago, and they're in Aprilville, Doreans.
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Toddler 401k is a constant source of amusement.
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Congratulations again for getting out of the mayor gig.
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Ex-mayor Danny, fantastic work there.
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We get stuff from Jesse.
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We get stuff from Doug and the idiot toddlers.
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We get stuff from Yvonne, Toddler1059, and from Wrigley.
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Yeah, don't forget Wrigley.
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Don't forget Wrigley.
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Toddler Matt Damon, again, constant source of amusement and feedback.
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Toddler number six, David Batchelder, we appreciate him.
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Josh the Dino Toddler,
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The stories that we have gotten from Josh, the music that we have gotten from Josh, really appreciate him.
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Toddler 818, Michael, one of my golfing buddies.
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Ava Prince, our roving Tulsa correspondent.
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My mother, who is now a listener.
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It has provided feedback.
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I'm trying to think if we got feedback from anybody else in the last year.
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Holy cow.
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It's just been, it's always, it's always fun when you have a personal relationship with your audience and you know, we do, it makes it fun.
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I would also say, by the way, as we're just doing the recap, I think the Dwayne Gessen number of the Amazon delivery might have, might've been one of my favorite episodes where I believe we broke your brain.
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You did break my brain.
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It's still, it's, that was, that was, that was, that was a fantastic Dwayne Gessen number.
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It really was.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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If there was Dwayne Gessen number of the year, that was, that was probably it.
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Yep.
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I'd agree with that.
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I said earlier that the episode with the most downloads was, my first guess was Lard.
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According to the Spotify wrapped that we get for...
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So like Spotify regularly gives just people, you know, you get your wrapped, but we got one that is, you know, all things about the podcast.
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Yes.
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So this is just from this, from the Spotify downloads.
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Right.
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Which is about 15% of all of our listeners.
00:19:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:19:51
Speaker
But their top episode was number two 60.
00:19:56
Speaker
Damn it.
00:19:56
Speaker
Todd picked the beaver.
00:20:00
Speaker
And we had 12 fans where we were a top 10 show for them.
00:20:09
Speaker
We had 11 fans where we were a top five show.
00:20:15
Speaker
And we had six fans were talking to Todd was the number one show on their Spotify wrapped.
00:20:21
Speaker
That's pretty impressive.
00:20:23
Speaker
It is.
00:20:24
Speaker
Dwayne, were you one of those, one of those six fans?
00:20:27
Speaker
I may have been one of those six.
00:20:33
Speaker
Yeah, I may have been one of those six.
00:20:35
Speaker
We know Amy, we were in her top five, but we were not her top show.
00:20:41
Speaker
So like for my personal Spotify, not only does it tell you you're most listened to artist, they recruit artists to record messages for you.
00:20:56
Speaker
as a thank you for listening to them most often, I got a personal message from Def Leppard this year.
00:21:05
Speaker
Really?
00:21:06
Speaker
Yes, I did.
00:21:09
Speaker
Thanks for listening to us.
00:21:12
Speaker
We're looking forward to being back out on tour.
00:21:15
Speaker
Yep.
00:21:16
Speaker
So, yes, I also got...
00:21:21
Speaker
a message from the what a day podcast, uh, as a, thanks for listening to that.
00:21:26
Speaker
That was the podcast that other than ours, uh, that played most often for me on Spotify, Todd, what podcasts or, or listening?
00:21:38
Speaker
What, what did you do?
00:21:40
Speaker
Well, if I look at my podcast player, uh, and I look at 2025, um, good news talking to Todd is in the top 10.
00:21:48
Speaker
Okay, good.
00:21:50
Speaker
It is number 10.
00:21:53
Speaker
Now, I think I have the same problem.
00:21:55
Speaker
We listened to a lot of the episodes on Lisa's account.
00:22:00
Speaker
Right.
00:22:00
Speaker
So, because this says I listened to 21 hours of talking to Todd this year.
00:22:07
Speaker
I think we produced more than 21 hours.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, we, yes.
00:22:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's barely in the top 10.
00:22:18
Speaker
But I'm going to say, yeah, let's just say that's because I listen on Lisa's.
00:22:25
Speaker
You listen to a lot of podcasts.
00:22:27
Speaker
I listen to What a Day, and it's like 20 minutes a piece.
00:22:31
Speaker
I listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour, and I listen to Hogan Johns, The Bears Podcast.
00:22:36
Speaker
And then mine will play on mine when Amy and I are listening together.
00:22:43
Speaker
I don't listen to a ton of stuff.
00:22:44
Speaker
You listen to way more stuff than I do.
00:22:46
Speaker
Apparently, these numbers are scary.
00:22:48
Speaker
I got to reevaluate some stuff here at the beginning of the year.
00:22:54
Speaker
My top podcasts for 2025, the Accidental Tech Podcast comes in number one far and away, mostly because they're incredibly wordy.
00:23:07
Speaker
Upgrade, which is a Mac podcast, the town with Matt Bellany.
00:23:12
Speaker
We've talked about that.
00:23:13
Speaker
We've talked about that.
00:23:14
Speaker
And then there's a couple of other technology podcasts.
00:23:18
Speaker
My brother, my brother and me, my av geek podcast, another technology podcast and cautionary tales with Tim Hartford.
00:23:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:27
Speaker
So, uh, Oh, Hey, and then there's talking to Todd.
00:23:30
Speaker
Look at that.
00:23:30
Speaker
Awesome.
00:23:31
Speaker
Awesome.
00:23:34
Speaker
On the other hand, it does show the episode length versus the amount of time I've listened.
00:23:42
Speaker
I dropped at least 10 hours of skipping or not listening to the Accidental Tech podcast over the year.
00:23:50
Speaker
Oh my God, they're still going on.
00:23:51
Speaker
Skip that 20 minutes.
00:23:52
Speaker
Okay, moving that along.
00:23:53
Speaker
So anyway, yes.
00:23:57
Speaker
Boy, they probably shouldn't tell you how much time you're spending on here.
00:24:00
Speaker
That's in hours.
00:24:01
Speaker
That's a problem.
00:24:02
Speaker
That's I'm going to, I should get paid for doing this.
00:24:06
Speaker
And so we did 51 episodes last year just because of the way the calendar fell.
00:24:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:16
Speaker
And we average an hour an episode.
00:24:21
Speaker
And this is the first year that we did not do any bonus episodes of Talking to Todd.
00:24:27
Speaker
We did lots.
00:24:28
Speaker
We did more episode at a time this year.
00:24:31
Speaker
Than we have ever done, which has been great because we almost always have a guest when we do episode at a time or we do a special list or we do something, we do something fun.
Future Plans and New Year's Resolutions
00:24:40
Speaker
So the EOTs have been fun this year, but we've done, we did more of those this year than we've ever done.
00:24:46
Speaker
So, but yeah, we average right at an hour.
00:24:49
Speaker
So when you listen to 21 hours, you're under half of them.
00:24:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:55
Speaker
So that can't be right.
00:24:56
Speaker
Also, technically, I listen to every single, well, mostly listen to every single one of them while we record.
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:02
Speaker
I don't listen to this podcast.
00:25:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:05
Speaker
By the way, looking forward to 2026, Lisa, I will just, I will just put this out from episode out of time.
00:25:12
Speaker
There's a couple that I think we're working on.
00:25:14
Speaker
Lisa is already working on her next quiz for an episode out of time.
00:25:19
Speaker
I know the topic, but she's very specifically, I mean, I know generally the topic, but she's very specifically not including me in the list.
00:25:26
Speaker
So there's another one.
00:25:28
Speaker
It, it will involve England.
00:25:30
Speaker
And so, uh, she's working on that already.
00:25:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:25:34
Speaker
Toddlers, if you want to be a guest or you want to bring a topic or you have an idea for something.
00:25:40
Speaker
Feedback at talkingtotodd.com.
00:25:42
Speaker
You know where it is.
00:25:43
Speaker
You know how to get, or text Todd or something.
00:25:48
Speaker
I don't know.
00:25:48
Speaker
You know how to get a hold of us.
00:25:51
Speaker
But we're always looking for stuff and there will be travel and there will be time when we need to take a break.
00:25:56
Speaker
Also, Ragbri, the Ragbri route announcement happens next week.
00:26:01
Speaker
So we're always looking for opportunities for trips west, trips to Iowa.
00:26:09
Speaker
God knows when the next Talking to Todd, ToddCon.
00:26:12
Speaker
We need to plan ToddCon 4 at some point.
00:26:16
Speaker
Well, you know, we've got that coming up, too.
00:26:19
Speaker
What else am I missing?
00:26:20
Speaker
What else did we say we were going to talk about this time?
00:26:23
Speaker
Did you have any New Year's resolutions?
00:26:27
Speaker
Did you make any resolutions?
00:26:31
Speaker
No, that's an excellent question.
00:26:32
Speaker
No, I don't believe I did.
00:26:34
Speaker
Did you make any resolutions last year in 2025?
00:26:38
Speaker
And how did you do on them?
00:26:42
Speaker
The fact that I don't remember if I had any and how I did probably tells you all that you need to know.
00:26:50
Speaker
How about you?
00:26:51
Speaker
Any, any new year's resolutions this year?
00:26:54
Speaker
I haven't.
00:26:55
Speaker
Well, yes.
00:26:57
Speaker
So, um, we're going to start a supper club with, um, Tyler, Matt Damon.
00:27:07
Speaker
Jake and Nicole and Amy and I, and others if you want to join.
00:27:11
Speaker
But once a month, we're going to get together for dinner and try a different restaurant in Des Moines.
00:27:15
Speaker
So that's our resolution for 2026 that we're going to try to do.
00:27:20
Speaker
See how often we can get it done.
00:27:23
Speaker
For 2025, I resolved to move Facebook off of my home screen on my phone.
00:27:32
Speaker
And I was going to delete it, but then I needed to stay.
00:27:36
Speaker
Well, I needed to like post stuff about the podcast and whatever.
00:27:39
Speaker
So I moved it all the way to the back.
00:27:42
Speaker
So I couldn't get to it easily in hopes of reducing my social media consumption.
00:27:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:27:51
Speaker
I think I can safely say while I did reduce my,
00:27:57
Speaker
My social media consumption, some, I did not reduce it near as much as I wish I had.
00:28:05
Speaker
If you want some pointers, let me know.
00:28:09
Speaker
I have thoughts.
00:28:11
Speaker
Yeah, you know how to avoid social media at all costs, don't you?
00:28:18
Speaker
Mostly it involves having people around you monitoring it to let you know when stuff goes down.
00:28:24
Speaker
Just remember, we do have a social media manager for talking to Todd.
00:28:28
Speaker
Oh, we do.
00:28:29
Speaker
Yeah, by the way, by the way.
00:28:31
Speaker
And I'm going to – there is – our marketing manager has made a suggestion that I think we probably need to take under advisement.
00:28:40
Speaker
And maybe we'll leave this as a cliffhanger here at the end of wrapping up our year in review.
00:28:45
Speaker
For the love of God, put the G back in so people can find this podcast.
00:28:51
Speaker
It's been more than five years.
00:28:54
Speaker
Change the podcast.
00:28:55
Speaker
People will listen.
00:28:56
Speaker
Also, less sports.
00:28:58
Speaker
But mostly the G. So there's some questions that maybe we need to do a little bit better job making this podcast easier to find.
Closing Remarks and Podcast Details
00:29:09
Speaker
Or, you know, promote it.
00:29:13
Speaker
Well, that's just crazy talk.
00:29:15
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Because if there was any promotion, there would be more than there is now.
00:29:32
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The music, even on an episode out of time edition, is Happy Boy.
00:29:37
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I'm Kevin MacLeod.
00:29:38
Speaker
You can subscribe to our award-winning and award-giving podcast with visiting scholar Todd Prins wherever you get your pods.
00:29:47
Speaker
Just search Talkin' in the number two.
00:29:50
Speaker
There's no G and there's no space.
00:29:54
Speaker
Talking to Todd.
00:29:57
Speaker
You can always stop by and see us at the Tuba City home office.
00:29:59
Speaker
Please don't do that.
00:30:00
Speaker
Thanks to our listeners, our sponsors, our contributors, all of you.
00:30:04
Speaker
We appreciate you.
00:30:05
Speaker
And as always, you can send us your feedback on this episode or any episode to feedback at talkingtotodd.com.
00:30:13
Speaker
Todd.
00:30:16
Speaker
Now that I'm looking at this, I mean, I didn't vote for Can I Lick It?
00:30:21
Speaker
No, that's probably best.
00:30:22
Speaker
No, we'll stick with the vote.
00:30:24
Speaker
We'll stick with the vote.
00:30:27
Speaker
We'll have something we need to clean up next week.
00:30:29
Speaker
Until then, we'll be back.
00:30:31
Speaker
We're here.
00:30:32
Speaker
We're talking to Todd.
00:30:36
Speaker
We'll be back.
00:30:43
Speaker
You know, we could put a G in, but not where you think.
00:31:11
Speaker
Talking to Tog?
00:31:14
Speaker
The G's silent.
00:31:15
Speaker
Not there.
00:31:16
Speaker
The other one.
00:31:17
Speaker
What?
00:31:18
Speaker
Is it German?