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Speaker: Levels, levels.
Speaker: Levels, levels.
Speaker: Hey, so did you guys, did you bring anything home from your trip?
Speaker: Are you asking me if I have anything to declare?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Well, I mean, maybe.
Speaker: I guess I'm kind of wondering, how did the whole customs process go for you?
Speaker: So Amy brought back some gifts.
Speaker: Some olive oil.
Speaker: And a jar of fig jelly, which raised several questions from the customs officer.
Speaker: Including, does anybody eat this?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Do you really like the person you're bringing this to?
Speaker: What did they do to you?
Speaker: What other kind of questions, though, did they ask?
Speaker: Are there any seeds in it?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And how did you answer that?
Speaker: Well, I stood there for a second and I asked myself, well, how would Todd's tours handle this?
Speaker: And then you said, uh, King Charles used to spread this on his fake.
Speaker: No, I don't know.
Speaker: I, I, I lied convincingly.
Speaker: Not with confidence.
Speaker: Not lied.
Speaker: Just, just filled in the blanks.
Speaker: I just, no, no, no.
Speaker: You just make a statement and let others fill in the blanks.
Speaker: Seeds?
Speaker: Is that a question?
Speaker: I don't think so.
Speaker: I mean, it's jelly.
Speaker: It's not jam.
Speaker: Do you know what the difference is between jelly and jam?
Speaker: No, not going there.
Speaker: What did... Anyway, he let us through.
Speaker: Todd's tours, once again, helps on a trip.
Speaker: 100% satisfaction, unless you're a customs agent.
Speaker: Hi, toddlers.
Speaker: Welcome to Talking to Todd.
Speaker: a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prins where failure is always an option.
Speaker: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker: Hey, Todd.
Speaker: Hey, how's it going?
Speaker: Hey, pretty good.
Speaker: Pretty good.
Speaker: How are you?
Speaker: Not too bad.
Speaker: Not too bad.
Speaker: Fig, fig jelly.
Speaker: Huh.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: As soon as you said that, the thing that popped into my mind is, do you remember in Operation Mincemeat in the second act, they're going to be going to a restaurant that has nothing but...
Speaker: No figs.
Speaker: Nothing.
Speaker: It's a fig based restaurant.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Lord.
Speaker: Feedback, follow up and updates.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What do you have?
Speaker: I think last week we were talking about
Speaker: I said Quail Hollow, where I played twice.
Speaker: Amy, from the other side of the truck.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Golf course name dropper.
Speaker: Jesus.
Speaker: Quail Hollow, which I've played twice with Morgan Fairchild.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Different callback.
Speaker: There we go.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: But I knew where you were.
Speaker: I knew where you were.
Speaker: We haven't gotten that was we got about halfway through last week's episode and then we got distracted with other things.
Speaker: So that's that's all I've got so far.
Speaker: How about you?
Speaker: At least I had a bit of feedback.
Speaker: So in last week's episode, so we combined sort of a couple of things.
Speaker: Idiot toddler, Doug, I believe.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: It was it was toddler Matt Damon.
Speaker: Wasn't he the one that who is it that brought us the.
Speaker: The John Hughes.
Speaker: Oh, that was David Batchelder, toddler number six.
Speaker: Okay, here we go.
Speaker: Yes, as soon as I said this, I'm like, none of this sounds right.
Speaker: I should just ask.
Speaker: Ask for directions.
Speaker: That's fine.
Speaker: Okay, so he declared that that was the best bit of the year.
Speaker: Counting over.
Speaker: Just give me the toddy now.
Speaker: Stop the count.
Speaker: Give me the toddy now and send me.
Speaker: I've already got a mug.
Speaker: I want a putter cover.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Well.
Speaker: At the beginning of listening to the cold open, Lisa said, after she understood what the title meant, she said, worst title of the year.
Speaker: And I said, years, we're not even halfway through the year.
Speaker: She goes, it's the worst title of the year.
Speaker: Then we get to David saying, send me my putter cover.
Speaker: And Lisa says, worst title of the year, send me my mug.
Speaker: And I said, the worst title of the year doesn't have like a person who gets a mug.
Speaker: It's just, and she goes, send me my mug.
Speaker: I think we've got some bad precedents going on here.
Speaker: Didn't she just get a mug?
Speaker: She did.
Speaker: She now wants another one.
Speaker: She wants her toddy mug.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Also toddlers throwing tantrums this week.
Speaker: Also, when we were discussing the types of the, the, what you can do with a plane door, right?
Speaker: You can, you can chuck, you can stow, or now there's a hinge, right?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And Lisa's comment was, she goes,
Speaker: There's really only one kind of door.
Speaker: They're all Chuck.
Speaker: Because if you're using it, they're leaving the plane.
Speaker: They're all Chuck.
Speaker: At that point, let's be honest, no one's going to take the door down and then gently place it in the seats.
Speaker: I'm going to stow this here.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: So you're either chucking it out or you're chucking it in.
Speaker: Sorry, Phil.
Speaker: Look out.
Speaker: Look, one way, one way or another, that door is flying.
Speaker: So, yeah, anyway, so she's it's cute that we do this.
Speaker: But really, when it comes down right down to it, they're all Chuck.
Speaker: Point any any other feedback.
Speaker: I don't know if this is going to make the final edit or not.
Speaker: Danny sent us some feedback about the exchange that we had with my brother-in-law where we were sending him pictures of junk.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Marble junk.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And one of his children has now reached the age of
Speaker: where that's absolutely hilarious.
Speaker: So he could absolutely identify with the humor because it has hit his household again this last week to the point where apparently I've been told that Culver's serves cheese testicles, not just cheese balls.
Speaker: Here's the thing.
Speaker: You got to be careful because those could actually be two different products.
Speaker: Be careful about the ones that you that's what you order.
Speaker: Are they serving Rocky Mountain oysters this week?
Speaker: Eek.
Speaker: OK, just checking.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: Do do do do looking through my list, looking through my I think that's all I got.
Speaker: OK.
Speaker: Do you have any corrections from last week?
Speaker: None of my side.
Speaker: Nothing over here either.
Speaker: How about some follow up?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And our continuing, you know, this is the problem.
Speaker: I bring an idiot story and then, and then I just start seeing follow up and I'm like, well, now it's my responsibility to bring this up in the continuing Texas lottery coverage that we are doing.
Speaker: In which just previously on talking to Todd, some, a group of people won a $95 million jackpot by buying $21 million worth of tickets through a courier company.
Speaker: That happened more than a year ago.
Speaker: And then in February, someone won an $83.5 million jackpot using the same courier company.
Speaker: Although it doesn't look like that individual person, and they're anonymous right now, that that individual person purchased 21 million tickets, but there is some assumption that they were part of a group and that they just divided them up over... Anyway,
Speaker: That person has now filed a lawsuit because the Texas lottery hasn't paid the $83.5 million that they have won.
Speaker: because the Texas governor has asked the Texas Rangers to investigate.
Speaker: Now I'm assuming that's the police version, not the baseball, the baseball team.
Speaker: It could be the baseball team.
Speaker: That might be why it's taken a while because you know, that was right after that pitchers and catchers reported.
Speaker: So they don't have a lot of time.
Speaker: They should really make it clear which Rangers in this story.
Speaker: This is anyway, that's fine.
Speaker: Hey, Hey, Nuke, go down and go down and dust for prints.
Speaker: Anyway, so the Texas Rangers are investigating, although here's apparently the problem, which is everything they're doing seems to be totally legal because they're now getting ready to pass some legislation to make this illegal.
Speaker: But it's already happened.
Speaker: So the Texas lottery is basically saying, well, we can't pay you out yet.
Speaker: And they're like, yes, you can.
Speaker: So this could get interesting because at some point, somebody may have to pay $83.5 million on a, how did you do it?
Speaker: Well, I can tell you how I did it.
Speaker: Well, that doesn't seem right.
Speaker: May not be right, but it is legal.
Speaker: Well, that's not in the spirit of the, hey, bud, bud, don't worry about that.
Speaker: We don't deal in spirits around here.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So anyway, there you go.
Speaker: Texas lottery.
Speaker: By the way, if you win in the Texas lot, in case you're in the Texas and you're thinking, we should play the Texas lottery.
Speaker: Apparently they can just refuse to pay you if they, if they just want to.
Speaker: So take, keep that in mind.
Speaker: Yikes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And in other pieces of followup, I'm not going to put this under what we're watching because I'm not watching it, but yeah,
Speaker: The Favre scandal documentary hit Netflix last week.
Speaker: Did you see that?
Speaker: Oh, I did not.
Speaker: No, there's a documentary on this.
Speaker: There's now a documentary on the Mississippi fraud scandal involving Brett Favre that we've been covering for now nearly five years.
Speaker: Yes, yes.
Speaker: And you haven't watched it yet?
Speaker: Oh, God, no.
Speaker: Nor do I plan to, Frank.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Here's the problem.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Toddler's just going to let you out on a secret.
Speaker: The reason why he threw this out here isn't for follow-up for all of you.
Speaker: This is a piece of follow-up for one person, which is now that Todd knows it exists, he's going to feel compelled to go watch this thing.
Speaker: I know I don't need to watch it.
Speaker: All I have to do is say that it's out there and someone will go and watch it and inform me as to how awful this thing is and what's wrong with it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: You're welcome.
Speaker: By the way, non sequitur.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Speaking of sports adjacent documentaries, while I was in Anaheim, I turned on the TV and of course, you know, you get whatever you get in a Marriott or Hilton.
Speaker: They were airing ESPN.
Speaker: The deuce was airing a 30 for 30.
Speaker: I don't watch a lot of those.
Speaker: They're usually pretty well done, but right about, about the New York sack exchange from the early eighties with the New York jets, right?
Speaker: With Gastineau, Kleco, Marty Lyons, and the other guy.
Speaker: Sorry about that.
Speaker: By the way,
Speaker: This is good TV along the same lines of the hard knocks that had the Cleveland Browns when the coaches were all fighting each other and yelling the coaches.
Speaker: Yeah, this is this is right up there.
Speaker: There is up to a point.
Speaker: And then it's just sad because it's just like, oh, my goodness.
Speaker: Some people, the NFL, that was the high point of their life and can't let it go.
Speaker: And other people, they use that as a springboard to do even greater things.
Speaker: in the world.
Speaker: By the way, it turns out that Marty Lyons is like an amazing humanitarian who's done all sorts of stuff and was doing it.
Speaker: Anyway, if you want to, if you want to see some, just like, if you want to feel good about dysfunction, that's may or may not have occurred on your football team.
Speaker: Watch that because that was a high point of the jets and they were a mess.
Speaker: Anyway, non sequitur moving on.
Speaker: There's part of me that would really like to see Netflix go do quarterback and
Speaker: on the Cleveland Browns quarterback's room this fall.
Speaker: Yeah, but I have to be an IMAX to get all of the people in the room.
Speaker: Yes, all of them.
Speaker: Can you all squeeze together?
Speaker: And quarterback comes in quotes.
Speaker: I'm not exactly sure why.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Ah, yeah.
Speaker: A quick, quick promotion note.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: A ToddCon three Temple of Doom.
Speaker: Oh, another one.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Just sure.
Speaker: And when is that?
Speaker: August 15th.
Speaker: And where will that be?
Speaker: Our house.
Speaker: Excellent.
Speaker: Okay, cool.
Speaker: Let's see what he it's.
Speaker: Oh crap.
Speaker: Boy, this time keeps coming along quicker and quicker every week.
Speaker: Dwayne's never going to guess it.
Speaker: Who me?
Speaker: Never, ever going to guess it.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: No, Dwayne's never going to guess it.
Speaker: Yas queen.
Speaker: Never, ever going to guess it.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Thanks to the Dino Toddler.
Speaker: Best part of the show.
Speaker: It may be the best part of the show.
Speaker: That theme means it's time for Dwayne Guess a Number.
Speaker: Okay, hit me.
Speaker: And just to remember, this segment is all about numbers.
Speaker: You're welcome.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: It's in the title.
Speaker: It's in that game.
Speaker: What do you expect?
Speaker: We've played this game before in the history of the podcast.
Speaker: But... 37 billion trees.
Speaker: Not that game.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: But a report in Bloomberg Businessweek came through at the beginning of May, and I went, oh, that can't be right.
Speaker: And then went, well, since that can't be right, absolutely have to ask Dwayne about this.
Speaker: So, Dwayne, what was...
Speaker: The – so this is – sorry, this is involving – people are going out and buying brand new cars afraid of tariffs that may or may not be coming into play given –
Speaker: As we record at 928 Central Time on Wednesday, May 28th.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But back in March, people were concerned.
Speaker: And so people were running out, going out and buying vehicles.
Speaker: And as we know, price of new vehicles and used vehicles has also gone up over the last five years or so.
Speaker: So, Dwayne, in March, what was the average payment?
Speaker: for a new vehicle that was purchased in March in the United States.
Speaker: So all the vehicles were purchased in March.
Speaker: What was the average monthly payment?
Speaker: The average, not the sticker price of the car.
Speaker: Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker: The monthly payment for people that finance them, right?
Speaker: Finance new cars.
Speaker: Brand new cars.
Speaker: Average.
Speaker: $625 a month.
Speaker: You can bump that up a little bit.
Speaker: No, really?
Speaker: You're under.
Speaker: I thought I was going to be high.
Speaker: You picked a number and then you went, just to be careful, I'm going to add some more to it.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: Just to make sure that I'm not under.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And knowing that, knowing that you, that you, the number that you picked and you added to it, even knowing that you still went under.
Speaker: Is it more than a thousand dollars a month?
Speaker: It is not.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: You've got the balance now.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So now we have somewhere between 625 and a thousand.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: 800 bucks a month.
Speaker: The average monthly payments for a new vehicle in March of this year is $734 a month.
Speaker: Average.
Speaker: For the average.
Speaker: Average.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Now, we've played this game before.
Speaker: I don't know exactly when.
Speaker: However, I have a number here.
Speaker: Again, this is all about numbers.
Speaker: how much of a percentage increase is that from March of 2020?
Speaker: So in the last five years, what percentage increase is that?
Speaker: 65%?
Speaker: Oh, it's only 27%.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: Oh, that doesn't seem so bad then, now does it?
Speaker: I mean, it's more than 5%.
Speaker: The monthly payment's going up by more than 5% a year.
Speaker: Understand compounding changes that a little bit, but- Sure.
Speaker: Simple math.
Speaker: This is math for political scientists, not math for engineers.
Speaker: It's fine.
Speaker: I was told there would be no math.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And then the last one I have for you is what is the, and I'm going to be very broad here because I don't have the exact number.
Speaker: I just have a general number.
Speaker: What is the average new car interest rate in March?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Six and a quarter.
Speaker: Want to take another shot?
Speaker: Is that low?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: The average interest rate for a new car in March of 2025.
Speaker: Even with the, you know, low discount deal financing offers that are out there?
Speaker: That's for the well-qualified.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: Nine.
Speaker: Give yourself a bell.
Speaker: According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the average new car loan rate was more than 9% in March, which is one of the reasons why the average payment is $734.
Speaker: Well, I'm glad somebody is doing well in this economy.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I was going to say the banks, but later it talks about how quickly people are not.
Speaker: I mean, it might be the car repo.
Speaker: It might be the car repo companies.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yet to be seen.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, you got, you got one bell eventually.
Speaker: So there you go.
Speaker: Struggled this week.
Speaker: That's not surprising.
Speaker: It's kind of the way it's designed to go, isn't it?
Speaker: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker: If, if you don't struggle, I did it wrong.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: How much is the thing at Augusta?
Speaker: Damn it.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Debrief after that episode did not go well.
Speaker: Should we do a couple of idiots?
Speaker: Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker: Okay, I brought you two options.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Number one, hold on, I forgot something.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And number two, well, that's a switch.
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: Let's do the hold on, I forgot something.
Speaker: Okay, I've been recycling this one for several weeks.
Speaker: It just keeps getting new titles.
Speaker: It does keep getting new titles because this story I really liked.
Speaker: Dateline Tokyo.
Speaker: Headline, according to the AP News, a man airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji.
Speaker: I've heard about this on another podcast.
Speaker: Oh my goodness.
Speaker: Returns to the slope days later and has to be rescued again.
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: Because he left behind his cell phone and went back to go and try and retrieve it.
Speaker: He was airlifted off Mount Fuji with altitude sickness and
Speaker: Had to be rescued for a second time just four days later.
Speaker: 27-year-old Chinese student living in Japan.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: The Fujinomiya.
Speaker: I'm really butchering that.
Speaker: Yeah, Fujinomiya.
Speaker: Trail about 3,000 meters, nearly 10,000 feet above sea level.
Speaker: was where he lost his phone and where he then lost his other belongings and his mind, apparently, according to the police.
Speaker: Another climber found him there unable to move after he apparently developed altitude sickness for a second time.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: The mountain, the mountains hiking trails are officially open only from July until early September.
Speaker: but there's no penalty for hiking off season.
Speaker: There's also no charge or penalty when a climber needs to be rescued.
Speaker: But the Chinese student's case prompted an uproar on social media and generated calls for him to be charged, at least for his second rescue.
Speaker: The second, yeah.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: We'll come get you once.
Speaker: The first one's on you, right?
Speaker: Like, first one's on us.
Speaker: That's fine.
Speaker: Rescue me once.
Speaker: Rescue me once.
Speaker: Shame on you.
Speaker: Rescue me twice.
Speaker: I can't get rescued again.
Speaker: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker: No, this is...
Speaker: Uh, anyway, so yes, uh, rescue me.
Speaker: Uh, this was, uh, this was the rescuers.
Speaker: This was rescue me.
Speaker: This was, uh, this was, this has been several things over the last several weeks.
Speaker: I mean, the good news is, I mean, it was probably pretty easy for them to send the helicopter the second time.
Speaker: Where are you?
Speaker: You know where I'm at.
Speaker: Oh, oh, hi George.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We'll, we'll run our way.
Speaker: How about you?
Speaker: What did you bring?
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: What did I entitle this one?
Speaker: Someone said I could have this.
Speaker: Yes, yes.
Speaker: Do you want to tell the story from where that phrase originated?
Speaker: No, please, please.
Speaker: You can.
Speaker: Do you remember the story where that phrase originated?
Speaker: Not exactly.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: So we had gone to an Iowa Hawkeye football game.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And as we were leaving the game in the midst of the celebration, someone was walking out with the crowd, with us, carrying on their shoulder the foam padding that goes around the bottom of the goalpost.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And we looked at each other and went,
Speaker: well, I don't really think he's supposed to just walk off with this.
Speaker: How do you get away with that kind of thing?
Speaker: And I believe you said, somebody said I could have this.
Speaker: It's fine.
Speaker: It's fine.
Speaker: Just keep walking and look like you know what you're doing.
Speaker: Don't worry about it.
Speaker: Somebody said I could have this.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: That's where that came from.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: This is tangentially rated.
Speaker: This is also related to football, although the English football.
Speaker: However, Dwayne, your football team, your professional football team, I believe is looking for a new stadium because they want a new stadium, right?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: When was their current stadium last sort of completely renovated?
Speaker: 2001.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So it's been, we're closing in on 25 years.
Speaker: It's not really, they feel like it's not fit for purpose anymore.
Speaker: So they need a brand new stadium.
Speaker: Is that generally speaking, right?
Speaker: Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker: That date doesn't feel accurate.
Speaker: I'm sure someone will correct me.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: Everton from Liverpool plays in the English Premier League, and they have built themselves a new stadium.
Speaker: Their current stadium that just closed is called Goodison Park.
Speaker: They have been in that stadium for 133 years.
Speaker: Oh, so more than 25 more.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So 133 years, they built a brand new stadium.
Speaker: And so this is the end of a very, very long era.
Speaker: Um, on their penultimate premier league match in that stadium on May 3rd versus Ipswich town, a 65 year old season ticket holder, a 65 year old man, season ticket holder,
Speaker: was he brought tools into the stadium with him and during the match was trying to unbolt his seat to remove the seat with him at the end of the match.
Speaker: I paid for this many times over.
Speaker: He wasn't
Speaker: It's a personal seat license.
Speaker: No, sir.
Speaker: I'm not sure that's what that.
Speaker: Go ahead.
Speaker: So he was unable to remove the seat.
Speaker: However, he did cause what Everton described as significant damage to the surrounding seating area.
Speaker: They identified the man, turned him over to the police.
Speaker: Now,
Speaker: And the police point out, well, the attempt was unsuccessful.
Speaker: He caused significant damage to their surrounding area.
Speaker: And this has since been repaired by the facilities group.
Speaker: Now, again, this was the penultimate match, not the final match, which I guess that's what he was thinking was, you know, they're not going to be expect.
Speaker: Nobody expects on the second to last match.
Speaker: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: Exactly what he was planning on doing for the last match.
Speaker: I'm not clear because he would have gotten there.
Speaker: Hey, my seat's gone.
Speaker: Anyway, he didn't have to worry about that because his season tickets were removed from him.
Speaker: So he couldn't attend the final match in the stadium.
Speaker: And they're also they're also looking at what other charges other than losing your season tickets and being barred from going into the brand new stadium.
Speaker: Anyway, I literally I was just like, so your plan was you snuck tools in in the middle of the match.
Speaker: Everybody's like, yeah.
Speaker: And you're just like just working on the wrench.
Speaker: You do have to leave with it.
Speaker: Somebody said I could have this.
Speaker: Anyway, yeah, good on him or not.
Speaker: By the way, just to help with the math, that stadium has been their home since 1892.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: And by the way, they're not tearing it down.
Speaker: They're moving to a new stadium.
Speaker: The existing stadium is now going to be the home for their women's team.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: So it's going to carry on.
Speaker: real-time follow-up on the Bears and Soldier Field.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: The Bears played their 2002 home season in Champaign.
Speaker: So the renovation started in 2001.
Speaker: They were gone for the 2002 season.
Speaker: And then it was 2003 when those renovations were complete.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: Excellent.
Speaker: So you were...
Speaker: You had it.
Speaker: I was close-ish.
Speaker: Plausible deniability.
Speaker: No, plausible.
Speaker: Anyway, whatever.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: Travel stories from this last week?
Speaker: Yeah, I didn't go anywhere.
Speaker: How about you?
Speaker: I had a couple of things that I didn't cover last week that I can only talk so long about this stuff.
Speaker: So just some things that we learned.
Speaker: Number one in Italy, bring your own washcloth.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Towel.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Hand towel.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Washcloth.
Speaker: Nowhere to be found.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Every hotel that we stayed at, no washcloth, nowhere to be found.
Speaker: Bidet in every hotel room.
Speaker: Also,
Speaker: In every shower, by law, there's a cord, like an emergency.
Speaker: The emergency cord.
Speaker: Emergency cord.
Speaker: Here's one.
Speaker: So a couple of days after we get there, my sister-in-law...
Speaker: says it's really nice for them to put this clothes hanging rack in the bathroom, but I can't figure out where to put the other end of it so that I can then hang wet clothes from it.
Speaker: We're like, please don't do that.
Speaker: That's an emergency cord in case you fall in the bathroom or the tub.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Also, another thing that we learned at one of the lunches that we had,
Speaker: squeezed lemon juice and squeezed orange juice on fresh cut fruit, strawberries, grapes.
Speaker: It's the orange juice in combination with the lemon juice and some sugar.
Speaker: This is absolutely a winning combination and I cannot recommend it enough.
Speaker: which is why you recommended it last weekend this week.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I don't remember anything about last week's show except for that.
Speaker: I'm like, Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I haven't listened to last week's, to that part of last week's show.
Speaker: So yes, I highly recommend that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's another thing that may get edited out this week.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: What else did I, what else did we, did we learn while we were in?
Speaker: Oh, so we got delayed by Delta.
Speaker: And when we were done,
Speaker: I got this email from Delta Airlines customer care.
Speaker: Todd?
Speaker: The fact that Delta can't figure out how to parse a first name and a middle name and just run them all together.
Speaker: That happens on my account too.
Speaker: I'm like, who the hell was that sent to?
Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah, no, that's you.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: Please accept our apologies regarding the flight from Athens to Atlanta.
Speaker: Unexpected mechanical issue in the previous city.
Speaker: Scheduled departure.
Speaker: We regret the disruption.
Speaker: This experience does not reflect the standard of service.
Speaker: Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker: Apologize.
Speaker: Please accept our apologies regarding flight.
Speaker: Flight number.
Speaker: Jeez.
Speaker: Wait.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I'm going to read this.
Speaker: Mail merge failed on this email.
Speaker: No, no, wait, they repeat it's, they repeated this paragraph.
Speaker: So the mail merged worked on the first one.
Speaker: This is the exact same paragraph.
Speaker: Paragraph two is the exact same as paragraph one, but without the, I think it's a template and they forgot to delete the template paragraph.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: If I were to read that out, this is the way this sounds.
Speaker: Please accept our apologies regarding flight number operated by DC Carrier from Origin City to Destination City.
Speaker: Reason.
Speaker: Prevented our scheduled departure.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That's... That's a mail merge fail.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's...
Speaker: But they sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
Speaker: Twice.
Speaker: I was twice.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And it was not the level of experience that they expect standard of care that they expect to deliver.
Speaker: The sincerity...
Speaker: Of the first paragraph was lost on me by the time we got to the second one.
Speaker: The second one.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I also, I'm just, look, I'm not.
Speaker: It's been a very long time since I, you know, edited, you know, stuff for other people.
Speaker: But paragraph two says an unexpected mechanical issue in the previous city prevented our scheduled departure.
Speaker: Which implies there could have been an expected mechanical issue in the previous city, which also would have prevented the departure.
Speaker: Oh, this one we knew about.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: This, this yours, though, totally unexpected.
Speaker: Anywho, so there was that.
Speaker: Oh, do you remember the story you told about to random music in foreign places?
Speaker: You're sitting in a cafe in France.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And you got, did you get boy George?
Speaker: I want to say it was even more random than that, but yes, we were sitting in a cafe in Paris and just all of a sudden like, Hey, what is that?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We're sitting in the Tortuga bar on a Gina Greek Island listening to the backstreet boys.
Speaker: Why not?
Speaker: Cause why, cause why wouldn't you?
Speaker: And I'm like, Hey, no,
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: I want it that way.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Sure enough.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: World's a small place.
Speaker: Yes, it is.
Speaker: I mean, not when Delta's flying it, but the rest of the time, it's a small place.
Speaker: Universal language music.
Speaker: There it is.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: So yeah, a couple of travel stories there.
Speaker: Hey, have you been watching anything good?
Speaker: Well, Sunday was the greatest day in motorsports, which was that phrase has been obviously was coined by somebody who doesn't actually watch any racing because I did watch a lot.
Speaker: I'm not going to say it's the greatest day.
Speaker: I would say it's the longest day of motorsports.
Speaker: That's different.
Speaker: Completely different.
Speaker: I watched two thirds of the Monaco Grand Prix.
Speaker: And went, I see how this is going to go because nobody can pass, which is a thing in Monaco.
Speaker: That's fine.
Speaker: However, they added, they changed the rule this year to make, to require you to do two pit stops because they thought that would screw up strategy and the, Oh, it'll be make it really interesting.
Speaker: What they didn't count on was teams realizing that if you get one car in front, if the second team car starts slowing down, nobody can pass them.
Speaker: So now, so they could get ahead by 30 to 35 seconds to make a pit stop.
Speaker: So literally there were cars driving, frankly, as slow as they could.
Speaker: Multiple, multiple teams did this and the, the, the announcers were,
Speaker: Even one of the team principals who was deploying one of the team teams that was doing this live on air said, I don't like doing this.
Speaker: This isn't what anybody came for, but this is the rules we have to play by.
Speaker: It was terrible.
Speaker: It was terrible.
Speaker: Then we move on to the Indy 500.
Speaker: Go around in circles.
Speaker: Really fast.
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: One guy wrecked on the formation lap.
Speaker: He didn't even make it to the start.
Speaker: Oops.
Speaker: Oops.
Speaker: The end was exciting.
Speaker: Yeah, there's a lot of that.
Speaker: It turns out...
Speaker: There was a cheating scandal before the race.
Speaker: And then the person who came in second also had made an illegal modification of their car.
Speaker: So they were bumped down to 31st.
Speaker: So yeah, cheating.
Speaker: And then after all of that, then it's time for the Coca-Cola 600.
Speaker: And what I will tell you is 600 miles.
Speaker: Nobody needs to do that.
Speaker: Nobody needs to watch.
Speaker: That thing just goes on and on and on forever.
Speaker: And that was...
Speaker: Again, being a good NASCAR race, there was a pass on the six laps from the end.
Speaker: And I think this car in second place finished a half a second behind the winner.
Speaker: But after six hours, you're like, look, I don't even care.
Speaker: I don't even care anymore.
Speaker: Like, what is this?
Speaker: That's why it's three races in one.
Speaker: Because we tuned into it.
Speaker: And and they're talking about now there's 11 laps to go in this stage.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: I'm like segment.
Speaker: No, that doesn't seem right.
Speaker: Stage stage.
Speaker: I'm like, when did when did they start doing this?
Speaker: So then I'm Googling stages in NASCAR and apparently they're trying to add racing in the middle of racing.
Speaker: Okay, real quick.
Speaker: So NASCAR had the same problem that Formula One has, which is cars were getting spread out and people were getting so far ahead.
Speaker: So they started making stages in the middle and then bring all the cars back together again and then race some more and give some points.
Speaker: Lisa was like, this is stupid.
Speaker: And I'm like, well, or you have what you're having in Formula One, which is the winner won by 47 seconds.
Speaker: The person parked his car, went in, had a shower, had a sandwich, managed to came back out, signed some autographs, and then was there to wave the checkered flag for the second car.
Speaker: Like, that's...
Speaker: Anyway, so we watched that and then it looks like we're watching the same thing.
Speaker: So I'll throw one out.
Speaker: We also so we're we're watching Welcome to Wrexham is is back.
Speaker: So we're watching a couple of catching up on that.
Speaker: I think you spelled that wrong.
Speaker: Welcome to rest.
Speaker: What did you spell?
Speaker: I spelled it in Welsh.
Speaker: Pronounce it in Welsh.
Speaker: Wrexham.
Speaker: Uh-huh.
Speaker: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So we're watching that.
Speaker: We're also watching Clarkson's Farm season four.
Speaker: And we're slow-binging that.
Speaker: That's our plan is to slow-binge that.
Speaker: One a night.
Speaker: And then...
Speaker: we watched episode one and the next night we watched episode two and then in episode three and in episodes one and two, they introduce a Caleb has gone off on this, you know, speaking to her and Jeremy can't handle the farm by himself.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So Jeremy, right.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: As we all know, anybody who's watched this show knows this.
Speaker: So he hires help.
Speaker: This, uh,
Speaker: really smart farm woman to help out on the farm.
Speaker: And we, and Amy loves her.
Speaker: She thinks she is the best.
Speaker: And at the end of episode two, they preview that Caleb's going to come back for episode three.
Speaker: And Amy's like, Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker: Oh, we got to watch this now.
Speaker: So we did watch back.
Speaker: We did watch two and three in the same night.
Speaker: Because we couldn't wait to see the interaction and watch Caleb lose his mind over how efficiently the farm was running without him.
Speaker: And much cleaner.
Speaker: So much cleaner.
Speaker: Oh, so much cleaner.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And I'm not saying that.
Speaker: I'm not saying that because she's a woman.
Speaker: Like she wished they were showing her going around and like, look, this could be tidy.
Speaker: Like using tractors to clean large, like, yes.
Speaker: And so she did.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: So yeah, so that's so, so we're watching that.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Both of those.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Wrexham is on FX on Hulu and Clarkson's farm is on Amazon.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Amazon prime.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And racing is everywhere.
Speaker: Except the exciting channel.
Speaker: Oh, oh, hey, I just about forgot.
Speaker: There was one other thing that we watched this week.
Speaker: On Saturday night, we went to the movie theater and saw Mission Impossible.
Speaker: Thank God it's over.
Speaker: I mean, sorry, Final Reckoning.
Speaker: If we know if we know anything about any movie series that uses final in their title, you can almost guarantee it's not final.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It's sort of like a 60s rock band on their third final concert tour.
Speaker: I think Cher's final tour is still going on.
Speaker: Six years later.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Did you guys happen to see it this weekend?
Speaker: We did.
Speaker: We went on Monday afternoon.
Speaker: We were going to go on Friday night and then we were still jet lagging and decided that a 730 start for a movie would not be good for any of us unless we wanted to just pay to take a nap.
Speaker: So Amy moved the tickets to Monday afternoon and we went Monday.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We have thoughts about this.
Speaker: I'm going to start off just by saying not everything is for everybody.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And what was the one before?
Speaker: Dead Reckoning?
Speaker: Dead Reckoning Part One, which they've now retconned to just call it Dead Reckoning because they got rid of the Part One.
Speaker: Yes, and then this was Final Reckoning.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And I remember walking out of Dead Reckoning going, oh my God, that was awesome.
Speaker: I can't wait for the second half.
Speaker: Okay, just I walked out of out of Dead Reckoning part one and said, thank God there's only one more of these that I have to watch.
Speaker: I did not enjoy that movie at all.
Speaker: But when the other one comes out, I guess we're going to have to see how this thing ends.
Speaker: So you walked into this with a much more positive outlook.
Speaker: And we were like, we're going to watch this.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: Statistically speaking, this has to be better than the last one.
Speaker: It, there was, there was plenty of fan service.
Speaker: There were, I, I thought that, I thought that that struck a decent note, you know, with working in movie clips from the last six episodes.
Speaker: Seven?
Speaker: Seven.
Speaker: This is eight, I think.
Speaker: This is eight from the first seven and working in clips and people.
Speaker: And I thought it was a, the having the guy who was the coder from the first one be a character in the last one.
Speaker: I thought that was a nice touch.
Speaker: I enjoyed that.
Speaker: I thought that was great.
Speaker: Hashtag spoiler alert.
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: She's supposed to put that before.
Speaker: Not anyway.
Speaker: Whatever.
Speaker: I mean, just I mean, it's just a character.
Speaker: I didn't.
Speaker: He just appears in this movie.
Speaker: You know, I thought that was I thought that was a nice touch.
Speaker: I enjoyed that part.
Speaker: I, I, I will say this.
Speaker: So we go to our nice local theater that does the intermission, which is good because it's like a two hour and 45 minute film or whatever.
Speaker: So at the intermission, Lisa leans over to me and says, if we were watching this crap at home, I would have turned it off or started reading my book a long time ago.
Speaker: The first hour, there's a lot of setup.
Speaker: Lots of exposition.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Lots of explaining.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: I will say, obviously, the Mission Impossible movies are known for amazing stunt sequences.
Speaker: And if you like amazing stunt sequences.
Speaker: The second half, especially of this film, it's got got stunt sequences.
Speaker: I will say this.
Speaker: There are two of them.
Speaker: that were going on for so long that I started rooting for maybe Ethan to not make it just so that the stunt sequence could end.
Speaker: Amy thought they were going to kill him off a la James Bond.
Speaker: The Bond people had a concept and stuck to it.
Speaker: They did.
Speaker: They did.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Again.
Speaker: So again, also spoiler alert, he doesn't die.
Speaker: Of course not, because well, and even if he did, based off of the rest of the movie, the way everybody talks about him in the movie, if he would have died three days later, he would have risen again.
Speaker: Yes, because.
Speaker: It makes it very, very clear that he is the most incredible human to ever walk the earth.
Speaker: um i i will say this it was it was a tom cruise production oh boy was it um near the end of the movie and i'm not going to spoil anything but like any mission impossible movie if he fails the whole world is you know at risk of whatever the mcguffin is this time um
Speaker: The final stunt scene was going on for so long.
Speaker: At one point, I thought, I don't care if the world does get destroyed.
Speaker: Just finish this.
Speaker: I think, not to give anything away again, but at the point where they lost us, and recognizing this is mission impossible.
Speaker: which I lovingly refer to as mission improbable.
Speaker: Well, there is that too, because, you know, you know, they're going to succeed.
Speaker: It's improbable.
Speaker: It's not impossible.
Speaker: It's just whatever.
Speaker: But when he's 500 feet underwater in the freezing cold water, and he takes off the suit,
Speaker: Lisa had some concerns with that at that point.
Speaker: And I know it's a movie.
Speaker: I know it's a movie.
Speaker: But he takes off the suit.
Speaker: He lasts like 30 seconds, maybe tops before he's dead.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Let me.
Speaker: You dive.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: License.
Speaker: I do.
Speaker: Not to go to 500 feet, they're pretty clear about that.
Speaker: Here's what I will say.
Speaker: I'll just, no, it could be some sort of magic suit because it's Navy, whatever.
Speaker: It looked like a wetsuit.
Speaker: And Lisa had the same problem.
Speaker: Once you take that off,
Speaker: you're it's over.
Speaker: What I will tell you is if you, if you're at 500 feet in the Arctic in a wetsuit, it's over already.
Speaker: Um, wetsuits have a very limited range in which they're going to keep you, uh, warm.
Speaker: Um, at that depth, you have to have a dry suit on and under the dry suit, you have to have warm clothes on a wetsuit doesn't do you that.
Speaker: But yes, as soon as she's, she's like, that's insane.
Speaker: And I'm like,
Speaker: It was insane to begin with.
Speaker: And yet.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Fine.
Speaker: Whatever.
Speaker: I mean, yeah.
Speaker: The whole thing is ludicrous on its face.
Speaker: And then they're like, this is ludicrous.
Speaker: Hold my beer because we're going to take this to a whole new level.
Speaker: You know.
Speaker: Did somebody say ludicrous?
Speaker: I had another thought, but it would involve an actual spoiler.
Speaker: So I'm not going to go there.
Speaker: But for anybody else who watches it, maybe you'll pick up on something I said earlier and then draw it through.
Speaker: Anyway, we'll get to that later.
Speaker: By the way, somebody did point out, I guess in Mission Impossible 2,
Speaker: There was a there was a line that I've completely forgotten because that was like 35 years ago.
Speaker: I don't know, whatever.
Speaker: At one point, I guess Ethan says this is really difficult.
Speaker: And mission commander Swanbeck says.
Speaker: This is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt.
Speaker: It's mission impossible.
Speaker: Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.
Speaker: Now, again.
Speaker: There were people that were clapping at the end of this in the theater.
Speaker: Thank God it's over.
Speaker: No, I think there were some people that legitimately they went to a Mission Impossible movie and they got a Mission Impossible movie.
Speaker: So it's entirely possible that they delivered what they said they were going to deliver on the 10.
Speaker: The problem is on my side.
Speaker: Hey,
Speaker: You went to a Tom Cruise movie and you're complaining about the over the top stunts.
Speaker: I don't know how I don't know what to help you here, bud.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Like what was running?
Speaker: There was lots of there was lots of straight hand running.
Speaker: Lots of it.
Speaker: There was lots of running.
Speaker: Also, I will say the beginning of the movie, the first hour of the movie does take place in London.
Speaker: there's some continuity errors of his straight hand running across bridges and then past buildings and then into entryways, at which point he was literally running all the way across London and back again.
Speaker: And Lisa's like, that can't happen.
Speaker: And I'm like, there is so much that can't happen in this movie.
Speaker: That's the least of the problems.
Speaker: I'm like, I've run that bridge.
Speaker: I've run that bridge.
Speaker: I've run that other bridge.
Speaker: I did, I did 13.1 miles.
Speaker: It took me,
Speaker: three hours i whatever yeah yeah um anyway though we saw it yes we went to the movie theater we we we saw it uh to your point what i'm really concerned about is is that this is final reckoning the next one is also going to be ethan hunt
Speaker: They certainly could continue to do them.
Speaker: I told Amy when we walked out.
Speaker: My guess is when they do the next one, it's Ethan as the guy in the chair that's handing out the assignments.
Speaker: He's still involved.
Speaker: It's just the young people doing the impossible mission.
Speaker: It's not him.
Speaker: And yet, who's going to have to sign off on that script?
Speaker: Tom Cruise.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: At some point he gets out of the chair, but he starts out in the chair as the retired guy, and then he has to come out of retirement.
Speaker: I think the difference is Daniel Craig was 100% done.
Speaker: He had done everything he needed to do with James Bond, and he was done and ready to move on.
Speaker: I then think, is Tom Cruise done with Ethan Hunt, and is he ready to move on?
Speaker: I'd be shocked if he was.
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: Anyway, on the other hand, it was still a lot more exciting than any of the crap that happened in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Speaker: So that's not bad.
Speaker: Did you learn anything this week?
Speaker: Yeah, again, I've covered this before, but it's new year, new season.
Speaker: I think in the past I've pointed out that we – and again, I know how this sounds because I'm complaining.
Speaker: I'm not complaining.
Speaker: It does give me something to do.
Speaker: But we have the pool.
Speaker: And right next to the pool is what we lovingly refer to as the bee tree, which is this getting to be much, much bigger tree with green bark that produces somewhere in the neighborhood of billion little yellow flowers multiple times a year.
Speaker: That started a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker: And, uh, and then, then the flowers drop.
Speaker: and then the pool gets filled with little yellow flowers.
Speaker: To the extent of
Speaker: Shout out.
Speaker: When I was in New York and Lisa had to actually leave for a couple of days, Yvonne came over.
Speaker: She came over to talk to Lisa and Lisa was scooping out the pool.
Speaker: And Yvonne's like, what are you doing?
Speaker: She's like, well, the yellow flowers, they keep all falling and everything else.
Speaker: She's like, well, you're out of town.
Speaker: Do you want me to come over?
Speaker: And now you don't need to do that.
Speaker: She's like, no, I'll come over.
Speaker: So she came over a couple of times.
Speaker: She's like,
Speaker: That's kind of like meditative.
Speaker: Like you, you clean it out and you scoop it.
Speaker: Like you, you start with all the yellow flowers and you clean it all out.
Speaker: Well, that's cool.
Speaker: But this weekend it was kind of windy here.
Speaker: So I was cleaning them out and basically you start at one end of the pool and you start getting all the flowers out and then you get to the other end of the pool and then you turn around and the pool is full of yellow flowers.
Speaker: Oh, I guess I'll start back again.
Speaker: Four or five times of doing that.
Speaker: You're like, well,
Speaker: Look, you know what?
Speaker: It is what it is.
Speaker: It's a good fight.
Speaker: I gave it.
Speaker: Have we talked about the automatic skimmer that just kind of floats on the top of the?
Speaker: We have.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: That sounds like a good investment.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The problem is, and I think we've pointed out, you're like, it could be this little thing.
Speaker: And I'm like, you don't understand.
Speaker: It has to be able to store a couple of bushels of yellow flowers.
Speaker: So now it's larger than the pool.
Speaker: Anyway, that's cool.
Speaker: Also, what's also interesting is, is you look at all of that, then you look at the tree and you're like, it has to be bare.
Speaker: And you're like, literally 80% of the tree still has yellow flowers on it.
Speaker: And you're like, I'm not going to win this battle, am I?
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Anyway, so this is what have I relearned?
Speaker: And it's like, yeah, that we got it.
Speaker: there are conversations in our household about the suitability of the B tree for our backyard.
Speaker: Let's just, I'll just be honest.
Speaker: We're having some discussions about how long does the B tree stay?
Speaker: How about you?
Speaker: What have you learned this week?
Speaker: Have you ever had on your Mac where the I message little icon, you know, it,
Speaker: It tells you how many unread messages you have, right?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: The badge.
Speaker: The badge.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: But I had read all of my messages.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And it was still showing a one.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Super annoying.
Speaker: They're all red.
Speaker: Click.
Speaker: Just show me the unread messages.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nothing there.
Speaker: Well, maybe it's because I've got an unread one on my MacBook.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And it's just not transferring over.
Speaker: I've got an unread one that's buried on my phone.
Speaker: And because they all sync up, right?
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Check there.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Check there.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Check the unread ones.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: It doesn't.
Speaker: Restart it.
Speaker: Turn on iMessage.
Speaker: Turn off iMessage on all machines, back and forth.
Speaker: All of this.
Speaker: Can't get it to solve anywhere.
Speaker: Todd, do you know what the solution to this is?
Speaker: Did you ask, hey, Dingus, show me my unread messages?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Hey, Dingus, please read me my unread messages.
Speaker: And Dingus read me my unread messages and cleared the badge.
Speaker: I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker: Hey, Dingus, fix my computer.
Speaker: Calling Todd.
Speaker: Oh.
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Speaker: Todd?
Speaker: Coming this fall on CBS on Fridays after Fire Country, Texas Rangers detectives.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: They solve crimes during the day and they win baseball games.
Speaker: Well, they...
Speaker: They play.
Speaker: They play baseball at night.
Speaker: They're 27 and 30.
Speaker: So I wouldn't say they win.
Speaker: They play baseball at night.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Followed by Matlock, Texas Rangers.
Speaker: Can't wait for the Matlock, Texas Rangers crossover where the Rangers help her solve the crime and she bats cleanup.
Speaker: She's got some pop.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Kathy Bates, that's a versatile actress right there.
Speaker: I'm telling you.
Speaker: A woman can do it all.
Speaker: I'm sure we're going to have something we need to clean up.
Speaker: I'm sure that that promo did not have the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
Speaker: Oh, crap.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Now I'm trying to think of what...
Speaker: how they screwed up their hat so I could use their, their offensive.
Speaker: Anyway.
Speaker: Oh yeah.
Speaker: The trangers.
Speaker: Oh, no, no, no.
Speaker: They were one of the actual ones.
Speaker: Cause they didn't use Rangers.
Speaker: They use Texas.
Speaker: They use, they use Texas.
Speaker: They, that was the Tata's hat.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, that's right.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Oh, that's a nice little piece of follow-up there at the end.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: We're sure going to have something that we need to clean up next week based on that.
Speaker: We'll be back.
Speaker: We're here.
Speaker: We're talking to Todd.
Speaker: Did I tell you how awesome it is when I combine lemon and orange juice?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Ooh.
Speaker: What do you put that over?
Speaker: Fruit in a bowl with some sugar.
Speaker: Oh, it's fantastic.
Speaker: I can't believe I didn't tell you about this.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: You know, I've never heard about that, but you know what?
Speaker: That sounds great.
Speaker: And I would love to maybe take that the next time I go see Operation Mincemeat.
Speaker: Have I told you about that?
