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Ep. 331 - Food Never Comes
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Ep. 331, Recorded 7/4/2026. Old home week. An appealing story. No Leeds on the missing man. 220 NOT 221. Commonwealth Games. Get the undercoating. Eating light. Bogey boys. What drives Todd crazy.
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Podcast Setup and Consistency
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Talkin2Todd
Oh my god.
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Todd
Fastest pre-show we've done.
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Talkin2Todd
Well, I know, right?
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Todd
Okay.
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Talkin2Todd
yeah Efficient, man.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
Levels, levels.
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Todd
Levels, levels.
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Talkin2Todd
So we're kind of sneaking this one in under the wire.
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Todd
Yeah. I mean, one of the things I'm proud about this podcast is that we've released something every week since we started.
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Talkin2Todd
Without fail.
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Todd
Yep. and And if I'm honest, also without encouragement. Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
That's accurate. In fact, you know, so sometimes we hear, yeah you know, maybe you guys should take a break once in a while.
Recording Delays and Golfing
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Talkin2Todd
So, yeah i like, we're, again, we're sneaking this in under the wire here. It's Saturday. On July 4th, actually. Yesterday, you were ready, and I fell asleep.
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Todd
Oh, was that what happened?
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Talkin2Todd
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry about that. What happened today? I was on the golf course. I got a text from you. Hey, I'm clear all afternoon. and now what happened?
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Todd
Well, I mean, we originally the plan was we thought we would be.
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Talkin2Todd
What did you guys go buy a boat or something?
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Todd
I mean, close.
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Talkin2Todd
No, wait, what?
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Todd
Stay tuned. I've got content for later.
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Talkin2Todd
Buckle up, toddlers.
Podcast Introduction and Studio Challenges
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Talkin2Todd
Hi toddlers. Welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Wayne Johnson and Todd Prins where failure is always an option. Thanks for joining us. Hey Todd.
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Todd
Hey, how's it going?
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Talkin2Todd
Pretty good. Pretty good. How are you?
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Todd
Not bad, not bad at all. Back here in Studio a here at the Disclosed Undisclosed location, it's like old times, except for the fact that everything was unplugged and nothing is where I thought I left it. Other than that, but it's just like old times.
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Todd
That didn't sound right. Lean back, adjust the microphone. Yeah, okay, cool.
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Talkin2Todd
Yeah, lean back lean back again.
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Todd
Yeah, hopefully. Yep, lean back again, just do that. Yeah, it's, it's boy, this this just this feels like, did we do this for a while? Yeah, did this did this a lot out of here, so.
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Todd
Oh, yes.
Golfing Freedom and Listener Feedback
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Todd
You got some golfing in today.
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Talkin2Todd
i did, I did. This is, well, I golf Thursday afternoon, i golf Friday morning, and I golf this morning, and I'm golfing again tomorrow morning.
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Todd
Yep. Yep. Yep.
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Todd
Freedom. That's.
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Talkin2Todd
That's how I celebrate.
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Todd
Yep.
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Talkin2Todd
a i released some golf balls into the wild on to celebrate. That's what I did.
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Todd
look at Look at those majestic birds just go.
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Talkin2Todd
just Just keep on going to never return because I ain't going in there.
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Todd
Be free. and
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Talkin2Todd
Let's see. Feedback, follow-up, and updates.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
We have... I got a... Got a note from Doug from the idiot toddlers. Location said, hello.
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Todd
Yep.
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Talkin2Todd
Joke for one person, joke received.
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Todd
Excellent. That means it's 100% successful.
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Talkin2Todd
Can't say that very often. Sometimes we do jokes for people that don't listen. Let's
Quirky News Stories and Home Renovations
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Talkin2Todd
see. This was...
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Talkin2Todd
Michael, toddler, 818, sent me a story. Did you see the story about the giant banana car?
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Todd
Nope, that does not ring a bell. it's It's not being operated by Waymo, is it? Because that's that's where I see most of my car stories.
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Talkin2Todd
i
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Talkin2Todd
So for 15 years, this guy has driven a 23-foot banana across the country. And on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over by law enforcement.
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Talkin2Todd
They always find a reason to pull me over, he said. Montana police officers spotted a giant banana rolling through Billings on Wednesday afternoon. Pulled the guy over. Steve Braithwaite, owner, builder, and full-time driver of the 23-foot-long Big Banana car.
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Talkin2Todd
Not to be confused with the Oscar Mayer Wiener car.
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Todd
Totally different. same Same general concept, but different.
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Talkin2Todd
Totally confused. Yes. this So the in the the picture of the banana car, seats four
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Talkin2Todd
in a row. It's not two and two. It's one, two, three, four. Everybody has everybody has two window seats.
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Todd
Oh, I'm looking at a picture i'm looking at a picture of it now.
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Talkin2Todd
and
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Todd
yeah. yeah
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Talkin2Todd
And there are no windows.
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Todd
there's there's no windows cause there's no roof.
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Talkin2Todd
That's right. Yes.
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Todd
I mean, yeah. Okay.
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Talkin2Todd
So apparently there was an issue with a license plate.
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Todd
look Looking at the picture.
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Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
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Todd
yeah I, I will say this. If that, if I was at a theme park and I stood in line for 45 minutes and then they're like, this is the thing that you have to get in to go incredibly fast and like do loop to loops, I'd be like, you know what? Nope.
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Todd
Nope. Nevermind. Nevermind. That doesn't look safe. You know what? And I'll just, I'll just go someplace else.
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Talkin2Todd
Traffic light turns red. Breathe wait stops. Light turns green. Made a leisurely turn through the intersection. few moments later, cop pulls him over. Police officer marches up.
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Talkin2Todd
You know the reason I pulled you over back there? You peeled out. Seriously?
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Talkin2Todd
Thank you, Michael. Appreciate that.
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Todd
I love this though on his webpage.
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Todd
Is the big banana car world tour ever going to happen? He had a two part plan. According to him, he had a two part plan. Number one, build a huge motorized banana. Done that.
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Todd
Number two, drive it all around the world working on it. There you go. Like that's all the plan you need.
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Talkin2Todd
Our kind of guy.
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Todd
Build giant banana car, drive it around the world. Two steps. you know there's There's no step three. It's just that simple.
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Talkin2Todd
there's really They're really they really, no, yes.
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Talkin2Todd
Let's see. Oh, and then we got some got some anonymous feedback
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Talkin2Todd
about our construction update segment.
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Talkin2Todd
My wife walked in and said, what's next?
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Talkin2Todd
And the anonymous feedback was, we had to take a break from this kind of stuff so the spouse would stop looking around for more stuff to update. Hey, I have an idea for the house. Translation, i saw something on Pinterest Instagram that will be tedious, expensive, and will require you to buy like four new tools, one of which you never even knew existed. Like suddenly I'm the third fucking property brother. Apparently our discussion resonated.
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Todd
okay
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Todd
Could be worse. Hey, we're going the mudroom. I didn't even know we had a mudroom. Well, we're doing it. Okay. that's
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Talkin2Todd
There's a room full of mud. and I've never understood this.
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Todd
Yes.
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Talkin2Todd
Who keeps a room full of mud?
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Talkin2Todd
Let's see. I had i had a single
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Talkin2Todd
last week when we were talking about the FIFA hotel room story.
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Todd
And them getting out of their commitment.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes. You said two weeks. They canceled two weeks before the events. It was actually a few months prior to the event that they released the rooms back.
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Talkin2Todd
So which isn't uncommon in that kind of contract. However,
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Talkin2Todd
The feedback from my team at work was that's fantastic negotiation for that many hotel rooms to get out of it with zero is that zero cost for the cancellation. that's fair We need to hire that guy that's
Negotiation Wins and Missing Soccer Fan
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Talkin2Todd
or organ or gal. That's fantastic negotiation.
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Todd
Or, or hear me out, just change the name of your hotel booking internal team to FIFA and then just call around to hotels and say, hi, we're with FIFA and we would like to use the old contract.
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Talkin2Todd
Can you just send that over to me? i did so i can
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Talkin2Todd
i need to review that.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
that'd be my guess is My guess is they're not going be signing any more FIFA contracts in the future.
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Todd
Yeah. But,
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Talkin2Todd
Not sure that that's going to work out the way you would like it to.
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Todd
I will just say this, given it what we've talked about in the year running up to this, if at any point as part of your work, somebody on your team goes, you know, we should start doing business the way FIFA does business. That's where you just call a team timeout and let everybody just like, you know what, we're going to take about an hour or two. Just go think about where we are in our lives.
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Todd
If FIFA is now our role model.
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Talkin2Todd
Speaking of, I had a piece of World Cup follow-up.
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Todd
Okay.
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Talkin2Todd
Did you see the story about the soccer fan who was traveling to the United States to come see a game in Boston?
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Talkin2Todd
he vanished. vanished. English soccer fan vanished while traveling to the United States for the World Cup, was found safe in Spain, blissfully unaware of his family's anguished search for him.
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Todd
I did not see that, no.
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Talkin2Todd
Michael Hewitt, 65, last spoke with his family in Barcelona on June 21. and jetted out of the UK to connect through Spain before, for a short layover, he set to fly to Boston. He lost his phone, which contained all of his travel tickets and there then was stuck in Barcelona.
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Talkin2Todd
Didn't know any of the numbers. I mean, other than my wife's phone number and your phone number and I will fall and my old
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Todd
I was going to say the phone number when we grew up.
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Talkin2Todd
When we we grew up, yes. those Those I still remember.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
If you ask me almost any other phone number, I'll be darned if I could tell you what it was. He knew none of the phone numbers stored on his phone.
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Todd
I think there's a six in it.
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Talkin2Todd
So little Mick, he still had his passport and his money, but he didn't go to the embassy because he didn't think they'd be interested. He was blissfully unaware that his family was searching for him. Instead, he just got on with enjoying Barcelona and watching the England matches in bars.
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Talkin2Todd
They eventually contacted the embassy and the embassy tracked him down by using credit card charges and where his credit card was being used so that they could then go and find him.
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Talkin2Todd
The reason this falls into follow-up is A, World Cup, and two, do you know which soccer team he's a fan of, Todd?
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Todd
from England. Uh, no. Uh, who, who does he call?
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Talkin2Todd
Leeds United. Yes.
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Todd
Oh, well, so is, so he was.
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Talkin2Todd
Again, blissfully unaware of his surroundings, probably peeing wherever he wanted.
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Todd
Yeah. Yeah.
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Todd
Yeah. Good news. I don't need to worry about that.
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Talkin2Todd
This went on for 10 days before they finally tracked him down. That came to us from the watchful eyes of toddler negative 18.
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Talkin2Todd
Let's see, what else do we have here in fall?
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Todd
For see, for a second, I thought that story was going to go a different direction because you hear about these occasionally.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes.
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Todd
But I thought what you were gonna say is he was in Barcelona. He he ended up getting on a plane to the Boston that's in Spain. And I'm like, that doesn't sound right. That doesn't sound right. at Nope.
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Todd
I don't. That doesn't make any.
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Talkin2Todd
Nope. Nope.
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Todd
if If you said that there was a World Cup match in Madrid and he ended up in Madrid. OK, I can get that. But but not but not Boston. But sure.
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Talkin2Todd
what else What else we have under follow-up here?
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Todd
Hey, last year, the pro shot for Six the Musical came out in the UK. And Lisa and I were over there. And we got we went into an actual movie theater and watched it.
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Todd
Then I reported back.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes, I remember this.
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Todd
And there was a comment about, at some point, it will probably be released in the United States.
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Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh.
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Todd
That movie is due to be released. Six, the musical, the movie. I don't think that's, there's a lot of colons in there. And I don't i don't think that's what they're, anyway, August 14th. it will be hitting theaters here in the United States. So if you would like to go see the pro shot of six, the musical, the movie, then yes, starting August 14th, it should be available.
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Todd
So anyway, I just, again, i was like, oh, that's right. We saw that last year.
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Talkin2Todd
Oh yeah, that's right, yeah.
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Todd
Oh, it's great that it's finally coming out over here. Yeah, that's great. took a They must have they mustve just like mailed that, like the film got mailed like UPS ground or something. And it's just been bouncing back between like between Louisville and London.
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Talkin2Todd
In Ontario.
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Todd
Yeah. Just yeah. All the Ontario's. It was in Canada for a while. There was in California. was just, it was just bouncing around. I mean, I mean, maybe it wasn't unlimited, but I, you know, it it may have at least gone back and forth across the pond at least six times.
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Talkin2Todd
We've...
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Todd
So yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
Of course they're dead.
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Todd
What else?
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Talkin2Todd
We've talked several times here about Berkshire Hathaway and their CEO, Greg Abel, who lives in Des Moines.
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Todd
Yes.
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Talkin2Todd
On June 25th, he was in the news again because he threw out the first pitch at the iCubs game here in Des Moines. and also became a US citizen, Canadian native living in Des Moines, who so succeeded succeeded Warren Buffett as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway,
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Talkin2Todd
You know how how Gartner did for has done for a long time citizenship night at the ballpark and they people become citizens and get sworn in or whatever. 29 new citizens from 16 countries were naturalized during a ceremony before an Iowa Cubs game. And then Greg Abel threw out the first pitch.
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Talkin2Todd
So there you go. Again, we start talking about these things and they continue to hit our feet.
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Todd
Now, now
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Todd
now stepping to the mound, a CEO you've never heard of, except for you, that one guy. Come on up. Greg Smith? No. but
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Talkin2Todd
Nope.
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Todd
but some Whatever.
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Talkin2Todd
Nope.
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Todd
Just throw the pitch.
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Talkin2Todd
yeah Yep. Annual citizenship celebration. So anyway, way to go, Greg. good job Good job out of you. oh and then because we cover this every year.
MLB Contracts and Tour de France
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Talkin2Todd
July 1st was Bobby Bonilla Day.
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Todd
for those who celebrate For those who celebrate, and I know at least one person who does, and his name is Bobby Bonilla.
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Talkin2Todd
Happy Bobby Bonilla
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Talkin2Todd
Day. So this year, this isn't what I learned this week, but this year, the backstory behind this, did you know Todd, did you, and this isn't what i learned this week, and this also isn't Todd out of no, but did you know that Bernie Madoff is the reason that the Mets have this contract with Bobby Bonilla?
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Todd
i You know what? i read the article I read an article about the background of it a couple of years ago. i do i don't think I knew that, but at the same point, it's like that kind of rings a bit of a bell.
00:16:27
Talkin2Todd
Okay, so here's the backstory. In 2000, the Mets owed Bobby $5.9 million dollars and wanted him gone. But rather than cut the check, they spread it across 25 years at 8% interest starting in 2011. Total payout, $29.8 million. dollars On its face, it looks really stupid. Pay $30 million to not pay $6 million.
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Talkin2Todd
Except Fred Wilpon, had a plan for the 5.9. He parked it with, wait for it, Bernie Madoff, whose accounts at that point were printing steady 12% returns like clockwork.
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Talkin2Todd
Borrow at eight, compound at 12, keep the spread. That was the plan.
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Todd
I mean, those returns, i mean, those are just going up and up and up, like almost like the side of a a pyramid.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes, yes, that's exactly what that,
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Todd
Yeah, that's kind of like a pyramid shape. Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
Yes, yes. One analyst reverse engineered this and found a second punchline hiding inside the first. At 12%, the 5.9 million grows to roughly 8.5 million before Bobby's opening check clears.
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Talkin2Todd
From there, the Mets pocket the four-point gap at about $236,000 year.
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Talkin2Todd
the spread lands on the buyout amount almost to the dollar. So
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Talkin2Todd
as long as as long as everything plays out right, they're not making any money, but they're not losing any money. Except as we know, yes, Ponzi scheme. So the compounding never happened. Wilpon and his circle,
00:18:19
Talkin2Todd
were part of the 483 Madoff accounts that lost hundreds of millions of dollars. And yeah, the contract, however, was a real liability with nothing to back it up.
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Talkin2Todd
So while the math was sound, there you are.
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Todd
I look back at that now and I think they owed him, they owed him what, five? You said five and a half million, something like that?
00:18:45
Talkin2Todd
$5.9 million. No,
00:18:47
Todd
Okay, they owed him $6 million. dollars That doesn't even get you a starting player at this point for a season. Like... like
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Talkin2Todd
no no not really. Not a good one. i mean, here's the thing. It does if you're the Royals. If you're the Royals, it gets you three or four of them.
00:19:05
Todd
And if you're the A's, it gets you an entire team, plus the t-shirts that says, welcome to Sacramento. But anyway.
00:19:14
Todd
but But good on you, Bobby.
00:19:15
Talkin2Todd
the o yep One other thing, I don't i don't know, that we hate we don't think we had this on our rundown, but I would be remiss if we didn't note that the Tour de France starts today.
00:19:31
Todd
Yes, it does. Also, I believe, and funny you should mention that, I believe it started in Barcelona today.
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Talkin2Todd
Oh, well, what's-his-name could have just stuck around and watched that.
00:19:41
Todd
Yeah, exactly. Here's thing, he probably didn't even know it was coming because he didn't have his phone to see what what sporting events were happening.
00:19:49
Talkin2Todd
Look both ways before you step into the street because the bikes are coming right through.
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Todd
and this is a this There's a lot of really fast cyclists in this town. This is weird.
00:19:59
Talkin2Todd
So I think that's all I had. Did we have any do we have any construction updates? Do I need to play that theme?
00:20:06
Todd
Well, play the theme and then ask the question.
00:20:17
Talkin2Todd
So did we?
00:20:19
Todd
No.
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Talkin2Todd
Me either.
00:20:28
Todd
But you got to do it in the right order. we We can't go into updates without the theme song playing.
00:20:34
Talkin2Todd
mr bats This is what we get for not doing a proper, this is what we get for not doing a proper pre-show.
00:20:36
Todd
that's just That's just the rules.
00:20:41
Talkin2Todd
We're trying to get, and we're trying to hurry here, trying to get this squeezed in before you go have fish eat your feet or I don't know what the hell you're doing.
00:20:41
Todd
Yeah. Yeah.
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Talkin2Todd
Anyway, no, not that.
00:20:49
Todd
Nope, not that.
00:20:50
Talkin2Todd
Okay.
00:20:51
Todd
Nope. Nope. No. No, your your project's wrapped up. All of my projects wrapped up. We're working on getting bids for the next phase, but there's there's nothing else to report at this point. So...
00:21:05
Todd
On the other hand, we are happy if toddlers, if you are in the middle of a home renovation project or considering a home renovation project and would like to send us weekly updates as to what you're working on we're more than happy.
00:21:05
Talkin2Todd
Cool.
00:21:16
Todd
Dwayne's gone to the trouble of putting this, putting together that. It's not really a theme song. It's more of a, what are they? a stinger or something, an audio clip. It's on the board. It's on the soundboard and that's a limited amount of space. So if you've got anything, send it in because it's still on the soundboard.
00:21:32
Talkin2Todd
Yeah, until it's not.
00:21:35
Talkin2Todd
You know what else is on the soundboard?
00:21:36
Todd
Although, oh, wait, wait, one more thing.
00:21:38
Talkin2Todd
Yeah, yes.
00:21:38
Todd
I will say this. What's really funny, though, is one of the things that we had done as part of the doing some electrical work is we had the electric car charger put in. We had an electric car charger put in our garage because we've been charging the car off of a 110 outlet, which is fine.
00:21:55
Todd
Basically, the amount that we use for the day
00:21:56
Talkin2Todd
No, it's not. No, no no no it's not. No, it's not fine.
00:21:59
Todd
o Well, no, basic but but basically the amount of energy that we use that I use for the day of going back and forth to work can be put in overnight in the car.
00:22:00
Talkin2Todd
I mean.
00:22:10
Todd
So the car can't ever get ahead, but it doesn't fall behind.
00:22:12
Talkin2Todd
Oh.
00:22:14
Talkin2Todd
Oh, okay.
00:22:15
Todd
But we put a nice car charger in and and use that. And now it's a level two charger. By the way, do you do do you know what a you know a level two charger, you know, kind of wiring it you a level two charger needs?
00:22:27
Talkin2Todd
220, 221, whatever it takes.
00:22:28
Todd
No, it actually needs 220. It does not need 221.
00:22:30
Talkin2Todd
oh okay. not
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Todd
221 would be a problem.
00:22:31
Talkin2Todd
Not 221. It's
00:22:33
Todd
It's 220.
00:22:35
Talkin2Todd
exactly 220. Okay. Okay.
00:22:36
Todd
Yeah, yeah. So anyway, yes, we did run some 220. So anyway, yeah.
00:22:40
Talkin2Todd
Okay. Nice.
00:22:42
Todd
What else is on the soundboard, by the way?
00:22:54
Talkin2Todd
That's right. It's time for Todd ought to know a visual Todd ought know this week. Todd, I'm going to send you a picture.
00:23:04
Todd
All right. I am looking at, okay. So I'm looking at a picture of, uh, great, great Britain.
00:23:16
Todd
Uh, there's six of them with different countries colored, uh, in different. some there's some of the countries are white, red, blue,
00:23:29
Todd
green, uh, orange, and there's different, I'm assuming this is here's the same land masses, uh, based off of these colors. What do you call this thing?
00:23:41
Talkin2Todd
So, yes, basically, but it is, this is the same landmass. And it's all of the island of Ireland and all of the island that is England, Scotland, and Wales.
00:23:58
Talkin2Todd
Right. So, and note the the little island, that the little tiny island, Isle of Man that sits in between.
00:24:00
Todd
Yep.
00:24:05
Todd
The Isle of Man. That's the Isle of Man. Yep.
00:24:08
Talkin2Todd
Yep. So the question for you is, in what can these represent, because this is World Cup, we're in the middle of World Cup, one of these six represents the how all of these countries, how many countries are in this country?
00:24:17
Todd
Okay. Yep.
00:24:28
Todd
Four.
00:24:31
Talkin2Todd
How all of these countries divide themselves up or put themselves together for what sport?
00:24:31
Todd
But there's, yeah.
00:24:40
Todd
Oh my goodness. Okay. Oh boy.
00:24:43
Talkin2Todd
So let's start.
00:24:44
Todd
Yeah. Yep.
00:24:44
Talkin2Todd
So there are six of them.
00:24:47
Todd
Yep.
00:24:48
Talkin2Todd
And the most complex is in the top left corner. And the most together, I suppose, well, there's a couple of them that are kind of together down in the bottom. The bottom the bottom three are are are less divided.
00:25:03
Todd
Okay, so this is, by the way, this is great podcasting. It is not, but we'll we'll try to walk through it.
00:25:08
Talkin2Todd
yeah Right, it's not, but we're going to, yes.
00:25:09
Todd
Okay, okay, so what do you which one do you want me to you want me to start tackling where?
00:25:15
Talkin2Todd
Well, if, so you know what, look at the six of those and tell me which one of them is how things line up for World Cup, since we're in the middle of World Cup.
00:25:19
Todd
Yeah.
00:25:27
Todd
Okay, so just so I'm going to describe one of these just so that everybody's clear. So the first one has England as a separate country, Wales as a separate country, Scotland with the Isle of Man as a separate country, Northern Ireland as a separate country, and Ireland as a separate country.
00:25:52
Todd
So that...
00:25:57
Todd
Okay. And then, and then as we go through, there's different versions. The next version is England separate whales. That is the, same, but the Isle of man is part of England instead of part of Scotland.
00:26:08
Todd
Then there's a map that England, Scotland, and whales are separate, but Northern Ireland and Ireland are together. And then there's Ireland's altogether and England, Scotland, and Wales are all together. And then there's one, geez,
00:26:26
Todd
This is nuts. I don't understand how anybody...
00:26:28
Talkin2Todd
right I looked at this and went, wait, how does how does how does anybody know what team they play for?
00:26:29
Todd
Okay, so...
00:26:36
Todd
it depends And what you're telling me is it depends on the sport.
00:26:39
Talkin2Todd
It depends on the sport or the series of games.
00:26:46
Todd
Okay. I am assuming... Okay, so between the first two, the only difference between those first two... is Is the Isle of Man either part of Scotland or part of England?
00:26:56
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:26:58
Talkin2Todd
Correct.
00:27:02
Talkin2Todd
Correct.
00:27:03
Todd
I believe that it's one of those two is for World Cup because I believe Wales has its own team, Scotland. I mean, at least for qualifying. And I believe that Northern Ireland has a separate qualification than Ireland.
00:27:18
Todd
So... I'm going to say the first one is World Cup and that the Isle of Man yeah aligns its soccer fortunes with Scotland.
00:27:28
Talkin2Todd
You are not correct.
00:27:31
Todd
Shocker.
00:27:33
Talkin2Todd
But you were close because it was the other one.
00:27:35
Todd
It's the other one. So the Isle of Man is part of England.
00:27:38
Talkin2Todd
The other man is part of England for football.
00:27:41
Todd
Okay.
00:27:41
Talkin2Todd
so So then the second question then, Todd.
00:27:44
Todd
Yeah. Yeah. What is the first one cover?
00:27:48
Talkin2Todd
What's the first one? Right.
00:27:50
Todd
Then I would say rugby.
00:27:52
Talkin2Todd
Not correct. Good guess. Not correct.
00:27:57
Todd
But I was confident.
00:27:58
Talkin2Todd
you were You were confident with your guess.
00:28:02
Todd
Olympic sports.
00:28:05
Talkin2Todd
Not correct. That is on this map.
00:28:08
Todd
This is going to be bad.
00:28:08
Talkin2Todd
But that is not correct.
00:28:10
Todd
All right. Okay.
00:28:12
Talkin2Todd
that is That's actually the bottom middle one. I'll give you that. Since you came up with Olympics.
00:28:17
Todd
olymp olympics is the bottom middle so it is oh yes because it's oh i should know that because it's team gb should have known that
00:28:21
Talkin2Todd
Yep. And rugby...
00:28:27
Talkin2Todd
Yeah, and rugby is top right.
00:28:31
Todd
top right, which is England separate, wall England and Aleman, Wales separate, Scotland separate, but Ireland competes under unified Ireland with Northern Ireland and Ireland competing together.
00:28:34
Talkin2Todd
All of.
00:28:46
Talkin2Todd
All together, yes.
00:28:48
Todd
All together now? Okay.
00:28:52
Todd
So we've covered football, we've covered Olympics, we've covered rugby.
00:28:54
Talkin2Todd
Yep. Yep. Correct.
00:29:04
Todd
I don't think there's a World Cup of Darts. Actually, there probably is, but I don't know that this comes into it probably just comes into play here.
00:29:08
Talkin2Todd
There probably is, but I don't have a map for that.
00:29:17
Todd
i am unclear what that first one is.
00:29:19
Talkin2Todd
The first one is the Commonwealth Games.
00:29:23
Todd
Gotta be honest, wasn't one that I considered. Commonwealth Games.
00:29:26
Talkin2Todd
was was not on your list.
00:29:27
Todd
Got it.
00:29:28
Talkin2Todd
Yep, Commonwealth Games.
00:29:29
Todd
Oh, I should have figured that out, though.
00:29:30
Talkin2Todd
yep
00:29:32
Todd
I just thought that these were random colors. But in the... But Ireland is black, not because that is a color, but because Ireland doesn't compete in the Commonwealth Games.
00:29:47
Talkin2Todd
In the Commonwealth Games. Very good. Great deduction, Todd.
00:29:50
Todd
Oh, see, I just assumed that they ran out of colors, but that's that's an exclusion. Oh, shoot, I've had to figure that out.
00:29:55
Talkin2Todd
That's intentional.
00:29:56
Todd
Okay, yeah. Okay, so the first one's Commonwealth Games. The next one is World Cup football. Then you got rugby. Okay, then we've got one down at the bottom where Wales, England, and Scotland, and Isle of Man are all together, and Ireland is all together.
00:30:06
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:30:14
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:30:17
Todd
Uh... competitive rowing?
00:30:22
Talkin2Todd
That's tennis.
00:30:24
Todd
Okay.
00:30:25
Talkin2Todd
Yep, that was my response too.
00:30:26
Todd
It, in what, in what, but,
00:30:27
Talkin2Todd
I'm like, there a...
00:30:39
Todd
here's my thought.
00:30:40
Talkin2Todd
Yep, that's why I brought this. Nope.
00:30:42
Todd
Tennis, people compete individually and it doesn't matter where you're from unless you're from, let's say for a couple of years from Russia, where then you can't play or you have to play under whatever.
00:30:55
Todd
The tennis that I'm aware of that it matters where you are from is under the Olympics. So this would have to be like, is this like some version of like the Solheim cup or the writer cup for tennis? Yeah.
00:31:12
Talkin2Todd
i i I didn't dig. i just found the map.
00:31:17
Todd
I just confused you, Todd, but I'm not giving you any answers. Okay, cool. All right.
00:31:20
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
00:31:21
Todd
And then, okay, and then the middle one's the Olympics. And then the last one is, so, yeah.
00:31:24
Talkin2Todd
Yep. Yep. Can you name the last one? Is ire Ireland all together? Scotland by itself.
00:31:32
Todd
Yeah.
00:31:34
Talkin2Todd
Wales, England, and Isle of Man together.
00:31:38
Todd
I mean, I know that this this might be a, I think, I don't think this is what you're looking for. I think this might be a proposal of how to fix Brexit.
00:31:47
Talkin2Todd
It's It's not wrong.
00:31:51
Todd
Scotland wants to leave and the Northern Ireland thing is a problem. So screw it. Just everybody leave. And Wales is like, what about us? And like, where are you going to go? They're like, never mind. Okay.
00:32:04
Todd
Okay. All right, okay, so one of them was tennis. You know what I'm gonna say billiards. No, sorry, wait, snooker, snooker.
00:32:12
Talkin2Todd
wait
00:32:15
Todd
World Cup snooker.
00:32:16
Talkin2Todd
World Cup, and you're you're wrong on on both counts.
00:32:20
Todd
Okay.
00:32:20
Talkin2Todd
But I'm going to say it took balls to come up with that answer.
00:32:24
Todd
Oh, geez.
00:32:29
Todd
What's the last one?
00:32:31
Talkin2Todd
Cricket. The last one is cricket.
00:32:34
Todd
You know, now that I was coming up with snooker because I thought, uh, cricket actually, now I'm just, I'm disappointed in myself that I didn't think of cricket and use that one.
00:32:41
Talkin2Todd
I'm... Right, that you didn't come up with because because, I mean, it is a national sport. It's an international competition of, yeah. So anyway, something that Todd ought to know for a World Cup week, who plays where and why. No, not why. we don't We still don't know why, but we do know who plays where.
00:33:01
Todd
Yes. Yeah.
00:33:04
Talkin2Todd
Welcome.
00:33:06
Talkin2Todd
should we do Should we do some idiots?
00:33:08
Todd
Sure, sure.
00:33:09
Talkin2Todd
time for the Time for the Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week.
00:33:13
Todd
Absolutely. So one of the reasons why we're recording a little later today is earlier today, Lisa and I decided, oh, we should just, we let's just go look at some
Car Buying Adventures and Virtual Food Apps
00:33:23
Todd
cars. Let's just go look at, maybe maybe we maybe we should look at a car.
00:33:27
Todd
Lisa's like, let's go look. I'm like, okay, we so we went and looked. And then it was like, yeah, maybe maybe we should test drive the car. Let's see what, anyway, so we bought a car today. And as a part of the process, we're to,
00:33:42
Todd
So you got to go through the whole thing where the salesperson's got to go into the big glass booth and then come out with the, with the price. And then you're like, yeah, Lisa's like, yeah, I think you can do better than that.
00:33:54
Todd
Well, let me go find out. Yeah. They come back and I shaved little bit of money off. Okay, fine. Whatever. Agree to buy the car, you got to do all the things, then you got to wait, and then you got to go into the finance guy because the finance guy has got to then sell you all the other stuff.
00:34:09
Todd
And so there was a you have the conversation about, do you do you need the do you need the protectant? No, don't need the protectant. Okay. well Do you need the extended warranty? Salesperson, these cars are amazing.
00:34:20
Todd
They never break down. And they have a, it's a Hyundai, has an amazing warranty. You agree to buy it. You know, these things are really expensive to fix. And, you know, you never know what's going to go out.
00:34:30
Todd
Like, I mean, geez, this is, I mean, they barely, they barely stick together when you drive it off the lot.
00:34:36
Talkin2Todd
Thank
00:34:39
Todd
Okay, that's fine. Have that conversation. Then there's the, would you like to prepay for maintenance? Like, well, he's like, you know, oil changes, your registration fees, tire rotation.
00:34:54
Todd
OK, so he tells me how much it's going to be divided by the number. I'm like, oh, that's like 200 bucks a year. I'm like, oh, it's a question. He's like, does so you say maintenance, the service, there's service warranty. there this you know Every 7,500 miles, you got to get the oil changed. and Then there's something at 15,000 and then at 30,000 and then at 45,000.
00:35:17
Todd
does it Does it cover all the maintenance in those years? What? No, no, no, no. Just oil changes and tire rotation and your registration inspections.
00:35:30
Todd
Okay, but but what about the maintenance? Yeah, it doesn't cover the maintenance. So the extended maintenance plan doesn't cover the maintenance. Not that maintenance. That's different maintenance. If you want, I can give you a quote on that.
00:35:42
Todd
That's more. Anyway, I'm not sure.
00:35:44
Talkin2Todd
That would be the extended, the extended, extended maintenance.
00:35:46
Todd
Extend. Yeah. Extended squared maintenance.
00:35:51
Talkin2Todd
It sounds to me.
00:35:51
Todd
Or given given given given the way that everything works on in streaming, that's extended maintenance plus.
00:35:59
Talkin2Todd
It sounds to me like the finance guy is only interested in improving the finances of the dealership.
00:36:05
Todd
Apparently, yes. Yeah. there was There was a lot of... Yeah. And then we had to decline it, and then we went back and had to decline it again, and then had to decline it one more time.
00:36:15
Todd
So anyway, look, that's the guy's job. That's what he gets paid to do. That's... the Who's the idiot here? Well, first of all, us for going to a dealer to buy a car. But second, the entire and system that everybody just plays along. Is this the right way to to sell cars? This is not the right way to sell cars. But is what we have? Yeah. Who's going to change it?
00:36:39
Todd
Anyway, I'm looking forward to my extended, extended maintenance. we We turned everything down. We just turned everything down. I don't, that's fine. I'll, I'll pay for it. Yes. I understand this car barely works and we'll need maintenance and oil all the time. We'll still buy it.
00:36:54
Todd
So anyway, that's a, that was my idea of the week. How about you?
00:36:59
Talkin2Todd
So this story, there's a new app in South Korea to let you order food.
00:37:09
Todd
Okay. Hello.
00:37:11
Talkin2Todd
So if you've ever spent Dateline Seoul,
00:37:14
Todd
hello
00:37:16
Talkin2Todd
if you've ever spent 20 minutes scrolling through a food delivery app only to close it without ordering, South Korea's latest viral app may have been made for you. It's called Food Never Comes.
00:37:28
Talkin2Todd
And the app looks and behaves just like any other takeaway platform. The users can browse restaurant menus, customize their order, enter a delivery address, choose a payment method, and even track a courier.
00:37:42
Talkin2Todd
But nothing is ever cooked, paid for, or delivered.
00:37:45
Talkin2Todd
According to Fast Company, the unusual app is part of a growing wave of South Korean dopamine sites, which are digital platforms designed to recreate the fill thrill of shopping without actually spending a single cent.
00:38:01
Todd
So you're cosplaying ordering food for delivery.
00:38:05
Talkin2Todd
Yes. Yeah. In theory, simply pressing the buy button satisfies your craving, even if no purchase is ever completed. The idea was created by a South Korean developer who said the idea came during one of those nights when I just kept opening and closing delivery apps.
00:38:23
Talkin2Todd
It started as a joke at first, but it was surprisingly satisfying.
00:38:28
Talkin2Todd
Great. So anyway, so what's for dinner? Not Korean food.
00:38:36
Todd
All right, app idea. I thought you were going to go the other direction, which is you put it all in and you scroll through the entire app.
00:38:40
Talkin2Todd
Okay.
00:38:46
Todd
And if you get to the bottom without picking anything, it just randomly picks some food for you and sends it to you. Like, look, dude, I showed you 700 restaurants. If you can't pick your, if you can't make up your mind, you, this probably isn't for you. I will just send over whatever I think is best for you. This is a different take. Wow.
00:39:06
Todd
Oh my God. Do you know what's going to, here's the thing though. Oh geez.
00:39:09
Talkin2Todd
Yes. Yep.
00:39:11
Todd
Here's, Oh, Oh no. Okay, so you've got an app that you can track your food that you didn't order, that they didn't cook, and that they're not delivering.
00:39:24
Talkin2Todd
yep
00:39:25
Todd
Next step in this chain, CalSheet or Polymarket can then take prediction markets on whether the food will arrive on time or not. Okay.
00:39:43
Todd
over, under, on your fake food delivery. That sounds like a Calci kind of thing.
00:39:52
Talkin2Todd
And since you control whether or not it's going to show up or not, you can vote, you can bet no, knowing that it's not going to show up. That's perfect.
00:40:02
Todd
It's a perfect Calci thing where the people who make the decisions can put the bets.
00:40:07
Talkin2Todd
One user compared it to drinking non-alcoholic beer while recovering from alcohol addiction.
00:40:13
Talkin2Todd
You know, I want to buy something, but but but but I really can't buy something. Anyway, my idiot of the week. Apps that order that you can order, but not actually get anything delivered.
00:40:28
Todd
What's even worse is I'll just throw this up. What's even worse is if you got to pay like 590 90, you have to, you have to bring for the app to work. You have to pay a monthly subscription to be in the club.
00:40:36
Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
00:40:41
Talkin2Todd
Otherwise, it will actually deliver the food to you.
00:40:44
Todd
Yeah, if you don't want the food.
00:40:44
Talkin2Todd
You have to pay to have it not, you have to pay to have it not deliver the food.
00:40:48
Todd
It's, it's it's yeah, it's $10.99 a month. Otherwise, we're going to start delivering the food.
00:40:55
Talkin2Todd
Oh, sweet Lord. are you So the what are you watching this week?
00:40:59
Todd
lot of World Cup, just lot of World Cup. None of the World Cup halftime shows. Not doing that, but the actual matches. I've seen a lot of football. Shockingly, I've seen a lot of good football. I've seen some terrible football, but I've seen some pretty good football as well. But it's been it's been mostly World Cup. How about you? What have you what have you been watching?
00:41:20
Talkin2Todd
Also been watching World Cup.
00:41:22
Todd
Okay. All right.
00:41:23
Talkin2Todd
Also been watching World Cup. Yep. Some, yeah, some fantastic games. And I mean, day one was two to PK shootouts. Just really excited. The the England comeback, not expected. Fantastic. I mean, it's just, it's been some really, really great games.
00:41:46
Todd
i don't know if you saw I don't know if you saw the Belgian comeback. 86th minute, they were down 2-0.
00:41:53
Talkin2Todd
Yes, saw that.
00:41:54
Todd
Tied it, took it into extra time, and then won 3-2 in extra time and didn't even have to go to penalties.
00:41:55
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
00:42:01
Todd
Saving a little late. Hey, guys. Drama drama Queen's here. like let's can we Can we just like maybe spread the scoring out a little bit?
00:42:10
Talkin2Todd
my I don't know that my heart can take a whole lot more of this. Perhaps, just just just going to throw this out here, maybe score a little earlier. You know, whatever.
00:42:20
Todd
You can take the full 90 minutes to score. Like you don't, but you don't need to wait till the end. So yeah.
00:42:26
Talkin2Todd
I also, did you ever watch The Wire on HBO?
00:42:29
Todd
I did not. I believe Lisa has, but I never, I never watched it. No.
00:42:34
Talkin2Todd
I never watched, we didn't have HBO when it was on originally, and I've just never gone back, but it's one of these shows that people have said, you know, it's like one of the greatest shows ever.
00:42:38
Todd
Okay.
00:42:44
Todd
Top five. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:45
Talkin2Todd
Top, Ivy-ish, whatever.
00:42:45
Todd
Yeah. In the top 10 list or whatever, it's with the wire's always up there.
00:42:48
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
00:42:49
Todd
Yep.
00:42:49
Talkin2Todd
Yep. but And I never watched it either. And and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to watch this. A, so I started watching it. B, really and I'm really enjoying it.
00:43:01
Talkin2Todd
But C, the technology dates it between flip phones and pagers.
00:43:09
Todd
Yeah.
00:43:14
Talkin2Todd
And then they sat down in front of a computer. and And now i'm going to send you a picture again.
00:43:23
Talkin2Todd
And I'm like, I gotta to take a screenshot of this.
00:43:26
Todd
Okay, so I'm seeing England, Scotland, Wales.
00:43:29
Talkin2Todd
but
00:43:31
Todd
Well, hold on. let me let me Let me scroll. Oh, buddy. Okay, so that's a Gateway 2000 monitor.
00:43:39
Talkin2Todd
The gateway 2000, I'm like, hey, there's the little cow box. I know what that is.
00:43:46
Todd
I'm also pretty sure, though, that that's the exact same image that they had up in the original Jurassic Park right before they shut down the entire system.
00:43:57
Todd
Nice CRT monitor, though. That looks big.
00:44:00
Talkin2Todd
Right? It was, yep. I'm like, oh, okay. yeah Again, the technology is, you know, you got to go back to the early 90s and this kind of thing. But then, like, oh, hey, yep, I recognize that gateway monitor.
00:44:16
Todd
So, so.
00:44:16
Talkin2Todd
Pretty sure i had one of them.
00:44:18
Todd
Right now, if you do period dramas, the way that you show that you're going back in history is by the dress, right? Like you've got the like big skirts and you know frills or whatever.
00:44:26
Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh.
00:44:29
Todd
but But eventually, period dramas will be based on the technology that they have. That's how you show that it's a period drama. It'd be like 100 years from now, Downton Abbey, somebody will be having to source Gateway 2000 computers for the period drama.
00:44:45
Talkin2Todd
Right.
00:44:46
Todd
Yeah.
00:44:47
Talkin2Todd
Just to make sure it looks realistic. Yes.
00:44:49
Todd
Yes. Yeah.
00:44:50
Talkin2Todd
Yep.
00:44:50
Todd
How quaint.
00:44:51
Talkin2Todd
Yep. The thing I learned this week, did i have i told have i i have i talked about short part four on here?
00:44:58
Todd
Yeah.
00:45:04
Talkin2Todd
these
00:45:05
Todd
no, I don't believe so.
00:45:07
Talkin2Todd
this is This is the company that sends me a box of golf clothes every month.
00:45:12
Todd
Okay.
00:45:12
Talkin2Todd
It's subscription box, like Stitch stitch Fix.
00:45:17
Todd
Stitch fix, sticks, but for golf.
00:45:19
Talkin2Todd
Yeah. But for golf, exactly. That kind of thing. And I've done this for several years now. and Every month, you know, I give them 50 bucks and they send me, I don't know, $150 worth of stuff.
00:45:33
Talkin2Todd
In fact, the shirt that I'm wearing right now, among other things.
00:45:36
Todd
the one covered with The one covered with golf bag pictures and other golf.
00:45:37
Talkin2Todd
But it's
00:45:40
Talkin2Todd
With golf stuff.
00:45:41
Todd
Yeah, that makes sense.
00:45:42
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:45:42
Todd
That tracks.
00:45:43
Talkin2Todd
Yeah.
00:45:43
Todd
Okay.
00:45:43
Talkin2Todd
Right. Yep. That tracks. This a Ryder Cup shirt, actually.
00:45:49
Todd
Oh.
00:45:50
Talkin2Todd
But belt, shorts, pants, shoes, golf glove, whatever. Just a smattering of whatever.
00:45:58
Todd
Whatever's in the warehouse that month.
00:45:58
Talkin2Todd
Anyway. Exactly. And they buy it in bulk and then pass the savings on. And, and you know, and i I let them pick it out. I mean, some of these services, you go and pick out what you think you want and they send it to you.
00:46:12
Todd
Yep.
00:46:13
Talkin2Todd
This is they curate it. And so it's a surprise for me every month when I open it. Last month, my May box didn't show up until like the last week of May.
00:46:27
Talkin2Todd
I'm like, huh, well that's kind of odd, but you know, whatever.
00:46:28
Todd
Okay.
00:46:32
Talkin2Todd
Things are, things are slow. My June box hadn't shown up, hadn't shown up, hadn't shown up. On the 26th of June, I get an email from Short Par 4 saying, hey, we've missed you with the last couple of boxes.
00:46:45
Talkin2Todd
Do you want to restart your subscription? I'm like, well, that doesn't seem right. So then I go and I log in. Yeah, my subscription is still active, but
00:46:54
Todd
You're charging me.
00:46:55
Talkin2Todd
you're and And you're charging me and you charged me on June 1.
00:46:56
Todd
Okay.
00:47:00
Talkin2Todd
But the package says unfulfilled. Well, that seems kind of strange. So then I start doing a little bit of internet research. On June 2, they had declared bankruptcy.
00:47:12
Todd
Oh, okay. okay
00:47:14
Talkin2Todd
At which point, given the industry that I am in, I start doing a little bit more research and start reading some of the filings and then contacting one of my sales people. Hey, with actually,
00:47:34
Talkin2Todd
I wonder if there's any business in this for us.
00:47:38
Talkin2Todd
is there any Is there anything we can do? Are there any mailings? Do they need do they need us to process anything? is there Is there any support services we can provide? He's like, no. At this point, that it's it's long gone.
00:47:49
Talkin2Todd
Have you canceled your subscription yet? That would be the next thing that I did so that they didn't charge me on July 1. So the thing that I learned this week is this subscription service that I've had for years, no longer a thing.
00:48:01
Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh.
00:48:04
Todd
On the other hand, I'm just going honest, at least their website was up to date enough because, I mean, realistically, your June box was, you were unfulfilled with what they sent you.
00:48:14
Talkin2Todd
I was definitely unfulfilled.
00:48:17
Todd
That wasn't the status of shipping.
00:48:17
Talkin2Todd
That's absolutely...
00:48:19
Todd
That was your status, unfulfilled.
00:48:22
Talkin2Todd
And it was accurate.
00:48:23
Todd
yeah
00:48:26
Talkin2Todd
How about you? What did you learn this week?
00:48:28
Todd
So we we came down for the for the holiday weekend, came down to the Disclose on Disclose location. i i have I have a Mac Mini down here, and it's got some external hard drives because the Mac Mini doesn't have much internal storage.
00:48:44
Todd
And I had noticed I had been, i had been i had remoted into this from Salt Lake City, and one of the hard drives that has, some media and stuff on it wasn't wasn't mounted. And I was like, that's weird. And I was trying to remotely, I was trying to get it mounted so I could get some files off of it and just wouldn't mount it, wouldn't mount it. I'm like, okay, that's really weird. Now I'll figure it out. So get down here and get on it. And like, yep, still doesn't, matter oh, you know what I'll just, I'll reboot the computer. I'll reboot the computer. It'll bring it back. Nope. That's weird. Okay. Going to disk utility, try to mount it. Nope. Doesn't work. Okay. I'll run disk first aid. Disk first aid starts and then immediately fails and says, you should back up all files on this.
00:49:23
Todd
Well, you can't back up the files to be camp mounted. Like what it needs to say is what it needs to say is you should have backed up the files on it.
00:49:25
Talkin2Todd
If you can't... my
00:49:30
Todd
Like that's actually.
00:49:31
Talkin2Todd
I sure hope...
00:49:31
Todd
Yeah.
00:49:32
Talkin2Todd
i the The warning that pops up is, boy, I sure hope you you backed up all of those files.
00:49:38
Todd
Yeah. Yeah. were you looking for files that formerly lived here? Wait, what?
00:49:47
Todd
So the good news is, so i do have I have an online backup service. So everything's backed up. Don't need to worry about it. The downside is the backup service that I use called Backblaze. If you, any external hard drives, you have to check in once every 30 days.
00:50:04
Todd
That hard drive has to basically check in every 30 days to say that it's still an active thing because it's an unlimited plan. So what they don't want you to do is backup all of your friends hard drives. So every 30 days has to check in. I look, it's like, this was last seen 14 days ago. Okay. So 14 days ago it was working and then it must've died.
00:50:25
Talkin2Todd
Thank
00:50:26
Todd
And now I can't bring the drive back. Okay. And I'm like, okay, I've got some, it's it's a four terabyte SSD drive that I bought a couple of years ago, probably during probably during black Friday, probably paid like for this thing on a Black Friday sale, something like that.
00:50:47
Todd
like, okay, I've got a couple of other smaller ones that would fit. Oh, they're not here. They're up in Salt Lake. Oh, okay, fine. And Lisa's like, are going have to go buy you another drive? And I'm like, yeah, i don't I don't think we should do that. She goes, why not? And I looked.
00:51:00
Todd
So, Dwayne, probably two years ago, two years ago on a Prime prime Day or Black Friday, I would have paid about $180. This is a Samsung external four terabyte SSD drive.
00:51:15
Todd
Do you know how much it costs to replace that now?
00:51:18
Talkin2Todd
$300? No, get $500? Sweet lord.
00:51:21
Todd
You're a little low.
00:51:22
Talkin2Todd
no get out
00:51:24
Todd
You're low.
00:51:26
Talkin2Todd
five hundred dollars
00:51:29
Todd
To buy the same model today from Amazon is $1,000.
00:51:36
Talkin2Todd
sweet lord
00:51:38
Todd
When Apple raised its prices because storage and memory costs are going up, everybody's raising
SSD Price Hike
00:51:43
Todd
their prices. But in two years, this has gone from $200
00:51:49
Todd
To $1,000. Lisa, lisa we're gonna yeah we need to go buy you a new one? Nope, why not? It's $1,000.
00:51:55
Talkin2Todd
so
00:51:56
Todd
You're correct. We are not buying you a new one. So what did I learn this week?
00:52:03
Talkin2Todd
Things are tough all over.
00:52:03
Todd
Hopefully, hopefully what I've learned is I need to, first of all, I've got like gold sitting on my desk. Second of all, it's important that the other hard drive that I have not fail because eventually I can't replace any of these things. And third, this is stupid. Like this is just stupid. Anyway, that's what I learned. $1,000. Yeah,
00:52:27
Todd
yeah I'm sure this will pass in a couple of years.
00:52:42
Talkin2Todd
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00:52:52
Todd
How much is that? No, no, no, no, no. no no no no no no i You know what? I can probably fix it myself. How hard is this? I know. Give me a soldering iron. I should be able to. Is that how this works? Is anything that? No. Okay.
00:53:02
Talkin2Todd
Just make sure you're grounded before you break into that.
00:53:07
Todd
I am somebody. I have value. There. I am crowded. Let's do some electronics.
00:53:15
Talkin2Todd
That was where I was hoping you would go with that. Yep. Perfect. Excellent. You can stop by and see us at the Tuba City Home Office. Please don't do that. Did I say that you can find us by searching for Talkin and the number two?
00:53:26
Talkin2Todd
there's no There's no G in no space.
00:53:28
Todd
Oh, I don't think yet. But there you go. Now you said it. There you go. yeah
00:53:32
Talkin2Todd
No. Okay. Okay. Todd, quick question, little little business meeting.
00:53:37
Todd
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:38
Talkin2Todd
Can they find our website by going to TalkinToTodd.com?
00:53:38
Todd
Yeah. Okay. Fun fact. Real quick.
00:53:44
Talkin2Todd
Yes, yes, uh-huh.
00:53:46
Todd
If you go to talkingtotod.com, good news.
00:53:48
Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh, yeah.
00:53:50
Todd
good Good news, bad news thing. Good news. You're not going to go to our old Podbean site.
00:53:52
Talkin2Todd
Uh-huh, yeah.
00:53:55
Todd
That is amazing.
00:53:55
Talkin2Todd
Okay, well, that's good. Okay.
00:53:57
Todd
Yeah. Bad news.
00:53:58
Talkin2Todd
So you did you did something.
00:53:58
Todd
You don't go.
00:53:59
Talkin2Todd
Yes. Oh.
00:54:00
Todd
Yeah. Well, I did something, but you don't go anywhere because, can't figure out how to get it to the new site.
00:54:07
Talkin2Todd
Oh.
00:54:07
Todd
So, so, yeah, yeah. We disconnected from the old one, but the new one isn't working yet.
00:54:16
Todd
So yeah.
00:54:18
Talkin2Todd
Okay. Well, you know. So if you want to find us, living on a prayer, baby.
00:54:20
Todd
Halfway there. Half, halfway there.
00:54:24
Talkin2Todd
That's coming up next week. so So if you want to find us on the internet, what you do is you go to Google.
00:54:30
Todd
you
00:54:30
Talkin2Todd
That's G-O-O-G-L-E.com, google.com. And then just type in talking to Todd. the number two, and there's no G and no space. And then you can find all of our content.
00:54:43
Talkin2Todd
We're also on Facebook and and several other things as well. Thanks to our listeners, our sponsors, our contributors, and those of you that put up with our business meetings. We appreciate you. And as always, does the email still work?
00:54:58
Todd
That's an excellent question. It should. i didn't touch that.
00:55:02
Talkin2Todd
a i hope i I hope you can send us your feedback at feedback at talkingtotod.com.
00:55:02
Todd
i don't I don't think I did.
00:55:11
Talkin2Todd
Todd?
00:55:13
Todd
So I'm guessing at the iCubs game, the one that Greg Abel threw the first pitch out at, I'm guessing they weren't serving any snow cones.
00:55:23
Talkin2Todd
I don't know why.
00:55:25
Todd
Because they were swearing in New Citizens, so I'm assuming there was no ice in the stadium.
00:55:34
Talkin2Todd
is
00:55:38
Talkin2Todd
So bad. that's odd that's that's doingne That's Dwayne level bad is what that is.
00:55:45
Todd
You're welcome. I'm a professional.
00:55:49
Talkin2Todd
my God, I'm sure we're going to, I thought it was going to be because they weren't, I thought it was because they were un-American and they didn't believe in apple pie or mom or snow cones. I thought that's where that joke was going.
00:56:02
Todd
Fun fact, the original version of that in my head said there was no slushies.
00:56:04
Talkin2Todd
Yes.
00:56:06
Todd
And then I thought if I use snow cone, I'll send him off the track. What are you, a communist? So see, yes, i you fell into it.
00:56:17
Talkin2Todd
I did. Yes, I did. It's probably something we're going to have to clean up next week. Until then, we're here. We're talking to Todd.
00:56:56
Todd
Sorry, didn't didn't mean to break the podcast there. It's...
00:57:01
Todd
I mean, at least could have told you had the other three ready to go, but you know, whatever it is. It is July 4th after all.
00:57:11
Talkin2Todd
Did that? Hey, there it is gave I gave two thumbs up, and we got fireworks in the background. graph so
00:57:20
Todd
Yeah, but we're not sure if that's because Apple did it or that was the final death throes of Zencaster before it goes offline permanently.
00:57:29
Talkin2Todd
Did they wait? Did they declare bankruptcy?