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Speaker: Hey, look at that. I think i think things are working. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, knock on wood. Or knock on compressed, i don't know, something.
Speaker: Yeah. Fiber board. All right, levels, levels. Levels, levels. All right. Hey, a couple of days ago, lisa and I watched a video on YouTube.
Speaker: Not sure that's news. You guys seem to do that a lot. Okay. Seriously, man, you just, you take a breath and suddenly you just lose the mic.
Speaker: that was That was a comma. That wasn't a period. I just jumped right in the middle of that. Sorry, please, please continue. It was, uh, the video was the 20 bands that need to stop touring for their sake and ours.
Speaker: Okay. Anybody we know on that list? The Beach Boys. Yeah, I've seen them. Can't believe they're still alive and healthy enough to tour. yep I'll buy that. Yep, that tracks.
Speaker: Barely on both counts, but anyway. Let's see. Also, The Rolling Stones. Another band from the 60s? Sure. Is this just a list of really old bands?
Speaker: No, no, no. Some were newer. Not old, just bad. Like who? Yes. What? Not what, who? Oh, I get it. Third base.
Speaker: Yep, right. they They were also on the list. okay I guess I would classify the who as old. You said there's one that wasn't old, just no longer good?
Speaker: Yep. Bon Jovi. Wait, didn't you guys just pay to fly to New York and then pay to to see them? Yeah, we're going to get into this. So buckle up, toddlers.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Hi toddlers, welcome to Talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prins, where failure and throw downs are always an option. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker: Hey Todd. Hey, how's it going? Good. Them's fighting words. I'm just, I'm just, look, I'm just, I watched a video. I'm just reporting what the dude said.
Speaker: So here's the thing I would say. We saw Bon Jovi in Omaha four years ago on the last tour.
Speaker: Yeah. And after the, after seeing him in Omaha on that last tour before his vocal surgery, I think both of us in this household would have said, yes, absolutely. They need to stop touring because he sounds terrible.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Because it was bad. We did not get our money's worth in Omaha. Yes, we saw him. But it was not. The good news is though, Bon Jovi get their money's worth.
Speaker: Yes, well, they did. I believe that tour was called Because We Can. Who's going to stop us? I'm not making that up. That tour was called Because We Can.
Speaker: and Maybe it was the tour before that that was Because We Can. don't remember. One of their tours was called Because We Can. Because We Can Fleece You for a whole lot of money. Anyway. However, I would like to know when that video was made because they sounded great.
Speaker: John sounded great in New York City. You could clearly tell that his voice is so much better than it was four years ago.
Speaker: And it was, the concert was fantastic. I mean, du but so we were in New York City. The point of the trip, the original point of the trip was to go see Bon Jovi play one of these nine concerts that he's playing in Madison Square Garden right now. And it's like Tuesday and then Thursday and then Sunday and then Tuesday. Right. So he's taking a couple of days off, sleeps in his own bed because They're in New York. Right. So, I mean, it's not a tour, they're calling it a tour, but it's not a tour. It's more of a residency at Madison, Madison square garden. which, you know, it's, uh, Oh, Oh, it's, it's, it was, it's Millie Bobby Brown's father-in-law played where Taylor Swift got married.
Speaker: Oh, well, why didn't you lead with that? I should have, right. By the way, Bon Jovi, the Because We Can stadium tour.
Speaker: Yeah. 2013. Oh, Jesus. I'm old. so just You missed a bit there, but that's fine. We've seen him twice since the Because We Can tour.
Speaker: Oh, my God. At least. three Three times. I've seen him three times since I saw the Because We Can tour. Yikes. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker: Anyway, i would... So I didn't let you answer the question. When was that video produced? It was fairly recently. But before this tour launched.
Speaker: Oh, I suspect. I also believe that this was probably one, an AI-generated video too. Doesn't matter whether the good reviews were good or not. Look, you got to... you You got to feed the algorithm.
Speaker: so So whether it's true or not, look, I'll tell you what I know. True or not. True or not. Thanks, Julian. It's probably not. But any yes, they were. But I was just you know listening like, oh, okay, wow, that's a thing. And here's a band that there's no original members. Is it even the band anymore, right? I believe it was the name of the band. It's right on the tip of It was the Ship of Theseus was the name of the band.
Speaker: And there was... some some concern as to none of the founding members were, you know, you know the ship as everybody just refers to it as.
Speaker: Frankie Valli and the four villains. yeah Yeah. what That was. Yeah. What one it should it should be when you see when you see the Eagles in Las Vegas, it should be one of the Eagles.
Speaker: Because eagle at this point, Eagle, eagle which would just be Eagle, not plural, because that's really all you're seeing, even though Joe's been in the Eagles for 25 years, but not an original member.
Speaker: Yeah, he counts. it's It's when Vince Gill gets on stage, you're like, i don't, this ain't right. I don't, wait, what? What are we doing? Anyway. Anyway. All right. There we go. What are we doing? Oh, we're doing the show. Oh, we're hey. oh we're just I thought we were just talking. Just hanging out.
Speaker: You hit record. Okay. So where are we at with feedback, follow-up, and updates? Danny, we got a full car snort out of no ice from last week.
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Speaker: Oh, okay. But not necessarily feedback. Not necessarily feedback. Yes. Okay. buts Oh, I got a picture from toddler number six, David Batchelder, of him wearing his Talking to Todd shirt that he got at ToddCon 3 while he was on a cruise.
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Speaker: Any corrections from last week? No. At least not yet. Let's put it that way. yeah There you go. A couple of World Cup updates.
Speaker: Yeah. You want to talk about this? Not really, but please. Yeah, I figured not. Feel free to cover whatever it is that you need to cover.
Speaker: how to tell that your team got eliminated in a heart wrenching way. Hey, World Cup. Yeah. Yeah. Can't wait for the Hall of Fame game to start.
Speaker: Real football. Yes. what What did you have for World Cup updates? So for the round of 16. Yes.
Speaker: yes All 16 winners had something in common. Todd, do you know what it was? This is not Todd on an O, but it is a quiz for Todd about the yeah round of 16 matches. oh Oh, I know this one. They scored more goals during regular time or during the penalty kicks.
Speaker: That is
Speaker: technically true. Nailed it. nailed it uh todd what else did each of these teams have in common they were all people that uh fifa president johnny and fontonio picked in his betting pool i'll but also believe that i think that's fair yes sorry it's not a betting pool it's a prediction market it's not betting it's just predicting the future
Speaker: that you know it's going happen. Where you know the outcome. We're going to cover this later too. OK. No, I don't know. Oh, all of them. Here's the thing. I know what. They were all of the two teams that played. They were every single team that won was the alphabetical first of the pair of teams that won.
Speaker: I don't think that's right either. No, but now you have to do homework to prove that I'm wrong. So so what did you have? what What did they all have in common? every, every team that won had more sheep per square kilometer than the losing team.
Speaker: Sure. Yeah. If only here's the thing, if only Scotland could have made it to the round of 16. but if Wales, if Wales had played in the round of 16, they would have slept. It wouldn't even been close. I mean, if you would have gotten Scotland versus New Zealand, like people would be like, i don't even know who wins here.
Speaker: So there's that same question. Or correlation doesn't always equal causation. Yes. Yes. Because shark attacks go up when ice cream sales go up.
Speaker: Sure. Yep. Stop selling ice cream. We'll save lives. That's right. Same question for quarterfinals. Obviously, the winners all scored more goals, Todd. cap What else do they all have in common?
Speaker: they were all the uh it was the top four seeds uh for the first time ever in the history of the world cup the top four seeds all made it to the semi-final round that is also accurate but not the answer technically accurate but not the answer i was looking oh wait wait okay so no no okay wait she and then i in spain
Speaker: hmm. It is the most. The team that had the nope. See, so I was like, is it best food? No, it's not that. How about I'll just say this. It's the team with the most fire hydrants per capita that won.
Speaker: Okay, now I'm going have to go figure that out. of it The answer that I have yeah was the winner of every quarterfinal has been the country that has produced more popes.
Speaker: Argentina has produced one pope. Switzerland has produced none. Okay. England has produced one pope. Finland produced none.
Speaker: Belgium. Belgium, sorry. Belgium has produced no popes. No, no, no. Sorry, Norway. you normal sir Norway has produced no popes, right? Yep.
Speaker: Anyway, yes. well based on France has produced 16 popes. Spain has produced none.
Speaker: I don't know. The US has produced a Pope and still can't can't get through. so that That was for the round of 16. We didn't tally Popes in the round of 16 because it didn't turn out correctly. Once the sheep round, once the Pope round. You know what? That that sounds like a either a bad joke or a lawsuit. so We're just going to stay away from all of that.
Speaker: Sheep versus Popes. Sign me up. Also, in you remember you remember the conversation that we had about how Americans think they can do anything?
Speaker: Americans were polled. Could you score a World Cup penalty kick? Todd, what percentage of U.S. adults believe that they could score a World Cup penalty kick?
Speaker: Well, 83% said, what's a World Cup penalty kick? So, y'all.
Speaker: Y'all. But of those answering, I'm going to go with the same 83%. you You overshot.
Speaker: m 75% was what I always had in my head, to be honest. 18 to 29-year-old men. Yeah, 172%. 41% them said yes. eighteen to twenty-nine year old men yeah hundred and seventy two percent said forty forty one percent of them said yes Oh, okay.
Speaker: Which way lower than i thought and way higher than the real number. Yes, that's true. Overall, of all US adults polled, 19% of them thought that they could score.
Speaker: i still they don't And we don't understand why we're not a dominant soccer country. Right. How hard could this be? I just start running and then I stutter step and then I just kick the ball to where the goalie isn't and the net's huge. How hard could this possibly be?
Speaker: It's simple. Tell them, Wash. It's very difficult. Okay. I think those were all of the World Cup updates that I had. Unless you had anything else that you wanted to cover.
Speaker: Not from the World Cup. Nope. Nope. OK. Yeah, fired you were ready you i figured you were ready to move on. Yep. Yep. However, i do have soccer follow up. We will cover this a little bit later. But last night, Lisa and I went to America First Field, which is home of Real Salt Lake.
Speaker: And that means concession prices. We almost left without getting a picture. But I have proof we did get a picture. So Dwayne, so this is an MLS stadium.
Speaker: They are selling Michelob Ultra Superior Light Beer is the name of the sign. And Michelob Ultra is the sponsor of the beer. It's not necessarily that is the beer. They are the sponsor of the beer. I don't know how any of this works.
Speaker: How much is an American lager? Sorry, American loggers. I guess you get two because it's, you get more than one. Well, that's a hell of a deal then. Apparently lager, it's loggers. I guess. I don't know. Anyway, American lager.
Speaker: L-A-G-E-R-S, not L-O-G-G-E-R-S. That's, yeah. it's Sorry. i was I was repeating it multiple times and I thought I should just clear that Timber! Timber!
Speaker: Nope, that's Portland. Okay. 12-ounce beers, 16-ounce beers. Who knows? Let's call it 16, sure. $14? Ooh, you know what? Give yourself a bell. It's $14.99. Got the lights.
Speaker: okay Yeah. Okay. Now you want a premium beer, which implies that American lagers are not premium. So a premium beer, how much is a premium beer?
Speaker: 17 18 99. Oh, you show overshot. They went up to $1 more 15 99. Oh, I did overshoot for $1 more. You can get the premium stuff instead of the whatever American stuff. It's probably Stella.
Speaker: Yeah. And then if you want a local beer, how much is the local beer? Same price as the premium. Nope. That's also a dollar more at $16.99. You know, transportation costs. Because it costs less to transport the local beer.
Speaker: yeah Got it. Now I'm tracking. Yes. With those prices in mind, if somebody was dumb enough, well, not dumb enough, at kickoff time, it was 80. eighty No, sorry.
Speaker: At kickoff time, it was around 96 degrees. So there was a bottle of Coke Zero was purchased to stay hydrated. Dwayne, with based on those prices, a standard bottle of Coke Zero.
Speaker: and $10.50. Oh, you went way over. I paid $7 and I grumbled about it the entire time.
Speaker: i you I believe both of those things are are to be true. Yes. Also was not impressed when they asked for a tip.
Speaker: For taking the cap off and taking the cap away from you? Yes, I'm going to tip you for that. No. the The people behind the counter let us know that they are, because they're working the concession stand for free and they're just using the tip money to fund their youth football program.
Speaker: Not clear. Could be football, could be soccer. So they're just working for tips. At which point Lisa walks away and goes, they're charging $7 for a Coke and you can't pay your people. This is not right.
Speaker: When we did that for Dowling at the, what's now the Casey's Pizzerina. When we did that for Dowling, we both got paid an hourly wage.
Speaker: 100% of the hourly wage went to the donation. Plus tips. Yes. Yeah. So either some tips, we got both.
Speaker: Either they were getting both and they told us or two, they were getting paid and somebody forgot to tell the person who was running the register or number three, our, our people here made a real bad deal.
Speaker: Any of which could be true. Multiple, which could be true at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. so surprised they're not just selling American beer, but I guess they are kind of selling American loggers.
Speaker: What? Hey, what's more American than going to an arena overpaying for beer and not paying the staff a living wage? Welcome. That's American. That's as American as you can get. Sorry, I'm going to be quiet now so we're not playing the other theme.
Speaker: Speaking of, oh I took our construction updates theme off the board, Todd. You did because you thought we were done for a while. so I thought we were done for a while. and Then you put in an update.
Speaker: Yeah, 220, 221, whatever it takes. You sound like a pretty handy guy there. Okay. so We did it. so i was going through I was going through my list.
Speaker: Actually, Amy and I sat down and went through our list. Amy was going through your list. That seems accurate.
Speaker: So we've got this we've got this running list of projects that we want to work on around the house, right? Yeah. And I went through so i went through and looked at it. And it's it's a checklist in Apple Notes.
Speaker: yeah right so I can check things off. We have actually, I mean, we, we went through this whole ha ha funny thing about how you, you, you knocked off like eight projects in the time it takes took me to get one done.
Speaker: Yes. And the time it took your contractor to get done. Thank you. yeah Our contractor, it was time for our contractor to get done in front of your contractor. If we're just being honest, but yes. sir I, so I went back to our list of home projects. We have actually knocked out six different home projects. Ooh.
Speaker: Okay. In the last year, which makes me feel a whole lot better about our ability to get stuff done around here.
Speaker: But I'm like, we actually, so we're looking at, well, oh, we checked that one off. Oh, we checked that one off. Oh, hey, yeah, we checked that one off too. I mean, Amy got a new office downstairs, right? I mean, we do all of these things that we got done that I'm like, we did okay. We just didn't do it in the same timeframe that you did, but we, yes. And then in the process of reviewing this list, we added like,
Speaker: three things to it to do sure yeah over the course of the next year ish. yeah Some of them I can still do pretty easily and frankly could do myself without hiring a contractor.
Speaker: And some of them are definitely going to need external assistance. But anyway, so more home projects on the horizon.
Speaker: i mean if we're going to go back a year, technically, then on our list, item number one, buy home. buy yes So we we probably get credit for at least one more.
Speaker: What's your home project? Find one. Quickly. Yes.
Speaker: oh oh Oh, now it's time for this. And I'm here, Yas Queen, to remind Todd the mess Todd made when he answered wrong. Todd, Todd, Todd, don't know.
Speaker: That's right. That sound means it's time for America's favorite game. It is time for Todd, i don't know. Todd, more World Cup questions for you.
Speaker: Excellent.
Speaker: Really feeling in the spirit now. Okay.
Speaker: If there's a question about Argentina, I'm out.
Speaker: I'm going to text you a picture. I know these always go over so well. Okay. When we were in New York City. Yeah. There is a big because one of the games is well it's in New Jersey but one of the sites for World Cup was in New Jersey so in Rockefeller Plaza. Yeah. There was a big World Cup watch party and World Cup fever was. Yeah.
Speaker: In New York. As a part of that was, is that part of the explosive diarrhea outbreak across the United States or his world cup fever different than are those different?
Speaker: Just the those ask her friend tadem those are occurring in tandem. Okay.
Speaker: So here in Rockefeller, Rockefeller Plaza. Yes. Yeah. oh is that a giant FIFA World Peace Prize made of Lego?
Speaker: It is a giant World Peace Prize made of Lego. Or is it is it the actual trophy? it's it's I mean, it's the it's the trophy. It's the World Cup Cup massive made of Lego.
Speaker: Massive. And it is, it is absolutely massive. Todd, I'm going to give you the first fast fact about the trophy. Yep. That trophy is 26 and a half feet tall, including the plinth.
Speaker: Oh, including the plinth. Interesting. Okay. Including the plinth. Okay. Todd. Yeah. How many bricks? Question, is the plinth made of bricks or is it just the trophy?
Speaker: I'm assuming that the plinth is also, you want to zoom in? See if I can get you. From my side, it looks like that that's a solid base. They put that on and the bricks start at the trophy level.
Speaker: See if I've got a better picture. I'm more concerned about the life-size minifigs that are around it than actually than anything else, because I'm not sure if those are minifigs or those are just Lego cosplayers that showed up.
Speaker: Okay. Now, the the the platform is... Non-Lego. Is non-Lego. Correct. Okay.
Speaker: All right. All right. And the Familia Sangria whatever is 12,000 pieces. It is. Yes. Let's make it. All right. Let's carry this. 330,000 bricks. You are low. Okay. Got it.
Speaker: three hundred and thirty thousand breaks you are low k i will sort i so I will tell you this, though. If after I get this one done, if you say, look at the building behind it, that is also made of Lego. How many bricks are in that thing? We're going to be done with this because it looks like it's made of Lego. Okay.
Speaker: It does just really, really, really big Legos. Yeah. I mean, offhand, I should answer 980 billion.
Speaker: but I feel like that's a little high. So I'm going to go with 750,000 Lego. You're still low. Okay. bias but By almost a full Dwayne. Okay.
Speaker: So we're going to say 1.5 million Lego. 1,363,402 Legos. one million three hundred and sixty three thousand four hundred and two legos So when I guess 330 or whatever, I was off by my million Legos. Yeah. Yeah. I got the rest of it. I was, I got the rest of it. Just missed that, that first one.
Speaker: Yeah. How much does, how much does that trophy weigh Todd? Hmm.
Speaker: Let's see. That's a, I mean, an individual Lego brick isn't that heavy. I could sit here and go, okay, an individual Lego brick averages in this thing and then times 1.7 million, 1.3 million then divide okay. going 2,000 kilos.
Speaker: and then divide by okay i'm going to say
Speaker: two thousand kilos
Speaker: You're low. okay Yeah. Okay. pounds. wow about th four and a half tons of bricks Here's the thing. At that point, you're at what, 9,200 pounds? what you said?
Speaker: Yes. At that point, just start adding stuff to get it to ten thousand even 10,000. I mean, right what what are you doing? At that point, why not build the base out of Legos? Because. Oh, because it'll be a structural issue. And new York has already seen what happens when you don't reinforce large heavy objects well. you have to You have to close off multiple city streets. The last thing they needed to do was to go, oh, we did it again with the trophy.
Speaker: Imagine if that thing tips over in the middle of the night, then you're just walking on. Oh, how long did it take to build, Todd? Hmm.
Speaker: Last question. How long did it take to build? How many, how many build hours oh did it take? in build hours. In build hours. Yes. I was just going to go do, I was going to go duration.
Speaker: I'm going to say they spent 10,000 hours building that. Uh, you're actually high 7,040 build hours.
Speaker: I'm sure somebody got built.
Speaker: Yeah. Okay. Sorry. you've just seen Just doing some calculations there. Now, if if if they paid the same way that RSL pays, that means that their labor costs to build this thing is, let me check, hold on, zero. Plus tips.
Speaker: you couldn' i You could share all your photos of the LEGO World Cup using the hashtag, everyone wants a piece. Tag at LEGO. if you wanted to. I didn't. I would only say that, like, as soon as you say that though, that makes it seem like you can walk up and take a piece and there's plenty to have.
Speaker: Right? i mean, yeah. Huh. Wow. I also have to say, I'm going to be honest, there are like Lego sets you're like, man, that that looks great. That looks amazing. This does this looks terrible.
Speaker: Like, this just looks terrible. Like, it it it did not, this doesn't work. We walked around the corner and went, oh, what the hell is, er oh, that's the World Cup trophy.
Speaker: It wasn't immediately recognizable for what it was to me until I'm like, oh that makes sense. Okay, yeah, they built the World Cup trophy. Okay. I also wonder how much money Lego had to pay the World Cup for the rights to say, to build the World Cup trophy. I'm guessing that was a lot.
Speaker: did they Did they hand out a pieces prize?
Speaker: oof Okay. All right. Well, we made it further than I thought, but okay. Yep.
Speaker: No, then it would be sponsored by Reese's. That would be sponsored by Reese's. Should we do some idiots? Sure. Let's do that.
Speaker: What did you bring? So, Sunday here in Salt Lake city, uh, we set a all time high, uh, for recorded history of temperature. Uh, it hit 109 degrees, which is the hottest it has ever been recorded in Salt Lake city.
Speaker: thought you left the warmest place on earth. This was cooler than the other place. We moved up here for the coolness. 109 feels great. So that's not the idiots.
Speaker: Might be. We moved to where it's 109. However, according to the local newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune, they had to run an article because as soon as the National Weather Service announced that we hit an all-time record high, came the conspiracy theories.
Speaker: So, claim number one that is apparently going around on the internet, they've moved the station so the readings can't be lined up over history.
Speaker: Now, yes, the station has been moved, 1933, 43, 54, 60, 78, 94, and 2010. They even pointed in 2010, moved the station 0.6 miles south of where was the airport. ninety four and twenty ten they even pointed out in twenty ten they moved the station point six miles south of where it was at the airport This article points out by moving it 0.6 miles south, it would generally mean warmer temperatures.
Speaker: Wait, what? Basically, it should push the thermometer one hundredth of a degree warmer. OK, so no, the station hasn't moved that much.
Speaker: Number two, the theory is, oh the The surroundings around it have changed. It used to be on grass. Now it's on gravel. That's hotter. Okay. No, it's never been on grass. And also the National Weather Service devices are designed to take into account what it's around to get the reflection. And okay, that's fine.
Speaker: Yeah. Number three.
Speaker: And I love this one. The station's readings now have have a bias towards higher temperatures. It's reading hotter lately.
Speaker: Therefore, the thermometer must be biased to give hot temperatures. Andy Larson of the Salt Lake Tribune had to spend multiple paragraphs to explain, that's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Speaker: do you Do you think that it's possible that perhaps these conspiracy theorists have their red hats on too tight? One of the things that the reporter actually did is work at the National Weather Service and correlate that official station with surrounding stations and found out that there isn't, for this particular station, there isn't a bias higher temperatures as relates to isn't higher temperatures as it relates to other stations.
Speaker: However, When it comes to low temperatures, this one actually reads slightly lower than other National Weather Service stations in the area. So if anything, it's biased towards cold weather, not hot weather.
Speaker: Anyway, that's fine. And then i love this one, too. Sunday's record wasn't legitimate. Why?
Speaker: Because other stations in Utah didn't record this 109 degree weather. Therefore, the official station at the airport recording 109 isn't official.
Speaker: You mean the place where we record the official temperature? Yes, but other stations also didn't record it. So therefore, not official. This is what journalism has become.
Speaker: okay Okay, guys. Guys, this is how we do this. temperature is different in different places
Speaker: i i hate to tell you this we pick a spot and we just measure at the spot and that's what we call the spot and sometimes the spot moves a little bit yes it does move a little bit but anyway idiots of the week are all of the people who were upset and by the way i will tell you this we were outside We were actually outside near the airport when the we we hit the record. What I will tell you is anybody who goes, I don't think it was that hot, wasn't outside. It was that hot.
Speaker: Was 109? don't know, man, but we shouldn't be out. So anyway, there you go. There's what's happening in both weather and conspiracy theories in Salt Lake City this week.
Speaker: National Weather Service, not the idiot. Other people? Look, here's the thing. You either need less tinfoil or you need more tinfoil to reflect the rays of the sun because it's baking your head. What I'm telling you is the amount of tinfoil you have isn't the right amount.
Speaker: I seriously can't with people anymore, Todd. I just can't. This is going fine. We're going fine. Everything's good. USA. USA. Anyway, how about you? Who what would you bring?
Speaker: So have you followed the story in the news this, I think it broke this morning? but i don't that i won't read the news anymore. I just can't. Except for the except for the you know the weather the weather forecast. The guy who has run the teleprompter
Speaker: for President Trump since 2016,
Speaker: Okay. First of all, he doesn't use a teleprompter. That's for weak people. So I find this a fake news story, but please continue. right Except in until he bitches about how the teleprompter is broken and he can't read from it.
Speaker: well But he never uses them because they're from weak people. Never uses them until it breaks and then he bitches about it. so But that's not what we're here talking about. No, that's not what we're here talking about. That that would be a different idiot. in the In this case, the guy that's run the teleprompter for Trump since 2016 is now under suspicion and has been suspended from his job for placing bets on a certain platform where you can predict the outcome of, for example, whether or not the president was going to say a certain phrase or cover a certain topic in a speech.
Speaker: This person has apparently cleared $100,000 in the last year, placing prediction market bets on whether or not the president will mention things or will not mention things in a speech that the teleprompter operator has prior access and knowledge of.
Speaker: it's It's almost as if covering prediction markets was a a thing. hu Yeah. However, the White House spokesperson isn't isn't concerned because everyone who works the White House has the utmost ethics and and has to follow ethical procedures.
Speaker: She said that at a press conference today.
Speaker: i don't I don't think that word means what she thinks it means, but okay. Yeah. Do need to play the other theme? Maybe I should just play the other. Should we just punch out of this?
Speaker: i I just... That was today's idiot from me. well
Speaker: Do we know whether it was Polymarket or Calci? Just curious. I do not know whether... One of those two you're not supposed to be able to bet on from the United States.
Speaker: You're saying that somebody in the White House isn't following U.S. laws? Now it's time to punch out.
Speaker: Okay. Travel stories? Yeah, you you guys made a trip. any and We did. we did any you You either had a good time or you have good content?
Speaker: So... i'll see how I'll see how quick I can be with this. So we we got to the airport in Des Moines, direct flight from Des Moines to LaGuardia.
Speaker: And we're standing around. Because and Des Moines is within 1,500-mile radius of LaGuardia, if you can make that flight.
Speaker: And so they called it the counter called Amy and I up. and And the agent says, So i have one first class seat, but I only have one upgrade that I can give.
Speaker: And she looks at me because I'm the one with status. But Amy and I are traveling together. And I said, give it to her.
Speaker: Quickly, give it to her. And Amy says, really? like Yep, give it to her. we I was in row five. She was in row four. we were you mean We could almost reach out and touch each other. Except don't do that because the curtain is closed.
Speaker: And riffraff like you aren't allowed to touch the people up front.
Speaker: That is absolutely true. But I ended up with the entire row to myself, which was fine as well. And because it was the first row of right behind first class, I had maybe not quite as much legroom, but I had plenty of legroom myself. Anyway, the only thing that I didn't get was the, I guess I got free drinks anyway, because anyway, so, but Amy amy got the upgrade and I got points.
Speaker: i got I got bonus points. Look at that. four Perfect. Right. Yep. So we started out with that on day one. You remember how, was it a couple of weeks ago?
Speaker: I gave you I showed you that for Father's Day, Amy got me the Lego car. Yeah. With yeah harry Harry and Ron. Yeah.
Speaker: in And the rat and and the blue car. That's the logo for us. So we went to the Lego store and Lucas and Hannah and Amy decided that not only did I need, did we need the Lego car?
Speaker: that I already had. We needed Legos of us. So here's me. There's in the white shirt okay and the red hair yeah holding the award because we're an award winning podcast. Of course.
Speaker: Here's you, red shirt, dark hair, holding a microphone. Excellent. And we also got you a little dog. Perfect. we can In fact, we can just put him right sitting right here on your lap.
Speaker: There he sits, dog, on your lap x while you're recording. And because the Lego Creature Own minifigures were three for $10, we also got Kevin.
Speaker: Hey, look at Kevin. he He has a beard and long hair. I'm not sure why that. And and he also has his own medal that he's wearing.
Speaker: He's an award-winning intern. And his legs don't bend because he's short. He's an intern. Got it. we started We started out having Kevin because each character, you get five pieces. You get legs, a body, a head, a hair or a hat or something, and then a piece of swag. Okay.
Speaker: and we started out with Kevin having a coffee cup because he was bringing us coffee. Yeah. Until we found the dog, at which point we lost the coffee cup for Kevin and you got a dog. You got two pieces of swag.
Speaker: Excellent.
Speaker: But Kevin is shorter than the two of us anyway. So we now have Lego mini figures. I also found when we were at the Lego store, the car that I have is the smaller version. There is a larger version of the car. That's also available.
Speaker: Really? Yes. Okay. Wow. Yeah, I know. Right. I, I, Kevin might fit in our car. I don't think either of us would actually fit in, out in the one that I have anyway.
Speaker: As we said, Amy and I went to Bon Jovi on Sunday night. Yes. When we were at the Bon Jovi concert, Lucas and Amy opted out of the Bon Jovi concert and they went and saw Operation Mincemeat with Stanley Tucci.
Speaker: Okay, wait. Let me clarify that. Yeah.
Speaker: He was not subbing in as a member of the cast. He was also in the audience. Oh, see, I didn't assume that. I actually thought that they were he was walking that they went with Stanley Tucci. like He was walking past, and they were like, hey, Stanley Tucci. And then like that he was standing in line. And he was like, hey, guys, i you want to go with me to Operation Mincemeat? I got some extra tickets. And and they were like, sure.
Speaker: So they went with Stanley Tucci. they were They were sitting near Stanley Tucci. Okay. Because they had really good seats. Tucci and Jason. They were Tucci and Jason. If you were you were super close to him, though, you'd be if you were really close to him though, you'd be Tucci touchy.
Speaker: But they weren't. So they weren't. They weren't. Yeah. Don't do that. Not that because consent. The next day... While I was at the registration desk at the hotel and Amy and Lucas and Hannah were standing around waiting for me to get my job done, he got off the elevator and walked through the lobby. And as I'm walking up, they're like, hey, Stanley Tucci just walked past. He's staying at our hotel. i'm like, really? Yeah, he's right over there. And so I looked and there, I think it was Stanley Tucci.
Speaker: It was a taller, bald gentleman. that was walking away from us. I mean, it could have been Patrick Stewart, I suppose, or one of half a dozen other people.
Speaker: But they claim to have also seen Stanley Tucci in the wild. ones Also possible with the guy that they saw at Operation Mincemeat was also the same not Stanley Tucci that they saw in the hotel. And they just don't know what Stanley Tucci looks like.
Speaker: Oh, no, this was definitely Stanley Tucci because they took a picture. Okay, got it. Okay. By the way, how did they enjoy Operation Midspeed? Absolutely loved it. It was Lucas's favorite thing that he saw, and they saw five shows.
Speaker: It's very good. It is so good. And we had not we we saw The Lost Boys.
Speaker: highly recommend really really really good you should when this comes out did you you remember the movie right didn't see it
Speaker: lisa just this thing smack him vampires aren't my thing to begin with so it's a vampire movie hey have you seen the vampire no movie no the vampire movie no no
Speaker: We watched it last, we watched The Lost Boys last night. Our plan was to watch it before the show, yeah just to kind of refresh on the story, but we didn't get it done. So then when we got home, we watched The Lost Boys movie last night. This isn't what I'm watching, but it's probably that time of the show anyway.
Speaker: We did not plan to go see the Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54. but we had an opening in our schedule and there were tickets available. Okay.
Speaker: So we saw that. Perfect. Love that. Have you ever seen that live? No. we No.
Speaker: No. I'm not even going to ask, but you're going to answer. No, you never saw Rocky Horror Picture Show. course not. No. well aware of the time warp, et cetera, no. Et cetera, et cetera. Yeah.
Speaker: Okay. For a while, I was a little confused of why is the mayor of New York in Rocky Horror Picture Show? But then I was like, no, no, that's the different roles.
Speaker: Different. Different. Yeah. Different. No. Yeah. yeah And we saw Schmigadoon. And how was that? Oh, it was great. it's everything yeah but Everything you expected.
Speaker: Everything you expected and corn pudding. It was. and you got it right. and i Yes, right? Thank you. and In each of these shows is so different. you know When we're done going, it ok then the challenge is rank what you saw as to what you liked best to worst. right and I'm like, okay,
Speaker: This is first and then a tie for everything else. And they're like, no, no, no, you can't do that. I'm like, they were everything was so different and every we saw nothing bad. We saw nothing bad. We saw nothing we were disappointed in. just a fan Just a fantastic trip.
Speaker: so and And that is what I was watching this week as well. So what were you watching this week? Last night, Lisa and I, we... Yesterday, there were two soccer matches that were watched by us.
Speaker: One was a World Cup semifinal. Enough said. The next one, however, a few hours later, Real Salt Lake hosted English side Burnley FC.
Speaker: Burnley. in In a friendly here at at America First Field. So Lisa and I went over and we got to watch in-person soccer with an English side versus MLS side.
Speaker: what What was interesting was it was very warm. This is very warm. Also, at at the 60 minute mark, Burnley made a few changes.
Speaker: The entire team came off and an entirely new team came on. Line change. So much so that the announcer didn't even tell us the names of the people who were coming off. They just read numbers off. And then the numbers of people coming on. And Lisa goes, can they do that? And I'm like, it's a friendly. They can they can do whatever they wanted. But so Real Salt Lake, MLS took a six-week break for the World Cup.
Speaker: So they were using this as a tune-up to get right back into where they were. Burnley, which got relegated, they were in the Premier League last last year and got relegated. Their season starts in three or four weeks.
Speaker: So they were using this as a preseason tune-up. Here's the differences. Burnley, want to play everybody we got, and then at 60 minutes, we'll put everybody else in, give everybody a run, let's see how we're doing, let's see let's just check and see, we got it three or four weeks before the season.
Speaker: RSL, this is a friendly. Our starters play the entire time. We do not stop. We keep shooting the ball, 4-1. We leave all of the starters in. This isn't a friendly. Somebody's going to go home crying, and it's not going to be us.
Speaker: Yeah. Different approaches, different team. The teams needed different things out of it. So anyway, that's what we watched. We watched some some football fairly up close. I think we were in row N. So there was there was quite a bit of athletes yelling at each other that you could clearly hear because the stadium wasn't that loud for most of it. Yeah.
Speaker: So you got one outcome you were happy with yesterday. Here's the thing. If your home team wins a friendly, you're like, okay, I guess it's better than losing. But at the same point, I don't.
Speaker: Sure. Actually, here's Dwayne. When you play a friendly or a preseason game, what's the outcome that everybody wants? What's the best injuries? No injuries.
Speaker: Everybody walked off the field under their own power. Victory is ours. That's a win. That's a win right there. Yep.
Speaker: Did you learn anything anything this week? Yeah. So first day back in the office for me today. Yep. I spent the day over, I worked from the Sigma Chi house, packed up my computer, went over to the Sigma Chi house so that I could be there to supervise the installation of new sprinkler heads.
Speaker: Oh, so yes. You talked about, do we test them or do do we just replace them? Yes. So we made the decision that there are 46 sprinkler heads. Now, if you're in a warehouse,
Speaker: and you have a thousand sprinkler heads or 3000 sprinkler heads and you go and you test four, that's a win, right? Yeah. As opposed to just replacing them all. We only had 46. So we made the decision that we should just, let's just replace all 46 of them.
Speaker: Spend the money that we would have spent on testing on the replacement, which is like, I don't know, maybe a quarter of the heads, the cost of a quarter of the heads to replace them that we would have spent on testing. And if any of those four would have failed, you would still you'd have paid for the testing and had to replace all of them.
Speaker: Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. so today was So today was replace all day. And we were going to replace them all because hour
Speaker: sales guy said, well, it, it, it seems to be that it is copper piping all the way through. So we should be good to go to just replace them all out because of its plastic piping. The plastic tends to degrade over the course of 20 years and get brittle. So when you go to turn the heads, uh, it will snap and that is bad. So we don't want to do that. So,
Speaker: John, the head sprinkler replacement guy, shows up. We get all set up, turn off the water, turn off the alarm system.
Speaker: You good? You need me? You let me know. I'll be upstairs in the library working. Go upstairs, get to work. About an hour, maybe less than an hour, John's helper guy comes up. Hey, John's got a question for you.
Speaker: OK, so th but bu downstairs I go. Hey, bad news. These are plastic pipes.
Speaker: OK, so what do you think? He's like, well, I think we go to plan B. I think we should just test four of them.
Speaker: Because we're going to have to cut into 46 walls. Oh, okay. Well, that's. Because we're going have to cut into the sheetrock 46 times to replace 46 sprinkler heads. Let's cut into four of them and see what we've got and send those in to test. And then if we have to cut into the sheetrock 46 times, then we will, but only if they fail.
Speaker: Okay, super. That sounds, I guess, like a good plan. It's certainly cheaper to only test four of them. Potentially cheaper. Potentially cheaper, right?
Speaker: So great, fantastic. Go to it. Let's see what you got. And then let me know if you have more questions. Go back upstairs. Start working again. About 45 minutes later, the assistant comes back. Like, yeah that a good thing.
Speaker: Hey, John's got another question. Okay. So John has pulled four of them. And it seems as though when they were originally installed, they were installed improperly. Okay.
Speaker: Which means they are absolutely going to fail when we send them off to be tested.
Speaker: I will say this. Yes. That's to derail your story. I'm more concerned about the 20 years of people living in the frat house that had a sprinkler system that wasn't installed properly that should it have been needed, everybody would have gone, don't worry, we've got a sprinkler. Oh, God.
Speaker: No, we don't have it. Right. Okay. Anyway, please continue. because not to derail my own story, but my question then for my sales guy was, hey, do we have any recourse on the people that installed them improperly to begin with? He's like, well, I suppose if you wanted to try to take them to court, you would need to preserve all 46 of them and then probably send all 46 of them to the lab and pay for the testing.
Speaker: in addition to paying for the replacement, to prove that they were installed improperly to begin with before you could file a lawsuit and hope to, you would you would need to have the testing done to prove that they were installed improperly, even though we can tell you they were installed improperly, but you would need to have the actual testing done in order to try to be able to recoup, it's probably, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Speaker: I will say this though, based off of a bunch of the idiots that we've covered, I just want to correct, I'm not a lawyer, please don't take this as, you do not need proof of, to file a lawsuit.
Speaker: Okay. That no point in the process of filing a lawsuit, do you have to check the box that says, I have proof this happened? Nobody cares.
Speaker: Eventually that might become a thing, but that's way, way down the line.
Speaker: That's fair. Yes. Yeah, that's fair. Get proof, file lawsuit. Nope, nope. File lawsuit. Then get proof or not. And this this company is still in business, shockingly.
Speaker: but be Bang the facts, bang the law, bang the table. just Whatever you got. Right, there it is. Bang the facts, bang the law, bang the table.
Speaker: That may be the show title. the
Speaker: So then i I get my text chat going with my board of directors. And we came to the conclusion that we should just take the money that we would spend on testing and spend it on the increased cost of the installation and renovation that is going to have to occur and not waste money on something that we think is going to fail anyway, which was the original plan.
Speaker: But what I learned was it's going to cost us more and take us more time than was originally intended. And meanwhile, guys, please don't burn the house down.
Speaker: I can't reiterate this enough. Please don't burn the house down is always in effect. Always in effect. But for the next couple of weeks, it is even more in effect. After a couple of weeks, it is still in effect.
Speaker: It doesn't go away. but Just to be clear. i
Speaker: I may need to have the boys listen to this podcast.
Speaker: Oh my god. What did you go learn this week? So the the public beta for all of the the new Apple upgrades that are going to be coming out in September and October, the public betas came out. And I don't believe I've ever installed a public beta on my, on my as they say, main carry device. but I did Tuesday night, because I'm like, you know what?
Speaker: I'm hearing good things. I'm hearing it's fairly stable. Again, it's a beta. You shouldn't put it on your main device. And if you put on your main device, understand that you will probably have some problems If nothing else, not only with the app with the operating system, but other applications can't release versions that have been updated to use the new version until September. So you may run into oddities.
Speaker: Lisa's like, why are you doing that? what do you what Is there some photo stuff? I'm like, yeah, yeah, there's some photo stuff. But I've heard really good things. It's actually more stable, faster, but I also want to try the new Siri.
Speaker: So downloaded everything. Uh, you have to do a full backup to your computer you're supposed to, and then you put it on and then it says, I'm going index some stuff and it's going to take a while. And I've heard some horror stories about this. You have to get in line to get Siri. You have to, you have to say, I want, I want even Siri. so I got in line hour later, congratulations. You have Siri. Ooh, sweet. And then it starts indexing.
Speaker: here's what I'm to just, here's what I learned this week. It is not perfect, but the new Siri is really, really good. Like, like they think they fixed it or they fixed a lot of it. Like read ridiculously good.
Speaker: Two examples of things that I've done with Siri.
Speaker: Activated it. Hey, dingus. And then said,
Speaker: It's better than, hey, Kevin. Anyway, you know what? Actually, though, hey, Dingus. No, Kevin, you're good. And i simply I simply asked Siri this question.
Speaker: When is my next flight? Oh, no. first The first question I said was, and this was on Tuesday night, I said, when is tomorrow night's match? That's all I asked it.
Speaker: That's it. It looked at my calendar and said, RSL versus Burnley is at 7.30 tomorrow night at America First Field. Then it was waiting for a follow-up.
Speaker: All I said was, where are my tickets for that? It then looked through my email and said, your tickets are in this email and gave me a link to tap on it to pull up the tickets. That information wasn't in the calendar that it looked at. It searched through my email, found tickets from r earth to RSL to Burnley and said, here they are for you. That's number one. Number two, hey, Dingus, when's my next flight? Looked at my calendar, said, OK, here's your next flight.
Speaker: Flying to the undisclosed location. And then I just simply said, when's the return when's the return like?
Speaker: It looked at my calendar and found the next flight back, which again, should an AI system be able to do this? Yes. Has Gemini probably been able to do this for years? Yes. Has Siri been able to do this ever?
Speaker: No, because it wouldn't know what that is. It it could only handle one question at a time. Final one, Lisa sent me a text message. This is the cool thing. It now knows what's on your screen.
Speaker: Lisa sent me a text message saying, hey, can you do this tomorrow night? I activated Siri and all I said with the text message up, I activated Siri and said, make me a reminder of this.
Speaker: And it read her text message and it created a reminder. And she asked me to do this tomorrow night. This is yesterday. It took her text message, made a reminder, and then set and set the reminder due at Thursday at 6 p.m., which is tomorrow night, with all I had to do was say, make me a reminder for this.
Speaker: Holy crap, is this good. My phone's a little hot right now. So not everything's great. But when this thing comes out in September, I think people are are going to be very, very impressed.
Speaker: Two weeks from now, going to be like, hey, the updated the beta and everything's broken. Don't do this. But for for one glorious week,
Speaker: holy cow, i think theyve I think they fixed most of it. You're stunned. You're stunned. The idea that they could have fixed it is amazed. You're just. Yes. I like it.
Speaker: You know, I. You remember how you remember at one point. I don't know if it was an ad campaign or what it was, but it was it just works.
Speaker: Yes. That's the thing. That's the it just works. Yes. Except it didn't. Well, wait. And now it does. yeah yeah Yeah, It's very hard for them. So it used to be when they introduced the iMac, with step one, step two, there is no step three. It just works. Yeah.
Speaker: It just works. Then two years ago, they had Bella, somebody who did the whole Apple intelligence thing, and now they're facing a class action lawsuit because they completely lied about what it could do and said that if you buy this phone, it could do it. Yes. Yes.
Speaker: So now they're delivering on the promise that they made then. But to your point, what you are not going to see from Apple, an ad this fall, is, hey, you know that thing we promised that we completely failed on? It works now.
Speaker: Not a good ad campaign.
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Speaker: Todd? Hey, I'm just going point out, you may want to just, when you and Amy are catching up, maybe skip this episode of Listening with Amy, but because I don't think that you clocked what you did in your travel stories.
Speaker: You said... There was only one upgrade left and I told my wife, you can have the upgrade. And then you're like, I got bonus points for that because look at that. She's in first class. And then the rest of your story went. And basically because I was in the front row, I had as much leg room as she did. And then there was nobody sitting next to me. So I actually had more room than she did. And then the only difference was, nope, I got free drinks as well. So basically you had a better experience than she did and you put her in the worst seat.
Speaker: Think about this. just Just be clear what you just did. I'm going to need to have the fast forward button handy. Thank you. I don't know what happened, man. Something dropped there. just got really garbled. You know what? Zencaster.
Speaker: None of this is making the final cut. I guess I'm going to have to clean that up this week. Before next week. Until then, we're here.
Speaker: We're talking to Todd.
Speaker: If you're going to be cutting into a 4-6-walls, do you need a contractor? Yes, I've got a guy.
Speaker: wouldn't use yours.
Speaker: I got a different guy for this project. Oh, cool. Now it's going to be construction update at the frat house. Awesome.
