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Ep. 167 - Wronger and wronger
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Episode 167, Recorded 5/10/2023. Welcome back from hiatus. Feedback, follow up and internet trolls. Somebody said I could have this? A little bat-flippy. Todd & Lisa on the high seas. WYKIK Ted Lasso. Scandoval. The flying pencil.
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Podcast Introduction and Warm-Up
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Levels, levels.
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Levels, levels.
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You ready for this?
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Yeah, sure.
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Let's give it a shot.
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It's the warm-up, right?
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Sure.
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Welcome back.
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Your dreams were your ticket.
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Yeah.
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I did know you were going to play that.
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I also didn't know if this was one of those where you wrote lyrics and you were going to sing over the top of it, although you've been told.
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No, yeah, I'm not allowed to do that.
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Or the thing, because I knew that, what I was waiting for was after it said, welcome back, I was waiting for you just to drop in, Todd.
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Nice choice on the music.
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Thanks, I thought you'd enjoy that.
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How about some other music that we're much more familiar with?
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Welcome back to Talking to Todd.
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a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prins, where failure is always an option.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, Todd.
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Who are you again?
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Oh, hey, how's it going?
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Pretty good.
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How are you?
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Man, this Netflix show on my laptop sucks.
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Oh, wait, that's us.
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Who's the
Hotel Room Service Fees: A Comedic Rant
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almost bald guy?
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Why are the, I don't know.
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I mean, you'd think that the set decorator would have cleaned up the set a little bit.
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I mean, that seems to be a little out of control.
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Your set decorator looks like he's in a courtyard?
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Oh, no, no, no, no.
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Courtyard.
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Are you kidding me?
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This is a Westin.
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Oh, so it's a Marriott.
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Westin by Bonvoy.
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Sure, whatever.
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Sure, whatever.
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No, if it was a courtyard Monday night when I got in late and needed dinner, the order for room service wouldn't have been... The delivery charge, tax, and fees wouldn't have been 55% of the price of the thing I ordered.
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Oh!
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The courtyard would have been, yeah, just grab something out of the cooler and we'll put it on your room.
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The room service at the courtyard is, are you familiar with Grubhub?
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Yeah, you know, pizza delivers.
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Can I introduce you to Uber Eats?
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Or ShoutHub.
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ShoutHub always works.
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Yes, yeah.
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Hi.
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Anyway, we're back.
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We're back.
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It's like we never left, though.
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I mean...
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Because the hiatus episode dropped on time, so it's as if we were never gone.
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But on the other hand, I apparently don't know any of this.
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I haven't seen you in two weeks.
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Plus.
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Two weeks plus.
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Thanks, Eli.
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Seems to be uncalled for there, but whatever.
Listener Feedback and Personal Anecdotes
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I'm assuming that after we take some time off, we may have some feedback follow-up and whatever the heck else we do.
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Oh, sweet.
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God, do we ever.
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My mailbox is full.
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Speaking of things that are full, your comment about how Greg has full custody of our sense of humor.
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Got a pretty good reaction.
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Thumbs up on that one?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Let's see.
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So that was great.
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Other feedback from Amy when we were making Bobcat puns.
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Yeah.
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She was doing the same thing that Lisa was.
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Time to move along.
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Also got a really good reaction out of machismo.
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Put him on the IR.
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Did you have did you have.
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Local notes from episode 165 before we go to the hiatus notes.
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No, except for the, we can move along.
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Just move.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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I mean, we know it's coming and it's like, yeah, I know it's coming and yet we're still going to do it because it entertains us.
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On episode 166, the hiatus episode where I was talking about the trip with Toby.
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Yes.
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Um, actually,
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I believe that was your sophomore year because we were dating at the time.
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Okay.
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I sit corrected.
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Also, I found, and this is a visual gag on an audio medium.
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Are those playing cards?
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These are the playing cards that Toby and I bought and played with, signed, and
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And there is a date on there.
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There is.
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So we can confirm that it was December of 1990 when that actually happened.
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And thirdly, Amy says, I don't think you stayed in Grinnell.
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I'm pretty sure I know where we stayed.
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I don't think you stayed in Grinnell.
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I don't think you got it.
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I don't think you guys got that far.
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It's the only super eight between Iowa City and Grinnell.
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It has to have been Grinnell.
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But I was informed you didn't call your mother, but you called me.
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Note, make sure that Sandy doesn't listen to this episode because that is a piece of information she is not going to enjoy even now.
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Yeah.
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You're working under the assumption that my mother knows how to listen to a podcast.
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What, what I'm saying is she's may have never listened to this ever before and may never listen ever again, but out of some sort of weird thing, your dad's clicking around on his phone and all of a sudden he plays one minute of audio and that's the audio that comes out.
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He's like, that was weird.
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And you've got to now deal with the consequences.
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With the luck I've been having lately, that's exactly what would happen.
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Let's see.
Storytelling and Bonus Content Appeal
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How about Lisa?
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Lisa's feedback was, hey, do more of that bonus stuff.
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That was good and refreshing.
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She actually enjoyed she enjoyed us telling some stories.
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She also, while I was going back through this, because she was involved in all of the stories.
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These these weren't like I mean, she just kind of made these comments.
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I she said, I completely undersold how terrible the roads were and how dangerous.
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dangerous it was for us to drive to the hotel she's like you didn't explain that at all like it was so much worse than you explained it and i'm like well yeah but how do you explain realistically i did something incredibly stupid with multiple people in the car at an age where i shouldn't have done it but we made it
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She also at the end of the story about Monday night football, she said, she goes, I just need to tell you again, I love you for letting us leave because that was terrible.
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So really, not only did I relive some of the worst moments, she got to relive them as well.
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Production note.
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Next time I would like the questions in advance like you had them because you had time to think about what stories.
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For the record.
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That was included in a set of questions that I said we could do.
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I threw out ideas.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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To be fair.
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Yes.
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However, note, we should decide on the stories ahead of time and have some time to prepare.
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You're not wrong.
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You're not wrong.
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Note taken.
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But I'm going to, I think I'm probably going to pin that episode to the top of our podcast.
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And if somebody wants to listen that hasn't listened before, that's the show I'm going to send them to.
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Hey, this one isn't like any of the rest of them.
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It's good.
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Listen to this one.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's pretty.
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Yes.
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Yeah, that's.
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Yeah.
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Uh-huh.
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Yep.
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I mean, good news, though.
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Lisa said she wants more of that.
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I can pretty much guarantee there's multiple of these bonus episodes going to be coming in October, November, and maybe early December based on travel schedules.
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So cool.
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However, I will say I just.
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It was fun to do.
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I think we both had a good time.
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And I absolutely, there will be more of those because I think that worked out really well.
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As the editor, I enjoyed taking a week off.
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Clip the start, clip the end, type in some stuff, post.
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Yep, it was pretty good.
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Let's see.
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Oh, one other one, I guess.
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Um, actually.
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As I'm telling the story about the worst sporting events we've attended, Amy says, how do you not talk about being at the double doink?
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Yes.
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Cody Parkey hit the field, hit the goalpost four times that afternoon.
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On three kicks.
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Yes.
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He hit the goalpost four times on three kicks.
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He hit it five times on four kicks.
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Five.
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Okay.
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There.
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Okay.
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Five times on four kicks.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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You got, you got to admit he may not be at, well, he may not be accurate, but he was incredibly consistent that day.
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No question about it.
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So that was the only thought there.
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Sarah Judson Brown, toddler, negative 18.
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And John Brown, toddler, 1881.
Humorous Travel Tales
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He's been assigned a number on the fact that I refuse to go to Minnesota.
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Yes.
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And they live in Minnesota.
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Yes.
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Challenge accepted.
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They intend to show me a good time in Minnesota and make sure that I do not have a horrible experience.
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I don't know.
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I mean, if you go anywhere near their place, I mean, there's cows on the loose.
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You've got to be careful.
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And they're sneaky.
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They're ninja cows.
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They're ninja cows are on the loose.
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And it's entirely possible that somebody in town is camping out watching trains ready for a terrorist attack.
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So we've got to be careful.
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When they were in town visiting, we were all at Peggy's.
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And we were joined by Jake.
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And I'm like, hey, Jake, toddler negative 18, negative 18, meet Jake.
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It's a little podcast reunion right there.
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It's ToddCon one and a half.
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That in the pod business, what you hosted was a meetup.
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Oh, yes.
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Yes.
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You're right.
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It was.
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Because if you call it that, I think you can write off the trip to Peggy's.
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That's a business expense.
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Hosted meetup.
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Hosted meetup.
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I did buy.
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So that's a, yeah, I need to go find that receipt.
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Let's see.
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Sherry registered for RAGBRAI.
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Yay.
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Two weeks after we told her to.
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I was going to say, she gave us feedback that that reminded her.
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And I was thinking,
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Didn't she already?
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I mean, she thanked us for the reminder.
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Anybody can, anybody can take the reminder, but that's good.
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That that's good that she's, that she's registered now.
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She is on board.
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She's doing Tuesday and Wednesday.
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We're doing Wednesday and Thursday, which includes the century loop.
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Who's the real athletes now?
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Don't go there.
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No, no.
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It's her.
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To be clear, it's still her.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I've seen the text messages from her like, well, this was a crappy day.
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Her crappy day exceeds my personal best.
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So let's just be clear.
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Oh, got a note from Doug at the Educated Idiots.
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Yep.
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Quote, so we ordered Indian food, end quote.
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I'll take sentences I've never uttered for 500, please, Alex.
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That's partially because he lives in Iowa and not in the undisclosed location.
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The greater Waterloo-Cedar Falls metropolitan area has to have, there has to be an Indian restaurant there somewhere, I would assume.
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Not in a direction that Doug's car goes.
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Oh, fair enough.
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Yes.
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Sorry to bring all the cosmopolitan to the podcast.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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And and and Gosha sent me a hand washing tip after our discussion about hand washing.
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Oh, and the watch.
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Yes.
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I'm trying to think, was there anything else?
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Did you get anything else?
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No, I did not.
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OK.
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Oh, I had one more.
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Um, actually.
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You were talking about Shaq?
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Yes.
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And how he's 7'3", 350 to 400 pounds?
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Yes.
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Actually... Shaq is 7'1", and weighs 325.
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I'll go with the 7'1".
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I will be corrected on that.
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Have you seen him on the TNT set?
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Three and a quarter ain't it.
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He hasn't seen three and a quarter since his freshman year of college.
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And maybe not even then.
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I was going to say eighth grade and middle eighth grade.
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Maybe.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Fair enough.
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I guess I get, I guess I need to bet do better fact checking my throwaway lines on my stories.
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Usually, usually you do real time follow up on those and I don't have the opportunity to correct you, but there was one.
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So, and it's been three weeks.
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So, yeah.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Well, it's good.
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We strive for accuracy.
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Under follow up.
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Yep.
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Our title two weeks ago was Taylor Swift for treasury secretary.
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It was an opportunity.
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I laughed at it when we talked about it because I thought it was funny.
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I thought it was funny, too.
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The Swifties will come for you.
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How is that a thing?
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We are saying she is smarter.
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She is smart enough to be the Treasury Secretary.
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That wasn't a put down.
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That was we should have her help us figure the budget problems out.
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Swifties don't have the attention span to listen to a 52-minute podcast.
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You're acting as if we actually got feedback around that.
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We did get feedback around that.
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On the YouTube post, I'll read it verbatim.
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You know what?
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Hey, don't be highfalutin.
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Read it in English, not verbatim, please.
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New comment on episode 165, Taylor Swift for Treasury Secretary.
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It's time to give up, brother.
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from an account that is less than a day old.
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Somebody went to the effort to create a new account just in order to tell us to give it up.
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That's dedication.
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You know what?
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That's the kind of energy we need to bring to increase listening.
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You know what?
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Some people listen because they like it.
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Most people listen because they know us.
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I'm okay if there's a few people that just hate listening to us.
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They're all downloads.
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We're winning at the end of the day.
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Yeah.
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I don't listen to trolls on the internet.
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I repeat what they say on the air, clearly, but I don't listen to them.
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I'm not taking my wife's feedback.
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You think I'm taking yours?
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Seriously.
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Yeah.
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What did he expect there?
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For the account to reply, you make a good point.
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This was our last episode.
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That apparently was our penultimate episode.
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You're welcome, Doug.
NFL Jerseys and Journalism Students
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Also, under follow-up, I got an email from a meeting planner's meeting called Connect.com.
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They want to give me an all expenses paid trip to Minneapolis.
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Just going to leave that here.
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I mean, at this point, I think we could all offer, based off of the feedback we got from you, I think we could all offer you an all expenses paid trip to Minneapolis.
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And be very safe that I'm not going to spend any of your money.
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Yeah.
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Did you bring some follow-up?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This one goes way, way back in the in the first year of the podcast, I think right around maybe near the end of the first year.
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If you remember, I was starting to get worried about the interns at NBC Sports and the pictures that were getting put with the articles.
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Yes.
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That were posted in Apple News.
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And it was just it was terrible.
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And like we just I mean, that was like six or seven weeks of admittedly visual jokes on an audio medium.
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But anyway, we did that.
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This is not NBC Sports because that ceases to exist.
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But apparently the Los Angeles Times hired at least one of them.
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And I'm going to send this to you.
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And it is a story about the NFL, but I think the people at the LA Times may be proving the point of the headline more than they meant.
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Who's that?
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So the headline is California and New York investigating allegations that the NFL created a hostile workplace for women employees.
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And the picture they use for it is Brian Flores.
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Yeah.
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Okay, Brian has also sued claiming racial discrimination.
00:19:44
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But in a story that women have accused the NFL of problems, maybe not use a picture of a man.
00:19:54
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Because that might actually, unless, of course, the LA Times is now taking a dig at Brian, which...
00:20:04
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Wrong.
00:20:06
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Find a picture of a woman to put with the story about the women suing or being investigating.
00:20:16
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Or if you have to run a picture of a man, run Dan Snyder.
00:20:21
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Yes, but why give him any more press?
00:20:27
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Okay, also fair.
00:20:29
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But you could.
00:20:30
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Yeah.
00:20:32
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Just give a pic.
00:20:32
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Just, you know what?
00:20:33
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Just put a picture of Roger Goodell.
00:20:35
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Who needs to be punched in the face over this?
00:20:37
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I don't know.
00:20:37
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Here's Roger.
00:20:39
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Okay.
00:20:39
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So speaking of Roger Goodell, we're sitting around.
00:20:42
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John and Sarah are here.
00:20:44
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We're watching night one of the NFL draft.
00:20:48
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Okay.
00:20:49
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Roger Goodell comes on stage.
00:20:51
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The audience in the audit.
00:20:54
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It's not an auditorium, I guess, assembled.
00:20:56
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The audience assembled for the draft.
00:20:59
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Booze Roger Goodell, right?
00:21:02
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Yes, they do.
00:21:04
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Right, exactly.
00:21:05
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And Sarah looks at us.
00:21:07
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Okay.
00:21:08
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Roger Goodell.
00:21:11
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Why do we hate him?
00:21:15
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The question isn't the question isn't do we hate him?
00:21:18
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We do.
00:21:19
Speaker
I get that.
00:21:20
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Yes.
00:21:21
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Just wondering why.
Musical Adventures and Preferences
00:21:24
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Yep.
00:21:26
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I didn't have a great answer.
00:21:30
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Other than he's the commissioner of the league.
00:21:33
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Tradition.
00:21:34
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Tradition.
00:21:38
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Why not?
00:21:41
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Oh, by the way, I did have one other piece of follow up.
00:21:45
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Now that you would know that we went with tradition and we were 165 or 166.
00:21:50
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Oh, when the one where we were stupid about.
00:21:55
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Jane Seymour and the one we were stupid.
00:21:57
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You're going to be more.
00:21:58
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Oh, you're going to need to be more specific than that.
00:22:00
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Yeah.
00:22:01
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The Anne Hathaway, Jane Seymour.
00:22:02
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Yeah.
00:22:04
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All that.
00:22:04
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Yes.
00:22:05
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That whole thing.
00:22:06
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Yeah.
00:22:07
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Lisa, Lisa asked me, I believe our plan is when we go to England in the fall, I believe, uh,
00:22:16
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The plan is that I think we already have tickets to go to six.
00:22:21
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I believe I will now get to see the worldwide sensation, which may be the best musical in the last 15 years.
00:22:26
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Six.
00:22:27
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So I. Thanks, Eli.
00:22:29
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So I. I will not to six.
00:22:35
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Yeah, six.
00:22:36
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Thanks, Eli.
00:22:37
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Thanks, Eli.
00:22:37
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Thanks, Eli.
00:22:38
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OK, so.
00:22:41
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Yeah, that adds up.
00:22:42
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Yeah.
00:22:42
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Anyway, so yeah.
00:22:45
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Anyway, that's down the road.
00:22:47
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You may have a review.
00:22:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:50
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Should we go to idiots?
00:22:53
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Sure.
00:22:54
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Are we going to skip Todd?
00:22:56
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I don't know.
00:22:58
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You know what?
00:23:01
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I just heard, I heard voices from across the universe shouting.
00:23:05
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Yes.
00:23:06
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Skip.
00:23:08
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I think.
00:23:09
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Todd ought to know that there are more musicals out there and he needs to see them.
00:23:14
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Well, I was going to see, I was going to go see Phantom, but it just closed on Broadway after 35 years.
00:23:19
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Come on.
00:23:20
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Give me a shot at this.
00:23:24
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Okay.
00:23:24
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Yeah.
00:23:25
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How about idiots?
00:23:25
Speaker
How about the Scott Frost Memorial idiot of the week?
00:23:30
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Excellent.
00:23:31
Speaker
On my side, the story is a report on this.
00:23:38
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Speaking of the NFL draft that you guys were watching, after the first round ended, there were multiple jerseys missing from behind the scenes.
00:23:52
Speaker
Oh.
00:23:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:55
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Good news that there was security footage.
00:23:58
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that they could go back and look at.
00:24:02
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And they were all sitting in the talent waiting room and they basically have all these jerseys, right?
00:24:08
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From all the teams that already have a number one printed on them so that they can, and there's no last names so that as soon as they get picked, somebody can put the last name on and they can hand them the number one Jersey.
00:24:21
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After the first round ended, I,
00:24:24
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A Vikings jersey, a Cowboys jersey, and a 49ers jersey was missing, which the NFL valued at over $1,000 for three of these jerseys.
00:24:36
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Well, I'm like, that seems hot.
00:24:37
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Well, if you've ever tried to buy an official jersey, that's actually probably a pretty good deal.
00:24:42
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Anyway, where can I pick up three jerseys for only $1,000?
00:24:45
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Anyway.
00:24:47
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They had video.
00:24:48
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They went and looked.
00:24:49
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Went, oh, hey, I know who those two are, allegedly.
00:24:53
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Two USC journalism students who were there representing the Annenberg Media as a part of USC's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism.
00:25:10
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They ducked in and allegedly, shortly after 1 a.m.
00:25:16
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on Friday morning, they went into that area and decided that they needed three jerseys and were promptly, by Friday midday, I believe, oh, yes, the two were arrested shortly before boarding a flight back to L.A.,
00:25:39
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where the 49ers and Cowboys jerseys were found in their possession.
00:25:44
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Wasn't me.
00:25:46
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Somebody said I could have this.
00:25:47
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Yeah, yeah.
00:25:48
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This dude walked up and said 50 bucks for a jersey, and I thought that sounded like a pretty good deal.
00:25:54
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I traded him a Coke for it.
00:25:56
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Yeah, he's a big guy.
00:25:57
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He's sort of a guy.
00:25:59
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Really mean.
00:26:00
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He's limping.
00:26:00
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He's kind of limping.
00:26:01
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Yeah, yeah.
00:26:03
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I told him he could have it.
00:26:05
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I said, you can have it.
00:26:06
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He said no, and I said, no, you can have it.
00:26:07
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And then he gave me the jersey, and it was great.
00:26:09
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It was beautiful.
00:26:11
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Anyway.
00:26:11
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We're so f***ing old.
00:26:16
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Oh, my God, we're old.
00:26:17
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I mean, for the record, when that Coke commercial came out, we were young.
00:26:22
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Yeah.
00:26:25
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I don't remember seeing it on first pass.
00:26:28
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I've seen it since anyway.
00:26:30
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So congratulations to the USC school of journalism for paying for two guys to go and represent and go, I'm a journalist.
00:26:39
Speaker
That's now belongs to me.
00:26:43
Speaker
Oh, how about you?
00:26:44
Speaker
What do you got?
00:26:45
Speaker
Did you see what wonder Franco did this week?
00:26:50
Speaker
Is he part of the MCU phase four universe?
00:26:55
Speaker
No, but we did go see Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:26:57
Speaker
I'll cover that later.
00:26:58
Speaker
Does he fight with Ant-Man?
00:27:00
Speaker
Wander Franco?
00:27:01
Speaker
No.
00:27:01
Speaker
Anyway.
00:27:03
Speaker
So shortstop Wander Franco fields the ball in his glove, takes the ball out of his glove, flips it up in the air, and then catches it, and then fires to first to get the runner out.
00:27:19
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Okay.
00:27:21
Speaker
A little razzle-dazzle when you're up 11 to 2.
00:27:26
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But it's a little razzle-dazzle.
00:27:29
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It felt a little bat flippy.
00:27:32
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He was not fined.
00:27:34
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He was not plunked.
00:27:36
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And he actually hit a home run in his next at-bat.
00:27:39
Speaker
So the baseball gods think it's okay.
00:27:43
Speaker
Hey, let the kids play.
00:27:45
Speaker
Right?
00:27:48
Speaker
So, but my idiots...
00:27:53
Speaker
related to this story are the online haters.
00:27:57
Speaker
I have no problem with this.
00:28:00
Speaker
He made the play.
00:28:01
Speaker
Now, if he flips it up in the air and drops the ball, he's got bigger problems than whether or not people think it's whatever, right?
00:28:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:09
Speaker
Did he make the play?
00:28:11
Speaker
Yes, he made the play.
00:28:12
Speaker
Is it a little razzle dazzle?
00:28:14
Speaker
Sure, but I don't care.
00:28:16
Speaker
It's fun.
00:28:18
Speaker
Internet haters need to just take a breath, especially those that... Never mind.
00:28:23
Speaker
I won't go down the Taylor Swift path.
00:28:25
Speaker
Internet... Yeah.
00:28:26
Speaker
Go ahead.
00:28:27
Speaker
Wait.
00:28:27
Speaker
You brought his idiots?
00:28:28
Speaker
Internet haters?
00:28:30
Speaker
Yes, I did.
00:28:32
Speaker
In a...
00:28:33
Speaker
To be honest, I'm going to tell you this is your only time you get to do that because otherwise you're going to be phoning this one in because you can pretty much be, hey, for the 17th week in a row, internet haters.
00:28:46
Speaker
I don't know.
00:28:46
Speaker
Something.
00:28:47
Speaker
I don't.
00:28:49
Speaker
By the way, you said that it was bat flippy.
00:28:52
Speaker
The difference is almost every unwritten rule in baseball that will get you hit by a 100-mile-an-hour fastball, almost all of them,
00:29:04
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are don't show up the pitcher.
00:29:07
Speaker
These aren't baseballs on written rules.
00:29:10
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These are pitchers rules of don't make me look bad.
00:29:13
Speaker
Even including if I, if I screw up and throw you a meatball across the home plate and you put that thing into orbit because I'm a bad pitcher, if you stand there and watch it for too long,
00:29:29
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That's on you.
00:29:30
Speaker
You're disrespecting the game.
00:29:31
Speaker
Well, you disrespected the game when you couldn't put the ball where you wanted it to.
00:29:36
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But anyway, yes.
00:29:39
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You know, the thing, do we want to talk about the new baseball rules?
00:29:44
Speaker
The thing that I like about the new baseball rules and the pitch clock is it eliminates the stall, right?
00:29:55
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If you're the quarterback, and we've talked about this before, if you're the quarterback, you take the snap, you drop back three steps and somebody's coming at you, you don't get to call timeout.
00:30:04
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Right.
00:30:05
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Like you get to do in basketball.
00:30:06
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Right.
00:30:07
Speaker
Yes.
00:30:07
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You don't get to, you know, let's just take a minute here and figure out which of the four receivers I want to throw it to.
00:30:16
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Right.
00:30:17
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Pitchers have to make decisions.
00:30:19
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Right.
00:30:20
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And they have to throw a pitch and they have to do it.
00:30:22
Speaker
And it's not like this is a new thing because baseball games used to routinely be under two hours.
00:30:32
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Yes.
00:30:33
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Yes.
00:30:35
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The stall is the thing that we're eliminating, which I am perfectly fine with.
00:30:41
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I will say, I absolutely agree.
00:30:44
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I will say, however, I,
00:30:47
Speaker
I could have included this in follow-up.
00:30:48
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I was trying to stay out of sports, but this is Dwayne's fault.
00:30:52
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Comments towards Dwayne.
00:30:54
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We talked about needing robot umpires because the actual umpires are, many of them are just terrible at their job.
00:31:02
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And on a daily basis, they prove that they need to be replaced by robots and not even really good robots, just, you know, standard robots.
00:31:11
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However, I don't know if you saw a couple of weeks ago, the pirates called up somebody who has spent 13 years in the minor leagues.
00:31:24
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And he has been called up to the show a couple of times, but he never got an at bat.
00:31:28
Speaker
Like this is right out of field of dreams.
00:31:31
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Yeah.
00:31:31
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Yeah.
00:31:33
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They finally brought him in as a pinch hitter, like in the eighth inning, after he had been up for a couple of games.
00:31:41
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And I think he must have been told, we're probably going to pinch hit for you.
00:31:44
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His folks were in the stand.
00:31:46
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His brother was in the stand.
00:31:48
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This was at Pittsburgh, and it's in April, so they were, in theory, already out of contention.
00:31:53
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But actually, I think they're pretty good this year.
00:31:54
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Anyway...
00:31:55
Speaker
The article actually said in the sparsely attended PNC Park, he came up after waiting 13 years in the minors for what may be his only at-bat.
00:32:07
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Everybody was giving him a standing ovation.
00:32:11
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The umpire, being a good umpire and knowing what his job is, if he wanted to, he could have said, get in here, the clock, or you already got a strike.
00:32:25
Speaker
But the umpire walked away from the plate to do some umpire business while the guy was standing at the plate because the pitch clock doesn't start until the umpire is ready.
00:32:38
Speaker
And he happened to need to do something so that this guy who has spent 13 years waiting for this moment can get a standing ovation for his first at bat.
00:32:50
Speaker
That's what you want the umpire to do.
00:32:53
Speaker
Understand the circumstance.
00:32:56
Speaker
Let him have his moment.
00:32:58
Speaker
It's this isn't this isn't the pitch clock.
00:33:01
Speaker
This isn't let him let him enjoy this.
00:33:04
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Right.
00:33:04
Speaker
Good job for the umpire.
00:33:05
Speaker
And I don't say that very often.
00:33:07
Speaker
Wilson Contreras comes back to Wrigley Field.
00:33:09
Speaker
You know, he's going to get a standing ovation the first time that he comes up to bat.
00:33:14
Speaker
Right.
00:33:15
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:17
Speaker
There was another, there was somebody that was playing for the Dodgers that was going back to someplace that he'd been.
00:33:23
Speaker
And they called a strike on him on his first pitch because the umpire was just stupid about it.
00:33:29
Speaker
All right.
00:33:31
Speaker
We should get out of sports corner.
00:33:32
Speaker
Where are we at now?
00:33:33
Speaker
Ooh, travel corner.
00:33:35
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Yeah.
00:33:37
Speaker
How was your trip?
Cruise Ship Observations and Challenges
00:33:39
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Overall, um, trip was good.
00:33:41
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We, we, uh,
00:33:43
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We took a cruise from Los Angeles up the Pacific coast, went to San Francisco, Astoria, Victoria, ended in Vancouver, spent the day in Vancouver, and then flew home the next day.
00:33:59
Speaker
Not really many stories.
00:34:02
Speaker
Cruise passengers are weird.
00:34:04
Speaker
There's a lot of old people on cruises who just don't give a damn.
00:34:11
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That's just... Oh, I'm sorry.
00:34:13
Speaker
I cut you off.
00:34:16
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Anyway, the one thing I will say, however, is we're in the North.
00:34:21
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It's in the North Pacific.
00:34:22
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And so it got a little nautical, which is fine.
00:34:27
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It wasn't the worst we've ever been on.
00:34:30
Speaker
By that, folks, he means bumpy.
00:34:32
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Yeah, yeah.
00:34:34
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And the captain was at one point at noon saying, we have three meter seas, I believe.
00:34:42
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It was three meter seas, which means the waves are about nine feet high.
00:34:48
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So, I mean, the ship's a thousand feet long and it's 18 stories high, but in nine foot seas, the
00:34:57
Speaker
The ship is moving up and down.
00:35:00
Speaker
That's a drop.
00:35:01
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The water in the pool is sloshing out of the pool and then back in the pool.
00:35:07
Speaker
It's very cool.
00:35:10
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That's why they put nets on there.
00:35:11
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So you have something to hold on to.
00:35:13
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No, just stay at the pool.
00:35:14
Speaker
So you're surfing in the pool.
00:35:15
Speaker
Cool.
00:35:16
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Yeah.
00:35:17
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Catch a half pipe.
00:35:19
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What I will say is that I could have made better.
00:35:22
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I'm going to say this.
00:35:23
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I could have made better decisions.
00:35:26
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But that was the day that I had scheduled to go for my run on the treadmill.
00:35:31
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:35:33
Speaker
Which is on the 16th deck at the front of the ship.
00:35:39
Speaker
Quick note.
00:35:42
Speaker
The center of gravity of the ship is in the middle at the bottom, right?
00:35:45
Speaker
So the higher up you go, the more motion you get and the closer to the front or the back you get.
00:35:50
Speaker
So it was basically as almost as high up and far forward as you can go, which meant you felt the motion much more.
00:35:58
Speaker
Were you king of the world?
00:36:02
Speaker
No, no.
00:36:05
Speaker
It's hard to be king of the world when you have one hand firmly grabbing the handrail.
00:36:15
Speaker
Not permanently, but at one point... What makes it difficult is...
00:36:22
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You take your runnings, quote unquote running, you know, whatever.
00:36:26
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Your foot leaves the treadmill.
00:36:29
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And when it comes back down, the treadmill isn't where you left it.
00:36:34
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That's problematic.
00:36:37
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Sometimes it's lower.
00:36:38
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So you go to like where you should be and your foot just keeps going down.
00:36:43
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Sometimes you raise your foot and before you put your foot down, the treadmill has now made contact with your foot.
00:36:52
Speaker
There is also this cool side to side motion as well.
00:36:57
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So it's entirely possible that you took your foot off and when you put it back down, it is now on the edge of the treadmill when it was in the middle.
00:37:07
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It's fantastic.
00:37:08
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It's just, it's like, it is for 30 minutes, you actually have to concentrate because, um,
00:37:15
Speaker
Normally the sidewalk is right where you left it, right?
00:37:19
Speaker
But with this, it's kind of like a game.
00:37:21
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Guess what's going to happen in the next half a second.
00:37:26
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So there was that.
00:37:29
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And then we got home on Saturday and then Monday morning, hopped on a plane, flew from the Indus Girls location to Atlanta for this work trip.
00:37:39
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Get in the flight from Salt Lake to Atlanta, three and a half hours.
00:37:47
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The couple's sitting next to me.
00:37:48
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Before we take off, they're going through the movies on Delta.
00:37:52
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And the guy says, ooh, let's see what movies they have.
00:37:56
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Ooh, American Underdog.
00:37:59
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Jesus.
00:38:01
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At which point he says, hey, this is the Kurt Warner story.
00:38:05
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And his wife, who is sitting between us, says, uh-huh.
00:38:09
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And he goes, you know, he's the guy that went to the Super Bowl.
00:38:11
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You know, great story.
00:38:14
Speaker
I mean, it's really fascinating.
00:38:15
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And I'm thinking, yeah, she doesn't care.
00:38:18
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I know that response because I have gotten that response.
00:38:25
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I so desperately wanted to lean over and just say,
00:38:29
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That is a Kurt Warner story.
00:38:32
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It's not the Kurt Warner story.
00:38:36
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It's definitely a story.
00:38:39
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It's a story that has a character named Kurt Warner.
00:38:43
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Anyway, you do you.
00:38:45
Speaker
I got in late, and apparently the last piece of travel story didn't happen directly to me, but I got in late.
00:38:54
Speaker
I was tired.
00:38:55
Speaker
Get to the desk.
00:38:57
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I thought they said, is, is floor seven okay for you?
00:39:03
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And I said, sure.
00:39:05
Speaker
And then I walked to the elevator and look at the number that they had written down on my card.
00:39:09
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And it wasn't, she didn't ask me if floor seven was okay.
00:39:12
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She asked me if floor 57 was okay.
00:39:15
Speaker
Cause this is a 72 story hotel.
00:39:20
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Fine.
00:39:21
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And there's only certain elevators that go to the high floors and you got to figure all that out.
00:39:24
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Anyway, fine.
00:39:25
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Elevation took a while.
00:39:26
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Okay, cool.
00:39:27
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The next morning down having the sponsored breakfast or whatever.
00:39:33
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And I start hearing from people apparently again, 72 story hotel.
00:39:38
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Apparently, Monday, before I got here, all of the elevators, all of them, all 10, went out of service for like 45 minutes.
00:39:52
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:39:54
Speaker
So, and apparently, that was at the time when a bunch of people had checked in, and then the sponsored welcome reception, meaning...
00:40:07
Speaker
free drink, was being held on floor five.
00:40:13
Speaker
So I've talked with more than 10 people who walked down 40, 50, 60 flights of stairs.
00:40:26
Speaker
Well, the reception was on, and I didn't want to miss it.
00:40:30
Speaker
It's one way to control.
00:40:31
Speaker
That's one way to control costs.
00:40:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:34
Speaker
Nobody show up.
00:40:35
Speaker
The problem is the people that do show up are going to be really hungry.
00:40:40
Speaker
How good are these hors d'oeuvres that they're serving?
00:40:43
Speaker
I mean, come on.
00:40:45
Speaker
I told Lisa that and her comment was she's like, I don't care what they're serving.
00:40:49
Speaker
I'm not going down.
00:40:51
Speaker
Down is better than having to go up 65.
00:40:53
Speaker
Yes.
00:40:56
Speaker
But I kind of feel like at 60 flights, 57, whatever, going down that many eventually becomes a problem anyway.
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah, what I can tell you is the hors d'oeuvres that they're serving, they were a step up.
00:41:11
Speaker
Oh, my.
00:41:11
Speaker
Oh, that's just... You sank to a new low.
00:41:20
Speaker
See, the problem...
00:41:23
Speaker
that I would have with knowing that I was planning to walk down 60 flights.
00:41:29
Speaker
If the elevator is out at some point, I've got to walk up 60 flights unless there's a fire.
00:41:35
Speaker
I'm not going down 60 flights.
00:41:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:41:38
Speaker
What, what's your plan when you get down there?
00:41:41
Speaker
Right.
00:41:42
Speaker
You've got a lot of faith in it.
00:41:44
Speaker
That, what that, what that shows is faith in the engineering department.
00:41:48
Speaker
Oh, it'll be fixed.
00:41:49
Speaker
It'll be fine.
00:41:51
Speaker
Otherwise I'm sleeping somewhere else.
00:41:54
Speaker
Or a complete lack of foresight.
00:41:59
Speaker
Well, I want to get a free drink.
00:42:02
Speaker
Who cares what happens in the future?
00:42:03
Speaker
YOLO.
00:42:06
Speaker
How about you?
00:42:07
Speaker
That's future Dwayne's problem.
00:42:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:10
Speaker
Screw that guy.
00:42:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:13
Speaker
Who best case scenario is probably a little tipsy on the cool free drink and probably is a little tipsy and it probably has some cheap shrimp in his stomach.
00:42:27
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:42:28
Speaker
I need to get to my room real quick.
00:42:33
Speaker
How about you?
00:42:33
Speaker
What do you have for travel stories?
00:42:36
Speaker
We've talked about equipment configurations before.
Airplane Seating Preferences
00:42:42
Speaker
Yes, and sometimes even about airplanes.
00:42:44
Speaker
Yes.
00:42:44
Speaker
Is this an After Dark episode?
00:42:51
Speaker
You're 12.
00:42:54
Speaker
Oh, yes.
00:42:55
Speaker
Yes, that's true.
00:42:57
Speaker
So, particularly the 767-300 that I flew on.
00:43:03
Speaker
Okay.
00:43:04
Speaker
On Delta.
00:43:06
Speaker
Can you tell me the configuration?
00:43:09
Speaker
Of a Delta 767-300, what class of service?
00:43:17
Speaker
Back in the back where I was, not up front.
00:43:20
Speaker
Because up front, they had really nice Delta 1.
00:43:26
Speaker
And then there was a first class.
00:43:28
Speaker
And then there was a business class.
00:43:29
Speaker
And then there was back with me.
00:43:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:34
Speaker
I think that's in a, I'm trying to remember if that's a 242 or a 333 config.
00:43:41
Speaker
It's a, it's a 232 config.
00:43:44
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:43:45
Speaker
Which is my favorite.
00:43:47
Speaker
It's now my favorite configuration.
00:43:48
Speaker
If I'm stuck back in the back.
00:43:50
Speaker
Yes.
00:43:51
Speaker
Because there's only one middle seat.
00:43:53
Speaker
Yes.
00:43:56
Speaker
I can be anywhere I want to, honestly, and not be upset, except in the middle.
00:44:00
Speaker
And there's just a one in five chance at that point that I'm then going to be stuck in the middle.
00:44:08
Speaker
I did not.
00:44:08
Speaker
That was that too was something that I learned this week.
00:44:11
Speaker
I don't rarely do I fly on a plane that's that big or bigger because it's always just small hops.
00:44:18
Speaker
Des Moines to some places, a small hop.
00:44:20
Speaker
And then from someplace to someplace else is general than a small hop.
00:44:24
Speaker
I don't do these big, huge flights.
00:44:26
Speaker
So but a two, three, two configuration when you're back in the back.
00:44:31
Speaker
That's a that's a good gig.
00:44:34
Speaker
I will tell you just because like
00:44:38
Speaker
We pick flights partially, I mean, if we can, we pick the flights based on the equipment.
00:44:46
Speaker
And they can always swap the equipment out.
00:44:48
Speaker
But to your point, especially like if you're going to be flying like long haul on that and the choice is like a three, three, three config or a two, three, two config.
00:44:58
Speaker
We always take the two, three, two, because then we can have the two seats together by, you know, on the one side.
00:45:04
Speaker
And then this is just our, this is our space.
00:45:06
Speaker
It's our space.
00:45:07
Speaker
Last thing you want to do is say, this is our space.
00:45:10
Speaker
And who are you?
00:45:11
Speaker
Oh, excellent.
00:45:12
Speaker
Welcome.
00:45:12
Speaker
Awesome.
00:45:14
Speaker
Awesome.
00:45:15
Speaker
Oh, you're going to watch American Underdog for nine hours.
00:45:19
Speaker
That's awesome.
00:45:20
Speaker
Do your headphones turn down at all?
00:45:22
Speaker
No.
00:45:22
Speaker
No.
00:45:22
Speaker
Those are, wow.
00:45:23
Speaker
Oh, cool.
00:45:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:26
Speaker
What are you watching this week?
00:45:28
Speaker
I watched a show on Netflix called Florida Man.
00:45:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:33
Speaker
Because I was flying and needed to download something, and there's only so many things I can download because we finished Schmigadoon, Schmikago, whatever.
00:45:44
Speaker
We're watching Ted Lasso, which was awesome again this week.
00:45:48
Speaker
I don't know if you've watched yet or not.
00:45:50
Speaker
Have you watched?
00:45:52
Speaker
The one that released today slash last night?
00:45:55
Speaker
Yes.
00:45:55
Speaker
No.
00:45:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:58
Speaker
When you do, you're going to need to text me because there's content.
00:46:06
Speaker
Because it's awesome.
00:46:08
Speaker
It's funnier for us than for anybody else watching the show.
00:46:16
Speaker
Amy afterwards says, I'm not sure that they intended for that line to be as funny as we found it, but we found it hilarious.
00:46:26
Speaker
And when you get there, you'll know what I'm talking about.
00:46:30
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:46:30
Speaker
Did you just when you know, you know me?
00:46:33
Speaker
You know, yes, I did.
00:46:34
Speaker
Yes, I did.
00:46:37
Speaker
How about you?
00:46:38
Speaker
You watching anything new or just old stuff?
00:46:41
Speaker
Since we were on a cruise, we weren't watching anything.
00:46:44
Speaker
So when we got home, we caught up on stuff.
00:46:46
Speaker
So we finished Schmigadoon, watched the episode of Ted Lasso that came out while we were gone.
00:46:57
Speaker
And yeah, I think that's about it.
00:47:00
Speaker
So we were just getting caught up.
00:47:04
Speaker
Did you watch The Diplomat yet?
00:47:06
Speaker
No, we have not yet.
00:47:07
Speaker
Did you watch The Night Aging yet?
00:47:09
Speaker
No.
00:47:09
Speaker
We have not yet.
00:47:10
Speaker
You know, that's been recommended to you.
00:47:12
Speaker
I'm aware.
00:47:14
Speaker
Yes.
00:47:14
Speaker
Yes.
00:47:15
Speaker
That was discussed.
00:47:20
Speaker
You're going to get a reminder every week until you watch it.
00:47:22
Speaker
You know, you can just tell me.
00:47:23
Speaker
I don't, you know, that's, I mean, when we got back, there were a lot, there were a lot of train videos that needed to be watched as well.
00:47:30
Speaker
Those are all queued up.
00:47:31
Speaker
So, you know, I mean.
00:47:32
Speaker
Yeah, I can see.
00:47:35
Speaker
I get it.
00:47:37
Speaker
Time for twill.
00:47:39
Speaker
Yeah, I think so.
00:47:40
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:43
Speaker
You want me to go first?
00:47:45
Speaker
Doesn't matter.
00:47:46
Speaker
I can.
00:47:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:47
Speaker
When, because I don't think mine's particularly funny.
00:47:49
Speaker
It's just something that I learned.
00:47:52
Speaker
I was in Orlando and the, the contractors that we hired for the activation that we gave away in the booth, what we did was this doesn't have anything to do with anything, but we, I don't know if you can see this.
00:48:13
Speaker
That looks like a, that is that a wood engraved key chain.
00:48:18
Speaker
Then on the back, it's blank.
00:48:21
Speaker
But what we would do is we would take your picture and then we would laser engrave your picture on the back of the key chain.
00:48:31
Speaker
Oh, like an analog air tag.
00:48:34
Speaker
Yes.
00:48:34
Speaker
Who does this belong to?
00:48:36
Speaker
Oh, it's Fred.
00:48:37
Speaker
I know him.
00:48:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:40
Speaker
You don't even need to know his name.
00:48:42
Speaker
You just walk around and just, or if you go, hey, I found somebody's keys and somebody walks up to you and goes, I think you have my keys.
00:48:49
Speaker
You can go, let me check.
00:48:51
Speaker
Nope.
00:48:52
Speaker
Huh.
00:48:53
Speaker
How about that?
00:48:54
Speaker
So anyway, Vitey, who was the lead for the company that we hired to do this project, she and I were talking about the podcast.
00:49:04
Speaker
So I had to explain to her how to find it.
00:49:09
Speaker
No G, no space, which she did on the first try.
00:49:13
Speaker
Excellent.
00:49:14
Speaker
It's starting to catch on.
00:49:16
Speaker
And I also encouraged her to listen to the hiatus episode because it's not out yet, but it'll be out.
00:49:25
Speaker
If you want to listen to something, this one's pretty good and it doesn't have anything to do with anything else.
00:49:29
Speaker
So it's anyway, but then later that day,
00:49:35
Speaker
She comes over and says, Hey, I've got content for your podcast.
00:49:38
Speaker
I said, really?
00:49:40
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:40
Speaker
You know, if you provide content, you get a mention.
00:49:43
Speaker
So hi, Vitey, if you're listening, did you know, because I'm sure you do, this is something that I learned, but it's something that I'm sure that you are keenly aware of.
00:49:58
Speaker
Tom Sandoval quit drinking after Vanderpump Rules.
00:50:04
Speaker
Please, please don't tell me you expect me to know that.
00:50:09
Speaker
Are you not an avid?
00:50:11
Speaker
So you're a closet Vanderpump Rules watcher is what you're telling me.
00:50:15
Speaker
You refuse to admit that you are up on Scandaval.
00:50:21
Speaker
And the relationship and the comeback of the character that's been gone for five years and how he had this affair, Tom Sandoval, he had a scandalous affair, hence Scandoval.
00:50:36
Speaker
A scandalous affair with Raquel Levis.
00:50:40
Speaker
You didn't know all of this.
00:50:41
Speaker
I'm sure you did because you are a closet Vanderpump Rules watcher.
00:50:46
Speaker
Whereas I, this was all new information to me, which I learned this week from Vitey.
00:50:52
Speaker
So thank you, Vitey, for bringing me up to speed on Vanderpump Rules.
00:50:58
Speaker
You're welcome.
00:51:00
Speaker
One, I don't know how you think that I would have known any of that.
00:51:04
Speaker
Liar.
00:51:05
Speaker
And B,
00:51:07
Speaker
And B, what the hell am I going to cover now?
00:51:09
Speaker
Because you just took my story of what I learned this week.
00:51:17
Speaker
That Tim Scandalval thing.
00:51:19
Speaker
He's a dog.
00:51:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:24
Speaker
I promised I would cover it.
00:51:25
Speaker
This is where I put it.
00:51:29
Speaker
How about you?
00:51:29
Speaker
Did you learn anything good?
00:51:32
Speaker
Well, okay.
00:51:33
Speaker
So you were talking about the airplane configuration?
00:51:35
Speaker
Uh-huh.
00:51:37
Speaker
So get on the plane in Salt Lake.
00:51:40
Speaker
This is before what I'm now referring to as the Kurt Warner incident.
00:51:51
Speaker
Sorry.
00:51:55
Speaker
We just about lost him there, folks.
00:52:00
Speaker
The Kurt Warner incident.
00:52:03
Speaker
Sorry, please continue.
00:52:06
Speaker
The flight attendant was super, was super nice, super excited.
00:52:10
Speaker
I mean, and it was sort of this genuine like, hey, welcome aboard and everything else.
00:52:15
Speaker
And we happen to be in this case, we happen to be on a 757.
00:52:19
Speaker
which is it's got a single aisle, but it's really, really long.
00:52:23
Speaker
It's the nickname of it in the aviation industry is the flying pencil because it's basically just this really long tube with some wings.
00:52:34
Speaker
And just it looks out of proportion.
00:52:37
Speaker
Anyway.
00:52:39
Speaker
It's the second week in a row.
00:52:41
Speaker
Siri makes a guest appearance.
00:52:45
Speaker
I don't know what she was trying to get out of that.
00:52:48
Speaker
Anyway, pencils don't fly, Todd.
00:52:50
Speaker
Come on.
00:52:51
Speaker
Anyway.
00:52:53
Speaker
So he was explaining because people were coming on and he's like, yep.
00:52:57
Speaker
Somebody was like, I'm in row 49.
00:52:59
Speaker
He's like, yep, just keep going to the back.
00:53:02
Speaker
And he was explaining to everybody, this is the longest single aisle plane that has been made.
00:53:06
Speaker
And he was explaining all about this.
00:53:08
Speaker
Anyway, people in front of us, a couple next to me, they suddenly now are interested in planes.
00:53:14
Speaker
So now we're talking about planes and plane types.
00:53:17
Speaker
And
00:53:19
Speaker
They were asking the flight attendant all sorts of questions about planes and the Delta fleet.
00:53:25
Speaker
What I will tell you is he was getting nearly 60 to 70% of his answers.
00:53:30
Speaker
Correct.
00:53:35
Speaker
Real time fact checking from Todd.
00:53:40
Speaker
I, it was so hard to sit there.
00:53:46
Speaker
Actually.
00:53:52
Speaker
I did one and it wasn't a fact check.
00:53:56
Speaker
The gentleman to my left who eventually watched the movie asked the flight attendant, hey, does anybody fly the 747 anymore?
00:54:07
Speaker
And he and the flight attendant said, I don't I don't think we have any.
00:54:13
Speaker
I don't know that anybody flies it because that's a really old plane.
00:54:18
Speaker
And I just and he's like, oh, that's too bad.
00:54:20
Speaker
You know, I'd love to, you know, it'd be nice to fly on it.
00:54:23
Speaker
And I just leaned over and I'm like, there's some foreign carriers that have it, including Lufthansa.
00:54:29
Speaker
That was enough.
00:54:30
Speaker
I didn't even give him the list.
00:54:32
Speaker
By the way, the list is Lufthansa, Korean Airlines and British Airways still operates.
00:54:37
Speaker
Lufthansa has the most.
00:54:39
Speaker
There you go.
00:54:40
Speaker
And they're not that old of planes.
00:54:42
Speaker
They're the ones they have are about 10 years old.
00:54:45
Speaker
So they got plenty of life.
00:54:46
Speaker
Anyway, I left it at that.
00:54:48
Speaker
And then the questions continued.
00:54:50
Speaker
And the answers were getting wronger and wronger.
00:54:54
Speaker
And I'm just like, I, okay.
00:55:01
Speaker
Title.
00:55:04
Speaker
Anyway, everybody was having fun.
00:55:07
Speaker
That's fine.
00:55:08
Speaker
Does anybody really just make it up as you go?
00:55:12
Speaker
Just what he sounded authoritative.
00:55:15
Speaker
He said they covered this in their training.
00:55:17
Speaker
And my thought was either you're remembering your training wrong or your training sucks, because I know for a fact that the last three things you said are factually incorrect about airplanes and Delta.
00:55:28
Speaker
But whatever.
00:55:29
Speaker
That's cool.
00:55:30
Speaker
He then goes to the back.
00:55:31
Speaker
The next flight attendant comes up.
00:55:34
Speaker
She's a very nice woman.
00:55:35
Speaker
She's also very excited.
00:55:37
Speaker
And somebody made a comment and she goes, yeah, this is a really long plane.
00:55:40
Speaker
She goes, I really love flying on this.
00:55:41
Speaker
It's comfortable playing, which a lot of people say.
00:55:44
Speaker
Cool.
00:55:44
Speaker
It's fine.
00:55:45
Speaker
And then she said, and she goes, because somebody said, are we going to leave late?
00:55:50
Speaker
And she goes, well, don't worry.
00:55:51
Speaker
She goes, because the 757 has the same engines as the 767, but it's a lighter aircraft.
00:55:58
Speaker
So we have a lot more power so we can just make this up in the air.
00:56:04
Speaker
Nope.
00:56:07
Speaker
None of that.
00:56:09
Speaker
None of that.
00:56:11
Speaker
And I'm just like, why would you say that?
00:56:19
Speaker
I don't know.
00:56:20
Speaker
Anyway, again, everybody's having a good time and everybody felt like we could just make it up in the air, which apparently is what they were doing with their answers, except we were still on the ground.
00:56:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:42
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00:56:45
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00:56:56
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I, I don't have to know everything.
00:56:57
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I just have to know more than you.
00:56:58
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Yeah.
00:57:03
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That's a 40 year callback.
00:57:05
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That's nice.
00:57:08
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00:57:16
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00:57:19
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00:57:22
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00:57:25
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00:57:28
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00:57:30
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Stop on by.
00:57:31
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Please don't do that.
00:57:32
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What else do I say here?
00:57:33
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00:57:34
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00:57:35
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00:57:43
Speaker
Is this when they release their good shows?
00:57:49
Speaker
Oh, wow!
00:57:51
Speaker
Because...
00:57:52
Speaker
Because that's what we do.
00:57:53
Speaker
Doug, it's what we do.
00:57:54
Speaker
That was a shot at us, not at you, just to be clear.
00:57:59
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If you have feedback on the last 15 seconds or anything else we said, send it to feedback at targettodd.com or text one of us since everybody has our cell phone numbers.
00:58:11
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:58:12
Speaker
Todd?
00:58:13
Speaker
Hmm.
00:58:15
Speaker
Vanderpump Rules follows Lisa Vanderpump and the staff at her restaurant and bars, Sir Restaurant and Lounge, Pump Restaurant, and Tom and Tom Restaurant and Bar in West Hollywood, California, as they work on building their futures in show business and becoming entangled in interpersonal drama.
00:58:32
Speaker
The show initially centered on new server Shiana and her relationship with established employees, Kristen, Katie, Tom Sandoval.
00:58:40
Speaker
Hey, I've heard of that guy.
00:58:42
Speaker
Stassi and Jax.
00:58:45
Speaker
For the record, they have had 10 seasons.
00:58:48
Speaker
Holy shit.
00:58:49
Speaker
They've had 196 episodes.
00:58:55
Speaker
Good for them.
00:58:57
Speaker
We've had 167.
00:58:59
Speaker
Yeah, so really.
00:59:02
Speaker
Same, same.
00:59:04
Speaker
How hard could it be to do that?
00:59:11
Speaker
just for whatever we do, we've already pissed off the Swifties.
00:59:13
Speaker
Do not put anything about Vanderpump Rules in the title of this.
00:59:17
Speaker
Or their fans, the Pumpheads, I don't know, whatever.
00:59:20
Speaker
They're going to come for us.
00:59:23
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Talking to Todd Rules.
00:59:27
Speaker
Oh, invariably we'll be cleaning stuff up next week, but we will be back.
00:59:32
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Now this was all fine.
00:59:35
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We'll be back.
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We're here.
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We're talking to Todd.
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You know how you said the only way you're going down 57 flights of 60 flights of stairs is if there's a fire five to one.
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I'm just getting ready to go to bed because again, I got in late.
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I lay down in the bed and I hear the fire alarm go off.
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Not in my room and not in the hallway, but there's a distinct fire alarm going off.
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And then there's two fire alarms going off.
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And it sounds like they're coming out of the stairwells.
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And my thought is, I'm on the 57th floor.
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I think that's the fire alarm, but I'm not sure.
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How sure do I need to be before I get dressed and start heading down the flights of stairs?
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Answer.
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Todd came to the conclusion.
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I need to be more sure than I was at that point.
01:01:04
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I'm sure somebody will turn that off eventually.
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Or turn on the alarm in my room telling me I need to move.
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Yeah.
01:01:14
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Look, this is going to get better or worse.
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Where it is right now is not an actionable level.