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