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Ep. 320 - I Can Still Taste the Tentacles
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Ep. 320, Recorded 4/15/2026. Octopus Grammar War. Brian’s (Swan) Song. Just “A” Marathon. My Copilot can’t read. Lincoln Funeral Flag. Some Birds Pivot. Florida Man Diplomacy. Royals Are Un-Watchable. Office Makeover Chaos. Garage Door Victory.
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Visit to Fenway Park
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Dewayne
Okay, Pope Good. Where were we going with this? No.
00:00:05
Todd
Nope, not that one. Not that one.
00:00:06
Dewayne
No.
00:00:07
Todd
Other show.
00:00:07
Dewayne
Oh, that's the other.
00:00:07
Todd
Other show.
00:00:08
Dewayne
Oh, thank you. who Boy, that was close.
00:00:09
Todd
Yeah. Levels, levels.
00:00:12
Dewayne
Levels, levels. Wow, my levels, levels are really low.
00:00:14
Todd
Hey.
00:00:18
Dewayne
There we go. Okay.
00:00:19
Todd
All
00:00:20
Dewayne
Rock and roll.
00:00:23
Todd
right. Hey, are you wearing a... Wait, I see you're wearing a hat. It says Fenway. Are you wearing a Boston Red Sox hat?
00:00:31
Dewayne
No, no, no, I'm not.
00:00:34
Todd
Okay.
00:00:35
Dewayne
I'm a Royals fan.
00:00:38
Todd
Takes a lot to say. Even though you can't watch him, still a Royals fan.
00:00:42
Dewayne
Actually, I'm going to have updates for you on that under what we're watching.
00:00:50
Todd
Excellent. Okay. All right. But you're a Royals fan. Oh, I see. It's not a Red Sox hat. It says Green Monster Fenway Park.
00:00:59
Dewayne
Exactly. Yes, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of the wall. and i'm have
00:01:06
Dewayne
I'm a fan of.
00:01:06
Todd
It's a big wall. It's a beautiful wall. You got to be real careful. At least the hat's green. If that was a red hat and you're saying I'm a fan of the wall, we got a whole other issue to talk about. Anyway. sir Yeah. now There we go. Okay. so So have you been to Fenway Park recently?
00:01:23
Dewayne
I have, so this last week I was on a work trip. I was in Boston and we're going to do a party client event at Fenway Park.
00:01:33
Dewayne
Well, when the Red Sox are gone, we're in town for this conference, but the Red Sox are gone.
00:01:36
Todd
Okay.
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Dewayne
So we're renting out the club level and doing a reception and doing dinner. And we're offering tours of the ballpark. So you can get a behind the scenes tour and, you know, go stand on top of the green monster
00:01:54
Todd
Yeah, given the story, don't don't take him through the door in the green monster. You don't want the behind-scenes tour of that. but Anyway, we were there Leeds fans here?
00:01:59
Dewayne
Oh.
00:02:02
Todd
Not really, but anyway, that's a different story. Okay, okay so that's why you're wearing a Fenway Park hat, because as a Royals fan, you wouldn't wear a Boston Red Sox hat.
00:02:08
Dewayne
Right.
00:02:14
Dewayne
Never. I won't wear a Red Sox hat. I won't wear a Yankees hat. Nope.
00:02:18
Todd
Okay, but I...
00:02:19
Dewayne
Nope. i i'll wear I'll wear a Cubs hat. National League.
00:02:24
Todd
different thing. Different league. Okay. right. But wait a minute. Hold on. I understand why you wouldn't wear a Red Sox or a Yankees hat, any of those. I mean, let's be honest because, you know, they win. However, I have seen you wear an American League hat. You have more than once on the show, you've been wearing an A's hat. What do you have to say for that?
00:02:50
Dewayne
Well, the A's suck.
00:02:53
Todd
Oh, yeah. So so in the tiers, you can't go up, but basically you're wearing a charity hat that just says, oh, bless their hearts.
00:03:02
Dewayne
that's why I can wear any AAA ballpark. I can wear trip any AAA team, right? Yes.
00:03:09
Todd
Including the A's.
00:03:33
Dewayne
Hi toddlers. Welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prince where failure is always an option. Thanks for joining
Introduction and Podcast Catch-up
00:03:41
Dewayne
us. Hey Todd.
00:03:43
Todd
Hey, how's it going?
00:03:44
Dewayne
Pretty good. Pretty good. How are you?
00:03:47
Todd
Oh, not too bad. Not too bad. I'm just hanging out down here in the studio. Quick check. Dogs were here. They heard the cold open. They left. So I don't know how bad. I don't know how that's going to go for the rest of the show, but they were like, oh, it's Todd recording the podcast. That's that's no good. I just I'm going to going to head back upstairs. So, yeah, everybody's a critic.
00:04:10
Todd
Everybody's a critic.
00:04:13
Dewayne
Woof.
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Dewayne
Let's see some feedback, follow up and updates.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Dewayne
Nothing from toddler number one.
00:04:20
Todd
Okay. nothing from Nothing from Lisa. we've been We've been banking a couple of them. we're going to We're going to be headed to the disclosed undisclosed location this weekend. So we've got to drive ahead of us.
00:04:31
Todd
So we have gigabytes and gigabytes and gigabytes of podcasts to get through.
00:04:39
Dewayne
yeah the The learning curve on posting in the new system is steep.
00:04:48
Todd
Yeah.
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Dewayne
working out some Working out some bugs. I mean, there it's a they're posting.
00:04:53
Todd
We get. Yes, that's the important part, right? Shows are going out.
00:04:59
Dewayne
Yes.
00:04:59
Todd
Also, we get we get paid by the megabyte, not by the download, right?
00:05:04
Dewayne
I believe that's correct that's true. Yes.
00:05:07
Todd
No, I literally thought, wait, we get paid. No, it's not. OK.
00:05:14
Dewayne
Let's see, from the other things that we got from Sarah Judson Brown, toddler negative 18.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Dewayne
She's listening. And we were, taught I was, I was talking about the oldest octopus is not the oldest octopus anymore.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Dewayne
And I use the word octopuses. And she was, she was going to send me an actually.
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Todd
Okay.
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Todd
Okay.
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Dewayne
But.
00:05:47
Dewayne
When she went to go look it up, she got um-actuallyed herself. The most commonly accepted and grammatically correct plural of octopus is octopuses.
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Dewayne
While octopi is frequently used, it's technically incorrect because the word has Greek rather than Latin roots.
Iowa Hawkeye Football Violations
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Dewayne
Octopodes would be another technically correct option, but octopuses is the preferred.
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Todd
Good to know. My other thought, though, was other other strange fact, though. Octopi still ranks higher on Dwayne's list of pies above pecan pie.
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Todd
So
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Dewayne
Yes.
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Todd
what do we got? We got octopi and pecan pie. I'll take the octopi, please.
00:06:33
Dewayne
I'll take that. Yep, I can still taste the tentacles.
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Todd
Yeah.
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Todd
It's better than the pecans.
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Dewayne
from From Jake, this is, I suppose this is follow up from Toddler Matt Damon.
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Dewayne
Did you see in the news this week that the Iowa Hawkeye football team had to forfeit four games because of recruiting tampering?
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Todd
Two things. One, no, don't really follow that that much. And two, I didn't think that was... You can literally offer people cash. How could there possibly be a recruiting violation at this point?
00:07:19
Todd
You offered to not pay them? Oh, you can't do that now. You just gave them a scholarship? Can't do that.
00:07:26
Dewayne
So they contacted the player before he entered the portal. And this was back in 2022, 23. So then they had to forfeit games.
00:07:41
Dewayne
At which point, Jake argues that Brian Ferentz met his contractual obligation and should be reinstated.
00:07:53
Todd
because the number of games
00:07:57
Dewayne
Exactly.
00:07:59
Todd
here's the thing I'm just gonna I don't know all the facts um'm I'm sure I'll be corrected potentially within the next 30 seconds but
00:08:08
Todd
While the denominator goes down, yes, the points in those forfeits is zero. And somehow scoring four games of zero points makes Brian Ferencz's offense look better?
00:08:25
Todd
Yep, that checks. that Look, we you'd be better off if you, your offense would be better off if we just didn't play. Like if we just didn't take the field.
00:08:34
Dewayne
what it was it was low scoring games that got removed so his average went up he still didn't hit his total points necessary but his average per game was enough to have him keep his job so
00:08:50
Todd
Oh, so you're saying he would have hit the over. Well, nope, college football. Don't don't talk about don't don't do that.
00:08:55
Dewayne
No, no. though
00:08:59
Todd
Hey, not quite follow up for the show, but just looking down our our list here. Hey, quick shout out to Yvonne and Don and Wrigley. Don and Yvonne have been in Europe and as we record, I believe just got home today. So I have a sneaking suspicion there may be a backlog of talking to Todd's that will soon become walking to walking to Todd with Wrigley. So Yvonne, when you're listening to this, hey, welcome back.
00:09:27
Todd
Also, please check to make sure there's no packages on our front porch if you could. That'd be great. Thanks. thats That's how I send messages now. I just just use the podcast.
00:09:45
Dewayne
whatever whatever works
00:09:48
Dewayne
Let's see, what else do we have under follow-up?
00:09:51
Todd
I think that's, I think that's, oh, under follow-up. Oh, hey, like, I don't know, six weeks ago, we were talking about if we were going to get tickets to the Broadway touring series here, and I said we were on the waiting list, and you said, wait, what?
00:10:08
Todd
yes that was like six weeks ago yesterday got the email now's your time to go ahead and and uh get right in and so click this link and uh so we we finally we did get our our season tickets for the next season of the of the broadway shows here so So one, that's good. We've got shows coming up. Two, Lisa thinks she's also found the worst ticketing system website in the United States may be involved. And she she may not be wrong. However,
00:10:40
Todd
As of now, we have our season tickets and we've only been charged once for them. that was not this That was not the status all day yesterday and today, but by by tonight, the number of tickets we've been charged for and the number of tickets we have are now, after some phone calls, equal. So, yay.
00:11:01
Dewayne
I wonder if they use the same ticketing system that the Des Moines Civic Center uses because we got charged twice for our tickets.
00:11:10
Todd
Hey, I'd like to call and report a problem. Yep, this is Eli. How may help you? Yep, I knew it. I knew it.
00:11:17
Dewayne
Nope.
00:11:18
Todd
Son of
00:11:21
Dewayne
You sure it wasn't Kevin?
00:11:27
Todd
a.
00:11:27
Dewayne
Intern number one, intern number two.
00:11:31
Todd
Let's see. What did you bring?
00:11:33
Dewayne
Greg sent me a note.
00:11:37
Dewayne
The Milwaukee Marathon. Did you see this story, Todd? Yeah.
00:11:44
Todd
No, but having been to Milwaukee, I'm assuming that starts downtown and you run 26.2 miles straight out of town. You don't loop back. you just It's just, how do I get out of Milwaukee?
00:11:55
Todd
Anyway, no, I did not see it.
00:11:58
Dewayne
So,
00:11:59
Dewayne
I mean, this is something that we've covered on a semi-regular basis. And it's happened once again, Todd, I'm going to send you a picture of the medals that they gave out for the finishers.
00:12:17
Todd
All right, let's see.
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Todd
Okay. the Milwaukee
Milwaukee Marathon Medal Mishap
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Todd
Marathon, Marathon Finisher.
00:12:28
Todd
So that's supposed to be MKE, right?
00:12:32
Dewayne
Correct.
00:12:33
Todd
which is the Which is the airport code for Milwaukee, right?
00:12:37
Dewayne
Yes.
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Todd
Okay. And then there's a QR code.
00:12:41
Dewayne
There is.
00:12:42
Todd
Yeah.
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Dewayne
Up at the top, what did what did they actually run in, Todd?
00:12:49
Todd
Oh, I see. Let's see. Okay. So they they ran in the Milwaukee Marathon.
00:12:54
Dewayne
Yes, they did.
00:12:57
Todd
Yeah. Yep. That's the Marathon. The sad thing is at the bottom of the medal, it says Marathon Finisher. So they had the word right on the bottom. And what I'm guessing is like three or four inches above, it's the Marathon.
00:13:11
Dewayne
Yes.
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Dewayne
At least they had the distance correct. Which, of the two...
00:13:18
Todd
Well, no, technically that's a short marathon because it's only a marathon.
00:13:21
Dewayne
the tough
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Todd
So.
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Todd
Came up a bit too short.
00:13:29
Todd
One other thing and follow up this this could have this this could have gone into idiots, but we've we got other stuff. But, you know, we we continue talking about how great AI is and how everything is just going wonderful. The tech, the tech.
00:13:43
Todd
blogosphere kind of erupted this week. whence you know When you you know when you go to install software, you know how you get the like terms of service and know, do you ever read it before clicking I agree?
00:13:52
Dewayne
Yeah.
00:13:56
Dewayne
Oh, hell no.
00:13:56
Todd
no no, no, nobody does.
00:13:58
Dewayne
Nobody he does.
00:13:59
Todd
Well, recently somebody went through and looked at Copilot's terms of service on Microsoft's website and understand Copilot is now bundled with, if you have, if you've got a personal account, you may have Copilot.
00:14:16
Todd
If you have a company and you've got like Microsoft accounts, there's Copilot that comes with it. And then they're also charging you, wanna say they're charging you $20 a person if you want the advanced Copilot, which can be like a chat bot and those kinds of things. And I will just say this, Being at a company that uses Microsoft, Microsoft would very much like you to buy lots and lots of licenses because it can solve all your problems because AI is great because you wouldn't believe what you could do with AI. This is amazing.
00:14:49
Todd
The person read the terms of service and on the terms of service that were updated last in August of last year, it specifically says, quote, co-pilot is for entertainment purposes only.
00:15:01
Todd
It can make mistakes and may not work as intended. Do not rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. Okay. So this is back to, remember when Tesla was selling full self-driving marketing,
00:15:19
Todd
But when they submitted their official government forms to California, they said that it is not actual self-driving. There's marketing, and then there's what the lawyers are going to say.
00:15:28
Dewayne
right
00:15:32
Todd
Marketing says, this is amazing. It can solve all of your problems. But Microsoft actually... The lawyers have said, hey, listen, if anybody takes us to court, we have this clause that says it is for entertainment purposes only. Yeah, I'm running my entire business on Copilot. The marketing people are like, yes, let's put you in ads. And the lawyers are like, good luck with that, man. I'm I'm telling you, I work for Microsoft and I don't use it because it's for entertainment purposes. The entertainment is when we watch all of your data just disappear.
00:16:07
Todd
Hey, clean up my inbox. Look at that. Hey, Larry, Larry, it's doing it again. It's doing it again.
00:16:11
Dewayne
Oh, watch this.
00:16:12
Todd
Watch this.
00:16:12
Dewayne
Come watch this.
00:16:15
Todd
It doesn't say for who's entertainment. Entertainment only. So
Game Segment Introduction
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Todd
that's great. AI is going well. Super well.
00:16:21
Dewayne
Super, super well.
00:16:22
Todd
Super well. Yep. Can't get enough of it. All right. Okay. So that's follow up. No tech corner. no None of this. Oh, Hey, we get to play a game.
00:16:34
Dewayne
We do get to play a game.
00:16:46
Dewayne
That's right. That sound means it's time for one of America's favorite games. It is time for Todd Audenow this week. Todd.
00:16:55
Todd
Yep.
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Dewayne
So when Abraham Lincoln passed away,
00:17:05
Todd
Okay, go on
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Todd
And that's a that's an interesting way of saying assassinated, but sure, whatever.
00:17:14
Dewayne
Right? Yes.
00:17:14
Todd
Great.
00:17:14
Dewayne
Okay.
00:17:15
Todd
Yep.
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Dewayne
Yep.
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Dewayne
The flag that draped the casket
00:17:24
Dewayne
during the 13-day funeral train that took him back to Illinois.
00:17:34
Todd
Oh, they took Amtrak.
00:17:36
Dewayne
Yes, that's yes.
00:17:38
Todd
Washington, D.C. to Illinois in just 13 days. Welcome to Amtrak.
00:17:46
Dewayne
So this was a long time ago, right?
00:17:49
Dewayne
The question of the day, Todd, is what happened to the flag that draped the casket during the 13-day train ride that took Abraham Lincoln's body back after the assassination? What happened to the flag?
00:18:07
Todd
It got really sooty from the engine, the coal from the engine.
00:18:14
Dewayne
Okay, that's probably not wrong.
00:18:18
Todd
but But not the answer you were looking for.
00:18:19
Dewayne
But not not really the answer that I was looking looking for. what What happened to it when it was done? where Where did the flag end up, Todd? Do you know? and And it did not, I'll give you a hint, it did not end up in the Smithsonian.
00:18:29
Todd
Okay.
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Todd
There's part of me that really.
00:18:42
Todd
No, OK, not that. All right. Wait, no, not that.
00:18:48
Todd
Let's see. So we went to Illinois. So the train ended in Illinois.
00:18:50
Dewayne
Yep.
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Todd
OK.
00:18:51
Dewayne
Yes.
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Todd
And. it It flew over the Illinois State House for the next 25 years.
00:19:06
Dewayne
not a bad Not a bad guess. not not Not correct.
00:19:12
Dewayne
As it turned out, as it turned out the 37-star flag fell into the possession of an army doctor named Louis Applegate, and it remained in his family for more than a century.
00:19:31
Todd
Okay.
00:19:31
Dewayne
Okay, so, Todd, what happened to it next? The last time, so the the next time it appeared then, was 1996. happened to it in 1996?
00:19:45
Dewayne
what happened to it in ninety ninety six
00:19:48
Todd
I'm assuming that it was given by his great-great-granddaughter, Christina Applegate, and it was put onto the set in Chicago of Married with Children, and it hung for the entire run.
00:20:09
Dewayne
That answer is not correct, but it is absolutely worth a bell.
00:20:16
Todd
All the pieces fit.
00:20:20
Dewayne
It was donated to a Florida museum.
00:20:24
Todd
Oh, man. Florida, man. we're We're headed for Florida, man.
00:20:26
Dewayne
Right? Exactly.
00:20:27
Todd
Okay.
00:20:27
Dewayne
Well, so in so then Florida man put it up for auction in 2024.
00:20:30
Todd
Yeah.
00:20:34
Todd
Okay.
00:20:35
Dewayne
Todd, how much did it reportedly sell for in 2024?
00:20:40
Todd
Sorry. I thought you were going to say it it up in that Trump grocery store that you were in.
00:20:45
Dewayne
Oh, sweet Lord.
00:20:46
Todd
i thought that's that's what were going to say.
00:20:49
Dewayne
Because Lincoln was a Republican. They continually remind us of that.
00:20:55
Todd
Okay. It's going little political here. I'm going to take some of the stuff on the right. It sold for $47,420. Okay. Yep.
00:21:04
Dewayne
You're low.
00:21:05
Todd
okay okay
00:21:07
Dewayne
You want to try again?
00:21:12
Todd
37 and it's it's old and it was on a train and it's Lincoln. And then did it come with a certificate? Like did it come with like like an actual certificate like says that this was a legitimate thing or like I'm just i'm just curious, has anybody authenticated this thing?
00:21:28
Dewayne
Uh, well, you can go and look at it.
00:21:32
Dewayne
So I'm guessing so.
00:21:36
Todd
I'll say $250,000.
00:21:39
Dewayne
Still low, $656,250. businessman Tillman Fertitta.
00:21:41
Todd
Yeah.
00:21:48
Dewayne
businessman tillman fer tita
00:21:51
Todd
Oh, boy. Yep. Okay.
00:21:54
Dewayne
who also owns Keene's.
00:21:58
Dewayne
And that flag is now hanging in Keene's Lincoln Room, which is a steakhouse.
00:22:07
Dewayne
In addition to the historic flag, the restaurant's Lincoln Room showcases a framed, blood-stained playbill from Our American Cousin, purported to be the same playbill that Lincoln was holding at Ford's Theater on the night he was assassinated.
00:22:23
Dewayne
It's said to have been picked up from beneath the president's chair and taken home by a carpenter's assistant.
00:22:29
Dewayne
There's also a hand transcribed handwritten transcribed copy of the Gettysburg Address, among other Lincoln paraphernalia. So this key piece of American history now hanging in a steakhouse.
00:22:46
Todd
What's more American than that?
00:22:47
Dewayne
What is, vote with your dollar.
00:22:51
Todd
I'm going to be honest. I was trying to figure out where you were headed to this, and it was either going to be completely random, steakhouse, or
00:22:59
Dewayne
Yep.
00:23:02
Todd
in a sick twist of fate, somehow it was now hanging in the Ford's Theater. And I was just... Okay. You know, we play Todd ought to know. I'm going to be clear. I don't need to. I shouldn't have known that. I don't need to know where the flag is. I don't i don't need to know any of that. But but cool. Yeah.
00:23:21
Dewayne
Keene Steakhouse in New York City. Next time you're in New York, stop on by.
00:23:28
Todd
Are you here for the stakes? No, I'm just here for the flag.
00:23:30
Dewayne
careful
00:23:34
Todd
I'm really into coffin flags. Sorry, I need to leave. Wait, what?
00:23:37
Dewayne
Sorry, what?
00:23:39
Todd
Okay.
00:23:41
Dewayne
Not a great Todd, I know this week. I'm just going to, I'm just, I'm going to own that. But I,
00:23:45
Todd
Yeah, but here's the thing. As you pointed out, you you took an entire college course on assassination.
00:23:52
Dewayne
I did.
00:23:53
Todd
So, like, you know, yeah.
00:23:53
Dewayne
Yes. yeah Yeah. I mean, it it resonated with me. As we have said, not everything is for everybody. There you go. This one, this went some summit sometimes the jokes are just for me.
00:24:06
Dewayne
There you go.
00:24:08
Dewayne
What did we bring for idiots this week?
00:24:10
Todd
Oh, yeah. speaking of Speaking of AI, well, before we get to that, do you do you remember, and by remember, I mean as of maybe yesterday, but like 10 years ago, there was a shoe brand called Allbirds.
00:24:30
Dewayne
Yeah.
00:24:30
Todd
Do you remember that?
00:24:31
Todd
Yeah.
00:24:31
Dewayne
Yeah, I've been in their store. Yeah.
00:24:33
Todd
So it started out as a direct-to-consumer, you could only buy it through their website as a part of a lot of direct consumers. And then eventually they opened up some of the stores. i I owned a pair of their shoes. I still have them, I think. Lisa, I think, had one.
00:24:45
Todd
We've been in the Allbridge store in London a few times. They've recently announced that they were closing all of their stores because things aren't going so well.
00:24:57
Todd
And here's how here's how things aren't going so well for Allbirds. So earlier this year, they announced that they were closing all their brick and mortar stores. And now they've decided to pivot the company.
00:25:11
Todd
Dwayne, this isn't something you should know, but do you want to guess where Allbirds now, instead of selling shoes and stores where they're pivoting to?
00:25:19
Dewayne
Well, they're pivoting, so it must be basketball shoes.
00:25:23
Todd
There you go. that's You found it. That is not right, but that is that is the connection. No. Allbirds, the shoe company, is leaving the shoe market and is now going to focus only on AI compute infrastructure.
00:25:41
Todd
and they're renaming the company to NewBirdAI. So they're going to be going all in on buying GPUs to build out AI infrastructure so that people can run AI on the NewBirdAI cluster.
00:26:01
Dewayne
that
00:26:02
Todd
That's a pivot.
00:26:03
Dewayne
That sounds like a cluster to me.
00:26:05
Todd
yeah In more ways than one. They actually agreed to sell its brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group, which also owns some other shoe brands.
00:26:18
Todd
But this is where, this is the stupid part about this. Okay. is it Hey, we're a shoe company. Eh, we're not doing well as a shoe company. You know what we are? We're going to buy GPUs and be an AI company. What does that mean? I don't know.
00:26:30
Todd
That part is stupid enough. However... Following the announcement made today, Allbirds stock
00:26:40
Todd
saw a 600% increase.
00:26:45
Todd
On Tuesday, their stock was available for less than $3 a share. And after the announcement, it hit $22 a share. So anyway, congratulations, I guess.
00:27:00
Dewayne
Step one, register talking to Todd on the New York Stock Exchange. Step two, announce that we're pivoting from a podcast
00:27:12
Todd
to an AI company.
00:27:13
Dewayne
to an AI company. Step three, profit.
00:27:17
Todd
Cash the checks. Yeah, cash the checks. By the way, here's what I would use in our press release, because this is exactly.
Allbirds' AI Shift
00:27:23
Todd
So they so as part of this announcement, they are taking out a $50 million dollars loan.
00:27:33
Todd
to quote to acquire, quote, high-performance GPU assets, which will be deployed to serve customers requiring dedicated access to AI compute capacity.
00:27:45
Todd
So, yeah.
00:27:47
Dewayne
You guys couldn't sell shoes. What makes you never?
00:27:53
Todd
And the fun part about this is we pretty much bankrupt the company selling shoes, so we have no money to start AI. So we've got somebody to loan us $50 million dollars so we can buy the AI to then sell.
00:28:10
Todd
Anyway.
00:28:11
Dewayne
Which again is for entertainment purposes only.
00:28:16
Todd
yeah Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, by the way, just to be, just to, just to hold ourselves accountable here, idiots. One, all birds.
00:28:26
Todd
Number two, investors who took a company that knows nothing about AI, who simply said, we're going to borrow some money and buy some GPUs and said, I got to get me into that.
00:28:40
Todd
Anyway, that's my idiot. Things are going great over here in AI world. How about you? What'd you bring?
00:28:47
Dewayne
this This was submitted to me by the watchful eyes of toddler negative 18.
00:28:54
Dewayne
Dateline Kissimmee, Florida. So another Florida man story out of Dwayne.
00:29:00
Todd
Yep.
00:29:01
Dewayne
Florida man arrested after attempting to trade his mother-in-law to Iran as part of a hostage exchange program that he made up
00:29:13
Dewayne
36-year-old Kissimmee man was arrested after trying to broker an international hostage exchange on WhatsApp, offering his mother-in-law in return for two detained Americans and lower local gas prices.
00:29:33
Dewayne
his His meticulously formatted proposal, complete with a pre-filled notary block, was accidentally accidentally sent to a Tehran carpet shop, which answered with a rug promotion instead of diplomacy.
00:29:52
Todd
I mean, one could say he probably came closer to a deal with Iran than our vice president. Sorry. So here's my question.
00:30:02
Dewayne
Yes.
00:30:03
Todd
don't know if this is clear or not. Did he think he was actually he was actually making so trying to make some sort of deal And this was a good way to get his mother-in-law out of the picture.
00:30:16
Todd
Or was it, seriously, I don't even need the hostages. I don't need anything back. Would you guys just take her? Like, as a sign of goodwill. Like, just as a, you know. The other problem, though, is is that, like, even if they said yes, I mean, what would you do?
00:30:30
Todd
Would you put her on a boat? Because then you have to go right through the Strait of Hormit. Nope, can't do that.
00:30:34
Dewayne
Nope, can't do that.
00:30:34
Dewayne
Nope, double.
00:30:35
Todd
Boy, I don't even know i don't know where to do this at.
00:30:39
Todd
Here's the question. Did he actually break any laws in Florida?
00:30:44
Dewayne
That's
Bizarre Florida Man Story
00:30:44
Dewayne
a good question.
00:30:44
Todd
Second question.
00:30:44
Dewayne
Well, probably not.
00:30:45
Todd
Are there laws in Florida other than the ones about, you know, you can't read books? Are there any other laws in Florida?
00:30:52
Dewayne
I think he was from Florida. I'm not sure that he broke Florida law.
00:30:54
Todd
Oh.
00:30:56
Dewayne
I think he probably broke federal law.
00:30:56
Todd
Got it.
00:31:02
Todd
Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:06
Todd
i also I also think this is kind of funny. when When you use the phrase hostage exchange, normally what that means is both sides have hostages or prisoners and you're exchanging them. So by the using the word exchange, you're you're implying that your mother-in-law is a hostage or a prisoner that you're willing to exchange. Again, i'm just that's how it normally works from what I've read.
00:31:35
Todd
i and Okay, sorry. Another thing. He just on WhatsApp was like, I'm pretty sure i can message, quote, the Iranians. unco Like, what's your handle? At Iran? Okay, cool. Like, I don't.
00:31:52
Todd
and And if it was the actual WhatsApp group, don't you think that there was probably quite a bit of incoming messages? theyve They've got some other stuff on their hands right now versus like, oh, hey, listen, Chuck from Florida has a pretty good offer for us.
00:32:10
Todd
Hear me out. I think we had to listen to him.
00:32:13
Dewayne
Have you met his mother-in-law? i don't know.
00:32:18
Todd
Yeah, look, we've got enough problems in this country. We don't need her. So you know what? you just the best thing The best thing you can do for Iran is keep her in Florida.
00:32:29
Dewayne
Oh, anyway, yeah, my idiot of the week, Florida man.
00:32:34
Dewayne
Let's see, are we watching anything good this week?
00:32:37
Todd
I mean, nothing super new, although on Sunday was the final round of the Masters. We don't we don't really watch much golf at all, but occasionally we'll throw the Masters on. or And actually, there was we're watching it, and it's like, oh, this is really close. There's like six people within one shot of winning this thing.
00:32:57
Todd
and And then it's like, oh, we have an appointment scheduled. And Lisa's like, well, I guess we'll just – I'm like, no, no, no, hold on. We got YouTube TV. Watch this. i hit pause. and then we leave. We get back. When I turn the TV on, it's going to be right where it is.
00:33:09
Todd
So we we watch the delayed masters.
00:33:14
Todd
Here's what I will say. it it was very interesting. it was It was exciting golf, which you don't always get to say. i mean, going with me is exciting golf, mostly because you don't know what's going to happen, but not in the way that you think, in the complete opposite way.
00:33:21
Dewayne
Fair.
00:33:29
Todd
When we say you don't know what's going to happen, you don't know which direction the ball is going to fly. But this was highly competitive golf. they Somebody took a 10 on one hole, and they didn't show a single shot of it.
00:33:43
Todd
And I'm like, come on, show the 10. Show the 10. Anyway, CBS struggled. I will just say this, especially...
00:33:55
Todd
On 18, Rory sent his ball into... Let's just put it this way. That ball was about where I'm like... They're like, oh, that looks like trouble. And I said, oh...
00:34:07
Todd
That's where I live. I live over there. his shot His next shot, he was so far off that their shot tracker couldn't figure out, so they didn't know where the ball was going. But then when it landed, CBS didn't know whose ball was who, so they were like, there's a ball in the bunker. We're not even sure whose it is.
00:34:28
Todd
like You've got a person out there. like you know't And then for the final putt that he had to make, so it didn't go into, it was a short putt, Instead of showing us the ball going in the hole, they shot it so that his pant leg was in front of the hole. So when he knocked it in you didn't even see the ball go in.
00:34:46
Todd
i don't like if this is a tradition like no other, we need to stop this tradition because this was kind of crappy. Did you did you get to see any of it?
00:34:57
Dewayne
i was I was on an airplane. I did find here, let me send you this.
00:35:04
Dewayne
Here's the shot tracking for the quintuple bogey 10 on the par 5
00:35:12
Todd
Oh, look at that.
00:35:14
Todd
Wait. Oh, okay. So there's two and then a three.
00:35:19
Dewayne
right next to it and and then a four that's covered up yeah because that's a a yes is a penalty and then the next shot is a seven which is also a penalty yes yes
00:35:20
Todd
Yeah. and then it And then is is that a is that a drop? Is that four five?
00:35:33
Todd
There's a six over there too. Because is that where the six shot went and then seven was a penalty? like
00:35:39
Dewayne
then seven was a penalty because it was gone and then yes it was yeah it was a mess
00:35:44
Todd
Oh, I see. None of this makes any sense.
00:35:46
Dewayne
Over the green, back over the green, over the green, back over the green. Yeah.
00:35:52
Todd
i would i would I would kill to have a round like that. This is what I aspire to.
00:35:59
Dewayne
Well, then I saw another thing. So it's speaking of the masters, I saw another thing where, okay, so if you're a, let's say you're a 20 handicap.
00:36:07
Todd
Okay.
00:36:09
Dewayne
and you're standing on the 18th tee box at the Masters with a six
00:36:14
Todd
Okay. All right. On the back nine. No, sorry. On the second nine.
00:36:20
Dewayne
on the second nine on Sunday on the final round, and you have a six stroke lead, can you hold it
00:36:21
Todd
Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay.
00:36:34
Dewayne
with your playing partners being Scotty Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
00:36:41
Dewayne
You have a six stroke lead. You know they're going to at least make par and maybe make birdie, which means you need to come in with 10 or maybe a nine to hold your six stroke lead and win.
00:36:43
Todd
Yeah.
00:36:46
Todd
Right. Okay.
00:37:00
Dewayne
And can you do it?
00:37:02
Todd
When you say you, or do you mean the royal you or like when you say you, are you saying me
00:37:08
Dewayne
Like anyone, if you think about, would if you were a 20 handicap, and I'm a 10,
00:37:14
Todd
I mean, at that point, just
00:37:18
Todd
look, try not to kill it. Don't do anything stupid. Just nice, easy strokes down the middle of the fairway if you can do it. I mean.
00:37:26
Dewayne
if you can do it with people lined up on both sides of the, I mean, I would just be, and and as we know, i play a lot of golf and I'm not, I'm not terrible.
00:37:39
Dewayne
I mean, I'm not, a i don't play for money or play in tournaments or, you know, win anything, but I'm not awful.
00:37:48
Dewayne
But I'm not sure I could do it.
00:37:50
Dewayne
and i'm And I'm thinking three wood, seven iron, seven iron, maybe don't four putt.
00:37:59
Todd
Well, here's the thing. I mean, with a two-shot lead, Rory put it in the trees and then in the sand trap.
00:38:11
Dewayne
Yep.
00:38:14
Dewayne
Yep.
00:38:15
Todd
and then And then a nice chip. But he tried to give it away.
00:38:19
Dewayne
Yes, he did. Well, and had he, so one of the other, so our friend Katie, Katie Caggiano, that finished pretty well in the Talking to Todd March Madness bracket.
00:38:33
Dewayne
Katie serves on the board for a local nonprofit, and they did a fundraiser for the masters. So if you donate $100,
00:38:46
Dewayne
all of the, your name goes in, you get to pull a name out of a hat and in the hat are all of the golfers and the masters. So for a hundred dollars, you get one name.
00:38:58
Dewayne
So I'm like, it's Katie, it's a donation.
00:38:58
Todd
Okay. It's
00:39:01
Dewayne
i'm in, here's my hundred dollars. She pulls out Scotty Scheffler.
00:39:07
Todd
good
00:39:08
Dewayne
And I'm thinking at the beginning of the week, I'm thinking, oh boy, I've got a shot here. And at the beginning of the day on Sunday, I'm like, oh boy, I got no shot here. And it came down and he nearly did it. He nearly did it.
00:39:22
Dewayne
But anyway, so I, but I was on an airplane. I didn't get to watch any of that. I was on an airplane coming back from Boston.
00:39:33
Todd
Here's the thing.
00:39:36
Todd
Given CBS's coverage, even if you've been watching it, you still would have missed it. So
00:39:42
Todd
how about you? What have you been watching?
00:39:44
Dewayne
Well, we went and saw Project Hail Mary.
00:39:47
Todd
Excellent. How did you like it?
00:39:49
Dewayne
We really did like it. It was really, really good.
00:39:53
Dewayne
I listened to the pop culture happy hour review of the movie, and some of them had read the book before they saw the movie.
00:40:06
Dewayne
liked the book better than the movie. Some of them have never read the book and really liked the movie. And then somebody else read the book after they saw the movie, which I thought was a little backwards, but it was like that that filled in some extra things. So they didn't feel like it took away from it. But I liked it well enough that I may actually go read this book and I'm, i don't know.
00:40:30
Dewayne
I liked it. It was fun. yeah it it was It was a fun movie.
00:40:34
Todd
Yeah. You know what? This is what you want out of a movie. You're going to pay to go to the movies. It's a fun movie. it's It's got some action. It's it's got lots of stuff. and It's entertaining.
00:40:45
Todd
You feel like, you know what? That was probably worth the money.
00:40:48
Todd
So.
00:40:48
Dewayne
Yep. Especially on a matinee.
00:40:51
Todd
Especially for less money.
00:40:52
Dewayne
Yeah. And then thanks to toddler Matt Damon, I now have access to all of the Royals games.
00:41:06
Dewayne
Because he bought the package. The Royals are no longer blacked out if you buy their local package.
00:41:15
Todd
Okay.
00:41:17
Dewayne
Jake bought the package. My gift to you, he says, login and password. So i what have I been watching? I've been watching the Kansas City Royals.
00:41:31
Dewayne
And Jake's been watching them on his deck. Jake's been having patio beers and watching the Royals on his new deck with outdoor TV. And so where' we've all been watching the Royals around here and it's really awesome.
00:41:46
Dewayne
I wish I had been watching them score more. i wish I could say I had been watching them win, but all I am going to say is that I have been watching them.
00:41:57
Dewayne
Eh.
00:41:59
Todd
You know, at this rate, I think if if you and Jake and a couple of others would kick some money in, there's a non-zero chance you could probably get them to relocate to Des Moines and you could just watch them there. I think they're looking for a stadium deal. So, sure.
00:42:14
Todd
You know what? Hey, we can make you a heck of a deal.
00:42:15
Dewayne
Sure. sure
00:42:18
Todd
We've got Principal Park. It'll fit most everybody who's going be watching Royals games. The iCubs do have preference, so we're going to schedule you we're goingnna have to schedule you on their off days.
00:42:33
Todd
Shouldn't be a problem. The only downside of this is when the A's come to town, they're going feel very at home because they're going like, oh, a AAA ballpark. This is awesome. where Where are your guys' is dressing trailers? So...
00:42:56
Dewayne
and And let's see, the the thing that I learned this week, finally,
00:42:59
Todd
Yeah.
00:43:02
Dewayne
six years after Lucas went to college, We have decided that it's time to redo his old bedroom and actually make it Amy's office. It's been Amy's office pretty much since he left for college the second time after COVID. It's pretty much been her office, but
00:43:24
Todd
It's she's had a desk and a computer set up in in his room.
00:43:28
Dewayne
yes.
00:43:31
Dewayne
Yes, all of the Dowling stuff on the wall, all of the, yes, a closet full of high school clothes and other trash and stuff. Anyway, the last time last time we saw Lucas, he's like, nope, I don't want any clothes that I think I might have wanted. I've already gotten. All of it, can anything that's left can go to Goodwill or into the garbage. So down come all of the posters, down come all of the everything. Out it goes. Amy picked out new paint.
Home Renovation After College
00:44:07
Dewayne
And we hired somebody to paint. One thing I learned. You know what? If it was just walls, I could do that. But Amy wanted to do a color wash.
00:44:19
Dewayne
Apparently, this is a new thing. It's another thing that I learned. New phrase called color wash. In addition to painting all of the walls, she painted the ceiling in the same in the same color.
00:44:32
Dewayne
And it's all dark. So it's this. It's really sharp. It looks really, really sharp. This dark gray kind of with white trim. So it really pops.
00:44:45
Dewayne
And there's now a new pullout couch in the basement in her office. And it's really starting to come together. The other thing that I learned,
00:44:57
Dewayne
relearned, putting together furniture that comes from Amazon is a pain in the ass.
00:45:05
Todd
Okay.
00:45:07
Todd
Makes you long for the days of Ikea.
00:45:10
Dewayne
Oh my God.
00:45:13
Dewayne
at least the...
00:45:13
Todd
i mean
00:45:14
Todd
I mean, that dude only has three fingers, but at least you kind of have an idea of how the parts go together.
00:45:21
Dewayne
You just, you have to be patient and you have to be meticulous. You can't hurry through the assembly of a new bookshelf because as soon as you do, the left is the right and the right is the left and it should have been underneath.
00:45:44
Dewayne
But in this case, everything went together correctly the first time. And things are things are coming together for Amy's office. So it's been a slow, painstaking process. Oh, I also, the other thing that I did tonight, in addition, i assembled a bookshelf. I assembled a side table.
00:46:03
Dewayne
And I installed a new light in the ceiling for that room.
00:46:09
Todd
Look at that.
00:46:11
Todd
Did you turn the power off?
00:46:13
Dewayne
I made sure that the power was off at the switch.
00:46:17
Todd
Mostly counts. Okay.
00:46:21
Todd
I mean, for the jury, I'd like to say that he answered no.
00:46:31
Dewayne
If the switch is off, no power is supposed to come through.
00:46:37
Todd
Note to the jury, notice the word supposed to.
00:46:44
Todd
That'll be important for the insurance forms.
00:46:49
Todd
Huh, that's not wired right.
00:46:49
Dewayne
so on so him So I'm up on the ladder.
00:46:57
Dewayne
Everything's hooked back up. I put the light bulb in. I'm like, okay, aim let's test it. I'm up on the ladder. She reaches over. Click. No light.
00:47:10
Dewayne
Did you flip the correct switch? She's like, i don't know. She flips the other one. Boom, lights come on.
00:47:17
Dewayne
She's like, I flipped the one that I always flip to turn on the lights.
00:47:24
Dewayne
In the process of rewiring it,
00:47:26
Todd
Uh-huh. use the fan wires instead of the light wires.
00:47:31
Dewayne
Instead of the light wires, that's exactly what I did. Yes. But the wires are still up there. And if we decide we ever want to put in a switch for a fan, if we ever want to put in a fan there, it's all wired and it's ready to go.
00:47:40
Todd
Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:44
Dewayne
But now Amy has to learn a new light switch. So the thing Amy learned this week. Yes.
00:47:50
Todd
Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to amend your previous statement. You didn't need to make sure that the power was off at the switch. You needed to make sure that the power off what power was off at the switches.
00:48:03
Todd
Oh, no, I turned the light switch off. sting What the? Oh, it's the fan. Oh,
00:48:11
Todd
not going to tell anybody about this. I'm not going to tell anybody about this.
00:48:14
Dewayne
Nope.
00:48:14
Todd
It's as far as they know, it was fine.
00:48:19
Dewayne
What'd you learn this week?
00:48:21
Todd
So last week, I believe we were talking about we got a quote to replace our garage door and the the garage opener and was like, are you insane of how much money this is?
00:48:33
Todd
So had this conversation. So they want like $5,000 for this brand new garage door and this commercial grade opener and all of this stuff. And we're not going to spend that much. We don't want to spend that much. And quite frankly, the door we're probably going to have to put in because our HOA, every house, the garage doors in this neighborhood, every single house has like the, at the top, the it's It's that half circle light thing up there, which I hate.
00:49:03
Dewayne
Yep.
00:49:05
Todd
Lisa hates, she hates the way it looks. I hate the fact that it kind of makes your garage a little more unsafe. And also we're gonna, it's a south facing garage, so we had to pay extra for insulation. And then I have to cut holes through the insulation. What are we even doing here? you know Anyway, it's it's sort of like unleaded gases more, you had to put the lead in and then take the lead. Anyway, that's fine.
00:49:27
Todd
So we're like, okay, we're not doing that. And I was like, yeah, this kind of sucks. And I said, what are we really trying to do here? I mean, would the new garage door look nice? Sure. Ours has insulation on the back that's just that.
00:49:41
Todd
It's got like the the fabric. it's It's literally like, you know, the fiberglass stuff that you just kind of, it doesn't look great, right? It's not it's not integrated.
00:49:47
Dewayne
Yeah.
00:49:48
Todd
Don't love the look. It's in the garage. Fine. Don't care about the outside. Don't even want to do that What are we really trying to do here? Well, the garage door opener is original to the house. It's over 30 years old.
00:50:02
Todd
Anytime you do it, anytime you move it, it literally sounds like... Imagine like massive gears grinding and like the whole thing shakes, and that's right below our bedroom. So you know when everybody's like, all we really want... I just i just want the garage door to... Oh, and the opener...
00:50:20
Todd
The opener is like is is massive and doesn't really work very well. like All I want the opener to work. I want it to be quiet. I want it work. Every time I push the button, i don't want the whole house to shake.
00:50:32
Todd
That's not $5,000. So we're at Home Depot this weekend. It's like, hmm, let's see. mrs ver That's pretty good. That's pretty good opener. What is that, $250? That's a really good opener for that. Sure, $250. Lisa, you going to put that in yourself? Do you want it to work? You know what? Do you guys have an installation service?
00:50:53
Todd
Bought it on Sunday, Monday. a dude comes out 60 minutes later. New garage door. i get night Lisa was nice enough. when i When I head home from work, i put in a i i put into Apple Maps. I'm on my way home. So I share the ETA. She saw me coming and she opened the garage door because I couldn't because I had the old opener.
00:51:15
Dewayne
Right.
00:51:17
Todd
Tuesday, get home, walk in the walk into the door. The dogs don't know I'm home, and Lisa doesn't know I'm home. I startle all three of them, and she's like, I didn't even hear you. And I'm like, that's what the money's for.
00:51:32
Todd
So do we need to spend all the money? No. A tenth of the money fixes 95% of the problems. That is is what you need to focus on.
00:51:57
Dewayne
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00:52:19
Dewayne
Please don't do that.
00:52:20
Todd
Ring the bell, please.
00:52:22
Dewayne
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00:52:25
Todd
Hey, Kevin, buy a bell for the office. Okay, that's taken care of now.
00:52:31
Dewayne
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00:52:45
Dewayne
Todd?
00:52:47
Todd
So when you were telling the whole Lincoln flag story, I really, I was really hoping this is where I thought you were going. I was really hoping you it it went into a private collection and then until the eighties, 86 or whatever. And then I, what I was really hoping you were going to tell me is, and then it surfaced, but it was still in Illinois and somebody hung it under the Kinsey bridge until August 8th, 2004. When the Dave Matthews band came when the dave matthews band tour bus drove over the top of it and opened up that massive 800 pounds container.
00:53:22
Todd
And that flag was witnessed to a second American tragedy. i swear that's what I was really expecting you to tell me.
00:53:31
Dewayne
It could have happened. It could have happened. It was in Illinois.
00:53:35
Todd
And
00:53:36
Dewayne
There's there's no there's no note here that says it doesn't happen.
00:53:40
Todd
And given the fact that we both have access to AI, we could probably make that happen. You know what? Let me, hey, does anybody know how to edit how to edit a Wikipedia article? I'm on it.
00:53:50
Dewayne
Oh.
00:53:52
Dewayne
My guess is we're gonna have something we need to clean up next week. Until then, we're here. We're talking to Todd.
00:54:29
Todd
when When you said, did you know color washing is a thing? I was this close to saying, yeah, yeah. Oh, I heard all about it. I think it started on January 20th of last year.
00:54:40
Todd
i don't even know what that means, but it sounds right.
00:54:42
Dewayne
I do.