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Ep. 318 - Not my favorite way to eat a sundae
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Ep. 318, Recorded 4/2/2026. Mafia Games. Claude Brackets and other news. Newcastle Sales Pitch. Stay classy, Urbandale. This cup runneth over. Two down in Tier 8. CB Talk. Todd is plugged in. Dewayne learns a new trick.
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File Posting Decision
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are we Are we doing the big file tonight or the small file? Well, we're doing the big file, but if I'm smart, it'll only post the small file. Got it.
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Speaker
Okay. Excellent note. That may actually lead into what I learned this week. Levels, levels. Levels, levels.
Game Feedback & New Game Introduction
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So last week we played a game during the cold open, and I thought that went pretty well.
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Have you listened to it? no sir No, seriously. I thought it went pretty well. Okay. All right. Yeah. well Look, by the premise, by the bit. Sure. Great. Exactly. Okay. All right.
00:00:41
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So this week, I am going to read you three quotes from this week's news. And if you can guess them all correctly, you'll win Carl's voice on your... No, wait. No.
00:00:51
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No. Hold on. Yeah, that sounds vaguely familiar slash possibly moving into copyright infringement area. Okay. Possibly, but but Carl passed away. So, okay. Anyway, ah I'm going to read you the quote. You tell me who said it, or if you can't tell me who said it, tell me what it's regarding. Okay, sure. Yep. Let's do this.
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Quote number one.
Max Verstappen's Controversial Quotes
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You don't need to feel sorry for me. I'll be fine. h
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All right. Let me think this through. Okay.
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We're in March Madness. If we were in, instead of college basketball season, if it was college football season, that sounded to me like what Mike Gundy said after he got fired. Don't worry about me.
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I'll be fine. I'm a man. 40. Yeah. Yeah. So it's probably not that. ah Is it, and it's not Hubert Davis from North Carolina because he was not fine because he got fired.
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I'm going to say it's a coach of a, it's a famous coach of a losing team from the NCAA tournament. I, I will say, i mean, Hubert got a pretty decent payout. Yeah, he's fine. You don't need to be sorry for me. I'll be fine. Would be accurate, but it wasn't Hubert that said that. Okay.
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Actually it was Max Verstappen. Oh, currently ninth in the standings struggled.
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Let's say is that before or after he said, if things don't change, he could retire at the end of this year because formula one is, is boring. And anybody who likes this are, aren't race fans. They're idiots.
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I believe that was before. Okay. Good to know. Good to know. Okay. So no bell on that one. Okay. No, no bell on that one. Quote number two. Yep. I have not enjoyed a single lap in the new cars.
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Okay. i'm I'm assuming, oh, that is also Max Verstappen.
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Todd catching on to the game. Didn't take him long. Had to think for, nope, I know who this is. Yep. Quote number three, Todd. Yep.
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They know what to do. I believe this is also Max Verstappen.
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It was, though it sounded like FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. It really wasn't, but it was very mafia-esque. But that's what Max said when he made those threats about quitting, unless F1 changes their rules, they know what to do.
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which basically comes down to, we got to, there is way too much passing going on. This is nuts. We're race car drivers. We don't pass. They know what to do. Get rid of the passing.
Podcast Introduction & Theme
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Todd wins two out of three. And i can be recording my voice on your home messaging machine. If you know, nevermind.
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Yeah.
00:04:18
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Hi toddlers!
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toddlers Welcome to talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd Prince, where failure is always an option. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Todd.
00:04:46
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Hey, how's it going? Riding the struggle bus today. Whew. Where failure is always an option. I'm pretty sure that is Zencaster's new corporate slogan.
00:04:59
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Man. Anyway. Hey, don't be, don't be bashing our corporate hosting partner, especially, especially when I just submitted for us to try to monetize this frigging thing.
00:05:14
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Uh, in oh what you're telling me in John Oliver parlance is don't, don't be, uh, don't be going after our business daddy. That's the one. That's what I'm saying. Uh, let's see. Okay. So feedback, follow up and updates.
Unusual Sports Concessions & Listener Creativity
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Yeah, we should do that. We should do that. ah From Toddler 401k, two pieces of feedback, one of which I i think i i think I missed last week or or it came out. Maybe I got it the day we recorded.
00:05:45
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You can file this under concessions. New concessions in Seattle this year. Did you see the Mariners announced a big dumper Sunday?
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Speaker
I did. And I saw the picture of it. Look. Okay. So, so is it their catcher? Is that, is he the, is yes. The catcher's nickname is big dumper for exactly the reason you think it is.
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Yeah. Yeah. However, he also hit an amazing amount of home runs last year. Right. Is his name Carl or somebody anyway? So it's it was like he was dumping the ball in like like, oh, OK, that's great.
00:06:26
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But to embrace that, it's a it's a it's an ice cream sundae, right? Right. But instead of putting it in a bowl or like a baseball hat. Baseball helmet, the way you're supposed to. The way God created baseball Sundays to be.
00:06:47
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They put it in a plastic toilet. Yes, they did. So you have to eat your Sunday out of the bowl. It's the big dumper Sunday out of the bowl.
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You know what I'm going to say? It's not my favorite way to eat a sundae. but it is a strong number two. That's what.
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oh Other. Other feedback from Danny. Alternative show title. Last week, I have a borrowed shirt.
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Got a spit take from Danny out of that. Yep. Oh, at least I got a cool shirt. What? I have a borrowed shirt. Uh-huh. From Josh the Dino Toddler?
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Yeah. He posted this on Facebook, which makes me believe you have not seen it. That is correct. Famously.
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From Josh. Josh writes... I did make AI brackets using Claude for our family bracket competition. This was in relation to our conversation about Claude being a winner picking brackets.
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Yes. Yes. But Josh continues, not traditional ones. In honor of Operation Mincemeat, my brother named our family men's group his lease agreement,
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And the women's group, I was born to find trout.
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So he asked Claude for a bracket based on the team that most exemplifies Operation Mincemeat, the team that is born to lead, and the team that is born to find trout.
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Sweet. I love it. Love it. The OM bracket champions were Troy, as in the Trojan horse, on the men's side, and Holy Cross on the women's side.
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Born to lead, favoring traditional athletic or academic powers, featured Kentucky on the men's side, South Carolina on the women's side. Born to find trout, which would be proximity to good trout fishing.
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Obviously.
AI in Sports Predictions & Tournament Updates
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Because why wouldn't it? Yep. Featured Michigan on the men's side. Still in it. Strong, strong pick. Yep. In Vermont on the women's side.
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Not as strong a pick. Yeah. We also had Claude pick other brackets. He had Claude pick a bracket using kindergarten logic. And his brother used Claude to make one after drinking five beers.
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Just to be clear, several times Claude tried to have incorrect matchups and I had to tell it to check its work and fix it. It's on brand. ah And here was Claude's justification for the Holy Cross Crusaders as the women's champions.
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A crusade is a morally complicated mission carried out against impossible odds driven by faith in a cause often requiring elaborate justifications for ethically murky acts.
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That is Operation Mincemeat verbatim. mean, you're not wrong. Right? Yeah. Step one, we need a corpse.
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Danny Hurley can help.
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Anyway, yeah, I said this would absolutely be featured feedback in this week's episode. And because it's on Facebook, 100% of it will be muted, Todd. So there you go. Thank you, Josh.
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Yes, I will say this, though, just so that you're aware, Dwayne. Now that Josh has really opened our eyes to the ability to use AI to pick things, I've asked you to pick ridiculous brackets, and it takes you quite a bit of time because you're you're picking distance and colors and which mascots would win and all of this.
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I can just have Claude do it We could do 10 different brackets. Clearly. Clearly. And we can at least do more than one because Aunt Marcia showed me how I can enter more than one bracket in my pool, even though you're not allowed to do that.
00:11:20
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We've been hacked. Aunt Marcia hacked our brackets. Speaking of brackets, quick little update on where we are going into the final four. Oh, was that still going on?
00:11:33
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Yes. Oh, okay. i kind of kind of lost lost interest in that a while ago. Well, would it help you out to know that you're beating me?
00:11:46
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I mean that. Please tell me more.
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Right now you're 11th. Ooh. If Michigan wins. Not right. Out of 22. If Michigan wins in the semifinal, you will move up.
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But that is your only opportunity to still earn points. Yeah. If Arizona wins and wins out, I will move up.
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But currently I'm at 15th in the lower third.
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ah Up to the top of the bracket where where winning actually matters. In first place, Hawksby, Dufino, AJ from my Football Friday Night crew,
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He needs UConn to win out with an Arizona UConn final and he will retain first place. Nephew Zach needs Michigan to win in a UConn Michigan final and then he would be the victor.
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And if Arizona wins out, Chad Hippen and Aunt Marcia will tie for first and it'll come down to their tiebreaker. So If you're curious, the totally random bracket is in dead last and is maxed out at 38 points.
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Shocker. And no, they did not pick Wichita State. I was going to say, well, there's their problem. They picked Wichita State to win. I don't think they made the tournament. That's more random than necessary.
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i picked a bracket I asked Claude to pick me a bracket comprised completely of people that didn't qualify for the tournament. Why? I don't know. I had some extra credits that that day. I just thought I'd see what would happen.
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Anyway, we will report on on the final ah next week after after the games this weekend. so By the way, how you doing how are you doing in the McFadden family draft draft championship?
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As we stand right now, i don't even need to go back and look. As we stand right now, I am still in first place, but I need UConn to win out in order for me to win the tournament. And ideally, I need a UConn-Arizona final and then have UConn win out because if they don't,
00:14:16
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Either Amy will win if Yukon straight wins out. And if Illinois wins the first game and Arizona wins the first game and Arizona wins overall, Amy's going to win.
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if Illinois wins the entire thing, Amy's going to throw a party and she doesn't care who wins. Yeah, well, there's that. So, yeah. And there's another scenario that somebody else can win, but it's down to like it's down to three of us.
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So depending. But I'm still in that one. So per your comments last week, my hedging worked out at least in one direction. That's why you do that. I guess neither one of these is worth money. So yeah wait, you spent this much time on all of this and there's no money at stake. No.
00:15:09
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True. We've also done a podcast for over 600 episodes and we don't make a dime either. It's like, you guys are bad at this.
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It's worse than that. It costs us money. Jeez.
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Did you have some followup
Transparency Issues in Tech & Sports Financial Strategies
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this week? I did. So new story. You know, we talk about Waymo. By the way, did you know that there are more autonomous vehicle taxi, robo taxi companies than just Waymo?
00:15:40
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They're not the only ones. Yes. Yeah. So ah in February, Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat, Massachusetts, sent letters to seven U.S. companies who are working on autonomous vehicle technology.
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I believe all of these have vehicles driving on public roads. some to a greater degree than others, and he sent a list of questions. One of the questions that he sent was, how often do these companies' robo-taxis rely on input from remote staff? Okay? So,
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You claim this is a robo-taxi, but how often does somebody sitting in in an office somewhere have to jump in and steer or do something, right? And he sent those letters to Aurora, Maymobility, Motional, Neuro, Tesla, Zoox, and our friend Waymo.
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Of the seven companies that he asked, hey, how often how often do you do you need some remote help? All seven of them refused to answer.
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They refused to answer the questions from the senator. um That's that's because their people are busy also counting what's in your shopping cart.
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yeah that's there there's They didn't have time to answer because they were busy. Look, between between shopping the the doing the shopping cart stuff, ah driving through red lights, and going out and closing doors, we're super, super busy.
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Yeah, its TechCrunch reached out to ah each company and asked them the same question. Waymo and Neuro declined to comment. Aurora, I love this, Aurora and Mabel Bility said they appreciated working with Markey's office.
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That was their answer? i refute Yes, that's what they told TechCrunch was, oh, no, we really appreciate working with ah with the senator's office. office by not refus it by refusing to answer questions.
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It's a great partnership. Anyway, so there you go. Everything's going fine. Hey, by the way, while you're driving autonomously on our roads, can we just ask you like about some of your safety features? No? no Complete black box. Okay, good to know. Good to know. Anyway, so autonomous vehicles, great.
00:18:05
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Everything's going great there. um And then A couple of others. So you had mentioned even a couple of weeks ago, you'd brought up last year around this time, Chelsea sold the women's team to themselves.
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Right. Yeah. So based on that, another another team this year has said, you know, that's a heck of an idea.
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We could use some cash. So Newcastle, They didn't sell their women's team. do you know what they sold to themselves? Did they sell their naming rights?
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No, no, no, no, no. They sold their stadium. To themselves. Yes. And you're like, how does that work? Yeah. So you have a company. You have a company that owns Newcastle.
00:18:57
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You then create another you create another shell company. to hold your real estate offerings. And the club sells doing a lot of heavy lifting there sells to the holding company owned by the exact same people. So the holding company then turns over, I'm trying to find out exactly how much they did.
00:19:26
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um but, but, but, uh, without the sales. I mean, they sold it for like more than 150 million pounds from one holding company that is owned by the same group to the football club.
00:19:41
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Huzzah! Look how much money we've made. Now, the club doesn't own their stadium anymore. But good news, you don't have to worry about it because they still own the stadium. we're We're going to lease you back the rights to play there for a dollar a game. You're good.
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Yeah. say something Sure. Yeah. good Because otherwise it would look dodgy from an accounting standpoint. Right. Exactly. So that's going great. um Also, just so you know, understand how well Chelsea has done. So last year, ah they sold the women's team and we talked about this, right? So ah they sold the women's team and they sold the women's team to themselves for approximately 200 million pounds.
00:20:26
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Because of that, ah sorry, I have a lot of numbers up here. I'm just, you know, whatever. they would have, I think they made a profit of 120 million pounds last year, including the sale of the 200 million pounds, which we would call a loss, right?
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However, this year, without anything left to sell, although maybe their stadium, um things went a little differently for them. They recorded the largest ever pre-tax loss in Premier League history.
00:21:09
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They lost 262 million pounds in a one-year window. New record for the amount of loss in a single year by a club.
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And you think, wow, that must be terrible. I guess their revenue's down. Nope. They had the second highest revenue on record. They brought in 490 million pounds of And with almost 500 million pounds of revenue, they still lost 262 million pounds. of revenue they still lost two hundred and sixty two million pounds I'm perfectly fine with us spending a little bit of money and not making money on the podcast. They're making 500 million pounds and are still losing 260.
00:21:56
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two hundred and sixty You know what they're thinking is, we got to start more women's teams. The football club is losing money. we just How many women's teams can we possibly sell in any given year? That's now our business. We start a women's team and then sell it.
00:22:11
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Anyway, financial shenanigans in the EPL. that's It's going great. it's Yeah. Oh, that's you know what That's how we could make money. We need to sell the intellectual property to talk to Todd. What we need is a shell company to hold the intellectual property. That's intellectual. That's doing a lot of heavy lifting itself. Anyway.
00:22:28
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You beat me to that. And then and then we we pay ourselves from the other company. Now, where does that company can get its money? I don't know. Volume. We'll figure it out. Anyway.
00:22:41
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I'm going to work on this business plan. I don't know. keeps working for these guys. So there must be something there. Anyway, that's what I had for follow-up. What about you? Anything else?
Consumer Protection & Pricing Controversies
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A couple of weeks ago, you brought a story about Intoxalock.
00:22:55
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Yes. And how they they they were hacked. Hacked. And held ransom. Yes. So that it caused the cars to lock up.
00:23:09
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Yes. which in one person's case caused them to miss work and then get fired from their job. That person has now filed a lawsuit and it's turned into a class action lawsuit for all users of Intoxalock who may have been impacted by this activity.
00:23:36
Speaker
So things are going really well in Urbandale. yeah You know, that could be the least of their worries because I do wonder, as was pointed out, they were trying to put in some, oh, we'll allow a ten extension or whatever, and some states, state law didn't allow that.
00:23:58
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Right. You know, an enterprising lawyer could probably say that the company's failure to follow state law isn't just a civil matter, but that they created, that they refused to they refused to enforce the law as written and could become maybe a criminal matter.
00:24:23
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I'm the lawyer, obviously. Anyway, yep, things are looking up. um Hey, good news. We're spending very little on info security software. Bad news. We have lawyered up like you wouldn't believe.
00:24:34
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um Oh, I had one other piece. This is also a new concession item. Okay. The Shohei Otani souvenir cup. Did you see this story?
00:24:49
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Oh, not that I wanted to, but I did. This is insane. So on Thursday, power to the people. On Thursday, they sold this molded plastic cup that looked like a jersey that had Otani's jersey on it.
00:25:09
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for Did you see the number, Todd? It was $78. $74.99. Okay. okay Good news, that gets you refills. One day only.
00:25:21
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Just for that game. Just for that day, it got you refills. Of soft drinks. Of soft drinks. Of soft drinks. But it's a collector's item. Yeah. That stops social media from going nuts.
00:25:36
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So they did drop the price. to $68.99.
00:25:43
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You know what? It's it's great that they that he understand the affordability crisis that's going on in America right now. And did change the refill policy so that you can bring that cup back all year long and have it refilled.
00:26:02
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Which turns it from a terrible deal to if you've got like season tickets, an amazing deal. Yeah. If you're going to go at least six times, this is worth the investment. or you could buy it, rinse it and wash it one time and go sell it on eBay. Right now they're selling on eBay for about $250. If you are a season ticket holder and missed your opportunity to buy one at the ballpark,
00:26:31
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You could go buy one on eBay for $250 and still come out ahead by using it at the remaining 80 some home games left this season at Dodger stadium. The sad thing is somebody clearly didn't think about this upfront.
00:26:47
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And then when called on it, they panicked, but instead of saying we should pause and think about what we're doing, somebody went, know, just give them away all the free refills. Cool. Well,
00:26:59
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Kevin, Kevin, dude, you have got to slow down your decision-making. What are you doing? It's the thing is there. They probably covered the cost of the soda and the ice and the cup with all of their sales. They're probably not going in the hole on this deal because soda is so inexpensive for them.
00:27:25
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It's no but just a missed opportunity for revenue. It's an opportunity cost that is your, your yeah. Yeah. yeah there're Yeah. I mean, they're going backwards, to no question, but but they're not, it's just, they're they're not losing money. They're just losing the opportunity to make more money.
00:27:43
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I hope this doesn't hurt the Dodgers revenue. Anyway. Anyway.
Trivia Game & Unusual Sports Incidents
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Yeah, two of them sold on eBay for $250 each. A third one sold for $290 each. So, you know, all things Otani. Going nuts.
00:28:01
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ah Let's see. We also had... Oh, excellent. As if we haven't played enough games already this year. And I'm here, Yas Queen, to remind Todd of the mess Todd made when he answered wrong.
00:28:18
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Todd, Todd, Todd, Otta, no. That's right. Sound means it's time for one of America's favorite games. it is time for Todd Audenow.
00:28:30
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Looking forward to it. I am not. Okay, Todd. So in honor of what is the 15th anniversary of the Book of Mormon,
00:28:45
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the The musical, not the actual book. just Thank you. ah good Good clarification. yeah I'm going to ask you some trivia questions about what we believe to be your favorite musical.
00:29:00
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This is going to go bad. This is going to go real bad. not Not looking forward to this. Some of the trivia from this list are is really easy, right? Like, when was the Book of Mormon first put on stage?
00:29:15
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15 years ago.
00:29:22
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Great.
00:29:27
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Okay. 2011, that's what you're going with. Okay. Yeah. yeah but Where are Elder Price and Elder Cunningham sent, Todd? ah Uganda.
00:29:43
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How many songs are in the musical? Now we're getting a little a little deeper into actual trivia. Okay. I could sit here and just go through all of them, but that's boring podcasting.
00:29:59
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um to to Let's see. One, two. I just said it was boring. I'm going to do it. Now, are there 13? 16, Todd. Okay. sixteen todd okay ah See, i i just took ah took a guess there.
00:30:15
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What number rule is broken when Elder Price abandons Elder Cunningham? Oh, it's rules. Is it rule 72 that he has to stay there and rule?
00:30:34
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Is it rule 41? No, you were right the first time. It is rule 72. Rule 72. Okay.
00:30:44
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what What is Elder McKinley's fifth grade close friend's name? Steve Blade.
00:30:59
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You're doing better than you thought you would, aren't you? Yes, but that's just setting me up for for something bad. So, yes. Okay. This is multiple choice, Todd. the African girl's name in the musical. Is it Nala?
00:31:15
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Is it Nason X? Is it Nabulungi? Or is it Naomi? ah It's, it's C. Nabulungi.
00:31:27
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Nabulungi. Thank you. Yes. See, I figured if I would, if I would mess it up bad enough, you still couldn't get it. um By the way, in, on the West end, one of them is Niall Farage.
00:31:38
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it
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kills every time.
00:31:46
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Hey, hey, wait a minute. Nile Farage. Yeah, they love it. That kills in London. Okay. In the Ugandan version of the play. Yes. How does Joseph Smith die?
00:31:57
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Dysentery. Very good. I mean, actually it's, and I want to get the explicit tag. It's blank go in the water, blank go in the mouth. Okay.
00:32:10
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blank come out the butt, blank go in the water, blank go in the mouth, blood come out the butt, blood go anyway. Yeah, it's a whole thing. Yes. it's a yeah Yes. Yep. I yeah i but remember. believe But I believe technically it's all tied to dysentery. It's all. Yes. There you go. Very good. Yeah. Oregon trail.
00:32:28
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at At the very end, Todd, this was kind of a gimme. The book at the very end of the musical, what's that called? ah The book Arnold. Yes. Yes. ahrnold yes
00:32:41
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Uh, anyway, yeah, that's why I titled that. Hello friends. Uh, just to, just to throw you off because got it. Anyway, I, so I swear. I thought, I thought this was a whole thing on how well do you know Jim Nance? And I thought this is going to go poorly.
00:32:59
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Very good. Nice job. Thank you. You're welcome.
00:33:05
Speaker
Uh, let's see. Oh, it's time for the Scott Frost Memorial idiot of the week. What'd you bring this week? Yeah. Hey, so another exciting one out of out of English football, but not the Premier League and and not not the Championship League and not League 1, which is actually League 3, and not League 2, which is actually League 4, and not even League 5, which is where Wrexham started. when When Welcome to Wrexham started, they were in League 5.
00:33:29
Speaker
Right. we're yeah We're going a little bit lower. We're going down to League 8. This story out of the Northern Premier League's Midlands Division – saw Rushton and Diamonds taking on Lowborough students, which I'm assuming is an actual team and not just students from like a primary school.
00:33:52
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Anyway, it's always a Donnybrook when those two teams get together. And in the 20 and in the 21st minute, Bruno Andrande and Tyler Winters got into it so bad that the referee had to give them both a red card and they were both removed from the game.
00:34:11
Speaker
Okay. Why is that idiots? You know what? That happens. That happens occasionally. Red cards happen, whatever. The reason why that's why they're idiots is that Andrande and Winters played for the same team.
00:34:28
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The two forwards for Rushton and Diamonds got into it on the pitch and started fighting each other, at which point the referee gave them both a red card and Rushton and Diamonds were now down to nine men because they were fighting each other.
00:34:50
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A couple of things about that. According to the manager, they had a bit of a disagreement on the pitch. And it culminated in those two coming together. The linesman said there was a bit of hands and stuff between the two of them and two red cards.
00:35:06
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Yeah. So at the end of this, they were both invited to no longer participate with the team.
00:35:16
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Yeah. So they were both kicked off of their checks notes. Eighth tier football club.
00:35:27
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Yeah. So Rushden and Diamonds were very disappointed in the fact that that their two players started fighting. Here's my thought. Dwayne, I'm just going to put you in the mind instead of a referee here. ken have you ever Have you ever had to separate two teammates fighting on a basketball court?
00:35:46
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I don't know that I have. I'm going to guess that you haven't because I would assume that you would remember that. That would go down as one of the stories. But can you imagine being on the opposite team and all of a sudden the whistle blows and you're just standing there and watching two guys in the same jersey just go at it and you're just like, I don't, what should we do? I don't know. Like,
00:36:06
Speaker
Well, this is weird. um Should we get some orange slices while they work it out? Yeah, let's go get some orange slices. Which is, I'm assuming, you do an eighth tier English football. Anyway, there you go. Congratulations to Rushnan and Diamonds for having players fighting each other on the pitch.
00:36:22
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ah Let's see. This week, was it? Last week I brought... One of our umpires, one of the major league umpires who missed five calls in a row.
00:36:34
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um Nope. Last week you brought me the Bitcoin water heater. Oh, that's right. Maybe it was two weeks ago. Anyway, this week it's another major league umpire story. Did you see see me Buckner missed a call at first base where the guy steps squarely on the bag? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:53
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I, Historically, he's considered the worst umpire in Major League Baseball and has for years. not Now that Angel's retired. Even then, he was given he was giving him he was given a run for his money.
00:37:05
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And while ABS and video and the automatic balls and strikes, the robo-umps is overall a good thing, I'm i'm starting to feel kind of sorry for him because he's not very good at his job.
00:37:20
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and And now people are cheering the reviews against him. But then when he misses the call at first, which was against a player, i believe, who had used the challenge that proved that he got a call wrong earlier in the game, there was a question of, is he just did he get the call that wrong, or is he now ah taking it out on players?
00:37:50
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At least we've gotten to the point where there's a challenge system in ABS where these kinds of things now get overturned because 10 years ago, you just live with it. Not only did you live it, you came out to argue how bad of a call it was, and then you got to hit the showers early.
00:38:08
Speaker
So that opportunity is now taken away. Man, these guys suck. How am I going to get myself tossed from this game? That is a manager's conundrum. Nope. I believe um in the last week, and it might have been Aaron Boone, got cost got tossed for arguing balls and strikes after the review.
00:38:28
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I think Aaron just didn't want to stick around for the rest of the game. You got to work now. You got to work at getting thrown out. Yep. ah Good news, though.
00:38:41
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NFL's headed for replacement referees. So if you think that CB Buckner and first base is bad, just imagine a field full of CB Buckners. Oh, you can't imagine it ah because we saw it i and and things got bad real quick.
00:38:56
Speaker
Well, the good news there, though, is... I don't think they're going to hire people who are officials anywhere else. They're going to hire actors who can pretend because all the calls are going to be made from New York and radioed in into their earpieces. Hey, throw the flag and they will.
00:39:17
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there There will be no actual officiating done on an NFL field. All officiating will be originated from New York and it will just be pantomime in black and white.
00:39:31
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How's that different from what they've been doing the last four years? Oh, oh, okay. woof We should probably get out of this or we could be spending some time talking about officiating.
00:39:43
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What have you been watching
Entertainment & Personal Experiences
00:39:45
Speaker
lately? um we ah We started a couple of weeks ago and then travel and everything else. Lisa was gone. I was gone. we went back and caught up another couple of episodes of Shrinking. So we we watched a few episodes. This is a slow binge where we watched a couple and then took like three weeks off. And now where we watched like two or three in a row.
00:40:02
Speaker
it I don't know. you just watch this and you're like, this is really good show. This is a really, really good show. This show better than it has any right to be. Let me put it that way. So ah anyway, are we done with it? No.
00:40:17
Speaker
I'll come back in probably another three or four weeks and let you know how the next couple of episodes went. How about you? What are you watching? I started watching a Rooster on HBO, which is the new Steve Carell project.
00:40:31
Speaker
Okay. Steve Carell joint. Um, no, that's not it. Vehicle. Okay. Uh, he's a writer who takes a job as a professor in residence at a small college where his daughter is also a professor.
00:40:55
Speaker
It's kind of cringe, but it's pretty good. It's every, I believe it's every Monday night. Wait, Steve Carell in a comedy that's cringe.
00:41:09
Speaker
I can't even imagine what that would be like. I know. Right. What, what wide range of acting does he have? He's awkward and it resonates with me.
00:41:20
Speaker
just going to put okay He sees me. So I'm watching that. And then before I came in here tonight, you know who Matt Mitchell is?
00:41:36
Speaker
So here's what happened. You said that. And I'm thinking third baseman from the Giants? No. no Backup quarterback for the for the other Giants? No. Congressman from, I don't know, let's say Kansas?
00:41:53
Speaker
Don't know. um The answer is no. I don't know. Okay. Matt Mitchell is the guy that does SEC roll call during the football season. Okay. If you watch, you've watched this, right? um i did I did last year and then and then in true YouTube form for the next six months, that's all YouTube thought that I wanted to watch.
00:42:14
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. Amy loves this guy. So when it's not SEC season, he does other stuff. And one of his schticks is rating things like, so he'll get 10 boxed candy candies and rate them from one to 10, you know, which is the best. Now or later and Mike and Ike's and whatever. Um, today he dropped his rating of sausage, egg and cheese biscuits. Um,
00:42:52
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Okay. Breakfast sandwiches yeah from fast food restaurants. So Bojangles and Wendy's and Hardee's Burger King.
00:43:08
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and I had to come in here and record at Burger King. But when I left, Hardee's was the leader in the clubhouse. And so I'm going to have to go and finish it.
00:43:18
Speaker
But he is, if you haven't... He's really funny. But the other thing that I thought was funny about this was he's the SEC guy and he was ranking sausage, egg and cheese biscuits. So it was the SEC guy. mother There you go.
00:43:39
Speaker
Anyway, Matt Mitchell's got new stuff out on YouTube. So if you'd like to refresh your feed, Todd, there you go. i need like six burner YouTube accounts where I can just like, I can watch something and then go, I'm never using that account ever again.
00:43:59
Speaker
Log out, search, watch, log in. Wait, log out, search. Here's the problem. Here's, You're not wrong. The problem is we pay for YouTube premium so we don't see any ads.
00:44:13
Speaker
so So if I then go, I log out and I can well watch this thing. Wait, what are those? Ads? how how many How many premium accounts do I need now? I need i need premium on my burner accounts.
00:44:28
Speaker
You know what? YouTube doesn't care. They're like, whatever, man, just pay the money. Yeah.
00:44:33
Speaker
Where are we at? What did you learn this week hey, there we are. Yep. Okay. So this is an ongoing saga of how my house hates me. um And we've covered that earlier. And it continues to hate me.
00:44:46
Speaker
lisa was Lisa was gone the last two weeks. Um... a week a week traveling for work and then a week at the disclosed undisclosed location. And so she comes back this week and she she goes one morning, she goes to plug in her hairdryer into our bathroom and well, that plug's dead.
00:45:08
Speaker
And there's its GFI plug, hit the button. Nope, still dead. All right, that's fine. You know, I don't need the master bedroom, bathroom. i can I can go into, I can go to the guest bathroom just right around the corner.
00:45:18
Speaker
Huh, that one's dead too. All right. Well, we've got a half bath downstairs. Has a mirror, has a thing, plugs it in, starts up, dies.
00:45:31
Speaker
Todd, no plugs in any bathroom work. Oh, that's not good. all right. Well. we Better go figure out what's going on.
00:45:42
Speaker
Okay. So like, wait a minute. They're not all wired together and I've swapped out light switches in them and I know what controls what. And I'm like, this doesn't make any sense.
00:45:53
Speaker
Go downstairs, go out to the fuse box or to the to the electric panel. Family room has tripped. Huh? Oh, well, the family room is right next to the, to the met, to the half bath.
00:46:07
Speaker
Turn that back on. Oh yeah, that's fine. That it also killed the outlets in the garage, which power the freezer out in the garage and our electric car.
00:46:20
Speaker
Oh, no. That's fine. Turns out it had we eventually figured out the reason why is we're we're charging the electric car with a 110, just ah a level one charger. And when you plug the hairdryer into the same thing that's charging the electric car, everything goes... Nope, I'm out. Nope. So I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no. no Yeah, yeah.
00:46:39
Speaker
That's not why the house hates me, though. That's on me. I mean, it would be great if the garage plugs were separate from the inside of the house plugs. But anyway, cool. We can fix that. I got that working. The freezer's fine. It's still zero degrees.
00:46:53
Speaker
And then I'm like, I got to go to work. And she's like, that's fine. So I come home at night. Come home that night. Like, I got to go figure this out. All right. Go look at the fuse. No, nothing's tripped. Go up.
00:47:05
Speaker
Get my little outlet tester. Test, test. Nope, that's dead. That's dead. And then, you know, like an idiot, I don't know, reset, reset the GFI. That's not even working. It's not even resetting. it's not even resetting. and That's a point where you go all like, well, I've done everything I can do. I'm like, okay, I don't, none of this makes any sense.
00:47:21
Speaker
So then I go on to the, I got to the, to the electric panel again. When we moved into the house, the primary bathroom had a large jetted tub in it. that the previous owners had never used because it was sort of too big to get in and you couldn't really use it as a shower because of the way it was set up.
00:47:39
Speaker
So they literally, we talked with them later. They had literally in the eight or nine years or 12 years, they they'd never used it except to put plants above it. When we moved in, we're like, that's got to go. So we ripped out that jetted tub and we put in a full so full shower.
00:47:56
Speaker
And I know that when they did that, they ripped out the tub, i I saw there's an outlet. there's ah There's a box down there behind the wall that the that the tub plugged into. Oh, sure. Yeah.
00:48:07
Speaker
The tub needs some power, right? Well, the guys that did this just walled that up. Okay. Now, that's not that's not code no However, I'm pretty sure i have access to that space on the other side is our closet and there's an access panel to get to plumbing.
00:48:28
Speaker
I'm pretty sure I can get to that outlet from the other side. So that would nominally, it's it's not completely hidden. Okay. But when I was doing all the electrical work, I'm like, the on the box it says jacuzzi.
00:48:44
Speaker
jacuzzi and I'm like well that makes sense because it's a jetted tub should be on its own circuit right that's behind a wall now so you know what I'm gonna do safety safety just I'm gonna kill it right at the box yep What was not labeled on that box, however, is that it's not on its own dedicated circuit. The jacuzzi tub was also the same circuit that provided the power to the outlets in the primary bathroom and the outlets in this in the guest bathroom.
00:49:18
Speaker
Not labeled. Shouldn't have done it. No way of knowing. So then I go, huh, the only thing I have turned off is the jacuzzi. This can't possibly fix it. Click, go upstairs. Everything's working.
00:49:31
Speaker
God, this house hates me. This house hates me. it's you really You really shouldn't be wanting to use the jacuzzi and plug in a hairdryer at the same time.
00:49:43
Speaker
Just putting it out there. That's true. Oh, yeah. yeah That is a safety feature. It'll trip all the circuits. However, I will say that would be okay if it was the jacuzzi and the outlets in the one bathroom, but it's also the outlets in the other bathroom as well.
00:50:03
Speaker
So you could actually, like, where do these wires go? and why didn't you label... you You labeled the least important thing on here and it wasn't on its own dedicated. Okay. That's fine. That's fine. Whatever. Now I know. So you know what? Just one step at a time.
00:50:21
Speaker
Now I know.
Podcast Hosting Transition Challenges
00:50:22
Speaker
What does that do? Bathroom stuff. Nope. That sounds different. That sounds more like a big dumper kind of thing. Let's not go there. Let's not go there at all. Okay. Sorry. That's outlets, bathroom outlets. Cool. Sorry.
00:50:32
Speaker
Anyway, that's what I learned this week. What did you learn?
00:50:37
Speaker
Well, so over the last couple of weeks, as we've been... Moving through the move off of Podbean and onto Zencaster? Yes.
00:50:49
Speaker
For the last six years. It has pretty much gone without a hitch as far as our listeners are concerned.
00:50:58
Speaker
Knock on wood. Yes. So far. Has that been your experience? Well...
00:51:06
Speaker
Here's the thing. i for six years now, I've been posting the podcast the same way every week. I can, at this point, I could do it. I could almost do it in my sleep.
00:51:20
Speaker
And have a cup a couple of times on a flight early morning coming back. Absolutely fair. We had an old dog, new tricks scenario here over the last couple of weeks because posting the pod And hosting it on Zencaster is a little different than it is on Podbean. And I had to learn a new process, which I documented, Todd.
00:51:50
Speaker
any In a ridiculously long text message. And texted it to you. Record the pod. Review the on online edit.
00:52:01
Speaker
Remove the pauses and the ums. Download the transcript. Render it. then download the rendered multitrack, and then import it into Audacity, and then edit, kind of, sort of, like i normally don't, and review the and review the transcript, and write the titles in the notes, then render it from Audacity, and then send you a text.
00:52:25
Speaker
Upload the whole thing to Zencaster, and then I had to re-render it. And then I had to wait. And then we back and forth about the title and the notes. And then I had to update all the records in Zencaster.
00:52:38
Speaker
And then I clicked publish. And then I crossed my fingers. That was week one that I had to learn how to do all of that with some nice help from the Zencaster people.
00:52:52
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I did manage to get it done. And our numbers marginally, we think, were up. So we either have more listeners or we have better tracking.
00:53:04
Speaker
Or worse tracking, but we'll consider it better tracking. we We definitely have different tracking. We'll consider it better. And the numbers are higher than they were before, but we're still not confident in any of them. So fine.
00:53:19
Speaker
Anyway, so week two, I'm like, aha, I'm going to use the tech to our advantage. Record the podcast, review and edit using the online transcript and auto edit, render, text back and forth with you, and post.
00:53:43
Speaker
What I did not realize and what I learned this week was that it auto it auto posts the video of the podcast.
00:53:56
Speaker
Yes, it does. Even if you download it to an audio only player. Hey, Dwayne. Yeah. Do you know why last week's episode is taking up 1.6 gigabytes of space on my phone?
00:54:12
Speaker
ah Sounds like you've got the video on your audio only, huh? Uh-huh. So then I learned how to go into Zencaster and turn off the video after it's already been uploaded.
00:54:23
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So week three, hopefully I can do that at the outset. But some of you may have gotten the video version last week regardless.
00:54:34
Speaker
Sorry about that. if if it If it took, hey, I can't wait for the new Talkin' to Todd. Wow, it's taking a while to download. Still downloading.
00:54:45
Speaker
Still downloading. I don't even understand. Well, Dwayne has a solution for that. yes
00:55:05
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00:55:19
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00:55:30
Speaker
We appreciate you. And you can send us your feedback on this episode or any episode to feedback at talkingtotodd.com. Hey, everybody. just Just so you know, we we came incredibly close. out We actually played a different game, but we had to stop the recording um because before we got to play Todd Audenot, we got to play Dwayne Audenot, and that didn't go as well as the Todd Audenot segment. But eventually he got there. So congratulations. Yay! and
00:56:02
Speaker
Too much behind the curtain? Too much. It was either that or talk about the picture of the big dumper Sunday that I just looked at, and that's horrific. So I'm going to keep it nice and light and just talk about, oh, hey, we had a little bit of a production hiccup because otherwise, do not Google big dumper Sunday picture because whatever you think, it is worse.
00:56:25
Speaker
Did they have to use chocolate ice cream? It's the only way.
00:56:34
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I'm sure we're going to have something we need to clean up next week. Until then, we're here. We're talking to Todd.
00:56:47
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Thank you.
00:57:10
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By the way, just going say this. I'm really, really proud of you that as we were talking about the Sunday, at no point did you say we should keep talking about this because we're on a roll. Good for you.
00:57:21
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The other thing I learned this week. Yep. Wirecutter did an evaluation of different toilet papers. Or toilets paper, I believe is how that's going. It's like attorneys general. It's toilets paper.
00:57:35
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ah English is difficult, so that's fine.