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Ep. 303 - The United Wasabi Growers of America
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Ep. 303, Recorded 12/17/2025. Todd goes for the short sale. Wrigley is here for the walks. Source of no truth OR knowledge. Waymo rider gets the boot. Scott Frost Attacks. Update your devices. Bowling for dollars. Bean Soup. Jordan dunks on NASCAR. Driving is not flying. Dewayne scores a new side hustle.
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Trouble-free Podcast Start
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This is like the first time in three weeks that we haven't gotten an error from Zencaster when we started.
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So I don't know.
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It's because we spent the last 45 minutes prepping.
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Sure.
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Let's call it.
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Hopefully that makes for a better show.
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I'm just thinking that Zencaster is going to be basically instead of saying at the beginning of the show, I'm not going to air out middle of the show.
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You betcha.
Discarded Cold Open and Trolls Discussion
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Levels, levels, levels, levels.
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So I wrote a cold open and we scrapped it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was way, way, way, way too far into the other podcast.
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Yeah.
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Like seriously, you know how we say don't feed the trolls.
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Well, buckle up.
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Cause I've got a lot to say this week.
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First of all.
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And who needs a freaking gold toilet?
Rant Reflection: Was It Worth It?
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Do you feel better now?
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Yes.
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I mean, no, but sure, whatever.
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I mean, that was like 30 minutes of rant.
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You don't feel better after 30 minutes of that?
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No, because what really gets me going...
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and stop with all of the late night posting.
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Okay, now I'm ready.
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Hi, toddlers.
Introducing 'Talking to Todd'
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Welcome to Talking to Todd, a weekly podcast with Dwayne Johnson and Todd friends, where failure is always an option.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, Todd.
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Hey, how's it going?
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Pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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How are you?
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Not too bad.
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Not too bad.
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Here, slowly building out the new studio.
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Some stuff works, some stuff doesn't, but I'm doing all right.
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We're heading the right direction.
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Can I ask a question?
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Yeah.
Todd's New Studio and Production Duties
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As part of the new studio, are you producing this week?
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Because it's like you have control of the other theme button.
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Oh, yeah.
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No, no.
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I don't produce it.
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I don't have control of all the rest of this stuff.
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But I do have the emergency button over on my side that just plays the other theme.
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I suspected that was going to be needed at some point.
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To be completely honest, I'm amazed that you made it this far into the administration without me having to move the cover up and hit the button.
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But it's good to know that it works.
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Also, Rachel Maddow just texted me and said, damn, that was a lot.
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So.
iPhone Socks: A Humorous Investment
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It wasn't Keith Olbermann territory.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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He has that all marked out to himself.
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Yeah, that's.
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Anywho.
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Oh, so anyway, should we do some feedback, follow up and updates?
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Yeah, let's do that.
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OK.
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We're we're behind in our house.
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In listening and getting caught up this week, we were listening to the episode where we discussed the iPhone sock.
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Yes.
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And we got, I don't know, maybe 30 seconds into it.
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And they were available in London.
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And Amy says, Lisa should buy some and bring them back here and sell them.
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I'm like, wait for it.
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30 seconds later, Lisa should buy some and flip them.
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Amy's on board.
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Talking to Todd investment opportunity, Danny.
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I can't, I can't put my, I can't do a diversified mix of, uh, of domestic equities, um, overseas, some overseas, highly leveraged investments, some precious metals.
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I've got all of my money in iPhone pockets, but I'm, I'm feeling pretty good about this.
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Yeah.
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Well, you're diversified.
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You got green ones and yellow ones and orange ones.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Completely diversified this portfolio.
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And I also got a couple of the long ones, a couple of the short ones.
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I mean, really, I can take care of whatever you need.
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You're selling short.
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Is that how that works?
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You shorted the sock?
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Is that?
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Oh, God, geez.
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They're shorty socks.
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That's what they are.
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There's a Trading Places joke there, but yet again, I still can't get my head quite around it.
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So anyway.
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Did you see the feedback that we got from Toddler1059?
'Idiot of the Week' Nominations
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Yes, I believe.
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So she nominated an Idiot of the Week for us.
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She did.
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It also falls under the other podcast category.
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Yes.
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Yvonne writes, I submit, for your consideration, our esteemed leader Donald Jessica Trump, just reading verbatim here, that's not it, for his momentous weekend in both hosting the Kennedy Center Honors Awards and the whole FIFA Peace Prize thing.
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If this does fall into the other podcast, then let's just nominate FIFA.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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If you're behind on any of that, there's a brilliant summary of events available from Kimmel Colbert or Seth Meyers, which can be viewed on YouTube.
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Regards, your faithful toddler number 1059, toddler 1060 wants no involvement.
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I'm just here for the walks and the snacks.
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Walking to Todd.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my word.
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I'm on board.
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I mean, Hey, I went off on a rant that nobody got to hear.
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So not nobody.
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Ooh, an
Challenges of Feedback and Story Continuity
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award.
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Oh, shit.
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What have we done?
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Okay.
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Anyway, do we have any other feedback?
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I don't know that I caught anything else.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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We're also behind, so I'm going back through not even necessarily in order.
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I'm losing continuity, which is really making the stories hard to follow.
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But I did go back.
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I do have one of the um actuallys.
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Actually...
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Yes.
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There was a Todd out of no segment where you were pulling some stuff off of Reddit and you quizzed me on the King Ranch in Texas is bigger than which state.
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Yes.
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And I got it wrong because I said Delaware.
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The correct answer, according to the source of all truth and knowledge is the correct answer is
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no state, you said that it was, well, you were reading from Reddit, shockingly, by the way, breaking news, somebody on Reddit was wrong.
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Reddit source of no truth and knowledge.
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So, except it is, it is how I repair everything in my house.
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Okay.
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So you, you had said that it was bigger than Rhode Island and I'm like, really?
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I wonder what this is.
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I looked up with another source of truth and knowledge.
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Rhode Island is 1,545 square miles.
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King ranch is only 1,289 square miles.
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Only, he says.
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Only.
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It is technically smaller than Rhode Island.
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Not by much.
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But anyway, so I got the answer wrong.
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Doesn't change the scoring for the for the years total.
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But you got the answer wrong as well.
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So I just needed to make sure that we cleared that up.
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I sit corrected.
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Yeah.
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Anything else that we got that we got wrong?
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not to my knowledge, but again, we're behind.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Come back to me in
Waymo Trunk Incident and Safety Protocols
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two months.
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Yeah.
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Let me know.
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Yeah.
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Look, talk to me after Christmas and I'll, maybe I'll tell you.
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In our continuing coverage of Waymo, whether we want to or not, Dateline, Los Angeles, a woman called a Waymo, the Waymo pulled up.
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She got, she was getting ready to get inside it and then found a man hiding in the trunk.
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Oops.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So, according to her, she confronted the man.
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Why are you in it?
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And the man says, they just put me in it.
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She says, who put you in it?
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He says, the people.
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He's now Secretary of Transportation.
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Sorry.
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Anyway, so she did not get in that.
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Authorities were called.
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According to a Waymo spokesperson, a man climbed into the trunk after the previous rider left it open.
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The police helped remove the man after the female passenger alerted them, and Waymo's rider support team assisted the woman in the process.
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So they have... This is the scary thing.
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The spokesperson said that the support team already has protocols for addressing situations like these.
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Wait, what?
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Hey, by the way, there's a strange man in the trunk.
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Oh, hold on.
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Nope.
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We've got protocols for that.
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Why?
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Have you read our press?
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So anyway, going well with Waymo.
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What I want to know is, had she gotten to the destination, would he at least have split the fair?
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You would hope so.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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Boy, these self-driving taxi things.
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I, you know, I'm getting a good feeling about them.
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I think they're getting the kinks all worked out.
Scott Frost vs. University of Nebraska
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The, uh, we did get another piece of follow-up submitted to us from the watchful eyes of toddler 401k.
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Oh yes.
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Oh, that one.
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Yeah.
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Ex Nebraska coach, Scott Frost.
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namesake of our idiot of the week, sues the University of Nebraska over a buyout dispute.
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Todd, what happened here?
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Please, I don't want to cover that.
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Well, okay, fine.
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So...
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I open up this story and I think, I don't want to, you know, did they fire him for cause or not cause or, you know, I don't know.
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Do I even care about this?
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But I started looking at it and I thought, oh, this is not.
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And then it turns out this thing is just so.
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So Scott Frost was fired on September 11th, 2022.
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By the way, he got fired on 2022 and we're still doing the Scott Frost Memorial Edit of the Week.
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Okay.
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Anyway, he had a buyout that was to be, he was supposed to get a $15 million payout for paying out the rest of his contract because he wasn't fired for cause.
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According to his lawsuit,
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They took his future buyout payment and put it all on his W-2 form for the 2022 tax year, which increased his taxable income greatly for money that he had not yet received.
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In addition, he says they did not give him his 2022 W-2 until September of 2023, which made him incur penalties and interest with the IRS because he couldn't file his taxes because he didn't have his W-2 because it was it was late.
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And then we get to the regular stuff of they also then claim that he does, they don't owe him additional money for the extension that he signed, that his buyout was only for a few years or whatever.
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Anyway, it's a tax story.
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Like, oh, and yet, thank you, Scott.
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Like, this is what we came to expect from Scott Frost is a tax, a college football tax story.
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The other thing I will say, though, is of all the stories we've covered about Scott Frost, this is the one where I'm like,
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Boy, if they did that to you, I think, Scott, I think you're the right here.
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First time ever.
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First time ever on the show.
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Almost no one ever.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Who withholds like a $10 million W-2 for nine months?
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You know, you guys don't have to cover this stuff, but we don't have to.
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But but we're going to when it get when it gets sent in, we almost feel obligated.
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Not almost.
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We really we do.
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We feel obligated.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, way to go, Scott, to to to go after Nebraska.
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There's just at this point, I was just like, I don't know.
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Growing up in Iowa, I'll just say this.
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Why would it have taken them nine months to figure out his W-2?
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Well, that's how long it took him to go.
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One on their fingers.
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One, two, three, four, five.
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One million one, one million two, one million three.
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I'm going to add it all up.
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Well, they got lost between the first hand and the second hand because the N on the helmet stands for knowledge.
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Yes, it does.
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Do we have anything for the Taylor Center for Technology Policies Tech Corner this week?
Apple's 26.2 Update: Timing Concerns
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26.2 got released for everything, and it does have a lot of security updates in it.
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So update your devices.
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That's a good tip.
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It also gives you some new features or whatever, but you know, just updated when you, it came out on a Friday, which I'm like, I don't like what, what is even going on now?
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Like last thing you want to do is do a big software deployment on a Friday.
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And then everybody's like, well, five o'clock Friday, I guess we'll come in on Monday and see how that went.
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Don't worry.
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Kevin's manning the phones.
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He'll let us know if anything's going on.
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Oh, shit.
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So that's on the tech corner.
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How about the technical corner?
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Still zero.
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Wow.
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This is where if we were a big-time podcast with a statistical thing, this would be like... This is the first time since... I don't know.
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Let me just make up.
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This is the first time since 2013...
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that Dwayne has gone this many games into the season without issuing a technical while having this many games on the road in this county or something, some sort of historical statistic powered by AWS.
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That means absolutely nothing.
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I did.
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I did have to, I did warn an assistant coach last night, last night, last night, last night,
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The assistant coach was in my ear about a call or non-call in this case.
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It was a non-call.
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And I turned around and looked at him and I said, I don't want to hear another word from you the rest of the night.
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And the head coach, who was further down the bench, pipes up.
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What about me?
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What about me?
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I saw it too.
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You're going to tell me?
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And at that point,
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The play was going the other way.
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So I gave him the hand, I gave him the stop sign and ran the opposite way down the court to cover the play, going the other direction.
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And then when we came down to the other end to shoot free throws, I walked over to the head coach and I said, coach, here's the thing.
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You're the head coach.
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I will listen to you if you have a question and I'll listen to you a little bit more, but I will not listen to an assistant coach.
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He's like, okay, yeah, that's fair.
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Okay.
Dwayne's Game Day Warning and Apology
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Yep.
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Yep.
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That makes perfect sense.
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You got it.
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And then after the game, the assistant coach came over and apologized to me.
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I was ramped up.
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I'm sorry.
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Won't happen again.
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You guys did a good job tonight.
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Thanks.
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Hey, there you go.
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Right.
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Right.
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Yeah, that's, that's, you know what, that's what you, you know, you get in the middle of the thing, it gets a little amped up and then you're like, yeah, boy, I probably shouldn't have worked.
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I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have done that.
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I got a lot of driver's ed tests.
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I got a grade after this game and I was just.
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And I was, I told him I appreciated the apology.
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So that was last night, not a technical, but a, uh, we had a moment.
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One shiny moment.
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Nope.
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Not that.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Uh, Oh, am I gonna, am I, do I play this theme?
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Am I guessing a number this week?
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Oh, you're guessing a lot more than a number.
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Dwayne's never going to guess it.
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Who?
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Me?
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Never, ever going to guess it.
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I don't know.
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No, Dwayne's never going to guess it.
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Yas queen.
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Never, ever going to guess it.
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That's right.
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That sound means it's time for America's favorite game.
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It's time for Dwayne guess a number.
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What do we got this week, Todd?
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Well, this week, I mean, bowl week has already, well, bowl week, which is like six weeks.
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Bowl week has already started.
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And a few years ago, we took some time and went through some of the bowls and some of the sponsors.
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And we've talked about bowl games here.
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And so I thought instead of just giving you a number,
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Now that we're just in the middle of bowl week or we're starting this bowl season, I thought I would quiz you on your knowledge of college football bowl games this season.
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So in the spirit of all of the Taylor Swift ones that you have crafted for me, there are 15 questions.
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They're in groups of five.
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So we're going to do five bowl games where I'm going to name the bowl and you need to tell me who the sponsor of the bowl is.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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The next five, I'm going to give you the sponsor and you need to tell me what is the name of the bowl they sponsor.
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Okay.
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Oh, Lord.
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And then for the last five, I'm going to name the bowl with the sponsor and everything.
00:19:23
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And you just tell me where it is in the United States.
00:19:26
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Just I'll take a city.
00:19:30
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Just tell me the city or half points for the state.
00:19:33
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OK, you know, we should really be having toddler Matt Damon on with us to do this.
00:19:38
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This would be, this is, this is really in Jake's wheelhouse.
00:19:42
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Jake.
00:19:42
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Okay.
00:19:43
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Jake, keep track.
00:19:44
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Everybody else keep track too.
00:19:45
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And see if you're, if you're smarter than a Dwayne here.
00:19:49
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Okay.
00:19:49
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All right.
00:19:50
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Okay.
00:19:50
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Hit me.
00:19:50
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Okay.
00:19:51
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Starting with bowl name that sponsor.
00:19:54
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Okay.
00:19:54
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The first bowl up is the Fenway bowl.
00:20:00
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I can tell
College Football Bowl Game Quiz
00:20:01
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you where it is.
00:20:01
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Okay.
00:20:03
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Yeah.
00:20:03
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Well, that's kind of why I didn't pick it for this one.
00:20:08
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I will also tell you when we get to where is the bowl, the Las Vegas bowl does not appear there, nor does the LA bowl.
00:20:15
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Oh, well, that's unfortunate.
00:20:17
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I actually would have a fighting chance at those.
00:20:21
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Is the Fenway bowl sponsored by MetLife?
00:20:26
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It is not.
00:20:28
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Okay.
00:20:29
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It is sponsored by Wasabi.
00:20:32
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Now, what I'm not clear is... The thing you put on sushi?
00:20:36
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It's either the spice that you put on sushi or it's the cloud storage company.
00:20:42
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It's not clear from the name which one.
00:20:45
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I'm going to say it's probably the company, but it could be the United Wasabi Growers of America.
00:20:50
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I don't know.
00:20:51
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So, okay.
00:20:52
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All right.
00:20:53
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That's okay.
00:20:54
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We're going to move on, though.
00:20:55
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That was your warm-up.
00:20:56
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Okay.
00:20:57
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Next one up.
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You ready?
00:20:59
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Sure.
00:21:00
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The Frisco Bowl.
00:21:03
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Is this sponsored by Rice-A-Roni?
00:21:06
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Damn, that's a good guess, man.
00:21:07
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That's a really good guess.
00:21:10
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That'd be hilarious if it was.
00:21:12
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All of our participants.
00:21:18
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See, I have always thought that the sponsor ought to match or make sense to the bowl.
00:21:24
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At some point, some of them did.
00:21:26
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Right.
00:21:27
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C&H Sugar Bowl, right?
00:21:30
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Yep.
00:21:31
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Yep.
00:21:31
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Okay.
00:21:33
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You didn't get that one.
00:21:35
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I will tell you.
00:21:36
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I'm going to give you a hint on this one.
00:21:40
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Okay.
00:21:42
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The company that sponsors this has a location within a mile radius of your house.
00:21:51
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Or let's say, yeah, mile radius.
00:21:52
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Maybe a mile and a half.
00:21:54
Speaker
Is it the Microsoft Frisco Bowl?
00:21:57
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No, it is not.
00:21:58
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I'm sorry.
00:21:59
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You don't get to scoot on up.
00:22:01
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It is the Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl.
00:22:05
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Oh, my God.
00:22:06
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Okay.
00:22:09
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All right.
00:22:10
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Oh, for two, that is within a mile and a half of my house.
00:22:12
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You are correct.
00:22:13
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Yep.
00:22:14
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Yep.
00:22:14
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Okay.
00:22:15
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Number three, a longtime bowl that Iowa went to multiple years, I believe.
00:22:21
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The Holiday Bowl.
00:22:24
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In San Diego, I believe.
00:22:27
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Is it Sparta?
00:22:30
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Who now sponsors the holiday bowl?
00:22:36
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Fruitcake?
00:22:36
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Does Fruitcake sponsor the holiday bowl?
00:22:41
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Either the concept of Fruitcake or some sort of cloud storage company called Fruitcake.
00:22:45
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Called Fruitcake.
00:22:46
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That's what that was.
00:22:48
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One or the other.
00:22:49
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Yep.
00:22:50
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Sorry.
00:22:50
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This is going to be trust and will.
00:22:53
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I have no idea what trust and will is, or it could be will and trust.
00:22:57
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Nope.
00:22:58
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It's trust and will.
00:22:59
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Okay.
00:22:59
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Again, I don't, I don't know what that, I guess that's where you get your, yeah.
00:23:03
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Anyway, by the way, half point available.
00:23:05
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If you can tell me the name of the, what the stadium is now called.
00:23:10
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Qualcomm is now Q mobile.
00:23:18
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Actually, Jay Hallfield.
00:23:20
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ACL snapper.
00:23:20
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No.
00:23:28
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Actually, Qualcomm renamed it.
00:23:30
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It's for their most famous product at this point, Snapdragon Stadium.
00:23:35
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You know, it'd be good in Snapdragon Stadium.
00:23:36
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See, that's where wasabi needs to go.
00:23:38
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That would make sense, right?
00:23:41
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The wasabi holiday bowl at Snapdragon Stadium.
00:23:44
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You'd be like, man, I'm hungry now.
00:23:46
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No kidding.
00:23:48
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All right, moving on.
00:23:49
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Another longtime bowl that used to make some sense, the Citrus Bowl.
00:23:56
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which was for the longest time, the Florida growers, citrus bowl, Florida, citrus growers, citrus bowl, the Florida citrus bowl.
00:24:04
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Yes.
00:24:04
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That thing.
00:24:05
Speaker
Uh, did they play that at Joe Robbie stadium?
00:24:08
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They did not.
00:24:09
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Uh, it is in Orlando, Florida at camping world stadium.
00:24:15
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Didn't that used to be Joe Robbie stadium?
00:24:16
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No, that's in Miami.
00:24:17
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Yeah.
00:24:17
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Yeah.
00:24:18
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Yeah.
00:24:19
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Okay, so what is now, the Citrus Bowl is now sponsored by someone else.
00:24:25
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It is someone else.
00:24:27
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I will give you a hint, though.
00:24:29
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It used to be the Florida Citrus Growers Association, which we mostly think of Orange.
00:24:34
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Yes.
00:24:36
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A company that is still known for almost an unnatural level of Orange is the current sponsor of the Citrus Bowl.
00:24:44
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Oh, this is the Donald J. Trump Citrus Bowl.
00:24:47
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Jesus.
00:24:49
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No.
00:24:53
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I get what you did there.
00:24:55
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I see it.
00:24:55
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Acknowledged.
00:24:56
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Although, by the way, you almost asked for that.
00:25:01
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Actually, though, you pretty much got the shade of color right.
00:25:05
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An unnatural level of orange.
00:25:09
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Nope, I'm drawing a blank.
00:25:12
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Sorry.
00:25:12
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It's the Cheez-It citrus bowl.
00:25:15
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Oh, of course it is.
00:25:16
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That is an unnatural level of orange.
00:25:20
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All right.
00:25:21
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And the last one, and we've covered this before over a few years, but I thought I'd throw it in, which probably means it's a trap, just so it's clear.
00:25:30
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The granddaddy of them all, the Rose Bowl.
00:25:33
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Can you tell me what the Rose Bowl is?
00:25:37
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You could tell me who the sponsor is or give me the name of the Rose Bowl.
00:25:43
Speaker
There is no sponsor of the Rose Bowl.
00:25:46
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It might be presented by Nationwide or something.
00:25:49
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Okay, it's presented by.
00:25:51
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So who presents the Rose Bowl?
00:25:54
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Yeah.
00:25:56
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The city of Pasadena?
00:25:58
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Oh, they don't have that much money.
00:26:00
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No, you're right.
00:26:00
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This year it is the CFP quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl game presented by Prudential.
00:26:07
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Oh, sweet Lord, that's a mouthful.
00:26:10
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I'm just thinking the t-shirts.
00:26:11
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Every t-shirt that you get has to be an extra large just to have that on it.
00:26:15
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Okay, all right.
00:26:17
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So that was 0 for 5.
00:26:18
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Not great, but you know what?
00:26:20
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We're going to move on.
00:26:21
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Okay, here we go.
00:26:23
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Now I'm going to give you the sponsor and you tell me the name of the bowl.
00:26:26
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Okay.
00:26:27
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It's going to go so much better.
00:26:28
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Okay.
00:26:29
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It's not.
00:26:30
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To be completely honest, a couple of these, I'm like, I don't even, I don't even understand this.
00:26:37
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Okay.
00:26:38
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Number one, Bucked Up.
00:26:43
Speaker
Does Bucked Up sponsor the Liberty Bowl?
00:26:48
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It does not.
00:26:49
Speaker
That is the bucked up LA bowl in SoFi stadium.
00:26:53
Speaker
Well, you know what?
00:26:55
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If you're going to LA to a bowl game, you better get bucked up.
00:26:59
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Yeah.
00:27:00
Speaker
By the way, it turns out that they do like supplements, energy drinks, testosterone boosters.
00:27:08
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You can get deer antler velvet spray.
00:27:11
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I don't anyway.
00:27:12
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Yeah.
00:27:13
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Um,
00:27:14
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Instead of getting jacked, you can get bucked up.
00:27:16
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Okay.
00:27:17
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Sure you can.
00:27:18
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Next one.
00:27:18
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All right.
00:27:19
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Again, these are real bowl games that people took money from real companies.
00:27:24
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Like, I can't express to you how ridiculous this is that these are real.
00:27:29
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How about Bad Boy Mowers?
00:27:35
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Are they sponsoring the Pinstripe Bowl in New York City?
00:27:39
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Shit, you got it.
00:27:41
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Woo!
00:27:41
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Woo!
00:27:45
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Sorry.
00:27:46
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Hold on just a quick second.
00:27:49
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I wasn't expecting to have to play a bell during this segment.
00:27:53
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Had to rearrange the soundboard.
00:27:55
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I had a one in 32 chance.
00:27:58
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No, strike that.
00:28:00
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Less than that because there are six of them that we've already covered.
00:28:03
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Okay.
00:28:03
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Yes.
00:28:04
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Okay.
00:28:04
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All right.
00:28:05
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You feel good about that one.
00:28:06
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I really am.
00:28:07
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Yes.
00:28:07
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All right.
00:28:08
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Okay.
00:28:08
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Now it's a security sponsor.
00:28:10
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Now this one, a sponsor you've heard of now those first two bucked up bad boy motors.
00:28:14
Speaker
Look, those aren't real companies.
00:28:15
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Now I've got one that you've absolutely heard of Tony, the tiger.
00:28:19
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Tony, the tiger, I guess is personally sponsoring a bowl and he's been doing this for a while.
00:28:24
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If I, I think this one is, I think he's been sponsoring this for a while.
00:28:29
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Yes.
00:28:31
Speaker
Is Tony, the tiger sponsoring the Duke's Mayo bowl.
00:28:35
Speaker
Oh God, that just sounds like he took some Frosted Flakes and then he just put them in mayo.
00:28:44
Speaker
In a bowl of mayo.
00:28:46
Speaker
Oh my God, that's terrible.
00:28:47
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No, nope.
00:28:49
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Nope.
00:28:50
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Sorry about that.
00:28:52
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It's the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.
00:28:57
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Yes, that makes perfect sense.
00:28:59
Speaker
Do they manufacture...
00:29:01
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Frosted Flakes in El Paso?
00:29:04
Speaker
I don't know, man.
00:29:04
Speaker
I just look at the ESPN thing.
00:29:07
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Okay.
00:29:09
Speaker
Another big company, been around 100 years, you've heard of Goodyear.
00:29:16
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And I will tell you right off the top, there is no such thing as the rubber bowl.
00:29:19
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So, no.
00:29:23
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Goodyear.
00:29:24
Speaker
What bowl could Goodyear possibly sponsor?
00:29:30
Speaker
Does Goodyear sponsor the Outback Bowl?
00:29:33
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Because we got a whole bunch of tires out back.
00:29:36
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I don't know.
00:29:40
Speaker
You got 215 R70 17s.
00:29:42
Speaker
Yeah, I got to go out back and go check.
00:29:46
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No.
00:29:47
Speaker
Unfortunately, that would be awesome.
00:29:49
Speaker
Maybe we should send them a letter and say, have you thought about this?
00:29:52
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Goodyear sponsors the CFP quarterfinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl.
00:29:59
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Because when you think of cotton, you think of Goodyear.
00:30:03
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No, I don't.
00:30:04
Speaker
Has it been a good year for cotton?
00:30:06
Speaker
Not sure.
00:30:07
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Sam, we'll find out.
00:30:10
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It's agriculture in the United States.
00:30:12
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It's probably not been.
00:30:13
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Okay.
00:30:14
Speaker
And then finally...
00:30:16
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Here's this one just shocked me.
00:30:19
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And I'm just like, okay, it surprised me.
00:30:22
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And then I waited a split second.
00:30:23
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Then I thought that makes total sense.
00:30:25
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Perfect sense.
00:30:27
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Snoop dog is sponsoring a bowl.
00:30:32
Speaker
Is Snoop dog sponsoring the Las Vegas bowl?
00:30:38
Speaker
No, that was actually like, give it.
00:30:41
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It's a bowl.
00:30:41
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Like it,
00:30:44
Speaker
Is there a weed bowl?
00:30:45
Speaker
Like, is there?
00:30:46
Speaker
Anyway, no.
00:30:47
Speaker
What bowl game is played in Denver at Mile High?
00:30:54
Speaker
What's up?
00:30:55
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:56
Speaker
Unfortunately, I can't give you that one.
00:30:58
Speaker
Snoop Dogg is sponsoring the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl in Tucson.
00:31:05
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Why?
00:31:06
Speaker
I don't know.
00:31:06
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I don't know.
00:31:06
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God only knows.
00:31:08
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Okay, so I did better in that segment than in the first one.
00:31:13
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You did.
00:31:14
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I'm still one for nine, but okay.
00:31:17
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Yep.
00:31:18
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One for ten.
00:31:20
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You're one and nine.
00:31:21
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I'm one and nine.
00:31:22
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I don't.
00:31:24
Speaker
The math isn't mathing.
00:31:26
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Okay.
00:31:27
Speaker
Now, I'm going to give you the name of the bowl, and you tell me where it is played.
00:31:32
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Okay.
00:31:32
Speaker
The ReliaQuest Bowl.
00:31:35
Speaker
I think that's in Houston.
00:31:39
Speaker
Todd has to go look it up.
00:31:41
Speaker
No, I have it here.
00:31:43
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I wanted to make sure I needed a fact check myself.
00:31:46
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I will give you a hint.
00:31:49
Speaker
The Hawkeyes are playing in it this year.
00:31:51
Speaker
Oh, they're in Tampa.
00:31:53
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Yes.
00:31:55
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Yeah, which I believe used to be the Outback Bowl.
00:31:57
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It did used to be the Outback Bowl.
00:31:59
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But yes, now it's just the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa.
00:32:04
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I literally was like, if he knows any of these, wherever the Hawkeyes are playing, he's got to get.
00:32:09
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Nope.
00:32:11
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Nope.
00:32:12
Speaker
All right.
00:32:13
Speaker
You mentioned this earlier.
00:32:15
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Duke's Mayo Bowl.
00:32:17
Speaker
Isn't that in Charlotte?
00:32:19
Speaker
Give yourself a bell.
00:32:20
Speaker
Hey.
00:32:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:32:28
Speaker
And that one's always confusing for me because Duke's is both the name of an energy company and the name of a mayonnaise product.
00:32:39
Speaker
Yes, but if it was the energy company, it would be the Duke Mayo Bowl.
00:32:45
Speaker
This is the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
00:32:47
Speaker
Bowl.
00:32:48
Speaker
You got that emphasis on the wrong syllable.
00:32:51
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:54
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Plus the sky comma.
00:32:55
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Yeah.
00:32:57
Speaker
How about, I love this one.
00:32:58
Speaker
This is just called the rate.
00:33:00
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It's sorry.
00:33:01
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Rate bowl.
00:33:02
Speaker
That's the name of it.
00:33:03
Speaker
Rate bowl.
00:33:05
Speaker
I bought it too.
00:33:09
Speaker
Well, isn't it sponsored by the same company that used to sponsor guaranteed rate field in Chicago?
00:33:15
Speaker
And now it's just rate field.
00:33:16
Speaker
Oh, that would make sense.
00:33:17
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:17
Speaker
No case.
00:33:18
Speaker
Look, I tied it in without even knowing it.
00:33:20
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:21
Speaker
So do you know where rate bowl is?
00:33:23
Speaker
Oh God, no.
00:33:26
Speaker
We can, we can rule out Chicago cause you do not want to be playing unless you're the bears.
00:33:31
Speaker
You do want to be playing in the, in the, in the winter, but like, yeah.
00:33:34
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Okay.
00:33:34
Speaker
So we're going to say not Chicago.
00:33:36
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We'll, we'll spot you that.
00:33:37
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Will spot me that.
00:33:38
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:38
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So I've narrowed it down to N minus one.
00:33:43
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I'm like, so I'm going through my head.
00:33:44
Speaker
I'm like, where are the, is that one in Miami?
00:33:50
Speaker
You went the wrong direction.
00:33:51
Speaker
This is in Chase Field in Phoenix.
00:33:54
Speaker
Oh.
00:33:56
Speaker
Yeah, that's unfortunate, which I do find funny that somebody who gives mortgages, I guess, is sponsoring a bowl game in Chase Field, which also like, is there a non-compete clause?
00:34:11
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Guess not.
00:34:12
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OK.
00:34:13
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Two more.
00:34:14
Speaker
Then we're done.
00:34:16
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I heard people literally say, oh, my God, thank goodness.
00:34:20
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This one, again, this is a real bowl game.
00:34:23
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I'm not even sure what it, it's the cricket celebration bowl.
00:34:29
Speaker
Now, what I'm not clear about is, is it sponsored by cricket, the phone company, and it just happens to be the celebration bowl, or is it the cricket celebration bowl?
00:34:38
Speaker
I don't, I'm just, I'm super not clear as to, I don't even know what the mascot is at halftime, where they just bring out a bunch of like, yeah, yeah.
00:34:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:50
Speaker
Any idea where the cricket celebration bowl takes place?
00:34:54
Speaker
Celebration, Florida in Atlanta, in Orlando.
00:34:58
Speaker
You know what?
00:34:59
Speaker
You got it wrong and yet you got it right.
00:35:01
Speaker
It is not celebration, Florida, Atlanta, but it is in Atlanta.
00:35:06
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It's Mercedes Benz stadium.
00:35:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:08
Speaker
I did not intend to say Atlanta.
00:35:10
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I intended to say Orlando.
00:35:13
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I get, I get, I get half.
00:35:14
Speaker
Do I get half a point?
00:35:15
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Sure.
00:35:16
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Sure.
00:35:16
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Yeah.
00:35:16
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Yeah.
00:35:17
Speaker
I'll mark that down as a 0.5 win.
00:35:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:21
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I used to think that the cricket celebration bowl happened outside my bedroom window growing up in Iowa every summer night.
00:35:26
Speaker
They're so loud.
00:35:27
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Anyway.
00:35:28
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Oh, boy, are they ever.
00:35:30
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Last one, and we've covered this one before.
00:35:33
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Dwayne, where does the Pop-Tarts Bowl take place?
00:35:36
Speaker
Oh, sweet Lord.
00:35:38
Speaker
We cover this every year because it's the best bowl game.
00:35:44
Speaker
It's not the best bowl game.
00:35:45
Speaker
It's got the best celebration.
00:35:47
Speaker
Yes, that's okay.
00:35:48
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair.
00:35:51
Speaker
Are they in Memphis?
00:35:54
Speaker
I believe that's the Liberty Bowl.
00:35:56
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Ironically, we've covered it twice so far.
00:35:58
Speaker
It is actually also at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
00:36:02
Speaker
Oh, Jesus.
00:36:06
Speaker
Which is not Atlanta.
00:36:10
Speaker
Oh, Jesus.
00:36:12
Speaker
Should have stuck with my first guess.
00:36:15
Speaker
Oh, so I got two and a half.
00:36:18
Speaker
Yes.
00:36:19
Speaker
Out of 15.
00:36:22
Speaker
Not, not, no.
00:36:24
Speaker
That's... I think everyone could have anticipated that.
00:36:34
Speaker
What I'm going to say is, you look at these bowl games, it's just wild.
00:36:37
Speaker
Like, what the heck's going on out here?
00:36:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah, we signed bad boy mowers.
00:36:41
Speaker
What?
00:36:42
Speaker
I don't know.
00:36:43
Speaker
Yeah, you didn't stand a chance, if I'm honest.
00:36:47
Speaker
Nobody does.
00:36:48
Speaker
It's a bowl season.
00:36:51
Speaker
What you should have done is, at the beginning of this, said, you know what?
00:36:55
Speaker
I'm going to opt out, and I'm just going to take my talents to the pros.
00:36:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:02
Speaker
Opt out like a champion today.
00:37:04
Speaker
That's what I'm saying.
00:37:09
Speaker
Are those banners already so you can tap them on your way out the door?
00:37:13
Speaker
Yes, they are.
00:37:13
Speaker
All right.
00:37:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:16
Speaker
So we got through that.
00:37:17
Speaker
How about we talked about Scott Frost earlier.
00:37:19
Speaker
How about your Scott Frost Memorial Idiot of the Week?
00:37:22
Speaker
I am going to talk about the bean soup theory.
00:37:25
Speaker
Okay.
The Bean Soup Theory Explained
00:37:27
Speaker
Sarah, toddler, negative 18, sent me the bean soup theory.
00:37:30
Speaker
And it is an internet phenomenon whereby commenters can't help themselves from making your post about them.
00:37:46
Speaker
And the example of this is this lady, this is how it started.
00:37:50
Speaker
This lady posted this TikTok about her favorite bean soup recipe.
00:37:58
Speaker
And the comment to the video was, well, but what if I don't like beans?
00:38:10
Speaker
Then don't eat the effing soup, you dumbass.
00:38:15
Speaker
Just, you know what?
00:38:18
Speaker
Again, not we say this, we say this about some of the musicals that we go and see Broadway shows that we see.
00:38:26
Speaker
Not everything is for everybody.
00:38:27
Speaker
Yeah, not not not every post is for everybody.
00:38:32
Speaker
What did your mom say growing up?
00:38:34
Speaker
You know, if you don't have something nice to say.
00:38:37
Speaker
Don't say anything at all.
00:38:38
Speaker
Maybe maybe just walk away from the keyboard.
00:38:41
Speaker
Right.
00:38:42
Speaker
Maybe.
00:38:43
Speaker
uh um uh my idiot of the week uh people on the internet sweet lord what am i doing even here there we go people on the internet who leave comments well we're breaking new ground this week yeah we sure are todd what did you bring
00:39:03
Speaker
So in the world of sports and law, I don't know if you've seen this, but in the last two weeks, there has been a fairly high profile for what it is.
NASCAR's Legal Troubles and Settlement
00:39:17
Speaker
Have you heard anything about the court case against NASCAR?
00:39:23
Speaker
Nope.
00:39:23
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:24
Speaker
So one of the team owners of NASCAR,
00:39:31
Speaker
actually two team owners filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR because of the way that they were running it in the, the, the charter system about who gets to take partake in the races and everything else.
00:39:46
Speaker
One of the owners is, uh, let me see if I get his name, right.
00:39:49
Speaker
Uh, former Chicago resident.
00:39:51
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:39:51
Speaker
Michael Jordan.
00:39:54
Speaker
Yes.
00:39:54
Speaker
Yes.
00:39:55
Speaker
Has, has sued NASCAR.
00:39:57
Speaker
Now the judge in the case, uh,
00:40:02
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Before this went to trial, the judge in the case urged the parties to find a way to not take this to trial.
00:40:11
Speaker
Worked on mediation, said, why don't you take a little bit more time, try to make sure that this doesn't go to trial.
00:40:18
Speaker
And the two sides were like, you know what, let's go into trial.
00:40:21
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We're going to settle this in court.
00:40:24
Speaker
And then they had nine days of testimony, including, well,
00:40:30
Speaker
Before the court case, first of all, you get discovery of people's text messages, emails, all sorts of stuff.
00:40:39
Speaker
And then you have nine days of testimony where people then have to talk about things that they put in their emails and their text messages.
00:40:50
Speaker
Things came out in this, like not great things, including...
00:40:56
Speaker
Internal NASCAR communications where the top ranking people in NASCAR referred to Hall of Fame team owner Richard Childress as a redneck.
00:41:11
Speaker
Maybe.
00:41:13
Speaker
Maybe not wrong.
00:41:15
Speaker
Just maybe something you don't want to say publicly.
00:41:19
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:19
Speaker
Right.
00:41:19
Speaker
Well, it wasn't public.
00:41:21
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It was private.
00:41:21
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Up to a point.
00:41:23
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Until it went to trial.
00:41:25
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There was quite a bit of really embarrassing stuff, including now the president of NASCAR, who has gotten this because I think his dad or his grandfather founded it.
00:41:39
Speaker
People are now calling for him to be removed from his post because he's no longer a good steward of the sport because of all of the shenanigans that are coming out in all of this.
00:41:49
Speaker
Anyway, that's not why NASCAR is an idiot here.
00:41:54
Speaker
The reason why they're an idiot here is after nine days of testimony, they announced we've come to a settlement.
00:42:04
Speaker
You couldn't have figured this out before you embarrassed yourselves?
00:42:09
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Yep.
00:42:10
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The judge even said, wish we could have done this a few months ago.
00:42:17
Speaker
Here's the judge told you.
00:42:21
Speaker
You do not want discovery.
00:42:23
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You do not want to do this.
00:42:25
Speaker
Because once you open this box, you can't close the box.
00:42:30
Speaker
And then they open the box.
00:42:33
Speaker
And just embarrass the hell out of everybody.
00:42:35
Speaker
And sort of like, this is how we run the business.
00:42:37
Speaker
And people are like, that is terrible.
00:42:39
Speaker
There is stuff in here that we just assumed, but we didn't know for sure.
00:42:43
Speaker
Now you know for sure.
00:42:44
Speaker
And after nine days of that, it's like, well, I guess we should probably give in now.
00:42:49
Speaker
Like, once you go through that door, like, you might as well just can, like, they basically had to give in to what the owners wanted to get rid of the...
00:42:59
Speaker
They lost, but they didn't just lose.
00:43:01
Speaker
Like they lost and then lost.
00:43:04
Speaker
It's like they put themselves into the wall intentionally and could see it coming.
00:43:10
Speaker
Could see it coming down the entire straightaway.
00:43:13
Speaker
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
00:43:17
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Here's the thing.
00:43:18
Speaker
This was the top of the organization.
00:43:20
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I am sure that their lawyers at some point told NASCAR, by the way, if this goes to trial, you know we're going to have to turn over all of your emails and your text messages.
00:43:28
Speaker
And they were like, yeah, I feel pretty confident about that.
00:43:33
Speaker
Again, either settle or see it through.
00:43:36
Speaker
The whole...
00:43:38
Speaker
Well, we're losing this.
00:43:40
Speaker
This is looking bad for us.
00:43:41
Speaker
Every day is getting worse.
00:43:43
Speaker
Yep.
00:43:44
Speaker
We should probably just figure out a way to declare a victory on this by giving them pretty much everything they wanted.
00:43:51
Speaker
The memes, of course, came out.
00:43:53
Speaker
Yes, the NASCAR memes came out of Michael Jordan shooting over Craig Elo with NASCAR putting it over his face.
00:44:03
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There were lots of those.
00:44:04
Speaker
Him flying through the air over somebody.
00:44:07
Speaker
NASCAR.
00:44:08
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:08
Speaker
Basically it was like, huh?
00:44:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:11
Speaker
Michael Jordan dominates a sport.
00:44:13
Speaker
Well, okay, cool.
00:44:15
Speaker
He managed to do that again.
00:44:16
Speaker
So anyway, we don't give legal advice, but what I'd say is if you get yourself into a legal situation, ask yourself, what would NASCAR do?
00:44:23
Speaker
And then do the opposite because it didn't serve them well.
00:44:27
Speaker
That's a left turn.
00:44:27
Speaker
They weren't expecting.
00:44:30
Speaker
It's kind of surprising given that it's NASCAR.
00:44:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:34
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:36
Speaker
Have you watched anything good lately?
00:44:38
Speaker
Yeah, we did.
00:44:39
Speaker
Now that we actually settled here for like a week where we were both in the same place for a week, that was last week.
00:44:45
Speaker
Again, that's not happening this week.
00:44:47
Speaker
We said we need to get through something.
00:44:49
Speaker
So we started watching Slow Horses.
00:44:52
Speaker
So we and we didn't we only had two days to watch it before Lisa was leaving again.
00:44:57
Speaker
So we did not slow binge it.
00:44:58
Speaker
We we watched the six episodes in in two days, three days.
00:45:04
Speaker
Pretty anyway, we got through it pretty quick anyway.
00:45:07
Speaker
So, yes, we finally caught up to where you were a couple of months ago.
00:45:11
Speaker
Turns out, by the way, hey, slow horses.
00:45:13
Speaker
Pretty good.
00:45:14
Speaker
Pretty good.
00:45:15
Speaker
Absolutely recommend.
00:45:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:18
Speaker
Also, yeah, we also like watching it just of like all of the locations in London.
00:45:23
Speaker
Although as Lisa points out, like, boy, their location scout makes large parts of London look terrible.
00:45:31
Speaker
Just terrible.
00:45:35
Speaker
How about you?
00:45:36
Speaker
What have you guys been watching?
00:45:37
Speaker
Well, I believe we said last week that the West Wing dropped on Netflix.
00:45:42
Speaker
Yes.
00:45:42
Speaker
We're now through episode 10 of season one.
00:45:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:48
Speaker
Just putting a marker out there.
00:45:50
Speaker
We're working our way through them.
00:45:54
Speaker
I think I've talked about Landman.
00:45:57
Speaker
Yes, you have.
00:45:58
Speaker
You have mentioned it.
00:46:00
Speaker
It is now appointment viewing for us on Sunday morning because it drops on Sunday.
00:46:07
Speaker
So we'll watch it.
00:46:09
Speaker
Wow.
00:46:10
Speaker
Yeah, it is.
00:46:11
Speaker
Yes.
00:46:13
Speaker
It is so good.
00:46:16
Speaker
if you're not watching a land man on Paramount plus, and it has to be on like most of the rest of the country, but let's, let's be honest.
00:46:27
Speaker
It's fair.
00:46:28
Speaker
Yep.
00:46:29
Speaker
That's, that's absolutely fair.
00:46:30
Speaker
Uh, and the last thing I'm, I'm now making, uh, for most of the summer, I guess, maybe, uh,
00:46:38
Speaker
I had a list of Robert Redford movies that I was working my way through.
00:46:42
Speaker
Yes.
00:46:43
Speaker
I now have a list of Rob Reiner movies that I am now making my way through.
00:46:50
Speaker
I started last night with Spinal Tap.
00:46:53
Speaker
And I also just realized that if there are any other beloved actors out there with the initials R and R, we need to go wrap them in bubble wrap right now.
00:47:05
Speaker
Good idea.
00:47:06
Speaker
Rita Rudner.
00:47:09
Speaker
Wrap Rita Rudner in bubble wrap.
00:47:11
Speaker
I'm just saying.
00:47:13
Speaker
Anyway, that's, that's what I've been watching.
00:47:17
Speaker
Uh, do you learn anything this week?
00:47:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:20
Speaker
So, uh, I think I've talked about, we, we, we got another car, uh, got a Volvo electric car, uh,
00:47:27
Speaker
Enjoying it.
00:47:28
Speaker
Great.
00:47:29
Speaker
It does have an, there is an oddity in it that is taking a little bit.
00:47:33
Speaker
You've got to pay attention to what you're doing because there, there is a small issue that I just have to make sure that I don't drive it through our garage.
00:47:43
Speaker
And here's the issue.
00:47:45
Speaker
So,
00:47:47
Speaker
You know, at some point, most, a lot of cars, if you know, it's one point when you had to select your gears on an automatic, it was like on the column and then it went, they went onto the middle console, right?
00:47:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:59
Speaker
Three on the tree.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:01
Speaker
So, so park was all the way forward.
00:48:03
Speaker
Right.
00:48:04
Speaker
And then you would go backwards to reverse, then neutral, then drive.
00:48:08
Speaker
Right.
00:48:09
Speaker
In that.
00:48:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:10
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:10
Speaker
That all kind of made sense.
00:48:11
Speaker
We all knew what we were doing there.
00:48:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:48:14
Speaker
This electric car.
00:48:16
Speaker
So the park, parking it, to put it in park is a button next, it has a shifter in it, like a by wire kind of thing where like you just put, it doesn't stay there.
00:48:26
Speaker
You push it to go in reverse or push it to go into drive.
00:48:31
Speaker
It doesn't, you just push it and it goes, kind of centers itself.
00:48:34
Speaker
But the parking, to park it, it's a button next to it.
00:48:36
Speaker
Okay, that's fine.
00:48:38
Speaker
But here's the problem.
00:48:41
Speaker
If you want to go in reverse,
00:48:43
Speaker
So if you want to go backwards, you have to take the gear selector and push it forwards because that's where reverse is, right?
00:48:53
Speaker
If you think about on the tree, right?
00:48:57
Speaker
And then once you back up, if you want to go forwards, you have to pull the gear selector backwards.
00:49:04
Speaker
Isn't that how you fly a plane, though, is if you want to go up, you pull it?
00:49:09
Speaker
Kind of, but I don't want my car to leave the ground.
00:49:12
Speaker
Right.
00:49:14
Speaker
Or if I do, I want to be real clear that that's what I wanted.
00:49:17
Speaker
So the first time I hop in the car, I'm like, I want to back up.
00:49:22
Speaker
So I pull the stick backwards, which then makes the car go towards the back of the garage.
00:49:30
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:49:30
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:49:31
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:49:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:34
Speaker
That was close.
00:49:36
Speaker
This was a solved problem and it is no longer a solved problem.
00:49:40
Speaker
So now cargo forward, pull back, cargo backward, pull forward, push forward.
00:49:45
Speaker
I don't.
00:49:45
Speaker
Okay, cool.
00:49:47
Speaker
Whatever.
00:49:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:48
Speaker
Those Swedes, man, they have got a sense of humor.
00:49:51
Speaker
Anyway, that's what I learned this week is on that car and that car only pay attention.
00:49:59
Speaker
How about you?
00:50:00
Speaker
What'd you learn this week?
00:50:03
Speaker
So,
00:50:05
Speaker
Last week, one of Amy's bosses and I decided to go into business together.
00:50:12
Speaker
And we are going to use a, let's call it a renewable resource.
00:50:20
Speaker
Which I have here in the house, which is a virtually unlimited supply of empty bourbon bottles.
00:50:29
Speaker
Virtually unlimited.
00:50:32
Speaker
Really, your house becomes more like a processing facility.
00:50:36
Speaker
Full bourbon bottles come in one door.
00:50:39
Speaker
Empty bottles.
00:50:40
Speaker
Empty bottles go out the other door.
00:50:42
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:50:43
Speaker
And in the middle of that, once they become empty, my job is to cut the tops off the bourbon bottles and then I will hand and then polish them so that there aren't any sharp edges.
00:50:55
Speaker
And then I will hand them off to Jess, who will make them into candles.
00:51:00
Speaker
fill them with candles.
00:51:02
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:02
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:02
Speaker
Yes.
00:51:03
Speaker
So I'm doing my part, but this week, we need more bottles working on it.
00:51:10
Speaker
I'm working on it.
00:51:12
Speaker
I'm working on it.
00:51:17
Speaker
I feel like the crow and Dumbo.
00:51:25
Speaker
So I, my bottle cutter arrived.
00:51:29
Speaker
in the last week and I have practiced.
00:51:32
Speaker
I now have two bottles that are cut and ready.
00:51:38
Speaker
They are not polished and they have very, very sharp edges.
00:51:42
Speaker
This is a learning, what I learned this week, this is a learning process.
00:51:46
Speaker
You have to be careful.
00:51:48
Speaker
You have to be slow.
00:51:50
Speaker
You have to be very methodical in the process.
00:51:55
Speaker
Otherwise you ruin everything.
00:51:58
Speaker
the opportunity to make a product at which point i just have to then go create more product it's important that you don't sample the product immediately you need to be sober to do this i need to not be creating product while creating products i
00:52:20
Speaker
Okay, so listen, we're going to need some business insurance.
00:52:23
Speaker
Basically, Dwayne's going to be down in bottles of whiskey and then cutting the bottles apart in order so that we can... Nope, I'm out.
00:52:30
Speaker
I'm out.
00:52:31
Speaker
Nope.
00:52:31
Speaker
No coverage.
00:52:32
Speaker
Nope.
00:52:34
Speaker
On the other hand, while I won't give you any insurance, I will pay you to put up a webcam and to give me YouTube and TikTok rights for this manufacturing process because I think I'm going to make a killing.
00:52:48
Speaker
There's so much blood.
00:52:51
Speaker
Oh, you're not wrong.
00:53:09
Speaker
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00:53:11
Speaker
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00:53:15
Speaker
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00:53:21
Speaker
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00:53:25
Speaker
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00:53:27
Speaker
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00:53:29
Speaker
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00:53:32
Speaker
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00:53:33
Speaker
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00:53:40
Speaker
Todd?
00:53:42
Speaker
Boy, that candle's got a nice scent.
00:53:45
Speaker
I'm picking up notes of some oak.
00:53:47
Speaker
Yep.
00:53:49
Speaker
Is that a little bit of spruce?
00:53:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:51
Speaker
And what's that last one?
00:53:53
Speaker
There's just like a hint of something.
00:53:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's just a trace of buffalo.
00:53:58
Speaker
God.
00:54:03
Speaker
That was truly awful.
00:54:05
Speaker
That was truly awful.
00:54:08
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:54:09
Speaker
That was really bad.
00:54:10
Speaker
Nice.
00:54:11
Speaker
Solid work there.
00:54:17
Speaker
Welcome to Dad Joke Theater, folks.
00:54:21
Speaker
We're going to have something we need to clean up.
00:54:24
Speaker
I'm lost.
00:54:25
Speaker
I just can't.
00:54:25
Speaker
I can't after that.
00:54:27
Speaker
We'll clean something up next week.
00:54:28
Speaker
We'll be back.
00:54:29
Speaker
We're here.
00:54:30
Speaker
We're talking to Todd.
00:54:31
Speaker
We'll be back.
00:54:37
Speaker
Thank you.
00:55:01
Speaker
We better get some bubble wrap for Ryan Reynolds' stat.
00:55:05
Speaker
Oh, no kidding.
00:55:06
Speaker
I'll go check a Wrexham.