Tom
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Best of Creep Cast 2024
You might be the, you might be the most beautiful angel I've ever seen.
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I like to be very subtle, but I would love to make love to you at any point.
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Free breadsticks, sweetheart. Do you like bread? She's like, do I like bread?
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Yeah, I However, as more time and energy is invested into the development of the platform, they begin to harness more influence on their environment until eventually exhibiting a semi-permanent physical appearance. We've sought to answer a very important question.
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He knows too much. Kill him. ...forms can also take on appearances that could be considered disturbing, like a creature one might see in a childhood nightmare. There's no reason to be afraid, however. Despite being able to appear as a childhood nightmare and have a physical form and touch you, it won't.
DC High Volume: Batman
Batman: Year One - Chapter 4
Oh, it sure does, Trish. He's caught a big fish this time. If Skevers is convicted, this will be the fourth time he goes to prison. Bet they throw away the key.
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Batman: Year One - Chapter 1
The 25-year-old heir to the Wayne Millions declined to comment on rumors of romance in his life or on his plans on his return to Gotham after 12 years abroad. We'll keep you posted on Gotham's richest and best-looking native son, Tom.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
You have green also. I've got to keep our deer guys happy. Mine was green. Mine was green. I will say that. Keep our deer guys happy. Match nicely. But, again, the product offering, that's a lot of fun because colors matter on the farm. It really does. The black has been the most popular lately just for resale value. It goes everywhere. Yeah, but we do a good job.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Oh, that would be cool. That would be nice.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So the neat thing about the dual auger is, especially when people have wet corn, it really helps get that out better. Also depends on when you get in, especially in Canada, some of these bigger guys use those. They don't have the same rules that we do down here. They can haul a lot more.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So when we get to the 2,500 bushel cart, just filling those super bees, they call them, getting those things full. That, to me, is very important. As much grain as you can get in there. And also unload it quickly. When it's 1,000 bushel per minute to unload, that's a big difference. And, again, with all that control you're talking about with that joystick, you can get up there.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And, I mean, we had a guy, I'm just going to go over a guy in Nebraska, and he had literally running four carts. There were 2,000 bushels. And they had nine X9 combines running. It was crazy. And these guys were running just full out, and they had tandem axle with steerable axles.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And the reason they picked us over a competitor was every time they were turning in the field, their axles didn't turn as far, and they were literally breaking studs off, so breaking complete spindles off the front.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
After they had, just last year, these guys got to run it, just hearing their success and how much it was, I mean, the uptime, things like that, with that dual auger cart. You can see that front window. I know I'm sorry I'm pointing, but they have just a lot of little things. That was actually brought up by that keg thing like Tanner was talking about. People wanted better visibility.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So it's just little things that people really can – I mean, just an easy use and we listen. And that was one of the things that I got to do also last year. That's how I ended up out there in Nebraska in different places was we had a field follow-up program. We literally went out and went to 50, I went to 50 different customers, asked them what they liked, 50.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And it didn't matter if it was a loose bolt or a scratch. Hey, what do you, what on your cart did you like or not like? Kind of like what we did with Corey also at his farm. Just, just find out. And, We compile all that information. We took 22 of those things, like the top 22 things that were pretty common, and we actually got a lot of those implemented before this fall again.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So we have just people dedicated. Again, we have a whole team in Illinois. That's all they do is build carts. And then on the backside of that, people don't always see. You have your engineers, your design engineers, your test engineers. They're constantly testing and trying new things. So that's what I get excited about is we can literally go right from the farmer, from the buddy seat,
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Go right back into that, we call it a war room. We go in there, talk as a group. Hey, this is what we're doing. And the ownership's like, let's do it. Like, if this is what the people want, let's do it. Because, again, at the end of the day, if you can keep your customers happy and providing things that no one else is willing to provide, that's what sets you apart. That's cool.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And we also have a sump. And so a lot of other people, they have different ways that they get their grain out. But our cross auger comes up and then before it goes to the vertical auger, it actually goes down into a sump and it's not impeded by anything else. Some of our competition have the gearbox down there where the gearbox actually gets in the way of that grain transfer.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Well, we literally have a sump that everything falls into and then takes the grain out cleanly. So that's why, again, we can get a thousand bushel a minute and be efficient at it. And we also have a 22-inch load and a 24-inch unload. And it's pretty exciting when everything runs right and those guys are like, I mean, the next truck, next truck.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And just watch, like I say, those guys, especially with 9x9 running out there in the field, they are always, especially in the corn, they always are waiting for somebody. And they don't want to wait. So that's where you lose your efficiency.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, it is. If not, then call me, too. If I can throw my phone number out, it's 515-480-2047. I live here in Iowa, but I travel all over. I mean, we've got some great airports with Iowa City and Des Moines. We end up just about anywhere.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, they got rebates out now. So, yeah, we got some. Again, anything you can do to get a sale, that's what we're here for.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Appreciate it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Thank you. Appreciate it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And multiple companies.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
It is. It really is. A lot of family owned companies and just like you guys, grassroots. And I really like that.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
My role is a product specialist for grain carts. So I literally support anybody that needs help with the demos, anything, any questions, resource. That's all I am is a resource. And it's a blast. You can't find a better job where all you have to do is worry about one product, know all the nuts and bolts on it and
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
hydraulics you name it and it's also a grain cart so you don't got motor you don't got a lot of other things to worry about i mean a lot of people caught a box with an auger so it's a lot of fun to get out there and really show them where the return on investment is on a grain cart and how important it is and i know you guys are just talking about it like you gotta get the bushels out of the field and one of the most efficient ways to do that is a grain cart right
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. So that's what I did. And then I was a territory manager and then took a promotion last June to now all I do is focus on grain carts. And I actually will be in Canada next week in Alberta doing some demos up there with their wheat. So it's been really interesting just learning all the different, you got millet and rice and you name it, Durham.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
I didn't know what that was, cereal rice. Like I learned a lot of stuff. I mean, it's like, In Iowa, you're used to corn and soy beans. That's about it. I mean, yeah, you get a little bit of wheat here and there and it's oats and different things, but nothing like when you get out and then you all of a sudden you get canola. And so you learn a lot quick. Right.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Favorite part about the grain cart is especially when people have ideas. We work with a lot of different companies. Stein Seed, one of them, a local company, they had a very specific need on what they wanted and we build them a couple of custom grain carts. So I feel really good that
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
When people have an idea, they bring it to you and we've had a relationship with them for years and find out what the needs are that are out there and conquer that need. One of my favorite features is that back door, that ground access door. We were the first, now three other companies will have it now at the Farm Progress Show you'll have in a few weeks. They'll have it also.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
But we were the first ones five years ago to bring out a door that you can literally get into that's chest level. It has a little ladder. You crawl right up in the cart. And the reason for that was 100% clean outs. People are changing varieties, doing different things. A lot of custom harvesters were going to literally the next field, so they literally could clean out 100% by getting in this door.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
The biggest thing you can get into them is getting back out of them. Some guys had injuries, wrist injuries or shoulder injuries, and that was the case with Stein Seed. And they said the safety was number one, and that was the one thing that they were some of the catalysts. That was a big reason why they bought our carts was so the guys could get into 100% clean outs and get out safely.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And on our new DXT grain carts, we actually have a clean-out door that runs the entire length. So after you get in there, It's so nice that the doors, the entire length of the product, it's easy to get it out.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, it drops. There's a handle on the back, and you can drop, and then literally 100% clean out. You can't get much simpler than that. Okay.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So it's actually nice and secure in the back. So you literally have to go out and trip it. Like it's just not one of those things that's just going to open while you're going down the road.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yes, correct. Yep. Yep.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And also, just to kind of tell on ourselves, but this is how you get better. We had the DXR, the last version that was five years ago, and now we have the new version out. We listened to our customers and we had almost the same kind of door, but it was very hard to get that to adjust. So after you do that literally a thousand times or a hundred times, things start to wear.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Well, then we figured out, hey, Let's make that so we can adjust it better so then it has a tighter fit without having to buy kits, things like that. And, again, that's one thing I love about Brandt is that you take the time to listen, especially in a role like I am. We literally go see the farmers. I write this down, and I got three guys on speed dial engineers that, hey, guys, here's what I saw.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
What do you think? Is this worth something to go into and fix?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
trying to get grain from the field into a semi or into a wagon and out you just want things to be easy yep right as efficient as possible concept goes across all brands yeah but you were talking about before we started this that that's still something that brand's doing and you like to be able to take people to see it being built yes yeah so we got a we're literally building usa here so right here in hudson illinois i say here but it's a couple hours that way like i get excited because it is still usa brand and we build them in hudson illinois and
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Yeah, I welcome tours. So if people want to come, uh, let us know and we can get a tour lined up for me. If you're in that Bloomington normal area, Hudson's just a little town right beside there, but it's just right on the outskirts of Bloomington, uh, in Illinois. And you can literally see either the XT or the DXT. That's all they build there.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
So that whole factory is just dedicated to the grain carts. And so that's pretty exciting because a lot of plants have multiple things going on, which is fine, but that's one thing Brandt decided, even though they're, they are a Canadian company. they build all their grain carts there and export them. So we build all our own track carriages, things like that are all built in-house.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Why do we do it there?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
Well, because the biggest thing is, is that we have so much need down here for the grain carts. I mean, you look at the ice states again, there's just so, I mean, I was even down in Arkansas and Mississippi, the rice down there was amazing. And we have a really good rice cart with the XT. And it's amazing when you put three or four different carts together and And rice is so abrasive.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And when you see we have like an extra quarter-inch lip on our auger, when you see that extra auger or the extra flighting that we put on there, the hardening, you can tell the difference when you have carts lined up that are in people's – you go to a dealer and you see carts lined up. You can see after a season that does matter. Like the little things, the little attention to detail does matter.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
That's just a single auger. Okay.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
I should probably know this as a specialist. I do not know.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
It's usually nine foot in front of the hitch.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And not only that, on that same stick you're talking about, on that auger, on that downspout, we actually have a light kit there that you can actually see the flow door. Where's that gate at? And especially with young operators, if you tell them, hey, only light up a couple lights, that just shows you if we can light up all the lights, that's when the flow gate's completely open.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And then when it's closed, they're all off. And it's so much easier doing that than people, like you said, crank your neck back trying to find out where's that little indicator at. The slide, yeah. It's right there. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
A lot of people have a, I know you guys have even talked about this on previous podcasts. They get a lot of foreign workers and sometimes there's a language barrier and the light is easy. Like the light, two lights, two lights. So you can just show them like, Hey, don't go past two lights until they get comfortable. And there's just little things like that that just help.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Mastering Market Volatility: Ever.Ag’s Approach to Agricultural Risk Management
And again, the age barrier, I mean, I've seen 13, 12 year olds out there running the carts. And they're able to run them and efficiently with very minimal training.
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Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
Alarm bells are starting to go off, but I'm still thinking this is somebody who's in trouble and I want her to get better so that we can work together on something. Stephen apparently gets a Chase account during all this. And he says, Megan says that I can go in when I have a moment and transfer the funds.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
Or in the morning, can you go to Chase, take the cash out and deposit in his account at Chase? Around this point, I changed my bank account because of all the charges. I'm not thinking that this is Megan. I'm thinking that this is somebody who stole my identity while I was on the road trip in Kansas City. So I foolishly give up the new account information, the bank account info.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
I founded a club in 2019. It was called the Neurodiversity Coalition. It was to help people with autism, Asperger's disorder, which I have, PDD, NOS, OCD, invisible disabilities, and beyond,
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
And she says, you name the price to get it done and I'll pay you back. She then claims that she asked Chase for me and she gives me Stephen's address. I transfer the $2,500. And I tell her, all right, get the money ready. Now you got to carry it back. That was the last text for July 5th. On July 6th, I said, you have four days. She said, felt like you were sending me a death reminder.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
I said, ha, no, just hold up your end of the bargain, please. Seriously, no more waiting. Now, are you off the street? She is off the street at this point. I said, why can't you go home? Where's family? And she says she got evicted. I said, what, your mom? She said she went bankrupt and lives with my aunt. My aunt dislikes me strongly. I'm not interested in caring about family drama.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
That's not my business. So I'm not even planning to ask her about that. All I know is that her aunt hates her. I'm saying bankrupt? Your mom was trying to pay me when you were in the hospital. She says, yeah, oh, she has more money now that she's moved in with my aunt, but it was just too much to maintain the house when my dad died. But yeah, my aunt avoids me like the plague.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
So I said, all right, well, how in the world are you going to get the money when you said you had none? Financial aid. I get a refund from school. So she convinces me again that she has money left over from Ball State. And I said, wait, how did you not spend all that? She says she's still in grad school. When my loans hit, I get a refund because there's extra money.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
And I said, well, then why in the world do you need me? Did you lie to me? And she said, because I don't get that until Friday. It's July 6th. That Friday, she said she was going to get it. And she said, did you want me to sleep on a sidewalk until then? I said, look, stay sane and safe. But just remember, I'm not going anywhere. I waited this long and I can wait a little longer.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
At nine on July 6th, I say, all right, money tomorrow. And she says, yeah, I'm driving. Deal's a deal. And you said you'd wire me extra or was that out of desperation? And I don't hear from her again on July 6th. So you get a lot of empty space from Megan. July 7th, hardly any texts. I say, today, have you taken care of it? Please let me know. Here's my Venmo. And no response.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
Around five, I say, I won't belabor the point anymore. I know things are rough, but I am dead serious about suing you in court. I don't want to have to do it, but you are not following up on your promises here. I was kind of bluffing when this happened, but I was just I was so frustrated at that point because I hadn't gotten a dime.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
I said at midnight on July 8th, this is to inform you I've spoken to legal counsel to write out a demand letter. I just feel this is really impacting our friendship. I've held back and this is two months at this point. I'm fed up. July 9th, I'm saying, hey, you still with me? This is just causing a lot of anxiety.
Something Was Wrong
S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
And on that day, I looked up her name to see what was going on, to see if she was out of jail, the arrest records. Because you can do that in my case, Indiana. And I see the article, Fisher's woman arrested in rental scam. And I see a Twitter, Megan Stoner scam awareness. Now, Megan's already told me that she's had haters
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S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
And I knew she was deeply unpopular when she was in the state government office, or as she told me she was. So I'm thinking at this point, oh my God, what? That's impossible. This is my first accusation. I said, you're a scammer. I looked you up. How could you, Megan? So I'm automatically thinking, you lied to me. I'm calling the cops on you. I'm going to put you back in jail.
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And, you know, we went to hockey games together. We would grab meals together. We were purely platonic, by the way.
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I got introduced to the Megan Stoner Awareness Group on July 9th. This was on Twitter? Yeah, this was on Twitter. The Facebook group was private. I didn't know anything about a Facebook group. So up to that point, I'm not thinking that this is a legitimate page. She would say when we're at hockey games, for example, oh, yeah, there are a bunch of haters out there out to get me.
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Everybody's attacking me for my political points of view and all this. I'm at that point where nothing is making sense. I have no idea where all this is coming from. I just messaged them and said, hey, hands off her. Is she really a scammer? Prove it. I'm a friend of hers. Leave her alone. And I don't get a response from anybody until around August or so. And that's nobody's fault.
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I mean, there were people who were impacted even before me. I don't blame anybody for what happened. No one felt worse about it than I did when I found out what had happened, that she was stealing money.
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I messaged her on July 9th and I said, you're a scammer, how could you? And she said, oh, my car was towed and I haven't had my phone. And I'm like, oh, okay, got it. But listen, do you have the money? And she said, did you call the cops? And I said, I know about the previous charges, so don't screw with me. I'm planning to tomorrow if the deadline passes tonight.
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She says, if you're going to threaten the cops and all this, then do whatever. And I tell her, you need to pay me. It's a civil matter, not a criminal matter anyway. I'm low on funds and I trusted you. What is going on? You're in trouble again? Your car's getting towed? How did you sink so low so quickly? That's impossible. We had a deal, Megan. You promised.
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She would message me from time to time, texts soliciting money for teaching or for walking in a suicide prevention walk.
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And she says, I can't speak on the phone right now. I'm not in a private area. And I said, please pay by tonight. Why would you make a promise that you couldn't keep? She says, I don't appreciate the threats. I'm planning on paying you. And I said, I thought you were better than that, though. I literally got freaked because somebody said...
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When I was discussing what happened that you had a history and somebody referring to the scam awareness page, when I looked, somebody posted this. It's just that concerns me greatly. That's not normal. She said, look, it's an ongoing legal situation. And my attorney said, I can't talk about it. I said, I'm really upset because I didn't mean to threaten you with jail.
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But how can I keep you at your word when you keep getting in trouble? And there's a history of things. And I said, look, it'd be really helpful if you could follow up. Take the responsibility. Did you get the financial aid or are you just ordering DoorDash or something? Because my card keeps getting charged. So this is the first time I started to suspect maybe Megan is charging stuff.
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Did she lie to me? She said, I've literally been in jail and you're accusing me of ordering DoorDash. I said, look, I'd like to know. A Fisher's address came up and seeing that you live in Fisher's, I had to ask, can you at least keep to our agreement? And she said, no, I haven't lived in Fisher's for a while. She again repeats that she was evicted.
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And I said, I don't want to be a burden, but I have a history of trusting people and not hearing from you has really been frustrating for me. We had a deal. The debt was supposed to be paid tonight. What day should I check in to make sure? I send her the notarized agreement picture, and she says she's checking on her financial aid. And I said, can you call the office?
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What can you do at this point? And I tell her, no more delays. Stop it. It's time to get to business here and pay up. Two months I've waited. Pay the piper. She said, I'm trying to follow along here. I said, I have your word on that. I don't want to make life harder than it has to be for you, but make it easy on yourself. Tell me what is going on. Stop going away for lengthy periods of time.
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I don't know how she found out that I messaged the scam awareness group, but she says, hey, you apparently started it on Twitter about me. My attorney wants me to cease all contact. You're way out of line for going on social media. You just put yourself in a lot of drama. I said, I didn't start the page, but I did comment because you are not listening to me.
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What am I supposed to do when you've got an entire page of people who, for some reason, have a vendetta against you? I wanted to know what was going on. Do you expect me to just refer to you for everything? I mean, surely they must have their reason. She then plays the victim and says, oh, you've made me majorly upset. I'm in tears now.
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Great way to make me feel like a piece of you-know-what when I'm already at my lowest. I said, but you promised to pay me. I helped you through stuff. I was out of line for asking, but I'm really angry because you're breaking promises and stop ripping people off. And she says, because I didn't respond for a day, you went on social media about me. Jesus.
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I was trying to find your mom's info so I could call her and make sure you were all right. But then I noticed the stories on Twitter. And she says I was pulled over Friday night. I had called her the previous night to say, you need to pay up. You really need to. All right. Enough's enough. And she breaks down in tears at some point.
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And then I hear the police sirens and she says, oh, crap, I'm getting pulled over. And she hangs up the phone. I called her right back and I said, what went on? Why did you get pulled over? Did you not have a hands free device or something? She continues to cry and says, oh, I promise I'll pay you back.
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And I'm like, okay, but you've just made a really bad situation much worse by getting pulled over. July 9th, she sends me this image of an email to her lawyer saying, my mom and I are very upset. I have a court appearance for a suspended license in Elwood this month. I also went to jail last night because of the cop. Can you please handle this?
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According to the police, I can't drive until something is signed off by a judge. Apparently, the cops dragged her into court for getting pulled over. And then she applied for a hardship license. That makes no sense reading it now. And she said, oh, I sent this to my attorney yesterday. That'd be July 8th. I'm just going through a lot. And I'm not saying that excuses it, but I hope it explains it.
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I said, so you literally can't pay anybody and you asked for money. And she says, oh, I can. I'll pay you the minute my aid hits. I say, well, why take out a loan you can't pay? You didn't tell me you were out of money. The letter said you can't make money, you know, the hardship license. And she said, oh, I'm still able to get my financial aid. I said, it never mentioned aid at all.
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So I have no idea how you're going to pay. She said, I'm highlighting I can't drive to my job in my letter to attorney. I said nothing about my aid. I need my attorney to take my request seriously. I can't live off my aid forever. I messaged you the moment I got my phone. It's just, I said, as a friend, I care about you. But when you've made a deal with a friend, you got to follow through.
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And she says, oh, I'm promising. And I said, I've been lied to about money before. And she said, oh, I'm so sorry. That sounds horrific. I'm taking this seriously. I get that. We all work hard for the money we have. I said, I literally reported the darn page so they could take it down. So you're welcome. You know, I thought this was a hater's page originally.
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I didn't know that they were trying to help people. And I said, it's upsetting when someone offers to help and the person who is helped continues to evade responsibility. No more silences, no more pleading. Just get it done, please. And she says, threatening me and tweeting about me are great ways to ensure I'll go quiet, too. You can call the police. They're going to say it's civil.
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Didn't I have a week before you took it to court? I said, this is the demand letter. I pushed it back a week again. I said, I'm going to give you a letter reminding you. Then I'm going to take it to court. And again, by the way, this is just a bluff. Like I can't afford lawyers for crud. And I'm not going to go to my parents for that because they've supported me through a lot.
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I'm blessed to have them in my life. I don't want them to know about all this stuff. They've already got enough to deal with. I really wouldn't want to know that their son was foolish enough to get himself in a situation like this. They'd be too disappointed in me. Normally I consider myself someone of common sense and I'm already upset that it led to this.
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So I'm thinking of my family at the time. I'm thinking of trying to get Megan to help me out. So I push it back and I said, I've had problems with finances in the past and people not paying me. So I'm quite paranoid after these two months. So yeah, I'm really angry about this. So text me when you get the news. After this big stream, she goes absolutely silent again.
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The thing is with her, she has no concept of boundaries. You know, that's the thing that agitates me the most. When she starts texting, she sends a barrage. I mean, it's a stampede. If text messaging were an Olympic event, she would be a repeat champion every damn year. She exploits people's weaknesses in order to gain an advantage.
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S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
You know, I think of it as she uses people's trust as a bridge to walk on. Trust is easy to lose. It's only a matter of time before a weak bridge collapses. And in the case of her getting caught, certainly that bridge collapsed. Her most common excuses were that she was either in jail, on the cusp of going to jail, was in Michigan babysitting a kid, was in the hospital for mental health treatment.
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may the 6th i got a number of random texts throughout the day saying i'm in a crisis i need help it's not mental health i said oh what's up she says oh i'm at a i'm at a low point in my life i need money for bail yeah i wish i was lying so me being very surprised considering this is a former government employee and now whom i presume to be a teacher i say okay explain what is going on
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On August 2nd, Mike Neal messaged me for the first time and said, do you know Justin Sexton? And I said, yes, I do. And you know, Megan Stoner? Yes. Have you been giving her money? And I was reluctant to tell him how much I'd given because it was shockingly large, embarrassingly large, insanely large.
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And so I thought, OK, well, I'd like to see a badge number or something because, you know, Indiana State Treasury officials or agents don't just message you like that out of the blue. And so he sent me his personal profile on the Indiana State Treasury page. So I said, OK, wow, this guy's top brass. And I messaged Justin after and said, is this guy really top brass like for the state?
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Justin verified it. And he said, all right, how much have you given her? And I told him everything. I spilled my guts. And he said, all right, do you have any information on her? And I said, am I in trouble? And he says, absolutely not. If anything, you're more in trouble in that you got screwed by someone you thought was your friend. And I thought, oh, God, I'm such an idiot.
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And I didn't even know what I was an idiot for yet. I just knew, wow, I'm an idiot. It's a miserable feeling when that happens. Then Justin texted me a few hours later. I looked down on the message and I couldn't believe where it all went. She just wasn't the person I thought. First time I heard that came from Justin. And then he said the word scammer, just as Mike had.
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And instantly my mind said, she's a liar. I couldn't speak. Four years of friendship in a minute, completely gone. It took us years to build up what I considered a friendship or even an acquaintanceship. Trust who your friends are and can't be too careful. But Justin and Mike said, do you want to join the support group? And I said, oh, okay.
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And that's how I got in the Megan scam awareness Facebook group. I had actually just joined the group when Alyssa made the first botched attempt to catch her.
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She says they're charges from three years ago, 2021.
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It's one in the morning when I took the picture initially on June 16th of the card and sent it. Later that afternoon, Megan's mom says, oh, sorry, it's not working right now. We tried again around six and it still didn't work. So it's nine now on the same Friday, June 16th. So it's already happened three times in the span of two days. It hasn't worked.
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So on the 17th of June, I say, all right, I'll call the bank and figure it out. And as it turns out, because of strange charges starting to pour in around that time, I said I had to get a new card. Now, up to this point, I'm just assuming, oh, it's just a classic case of identity theft. It must have happened at the gas station or something.
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Yeah. So all of this is going down all through June. I would say there were between 10 or 20 charges that my bank reversed in that month alone. And I was able to get that money back. Thank goodness for that. And on June 29th, with a cash app, it is charged for $10 to a Meg Stoner. Then there's another cash app charge, and this name appears frequently, Brooklyn.
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I never figured out who Brooklyn was. I never figured out who Penny was. I never figured out where the Amazon account was coming from the Amazon bill. I also never figured out who Jasmine was. There are several personalities or accounts that I'm presuming Megan has opened up. Now, at the time, I'm not thinking this. I'm just assuming, oh, these are friends who are helping to try to pay her bond.
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S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
So I get back from Kansas City. This is mid to late June about. The next time that I hear from her, it was on the 4th of July, no less. On Independence Day, like the movie. So, you know, perfect tie into the plot line, right? It's 5.42 in the morning.
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Now I'm up early that day because like any patriotic American or person who loves the 4th of July, I tend to wake up on the 4th of July so that I can see the band setting up, see if there are any parades that are going on in the morning. I get a message about 12 minutes after I wake up. It's 542. She says, hey, it's Megan. I know we still owe you $1,000.
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I just got out of the hospital and I'm homeless now. If I could borrow another $1,000 to get back on my feet, I can pay back $2,000 for that when I get my student aid in a few weeks. That's the first time she even mentioned student aid. Now, I'm thinking, I knew she was a student at Ball State, and I'm wondering, student aid, don't you pay for classes with that?
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How do you still have student aid left over? It wasn't until I was informed by Justin and Alyssa and Mike that she had been planning to pursue a degree at Liberty University, she had that student aid. I'm assuming she still had student aid left over from her graduate program at Ball State. So I say, oh, perfect. I'm so sorry, Megan, this is all happening to you.
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So throughout the day, I send her my Venmo and she says, oh, do you have your new card so I can refund it? And so if you can spot me 2K, I can pay you back 4K this weekend, 4,000. Is there any way you can help me? I'm without a car. I'm homeless. Can you help me? Can you please send it? It's really urgent. You can make easy cash here. Please help me. I can show up in person if you loan me the 2K.
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I can send you the notarized agreement. The moving company took my car. At this point, I stopped responding on July 4th. I just gave her my Venmo so she could request it. It's the next day at this point, the next evening, July 5th. And she is saying, oh, can you spot me 2,000? I can give you 4,000 back this weekend. I'm homeless and I'm without the car.
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And this is the first time where she proposes a notarized agreement. That was her idea, not mine. I said, issue is I'm kind of low at the moment on funds. That's why I need the payback. All right. I've been waiting nearly a month at this point and I stopped charging you interest and I'm still agreeing to have you pay a lesser amount. She says, oh, I understand.
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And I know I haven't been around, but I can send you a notarized agreement. I'm literally homeless and without a car. Can you help me? And I said, listen, I'm running low. And she again repeats, I will send you a notarized agreement. And she says, can you do a thousand or fifteen hundred? Please, it's urgent. I can show you my eviction order. So she's really harping on this.
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And I even say, well, what about asking other people? Why me? I'm assuming she's got Curtis. She's got Harry. Why aren't you asking them? Those are your friends. She says, apparently, nobody has it either. I've tried asking around. And because you actually care about me, you've taken a chance on me. I'm not going to jail or the hospital. I just need my car back. Please.
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I can't even go to work without my job. What does that even mean? I'm thinking, problem is, how can I possibly trust you at this point? You've been gone damn near two months now. And she says, I hear you. That's why I'm offering a notarized agreement. And I say, well, I do care. But seriously, I could take this to court at this point because you have not paid.
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She says, listen, I can write up an agreement for us to sign. I know. And I appreciate that you haven't taken it to court. But without my car, I can't do anything. So then I agree to it and I say, all right, if you get an agreement notarized, I want proof, genuine proof that you are going to pay me. And that means getting a signed contract. She's upped the total amount that she owes me to $8,000.
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It went from $4,000 to $8,000 in three days at this point. I say, okay, deal. She says, oh, I'm writing the agreement. If you're willing to try, just hang tight with me. So she puts it in her notes. I agree to pay $8,000 back. I agreed to about $2,500. And I'm like, wait, wait, what? We did not agree to that. We agreed originally to $2,000. What's all this about?
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You know, you kind of bumped it up a bit. And she said, if you can do it, I will increase my paycheck to $10,000. So now, all right, we're already up to double digits in the thousands. I'm thinking, well, it's her hole and she's going to have to dig her way out of it. And I say, make the official due date this weekend, this Saturday, or I'm going to file a court motion.
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And I meant it because $10,000 is the limit in Indiana to file for small claims court. So if I were to go beyond that, and which she eventually did, I'd have to actually sue her. We might have to have a trial if she goes over $10,000. i'm thinking listen i need to know that you can pay it or else i can't lend it official due date is sunday end of story or we go to court i mean it
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And she says, I get it. I said, all right, let's see the agreement. And she's kind of dawdling at this point. She says, I'm going to get it notarized. I'll be in touch around 8. Sure enough, she writes out the agreement. She prints it out from her notes page. She signs this typewritten note, her name twice, and gets a notary seal of approval stamped right in the center from an official notary.
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so i'm thinking at this point this is a legal contract she's saying all right i need my car back tonight i had to sign it twice once in front of her do you want anything else in the agreement i said it's fine i asked for a venmo the transaction is declined and i say i'm at the end of my ropes with this thing she says oh please don't quit on me i said i don't have a debit card i have to go
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She proposes that I just give her my bank information. I'm like, absolutely not. I'm not about to do that. She says, oh, I'll pay through QuickBook. I paid money to get that notarized. Please let me rebuild trust. And I'm like, OK. And she's like, I'm shaking. Please help me. Geez, I don't want her to collapse or something. So foolish me. I give it up. I give them both up.
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By the way, I'm in a law fellowship at this point and we're doing a legal simulation. So while this class is going on, she continues to text. And I know I could have put the phone off to the side, but you're so locked in and you're worried about your friend and you're not thinking rationally. So I just hand it over and I say, delete those when you're done with it.
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S22 E6: A Weak Bridge Collapses
Or I swear, I will not hesitate to press charges if fraud is detected. Well, obviously we know where that fraud started before. But at this point, I'm just thinking it must have been somebody stole something at the gas station. And I said, listen, I'm just being strict with you because my money is not something to be trifled with. Okay. And she's like, yes, sir.
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So I'm like, okay, I'm just, I'm trying to be fair here, but it's really upsetting to me that you're in trouble right now. And she says, look, I'm sorry for all the pain I've caused. Do you think you could do Zelle? I said, sorry, I can't do that because that's how I got fraud on my card in June. I told her this right after she said, I'm uncomfortable with this account and routing number thing.
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I'll take you out for an adult beverage when all this is over. Okay, first and foremost, who calls it an adult beverage, right? She's like, okay, can you log in and maybe do a transfer to another person's account? I said, no, not other people's. Either go with the numbers or the deal is off. I'm not dealing with more people again. This is her responsibility.
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I don't want to bother her friends anymore because for all I know, they could already be angry at her. And I tell her, my info's already risking compromise, and this has gone far enough. She says, Chase isn't letting the payment go through. Could you see if you can do a wire? So I finally acquiesce, and I say, yeah, I can do Zelle. Where do you want me to send it to?
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She sends me a number that's 801. I look up the number, I trace it, and it's a guy named Steven. First mention of Steven. And I say, who the hell is Steven? All right, why are you bringing all these people in? She said, they have my car. They're a moving company. I'm thinking Steven is with the moving company at this point.
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i say there's a limit i have to go now and she says i can't be stranded please help i say look 500 and she says can you do that for tonight please i say ridiculous and she says if you can send something tonight i'm going to see if they would let me drive down tomorrow to get the rest can you get cash out or do you have paper checks i said no i don't have paper checks i'm not going to risk the the compromising of my information
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At this point, it's late. The chase office is closed. I'm still in class. So I say, you've literally made me lose track of my law class. All right. This is important to my professional development. And you're really screwing me over right here. I don't have time for this. I should have put my phone off to the side. That's my fault. I'm nervous for my friend here.
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You get worried because she says, leaving me to sleep outside is not cool. Please, if I pay an extra two grand, can you ask Chase if they'll do a wire over the phone? I don't think the other person gets your details. You get theirs. Theirs referring to Steven. And she then bumps it up. We're now at 13 grand. An extra three grand, she says. So we're at $13,000.
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S22 E7: Scam the Scammer
I'm like, I'm down for it. Let's go. I'll go pick you up. We'll do this. Next thing I know, we're heading down to Indianapolis to where she was hiding at. And I told Alyssa, I'll drop you off and then I'll go ahead and move to another location, but secretly text 911.
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S22 E7: Scam the Scammer
It took maybe about half an hour for them to come and get her. And when they threw her in the squad car, I'm like, yes, we finally fucking did it.
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Episode 126: PGL Cluj Playoff results, PGL's Field of Dreams and the CS ecosystem
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Episode 126: PGL Cluj Playoff results, PGL's Field of Dreams and the CS ecosystem
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I was a Dead fan in like late high school through college and then it just kind of hooks you. Yeah, still. Hast du Jerry gesehen? Ja, das ist der Grund, warum ich nicht mehr in meine vielen Shows gehe. Weil du nicht das gleiche Gefühl hast? Er ist nicht da. Und alles, ich meine, es ist okay.
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I'm hoping you do, so you can come pick us up and we can have a... I was thinking about that this morning when he was like, it's stupid to say no.
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And it was the same when he said, when he ran the first time, it's stupid to pay taxes. I'm like, wait, there's so much stupid about what you just said about being stupid.
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But back to your point, back to your point. So then you, if you haven't, if you think that sitting on that plane is going to bring you happiness and you're sitting there in this gold leaf chair and eating shrimp cocktail out of a golden monkey head.
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That's for sure. It can definitely get you things. But if you have any kind of soul, you might be empty.
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We had a mutual friend that he had cast in his House of Thousand Corpses. And she got married and Rob and I ended up at a destination wedding together. Wow.
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Yeah, like on the east coast, like Boston area. And, you know, when you go on a destination wedding, you need an ally. If you don't know people, like if you're not part of the inner circle, you need an ally. Ich liebe diese Freundschaft. Und als ich mein Stand-Up-Special machte, war ich so, ich will, dass das... Es war mehr wie ein Film. Es war wie die Comedy Central-Tage, wo alles so aussieht.
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Es ist immer noch toll, dass die Leute zusammenkommen und alles, aber es ist wirklich schwer, dass die Leute sagen, wow, das war ein tolles Show. Und du denkst, oh. It was a pretty good tribute band, I'd say that.
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Ich wollte versuchen, ein bisschen mehr Film-Perspektive zu haben. Ich fragte Rob, ob er das machen würde. Wir haben ein paar zusammen gemacht. Sie waren definitiv kreativ. Er ist großartig.
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Ja, ich habe ihn vor einem Monat gesehen und er ist großartig. Und ich liebe es, wenn wir zusammen sind, zu sagen, was ist nächstes? Was machen wir? Ich glaube, die Art, es aufzumachen, ist, er ist viel nerdiger als du denkst und ich viel cooler als du denkst.
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I don't know if I miss it, but it was definitely good for me at that time. We all passed through there. In a lot of ways, we all got our first little specials, like half-hour specials and that kind of thing. It was definitely a place that was cultivating new talent. And it was definitely there at the right time for me and all of my peers.
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Und es ist traurig zu denken, dass es jetzt einfach... Es ist großartig, dass man den Südpark 24 Stunden am Tag sehen kann. Da ist nichts falsch damit. Aber ich würde gerne mehr junge Comics sehen. Und das ist ein zentraler Ort für Komödie. Ich denke, das ist ein bisschen verpasst. Ich meine, Netflix hat eingestiegen und...
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I think they've supported the comedy community. And I just hosted a thing with all young comics last Thursday that Netflix was putting on. They were filming them and it was like 10 new comics. And that was very cool to see. Yeah, see these people that are like in the beginning stages. And some of the Comedy Central people are over there. die es immer noch tun und die Form lieben.
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Es existiert, aber nicht mehr auf Comedy Central.
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Yeah, but he was so special. He was so fantastic. I mean, he was such an otherworldly being that it's just, you know, it's just hard to replace. And you can't really, I haven't gone to the sphere. I was, I don't know. You know, I went to the Hollywood Bowl. I brought my wife along in the same band. And my wife was not into the dead. And she came along with me. And, you know, it was rough.
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Yeah, it was cool. It definitely had its moments. Aber wie du gesagt hast, jetzt gibt es keine Gag-Keeper. Es gab Freunde, die auf Comedy Central nicht kommen konnten. Und heute kann der junge Comic einfach ein Set bekommen, es auf seinem eigenen TikTok aufbauen. Und wenn die Leute daran sind, sind sie daran. Und das ist wirklich großartig.
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Das hat definitiv die Tür auf viele mehr Stimmen geöffnet, denke ich.
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Ich habe einen Tour-Manager, der das Content macht, wenn wir draußen sind und diese coolen Videos von uns auf Tour machen. Und sie ist so gut daran. Aber sie arbeitet wirklich hart. Und sie hat das schon lange gemacht. Und sie verwendet den ganzen nächsten Tag, um es zu editen. Und nur für eine Minute lang Video. Aber sie denkt über es für Tage. Und sie filmt es. Und dann editiert sie es.
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Und dann bringt sie es da hoch. Und... I realized it took all the frustration out. I thought, well, I just am not, I'm not good at this. No, this is, you're actually making a TV clip. Yes. And you may not be, you may not have the aptitude for that. It's not in your lane. Yeah, it's not my lane. I'm not good at it.
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I'm not good at it. Her phone number. And then I can fill in the places that I'm good, which is like me, like doing bread or like taking pictures of my dog and just kind of adding into it. So then it has my personal touch and that part I'm good at. I can enjoy doing that. But it was just...
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I was just frustrated that I thought it was me, but it's actually, no, this is kind of difficult to do this stuff.
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I'm tired. But I think that's a key. Always moving forward and finding stuff that you like to do. It could be something so small and stupid as doing a voiceover for your cat or something. But you're trying stuff and having fun with it. And if it makes you laugh, it's not drudgery. Ja, ich meine, es ist so verrückt, die Macht, die wir in diesen Telefonen halten.
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Dass ich literally Hunderten von Tausenden von Leuten sehen kann, was von dem her ist. Es ist verrückt. Es ist einfach, du bist verrückt, es nicht zu tun. Und es hat mich ein bisschen gedauert. Es war nicht so einfach, wie, du weißt, die Leute haben es bekommen und es hat sich wirklich schnell ausgelöst. Es hat mich einen Beat genommen, um...
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kind of tap into it, but I just see the value of it so much more now than when I was just looking at it as an annoyance.
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But I don't know about, I don't know about, I mean, the whole world doesn't know about your podcast. No. And your followers, I mean, there is, there's not a lot of, you know, I could have a video of my podcast that 100,000 people see, and then it doesn't translate into a huge bump on who listened that week. No. But I do believe that it's still advertising for your podcast. Ich stimme dazu.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Ich meine, es ist immer noch so, dass die Leute es sehen, und dann werden sie es irgendwo anders hinbekommen. Ich denke immer noch, dass es ziemlich wert ist, Dinge zu posten, die genau das sind, was du tust.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
It is interesting because... Du weißt, es gibt auch das Teil, wo diese Gespräche, die Grund, warum Leute diese genießen, ist, dass es real und wahr und lustig und ehrlich ist. Und dann gibt es noch einen Teil, wenn du in das Element der sozialen Medien gehst, wo du plötzlich verkaufst. Und es ist wie, du weißt, du verkaufst nicht in der Mitte deiner Sache.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Das ist wie, du weißt, du hast einen Sponsor oder so etwas. Ja, das ist real. Yeah, so there's always that ick factor of like, am I pushing too much? I got it, you know? But people need to hear what you're doing.
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And they're saying it's just being goofy, which, you know, you don't normally see, but we're doing all the time, like dancing around and, you know, acting like dummies. And, you know, it's fun. It actually, I think that's probably the key in, you know. In life. Yeah, in life. It should be fun. If you're enjoying it, then that'll be contagious, you know.
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No one wants to see, like, there's nothing worse when you see a comic and they're like, alright, I'm coming to Atlanta. Tickets are still available. And it's just like... Halt!
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Yeah, it is tough. Leon Morgan was great. Craig Ferguson was great. I love Craig Ferguson. People who know, people who talk for a living are really good at it.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Ja, es gibt gute Sachen mit Schauspielern und wir hatten einige wirklich tolle Sachen und sie sind immer interessant und lustig, aber es geht so schnell, so viel schneller, wenn du Kimmel hast oder Craig Ferguson oder, weißt du, diese Art von Menschen, die einfach wissen, was passiert. Das ist eine Broadcast. Wir bewegen die Geschichte. Wir werden gehen.
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Es gibt nur eine, es gibt nur Energie für die, die ich denke, sind einfach und beeindruckend.
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Ja, und er hatte eine interessante Sache, als ich mit ihm gesprochen habe, ich weiß nicht, ob es auf meinem oder seiner Podcast war, Aber er sprach von der Perspektive, die aus den USA kommt. Sie sahen das Late-Night-Show nicht als ein Lebenssentenz. Wir sehen es als so wertvoll, dass man in diesem Job 30 Jahre bleiben muss. Und er sah es als ein Gig. He was like, yeah, this will be fun.
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I'll do this for a while when it's not fun. Again, back to fun. I won't do it anymore. And that was like, well, yeah, of course, why not? We have this Johnny Carson monolith in our brain, but he was like, you know, I did it for X amount of years and Alright, what's next?
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And there is definitely that American thing of like, oh no, this gig is good. And we're going to
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But could you imagine, I mean, like we're talking about all the episodes that you've done. Could you imagine looking back through a scroll of 20 years, three guests a night for 20 years?
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Are you just going to shop it all off at one point? I don't know. I was looking at your head during this interview, and I was like, it's nice to go tight. Yeah, go tight. Really tight. I do like it. It feels good. I'm playing with this front thing, but I was watching the Knicks last night, and their coach has, I think, the worst hair in America. Oh, yeah. For sure.
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My daughter was like, what is he doing? Three strands going off to the side. Oh, God.
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I mean, maybe do it in the privacy of your own home.
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Maybe if you don't put it out there, you won't hear comment. There's no one making comments from your basement. Aber ich glaube, sie will da draußen sein.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Sie sucht den nächsten Rund. Das war ein sehr süßes Moment, J. Leno zu sehen in dieser Interview.
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Let's stay focused. But Jay was talking about how he's taking care of his wife now for 40 years and she's got dementia and just that he's seeing the good in that, that he didn't re-up with someone 20 years younger at some point and that he's seeing it through. You don't hear that too often. It was a nice thing to hear, for sure.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Yeah, I mean, that's, yeah. And, you know, I've had him on mine and when I would go do that show and he like brought my father out to go see his cars and he was just always such a... Ein solcher guter Mann. Ich weiß, wie alle coolen Kinder während all' des Abfalles. Es wurde seltsam und, weißt du, zurück zum Ego. Ja, du weißt nie, was die echte Geschichte ist.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Ich kann dir nur persönlich sagen, wie ich in den Manns Augen schaue und abhänge. Und er war immer solid. Es ist nicht überraschend, dass er diesen Kommentar gemacht hat. Mhm. Weißt du, an diesem Punkt.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Oh, ja, richtig. Große Kampagnen und ja, ich meine... Große Geld, große Egos, große Kampagnen. Ja, und viel Intrigierung, du weißt, viel Drama. Aber, du weißt, im Endeffekt war Ferguson richtig.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Kein Problem. Ich liebe diese Momente, weil du die ganze Sache planst. Ja. Du denkst über das Gehen da, über das Parken, über die Szene, wo es Spaß machen wird, wir essen genug, wir haben es gemacht. Und dann kommt dieses Element, das du nicht mal gedacht hast. Ja. Oh, die Weide, natürlich gibt es Weide. Oh, und du, okay, wir gehen nach Hause. Ja. Oh, yeah, you get killed for weed in Venezuela.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Yeah, people really like it. It's something different. It looks creative. A listener from my radio show actually named it. We were on the air talking about what should I call my tour this time and somebody just threw out Grateful Bread. I was like, oh man, that's great. Pretty much nailed it. Do you owe him money? I don't think so. Okay. Should I cut that out so you don't owe him money?
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
The only thing about it is I sign books a lot after the shows. I'll do a book signing and I heard someone in line go, he didn't even talk about bread.
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What the hell are we thinking? Yeah, but you get to go home. I never wanted to just keep going. I like to go out on the weekends. Sometimes they're longer weekends, but go for the weekend and then go back home, back to your family, live your life, do your stuff, and then go back out. I remember when I was a young comic...
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Starting out, I was in Vegas and the headliner was this journeyman who had been moderately successful. His family was at home and hadn't seen his wife in a long time. He just keeps going, just go for weeks at a time. And there's gaps when you're not performing, so you're just kind of hanging out in a hotel or an airport. I remember just seeing him at the slot machines late at night.
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Und ich dachte mir, okay, nein, ich kann das nicht. Ich kann das wirklich nicht. Und das Gig in Vegas war eine Woche lang, was ungewöhnlich war. Es war von Sonntag bis am folgenden Montag. Und ich erinnere mich an meine anderen Comedian-Freunde, die angefangen haben. Ich sagte, du weißt, am Anfang der Woche bin ich so aufgeregt und schreibe Lachen. Am Ende bin ich traurig und schreibe Poesie.
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Ja, auf der Straße. Und ich wollte nicht so leben. Ich blöde dich nicht.
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Da ist das sicher. Ich meine, du weißt, die Sache ist, wenn du auf diesen Flugzeugen fährst und du losgehst, um zu performen, dann It's loaded with people who are not going to shows.
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And I was like, oh yeah, this isn't just like this weird comedy life. These are business people who are traveling all week long, who have many more miles on this airline than I do. And he realized, well, everybody has to move. Everyone has to hustle. And you know, if travel is a part of your job, then it's just part of your, your job. And, uh, I was thinking that last night.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
I was home last weekend and I go out pretty often and I do get used to it. It was a Monday night or whatever it was and I was like... Oh, I haven't been home that long and I'm kind of itching to go. To your point about getting used to it. It's like I do have that thing where I want to get out there and I still enjoy that part of it. Now my kids are grown. They're both in school. So I'm like...
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Well, any consideration of like, should I stay home? It's really just for the dogs at this point. Does your wife go with you on some of the outings? No, she's going to more, she's a teacher. And next year she's dialing back and just doing a lighter schedule. So I think she's going to... She thinks she's going to come.
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Yeah, I just know, I know it'll be like, oh, that'll be fun. And then you see this monastic life that I live.
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live on the road and do the show and then skip dinner and just come back and try and get sleep and you know and it's a grinding get up and go to the next city and you know I know that she's gonna be like oh this will be so much fun to go to Atlanta and then it'll be like maybe I'll skip next week yeah this will be fun to go to Atlanta to see the inside of yet another hotel room and watch you read over your
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Ja, ich meine, das ist das ganze Gig, dass du deine Jokes teilst, die wirklich nur Reflexionen davon sind, was du durchgehst. Und ich sage immer, die besten Shows sind, wenn du weggehst, fühlst du dich ein bisschen weniger allein. Wir haben diese Angst und diese Frustrationen und diese...
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These nonsensical moments and everybody's laughing and we're like, oh, I'm not the only one who is dealing with this kind of person or this kind of thing. And you leave and you feel like settled. You feel like, all right, I'm not an oddity. I'm actually one of this bigger collective. And you only get that when you're in a room filled with other people.
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And my house isn't big enough to take reservations. So I... Have to go to them.
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Yeah, absolutely. I've never gone to therapy. You've never gone to therapy? Und ich denke, dass es eine große Teil davon ist, dass es mein Job ist, dass ich die Frustrationen und alles, was mir auf dem Kopf liegt, ausdrücken kann. Und ich habe diese echte Art und Weise von Wunsch und es checkt einiges aus. Ja, das ist mein Ort für gute mentale Gesundheit zu kultivieren.
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TCB's Endless Day #8: Tom Papa
Ja, und als ich jünger war, ich war wie, als ich jünger war. And you'd hear people, you know, talk about, you know, laughter is important and all those kind of little catchphrases. And I would think, well, you know, I don't know. I mean, also part of it is me being hungry for people to like me and that I can be on a billboard one day or...
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But then it does settle in and I'm definitely seeing at this point in my career that how valuable it is. When I do those book signings and people come up and they're like, I traveled six hours to be here and your special got me through the pandemic and Und ich gehe sogar einen Schritt weiter und es ist nicht nur das, was sie davon bekommen, sondern auch das, was ich davon bekomme.
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Und wie bei allem in der Welt, wenn du jünger bist, denkst du dir, oh, das ist nur schmutzig.
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Und dann wächst du auf und du denkst dir, nein, es ist tatsächlich richtig auf der Nase.
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Das ist eine lustige Idee, um einen Joke zu machen. Der Typ, der zur Therapie geht, um seine Eltern zu bedanken.
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Just A Boy and His Stories...
You walk into the bar and you just find the hottest chick and you go, you, me, guess what? She says, why would I go out with you? Because I bought the deal for $39.99, that's why. She says, can I go home with you? That's how simple it is. That's how it works. That's what this set brings to the table. Because you know what she sees? She sees a man who knows what he wants.
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She sees a man who says, good deals don't get by me, baby. I move. I act. I act quick. I act now. Boom. That's why you're hanging with chicks all night long. That's why you got guys like Michael Jordan calling you wanting to hang out with you, baby. because you bought it for $39.99. Is that crazy? That's the way it works around here.
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If you don't buy this, if you do not buy this at $39.99, you're going to wake up in the morning and not be able to buy it for $39.99. You're going to look in the mirror and you know what you're going to see? A loser. You're gonna see something that you don't ever want to see. You're gonna be a disappointment to yourself. You're gonna look in that mirror and you're gonna go, what was I thinking?
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What's wrong with me? Why am I a loser? Why am I worth nothing? Because you didn't buy this for $39.99. You buy this for $39.99, guess what, folks? You take the L away. You put a W there, baby. You're a winner, man. You're the real deal. You're picking up chicks. Let me tell you something. You buy this set at $39.99, baby, you're the cock of the walk, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: We're All Tired Of Jimmy Butler And The Heat
Ever since switching to T-Mobile, something weird has been happening. I get to cut lines.
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Local Hour: We're All Tired Of Jimmy Butler And The Heat
Who, me? I can stream shows at 30,000 feet. And I was able to buy reserve tickets for my favorite band.
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Postgame Show: The Countdown
Are you a count down or a count up guy, Greg?
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Postgame Show: The Countdown
I love a countdown. You count up, Billy? Sometimes.
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Postgame Show: The Countdown
It's always a 4 count, too, because then is the photo. It's 3, 2, 1, photo.
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Postgame Show: The Countdown
I apologize. The rabbit ears were up, though.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
Wow. What's up? I just bought and financed a car through Carvana in minutes.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
They made it easy. Transparent terms, customizable down and monthly. Didn't even have to do any paperwork.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, and Cyber Squatting (feat. Dianna Russini)
Mm-hmm. Hey, have you checked out that spreadsheet I sent you for our dinner options?
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
I do think it's Buffalo's year to win the Super Bowl. But when you talk about trying to quantify why the Chiefs win, why they know how to win, Andy Reid in his career has coached 35 games either after a bye or after an off week. His record is 30-5.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
To me, if you have a coach that with added, not just added rest, but added preparation time, has that kind of a record, pretty big sample size, that's a lot of it.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
I'm talking about in his career, he is 30-5 after a bye week or after a week of rest, which the Super Bowl is after a week of rest.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
I think there's a reason why Buffalo is almost – it's almost a pick-em game, one and a half to two points depending where you look. Buffalo's offense is better than Patrick Mahomes' offense this year. James Cook is a better running back than Kareem Hunt has been, who's averaging like 3.4 yards a carry. And the defense –
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
I would say Kansas City has an edge on defense, but Buffalo's offense has been much better, appreciably better.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Yeah, well, it's a cold weather team they're playing, too. So I don't think the weather is that much of a differential here. But keep in mind, Patrick Mahomes, by his standards, did not have an extraordinary season. Didn't even make the Pro Bowl, which is like unheard of. I mean, he makes the Pro Bowl every year.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
against Patrick Mahomes going for the first three-peat in history.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
final i know we in in the semi-final i know we we all thought buffalo against baltimore was as good as it gets but this is just a dramatic final it dwarfs the you know jayden daniels aside it dwarfs the nfc final yeah it is funny because if you look at the championship odds the eagles are actually favored to win the championship now a lot of that has to do with their path going to it and this is essentially a pick them game so it's really hard to handicap the
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Well, I didn't cover him directly. I haven't covered a UM coach full-time since Jimmy Johnson in the 80s. But to your point, I've been in Al Golden's company. I would have guessed he's about your height, 6'3", maybe. I would not have guessed 6'6".
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Don Levitard. A woman who was out swimming with her friends is believed to have been swallowed whole by a 13-foot shark without any of her friends noticing. That's the weirdest part about that story. You're swimming with friends, you're having a good time, and then all of a sudden people are looking around going, where's Shelly? Like, nobody screamed.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Exactly right. Stoogatz. She went quietly, apparently. If I'm swallowed whole by a shark, you're going to know it. This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stoogatz.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Yeah, I wish we lived in a world where we didn't have to worry about burglars. But I think it's axiomatic that the richer you are, the more likely your home is to be targeted. And if I'm an athlete making 40, 50 million bucks a year, and I hear about all this, guess what? I'm going to spend a couple of bucks, maybe get some on-site security, maybe build a big wrought iron fence.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
I'm going to do something to insulate my home from what seems to be a fairly systematic burglary ring.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Why is it a debate how tall he is? Let's just look it up.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Right. No, I agree with you that he's the best, most impressive rookie quarterback of this generation for sure. On the other hand, he's a pretty big underdog in this NFC title game. He will be an underdog if he makes it to the Super Bowl. So I don't think we want to crown him yet. You know, CJ Stroud. had a pretty damn good rookie season and then sort of had the sophomore slump.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
I think for Jaden Daniels to really reach the level you're talking about, he has to avoid the sophomore slump and really do it again next year. But they've had an extraordinary offense. Their defense isn't that outstanding. I don't even think Terry McLaurin had a great year, but I don't think he has an elite receiver like some teams.
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Hour 2: Jeremy Corbell and the UFO Revolution
Yes. Yes. If you're talking about... You know, you already have him in the Hall of Fame. Look, he's had a great rookie season. He has terrific potential. But we've also seen quarterbacks across time, you know, really, really impress us and wow us and then sort of peter out a little bit. I'm just saying let's not send him to Canton just yet.
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Yeah, and Washington's especially bad against the run versus Saquon Barkley. Not a great matchup, I don't think. But... Listen, Buffalo out underdogs Washington in terms of nationwide, America in general. If you're a dispassionate football fan rooting for the best story or what have you, you have to be a Bills fan. You just do. They haven't won. They haven't won anything since the AFL days.
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PTFO - House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
He and I spent the summer post-surgery in an aerobics room at the Pacific Athletic Club just figuring out ways to make our arms work without lifting weights or throwing anything. So that became the body work that put his shoulder back to function to where he could throw the football. And then the rest is history from there.
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most accurate passer in the history of the game. All right, so the word kind of gets out and people start tapping on the door. Alex Smith was one of them.
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Yeah, another testimonial to curiosity in someone trying to make, so even though it was weird, they were coming by to see what was going on. And then the quarterback that picked up for Tom Brady the year he hurt his arm.
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Matt Castle was a baseball pitcher at USC. And he said, hey, Tom, is it okay if I bring Tom Brady by? I said, he wants to come by? I said, sure. So Tom showed up, and it happened to be a day when I had 10-year-olds. I think I had a javelin thrower and a golfer besides a couple quarterbacks and a pitcher.
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Exactly. And I can remember Tom looking and going, I'm not sure. And as it turned out, we hooked him just because of that. The stuff that he was doing that was new made him feel stuff in his delivery. And one thing that people don't realize about Tom Brady, he is demanding. When you're a coach working with him, every throw is under the microscope. What did you see? I felt this.
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What should I have felt?
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Oh, yeah. And then if he didn't think I was paying attention, he'd screw something up.
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And what he didn't realize is that I knew that he knew. The thing that was hardest for him to understand was his front side, I just say closed till the last possible second. He was taught like all quarterbacks in his generation to pull that front side through to get more on the ball. And it's just the opposite.
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And there you are. Right under the think of it as money sign. Yeah. So when we drew straws as the bullpen guys on where we wanted to be, it was basically analytics before our time. It came exactly where if Downing made a mistake, that was where it was going to go. If I would have stood still, it would have hit me right in the forehead. So it wasn't a great catch. I caught the ball. Bill Buckner.
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If you've got a vector going this way, you can't put force on it that way or as much spin. Drew was extremely accurate with a base that was too broad. He could not throw long effectively. Tom Brady, on the other hand, could throw in the next week, but he had a base that was too narrow.
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So we spent a good part of the first three years we worked together narrowing Drew Brees' stance and spreading Tom Brady out and firming Tom Brady's front side up. They both took volumes of notes. I think Tom told me he had 17 spiral notebooks. Drew had 12 or 13. And both of them, they shared in common film study.
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We know the human arm can go 118 miles an hour. I've done it a bunch of times with pictures.
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They would look at film and look at film and look at film and look at film to where they had already played the upcoming game in their head before the game even started. And that's an anxiety reducer and a stress reducer.
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PTFO - House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
To be honest, quarterbacks are the easiest athlete to work with. They're used to huge amounts of data to be processed quickly and turned into action. Pitchers, on the other hand, don't have a time clock. Well, they do now. But pitchers are a tough sell because they don't have to be on the spot. They're expected to figure out how, at their pace—
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Exactly. Even though a football player's fear of getting hit by a baseball is way greater than a pitcher's fear of getting hit by a linebacker. Weird, huh?
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PTFO - House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
Yeah. They're afraid of the baseball. Even though Brady could have been a big league catcher, Drew could have been a big league shortstop. Guaranteed. Take it to the bank.
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I don't know. Because it hurts? No.
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Yeah, if you're 93, 94, you're lucky to be in the first three rounds of a draft.
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I said, how does he give it to me, give it to me? I said, no. That's history that you're catching.
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PTFO - House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
not to tip my own cap, but we were the original research on velocity. With a two pound, one pound, six, five, four, and two ounce ball, we both threw and held onto We stole that from tennis. Tennis players never have bad shoulders on the backside because they hang on to the racket. We took that to the training. You're only as strong as your weakest link.
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As soon as their weak links started getting matched up with their strong links, velocities went off the chart.
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Most of the training we do for arm speed now is not done for strength. It's done for the nervous system to understand it can make itself go faster. And you know what the term myelinization means?
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You have this bank of nerves that where you're going to perform something a certain way, and when you're doing it over and over, Your brain's not stupid. It's not going to waste time going to 80% of the stuff that doesn't contribute. It's going to go to the things that myelinate a 100-mile-an-hour fastball.
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Then running into home plate, I got there, kind of dove through the pile, and I put the ball up in front of his face. His mom and he were hugging, and he took the ball, said, thanks, kid, and I got pushed out of the equation. But people don't realize he was getting death threats and his mom was hugging him because she was going to take the bullet. They had to peel her off of him.
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So these kids are reaching a point now where their arms, their central nervous system, and their ambient nervous system has been trained that 100 miles is possible.
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And when you wrap that, it's a fatty tissue substance. When you wrap it with myelin, then when it gets to the nervous system that it's time to throw, that nervous system can go faster than if you'd spread it out over six or seven different spaces.
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PTFO - House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
You still have to pitch. Let me throw something out you can laugh at over the next few years. We know the human arm can go 118 miles an hour. I've done it a bunch of times with pitchers. Can they do it for a game, a season, an inning, whatever? Haven't figured out how yet.
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maybe not an everyday picture, but it's possible. I mean, everything I'm looking at research-wise says it's possible. The mechanics of Randy Johnson, the 105 guy from Cuba. Aroldis Chapman. Aroldis Chapman. And we looked at all those hard throwers. And if you mixed and matched all of them, then you'd have the guy that's throwing 118 today. But steroids, everybody beats up.
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And rightful so because it was illegal. Don't necessarily mean you can be skilled.
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I did. Not because I was a genius or whatever. I wanted to find out if what they said was true. And I threw 84 miles an hour when I weighed 170 pounds. I threw 84 miles an hour when I weighed 210 pounds. So steroids didn't do anything for me except blow my knees out. You're a bad pitch man for steroids. The thing that amazes me is a hitter should not be able to catch up with $105.
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Okay, if you add together the time it takes the best hitter in the game to swing at a pitch, he should not be able to hit 105 miles an hour. The times don't add up, but they do. And it's this ambient nervous system where the decision to swing doesn't go to the brain. It goes to one of the meridians in your shoulder, your elbow. It's like when you touch a hot stove.
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your finger comes off before you know it's hot. Right. That's what's happening with hitters.
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Exactly. And I swear to God, when people say that hitting is the single hardest thing to do in sports, times 10, that hitter-pitcher relationship, that dance is going to be, that's what makes baseball to me as interesting as any sport that's out there.
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He is the Drew Brees of pitchers.
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But the genius of Greg Maddux, he threw the velocity where he had the most movement. He could still, even in his later years, he could have thrown 95, 96, but it flattened out. So there's three ways to get a hitter out. You get them out with speed, change of speed, and movement. And he was a genius at all those. And a fastball in at 90 is faster than a fastball away at 90, perceived velocity.
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People don't realize that.
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One foot of distance, three miles an hour. So what he was was a guy that had a release point closer to home plate than any other six-foot pitcher, could make the ball move, and he could change speeds.
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Exactly. He released the baseball 48 feet, 6 inches from home plate. That's the cut of the grass in front of the mound. And he was effectively wild.
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Exactly.
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And Randy doesn't mind me saying this. They knew every pitch that Randy was throwing in his big league career.
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They knew what was coming. But you couldn't dig in on him because he would do two slatters on the half shell and throw one behind your head without even trying. So he was what we call effectively wild. The fear factor hitting off of Randy was, I'm just going to take my chances. I don't want to know what's coming.
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Exactly.
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What goes around comes around. Right now, every staff in the big leagues is looking for a pitcher like Jamie Maher. Jamie Maher was me, only really good at being me. where you just run him out there, and it may be ugly one game, but at the end of the year, he's going to give you innings, he's going to hold games close, and he's going to be productive. You can count on him.
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He's never going to be on the DL. What's the biggest problem right now with baseball? Half the pitching staff.
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Yeah, there's no durability. So right now, in the spring training conversations that I have, everybody's looking for a durable right-hander or left-hander that they can literally abuse without hurting his arm. And that's going to be someone that doesn't throw overly hard or overly soft, but knows how to pitch and can give it to you anytime you want to look at it.
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You've got to save your studs. And you can't have 12 studs on a staff. You've got to have someone that can eat it so that the stud can perform. That's where it's going. And that's how guys like me will get back into the big leagues.
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He was 10,000 reps behind as a quarterback and the same amount as a hitter. If he could have done one or the other with enough myelin, he could have played both. He could have been a solid backup, but his entourage didn't merit, even though it was a good entourage, being a backup quarterback and having that many things in the clubhouse. Everything you see about Tim is true.
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But again, he was short on reps as a quarterback throwing and short on reps as a hitter hitting.
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What it means is when you're behind the eight ball at the elite level, it's the same thing that happened to Michael Jordan.
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No, I had no clue at all.
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Michael Jordan was probably the best athlete on the planet. But when I threw batting practice to him, I looked him right in the face and I said, as long as your p*** is pointing down, you're not going to hit the ball in off the plate. Long-arm man in, can't hit. If he would have played baseball from the start, he probably could have made a really good big leaguer.
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I'll tell you what, he's a pretty good athlete.
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with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth is different than being behind center. With 20 seconds going in the last quarter, you're out there on an island by yourself. And I don't know if he has that makeup. If you're a pitcher and you can't make a pitch in that situation, it's toast.
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No, he couldn't. He's too wired to pitch a baseball. Now, he throws a football. I don't know if you're aware.
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No.
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I think he's a hitter. He's proved all he needs to throw, all he needs to do as a pitcher. I think his value to the ball club is on the field every day. And I'm going to say this with, I hope I'm wrong, I don't think his shoulders can handle it.
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It's a combination of a bunch of stuff. Primarily the thresholds with heavyweight training are really good for hitting, but not good for pitching. And the everyday stresses of throwing down the hill, when you generate energy on flat ground, the most you can get out of flat ground is about four times body weight. and foot pounds of energy.
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When you're going down the mound, you get about six times body weight. I don't think his shoulders can handle that, the deceleration. I haven't ever worked with him. I'm only looking from afar. I'm looking at his mechanics are very good. His makeup is outstanding. He's a dude, but I don't think his body can do both.
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Just kidding. I think his Hall of Fame life is going to be from an everyday player.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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If you didn't know who they were, and you didn't know how they worked a game, you would pick Eli over Peyton every time.
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I think in today's game, I wouldn't have been able to even go to junior college, because I didn't throw hard, but because of this guy, Sandy Koufax. I'm sure you might recognize that name. Familiar with the name. I brought it up the other day, and the kids didn't even know who I was talking about.
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He, when the Dodgers came out in 1962 or 63, they played in the Coliseum, but they did camps around the L.A. area, close to where I grew up. And I was at the clinic, and as the day was winding down, Sandy Koufax walked by me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, what's your name, son? I said, Tommy House. He said, Tommy House, you have a big league curveball. Let me tell you about curveballs.
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There are good curveball hitters, but nobody hits a good curveball. You keep throwing that pitch, I'll see you in the big leagues in four years. He was right.
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And you know what that did for me? I put up numbers well enough to be able to hang out with a big league pension.
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As a player?
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It started in Boston. Don Zimmer brought me in a game to face a guy named Chris Chambliss.
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Yankee, who I had gotten out 35 out of 40 times. And Zim gave me the ball in a tight game and said, I don't give a darn what you do. Don't let him take you deep.
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And before Zim's family hit the bench, it was upper deck, game over.
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Walk off. And that was the beginning. I didn't pitch for 42 days after that. The joy of going to the ballpark every day kind of got diminished a little bit when I knew I was in the doghouse and was probably never going to get a chance to work out of it.
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It was exactly right. I thought too much and I cared too much. And that combination is a performance anxiety problem. So I became a defensive pitcher for about six months to a year after leaving Boston. And until I got involved with the research on performance anxieties, did I figure out a way that even a guy with my limited abilities could actually manufacture and do better.
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with these particular protocols. And that became the beginning of my research into the PhD program.
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Neither my mom or my dad could understand how anybody could make a living playing sports. In fact, on her deathbed, my mom looked me in the face and she said, Now, Thomas, when are you going to find a real job? Seriously, they enjoyed coming to the games, but her number one priority for my brother and myself, no A, no play.
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If you want to play sports, you have to have straight A's, and you can play sports as long as you go to school. That's why I went to school until I was 44.
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I think it was about 8.06 p.m.
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Really weird. They were on a limited budget with a franchise that was barely hanging on.
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Tom Greve, as the GM, was one of those GMs that said, we know what doesn't work for us, let's try something new. So I mortgaged my house to get an aerial system and we brought it into Rangers Stadium and we captured data. Every hitter, every pitcher that went through there, we're talking about cube and high-speed motion analysis. And we had two years of data.
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We've got measurements coming out of our yin-yang. What is it that we have? I said, you know, everybody's trying to film a million pictures and see what they do. Let's narrow our sample down to 30 of the best. It's a stepwise regression analysis. And we found nine variables, starting with balance and posture, that were dependent on anybody that wanted to throw strikes with health.
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And that was the year that we finished second.
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When Nolan Ryan joined the Rangers and started throwing the football, at least they shut up publicly.
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I'll tell you how he did. He embraced the new information like it was mana from heaven.
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And in fact, when he went into the Hall of Fame, he actually mentioned that, that Tom had all these weird ideas. But when I tried them, they worked.
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And he literally said I was a better pitcher from age 39 to 46 than I was any time during the previous 39 years.
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Yeah.
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Think about a tobacco-chewing coach from the 50s and 60s listening to somebody like me talk about proprio-neural facilitation. Can you see him? What's he talking about? It's a baseball. Throw it. About drag crisis from moving on the ball. About spin. Spin. About getting it closer. About effective velocity versus real velocity. And there was nothing wrong with it. It was just before its time.
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It began before Drew Brees, but it was rubber-stamped by Drew Brees.
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I thought it was going to be a mental-emotional consult, and it started off that way. But as luck would have it, that was the season that he blew his shoulder out.
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Thank you, Megan. Thanks for having me on. And what a great subject we're going to talk about.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, exactly right, Megan. A lot of people don't realize an executive order which President Trump signed almost a couple weeks ago defining gender, by the way. And he even came out and said, listen, we have to have a bill within 30 days because If you don't know this, executive orders only last as long as that president's there. So we got some work to do. This is a third time.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Third time's a charm. I've had it on the floor twice. We didn't have the votes, even had a Republican vote against me the first time. Joe Manchin voted with me the second time. But we're going to have to get 60 votes, and we've got a lot of work to do. We have 53 Republicans. We know we've got to get some Democrats. But it is a very, very touchy subject.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Do you know, Megan, that there's some high school teams in this country, in blue states, that are totally biological boys? It is a disgrace. It is a disgrace what's going on. And what's going to happen is we're going to—we are—
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
going to end up not having women's sports because parents are not going to allow their kids to dress in dressing rooms, take showers with biological boys, or they don't want them to compete against them because of being a safety factor. But it is devastating what is happening. President Trump understands it. They put $100 million in advertising in the election the last three months.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And it helped him get over the top. 79% of the people in this country, Republican and Democrat, say it is wrong for men or boys to participate in women's sports. We've got the majority on our side. As you said, we've got to get it to the floor. John Toon told me he's going to get it to the floor. He hadn't done it. Now it's time to put up or shut up.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
We've got to get it on the floor so people can see if it's not going to pass, we'll do it again. But we've got to get people on the record because this is something that is very dear to the heart of all parents across this country and is dead wrong.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, leadership has actually co-sponsored this. And I think at the end of the day, Jonathan has been overwhelmed. Obviously, you've got President Trump breathing down his neck. You've got the Congress or the House pushing things over. We're trying to do the reconciliation. The Lake and Riley Act needed to be passed because that was so important with the border being under attack.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And we're losing so many young men and women for fentanyl and all those things. But now is the time to act on this. So we can't wait any longer. 50 years of Title IX, it has been decimated by the Biden and the Democrats and all the far left progressives. I grew up in this business and coaching. I saw what it did for young girls, older girls. It's created leaders across this country.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And we're absolutely devastating this. Still today, I don't know what Joe Biden was thinking or was even thinking or any of the Democrats when they thought this was the right thing to do.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah. Put yourself in John Thune's position and the leadership of the Senate. You know, they're looking at things they can, you know, let's let's let's win early. Let's get on the scoreboard early. But the problem with this is we've already won because President Trump pushed this out there. Now is the time to put pressure on the Democrats time and time again, four or five times.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
We have to even before the next election, get them on the vote. that they're going to vote against girls and women having to participate in, in, uh, against men and boys. It's, it's devastating to the, to sports. It's devastating to the lives of young people. There's been rapes and dressing rooms and showers. It is absolutely amazing.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Uh, Riley Gaines and I, you know, have become good friends over this, uh, talking about it. Uh, again, we're going to talk about her, uh, with her again later in the week, because this is, uh, Girls Sports Week. It is so important that we keep people's mind on this and not let it go down and forget about it. This is so important to the people across the country.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, most of them are track teams. You're going to have a few in volleyball and a few in basketball, but mostly the track teams. And they're in blue states. We get calls all the time about this. And again, even the parents in the blue states are – in an uproar about this. And again, it's going to become a common thing if we don't stop it now.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You let this landslide keep going, we're going to have huge problems getting this stopped. So it's important that we stop it now. President Trump's hot on the trail on this with his executive order. Again, this is sports week for girls. It's so important that we... we'd look at Title IX as something that is constitutional and that was written in our constitution because it wasn't.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Because 50 years ago, it was the first time we ever said, okay, let's give women, young men and women, young girls and women an opportunity. And it started. And it's the best thing that's ever passed out of this place. We call the swamp here in Washington, D.C. But again, we're going to keep fighting for it. But again, I'm going to continue to push leadership.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
John Toon, John Barrasso, they all are on my side on this. But again, you might have hit the hit the nail on the head while ago when you said, you know, they might just want to win. Well, we've had two losses in the last two votes that weren't Lake and Raleigh. So it's like, just don't worry about winning or losing on this. Let's get it out there where people can see what's going on.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, Murkowski voted against it last time. And then I think the next time she may have voted for it. I can't remember. But at the end of the day, now we have 53. It's going to be a touchy subject. Again, if you just go back and look at the last three months, President Trump hammered this home of the people. There's no question.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, that's true. I think it'll be close, though. You've got to remember now, they've got quite a few people that suffer election in a year and a half, and this is going to be maybe one of the top subjects out there. We get the border under control. We get inflation under control, crime under control. President Trump continues this march down the path of getting back to the United States.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
This will be one of the top issues, and so if we go ahead and get it done now, obviously Without, you know, too much fanfare from from the Democrats, I think we've got a great opportunity, but they're going to push back hard. Chuck Schumer is definitely against anything that we do of blocking this. So he's going to hold his hold his group's feet to the fire on this.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, it's typical, just rant and rave. She's just trying to make headlines. She has no clue what she's talking about. Inspection of young girls. Up until the last year or so, we didn't have to worry about this, and that's never happened before, and it's not going to happen in the future. It's just they've lost their mind, Megan. They've absolutely lost their mind.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
They want total control, and if they can control a scenario like this, they think they can control anything.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, I'm hoping she gets through, but I think if one of those three is going to have a tougher time, it's probably going to be her. We have these people up here that think they invented national intelligence. Most of them just look at scenarios and, you know, what can give us a good opinion that we can tell our folks back home that we're going to vote against her? It amazes me.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Everybody tries to... tries to be a one up everybody else. And you, and I saw you at one of the hearings, uh, that they were waiting in on Pete Hexeth. They, the Democrats were getting ready to absolutely run over top of him and maybe even a couple of Republicans. He handled it so well. It kind of shut them all up for a while, but their scenario, every,
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Every one of these hearings, Megan, is seek and destroy. They want to do everything they possibly can. Most of them have no morals. The things that they've done to this country for the past four years is it's not forgivable. But again, I think Robert Kennedy will get in. I think it'd be close. Kash Patel probably has a better chance than both of those two. I think he'll go through maybe with.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
52, 53 votes. And then of course, Tulsi, she is perfect. All three are out of the box in exactly what we're looking for. And as I tell my colleagues on the left, or excuse me, on the right, Robert Kennedy brought millions of votes. to President Trump, because when he flipped sides and came his way, you could just feel the momentum from Robert Kennedy.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
He needs to be approved because he will do an absolutely outstanding job, not just for vaccines, which everybody thinks is all about vaccines. It is about everything. It's about food. It's about the future of our country and our kids and everything we do and our healthcare.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, I never even coached him. What happened is I recruited him, and then I left and went to another school. But I've got to be very good friends with him. He's a good – he's not just a good athlete. He's a very good example for a lot of our young youth across this country. Same thing with – Dwayne Johnson, coaching Dwayne at University of Miami years ago.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
He's a good football player, wasn't a great one, but you could tell he was a perfect gentleman on and off the field. So one of those type of people. But now I like both teams. Again, I'm not a big NFL person. I like college football more, but I'll probably be pulling for Patrick this week.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I'll take that bet. It should be a good time, though. The football game is secondhand compared to everything else around it. I've been to them, the halftime, the pregame, all the festivities. And New Orleans is a great place. So be careful down there. It will be safe. You know, they'll have a lot of security.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
But at the end of the day, it's the biggest event of the year, sporting-wise, for our country. And hopefully we'll have a great game.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Thank you.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Meshary.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
My third grade teacher called me Meshary.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
The one that pretty much stuck was the Mad Manchuria. That had to do with my birthplace. I was born in Manchuria, which is in China now. White Russian parents. And I was an immigrant kid. I came to the United States after the Second World War. My parents, my mother and I and my sister were interned in a Japanese consulate. concentration camp in Japan during the war.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
And when we came to the United States, we had a Red Cross to San Francisco where my father was waiting for us. And that's kind of where I learned San Francisco is where I learned how to play basketball.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Talk about working out, huh? I got off the plane. I was pretty naive. I just walked into this fantastic moment.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
I was mesmerized. I mean, for one thing, I was a rookie. Imagine being a rookie from the West Coast, coming to the East Coast, being part of the NBA. I mean, this was like a dream for them. Will deserves not to be questioned. My daughter called me up.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
She's an eighth grade middle school teacher, and she provided me with the news that some of her kids think that Will's 100-point game was fake news just because there was no video of it.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
For me, that's a very simple answer. I think we have a whole society that has anybody can say anything they want. And there's no fact checks, and nobody believes in fact checks. Nobody believes in honesty. I mean, we're in a really troubled time. They'll believe all sorts of conspiracy stuff.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Sure. Sure. I remember Daryl. I chased him in the stands and almost beat him to death.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
because I hated Daryl.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that chair. Yeah, it just sort of appeared in my head.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Well, I say sour grapes, kid. You know, you got smoked. And, you know, fouled out. And somebody else filled in for you. And you couldn't stop Wilt. Nobody could stop Wilt that night. So it's just sour grapes. I can just say your defense was a farce. That's why Wilt scored. If you want to be a farce, you know, it's... Maybe I should have punched him off a little more.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
I don't think anybody could have guarded Rook that night. I don't think Shaq at his very best could have guarded Rook that night. Rook was indomitable that night. Everything he threw up went in. It was a miracle day. And if Daryl thinks it was manufactured, it was manufactured by the Lord God himself. I've never heard that Darryl said that. That makes me angry. That makes me really angry.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Of course we poured it on. Absolutely we poured it on. We poured it on because we were going to help our teammates score 100 points. There's nothing wrong with that. What I saw was a destruction. Unless my eyes were failing me, I saw destruction.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
I grew up listening to poetry from my mother and my father.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
I wrote a poem last night. I don't know. I think because I was going to be on your Zoom and I was thinking about it.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
I thought you'd never ask.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Okay. Let me give it a try. Please. Wilt's ghost, March 2nd, 2025. Can you imagine on this day when Wilt scored a hundred points in a single game in Chocolate Town? His ghost striding onto the court of Chase Arena six decades later, followed by his teammates in that game, all gone. Harrison, Gola, Rogers, Adels, and the rest. Except for me, waiting my turn to be a ghost.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
Cheering like crazy for the dipper, because he always belonged in the sky.
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PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
You're very welcome.
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PTFO - The Belichick Ring Mystery, Solved: How Pablo's Investigation Just Got Weirder
And now, for the real reason y'all hear, Coach Bill Belichick. Everybody asks me which ring is my favorite. I used to say the next one. But now that I'm retired, my favorite ring is the camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl's house at 6 a.m. a few months ago.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Anything for Sambo. Sambo asks, I say yes.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Well, that wasn't the intention to help.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Where are you at right now?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
No. You kidding me? Wait a minute. He's got his fair share of mine too. Eli is the one that I'm actually happy I'm not playing. Against Eli on the golf course. Peyton, I got a shot. That's a good point. Not against Peyton.
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#BecauseMiami: The Relentless Pursuit of the Real Estate Hustle
assigned on the basis of a crime, right? These are people that may have had an asylum claim, right? And the asylum claim gets denied and they have done nothing wrong. They're here paying taxes through their tax ID number, which is given to them. They're working, they may have a home, they may have family, but their asylum claim might be denied.
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They could end up with an order of deportation out of that. When a police officer runs their license now, as they're driving right they will see that ice warrant pop up and they will be empowered now to stop them even if they have not even committed a traffic infraction right so what this does is another negative aspect of this it really harms the trust between the community
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and the police, because now people are going to be afraid to call the police to report all sorts of crime, right?
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#BecauseMiami: The Relentless Pursuit of the Real Estate Hustle
Whether it's a burglary or domestic abuse or a crime that they saw in their neighborhood, they're gonna say, well, I'm not gonna call the police because they're gonna come here and they're gonna ask me for my ID, they're gonna ask me for my driver's license, my social security number, and I could end up detained. I could end up with a detainer myself. So we're gonna see a lot more crime unreported.
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#BecauseMiami: The Relentless Pursuit of the Real Estate Hustle
Now, to your other point about the mayor. So, yes, Miami-Dade County, I believe they signed the warrant service officer model of the 287G, which is the one that I believe that if they sign that one, which I think they did, deputizes police officers inside of the jail setting to serve these warrants. The problem with this is that
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Look, there are a number of state laws that mandate that municipalities that operate a county jail have to sign into a sort of 287G agreement. But then, you know, the mayor and the Democrats in the commission, with the exception of Marlene Bastien, who voted against, have all at one point or another characterized themselves as defenders of immigrants.
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And in 2017, when the county reinstated its 287 program, which was rescinded by now Congressman Carlos Jimenez, by the way, he's the one that ended the 287 model to begin with. in 2014 because we weren't getting reimbursed from it by the feds, and it was costing the county millions and millions of dollars.
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Anyways, these people, including the mayor, who have characterized themselves as defenders of immigrants, signed into an elevated, enhanced level of the 287 program, which they didn't have to do. They could have signed into the weakest one. And they did so without community input, without notifying the public really to to mobilize, to give public comment, whether they support it or not.
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#BecauseMiami: The Relentless Pursuit of the Real Estate Hustle
And they really just tried to rush this with with almost no opposition whatsoever. So, you know, just to be quite frank, it is disappointing to see the mayor do this, to not burn
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and inch a little bit of political capital on this really, really serious issue, which is, again, burdening and weaponizing our police departments to go after the immigrants that are harvesting our crops, building our buildings, taking care of our kids, working the jobs that nobody else wants to work, Making the city great, as you said, making Miami what it is. And what do they do?
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They get shit upon by the county and by all of the municipalities because they're too afraid to fight against the governor because he might remove them from office. It's shameful.
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I need all the luck I can get. So I appreciate it. Buena suerte, mi amigo. Gracias.
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Going into the weeds without getting too into the weeds for the listener, 287 references a section of the INA, which is Immigration Nationality Act, which is the framework that basically structures our immigration policies and law in the United States.
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that basically delineates contracts that the federal government can enter with municipalities, local governments and other entities to enforce immigration laws. Right. Immigration enforcement. And this is something that was turbocharged actually during the first Obama administration, during something called secure communities that was later discontinued, I believe, in 2011 or 2012, 2012. Yeah.
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Yes, 2012, because of the amount of racial profiling lawsuits that stemmed from it across the country that cost, again, these municipalities and local governments millions and millions of dollars, right? So it was decided to be discontinued. And now it is being, you know, revisited under the current Trump administration.
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And most of these 287G agreements are actually being signed right here in Florida, where we have more 287G agreements signed than ever before, even during their heyday during the Obama administration. There's three types of 287 agreements. There's a 287 agreement that's basically in its most basic form that basically says local jails have to hold people
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an extra set amount of time from when they would be able to postpone to be released for ICE to come pick them up if they committed any sort of offense, right? That could be a serious crime to driving without a license, which here in Florida, if you're undocumented and you have to get to work, you can't get a driver's license.
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It's not like 18 other states where undocumented people have that option. Then there is the warrant service officer model of the 287G, which actually deputizes police officers inside of a jail to serve those warrants, right? They don't even have to wait for ICE to come pick them up. They can just serve the warrants and do the paperwork themselves.
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And what Hialeah and Coral Gables has signed, which is so concerning, is what's called a 287G task force model, which is what the Obama administration has specifically discontinued, which actually deputizes police officers outside of the jail setting. Right. So.
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in our community police officers can again interrogate question people's immigration status detain them on the basis of immigration etc and the reason why this is so concerning is for a number of reasons a municipalities do not get reimbursed for holding people for ice for whatever the reason is right We already have a criminal code that says that people are detained for committing crimes.
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So it's not like if you're undocumented and there's no 287 agreement, you don't get put in jail and deported, right? You absolutely do. There's also the concern about racial profiling, which will absolutely happen as police officers stop somebody And not all of them, but some are going to say this person looks undocumented. Let me ask them for their immigration status.
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And in fact, we've seen that, for example, Puerto Ricans have been detained by ICE in this administration. Native Americans have been detained by ICE under this administration. And as I think we all know, Native Americans and Puerto Ricans, famously U.S. citizens, right?
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So and the last thing is, you know, police officers became police officers to be police officers, right, to police our communities, not to not to be immigration enforcement. So this adds an extra burden for them in terms of conducting their their day to day work.
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#BecauseMiami: The Relentless Pursuit of the Real Estate Hustle
Yeah, so let me respond to all your points in order, if I remember that correctly. So on you calling bullshit to what you've heard, and you are correct, because as I told you, you know, previously,
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police officers, I'm not saying all of them, but some will absolutely racially profile on the basis of identity and ethnicity on who they think is an undocumented immigrant or not when asking for immigration status, right, at stops. The other thing is, yes, Absolutely. People will get stopped by running a red light, by running a stop sign, by speeding or some other form of traffic infraction.
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#BecauseMiami: The Relentless Pursuit of the Real Estate Hustle
And they'll be asked for a driver's license. Right. And they won't have one because, again, if you're undocumented in the state of Florida, you cannot drive. there is no way for you to get a driver's license. Another thing that they neglect to mention is that there are about 700,000 people in the state of Florida with orders of deportation. And orders of deportation are not
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Ever since switching to T-Mobile, something weird has been happening. I get to cut lines.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
Who, me? I can stream shows at 30,000 feet. And I was able to buy reserve tickets for my favorite band.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I dealt with pregnancy rage this time around. Anything that anyone almost did at that point gave me the egg. I might have had that.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. She's a travel. I was a flight attendant. So I got to make sure she's getting her miles in there. You know what I mean?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. And I also didn't want, like I said, my first experience was so great that I didn't want that to be the only perspective of the book. Yeah.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
because i like i did have it really good not that i'm saying i'm thankful for my second pregnancy being different but i really am because it really brought like a whole different perspective to the book like yeah i've had it both ways i've had the beautiful pregnancy where i want to be pregnant again and i've had the rough pregnancy where i was like i could wait five to ten years before i touched that and i guess to your point the reason i brought that up was we had to mentally reflect a lot and it sounds like you actually did that in real time like as you're sitting there saying man are you okay
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We found out I had PCOS because we were starting on like our whole fertility journey.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. So I always thought we were like the couple who we weren't not not trying, right? So we didn't use birth control. And I thought like a baby would just happen. And we were, I mean.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And so I went and got checked out. I had a concern that I had PCOS because there was a girl on social media at the time posting about it. I had never heard of it before. And I had a lot of the same symptoms that she had. One, the most biggest being an irregular cycle. So I feel like a lot of women think it's really cool to miss their cycle. And it's like, oh my God, I don't have my period.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
This is a blessing. And I felt that way for a little bit where I was like three months. I don't have my period. I don't have to worry about it. And then the time came where like I did have to worry about it and it flipped my world upside down. It's something that you like don't want until you don't have it. And then you're like, I want this so deeply and badly.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So, yeah, I was missing my cycle constantly. I went and got checked out and they do a list of criterias that like your body, like cysts, your hormone levels maybe being off. And so I qualified for two out of the three things on this criteria list. So I was diagnosed with PCOS and they had recommended me going on birth control to regulate my cycle.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And I did not want to do that because we were trying to have a child. So we took a holistic approach. Normally someone with PCOS, like normally you try for like a year. And then if there's complications, you come back and then we take the next step.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And then it was for someone with PCOS, it's take six months. And if it's not happening, then come back and we'll take the next steps.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And so we just, we went to the point where I didn't want to do birth control. So we took the holistic approach and we saw that food could impact the body and restore your cycle and balance your hormones.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Like I was a heavy, like I was like, I needed like a towel in the bed, like heavy flow. Oh, you got your period after three months. Oh, before that, before that. So symptoms we're talking about that I had beforehand, it was like, I had really bad, like hormonal acne. Um, my period flow was like super, super heavy. I had like migraines.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Okay. This was just like the symptoms that sometimes people don't connect, but it could be a hormone problem.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
when you got your period but sometimes you would skip it for yes okay so you would still get it sometimes yeah i would get it like i would get it and then go away for three months it was like really really heavy so after changing the diet for three months she was on a 28 day cycle like that which i had never experienced in my life for over for over a year we tracked up
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Ultimate girl dad. That's what I was thinking too. I was like,
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Oh, Tom's saying, so like, oh yeah, the biggest difference with like one to two for us, it wasn't, you know, like preparing for the newborn in the family was Sutton. And I think I hear online all the time. It's like, oh, what's easier? Like zero to one or one to two. And I feel like zero to one has its own challenges because everything's new.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, so I went to college for communication and creative writing. And so that was like my bread and butter. Not that I necessarily wanted to be an author, but I knew I really wanted to be in the creative space. Mm-hmm. Um, and so when I was a flight attendant, that was kind of when like blogs were starting and all that was happening.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So I had a few different blogs where I would talk about all my travels and I would document, they were my little diary memoirs. Um, and then Instagram happened and I kind of saw people were getting paid and making a lifestyle out of it. And I was like, well, maybe if I just like keep this up one day, it'll amount to something.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
six years later still nothing was happening and um and then covid happened and uh lost i lost my job or i was furloughed um and then i know it was flying say what yeah no oh yeah no one was flying things weren't happening um and so tom you know we were spending more time at home together and
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
This was right at, all of this happened like right when the PCOS-ness was happening. So Tom starts, you know, cooking for me. Okay.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Now, the reason I tell you the back story of the social media is because Tom later on tells me that he did this and didn't want to tell me about it because I would try to make it pretty. And I would try to make it aesthetic. And I would try to make it a thing.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
because i'm gonna be trying to just get the data wait the lighting wait let me get a prop i kept it a secret like i did not want her to know it until i was a little further in but yeah i saw on uh instagram it was like that you know how it starts with the people you may know section or whatever so it said um meal she eats and then it said tom sullivan and i was like i was so i don't i didn't know any i had no social media oh
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And it was like the first recipe was like a miso soup that he had cooked like the week before. And it was the recipe inside of it. And then it was like hashtag PCOS hashtag. There was like 14 hashtags on it.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And I thought it was so cute. And so I approached him on it. And I was like, what are you doing? He's like, I didn't want you to make it like this pretty thing. I just needed to do this. And then I had made a TikTok about it. And I was like, I found out my husband had a secret Instagram account. And that I had been going through this hormone imbalance. And that he was cooking the food.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And this was his way to document it. And then Rachel Ray, it blew up.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
and the tiktok that i made this is where i'm an idiot keeping it to myself because then she so it the video went wild and then um we usa today did like a story on us and um that took off and then rachel ray reached out and said she had seen the story on usa today and wanted us on the show and that was like it was crazy because you know i like we grew up watching rachel ray yeah i
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
and she's like the home cook you know like I never had formal training yeah it was Tom's Tom's vibe like never formal training home cook and um we went on her show and by the way it's so funny because we thought like oh being on like Rachel Ray like maybe like we would get like a crazy following from it or whatnot yeah I think we
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We know what we're doing. We're seasoned in this at this point. But number two threw us for a loophole because we didn't expect how our toddler would handle it all. I think it all depends on the age of your kid. She was at the point where she just was discovering the world for the first time, I feel like.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
got like 20 followers from like being on rachel ray it was because when it hit like meme pages or whatever the video then we would like gain the following but i think everyone always thinks like oh you guys are on like you're on tv like a following will come from it and i'm i'm almost like off mainstream media i feel like it really doesn't do anything anymore um because people want to talk to real humans and not like i think i think there's a huge shift right now in our culture and our society all over the world where people like the relatability of social media because you actually connect with like
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Rachel, if you still want to send me to your Italy home, we will visit anytime.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Wait, it was a Zoom? She gets to embrace me. No.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, we were on it twice. And each time was a Zoom.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I wish I could have like hugged her. I know. And she's so funny and like, whatever. It's okay.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I don't know. Rachel, what are you doing?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Into that, like a comp being made or just like... Like your journey with the holistic foods and... Like two.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. And then it was like about six months after that.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
A lot of women think it's really cool to miss their cycle. I felt that way. And then the time came where I did have to worry about it and it flipped my world upside down.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We just wanted to make sure. I was like, I want to... What we were doing at that point, it was... My thought process wasn't like the pregnancy itself. It was I want to heal my body. And I want to see if this works. And I don't want... Not that I don't want to get pregnant right away. But I really just wanted to heal my body at that point. So we did it for a whole year to see if it was...
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
if I really was balancing my hormones, if it wasn't just a fluke, you know what I mean? Um, and so, yeah, after like the year mark, we were like, all right, let's like full set and try this. And it was about like under six months. Wow.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Truly understanding it.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So one day... There's a write-up in the book, but I was the size of a fig in our neighborhood, a fig tree. And Tom, he's just so funny and always has the best ideas. He was like, oh, we should make a fig recipe because the baby's the size of a fig today and I'll go pick some figs off the fig tree and we'll make a pizza. And it was kind of like this no big thing.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
She was at that point.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And he like made a little meal for me and I thought it was cute. So I documented it and I was like, came in the room and I'm like, honey, what do we got? And he's like, oh, we have a fig pizza because the baby's the size of a fig today. And it was like, it was really fun for us. And it was our fun, like intentional time every week to like,
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And then we brought home Rosie. And her world was flipped upside down. And that was like... It killed me. It killed Tom.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
remember the pregnancy and, um, spend that time together and, you know, share our love. And, um, we did that the entirety of the pregnancy and that's what the second book is. It's honey. What do we got? I love that. And it started with a little pig.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And then week 40, you are the size of a watermelon. And I had done every week like a photo. And I would do like cute little color coordinations with the fruit and whatnot. We were like, we got to go bake for 40. At this point now, we had a following of people who were watching us every week showing like what recipe we were making. And I was like, I think I...
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I was like, I'm going to do like a nakey watermelon shoe, like embrace woman body. Like that's my favorite thing ever. And Tom was like, I'll join. And I was like, let's do this.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
thing so i'd be like okay it's going and i would make sure tom was in frame i was the one running back and forth and it was in our kitchen and we put up a little white sheet but we have like all windows in our kitchen so tom would be like the neighbor's walking past and i'd be like it's okay
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
When did you?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Were you induced or?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I always get to the point where I'm not ready for the baby to come yet because I'm not ready for my life to change. I'm really bad with change. Like really, really bad with change. And I remember writing in the book like week 37, 38. I'm like, I'm still not emotionally ready for this moment to happen. And then I remember week 40, I was like, get this thing out of me. Like, okay, we're ready.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It's nature.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I'm like, I just need this thing out, like, emotionally, physically, mentally, all of the things. And I just want to meet – at that point, I'm like, I just want to meet you. I want to meet you. I want to hold you. I want to love on you.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It was tough. Yeah, you had a bit of a...
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
My parents, they don't, I mean, everything I do at this point, they're like, oh, that's Rachel. They don't care. That's Rachel.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I think what was, what did we, um, like postpartum depression? It's like one in eight males can have it, which like I didn't know was a thing. Neither of us knew it was a thing. Um, and Tom had mentioned on his like Instagram story. He's like, it's been a really tough for me going through all the things.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
You're like, okay, here we go. We black and white it. It looked artistic.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I've like my core best friends were also like kindergarten first. And we've all done like we all went to different grades, like high school and college and so on. But I've always stayed close to those like younger ones. I mean, finding friends later on in life, it's hard. Those I feel like those early ones, you go through life together. They see you. They see you through every step of the way.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And so I feel like there's always like a really special bond with those people. But even beyond that, we moved from Chicago to Raleigh and we didn't know anybody out there except for I had a family friend who brought us in and was like, whatever you guys need from us. And, you know, we're here to support you. And like we want to.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
welcome you to our community and um they've really taken us in and that's become it's become our core group mike and mike and judy we love you did you meet them because they were your neighbors were they at a certain like club you guys would attend i have my family has a lake house oh yeah we're from did you did your family have a lake house i feel like it's a midwest thing no well i guess family is not chicago yeah i know but
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I feel a lot of people in Chicago like have go to like lake houses or have like houses. Um, my dad won one in a divorce. So, um, but yeah, so our lake house, it's a community of, um, like 10 houses there and everyone is related except for us. Um, my dad was partners with one of the guys, um, who had property.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So his partner on the force had bought property there and was like, hey, my whole family's buying into this land. You know, you should come join. So he did. And that is like my second family, all of the people who live there.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And so it was one of the daughters of one of the family members who had moved out to Raleigh. And so she already was like my cousin, like, you know, your fake cousins. You all have those, right? Like people you call family. And so it was nice having her to lean on and have that. And then she just opened us up into her community, which was really great.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And, um, so many women were like, my husband is dealing with this and like, it's not talked about ever. Um, and this is like something I wish was more vocalized, um, I didn't know it was a thing either. Wait, this is like the first time I'm hearing that too. Yeah, no, it's like, it's a thing.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We did have a boat. You got rid of the boat.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, we did when we lived in Chicago.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Wait, this is actually funny.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I'm one of five.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I was going to say, I'm not an athlete. She is not an athlete. Like I was a bench warmer.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Sutton can take that realm. No, he tries to take me.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I mean, I try. I'll appease Tom for a little bit. I'll be like, okay, can we do something else now? But we did, no, we enjoy golf together, though.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
The first time you taught me.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
But no, not really. Me with a tennis racket is scary.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And it was it was one of those things I remember with Sutton it took us eight months before we went out alone and I didn't even like realize I remember always not judging but I was like I don't ever want to be that parent who never has like quality time together after a kid's born and then I remember Sutton like eight months went by and I was like. I get it now.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Like it's so much you don't understand until you understand. And I knew like number two, we both said like we want to be way more intentional about that. And so we have been.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I feel like it's very, we're not like a, yeah, I'm not like you do this week, I'll do next week type person. We're pretty much like, all right, we have the night, like let's go here and then we'll figure out what we want to do after. And it's usually, we're very go with the flow people.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So we'll like call up a friend, see if anyone's doing anything, meet someone at a, you know, a bar or restaurant, hop around.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, she took it rough, like really, really rough.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Fine.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
day 11 she slept through the night every day of her life really until we brought home a newborn and she has not slept now in three months yeah no you're kidding so it affected it affected her that much yeah no so like right like we were good the first two weeks i was like holy we have two babies who are like sleepers like i don't know what we've done in this lifetime to get this moment and then um you know her anxiety started like hitting up and she would get like night terrors and start screaming in the middle of the night and then she learned how to climb out of her crib
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. It's everything is dad right now. It's, you know, we're in the car seat.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So she's starting to take. And yeah, now I'm taking Sutton to get her little nails done and trying to do more like intentional one-on-one time. I feel like we used to do everything as like a unit. And not that it doesn't work, but I feel like Sutton definitely needs that.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So off of that, it sounds the same way. She's like, whoaie, you need. And then she like sticks the pasty in her mouth. She really needs that right now. And she's like, her crying, her crying. And I'm like, she's fine. She's like, she's not fine. Well, something that I think is. I know, it's so cute.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Like we said, I went to school for creative writing. I just love storytelling. It's my favorite thing ever.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I know it's, it's the writer in me. Um, but so Sutton, I never was a person who had like a, a list in my phone of like baby names. Um, and when we were dating, I was in North Carolina and Tom was in Carbondale.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Small world. That's crazy.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, so he was down there and I was in North Carolina and we would meet halfway like once every couple of months or whatever we could do.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
No, it was five hours and 40 minutes to be exact. And there was five hours and 40 minutes from both of us was a restaurant called Sutton's.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
in lexington in lexington kentucky it was five hours and 40 minutes for both of you yeah so each of us drove that amount we would meet there so um we had met at this restaurant the owner yeah his sorry no go ahead his his daughter was named sutton or the owner's places you go to eat and they just make you feel at home this he's an older man he owns it not older but just he had white hair that's why i thought of it yeah yeah but he would check on every table
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And we knew that she had like could explore it before, but it was nothing she like ever tried to do. And it was like two nights in a row of trying. We're like, well, you got to move you to the big girl bed now. And then trying to transition a big girl bed for a toddler while also three weeks in with a newborn who were up all night. Like it was just so much going on at one time.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
That's so special. So that was, that was where Sutton's name came about. So then Rosie, I'm like, okay, Sutton has this baller name. I'm like, you know, not competing with it, but I do like a name that has a story and I could not think of anything. I mean, I was 37 weeks pregnant and still we did not have a name for this child.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It was like 30. It was probably 37 weeks. That was when it probably was.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We still don't know. To this day, it's a mystery. But there was a puddle of water. And I was like, Tom, I think my water broke. I was like, you need to smell it. We need to Google what's happening. We called the OB.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. And it was like, you know, if any more leakage happens, like, you need to get to the hospital.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We don't have a name.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I had nothing. And I knew I wanted to do something with an ode to Tom's mom. Cause she had passed while we were, when I found out I was pregnant, um, like within the same two weeks of each other. And, um, so I asked his sister what her favorite flower was. She was obsessed with flowers. Um,
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And I was like, we know what was Lenore's favorite flower. And she told me a rose. Um, and. And Rose hadn't like, it didn't do it for me all the way. Anyone with a baby named Rose, you're good.
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Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It was like I needed a little something more to it. And it was like two weeks later, I saw someone with the name Rosie. And I was like, I love Rosie. Like that to me is darling. Not that Rose isn't. They are both darling. But it just, it had more connection to me.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
and um what my mom's name's lenore so her middle name's nor so it's rosie nor oh that's so sweet so she had she has a very beautiful name um and it means a lot and yeah both of our children have these cute names now the third one i'm like we might as well just do a cool name that we like now
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I love that. Yeah.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Okay.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I feel like you've been through a lifetime that a person shouldn't have to go through. But it's great because he's the yin to my yang because I'm not well-spoken like him. But I'm a great writer and I'm very creative. And we pair so well in that sense. So it's so fun, like, making TikToks and things. I love to... He's my main character. He's my main character.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Or even just the statement of I'm thinking of.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
We have at our house our TV screen. We have always a picture slideshow going at all times. And it's just photos that we've accumulated throughout the years. But a lot of them are of his parents or people who are no longer with us. And it's fun to see those and show Sutton and And she'll look at a picture of your mom and be like, Grandma.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Like, she was at the age where, you know, we don't know if she has that memory. But it's cool that we can show her who she is. Yeah. And that's just a really special thing.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Well, okay. Hey, guys. College meals. I went to school out of state, so I didn't know anybody. I went to Appalachian State. And there is that feeling of the... Is that how you say that? Appalachian. I always said Appalachian. It's not Appalachian. It's Appalachian. No, I'm not.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Well, now you're freaking me out. It's Appalachian.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Okay, I like that.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Well, my accent might be doing a little weird thing to it, but it's Appalachian.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, well, I mean, I said Appalachian, and then I went there, and it's Appalachian.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Back to the... Yes.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Sorry. No, you're good.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So my third week of college or whatever it was, it's Labor Day weekend. And it's a state school. So everyone kind of went back home. And I was alone in the dorm. And I was like... I, and I cannot be alone. I'm, I'm really bad at that.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Um, and so, um, I called up that family friend that I had told you guys about earlier and she said, you can come on out to Raleigh and we'll be here for the weekend and we'll host you. And I did that. And, um, for the next four years, anytime there was like a holiday or I couldn't make it home where I just needed a home cooked meal or just to be with the family and be in a home and feel loved, um,
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I would go over there. They were my family, my adopted family. That's what I always called them. And so that to me felt like a big reason, not why we started the college meals, but I love that reasoning behind it because I always felt like I wish I could just be in someone's home, even if it was for 15 minutes or have a home-cooked meal from someone. But that family friend...
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
had a neighbor who is our college kid kevin and at the time though he was like eight when i met him so we didn't really like know each other but i would go over to their house for easter and um then when we moved out to raleigh tom saw him at the gym and i think i met him once yeah you had met him like once in his life at that lake house
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Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
You want to come over for dinner? Kevin's like, yeah, I'll be there. And like the first few times that he came through, I would send little, I would take little videos and I'd send it to his mom because we were friends. And I'd be like, Kevin's getting a meal, but like, don't worry about it. We're taking care of him. And at that point I had like 10 or so videos together.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And so I made a compilation and I posted a TikTok and I was like, we adopted this college student named Kevin and he returns his Tupperware. And he returned his Tupperware.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It was so sweet. Yeah, I'm sure. They were great parents. So they totally instilled that in Kevin. But after that, the TikTok went viral about it. And we had so many DMs of people being like, I want someone to cook for me. And it was overwhelming the amount of people who were like, I wish that I could have a home cook me or something like this.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And so I'm like, what if we just like throw up on Instagram story that we're cooking and Again, it was a holiday. It was like Labor Day weekend.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And it wasn't like, come hang out at our house. It was like, come take some food and kind of be on your merry way.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And, um, yeah, so we, we had, uh, two, three people show up to the first meal and Kevin and his friend being one of them. And then this girl named Krista and, um, she sent us a letter afterwards. It was a text and it was saying like how meaningful this was to her and that she was in between jobs and didn't have time to grab like some food that day. And it just like, it meant a lot.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And that was kind of the moment me and Tom were like, it really meant something to someone, right? And we said, as long as we have the means to be able to do it, like the funds, because we can't afford to do this.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
So now, I mean, the sign-up list is thousands of students. And it's not just like one. So we're in rallies. So the majority.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah. So it's like NC State, Duke, UNC.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
That's so cool. There's a million reasons why people come. It's not for us to judge.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
yeah but yeah now it's now we used to do it like uh once every other week for the first we did every week then every other week then sutton came then we did it monthly and now we're kind of back to that like monthly routine we just did our first one since rosie for thanksgiving yeah that was so cool yeah you guys are so cool that's crazy to be feeding hundreds of students like at your It's wild.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It's at her home, right?
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
No, it doesn't me. No.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Everyone's so frugal. We're like, please, eat more, grab more.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It's great food.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
so oh my god look at my keel about february 27th wow it ships let's go february 25th february 25th it comes out um it's beautiful look at oh it is beautiful wow the photos are amazing yeah okay the photos are amazing rachel
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
That was our thought.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It's a cucumber margarita. Tom mixes fruit with meat, which doesn't sound good, but I promise it's delicious.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I'm so excited. Crafted with love.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
was like knew no different like he was just like yeah because he yeah because his world like we were saying like her world had just started to realize what was happening i think we're six months away six months earlier yeah we say the window we're like either we should have i mean whatever we're in it but um i feel like there's little things number two i will do the bed transition with rosie if we get to number three like i will make sure the moment i find out i'm pregnant i'm like we are transitioning to the big girl before yeah that's bad timing but you
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Yeah, no. Couldn't predict it.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Sad. That's tough. We said last night, she crawled. Well, we put her in bed with us because we're in a new environment. She wants to sleep in a pack and play. But last night, I was like... Man, I'm going to miss these moments where she is so tiny and where she won't want to like crawl in the bed with us anymore.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Like, so I'm trying to take advantage of those times and not see it as, oh, my God, my kids, my like, I'm sleepless nights, whatever. All my space is gone. Like, I'm really just trying to.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Like, come here, honey. You're excited, and I'm like, okay, I gotta breastfeed. I'm like, Rosie, yeah, because she's still up every, she's like clockwork every three hours wanting to be on the teeth.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It was like day two of being home. Shh.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
And I had this baby who I'm like, don't do this to me. I'm like, I feel wrecked because this baby's on me 24 seven. And now I feel like my, my love's being divided and I don't want her to think that I don't love her. You know, even though I know they don't think that, but yeah. Yeah.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
It was... Baby number one was... Pregnancy with Sutton was rainbows and butterflies. And I just felt sexy. My sex drive was great. Everything I was doing, I was succeeding and excelling in. I felt beautiful. I had so much confidence. And then pregnancy number two, it was like...
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
anything tom did but like gave me the egg like bugged me it was like um anything that anyone almost did at that point i took him most out on you i felt bad for that but i would like intentionally he would ask me something like what do you want for breakfast and i would be pissed like that as if not tom makes like three meals a day because he's cooked this is what he does really you know what i mean and so i would just get mad if he like cooked my egg wrong
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Or just, like, things that you should be grateful for. Right? Like, I was just so ungrateful. Or I would do things that I know would piss him off. Like, if he would ask me to do something, like, I know in my head it would make him mad. And I would, like, intentionally want to, like, do it. It was just, like, I hated it. I cried. I mean, I cried, like, every other day about it.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
There's just a lot of variables. And I think that tore into it.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
I like an over hard egg and if it has any runny, I get like... Oh, you want it over hard.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
But honestly, it was like, it was the most.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Right when Rosie came out of me.
The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
Are we surviving? No. Yeah, you travel with them. One day at a time. Yeah, traveling.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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I think she probably just had like a, she probably didn't have that great of a break. It could not have been that good of a break. It is a bit. I mean, I don't know. I think you can tell, sometimes you can tell like this just isn't going anywhere. Yeah, but like you have to like as a courtesy, most people, you will just check out. The moment you're done, it's just like, all right, I'm done.
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He got shot for a guy. Wait, what? Oh, he hadn't heard. No spoilers. That's my health insurer, dude. This is personal. I'm sorry. Go ahead. CEO guy. Oh. Oh. The CEO of a company took like a million dollar pay cut and made, he now makes $70,000 and everyone, the least you can make at their company is $70,000. Gravity payments. And then they bought his, they bought him a Tesla. The people?
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Like his employees. Oh, that's weird. We did like a case study on that when I was in the business school.
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That company? Yeah. You were in business school? Yeah, I dropped out. I hated it. Was that before poly? Yeah, I was business major and then a Spanish major and then... You were a Spanish major? Yeah. Did you want to be like a Spanish teacher? No, I was just really good at it. So I, it was like easy.
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So I was going to do it as like a second major, but then it was kind of an, there was a point where I was, I was one of, I think the only triple major at Boston college. I knew I was going to quit the business, but I couldn't do it yet or something. So at one point, I had to apply to be a triple major. And the lady was like, all right, we're going to allow it. See how you do.
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So I was business, Spanish, and poli sci. But then I quit poli sci, or business and Spanish. And then I was just poli sci. I was whatever the opposite of a triple major was.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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That wasn't like an option. Like you had to apply into the school at BC. Yeah. Rollins was liberal arts. Yeah. I know a girl that is a fifth year undecided.
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But she's... She should probably make up her mind. She's playing sports at, like, a Big Ten school. Okay, that makes sense. But, like, this is her second school.
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No, but it's like, what are you doing at school?
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I just remember I was in business school and then we had like a we had like a business ethics class and it was like it was like one of the first classes I ever took and that was when I was already like because it was like right it was like all right on one hand you could do what's good for the employees right or another line of thinking is you fuck everyone over and maximize profits and like I was like I don't we took like an HR class I think I've told you this before we took an HR class and that was when I realized like
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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If you grope them? If you grope them, please fire them. We hope this never comes into play.
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Who's we? My family. You know that picture of us all lined up with the funny hats on? That was us taking our bow after our performance. To no one? No, to the aunts and uncles and whoever's there for Thanksgiving.
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We tend to be the actors, yeah. There's been alternate casting, you know, year to year changes. There's like Squanto and Miles Standish. Oh, it's the story of Thanksgiving. It's about the first Thanksgiving. Right. Do you guys do it historically accurate? Definitely not. No. Laura's like scalping your mom. No.
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Anyway, we're going to have to rewrite it before next year because there's a few characters that have aged kind of poorly. There's like an Indian character for some reason. It was kind of a play on the mix up between Native Americans. And he was like, But I feel like we're sending my brother to slaughter every year. Like we had my aunt's like friends over this year.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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I want two of them. Just having one of those Wednesdays that won't quit. This Wednesday is not... Dude, it almost was like a...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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It's like this really sweet older couple. And then my brother's doing his like Indian accent. We're like, yeah, I think we got to cut. I don't even want to say what his name is. No, so we got to. What's his name? Jug Dish. So we got to cut him. So we got some work to do on the, it's just, it's just not worth it.
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Like it's not funny enough of a joke to, yeah, it's, um, I mean the story itself is funny enough that you can, yeah, we can rework it. You can rework it. We can add, we can punch it up, you know? I mean, have you talked about how Pocahontas was like 11 and John Smith was like 35? That's not Thanksgiving. They were in like Virginia or some shit I think.
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Yeah. Also, why were the pilgrims the only ones that dressed like that back then? Did they have their own fashion? No, I think the Dutch... Wait, where was she from? I think Dutch Puritans dressed like that.
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no she got an address how they got an address her coordinates her address is 3501 jerry hill road oh he stocks pocahontas james the drone striker if we wanted to yes nick near jamestown yeah um google how old was pocahontas when she was with john smith um
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an actual disaster for me to get here this morning yeah wait so were you gonna take the cannon so we're on this like writing retreat in Calabasas right now which is like on the other side of the like mountains and shit from here and there was like really bad wildfires yesterday mhm
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John Smith was 27. That would be like if I was dating a six-year-old.
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I think they're probably rewriting history to save my boy. Maybe you're the freak for thinking that they had to bang. No, I think it was a known thing. Oh, they just two 27-year-olds took her out on the river? What are you, assuming that? Yeah, wait. Why would your assumption be that? I think it's a known thing that they assaulted her. Like, they weren't, like, good guys.
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I'm not saying... That's not what it says, though. I think that there's... Go to the National... That's what I learned, at least. Yeah, look at that guy. Wait, go back up to that guy's face and tell me. Tell me he's keeping his hands to himself on the roof.
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I'm 99% sure that in an accredited history class, I learned that they were bad to her.
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Dun-dun. Wait, don't tell me that story you were telling me. Well, I think it's something I've noticed that you do, not a lot, but whenever you don't want to have a conversation with someone... Like, I feel like, like, I'll just, like, put on, like, a smiley face and, like, try to get through it. But you will just do this. You just won't make eye contact with them at all.
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I don't know. I mean, this is a government website. They probably want to... This is a .gov website. They're probably trying to... Well, why?
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I don't know. You know, Christopher Columbus wasn't anything out of... Seems like you've got a weird type of history. What? Seems like you've got a warped history of this. No, I like... I definitely learned that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't really know anything about it, honestly. What were you going to say? Remember Christopher Columbus? Oh, yeah.
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Wasn't there a guy that found it before Christopher Columbus? Like another explorer? I think like the Vikings were here like long before Columbus. Ponce de Leon? Nah, I think he went to like Florida. Did you ever hear about the Viking king that like... The Viking? The Viking that wouldn't kiss like King Henry the Simple's foot or something and his boy... Did you hear this? No.
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and the whole road that we would take to get here was all closed down on the apple maps like this morning which if i had to that would mean i had to go like inland and take the four or five which would have like yeah like i actually probably would have been like an hour late or something it would have been a disaster but thankfully the word it said it was closed on the maps app and then it was just like open so we were like how long are we gonna get away with this like thinking there would be like a roadblock at some point but they must have like just opened it was the fire still near you
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And so the French king, it was like something this simple, was going to grant this Viking some lands in France and like I think his daughter's hand in like marriage. That's like a peace. Okay. All they had to do was kiss the king's foot to like seal the deal. Okay. Yeah. The Viking refused. Oh, shit. Everyone was like, oh my God, this deal is going to fall through.
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And one of the Vikings boys dove on the foot and kissed it to seal the deal. And that works? I guess. I think it was like such a grand gesture that they were just like, all right. So if I kiss your foot, I can have your hand in marriage? You can have my sisters. Or my daughters. And you can have land. You can have estates. I want your land.
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But it's like an ad, I realized, halfway through. What is it? How does it go?
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or something I don't remember the words or something um did you see him trying to pronounce those words no he tried to pronounce words ugh he has to stop doing that it was I'll slack this video oh I did see it yeah no no I saw it we shouldn't we shouldn't we shouldn't I feel like we watch him in videos oh okay but I know what you're talking about to explain it to the people at home I think it's I think it's you know they had to like pull them out of school gourmet they're like too famous yeah for school now is this the Rizzler
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Yeah, I don't think his homeschool education is cutting it. Dude, I think he's just like six. Seven? Is he really? Yeah. I thought he was like fucking 13. No. The Rizzler? Eight. The three foot 11 eight year old sensation.
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Is that how it's named? No. Wait, what did you say? What about... Is it a boy or a girl? Girl. Tots. Girl tits. I like that. Tits.
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Nipples? French. French. Penelope. Italian? Penelope. Oscar.
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Wait, why do I not know the... You got this, brother. Brandy. Chord. New chord just dropped. It's whatever. You guys all know Brandy. You're a fine girl. Nope.
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Now it's like one of the most famous songs of all time. He thought Randy didn't sound feminine? There was this girl that he knew named Randy, and he was like, that's not a hit song name, so he changed it to Brandy. Got it.
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Oh, I wish that I had. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, that one doesn't apply then. Stacey's mom. Okay, yeah, yeah. Gertrude's mom has got it going.
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Yeah, it was in between here and where I'm staying. Also, why is California... I mean, granted, this is a bigger story, but it feels like California local news. is still nationwide news. My dad will text me and be like, small earthquake in Malibu. Yeah, same. Or fire in Malibu.
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Somebody give me my stanza. I agree to disagree. Did you have any friends with really hot moms?
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But I think he's just watching. But if that happened in New York, I feel like the same. If there was a wildfire. If there was a wildfire in New York, that would be quite the story. That would be like a world story. How is it happening? It's just like there's so many people. Yeah, I guess. Also, I feel like you hear about wildfires in general.
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Yeah, I guess I never really thought about that angle. That's the worst part. Oedipus, right? Something like that? Yeah, you love talking about Oedipus. I think it's Freud. It's Oedipus, bro. Google, did Freud think his mom was hot? Oedipus fucked his mom. I know, but Freud was the one that... No, I'm just saying... That's not what I said, Lauren. My boy sealed the deal.
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My boy sealed the motherfucking deal. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.
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Yeah, some guys talk about it. Some guys be about it.
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I just think it's so strange that he came out with this theory... Yeah, and he said everyone thinks gay. Wait, why does it say gay?
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It just says gay in all caps. I think this is the author, the writer. Oh, the author of the article? Oh, that's funny. Okay, got it. Gay. Yeah, he was like, everyone wants to fuck their mom. And it was just like, bro, that might be a you thing. Yeah, everyone was just like, whoa, don't bring us into this, man. Oh, that's a funny Reddit thread. It said, maybe Freud's mom was really hot.
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Dude, hey, by the way, we haven't talked about it. How about these hats?
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11 months ago and it wasn't really that long ago it lit it's i think it's been over a year yeah and you know we we got it right but honestly it's not even worth i wish it was it's worth it now we got it right this hat should this hat should have been out it's a fucking yeah you can't say that it wasn't you take your thing out of it yeah uh we we saw a guy in nashville Oh, yeah, wearing one.
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Like, they had bad ones in, like, the Northwest that were news. Did you ever hear about the tornado in Cape Elizabeth that one year?
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We hadn't even gotten our hands on one yet. We were like, oh, my God. Where did you get that? He's like, I ordered it. It came immediately.
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And so I was like, can I feel it? He's like, yeah. We were doing like R&D on it, like on his head. Yeah, I really like the quality of it.
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I don't... For the record, I think... uh all of the merch is good quality but i think that we have we have gone above and beyond in finding like blanks that we really like yeah it's better quality than the other stuff it is better quality than other stuff so oh i guess you shouldn't say that We can say because it's true. I think it costs a little bit more than the other hats.
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So if you buy something else, just know that the Playdate stuff, we put a little bit more thought into the blanks.
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A little bit more love. A little bit more Augusto. I'm very excited about these. I've never totally had a hat exactly like this, but it's perfect.
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I don't know. My head might be too big. I haven't looked at myself in the mirror. I mean, you're definitely not supposed to keep... Anyone who's listening and thinking about purchasing a hat, please take the insert out. I don't know why Lauren would do that. I'm so excited about these, though. This is a hat I've wanted to do for... Ever. Since before the podcast even existed. Oh, really?
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Oh, yeah. Freaking... There's a guy in the Panthers and there's a guy in the Sharks.
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Okay. Joe Thornton. Yeah, that's... Fuck, that's what I meant.
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And, like, every tornado I had seen was, like, destruction. Yeah. Like, whatever. Whatever. There were, like, all these memes. Like, we, like, all, like, battened down the hatches. And then you came out, and, like, maybe, like, a lawn chair was knocked over or something. And all the memes were, like, we will rebuild. It was, like, one patio chair over.
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Oh, no, those aren't. All right. No, I can get one. I can get one. Martin Short. Joe Alt.
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Show me... Show me... Didn't Blake Griffin wear 68 on the Celtics because they ran out of... Oh, no, he wore 91. That's bizarre. The Celtics have retired too many. We need to un-retire.
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Bob Saget age. Orange looked at me like I said something else. Well, he's dead. Is that why? Yeah.
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Yeah. Who's that guy I'm thinking of? There's like a, I'm just trying to think of offensive linemen. George Lopez age. Oh, man. He's like 70. 63, jeez.
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Zach Martin? Did I already try this? fuck um dj fluker what dj fluker oh 69 uh oh oh um bj or bj rajay i think he was d-line can they wear that too on the d-line No, no, no. Fuck. Who's the guy from Last Chance U that played on the Raiders? I don't know. Google Last Chance U. Show them what you got. Last Chance U guy. Ollie. Ollie Williams, I think. Look up, like, Ollie, Ollie. What?
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No, I'm just laughing. Look up Ollie Williams. Give family guidance. What happened?
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i wasn't even on purpose google ollie no i i saw no no that wasn't on purpose google ollie last chance you oh man fuck ollie williams was a family guy on accident wait that's a guy from family 63 ollie williams how's the weather out there ollie it go right you i want to get it's right inside a 68 year old robert de niro and he's like he's way too old I don't know. This game fucking sucks.
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Really bad floods? Like, horrible. In Charleston, it's, like, the worst flooding in the country. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's in South Carolina. I remember my sister was at USC, and the first two floors of her dorm were underwater. Yeah, I mean, USC is usually more insulated, but Charleston's below sea level. So they're trying to build a flood wall or something.
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We're not having a big freak out. We're just saying... Oh, we don't have Am I the Asshole?
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And then Harry Potter spells and potions that don't exist. Very good. I also want to say I have two pitches. So maybe that'll help fill some time.
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Oh, she said it exists. Okay. The clit. Am I right? Yeah. Okay.
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Bleep that. Bleep all of that. Bleep all of that.
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No, you can't. You can't. Use the force. Wait, can you bleep? Can you bleep that? So it's still like in and people can. Can you just bleep? So it's bleep. All right. And what you guys are going to comment this week is what you think happened in that, what you think I said in that bleep. Great. No, don't comment that. That'll get our account banned.
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For the record, there's a nine-year-old that listens to this podcast. Someone commented today. Lauren's nine-year-old daughter listens to this. She had when she was 20.
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Oh, sorry. Lauren has a nine-year-old Crowder. Crowder. An otter. We should get an otter on the pod. Lauren's dating Steven Crowder. Lauren's dating Steven Crowder. There it is. Fine. We said it. Who's that? Changed my mind.
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but we would go like people go like kayaking not we i never actually did it but i always wanted to well they said not to because like the power lines would break and fall into the water so if you're you know you could like i could have gone kayaking like in my neighborhood yeah down the streets which always sounded fun but then it's like in theory touching the water you could just fucking die right
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That is goaded, first of all. I do believe there's the FCFs. Our co-worker Johnny Manziel, I think, helped start the fan-controlled football.
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I think that's kind of what that was. There's like four plays and you can vote. All the fans vote on an app and that decides what play gets called next. Oh. Which is insanity. But I agree. I would like to... Yeah, there's a few things I would do. I would throw... I would watch all of...
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my rival team's games that whole year and then just constantly throw challenge flags and call timeouts during inopportune moments against the team I actually want to win. It's pretty fun. Which would be really fun. Like I call like a huge crazy timeout.
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Yeah and I would just pick like the team our biggest rival that year. Yeah. Like if it was Ohio State, I'd just like pick Michigan at the beginning of the year, watch all of their games, and then call a timeout to give us the ball back to win or something.
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mild but chicken i do half chicken half barbacoa oh what okay i'll take that i get half credit okay mild salsa like pico the corn salsa swinging for the fences here lettuce guac fuck cheese that that was mine you forgot sour cream oh you're right and that was my exact order minus the lettuce That's my exact order. I know we have the same order, but you get lettuce. I love lettuce, yeah.
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There was a, Rollins would flood during hurricanes, but Maine never did. I remember there was this one intersection that would just disappear every year. Jeez. Like when there was a hurricane, it would just be like underwater in a neighborhood. It'd be like an intersection for boats more like, or dolphin. Right. Or dolphin. Or dolphin. Or dolphin.
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And I get sour cream. Do you guys get the vinaigrette on the side? Do you get sour cream? I load it on sour cream. That's my favorite thing.
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I've never had sour cream. Vinaigrette? I've dipped the quesadilla in it, but it's not good. No, it's so good. It's not.
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I thought it was okay. Or it sounds okay. I've never had it. There was a month period where two times in a row I ordered Chipotle. And I obviously didn't check sour cream because I don't like sour cream. And it showed up with the most sour cream I've ever seen. And it wasn't even like I said no sour cream and they got confused. It was just not on there.
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And then there was a person on Twitter who I saw had the exact same thing. They complained, and their note to Chipotle was, it feels like someone's pranking me.
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I love sour cream. It's one of my favorite things in the world. Why is it sour? It's not sour. No, I know, but why did they call it that? Because it used to be sour. Like, I never got into it as a kid, which I think when you need to get into sour cream, because it sounded scary. Yeah, but they just milk sour cows. It's not... It's like Airhead Extreme Cream. Yeah, Airhead Extreme Cream. Extreme.
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I gave her that Extreme Cream. That's what they called me in high school.
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like it doesn't the vibe of like tropical music doesn't really feel yeah you have to listen to Phoebe Bridgers yeah it doesn't match up you have to listen to sad stuff he says that's right Willie you naughty little munchkin what sorry
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I actually don't want to clap. Why do we... Okay, you take your step and then I'll... I'll take it a step even further. You know, I wear these ones, right? And what's fun about these is these things come off. What Apple should start doing is making these ones furry, making furry magnet parts for these so that they double as earmuffs.
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Oh, that's right. Will said that I couldn't barrel roll a plane.
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All right. Who wants to hear my pitch? Wait, I didn't even get to answer.
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I would just like to move on. All right. I said my piece.
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I literally don't even get this at all. This makes absolutely no sense. Wait, I thought he was saying they're like... He said earbuds, right?
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Or AirPods. Because he says... What about AirPods? Earmuffs with an AirPod attachment.
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You can just put regular earmuffs over your AirPods.
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You guys don't see the fucking vision. I don't see the vision at all. I'm out. And for that reason, I'm out.
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no you go I gotta pull it up sorry I didn't mean to attack you alright what's the worst part about making pasta? Fidel Castro just died no way that probably means nothing to us right? I don't know he wasn't a big part of my fucking life I thought he's been dead Fidel Castro are you joking?
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The leader of Cuba. Who do you think has been the dictator of Cuba this whole time?
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Where you thought there was a new guy that we hadn't heard about yet? Oh my god.
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The funny one about this is I think the mics are hot and everything is rolling forward, but when you were in the other room, we're like, should we tell her someone died when she gets back? You can include that. I have two pitches, so I'll go first.
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Oh, you asked that already? No. Who's asking that? No one. It's yours. It isn't about pasta.
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Takeoff and landing were the things we were talking about. Well, for the record, she didn't let me. Yeah, I know. I think I could have done takeoff and landing. I don't think I could have done landing. I will give you that. When we were coming in for landing, it was like a very small plane. I could have done takeoff. I could not have landed it. Lauren, I slacked you a video.
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All right. All right. Here's my pitch. Bowling desk. I hate it for pooping. Bowling desk for pooping.
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I'm excited. Because you don't want people to recognize your shoes when you're laying down a cosmic turd. That is not what I thought you were going to say. So you go, it's a little desk at the front of the bathroom. If you're taking a poop, you go up and you're like, ten and a half. Gives you a pair of shoes. They're all the same. Pop them on. You go into the stall.
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i had that problem yesterday at the airport yep because i was like i'm about to drop a nuclear rat in here and i'm wearing very like recognizable shoes and these ones no i was wearing my big uggs and then i also have a i have like a suitcase that no one else has yeah and the suitcase was there and i was like the guy next to me is gonna know that nobody knows you at the airport
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there's no freak about this shit no no we were in the we were in the the sky lounge together and it was very small so it was like I'm gonna walk out into this room and sit next to this guy who just heard me like explode like paint the place who cares It was so loud. It's a random guy. I know, but I don't want to have to look at him after. I've never thought about this.
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Oh, I wouldn't use it, but I know that there's freaks like him that exist.
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Can I tell you what I thought bowling desk for pooping was?
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So you're like... You sit down on the toilet and... There's a little table that slides over your legs, and there are mini bowling lanes, and it's like a game that you play while you're pooping where you're flinging a little ball at pins. That would be fun. It would be awesome. It's kind of like there's that golf thing that people have around their toilet. Have you seen that?
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You can get a putt-putt thing that goes around your toilet. Yeah, that's fun. It's like a poop-putt or something. All right, I'm down for both. We'll do both bowling desks for poopings. Alright, your pitch. What is the worst part about making pasta? Okay, it is about... You fucking liar. I've never... Wait, like hand-making pasta or just like boiling pasta? Boiling dried pasta.
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It's... When you stick your hand in the water to pull it out, it always burns.
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And so when we were getting out of our cab in Nashville, we had, like, we had to be at the airport at, like, 5-something a.m. or something. So it was, like, we're all very tired, no doubt. We, like, got to our hotel, and there's, like, this valet. And he's, like, no way, Rusty. Like, I love, like, blah, blah, blah. Like, you guys are staying with the ball.
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It's that you have to take it from the pot, put it in a strainer, let it strain, put it back in the pot. It's like a whole shebang. I always feel like the sink is dirty, so I have to balance it. Whatever. This is a pot that you boil the pasta in, and it has clamps on the handles, and you pull the clamps, and holes appear in the pot.
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All the water goes, and then you let it go, and it closes back up and turns into a pot. That feels... Wait, is that the thing that... That's... Oh, fuck. Sorry. Bleep my girlfriend's name. Sorry. Pot cylinder. Okay, well... Colander, not cylinder. Okay, thank you. Pot that turns... Just look at pot that turns into strainer. Strainer. Yeah, this isn't what I'm. Oh, no, no, no. There it is.
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Wait, you actually did a flip in a plane? I did five barrel rolls, and then she took me for two loops because I was too scared to commit. But I barrel rolled it. You were too scared to commit? What does that mean? A loop is like holding it back for like 30 seconds. Got it. And if you gave up halfway through, you'd die? If I gave up, we would die. Really?
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There it is. I know, but this isn't what I am. Yeah, yeah. No, that's not what I am.
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yeah but see these are still two separate you're right these are still two separate things you have to take the strain out it's a whole fucking shebang this is clamps and you go and it like slides it out like slides it out there are holes in the bottom or on the sides or whatever all the water leaves and then you're fucking good to go dude you're golden you're cooking pasta yeah that okay so that happened to me that happened how dude you would be because the the handles are balanced
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So, like, see how he's holding the handle like that? If you pour the pasta into the bowl, it will go like this. And dump all the pasta. Oh, we just have one that has, like, stuff that you said. Agreed. This is so dumb.
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When I was in college, I was making mac and cheese. It was my last box of mac and cheese. Yeah. And I did that exact same thing, and it all went in the sink, and I literally fell to my knees. It was the last box of food I had. In the world?
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In my house. like because you can't aim properly and like poured into the bowl the the strainer is on a handle and the bowl like swivels like this and he poured the pasta in too fast and the bowl flipped and dumped the pasta into the sink
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It's dumb to have a strainer that's like on like a... Yeah, like just hold the strainer or put the strainer on yourself. You don't understand. I just think it's silly. It's silly. It's a bad design. It's not the guy's fault. Yeah.
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Well, it's both. It's both. If you... I'm so mad that you think... Spoken like a guy who's... I've done it, but no, no. It's because I've made that mistake. It is an unbelievably easy mistake to make. All right. All right. Should we do... Aim for the strainer next time. Where's my phone? Right there. Should we do... What do you want to do next?
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Let's do... Wait, I have another... Oh, you have another pitch. Pitch.
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This is a service. It could be a little sky, regular-sized guy. It could even be a huge guy. I don't care. Services. You text a number.
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uh wait what okay google 311 what is digging general customer service google three general customer service is great hello three on one three on one wait general customer service not emergency that's a non-emergency what wait what are you talking what do you mean for dig like to know if you can dig somewhere one of the numbers yeah like general customer service google phone number for digging it's gonna be so dumb no i'm serious
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I mean, she would be in the back and save us. Oh, she could save you. That's what I'm wondering. Was there ever a scenario where it was just like, if you fuck this up, you're going to die? If I sent us into a tailspin, she could probably still... She's like a world-renowned aerobatics pilot. Okay. And she has controls and you also have controls? Our sticks are in sync.
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Because if you hit a fucking electrical line or a water... You can't dig anywhere. I don't think you can dig in public. You can dig in your yard, though.
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You want to know if you're going to hit a fucking water line. How would they know?
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Yeah, they GPS you, dude. Yeah, you can dig there. Let's call them.
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You should call 811 and see if you can dig. I don't believe this is a real number. See if you can dig here. Yeah.
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Imagine you're getting held hostage and you accidentally call 8-1-1.
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All right, what are you going to say? I'm going to say, can I dig here?
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This is fucking stupid. That's insane that number exists. Yeah, it's for digging.
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During the Treasury Hunt? Yeah. Can I dig here? And they were like, no. And I was like, okay, I did it anyway.
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And I think I told that story, but like we were digging on this public property that we definitely weren't allowed to dig at. And someone drove by and started like, he's like, Hey, what the fuck are y'all doing? And like pulled over and we like freaked out and just took off running. Who was he? I don't know. Some say I, sometimes I wonder, I was like, maybe he's another hunter.
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But he probably was like, these kids are up to no good.
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So if I move mine, hers moves. But she's like... If I fucked up, she could grab it and be like, hey, hands off, hands off. That's what I was wondering. So she told me, like, if I ever say, like, my plane, like, just hands off, I'll, like, save us. But, Lauren, I sent you a video. That's so scary. This is the first barrel roll I did.
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dude this reminds me of college in college we used to play national treasure 2 book of twee crits yep we watched national treasure 2 and every time there was a clue we would drink a twee it was the best day of my life that's awesome i want to do it again can i paint you a little word picture real quick will word pick close your eyes done it's it's 1 p.m correct it's a saturday you're on the beach ah ah sand okay sorry i'm ready
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Yeah, I'm in. I feel like maybe my math didn't check out there, but... No, that's good. Okay.
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Oh, three-way. A three-way. A three. We had a three-way. We had a three-way. The title, we had a three-way? We had a three-way. First ever three-way. Dude, the first guys to do that were probably like, whoa, what the hell is going on? We are on to something. All right. You go. Are you guys familiar with Calico Jack? Calico cut jeans? Nope. Calico cut jeans? You got to give.
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Calico Jack was the pirate that came up with the skull and crossbones flag and popularized that. Good marketing. Yeah, really good marketing. And the reason he got captured is because his crew was too drunk to fight. Oh. So the British boarded his ship, and all the boys were hammered and couldn't fight. And so they just were like, oh, this is so easy. That's so funny. And took Calico Jack.
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That's a bummer. Isn't that funny? Was he too drunk too? I don't know. Oh, wow. He was hot. He was kind of hot. Yes. Wanted for piracy and looting. His name was John Rackham.
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So before you play this, Lauren, I want to set the scene a little bit. Okay. So... I was told we were going to be in the air for like an hour, right? Yeah. And so in my head, it's like, okay, you know, we'll fly for 25 minutes. We'll probably do five minutes of aerobatics and then we'll do 25 minutes back, right? Yeah. So I'm like kind of chilling, like just enjoying the sights.
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Yeah. Yeah, I brought it up last night, and I felt like there was sort of a deafening silence.
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Yeah, that was an all-time Lupicon flag. Yeah, I almost felt like I love those three people, but that almost felt like... Because it was clearly a joke to put...
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the the four of us as a thing so i was like wait am i the butt of the i think it was just each department maybe i don't know they sent out like a flyer for a company holiday party and it was the foremost random employees of all time as like the faces of it for some reason also is there no dinner this year i don't know it just says snacks and it's from six to ten or something Yeah, I don't know.
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I think probably this fucking budget bullshit. We had like a cool house and like a sick dinner last year. This year we have an office. Oh, it's here?
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I know. We're cooked. I know, dude. I mean, I love Mott's a lot, but he is too responsible to have. We're going freaking woke over here. What happened to irrational spending and crazy trips? Tell them about what... You got $250 of gambling money for every hour of Let's Meet People you did.
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So I just had to go out for three hours and do Man on the Street interviews. But we were joking about, like, you know, like, Bruno Mars, like, had to perform, like, for 10 years because he was in debt to MGM? Yeah. You read that, like, headline?
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He, like, lost a bunch of money gambling, I guess. So, like, he had to do a residency there for, like, 15 years. I think it's all... No one knows for sure if it's true, but, like, that would be really funny if I went down, like, thousands of dollars. So now I'm just stuck in Vegas for, like, a week.
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Yeah, I'm just a man on the street, like, going crazy. All right, teach me something, Willie. Teach me something. So this is a fun one. Last evening, I watched...
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Real guy. Wait, so what is that again? They see his name written somewhere or something? I forget. I was kind of in and out of the movie. I was like really sleepy, but then I was like... Hermione's like, Nicolas Flamel. He's the guy who invented, who created the Philosopher's Stone. Right, right. Or the Sorcerer's Stone, to you woke folks. And... I mean, it's a better name. Anyway...
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And then, like, Dumbledore and him decide to destroy it after whatever. Voldy got his hands on it, briefly. How bad is Voldemort's CGI? Yeah, he has a nose in it. Which is like, what? Wait, also, I was thinking about... This is the first one, right?
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Like this is awesome that I am doing this. have not even remotely started to like prepare to do the barrel roll or anything even like fly the plane and uh we had comms on yeah and uh i made my call sign nickels so she was just like all right nickels like like uh you can make anything i mean you didn't have to make one i just was like I would probably do Gort. What would you do?
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Do we know why Voldemort lost his nose? Because Tom Riddle had a nose. Yeah, and he has it in the first one.
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Yeah. But anyway, Nicholas Lamel is based on... It's a real guy that... Okay, I'm losing him. Sorry.
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I'm ready to say. It's the Horcruxes. It's the Horcruxes.
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I know. I was very... How did you find that out? Because I was dozing in and out of watching this movie. What? I was picking my nose and learning comedy. I was sort of dozing in and out. And so then at one point, they said something about Nicholas Lema. I was like, wait. I was like, who the fuck is that again? And so then I Googled it. And then it was like a Wikipedia of a real guy.
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In Prisoner of Azkaban... Or look up... Look up hundreds of birds swarming. Harry Potter guy stirring tea with his finger. Oh. What is this? He's stirring coffee. So there's this guy in the Prisoner of Azkaban in the Leaky Cauldron. He's reading a Stephen Hawking book and he's doing wandless magic, which like fucking... Or like Dumbledore can't even do wandless magic.
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And so they're like, this guy... This guy might be the most powerful wizard in the world or smartest guy. Isn't that bizarre? Interesting. That's cool. He's doing wandless magic. Harry can't even do wandless magic. How come they can't?
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It was just an intro into the Leaky Cauldron. Oh. The Leaky Cauldron, that's in London. It's when Harry gets dropped off after being on the purple bus. Yeah, with the shrunken head. Yeah, exactly. And then the guy that has a hunchback brings him up to talk to... Talk to a? Talk to a podcast. Mm-hmm.
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No. They were like ripping her for doing like a pump and dump scheme.
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Like all the people on her own podcast? No, like Twitter analysts. You know, they can do those like chat rooms, whatever. Oh, okay, got it. All right. Do you guys want to do This Guy Rocks? Yeah.
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I like that we picked a song. Mm-hmm. All right.
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That'd be good on call signs that don't exist. Yeah. All right, just go quick because he's telling a story.
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Yeah, they're so cute. I don't understand how there are so many different accents.
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Yeah, my bag. And you probably say, like, talk about your house.
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Okay, I thought maybe you were gonna say rum. No. My cousins also like rum.
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Wooder. Like Gavin has a very good Delco accent. The Delco one is... His is enjoyable to me.
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No, it's too hard to say Wendy. Talk to me, Wendy. Wendy. It's just a different name. So this is the plane that I'm in. Oh, nice. I'm in the front of it. The cockpit, if you will. Yeah, but like the whole plane is... It's all cockpit. It's mostly cockpit. No main cabin. There's no main cabin, no food service, no snacks. And you're in kind of like a reclined... It was sick.
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What section are we doing? Rusty's Would You Rather. Rusty's would you rather I feel like I'd be good as one of those guys would you guys rather have to canoe everywhere or always have a lot of honey on your hands Jalen Bronson so I can assume that they're I'm able to canoe everywhere there's water I mean you can get out and walk but like what what Are there rivers everywhere?
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There are streams that match any road. Oh, that sounds great. I think I would do the canoe, yeah, for sure. Okay, there are not streams next to the road. So you just can't get anywhere. You can walk. Okay, so it's walk everywhere where I have honey. It's probably walk everywhere. You have a canoe with wheels. Canoe with wheels? But you have to like... I will do that option over the honey hands.
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You can walk. It's just in place of planes, trains, and automobiles. I would do the walking. I could live comfortably only walking. I would have a good life still.
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really i don't like cars i mean i would have to talk i'd have to talk to edge about travel i would be like i can't do travel anymore because i lost this dumb game on our podcast but yeah i mean worst case scenario just get a job as like a bartender at the end of my street and i could walk to everywhere yeah but if you had honey on your hands you just wear gloves Do you want the honey?
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These are names for grandparents that don't exist. Shout out to whoever. Oh yeah, shout out to ABC Parenting for this idea. I thought this was really funny. I don't want him to do it. Grumpy and Momo? Scrody and V-Vag? Poopy and Clit?
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Gropian Nimrod. Ding dong and torch. Um... Nipples and skid mark. Wallace and grommet. Droopy and saggy. And...
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Playdate! Episode 68. You guys know what happens next week. Uh-oh. Or maybe it doesn't.
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And the whole conversation, you're just, like, just literally looking anywhere but his face.
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Mine are all spells, by the way. I didn't see the potions part, but that's okay. Cool. These are Harry Potter spells that don't exist. No, Harry Potter spells and potions.
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Bathius Occupus. It makes the bathroom appear to be occupied after you leave so no girls walk in and see how stinky your poop was. I like that. Sicoso. Dries you off immediately so you can get out of the shower. I like that. Thank you. Cancelus stinkus. It immediately removes the scent of any poop taken.
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You're in like a... Yeah. Almost like F1 style, you know, position. And so we get up there and you just hear a guy on the comms go, all right, we're ready for Rusty's roll. And I hadn't even thought about it yet. And so I had to be like, okay, what did she tell me to do? Which was like pitch up 30 degrees back to neutral and then just fucking like send it to the left.
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Vegasone, and it spawns a roulette table that spins a ball so you can settle bets and gamble with your friends. That sounds dangerous.
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Examinor and it makes you really good at trivia for an hour. That would be, I would use that one every day. Toilettes replaces. I hate you.
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it's great my last one's not even about poop so um the second set of eyes potion and it lets you it lets you see the consequences of any action before doing it okay so you'd like put your head in the water like you'd pour it into that thing that dumbledore has put your head in it okay let you see how things would pan out if you did it got it that's good
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genderis swappus so this is one that this is like a monster that got away from uh not a not a monster in our sense of the word but in jk rowling's sense of the word this one allows anyone to change their gender with the with the flick of the flick of the wand and uh yeah suck it jk rowling
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um caplyasora gives you the perfect haircut every time that would be great thank you i would do that one every day me too and what's wrong i just wanted to hear his you did you just heard five of mine i wanted to hear his and he made him all about fucking poop he didn't even try i did try i think you're insulting me i did try
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And this is like, as far as like aerobatic planes go, this is one of the nicest ones. Yeah. So like this one is, I will give it to you. Probably the easiest, like a toddler could have done this probably. Okay. Listen, I'm impressed. I'm not yucking you out here.
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What about Gender a Swapus? Yeah, I like that one.
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Like a football injury? Horrible injury. No, that's like her whole thing. She's a turf. Dak Prescott out six weeks with turf ass. Turf ass. Wait, what is that? Look up turf ass.
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Okay, now look up... Put a picture of someone's ass right here, Lauren. Look up Brian Griffin.
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He's the dog. He is the dog. Look up Mort Goldman. Look up Mort Goldman.
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See if there's an Aldi around here. Get Family Guide again. You got Family Guide. Oh, hog. Get Mort. Lauren got Goldman.
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All right, whose personality are you guys stealing? Ooh. France? I like that. I actually understand that, kind of. No, no, no. I'm not stealing France. This weekend... Are you back this weekend? What is that? Are you back this weekend? Are you back this weekend? Yeah, I'll probably be back Friday evening.
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No, that was what was so weird about it. It's not like a roller coaster. It's like very peaceful. So we hadn't done anything yet. This is the video we're flying, and they just go, all right, we're ready for Rusty's roll. And she goes, all right, Rusty, roll. She's German. Okay. Pull up and then play this video. And wait, before you play it, I was supposed to do it really fast. Yeah.
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Look, it says it right there. I don't understand. Rylo. Look how to pronounce it. I'll bet you $1,000. Before you look it up, Lauren, I'll bet you $1,000. It's Rylo. He just says it with his Cleveland accent. It's like, Rylo. It's Rylo. Okay, but how he says it is Rylo. Rylo. I'll bet you $4. Sup, man?
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She's British. She doesn't speak English. He says Rilo. Which I can see sounds a little like Rilo, but his name is not Rilo. It's Rilo. It's Rilo. It's Rilo.
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What if it starts with us just banging each other? Well, I think we're saving that for the 100th episode we're going to bang. All right, gangsters. You guys got anything else to talk about? Hold tight.
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Because that's how you maintain altitude. And I went really slow because she was like, slow ones are cool, but you have to really commit to it, whatever. Yeah. When you go sideways, you slice through the air like a knife because there's nothing holding you up. Like the wings aren't there. So we fell like, you know, a hundred feet in this video. Watch this. Christ. This is all me for the record.
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I don't like this game. Okay, we love you guys. Have a great rest of your week. Oh, so he said Watson and you said Beef?
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he ought to just fart no cut that i i don't mean to do that sometimes i sometimes i'm just like not feeling my best yeah and it's like i don't want to i just don't want them to be looking at me i don't want to look at them but it's just no but it just happened now too when i was like i pitched you an idea for the podcast that you clearly didn't like but instead of saying no you just went
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Oh my God. And then her and I were just like celebrating down there. The boys in the aerobatic plane were like cracking up and then they were like, all right. And they would like reposition us. And, uh, I did a couple of fast ones. You do drop so much right there. That looks terrifying. No, it was like the most peaceful thing in the world. Holy shit.
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Like, I... You know how I said I got over my fear of roller coasters? Yeah. Like, I'm still afraid of them. Like, I just think it's fun now. Yeah. This wasn't a... I don't think either of you would be afraid in this plane. It was bizarre. No, no, no. I think I might. I would... I would do it.
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I would definitely do it. It was... it was looking at the ground and it's quiet. You have big headphones on. Yeah. And you're just kind of like looking. And then we flew in, we flew upside down for like 10 seconds. Yeah. And she, there's a ratchet around your waist that like, you're supposed to really anchor yourself.
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And she goes like, if you feel like you're as tight as you can go, like you're not, your ass is still going to leave the seat. And she goes, are you tight? And I go, I'm as tight as I can be. And then she flips us upside down and I literally... My ass left the... There was like a foot of space between my ass and the seat.
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The loop-de-loop is... Sorry, I don't want to turn this into like 30 minutes of plane talk.
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This is the last one, but the loop-de-loop was crazy. I was feeling a little nauseous after the barrel rolls. Yeah. She was like, can you do the loop-de-loop? And I was like, I think I can do it, but I need you to probably do it. I don't know if I can commit to that right now. That one was kind of scary to me. And so...
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You know, you're sitting there and she goes, all right, we're going to, we're pitched down. You have to hit 160 to get enough speed to then like go up the hill. God, that makes sense. And so we were pitched up or, you know, you see the sky and you're like, you know, the, the ground is behind your back. And then what's so strange is the ground just appears like,
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there obviously because you're upside down so like you think you're still looking up but then there's like houses above you yeah and you're like that's true whoa what and then when you come down do you know what like g-forces g-forces it's a movie about moles it's uh right I don't know. It's like inertia or something. It's basically the gravity pulling down because you're fighting against it.
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And so it pulls... Yeah, look up G... Go to images.
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My face was doing a much less dramatic version of that. Okay. We hit 2 Gs. Her plane can do 10. That's like this podcast. 2 Gs. Yeah. We almost hit 3 Gs. Yeah. Yeah. And then...
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Like Rusty and I are going to go do more barrels. And so we went and I did one too many. That's when I got like a little nosh.
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And I was like, all right, take me, take me back to base. Take me home. And I just had my hand on the barf bag for like 20 minutes while we waited to land. Oh, I'm glad you... You didn't leave anything on the table. You pushed your limits. Right.
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At one point, I told her I don't want to do the loop-de-loop. Yeah. And the guys didn't hear it over the radio. They misunderstood. And so they just were like, all right, we're ready for the loop. And she was like, all right, fuck it. And so I'm glad that I didn't. For the record, I did say, like, I do not want to do this. Like, it is on video. Yeah.
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Cut that out. I'm glad that I did... Like, I ran the gauntlet. I think I would be... There was one maneuver that I did... Or there were a couple maneuvers that I didn't hit. But there's one that she does in competition where she goes straight up and then the plane hits zero miles per hour speed and falls back down.
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like slides back down and the engine is off and then you either flip backwards or you flip forwards and go into like a nosedive or an inverted nosedive nope yeah and uh and then you like catch it and she was like would you like to do that and i was like no obviously obviously not obviously i want to do anything but that wait look up geforce movie
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That's what I was trying to remember. Guinea pigs, maybe? Yes. Maybe that's what the G is for?
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Yeah, it's going to be great. The one this week is crushing.
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Yeah, you're right. That is funny that that was the part of the movie that you remembered. I just like the mole guy for some reason. I always liked the burrowing. I like the burrowing with their nose.
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I've seen them. We have them in our backyard in Florida. They're just like little guys. Really? Yeah, they're like this big. We were sitting playing Scrabble, and you hear like rustling, and they're just like in the garden. They think that you are constantly trying to kill them. So they're chill. So the second they see you, they're like...
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Like, freaking out and, like, trying to, like, get underground. I think it's because my dog used to be, like... My dog's a hunting dog, but now she doesn't know if... She's retired? She wouldn't know if there was a coyote in the room with her. You know what I mean? She has bad vision? Yeah, she's 17. Wow. Dude, and our last dog was, like, 21. Jeez. My dog lived to be, like, 17 or 18.
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We thought... I thought that was, like, crazy. They've been calling her, uh... Every year they go, she's probably not going to make it to Booth Bay, which is like where they go in the summer. And then she just like does miraculously. And so this year they're calling her Miss Booth Bay 2025. Because they think she's going to make it there. They didn't think she was going to make it to Christmas.
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Sorry, they didn't think she was going to make it to Thanksgiving.
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Yeah, I mean... Oh, I forgot we talked about this on the last episode. Maybe if they paid her enough. Yeah. You're welcome. You can clip that.
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You could ask anyone in my life. I don't know what to say. It's certainly not an issue with not being on my phone enough, because I'm always on my phone.
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Licht auf Kalorien, hoch auf Leben. Es ist alles natürlich, glutenfrei. Und wiederum nur 15-20 Kalorien. Ich werde es dir jetzt sagen. Triple war so eine lustige Part meiner Wochenende und meiner Leben, jetzt, dass ich im dreckigen Januar bin.
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That feels like a while out. Yeah, I know, but I want to get a good time. So I want to get my speed up and get into shape and then I can...
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Yeah, I don't know. I think it's like a, I don't know, like an ADHD thing, but I'm not even diagnosed. I'm just self-diagnosing there. Right. I don't, it's like, I see them. If it's something that's like urgent, if it's like, do you want to do this tonight?
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Speaking of sharding, kind of. I don't know what this dream was, but I woke up and I was like, why was I dreaming about that so much? I... It was... You were a fucking...
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Yeah, I think you were in the right... I think you had the right line of thinking there.
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Was meinst du, dass ich Telefonanrufe hasse?
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I think it was like a tweet, but Scott said it the other day and made me laugh. I was like, I don't watch the Cleveland show. I sit my ass down and listen.
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Oh yeah, I went to Laguna on Saturday. Laguna Beach. How was that? It was fucking fantastic. It's an awesome place.
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Yeah. We were talking about maybe getting, doing like a timeshare, but I don't know if that's ethical.
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Oh, here's something. Shorty gave me dome, but I wasn't really into it. Make my dick harden like I'm gonna bring LA a chip. Did you come up with that?
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James Harden. So she made my dick Harden. Like I'm gonna bring L.A. a chip. Like James Harden's gonna bring L.A.
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I gave it my all. I'm like a regular Chris Paul. I'm back. I like it. I'm sorry that I'm missing but I'm just like Blake Griffin. You could say Sia but I'm jumping over Kias.
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So I wanted to give them our, we can give them our address, right?
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Well, no, think about it this way. I was just like, oh, I don't want to look at that origami right now. I'm going to check that out later.
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He was the fucking worst. You know what I didn't like about him? Is that he was green. I don't get it.
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I'm putting that on the back burner.
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I think that we live in a society where we are expected to be constantly on demand. And I don't think that's healthy. You know? I will come to things in time. It's no disrespect to anyone in my life.
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I mean, we got a new boss and he's a bit of a stickler.
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Is this okay if I sit like this?
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I didn't know if I was high up now or something. No.
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It's my favorite thing in the world.
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Okay. Well, then I'll get rid of that one if I've already done it. That's a...
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The situation that you're solving is woated.
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Ist das, was ich okay mit habe?
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Yeah, I don't... Yeah, I don't... They better lift the weight for me.
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It was flapping its wings. No, it was his sipping a water ball.
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What if he's... I mean, is he... Could you find out if he's like a millionaire?
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But they, it's, there's a lot going, there's a lot of stuff. He's like, and now do, and he's like saying words I don't know. He's like, and now do the Crumble Wind.
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Oh my God, can we play this clip? Can you look up Onion News Network? Bully. It's one of the funniest.
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Of high school, sorry. But then I did gain like 50 pounds during COVID as well. 50? 40, vielleicht? 50 Kilo ist so eine verrückte Menge.
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Weil ich die ganze Nacht mit Eis-Creme und Bier-IPAs gespielt habe.
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Lass uns mit unseren Weird Al Songs anfangen. Ja.
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Maybe with some rice, maybe with some sake. Before the stir fry, we should do hibachi. Veggies on the side, now you're getting cocky.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
I've got I'm banned on Yelp. I'm banned on Yelp.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
I like that a lot. Wow. Kind of making me feel like a dumbass. I got excited about it. I want to do this every week for my new segment. Starting moving forward called Will's Parody Song.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
Ein Film, der sich um einen braunen Snail handelt, der sich um Lake Shelperia fährt.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
I tell you, you build a robot, they're gonna fuck it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
If Xenu is here right now, I'd call him a bitch. Am I gonna get murdered in my sleep?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
That's the plan for now. We'll see.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
And then I got up at like 8am and felt awesome. Yeah, dude.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
Nein, es ist nur der Trainer des Georgia Football. Sie sind aus Athens. Sie sind eine Band aus Athens. Ich denke, ich werde mein Georgia-Jersey tragen. Ich werde mich als ein Typ aus Georgia auswählen. Wirst du dein Cowboy-Hat tragen? Oh, vielleicht sollte ich es tragen.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
I'm like, there's a fucking metal band on it. I don't know. Oh, they got, you know, rodeo. We turned our love into a rodeo. Okay, well. It's gonna be awesome.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
Sure. I was in Nashville. You had the best time ever.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
Wir hatten einen Schuss für Arbeit, den ich wusste, dass ich zu spät gehen werde. Ich wusste nicht, ob ich es in diesem Show machen werde. Also habe ich gesagt, wenn es in der Zeit endet, werde ich einfach... Ist das hier oder in Nashville?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
Ja, alle gehen da hin. Vielleicht nicht am gleichen Zeitpunkt. Ja, aber es war, und dann am Ende, wie der Kerl, der Kerl neben mir war wirklich, den ich als Referenz für viele von ihnen benutze. Und am Ende hat er gesagt, hey, gute Arbeit, Bruder. Am Ende war ich so, Bruder, du bist willkommen.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
I finally won Wingspan. Oh, nice. I'm getting good. But then Lauren fucking, not that you, Jerry's girlfriend, went fucking off. She got 85 points. She eggs maxed. She egg maxed. She feather maxed. She fucking won the end around goals. It was a beat down in the likes of...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
No. He's this New York comedian guy. He's kind of a strange character.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
And we could make Skyline dip. Ooh. Yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
No, it was cool. It was at the Lionsgate Studios. When you're listening to this, you can go pick them up. Aber ich glaube, wenn unsere Playmates von der Feuerwehr verletzt wurden, hoffentlich waren sie es nicht.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I used pull my finger to save my relationship
Yeah, it was cool. There were like hundreds of people. It was cool to see everyone. How did you hear about this? My friend Lily works at Lionsgate and kind of helped organize it.