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Chapter 1: Why is tequila a recurring topic in the show?
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like... Cuervo. I think he could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.
Cuervo.
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Chapter 2: What happened to the astronauts stuck in space?
Do you guys remember the astronauts that were stuck up in space? Well, they're finally coming home. Wow.
How long were they up there?
Like nine months. They were supposed to be up there for a week. And then something happened to their craft, their spacecraft that got sent back home without them. And now there's finally a crew going to the ISS to replace them and, I guess, rescue them. So they're coming back.
Sullivan, can you try and get a hold of one of them so that I can find out what are the practical difficulties in expecting to go to space for a week and ending up there nine months? I would imagine that there are all sorts of difficulties any of us wouldn't understand. I'd like to talk to an astronaut. How do you get eggs? That's the chief question, obviously, that we would all fall on.
Oh, my God.
They're going to be so mad when they find out how much they cost now.
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Chapter 3: How are rising food prices affecting consumers?
I think they're going back down, I heard. I haven't bought an egg. Sometimes I hoard eggs. That's probably bad, right? But I buy at the wrong time.
They limit two per person in our grocery store now. Yeah.
I think I've seen that sign, but I'll go, and if it's a price that I think is going to go higher, I treat it like the stock market, my goods. So I'll go, and if I get the sense that egg prices are going to go up, I'll say, you know what? $8.99 is a lot for 18 eggs, but it's better than $10.29, so I'm going to get two batches of 18 eggs.
Chapter 4: What is the controversy around selling bottled water?
But then you're playing with fire because you come back a week later and now they're $4.79 for 18. So it's really a dangerous game that I'm playing with my produce and with my goods there. But it's what we have to do. Thank you for asking. Maybe sell eggs outside the arena the way they sell waters. That is such a good business, by the way. No, not the eggs. The water.
If you could successfully sell water, honestly, and you have the right... I'm not a salesman by nature. We know this. It's like $4 for a 24-pack, something like that. You can get a 24-pack of water or even you go to a Sam's or a BJ's or a Costco or one of these big box stores as they call them, you buy a 40 pack of water, you get that for let's say $6.99.
If you sell it for a dollar each, you could probably jack it up to $2. You sell it for $1 each, that's $40 you made on that one pack. If you do $2, that's $80 that you can make. Now, you need to find people. You can't do $150. We all know that. You can't be on the side of the street selling bottles of water for $150. Once you start breaking it into fractions of $1, things get complicated.
People just keep driving by you. But if you have the wherewithal to do it and go out there and sell that water, that's The ROI on that, Dan.
Yes, I agree. I've often thought that whenever seeing someone sell overpriced water, that that would be a good business. Can you guys please, for me, before the end of the show, find me some short actors whose height would shock the audience? And also, I'd like to ask all of you recently, what is something that you have purchased that you have been alarmed about?
by how much the price of that has gone up. Because a lot of people are talking about fruit, a cup of coffee, A cup of coffee is now at a price point that is totally absurd for a cup of beans. I told you recently that a regular small smoothie with fresh fruit I saw for over $9.
Give me some shocking, some sticker shock that you guys have gotten recently on stuff that is a lot more expensive than it used to be.
I use quite a bit of extra virgin olive oil in cooking. Olive oil prices have skyrocketed. I think they've doubled in the last year to the point now you buy like an average size jar of bottle of olive oil and it's like $18.99. It's like very expensive relative to what it was a year ago. I don't know why.
I think that a lot of people focus on the main things, right? Where you have a situation, and I've been down this path before. You have the situation like the eggs. Everybody buys eggs. Or you have things that's like, wow, this now costs like $12 before it was $10. The ones that really add up are the things that were like...
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Chapter 5: How do spoilers impact the show's audience?
What happened and what are the updates that you want to give people?
So the Dodgers, spoiler alert, I don't know if this is the fan base that records baseball games and goes home and watches them later in the day. But if you are, spoiler alert here, upcoming. Don't get mad at us. This isn't a White Lotus situation. This game was already played. So the Dodgers and the Cubs kicked off the season at 6 a.m.
today and they finished the game before we even started our workday. And yesterday, Dodgers ended up winning, spoiler alert, Dodgers ended up winning 4-1 over the Cubs. They have another game tomorrow, again, at 6 a.m. So if you're up at 6 a.m., you could watch it. Or I don't think you can even listen to it. Did Boot go to Japan to cover the game?
Oh, that's a good question. Did he go?
I was wondering that. I think the broadcasters are doing it all remote. Oh, that's whack. Oh, wow. Lame. I heard Bonetti was on the call. I'm not sure if he was there, though. I felt so bad for Bonetti. He's such a great guest, and he was so good last week. And then I saw the Fox promotional thing where they put out the headshots of all the broadcasters that are going to be working on the show.
And I don't know if... they provide their own headshots or if Fox takes the headshots for them. But poor Jason Bonetti. Bad headshot? Well, it's not that it's a bad headshot. It's that every single person who took their headshot and provided it to Fox for their broadcasting, you know, games, teams this year, whatever.
By the way, if you're interested in baseball broadcasting Friday, I'm going to be doing another game for FIU. Just a quick aside. During March Madness.
Is it at 6 a.m.? Because I kind of liked waking up to 6 a.m. baseball. I listened to it on my drive into work this morning. I watched it in the makeup chair.
I had it on Hulu on my phone and I was listening to the audio while I was driving. It was probably not smart. Anyway, so Jason Bonetti, friend of the show, dare I say, at this point in time. Everybody takes their professional headshots. They're looking head-on, big smile, whatever. Bonetti is looking off to the side like if he's on the poster for Step Brothers.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of 'Spoiler Wednesday'?
No, if you're going to see a wiener, you don't want to know before. You don't want to know before.
I feel like there's a thing called consent.
I mean, I do agree that it was, I would have preferred to not know it was coming, but it didn't like ruin the episode. And also people were mad last week when we said that the first episode of the season was just a Civil War. Yeah, I watched it. Bradley Cooper. Which I also disagree. We're not saying like, oh my God, Tony Soprano shot Pauly Walnuts in the head. Those are spoilers.
That doesn't happen in The Sopranos, by the way. Well, I guess that's a spoiler that it doesn't happen.
Can we make a show rule? Because here's the problem. Everybody is watching at their own pace, right? So are we just... Not allowed to watch until everyone in the world has watched it and discussed it. Can we say like, hey, you know what? Moving forward, Wednesdays we will discuss the happenings of the Sunday night shows.
And if you don't want to know what happened on the Sunday night show, watch it before Wednesday or we're going to skip it on Wednesday. Spoiler Wednesday seems like a perfectly reasonable thing. Monday is a bit aggressive for a show that's on at 9 or 10 o'clock at night. I understand why people wouldn't have seen it.
And people got mad at us when we discussed White Lotus, I think on a Tuesday or Wednesday last week. But if we let them know, hey, if you want to watch this with us, it's like a book club. If you want to watch this with us, our visual book club.
Wednesdays we will have our Visual Book Club where we will be discussing the happenings of these two shows that we have been discussing and that are relevant in pop culture. I learned the hard way when I accidentally ruined the finale of Survivor, of all things, like two years ago in which I thought
I was the only person still watching Survivor and I said, oh no, a lot of people are still watching Survivor.
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Chapter 7: Why is there a discussion on headshots among broadcasters?
Or change your life.
If it's that important to you.
If you're going to be someone who gets mad about it, if it's that serious to you, watch the show.
Really mad people. I'm not saying people that are like, I'm so annoyed. I'm talking about people that are pissed.
You can't care that much, but you haven't watched the show. How can you care that much?
For example, we can't talk about how the masseuse was murdered until tomorrow.
Well, we watched the debut of Righteous Gemstones, even though Levitard had sort of ruined it by not only alluding to the episode, but really describing it in some detail. But I was pleasantly surprised to watch that episode and learn how wrong Levitard was. I thought it was a wonderful episode. I loved the series, and I loved that background story. I thought Bradley Cooper's always good.
I love him as an actor. Which did you like better?
Episode one or episode two?
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Chapter 8: What are the latest updates on the baseball season?
Well, I already did that for the audience in episode two.
They yelled at John Goodman for like ten minutes. It's so funny.
Okay. I mean, Walton Goggins... Spoiler.
Oh, wait. Air this tomorrow.
Being angry while... Nude. Funny. It's not just full frontal. For no reason at all, by the way.
No, totally.
But we'll talk about that tomorrow. I guess we're doing that today.
Tomorrow's Wednesday. That's Wednesday. Civil War episode we can talk about today if you'd like.
Danny McBride using two episodes of Righteous Gemstones to go full frontal nudity with these two things. One, someone enraged while naked is funny. Someone getting in a prolonged fist fight that goes from indoors to outdoors while full frontally nude with BJ, even funnier.
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