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Snow-mageddon, Stolen Cable, and Legacy · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio.
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  Speaker 2: Today, I'll talking about that John has extreme generator fomo
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  Speaker 2: as the big winter storm approaches and hopes his robot
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  Speaker 2: bed doesn't become self aware. Meanwhile, I get boogie in
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  Speaker 2: the movie theater and tell you about the time two
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  Speaker 2: nuclear bombs were accidentally dropped on North Carolina. Plus a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about life, death and the legacy we hope to
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  Speaker 2: leave in between. Today's episode is not sponsored by snowskiing
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  Speaker 2: the most thrilling and Expensive way to break your leg,
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  Speaker 2: but first award from our actual sponsor, Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: There's a cult from moving in but not here in
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  Speaker 1: the studio. Just talk about that. Bringing the heat yet again.
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  Speaker 2: Hot, Hot, Hot, I don't I don't believe that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting ready to have record weather here.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad, It's bad. They're calling for fourteen inches in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Which that has that ever happened? I'm sure, but I mean, yeah, ever,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm saying, you're full blown existential crisis for us
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  Speaker 1: down here in the South.
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  Speaker 2: This is lifetime. I mean, I think we got seven
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  Speaker 2: or eight inches a few years ago and it was wild.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about this maybe being like akin to the
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  Speaker 1: do you remember the Blizzard of nineteen ninety three, the
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  Speaker 1: ice storm.
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  Speaker 2: Was it here in Nashville?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? No, did they're not happened in Knoxville.
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  Speaker 2: I think we got some in ninety three, the Blizard.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it was eighty seven. We got a foot
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  Speaker 2: in eighty seven, a foot of snow in April. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 2: it was April twelfth, and I had a polaroid forever.
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  Speaker 2: We built a snow for it, and it was nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven. It was a foot of snow that was
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  Speaker 2: in Knoxville. But here in Nashville, Yeah, that there was
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  Speaker 2: a blizzard nine three, because I've seen I remember people
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  Speaker 2: had t shirts forever that I survived the blizzard of ninety.
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  Speaker 1: Th deal because all electricity went out and froze all
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  Speaker 1: the power lines and stuff. So it was like a major.
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  Speaker 2: That's the fear of that much snow is like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're not really we don't have the infrastructure a generator.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no, I'm not thinking, although I'm getting there. Like
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  Speaker 2: you see these you know, four Patriots and all that,
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  Speaker 2: which they probably are advertising on the show now, who knows.
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  Speaker 2: But I used to think of them as like crackpots
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, like come on, guys. But now I'm like listening,
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  Speaker 2: like I need to get a solo. It's like, if
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  Speaker 2: everybody's gonna go crazy and be whatever, deeply entrenched in
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  Speaker 2: their thing, and then the world's gonna like if you
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  Speaker 2: go well, I don't want to be the only one
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  Speaker 2: without a generator.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of fomo for me about the generator. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you that way about guns too? They're like, if
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  Speaker 2: everybody's gonna have a gun, if they need a gun,
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  Speaker 2: I need a bazookah. Is that how you feel?
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  Speaker 1: You know? I did get my lifetime carry permit this
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  Speaker 1: last week. Okay, so now I can carry a gun
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  Speaker 1: for life, even though in Tennessee anybody can carry a gun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you could carry a gun and hear in my office
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not against Like, how do you know I don't have
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  Speaker 2: a gun?
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  Speaker 1: Now? How do you know I don't have a gun
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  Speaker 1: on you right now unerneath this table? What I don't?
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  Speaker 1: That'd be weird. What if the pastor keeps a gun
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  Speaker 1: pointed at the people across the table. You sure that's
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  Speaker 1: the right answer. Yeah, that's weird.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weird counseling session.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think the snow so I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: I want, I actually want to say this. So the
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  Speaker 1: guy I want to tell some stories later maybe, But
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  Speaker 1: the guy that's been like my grandfather in publishing, mister
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  Speaker 1: Robert Walkmooth, doctor Robert.
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  Speaker 2: Walkamooth, he's you're publishing grandfather was a weird guy that
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  Speaker 2: got me into He's a mentor.
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  Speaker 1: He's a professional mentor, like a grandfather. Yeah, he passed away.
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  Speaker 1: That's very sad. And he's a legend and.
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  Speaker 2: So beloved, like I've read so many things online about him.
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  Speaker 2: He's so beloved and like, Yes, So now the memorial's
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  Speaker 2: coming up, and they just picked the weekend of all
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  Speaker 2: weekends in South Bend.
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  Speaker 1: It's in South Bend, Indiana, and I'm supposed to fly
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  Speaker 1: out there five My flight on Friday morning out of
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  Speaker 1: Nashville is five thirty am.
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  Speaker 2: The flight, Johnny, though.
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  Speaker 1: They are getting in. I could get in, I'm pretty certain,
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  Speaker 1: but you've got to get out. I sposed to have
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  Speaker 1: been been Atlanta for a volleyball tournament the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and sad he's got a volleyball tournament too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I can barely get in the shorts. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you like I'm worried I won't get out, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when the snow hits. And then if I get into Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: I need to be able to drive my family home
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  Speaker 1: from there. And they're expecting freezing rain all the way
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  Speaker 1: down that south, that far south. So I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: how all of the travel.
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  Speaker 2: Because you've got to go over money, you got to
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  Speaker 2: get back that way. Snowmageddon not good. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: those two Like if you stay put, do you have
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  Speaker 2: a generator? No, all that stuff is happening. You were
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  Speaker 2: losing all that power every year, Like I'm getting a generator.
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  Speaker 1: I borrowed someone's generator for a while, for like over
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  Speaker 1: a year, and then I had to give it back.
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  Speaker 2: These people that you borrow a generation, they want it back.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. Yeah, like this and keepses no
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  Speaker 1: I need one. I really would be the guy that would,
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  Speaker 1: if ever, there was a financial moment to do so,
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  Speaker 1: which that moment has not. Yeah, made itself.
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  Speaker 2: What does the generator costs? Five six grand?
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  Speaker 1: What are they generate? Well? No, if you want like
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  Speaker 1: the generack that.
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  Speaker 2: Does the whole ones that save it into your yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's what don't want to I'm talking about just like
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  Speaker 2: put gas in it, it'll run some stuff. Six hundred
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  Speaker 2: bucks foweah. But if you want one that runs your
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  Speaker 2: whole house, you probably need it's like seven. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: want the one that everything with a guy down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Every time all electricity goes out, you can hear it
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  Speaker 1: running and you can look out like a beacon of light.
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  Speaker 1: The whole neighborhood's dark, and this one guy's house is
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  Speaker 1: lit up like the fourth of July.
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  Speaker 2: You're just having Thanksgiving dinner.
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  Speaker 1: You're just sitting down on his deck, just drinking mint tulips,
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  Speaker 1: smoking a sig, just like, what are you doing? Fools?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe the guy sent all that. Yeah, actually
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  Speaker 1: it's really nice. He probably would invite us over if
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  Speaker 1: we need help.
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  Speaker 2: But see if you can just run a cable over,
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  Speaker 2: run an extension before.
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  Speaker 1: Just going to like the outside of his house and
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  Speaker 1: find a.
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  Speaker 2: People used to steal? Did you ever? Did your family ever?
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  Speaker 2: We were a family ever guilty of stealing a little
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  Speaker 2: cable from the neighbors? You ever do that.
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  Speaker 1: Between two churches wouldn't have worked.
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  Speaker 2: The church stole? Wow? Were you no? But I remember
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  Speaker 2: running your hesitancy? No, but I remember we would have
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  Speaker 2: like cable and then you wouldn't want to hire the
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  Speaker 2: cable got to come out and like run it room
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  Speaker 2: to room to room. So we just had cables running
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  Speaker 2: all over the house with the adapters. So of the
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  Speaker 2: time it gets to my room, it's like it weakens
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  Speaker 2: it somehow, like it's coax is not No, yeah, co acts?
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  Speaker 2: Remember co acts?
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's all Ethernet and Cat five and yeah, fiber
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  Speaker 2: Cat seven. I don't know what they have.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. Yeah, but those were the days I stole. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they would and then scramble all the channels,
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  Speaker 2: the pay channels that you couldn't get. You know, you'd
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  Speaker 2: see yeah, you know, you'd be like, I want to
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  Speaker 2: watch back to the future, but you can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't. You can't go back to the future.
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  Speaker 2: No, you really can.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to. We were home for the Martin Luther
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  Speaker 1: King Weekend long weekend, you know, yeah, which is rare.
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  Speaker 1: We usually play volleyball, but we didn't have a tournament
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  Speaker 1: that weekend. And say it was like, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you want to watch some TV? And she's like yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, ooh, this could be Can I have
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  Speaker 1: there's a list of movies I want her to watch
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  Speaker 1: before she graduates. Okay, we've only in one of them,
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  Speaker 1: which was Forrest Gump.
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  Speaker 2: You made your daughter watch for us.
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  Speaker 1: She loved it? Did she she really got into it?
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  Speaker 2: Did she understand that when they put Forrest down these
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  Speaker 2: history moments? Did she recognize any of those moments or
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  Speaker 2: was she like, oh, he should she gets with the.
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  Speaker 1: President's kind of a history nerd a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in a good way like her dad. Yeah, she does.
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  Speaker 1: She loves history.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: But I would stop it and go, okay, just so
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  Speaker 1: you know what the water gets.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, you stopped the movie and did all these
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  Speaker 2: teachable moments?
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  Speaker 1: No, not a bunch. But like she she'll ask, she'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, okay, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Watching a movie if you's got to be exhausted that
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  Speaker 2: everyone loves it? Do you ever have? Do you ever?
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  Speaker 2: There are friends who I go to movies with. And
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  Speaker 2: it's been a while because you know, movies have become
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  Speaker 2: less of a thing as far as going to movies
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  Speaker 2: in theaters. It's so expensive now that's part of it,
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  Speaker 2: and everything just comes out on streaming. But I have
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  Speaker 2: friends who you go I love this person, and they're
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  Speaker 2: not the best movie person because they they're just so
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  Speaker 2: big in the you know what I'm saying, Like they
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  Speaker 2: have a big personality. They laugh way too much for
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  Speaker 2: like we're in public. You would never Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: They never want people who laugh real big well or
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  Speaker 1: they have like you disgusted me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I'll give you an example. My brother, who
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  Speaker 2: I love, I used to always get mad at him
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  Speaker 2: because he doesn't have an inside voice. Yeah, so he'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, you still have those junior men's. You're like,
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  Speaker 2: we're in a room of people, Hey, can I get
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  Speaker 2: some of that? You're like, dude, hey, why the guy
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  Speaker 2: kill that guy? You're like, hey, that's my dad. My
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  Speaker 2: dad he whisper we're in public. That's not real blood
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, like.
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  Speaker 1: Loud.
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  Speaker 2: But he I think I got to him because, like,
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  Speaker 2: we watched a movie the other day over the holiday
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  Speaker 2: and we went to the movies. We saw The New
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  Speaker 2: Running Man, which is very well, it's a very it's
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  Speaker 2: very well made. It's a very good adaptation of The Ringman.
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: You don't miss Arnold at all, really, yeah, you don't
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  Speaker 2: miss him. But he I noticed I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's not he's kind of he's toned it down. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, listen, and I'm not acting like I'm
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  Speaker 2: the standard of behavior in movie theaters. No, you're no,
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  Speaker 2: definitely not, although you know I won't go to movies
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  Speaker 2: anymore unless they have recliners. I have, like, I got
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  Speaker 2: my standards. I wanted to. I wanted to feel like
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  Speaker 2: my living room.
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  Speaker 1: It's very boogie.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to Like when I eat at the restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: I go, where's the booth because I want to eat
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  Speaker 2: on a couch.
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  Speaker 1: I laid down on the couch today in Cheddars we
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  Speaker 1: got the big booths. Yeah, I have laid all the
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  Speaker 1: way down. I could have taken a nap, come back
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  Speaker 1: for supper, just be right there.
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  Speaker 2: It was in the supple leather seats. They put me
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  Speaker 2: in a hard to the middle like postures.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want see at the table like a peasant.
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  Speaker 1: I want to sit at the booth like a king.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're gonna if I'm at your movie theater,
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  Speaker 2: I want recliner seats. I want I was in a
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  Speaker 2: movie theater. Uh. I think may have told you this
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  Speaker 2: on the PODCA cast, but this thing had heaters in
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  Speaker 2: the seats.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, they'd have like a massage or too.
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  Speaker 2: They probably make ones with this one didn't have massagers,
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  Speaker 2: but heated seats. Are you kidding me? Fall right asleep?
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  Speaker 2: Then they get to charge you again.
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  Speaker 1: You know we have a heated bed. Yeah, and cool bed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right. You got the fan thing the water
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  Speaker 2: it's water.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so it's called eight Sleep. Not a sponsor,
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  Speaker 1: but I wish they were. It's actually really really cool.
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  Speaker 2: And then you get well, you've already bought your things.
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  Speaker 2: These would be wondering. I would get one.
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  Speaker 1: There's these water capillarias that go through and it's got
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  Speaker 1: a little tank there and and it's smart so like
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  Speaker 1: it'll it'll do it on.
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  Speaker 2: You think it's a smart This thing's gonna cook you
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  Speaker 2: alive one night. You're trusting your whole world.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like I'll put it on ten. You feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're you're you're getting into a dry, warm bath. Like
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  Speaker 1: you're just like, oh it feels and I I'll fall
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  Speaker 1: asleep every night when it's that warm. And if you
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  Speaker 1: get hot, you just turn the negative ten.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you but if you're if you're asleep
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  Speaker 2: and this thing decides to just crank it up.
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  Speaker 1: No, it'll you can set the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, like it.
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  Speaker 1: Really like Laura will wake up real over the years,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: you know, this actually keeps her cool, Like you can
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  Speaker 1: put it on negative.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, once this system perceive you as a.
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  Speaker 1: Threat, that's true, it's become self aware. There's no telling
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  Speaker 1: what can happen. That'd be a weird way.
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  Speaker 2: A human is laying on top of me every night,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sick to that. I'm tired of It's time
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  Speaker 2: to make you into a burrito.
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  Speaker 1: Also, i'd like to take over this world.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be tricky for a capillary bed system.
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  Speaker 1: You know. By the way, I had a fiction idea
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  Speaker 1: the other day. Yeah, should I even say it?
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: No, because people will steal your ideas. We although we've
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: promoted a ton of stuff that we've we've thought up
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: book ideas and movie ideas and we never made them.
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  Speaker 2: So if you feel like it's something that's not worth making,
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  Speaker 2: then sure share away.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'll just hold.
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  Speaker 2: Just know that AI is listening to all of us,
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  Speaker 2: is it. Yeah, it's to that end, John, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's time we hear work from a few of our
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  Speaker 1: Ambide trying to have to jump pretty quickly into because
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: you got volleyball to get to. Yeah, well before I do, though,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say I do. Robert Walgemuth seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven when he passed, And so interestingly enough, i'd written
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  Speaker 1: one book. Well, I'd written seven books unpublished, and I
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  Speaker 1: finally had my first collaboration with Reggie Dabs. Yeah, and we,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: against all odds, got a book deal with Thomas Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: and I went through the whole process and negotiating contracts,
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  Speaker 1: learning how to work with the editors. All this stuff
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  Speaker 1: is a real trial by fire, like I was so excited,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: and also it was really hard to go through. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nobody to represents you or anything, you know, And I
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  Speaker 1: had one agent and it did not go well, not
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  Speaker 1: go well.
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  Speaker 3: And I would love to but I want you if
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  Speaker 3: you were doing you said that I want I'm every
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  Speaker 3: now and again, but no, and so.
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  Speaker 1: It was the story involves you. And so you were
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: beginning to go out with Tim Hawkins, the comedian and Johnny.
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  Speaker 1: If you guys don't know this about Johnny, he never
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  Speaker 1: hoards opportunities. He's a real like if he's going somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: he tries to take as many people with him, and
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  Speaker 1: it's one of my it's one of your greatest attributes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't may if you can blush you
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  Speaker 1: or something. He's very unselfish about those things. He never
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  Speaker 1: likes this, this is mine, like, he just doesn't. So
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  Speaker 1: I hoard possessions, yes, and money. I mean he likes vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird. Yeah, but he Johnny was like, dude, you
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  Speaker 1: got to do Tim's book. And I was like, that'd
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  Speaker 1: be great, and so you set us up a meeting.
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  Speaker 1: We went to Ted's Montana grill and after church one
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  Speaker 1: day and so I met you and Tim and we
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  Speaker 1: hit it off. Tim and I hit it off, and
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, I met his brother who's his
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: manager at the time, and Todd and I hit it off,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's great. I was like, let's go. And so
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  Speaker 1: I got the book verbally and then they come to
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  Speaker 1: me and they say, look, there's this literary agent who's
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  Speaker 1: been trying to sell us for like seven years.
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  Speaker 2: Right, but Tim should do a book. He's a big
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  Speaker 2: Tim fan. Yeah, and he's one of the biggest Christian publishers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah in the world. Yeah, agents, yeah, agents. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, dude. I was like, no, don't do
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  Speaker 1: it because I had a bad agent experience. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need an agent. I can get you to
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Nelson. You don't have to pay you fifteen percent
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: like on all these things. Because I just knew, here
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  Speaker 1: we go again. And so they're like, we're at least
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  Speaker 1: going to go have a lunch with him. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh great. So they went to lunch with him, I
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  Speaker 1: think in California or something near a show that yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was doing, and they called me back like that
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  Speaker 1: same day and the manager was like, Okay, listen, the
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: guy sold us he's the new quarterback, right. We hope
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: that you're the writer, but he'll get to decide.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, you kidding me. So we want your
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: self a call with them and a whole.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Thing, right, So we all you told me this, and
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I was like, well that is it.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: It's over. Yeah, they'll go get a professional who's done
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: a million books. And so I remember having like this
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: sort of spirit whisper moment where I was getting upset
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: and I heard this little whisper like just wait, let's
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: just see what happens. Don't freak out.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: I think that was me.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I think it was Tony saying yeah. And so that
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: phone call was here, and this building was upstairs in
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the conference room, and that phone call with a guy
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: named Robert Olgemuth was the most important phone call of
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: my entire writing career to date, maybe ever. And so
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: he just loved me from the beginning. And he told me,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and this is how I loved about him. He was like, hey,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I get it. You know, I get it. We've been
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: after this guy for seven years. You're the one that
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: got himTo we willing to write a book. Ye, So
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: we hope you're the guy. We're gonna do everything we
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: can in our power to help you be the guy
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: who's like, now, look, you got to be able to write.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: He goes, I've never read anything. I don't know if
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: you could write or not. But we're gonna we're gonna
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: give you the show. We're not trying to take it
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: away from you.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: It was great. I'm so great. And so I wrote
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: the first sample and I sent it to Robert, emailed
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: it one night late, and you guys got to realize
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: that Tim Hawkins book is called Diary of a Jackwagon
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: and it is complete stupidity.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Rights his material.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and it was just the most like you know, abstract,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: weird stuff you can come up with. And so the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: first sample and it's like I'm just writing. It's like
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I'm i'm I'm pulling fingers over here and stuff like.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: It's I'm putting everything I got out there that I mean,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: you f feels very vulnerable. Yeah, to try to impress
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: somebody with your writing saying the stupidest things possible, you know.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: And so I did it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I sent it off and I'll never forget. Like five
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: thirty am, I get this email from Robert Wolganmouth and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: he says, hey, I'm a writer, because the dude's wtten
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: a bunch of best selling books. He goes, I'm a writer.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: To I not, it's like to throw that grenade over
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the wall when you're sending your first sort of submission
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and you're just waiting, You're just waiting to hear what happens.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: He goes, I just want you to know. My wife
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: and I are sitting up in bed laughing hysterically. Well done,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: we'll talk. Everything's good. He gave me this like piece
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and assurance, and he ended up signing me as a
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: writer and as an author and so man. He would
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: bring me so many things and I would never forget Johnny.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: We would be together on trips or whatever, and he
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: was just thinking. It was like a grandfather. And I
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: remember I did Tyler Trent's book, and when he passed away,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: we're at the funeral and we were in Indianapolis together
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and like he just had this like he sat by
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: me the whole funeral and he'd reach over and kind
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: of like squeeze my knee like my grandfather would. He's like, hey,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, son, Like it was a real yeah,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you did so well on this and you honored his
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: life so well. And and just I mean just across
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the border and we get on a call he would say,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and this is a little embarrassing, but he would say, Hey,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: everybody of the calls want you to know I'm the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: president of the John Driver Fan Club. Look, he said
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: at once, he said it a dozen times. He just
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: believed in me, and it was so like empowering. And
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I'm really sad like that Robbers passed. I mean, such
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: a blessing. And I have them still with their agency,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you know. Austin Wilson is my agent, who's a younger guy.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: We've been friends now for a long long time, but
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Robert was the one that brought me in. And so
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just grateful for his legacy. And if that's my
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: little story, I mean there's thousands of stories his life
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: has touched, and so anyway, I just wish the best
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of the family. And he was seventy seven and lived
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a great life and did a lot of good for
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the kingdom. But rest in peace, Robert Walkom with.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I love stuff like that. Yeah, there's a
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: when somebody dies in Jewish culture, there's a thing that
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: people say that I always love and it's made their
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: memory be a blessing.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: And Marty, my buddy, I want my best friends in comedy.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: He had a friend who was like this. Evidently he
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: was just this quiet guy. He was a business guy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know how Marty knew him. Oh, Marty knew
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: him because Marty coached at this private Christian school. Yeah,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and you know, they pay you nothing. Yeah, and Marty's
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: just doing this for peanuts, and so he was gonna
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: have to leave. He was making whatever, nineteen grand a
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: year or something. And so this guy found out that
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: and Marty was coaching maybe one of his kids or something,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and he was just like, what are you leaving for?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: And he was like, I gotta go do this. And
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: then I was like, I'll pay you whatever it would
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: be in the open market to get you. I'll make
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: up the difference.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And so he did it for like years, and so
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: that guy passed. I think he died of cancer. But
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: at the funeral, Marty said that one of the guys
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: that got up and spoken said, how many people in
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: this room had have ever gotten a financial gift out
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: of nowhere from this person? I can't remember his name. Uh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: he goes, you know what, I'll just say, more than
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: five hundred dollars and John, he said. Dozens of people
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: stood up. Wow. It was crazy like that. They didn't
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: know each other. Yeah, he was just that kind of person.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: He was always intervening and always helping and always and
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: never drawn attention to it. I just I don't know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: there's something about that, and I love that and everybody
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: and it's not about money, but everybody can give of
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: themselves in some way, and that's what you hope when
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: you die, you hope I just hope my memories a
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: blessing to people. I hope that I put more good
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: in the world.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, No, Roberts certainly did, and uh that's good stuff.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He'll be missed, he'll be missed. Hey, Johnny, it's time
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: for my segment. Let's do it. Yeah, they call it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: They talked about that this is attributed Johnny. Okay, so
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you know there's a chance he didn't. Really an attribution
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to George Christophe Liechtenburg. Yeah, that's a name, right. Yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: we're talking seventeen hundreds German physicists, satirists, and aphorist.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: They had satirists in the seventeen hundreds. Yeah, people out
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: here satirizing things.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: We can consider one of the finest writers of aphorisms
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: in Western intellectual history. I'm top ten. Just to be honest,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: whether he said this or not, I'm not sure. So
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: if he didn't, I'm gonna take it from himself. All right,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: moving forward, he says, I think it's great for like
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: New Year's everyone is a genius at least once a year.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, I like it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like this idea of whatever we think genius is.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm that guy. I have some idea the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: other day, like, man, we could go make a product
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: right now right that would do this, And I just
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: those ideas don't don't come together close enough for me
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to do anything with it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, are like one that builds on the other, that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: builds on the other, and then you refine the idea, right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So I like the idea that there is a way.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think what I want in life is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: to be somebody who's prolific enough to see my ideas
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: come closer together. Yeah, creativity is a funny. It's a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: funny thing. You can't just conjure, right, And you and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I talk about that all the time, the whole quality
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: versus quantity idea. Can you can you consistently produce something
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that you do it long enough? Now? I know we
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: reference that study that the real creatives are the one
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: that that that they do it so consistently. They're not
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: expecting it all to be good, but it over time
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: produces that. But the idea that your ideas could be
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: closer together, and I think not just creatively, I think
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the real geniuses are the ones who are just engaging
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: life more consistently, like I'm engaging in my craft or
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I'm engaging in my work in a way that I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: expect good things to happen back to back, as opposed
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to just sitting around waiting for the one good idea.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I'm just waiting on the one from you. I just
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: need one. Can you give me one good idea and
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: then we'll talk about stacking.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: You're right, I gotta get one under my belt.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'm kidding around. You got a lot of good ideas, John,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Let's do myself? Is there some old jokes today? Call
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: it joke about that John. A tourist is picked up
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: by a cabby in New York on a dark night.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Passenger taps the driver on the shoulder to ask them something.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: The driver screams, control of the car and nearly hits
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: a bus, drives up the sidewalk and stops inches from
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a shop window. For a second, everything went quiet in
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the cab. Then the driver says, look, friend, don't ever
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: do that again. You scared the daylights out of me.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: The passenger apologizes, says he didn't realize that a little
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: tap could scare him so much. Driver, after gathering himself together,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: says Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today's my first
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: day as a cab driver. I've been driving, her says
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: for the last twenty five years. Yeah, John, my wife
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: asked me to pass the lip balm. I accidentally gave
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: her a tube of superglue. She still isn't talking to me,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and finally, John, Finally John. An army commander is briefing
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a paratrooper before a mission. Once you hit the right altitude,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you pull this handle that opens your main parachute. If
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: it doesn't deploy, pull this one for the reserve. In
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the unlikely event that the reserve fails to you reach
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: all the way back and yank this cord that's the
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: emergency reserve. Then he points at a map. You land
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: right here under that tree. There will be a motorcycle.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You hop on, ride to the rendezvous point. Our people
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: on the ground will meet you. Paratrooper nods, salutes, jumps.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: He pulls the main shoot nothing, pulls the reserve nothing.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: He reaches back against the emergency cord. Nothing. As he
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: plummets towards the ground, he sighs and mutters, let me
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: guess the motorcycles probably not going to start either, is it?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: These poor dead paratroopers. Oh my goodness, our heart goes
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: out to them. John. Let's do this week in history.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: We call it talk about then, John. This week nineteen
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: eighty US President Jimmy Carter announced that the US would
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics in response to the Soviet
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: invasion of Afghanistan. Now, how old were you?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: What?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Year seven, nineteen eighty? I was well one, you're one
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: years old? Yeah, But have you seen anything about because
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: it's interesting when you know politics, because it's you know,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: we're all coming together as countries, but politics play a
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: role if some of these countries are at war or
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: there's some sanctions happening. These countries just played politics and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: they go, we're not sending our athletes. It had happened
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a few times in our lifetime. Eighty four is the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: biggest example, when the Soviet bloc countries boycotted the eighty
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: four Olympics. And it's literally they've done documentars about it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: There was a documentary and I was a kid called
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: sixteen Days of Glory, and it was about all the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: US goals. Well, a lot of those goals were because
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: they were in sports that Soviet countries usually dominated US
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: in but now we had this wide berth to do whatever.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: So you had Karl Lewis had all these guys. Now
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: we had great athletes, but you don't know, it's not
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a very level playing field. When you had like every
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Soviet country boycott.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You take the other major world superpower out.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so we boycotted an eighty because of the Afghanistan,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the war in Afghanistan. And there are a few stories
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: about that. I can't remember exactly. There was somebody who
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: was it. I can't remember if it was Randy Savage,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the wrestler, I can't remember. There was somebody who was
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: going to go represent the country and like their whole
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Olympic because you trained for four years, Yeah, in total
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: obscurity for this moment, and then the president goes, we're
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: not going, and then you go, are you kidding me?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, as an athlete, it's got to be wild. Yeah,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But I mean I know that's happened, and it's I mean,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: there's reasons behind all this stuff, and I get it,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: but it's got to be strange. The idea of Olympic athletes,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: it's such a cool thing. And that's when you really
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: feel that because you're like, I don't think about I'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: a patriotic person, but I also think borders are kind
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of arbitrary in some ways. We're learning a lot about
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: that now. But it's like this idea that like when
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: that comes along, you do you find yourself being like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: we are the greatest country. I just you're voting for
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: you know, you're rooting for them so hard and you
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: know it, but I weep for you. See these stories
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: they do, all these backstories in all these athletes. It
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it's from Belarus. Yeah, you're still like,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it's still a great story.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: No, I love it. I love the again. The sacrifices
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: is hard to I think express the fullness of it,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Like you said, the amount.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I think it's so great that it still happens. In
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the age of social media, you still have people are
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: willing to be like, Yeah, I'm gonna go do this
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: out of love for my country or love for this
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: whatever this thing is, even though I'll be lucky if
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: this ever makes me a dime. It's just about this
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: moment and then you've got to show up and go up.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: You got to do it. Yeah, when the lights are brightest,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: it's such a strange thing. Now we have a Winter
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Olympics coming up. Are you the Winter Olympics person?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll watch it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big hockey person and I know that. Yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's offensive to a lot of it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And even make those goals worth seven I think that
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: would do it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, or I don't know. I don't know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: It's hard to follow that puck. It is, and we're
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: very sound sound day. Lots of people love their hockey.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: They do, these hockey people.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I just yeah, I don't know. Speaking of winter, John,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: speaking of what we're getting ready to go through here
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: with the Snowmageddon. The lowest recorded temperature in the continental
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: US happened this week nineteen fifty four. It was in
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Rogers Past, Montana, which dipped to a negative sixty nine
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: point seven degrees fahrenheit. Wow, almost seventy degrees below zero. Wow.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: That's like that's getting even at.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: The they showed the playoff game in New England or whatever,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: and people are going out and they're you know, the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Rams were playing. Isn't the no the Rams play? I
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: can't remember who the Rams played? Who did the Rams play? Anyway,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: they're playing in cold and the whole talk was like
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: can they come here and win a game the Bears.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: So they're playing in Chicago's like nine degrees or whatever,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: and people are showing they have short sleeves on. I'm
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: thinking that's a thing where you're you could get frostbite, right,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: wouldn't you think? They kept bringing coats out and during
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the time that's they were bringing those gigantic coats out
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: and draping them over.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: The fires, like the Walter Payton Man of the Year thing. Yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: now I remember, uh was it Cochrane? Was that his name?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: The coach for the Giants years ago, Tom Cochran And
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: he was an older guy and I swear to you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: he had false frostbite on his face. Oh yeah, he
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: had the reddest like his fall No oh yeah, like
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: oh not good. I mean you could just like, dude,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: cover up me.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Wellther, yeah, you're And it won't be long. All these
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: places are going to build domes and then we're just
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: not going to have Yeah, Like they have that great
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: NFL film shot of the throw in New England where
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: it's you see the snow and they perfectly followed the
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: ball without it losing focus and it lands in the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: arms of the guy in the inside. I was like,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: this is like a shot for the ages. It'll all
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: go away soon, like all these plays, even Tennessee, we
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: don't have that cold of a winner. We're building a dome,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: we're building a controlled environment because it makes a better
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: experience for your fans. But also you take for a
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl too well, and you take, but you take
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: away that experience of like that home field advantage of.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Like don't come up here, they'll come to Green Bay.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: You better be ready for what we got. So yeah,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: you wonder. But although when we saw that Tennessee Vall's
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: season opener in the controlled it was pretty awesome. The
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Mercedes been Stadium in Atlanta, it's pretty good.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: We were living it up.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That was pretty good. Seventy degrees. You're just like, this
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: is nice.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: That was real nice.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But our heart goes out to the people of
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Rogers Past Montana. Hopefully it be warmer there, but we're
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: getting ready to have a little We're gonna rival Montana.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: John this week nineteen sixty one. I did not know
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: this story, and I want to see if you know
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: because you're a US history guy. Did you know in
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty one, two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina?
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Have you ever even heard of this story? Listen to this.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Two three to four megaton nuclear bombs are accidentally dropped
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: when a us B fifty two bomber crashed near Goldsboro,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: North Carolina. The bomber had developed a fuel leak and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the pilot was unable to maintain control. As they approached
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the landing field and the plane began breaking up. The
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: pilot ordered the crew to eject at nine thousand feet,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: which is wild because you know you got bombs on there,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: you're like get out. Three crewmen died and five survived
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: the accident. The two three to four megaton Mark thirty
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: nine thermonuclear bombs separated from the aircraft as it broke
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: up between one thousand and two thousand feet. Each bomb
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: had more than two hundred and fifty times the yield
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima Holy Cow. The safety
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: devices prevented the bombs from detonating. Had either detonated, each
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: bomb's yield was large enough to create a one hundred
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: percent kill zone within a radius of eight miles Wow. Goldsborough,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, And I've done a show in Goldsborough. Wow.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: And that's why the think like, that's the thing. You
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: start playing around with this stuff. You're like, yeah, you're
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: doing an exercise or whatever, and you're and then a
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: plane has problems and now you you just dropped atomic
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: bomb or a I'm just glad there's safety devices that
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: are Yeah, that's important.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: And this was that reminds me of like that old
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: thing when you were in school where you had to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: have the egg that you dropped off of the two
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: story building or whatever without a breaking.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, you had to build the device.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: You mighty built a really special non egg crate for that,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and well done, whoever you were engineer, I guess yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: John. This week eighteen forty eight, gold is discovered and
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: then var Hills on John Sutter's mill by James Marshall,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: starting the California gold Rush. In eighteen forty eight, over
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: three hundred thousand people known as forty nine Ers named
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: for the year eighteen forty nine would go to California
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to seek their fortune. I think we're kind of seeing
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: some of this now with technology with AI and crypto. Yeah,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: people are kind of it's like, I don't want to
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: say it's money for nothing, but it's speculative. It's very
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: like we think this is going to be the dominating
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: currency in the future with crypto, or we think that
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: AI is going to be like right now. Somebody is
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: telling me the other day that like they're having to
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: move their four OW and K around because this is
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: kind of like in the Weeds talk of financial stuff.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: But they were talking about how normally you just follow
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the market, you do an index fund. It's like whatever
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the market is is good, so we just trust it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: But so much of the index funds now are getting
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: to be AI based that he goes, I'm feel uncomfortable
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: having that much of mine now.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: It's going to pop, and so like.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: We don't know if it's a bubble or not. It's
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: so speculative, and I think that's the closest thing we
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: have to what a gold rush is, because it's a
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: lot of people that go like, I don't want to
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: work as hard for this. I just want to I
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: want to win the bet that this is the right
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: thing to put your money in. So I'll just go
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: to California and I'll just take a pickaxe and just
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: see if I can hit whatever. It's kind of the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: same thing. We don't know. Like if you ask somebody
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to explain bitcoin to you, a lot of people that
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: have bitcoin could not explain it to you. They don't
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: understand the blockchain. I don't understand the But that's odd
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: that you would have that much of your finances and
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: your family's finances wrapped up and suddy, but you cannot
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: even explain to me, like I'm five.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: No, it was interesting the Civil War biography that I'm writing.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Two of his sons ended up out West in different places.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I think, one with a silver mine, okay, later this
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: is like eighteen seventies, eighteen eighties, and then another I
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: think was a gold mine. And then another was known
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: as because his last name was driver. Another was in Utah,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: and when he died his he was known as natural
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: gas driver.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: And that's that's what your family calls you.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Like I've never read this anywhere.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: The natural game day. You're the main guy. Natural gas
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: in the living room, Natural natural gas drivers. Why chili again?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, John this week nineteen seventy five. Finally
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Hungarian inventor. Uh what's his name?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Erno? Erno? Rubik files for a Hungarian patent four the
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Rubik's Cube, Oh Rubik, Yeah, which has and this is
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: wild the number because you know you see these numbers
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: sometimes and were used to see him billions and trillions.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Now Rubik's cube has this many possible combinations. You want
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: to take a guess, No, forty three quintillion, No way,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: possibilities that's in the cube. The first batch was exported
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: from Hungary in May of nineteen eighty and quickly became
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: one of the most recognized icons in popular culture and
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: the world's best selling puzzle. Wow, isn't that cool? That
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: was the Rubics Cube. Did you have a Rub's Cube
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: in you're yeah, of course.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I found that those things come apart pretty quick.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's easier if you take on.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: You can solve it through cheating, right, or color in
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the stickers to move the stickers around.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's all kinds of Now, I never saw the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Rubic's Cube. I think I had a cousin who did,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: who knew how to do it, you know. Yeah, you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: once you have like your own method.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Stephen Bargatzi, Nate's dad opens for him sometimes and I
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: was with him one time. In New Jersey. And I
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: may have told this on the pod before, but he
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: did the street. He's very interesting guy because Stephen's kind
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: of snarky and mean, but he's very He'll cry and
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: he'll he makes people laugh and cry. But he had
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: a trick and he was talking about what this moment
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: has meant to the Barghatzy family, and he goes, you
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: guys did all that, and he gets weepy about it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: But he's doing this trick where he takes a Rubik's
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: cube and he messes it all up and then he
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: puts it in this bag and then puts it under
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: like a glass dome or something. Basically it's out of
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: harm's way, and then he does the whole thing and
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: then he basically pulls it out and it's supposed to
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: be solved or whatever. And I think there's another cube
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: somewhere else that he's doing something else with and he
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: just he's messing with the one in his hand, but
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: he's got this one over here that's scrambled and he's
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: messing with it, and you think they're going to be matched.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: He's going to solve this one and this one will
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: be solved too, and it wasn't that he pulls up,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to mess the whole bit up. But basically
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: he pulls up the thing and it's messed up in
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the exact same way, so it's as good as being solved.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: But it's like basically he goes, huh, I didn't get it,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: and then he pulls the one out and it's exactly
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: and so he's basically he's making the point of like
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: we're all broken, but we're all the same well, and
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: it's kind of this beautiful point to be made. It's like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you don't have to be solved, you don't have to
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: be perfect. I like to be and that's what comedy is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: You're kind of exposing those cracks and the little foibles
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: and stuff, and that's what makes it good. And so
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: his whole point of the whole trick, But it's kind
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: of like this gas the crowd gasps. It's kind of
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: like you're breaking the whatever the light stick and h
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: sermy illustration. But it's a that's what a good magic
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: trick is. It's just a good sermon illustration steroids. You know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: you just kind of like add like a little moral
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: to it, and you know, isn't it just like our
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: lives are Wes Cube.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Just stretch your hands towards the cube.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Some of us cheat Johnny scramble out of the service.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: But anyway, Stephen Bargatsy, look up Steven Bargatsey if you
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: get a chance. He's amazing, really good dude and in
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: his own right, great comic and great magician. Yeah he does.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Nate can't do magic. Nate's selling all these tickets, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: can Nate do magic? Now you know who hand his dad.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I'm going out with Nate this weekend.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And I'm really sad because I'll be
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: not able to.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Get to do Uh. This is a bucket list. One
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Thompson Bowling Arena, Ye, Knoxville, Tennessee, where we grew up,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: going to see all the games. And I was just
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: thinking to do a little comedy there in front of oh,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know, nineteen thousand people.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable you like that? Oh tba.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of them are there for me.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe a handful that know me that are
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: like that. I'm saying, like, you know, I'm gonna do
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: the best I can, though you're gonna do. I'm gonna
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: give my all for Tennessee.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: That's right on.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: So you got to get in this and that's assuming
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: that if you hit the sign. That's assuming that the
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: snowmageddon doesn't take out the show. I hope for the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: best there.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, interesting, I wish I could be there. I'm sorry. Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, volleyb you've major. Sometimes sports can become
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: an idol to people, is what I've always heard.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's if it is an idol, it doesn't do
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: anything for me, Like it only takes you know what
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: You think, Yeah, it's doing something I don't because you
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: get excited. You got great volleyball tournament. You get excited.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I get excited to watch my kid play. Yeah, but
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: the whole process is not right. Hey.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: But by the way, Johnny, you know, we had quite
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a few people reach out. Oh and I wanted to
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: read one of her emails. Oh okay, sure, Elizabeth Hernandez, Hey,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: John and Johnny. I love the podcast.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is great.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Have listened to every episode, guys, come on, that's three
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety episodes. Uh, y'all are most y'all are
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: my most listened to pod of twenty twenty five since
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: when I'm caught up in my weekly pods, I re
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: listened to the old episodes to talk about that, like
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth gets it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you want to do?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: In the background as I go about my day today,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I started the beginning of twenty twenty five and the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: saga of the parking lot Beanie. I don't know what
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: episode that was, but this was last year.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Oh when you found a beanie and decided it's rather
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: than go buy a new beanie, which you watch start
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: wearing a weird, old lice ridden beanie.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: We washed it and we ended updown the pod. Did
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: John lose it? Or did the legendary beanie make it
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: to another winter? And Johnny the answer is I still
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: have it. It's in my bag. Yeah, it's in my
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: bag right over there. Thanks for the conversations and lightharder
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: banter they'll bring weekly. Can't wait for another year of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the train of Bantertown. Thank you Elizabeth and everyone else's
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: email us. We appreciate it.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: We also heard from call It Groves, a long time listener,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: who reminded it who she was correcting us. She was begrudgingly.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: She's like not to be that person. But because we
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: were kind of saying, I didn't know if Winnie the
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Pooh with Disney, because I.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Think what you said was Winnie the Pooh's not Disney.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I just said, I see you backing it up now,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: but I think.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: You should know. You're a dad, like you should have me.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: But you should have.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: You said the thing, and then you're on me for
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: not correcting it. And I was of self reflection quite clearly.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Winnie the Pooh is Disney. Yeah, we all know that.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Was it originally Disney or was it bought by Disney later?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: There's no way and it doesn't matter.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: The point is it's Disney, and we should have known.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: We have failed, and that's why we are ending the show. Yeah,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: it's it's time to sunset.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Ninety was a good number.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we want a nice round number.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Everyone names for three ninety. You should check out our
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: past episodes, all three and ninety out of them. Where
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: couldy go?
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Johnny talk about that podcast dot com?
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• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, by the wise guys, thanks for all the time
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: you games this week. It was a lot of fun.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Let's do it again next week. Here I'll talk about that.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: They know that as a rival routes butting, but ever
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a bat that lads a something