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Speaker 2: Today, I'll talk about that John finally gets into reading

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Speaker 2: fiction but hates it when the movie ends different than

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Speaker 2: the book. Meanwhile, I get a random VENMO from a

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Speaker 2: listener who's trying to keep me out of jail, and

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Speaker 2: tell you the story of the time left handed polo

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Speaker 2: players got banned. Plus of conversation about vices, neighbors, and

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Speaker 2: the advantages of failing in private. Today's episode is not

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Speaker 2: sponsored by New Year's Resolutions. Start off the year the

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Speaker 2: right way with empty promises, but first a word from

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Speaker 3: It's a coming up on New Year edition.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm John here with Johnny Johnny. Another year has passed

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Speaker 3: and here we are.

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Speaker 1: It'll be New Year's when this comes out.

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Speaker 3: I mean, unless you get your stuff done faster, that's true,

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Speaker 3: could be New Year's Eve. There was a I was

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Speaker 3: getting jokes together for joke about that, and one that

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Speaker 3: I didn't use was what do you call someone who

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Speaker 3: knows all the words to old lang Seyn?

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Speaker 1: What a liar? It's true because nobody everybody's kind of

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Speaker 1: hell yeah, you just it's very nobody knows all the words.

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Speaker 1: They just know. That never brought to mind.

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Speaker 3: That's not even the part I know old acquaintance be forgotten.

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Speaker 3: That's the part I know, which how many old acquaintances

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Speaker 1: So many? Yeah? And do you reconnect at New Year's

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Speaker 1: that's what you do. All you'd be like, hey, I

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Speaker 3: I watched that scene from when Harry met Sally the

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Speaker 3: New Year's party when he goes into.

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Speaker 2: There's maybe not a better last little monologue in a film,

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Speaker 2: yeah than that. You know, we just lost Rob Ryan

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Speaker 2: or senseless tragedy. But uh, I think that's close to

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Speaker 2: a perfect movie. It is. It's just so great.

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Speaker 3: It's so well proportioned throughout time. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: Like they you don't get I was, I was telling

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Speaker 1: There's a movie.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna ruin it.

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Speaker 1: There's a movie watched.

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Speaker 3: It's a that is a adaptation from one of my

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Speaker 1: And also know its a novel. Yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: Well there are fiction books that aren't novels, aren't there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, is it always a novel if it's

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Speaker 1: Well, no, you could have like a like I don't

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Speaker 2: There used to be a question that better to write

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Speaker 2: I think that's something that people who have no sales, right,

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Speaker 3: Because I mean to say, well, she hasn't said it

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Speaker 3: It is a tale of so that the Duke de Orleon,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true. It was telling

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Speaker 1: This is your French history class, and it's by Netflix.

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Speaker 3: When you do a world history class, it's like we're

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Speaker 2: I still remember a lot of my world history stuff though,

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Speaker 3: In what It always fascinates me about history, and I

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Speaker 3: But in the end, like history can't be told in

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Speaker 2: It's their closeness to money. Like that's things like history

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Speaker 2: This is why I'm trying to get as much money

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Speaker 2: to be able to control the narrative about me.

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Speaker 3: It's totally much more deemable reason, absolutely than just wanting.

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Speaker 2: Riches for riches to That ends, John, before we go

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Speaker 2: to the break narrative. Because listen, I got a random

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Speaker 2: venmo today related to past episodes of the show. Somebody

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Speaker 2: someone has been binging because I got a venmo today

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Speaker 2: from hold On, let me find it Andrew Fellman want

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Speaker 3: And Andrew came here one day, exced Andrew Filman paid me

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Speaker 1: The memo on the venmo was hot dogs from Kroger.

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Speaker 3: We're back, Johnny. Yes, I mean it's that time of

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Speaker 1: Oh? Boy? Uh, you're you're you're going to wait and

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Speaker 1: They call it. They talked about that Benjamin Franklin. Okay, wich,

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Speaker 3: Like, it's like, I agree to go to Disneyland with her.

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Speaker 2: I think you think of yourself as someone who you know,

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Speaker 1: You need to be improving yourself.

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Speaker 2: You need to be Yeah, so like you always want

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, even if you're just helping yourself to escape

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Speaker 3: see you next year. This time, Benjamin Franklin said, be

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Speaker 3: it war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,

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Speaker 3: I think this was in his Poor Richard's Almanac.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think about therapy, language and all the things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think naming then also like, I'm not

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Speaker 3: If they make a mistake, it can be memorialized forever

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Speaker 1: Now that is true. I think that that will be studied.

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Speaker 2: That idea of like, yeah, you don't get you don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I've thought about that a lot

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Speaker 2: But I'm still under the radar enough. Even now, I'm

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Speaker 2: While I was able to craft something for years and

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Speaker 3: it's what bankrupt the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Jonah movie or whatever, which I thought was great.

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Speaker 3: But movie can be great and still lose millions because

443
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Speaker 3: it's a it's a big gamble no matter what the stake,

444
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Speaker 3: And so you just go. I don't know if you

445
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Speaker 3: ever want to get to the play. We all want

446
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Speaker 3: that place where someone says it's time to take the

447
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Speaker 3: big jump in the big and you go, Or can

448
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Speaker 3: I consistently do something that I that's good for others,

449
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Speaker 3: that's good art.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think the Eugene Peterson thing about like

451
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Speaker 2: small steps in the same direction.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like his whole his whole process was just.

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Speaker 2: Like incrementally, I'm going towards the path that I know

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Speaker 2: that I should be on.

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Speaker 3: You know, Andy Stanley, who just announced his retirement, will

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Speaker 3: be coming from what I hear M. You know, one

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Speaker 3: of my favorite books he ever wrote was called The

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Speaker 3: Principle of the.

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Speaker 1: Path yea yea yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: And basically it's so super simple is that you're not

461
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Speaker 3: looking for a path. You're on one, and every every

462
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Speaker 3: path that you're on has a destination. If I get

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Speaker 3: on I forty east, like I will today to go

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Speaker 3: to Knoxville to go watch a basketball game. If I go,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if I go slow, fast, As long

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Speaker 3: as I'm on that road going east, I will eventually

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Speaker 3: run into Knoxville. And that is so like someone that

468
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Speaker 3: the day was talking about relationship, they were, you know,

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Speaker 3: thinking about getting back into or whatever. I was like,

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Speaker 3: you know, where that path leads you've been on it before,

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Speaker 3: so decide if that's the destination. Don't jact like I

472
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Speaker 3: let it get on this and see what happens. You

473
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Speaker 3: know what happens, right, it goes. And I think that's

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Speaker 3: the whole idea of the New Year's And I actually

475
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Speaker 3: am not an anti New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 1: Guy. I didn't even think I have a word for

477
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Speaker 1: the year, which I.

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Speaker 3: Never have those. But I really feel like I have

479
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Speaker 3: a word I'm supposed to have for the year.

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Speaker 1: Which is you going to tell me?

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Speaker 3: It's contentment? I think I really struggle with with you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: contentment being present in the moment, you know, not thinking

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Speaker 3: about what to fix or what.

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Speaker 1: How did you get this word? You just figured it out?

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Speaker 1: I was I was dropped in your spirit. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was one of those kind of God things like

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Speaker 3: it's correction. It's again to be it worth advice of

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Speaker 3: the fact that I can't be present.

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Speaker 2: What is it godliness with contentment or contentment with godliness?

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Speaker 2: Godliness with contentment is great.

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Speaker 3: Gain yep, yeah, yeah, it's good because you know, there's

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Speaker 3: two ways to be rich, right, There's there's the to

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Speaker 3: have more or less, right, yeah, and needing less is

494
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Speaker 3: the that's true contented path.

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Speaker 1: That's tough. Yeah, it's a tricky one.

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Speaker 3: So what I need is I need our listeners to

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Speaker 3: give less to Patreon because I.

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Speaker 1: Don't think they Yeah, I don't think they could get

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Speaker 1: if you are a patron support. We love you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for Yeah, you make the show go. Well,

501
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Speaker 1: we make the show. You helped the show.

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Speaker 2: You you supplement with your three dollars and fifty cents

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Speaker 2: at a time venmos, which we so appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 3: If we weren't your good friends, there's no way we

505
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Speaker 3: could speak this candidly in a funny.

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Speaker 1: Way about love you. Yeah, we love you.

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Speaker 3: So we do this to please This year we will.

508
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Speaker 1: Become we'll find ourselves a better man. Yeah, I'm not accounting.

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Speaker 2: Franklin said, Yeah, we're gonna be at war with our vices,

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Speaker 2: at peace with our neighbors. Yeah, and let everybody being

511
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Speaker 2: a peace with your neighbors is tougher than it sounds like.

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Speaker 1: That's so easy to say, And man, that's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 3: And but just so you know, Benjamin Franklin may have

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Speaker 3: said that, but what happened was is we also went

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Speaker 3: to war with England. So he said this and then

517
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Speaker 3: turned around and went to war with He was like,

518
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Speaker 3: well not them, not it right?

519
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Speaker 1: Oh well, Benjamin Frank, what is this deal?

520
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Speaker 3: He's always wearing a ponytail, says all these weird things.

521
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Speaker 1: Hangs out in France a long time. Do you have

522
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Speaker 1: a ribbon with the ponytail? Do you want? Itzo? That

523
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Speaker 1: was your childhood photo for school.

524
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Speaker 3: You know what's weird about the whole Marie Antoinette French

525
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Speaker 3: Revolution story, and this really does got me. It's a

526
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Speaker 3: little bit in the Hamilton is that they're the reason.

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Speaker 3: The reason that the French Revolution happened from the bankruptcy

528
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Speaker 3: of the government was the American Revolution that they helped

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Speaker 3: pay for. And then when they had a revolution, we

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Speaker 3: just sat back and watched. Man, We're like, sorry about that.

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Speaker 3: We're too young to get involved. And that was really

532
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Speaker 3: probably true, but yeah, we kind of just like that home.

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Speaker 3: Sorry about your gia teens.

534
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Speaker 1: But uh, you're bumming me out. Yeah, john Let's lift

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Speaker 1: up the spirits of people with my segments. Let's start

536
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Speaker 1: with Johnny's old jokes. We call it joke about that.

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Speaker 2: Johnn sixty five year old woman has a heart attack

538
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Speaker 2: and is rushed to the hospital. While on the I

539
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Speaker 2: See You, she has a near death experience where she

540
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Speaker 2: sees God, Oh my God, is my time up? No,

541
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Speaker 2: you have another thirty three years, two months, and eight

542
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Speaker 2: days to live. So the woman recovers contemplates her experience.

543
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Speaker 2: She figures that since she has so much more time

544
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Speaker 2: left to live, she might as well go all out

545
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Speaker 2: and make the most of it. So she's had to

546
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Speaker 2: stay in the hospital, have a complete makeover the works, facelift, tummy,

547
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Speaker 2: to a calyposuction, et cetera. She even has someone come

548
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Speaker 2: in to bleach her teeth, color her hair, give her

549
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Speaker 2: a new hairstyle. After the last procedure, she's released from

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Speaker 2: the hospital, but while crossing the street, she's struck by

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Speaker 2: an ambulance and killed. Arriving in front in front of God,

552
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Speaker 2: she yells, what's going on? You told me I had

553
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Speaker 2: another thirty three years. God replies, sorry, I didn't recognize you.

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Speaker 1: Oh Man. Yeah. I don't know if it's theologically sound,

555
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Speaker 1: but it's a funny. Funny.

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Speaker 3: Tell you all the places this joke falls.

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Speaker 1: John.

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Speaker 2: In college, I took a job at a toy factory

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Speaker 2: where we made little plastic Dracula figurines. There are only

560
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Speaker 2: two of us on the line, so I had to

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Speaker 2: make every second count. That's really kind of a dad joke,

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Speaker 2: but it's still funny to me. When I read it,

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Speaker 2: it made me laugh.

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Speaker 3: Those are my favorite come on, good stuff. I know

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Speaker 3: it's a low form of comedy. Johnny and we're not

566
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Speaker 3: all like Johnny, but I like we're all like Johnny.

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Speaker 3: I've decided a famous lawyer, John is hit by a bus,

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Speaker 3: and this is a lot of people hit hit by

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Speaker 3: buss and dying. Famous lawyers hit by a bus and dies.

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Speaker 3: He opened his eyes to find himself standing before the

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Speaker 3: pearly gates. There are thousands of people cheering. There are

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Speaker 3: streamers in a huge bandit that says welcome Frank. There's

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Speaker 3: a band of angels playing upbeat music. Jesus and Saint

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Speaker 3: Peter are waiting and run up to shake his hand.

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Speaker 3: A little shell shocked from his recent death in the hubbub,

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Speaker 3: Frank looks at Peter and says, why am I getting

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Speaker 3: such amazing reception?

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Speaker 2: Is it always like this? Peter exclaims, no, not at all.

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Speaker 2: You're just the oldest person we've ever welcomed. Into heaven.

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Speaker 2: Frank blinkson says, no one over fifty three has ever

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Speaker 2: entered heaven. Saint Peter and Jesus look at each other

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Speaker 2: for a moment. Confused, Peter looks back and pulls out

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Speaker 2: a scroll and starts skimming it. Wait a moment, he says,

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Speaker 2: fifty three. Our records say you're two hundred and six.

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Speaker 2: Frank is ask how do you figure that? Well, Saint

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Speaker 2: Peter replies, we couldn't find your date of birth in

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Speaker 2: the record, so we just totalled all your billable hours.

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Speaker 2: That's a shady lawyer joke. All that work to get

589
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 2: to lawyers over bill and they're shady and awful people. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: if you're listening and you're a lawyer, you probably know

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Speaker 2: this joke already, Like lawyers tell lawyer jokes.

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Speaker 1: They know all the anyway.

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Speaker 2: All right, finally, John, this one's kind of got a

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Speaker 2: New Year's bent to it because it's about goal setting

595
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Speaker 2: and about like letting things go. My therapist told me

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Speaker 2: to be less angry at people, I should write letters

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Speaker 2: to the people I hate and then burn them. It

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Speaker 2: has worked, wonders, but I still don't know what to

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Speaker 2: do with the letters.

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Speaker 1: They've burned the people. It's dark.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of darkness.

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Speaker 1: Don't burn people and don't hit them with buses or

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Speaker 1: what do I think that should go?

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Speaker 3: Without saying, God's probably going to know your identity in

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Speaker 3: heaven even on that strategy, right as like, oh, maybe

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Speaker 3: he won't know.

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Speaker 1: John, Let's do this week in history.

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Speaker 2: We call it talk about then, John, this week nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy one, smoking ads were banned on television. The last

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Speaker 2: day for cigarette commercials on US public television and radio

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Speaker 2: January first, nineteen seventy one. The man applied to all

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Speaker 2: broadcast mediums regulated by the FCC. This is what made

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Speaker 2: it strange. Though The last cigarette commercial blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: was on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson, a lifelong smoker,

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Speaker 2: died of emphasine. It was reported that he repeatedly said

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Speaker 2: all the time in his life, these things are killing me,

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Speaker 2: which a lot of people who smokes to say, and

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Speaker 2: they really did kill him.

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Speaker 1: He dub emphasma.

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Speaker 2: Smokeless tobacco ads were allowed until nineteen eighty six. Ironically,

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Speaker 2: this did not have the intended effect. Though This is

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Speaker 2: kind of an interesting little culture thing because the fairness doctrine,

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Speaker 2: which was in place, then meant that they had to

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Speaker 2: put anti smoking ads on in the con in the

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Speaker 2: same amount as the smoking ads to even the tables.

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Speaker 2: So when the smoke poking ads went away because of

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Speaker 2: the ruling, the fairness doctrine said, well, we don't do

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Speaker 2: the anti smoking and so listen to this.

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Speaker 1: This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Smoking increased by two point five percent annually over the

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Speaker 2: next several years. Plus the cigarette industry's total advertising budget

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Speaker 2: decreased by eighty million in nineteen seventy one. So because

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Speaker 2: people weren't getting the anti smoking you know, PSA's.

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Speaker 3: Anti smoking ads are more effective than the pro smoking ads.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Interesting that negative stimulus says, hey, don't do this. Like

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Speaker 2: we think of it as like kids are gonna want

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Speaker 2: to smoke more you, but it's just like they weren't

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Speaker 2: seeing the commercials. But then they also weren't seeing the negatives,

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Speaker 2: and so you're still seeing it in movies. That's the

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Speaker 2: other thing is you're seeing John Wayne light up in

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Speaker 2: a Cowboy movie and you're like, that looks pretty cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and so kids were getting Yeah, you're seeing your favorite

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Speaker 2: rock star smoke a cigarette while he does an interview

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Speaker 2: and you're like, that looks pretty cool, and you weren't

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Speaker 2: getting the anti smoking ads right to defight it, and

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Speaker 2: so smoking rose by almost three percent.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, that's very fascinating.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, John, this week nineteen forty two, new car sales

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Speaker 2: were halted due.

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Speaker 3: To this week nineteen forty two, that's going to be

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Speaker 3: a shortage of some sort.

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Speaker 2: Of US halted the sale of new civilian automobiles because

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Speaker 2: World War two. Auto manufacturers ceased production of civilian cars

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Speaker 2: the following February as they converted the production of military

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Speaker 2: vehicles to the production of military vehicles, airplanes, torpedoes, and

657
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Speaker 2: other supplies for World War two, So they changed everything

658
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: into why didn't really stopped making cars? As they did that,

659
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 2: the existing stockpile of over five hundred thousand automobiles were

660
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: rationed to purchasers deemed.

661
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: Quote essential drivers.

662
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: So it's almost like COVID where you had to be

663
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 2: an essential driver to even get a car in this

664
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 2: half million stockpile.

665
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: Wow.

666
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 2: Sales and production resumed in nineteen forty five, three years

667
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: shortly after Japan surrendered, so we kind of went back

668
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 2: slowly back to normal. But I'm sure there was supply

669
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: chain and yeah, but yeah, I knew that we kind

670
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 2: of did the whole thing, like people gathering scrap metals

671
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: right and doing the whole thing. But I didn't know

672
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: that there was a big stockpile of cars and you

673
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: had to kind of get on a list and be

674
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: adeemed a certain thing to even get in line to

675
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 2: get one of those cars.

676
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: And so it was a while.

677
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: So if you were one of those people that had

678
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: to have a new car, I don't have many of

679
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: those people there were back then. Now we have people

680
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 2: who have to have a new car every year. They

681
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 2: go a lease and they do all this stuff. But

682
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 2: if you were one of those people back then, it's like, sorry,

683
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: you're just whatever. You So if you bought the starter

684
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: car and thought I'll get into the Nope, not until

685
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: the war's over, you won't.

686
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, do your bit, do your bit, that's right, John.

687
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: The worst blunder in college football happened this week nineteen

688
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: twenty nine. During the Rose Bowl Game January First, the

689
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: California Golden Bears center Roy Riggles he ran raggy. Roy

690
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: Wriggles ran sixty five yards is the wrong way.

691
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: During the game.

692
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: He was stopped six inches from the goal by his

693
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 2: own teammate, a safety, scored on a blocked punt the

694
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: next play and caused them to lose the game eight

695
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: to seven. He then became known as Roy wrong Way Riggles.

696
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 3: My gosh, yeah, what's crazy is that they blocked a

697
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 3: punt to actually do it. All he did was position

698
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 3: them for a major play, which is a safety getting

699
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: a block.

700
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 2: But yeah, he set it up to be. Yeah, he

701
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 2: set him up to be on their own goal line. Yeah,

702
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: and then the.

703
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 3: Well, lots of people kick out of the end zone

704
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: and don't get a block punt and lose the game.

705
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 2: The wrong way Wriggles rattled them, Raggy, it was very wrongly.

706
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to the family of Wrong Way. Roy wrong

707
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: Way Wriggles.

708
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 3: That's back before nil. He can't even monetize that.

709
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: He could have had some deal where he like, you know,

710
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 2: goes the wrong way in the commercial right, some rental cards, wrong,

711
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: go the wrong way. Yeah, he's on the go with

712
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: he's in England. Yeah, wrong side of the street. John

713
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: this Week nineteen seventy seven. You'll like this because you

714
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,959
Speaker 2: have a left handed daughter and I'm left handed. But

715
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 2: a polo ban on left handed play was initiated January first,

716
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven by the US Polo Association. Huh, it

717
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: went into effect. All players must now use their right

718
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: hands to swing their sticks, except players who played left

719
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 2: played left handed before for the band. So if you

720
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 2: were an existing left handed person your grandfathered in. That

721
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: must have been sandfathered in.

722
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: Hello.

723
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: But if you're one of these people who you know

724
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 2: wants to use both hands or your ambidextrous, you can't

725
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: do it only right handed people. I don't know why

726
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 2: they did it. Maybe it has had something to do

727
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: with the horses.

728
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: They had something to do with who knows, to give

729
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: you an unfair advantage.

730
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 3: It must have been like a crazy advent. Just think

731
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 3: about it. You're on the other side of the horse

732
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 3: from everybody else, I guess, but well sells an expression.

733
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 3: You know what you're this guy. I'll tell you right now.

734
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: This guy. This guy's playing on the other side of

735
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: the horse.

736
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 3: This guy's a left.

737
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: Handed polo player. You know what I mean?

738
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: I play some basketball over Christmas with my nephews.

739
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: Okay, and how'd you do? You know what? Not great?

740
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: But it beat you? Yes, Wow, that's a tough that's

741
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: a tough moment.

742
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 3: I mean my father in law on horse, which he's

743
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 3: a pretty good shooter. St yeah, and I was I

744
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: actually found my shot. This is crazy. It finally came back.

745
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 3: I think I had like eight in a row, like

746
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 3: I was I was doing. And then my brother in

747
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 3: law was like, I coulda run air and go with me,

748
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 3: and so we ran on the road for a minute

749
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 3: and we came back a shot and never returned.

750
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: So then I started playing my nephews.

751
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 3: Was like the shot I was hitting earlier was gone.

752
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 3: It was like it was like golf all.

753
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: Of a sudden, it's on your mind. Well and also my.

754
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 3: Body mechanics and yeah, John, this week I was saying

755
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 3: all that to say my nephew is left handed, but

756
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,919
Speaker 3: oh he shoots right handed? What Yeah, he's great.

757
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: He's not left handed. No, he's left handed. I mean

758
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: I do a lot of things right handed.

759
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 2: I played the guitar right handed, so I guess, yeah,

760
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: but that's weird to shoot a ball with your off hand. Yeah,

761
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 2: because that's you, like, how you figure out what your

762
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 2: dominant had. It's not just how you write, it's what

763
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: you play.

764
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 3: A sport with.

765
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: I know he's very athletic, so he can't shoot left

766
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: handed at all. Yeah, he can, but he plays predominantly

767
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: right handed. That's interesting.

768
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 3: It feels like some but that'd be a real advantage

769
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 3: if you could use both. Mactor Rob brighter again. It

770
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 3: feels like like a Princess bride situation in the fencing scene.

771
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, he could be like, sure, Michael Jordan,

772
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,760
Speaker 3: you're up by two, but I'm not really right handed,

773
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 3: and he goes.

774
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 2: Over the left and yeah, then Michael Jordan, He's vanquished.

775
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: But that never really happened because he was the greatest.

776
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: John the inventor of Pong. This is our final The

777
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: inventor of Pong. Alan Alcorn was born today nineteen forty eight.

778
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 2: He's an American computer scientist. He created the video game

779
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: Pong in nineteen seventy one. After hiring Alcorn, Atari founder

780
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 2: Nolan Bushnell gave him a learning exercise of creating a

781
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 2: version of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game

782
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 2: console before the Atari twenty six hundred tennis game. Bushnell

783
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 2: liked the result so much he decided to market it,

784
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 2: naming it Pong, and it became the world's first commercially

785
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 2: successful video game Magnevox later sued Atari for patent infringement.

786
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 2: So he's like, hey, hey, work on this for me,

787
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 2: and then he names his game Pong. This guy shady

788
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: these corporations.

789
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: Founder of Atari was named Bushnell. Isn't that a Japanese

790
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: sec hold on Atari founder Nolan Bushnell? That seems yeah,

791
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: not like it.

792
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 3: I don't think Atari was was Atari. I thought Japanese

793
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 3: company because of the name. Yeah, like Nintendo. What I

794
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 3: thought that?

795
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: I thought an American company. Evidently, huh look it up. Yeah,

796
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: there's no way to know. Yeah, you're right. I'd rather

797
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: just not know. It's fine. Uh, well, we'll answer that

798
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 1: question next week. We will.

799
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 2: Well, we call that a cliffhanger. We always remember, somebody

800
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 2: will send me three dollars and fifty cents.

801
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: That's the greatest thing. Atari twenty six hundred. You probably

802
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: get one from near that now. Yeah.

803
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 3: You know what they had in Costco the day, and

804
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: I regret not getting it a hot dog they had.

805
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 3: I always regret not getting a Cosco hot dog they

806
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 3: had for five hundred dollars. Yeah, they had these a

807
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 3: stand up, No, they had to sit down. Oh, two

808
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 3: player like at the pizza.

809
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: Huh. At the table.

810
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, the table a galagha centipede table. We could play

811
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 3: from both sides, and Johnny, I should have got it.

812
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: I regret it right now. That's a five. That's five. Listen.

813
00:36:58,400 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 3: That's why.

814
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 2: That's why you get to adult hood and have a

815
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 2: little bit of disposable income so you can buy the

816
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: thing that you wanted as a kid.

817
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 3: Well what I thought, get the church to buy it

818
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: because the kids can play it downstairs.

819
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: You going to play those games these.

820
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 3: Let's just say they don't. Who's here all day at

821
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 3: the office. You you know what I'm.

822
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: Saying, saying a world record in galagy.

823
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 3: No kids would play. That's the sad thing. We have

824
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 3: a we have a pingo. Yeah, we have ping pong,

825
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 3: pable ping pong, ping pong table downstairs right now. And

826
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:25,919
Speaker 3: I love ping pong.

827
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: It all goes back to pong. How often do I

828
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: go back and go down there and play? No? Never, Well,

829
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: you need somebody to play with, that's the thing.

830
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 3: Well, Chris is down there and he plays a great

831
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: ping pong player.

832
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: Pal he's Pias.

833
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 3: His brother Paul played with him anyway, Paul, they called him,

834
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 3: well anyway, Yeah, happy New Year.

835
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: Please don't steal someone's intellectual property and pass it off

836
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: as your own this year.

837
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: Begging you or hot dogs? Yes, just.

838
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 3: Stealing in Jenier the last.

839
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: You've already paid for the hot dogs. And then it's

840
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: not really stealing. Be it war and it's just an adventure.

841
00:37:58,400 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: It's a fun little adventure.

842
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 3: Be at war with the theft within you. You know what

843
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Johnny, that's really the takeaway.

844
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 2: I will push down my vices like you know, kind

845
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 2: of like you're pushing down the trash can to make

846
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: room for a little more trash.

847
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: That's how I feel like when I'm pushing down the

848
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: compacting them for later. Yeah, making that's This is a

849
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: weird metaphor, but it will preach guys.

850
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: Check out Johnny w jo inniew dot com because this

851
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 3: guy has launched a forty eight city bus tour and

852
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 3: he wants you to come go to the bus with him.

853
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 2: Come to the show. Oh sorry, you're not allowed on

854
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 2: the bus. Okay, the bus is full, but come see

855
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 2: thet three dollars and fifty cents. Who knows though that's true.

856
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 2: Bring me a pack of hot dogs. We can talk.

857
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: It'd be a weird thing for people to bring. I

858
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: think it's a totem that's going.

859
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 3: To get like a canned food drive furry favorite, furry

860
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 3: favor with hot dogs.

861
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 2: Let them meet dogs, right, hot dogs right, just thought. Yeah, yeah,

862
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 2: well but yes, please come see the shows. And uh yeah,

863
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: we're excited. I'm very excited about the show.

864
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you live within one of the states, I'm

865
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 3: coming to a lot of cities. There's a good chance

866
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 3: Johnny's coming close.

867
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, new dates being announced. Check the website out to

868
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 2: see if your city is one of them.

869
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: As qualified qualified at please submit yeah, the proper paperwork

870
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 1: and we'll see.

871
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: Go on, call this eighther number and vote number five

872
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 3: for Johnny's tour. Don't vote six, that's someone else's tour.

873
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 3: So anyway, guys, thanks for us spending the year with

874
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 3: us though it was actually a great year for talking

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Speaker 3: That's right, guys, thanks for the time you gave us

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