I’m so over tip requests at every purchase. The Superdome has new areas where you grab your items yourself, walk up to the checkout area, put your items down and it scans them, you pay on the reader, and then it asked me if I wanted to tip. $18 for a large beer. I’ve worked in the service industry for most of my life, but it’s absolutely ridiculous. Staff that don’t know how to make proper drinks, incredibly overpriced, wait times are awful because the staff aren’t trained. Yet they take in the money because people don’t have another choice. It’s a bunch of nonsense.
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Pledged your fealty to the wrong side @Tron
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A+ episode. Gotta call out delta more, clearly in decline. Coasting on reputation at this point, basically the Peter Luger of airlines. Reliability isn’t what it once was, hard product is a borderline disgrace, transatlantic product not competitive, lounges straight up suck, sky pesos are useless.
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At some point the boys need to address the Notre Dame TV product on NBC. I think it’s the clapper? He’s absolutely embarrassing. I’ve never understood what a fatwa is but it’s time for NBC Sports to receive one
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Everyone should have a personal tea program at home. Scored huuuuuuge points with my wife having a regular chamomile tea at night with her.
Also, this past summer I took my son to Colombia to meet my wife and my in-laws who had an extended trip (MIL is Colombian). Leaving Miami the armed guards in the jetway after I showed my boarding pass stopped us and asked to take pictures of us. I was super confused and even more confused when they did it individually. Has to be child trafficking profiling/prevention right?
It certainly is… and the play by play is done by Collinsworth’s son. So we have the Clapper and a Nepo Baby broadcasting my favorite sports team when previously it was Enberg/Tirico. NBC Sports is a complete disgrace!! I don’t understand how they can think this a good product after listening to Fowler/Herbstreit do the OSU game. They just don’t give a fuck. Golf is not the only thing NBC is ruining (and I appreciate many don’t care about ND but that’s not the point)
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C team for a big game is a bad look.
I made a point to focus on him tonight and I actually think Garrett is pretty good. I was surprised. He’s very monotone so he sounds boring, but his actual analysis of the individual plays and game as a whole is solid. I think people would like him (okay that’s not going to happen but you know what I mean) if he had a decent play by play partner instead of Sleepy Jac Collinsworth. He is the real problem.
He’s a fucking bore… you can give good analysis but when you lull everyone to sleep that analysis doesn’t matter. Brees was so much better but I agree the really problem is Collinsworth
Snyder’s Pieces are an unacceptable product.
Other than that, I roll with Snyder’s.
Got a new phone last week and threw on the latest chop session while driving to my parents yesterday.
Skipped the opening (sorry Mr. Jeezy) and got about 30 seconds into the pod before I realized why @tron and @randy were talking like they were in molasses.
My app had reverted to normal speed (normally a 1.2x guy). If anything 1.2 should be the default and 1.5 the first sped up option.
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Trying to see the logic of having a podcast sped up 20% be the default option. Can you explain that?
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I thank god all the time for the 30 sec FF button, esp on these trap draws when they go on for at least an hour about fucking airline stuff. Give me almost any other topic.
Literally the only thing I don’t like about NLU’s “content.”
Can’t wait for the Shanny/Purdy slurp fest next week. It’s going to be great.
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Most people, even “professional” podcasters speak very slowly, take elongated pauses, “um” and “ah” their way through speaking. 1.2x helps condense and compress some of that.
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I guess, but I feel like it also dilutes some of the natural reaction to things? Maybe it’s because I listen to a few actual play DnD podcasts (NERD) but I feel like listening to those at a faster speed would kill some of the natural reactions that the players are having to what’s happening.
Tron said he has taken 65 flights this year. 65 seems like a lot. Certainly in the 1% of the 1%. His and Randy’s experiences are not really relatable to me, even if I find them entertaining, it’s hard to connect.
I have never and will never be in a Delta Sky Lounge (or whatever it’s called). When I fly, I pick based on a combination of cheapness and convenience, typically picking the cheapest flight that is at least somewhat reasonable. The guy from Minnesota who had never flown? Maybe he couldn’t afford it, air travel is expensive as fuck.
I’ve posted it on here before, but I never feel poorer than when people have detailed opinions on dozens of airports. And I’m not all that poor!
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I had the same thoughts on the guy from Minnesota. I was like 26 the first time I flew, and it was because of work. I think I was 30 before I flew for myself. Just wasn’t an option for my family growing up
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This is it. I can listen to them banter about almost anything but for some reason air travel just doesn’t connect.
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Listening to airline talk from fellas who fly 50x more than I and have huge travel perks in lounges and stuff is like listening to +capers complain about strokes.
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Every now and again, we get reminders that these guys all grew up very financially comfortable. Randy is a country club kid as are Soly and the Shusters. (Disclosure: While not someone who grew up in a CC, I grew up very comfortably too. Not throwing stones.) That comment was a bit tone deaf. I know a few folks who didn’t fly until they were out of college because they had no opportunity to do so.
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