@Tron if you enjoyed the obit on Oleg Gordievsky, I’d strongly recommend the book about his espionage and escape, The Spy and the Traitor, by Ben Macintyre.
If you’ve not yet gone down the spy history rabbit hole, there are some fantastic books in that genre, many of them written by Macintyre.
My favorite username on the refuge.
Not surprised it happened on American. @Tron
So good! You’ve reminded me that The Dollop podcast did an episode on this. Gonna go re-listen.
9.5/10 - needed to drop in that it happened on Halloween and then transition into whether Art the dog would be dressing up
It is such a great book. Highly recommended!!
“Speaking of THG and The Commish, Randy, I’m reading that book ‘Game of Shadows.’”
“Is that the BALCO book?”
“Yeah.”
“How is it?”
“Good so far, I got about 100 pages left.”
“Any mention of my beloved Cincinnati Reds? Probably not with how they’ve been hitting the ball.”
“I’ll keep an eye out, but you know who definitely isn’t in there?”
laughs in anticipation “Who?”
“Uncle O.J.”
“That’s right. The Juice was not juiced.”
“Can you imagine how many yard he would have ran for if he was on the cream and clear?”
“T.C. he’d still be playing!”
“You know, I think O.J. also has a book coming out later this year. Watch this space.”
I loved when they went from the geothermal drilling story to the PE affordable housing scam story. There’s a solution right there.
If you’re going to defraud the government and rip off poor people, cool, we’ll just throw you in one of those holes. What happens to a person when they’re thrown into a twelve mile deep hole? We don’t know, but we’ll find out.
Just finished the latest Chop Session, enjoyable as always.
When did Big change his allegiance from Duke in college hoops? Hate it for him that this picture made its way into Tourist Sauce Michigan
My worlds collided violently from this pod after the Rooster call out about Buck tech corruption. He’s from my hometown/high school and is quite the character.
My half brother is geophysicist who did field work studying volcanoes and has also worked in antartica in a remote research facility
I may have to ask him a few questions about the nuclear bomb idea and lockdown fighting situation and report back
Randy when he makes it on a Fortune 500 board:
“Big, it looks like shit is popping off in the Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumpter, Fort Something, not sure”
“TC, I heard about that. Sounds like those guys don’t have a lot of food left. Not good.”
“Not good at all, Big. Seems like a pretty big difference of opinion between the two sides.”
“Agreed, not sure how this one’s gonna get figured out.”
“Of course, we’ll monitor and keep everyone apprised of the situation.”
“TC, for the record, it’s Fort Sumter. So a proactive mea-culpa for all the historians out there. Go away.”
Plaintiff’s lawyer here (ducks). Thanks for bringing this up. I just listened to the pod earlier today. Among the many things that gets lost when people hear about these massive verdicts is the fact that we aren’t sitting in the courtroom considering the evidence. No jury is going to award that much money unless the facts are egregious. Also, we don’t know how much was being demanded or offered prior to trial. If Starbucks wasn’t offering anything, then they’re essentially daring the Plaintiff to take it to a verdict. We also have safeguards in the civil justice system to curb awards that are out of line with the evidence (remittitur, JNOV), in addition to the lengthy appeals process. More than likely, this case will get settled while on appeal for a fraction of the actual verdict.
Those who support tort reform did an absolutely masterful job of taking the McDonald’s case and using it as a poster child for their propaganda. I would highly recommend the Hot Coffee documentary for anyone interested in this subject.
Yeah, that lady suffered 3rd degree burns from coffee that was knowingly served far above a safe temperature (I wanna say it was like 190 degrees or something), all so they could keep it sitting out longer. Its wild how its got spun into “shes so dumb she spilled her coffee and got paid” then, and over time. Even that she settled for a fraction of the actual judgement.
“Big, have you been following these witch trials in Salem?”
“Sorry, TC, we are trialing witches now? What are the charges?”
“I think just general witchcraft. And this is all alleged, I might add”
“Of course. Alleged. What’s the strategy of the defense here?”
“I think if the witch hat don’t fit, you must acquit. You have to set a legal precedent here for future cases, Randy”
“I think that’s right, TC”
This isn’t getting enough love… well done
I’ll happily put my hand up to be the consultant Geologist for the TrapDraw…
“TC, are you up to speed at all on what’s going down over in Pompeii?”
“No Big, I’m not! I went a little wild during some tab cleaning and deleted the one I had open on this and never revisited it. What’s happening?”
“It’s not good TC, not good at all. Looks like there was a massive volcanic eruption which completely buried the city of Pompeii. I believe it’s a stratovolcano or perhaps it’s a stratavolcano, I’m honestly not sure so I’m going to issue a proactive mea culpa there.”
“You know who it sounds like they could use over in Pompeii? ServPro.”
“You can say that again, TC. Faster to any size disaster and boy do they need it because when Mount Vesuvius stars bucking her head you can pretty much cancel Christmas.”
BR: We’d be remiss if we didn’t start the show some sad family for news for TC
TC: Yeah, couple tough days in the Carter household as my Uncle Juices wife Nicole and her former coworker were murdered out in LA
BR: God i hate that for you TC, my condolences to you and yours. How’s Juice holding up?
TC: Thanks Big. He’s doing ok. Really just hellbent on finding who did this and bringing them to justice.
BR: Hold on a sec TC, I’ve got some late breaking news concerning this . I might need you to sit down for this one.
