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Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, with your host's Ken, Matt, Neil, and Jeff.

This is Triviality.

Hello, and welcome to Triviality. The game where lack of seriousness meets a little bit of knowledge.

We're here in the studio with my good friend Neil here.

Yeah, blistering cold day here.

I'm looking at my weather, it feels like, well, it's five, but it feels like it's, I don't know, what, negative five, negative 10 or something like that.

Yeah, well, I accidentally left my water in the car overnight, so it's ice now. But if my scientific knowledge and hypothesis is correct, eventually it will be water once again. So we're on water watch here to see if it melts by the end of the episode. Water watch. Well, we have another special guest in the studio.

Not really guest, but kind of a stand and host, we should say, right?

Yeah. of the episode. Water Watch. Well, we have another special guests in the studio. Not really guest, but kind of a stand and host, we should say, right? Yeah, he's really a staple of triviality, kind of subjecting us to the hardest-hitting crop-drop questions. He's a journalist, really. He is the Tom Broke of crop-drops. Is hot dog a sandwich? Can I tell you a really quick story? So let's introduce him first and I'll tell the story. Earl. Earl Baum is here. How are you? Hello. All right. He's back. He's back. He actually, his hands have been on some of the walls in this new place. That's true. Yeah. Before triviality moved in. Yeah. putting some bookcases up and fixing the doorbell. It was upside down. It was installed upside down, you said? Yes. Oh, kind of it. Yeah. But no, the quick story I was going to say is at the radio station. I was pulling a shift and the interviewer was interviewing Bill Curtis, the famous anchorman. and I had to, you know, get him all ready to go and all that kind of stuff. And, uh, and anyway, I called, or he called it, whatever it was, like 1115 or whatever in the segment was 1118. So I pick up the phone. It was like, I was like, hello, uh, radio. And he's like, hi, this is Bill Curtis. And he's like, that's his real voice. And I was like, oh, nice to have you on the show.

It's so great.

You know, a big fan ears.

Well, thank you for that, son.

I appreciate it.

He, like, wasn't putting on that voice. I was like, he really sounds like that. He's full-time, full-time anchor. Yeah, and I was just thinking of all the situations that he would be in with his normal voice, but that's what he sounds like.

So just thinking of mundane things that he does throughout the day, you know, like, uh, anyway.

Um, that he would be in with his normal voice, but that's what he sounds like. So just thinking of mundane things that he does throughout the day, you know, like, anyway, I'm going to wash my hands. Well, thanks for fixing the doorbell there, Earl. Yes, it allowed me to get inside today. Did it say dong ding, instead of ding dong when it was upside down? Pretty much, yeah. That was a such a dad joke no he'll be a great dad

someday he fixed it he fixed it so it's gonna be us three in the studio and we have a very

special guest going to be playing with us today and I'm gonna be partnering with him

and that's John from DC how are you John good good uh great to be here yeah Thank you so much for joining us, giving us some time today.

We were, no one can see this on the podcast, obviously, but we were talking about how great your

background is. It's very Wayne's world today. But tell us a little bit about yourself, and we're

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