Thursday morning,

The

Thursday morning, December 26th, 2019,

The Beating the Book podcast, Megapod,

Week 17 in the National Football League,

the squirreliest of all weeks.

It's Gil Alexander.

Skeletal crew, because it's the week between Christmas and New Year's.

We didn't used to do a podcast between Christmas and New Year's, but we are that dedicated.

The Skeletal crew on my left from Showtime's action docu-series, and of course, Wednesday's on a numbers game at Vison.

Todd Wischnev, how you doing, Todi? Hey, Gil. Todd is having, Todd is having some issues at his building, so thus the quick response. And Jeff Parley, the laugh you heard on the right, my producer number five, kind enough to join us. How doing jeff better i you know uh i'm better

than todd because uh the fiasco that mr wish and have has had to deal with over the last two days

does not sound fun todd tell the people what happened at three a m on christmas eve three o'clock in

the morning i hear a big sound in my apartment i go i think it's coming from outside i can't figure

out what it is. Then my neighbor

starts, somebody's banging on my door at three o'clock in the morning. I'm getting a little nervous.

It's my neighbor. He's like, oh, there's water in the downstairs apartment coming from my water

heater. We go outside. My water heater has exploded and there's water everywhere. And, of course, you can't get a plumber on Christmas Eve or Christmas. So just tons of fun. So is the water heater the building water heater or in your apartment specifically? No, it's the water heater that's in my apartment out on the patio. I didn't realize that. Oh, so now you have, you also have the burden of that, the guilt of that as well.

Well, it's not my fault. It's just the owners of the apartment that didn't, you know, don't have a good water here. Right, I know, but that's why they came banging on your door anyway. Oh, yeah. I'm so sorry, Todd. It's actually just, it's lucky I was in town because had I been out of town, it would have been a real major disaster.

Yeah, I had a burst from the apartment next door, and I said the same thing. There was water all over my apartment from the burst in the apartment next door. I was like, if I had been out of town, the entire apartment would have been toast. So let's do the podcast.

Let's get you out of there.

We'll watch some football get you out of the cold because you must be freezing, man. Are you cold? It's a little chilly in here. Oh, my God. Todd Wishnav, playing hurt. There will be no singing on this podcast. Is that what you're telling us right now off the top? I'm not really in a case

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