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For this guest episode, I am delighted to be joined by Ryan Bethay.

Thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate this is a very interesting setup we have here.

I'm surrounded, but there's like mahogany shelves with many leatherbound

books. Nice. So that started off in propitiously and ended propitiously. You're like, I'm about to

insult this man's studio about which he may, he may in fact care. So I'm going to turn back here,

quote, anchorman and hope for the best. You always cut to the core of me, Baxter. Yeah, so for those who

haven't visited our studio, it's modest, humble, I would say, in keeping with the general,

like, religious atmosphere, the tone that we set otherwise by our kind of unlaundered religious garb. Right now I'm actually wearing part of my lunch. So I went to—I was flying from Syracuse today, which—by the way, on the one side of the airport, our gates one through 15, on the other side of the airport, it's 20 through 27. Are you at St. Reagan Airport, or are you at Fallen Dulles? Nice.

I came to St. Reagan.

But as I was going through the line, well, as I was going through TSA, I was like, are there gates 16 through 19? The ladies like, in fact, there are not. There was like a potential expansion project that didn't explore. So my visit began with mystery. I also arrived 37 minutes before my flight left, but then I had to get something to eat,

and I went to Dunkin' Donuts and had these touch screens.

And I was like, can you... So my visit began with mystery. I also arrived 37 minutes before my flight left, but then I had to get

something to eat, and I went to Dunkin' Donuts and had these touch screens. And I was like, can you just take my order? There were seven people behind the desk, one person ordering it one of three touch screens, and they're like, nah, you got to use the touchscreen. I couldn't do it. It felt too inhumane. I felt like I don't know what happened, but I went to one of those little kiosks

and I picked up a Bree sandwich, which had like a lot of dressing on it, some of which I am not wearing. But the woman was like, oh, this is like super easy checkout thing. So you like throw things under this electronic hood. And then they identify the products. My products were misidentified five consecutive times. I was like, dude, I know that the technology is going to outpace us and potentially kill us, but for right now, it is struggling. There's a lot to unpack there because that is like platform three and a quarters from Harry Potter. I love that you went three and a quarters. Yep. I forget the exact number because I'm not really steeped in the occultism of Harry Potter.

Well, you're also not a mixed number, man, more of an imprep refraction guy.

That's right.

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