Episode 1012
January 26, 2010 Turducken and Kerpupple
Leo is trying to get metrics on everything for his dieting regiment: how much he weighs, how active he is, how much he eats etc – although he wouldn’t resist a turducken – a low calories boneless version of a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken, or the dessert kerpupple, a cherry, raspberry and rhubarb pie baked into a cake, with whipped cream, fudge and maybe a lot of kerfuffle on top. He just takes 10,000 steps every day to walk those calories off.
Slightly More Obsessed – Gadget Costs for 1000 Episodes
In Episode 1008, listener Slightly Obsessed wrote in about the costs of DGW gadgets. He was watching the recording on TWiTLive and was slightly annoyed about the way Dick read his previous 3-page letter. He thinks that Dick and Leo have unfairly maligned and slandered him because of Dick’s hurried misreading of his letter. They made it sound as though he had only calculated the costs for 200 gadgets out of 563 episodes. Wrong! That was Ludwik, not him. Finally, Dick completely passed over his calculation of the costs for the gadgets from all 1000 episodes. He took deep umbrage about the suggestion that his effort in honour of their accomplishment in reaching 1000 episodes was either half-hearted or even worse, half-assed. No, his effort was whole-hearted and completely-assed. He reviewed EVERY gadget and entered the available price data by hand.
Here are his figures again (this time, Slightly Obsessed summarises his results). Ludwik’s figures, based on 200 gadgets, averaged $110 making the cost for the gadgets in the first 563 episodes $62,700. His figures, for the first 563 episodes, averaged $222.91, totalling $121,134.91. Based on the gadgets from ALL 1000 EPISODES, the average price was $203.15; and the total cost would amount, at current market value, to $196,442.67. Signed, Leo says, Christian Bale.
Christian Bale v Leo Laporte v Mike Arrington
Leo plays the infamous Christian Bale melt-down from YouTube, and after the recording, the Chatroom reminds Leo of a mash-up of that studio rage with Leo's "Screw-You" outburst involving Michael Arrington, on YouTube. Warning: loads of profanities.
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