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Story Warz #118 - Talent, tablet trouble and an unexpected statistics lesson:

1. The introductions put the two returners at a combined 1-2, while the third challenger is announced as a debut.
2. The final scoreboard has 65 points in total, a high of 20 and just a two-point gap at the top.
3. With voting happening on tablets, a whiteboard suddenly appears - and the panel immediately suspects a pre-show trip to Staples.
4. A Star Wars detour turns into the hosts remembering their first hangout: a midnight screening, with one admitting he hadn't wanted the other to come.
5. A fan's homemade shirt starts a grammar debate, then earns respect when the panel realizes it's a deep-cut reference to an old comedy clip.
6. An argument about the odds gets Andre appointed the panel's "statistics professor" - then the lesson immediately derails over how to say "fractions."
7. A bathroom break interrupts the game after story six. The scoreboard keeps going, but the panel has to vamp until the missing player returns.
8. A writing-versus-drawing argument produces an imaginary coloring book on Audible, complete with someone narrating the sun and sky.
9. “Double points”: 4 mentions.

Which bit had you laughing the most?

This Past Weekend #693 - Lindsay Owens brings the pricing research, and Theo somehow gets from grocery experiments to sour cream and onion batteries.

1. Announcing Gouged apparently changed Lindsay's invitations. She says lobbyists she had not spoken to in years started offering celebratory drinks. When she looked up where they worked, she found companies discussed in her book. The congratulatory messages suddenly looked different.

2. Her grocery investigation has a concrete setup: 400 volunteer shoppers, the same 23 items, and comparisons at the same store and time. Lindsay says 75% of the items showed different prices across shoppers, with differences reaching 23%. She also describes Instacart backing away from the testing afterward. Those are the study results and follow-up as she reports them here.

3. Skimpflation gives Theo a very personal objection. Lindsay explains the idea of keeping the price while cutting product quality, and Theo remembers stretching things with water at home. His complaint is that companies have taken over the customers' old trick: at least let us do the diluting ourselves.

4. The Savannah Bananas become the counterexample to selling every scarce ticket to the highest bidder. Lindsay describes fixed prices and a lottery when too many people want seats. Her point is about who gets a chance to attend, rather than pretending everyone can get a ticket.

5. Theo's imaginary end-cap aisle deserves its own store: barbecue-flavored napkins, sour cream and onion batteries, and pomegranate slippers. A discussion about retail design turns into a whole line of products that absolutely should not exist.

6. The Walmart exchange has an important distinction: patents and deployed systems are different things. Theo reads the company's denial that it uses or will use personal information to set individualized prices. Lindsay challenges what the patents could enable and calls for more transparency. The episode presents a dispute, not proof that every patented idea is operating in stores.

7. A reported 515-page McDonald's data file becomes an unexpectedly affectionate moment. While they read about a reporter's shopping records, Theo jokes that receiving that much attention almost feels like a Valentine: somebody cares. That is quite a response to a data dossier.

8. Lindsay's closing proposal is a 12-part Shoppers Bill of Rights. The examples are deliberately everyday things: straightforward refunds, the full price before checkout, and protections against using personal data to raise someone's price. These are changes she wants, rather than a list of laws already in force. Theo also asks to put Gouged on the studio shelf.

Conversation timestamps
00:40 - The conversation begins
16:03 - The book announcement and lobbyist invitations
23:44 - The grocery experiment
35:19 - Shrinkflation, skimpflation and the watering-down joke
42:38 - The Savannah Bananas ticket model
53:01 - Theo's imaginary end-cap products
1:01:48 - Reading Walmart's response letter
1:20:51 - The reported McDonald's data file
1:41:30 - The proposed Shoppers Bill of Rights
1:52:08 - Gouged for the studio shelf

Which moment stuck with you: the grocery experiment, the imaginary products, or the 515-page Valentine?

Kill Tony #792 - a Halloween song, a worm farm and a changing of the guard:

1. Jimmy Carr's history with the show stretches back to #122. Our archive also lists him on #778, so this visit comes 14 episode numbers later.
2. Nicole Tran brings more than a minute - she follows her set with a Halloween song before the bucket pulls begin.
3. Dedrick reaches a year of weekly appearances. Tony then announces his move to special shows, arena dates and Killers of Kill Tony.
4. Myles Johnson's worm-farm interview takes an unexpected turn when Tony offers him a regular spot. One regular changes schedules while another gets the offer in the same episode.
5. Reggie turns his interview into an a cappella roast of the panel, then gets a Golden Ticket and a Skankfest invitation.
6. Phrase watch - 21 "I love it" mentions and seven "unbelievable" mentions across all voices in the automatic captions.

Sets & timestamps
10:26 - Nicole Tran
17:33 - Mohamad
27:27 - Jesse Lane
33:41 - Carmen
44:52 - Dedrick Flynn
56:01 - Cameron Riddle
1:06:01 - JP Madison
1:15:36 - Charles Lester
1:23:58 - Gregory Simpleton
1:37:24 - Dr. Tim T
1:45:55 - Myles Johnson
1:55:03 - Reggie
2:04:16 - Pat O'Neill

Bonus performances
14:31 - Nicole Tran's Halloween song introduction
1:59:29 - Reggie's a cappella performance

What was your favorite moment?

Story Warz #117

• After an opening correction, the three challengers' announced records totalled 4 wins and 10 losses.
• The highest final score: 20 points, after a 16-point tie sent the game to overtime.
• The rules speech gets compared to being strapped into a go-kart.
• A proposed joke retake comes with directions: reset, take your positions, and everybody laugh.
• A score update prompts an offer to give points away: "Who wants a point?"
• The memory debate gets an Inception comparison - complete with an imaginary spinning top.
• Bluffing gets a duck metaphor: calm on top, frantic legs under the table.
• The lonely-sports riff adds football tackles against nobody and baseball swings at a nonexistent ball.

This Past Weekend #692 - Sophie Cunningham gives Theo a basketball reality check, then somehow ends up helping name an imaginary WNBA team.

1. The family sports connection reaches the actual college court. Sophie says she and her sister Lindsay played together at Mizzou for two years. Growing up, she had considered basketball, volleyball and soccer, but basketball was the one she naturally loved most.

2. Theo asks what her team was missing, and Sophie answers, shots. It is a wonderfully direct answer to a question looking for a much more complicated explanation. She still separates her individual performance from whether the team got the job done.

3. The WNBA expansion brainstorming gets very Theo, very quickly. He says he and Druski had talked about being part of a team, and Nashville Licks enters the discussion as a guitar reference. This is a naming session and a possibility they discuss, rather than an announcement that they own a franchise.

4. Sophie has a reason for starting No Hesitation with Drew Hanlen: more basketball. She wants film breakdowns and attention to elite play alongside the personalities and stories. She also makes room for reporters who do a good job, rather than saying every journalist is the problem.

5. The famous pointing pose gets its own breakdown. Sophie says she initially gestured while talking to the referee, then held it after the other player objected. Having just gotten her nails done becomes a bonus punchline. Theo immediately starts imagining pointing as a logo and a whole technique.

6. The pay discussion works best when the numbers keep their context. Sophie recalls taking home about $28,000 in her rookie year after taxes, and says she needed more work. That is her approximate take-home recollection, rather than a gross salary figure or what players earn now.

7. Going overseas was not her only offseason option. Sophie says marketing agreements and NBA broadcasting eventually brought her more money than playing abroad. That let her change her own routine, even while other players had different reasons to keep traveling.

8. The ring-girl appearance started as a joke and became real very quickly. Sophie says she made the suggestion to Dana, then found out she was up in about five minutes. Suddenly walking and turning left felt much more intimidating. Trying it herself changed how much credit she gave the people who normally do it.

9. Her Project B description is a future plan with a particular rhythm: ten days playing, then the rest of the month off. She lists China, Singapore, Spain and Germany, and explicitly rules out Poland when Theo asks. Those are the plans she shares in this conversation, rather than confirmed dates or completed trips.

10. One of the nicest bits is celebrating a good answer. After Sophie likes how she has put a thought together, Theo compares finishing a few solid sentences to sticking a gymnastics landing. Sometimes getting to the end of your own point deserves a little podium moment.

Conversation timestamps
00:13 - Sophie Cunningham introduction
02:29 - What was the team missing?
09:42 - Theos old basketball photo
16:03 - Childhood sports and two college years with Lindsay
23:29 - How the platform around the league changed
34:54 - Correcting the early attendance guess
38:29 - Druski, Nashville and imaginary team names
41:42 - Communication and league leadership
51:31 - Why No Hesitation focuses on basketball
53:41 - Sticking the landing on a good answer
1:01:25 - Breaking down the pointing pose
1:04:25 - Rookie take-home pay
1:08:46 - Marketing, broadcasting and the offseason
1:12:51 - A joke becomes the ring-girl appearance
1:21:38 - Faith, public attention and staying grounded
1:35:21 - Project B plans and the four countries
1:35:51 - Closing thanks

Which moment gets your vote: the blunt shots answer, the pointing explanation, or the five-minute ring-girl call-up?

Kill Tony #791 - a bonus minute, an imaginary roommate and a band-wide rap debate:

1. This is Jim Norton's eighth documented appearance, spanning #180 to #791, including #756 earlier in the year.
2. AJ earns an encore - Tony asks for another minute on the spot, then awards him a Golden Ticket. That's 14 stand-up sets from 13 performers.
3. Tony clocks Dedrick's set at 3:11 of new material. Dedrick also says his one-year mark on the show is coming the following week.
4. Michael Moses picks Kendrick over Drake, the band joins in, and Tony jokes about replacing both the band and the audience.
5. A rent-payment app called Flex becomes an imaginary roommate, then somehow a college wide receiver.
6. Matt Markman recalls appearing during the lockdown video-submission shows - a connection to a very different version of Kill Tony.
7. Phrase watch - 29 "I love it" mentions and seven "unbelievable" mentions across all voices in the automatic captions.

Sets & timestamps
08:05 - Brent Reed
12:55 - Jerry Smith
26:46 - Matthew Delgado
36:45 - Riley Gilmore
44:22 - Galina Rivina
50:47 - Michael Moses
59:55 - Dedrick Flynn
1:08:21 - Grant Adcock
1:15:29 - Matt Markman
1:26:35 - Steven C. Duncan
1:36:26 - Jake Coulter
1:48:30 - AJ
1:52:28 - AJ's bonus-minute introduction
1:54:56 - Pat O'Neill

Which interview had you laughing the most?