Episode 31 - I, Titus Uno
Added 2019-02-09 18:50:35 +0000 UTCAssemble your various financial certification acronyms and have Veronica Jackson clear your schedule, because we've got a doozy of an episode! So much to unpack here in our first discussion of The Forensic Certified Public Accountant and the Cremated 64-SQUARES Financial Statements. We've got kidnapped mascots, hi-tech spy gear, and world record fast marriage proposals. If you've made any plans, blow them to rubbish and listen to this episode instead!
NOTE: Mike was on the road this week so we tried a new recording method which did not work as advertised. So the sound quality is not what we're used to. Hopefully we'll have it sorted out for the next episode! Thanks for bearing with us.
Comments
Counting cards is "illegal" in blackjack, because the deck isn't shuffled after each hand. So counting cards gives you an advantage (if you know all of the face cards have already been dealt in previous hands, then you'll know to hit on 12) which the casinos won't like. In poker, the deck is shuffled after each hand. Any "card counting" would just be...knowing the odds. Which is what poker players are supposed to do.
Jeff Henry
2019-05-15 18:08:59 +0000 UTCWhat even IS this nonsense? You can't count cards in poker!
Jeff Henry
2019-05-15 18:05:04 +0000 UTCYou guys really made my day, I had so many lols. I look forward to many, many more podcasts from you. I wish I had the time and/or patience to read this....collection of words.
Emily Brown
2019-02-25 07:21:53 +0000 UTCIt's a weird community: they hire Conor and me as voice over artists, we forget that we did it, then Conor dives into the internet to find these weird things and we both forget that we were paid vast sums of money to voice them. Point being, it MIGHT be us, neither Conor nor I remember, we do so many of these gigs -Mike
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2019-02-14 00:07:22 +0000 UTCAn additional hole in the plan of "stealing a mascot" is that most schools outside of Bayside High have multiple people performing as their mascot. I knew 2 people who were Herky the Hawk when I went to the University of Iowa. Totally ruined the illusion. So that's a lot of people and mascot costumes to kidnap in order to make a team lose their game and, therefore, revenue.
Aaron Price
2019-02-13 18:20:42 +0000 UTCFinally caught the episode - I know the audio was a little off this time... but the audioplay version of the story sounded a lot like the voices of Conor and Mike. I worked at a RadioShack and know quite a bit about doctored audio, and I don't want to accuse 372, but those voices really sound like Conor and Mike. Granted, I am no certified forensic audioologist.
Erika Flowers
2019-02-12 23:12:41 +0000 UTCAccording to wiki (unimpeachable!) "Card counting is not illegal under British law, nor is it under federal, state, or local laws in the United States provided that no external card counting device or person assists the player in counting cards. "
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2019-02-11 23:01:39 +0000 UTCI have a dim recollection that I once read something about card counting being illegal in Nevada and thinking that was sort of outrageous. But I might have misread, or even just dreamed it, and I'm not going to check. Life needs some mystery.
Moviegique
2019-02-11 18:42:55 +0000 UTCgonna need a link to that video...
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-02-10 16:25:38 +0000 UTCListening to this podcast made me laugh harder than anything since that video where the John McCain death announcement cuts back into America's Got Talent and the penguins. Keeled over. Something about this book gets me so good.
James Lester
2019-02-10 05:27:12 +0000 UTCThat's incredible
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2019-02-10 04:41:56 +0000 UTCI jumped ahead to Book 8 to see if the writing improved. This is the first sentence: βVirtual games, virtual videos, virtual phones and computers, virtual glasses, intangible virtual businesses, intangible balance sheets, virtual assets, virtual liabilities, virtual ownerβs equity, virtual income statements, virtual revenue, virtual expenses, virtual money, virtual accounting, virtual audits, virtual taxes, virtual crime, virtual investigation, virtual interrogation, and virtual court case are all part of this case that I, Titus Uno, Certified Public Accountant, Forensic Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant, have decided to solve.β
Josh Mueller
2019-02-10 02:59:24 +0000 UTCI did the same thing Mike did, though I had the luxury of being able to pause the podcast to go back and read those last four pages.
amolove
2019-02-10 02:18:12 +0000 UTCMy first thought was, "Is this book a cleverly disguised call for help?" - it is that bad. Thanks for addressing this concern :)
Dave
2019-02-10 00:34:41 +0000 UTCOn another note, I assumed the mascot was an animal, not a human in a suit, although it's funnier the way you guys interpreted it. Like one of the bulldogs, goats, or longhorn cows trotted out on the field by various college teams.
M Williams
2019-02-09 23:25:43 +0000 UTCHubris was my downfall! I was so enamored with "Melody Tune" (my husband contributed it and I felt I owed it to him after reading the piece aloud fifteen times to edit it) I didn't cut it and it seems to have been the Tell. Someday, I swear I will succeed!
M Williams
2019-02-09 23:20:27 +0000 UTCI have never been so excited to see how the first few chapters of this book fill a 100 minute podcast. ππππ
Erika Flowers
2019-02-09 22:27:41 +0000 UTCThe long con!
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2019-02-09 21:08:15 +0000 UTCThe 372 Pages bump in action: I got a book recommendation email from Amazon which listed the other seven books in this series and The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe.
Theodore Lehman
2019-02-09 20:39:26 +0000 UTC
