Podcast #138: The One with all the Voicemails

15 February 26, 2017 by

We’re not gonna lie, our #138th episode of DXP is quite voicemail-heavy (Hey, lay off. We had been fighting. Plus, we love hearing from our peoples). We begin with a brief Trump voicemail and then move on toward ANOTHER nitpicky piece of crap reminder that Jason doesn’t know how to pronounce things. Christian is corrected about his fallacious views about Einstein, while another caller expresses heartfelt and poignant opinions about WTF? Some NBA player named after a Mr. Mister song? We address playing the piano, eating at Subway, and then hear from an honest-to-goodness therapist who weighs in on whether last week’s discussion about vulnerability was correct or not (although she may be hiding behind an attachment disorder due to unresolved daddy issues, we’re not sure). We revisit Milo Yiannopoulos very briefly, after which we launch into our “Feeding Friendsy” and “Dick Move, God” segments (Hitler was not a socialist, and gay rapists and virgin daughters don’t mix). Christian is biebered by small spaces, while Jason is biebered by Hollywood trying to be too Christian.

Also, if you’re a fan of our Lord, don’t name your baby after Him.

15 Comments (click here to leave a comment)

  1. For the subway guy’s beiber: he has a coupon for buy one 6″ get one free. He wants a foot long and a free 6″. They give him what he wants, and ring it up as the promo and an additional 6″. Who cares if he doesn’t get three individually wrapped six inches? The inventory is still right. Peace.

  3. I don’t know. So he pays less than a dollar more for getting what he wants beyond the promo. Doesn’t sound like much of a problem to me.
    But then again, it is a beiber. I suppose I’m beibered by his beiber.

  4. Ok, you really want to do this? 🙂

    6″ Roast Beef = $4.75
    12″ Roast Beef = $7.75

    So paying for two 6″ Roast Beef sandwiches is $9.50. $1.75 more than the regular foot long.

  5. OK you caught me Christian 🙂 it’s exactly a dollar– not less. Rerun your math, I use it for a living too ;).
    7.75+4.75 /3=?
    4.75+4.75 /3=?

  6. You use math, but do you use logic? You’ve moved the goal posts. It’s not how much is each six inches of the sandwich worth. It’s how much you’re spending to use the coupon. You said, “…he pays less than a dollar more for getting what he wants beyond the promo.” That’s untrue.

    If he buys a 6″ for $4.75 and gets a free 6″, he spends a total of $4.75.
    If he buys a 12″ for $7.75 and gets a free 6″, he spends a total of $7.75.
    If he buys two 6″ for $4.75 each and gets a free 6″, he spends a total of $9.50.

    $9.50 – $7.75 = $1.75. He spent $1.75 more than if I could just buy a 12″ and get a free 6″ with it.

  7. Well good morning Christian. This is getting funny, really. I’ll give you this: if you’re only considering the customers perceived value, then yes you are correct. But I don’t see how you could deny that the actual value of what he is getting for what he wants which is not what the promo lays out, is still not that much of a problem. The free sandwich is an illusion, nothing is free, subway is only trying to get bodies in the door to boost their sales. I’m not moving any goal post, I’m dealing with the actual value of the product he went in the store to get.
    Grace perfects nature, Jeremiah 🙂

  8. First off, yes, this is funny. Second, I’m not letting you get away with that. Your original claim that I took umbrage with (which anyone can read above) was:

    “So he pays less than a dollar more for getting what he wants beyond the promo.”

    I said, “No, he pays $1.75 more.” You then come back and try to claim that the topic is the value of each 6″ sandwich. (Moving the goal posts.) If I let you get away with that, then who knows what you’re going to try to get away with arguing about the existence of god.

    Once again, if he pays for two 6″ subs at $4.75 each and gets a 6″ free, it’s the equivalent of paying for a 12″ at its normal price of $7.75 and then paying $1.75 for the “free” 6″ . That’s extremely biebering! Who cares what the value of the sandwich breaks down to per inch?

  9. Ok, I see where this got sideways. I never made any “claim.” At best you can accuse me of poorly wording a mere comment(about insignificant stuff) with “…beyond the promo” which wasn’t clear. Apparently you took it differently than I intended. Anybody can read it above, yes, so what? What you did was jump straight to assuming something. If you want me to explain what I was thinking then I can. Forgive me for not wanting to type more than I did about this caller’s ‘problem’, but you can’t assume I’m trying to “get away with” anything.
    Further, I know I don’t comment all that much here, but I think I’ve at least demonstrated I’m not some brittle fundy you may be used going to and fro with on facebook. I hold a distinction between insignificant and significant things such as first world prissy complaints about sandwich store policies(no, not directed at you) and the existence of god—they don’t(at least not seemingly on facebook arguments).

  11. Do you have me confused with somebody else Christian? Isn’t Jeremiah Nelson the Eastern Orthodox guy? I’ve never argued for the EO Church.

  14. Snark was the word I was thinking of this morning. Well that makes a lot more sense. I still think the goal post I was aiming for just never was where you imagined it to be, but I see what you’re arguing for. Have a good one brother.

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