220 - Did You Gas Out a Monorail?

This episode opens with Daniel and Adam in their characteristic loosely-structured warm-up mode — microphone technique, drive-thru misgendering, and the mechanics of speaking in a low voice — before pivoting to Daniel's running update. With the Walt Disney World Springtime Surprise 10-miler two weeks out, he recaps a disrupted training week: a rainy, post-birthday Sunday led to a schedule shift (Monday/Wednesday/Friday instead of the usual Sunday anchor run), costing him his long run. He now owes himself an 8-miler and a 9-miler on back-to-back Sundays, with Adam's upcoming Florida visit landing squarely in the middle of that ramp-up. The lion's share of the episode is Daniel's birthday recap, and it's dense with Disney granularity. The evening moved from the Enchanted Rose lounge at the Grand Floridian, to a standout dinner at Citrico's (filet, rare, Cabernet demiglace, a non-committal Canadian waitress, and a woman whose perfume forced Darwin out of the dining room entirely), to a prime Main Street viewing of Happily Ever After. Daniel catalogues the fireworks show's 3D shaped pyrotechnics with the fluency of a man who has seen it "a thousand million times." The night capped with a minor maritime adventure: a young cast member had to dock a free-floating ferry in choppy, wind-driven conditions, missed on the first attempt, nailed it on the second, and received a full-boat standing ovation. Adam's contribution to the birthday segment is that he spent the same weekend navigating a three-call odyssey through Blue Cross to pay $20 for new health insurance he obtained through healthcare.gov — a saga involving wrong department routing, an unhelpful Walmart insurance rep, and a voice IVR he openly argued with. The back half of the episode covers two pop culture tangents. First, Jeopardy: Daniel watched a YouTube-only celebrity episode featuring Rebecca Black, Monet X Change, and comedian/Dungeon Master Brendan Lee Mulligan, whom Daniel evangelizes with obvious enthusiasm. Mulligan missed Final Jeopardy and still won by $6,000. This detours into both hosts airing their longstanding grievances with Wheel of Fortune strategy (vowel buyers, puzzle solvers who won't commit letters). Second, a listener phone call from Tony in Illinois delivers a Little Rascals/Buckwheat "dictate" joke, which prompts a good-faith but inconclusive on-air debate about whether the joke is racist. The episode closes with logistics: no show next week (Adam is in Florida), a possible Level 13 bonus drop during the visit, and the race weekend show returning the Friday after. Email: Contact@MixMinusPodcast.com Voice/SMS: 707-613-3284

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220 - Did You Gas Out a Monorail? is an episode from Dubious Intent by Adam Burns & Daniel Brewer.

This episode is 01:33:12 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2026.

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