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Jason and Brian debate a 14-2 Dodgers-Blue Jays baseball score before diving into Ireland's digital wallet for social media age verification.

Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister start with baseball. Brian is the Dodgers fan, so Jason knows the team is going to keep coming up all season. The latest exhibit is a 14-2 Dodgers win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Jason hears the score and compares it to a basketball game, because baseball seems to be taking a holiday from its normal math. Brian notes that Los Angeles and Toronto had been the two teams in the World Series only a few months earlier. He also describes Toronto as the other best team in baseball, the one the Dodgers beat. The hosts point out that the matchup would once have felt unusual because the teams are in different leagues. It is also a cross-border game. They connect that to rule changes from a couple of seasons back that now give teams a broader regular-season schedule. Then Apple Fitness gets hauled into the conversation. A recent update has created a bug in the workout app's stacks. Those stacks let Brian line up several workouts in the order he wants. After each workout ends, the app removes it from the stack. That setup lets him plan a full week on Sundays while waiting at his kid's swim class. His example includes a 20-minute workout, a 20-minute strength workout, and a 10-minute stretching and meditation session. On Apple TV, it used to run in order and clear itself when done. After the update, the stack comes back in random order no matter how Brian arranged it. A Google search sends him to Apple forums and Reddit, where other people are reporting the same problem and waiting for an update. The hosts arrive at the natural complaint: a tool designed to make exercise easier has added friction, which is a remarkably direct way to make working out less appealing.

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A Dodgers blowout leads into a neatly observed gripe about fitness software undoing a weekly plan.

A 14-2 Dodgers win over the Toronto Blue Jays gives the episode an easy first spark, with Brian Schulmeister's fandom running straight into Jason DeFillippo's disbelief at a baseball score that feels borrowed from another sport.

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Want a sharp Dodgers-Blue Jays detour and an Apple Fitness bug that scrambles the workout stack you carefully built?

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