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EPISODE · Jul 8, 2014 · 1H 6M

Episode 8

from The Biggest Problem in the Universe

Episode 8 Transcript courtesy of Laurie Foster Webby Awards 1838 Global Warming 1452 Not Enough Bartenders 785 Self-Checkout Lanes -995 See All the Problems... jQuery(document).ready( function($) { console.log('test'); $('.voteup').click(function() { var problem_id = $(this).data("id"); console.log(problem_id); var data = { action: 'problem_vote_up', problem_id: problem_id, solution: false, }; var me = $(this); var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php'; var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-content/plugins/big-list/vote_handler.php'; jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) { console.log(response); obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); console.log(obj); $('.votes-'+obj.problem_id).text(obj.votes); }); return false; }); $('.votedown').click(function() { var problem_id = $(this).data("id"); console.log(problem_id); var data = { action: 'problem_vote_down', problem_id: problem_id, solution: false, }; var me = $(this); var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php'; var ajaxurl = 'https://biggest.thedickshow.com/wp-content/plugins/big-list/vote_handler.php'; jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function(response) { obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); console.log(obj); $('.votes-'+obj.problem_id).text(obj.votes); }); return false; }); }); In the last episode, Dick and our audio engineer, Sean, made the claim that they could tell the difference between Diet Coke from McDonald’s and other sources. We had a test to settle the debate. Also, before any idiot starts spouting off about how “House of Cards” deserves a Webby, it’s a show based on a 1990 UK television series that was based on a book published in 1989, eight years before the Webby Awards even existed. As for the “stats” that Dick loathes, here’s the article on MassLive.com about how “self checkout lanes not only do not save their customers time but usually take them even more time.” And yet another article about how Albertson’s grocery store chain is also pulling their heads out of their asses. I win.

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