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If Anne was the Colts Coach…

From Our NFL Week 4 Podcast Recorded on Mon Sept 29, 2025:

  • Anne gets after Colts players Adonai Mitchell and Jonathan Taylor for costly fumbles. She cautions team about their TD celebrations. But in the end, she believes in them! Good thing Anne didn’t get into coaching!

Dad Health Update, Hospice, Medicaid, Skilled Nursing, and Longterm Care

Dad fell last week and fractured his hip. On this episode, we’re updating everyone on his health and telling the story of his injury and treatment as a way into talking about what we’ve learned and what we need to know related to hospice care, Medicaid, Medicare, Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Longterm Care.

Recorded Thursday, August 15, 2024

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Caitlin Clark Gets Started in the WNBA, Torg Tries FanDuel Sports Betting, and the NBA Playoffs

Caitlin Clark gets started in the WNBA, Torg Tries sports gambling on FanDuel and we get ready for some NBA Playoff Game 7s including Pacers vs Knicks.

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Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever Get Started

Level of aggression in second game vs Liberty compared to first. Pace looked good but not ready to be good at it yet.

What does Clark’s game remind me of? How should this team be set up? Building a team that gets on board that this is Clark’s team in the way the Mavs are Luka’s team, etc.

14 Temi Fagbenle getting my attention in a good way: catching passes, finishing, defending.

Let’s look at stats so far this year for the Fever. Click here for Basketball Reference.

Can #17 Erica Wheeler and Clark play together? She started all of last year’s games.

Other WNBA Related Questions and Observations:

How do you like the gray Liberty floor at Barclay’s? What do you like in a basketball court?

Mostly Gray Floor of NY Liberty

The WNBA coaches seem to challenge so much less.

I like sooo much that the WNBA games, season, and playoffs series are shorter than the NBA.

I Tried Sports Gambling on FanDuel

Getting Started…

Understanding Parlays and Managing them on the app

Sticking to the promotions including free bets and matching deposits. The promotions serve as a way to moderate how much of this I engage in.

Placing bets that don’t change my enjoyment of rooting for a team or player.

Game 7 at Madison Square Garden Pacers at Knicks

Hope #1 is that the combination of the Pacers young players getting used to the stage along with another Knick injury (Josh Hart) will put the Pacers over the top.

My biggest concern for the Pacers is that starting with Haliburton the Pacers young players just aren’t ready to win a game 7 in Madison Square Garden.

Dallas Mavericks lead the Oklahoma City Thunder 3 games to 2.

It seems really clear to me that the Mavericks best two players are a lot better than the Thunder’s best two players. Also, with how well PJ Washington is playing for the Mavericks, they have a lot better players.

Celtics

The Celtics are expected to win and that changes how everyone, including those on the team, experiences the games.

There can be a tendency to think you’re supposed to be up by 15 at the end of the first quarter. Lots of people connected to the team say, we’re not winning by enough. This pressure or malaise might get to them, or they might make it through to a worthy opponent and rise to the occasion. Maybe that’s at MSG or maybe that’s in the finals against the Mavs or Nuggets.

Game 7 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Denver Nuggets

Does the altitude matter?

My concern for the Nuggets would be the intensity that the Timberwolves were able to generate defensively in the opening two games and why wouldn’t they be able to do that again?

I am picking the Nuggets because I think Jokic is the best player and his basketball IQ is such that he knows how to play in this game.

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Putting AI ChatGPT to Work

Welcome to the Torg Stories Podcast at TheTorg.com. This episode was recorded Sunday, March 25, 2013. If you enjoy this episode of the podcast, we hope you’ll take time to tell someone you know, perhaps send them a link to this page.

Music on today’s podcast is by Brad Fiedel from the film The Terminator.

Two main topics on today’s agenda:

  1. Anne and I gave ChatGPT some work to do for us, and we’re going to tell you about that.
  2. We read these articles for discussion:
  • “AI Isn’t Going to Take Your Job–But You Might Have to Work With It,” an article in the Washington Post by Danielle Abril. Click here for article.
  • “Beyond the Hype: What You Really Need to Know About AI in 2023,” an article in Forbes by Bernard Marr. Click here for article.

What did I ask AIChatGPT to do?

  • Use principles in the screenwriting book Save the Cat to write an outline of a screenplay. Then I asked it to write the first 5 pages of the script.
  • Write an MLA formatted paper with 3 sources about using analytics to coach basketball. (prepare a list of sources
  • Prepare a list of principles for teaching pedagogy for teaching online writing.
  • Prepare a 1 hour basketball practice plan working on principles from Bob Knight’s motion offense.
  • Write a student a letter of feedback on a research paper.

We read two articles for discussion:

AI Isn’t Going to Take Your Job–But You Might Have to Work With It

  • Let’s try and name a few tasks that we regularly do as a part of our job. For me, responding to student writing, answering emails, writing assignment directions, and planning class sessions.
  • I’ve marked two passages to read.
  • Are you encountering AI, automation? I’m thinking of parking garages and my plane ticket being scanned. Completes my sentences in Google Docs.
  • I’m going to try OtterAI for transcribing this conversation and providing a written summary.
  • There’s a line about instinct in the medical profession. Also reminds me of using phone for driving directions.
  • Authors using AI to write books to sell online.
  • I do think maybe there is the danger of nothing standing out.

Beyond the Hype: What You Really Need to Know About AI in 2023:

  • Read the excerpt with the Google CEO line that sure gets a lot of play.
  • The capacity to learn and improve.
  • Agree/Disagree: Just about anyone can use generative AI to make themselves smarter and more efficient.
  • Impossible? We need to be sure that the decisions and operations of AI are aligned with our ethical values.

Some AI ChatGPT Observations:

  1. AI is excellent at preparing an annotated bibliography.
  2. AI worked well for writing a script outline. Excellent at the formatting. Pretty cheesy and drawing heavily on existing scripts. Not good with puns such as when David Sedaris called his beach house the Sea-Section.
  3. The specificity of prompts are important in doing things such as generating a practice plan or script outline. Using the words “modify” or “revise” with our AI prompts worked well to create better products.

Idea for future podcasts:

  • Keep going with AI?
  • Try a 10×4 episode PTI style? We try to come up with 10 topics we can talk about for 4 mins each? I’d set a timer.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

With a star-studded cast including Kate Hudson, Daniel Craig, and Edward Norton, the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is our topic for the Sunday, January 8, 2023 edition of the Torg Stories Podcast.

We’d love to hear your responses to some of our discussion questions below. Add comments to this page or drop us a note at William.Torgerson@gmail.com.

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Discussion questions:

  • Would you say you are a fan of mysteries?
  • As far as the twist and turns of who might have done it, what surprised you?
  • What were some of your favorite scenes?
  • Would have these people actually been friends before Miles hit it big?
  • What did Andi need Miles for?
  • Miles owned his own island. If you were to own an island, what part of the Earth would it be located on?
  • What was your favorite scene?
  • Who was your favorite character?
  • Have you seen the pandemic wove in as a subject in other film or television?
  • Did you enjoy this film? Where does it fit in when it comes to the best films you’ve seen in the past five to ten years?
  • Would you recommend this film? Who is it for?

Summary from Rotten Tomatoes:

  • Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers in a new Rian Johnson whodunit. This fresh adventure finds the intrepid detective at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles. Blanc soon meets a distinctly disparate group of friends gathering at the invitation of billionaire Miles Bron for their yearly reunion. Among those on the guest list are Miles’ former business partner Andi Brand, current Connecticut governor Claire Debella, cutting-edge scientist Lionel Toussaint, fashion designer and former model Birdie Jay and her conscientious assistant Peg, and influencer Duke Cody and his sidekick girlfriend Whiskey. As in all the best murder mysteries, each character harbors their own secrets, lies and motivations. When someone turns up dead, everyone is a suspect.
  • Click here to visit the Rotten Tomatoes Glass Onion: Knives Out webpage.

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