{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Generations","title":"Peter's 50th: the Sphere, Crab Legs, and 130 MPH","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2460,"description":"Peter and Aubrey recap the surprise family trip to Las Vegas for Peter's 50th — the first time the whole family has been together since Alex and Lily got married. They cover the Backstreet Boys' \"Into the Millennium\" residency at the Sphere (including the Gen Z crowd singing along, often badly, and some truly unsettling visuals), the crab-leg assault at the Bacchanal Buffet, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the main event: 20 laps in a Ferrari 296 GTB at SpeedVegas with a relentlessly encouraging coach named Nico. Peter also plugs his new Imperfect Practice piece arguing that the harms of social isolation have been exaggerated, and Aubrey announces she's getting back into research with her old mentor.\nShow Notes\nThe surprise: Lis planned the whole trip for Peter's 50th — he only found out the destination when his youngest son let it slip about Vegas (\"Mom, he's gonna be the one driving there\").\nFirst full-family trip since the weddings: Alex and Lily got married, but Hayden couldn't make it, and Lily was only a week-old \"plus-one\" at Aubrey's reception — so this was the first time everyone was actually together.\nThe flight drama: Aubrey and Hayden's 2:45 a.m. flight out of Madison was delayed over federally mandated crew rest, so they drove to Milwaukee and landed about five hours late.\nThe Signature at MGM Grand is an all-suite, casino-free resort with kitchenettes, its own pools, and key-card access into the MGM Grand — and it's literally a block from the airport. The Signature at MGM Grand\nBackstreet Boys at the Sphere: The \"Into the Millennium\" residency is a Sphere exclusive — Millennium-themed visuals with a spaceship flying across the dome, plus one new single with Mount Rushmore-style faces carved into snowy mountains that was both the cringiest visual and the worst song of the night (\"it didn't have the juice\").\nThe crowd was surprisingly Gen Z: Peter expected his own demographic but found 18-to-30-somethings singing along to every word — often very badly...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Enb377CGtx0QdSV6Sh_CH31gOT-5Bbn0WUDQx1yVxWY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMmIw/OWY3ZDYxZTlhMGJm/YmRlMzg1MTE3ZDVi/Y2ExYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}