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that isn't so much about. What?

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modulation and what it is. Once it

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starts, it's a little bit of a

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groove. More. Than it is. A

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rock beat. I do a flam

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rest. Flam Rest.

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Flam. Rest. Followed.

0:24

By sort of kind of an

0:26

intricate African thing on the low

0:28

drums. So. It goes like so

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the pattern is you ride on this time

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here. hopefully you've got the seventeen times and

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it goes something like this: V. Re

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Tl. In

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the next hour we will present information

0:43

that's both shocking and enlightening. Cowboy

0:45

Hotel in Twizzlers in the fridge

0:47

I told is it Sarah Crystal

0:49

Crystal shit like some okay well

0:51

Chris over you and I don't

0:54

have another Twizzlers. How. I cannot

0:56

believe this on the radio.

0:59

This is what our youth. If

1:01

been subjected to that with gray

1:04

those good you were boy. I

1:06

appreciate that. Oh. My God. Oh My

1:08

God. Oh My God. This is a whole new

1:10

level of no. That's not how it works, That's

1:12

not how any this. Works. Well

1:16

all right, hello, good morning and welcome

1:18

everyone to a Thursday edition of Tb

1:20

T L the show that just might

1:22

be too beautiful to live. Gotta do

1:24

it again. Right now my name is

1:26

Luke Burbank, I'm your host. I

1:29

like turtles. Com and do

1:31

you from beautiful downtown

1:33

Burbank, Calif, California gas

1:35

sunshine. It's actually not

1:37

a sunshiny day as

1:40

of yet. Everywhere

1:42

I go now I'm followed by the cloud

1:44

for clouded the on. I don't know that

1:46

means. But it's

1:48

a cloudy day staring at the

1:51

San Gabriel Mountains here in the

1:53

San Fernando Valley, bringing you episode

1:55

four thousand and one hundred and

1:58

ninety seven in a collectors. series.

2:00

Let the fun begin. You

2:02

know I was really kind of

2:05

conflicted about what

2:08

part of the greater LA area I was

2:10

going to stay in when I came down

2:12

here for work for the next couple of

2:14

days. I'm not even supposed to be here

2:16

today! Like this is not, despite

2:19

the fact that I do share

2:21

a name with this city, it's

2:23

not really where I usually like to stay. I

2:25

like to be over on the west side near

2:28

the beaches and the sand and the beach volleyball, which

2:30

you know I play a lot of. But

2:33

this was more convenient to where

2:35

we're filming and so I just figured suck it

2:37

up, put on your

2:39

big boy pants and just stay at

2:41

a pretty mediocre hotel near where the

2:43

filming is. It'll be easier that

2:46

way. And well, I

2:48

learned a lesson last night. I'm

2:50

learning! An important lesson about

2:55

finding satisfaction in places that you might

2:57

not. And I want to share that

2:59

message of hope with you the

3:01

listeners. I also unlearned

3:03

that message this morning. So

3:06

more on that coming up. Also

3:08

it's a Thursday aka Blurs Day.

3:11

So we'll do some Blurs

3:13

Day messages. Oh and we're going to talk to

3:15

this guy, the longest running cobro of the show,

3:18

may be best known for his

3:21

Miami meat tent. He's Andrew

3:23

Lewis Edward Walsh. The weenie

3:25

bikini. And he's joining me right

3:27

now. Good morning my friend. That's

3:29

the full name. I briefly worried

3:32

like for a split second was like, oh maybe

3:35

I shouldn't give my confirmation name out

3:37

on the radio. Is that really identified? Is

3:39

that your password for something? No,

3:41

of all of the things, of

3:44

all of the information. Four of

3:46

your social, your confirmation name. Like

3:48

nobody knows. Literally I I might

3:51

be the 7474

3:53

punky Brewster. Aside

3:56

from you and the listeners now, which is

3:58

a small section of the population. I think

4:01

I'm the only person or at least before

4:03

yesterday's show I was the only person who

4:05

possibly knew what my confirmation name was Maybe

4:07

do you think your parents would have remembered

4:09

not like I'm sure there's documentation There's some

4:12

sort of framed thing, but like if you

4:14

just wake Bob Walsh up out of a

4:16

dead sleep Well, it was Andrew's confirmation

4:18

name. What are the chances he remembers? Like

4:21

slim to none. I think I don't even there

4:23

is a is a framed thing in fact I

4:25

think that the kind of thing there'd be a

4:27

photo associated with and maybe One

4:29

of those photos that were big when we

4:31

were kids where yours the person is

4:34

staring off into the middle distance, right?

4:36

Yeah, or there's like a shadow of

4:38

yourself behind you like right exactly Extremely

4:42

ponderous those the photos that we were

4:44

taking in the 80s professionally. Yeah, I'm

4:46

trying to remember You know when you're

4:48

baptized now, we're just getting right back

4:50

into the sacrament of

4:52

confirmation here But when you're baptized you have

4:54

a godfather and a godmother again that your

4:56

parents There

5:02

is not enough pizza and my confirmation or my

5:05

enough to them I'll tell you that much But

5:07

anyway, I think when you go through the confirmation

5:09

process you also you choose someone who is not

5:11

like your it's like I don't know. It's like

5:14

your godfather for Confirmation and I

5:16

can't remember what that title is called, but I

5:18

believe that's my uncle Frank I believe I chose

5:20

my uncle Frank to be my I

5:22

don't know Sponsor

5:24

that's not very a a Sure,

5:27

but if you work it I'm

5:31

working the confirmation system So

5:34

anyway, I don't even think my uncle frunkle as

5:36

I like to call him would know confirmation name

5:38

is I'm not sure but well Me

5:40

and the listeners know now we're never gonna let it go

5:43

Andrew Edward I aloo that was

5:45

one thing I did like about throwing the Edward in

5:47

there It's not the reason I did it But as

5:50

you mentioned my middle name was oh and so my

5:52

initials kind of made a sound

5:54

aloo Aloo, you can call

5:56

me that if you want here. I am giving

5:58

myself new things call me Aloo

6:02

Great Paul Simon. So very good. Okay. I speaking

6:04

of names. I told you before the show I

6:06

want to give you a quick update on something.

6:09

I don't know This is

6:11

one of those situations where I just

6:13

don't like loose ends and we had some

6:15

loose ends on the show

6:17

and those Well,

6:19

look those ends are tightening

6:22

Okay, goodness gracious You

6:25

ran into a listener named Kate and

6:27

the vent recently and this is Kate

6:29

who is also a dazzling donor of

6:31

the show and Runs

6:34

the the Green Lake was it strength

6:36

and conditioning, you know I literally called

6:38

it the wrong thing when when I

6:41

ran into them and I called it

6:43

the name of an adjacent Fitness

6:46

project I felt so bad about it

6:48

because you called their relay bicycles. It's

6:51

been exactly I called them Green Lake Jakes

6:55

Which was the drive-in I used to work at

6:57

down there on a green like way back in

6:59

the day But no, I I'm

7:01

now very very nervous about about trying

7:04

to say from memory the name of

7:06

their Strength and

7:08

conditioning. I believe theirs is green like strength and

7:10

conditioning now. I'm just doing it. Yeah, it is.

7:12

I'm taking a risk I'm risking it all I'm

7:14

shooting my shot double checking. You're good. You're solid.

7:17

You're on solid ground This is gonna be a

7:19

new day ironic in that I'm in Los Angeles

7:21

a place known for a temblor You're not you're

7:23

in Burbank in your last name. I am and

7:25

it's a whole other world up here, which I

7:27

can't wait to tell You about okay So

7:31

anyway, we did hear from a

7:33

Kate or Kate when she saw

7:35

you I think at an event mention like hey I'm

7:38

one of the Kate's that got together

7:40

for the great that was where okay

7:42

I forgot where the conversation unfolded that

7:44

was a it was at the studios

7:46

of KNK X radio in the house

7:48

market Right and she reminded you

7:50

that she was one of I believe three

7:52

Kate's who got together on TBTL way back

7:55

in the radio days when producer Jen wanted

7:57

to see how many listeners named Kate get

8:00

to come into the studio. And I later

8:02

learned, told them to bring

8:04

their favorite snacks. So we knew

8:06

that that Kate of GreenLake Strengthened

8:08

Conditioning was one of the Kate's. And

8:10

then we got a voicemail from another

8:12

Kate saying, hey, I'm

8:15

Kate number two out of these three Kate's

8:17

and we should try to get a Kate

8:20

reunion going on. Where is the third Kate?

8:22

And she called out, she's like, the third

8:24

Kate must still be listening. Is the third

8:26

Kate out there anywhere? Well I

8:28

will tell you, Luke, the third Kate is out

8:30

there and apparently she's listening and

8:32

she's still here in Seattle. So

8:34

I was frantically, like I'm putting

8:36

together the world's shortest spreadsheet

8:38

right now with all the Kate's in there

8:40

so we can keep track of it. Would

8:43

you describe it as a spreadsheet even shorter?

8:46

It's a spreadsheet.

8:49

Because I believe we've got some of those hanging around here.

8:52

Actually not on this computer, you're very lucky. Oh, you don't have any

8:54

of the, you don't have any of the. Well here's

8:56

what I've got. Mm-hmm. In

8:58

the map for techno. So

9:01

that is, I would have noticed that one short. This

9:04

is called techno geeks even

9:07

very shorter. Sorry, it's gonna

9:09

be loud. My bad. Here we go. Can

9:12

I fix this in time? In the map for techno. Wow. That's

9:15

what we got. So I'll give you a little

9:17

bit of an update on our third Kate. Now

9:19

that we know it says yes, I'm still a

9:21

faithful listener and donor. Ben reached

9:23

out to me to be on the Kate show

9:25

after I'd been on the deep

9:27

fryer episode. So Kate is

9:29

also involved with your long running beef

9:32

with the other Kyra radio hosts after

9:34

you deep fried fish. Yes, no longer

9:36

with us. The late Dorie

9:38

Monson was quite unhappy

9:41

with, and you know that's actually one of those

9:43

things I don't want to get bogged down in that, but I will say

9:45

this. I think he had a point with

9:47

that one. That was the kind of thing where I had

9:51

the confidence of a much younger

9:53

woman. I was just

9:55

brash and like, oh, we're doing prasine. We're

9:57

frying fish in this

9:59

hermetical Sealed studio because we're being funny

10:01

and we're making like 10 people laugh with

10:03

this and then everyone did legitimately have to

10:05

come in and Work there the next yeah,

10:07

and say well it why does it smell

10:09

like someone fried fish in this radio station?

10:11

I would be pretty deal and and

10:14

I was I remember the time being like, you

10:16

know get with it old man But now I'm like now

10:18

that I am an old man. I'm like, yeah, I wouldn't

10:20

appreciate it Right turns out the

10:23

old men are right. When will the

10:25

world recognize that we old men are

10:27

right Right, who's gonna shake their fist

10:29

at the cloud? You

10:32

cloud fog no you need a guy

10:35

men shaking their fists at the thank you

10:38

Tying onions to their belt as was the

10:40

fashion at the time So

10:43

anyways, oh we did hear from our

10:45

friend Kate of dates with Kate you thought

10:47

that might have been the third case Not one

10:49

of them. She said no, she was not one

10:51

of those Kate's but also still hanging out in

10:53

the tens community So so we had extra Kate

10:56

We had extra we had basically Luke and

10:58

Kate plus eight, uh-huh, which would be a

11:00

great name for a reality show That's

11:04

so fascinating. So we because I can think of

11:07

we had our friend She didn't really go by

11:09

Kate, but there was somebody who was a producer

11:11

at Cairo named Katie Springer Oh, yeah, of course

11:13

who was legendary on the show

11:15

because she Came

11:17

on one time to just break down her

11:19

strategy for shopping at Ross stress for less

11:22

Loves Ross one of

11:24

the best episodes of the show that I can remember

11:27

many years ago It's probably in the archives. But so

11:29

we had a lot of people Who

11:31

were named? Kate or Katie

11:35

Not a lot of Kathleen's that I can remember but but

11:37

that was it That's a it's a big name in the

11:39

demo I'm glad to hear that as many of those Kate's

11:41

are still Engaging with the product

11:43

as as as they are. I mean people's

11:45

lives change people move on people feel

11:48

like you know They've heard The

11:51

my four stories enough as hard as it

11:53

is for me to admit that

11:55

I think I could see someone going Yeah, I've

11:57

had about enough of this tbtl. I think I've

12:01

4,197 of the other price efficient,

12:03

but once you've deep-fried with the

12:06

tbtl gang you are You

12:08

are deep fry brothers. It is

12:10

a it is a very

12:12

time-consuming and very boutique Publicity

12:16

strategy where you deep fry

12:18

things with each and every potential listener therefore creating

12:20

a strong connection and they exactly even them a

12:22

p1 for life That is that's what they did

12:24

on morning edition I believe when they were getting

12:26

their start and that's how before they went woke

12:29

before they before they went woke and now they're

12:31

going Broke yeah, we shake our T We'll

12:37

hear about how you changed and then changed back

12:39

in the course of 12 hours But

12:41

the important thing is being even at my age

12:44

able to change But then also able to change

12:46

back to how you were right before you

12:48

change in less than a full day

12:51

Less than eight hours as far as deep

12:54

frying went this Kate had brought cheese curds to

12:56

the party I don't know if you remember that

12:58

so it wasn't just I don't but I use

13:00

them right now I hope the cheese curds were

13:02

fried before the fish otherwise those were fishy tasting

13:04

cheese curds. That's my own little That's

13:07

my own little editorial there. I think we

13:09

might have had multiple fryers going if you

13:11

can believe that It's probably added to the

13:13

issues. Oh, you know what? I think I'm

13:15

actually confusing two things though here I

13:18

think we might have done a deep frying

13:20

episode and then we did a prezina that's

13:22

different prezina and I think the prezine episode

13:24

is what Caused

13:26

the ire of the other folks at the

13:28

radio station. Oh, really because I think we

13:30

were cooking mackerel because you

13:32

know a mackerel is a Currency

13:35

canned mackerel is a currency in

13:37

a lot of federal prison

13:40

Okay, they would basically stand in

13:42

for like a dollar bill like a can of mackerel would

13:44

be equal to a dollar It's

13:46

a fascinating study of basically how ridiculous

13:48

the idea of currency is unless we

13:50

all agree that it's a thing Because

13:53

I don't want 50 cans

13:55

of fish from the prison commissary like

13:57

I don't want to eat that but

14:00

It's $50. I can buy cigarettes with it. I

14:02

can play poker with it. I can buy food that I

14:04

want to get from the commissary. There's all this stuff you

14:06

can do with it if we all agree these cans of

14:08

mackerel are money. And it's

14:10

hugely different than, which

14:14

is why I'm calling for the abolishment of the

14:16

Fed. Andrew, I don't know if you know it.

14:18

I've been doing a lot of deep diving on

14:20

LaRouche. And I think I've

14:22

really gained some insight that I'm looking forward to

14:25

sharing with the listener. Advocating for a silver based

14:27

economy for quite some time for as long as

14:29

I've known you. It is interesting that,

14:31

well first of all, I would like to point out

14:33

that in a certain way the mackerel thing makes more

14:35

sense than a dollar bill. Because you can't eat a

14:37

dollar bill. Yeah, you could actually eat the mackerel in

14:39

the pinch. Things go really bad, right? But it is

14:41

interesting. So in my head there's always been like what

14:44

I would refer to as the TBTL

14:46

deep frying fish incident. But really

14:48

there was a cooking fish incident

14:50

and there was a deep frying

14:52

episode. And those two things were

14:54

not the same. You did not

14:56

deep fry the mackerel. I

14:58

think we did. I think it was cooked in an

15:01

open skillet type thing with oil in it. The

15:07

premise of, you know, if

15:10

anybody should remember this stuff it's me. And if there's

15:12

anybody who doesn't remember this stuff it's also me. But

15:16

what happened was we

15:19

got a hold of some kind of a cookbook

15:21

or an online listing of food that people were

15:23

making in prison. And

15:26

our friend Drew McFris had been incarcerated and

15:28

he had made all kinds of fascinating burrito

15:30

combinations from the vending machines and stuff he

15:33

told us about. I

15:35

think we might have even had somebody

15:37

call in who was recently released from

15:39

prison and was describing how she would

15:41

make these elaborate candy roses out of

15:43

Jolly Ranchers. You basically cut this kind

15:45

of like a Tupperware style box. You

15:47

put a hair dryer in it so

15:49

you create kind of a convection oven.

15:51

You melt down Jolly Ranchers and then

15:53

you spin the liquid Jolly Rancher onto

15:55

some kind of a stick so it looks

15:57

like a rose. And now you've got a rose... shaped

16:00

or a flower shaped Jolly Rancher

16:02

sucker. Anyway, we were really into

16:04

this thing called prisine, which

16:07

by the way, Andrew, this is

16:09

nobody expected or wanted the show

16:11

to go here. But do you know that I

16:13

have started corresponding on TikTok with a guy who

16:15

is incarcerated because I really like his cooking style?

16:17

No. Yes. True

16:20

story. I have been fascinated for a long time

16:22

with the elaborate. I mean, we

16:25

have the prisine thing on the show. And

16:27

by the way, things about that, I do not know if

16:29

I actually really stand by. One thing was we like, Sean

16:32

and Jen got to pick their prison names. Yeah,

16:34

it got in some dicey territory. I forgot about

16:36

that. Well, I think her name was Granny. I

16:38

forget what Sean's name was. I might have had

16:40

one too. I do not think anything was

16:45

actually over the line, but I guess it

16:47

was a way of talking about people considering

16:49

our carceral state. I

16:51

think it is a way that I would not

16:53

make a joke out of Jen being quote unquote

16:56

tough or gangsta or anything like that.

16:58

That is not really the way that

17:00

we would probably talk about things here in 2024. But

17:03

back then we did and that was what we did. And I feel like I

17:06

have this memory of looking across

17:08

the studio into and this would be the craziest part. I

17:10

do not know if this is true or not, but

17:13

my memory is that because there

17:15

was this little phone screening soundproof

17:19

booth that was in

17:21

the on air studio of the very

17:23

first version of Cairo where we hosted

17:25

TBTL. So before they did a remodel,

17:28

it was this kind of really dumpy little on air

17:30

studio and then there was a room. It was almost

17:32

like one of those showers that you will see in

17:34

the corner of a bathroom when you do not really

17:36

have enough room. I missed that booth. I loved that

17:39

booth. I screened calls in that booth before they saw

17:41

it. So you actually worked there. You got there before

17:43

the remodel. Yeah. Yeah. And

17:46

yeah, it was kind of like you were on the enterprise

17:48

or something because you were in this little glass or you

17:50

were about to answer a question on the 1950s quiz show.

17:53

Right. Yes. It

17:55

was isolated. So yes, exactly. So that

17:58

you didn't hear. Yeah. Anyway,

18:00

so that was where Jen usually worked

18:02

and my memory is like that might have even

18:04

been where the fish was being fried Which seems

18:06

like the worst Possible idea

18:08

because it feels like it'd be stuck

18:11

in there even longer But anyway, there

18:13

was that there was the the prisine

18:15

episode where we cooked Prison food and

18:17

then there was the deep frying show where we just

18:19

deep fried things I think those were different events. Yeah

18:21

onto the guy That I'm

18:23

corresponding with on tick-tock who's Cooking

18:27

he has this setup in his cell where he's turned

18:29

one of the I Don't

18:32

know maybe it was his desk Like I think some depends on the

18:34

layout of the cell you're in but some of them You've

18:37

got probably a metal desk where you can

18:39

you know fit and write or do whatever

18:41

read your books But some guys will take

18:43

that and they will somehow scrape all the

18:45

paint off of it So it becomes basically

18:47

a big stainless steel cooktop and

18:49

then through all kinds of ingenious methods

18:52

They create heat and they just turn this into a big

18:54

grill top and there is this guy on tick-tock that I've

18:56

been following Who just cook

18:59

stuff every day? I don't know how he got a phone

19:01

I don't think that's technically okay, but whatever and he's

19:03

just filming the stuff he makes every day and he

19:05

is so joyful and he's

19:07

so excited about the food he is making and He

19:11

and I just I never post comments on tech stuff, but I

19:13

posted him I said hey man, I see you or something like

19:15

I just thought this guy's in jail. He's cooking up food It

19:18

might be nice for him to have some person

19:20

who's not in that state with him in that world

19:22

with him to just be like Hey, man, I see

19:24

you like you exist in the world and

19:27

what I didn't expect was the next time I logged into tick-tock.

19:29

I had a comment. Hey, thanks. I appreciate being seen So

19:32

that's like, okay. Well, and I was like,

19:34

you know How did you so

19:36

then I like messaged him back? Like how do you

19:38

get the heat under the thing and he's like explaining

19:40

it to me So I've struck up a very unlikely

19:42

correspondence with a guy. I don't know what jail he's

19:44

in I don't know what he's accused of or what

19:46

he was convicted of and also

19:49

again I don't think he's really supposed to

19:51

have this cell phone But it's an interesting

19:53

kind of relationship to have and it goes

19:55

around a lot of the structure of incarceration

19:58

Like it's not like an inmate from

20:01

Appalachia State, you

20:04

know, it's like it's not like the opening call

20:06

from cereal. It's like I can just literally text

20:08

this guy in jail and ask him like, hey

20:10

how'd the lasagna turn out? I don't

20:13

understand how, well you're

20:15

gonna be surprised to hear this, I

20:17

don't understand a lot of things about what

20:20

goes on in prison, Luke. I'm unfamiliar with

20:22

that. Having said that, I don't

20:24

understand how you can have like a popular, I

20:26

don't understand how you can have a popular TikTok

20:29

channel with regular content.

20:33

In that circumstance, if you're not allowed

20:35

to have a cell phone, like I

20:37

don't understand how that works. I also

20:39

don't understand how it works and

20:42

I would say this guy's account is not,

20:45

it's not like he doesn't have you know millions of

20:47

likes on, he'll put a video up and he'll get

20:49

like 30 likes, so

20:52

it's not like it isn't a

20:54

national phenomenon. My guess would be

20:56

it just as sort of a right-hand left-hand thing. My

20:58

guess is that, well a few things. One, he

21:01

just seems, he

21:04

seems like a guy that is a low problem for

21:06

the jail. Like my guess is

21:08

that the people that are incarcerating him

21:11

feel like he's not someone who's making their life actively

21:14

harder, so they're gonna leave him alone. I also

21:16

don't think he's probably supposed to turn his desk

21:18

into a giant open griddle. Sure, well yes, that's

21:20

what I mean. And that's, I mean that's clearly

21:22

going on and there's no putting that away when

21:24

the guard walks by, so that's another question. I

21:26

don't understand how that's, you can smell it as,

21:28

as we've learned. I mean I wish I could,

21:31

God it looks great on the stuff he's getting

21:33

up to. Well one hand, a guard can smell

21:35

it, you know what I mean? Like that's what

21:37

I don't understand. This is, I know I don't,

21:39

I don't get it either and then the posting

21:41

of things and then the messaging back and forth

21:43

and the, and the like all

21:45

of it is kind of surprising to me,

21:47

but and I think maybe that

21:50

added to the fact that when I posted a comment just saying like

21:52

yeah I see you man, somehow I

21:54

didn't really think he would see that, but it's like

21:56

what else is he gonna do? He's

21:58

got a TikTok account, he's a head hanging out in

22:00

his cell, he's cooking up food. He got a

22:02

new celly by the way recently, which is like,

22:05

man, did that guy hit the jackpot.

22:08

Because he's gonna be well fed? Yes.

22:11

Yeah. Like, you gotta have, of all

22:13

the people that you're gonna share a

22:15

cell with, you get friggin' Paul Prudome.

22:18

I don't know how I'd feel about that. I feel

22:20

like- Are you serious? I would be so down for

22:22

that. Well, think about my personality, I'd be nervous all

22:24

the time. I don't wanna get in trouble. You would

22:26

not have hung out with me as a kid. I

22:28

was always scared of everything. Well, my

22:31

thought would be, first of all, you would

22:33

get to, he made these like, I think

22:35

he made these nachos the other day, because

22:37

like the game was on. And

22:42

he had a plate for the celly, and the

22:44

celly was like, thanks man, or whatever.

22:46

And I was like, man, if you're gonna have to

22:48

do some time, living with the guy who makes nachos

22:51

when the game is on, and is also

22:54

just seemingly a very agreeable sort. He seems

22:56

like whatever your fear might be about being

22:58

incarcerated, and how are the other people gonna

23:00

treat you, this guy, again, I'm viewing this

23:02

through his TikTok videos. I don't know what

23:05

his deal is, but like, I was like, man, that's the guy

23:07

I would wanna be, I would wanna be dealing

23:09

with. Oh, he also puts cottage cheese on everything. Would that be

23:11

an issue for you? Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, yeah. I

23:14

was like, can I be the celly who's like,

23:17

can you make me some nachos

23:19

without cheese, please? Oh, you're lactose

23:21

intolerant? No, I just don't like

23:23

cheese. I was not

23:25

built for prison is my point. I

23:28

see that as a very, very low, it's

23:32

a non-zero chance of you being incarcerated, but I'd

23:34

say it's pretty close to zero. Unless,

23:37

you know, something really changes, let's say

23:39

after November, and they're just rounding all

23:41

of us up. Yeah, right. Then it

23:43

becomes maybe a slightly, Then

23:45

it gets more red dawn than I really

23:47

want it to get in this country. Like

23:49

The Dist, I Don't think you would remember

23:51

this, but I wrote a dystopic TVTEL newsletter

23:53

from the future after Trump was elected the

23:55

first time, and it was very much along

23:57

those lines. In

24:00

who was written as like a sigh fight

24:02

for of like somebody had found my journal

24:04

of the suits your seven million rounds as

24:07

a whole up a with a dark Who's

24:09

a dark? Do you have any the are

24:11

I or years to see. That.

24:13

Movie Civil War Did you hear

24:16

about this? Wait, Is this though? Is

24:18

this the one that has been in the making

24:20

for a really long time? Is other a remake?

24:22

Like an alternate history thing? It's

24:25

with Kirsten Dunst and it's base.

24:27

It's basically like. A a

24:29

movie about an authoritarian president I believe

24:32

play by Nick Offerman who I think

24:34

I'm seen the movie My Senses.

24:36

It's. It's. It's sort of

24:38

like what would happen. If. If.

24:41

Our worst fears about like a Trump

24:43

presidency a second presence see came to

24:45

pass. Know you don't know like about

24:47

this? Know. It's getting a lot

24:49

of attention and it's it's at our it looks

24:51

like it's a really really interesting movie. I listen

24:54

to a like hour long interview with the director

24:56

on like Pod Save America. But

24:58

the I think the premises you

25:00

have these working journalists who are

25:03

trying to get out to D

25:05

C to photo document something. That

25:08

is because of, well they're feel you know

25:10

the feds, they're journalists, but also I believe

25:12

that what happens, they're crossing the country and

25:14

they're seeing all the different kind of ways

25:16

that Americans are dealing with this fact that

25:18

we are no longer living in a democracy.

25:21

Anyway, so A but I, I, I, I'm both

25:24

very. I'm intrigued by the movie and I've heard

25:26

really good things about it. But I'm also like.

25:29

I don't. I go back and forth on how much I want

25:31

to get into the sort of like. The.

25:33

Sort of. A cause play or

25:35

if you will of the things that

25:37

also are legitimately major points of anxiety

25:39

for me yeah especially right now. you

25:42

know like I just feel like of

25:44

weird ass and a better and more

25:46

solid ground with democracy but yeah right

25:48

now it's sort of feel they i

25:50

don't know if I need to live

25:52

the nightmare. In a fictional

25:54

universes, right? like when I saw Red Dawn

25:56

as a kid. I. I'm

25:58

a I started actually very. Upsetting because

26:00

I just never get to see like sort of

26:02

quote unquote scary movies. as a

26:05

kid or movies that were that weren't

26:07

basically Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm or something, but.

26:10

Also. It didn't seem like a real

26:12

thing. Like. It didn't seem

26:14

like those troops are really gonna come for

26:16

us. And. A thing about the this

26:18

dystopian stuff. Now it's hot when we're dealing with

26:20

like us, a president who refuses to give up

26:23

their office. When they've clearly either

26:25

term limited out or have lost an

26:27

that doesn't feel like of a funny

26:29

lark that doesn't feel like do electric

26:31

sheep that dream of whatever like know

26:33

it's like shit dude that's happening that

26:36

like happening right now and I can

26:38

have moved from speculative fiction into documentary

26:40

and I don't have, I'm ready for

26:42

that In ironically Red Dawn was written

26:44

by guys actually did believe that that

26:46

was would view. He felt like he

26:48

was addressing us a real existential threat

26:50

right? Like that guy came member's name.

26:52

But that guy. Isn't

26:55

Walter? What's the what's? Walter from

26:57

the Big Lebowski? Obe? Check. What's

26:59

his last name? Oh oh

27:01

and what you mean the character The John

27:03

Goodman way I would ever John Goodman characters.

27:05

Maybe I'm messing up his name there. now

27:08

it's Walter right? Anyway says mom. I see

27:10

it's like so checkers themselves like a I

27:12

think she's based on the guy who wrote

27:14

in worked at a Red Dawn and am

27:16

I wrong about like is the guy who

27:18

wrote directed Red Dawn. Okay I'm gonna tell

27:20

you what I think I know I can

27:22

do this. I did this with my friend

27:25

Nick. Sometimes about what I think about a

27:27

basketball player, things that I just gleam this

27:29

from Love It if into sports radio. Eating

27:31

you know about Jamarat isn't Oh okay. this

27:33

is exactly the game I know that Jamarat

27:35

has Aids is in it's always as with

27:38

me saying it's and I don't know what's

27:40

he me is for herself to eight of

27:42

it's I don't know what job playful at

27:44

the in Japanese or but I know that

27:47

he ran into trouble. was it two seasons

27:49

ago because he multiple times was posting things

27:51

on Instagram aware he was showing are flashing

27:53

s a firearm of some sort. In the

27:56

first time he was warned as I believe

27:58

the second time he was suspended. He

28:00

and I believe the gotten some other off

28:02

court issues as well. That's all I know.

28:05

How right did I get any of that?

28:07

You. That a lot of it right? He plays

28:09

for the Memphis Grizzlies can see. Yeah he

28:11

kept getting in trouble because he kept flashing

28:14

guns in like instagram videos when he had

28:16

been told not to do that and other

28:18

league kept suspending him. he loss of that

28:20

some stuff pending with like a. Gun.

28:22

Into a of the fight with a

28:24

teenager who's playing pickup ball at his

28:26

own right? Yeah, year I still got

28:28

that Would imagine Miranda's Jamarat has some

28:30

of the. Most. ridiculous

28:33

dunks, Like. I'm just tracking

28:35

who has the most ridiculous dunks. That's my level of

28:37

engaging with the and Be A is like who do

28:39

I see on sports center doing a very sick dunk

28:42

and Jamarat because he's not huge. It's like you know

28:44

if joke it's does a dunk. It's like well did

28:46

you have to bend over for that Even like when

28:48

be it's like it's cool that when Be does not

28:50

have to jump off the ground. To. Dunk

28:53

but with your like drama rent as products for

28:55

Which is the perfect height for dunking because you

28:57

get a lot of clearance between it's a lot

28:59

of separation between you in the floor. And.

29:02

John Ranches has, as we used to say,

29:04

hops The other thing. That's weird as John

29:06

rants. dad is regularly getting into it with

29:08

people at games. Like. His dad

29:10

will come watch the games that will get into

29:12

what he will the games and I will see.

29:15

John Moran said who seems much younger than meets

29:17

Which means we've reached a point. Andrew where the

29:19

players the idea You may have fathers who are.

29:21

Yeah yeah the players are younger than me. That's

29:23

a given their progenitors are younger than me. I

29:25

am and I'm aging out of having a kid

29:27

who is young enough to play in the and

29:29

be A at this point. yeah that he was

29:31

in the N B A seed be at the

29:33

end of her career she'd be thirty. It be

29:35

like to see have another couple a good years

29:37

in her. That's where I'm at and by way

29:39

of looking. this picture of john millie his creator

29:42

of red dawn one of them in god

29:44

he looks exactly like walter subset okay so

29:46

here's a let's play this game unless i'm

29:48

and you can i be memory might be

29:50

very right down to the lake kind of

29:52

sort of aviator glasses that are amber tinted

29:54

or whatever you wanna call on this particular

29:56

glasses john goodman characters wearing it looks exactly

29:58

like this do admire My understanding, and I

30:00

could be messing up the history here, I'll

30:02

try to clean this up later and then

30:04

let you know if I was right or

30:06

wrong if you can't Google it on the

30:08

fly, but I am pretty sure that he

30:10

directed Red Dawn as his directorial debut. I

30:12

used to think that it was the only

30:14

thing he ever made, but I

30:17

don't think that's true, but I don't think

30:19

his background was in filmmaking. I think his

30:21

background was in paranoia. I think that he

30:23

was like a big NRA guy, like coming

30:25

to take our guns. Think about

30:27

it, like the Dokami Ruskies are going to

30:29

come for us and our guns, although didn't they

30:31

pick Korea or something because they wanted to... Or was

30:34

that for the remake? For the remake. The remake, because

30:36

they didn't want to get in trouble. They wanted to

30:38

show it in China, right? Yeah, I think that was

30:40

it, but yeah, it was Cuba for the first one.

30:43

Red Dawn was a Cuban invasion, I believe.

30:46

Again, I could be wrong about that, but I'm sure... Here's

30:48

some results from the internet. Is Red

30:50

Dawn based on a true story? I think we'd

30:52

remember. I

30:55

think we'd remember. Right. Can

30:57

you back me up about anything I said about

30:59

the director and writer that he... I'm trying to,

31:01

although... Okay, let me get to John. I need to

31:04

get to John Frederick Milius' page. By

31:06

the way, still alive. Maybe

31:09

a listener, maybe one of the case. He

31:11

was a writer, an

31:13

American screenwriter, director and producer, a writer for

31:15

the first two Dirty Harry films. Oh, okay,

31:17

no. So he wasn't in the industry for

31:19

a while before Red Dawn. Red Dawn, okay.

31:21

So this guy does seem like he was...

31:25

And by the way, I'm only saying he is the guy that Goodman

31:27

is based on, because he's the one that looks more physically like

31:29

him. There's two dudes, and one dude doesn't

31:32

look like John Goodman at all, and the other guy

31:34

does. I'm assuming it's the... I

31:37

see. It's the John Goodman looking guy. Oh,

31:39

okay, but let's see. Let's see. Oh,

31:41

he... Milius is a

31:44

self-proclaimed Zen anarchist, but he

31:46

also publicly aligns himself with conservative

31:48

factions in Hollywood. He's

31:51

been a consultant to a military think

31:53

tank, the Institute for Creative Technologies. That

31:55

sounds ominous. Mm-hmm. Okay,

31:58

So he did have a... Film background

32:00

as wrong about that. I a but but

32:02

he was Xvi. I do think that we're

32:04

right, that Goodman character in Lebowski was based

32:07

on him and that he threw me know.

32:09

I got a conservative kind of gun nut

32:11

who was scared of a red dawn situation

32:13

when he may. That would also makes sense

32:15

because you know that Lebowski is based on

32:18

a real guy from the film industry. Oh

32:20

that's were. Oh I dunno using the film

32:22

industry but I do the base and a

32:24

real guy from around Washington State area right?

32:27

He was a real guy. Who

32:30

was in I think it's did like

32:32

film pr or something. He had some

32:35

job in the industry where the Cohen

32:37

Brothers interacted with him and they thought

32:39

he was so funny in an odd

32:41

that it's inspire them to write an

32:43

entire. Movie about how I

32:46

guess which they would a dude I think we

32:48

called him about you but I guess technically his

32:50

characters the Dude: he's not Lebowski. Oh

32:53

right. Well. But he is

32:55

Jeff Club. I mean his name. oh that name's

32:57

Jeff Lebowski. Oh yeah, that's right. I feel like

32:59

I always call that character about him. People are

33:02

was correcting me and they're like are you talking

33:04

about Lebowski or the dude because I guess rice.

33:06

But as confusing as you get to people with

33:08

the same name, which is where you know the

33:11

whole thing starts to get confusing. But anyway, or

33:13

it would make sense that both of those characters

33:15

were kind of drawn from the world of

33:17

filmmaking. Different parts of it does. You got the

33:19

Cohen Brothers and they probably just like we're sort

33:22

of when they interacted with those kind of. Folks

33:24

are or heard about them. Put those characters than

33:26

in their pocket. And. That

33:28

totally makes sense. Annals of You think about Red Dawn.

33:30

It's like, yeah, it's a complete. Like. Sort.

33:33

of conservative fantasy about lake that you know

33:35

read communists scares coming for us to get

33:37

totally checks out that that would be made

33:40

by somebody who you know had a conservative

33:42

world feels and it was just dowd speaking

33:44

of dude the dude is a real diary

33:46

the dude it says it's that kind of

33:49

a composite but it has the dude is

33:51

mostly inspired by just down and american film

33:53

producer political activists that the brothers met while

33:55

they were trying to find is that are

33:58

part of that are blood sorry I

34:00

would say the Menominee

34:03

5 or something, what is the name of the

34:06

treaty that this guy helped write, that Lebowski

34:08

helped write? I can't remember the details of

34:10

it. It's so funny because I don't know

34:12

if it's a real thing or not, but

34:14

it just sounds like something I heard a

34:16

Joan Arma trading song about at some point.

34:18

It's just a perfect kind of 70s liberal

34:24

manifesto that he wrote that was on

34:26

behalf of probably some

34:29

progressive organization or whatever. The

34:32

details of that movie are

34:34

so perfect to me. Even though you know, and I've said

34:36

this before, I did not really

34:38

like that movie the first time that I saw it. Oh, I

34:40

don't know if I knew that about you. I think I saw

34:42

it at the Crest Theatre in Seattle. Oh,

34:44

that's great. Does the Crest still exist? Please tell

34:46

me it does. I believe it does. I follow

34:50

Vanishing Seattle and I feel like I would have gotten

34:52

an alert. I discovered

34:54

the Crest and you were very happy that

34:56

I had discovered the Crest. I think

34:59

I saw the Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse

35:02

first movie, like the first one of

35:04

that franchise there. The animated one? Around

35:07

the time I discovered it. Yeah, so I was there,

35:09

you know, maybe pre-pandemic. I don't know if it survived

35:11

the pandemic, but I'll check. I think I would have

35:13

heard it. I feel like I think I

35:16

saw Lebowski there and I

35:18

walked out of the theater just going like, I don't really

35:20

know what that was. I don't really get it. You know

35:22

me, I like my movies

35:25

fairly straightforward, fairly linear,

35:29

not a lot of like, although you know, upon

35:31

many, many rewatching

35:36

of that film, I realized that even the things that I

35:38

thought were kind of like, that

35:40

I thought were too fantastical were really just...

35:44

...filmmaking choices, like for

35:46

instance, when he gets knocked

35:48

out and he's having those fantasies about like

35:50

a bowling ball rolling over him and stuff

35:52

like that, it's because he's unconscious. It's

35:55

because he's, you know, had his bell rung, as we used to

35:57

say in football. So, like, it was scenes like that where I

35:59

was like, I was like, I don't want to, what if

36:01

he's flying? He's bowling

36:03

balls rolling over him, but now I'm like,

36:05

oh no, that's just, that's the Cohen brothers way

36:08

of describing that he's kind of not really

36:10

fully conscious right now and he's having other

36:12

sort of dream state thoughts. I can roll with

36:14

that now. You can roll with it. Yeah,

36:16

I believe there are two dream sequences in that

36:18

one, one where he gets knocked out, somebody

36:20

drugs him, the pornographer drugs him and he

36:22

gets knocked out. Jackie Treehorn? And then

36:24

I think Jackie Treehorn and I think there's another time he

36:26

maybe gets bonked on the head or something. Uh-huh. I

36:29

don't know what it is, but I actually, I love

36:31

those dream sequences and I do think that

36:33

they are like, and as I think you're

36:35

acknowledging now, like they are cordoned off as

36:38

truly dreams, what's going on in his head

36:40

while he's unconscious. And for a

36:42

while there, maybe not blood simple, but

36:44

everything like after blood simple up

36:47

to maybe they stopped with there will be,

36:49

wait, they didn't do there will be blood.

36:52

Anyway, but I feel like the, the

36:54

Cohen brothers always worked in one dream

36:56

sequence and to almost every movie they

36:58

did, I guess you can find me on

37:00

that too. And I always thought it was very, I feel

37:02

like they do them very interestingly. Speaking

37:05

of there will be blood, there

37:07

was be blood. Yeah. In this

37:09

hotel room, which is not a very

37:11

interesting story other than man, be careful around

37:14

sharp new kitchen knives. I

37:16

was chopping up some

37:18

fixings for me and Walt the other night

37:20

and I nicked my finger and

37:23

I had this bandaid on it for like two

37:25

days and I'd showered with the bandaid on a

37:27

couple of times. So it was getting pretty furry

37:29

and I thought, well, this looks unkempt.

37:32

So I took the bandaid off and

37:35

it turns out the cut on my

37:37

finger had not healed. And then how many days ago?

37:41

Well it was taco Tuesday, Andrew, when

37:43

I believe I made tacos for, for

37:45

Walt and I. So

37:48

today's Thursday. Today's

37:50

taco Thursday. So two days. Anyway,

37:52

I, I didn't even realize it was bleeding

37:55

until I was tying my shoes. And

37:57

then I looked down and I'm like, why is there blood on my. brand

38:00

new white Nikes that I'm

38:02

supposed to wear on this film shoot and

38:05

it's because my middle finger was just like Dripping

38:08

blood onto the shoe which was

38:10

very unfortunate. What is the material? Is it a

38:12

leather type or is it a cloth fabric? It's

38:15

a leather which I was able to wipe off the

38:17

shoelace What cannot be undone

38:20

is the shoelace got some blood on it, but

38:23

I got it off of the rest of the shoe So there's

38:25

just a little spot on my shoelace. It's not too too bad.

38:27

But really what it is is that the I'm

38:30

concerned about housekeeping and The

38:33

bathroom has a significant amount

38:35

of bloody paper towels in there

38:37

like something You

38:39

know north of a shaving incident south

38:41

of you know a homicide

38:44

may have happened in this room I don't I never like

38:46

it when the housekeeping staff has to come in and find

38:49

Bloody things maybe what I'll do is transport that

38:51

out of the room Rolled all

38:53

up in some paper towels and throw it in a

38:55

garbage so that nobody has to deal with that because

38:57

I would not Enjoy that if I was on the

38:59

housekeeping team here at the Marriott just keep rolling it

39:01

and rolling and rolling it up like all the stuff

39:03

until eventually it's about the size of a body and

39:06

Then roll that up into the bedsheets

39:08

and then carry that through the lobby

39:10

down to the dumpster You

39:13

know what? Let's do this. Let's

39:15

um, thank some dazzlers and

39:17

then I want to it's not even interesting story, but

39:20

since I Went on so much about

39:22

the beginning this year. I just want to tell you about my little breakthrough

39:24

and Then breakthrough

39:26

on my breakthrough here

39:29

in the hotel and and we've got

39:31

blurs days to do as well So let's but let's thank

39:33

some dazzling donors before I get the show even further off

39:35

the rails We was hoping

39:37

for some razzle dazzle razzle

39:39

dazzle. That's right, man razzle dazzle

39:50

Hey, look who it is. It's one of the Danny's. Hey

39:53

Danny Hey Danny

39:56

How many Danny's do we have of Danny or Danny's the new Kate

39:58

and have I already asked that? I

40:00

don't know if you've asked that before. I don't know

40:04

How many dannys we have but this is Danny we have

40:06

a legal team of Danny's right, but

40:08

I can't I don't know that I don't

40:10

think this Danny is a lawyer if you

40:12

can believe it not all Danny's are weird

40:14

thing lawyer all lawyers are Danny's But not

40:16

all Danny's are lawyers. Oh, okay.

40:18

That's a good point Danny's in surprise He

40:22

Arizona Hi guys and

40:24

tens. Oh, by the way

40:26

Danny is one of the wonderful generous

40:28

people supporting tbtl with a significant Donation

40:30

of dough. It is why Danny is a dazzling donor. And

40:32

that's why we're thanking Danny today and reading this message I

40:36

was trying to figure out how something deep

40:38

and meaningful or to figure out rather something

40:40

deep and meaningful to write about Sobriety from

40:42

my dazzling donor message this year Okay But

40:45

the voice that keeps kicking around in my

40:47

head when I think about getting clean and

40:49

changing your life is Mike Frizzell's

40:52

you're just talking about Mike. That's

40:55

right drew McFris aka Mike Frizzell, you know, I

40:57

was thinking about that I don't want

40:59

to I do not want to go on some Yet

41:03

another massive tangent here because we don't have all all

41:06

morning, but I

41:08

think in talking about our friend Mike rest in peace that

41:13

We focus so much about his time

41:15

you know robbing banks and his time while

41:17

incarcerated in his time after all of

41:19

that and Like I

41:21

didn't I don't think a lot about the fact that

41:24

he was someone who was in really serious active addiction

41:27

Hence the bank robbing and was on You

41:30

know This was before we heard the words

41:32

fentanyl But was you know one of that

41:34

wave of people who was given an opioid

41:37

for pain after a surgery Without

41:39

any warning about what it could potentially

41:41

do and I remember him saying to us

41:43

on the show that the first time he took I Can't

41:46

remember what it was Percocet or something after he had

41:48

a knee surgery He said it was the first time

41:50

he ever felt comfortable in his own skin ever and

41:53

to have that Experience and then

41:55

to go through everything he went through and then to actually

41:59

gains Sobriety from that it's really amazing. I don't

42:01

think I really gave him props on that the way

42:04

that I should I was just kind Of a given

42:06

like oh, you're just not doing you

42:08

know opioids anymore But it's like this

42:10

is that's a very very very tough

42:12

struggle for people and I know

42:14

everybody with that Yeah, and everybody's journey is different, but

42:16

it's like Mike Seemed

42:18

so together By the

42:21

time I met him and knew him and he

42:23

would you know We would correspond quite a bit

42:25

and I think about Mike a lot he was

42:27

together enough to bust your balls Every

42:30

day that made you feel uncomfortable Luke whenever I

42:32

hear anybody say Cooperstown on the

42:34

radio I correct them out loud and I

42:36

say it's Cooperton and I think of Mike

42:39

whenever I hear anybody Because I said guys

42:41

think I said Cooperton Cooper's in one time,

42:43

but I don't think I was joking I

42:45

think I was just confused for a second

42:47

and also one time I referred to when

42:49

I was new at watching baseball I referred

42:51

to When you have

42:54

two players sort of sharing a

42:56

position on a team You might have a couple

42:58

of different players who play third base for

43:00

you during a season. That's called platooning But I

43:02

believe I called it full

43:05

metal jacket on tuning I said

43:07

are they pond tuning at first base every time

43:09

I hear somebody talk about platooning in baseball I

43:11

think of Mike teasing me about that in a

43:13

good way But what I was gonna say on

43:15

a more serious note is by

43:17

the time I met Mike, you know He

43:20

was I mean still just huge

43:22

personality, but also just like so together But

43:24

what we know about addiction and what we

43:26

know about sobriety when you are somebody who

43:28

deals with addiction is like That

43:30

journey doesn't just end like it's a struggle Everybody's

43:32

got their own journey, of course, and I don't

43:34

know what Mike was dealing with on a daily

43:36

basis inside his own head But it's not like oh,

43:38

I'm all good now. I'm yeah, I'm

43:40

got you know, it's a struggle for a

43:43

lot of people It's a daily struggle Maybe

43:45

not daily for everybody and then you think

43:47

yeah So while I'm talking to you and

43:49

we're living this life like people People

43:52

always have something going on in the background and

43:54

some that shit is really tough Absolutely,

43:57

and and I appreciate Danny

44:00

us of the way that our friend Mike

44:02

was able to change his life and have an impact

44:04

on so many people. You

44:07

know, and I think that was something that was possible

44:09

due to his sobriety, at least from, I

44:12

don't know what his exact deal was either,

44:14

but I think he was

44:16

able to stay off the blues going forward,

44:18

thankfully. Danny says, I guess

44:20

I'll just keep it simple, and I'll say

44:22

if you feel your life is spinning out

44:24

of control and has become unmanageable because of

44:26

any kind of substance abuse, there is a

44:28

better way. It's hard work, but you can

44:30

do it, and you are so, so worth

44:32

it. Peace and love, tens, peace and love.

44:35

I appreciate you all so much. That

44:37

is a really good use

44:39

of your dazzling donor message, Danny, and we

44:41

really do appreciate it. So thank you so

44:43

much. And thanks for

44:46

supporting the program. Maestro? On

44:48

your mark. On your mark. Yes,

44:50

Seth. Yes, Seth. Now ready. Ready.

44:53

Go. Everybody rattle, rattle.

44:55

It's Tom Cleary of

44:58

West Hartford, Connecticut.

45:02

Not East Hartford. Not

45:05

regular Hartford. Not

45:08

stores where my sister Liz used

45:10

to live when she was going

45:12

to Yukon. We're talking West Hartford,

45:14

Connecticut. Regular, regular Hartford. Boy, I

45:16

really miss the... Regularford. Regular, regular.

45:19

I wish, I wish I was

45:21

from regularford. What kind

45:23

of dressing do you have? Regularford? Okay, can I have it on

45:25

the side? Tom

45:27

says, I decided to become a dazzling donor a few

45:29

years ago because I realized how important the podcast and

45:32

community are to me. And when

45:34

Luke and Andrew announced their independence last year, I

45:36

was even more excited to continue contributing

45:38

to the show. Tom, that's exactly the

45:40

kind of energy we'd like you to

45:42

continue harnessing right on through. Please. If

45:45

I can be honest with you, we've been starting to have meetings

45:47

about our upcoming THON, and last

45:50

year we were so unbelievably

45:54

relieved, touched, and grateful for

45:56

the support. And I know a lot of that was because

45:58

people... exciting we're going independent

46:01

and nervous making for the listeners and

46:04

so we really hope that this time around

46:06

people continue to see the value supporting the

46:08

show not like okay well we did

46:11

it and now we don't need to keep doing

46:13

it we do uh... so thank

46:15

you tom for helping us get to this point we hope

46:17

you keep it rolling for us uh...

46:19

i work in the media and i am

46:21

constantly seeing bad news about layoffs to shows

46:23

and companies in uh... company shutting

46:25

down so it's nice to be along for the ride

46:28

on a positive story for a change watching

46:30

tb tl start to thrive as an independent listener

46:32

supported company i can't wait to see where luke

46:34

andrew john take things next and i'm more than

46:36

happy oksi tom arty was tom was way ahead

46:38

of me uh... i

46:40

uh... and more than happy to continue supporting

46:42

them as they figure this whole business thing

46:44

out you know i forgot to tell you

46:46

this did do hope sorry that's the wrong

46:48

sound uh... but did you know that

46:51

they were talking about us on npr

46:53

recently did you hear any of this

46:55

tape and i'm talking

46:57

about with no this is from by i

46:59

believe uh... what is what

47:01

showed is a chirasco hosted uh... is

47:04

that saturday's or sunday's morning edition yet

47:06

morning edition i think no

47:09

no sunday's under the russells you know the will short

47:11

the eliz and this is a guest talking about

47:13

a year and a half ago luke gets

47:15

together with andrew who he met years ago

47:17

they start a company so far

47:20

they've raised more than one point

47:22

two million dollars from silicon valley

47:24

venture capital companies and

47:27

and this is for two guys

47:29

with balloon listeners

47:33

all i had to do is to make up

47:35

the name of their company and i pretend that

47:37

that's us of course i don't want the listeners

47:39

of thing were raking in silicon valley dot on

47:41

a second the people were named luke andrew yeah

47:43

that is not a i or anything that's really

47:45

a lot for i didn't even

47:47

listen to the whole story had something to do

47:49

with using technology but there was

47:51

a guy there was a dude named luke in a

47:53

dude named andrew they got together they had some balloons

47:55

they got one point two million dollars yes so About

47:58

a year and a half ago. luke. It together

48:00

with Andrew who he met years

48:02

ago they start a company. So

48:05

far they've raised more than one

48:07

point two million dollars from Silicon

48:09

Valley venture capital companies and and

48:11

this is for two guys with.

48:14

Balloons. Provided

48:17

an appetite of i rang so better really. Don't

48:19

take a lot of boxes. Doesn't think I get

48:21

very we have at it. Who sent? That's what

48:23

I'll get you in a of you. Finish reading

48:25

this message again and I'm surprised we haven't received

48:28

that more. I'm surprised that Becca didn't tell me

48:30

to society like a dedicated listening to that, so

48:32

I just like the fact that it's. Luke

48:35

and Andrew that's I know incidents

48:37

that is amazing. I will let

48:39

me also just really clarify to

48:41

everyone including Tom query. We.

48:43

Have not yet figure out how to make one

48:45

point two million dollars off him to balloons? Know

48:47

that? Oh are we do still need the support

48:50

of the tens of listeners and we do really

48:52

appreciate it. Thank you Tom so much and thanks

48:54

also to Danny for keeping. Tbt.

48:56

Are going. Through

49:03

and welcome to Top Story. I'm embarrassed

49:05

now that I'm even making his top

49:07

story Andrew But. Basically. What

49:09

Happened? Was. I

49:12

in fact, last week when I

49:14

was down here in Los Angeles.

49:16

I. Was time my how much I love this

49:18

other hotel that I stay at a lot

49:21

called The Hotel June and that I liked

49:23

it so much that I get nervous about

49:25

some day finding out that it's. You

49:27

know come under new ownership and as a

49:29

whole new concept and maybe is not part

49:31

of the Marriott. Bumble been voice family like

49:33

that's a weird kind of like pre mourning

49:35

the loss of a business that you. Are.

49:38

Just enjoying. You

49:40

know getting to or whatever use or

49:42

stay at but. The thing

49:44

is, we're filming some stuff on

49:47

that Warner Brothers lot today related

49:49

to the wrapping up of the

49:51

Tv show Young Sheldon. And.

49:55

It's. It. That's all happening basically

49:57

here in Burbank, California. and

50:00

So as much as I wanted to fly

50:02

into LAX, stay at my favorite little hotel,

50:04

and then take like an hour and a

50:06

half potentially, hour and 15 minute lift

50:08

ride out here, and then

50:10

turn around and do an hour and a half lift

50:13

ride back to the west side, and then do it

50:15

again tomorrow potentially, I just

50:17

thought that makes no sense. Like that's just silly.

50:19

Fly into Burbank. First of all,

50:21

it's just such a better airport. All

50:24

the Guy Fieri food you can eat. They

50:27

just hand it to you. Just like when you fly to Hawaii and they

50:29

give you a lei, when you step off the plane there, they just hand

50:31

you a basket of wings.

50:35

And it's just super low stress at the

50:37

Burbank airport. And then I thought, I'll

50:40

just stay at the Marriott in town. It's

50:43

nothing fancy, but it will be convenient. I

50:45

was like, I'm going to stop

50:48

trying to basically

50:51

curate every second of my waking life

50:53

into this maximized way that makes me

50:55

feel sort of alright, and

50:57

be like sometimes things don't have to be perfect. So

50:59

this was the decision I made. Because I've stayed at

51:01

this Marriott before, Andrew, and I knew that it kind

51:03

of, it's kind of lousy. Like, I stayed

51:07

here last time there was a Transformers

51:09

convention going on. I'm

51:11

sorry? The

51:13

last time I stayed here, there was

51:15

a Transformers convention going on. The toy

51:17

and game and universe, or like the

51:19

electronic? Really? Yeah. I

51:22

didn't actually, I got in

51:24

really late. I think I got in at like 1230 or 1 in

51:26

the morning. I

51:28

was checking into the hotel. And

51:30

people were still just like

51:33

spread out throughout the hotel lobby and

51:35

bar area, just hardcore

51:38

talking Transformers, and showing

51:40

the Transformers off, and trading Transformers, and just

51:42

having a blast with it. Well,

51:45

that is intriguing. It would be hard for me

51:47

to concentrate on my own work, knowing I could

51:49

hang out with Transformer people. I

51:51

mean, I was, tell you what, I was impressed at

51:53

the, how hardy these folks

51:56

were partying. Because I was like, I was

51:58

done. I was like, After midnight. that

52:00

was, I just get me to my room please. And

52:02

then. But. Ever they were going they were going

52:04

ham on that. But anyway so this is a convention

52:06

center and hotel right next to the airports. In fact

52:08

I call the lift last night the guy pick me

52:10

up and he goes oh you're not going foreign I

52:12

was like really and then he took me. Out.

52:15

Of the airport and then drop me off at

52:17

the Marriott like I could have walked your i'm

52:19

basically by a you know where the rental costs

52:21

are I just couldn't see the hotel I didn't

52:24

know was like actual walking distance of business as

52:26

a long as it's as though because but as

52:28

the crow flies and as the car drives

52:30

to may be but it's very close. but I

52:32

mean you can't just like a walk off of

52:35

a lot of airport lots or a That is

52:37

true, I don't know what the kind of of

52:39

accessibility it if you will. In terms of yeah,

52:41

where can you actually walk with your suitcase or

52:44

not I don't. I just felt a little

52:46

sheepish when you know we. We exited the hotel

52:48

and I looked right up and I just saw

52:50

a big sign that said mary I was like

52:52

oh that's where we're taking me as yeah I

52:54

think of it but anyway I I've The point

52:56

is I didn't really want to like. I.

52:59

I kind of. they want to stay in

53:01

this hotel because it's kind of junkie. The

53:03

rooms are it feels very very lived in. It

53:06

feels like they have been a lot of

53:08

conferences and conference attendees at have moved to

53:10

the rooms with this hotel. whereas the hotel

53:12

June that I like to go to it's so

53:14

designing and it's not even that it's fancy,

53:16

it's just it was put together by hipsters.

53:19

Of. A certain age and that's the kind

53:21

of hipster that I sort of aspire to

53:23

be and so it's like to disturb the

53:25

with it cut paint choices the way that

53:27

the places laid out. I just it's it's

53:29

much more of for me. If you will

53:31

then like this Mary out is like where

53:34

you come for some sort of like dubs

53:36

because. You work for

53:38

company that sells citing solutions. And.

53:40

the you're getting together with other people in

53:43

the industry to talk about your particular product

53:45

that's what this hotel as the hotel june

53:47

is they're having a conference it would be

53:50

the people that sell the caraway kitchen pans

53:52

that are too much of a hassle to

53:54

cook with that i bought stats the energy

53:56

of a hotel june it's like school instagram

53:59

cute lake design And this is

54:01

like you know Somebody from

54:04

an older generation than me with a with a

54:06

name tag on going around you know It's Gil

54:08

from the Simpsons being I was about to sell

54:10

a little bit more siding that would have helped

54:12

me Get my gas money

54:14

back to Omaha. You know that's the energy. Yeah,

54:17

give me Gil dressed up like Megatron. I Can't

54:21

even call to my Don't

54:23

know either. I'm sure it was deep in

54:25

electronics bad and scary Yeah, probably

54:28

the same guy that played Cobra commander probably also

54:30

do this like had threw him on the Megatron

54:32

case I feel like that was the thing those

54:34

those shows were animated by the same company Transformers

54:36

and GI Joe And

54:39

anyway voice of the voice of Cobra commander is

54:41

very upsetting as well very hissy right? Yeah, snake.

54:43

Yes Yes, that was

54:45

Cobra. I always mixed up Destro and Cobra

54:48

commander. Oh, yeah, Destro was chromedome. Yeah point

54:50

is I get here last night it's also kind of

54:53

late it's like maybe 10 o'clock at night and

54:55

I Have reserved one

54:58

of the things I thought was well the upside

55:00

of me staying here is I It's

55:04

a very it's not an expensive hotel So I could

55:06

maybe get like a little bit of a larger room kind

55:08

of set up my TBTL broadcast center Like I'm

55:10

gonna be kind of down market with the hotel

55:12

But maybe a little more upmarket with the actual

55:14

room they put me in so I select

55:17

a certain kind of room And I

55:19

get checked in and I'm checking in and the woman

55:21

who's checking in who's named Kim who I really liked

55:23

by the way Kim was a bit older than me

55:26

But would just seemed like she'd seen a

55:29

lot. She's working the probably the graveyard shift

55:31

at the Marriott Burbank Airport But

55:33

she was likable She said we

55:36

have a problem. I was like what and she was like we

55:38

only have one Bedroom left that is

55:40

the kind that you selected with a king bed,

55:42

but the air conditioning is broken I was

55:45

like, well, is it really gonna be that warm? She goes you don't

55:47

want it It's not gonna be pleasant So I was like

55:49

guys she was so I can get you a room with like two beds

55:52

and it's weird I always go towards I want

55:54

a king-sized bed, but then I realized I

55:56

don't like thrash around in the bed I

55:58

Don't cover all of that. Real estate. I always

56:00

just think the king size bed just seems better but

56:02

I don't like need that much. In fact, to bed

56:04

you can tell your suitcase on one of them there's

56:06

It's kind of a utility the having two beds in

56:08

the room if you're by yourself. So.

56:12

I was like oh I can but i have

56:14

one negotiation because there was this cooler behind her

56:16

of waters and I go can I have one

56:18

water she was you can have to ah and

56:20

as like are at i like to see also

56:22

said would so to my id she said. Is.

56:24

Your name is Burbank Cc as that

56:27

there was a mistake. And

56:29

I was like. Know. There's no

56:31

mistake that is my name, but thank you for

56:33

acknowledging that. That is weird. Like.

56:35

To the first person who is as I've been

56:37

traveling through this area lightly, this is the first

56:39

person who has given me the satisfaction of commenting

56:41

on. As I said it is strange that my

56:43

last name is the same name as the city.

56:45

I think last time you are there your to

56:47

standing on a street corner yelling my name is

56:49

Burbank and nobody was giving and giving you a

56:51

you wanted. While. The police did

56:54

arrive. After I get some it's answer

56:56

is yes but it was like I

56:58

was like thank you tim. For.

57:00

Noting this thing that everyone else is just

57:02

breezed right past, Legend just doesn't. And so

57:05

that made me like Tim. That meant that

57:07

when Kim told me we have a problem,

57:09

There. Are no hotel rooms that are the

57:11

kind you booked. I gotta put you in

57:13

this other one. I was like whatever you

57:16

know what can give me to Waters. She

57:18

noted the my last name is Burbank. it's

57:20

going to be fine So I get my

57:22

key card. I come to my room and

57:24

Andrew when I tell you it is right

57:26

out of Central Casting of. Luke's

57:29

Nightmare Room. It's

57:31

like. Can I get a guy

57:33

is overlooking a parking lot with a dumpster

57:36

is is already I would have killed for

57:38

about a solid Asta up day. what would

57:40

it look it over? It was perched atop.

57:42

I. Don't know. even with our i'm

57:45

not Even the H We A C

57:47

system, some other weird system of gas

57:49

tanks and like I don't know what

57:51

these things did, but it looked like

57:54

I was of perched over some sort

57:56

of like shale oil harvesting operation somewhere

57:58

in I don't know. The Balkan

58:00

oil fields of South Dakota or North

58:02

Dakota. It was a weird it's industrial

58:04

process going on. A literally outside my

58:07

window at my window look down on

58:09

a whole series of tubes and tanks

58:11

that were oh by the way, all

58:13

rusty as well. So it was worse

58:15

than just a parking lots. Then it's

58:17

these two beds that were smaller. They

58:19

were. They were like. Not.

58:22

To queen beds not even too full but isn't

58:24

There were two twin beds. Oh wow.

58:26

To. Where I was literally in my twin bed

58:28

that I got into I thought this absolute i

58:30

might roll off of this. Whereas I don't think

58:33

I need a king size bed, this is like

58:35

something that like Haley Mills would sleep in in

58:37

the movies. A parent trap. This is like from

58:39

a bygone era. What size bed given home as

58:41

a king or queen as a king taking? I

58:44

think I'd There's no way to these were twin

58:46

beds are probably doubles and you've just forgotten how

58:48

small a double bed is compared to this Tang

58:50

lifestyle that you lead King. It

58:52

might be thank you King. Ah, it could be

58:55

the case, but it was. I was just like.

58:57

And. Then also you know ah all

58:59

the street noise because I was

59:01

basically at the ground level on

59:03

and you know just like of

59:05

looking around the room just about

59:07

everything about the room was what

59:10

I would not select and as

59:12

i got into a the tiny

59:14

bed. As a tiny thought

59:16

that they provided me with. I.

59:18

I decided to do something which was

59:20

to just bloom were implanted as like.

59:23

This. Is gonna be fine. People do this all

59:25

the time. They go on work trips, they stay

59:27

at hotels. sometimes the hotels nice sometimes is not

59:29

as nice to get through it. Get up, you

59:31

do your jobs, it'll be completely you watch defending

59:34

your life. He go back to be a lot

59:36

to do that you know I'm in a better

59:38

bet. Exactly like I was. like everything doesn't have

59:40

to be perfect and my life is going to

59:42

be. A. Lot. More.

59:45

Manageable Or at least my life is going

59:47

to be filled I think with more joy

59:50

unless heartbreak if I figure that out going

59:52

forward if instead of constantly trying to shift

59:54

my external environment at all times to be

59:56

the one that I've been wanting are thinking

59:59

about hoping for to figuring out how can

1:00:01

I exist within this context and be okay.

1:00:03

All right, it's a sort of a junkie

1:00:05

room at a Merry Out. This happens to

1:00:07

people. you'll get through it. And

1:00:10

so I honestly like it felt really good. I

1:00:12

went to bed and I just felt amazing about

1:00:14

this idea that I could just be okay with

1:00:16

things. And then I woke up this morning. And.

1:00:20

I got my little work out outfit

1:00:22

on to go to the gym and

1:00:24

what I had to do andrew to

1:00:26

get to the gym was walk through.

1:00:29

The lobby. And

1:00:31

like a moth to the flame. Like.

1:00:34

A. Like. A southern magnet approaching

1:00:37

a northern magnet. others the ones that

1:00:39

attract each other right. The different polarity.

1:00:42

I. Don't know I have an actual

1:00:44

magnets. Are you talking about Saturday

1:00:46

Works Sister Several written down somewhere

1:00:48

in rhyme. Ice. I basically

1:00:50

was like physically I turned into like a

1:00:53

cartoon character that smelling a good smell. Yes

1:00:55

okay I see off having been around the

1:00:57

edges flow my server floating through the front

1:00:59

desk because even though I made this huge

1:01:02

life decision the night before the just be

1:01:04

fine with this. As I'm walking by the

1:01:06

front desk there's no one in line I

1:01:08

realized there's an opportunity for me to come

1:01:11

up to them and say hey, would it

1:01:13

be possible for me to get a neuro

1:01:15

courses has no other campuses A new person.

1:01:18

This is chi. Comforts

1:01:20

the have to be have three letters

1:01:22

in your first name and has starts

1:01:25

with a K. That's the rule here

1:01:27

apparently and I sell tie. The.

1:01:29

Situation A I booked a certain kind of room

1:01:31

and they didn't have any of them left when

1:01:33

I got here last night and them and Kim

1:01:35

and Is Kim had said by the way, come

1:01:37

back tomorrow to ask about a spy decided I

1:01:39

wasn't gonna ask about us. I decided Skyn us,

1:01:41

just deal with it. It's gonna be fine, but

1:01:43

accident. Because. I gotta be

1:01:46

Me and I went up to Kim. And.

1:01:48

i said you know i wanted to have

1:01:50

a room with the king bed and ah

1:01:52

and they didn't have any left and kim

1:01:55

told me that i could ask for a

1:01:57

different room and an anti I typed a

1:01:59

few things on her computer and she said,

1:02:01

okay, I'll switch you, here's your

1:02:03

new room number. And I

1:02:07

got the key card, I got my stuff out of my old

1:02:09

room, I brought it here to the new room. And

1:02:12

it's absolutely lovely in here.

1:02:15

It's got, the bed is in its own

1:02:17

room. I

1:02:19

have a little, I have a much. It's like more of

1:02:22

a suite, huh? She put me in some kind of a suite. I

1:02:25

can look, I'm looking at the San Gables. I'm,

1:02:27

as opposed to some sort of industrial piping system.

1:02:30

I had an extra table that's part of this

1:02:32

little kitchen area that I could wheel over here

1:02:34

to the window, Andrew. So doing the show with

1:02:36

you today and tomorrow, I can actually like be

1:02:38

by the window, which you know I like so

1:02:40

much. I don't know

1:02:42

if this is real or not, but I feel like it smells different in

1:02:44

this room. Everything about this

1:02:47

room is better. And when I walked into

1:02:49

this room and observed it and saw what

1:02:52

was going on and realized how much more pleasant the

1:02:54

next 24 hours of my life will be, I

1:02:57

realized that

1:02:59

we are our only advocate for ourself and

1:03:02

that I need to stop trying to just be okay

1:03:04

with shit when it's not right. And I need to

1:03:06

demand a better outcome. Well, then

1:03:09

I say you march yourself right down to the

1:03:11

lobby right now and you tell Kip that you

1:03:13

want more water. Kip is the

1:03:15

only other name I can think of. Right. That

1:03:18

is, when you said that, I took that as a challenge. I'm

1:03:20

like, are there any other three letter

1:03:22

names that begin with K? And the only

1:03:24

thing I can come up with is Kip.

1:03:28

There's a right way to rock, get

1:03:30

a wrong way to roll. You

1:03:33

can just listen to your thoughts.

1:03:36

Just remember the love, this

1:03:38

number one. You

1:03:41

can be having so much fun. Just

1:03:44

remember the love, love

1:03:46

is a fun. You

1:03:49

can be not a hard to

1:03:51

love. Wait,

1:03:57

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How does Cam Chancellor's? spell

1:04:00

his name K a.m. K a.m.

1:04:02

Okay go down there and say

1:04:04

hello to Cam for us interesting

1:04:07

right we're gonna do some blurs days here

1:04:09

but I wanted to note that it

1:04:11

was listener Chris who sent in that

1:04:13

NPR tape from a morning edition Sunday

1:04:16

and yeah they were talking about some

1:04:18

sort of Luke it was about

1:04:20

the intersection of Silicon Valley

1:04:22

technology and the ecosystem

1:04:25

we got a blurs day here from

1:04:27

Sarah in Bellingham who says hey Sarah

1:04:30

please use in the pickleball district of

1:04:32

Bellingham says please wish Brian near Holler

1:04:34

Lake a happy blurs he's Haller Lake

1:04:36

Haller what I say a holler Haller

1:04:39

you hate being hollered at but

1:04:41

you love being Haller that yeah

1:04:43

yeah that's kind of my hood

1:04:45

Haller Lake he turned 50 next

1:04:47

Tuesday he's kind generous thoughtful and

1:04:49

I couldn't ask for a better

1:04:52

brother-in-law and TBTL grand progenitor Kevin

1:04:54

and I are excited to celebrate

1:04:56

his milestone this milestone with you

1:04:58

later this month enjoy

1:05:00

your birthday colonoscopy prep

1:05:03

whoa got

1:05:10

a text from a friend of ours saying

1:05:13

they're going the poopin on paper route for

1:05:15

their yes colon check yeah

1:05:18

I could have done that but I don't like half

1:05:21

measures Andrew you know as I said to this person

1:05:23

get back to me when you got a sandworm going

1:05:25

up your B hole okay

1:05:28

I'll be bit out Anya in New Hampshire you

1:05:31

know this has come up before and I apologize

1:05:33

I don't have a pronounce your hair it's a

1:05:35

n j a I think it's Anya but it

1:05:37

could be Anja in New Hampshire says happy 13th

1:05:39

birthday to Kolya yes exactly like the

1:05:41

movie was there a movie called oh yeah there was

1:05:43

oh I did not know the full I'll be called

1:05:46

Kolya I didn't know that like of

1:05:48

like of what vintage Eastern

1:05:50

European from the 90s it's about

1:05:54

a I don't think it's a dad and his son it might be

1:05:56

an uncle in his son but it's an older man and a young

1:05:58

boy I think the boy is Kolya And

1:06:00

it was a very sweet movie. 80s,

1:06:03

90s, kind of a while back, you're guessing? Yeah,

1:06:07

you can. Coleus, let's see here.

1:06:11

Let's see here. Happy 13th birthday to Colea,

1:06:13

who first listened to TVT on his way

1:06:15

home from the hospital at two days old

1:06:17

and now has become a full-fledged 10. We're

1:06:20

so proud of the kind, smart, funny

1:06:22

teen you've become. Love, Mom and Dad.

1:06:27

Oh, the

1:06:29

oddly in Connecticut, hi, the

1:06:32

oddly, says happy, what's up?

1:06:34

Third birthday to Anya Rose

1:06:36

Bruno Latte Dratal

1:06:38

Patuter. Wait,

1:06:40

what? So we've got

1:06:42

two Anya, we've got an Anya and an Anya. Spelled

1:06:45

differently, yes. No, you know what, I think I

1:06:47

pronounced this incorrectly. I'm glad you stopped me there.

1:06:49

I think this would be Ayanna. Ayanna,

1:06:52

A-Y-A-N-N-A. Happy 3rd

1:06:55

birthday to Ayanna Rose Bruno

1:06:57

Latte Dratal Patuter. Mom

1:06:59

and Dad are so proud of all your

1:07:01

hard work in gymnastics and swimming. We know

1:07:03

you're going to have so much fun in

1:07:05

preschool this year. Cheers to being three and

1:07:07

going on so many more adventures with you.

1:07:09

We love you to the moon and back.

1:07:12

Ayanna Bear. Right.

1:07:19

Andrew says, one more trip around the sun, one

1:07:21

more blurs. A shout out for my lovely wife,

1:07:23

Grace. She's a real 10 out of 10 and

1:07:26

it would really make her day if you two could give her a blurs

1:07:29

on her golden blurs day, aka the

1:07:31

birthday that falls on a Thursday. She

1:07:33

recently had a full ACL reconstruction and

1:07:35

repaired this gift. Indeed.

1:07:38

Yes, Michael. She did. From

1:07:40

a skiing accident, needless to say, she has

1:07:42

spent a lot of time with an elevated

1:07:45

leg listening to the podcast. Well, hope you're

1:07:47

feeling better, Grace. Good luck. Happy blursing. Interesting,

1:07:52

right. Leah says,

1:07:54

here's my Blurs Day message for

1:07:56

Rhoda in Portland, Oregon. Happy Cinco

1:07:59

de Cuatro. The Day road Ass.

1:08:01

I'm so grateful to have you in

1:08:03

my life and that you introduce means

1:08:05

it's he beats Yeah I don't know

1:08:07

how I would be surviving grad school

1:08:09

without It's Your alarm Amazing! Can't wait

1:08:11

to see you the summer and go

1:08:13

to Hush Wiki. Love idea why they're

1:08:15

really for whizzing some smokers in for

1:08:17

yeah I didn't get that when ready

1:08:19

they're adding this cause she wasn't as

1:08:21

you augie i think prose and I

1:08:23

see well as he is a restaurant

1:08:25

in Portland as you August I can't

1:08:27

wait to see you the summer and

1:08:29

go. To you argue sorry everyday nowhere.

1:08:32

ha she was his do I know

1:08:34

explain. I googled it briefly when I

1:08:36

through this into the i think it's

1:08:38

may be a sushi place in Portland

1:08:41

so far as also apparently some character

1:08:43

from some Psi Phi thing because the

1:08:45

as Ceo and the reference as you

1:08:48

Og is now grant him softening. Oh

1:08:50

wow oh wow. Denny's as I like

1:08:52

to wish my brother Dave a belated

1:08:55

thirty six bowlers. We come from a

1:08:57

long line of garbage. Men are family.

1:09:00

Has been in the garbage business for

1:09:02

over one hundred years to say right?

1:09:04

In a move that would surely make

1:09:06

our grandfather and great grandfather proud, Davis

1:09:08

stepped into a management position. This has

1:09:10

been in addition to being an outstanding

1:09:12

husband and father. I couldn't be happier

1:09:14

to have you as a brother. Was

1:09:17

a brother that way? Started marking. I didn't mean it. And

1:09:22

people are they. They've. Also,

1:09:25

I think that the show has really generated a

1:09:27

lot of content relevant to the interest of those

1:09:29

people I know. Last couple of years and

1:09:31

you know been of it's in a

1:09:33

really really fertile time is your profession

1:09:36

is garbage and listen to the show

1:09:38

were so much of the conversation is

1:09:40

about garbage and even the stuff that

1:09:42

isn't is garbage just using this Lucas's

1:09:44

hi build audience like beforehand all along

1:09:46

that think I'm just really that interested

1:09:48

in garbage know I read the books

1:09:50

and doing the work and getting new

1:09:52

listeners. I'm struggling with this next blurs

1:09:55

he said people are most of my

1:09:57

life. The really thrown wasn't some smokers

1:09:59

at me. They looks like.

1:10:01

Ten. Years this. I mean,

1:10:04

Spoiler Alert wants me to do an

1:10:06

impression of the hid It from the

1:10:08

Doctor Jones or with the Indiana Jones

1:10:10

movies and say Doctors. Oh wow, the

1:10:12

weight spelled out here with an accent

1:10:14

that I don't know that I'm comfortable

1:10:16

doing some intervention that the kids that

1:10:18

ended up being the man in everything

1:10:20

all at once all the time. I

1:10:23

think. So yes to that kid who

1:10:25

became that mans not white right? exactly.

1:10:27

That's why I don't think I'm gonna

1:10:29

do this exact well as it's bounds.

1:10:31

But hedging said happy Birthday to my.

1:10:33

Little as Five when mommy and Daddy

1:10:35

and is a spell that way on

1:10:37

purpose. Mommy and Daddy's your brothers and

1:10:40

Hugo revenue so much You're the boss

1:10:42

yes but also the sweetest. So we

1:10:44

just want to wish you a great

1:10:46

and Minutes has shouting. says.

1:10:51

Dr. Jones. Wrote

1:10:55

us and I would really appreciate it

1:10:57

if I could squeeze in a very

1:11:00

happy belated birthday to my best coworker

1:11:02

friend and he btl daughter Julie sees

1:11:04

the best deserves a very happy blurs

1:11:06

day after a stressful start to Twenty

1:11:08

Twenty Fourth. We love you Julie! Having

1:11:10

on always. Says

1:11:12

that the second wrote a reference during these blur

1:11:15

says you know I was going to ask you

1:11:17

that to is at the same of do we

1:11:19

have to road I mean do with only I

1:11:21

went out of yesterday road as that's right as

1:11:24

wrote is going to a dinner. With Leah and

1:11:26

the others probably the same A road A given

1:11:28

some love. Are you know going off to Julie

1:11:30

here? I mean that's the on a difference. one

1:11:32

is responsible and we have a rotting way giving

1:11:35

a blur Maybe wrote it is the new Tate.

1:11:37

Maybe we should have a wrote a reunion. Or

1:11:41

know just a union to. That would be the first

1:11:43

time. Sir. Absolutely.

1:11:46

if we have more than one rhoda reach if

1:11:48

your name is rhoda reach out to us and

1:11:50

then we're going to count how many road as

1:11:52

we're dealing with news or here on as shown

1:11:55

in yes i'm all right that is going to

1:11:57

wrap it up for today's program but i have

1:11:59

some really incredible news we're gonna be right

1:12:01

back here tomorrow for imaginary radio for you

1:12:03

and i know you're all happy to know

1:12:05

i'll be broadcasting from a hotel room that

1:12:07

i don't find completely soul-crushing and andrew will

1:12:10

be mere hours away from his

1:12:12

first ever trip to a day and busters so

1:12:14

that's true we have one and talk about that

1:12:16

there's a bibimbusters in the news this week i

1:12:18

want to talk about you and there's a bibimbusters

1:12:20

in the news of andrew's life yes i will

1:12:22

be uh... learning what a day

1:12:25

even a buster is that's right

1:12:27

so tune in tomorrow for all of

1:12:29

that here on tbq in the meantime have a great

1:12:31

thursday take care of yourself happy blurs that everybody ago

1:12:34

a little sluggers and please remember no mountain to

1:12:36

talk and good luck to all power

1:12:45

out