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I will not tolerate monkeys living on campus. If I wanted to run a monkey hotel, I'd install a banana buffet. I'd use vines as elevators, and I'd put tail holes in the bathrobes, and I'd lower all the shower knobs. Well, you've really thought this through. And now it's your turn. Brainstorm. Idea shower. Spray your solutions all over me. Well, we could seal all the vents and then pump the ducts with some kind of gas that... knocks out monkeys. Monkey knockout gas. Now that's the kind of grounded, sensible thinking I want to see this year.

TBTL! Don't you latte-sipping leeches understand? I've seen enough of these Hollywood super hunks. We need a dumpy, unappealing loser, an everyman.

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say, but if you thought a sausage couldn't really hurt anyone, frankly, think again.

I have never heard someone say so many wrong things, One after the other, consecutively, in a row. There is something about the soul of a snake.

Call Kenny Loggins, because you're in the danger zone from Top Gun. Just be careful. No. You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen, and the if that you heard was the things that these people just said.

Alright, hello, good morning. Welcome everyone to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. We're getting medium play on three independent radio stations in Central Europe. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center, high in the sky above Portland, Oregon. This song goes out to all the coffee lovers of the world. Where I am on coffee cup, I don't know, number six. In fact, I got up kind of early today, grew up a pot, and I've just been downing the stuff to the point where the coffee machine actually turned itself off. So I just went to grab some coffee right before we started the show and realized it was cold, so I put it in the microwave. I put it on that beverage setting that some microwaves have. I guess they just assume that you're putting a beverage in the microwave because you want it to be much warmer. and then, I don't know, does the sensor weigh how much liquid is in the cup? I don't understand how it knows how much to radiate or microwave or microwave the water in there. Microwave? What I know is that I took a sip of this coffee right before we started and

man... Be real careful because it's hot.

I have 7th degree burns throughout my mouth now. So this is this is going to be interesting to see if I can get through the show here on episode three thousand three hundred and forty two in a collector series. Let the fun begin. I am amped, though, from all the coffee and just from sort of residual good vibrations off of all of the goings on yesterday regarding the inauguration and the various sort of ceremonies and just all the normalcy. that seems to be happening at this moment in Washington, D.C. On Twitter this morning, I said, you know how, I think some of the listeners can identify with this, people, you know, you'll be in a dysfunctional relationship or kind of a, I guess you could say toxic relationship sometimes, and then you get out of it, and then you're, you know, there's less drama, but you kind of miss the drama. This is not that. just a nice feeling to see some normalcy going on back there uh we've got a normal episode 3 342 in a collector series ready to go for you uh and like most episodes it starts with me apologizing for something i said yesterday what an idiot speaking of the inauguration i try to just shoot from the hip i try to just freestyle some uh political and sartorial commentary and of course completely stepped in it so i will walk that back today on the show also uh a story in the new york times uh about a a tale of survival by a plucky canadian teenager who was separated from his family in the snow it's a really just a heartwarming story of survival

i'm not gonna do it girl i was just thinking about it i'm not gonna do it i mean there's just

no upside to me coming on this podcast and telling you why i think it's kind of bunk and we shouldn't be celebrating his survival, right? There'd be no reason for me to do that.

I did it.

Except I kind of think they're overplaying this. And I think the headline, Teenager Snow Cave Enters Canadian Survival Lore, I would put that right up there on the level of bunk journalism. I'd like to point out to anybody watching,

this is really bunk journalism.

And I know from bunk journalism because I practice it. all the time on this show so we'll talk about that and because it's a thursday aka blurs day we'll do some blurs day messages all of it will happen with the help of this handsome young stranger the longest running cobro of the show known for his drawings of tall ships this is how he describes his contribution to this show day in and day out it is art it is so beautiful he's andrew walsh and he's joining me right now from the roosevelt neighborhood of seattle washington Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. I am excited. No. Excited is the wrong word. I am. This coffee is still so hot. Eagerly anticipating to hear what you want to take back from yesterday's show. Because I will say, yesterday was one of those shows where it lived in my head too much. Like, I really disliked almost everything I said on the show yesterday. It all felt cringy to me. I felt like it was one of those shows where I was saying things. and the things I cared about I wasn't articulate about and the and then a lot of it was me just saying things it was like my turn to talk and so I'm interested I've been so in my own head about my own performance that I'm wondering what's been living in your head for the past 24 hours

I had a generally good feeling about yesterday's show because our friends do the stew bot texted

us to say good job on the show well he said that but that was a meta joke because you said sometimes you text chris hayes and you say good job on the a block and then stew bot said good job on the a block for our show but do you think he really meant it or he just wanted to get on get in on

the a block humor i'm gonna choose to believe that he also thought we did a good job on the show because i this is rare for me andrew i went back and listened to about half of yesterday's episode of tbtl and i was generally pleased with the vibe because i just think we sounded generally excited we were able to work in some tape which we likely didn't have the rights to use i was i felt good about it because that's not really our thing generally you know playing playing an inauguration uh kind of you know dipping in and out of the audio all of that so i felt okay about it and then at some point in the evening i think i was getting ready for bed and my friend caitlin just texted me a little link and the headline was here's why hillary clinton and kamala harris

and others were wearing purple i wondered it was the only thing i was like i wonder if he didn't like his his purple comments because you noticed that like i awkwardly did not take a bite of that

conversational you didn't awkwardly do it but i know you well enough to know that you were like you were alex trebek having interviewed somebody one of the contestants and not knowing how to respond you just went with a big i won't go there a mental i won't go there because i didn't i could hear you backing away from those comments as quickly as possible i didn't see the visual and

i just yeah i i'm not in the habit of commenting on um what people are wearing especially women but But so so what what's the story here?

Well, OK, the story starts long ago, Andrew, when a young Luke Burbank was trying to figure out how he was going to pay his bills and he started to go out for acting work. And he had an agent in Seattle who is a very eccentric woman who was obsessed with wearing purple clothing. every item of clothing that I ever saw her in was purple every scarf her glasses her homes she had multiple homes all of them bedecked in purple I once stayed at her beach place in uh like ocean shores Washington and if you open the the closets all there were were like purple shawls and hats and i started to note that there is a there is i don't i'm not going for whimsy personally i'm just talking about for myself okay fashion wise and just like home decor if if somebody says something's whimsical i'm probably that's probably not going to be something that's for me so wearing a lot of purple that's kind of a whimsical move which i absolutely support people doing it's just not probably where what i'm going to do with my fashion can i also add

one other thing here too i mean the fact that this is a we're still four years away from me getting

in my timeline to the critical point of the story but yeah this isn't much but i just want to say

that the fact that this isn't like just a one person one time thing to kind of bolster your argument a little bit is this is also a character trait of one of the main characters or maybe one of the secondary characters on breaking bad there is a a woman who is like everything is in her house there's always there's purple everywhere you can just play she's always you know accenting with purple she if she's not wearing a full uh purple outfit so anyway go ahead and i want to

say too thank you for that andrew and i really mean that i i somehow that might

have been in a season I didn't get all the way to the end of Breaking Bad but I appreciate you bringing in like filing an amicus brief on this a friend of the burbs brief kind of supporting this idea there was also a place called the Purple Store on Aurora Avenue which moved into part of what used to be Cregan's Pharmacy the pharmacy of lore in my life where I worked as a stock boy. This was like kitty corner from our house and from my dad's sign shop. You know, all of us Burbank kids spent hours of our lives in there buying penny candy. And at some point it became the purple store, which was a place that just sold things for people who really just didn't have enough purple going on in their life. And so, yeah, this has been something that's kind of been clanging around in my brain. And I guess if I'm being honest, I can't walk away or I can't separate myself from the real fact that I do think it's a little bit whimsical and silly. And so even though I don't want to I do not want to rain on anyone's parade and I really want everybody to do whatever makes them happy, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. And somebody wearing purple absolutely does not harm me at all. uh so when i saw just in the moment again andrew you heard me yesterday i was just i was on fire i was like i was the whole game had slowed down for me i was in the zone the hoop looked like it was a mile wide i was just i was really operating i think at a very very high level of podcasting as we as we watch the inauguration go on and when i saw hillary Clinton in full head-to-toe purple, my thought was, oh, she's entering that phase of life where she finds purple to just be a really, just a bold statement. Well, the link that my friend Caitlin attached, and again, this is a great way to give us feedback to tell us we're wrong, judgment-free, because Caitlin knows me. Caitlin and I have been friends forever, have worked together and are friends socially as well and she listens to the show obviously that's how she heard my mistake so she knows i'm very fragile and to just without anything seeming judgy to just be like hey here's the link this kind of explains it and the reason that hillary clinton and also kamala remember we missed kamala's swearing in um do you think it's disrespectful if we refer to her as kamala no that's so funny as you said

that i was saying like oh yeah are we going with kamala um i you know i'm not sure i don't think i I don't think – we've talked about that and the genderedness of referring to politicians by their first or last name. I think there's an interesting conversation there. But I do believe that Kamala has sort of leaned into that brand a bit in the same way Hillary did. I could be wrong about that.

It's also a frigging cool name. Yeah, right. Like, you know, it's – and I can only sort of interrogate my own heart on this matter. But I will tell you that when I say Kamala, it is with about as much admiration as I can have for a person. And so for what that's worth anyway, what I didn't realize until I looked at the link was purple is the color of the suffragist movement. So the women who were wearing purple on this very important day for our country and very important day for women, because, of course, Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is the first in about 26 categories for this position. I also wonder at what point, is there some way to just say Kamala Harris is the first at most things when it comes to the position of vice president? But Kamala Harris, among the many things that she is the first in that role, being the first woman, is huge. And that purple was being worn as a statement of solidarity with women in America and with the suffragist movement. And, of course, I just chalked it up to being whimsical. So I apologize.

I'm kind of surprised we didn't hear from more listeners on that.

I have a feeling very few people tuned into our breaking. To our breaking.

To our live coverage. And my friend Caitlin, I think very few people tuned into our breaking inaugural coverage. Listen, I was not planning on doing this today, but there's something I really, really want to do, Luke. We have a mystery on our hands. I haven't talked to you about it, but I did copy you on an email that I sent regarding this. We have a mystery surrounding a donor of the day, and we received a voicemail from someone about this yesterday, and I would love to play it for you.

Can I preface this, though, with a little old school?

Whenever there's trouble, we're better on the double. If we're moving into, you know, mystery solving. mode we've got to play the right audio well what i was about to say was why don't we take a break and then come back and then we can fire that music again yes and then i'll please i really want you to hear this voicemail but it might be a bit of a conversation and we're around break time

okay uh good call let's do that take a quick break and then we will be back with more tbtl all right let's thank some donors of the day who are making it possible for this little program to exist through their generosity we sure appreciate jenna Munoz of Friday Harbor Washington one of the most beautiful parts of the entire world Andrew if I had the kind of job where I could just work from home where I could just like sit in a room get on a computer and do my job like if I had that kind of job I'd live in Friday Harbor

Washington you'd live somewhere with more sunshine no offense to Jenna but like wouldn't you go further south wouldn't you be in like Southern California or something um well I I think Friday

harbor gets a decent amount of of sun maybe in the summertime i guess woven into that joke was the idea that uh that is what i do oh and i could live anywhere and i choose to live in rainy portland for some reason um also thanks to leo alley of washington dc leo's been right where the action has been for the last couple of days uh jeremiah cleveland is in brooklyn new york i don't know about that but then the next guest is tim brooklyn who lives in cleveland ohio

i do think i know that i've said this before on the show i think that if your last name is the name of a location you should live in that location it would just make things interesting

yeah no i think that that's actually of the 16 to 17 executive orders that president biden signed yesterday i believe the 15th pertained to that exact new rule so welcome to the socialist nanny state everyone and jeremiah uh just send us your forwarding information when you get to cleveland actually it's funny i joked that the next person is from uh uh their name is brooklyn and they're from cleveland they are from ohio they're william burton and they're in worthington oh all right ohio do you know where that is no but i'll look it up okay uh judy fetzer is in Renton, Washington. I know exactly where that is. And then, of course, Byron Orme is in Shelton, Washington. My sister lives in, well, yeah, Shelton, Washington. Yeah, I don't know if they're in unincorporated Mason County, but my sister Hannah, my brother-in-law Chris, and their beautiful children, Maddie and Mary, who have been on this very podcast, all live down there. Maybe they know Byron. Who knows? Anyway, thanks, everyone, for donating to the show. we could not do this without you have we played this yet no i can't hear it too many times

you want to know that i think this song actually makes me feel a little bit of that kind of

wistful childhood feeling and it's not because it reminds me specifically of being young it's Because my memory of hearing that theme song was it would come on in Seattle when I was watching, you know, KCTS 9, the public television station after school. It would come on at around the time when it was getting dark in the kind of worst of winter, like we're in right now, essentially. I think it had to do with when, was that part of the electric company?

Was it? I don't know. You know, it rings a bell to me, but I can't separate it from TBTL.

so I don't know if I have that was that was from the bloodhound gang was a it was it was I don't believe it was its own standalone show but it was part of some other PBS kids show that would be on after school and I remember when I would hear that song it would also be probably like 4 4 30 and it would be getting dark and I'd be getting a sad feeling because I mean just so you know Andrew this is a lifelong struggle for me like I know we've been talking about it a lot lately about light in the winter versus cold dirty snow in the winter and which is worse but like this feeling that i've had of just kind of of just a sadness that comes when it's getting dark too early in the afternoon i can trace the first i know this has nothing to do with the mystery that you want to solve i can trace the very first time i remember being conscious of this feeling was being in a wendy's on lake city way when i was probably six and sitting in this wendy's and It being, you know, 4 p.m. or whatever, 4.30, and it being dark and feeling a deep sense of sadness as a kid. And I didn't have to be anywhere. Yeah, you know what it is? Like, I was six years old. Like, I had no pressure in my life, but it made me feel instinctively sad.

It feels like the feeling you're describing is a little bit like the Sundays, like this sense of anxiety. Right, the Sunday scaries, as people like to say now. Yeah, people, I don't know why they, I've been calling them the Sundays. I've had anxiety for years. And me and my stepmom would always call it. We'd always talk about, oh, yeah, I have the Sunday. She she has an anxiety similar to me. And luckily, I have a job where I don't really get the Sundays anymore. I did get the Sundays really bad a few weeks ago. Well, it was like a couple of months ago and I couldn't figure it out. I might have even talked about in the show. It was like such a we talk about like whether or not I've ever had a real anxiety attack or what that means. But like I just remember being like I had to keep telling myself there's nothing to be anxious about. Like, you're going to dial up and talk to Luke tomorrow? Like, everything's fine? Like, everything's fine, but it just felt like just this anxiety crushing me down. And it was just like, yeah, because it's Sunday? That doesn't make sense.

Huh. There must have been something else.

Well, you were kind of being a jerk that week.

No, but I mean something unique.

Something different. Right, right. Okay, hey, mystery time? Okay, first of all, the mystery of Worthington, Ohio, it's just out. I've got to play this one. What does this song remind you of? How does this song make you feel? Let's delve into that for a little bit. Okay, the mystery. We keep adding mysteries. The mystery of Worthington, Ohio is it's right outside of Columbus, and it is home to the Ohio Railway Museum, which is one of the oldest railway museums in the world? Nope, in America.

You know that there's a little railway museum not too far from where I live now here in Portland, and I don't think it's open right now because of the pandemic. But I'll tell you what, when it opens, I've walked past it, and I made the mental note. When that thing opens, I'm checking that out, which is a pretty big indicator that I am a person of a certain age. Like, yeah, of all the things that I could do in Portland, Oregon, making sure I get right on down to the railway museum across from OMSI is a biggie for me.

You know what? The waiter doesn't need to know your name. Have you seen the latest progressive commercial where it's you're turning in your bed? I've said it before. I swear it is the best new writing on TV, comedic writing on TV right now. And the performances are like so perfect.

Sell it. I think that the casting is kind of interesting for the guy, for Dr. Is it Ron? No. Is it Ted? Whoever the doctor, whoever the guy who is sort of helping young people not become their parents, I think it's interesting that they cast someone who is the age of their parents. I guess the idea is it would be.

Oh, that's interesting. Right. Because he's mastered it. Oh, that's interesting. I think it works. It's Rick, by the way. Now I've got to be quiet, though, because Genevieve is all right outside the door.

No, but this is how I'm going to give you, by the way, we've got to. We've got an ambulance bearing down on what I'm going to call the ambulance chute that I live atop. Oh, they pulled a hard left. Okay, good. We may all be spared from that sound. One quick thing, and this is why Genevieve won't be mad, Andrew, because I want to give you some free content ideas for after these messages. I don't know if you've seen the latest. it's like a purple mattress ad but it's bringing back the original spokesperson for the purple mattress who was a a woman dressed kind of like um almost like a hansel and gretel type of look sort of in some kind of dirndl type sitch and uh i don't even i didn't even fully i had forgotten that she was the original mattress spokesperson for purple mattress her performance in this is amazing, and there is something that happens with an egg that I can't get over. It rivals anything David Blaine has ever done, so just do Google that ad later and put it on the list. I'd put it down. I would nominate it as a very, very, very successful or very compelling television ad. Okay. Back to the mystery. Can you set this up?

Do you have any theme or anything?

Yeah, we do. Sorry. Thank you. I've got it right here.

Terry Poo? Terry Poo. Terry Poo. Terry Poo. Terry Poo. Terry Poo. Terry Poo, Terry Poo, Terry Poo, Terry Poo, Terry Poo. Okay. Okay. So as we just did a few minutes ago, although I will admit it feels like several days ago, we thank the donors of the day every day. And yesterday we thanked somebody named Kayla Harris of Stockton, California. And that stood out to you because it was Inauguration Day, another Harris.

had just been sworn in as Vice President

of the United States. From Northern California.

From Northern California. Let's say the expanded Bay Area. Also, Kayla starts with a K. Kamala starts with a K. And Kayla is happy to go just by Kayla, if you want to call her that. You don't have to call her Vice President of Harris. How about Kamala? Now, listen to this voicemail that we got from Kayla. Now, Kayla has called in before. And I'm going to say something here. I'm quite sure I'm right. I recognize Kayla's voice. I feel like she's a relatively new listener of the past couple of years or so and i believe she called in um she was the first listener we had heard from who had uh taken a covid test back when covid tests were um much you know when they were still like having trouble rolling them out and they were more scarce i believe she called in and took the test and then called in again um to tell us that she was negative i'm pretty sure that it's the same kayla uh anyway this is a voicemail that we got from kayla

yesterday hi this is Kayla Harris from Stockton California um I'm listening to the donors of the day and I am a donor of the day and um I'm not a donor I not that I don't love you guys I just you know I'm balling on a budget and when COVID started did she say balling on a budget she

absolutely did which is a quote that I sent to our membership department by the way along with

my inquiry but back to Kayla here not that I don't love you guys I just you know I'm falling on the budget and when COVID started and there was no daycare I had to take time off work and I have to pay for child care since there's no schools now that I am working so don't have money not a donor of the day and so apparently I'm a donor of the day on the day that Kamala Harris also Kay Harris from the Bay Area becomes vice president and I'm actually from the Bay Area who's from the same place as Kamala Harris. And someone must have donated in my name because, like I said, not that I don't love you. That just wasn't me. So I am confused. I'm thankful for whoever donated in my name. I wish they would tell me who they are. And, yeah, this is weird. Power out.

So I sent this to our friend and colleague, Sarah.

Can I respond to that really quickly? listen if you if you're spending your money on child care drop your kids off here and then donate the money to us i'll watch them i'll let them play with randy i'm happy to provide child care for any and all listeners who need it randy is child care randy is a bad influence kayla's kids will come back home and every morning they'll send her a text to her phone that says we cannot perform our task as your children this morning which is what i hear from

randy more often than not anyway sorry keep going anyway um so i just sent this along to uh our colleague sarah at apm who handles this kind of stuff and i you know i can't be um i can't go into a lot of detail here because i need to keep people's information private i've already outed harrah uh i've already outed kayla somebody who uh got a negative covid test which i think i broke a million hipaa laws um right there but anyway um sarah at apm is also just confused uh she says I've double checked. Like, this doesn't make sense. It's I'm confused that she says that she says she hasn't donated. You know, I'm going to run this by our colleague Emily, see if she has any insight. But the best we can figure out is maybe someone did just donate and like somebody who but it would have to be somebody who knows enough about Kayla's personal information like home address and whatnot. So maybe it's somebody in Kayla's life who did this for her. Or I mean, I think that our colleague Sarah has said here that there are not, like, I think she's ruled out the fact that there could be two Kayla Harrises. Well, no, she couldn't rule that out. I mean, it could just be that there could be two Kayla Harrises in Stockton, and one of them donated and one of them didn't, and they both listened to TBTL. But I just find that very hard to believe as I say it out loud.

Yeah, I mean, that'd be awesome because that would mean that we have one more listener than we think. But knowing this show, my guess is that we're talking about this is all the same Kayla. Now, have we ruled out that it was an angel? Or you know what I mean? Like I've told this, I've referenced this story a lot on the show. But when I was a kid growing up in the evangelical Christian community, there would be these stories about like someone, someone's husband was in a car accident. And then it was a rainstorm and a little girl came to the door and said, your husband needs your help. And then they later find out that the little girl had died in a car crash herself. This was the original QAnon, by the way, which I was raised with, which are all kinds of crazy stories. I mean, is it possible that there was one set of footprints in the donors because this is when Jesus carried Kayla? Like, I don't know. I mean, can we rule out some kind of divine intervention?

Well, I will say this. Kayla sent in an email later.

feel like getting into all of this but it said something like she was driving on a dark road and somebody behind her kept flashing their lights their high beams at her and she thought that her life was threatened but then when she got home there was a hook of a donor hanging off of the rear door huh so is it did she go through like a dairy queen and maybe somebody in front

like of her paid it back but they were a 10 and then 898 other people did it and then you really hated it Andrew is it possible that's what happened I don't know that well I we've already

kind of gone into emails here early on the show so I will hold my fire on this one but if we can go through some emails tomorrow maybe I did get a funny paying it forward um uh email from a

listener david that i'll share with you tomorrow or monday that's that's a real that's uh so that's a real uh genuine mystery i mean i'm happy it happened even even if we don't have an explanation for it yeah because that was fun that we had a listener who had i mean the most tenuous of all connections to kamala harris in that they have a similar but fairly common last name and they're both from the bay area or as my friend shireen would call it the yask area so but it was still fun it just felt like it felt like kismet it felt like when i thought i heard uh a cover of a weird

owl song at whole foods last night andrew do you want to talk about that i mean it's relatable

so boring to the listeners because it's just it's just so so weirdly specific but i um i was watching a jeopardy rerun last night and uh i'm still working my way through the alex trebek stuff mostly like i'm just not quite ready to say goodbye to that era of my life so out of

curiosity did you only watch the first ken gen one and then go back or are you like i've watched

two ken gens and i like them but um like i i don't find them to be inferior products it's just that i still have some of the like like there was there was this kind of i don't know three month period of time where Alex Trebek was still hosting that I just didn't watch. I think because I was moving and my schedule in Bellingham just didn't allow me to watch it as regularly as I am now catching up on them. But anyway, Alex Trebek was talking to somebody about how they'd met Weird Al, and he mentioned that Weird Al attended the first ever Jeopardy Christmas party, and this contestant had said that he ran into Weird Al somewhere at a fundraiser, and they took a selfie together because Weird al had written a song called i lost on jeopardy i heard that i heard that reference and i thought oh that just sounds like some silly weird al song that he would write kind of like the um i want to buy me a condo i want to buy me a cuisinart like a weird al original not a parody song not based on another song no just a song because weird al i mean al yankovic is a nerdy person and so i could see him just writing a song about going on jeopardy and it not going well and that was where my brain filed it away and then i go to whole foods to get some i'm not gonna lie cookies and vanilla flavored almond milk at nine o'clock at night andrew because i am because my body is a temple and uh they're playing a cover like a more soulful cover of i lost on jeopardy and i just thought who would ever record a cover of a weird owl song and also i can't believe this just got referenced an hour ago in my life and now i'm hearing it it's just another one of these kismet things and i was so excited by this event that i had to tell you about it today before the show and then we figured out that no i was just listening to the original song that weird al song

is a parody of yeah and i think that i'd gone down this road personally before because the same song i think so and i had just kind of forgotten the details because this is off of one of the i think I had two main Weird Al records or like you know cassette tapes and one of them was Weird Al in 3D which was in which was from 1983 so that was already pretty old those references those pop songs were already pretty old for me now some of them had a lot of staying power the original songs that he was parodying so I still knew them but then there were some other songs on here and I think it's got two originals like you said he'll throw those in there so any song I didn't recognize I assumed was an original Weird Al song. And I think I went into my adulthood too before I realized that the song I Lost on Jeopardy is indeed a parody song of this. The song is called Jeopardy by the Greg Kin Band.

We'll see you, baby.

it would though you raise an interesting question though would it be interesting to start a weird l cover band where you just cover you do all of his versions of right originals and parody songs

but but but most interestingly someone's very serious soulful cover of like a surgeon yes right right right where you like because that's what i thought i was hearing was an unironic interpretation of a weird owl song that was just being performed by somebody who was like this song is so good that we should do our version of it and now i'm hearing it in a whole foods off of burnside in in portland do you think now i'm i'm into the lyric i'm trying to figure out the

lyrics of this song oh yeah or the greg kin band i mean did they do anything else where were you

when i needed you well you could not be found what can i do oh i believed in you you're running me around well you can take it as a warning or take it any way you like it's the lightning not the thunder you never know where it's gonna strike our love's in jeopardy our love's in jeopardy don't be cute don't be funny now it's later than you think oh what's the use save your money now It's hanging on the brink. I just feel like from a coherence standpoint, which I don't think is even a way you can use that word. I find these lyrics to be a little kind of all over the place.

I'm not a big lyric guy, but let's, let's get into. Actually, you know what's funny is I could never tell what he was saying as a kid. I'm just remember this. I always thought he said, I took don't worry for 400, but it's potpourri. I took potpourri, which is that's a common category.

It used to be. I think it's less so now, but yeah, definitely kind of one of the Jeopardy classics. Like I wouldn't know what potables were if it weren't for Jeopardy.

Oh no, I went back too far. Just deal with it.

And then my mind went blank. I took potpourri for 100. And then my head started to spin. Well, I'm giving up the part, oh, just tell me now what I didn't win.

I like the production of Weird Al so much more. I mean, maybe he's got to make sure that his vocals are more clear and they cut through because what he's saying is maybe more important. But that other one is produced. You can't even tell what they're saying. It's just like in this bath.

You know what it really sounds like to me? No reason. Nobody got up this morning going, I hope that they drag the Greg Kin band on TBTL. You know what? They had it too good for too long, as you might say. I'm going to find myself in another situation where I get a bunch of people telling me that I said something unkind for no reason, much like I did about Hillary's purple outfit yesterday. But I feel like the original song is also a little bit in the neighborhood of a Steely Dan ripoff. like it sounds like there was a lot of Steely Dan on the radio and somebody said let's write a song that has some elements of Steely Dan in it and that'll be popular and it sounds like it was so they were stealing from Dan ooh Steely spelled differently Dan could that be a I wanted to say Ballin' on a Budget could be a show title today too

I remember somebody said that to me one time I found it so irritating I'm trying to remember who, they were like, what, are you balling on a budget? And I was like, no, I'm just curious what, I can't remember the details. Good story, Walsh. Hey, Luke, what do we got for top stories?

Hello, and welcome to Top Story. Because I haven't, you know, been enough of a rain cloud today about various topics, because i haven't dragged a band from the late 1970s the outfit chosen by uh the uh one-time senator from new york i was trying to think of if you're describing hillary clinton how do you list because all of these things i believe will definitely being the first lady of the united states i think that's like a lifetime title right and i believe being an ambassador being secretary

of state though i think that's gotta be it right like if you choose one i think you would choose secretary I think so I could be wrong and I think if you were to meet her you would you would open with madam secretary until she you know told you to call her something else I think that's a title that you would call her first well anyway I of course

besmirch the madam secretary i've been i've been being pretty negative today and i'm going to just keep that rolling by telling you why i think this headline from the new york times teenagers snow cave enters canadian survival lore where i think that's bunk journalism i you know me i love a good drama in real life big fan of the readers digest uh when i was a kid although i don't think that there's a definite article in front of it i believe it's just readers digest um so when i saw this headline i was like let's go and then i read it and i found the story less than compelling um in canada a country of rugged snow-covered mountains and frigidly cold weather there have been extraordinary tales of winter survival there was the story of john gow who in 1969 survived a plane crash and five days in the mountains of british columbia then there was two-year-old Rulo, the two-year-old, excuse me, in Rulo, Saskatchewan, who in late February 1994 was found frozen on her doorstep after five hours in minus eight degree Fahrenheit weather, but miraculously lived. And now there is Robert Waldner, a 17-year-old chess-loving teenager who built an elaborate snow cave shelter in British Columbia last weekend after getting stranded on a mountain. It is a feat of survival. So I am, like, really ready for this story, Andrew. Like, I am now excited to hear about how this kid managed to stay alive. And then I keep reading, and with every new detail in the story, I am less impressed with this tale of perseverance. So what happened was it was a Saturday and Robert Waldner and his family were out snowmobiling. And at some point, his dad went up ahead to find his brother and this kid who is six foot four and a high school athlete. So already I'm I'm saying this is a kid who's rugged, right? Six foot four high school athlete. this is a kid who is probably in pretty peak condition he's also on a snowmobile he's on a mechanical device that moves you around across the snow i also hate those things they're very loud and bad for nature so that's and of course this one he's on is like neon orange so his dad goes up ahead and he realizes that he has now become separated from his family because he keeps going. I should say actually what happened was his dad fell back to find his brother and this kid keeps going and realizes now he's gotten out of touch with where his family is. He turns around to try to go back to find his dad and his sibling and he then becomes nervous because he's going along a kind of a steep hillside and it feels unsafe to him. So instead he drives his mechanical snow crossing vehicle

down across a meadow to some trees. and when he gets down to the trees he decides to build a snow cave there andrew now listen building a snow cave sounds hard i couldn't do it i'm sure my hands would get very cold but he manages to build this snow cave which is pretty cool uh well how does he do it well as i mentioned in the article using a snow shovel he had a snow shovel on his machine that drives you across the snow so he not unlike probably a lot of us did as kids for fun in the snow Used a shovel that he had He didn't use his bare hands He didn't fashion something out of a tree Alone style He used a snow shovel that presumably was Lashed to his snow machine And then built this snow cave He was nervous though, Andrew Why? Because his cell phone was on low power Well, that would make me anxious I mean, that makes me nervous when I'm just in Portland So in fairness, that is a nail-biter his cell phone which did not now in full transparency his cell phone did not have a signal but it was on low power but let me just point out he had a cell phone that had power on it and he had a machine that drives you across the snow to places he left his snowmobile out in the meadow so that rescuers could see it more easily which was a smart move he built this snow cave. He said it took him two hours, Andrew. Two hours. It's uncomfortable, though. You're both cold and sweating at the same time because you're bundled up. I mean, that's a bad feeling. I don't think this was a good feeling for him, but I'm not hearing drama in real life when I hear about the hearty, rugged, young, full-of-life person who has a motorized snow transportation device and oh let's also mention a full ass snowsuit I've seen a picture of him in the snowsuit on the snow machine yeah

how did he set this up as a selfie like he he I'm looking at this too is this like oh maybe this is this photo of him in the snowsuit is before he gets separated yeah I don't think he took a selfie

while he was there and also I don't want to say I and it sounds like I'm trying to drag this kid I don't think this kid did anything wrong I think but I think it's just this is a story that has gotten a little bit overblown and i don't blame the kid he got lost he built a snow shelter you know he he was okay he was also if you notice what he's holding in his hand in this picture andrew i don't know if it's the same ham sandwich as he had half of still left one of the things i mentioned in the article is he was nervous because his phone was on low power and didn't have a great signal and he only had half of a ham sandwich left well i got it okay here's the deal like

Like, and again, I know you're not going after the 17-year-old. You're going after the media for maybe writing this up. This is in the New York Times, I think you mentioned. But I will say that, like, if I was ever in a situation where I only had half a sandwich left, and I mean, like, just in my car outside of Tubbs and I only got half a sandwich left. Like, I'm going to be—

Like, that's your walking sandwich.

You need that. You need that between the car and the line at Tubbs when you're ordering your next sandwich. Right. Right. But no, I mean, I do think that this was probably very harrowing for him in many ways. And I know that you're not arguing that.

I'm not saying, well, here's the thing, Andrew. The quote from him, he said, I also thought I would be rescued. I was more bored than scared. Okay. There you go. I mean, that's a relevant quote from the person in question. I'm just saying when I hear about a tale of survival, it rarely involves a vehicle that will drive you out of the situation and half of a ham sandwich. It's only half, man. That's what I'm really stuck on here. Now, I wouldn't – if I were in this kid's situation, I wouldn't be feeling great about it. He did say that he built this snow shelter and that he was shivering. He couldn't – he was trying to sleep, but he couldn't because it was very cold. so i don't think it was like this was um the greatest situation for this kid to be in and i'm again very glad that he was rescued but the two hours after he went missing his dad figured out that he was gone that must have been really scary for his his dad and his mom and i mean that they alerted the officials and by 10 43 that night they found him This whole thing unfolded over the course He was like out of pocket for Four to five hours with his half Of a ham sandwich in his snow cave With his Snowmobile parked outside it

In defense of the New York Times I am also seeing that this is part of their Ongoing series Boredom in Real Life So I feel like it's right there I mean it's clear what they're doing Actually the next one Might be about this show so I should be careful

there uh robert said he was relieved when the rescuers found him at 10 43 p.m i was quite joyful he said adding that being a hockey player had helped him to stay focused and calm wait he's

okay now this is the this is the first thing i've um i've latched on to in the story is he the 17 year old used the word joyful yeah he's a chat he's into chess he sounds like a very bright kid yeah i mean not only like i almost meant like i almost wondered like who says joyful i mean whether you're smart or not like that we don't hear i was how did you feel when you got out i

was joyful it doesn't sound like he sounds like a real renaissance kid i'm not even kidding part of what they liked about the snow cave which also there are no like there's one picture of the outside of the snow cave because why well it was a stressful situation and when they found him i'm sure he wasn't like hey let me go in and photo document my snow cave yeah right which i take that as a positive i take it as that indicates that this was a situation that they didn't feel great to this young man right right but there's they talk about him building shelves in the snow cave as a frequent hgtv viewer i wanted to see the show what do you call it you have uh um when the shelves are built you have built-ins that's awesome he had built-ins in his snow cave um i think that's probably where he placed his ham sandwich and his cell phone on one of his built-ins like i i was very let down that there are no pictures of the built-ins in the snow cave and i just was i was just expecting a much more dramatic tale of survival the sense i have is i mean maybe it wouldn't have been the greatest idea maybe you know he made the right decision in about every single way he didn't continue driving the snowmobile on a cliff side that felt steep he left it out in the open so that the rescuers could see it he built the snow cave he was you know i mean he did everything right but i also feel like if things had gotten especially really bad. Couldn't he have got on the snowmobile?

just driven to a road somewhere well was he um was he lost though like he i mean that is yes he was that is a feeling like i you just don't know which direction to go into and i had a moment i mean this is the fact that i'm even that i even have the gall to share this stupid little story while we talk about this is it unmitigated uh survival what's that i rarely hear the word gall

without the without unmitigated oh really that's preceding it you know i mentioned pairings like

that just as a brief aside in the newsletter this week because i used the word scurrilous to describe rumors i said something like i hope they're just scurrilous rumors it's just a sentence i wrote in the newsletter then i wrote you ever hear scurrilous not connected to rumors like that's just one of those and i remember on a podcast i listened to slate's political gab fest like two or three years ago probably more because i think i was in my wallingford apartment i remember them referencing some online like somebody tweeted out a list of words that are only used in pairings with another specific word like we've just gotten to the i don't know if it's laziness or whatever it is um and i looked all over for that and i could not find it it was just something that i heard in passing on a podcast years ago and i want to find that again because i i didn't i don't connect with the one that you just is what was the one that you just unmitigated gall i think of mitigated gall see i always think of unmitigated disaster it was an unmitigated disaster i don't know if i've heard it out of that context anyway whatever anyone's gonna say

after unmitigated it's not gonna be good it's not it's never like it was an unmitigated success

i was unmitigated joyful um that's not how sentence structure works anyway there is this really dumb moment when i was um at the grand canyon genevieve was going on like a real hike She, I think I mentioned that she hiked all the way down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back up in a day. I couldn't do it because of my fear of heights. And, you know, it's like one of those switchback trails. There was ice on the trail. It's a very populated trail called the Angel Back Trail or something along those lines. People are probably familiar with it. But we knew that that was going to be Genevieve's day. And I was, you know, I went on a little walk of my own. And so I walked about five miles down this thing called the Rim Trail. The one that scared me in one direction was less scary in another direction. And so I just had a nice catching up on my Levitard shows and walked for quite some time. But I didn't want to. The trail goes on for 13 miles. And when I had my fill, I didn't want to just stop in my tracks, turn on my heel, and walk back on the same, like, trail that I had come. And I looked down at my Google map and I see that where I am on the trail right now is very close to a road in the park system. And I know that the park system roads are not the perfect thing to walk on because they don't have sidewalks or whatever. But I was like, well, let me just cross this little bit of woods here and I will get to the road in, you know, probably 100 steps or so or maybe less. I thought I would just like on the map, it looked so close. It looked like the trail and the road were coming together. And at one point, I just had to cross this little band of trees. And even with my phone, which has like this little compass function on the map app, I'm crossing these trees. And it just doesn't seem to end when I think it's going to end. Like I'm like, the road should be right here. I should be able to pick up a stone and throw it and hit the pavement of the road. But it just kind of kept going. And I had this this very, very low level, but this low level panic starting to kind of creep into me like like a like a spider's web or something. And I that's not a good example. But, you know, when something starts kind of creeping over you just like a little bit, you can kind of picture it going through your veins. and um i just kept going and going and maybe it you know what i thought was going to be one minute ended up being 10 minutes or something but how much sandwich did you have left i had zero sandwiches left i had a half a bottle of water um and i'm just like i'm looking at the map like my phone is still you know fully powered and i have connectivity at least for the gps so i see that i i think i'm getting closer and closer to the road later on i would look at my app that kind of tracks my exercise and i see that i was walking kind of um i didn't make a straight cut across the woods i was going with my gut instead of the compass on the phone because that's what you're

supposed to do in the woods um and my gut is terrible trust your gut yeah and so i'm just like walking kind of like in the not the least but not the most accurate direction back to this road which is why it's taking longer and longer but like there's snow there right and i'm just wearing cheap tent and I'm just wearing my like my Nike running shoes and I'm just like the snow's kind of getting deeper. and the only footprints around that I see are deer hoof footprints and I'm just starting to get that feeling of like oh god and growing up in the country and going on weird little adventures as a kid in the woods you always feel like you're one step away from getting lost forever and living with bears so I can just imagine what this panic that this kid must have been feeling

yes I want to I've already said it like four different ways I want to be clear I'm so happy that this turned out well and I'm I can it this must have been scary for this kid um and i i'm i particularly like if i was his parents if you know if addy were to go missing i would be terrified um in the same situation so i'm very very glad about this outcome i just can't imagine that this story has now entered canadian survival lore i feel like at this moment there are a hundred people who are lost in a sketchier situation than this guy in Canada at this very second there are people who are like eating sap off of the side of a tree somewhere in the Yukon like when they do emerge from the forest will have a quite harrowing tale of survival this just doesn't seem like one of them there's a right

way to rock and a wrong way to roll you can't just listen to your soul just remember that Life is number one. You can be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be number one.

How much can you hear my chair kind of cracking? It's more cracking than creaking. I'm a large man. Is it skipping or skipping? Do you hear that a lot? Does it drive you crazy? No, I never hear it. Okay.

Hey, can I just mention one thing for tomorrow's show, a little preview? Yeah. You know how you had said you were looking for that list of words that are always associated with other words? Yes. I know the people that you need to ask. And they host a public radio show that I just found out about when I was in San Antonio Hill Country. That is the most public radio show I have ever heard, and I love it. And I'm going to tell you about it tomorrow.

Oh, okay. Sounds good. I thought you were going to say that I should reach out and then see if they get back with me by tomorrow's show.

No, no, no. I'm sure they're very busy. They're probably responding to a lot of queries. But I'll tell you about it tomorrow. But I have a new favorite public radio show, which sounds like a parody of a public radio show, but it's not, and it's kind of great.

And are we going to play that tape of that new Lions coach tomorrow, too? See, your show sheet's already done. Take the rest of the day off, burbs.

Go snowmobiling with half a sandwich. You've got the afternoon to yourself.

All right, it is time for some Blur's Day's first one. Oh, I didn't share these with you. Do you want to go back and forth again? I could email them to you now.

I mean, does it feel to you like I've been, you know, I don't know, stealing your sunshine?

Do I seem like the kind of guy who wants to do more work or less? Just generally speaking, what's my vibe?

Well, I mean, the fact that you didn't send the list to me today, I can't help but interpret that as anything other than a passive-aggressive move for you to retake full control of the Blur's Day messages.

No, it is true, because that's what the people want. They're like, more Andrew stumbling through the blurbs. No, okay, here's the first Blur's Day. You should have the list in your hands now. I got it. I'm going to launch this ship here today with Tim, who says, I'd love to wish a happy Blur's Day to my herzband, Alan. The first TBTL I heard was with that lady talking about going on different online dates every day for a year. That's Kate, right? Our friend Kate.

Wow. Date with Kate. Yes. What a blast from the past.

Tim says, her story inspired me to get out there and meet my man. The rest is gay history. Try as I might to become Alan's TBTL daddy. He's still an 11, but he'll always be the perfect 10 to me. love you so much my wife that's to Alan from Tim I love that that is a TBTL you know there's a bit of a there's a grain of TBTL in that origin story

yeah I mean really like had Tim not heard Kate aka dates with Kate talk about putting herself out there he may have never met his husband yeah

TBTL better have been mentioned in the vows that's all I'm saying and in their will yes We brought them together

Tim and Alan, please remember TBTL

And your estate planning

Lori says I'd like to wish a happy pandemic Buller's Day to my real And 10 friend Amanda G

Sadly, we aren't seeing each other in person since we can't have choir rehearsals and Ragnar was canceled this last summer. But I'm hoping things are better by your next birthday, Amanda. Also, choir and Ragnar, that's range.

That is range for these people. That's a superhero movie, right? Like Ragnar Rock? But it's also a running thing. Like it's kind of Iron Man-y, right? Yeah, exactly.

I don't know all of the rules of Ragnar I just know that I see people with Ragnar stickers it's very big up in Bellingham as well a lot of people Ragnaring and you know I have to say Laurie I'm sad that you and Amanda G can't hang at choir rehearsal but if we learned one thing early in the pandemic it's that that's maybe the most dangerous thing that we can be doing is singing choral music

I guess singing choral music while you're like working out on a treadmill and just like breathing heavy and just trying to, like, spray your sweat all over the place. That's the worst.

Well, happy Blur's Day, Amanda. And, Laurie, thanks for checking in.

And I'll just say on a personal note, my apologies for saying the phrase spraying sweat in your Blur's Day. My gift to you next year will be to not do that. Sarah from Hampton, Illinois, says, I would like to give the biggest and happiest Blur's Day. It's not a competition. I'd like to give the biggest and happiest Blur's Day to my sweetest five, Roman, who is officially a teenager this week. You are my best friend, the sweetest older brother to Harper, the funniest younger brother to Lola, and someone I'm proud of every single day. I'm so thrilled to have a 10 at the dinner table to share inside jokes with. That is so sweet. That's adorable.

Happy Blur's Day, Roman. Also some solid kid names in that Hampton, Illinois family. Lola, Roman, and Harper. Yeah, that's good. Lindsay from Walla Walla says, I would like to wish my partner in quarantine, crime, and life, Eric, a very happy Blur's Day this week. I have to hit pause here and just ask what crimes and have the statutes of limitation expired because, you know, we are duty bound to report any and all crimes that are mentioned in the Blur's Days. I mean, that's all. You just don't tell us because once we hear it, we have to call the authorities. You don't open your mouth till you know the shot. That's right. Is that even the line?

That's the line. Is that the line? That's Ricky Romo. You don't open your mouth until you know the shot. I really thought that I was getting one of those things where it's like, sort of close. You don't open the door till you know the quote. Anyway.

Well, that too.

Yeah, right.

I'd like to wish Eric a very happy Blur's Day this week. He has made this past year not just bearable, but sometimes downright fun. I can't imagine doing life without you. Really looking forward to all the adventures this next year will bring. Happy Blur's Day from Lindsay, Luna Tuna, and Luna Tuna 2.

I love Luna Tuna 2.

Luna Tuna 2 is quite a name. It's so fun to say. Luke, I'm going to skip ahead one. So you'll take the one in between here. I can follow along. Yeah, but I want to do this one from Ryan. because Ryan is an IRL friend of mine. And, of course, this is Ryan from New Hampshire who put together one of the most amazing winter games of all time. It was the New Hampshire quiz. Oh, yeah. And Ryan sent me a really nice note today, including a Blur's Day to his wife, and I will also say my friend Sarah. Ryan says to Sarah, Last year brought some of the most challenging, bizarre, and sad moments in our life together, but you've shined like a star as we embraced each other through each one. Your support, love, and constant encouragement have made all the difference for me and the kids. We love you. Love Ryan, Nate, Andy, Kayla, and Sadie. That's very sweet.

Damn, that's a lot of kids.

Yeah, I love those guys.

Are those all children?

Well, I mean, some are teenagers now. Right, but I mean, those are like two of them are cats. Oh, right. Those are all human offspring. I believe so, yes.

Wow. That's quite a family. And it sounds like quite an awesome loving family I was wondering, Andrew, if you Because that quiz that Ryan put together Was amazing It was multimedia-based It was clever But also, it made you confront the fact That you had forgotten about a Chinese restaurant That had karaoke And I know those are the kind of things I imagine when you were almost getting lost in the Grand Canyon Right underneath your Am I going to die out here That thought was How could I have not remembered that place that I had been to in New Hampshire or had at least driven by.

Well, I had been to it a couple of times. I actually got more joy from that because I would have totally forgotten about it. It wasn't a place. It was a place that was like a regular hangout for us that had, like, you know, escaped my memory. It was a place that it kind of made sense that I didn't have a super strong memory of it. But when I did get the memory, it was very it was very pleasant. In fact, when we got done recording that show, I ran out and told Genevieve. I'm like, you remember that place? We'd every now and then do karaoke in the basement. So anyway, well, happy Blur's Day, Sarah. And it's really nice to be in touch with you guys.

A time bandit named Taya Says I don't know any 10s in real life So I was hoping to wish myself A happy Blur's Day Which of course Is a perfectly acceptable thing to do On this show Taya Happy Blur's Day The thing is I'm kind of a time bandit In real time it's not actually my birthday But if I've done my math right I probably haven't I should be hearing this on my actual birthday. I wonder if Taya nailed this. My mind hurts even trying to think about it. I know. It's basically like you're sort of, it's like when you're programming the shows to upload to the internet on a delay, Andrew, like when the winter games are happening and you're trying to just kind of do all the math perfectly so that the thing deploys at just the right moment. I wonder if Taya has actually played this right. So Taya is hearing this on their birthday.

Yeah, I hope so. I mean, Taya would have to be doing, you know, we have no idea where Taya is on, you know, as far as time banding is concerned. Is it a year back, two years back, just a month or two?

Taya, have you heard our inaugural coverage yet? It was incredible. Ignore the stuff about Purple. Do you want me to cut that out? Could you cut all that out? all right happy blurs day everyone um did you have any thoughts on a song to go out with today andrew or should we go with the standard what do you go with the standard so that i don't um fumble

around too much here um unless you want to go out with the song uh strictly business by ll cool j

which was the last thing i was listening to wow surprising choice i'm gonna go with words by doves that sounds like anti cool j it's not i just it's you know i wonder if i'll if i wonder if i will re-engage with an ll cool j phase that's happened with some other artists where i was into them like i was really into ll cool j when i was in middle school luke's love cool j and then there became famously and then there just became a point where it was like i'm not gonna go like actively listen to probably a lot of LL Cool J but like that's you know like Tears for Fears I'm now like listening to because I just want to hear their music I got really into that song Big Country by the band Big Country so there are certain songs and bands that I like have gotten back into not even ironically just like I like this is quality music so maybe I'll maybe that'll happen with me and and Mr. Cool J well it's not going to start if you don't let me play

Business to Business or whatever the hell that song was. Sure. I don't know. No, we don't have to play that. We can go out with Words by Doves. I have no...

Well, no, listen, we have to go out with that LL Cool J song. Is it appropriate, though? It's not like... Yeah, I think it's fine. He's usually... I have to say, yeah, LL Cool J is... He's savvy. Like, he's usually just kind of, you know, got some entendre. I mean, Milky Cereal is the dirtiest song ever that literally doesn't say anything bad.

Mm-hmm. I'm actually looking. I'm trying to think if we should play a more popular song. I will say this. I'm not some huge fan of LL Cool J's music, but I am a fan of just his steez. Are we still saying that? Like he just seemed like he would be pretty high on my list now that I think of it. I don't think about this a lot, but like of celebrities who just seemed like they would be fun and chill to be around. He seems like a legitimately just nice, fun person. And I think that wasn't there a period where he was kind of hosting some award shows? I feel like he's got great talent for that, but we're not seeing enough of that from him.

Because he's busy being one of the crime fighting rappers. Oh, he is. There's a whole pipeline. He's a procedural, right? Yeah, he's solving crime somewhere. Ice-T is, you know, cracking wise and solving crimes. That's maybe it. I don't know if Flava Flav has a show that we don't know about.

Well, Queen Latifah has a new one coming out.

She's a new friggin' equalizer, dude. Right.

And wasn't she also in a procedural before that? I could be wrong about that.

I just, yeah, it's like all the hip-hop artists from, you know, from my sort of, like, childhood and middle school and high school years are all now out there solving crimes and righting wrongs. And it just makes you wonder, you know, if, you know, what will be happening with who's the rapper who's even relevant?

What about Post Malone? Will Post Malone be...

you know trying to uh get fingerprints off of a cigarette butt will they even have cigarette butts posty will they be able to uh cover his face tattoos with makeup or will that just be part of the character right maybe everybody will have those face tattoos by then anyway

yeah here we go strictly business all right and that's how tbtl is known this is a strictly business operation and we thank all of you for being a part of it as listeners as donors by Telling your friends about it Forcing your children to listen to it It's all helpful So thanks We'll be back here tomorrow With more imaginary radio For you Sorry I paused because I just saw something That said actually Dakota Johnson lied about loving limes So we have another top story tomorrow We've got something else to promote For tomorrow's show It's for something called eTalk On Twitter So you know it's good See you tomorrow Until then please remember No mountain too tall And good luck to all

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Strictly to the top

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