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#3343 Well, We Know You're Good At Liming
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

#3343 Well, We Know You're Good At Liming

from TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

January 22, 2021 | 01:07:45 | Leisure, Comedy

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Andrew's quixotic quest to find his favorite Dick Clark radio show takes him on an audio adventure while Luke discovers his new favorite public radio show of all time. Plus, Dakota Johnson was just kidding when she said she loves limes. But shouldn't we already have known that?
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00:00:00 - 00:00:49 | Speaker 1:

Tell me about yourselves. What sort of music do you guys like? Rock? Yeah. Funk? Yes. Country? Yeah. Hairband? Yeah. Yes. Synth? Yeah. Blues? Yes. Jazz? Yes. Yes. Jazz fusion? Yeah. You like sports, Jermaine? No. Brett, sports fan? Not really. Brett, you read? Yeah. What do you read? I read the newspaper. Yeah. Favorite part of the newspaper, Jermaine. What is it? What? Favorite part of the newspaper. What is it? What is it? Pages? Nope. Uh, articles? Mm-mm. I don't really have a favorite part. Brett, you got a favorite part of the newspaper? Um, I like the stories about animals when they've escaped from the zoo. Cool. So you guys got any questions you want to ask me? No. No. Okay, so I'll flip it back. You guys have a girl mustache.

00:00:49 - 00:00:53 | Speaker 2:

T! T! T! B!

00:00:53 - 00:00:56 | Unknown:

T! T! T!

00:00:56 - 00:01:01 | Speaker 1:

Uh-oh! Guess what day it is! Somebody tell me, uh-oh, what day is it?

00:01:01 - 00:01:07 | Speaker 5:

It's Friday. Friday got to get down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend.

00:01:07 - 00:01:20 | Speaker 6:

Were you just using a synthesizer? Nope. So you mean to tell me that all of those sounds were coming from your body? Yup. I'm the president of rap music, and I need to work with you right away. Target, target.

00:01:20 - 00:02:56 | Speaker 3:

Okay, T-Bone, time for some serious crunching. All right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Friday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. I heard about that thing on the AM radio. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center high in the sky above Portland, Oregon, where it is looking like it's going to be a nice day. I found out last night we were doing a little happy hour, a kind of a Zoom radio and video show, if you will, for LiveWire Radio, my other job. And I was waxing rhapsodic about how great the weather has been here. I mean, comparatively, I should say, here in Oregon, compared to Bellingham, Washington, the Bay City, or Seattle, or other places in the Northwest I've lived. I think I underestimated how much drier it was going to be, how much sunnier it might be here in Portland, because we're a little bit inland. And then someone explained, no, we're having an unusually dry winter. In fact, this is probably problematic for the snowpack, and this is not how it normally is. So I'm going to try to just enjoy it, I guess, while it lasts. I hope you all are ready to enjoy episode 3,343 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. If I say the name Dakota Johnson, I'm sure what comes into your head immediately is her well-known love of limes.

00:02:56 - 00:03:02 | Speaker 1:

I love limes. I love them. They're great. I love them so much, and I like to present them like this in my house.

00:03:02 - 00:03:52 | Speaker 3:

If you go to her Wikipedia page, it's like noted lime enthusiast. Four or five entries down is like major motion picture star, things like that. But it's mostly about the limes for her. And now, really tough news on what's otherwise been, I think, a pretty great week in the news. And that is that she may not love limes as much as she said she did. Well, we know you're good at lying. Liming? If you lie about limes, is it lying? Everybody just play, I cannot believe you just told that joke. You just play that in your head for yourself because that was very bad. And I apologize. I'm going to get that out of my system early so that we can have a successful show here. Speaking of successful radio shows, I have found the most public radio show to ever public radio.

00:03:52 - 00:03:59 | Speaker 4:

My guest today is author Leslie Knope. The book, Pawnee, The Greatest Town in America.

00:03:59 - 00:04:24 | Speaker 3:

And I am loving it. So I'll tell you about that little find. And, of course, we'll do music for your weekend. because it is a Friday. We'll do all that with this guy, the longest-running co-bro of the show. He may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships, capturing their grace and power. He is joining us from the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He is Andrew Walsh. Hello, my friend. Good morning.

00:04:25 - 00:04:42 | Speaker 2:

Good morning, Luke. Okay, I just got to ask this now at the top of the show. I tried to tell you I was going to work this conversation into the show later, but I got nothing else to start with here, And I don't want to spoil your segment about your new favorite public radio show, which I'm excited to hear about.

00:04:42 - 00:04:46 | Speaker 3:

We can just do that right here at the top of the program. But can we start?

00:04:46 - 00:05:21 | Speaker 2:

Because here's where I'm going with this. I want to ask. I think I might be able to figure out which show this is. I'm going to run a couple of show titles by you. Shows that I just came across this morning while trying to investigate the. disappearance of dick clark's rock roll and remember which had been in syndication up until this past august uh our local station kicksy radio of course aired it as other stations around the country and then it uh stopped uh you know it ceased production of course he he ceased production several years ago um not to laugh at a man's death but he's been gone but it's been in syndication

00:05:21 - 00:05:39 | Speaker 1:

he had a good run he had a great run he had like anybody if anybody got wrung if anybody was able to ring as much out of life as possible in terms of being a public figure and an entertainer and beloved. It was one Dick Clark. So, yeah.

00:05:39 - 00:07:00 | Speaker 2:

Yeah. So anyway, so that show is gone. I went on this whole journey where I just wanted to see if people were complaining about it on Twitter, which is a weird thing I do. Like when my sports team is losing, it gives me comfort to see other people are having similar emotions. So I turned to Twitter for that. So I just typed it into Twitter today and I did see a couple of other dorks in the country. Like, in the past, like, however many months it's been since August and its cancellation, there's been, like, two tweets about it. Neither one of them, you'll be surprised, is from me. And it's people, like, trying to contact their local radio station saying, why is this gone now? There are dozens of us. Dozens! There are twos of us. Twos! And according to WTOB, 980 AM, I'm not sure exactly where they're based, they had to let a listener know that. Well, we know that they're east of the Mississippi. Because it's W. Yep. Yeah. So they are the ones who pointed out that United Stations Network is the organization that was producing them posthumously, and they have ceased production. So I decided to go to United Stations Network to see what else they are putting their resources in. Don't have time to put together Rock, Roll, and Remember anymore? What are you doing over there? What are you putting together? And I would like to know if any of these shows are the show you're talking about in Texas. Is one of them Forget About It with Vinny Pastor and his good friend Goomba Johnny?

00:07:01 - 00:07:02 | Speaker 1:

Oh, my God.

00:07:02 - 00:07:18 | Speaker 2:

I cannot believe that you guessed it on the first try. Oh, that almost ruined the bit. I told you the most public radio show that's ever public radio. The Sopranos, Vinny Pastor, and his good friend Goomba Johnny are quite the comedy pair and now they're welcoming their friends and fellow celebrities into the studio with them.

00:07:18 - 00:07:26 | Speaker 1:

That is available on what station? By the way, WTOB is in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Oh, nice.

00:07:26 - 00:07:54 | Speaker 2:

That's a nice part of the country there. Sure is. I'm actually now listing podcasts that are produced by United Stations Network, which is something that feeds podcasts and pre-made radio shows to stations around the country. Is it Let's Get Raw with Rory, a dating show hosted by Rory Sassoon, founder of the executive matchmaking service Platinum Poiré?

00:07:55 - 00:08:09 | Speaker 1:

What's weird is that they do a crossover show, Vinny and the Goombas and Sashay Poiré, and that's my favorite show is when they're all together. They do a spinoff, and that's exactly the show I'm talking about.

00:08:09 - 00:08:23 | Speaker 2:

Let's Get Raw with Goomba Johnny is the name of that show, I believe. So you're saying it's not the triple R Ricky Ratchman radio hosted by the former. Oh, Ricky Rackman. Rackman, rather, the MTV VJ Headbangers Ball.

00:08:24 - 00:09:00 | Speaker 1:

One time host of Loveline. Oh, really? I believe there was the original Loveline host who was not a doctor. So in other words, the civilian co-host of the show, I believe it was someone named Poor Man. And then at some point it was Ricky Rackman And then of course it was Adam Carolla That was what I think of as the salad days of that show And the salad days of being Adam Carolla But yeah Ricky Rackman was involved No this is not I am not All due respect to the career of Ricky Rackman But no he is not part of this public radio show That I want to tell you about later on the show

00:09:00 - 00:09:19 | Speaker 2:

Will you give me one more crack at it And if I get it right You've already gotten it right twice I don't know what the point of this exercise is The Mangina Dialogues, hosted by stand-up comedian Nick Scupoletti, a.k.a. Nick Scoops, and Greg Elprin, a.k.a. DJ the Gregalicious.

00:09:19 - 00:09:21 | Speaker 1:

Oh, Nicky Scoops and Gregalicious?

00:09:22 - 00:09:35 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, DJ the Gregalicious. But they, no, but I do admire their work. They're, you know what, they're very, I'm sort of sick of woke radio, but the Mangina Dialogues still got it as far as I'm concerned.

00:09:35 - 00:09:57 | Speaker 1:

So the point here is evolved with the time. And that's I know we have to I mean, listen, we have to create a framework where people can reflect on their mistakes and move forward and continue to Mangina monologue or even Mangina dialogue. But with, you know, the knowledge that maybe we've all made mistakes. And that's what I really admire about that show.

00:09:58 - 00:10:16 | Speaker 2:

Isn't it, though? I mean, just. a shame that the United Stations Network has decided to let go of one of the classiest programs around, and I believe a four-hour rock block, if I'm correct about that, to put their resources into the Mangina Dialogues. That bums me out. Oh, I would guess

00:10:16 - 00:11:01 | Speaker 1:

there aren't that many resources going into it. No, I would guess you're right. If that's any consolation. So what you're upset about, what you're creased about on this Friday is that your beloved Dick Clark rock roll remember is is no longer being distributed by this company but they do have all these other shows that sound fairly questionable to you yes these shows definitely sound questionable to me um but let me ask a quick question here so take me through the process did you turn on kicksy hoping to hear rock roll remember and you didn't hear it and then you started to do some investigating or were you did you just did was this a thought that came to you in the wee small hours of the morning how did you end up doing this search this morning well how did i end up

00:11:01 - 00:11:06 | Speaker 2:

doing it this morning again of all morning again i don't know because we've talked about this

00:11:06 - 00:11:11 | Speaker 1:

programming decision on the show i think like three four months ago yeah back in august when

00:11:11 - 00:11:41 | Speaker 2:

it went away i mean i discovered that it went away because i used to just have my sunday routine in non-football uh season times where i'd get in my car to run errands at a specific time every sunday and i'd turn on the radio and it would be rock roll and remember and i'd always finish up my errands about two hours later and it was just wrapping up and like that was the cadence of my sunday and um and when it went away i did do a little poking around and i realized okay it's not being syndicated anymore and i think that's where the journey ended for me and then that's why i'm

00:11:41 - 00:11:50 | Speaker 1:

wondering why this morning this i mean that's that's how grieving works people will tell you this you you think that you've moved past it and then just when you least expect it boom just hits

00:11:50 - 00:12:07 | Speaker 2:

yeah i guess that's the best explanation for it i don't really know i was sitting here behind my desk just tooling around and i'm also trying to figure out what to write about in the tbtl newsletter today it should be done by now but i just it was like 5 30 yesterday maybe just writing

00:12:07 - 00:12:22 | Speaker 1:

out your own mangina monologue that's an idea that would by the way is there a less is there Is there a more non-committal thing you can ever say when the creative process is occurring than, well, that's an idea.

00:12:22 - 00:12:25 | Speaker 2:

I mean, everything is technically an idea. Exactly.

00:12:25 - 00:12:30 | Speaker 1:

We're not weighing in on if it's a good idea or a bad idea. We're just – what we can't agree on is it's an idea.

00:12:30 - 00:13:06 | Speaker 2:

It's an idea, and I don't want to be negative. I don't want to shut the door on the brainstorming process. That's not going to get anybody anywhere. So I honestly don't know, Luke. Maybe I was trying to brainstorm what to talk about, but that doesn't make sense because I don't think I was thinking, oh, what should I write about in the newsletter? Oh, the fact that Dick Clark, the deceased Dick Clark went off the air four or five, six months ago. Like, I don't know. I think you're right. Honestly, it was just, you know what it is? You know what I think it is, Luke? If I'm being honest, it's not an interesting answer, but I think it's the end of football season. I think it's, I'm thinking about my Sunday coming up. That is an interesting answer.

00:13:06 - 00:13:09 | Speaker 1:

So the rhythms of your life are changing.

00:13:09 - 00:14:28 | Speaker 2:

That's what it is. In fact, I know it is. I'm glad we worked this out and got here together. Is this called a breakthrough? I was thinking about my upcoming Sunday how for the first time in a long time it won't you know my Sunday won't be dictated by the Seahawks and the Cleveland Browns and I was thinking about what I have to do and I will be getting into my old rhythm and I realize it'll be I think the well yeah I guess football season was just beginning you know kind of after August so now I'm going into my first full non-football season without my Dick Clark and I was just maybe ruminating on that a little bit and then probably also to be honest with you figuring out if there's a way that you know like is there a rebel station somewhere that's still streaming it is there a chance i could stream it directly from united stations network what i did find is there is and we can wrap this up because i honestly didn't mean this to go on so long i just wanted that goomba johnny thing i just really wanted to share that with you honestly but um there is a station called wqmv in waverly tennessee that is somehow still airing rock roll and remember according to their website on saturdays at 6 p.m that doesn't help my sunday problem but i would be completely lying to you if i told you that i didn't go on this whole journey of thinking well could i hit could i stream it on my computer and hit record on saturdays and listen to it on sunday because let me ask you this if if

00:14:28 - 00:14:59 | Speaker 1:

because usually when like this is what happened with hex empire usually when we turn this problem over to a problem over to the listeners they're able to come up with some solution if a listener were able to figure out how to get you know rock roll remember episodes either on a thumb drive which maybe you find in the parking lot could be your lucky day who knows or whatever some kind of a like there's got to be somebody else must have archived these somewhere would you go through the process of

00:15:00 - 00:15:16 | Speaker 2:

Of like sort of, I'm trying to think because I know that part of the fun for you is the analog nature. Yeah. It's that you turn on your radio. But would you maybe, if you could get these shows, would you consider like burning them to CD and then just putting the CD in the, do you guys have a CD player in your V-Dub?

00:15:16 - 00:15:21 | Speaker 3:

We do, but it's in a weird place. It's like in the glove compartment or something. Yeah, it's in the glove compartment, I think.

00:15:21 - 00:15:37 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, the Tiguan has the same thing. But I'm just wondering, like, if if you're able to find the show, but you but you have to sort of like, you know, reverse engineer it or hack it in such a way that it's not just a matter of turning on the radio. Would that ruin it for you? Sort of. Yeah.

00:15:37 - 00:16:27 | Speaker 3:

I mean, the true the true again, probably boring and overly detailed answer is, yeah, the reason I love the show is because I didn't know it existed until I just one day I turn on the radio and realize they were talking to me. I just happened to hear Dick Clark. And what I also loved about it was just how antiquated the process was that here it is. I can turn on an AM station and during the week hear a promo, hear a promo with Dick Clark's voice promoting what he's bringing to the show this Sunday, knowing he's been long gone, but also knowing that some archivist somewhere every time a show was produced, you know, kept all of those marketing materials together. And so they could be rolled out week after week after week, long after his death like that. I got so much joy in just thinking about that. And I really did enjoy the show.

00:16:27 - 00:16:33 | Speaker 2:

But you were into it for the for the detailed and effective archiving, the archiving and producing.

00:16:34 - 00:17:52 | Speaker 3:

And yes, yes, it did. I that it all sparked something in me. And I thought the show was pretty good. I liked what he brought to it. It has a good you know, he's bringing you. There's a reason he was so famous. is he brought you the right amount of information he I believe like each show focuses on a year and a band but with a lot of flexibility or a musical artist with a lot of flexibility in there and then what he would do as far as you know as far as like kind of um content to music mix was really good now to your question about the archives and you know if I had access to it all sitting there right now somebody said here's a here it's your lucky day here's a thumb drive with all of them yes i would definitely take it i also think though this taps into just like the obsessive nature that i have and i think some of our listeners can associate with those who are whose brains are a little bit broken like mine where part of it is the journey like part of this is me going on this you know discovery voyage and finding out about this show and then if i did start you know collecting them maybe having to track them down myself and do a little work you know much like bitcoin i believe this is how bitcoin is created right like you just have a nerd who obsesses over an old radio show and then just like spins his wheels and bitcoins are produced

00:17:52 - 00:17:57 | Speaker 1:

yep that's exactly how i turned the radio dialed with a snarl then one day they tell me they

00:17:57 - 00:18:09 | Speaker 3:

suddenly realized i was talking to them hi there he goes so r i p pat oh day man anyway i'm done sorry luke i didn't i honestly did not mean to take over that much of the show i just wanted

00:18:09 - 00:18:22 | Speaker 2:

to share with you a couple of funny show titles um where so what's the leading what's your leading um idea right now for the newsletter i feel like we can work this out in the next five minutes

00:18:22 - 00:19:18 | Speaker 3:

here's okay we want to talk about it um last week um i had not done a newsletter in a like several weeks because of our schedules and the holidays and everything and then last week's newsletter was way too long my friend i went on this whole emotional voyage about eating a sandwich and then somehow tying that into where we are in the pandemic and while i think it was you know there were some parts in it i reread it yesterday that made me chuckle at my own words i also was mortified at how long and forever taking the email was so i'm this week i'm thinking i need something i need something um kind of to the point something a little funnier that to the point to the point no faking that's pretty good i could just write the lyrics of ice ice baby so i want something that like kind of crackles a little bit get in get out what would the stew bot do i'm trying to put myself in his uh mindset for this i want something that'll bring some joy but not be a

00:19:18 - 00:19:59 | Speaker 2:

slog for people but that's all i got could you do something on the bernie meme i was thinking that and the fact that my daughter sent on the hawk squad sent a family photo this is probably the the family photo that has the most of our family in it including my extended family my aunt Mary Lou's kids and she just sent it out and just had photoshopped Bernie into the very edge of it and like Momo's in this picture and oh wow it's like this is going this has got you know Vanessa in it Momo this there's like 30 people in the photo and then at the very edge is Bernie with his mittens sitting cold.

00:20:00 - 00:20:14 | Speaker 3:

and it took she did it so well that nobody even noticed it at first they're like well that's I guess she just wanted to signal amp that old photo of the family that thing is really making the rounds did you see what Bernie Sanders response was which I feel like is probably the most Bernie

00:20:14 - 00:20:28 | Speaker 2:

Sanders response you could give to something like that I you know I didn't see the full segment but my understanding is somebody asked him about it on uh you know on a television news a television news show and he just said let's talk about those two thousand dollar checks and how we get them in

00:20:28 - 00:20:58 | Speaker 3:

the hands of the people is that right i believe what he said was he's happy that more people are learning that they make quality mittens in vermont oh god no i did not hear that that's that's the bernie sanders takeaway on being the most memefied human on the planet for the last two days he is glad that more people will know that vermont makes good mittens now is that a jumping off point for the newsletter i don't know maybe um let's see what could i do with that i

00:20:58 - 00:21:02 | Speaker 2:

could list the best mitten makers in vermont i could come up with uh words that rhyme with

00:21:02 - 00:21:08 | Speaker 3:

how about how about just some names of mitten shops in vermont that are punny or clever

00:21:08 - 00:21:29 | Speaker 2:

gotta hand it to them that's pretty good what i wish i wish i'd had this idea yesterday because you know what i could have done is done very little writing and i could have spent some time photoshopping bernie into every like kind of tbtl live event photo of you and me um that are out there that could have been that could have been it but I don't know if I have time for that today

00:21:29 - 00:22:07 | Speaker 3:

um well that was my big that was my big help my big suggestion was something with the Bernie meme I mean this has been a it's easy for me to say I'm not I'm not the one wait a second um how about this I'm interviewing David Duchovny uh later today uh from the x-files and a writer of novels um that's not a tv show he was on he is a writer of novels it'd be great if David Duchovny after the X-Files was on a different show called A Writer of Novels. That would have been on PBS 100%. But I don't know, X-Files, plots that didn't make it to air.

00:22:08 - 00:22:16 | Speaker 2:

I, sir, am not writing a LiveWire newsletter here. I am focused on TVTL and what we do here.

00:22:16 - 00:22:24 | Speaker 3:

We have someone for that, and she just delivers the news. Her name is Ariana Donoville, and she's great. She delivers the newsletter on time, under budget, each week.

00:22:25 - 00:22:42 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, and it probably doesn't sweat it. I have not read it, actually, but I would be interested, although I'm, you know, oh, is their name Xavier? I'm not sure. The person, though, who writes the newsletter for On the Media, I am just, I'm gobsmacked by that newsletter. Such good writing.

00:22:43 - 00:22:45 | Speaker 3:

Like, what if you wrote this newsletter about better newsletters?

00:22:45 - 00:22:54 | Speaker 1:

I thought about it. I almost did that last week. I almost wrote a whole promo for the On the Media newsletter in last week's newsletter.

00:22:54 - 00:24:11 | Speaker 3:

um i i feel like i've given you a lot to work no you have i actually appreciate it and thank you for this time let's take a break but when we come back uh i am very excited about a new segment that we're going to roll out this week it'll probably be the only week we ever do it but it's going to be called friday motivation and it's going to be us getting everyone who's listening hyped for the weekend we have some audio tape from the new coach of the detroit lions that will have you so amped going into your weekend you are just going to you're going to have the weekend of your life after you hear this tape on the first and probably last TBTL Friday Motivation Segment so stay with us. Let's thank some donors of the day. These people are donating to the show some of them may not even know it some of them someone else may have donated in their name we still have we gotten any um any updates on our friend and listener i believe it was kayla harris in stockton who's balling on a budget i um who now goes from not donating to be

00:24:11 - 00:24:39 | Speaker 2:

the most to being the most discussed donor maybe in history that is a really good point um that's right uh heard herself being thanked um for her donation even though she says she's never donated got some interesting you know um theories from listeners saying maybe she had donated in the past and just got stuck in the system i don't think that's the case so nothing definitive at this point the mystery continues maybe that's what the newsletter could be about hey maybe

00:24:39 - 00:24:48 | Speaker 3:

maybe it could be about as somebody wrote on twitter garth brooks really did show up in boots at a black tie affair.

00:24:49 - 00:24:51 | Speaker 2:

I assume that's something he sings about. That's not my joke.

00:24:52 - 00:25:00 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's friends in low places. Oh, okay. Blame it all on my roots. I showed up in boots and ruined your black tie affair. Okay. He showed up in boots at a black tie affair.

00:25:00 - 00:25:30 | Speaker 2:

At the inaugural, he's living the lyrics of his song. Again, I'm just trying. I feel like I'm just generating as many ideas as I can for you. Here's the thing about these donors of the day. We assume they all actually are the people who did donate, and they are, of course, keeping TBTL in business. We're speaking of people not unlike David Alsop of Summer Hill in New South Wales. Wow. That'd be Australia? No. Yes. NSW, right?

00:25:30 - 00:25:31 | Speaker 4:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:25:32 - 00:26:11 | Speaker 2:

That's not safe for work. And also New South Wales. Thank you, David, for donating from all the way across, like, multiple ponds. When we say across the pond, we're talking the Atlantic. Yeah, usually that means Europe right across the pond. This is, like, a lot of ponds. We've flown across all of those ponds. We have, yeah. Many of them. They're big ponds, man. Thanks, David. We appreciate it. Jordan Mobley is in Chicago, Illinois, and is donating. Thank you, Jordan. Also, Robert Vogel in Tacoma, Washington. Katie Hunter, also in Chicago. I don't know if Jordan and Katie know each other. I've got theories about their relationship, which I've been asked not to share on the air.

00:26:11 - 00:26:13 | Speaker 3:

Yes, which I would ask you not to share.

00:26:13 - 00:26:23 | Speaker 2:

It's great because the listeners are now responding. What's happening is people have to email and clarify what the nature of their relationship is with other people, and I think it's a fun, interactive game.

00:26:23 - 00:26:25 | Speaker 4:

It really is. It really is.

00:26:25 - 00:28:13 | Speaker 2:

We had some people explaining that they are, in fact, not a couple. They are friends. They are platonic friends who went to cooking school together. But now you planted the idea. Even though one of their husbands had wondered maybe if they were more than friends because of, I don't know, their connection, what have you. I just think it's a fun little exciting clarification the listeners have to make with me now. Although, although, although Catherine Palacios of Houston, Texas, Catherine, I was just in Houston. You didn't even call me. But that's OK, because you're donating to the show. So that's actually more important. And then mini lie is in Seattle, Washington. Thank you so much to all of these donors of the day for making the show possible. We really appreciate this has been a fun week of shows. and I mean it's been a fun week I think or at least it's been an encouraging week in this country and it felt like an extra special privilege to get to be here kind of narrating it for all of you the tens of listeners so thanks again for donating and keeping the show going and here is how we are going to show our thanks by getting all of you super pumped up on our Friday motivation segment today's friday motivational message coming from is it kevin campbell oh i'm sorry it's dan camp it's dan dan campbell yes the newly installed coach of the detroit lions who was meeting with the media i believe for maybe the first time talking about what his philosophy is going to be as head coach of this team that's really not had a very successful time of it over the last three decades.

00:28:14 - 00:28:18 | Speaker 3:

Do you want me to play the tape from my end? I forgot to talk about this with you.

00:28:18 - 00:28:21 | Speaker 2:

Yes, I would like you to play the tape in that I don't have it.

00:28:21 - 00:28:25 | Speaker 3:

Okay, swell the music a little bit and then bring it down and then we'll get into this.

00:28:27 - 00:28:56 | Speaker 1:

So this team's going to be built on, we're going to kick you in the teeth, all right, And when you punch us back, we're going to smile at you. And when you knock us down, we're going to get up. And on the way up, we're going to bite a kneecap off, all right? And we're going to stand up. And then it's going to take two more shots to knock us down, all right? And on the way up, we're going to take your other kneecap, and we're going to get up. And then it's going to take three shots to get us down. And when we do, we're going to take another hunk out of you. Before long, we're going to be the last one standing, all right? That's going to be the mentality.

00:28:57 - 00:29:07 | Speaker 4:

As Mina Kimes pointed out on Twitter yesterday, Everybody is focusing on the kneecaps, but what about the other hunk that they're taking out of us? Why is that not getting more attention?

00:29:08 - 00:29:12 | Speaker 2:

Is he planning on playing football against one of the knights who say knee?

00:29:13 - 00:29:22 | Speaker 4:

You really do get that picture? Like, okay, so what is the math there? Can we play that again, please? There's a lot of ins and a lot of outs.

00:29:22 - 00:29:33 | Speaker 2:

There are so many conflicting messages and strategies here. I feel like, what's the first thing he says? He says, we're going to punch you, right? Yes, I think so.

00:29:33 - 00:29:37 | Speaker 1:

So this team's going to be built on, we're going to kick you in the teeth.

00:29:37 - 00:29:39 | Speaker 3:

Okay, so they're going to kick us in the teeth first.

00:29:39 - 00:29:41 | Speaker 1:

So it starts with, they kick you in the teeth. Right.

00:29:41 - 00:29:44 | Speaker 3:

And we were just minding our own business, by the way, in this scenario.

00:29:44 - 00:30:00 | Speaker 2:

But I understand that from a football standpoint. It's like, you know, you want to be the aggressor. You want to be the team that gets out there and kicks the other team in the teeth. You want to set the tone. You want to put them on their heels. Okay, that's Detroit Lions football. That's right. But then after you kick them in the teeth, what happened?

00:30:00 - 00:30:01 | Speaker 3:

happens? It gets complicated. So this team's

00:30:01 - 00:30:09 | Speaker 1:

going to be built on, we're going to kick you in the teeth, alright, and when you punch us back, we're going to smile at you and when you knock us down. Wait, smile, okay.

00:30:09 - 00:30:23 | Speaker 2:

Wait, now you're knocked down. Okay. So already the strategy is having problems. You kicked him in the teeth. Right. You didn't kick him hard enough because they still had the wherewithal to punch you, but then you smiled, but then they knocked you down. I feel like at this point the other team's winning. Yeah,

00:30:23 - 00:30:34 | Speaker 3:

but also I feel like maybe the smile is mocking because we've been kicked in the teeth. We might be missing teeth. And the lions are now showing their pearly white saying, look, yes, you don't have any teeth. So let's go.

00:30:35 - 00:30:39 | Speaker 1:

All right. OK, so. And when you punch us back, we're going to smile at you. And when you knock us down.

00:30:39 - 00:30:46 | Speaker 3:

OK, so. OK, you're right. So now you're down. Kicking the teeth. Then we punch back. On the ground, smiling. OK, gotcha.

00:30:46 - 00:30:47 | Speaker 1:

We're going to get up.

00:30:47 - 00:30:53 | Speaker 3:

And on the way up, we're going to bite a kneecap off. OK, now they're getting up and they're going to bite one of our, I'm assuming, our kneecaps.

00:30:53 - 00:31:06 | Speaker 2:

So you grab the other team kind of by the legs, by like maybe their thighs. You just have to pull yourself up, which I guess they're just letting you do because they don't realize you're about to literally bite off one of their kneecaps.

00:31:06 - 00:31:10 | Speaker 3:

Yes. Okay. All right. And so that's round one, I think.

00:31:10 - 00:31:16 | Speaker 1:

We're going to bite a kneecap off, all right? And we're going to stand up, and then it's going to take two more shots to knock us down. Okay. So they're standing.

00:31:16 - 00:31:22 | Speaker 3:

Wait, you're just letting them punch you again? Yeah. So they're standing now. We're missing a kneecap and some teeth. Well, we're not.

00:31:23 - 00:31:24 | Speaker 2:

We're the Detroit Lions.

00:31:25 - 00:31:27 | Speaker 3:

Oh, we're the Lions? No, I thought he was talking to me because he's saying.

00:31:27 - 00:31:28 | Speaker 2:

This is so confusing, Ron.

00:31:28 - 00:31:32 | Speaker 3:

This is so, no, they're talking, he's saying what they're going to do to us, right?

00:31:32 - 00:31:55 | Speaker 2:

Okay, well, okay, I'm the Detroit Lions. You're the Lions. You're the Cleveland Browns. So just to quickly sort of bring people up to speed, you have one kneecap. I have one kneecap. No teeth. Missing some teeth. I've been knocked down three times, though, which is not great. No, you've been knocked down twice, I think. No, knocked down once. I bit a kneecap. I've been knocked down two more times. Play the tape.

00:31:55 - 00:32:00 | Speaker 1:

When you punch us back, we're going to smile at you. And when you knock us down. Okay, that's the first knockdown.

00:32:00 - 00:32:01 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, this is the first knockdown.

00:32:01 - 00:32:04 | Speaker 1:

We're going to get up. And on the way up, we're going to bite a kneecap off.

00:32:04 - 00:32:07 | Speaker 3:

Okay, so you're still up, and a kneecap has been off. Okay.

00:32:07 - 00:32:10 | Speaker 1:

All right, and we're going to stand up. And then it's going to take two more shots to knock us down.

00:32:11 - 00:32:15 | Speaker 3:

Two shots, but you're down again. So you're only down. Well, you're confusing. Down twice.

00:32:15 - 00:32:20 | Speaker 2:

Three punches total. Two times down. But we've got one of your kneecaps.

00:32:21 - 00:32:26 | Speaker 3:

Yes, and we want our kneecaps. Like, that's one thing that is a stated principle of Browns football.

00:32:26 - 00:32:35 | Speaker 2:

You do need – I mean, you guys run a heavily kneecapped-based offense. Almost all of it revolves around having kneecaps. Famously. Okay.

00:32:36 - 00:32:46 | Speaker 3:

So that's where we are now. This is fresh here. Okay. So we've got it all sorted out now. So now I'm on the ground. I'm getting back up. Okay. And we've knocked them back. Okay. You're the Lions. Yeah. You're now going to get back up, I think.

00:32:46 - 00:32:52 | Speaker 1:

All right. And on the way up, we're going to take your other kneecap, and we're going to get up, and then it's going to take three shots to get us down.

00:32:52 - 00:33:01 | Speaker 3:

Okay. So now you got up. You took another kneecap. But now I've hit you three more times and now you're hard it is to punch me though when you have no kneecaps

00:33:01 - 00:33:13 | Speaker 2:

I just feel like you're gonna get you're you're not gonna get really any oomph on that punch Because yeah about just the biomechanics of punching you're using your legs You need your kneecaps to be kind of holding it all together

00:33:13 - 00:33:23 | Speaker 3:

Absolutely, and that's why it's taking more and even though you should be that's what's in three punches It's third as power and more because I don't have like the well Well, this is the strategy. Right.

00:33:23 - 00:33:24 | Speaker 1:

This is Detroit Lions football.

00:33:24 - 00:33:26 | Speaker 3:

It's working. It's a game of attrition.

00:33:27 - 00:33:29 | Speaker 1:

And when we do, we're going to take another hunk out of you. Before.

00:33:29 - 00:33:34 | Speaker 3:

Okay, so now you've taken another hunk, but we don't know where that hunk is. From where?

00:33:34 - 00:33:38 | Speaker 2:

I'm not telling because I'm not giving away my entire strategy, but let's just say probably your privates.

00:33:38 - 00:33:49 | Speaker 3:

And, you know, I will say that might be the most upsetting part of this is I don't even know. How can I game plan when I don't know what chunk you're going after? Yeah. Okay, are we done? Not yet.

00:33:49 - 00:33:53 | Speaker 1:

Before long, where are they going to be the last one standing? All right? That's going to be the mentality.

00:33:53 - 00:33:58 | Speaker 3:

Okay. And that actually makes a lot of sense. Because I don't have any kneecaps. It's kind of a cartoon, though.

00:33:58 - 00:34:03 | Speaker 2:

You don't even realize that you have no kneecaps. You're like Wile E. Coyote. You've run out into space.

00:34:03 - 00:34:03 | Speaker 3:

Yes.

00:34:03 - 00:34:07 | Speaker 2:

And it takes you a minute to realize that you're about to fall.

00:34:07 - 00:34:13 | Speaker 3:

Oh, and it's just so gory. I just keep on thinking about it. It's not knees, but it's kneecaps. It's so gross.

00:34:15 - 00:35:24 | Speaker 2:

So I hope everyone feels properly motivated on this Friday. This is our first and, again, maybe last Friday motivation. By the way, I'll mention that that's not like the only time that Dan Campbell has gotten pretty aggressive in his talking about football. When he was an assistant coach for the Miami Dolphins, you might have seen this. They fired their real coach, a guy at the time was named Joe Philbin, and then the Dolphins were a pretty bad team at the time, and then they came back and they won a game the next week, the first week. that this guy, Dan Campbell, was their kind of fill-in coach. And he was so excited in the locker room, he told all the players that he was ready to bleed for them, and he was happy that they had been, I believe, at each other's or on each other's throats all week in practice. So he's got a very, very aggressive way of talking about the sport of football, which is, well, an aggressive sport. So I guess he's not talking about badminton this way. He is talking about football.

00:35:24 - 00:35:36 | Speaker 3:

I didn't know that because when you said bleed for you, I only know of one person who said that before, and you probably don't like getting into it. Is that an expression? I think it's time for Top Story. Is that a real expression? That's my only question.

00:35:37 - 00:35:40 | Speaker 2:

Welcome to Top Story. Only for me and Dan Campbell.

00:35:40 - 00:35:42 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, because I'd never heard that before.

00:35:42 - 00:37:30 | Speaker 2:

Because it makes no sense, and it sounds crazy. Let's talk about Dakota Johnson and her love of limes, and just how the internet works. yesterday andrew um right as we were wrapping up uh the thursday edition of the show i just happened to have twitter open on my computer screen and uh what do you know there was a tweet that just said internet upset over dakota johnson lying about her love of limes or something like that now this was all kind of news to me i did not realize that something like last year or sometime around last year, Dakota Johnson had done a little tour with Architectural Digest magazine, which, let me just say, I love this thing. It's just called like the AD Tour or something, which is like Cribs, but Architectural Digest. So, you know, it's maybe a slightly older, slightly less MTV type of demo, Although Dakota Johnson is obviously very popular and probably with the MTV generation as well. But this feels to me like MTV Cribs for 44-year-old dad types who geek out on mid-century architecture. So they had come to Dakota Johnson's house and they had interviewed her or had her take them on a little tour through her house. And she had come upon – she had this green kitchen. And of course, her house is in Los Angeles. And there's this kind of a really cool, older, like I said, sort of mid-century appearing house. And she had this bowl of limes. And she said when she got to this bowl of limes in this green kitchen that she had.

00:37:30 - 00:37:36 | Speaker 1:

I love limes. I love them. They're great. I love them so much. And I like to present them like this in my house.

00:37:36 - 00:38:16 | Speaker 2:

So apparently the Internet went crazy on Dakota Johnson talking about limes. It became a whole thing. It was a meme. I think we kind of missed that. Well, now she has admitted that she is, in fact, allergic to limes. and that was a joke and that somebody had staged the house and that was her just trying to have some fun around the limes. Now, I am frankly kind of shocked that anyone thought she was being serious. I feel like if you listen to the tone in her voice, it's very clear that she is just kind of trying to be a little bit sarcastic, right? Like if you just heard that, you would be like, that's a person who's joking about their love of limes, right? Andrew, wouldn't you have

00:38:16 - 00:38:33 | Speaker 3:

just known that instinctively yeah without having to retrace my whole entry into this when i when i um got off the air with you i opened up twitter luke and i was being um fed the same exact story i saw in the same exact place on twitter like in the suggested because there wasn't enough going

00:38:33 - 00:38:40 | Speaker 2:

on this week it was a quiet week in lake newsagon and uh we all had to get really into dakota johnson

00:38:40 - 00:38:58 | Speaker 3:

in her lives right and so anyway um so my first thing is who's dakota johnson like i know that name but i'm getting a lot of dakotas confused how many famous dakotas are like kind of you know actively working in top of mind right now is there a fanning is that and i'm not even

00:38:58 - 00:39:19 | Speaker 2:

joking here i get there's a dakota there's a dakota fanning okay and who's dakota johnson is yeah dakota johnson is the star of 50 shades of gray i learned that yesterday on a quick google And many other films. She is also the daughter of Don Johnson of Miami Vice. Oh, I did not know that. And Melanie Griffith.

00:39:20 - 00:39:20 | Speaker 3:

Griffith.

00:39:20 - 00:39:33 | Speaker 2:

If I can't remember if your last name is Griffin or Griffith, I'll just call you Griffith. That's the house I'm into, by the way. Griffith Dorth. I'm a Griffith Dorth. And that's Dakota Johnson for you.

00:39:33 - 00:40:00 | Speaker 3:

Well, here's the deal. And the reason I bring that all up, and I actually wouldn't mind quickly going through the other Dakotas that are out there. and see if I can clear this up once and for all, not unlike the John Mayer, John Legend. There's Dakota Art Supply in Bellingham. Really? Yeah. There's North Dakota and South Dakota, too. But in all seriousness, I didn't really know who she was, and then I saw, oh, she's the Fifty Shades of Grey actor. And I always thought that that was, and I think I'm wrong about this, but I always thought that those movies...

00:40:00 - 00:40:28 | Speaker 2:

were kind of panned and I assumed that she wasn't somebody with a lot of personality and I didn't know the connection you know I didn't know who her parents were but of course I went and I watched the original clip that you're describing to go back to your question to me of like wouldn't you know that she was being sarcastic it did seem to me even into this completely non-contextual little clip I saw I was like oh yeah she actually is she's kind of joking and being more charming than I thought she would. It's super charming.

00:40:28 - 00:42:06 | Speaker 3:

This whole tour is super duper charming. She's so likable. She bought the house from Ryan Johnson, who is the guy behind Glee and American Horror Story and a whole bunch of things. She talks about how it was the second house that she had looked at, and she just fell in love with it. She's talking about the various pieces of furniture. There was a table in there in the living room that she said came with the house, which she was really excited about. She also says, yeah, everybody kind of hangs out in this room. Um, she's in the living room. She goes, because it's cozy and also it's kind of the only place to sit. Like, she's just very winning in, in this little tour of her home. Um, and it would seem like I'm wondering if, and I, I don't want to believe that the internet would do this, but I'm wondering if people were being willfully ignorant the first time around, or if people really thought that she was being serious because any person with a brain cell in their head, if they watch this would understand that she was being funny. And I mean it's obvious And there's also far too many limes It's like enough limes To have cured scurvy Across the British naval fleet Circa The late 1600s Like it's way too many limes So it's just obvious That she was sort of being fun Now she does one thing in the tour Andrew That I didn't love But of course if you were If Architectural Digest were to come over And get a tour of this apartment of why i'd be like why are you coming to this apartment but anyway um i'm sure i would say a couple things that you know i didn't totally stand behind or that weren't my finest moments here is what she the only thing she did in this tour that i was that i have a little bit of a sort of issue

00:42:06 - 00:42:10 | Speaker 1:

with certain times of day like really early in the she's describing actually this part is cool

00:42:10 - 00:42:26 | Speaker 3:

she's describing how the there's a reflection off the pool that then kind of like goes up into the the sort of open like rafters of the the ceiling of the living room and it makes kind of a cool little effect of like the water reflecting on the roof of the house morning 7 a.m light from

00:42:26 - 00:42:49 | Speaker 1:

the sun on the pool does this on the ceiling and i think now she's going to take us into her office this is my office i read scripts in here i have meetings in here sometimes i actually don't really get any work done because i get distracted by everything that's in here my favorite thing about it i guess is these bookshelves that i built into the walls

00:42:49 - 00:44:16 | Speaker 3:

I she said you heard her say it said my favorite thing are these bookshelves I built into the walls and they are they're very cool bookshelves they're full of all kinds of interesting books she definitely seems like a person who is very smart and very well read presuming that she has read these books which I do I don't like it when people hire people to build things and then say i built this i had a feeling this happens constantly on every like every time a rich person i remember like barbara streisand is well known for her um and obviously along with her like you know professional acting and singing and stuff is well known to love design and architecture and she buys properties and she has them fixed up and and changed around and she does all kinds of design And I remember reading interviews with her Where she's talking about Well then I put this and I took this wall down I did this And it's always, always, always gotten under my skin When anyone says Well I built this When in fact they paid someone to build it All you have to say is I had this built And I don't say this to be mean to Dakota Johnson Because she seems totally charming in this But I would just say Let's all, all of us who have had the privilege in our life To pay someone to actually do work on our home Let's all just remember In the words, in the opposite words of Guy Raz I didn't build this

00:44:16 - 00:44:19 | Speaker 2:

That's, I'm just glad you said that

00:44:19 - 00:44:27 | Speaker 3:

How I didn't build this is my new podcast Coming to you soon On American, what's the name of the network That stopped playing Dick Clark

00:44:27 - 00:44:29 | Speaker 2:

Oh, the United Stations Network

00:44:29 - 00:44:35 | Speaker 3:

Coming up on the United Stations Network It's Luke Burbank's new show How I didn't build this

00:44:35 - 00:45:36 | Speaker 2:

How I didn't build this Is to me Possible show title I didn't know that people were saying that a lot. I'm with you. I don't think they're lying. It's just a way of talking about it that you just say I had this built, you know. And if it was your idea and you want ownership over it and maybe even you sat down with, you know, the design folks and said, you know, I'm looking at this. I mean, you're part of the process. I understand there must be a pride that goes. along with it that's cool but you can still say that we had installed or that we worked on or something that just indicates to me it's a little bit akin to when and again this isn't a big deal but when somebody says I read that book and then in the conversation you found out they listened to it as an audiobook and like they have all the same information it shouldn't be relevant to me and also I love listening to books I don't do it enough frankly so there's no shame there but I just don't think it's reading and so if you said you know I read Duchovny's new book but you actually listened to it on tape I would like you to say oh yeah I listened to his book it was good

00:45:36 - 00:48:01 | Speaker 1:

right yeah I I'm you know Carrie and I are very proud of you know all the work that we had done on the house in Bellingham and also I mean I to some degree I did some of the work just like the grunt work Carrie did a lot of the work so in that case I guess if she were to say oh yeah I pulled these floors up i mean she literally pulled the floors up along with her brother uh but what i would say about parts of the house that were things that i didn't touch i would say oh yeah we we you know we had this wall taken down and then we had this we had these new countertops put in and it's just there there's something about saying i did it when in fact someone else did it and you paid them money which is no shame in that i just grew up in the in a household where well first of all and we need to get to talking about my new favorite super duper public radio show but i mean i grew up in a in a rental house that my dad would would commonly remodel which is hilarious to me looking back on it like that's actually one of the jokes in that snl sketch which are bad idea jeans where they're listing all of the worst ideas you can have remember there was yeah there was that whatever i was it i forget even the brand of of pants but there was a kind of very levi it might have been lee but i think it was levi yeah there were some some i i thought it might have i didn't even know if it was if it was um i guess that's why they're called bad idea jeans must have been for yeah one of those denim companies but yeah they they snl did this parody of these ads where their people are just saying the worst ideas ever and one of them is oh yeah i i'm redoing the whole kitchen and it's like you're it's a rental right yep my dad redid the kitchen in our rental i guess just like we lived there it was four hundred dollars a month and he was like we're gonna be here for a while we might as well have it be livable um but i came you know i grew up in a world where that was the kind of thing you never hired anyone to do anything right and and and so if if my dad said i redid my dad who is not young you know my dad's in his mid-60s now actually moving towards late 60s this summer put like huge dormers on the roof of my parents House which involved rappelling down this Super steep roof cutting giant Holes in the room and this was the help of My couple of my brother Brother-in-laws you know who he didn't call for help on this His actual son me

00:48:01 - 00:48:03 | Speaker 2:

He knew I would be zero

00:48:03 - 00:48:05 | Speaker 1:

Help in the matter he'd be like I don't need any boat

00:48:05 - 00:48:09 | Speaker 2:

Crashes involved here and I don't know how that's Going to work far away from this project

00:48:09 - 00:51:05 | Speaker 1:

He like rappelled down the roof cut Giant holes in their roof installed These these dormers these kind of Like sections of the roof that actually Stick out and create more room now in the bedrooms and in the rooms on the top floor of their house and also just give the house a kind of a cool look he put a giant like cupola on top of us there's all the stuff that's like i don't know how old my dad is i think he's like 76 or something now oh wait 66 sorry i added 10 years to his life sorry walt he's like 66 now or something he's up on the roof doing this stuff but anyway so if my dad says i put those dormers in he put those dormers in i just want everybody to know all right uh because we don't have all day i want to get to the next topic on the top stories which is a public radio show that i discovered when i was in san antonio i was driving to the starbucks on a saturday morning looking to get a little coffee because the coffee maker in the airbnb that i had rented was a french press which i'm cool with but it was a french press andrew that when i actually pushed the coffee down so i had done the whole thing where you put the grounds in you put in the hot water then you press down and you separate out the coffee from the coffee grounds the whole thing exploded on me and actually burned me boiling hot water actually flew out of the french press onto my skin and my stomach and it hurt did the wait the glass shattered no i couldn't push down the plunger we'll call it you know the filter it was like just dead stopped at the top you know like in the in the position where you're letting everything sort of steep no and you just kept pushing wouldn't go down and i was trying to just press it gently press it gently then i pressed it harder i don't know if no one had used it a long time because it was an airbnb there was no conventional coffee maker but when I finally went down it was coffee grounds and boiling hot water everywhere somehow it shot I don't know how it happened it literally shot out of the thing but the glass did not explode so I get in the rental car feeling a little bummed I'm feeling pretty burned start driving into town to go to this Starbucks to get some coffee and I turn on my local public radio station whatever that is in that part of san antonio and or the outskirts of san antonio and i hear a show called away with words which is an amazing program for a lot of reasons uh one as i've already said it sounds kind of like what you would do if you were trying to come up with something that seems like the most public radio show you could ever do it's people calling in with questions about phrases uh you know that their granddad used to say like the one i heard was someone called in and said when we used to go on road trips as a family my dad would

00:51:05 - 00:51:17 | Speaker 1:

say we're off like a jug what does that mean and these folks explain it by the way they answer the phone andrew when you call in they say hello you have a way with words i've listened to this i

00:51:17 - 00:51:40 | Speaker 2:

don't remember when I know that I've listened to this I think I used to podcast this Luke as in you used to listen to it as a podcast and I don't know how or why or when it might have been recommended to me because I used to listen there was like a Bob Garfield had a slate podcast for a while that was all about words as well I kind of I like words and and and I like radio I know

00:51:40 - 00:52:58 | Speaker 1:

that i've heard this before it was first i was listening because i was like can there be something that is this public radio that's how i that's that's why that's why i started listening or that's why i left it on and then i found myself completely transfixed like i have been dining out on the three things that i heard on that drive to starbucks and back for weeks one off like a jug It's very interesting So basically it has to do with Kind of making a U-turn Because you know a jug handle It's kind of a U Imagine like one of the jugs That has like three X's on it That you might drink moonshine out of So it's kind of U-shaped And so the idea is that You're kind of heading out and off You're off like a jug The other thing that they pointed out On this particular episode Of Away With Words Was that to be jug handled In the olden days As it pertained to politics Was to be one-sided So in other words because you know those jugs don't usually have two handles they just have one that you kind of hook your finger into so if you were all for like if you basically were like hardcore republican or hardcore democrat and you didn't go to the middle on anything you were just very on one side of the of the political spectrum you would be jug handled luke i just sent you a screen cap of something

00:52:58 - 00:53:04 | Speaker 2:

to your email i'm not trying to like uh big dog you here or overly impress you but could you open

00:53:04 - 00:53:14 | Speaker 1:

that up and tell the listeners what you see wow the co-host of a way with words language and

00:53:14 - 00:53:22 | Speaker 2:

linguistics grant barrett is following you on twitter and has a flex has been for years

00:53:22 - 00:53:29 | Speaker 1:

is a flex yeah but andrew why am i the one that is the most up-to-date on my away with words

00:53:29 - 00:54:09 | Speaker 2:

listening because i hadn't listened in a long time this is bringing back memories i got into in a way with words vibe for a while. And I remember the reason he's following me is because I would, I think I reached out to him with some word questions and he got back to me. I mean, I'm talking 10 years ago, at least. This is out of Wisconsin Public Radio, by the way, where of course our friend Mike Arnold is still, I believe, helming that ship. So maybe he has a way with karaoke. He certainly does. He has a way with the Rolling Stones. But so maybe that's how I got hipped to this whole deal. But, yeah, away with words. You've re-peaked my interest.

00:54:10 - 00:55:00 | Speaker 1:

Also, Andrew, somebody called in and wondered why their dad used to say, I think it was, a wet duck doesn't fly at night. Oh, I'd never heard that. So when they'd ask their dad a question and he didn't maybe know the answer or didn't want to give the answer, he would just say, well, a wet duck doesn't fly at night. that had to do with a stand-up comedian from I think his name if I guess at his name I know I'll be wrong but I believe it might have been like Jackie Cohen no Jackie Cohen is the person that Jonathan uh that um Jonathan Goldstein calls at the beginning of every episode of Heavyweight but anyway uh this this um comedian used to do some kind of a joke that was like a wet bird doesn't fly at night and this comedian was by the way the same person who coined the for

00:55:00 - 00:55:04 | Speaker 4:

you had to be there this comedian used to he's getting into some

00:55:04 - 00:55:21 | Speaker 2:

oh god what does he say um uh i'm trying to do my work oh we're really getting into some don la fontaine yes that's the name i was looking for he he used apparently this comedian who who used

00:55:21 - 00:55:55 | Speaker 4:

to have this joke about a wet bird doesn't fly at night um he also used to if he would tell a joke and folks didn't laugh or it didn't quite hit, he would say, well, you had to be there. He is the person credited with coming up with the phrase, you had to be there. In like 12 minutes of driving from the Airbnb to the Starbucks and back, I learned two to three of the most dazzling deets that I have learned in a long time, all thanks to my new favorite public radio show. Aside from Livewire, which is, of course, number one in my heart always and forever, but right behind Livewire is Away With Words.

00:55:55 - 00:55:56 | Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's great.

00:55:56 - 00:56:04 | Speaker 4:

All right, let's do some music for your weekend before we head on out. Andrew, what song would you like to play?

00:56:05 - 00:57:18 | Speaker 3:

I'm going to tap dance here while I get the link up, but I will tell you that I was a little bit nervous to play this today because it is a cover of a very, I think, beloved R.E.M. song. And, you know, I know what it's like, you know, like covers of songs that are very well known for a band that people like a lot can be. I only listen to covers of Weird Al. It's just me when in the grocery store. But R.E.M. has a song called The One I Love and this band called Widow's Peak. I believe I've played one of their other songs like Money or something, not Money or something, although that would be a good name of the song. I think I played another one of their songs is Music for Your Weekend this summer. But anyway, they have a new EP out, and they have a cover of The One I Love. And I hit play on this very tentatively, but I liked it. And then just to be sure, I sent it to our pal, The Stew Bot, as well, a huge REM fan. I was just like, does this get The Stew Bot approval? He took about 12 hours to mull it over, listen to it. He got back to me this morning. He gave it a thumbs up. So I feel a little bit more emboldened, a little bit more confident to share this all with you today. This is Widow's Peak doing a cover of The One I Love. All right.

00:57:32 - 00:58:27 | Speaker 1:

This one goes out to the one I love. This one goes out to the one I've left behind. A simple problem to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love She's coming down on her own now She's coming down on her own I know it's a very different flavor from the original, but it works for me.

00:58:27 - 00:58:48 | Speaker 3:

I like it. I might like it more than the R.E.M. song. I was thinking the same thing, honestly. I like R.E.M. This is not one of my favorite R.E.M. songs, although I do think it was kind of an early single for him. I was having that same thought last night. I didn't have the boldness, though, to proclaim that on the show. I'm glad you opened that door for me

00:58:48 - 00:59:23 | Speaker 4:

well my song on this Friday is like most of the songs that I play on the show now something I heard on TikTok I've got two avenues now for learning about new music one is peeping on my daughter's Spotify playlists and the other is hearing a song on TikTok like 30 times and then going wow that's good I'm vibing with that and this song and then the listeners email me and say could you please stop saying vibing with that and then I say no i make no apologies for how youthful and colorful my vocabulary is i'd also throw peeping

00:59:23 - 00:59:28 | Speaker 3:

on my daughter's list in there too of things that if if you're taking requests of things i'm not

00:59:28 - 00:59:59 | Speaker 4:

i'm ignoring you're ignoring them okay yeah didn't you hear anything that i just said sorry if you want to hear the name of a singer that tells you if the the name indicates that we're talking about music for and by young people this performer this pop singer is named three four seven aiden one word lowercase a lowercase a-i-d-a-n three four seven the numbers three four seven aiden 17 years old

00:59:59 - 01:00:29 | Unknown:

Thank you.

01:00:00 - 01:00:39 | Speaker 2:

Born in Canada, birth sign Gemini, if you're scoring up. This is just what FamousBirthdays.com is telling me. This is pretty much the only place I could find any information on who this young person is. But this song is called Dancing in My Room, and it is so catchy to me. And, of course, it's been meme-ified on TikTok. It's just when people are, well, I don't know. I don't want to try to describe when it's used. It's just used in videos when people seem like they're kind of vibing. But I like it a lot, and I think it stands up as its own pretty good song. So are you able to play that from your end, Andrew?

01:00:39 - 01:00:41 | Speaker 3:

Now, I think so. I mean, I have.

01:00:41 - 01:00:43 | Speaker 2:

Are you young enough to be able to find this on your computer, though?

01:00:43 - 01:01:07 | Speaker 3:

It keeps on saying you're blocked. You're too old. Yeah, right? Well, it's on Spotify, you know, with the proper artists and everything. Although this, because you came to this via TikTok, this could be one of those things where the version I'm about to play for you does not, well, vibe with or actually in this case it would be jive so stop me if this ends up being the wrong version but this is the Spotify version of dancing

01:01:07 - 01:01:13 | Speaker 2:

alright here we go dancing in my room 347 Aiden no no no

01:01:13 - 01:01:14 | Unknown:

no no yeah

01:01:14 - 01:01:18 | Speaker 1:

no no no no no no no

01:01:18 - 01:01:20 | Unknown:

damn Aiden

01:01:20 - 01:01:24 | Speaker 1:

what you up to bro what you been up to Aiden yeah

01:01:24 - 01:01:26 | Unknown:

yeah I been

01:01:26 - 01:02:49 | Speaker 1:

dancing in my room Swaying my feet Trying to get you love And a kiss on the cheek Caught in candy skies Like I'm stuck in a dream And I've been feeling blue You're the one that I need Dancing in my room Swaying my feet Trying to get you love And a kiss on the cheek Caught in candy skies Like I'm stuck in a dream And I've been feeling blue You're the one that I need And baby, yeah, you give me reasons Just to fight all of my demons Yeah, I love it when you speak it Cause you silence all my feelings I'm feeling that I'm not okay And everyone gon' run away And leave me in my room Alone for just another day I'm sippin' on some lemonade I wonder if you'll ever change me Fuck yeah, I don't even care Baby, just come out my way Dancing in my room, swaying my feet Trying to give you love and a kiss on the cheek Caught in candy skies like I'm stuck in a dream And I've been feeling blue, you're the one that I need I've been dancing in my room, swaying my feet

01:02:49 - 01:03:00 | Speaker 2:

Alright, that's pretty much the song, which is why it works on TikTok because it's pretty much the same thing over and over again for three minutes, but what do you think? Is that too youthful for you, or can you kind of feel

01:03:00 - 01:03:05 | Speaker 3:

that chorus? No, I love it. I'm a little insulted that... Yeah, I mean, I think that...

01:03:05 - 01:03:15 | Speaker 2:

I just don't know if you're as young and hip as I am, so I worry that you're missing... I worry that you don't grasp what's so cool about music, like from... This is my generation, essentially.

01:03:15 - 01:03:17 | Speaker 3:

Can we just wrap up this week, please?

01:03:17 - 01:03:44 | Speaker 2:

Yes, we can. You're going to love how much weirder it's going to get, Andrew. This is something that we've not really done before for a listener suggestion, but I just became fascinated with this song last night that was sent in by listener Brittany. Now, this is why, by the way, Andrew, were you confused when our friend Camaro Kev randomly sent us a piece of music that was sort of a mashup of Danzig and I want to say Diana Ross?

01:03:44 - 01:04:07 | Speaker 3:

And he said, oh, if we're doing this, I saw that this morning. It came in kind of late last night, so I didn't notice it last night, but I saw it this morning. I haven't hit play yet. I thought it was just in response to the music video that I sent him yesterday, Wimp Busters from 1984 by the wrestler Jerry Lawler. So he wrote, since we're playing this game, I assumed that that was what he was referring to. I think he was.

01:04:07 - 01:04:59 | Speaker 2:

I had sent him and wrote in a text with this song in it that listener Brittany had sent in, which is a similar thing. What's what Brittany says? Today I learned that the vocals to Enter Sandman line up perfectly with Hip To Be Square by Huey Lewis and the News. Enjoy and or apologies. Signed Time Bandit Brittany in Kansas City. And I don't know why, maybe it was just the mood I was in at 10.30 p.m. last night, but I was totally transfixed by this song. And then I sent it over to Camaro Kevin Rodin. And then he responded, I think, accidentally to you and I with a similar thing that involved two pieces of music that you just wouldn't expect to go together. So, again, this is not usually the kind of songs we play, but I do think it's kind of it's it's surprising to me that this lines up as well. I'm not a Metallica head myself, but if they did more songs, it sounded.

01:05:00 - 01:05:07 | Speaker 1:

like Huey Lewis in the news, or at least lined up with Huey Lewis in the news. I believe the person who put this online, did they call it James Hetfield in the news?

01:05:08 - 01:05:25 | Speaker 2:

That's what they call it. I'm just exploring this now, and it looks like the person behind all of this or the YouTube channel behind all of this is somebody named Bill McClintock, who's the same person who did the Donzig bad mother video that he was talking about.

01:05:26 - 01:06:07 | Speaker 1:

All right. So, by the way, let me also mention that we can always use Music for Your Weekend suggestions so that I don't have to just play things that are four years old off of YouTube that are basically mashups. Not that I'm not excited to be playing Brittany's suggestion, but go ahead and send them to me, Luke at tbtl.net. Put Music for Your Weekend in the subject line and also put the link to the song in, please, so we can find it. But anyway, this is what we're going to go out with, and we're going to say thank you for listening this week. Thanks for being part of TBTL. We really appreciate all of you. And love getting to do this show. We'll be back here on Monday with more Imaginary Radio for you. Until then, have a great weekend. Stay safe. Take care of yourselves. Mask up. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

01:06:07 - 01:06:37 | Speaker 5:

We'll be right back.

01:06:37 - 01:07:10 | Speaker 6:

We'll be right back. In the things I want my head

01:07:10 - 01:07:23 | Unknown:

Sleep with one eye open Pipping on pillow tight Exit light In your night

01:07:23 - 01:07:27 | Speaker 4:

Take my hand

01:07:27 - 01:07:31 | Speaker 3:

Out to Never Never Land

01:07:37 - 01:07:40 | Speaker 4:

Power out.

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