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Listen, wife's going out tonight. I'm going to have the guys over. We're going to watch the fish on the big screen. I'm going to grill up some brats. I got a micro brew chilling in my wet bar, and I was going to warm up some ziti. Why don't you come by if you got some triple fried pizza dough or some kind of frozen meatballs or whatever it is. You can warm it up in my microwave, or you can warm it up back at home. Bring it over, pipe and hop. And if you want to bring over a vegetable medley, a crudite, figure out how much lunch meat you can spare, maybe bring over pound and a half, two pounds of Black Forest ham, maybe a Dijon mustard spread. Any kind of dessert, maybe a German chocolate cake or something like that. I tell you what would make you a big hit with the dudes is get some key lime pie, a la mode. I'm talking about ice cream on the side. Right. And you have got to have a bite of my homemade ziti. I'm just going to warm her up. She's been in the freeze.

Thanks for the invite.

You know, I love her those hot mozzarella sticks. Cube them up, put them in some marinara sauce. You have them on standby. Of course, you can't go wrong with some sour cream and onions so long as you bring ridged chips.

Yeah.

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Hi, hello. Good morning. And welcome, everyone, to a Friday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. In a case gone cold, could a podcast bring the heat? My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Oh, yeah. Coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center, high in the sky above a very snowy Portland, Oregon. Snow, snow, and more snow. I went to bed last night all excited. I was like a kid on Christmas Eve excited to wake up and see just a thick white fluffy blanket of snow upon the city. And I woke up and it was actually kind of lame. like barely any snow but since i got up this morning and as i now i'm talking into this microphone to all of you it is really coming down and it is beautiful and i am excited now who's in charge winter dryness so i'll probably keep you posted throughout the show as to how it's going because that will be something that really adds a lot to your life living in let's say the southwest in three months when you're listening to this anyway we have a great show in store for you on this Friday. It's episode 3,358 in a collector's series.

Let the fun begin.

Great news if you've been following the saga of Gorilla Glue Girl. The woman who glued...

Jalapeno! Jalapeno! Jalapeno!

All right, hold on, Shep. The woman who glued her hair down with Gorilla Glue spray has finally found relief, and her hair is getting back to normal. So we will, well, we'll tell you what's going on with that.

If you've got cute hair, I'm going to say, damn, girl, you've got some cute hair.

Also, Dave Chappelle is now back on Netflix. Sometimes I listen to a Jay-Z record and it starts making me feel bad about some of the choice I make. This guy's had more fun on two songs than I've had in the last 11 years.

Remember, he got pulled or he asked to have his stuff pulled from Netflix because he didn't like a deal that he had signed years ago. But I guess they've worked it out. So we'll bring you the latest on that and also the latest on U.S.-Mexico relations involving a border crossing where somebody was trying to sneak 194 pounds of prohibited bologna into the United States. Don't miss the Sausage Fest. And they were caught. So we will look into that as well. Plus, because it's a Friday, do some music for your weekend. We'll do all of it with the help of this guy The longest running co-bro of the show He may be best known for his drawings of The Tall Ships He is a guy who never misses the Sausage Fest He is Andrew The Miami Meat Tent Walsh And he is joining me right now From the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington Good morning, my friend

How is it, Luke? How is it?

That on this day, when I am so hungry, every single one of our drops has to do with food. I mean, I brought it on myself by listing all the foods in that intro tape, the time high decker. Do you have a powerful lust for some ridged chips? Oh, when he said ridged chips, I just almost just left my studio and went to the store to get ridged chips and then bring them back. and hopefully you wouldn't have noticed I was gone for that first half hour of the show. And then you're talking about sausage fests and bologna theft and meat tents. Oh, what I wouldn't give for a meat test. Oh, man, I'm so glad I stumbled. Sometimes my inability to speak saves me from future sadness when that drop would have come back in my face.

Here in Portland this morning, the local broadcast of Morning Edition, So the local OPB host was reading a forward pro, forward promotion for a, they had a cooking segment at the end of the show that was like a Valentine's Day cooking segment. And the guy said, the promo, I should say the local host said, looking to add some heat to your Valentine's Day. And he was so scandalized by saying those words that he couldn't, he could barely get through the sentence. He he messed up every single word of that of that sentence because it was so racy by public radio standards looking to add some heat to your Valentine's Day.

We're adding some heat to our Valentine's Day by getting lobster pho, which doesn't sound great to me. But, you know, me, Luke, I'm just a go with the flow kind of guy, especially when it comes to food. Like, whatever, whatever. I'll try it. Sure. A local pho place kind of around the corner from us here. Apparently, Genevieve was getting like a banh mi from there a couple of weeks ago, and they gave her a flyer saying, hey, we have this special Valentine's Day meal for two. And you plunk down some money. That's how it usually works. And they have some sort of prepared meal that you bring home. And it's got various things. And I think lobster possibly served another way as well. But the pho itself is lobster pho, which I am going to try because I am curious, but doesn't sound great.

Yeah, that's a tough one because I do, you know, back in my meat eating days, definitely had some lobster and I think I enjoyed it. Although really, that's one of those things, just sort of a butter delivery vehicle. Like if you're being if people are being realistic about lobster, what do you really want when you're having lobster? You want to dip it in that melted butter situation. That's the real treat of it.

I agree to a degree. I mean the butter makes it better, but I mean there's all kinds of fish out there that you wouldn't serve that would be that good with the butter. And also if you're going to take a little pinch – if you ever just take a pinch of lobster meat and eat it without the butter, it's still like – if it's good lobster, it still like melts in your mouth. I mean it's a – there's something special about it. It's not like you just dip any fish into that butter sauce.

as far as insects that live underwater sometimes for long periods of time it's definitely one of my top three sure uh there was a story i'm just taking this to the least fun place and what i really want to talk about i i want to talk a positivity today on the show andrew so i don't know why i'm starting with negativity but there was a story out of the northeast i think where they found a rare yellow lobster like they were you know some some lob lobster men were out fishing for lobsters trapping lobsters whatever they do with lobsters and they pulled in the thing and one of them was like yellow and it's very rare and so they called up the local aquarium or whatever and said hey do you want this special yellow lobster and my thought immediately thought my thoughts immediately went to well it's lucky that you were yellow buddy because the rest of your friends are getting murdered like it's kind of like the turkey pardoning this is why I apologize for you just want to talk about lobster pho and your valentine's meal which by the way have a plan b because we learned anything from your thanksgiving right i don't

get too don't get cocky i did yeah i said to these i'm like hey you want to go to chef rivera again

that worked out great did i ever say his name am i slandering now i don't think you're slandering i mean as long as you can stand by everything that you said on the show which i believe you can because it happened to me yeah yeah unlike Rudy Giuliani or Lou Dobbs you're not saying things that are just completely provably false right right but anyway I just had this moment of it was it was a sort of a cute story but then I thought it's like the pardoning of the turkeys it's kind of like it's weird to me when someone whose job it is to basically catch and kill these animals, finds one and thinks, you're cute.

We'll make you – you'll get to live because you're yellow. And then – but the rest of them, into the pot.

Yeah, but I mean, well, I get what you're saying, but also a yellow lobster. I mean, it's an oddity, right? You set the aside just to show – if nothing else, just to show people because of the novelty of it, not necessarily favoritism. I mean, I see what you're saying to a degree. Lobster favoritism? Yeah. Could that be a show title? Wow. Early, early contender as we go here. But yeah no I sort of see what you're saying But I think that's definitely coming from a perspective Where you're turned off by the idea

I'm way too empathizing with them I just hope that when people Eat lobsters I hope that They kill This is getting very dark for a Friday Show I hope that people kill The lobster before they boil it Because like you know that Woody Allen Scene I think it's in Annie Hall that's kind of Classic and it's very funny It's like I think for a long time I thought that was funny to boil a lobster alive and have it try to climb out of the pot and it gets on the floor and it's a whole thing now that just seems like okay if you're going to eat the animal eat the animal but can we not boil it alive i know i'm being so no fun and i apologize so we talk about a happy story you actually bring up a good point i do think woody allen is problematic

does anybody know about this lobster thing he should be canceled

um okay on to the positive part of the show i think andrew i've had a breakthrough with that fancy store in portland oh yes i've been yes i wanted to let you know some listeners had your

back on that by the way just some people who live there and sorry you were going to set it up the same experience basically said like and they've same as you like not super complaining just like yeah as somebody who's lived in portland i can attest to everything luke says and feels about this store which is you know there's it's it attracts you for a reason but also you feel

negged a bit by them yeah it's just a place this is uh it's a store it's called canoe and uh they sell a whole variety of things but each thing is very carefully uh selected and curated to be the most designy version of that or the the best reviewed version of whatever the thing is salt and pepper shaker uh knife knife set you name it it's not just kitchen stuff but those just came to mind anyway i i ordered some coasters from them and of course it was a whole thing where i had to wait a couple of days for them to go and get the coasters out of the back room and then email me and then uh i decided to go over there yesterday before the snow started to fall because i i was doing a whole sort of stocking up yesterday like i i went to whole foods and i was buying the whole foods was like cleaned out it was like everybody was just getting ready to hunker down here i think i may have mentioned on the show yesterday i can also walk to the Whole Foods. So I'm not sure why I felt the need to purchase like seven cans of fake chicken noodle soup, but I did. Anyway, I was kind of just doing some errands and trying to get everything wrapped up before the snow. And so I went over to the store. First, I called them to make sure they were even there, even though the website said they were going to be there. And the guy answers the phone and he goes, I go, are you open or are you there? I did an order in advance. I got an email and he goes, oh, we're not open, but I am here. And I was like, all right, that's a complicated answer to my question and i was like can i pick up the uh the thing he's like oh yeah totally so i came by the guy grabbed the thing brought it out he was very nice he said he made a joke about um all the salt that was i guess they spread a bunch of salt on the sidewalk it wasn't him it was maybe the local business district or something and he was like yeah i'm trying to keep this salt out of my store they're like salting you know they're salting the sidewalk like it's a freeway and he was laughing and I was kind of laughing with him and then he gave me my bag with my coasters in it and in the bag Andrew was a packet of gummy bears that I didn't buy. Oh look at this breakthrough indeed. Yes like they went above and beyond they put a tiny packet of gummy bears in with my coasters they didn't have to do that the guy was being funny and jovial I think he's just this particular fellow is a teeny bit awkward and also I just think their general vibe is kind of Like I said, they don't – they're not going to bend over backwards and thank you so much for coming into their store. They know they have good stuff, and they're proud of it, and they don't feel the need to be, like, overly retail-y with people. That being said, I think it was just a series of kind of misunderstandings and my own hang-ups, and I'm choosing to hit refresh on the relationship, and I'm going to eat these gummy bears later and think about my renewed relationship with this store in Portland. How many gummy bears in there?

One, two, three, four, five gummy bears, Andrew. Six would have been nice, but I guess five is a start. Yeah, I actually do think a lot – and this is something I need to remind myself of a lot. So if you hear me speaking here and thinking, well, this isn't something you live by, Walsh, I know. But I do.

I do think that a lot of perceived rudeness could actually be just awkwardness, especially in the high-end places. Like I'm thinking of another place that I think you have a very similar relationship with, only your interaction with them happened 15 years ago. But the high-end stereo store in my neighborhood, like I only went in there once. I was looking for an amplifier, and I knew they were going to have stuff way out of my price range, but I was just trying to get a feel for the landscape, what was out there, get a feel for the marketplace so I could play in it. And, you know, I knew that it's a super high-end store. I know it's a bunch of, like, audio nerds who work there, and I knew that they weren't going to be spending a lot of time with me if I went in saying, I don't have a lot of money, you know, like, I'm just looking for this smallish amplifier. or for my television they probably don't even own a television and notice they don't say tv because tv is a nickname and that's for friends and tv is no friend of theirs you kind of get that vibe but also these are probably people who are just you know probably grew up kind of nerdy like me probably are just somewhat awkward and like in a certain way we immediately can write off our interactions with them as them looking down their nose at us as like non-stereo people who just don't get it but maybe they're just somewhat socially awkward people and nerds.

Yeah. I think that's very much what was happening here. So I feel a little bad that I've been besmirching them on this show and even, again, on Livewire, unless they cut it out of the show. I don't always catch the program. So between what I said into the microphone and what came out of the radio are sometimes different things. Do you name it on Livewire? That surprises me. I know. Me too. So anyway, I want to officially retract my slightly snarky statements from earlier this week. The other thing that I really want to talk about with you, Andrew, this is a serious thing, is the question of if you're interested in co-managing a fantasy baseball team with me this year.

I don't think so. In fact, you met—I mean, listen, it's not about you.

It's just a non-starter. Can I make my case?

It's not about you, and it's not about baseball. Well, I wasn't sure if you were going to make your case, but you left a lot of space there. So I thought you were looking for an immediate answer. I mean, you will have to make a case because here's the deal. I like you. I like baseball. I like wasting time. But I do not. I just do not know enough about the landscape of baseball players and fantasy baseball. Nor do I. So much harder than fantasy football, right? Like, I mean, you're making so many more changes. You have to really stay on top of your roster because there are so many games and, you know, so many players who might be taking a day off here and there. I think I would be very quickly out of my league.

Well, here's first of all, I don't really know that much about baseball. You last year followed baseball more closely than I did. I was kind of because of the pandemic and the Mariners not being great. I was a little bit checked out. But my friends, Joe and Graham, who are hilarious, creative folks and also happen to be baseball fans, they have been doing this fantasy baseball thing for a while. And Graham reached out and said, hey, would you be interested? We have an opening. We need another person to manage a team in our league. Would you be into doing it? And probably if it weren't a pandemic, I would have said no. But I feel like we're all looking for something to do. we're all still you know mostly kind of stuck indoors and life is weird right now and i thought it would give me something to focus on it would also engage me with baseball again and i i thought maybe it would be a fun thing for you and i to do together because then like if we if we make a good you know decision as a team it's like a bonding experience like if you're like hey we should put in you know we should start this pitcher and i would say that's a great idea and then we did that picture has a great game and then it's like it's like a fun it would be a fun thing we could do together because we don't spend that much time talking to each other during the week but this would be a this would be a nice way to fill the other 12 hours that we're not talking to each

other with more interactions um i did misunderstand so you have sweetened the pot a little bit or maybe the better way of putting that is is you've maybe lowered the bar of entry a little bit here for me because for some reason what you when you said co-manage a team i heard co-commission a league i don't know why i thought you were saying let's start a fantasy football league you and i together recruit them how how am i doing so far um so you know start a league get friends to play and do the whole thing i see what you're saying what's going on here and by the way i don't take this as an insult at all but let's be honest about what's going on here this and because

you usually kind of forget about your fantasy football team not often you know not too far into the season so what's happening here is you kind of want to join this but together you think we'll be able to like handle the workload but eventually you'll forget your login and it'll just be my team which is actually fine like I'm not even saying that as snarkily as it probably sounds but yes you know co-managing a single team together is I can see that happening would you tell your friends that that you're whispering with me on the side that no it's actually my

friend graham's idea because what i asked was i said do you need i said should i invite andrew do you need two teams and he said actually we only have one spot but you and andrew could co-manage so this would all be very above board and i need fifty dollars from you oh is it a

money league really it's a hundred dollars is the entry for the thing um i i wouldn't i wouldn't let that stop me i don't know if you know this but i blow my nose with fifty dollar bills do

Do they make $50? Yeah, there are $50. That's very unhygienic, by the way.

I know, I know. And they're not new, by the way. They're really old ones. And I think a lot of people carry these 50s in their running shoes when they're out jogging. It's just, it's a bad idea all around. Very bad system. What I'm going to start doing is buying $50 tissues, which probably seem like a nut, you know, they're going to, they probably have them in a canoe. They sell those in a canoe. See, we're going to kill this fantasy league. We're just so in sync. Like, yeah, you know, maybe I should think of it as a way of we're not going to get our money back. But that $50 is a way to force me to learn more about the league and the wide world of baseball. Because honestly, like when you say I follow it, like I follow one team of these Seattle Mariners, even with football. Like I, you know, I follow the Seahawks. What are their names? And the Browns really closely. But like literally I can't tell Bryce Harper is another baseball player Outside of Seattle That's about what I know So maybe this would be Like a $50 Lesson for me to learn the rest of the league And the players who are out there

Me too because I have no expectations I don't care if we have the worst record In the league Like I'm not thinking we're going to win I just think it would be a fun thing That would give us something else to kind of like Text each other about and just have something to sort of, you know, pass the time during the pandemic. So that's my pitch. Also, we could come up with a fun team name, you know, which is half of the fun of being in one of these leagues.

Yes. By the way, did you see that it is that – How about the Miami Meat Tent? How about not?

The Miami Meat Tent.

D. Strange Gordon no longer wearing the blue. He signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds.

Hmm.

Wow. Oh, how the mighty. I loved him, by the way. He was so much fun, but he was just declining, and he didn't play much last year. He had a terrible year last year. But anyway. See, look at that.

You're already up on the transactions. I didn't even know that Dee Gordon was no longer a Mariner.

Yeah. Anyway, that's all I know. But okay, let's do it. Let's do it.

Oh, I love it. Yay. We got to yes.

Are we going to do the – is this MLB or is this a Korean baseball league? It's a combo. Okay.

So half of your players have to be KBO. Okay, good. And half of your players have to be – now, the other thing that's weird about this league is we are going to wear baseball uniforms like real baseball managers.

Oh, okay.

Oh, like managers.

I got the belly for it. Like Scott Service.

Okay, good. It's like one of the true weird things about Major League Baseball, it's the only sport where the coaches dress like they're about to go play. Can you imagine Pete Carroll's in full pads?

Yeah, that is a good point. Can I be pre-Slimfast Lasorda and you can be post-Slimfast? Was that – am I confused? He's Slimfast or was Slimfast, right?

He was. Yeah, he was Slimfast. He passed away recently of COVID, I believe. And there's some – oh, that could go in our manager, our all coach and manager tape show. Tommy Lasorda just being so furious at – I can't remember if he was mad at the reporters or if he was mad at a player on another team. But he just – just a string of F-bombs that would put Buster Bluth to shame. Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that. Just some really quality audio tape. Anyway, well, this is great, Andrew. Andrew, I'm very excited that you're up for this. And so I will go ahead and I'll pull the trigger and we'll get this thing going. All right. Okay. Let's take a quick break. And then when we come back, we will do the top stories, tell you what's going on with a Gorilla Glue lady and the other things that I mentioned earlier in the show. So stay with us. This is TBTL.

Thank you.

Thank you, baby.

Let's thank some donors of the day. These are the folks that are making this episode possible because they are donating to TBTL. We've got a meeting coming up here with our friends in the membership department, Sarah and Emily. And we're going to be kind of brainstorming on the next TBTL-a-thon and what we're going to do. We already have some ideas, Andrew, and I think it's going to be really fun. Yeah, it's going to be a great week. I'm looking forward to it. Hope we can make this happen. But these are folks who heard our plea last time, and they said, yes, we are going to support TBTL. And one of them is Jamie Julian of Columbia, Maryland. Thank you, Jamie. Also, Michelle Hall is in Strong Beach, California, which is what the cool people call Long Beach. And by the cool people, I mean my friend Shereen one time in about 2003. I think I know Shereen. She also once called it the Yaskaria, which is why I now call the Bay Area the Yaskaria. The two cool things I heard from my friend, Shireen Marisol Maragi. Thanks also to Joe Taylor, who's in Elyra, Ohio. Elyria. Elyria, Ohio.

Where's Elyria, Ohio? Oh-hio. Elyria. I feel like that's kind of southeast of Cleveland, but let me look it up.

Okay. Thank you, Joe. Thanks also to Valerie and Mike Fish in Carmichael, California. Jennifer Healy. Oh, is in Sisters, Oregon. I recently drove through Sisters, Oregon, I believe. I was on my way out to Bend or coming home from Bend. And I'd never been there. It's a beautiful country.

Hey, Luke. Yes. I'm kind of embarrassed here. Illyria is southwest of Cleveland.

Oh.

Just cut that part out. I'll just bleep it. Yes. Bleep it like Tommy Lasorda. Hey, Andrew, where is Illyria? Joe's going to be like, what happened? Well, Andrew finally blew a fuse.

Yes. Also, Alexandra Jantz, or maybe Jantzy, is in Kamloops, British Columbia. You love to see it. Kamloops, one of the towns that was in the Western Hockey League when I was a kid. You had Kamloops. You had Medicine Hat. You had Yellowknife. You had Seattle. Seattle had the Seattle Thunderbirds. And Kamloops loomed large in my mind because they had a hockey team that would come to Seattle and play.

Kamloops definitely sounds like a hip-hop instrumental band you would have listened to when you were in college with a lot of flute. Also, I just want to say here before we get out of this segment, Valerie Fish, not only supporting TBTL and the Fund Drive with her hard-earned donation money, but also she's our stained glass artist who made the wonder— Oh, really? She made stained glass faces of us. I don't know if I got—I think I still have yours. But you know our old logo with our two faces that are without features? She made two stained glass versions of those for us and also made the No Mountain Too Tall Sunrise glass that was a thank you gift. I just wanted to give her a shout out because they're really beautiful.

Thanks, Valerie. And thanks to all of our donors of the day for making TBTL possible. Would not be here without you. hello and welcome to top story have you been following gorilla glue hair lady at all

only tangentially i just know that she went i i she popped onto my radar when she went to the hospital which i believe was last weekend and that seemed like it was kind of a bummer it looked like It was very painful.

Yeah, and, I mean, the woman is named Tessica Brown. She's from Louisiana. She's 40 years old. And I'm sure that most of the listeners are familiar with what happened, but she basically ran out of hairspray. And so what she usually uses is something called Got to be Glued Blasting Freeze Spray. I know you use that as well, right, Andrew? Yes, I do on my chest hair. Apparently, it's also the hairspray that Pauly D. from the Jersey Shore uses. Oh, Pauly D.

Yeah.

And he has his hair kind of, you know, he at least used to really wear his hair up in almost like, he looked like a Yu-Gi-Oh! character or something. So, you know, it's good stuff. Anyway, Tessica Brown ran out of her got-to-be-glued blasting freeze spray. And so she had a can of this Gorilla Glue spray adhesive and she sprayed it on her head and it locked her hair in place. And it's the kind of thing where you hear. about it and you think oh that's going to be funny and everybody including like chance the rapper who was tweeting about this everybody seemed to have kind of gone on the same journey which is oh that's really funny this lady sprayed her hair with super glue basically um and now it's stuck in place but then you watch her video and she's crying and she has headaches and her hair is straight up locked down like she did this crazy demonstration where she takes shampoo and she tries to lather up this helmet of hair that she is wearing and it just is completely impervious to the shampoo uh and yeah you're right she went to the er they couldn't really help her i mean it was a kind of a serious situation and everybody was feeling pretty bad for her well this doctor in california i think very smartly figured out that his name is dr michael obang uh he's a beverly hills plastic surgeon he googled like what is in gorilla glue and he figured out the the kind of molecular components of it and then scientifically figured out how to break apart the bonds of those molecules and so uh brought her out to california and gave her a free twelve thousand dollar five hundred procedure to get this out of her hair by the way i'm amazed he has a price for this is this a thing he's been doing yeah right like normally this retails for twelve thousand

five hundred dollars right right right how do you how do you figure that out uh maybe that i wonder if that include included all the costs he flew her out did you say uh it does it says

um it brown has confirmed uh through tmz that uh let's see here um the no i mean it just says the outlet estimates the procedure would run around twelve thousand five hundred but obeng says he'll be doing the procedure for free because he feels so bad for tessica and it's not publicity for him well exactly i mean that's the that's that's the clever piece for him but um yeah he came up with this concoction it's pretty crazy there's a video of this guy where he got like a mannequin with like human hair on it and then he gorilla glued it down and then he did all these tests on it oh wow to figure out how to break it up and he created this uh concoction that uh Essentially, yeah, unfroze her hair. It involved medical-grade adhesive remover, aloe vera, olive oil, and acetone. This was not a simple procedure, by the way. It took hours, and they had to sort of partially anesthetize her to do it. No. And I watched the procedure. Do you think it burned the scalp, do you think? I don't know why. I mean, what I was watching them do didn't look like it would be that painful, but maybe it was just would be stressful to be like on the operating table with a bunch of people. I know you wouldn't like that, Andrew. You're not into that whole situation. Doctors, needles, things like that. But maybe it was just to kind of keep her calm. But they had partially anesthetized her and then spent hours like putting the solution in her hair. They were very careful. I thought they were just going to shave her head. Right. But they actually saved a lot of her hair. and afterwards she was able to run her fingers through it at least partially and she is now on

the road to recovery um this is probably a really dumb question but again i didn't follow this story closely i sort of saw people tweeting about it various kind of reactions to the story i wasn't paying much attention this this right here what we're doing is the most thought i've given it so i don't want to say anything insensitive but i am just wondering scientifically what would have happened if she had just waited right like and i'm not suggesting she should have just had to wait and leave this in her hair but um if there were no options and she just said well we're in quarantine anyway i'm just gonna you know stay home until this thing grows like how eventually your hair will grow a little bit into the point where the hard stuff would maybe move off the scalp and then you could get some looseness or maybe not because the gorilla glue maybe just

glued her follicles closed yeah i mean it had been a while i think she'd been in this situation for a month so you think in a month there would have been some growth also boy what a look can you imagine like your your your new hair the like the non-glued portion is just growing out and then you just have this like weird locked down helmet that's just like getting pushing

further and further away like once you get a little bit of wiggle room in there maybe you can get some scissors or something in there but yeah for those moments as as the help as the helmet moves further away from the head because new growth comes underneath gorilla glue of course

was like dragged into this whole this whole story even though they really didn't do anything wrong but they're constantly being hit up for comments about it and they always had to basically be like please don't put this in your hair this is not what it's designed for uh they think that she may have thought

Tessica may have thought this was okay because there's another kind of hairspray or styling gel that is apparently very popular called Moco de Gorilla, also known as Gorilla Snot, which people apparently love. So they were thinking maybe she saw Gorilla Glue. She thought, oh, that's like Gorilla Snot. That'll be okay. I can't think of anything I'd be less inclined to put in my hair, what's left of it, than something called Gorilla Snot.

Right. Right. That reminds me of something that is off topic here and commercial related. So my apologies to you for breaking your flow. My apologies to Genevieve for talking about commercials on TBTL. But we spent two and a half hours talking about Super Bowl commercials just this week alone. So I think we've covered it. But, you know, when you did your commercial breakdown after the Super Bowl, you didn't mention one of the weirdest commercials. I got some buzz of people online being like, that's so weird, which was the I think it's Oatly. the oat milk commercial the guy just singing out in the field i actually for to tilt my hand here i thought it was pretty brilliant it got my attention it didn't look super expensive to make it got me thinking about it but it also really appealed to me now keep in mind i'm not i'm not vegan um i eat meat um but i do have weird associations with milk just like if i think about it like why are we drinking this lactate from a different animal and that's basically the premise of this commercial he just is in a field with a keyboard singing it's like milk but for humans i think that's a great line did you have any reaction to that as somebody who's yeah let me play a little bit yeah yeah this is the guy it's like milk made for humans it's like milk

but made for humans wow wow no cow i really like it no no no wow wow no cow no no no wow

so i had a lot of thoughts on this commercial actually the first um that i i missed it when it was playing during the super bowl but then i saw it mentioned in the kind of recap and people kept saying the ceos because this is the ceo of the company his name is tody peterson they kept saying his terrible singing and i i was listening to i was like first of all he's not a terrible singer definitely better than ashton kutcher i mean who isn't but yes uh i don't think he's a bad singer i thought the commercial was effective people kept saying or writing it was picked as the worst commercial in the super bowl which i was like that's amazing that's good for yes that's exactly what they're trying to do if you're either either the best commercial or the worst commercial you've you've still won um this was i you might have found this out in your research too but this was some sort of a modification of i think that this a version of this commercial ran years ago in sweden oh really yeah so this was like a shortened version of a thing they recorded along i believe this is a swedish company oh okay interesting and so this this was yeah this was a commercial that was playing years ago in sweden and then they just decided to i i think it probably got the same reaction there people were like talking about it because it was kind of considered weird. Do they speak – so is it like they're a bilingual country? They just air ads in English? You know, I don't know the answer to that because I actually have been in Sweden, but I didn't notice what was going on with the commercials. I also took Swedish in college but did not pay attention because I was just there to try to date Megan Hallen, who, by the way, Andrew, is in one of those prescription drug ads that's just like one person's journey. It is the girl who – the woman, I should say, excuse me, who I had such a crush on in college that I took Swedish to be closer to her. Really? Now it's just like – it's some kind of a thing where she's like ziplining. I don't know what's wrong with her character. I don't even know what the drug is supposed to be fixing. But it's like – Oh, the ziplining one. Yeah. It's – I can't even remember what the product, what the name of the thing is. But she's sort of going through her day. She goes camping. She does, I think, a zipline. She makes a fire. Anyway, what I do know from having been in that Swedish class was, and having been briefly in Sweden at one point, Swedes are extremely competent with English, which is part of why learning Swedish was a little bit unnecessary. I mean, I also didn't learn Swedish. I learned like four words. But it's a country where you can get around with English very easily because the Swedes are very well educated and they speak English flawlessly.

I was just wondering if maybe it was the actual ad that had aired or maybe they based it on the it could have been could it have been that this is like a new interpretation of that ad for an American audience.

Let's see see Oatly bring a 2014 ad banned in Sweden to the US. This is from Ad Age and I apologize. I'm doing all of this on the fly. No, it's good. Oatly recycled an ad that first ran in Sweden in 2014. and was promptly banned there for its Super Bowl debut. The Wow No Cow spot is Swedish brand Oatly's attempt at raising its name recognition. The spot which ran... Banned in Sweden? Why? That's crazy. Let's see here. The spot, directed by Tor Bjorn Martin, I wonder if that guy's Swedish, took just one or two takes and was one of a series of commercials shot over a few days in Sweden During the summer The spot Fits into Oatly's messaging Again, Oatly has been in the US since late 2016, but it took a while to ramp up Production Let's see, the spot with its wow no cow message Aired during Swedish primetime TV, and the, oh this was why The Swedish dairy lobby promptly Sued Oatly So now the spot can't be shown In Sweden, but it's making its US TV debut seven years later

I love it. The more I hear about this, the more I love it, that anger. It's like milk, but made for humans. It really is such a shot across the bow. I love it.

And again, I bet you anything that being banned from Swedish television and getting sued by the dairy folks there was probably great for this company.

Yeah, I mean, and that's exactly I mean, people who say, and of course, I saw it too, like, you know, this was like the, the first commercial that sort of stopped the internet in its tracks, you know, and that's exactly what it was trying to do, like during the Super Bowl, I should say, because like, those people who say, oh, that was the worst commercial in the Super Bowl. No, the worst one is the one that you don't even remember right now. It's like Nick Jonas selling the diabetes technology, right? Which was one. But it was like there are so many commercials that you don't remember from the Super Bowl. Those are the worst commercials, not the one you are remembering and hating right now.

How about the one that's been expunged because we found out that the boss got a Dewey? Oh, my God. Wait, what? Are you joking about the Dewey? No. How did you not see this? Bruce Springsteen, it came to light that he had gotten a DUI back in November. and jeep had to totally pull that ad i mean that ad was literally out for like two days

and it's now scrubbed it never existed see that i knew that in fact i should check my my list of links and see if my link is broken now i um no i knew that that got tons of bad uh now we're just redoing the show i i should stop but i you know got tons of pushback for what i think to be very obvious reasons we don't have to get into it but i hadn't Right. Pardon me. Do you hear that death rattle in my voice? Let me breathe. OK, I'm good. This isn't apparently the last show. But no, I didn't know about the Dewey thing, but I almost wonder if there's like, thank God, this got so much bad press.

Now we have another reason to pull it. Yeah, it got it. Definitely. Like I that was one that I did watch in real time. And I was like, this is this is not. And that's I love Bruce Springsteen. I don't love Bruce Springsteen the way that somebody grew up, somebody who grew up in the northeast loves Bruce Springsteen. Like there is a like kind of New York, New Jersey, you know, tri-state love of Bruce Springsteen that is a whole other level. But I do like Bruce Springsteen, and I do think he seems like a good dude all around. I also – this is a hot take. I feel like Bruce Springsteen gets one free Dewey in his life because he's Bruce Springsteen. And I guess the story was he was like in a national park and he I mean, it sounds like he was having a few having a few cold ones in this national park in his and was driving his car and got pulled over. But now it's a federal case because federal property. So it's literally a federal case. But you're probably right. Jeep was probably bummed, but also it gave them a reason to pull this ad that was getting a lot of grief because, yeah, I mean, the pushback on it, which we don't have to get super into, was just. they were trying to find a way to appeal to everyone and say let's all get back to being friends but a lot of people me included think there needs to be more accountability than just can we all go meet at the church in kansas that's in the middle of america and pretend like we're all friends like that's just not enough for me like what did they represent i kind of understand

what they were going for but by going with the very specific representation of oh well if we want to talk about meeting in the middle let's go to the middle of america but what is it then the middle of america becomes cowboy boots pickup trucks tons of christian imagery like it was so not in the middle it was so specifically towards a certain kind of you know a certain kind of uh american lifestyle but it certainly was not representative of them of all america or the

people who live here i have a thought about this oatly commercial too which is do you think that the ceo is low-key proud of his musicality and that's why he wanted to do this commercial

Hmm. Like, is he the type of guy, if you're going over, like, he's a CEO, so he probably has, like, he probably has forces employees to come over for a real fun dinner party, like, you know, twice a year, you know, or a holiday party. And does he end up behind his keyboard at some point, kind of singing songs and thinking? that he's the life of the party i mean i don't know anything about this guy i could be totally misreading him but what i know about people is usually when someone if the ceo is in the commercial singing it's not because the ceo hated the idea right that it's it's it seems like something that could only happen because the ceo somewhere in his heart of hearts is like i am a decent singer i'm pretty cute which by the way he is pretty cute and he is a decent singer and kind of like was sort of like a little bit like don't make me sing but really wanted to sing like i get i don't know and also that doesn't seem like a very swedish quality to me whatever whatever the swedish qualities are they seem i mean they love bikini teams and um the dairy lobby is very powerful it's the first line when you look up sweden in the wikipedia that's the first line but um it feels to me like this yeah it's like you know if you have that friend that always wants to go do karaoke and then they always end up doing karaoke by the way i was that friend for many years to a lot of people in my life and that boyfriend and that husband it's because on some level they're probably kind of like yeah this is a thing that i feel like i'm kind of good at and it's nice for me to get to demonstrate that for people which isn't the worst impulse by any means but i have a theory that this guy kind of was a little bit wanting people to know that he can kind of sing and kind of play the keyboard maybe or yeah

Or maybe he's just, like, kind of a goofy guy, and he was just, like, goofing around on his keyboard and came up with this and just said, there's the commercial. I don't know. I like to think it was maybe organic. Yeah, well, it definitely worked for him. Anyway, I got us way off track there.

Dave Chappelle is back on Netflix. Did you see this? I only saw it in the rundown today. Okay. So he had – this was kind of an interesting story when it first happened because you don't usually see companies do this kind of stuff where Dave Chappelle was frustrated. I believe it was with a deal that he had signed with Viacom many years ago, which gave Viacom and Comedy Central permission to kind of do whatever they wanted to do with his material. They owned Chappelle Show. And so they had, like, leased it out to Netflix. And he had always been resentful of that deal that he had signed with Viacom and Comedy Central and CBS, which makes, by the way, me and Dave Chappelle, I guess, co-workers. Yeah, right. And best friends. definitely best friends but so he was bummed about that contract and so when when viacom you know leased chappelle's show to netflix or however that works he was he didn't like the fact that that show was on netflix and he wasn't getting any money for it so he went to ted sarandos who's the head of netflix and said i don't like this this makes me sad will you take it off of netflix and even though presumably it was making money for netflix It was profitable They said, okay Because they also want to play Dave Chappelle Stand-up specials And they want to have a relationship with Dave Chappelle And they didn't want to tick him off So it sounds like he put up I haven't watched all these But one of the things I think is cool Is Dave Chappelle just keeps dropping weird content

Yes, and mostly on Netflix, right? And so I might be wrong about that Yeah, this one was on Insta Oh, okay But I like that he's got this very interesting model Of just kind of dropping things when something comes up that he wants to address. And I know that he did, I mean, the incredibly moving George Floyd reaction, and that was like a 10-minute set or something that he dropped all over the Internet. But I just wanted to go back and just say I just think it's so smart for Netflix to say we have an interesting relationship with a genius who's kind of, you know, releasing material in a way we haven't seen before but works really well with our model. Let's not throw that all away just so that we can stick to our guns on a 15-year-old show Or how old is that show 20 years now I don't know 40 years Andrew Yeah anyway So I'm sorry Yeah but What's his latest That you were starting to talk about

He put a 10 minute performance On Instagram Which he called Redemption Song In which he Thanked his fans For refusing to watch His show When it was being streamed On Netflix So he said I never asked Comedy Central For anything If you remember I said I'm going To my real boss And I came to you He's talking to the viewers now Because I know where my power lies this is all from this redemption uh song set uh he said i asked you to stop watching the show and thank god almighty for you you did you made that show worthless because without your eyes it's nothing and when you stopped watching it they called me and i got my name back and i got my licenses back and i got my show back and they paid me millions of dollars so thank you very much that's awesome so that's interesting to me that like ted sarandos and whoever else is over there at netflix i mean i don't know if this is totally accurate but it sounds like according to dave chappelle there was like you know some red light starts flashing at netflix that's like no one's watching chappelle's show no one's streaming it on netflix and they're like what's going on and then they call dave chappelle and he's like yeah i told people not to

watch it and so then they they then like did some renegotiated some kind of deal I guess and gave him a bunch more money and so now he's fine with them airing Chappelle's show huh well that's good

I'm glad that you know and I don't know the details of it we've talked about it a little bit on this show before and um it's a complicated story and my brain is mush so I'm not the one to tell it but like you know he really got um the the raw end of a deal when he was a young again i mean i just keep i don't throw around the word genius i feel like in pop culture we have a couple of them a few of them right i think of him i think of um of stephen colbert just people's whose minds mario lopez mario lopez i would say is maybe above them i put him in a kind of a different level right um jonah lair though it's those i don't i don't know why that popped in my head you know why it popped in my head because i just got a new swiffer the other day and i'm looking at it and um in one of his books the opening chapter is about like the genius or how the swiffer came to be do you have that like i just like it's such a weird connection but like now whenever i think about a swiffer i think of like the first chapter of this journal

air book anyway weird was he the one who yeah got into trouble yeah yeah yeah from like making up

stories and then what people also called self-plagiarizing yeah which i was never convinced on that and not just because he was a bud but like I was never convinced on that because he just seemed to be a you know kind of taking advantage of the of the kind of media landscape that was the early 2000s where you would come up with an idea you'd presented it a TED talk you would use it in a um in a radio lab you would put it in your book I don't see that as self plagiarizing I just feel that's having an idea and putting it on your that's called my entire

career exactly literally you can watch me have an idea on this show as you and i are talking you could see me tweet it out you then could hear me bring it up on livewire as my monologue back in the day and or if it was a week i'm doing wait wait you could see me work it into something i mean like i definitely do that a lot yeah i'm not saying it's good content but but it's very much

the luke burbank model and that is not to defend him for the other things he did like making stuff up and i believe stealing quotes from other people's report like he did you know unethical journalistic stuff but i'm just saying the self-plagiarism to me my memory of that was feeling like that was gawker um really kind of despising somebody like their peers success and then once there was blood in the water really kind of circling but anyway um wow man i've i have Really upped my game of getting us off Track on topics Anyway I think I was just saying that Like I do think that Chappelle is A genius so I don't remember what my Original point was but basically staying on His good side is important Because what's going to come in the future With him I just think is way more Important than hanging on to the past

It's also I think I'm sure We talked about this back When this story first popped up But it's interesting how different the real story of dave chappelle's contract with comedy central and him supposedly walking away from 50 million dollars how different that ended up being in real life versus what everybody heard because i just remember hearing dave chappelle walked away from 50 million dollars and moved to africa it was just like he has lost his damn mind and when you actually like hear his version of events and you kind of look back at it it was like he like you said he had gotten roped into a really really bad deal for him that sounded like a lot of money but it actually wasn't nearly as much as he deserved for what he was creating and uh was going to give other people a lot of creative control and also i mean he was i think pretty stressed out doing that show because he was trying to do something that was totally original but also had a point of view and also was making important points about about society which is you know pretty pretty tall bar to clear so anyway uh yeah everything has turned out pretty well for him but there was definitely a point where i thought well dave chappelle is is insane like he's gone completely nuts and we'll never hear from him again yeah and uh per usual i couldn't have been more wrong i know this is not interesting to the listeners andrew i try to try to not do this so much where i'm just narrating what happens outside but we have officially reached the point of snow where cars are just Spinning out on the highway I'm looking at a Walmart Semi truck that is jackknifed And at a complete stop Blocking the exit from the freeway To the Moda center area Of Portland like we are now In full on snowmageddon

I think that might be moving North we had like some really nice Kind of romantic snow Last night I told you I sat in the window and read My book last night and watched the snow come down It was great Um, but I knew that they said bigger snow was supposed to come here to Seattle. Like, and again, this. is so stupid to talk about on a podcast but anyway i started it um but i i will say this i have a lot of things that i've said on this show that i regret there are very little eras of this show that i regret wholesale except the lead up to the covid shutdown like there are there are like two things I will never go back and listen to one the time I was so drunk on this podcast during the first Seahawks Super Bowl that I don't even know what I was saying and I bowed out for the second half of the show I will never go back and listen to that and I will never go back and listen to the episodes where you and I are trying to figure out what COVID is and saying it'll probably just be like the flu we had read that Atlantic article that said we're all going to get it but it's like the flu and just like i know a lot of people were wrong i don't even remember us saying that yeah i mean you and i went through the same paces that you know i mean we were we were doing what we're doing we were reading the news and regurgitating what we were hearing and and and you know giving our best guess and who could have you know guessed we'd never very few people alive nobody alive had ever been through this before but the idea of us just like being on the record having casual conversations um just saying that like oh man yeah that's like the flu like i don't know just like it embarrasses me how is that related to what we're talking about now well it brings me back to jonah lair no um was that the same show

where i said i'm 100 never getting divorced and moving to portland because i mean honestly there was multiple things about that episode that i i look back on now and realize did in fact did come

I don't think it was an episode. I just mean like I don't think that you and I were like punching the table saying the government is overreacting here. Go MAGA go. Like we were just saying like we just didn't know what was coming. This is I'm talking about like February, right? Like before before we knew what was coming or actually what was already here. And so it was just like kind of a vibe of weeks of us just kind of like talking about it a little bit. And I'm just, you know, in my head just thinking like I don't want to I don't ever want to hear that because that's embarrassing for me. I'm bringing it up because I want to say I feel similarly or earlier this week felt similarly about these snow stories. I didn't really believe they were coming. And now with you telling me what's happening outside your window and people saying that the big snow is supposed to come here to Seattle, I believe on Saturday night going into Sunday, I am now a believer. So I'll start wearing a mask.

i'm the one i mean i don't for whatever reason i don't feel as embarrassed about whatever it was we said about covid only because i think we were going off of whatever we thought the best information was at the time yeah i'll tell you what i do what i do feel embarrassed about was the last live wire that we did before we it became clear that we needed to you know not have gatherings anymore i remember coming out on stage and making a joke to the audience about you know kind of like i see a bunch of people out here who are not going to let a virus hold them back i mean the joke i was making was i also see a bunch of people uh who are not going to let a virus like you know run their life and they're not going to be afraid they're not going to live in fear and i said and also they're not going to waste the 25 they'd already spent on these tickets so that was sort of the crux of the joke but i remember saying something about we're not going to let fear rule their life right people started clapping oh right like it was this moment of like we're gonna fight this thing and we're not gonna let it and it's like uh no that was the wrong message for me to be kind of being like you guys are you guys are like the real americans because

you're here in this theater with no masks right you're not watching a show yes yes and i i understand but again and they clapped because in the moment we weren't we weren't in this you know complete like anti-science you know don't wear a mask culture war situation they were the audience then was taking it for what it was but i understand i don't think that you did anything in the moment that was wrong but in hindsight i understand why that is so cringy and but also like your producer like that doesn't have to see the light of day i guess they live online huh

no that was i think before we were even recording oh you know like the preamble oh but i'm just saying that was my yeah yeah that was that was my mentality by the way we now have reached the stage also where it's just people are just out of their cars walking on the freeway and trying to push various stuck cars off of the freeway um i almost andrew i almost went into giving a traffic report like as if hey if you're on if you're if you're on i-84 here in portland and you're trying to merge onto northbound i-5 we have a jackknifed oil truck with a wilson logistics truck behind it that spun out and then a walmart semi truck that are all blocking the off ramps you're gonna need to find an alternative route um what are the chances that this show will get processed and put on the internet soon enough that somebody will hear this who is on i-84 Sure.

And they'll be able to make an informed decision about their Portland snow driving. I can't believe you got through that without saying looky-loos. That's my favorite thing of fake. I always make an S-curves joke, which doesn't apply to Portland at all. I just think I don't know why I find S-curves. I think our friend Durs does a pretty good parody of a traffic report. And I believe he always brings up the S-curves. Where are those? Are those around Renton? What are the S-curves? I always ask you this. Yeah, the Renton S-curves.

I don't – I mean they're just – it's just – I don't know why it got named that. They don't seem particularly curvy to me. It just feels like you're on a freeway and maybe there's a bit of a curve. But yeah, famously, those are the Renton-S curves in Seattle. I was a traffic reporter and I remember when I worked at Metro Traffic that they would send around these – I don't even know if we had email back then. We probably didn't. But they would send around these memos that would basically say, we need to come up with new words, new ways to describe traffic events because we're all just saying the same thing over and over again. And I remember one of them was ways to describe car fires. And one of the things on there was car-b-queue. Oh, that was like to expand? Yeah. So if you used car fire too much, you could also consider using car-b-queue. no don't consider that consider it and then dismiss it that seems very that's the only thing more glib than me giving the audience a round of applause for gathering in a super spreader event is calling someone's car burning down a carbeque oh my gosh yeah no that's a bad idea bad idea me and like bev devlin trading notes on like what we're calling different kinds of traffic events so that we can kind of mix it up and be creative. All right, before we get out of here on this Friday, we should do a little music for your weekend. If it does snow there, Andrew, if you get a good dumping, will you go do something fun in the snow? Will you make a snowman? Will you throw, will you have a snowball fight with Genevieve?

I could see myself making a snow angel. Maybe dropping on my back, flailing around a bit.

Are you going to go for a walk? Like, I mean, are you going to go out and enjoy it? Because I'm sitting here looking at it, and when we're done here, I mean, I actually have a couple meetings today, but I'm thinking I might, you know, put my snow pants on, go for a little adventure, get out there, enjoy it, get in touch with, you know, 12-year-old Luke.

I might take a little stroll around the neighborhood when it starts coming down, but I'm not somebody who's going to be like, oh, let's, like, slide around or sled in the streets or romp around. or whatever I do will not involve snow pants, let me put it that way. I'll probably, like, you know, maybe walk around with my camera, snap a few snaps, enjoy the softness, the quietness that comes along with the fresh snow. You know what Genevieve said yesterday when it was snowing for about an hour? She said this is going to accumulate. You know what they say, little snow, big snow. Have you ever heard that before, little snow, big snow? No. And she said, don't you remember that from New England? They say that all the time. I said, no, I don't. I remember them saying, chopping wood warms you twice. But you're in New Hampshire now. But I didn't remember the phrase. And my favorite, you can't get there from here. Right. You can't get there from here. But anyway, apparently when the snow is big, fat, wet flakes, it looks like it's going to accumulate. But that is like it's already warmer snow. And so that's not going to accumulate. But if you have a bunch of little tiny snowflakes, it probably means that the weather conditions are going to allow it to accumulate.

And that's exactly what I'm seeing here, Andrew, and why when I woke up this morning and it was just kind of like a little bit of like kind of almost we would call it corn snow or something like not big, huge flakes that look like they're going to really like start piling up. I just thought, oh, this is going to be a letdown. But now I'm is it weird? I don't want people to be in misery. I really don't, but it makes me weirdly excited that all the cars are spun out on the freeway. Like, nobody appears to be hurt. And again, I know that's like a really – it's like a horrible thing to say, but I guess it's just – like, one of my favorite things to do when it snows is to walk down the middle of the street. I like how quiet it gets. I like that people stop driving. It just – and again, it's got to be related to being a kid, you know, because in the Northwest where I grew up, it doesn't snow that often. And so when it does, everything kind of closes down, and it's just sort of like the rules no longer apply. You can walk down the middle of I-5 because there are no cars, or if your car spins out, you can get out of your car and start walking around to figure it out. There's something about that that I just – it delights the child in me.

Well, I have a theory about it that I'm coming up with right now, and I'm going to be incredibly inarticulate and probably offensive in this as well. But here's – snow events like this can lead to some harm.

people so let's not minimize that but for the sake of this conversation let's let's put it aside because as opposed to let's say a um a hurricane or something the the amount of damage that a snowstorm in a lot of cases causes uh is somewhat minimized yet it is still a shared weather event and there's something about the kind of shared weather events that are especially the more harmless ones that are fun they bring us all together in a way and i remember living on the east coast when a hurricane would be barreling down like the ones that i witnessed that kind of came anywhere even near us um all ended up being you know pretty tame so it was okay but it was the days leading up and you would just everybody's looking at the same maps that have that cone shape on it right and there's a there's a hunkering downness that is sometimes frustrating when you're looking for beans at the store but they've been wiped out but also like that that feeling of something's coming and we're all in this together and we're all keeping our eyes on the sky and our eyes uh on the internet and and what is going to happen and with snow and with a hurricane it's terrible but with a snowstorm it's just it's mostly fun yeah and again it's so

associated with childhood now maybe it was different because you grew up in ohio it probably snows a lot out there it was you know just typical in the winter but i mean we lived for snow days in the north. Oh, yeah. It was like everything. And it didn't happen very frequently. So I think for me, it just like very much transports me back to childhood. Yeah. And I'm happy to report that they got some kind of a I don't know if it's a tow truck or a sand, you know, like a truck putting down a salt. But two of the semi trucks have now been able to successfully limp their way off of the exit from I-84 to northbound I-5. So you should be getting back up to speed pretty soon unless we end up with a car bq traffic on the sevens here on 770 knwx our next report at 11 37 thank you luke uh now back to the hits um that that station that i would do the news that was or the traffic every seven minutes on the sevens that was brutal because half of the time they were just in automation and it'd be like the middle of the night and there's no traffic to talk about but you have to do the traffic every 10 minutes on the sevens so you're just kind of going like it's 337 and you're trying to figure out how to fill a minute because the music bed was a minute yeah right and you just have to talk over it for and just come up with a bunch of it actually was really great prep for doing this show yeah truthfully are you running your own

board in that case are you swelling the music are you just sitting there so you can't even like kind

of swell the music and like stall that way no i'm i'm just talking at that time i'm in a high rise i was in the columbia tower in downtown seattle in a high rise just talking into a microphone and you just had all these switches there was like 20 switches and each one was just the switch for a specific radio station oh right okay yeah interesting um all right let's do some music for your weekend my friend what uh what song would you like to play for the listeners

i'm gonna play a song that i don't think is gonna i don't think this version of the song is gonna be for everybody especially those who maybe love the original but this is a song that apparently came out last october my guess is you might have heard this already luke a lot of build-up here i saw it when um our buddy pesca mike pesca tweeted this out a few weeks ago and it is the song under pressure the queen song under pressure but it's a cover by karen oh and willie nelson have you seen this thing jangling around the internet? No, but I like both of those people. Yeah, so let's take a listen to this. It's definitely a slowed down version, but I think it maybe speaks to me a little bit more. Take a listen to this.

Pressure Pushing down on me Pressing down on you No man asks for Under pressure That burns a building down Splits a family in two Puts people on streets It's the terror of knowing what the world is about

Watching some good friends screaming, let me out Pray tomorrow gets me higher Pressure all people People all streets

Da-da-da-ba-ba Okay Chipping around

All right, are you pumped for the weekend? Yeah, baby.

I like it. Yeah, I do too. I am like such a Karen O fan. I mean, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were a little hit and miss for me. Like I loved some of their music, And then there was a few things that, you know, I wasn't that into, but I saw them play at Bumbershoot one year and Karen O had this like amazing cape on that was like sequined and the back of it was like some big like Thunderbird or something. And she just came out with her back to the audience as the music was building with this cape on. And I was like, that is a rock star. Like her stage presence is totally insane. And then she just got on to do so many cool stuff. She did the soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are, the version where, like, James Gandolfini was the voice of, like, the main, you know, wild thing.

Yeah, that was directed by – do you remember?

I'll look it up. Was that Spike Jonze or something? Yeah, I think it was Jonze. Yeah, yeah, good. That soundtrack. I listen to that soundtrack, like, you know, once a month. It's so good. It's from a kid's movie, but it's just, like, so good, and Karen O is so amazing. Okay, I am going to suggest a song that I just found out about this morning. I was on Spotify. I may have been peeping on my daughter's Spotify recommendations, and I saw this song. It's called The Hum, and it's by somebody named Margot Gurion. And I listened to it, and I thought, oh, that's kind of a cool song. I go, wow, and it's about the Trump administration, obviously, because there's a line in it about the attorney general trying to make the president a king. And I was like, well, this is a pretty quick turnaround And, you know, but it's kind of a catchy song And an interesting song And I was like, I guess, you know, we'll put it out there And then I googled it And Margot Gurian, this is a song about Nixon This song is from 1974 This woman is, like, still alive But quite old at this point And this is just like this kind of random song From 1974 called The Hum By somebody named Margot Gurian Are you able to play it from there, or do you want me to play it from here, Andrew?

Yep, I got it right here. You said the Humpty Dance, right? Okay, here we go.

Yep, it is your chance to do the Humpty Dance.

The heat is down and the lights are low. The east is buried in an icy snow. The west is following crisis rules. rules they can't go swimming in their swimming pools and the tapes go the prices rise and the market falls the trucks go slow and the congress stalls The feet he left with the dough he took And the pea tells the world he's not a grub And the tapes go

What do you think? The tapes go, hmm, she's talking about the secret recording

Yes, I love this. I think she's talking about the parts where they redacted or they basically erased the tapes. Yes.

As a matter of fact, I love this music. It's one of those things where the lyrics are so specific that, and I love this. I just added this to my monthly playlist. I'll have you know. So I absolutely love it. This is my kind of music. But it's about such a specific thing that it almost feels novelty. I wish it were almost just more poetic or about something less specific. But I definitely want to listen to the rest of this record, get to know Margot Gurion. Is that how you say it? Yeah.

Wow. I don't know how to say it. I didn't know this person existed until like two hours ago. But yeah, like that song is so catchy. I'm kind of with you. Like if it were a love song or a song about a tree or something, it would feel more durable. Because, yeah, it feels like it's very of a moment. But, man, it's so catchy, and I love her voice, and I love the instrumentation and everything. She has a song called I'd Like to See the Bad Guys Win.

I want to check that out. I don't intend to spend...

christmas without you um anyway i'm just looking at um something's wrong with the morning i want to check this out yeah the album i'm looking at right now is called 27 demos um but that was the version you heard right like that wasn't a demo i didn't play it like a demo nope that was the

same version that i had heard very exciting uh on on my daughter's a spotify page so anyway that's my little suggestion which brings us to the listener suggestion which is from listener yana yana says hi fellas i wanted to share a song that has become one of my valentine's day weekend excuse me one of my favorites for lifting my spirits and adding pep into my step on a run i thought it was a good pick for valentine's day weekend because it's about love but it's kind of a good neutral love song that isn't about a specific relationship or heartache it's just about going where love is alive and i kind of love that uh it's called love is alive it's by louis the child featuring elohim and then johnna signs it with love johnna in camarillo like donna with a j cool so that's uh that's we're gonna go with louis the child i actually like these guys they're like an electro outfit i think they're from chicago and uh i've listened to some of the rest so i didn't know this song but it's pretty good and it's a nice little um a nice little kind of middle of the road also elohim that's i think that's the hebrew word for for love we used to we used to sing a song called only elohim only elohim is god you see you don't see the name elohim going around a lot but no this is louis the child featuring elohim um by the way

i saw this email come in i don't usually open the music for your weekends because that's your department so yes i just like kind of move them over to a folder but i'm pretty sure when jonah sent this note in the subject line was something like a valentine's day song but don't worry it's not corny or something along those lines which i appreciated yes so this is some good non-corny

valentine's day weekend music for those of you sitting on i-84 in portland who are hearing this right now uh so all right that's our show uh for today and that's our our show for this week or that's our broadcast for this week thank you so much everyone for hanging out with us thanks for being part of tbtl i'll be back here on monday with more imaginary radio for you until then Have a great weekend Stay safe Mask up Take care of each other And please remember No mountain too tall And good luck to all

I just want to go where life is alive

I just want to go where life is alive All of the chaos surrenders Changing the currents and tide The water can keep getting deeper Cause I'll be ready to stay and try Ooh yeah I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it Ooh yeah Come to me quick, come to me quick I just wanna go, love is alive, love is alive, love is alive

I just wanna go, love is alive, love is alive, love is alive

Power out