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#3389 A Man, A Palm Pilot, A Canal!
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

#3389 A Man, A Palm Pilot, A Canal!

from TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

March 29, 2021 | 01:40:54 | Leisure, Comedy

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Luke discovers a British betting site where people were wagering on the Suez Canal situation...and a lot of other fascinating stuff. Plus, according to some recent TikToks, Papa John is not doing super great?
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00:00:00 - 00:00:01 | Speaker 1:

And for you, sir?

00:00:01 - 00:00:02 | Speaker 5:

I will have the gabagool.

00:00:03 - 00:00:04 | Speaker 1:

For what?

00:00:06 - 00:00:07 | Speaker 2:

The gabagool.

00:00:08 - 00:00:10 | Speaker 1:

I don't really know what that is.

00:00:10 - 00:00:11 | Speaker 2:

You know, gabagool.

00:00:12 - 00:00:13 | Speaker 5:

I don't have to have that.

00:00:13 - 00:00:17 | Speaker 2:

What he's trying to say is gabagool. I don't really think that we have that.

00:00:17 - 00:00:18 | Speaker 4:

That's okay.

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

Bring in the gabagool.

00:00:19 - 00:00:19 | Unknown:

Shh.

00:00:19 - 00:00:22 | Speaker 5:

I will have the spaghetti with a side salad.

00:00:22 - 00:00:23 | Speaker 4:

Okay.

00:00:23 - 00:00:28 | Speaker 5:

If the salad is on top, I send it back. TBTL.

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

i'm going to suggest that we have a little constructive talking time not long at all i mean maybe maybe 10 minutes or um okay or maybe 15 is also good this is a show for dogs about dogs

00:00:46 - 00:01:00 | Speaker 5:

starring one dog and one dirty dog wait a minute i'm a reasonable guy but i've just experienced some very unreasonable things you're the only one with the capacity for such tenacity and audacity But more than anything, I admire your veracity.

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

Yeah, I gotta say, this seems like a bad idea.

00:01:05 - 00:01:53 | Speaker 4:

Alright, hello. Good morning and welcome everyone to a Monday edition of TBTL. A beautifully wrapped, glossy, sweet-smelling show. The show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name's Luke Burbank, I'm your host. You know, you gotta eat that microphone. Coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center high in the sky above Portland, Oregon, where I feel happy of myself. I feel like this is going to be a really good show because I have access to an unlimited supply of hot coffee. Well, it's limited to the amount of coffee that is in this cup. but I am now using a self-warming coffee cup that my daughter got me for Christmas.

00:01:53 - 00:01:56 | Speaker 1:

That was the fanciest sentence I've ever heard, and I used to watch Frasier.

00:01:57 - 00:02:55 | Speaker 4:

I finally took the time to take it out of the box and set it up, and I think it's going to really revolutionize things here on TVTL, where we find ourselves at episode 3,389 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. And they finally freed up that giant container ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal for, I think, like six days. I just made a huge mistake. Which led me to this website where people had been betting on when the Ever Given, which is the name of the boat, when the Ever Given would actually be released from its position there. and then that led me to all the other weird things that you could bet on on this British betting site which was amazing to me so we'll talk about that oh then speaking of huge mistakes why did I decide to use almost an entire jar of jalapenos on my frozen pizza last night

00:02:55 - 00:02:56 | Speaker 3:

jalapeno

00:02:56 - 00:04:19 | Speaker 4:

I knew it was like a slow speed car crash I knew what was happening but I somehow couldn't stop myself and without getting into too many dazzling or maybe disgusting details, let's just say. It's going to be very hot. It's going to be very uncomfortable for everybody. In the words of Jerry Springer, I wish I hadn't done that. So anyway, hopefully we won't get into that too much. Oh, but speaking of pizza, Papa John Schnatter, the guy that used to own the Papa John Pizza Company, he is really not letting it go. His whole, he's got a TikTok page that's just him responding to social media posts about bad pizza experiences from the Papa John's company. Like, he is just waging a one-person war against his old company, and it's not the greatest look. I'm not handling this well. So we may dip into that a little bit. The tormented world of Papa John. We'll do all that with the help of this guy, Longstroning Cobro of the show. Speaking of maritime disasters. He may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships, capturing their grace and power. He is Andrew Walsh, and he is joining us right now from the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Good morning, my friend.

00:04:20 - 00:04:59 | Speaker 3:

Good morning, Luke. I had the most sublime garbage-related incident this morning that I'd love to tell you about, if I could have two minutes. I'll put two minutes on the clock. So you probably don't know this, but today is garbage day here where they pick up the garbage. I had two cans out there waiting. Two cans. I had two bins out there waiting for them today. One with, you know, the garbage that goes to the landfill and one with the compost. I went out to check the bins, see if they were emptied yet right before the show and the compost had been emptied. Not the black garbage bin yet. So I leave the black garbage bin out there. I do take a peek in there.

00:05:00 - 00:06:52 | Speaker 2:

just to make sure that it hadn't been emptied and then set back perfectly on the curb, tricking me. But it was still full of garbage, but actually not that full of garbage. And I had this mental thought, wow, it didn't really go through that much garbage this week, did we? And I'm having that thought as I'm wheeling my green compost bin back to its home. And I'm thinking, you know what? I think I have some garbage upstairs in the kitchen that probably has some, not to be gross here, but a little chicken juice in there from some dinner I made the night before. I mean, I'm the guy who just admitted to having jalapeno diarrhea, so I probably— Yes, so I'm like, that's going to start stinking. I should probably just quickly take that bag that's still in the kitchen and throw it away in my bin that's still at the curb waiting to be emptied, and I do just that. I grab the kitchen bag. I take it out to the curb. I throw it in the black bin. I turn around. I'm heading up the stairs up to my front door, and what do I hear behind me, Luke, but the joyous sound of the garbage truck coming to empty that bin that I had just added a little lanyop to, as we like to say. I hide around the corner because I think it's rude to sit there and stare at the garbage collectors right as they're collecting your garbage. The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! I hide around the corner. I wait until the coast is clear, and I zip out there seconds after they pull away. You can still smell the fragrant mixture of sweet garbage and kerosene or whatever. I don't think trucks run on kerosene, right? Diesel, I think, is the word. They run on a whale blubber that is rendered down in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Pacific Northwest, interesting. Also, oh, they're shipping that in from Massachusetts. Interesting. Anyway, it was just such a sweet, sweet feeling, Luke, to add a little garbage and then have it taken away moments after I walk away so that I can then bring that baby off the curb before any of them dang dog walkers can do me dirty.

00:06:52 - 00:07:00 | Speaker 1:

Right. I like that you're starting to lean into that quote, though. You done me dirty. You done me dirty. You're just not ready for the accent yet.

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

That just snuck in there. I didn't even realize. Yeah, it is a good phrase.

00:07:04 - 00:07:32 | Speaker 1:

Daniel Kaluuya. See, that's like the sort of, that's the perfect moment for you because you were able to bring the can back in. I don't think it would have been the worst idea, too, if you would have stood there observing their work. Just, you know, not to be sort of, I don't know what we would call you. What's the male version of a Karen? Do we have a name for that? I think people have been throwing Chad around.

00:07:32 - 00:07:38 | Speaker 2:

Could you quickly look ahead to the dazzling donors today, though? Do we have any Chads or Karens? Because I don't want to burn any bridges.

00:07:38 - 00:07:55 | Speaker 1:

The person is named Chad Karen. First name Chad, last name Karen. Really shot the moon there. See, to me, Chad sounds much more like – isn't the guy who's a house party enthusiast that we play, that audio, isn't that a person named Chad? You know what?

00:07:55 - 00:08:05 | Speaker 2:

I don't know the answer to that direct question, but I agree with the vibe you have. So I don't know if I'm wrong or if you and I just disagree because you're right. I think that Chad evokes something different, like kind of a –

00:08:05 - 00:08:46 | Speaker 1:

Chad evokes more surfer guy to me than whatever. And again, you know, peace and love to our listeners that are named Karen, which is actually a lot of listeners of ours are named Karen. So, I mean, that's not a super great deal for you to have that name now associated with whatever that whole series of behaviors are. Point is, I'm not trying to encourage you to be overly monitoring the garbage folks. But if they were to catch you watching them, maybe some part of their brain would think, oh, this is a guy for whom this is a really big deal. But we should try to, like, if there's one of these things we're going to try to not mess up each week, it'll be this one. This guy's a little extra. Let's just make sure that we don't give him anything to complain about.

00:08:46 - 00:09:06 | Speaker 2:

I don't think it's a good look all around. I wouldn't be comfortable watching him do it. One of the reasons I get this feeling is one time I did go out there right as they were just finishing up, and I gave him a kind of a little wave, right? But the kind of wave that you give, kind of a wave with an implied salute.

00:09:07 - 00:09:46 | Speaker 1:

Can you imply a salute? I know what you mean. It gets down to the hand motion. Like there's a wave, but then there's a kind of – you can kind of do a little turn with your hand that's not a full – like you're not saluting them. Right. Like thank you for your service. Just a quick little – I think there's a strong argument that people who are doing the thankless work of emptying the garbage and the recycling, they should be able to board the plane first. I'd be fine with that. But anyway, you kind of do a thing with your hand that's a wave, but it has a little bit of, like, crispness to it that kind of says, like, yeah, man, we're all in this together. You're out here at 4 in the morning emptying garbage. I'm here at 10 a.m. talking into a microphone. We're the same. We get it. We're part of the same kind of team.

00:09:46 - 00:09:59 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, and, you know, I think I was exaggerating there, but I think maybe what I gave him was a business wave. Maybe that. Just kind of like if you were across the street and I saw you and I waved to you, Luke, it would be a very different wave. Well, that would be just a wave of excitement.

00:10:00 - 00:10:30 | Speaker 1:

joy and just childlike glee but you know i when i wave to these folks you know they just did me a service i mean sure we pay for but they just did me a service and also just kind of like a hey i see you i appreciate it anyway when i gave them this wave i received nothing back and you know i think you're like me sometimes giving a wave and then just receiving a stare and then a cold shoulder in response is not ideal it's not the type of thing that is exactly why you need to

00:10:30 - 00:10:44 | Speaker 2:

start personally supervising every right exactly because that was that that was an extremely rude now maybe are you 100 sure that they saw you waving um i we were very close i mean this is

00:10:44 - 00:11:04 | Speaker 1:

pre-covid i want to say in the can like oscar the grouch style i was i was what was i saw a new yorker cartoon or a new yorker style cartoon recently where you see oscar in a garbage can but he's daydreaming about making it big someday and in in his daydream he's living in a dumpster

00:11:04 - 00:12:23 | Speaker 2:

which i thought he's had to move to the suburbs though he's had to move slightly out of the kind of urban core of the city to be able to afford the square footage that he's looking for right but he's made the decision that you know because of the school district and everything it's worth fit to him i i saw a thing uh pop up from the snl universe that i had missed when it was first recorded but i actually thought it was pretty clever and it was the guest host that week i guess you would just say host right because each week there is a host and they they're not going to host it all the time so it's just implied that they're the guest host the host one week was the guy david harbour from like stranger things oh yeah yeah other projects hopper i think from stranger things and he the the this is i believe around the time that joker uh as in the you know the the joker film that had that has joaquin phoenix in it was was really kind of like a big having a moment and this was david harper as i think that maybe the character was called either grouch or oscar but it was the gritty origin story of oscar the grouch yes i saw exactly like all the joker stuff and it was pretty genius i was surprised i had missed it when it initially came out because i was like this should have probably been kind of burning the internet

00:12:23 - 00:12:59 | Speaker 1:

for a couple of days yeah i mean somehow it caught my attention but i don't know exactly why can we take a quick listen to it damn that smells straight like ass man i don't know i kind of like him yeah you like trash so much why don't you live in it why don't you bite me damn osky why you such a grouch man oh so he's a garbage man starts off as a garbage man he starts off as a garbage yes there's a fine line between a firefighter and a pyromaniac right luke and i

00:12:59 - 00:14:30 | Speaker 2:

think that's that's what we're seeing here with grouch yeah as speaking of snl uh clips i had a kind of an embarrassing moment yesterday i was uh at the airport i was on my way back from la and i started watching the and this would probably not work as audio i mean we don't ever let that stop us but it mostly it worked because of maya rudolph's amazing kind of like um facial expressions but maya rudolph was playing beyonce on that show that thing hot ones where people eat chicken wings you know really spicy wings and then do an interview oh okay you you must know about this right no no this is actually really this is all this has been all over the internet for like i don't know maybe five years i was kind of surprised i mean the real show called called i think hot ones i was kind of surprised that it caught on the way it did because i felt like it happened at a time where the concept of getting a celebrity to do something that was outside of their comfort zone while interviewing them i felt like that had been kind of sort of Played out or at least had been explored very Thoroughly but for whatever reason This one really caught on and then once you get Enough people taking part in it then you get other Famous people that are willing to do it so it is Something that really does actually have You let me take this to a more specific And boring place do you know that meme Of like Paul Rudd saying look at us Look at us here where He's kind of like having this moment anyway people use That a lot in things to be like oh I didn't

00:14:30 - 00:14:34 | Speaker 1:

Expect we'd be in the I can picture that yes yes Yes he's sitting that's from that yeah

00:14:34 - 00:15:00 | Speaker 2:

That's from this hot ones show And the guy who's the host of it seems like a nice enough guy, but he's just a sort of fairly nondescript white guy who also – again, just the fact that this has moved into the culture the way it has, I wouldn't have predicted it. But anyway, so the sketch on SNL was Beyonce is on hot ones. And just Maya Rudolph being Beyonce who is eating things that are too hot for her, but she's trying to just –

00:15:00 - 00:15:59 | Speaker 7:

Continue to maintain her Beyonce-ness. Had me crying, Andrew. I was laughing so hard that I was crying in the airport. And I think the people that were, you know, socially, safely and socially distanced away from me but still in the general area thought this guy is going through something. Because I was laughing so – and then the more I tried to kind of stifle it, the harder I was laughing. Anyway, I would recommend people check that out. There's this moment where Beyonce decides she's so hot, like she's so overwhelmed by the heat that she calls out her hair assistant to take her wig off and place four ice cubes under her wig and then put the wig back on. It's like – and then another wing of her like handlers come out and are just like, do not take that wig off. Like it's like the competing forces that are trying to preserve Beyonce's image. so you've got one person who's like outranking the person who's supposed to take her wig off and tell you you do not touch that wig on television anyway i would recommend remember

00:15:59 - 00:16:45 | Speaker 8:

how you were saying the other day that like you're tempted um i think you were mostly spoofing but tempted to get like a mask that says i'm vaccinated to put people uh a little bit at ease or i think back to the woman um this is very early in the pandemic way back i believe last march i was walking around Green Lake and there was a woman who had a homemade shirt, but the letters were like ironed on that said, I just have allergies or something along those lines. That was something I saw IRL at Green Lake. I feel like if you're worried about looking ridiculous from cry laughing in a public place, like if you could just have some sort of a sign that just says, I'm watching Maya Rudolph, everybody would understand, right? If you could just have a hat that says, I'm watching Maya Rudolph, everybody will be like, oh, okay, he's just

00:16:45 - 00:17:01 | Speaker 7:

having a moment he's fine he's mentally fit yes he's just yes this is just what happens when human beings who have any semblance of a sense of humor observe my rudolph in the world you know how i said this wasn't going to work as audio andrew let's try it don't touch your eyes i know that

00:17:01 - 00:17:32 | Speaker 5:

now you bald bitch oh my whole head is on fire where is my hair stylist the michaangelo The Michelangelo, come to my side Yes, B I need you to take my wig off Put six ice cubes up on my head Then put my wig back on

00:17:32 - 00:17:37 | Speaker 6:

But B, you on camera I don't care

00:17:37 - 00:17:41 | Speaker 3:

Take my wig off

00:17:41 - 00:17:49 | Speaker 5:

put six ice cubes on my head then put

00:17:49 - 00:17:59 | Speaker 6:

my wig back on but I don't have my wig gloves I might grease the hair do it now or I will stomp you to death

00:17:59 - 00:18:39 | Speaker 7:

what's so genius about it is it bears almost no resemblance to how Beyonce even talks it's just a concept this came into my awareness yesterday Because I was seeing, you know, on Twitter or whatever, people saying, like, Maya Rudolph's, like, perfect Beyonce impression, you know, kills it in this sketch. And, I mean, I would say it's a perfect impression in that it conveys some essential Beyonce-ness that I can't put my finger on. But it's not that this is exactly how Beyonce talks or even looks. It's just there's something about the regal quality that Beyonce has that Maya Rudolph is kind of emoting as it all starts to fall apart.

00:18:39 - 00:18:46 | Speaker 6:

it's just like so genius oh my lord i'm doing a wig pop with my bare hands jesus help me

00:18:46 - 00:19:06 | Speaker 2:

hey hey hey i am beyonce's publicist and you will not film b taking her wig off is that clear bald man we'll just edit it out no it doesn't matter i don't want the footage to exist be you good oh okay she's good continue she's good all right the queen got a crown on proceed

00:19:06 - 00:19:12 | Speaker 1:

Okay, can you talk about the origin of this now iconic move?

00:19:13 - 00:19:15 | Speaker 7:

Doing the put a ring on it.

00:19:15 - 00:19:21 | Speaker 1:

I forget. But really? You don't remember where it came from at all?

00:19:22 - 00:19:28 | Speaker 4:

Dude, it's taking all my concentration to keep from blowing out my pants on your janky ass show.

00:19:29 - 00:19:38 | Speaker 7:

Oh, that is, by the way, that is a TV Chill clip you will be hearing in the future. Dude, it's taking all my concentration to keep from blowing my pants out on your janky-ass show.

00:19:41 - 00:19:45 | Speaker 8:

Do you like the Hot Wings show or whatever it is?

00:19:45 - 00:19:59 | Speaker 7:

Well, look, as is everything for me, it was filtered through deep professional jealousy. So that probably affected my ability to like it because I didn't just watch it and think, oh, this is clever. I watched.

00:20:00 - 00:21:00 | Speaker 1:

it and i was analyzing it as like did i miss an opportunity to like in like the bryant park project should we have done i mean we like did something stupid where we like had mike huckabee back when this is hard to remember but there was a time when he only seemed medium evil like so we had mike huckabee there we played ping pong with him like there was a period of time like i said where it was and it would happen a lot with music too you know all of those like we're gonna get a band but we're gonna have them you know working in a dry cleaner while they play a song and like I really went in for all that stuff where you kind of decontextualize either a musical group or a famous person so as to get some more interesting kind of like view of them and so I think when I first saw Hot Ones I really was like how are people acting like this is such a revelation I've been and other people have been doing some version of this for a long time but for whatever reason this one really caught on and so I think I was this is a long and terrible answer your question, Andrew, but I don't think I ever got into it, but not because it's not a good show. It's probably a really good idea for a show. I think

00:21:00 - 00:21:19 | Speaker 2:

I was just jealous. Didn't you have that idea of, like, driving celebrities around in your car and, like, listening to the radio and then singing along with the songs? Didn't you have that? And you were going to don a British act? Were you going to don a British act? Yeah, I called it Car Time Sing-Along? Car Time Sing-Along. That was your working title? Yeah, yeah.

00:21:19 - 00:21:36 | Speaker 1:

Whatever happened to that? That was an idea I had. So, yeah, I mean, And I bet you it's, I mean, here is what I guess it has going for it, Hot Ones, is really the kind of component of they're actually eating something that is spicy and seeing their reaction to it is probably pretty funny.

00:21:36 - 00:22:24 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know, and this is where I don't know why I need, I mean, other than just keeping the needles moving here, I mean, I guess we should just go to break before I poop on the idea of something I've never even seen before. It just doesn't sound super appealing to me. Like there's also something about like I grew up in a household where we ate really spicy things and, you know, from just like, you know, like fresh picked peppers from the garden that, you know, my dad would just eat like a pickle next to a sandwich that if I looked at my eyes would start burning. But also then but it was just kind of a casual thing. But then every now and then you'd be introduced to this world of I kind of I don't know the competitive nature of it. And then people find out you like hot sauce. So then you're getting a hot sauce with – and we've talked about this before, right, with the skull and crossbones and the bandana and its eyes are fire.

00:22:24 - 00:22:35 | Speaker 1:

By the way, that was another part of that – about that sketch was he's interviewing Beyonce and the first one they have, he's like, well, this is Hitler's anus. Like, you know, they just have those names that you're talking about.

00:22:35 - 00:23:06 | Speaker 2:

And I'm like so – like I just don't – I don't know. I am not into that like competitive nature of hotness sort of. I guess I tried to set this up like, yeah, I just came from a cool family of eating hot things, which is, like, the most ridiculous, like, kind of platform that I've ever tried to build for me and my clan. But anyway, yeah, I don't know. I just like that whole kind of, like, this is going to blow your socks off. And it's like, well, I'd rather just keep my socks on. Do you have something that would just taste good? Like, that's cool, too.

00:23:07 - 00:23:25 | Speaker 1:

Yeah. I also don't know how – what I remember from it. And this is where – okay, so this is called two guys who are probably sort of the lower end of the media influence sort of scale, criticizing a show that they don't watch that's on the high end of the visibility scale. Yeah, right.

00:23:25 - 00:23:28 | Speaker 2:

No, that's why I thought this was a good move for us here.

00:23:28 - 00:25:00 | Speaker 1:

Okay, good. So let me – I'm going to yes and that and say this Beyonce sketch is really funny to me because it plays with this idea of like a person is really famous and they're going on the show where you eat hot wings. But they also have a team of people that are trying to manage how they come off during that experience. And the most fun thing to have happen is one of these celebrities just starts – like snot just starts running down their nose. They just start losing it. They have to leave the set because they're running to the bathroom to do God knows what. Like that's the best outcome from a content standpoint. And that's also the outcome that all of these PR handler people, depending on how famous the person is, are being paid to try to manage slash avoid. Right? So I wonder how actually hot – like I'm sure that they have – some of the sauces are like ridiculously hot, but I wonder what the conversation is like with the famous person who's about to go on the show because there is a point at which it – like there's just the right amount of it being too hot that's just kind of like, whoo, this is spicy or – there's like a cute level of like reacting to the hot sauce and then there's an uncute level. And the PR people's job, and if you're hearing some energy suddenly in my voice, it's A, the coffee is kicking in, and B, this is the kind of thing that mostly in my TV job I now deal with where we're interviewing someone who's maybe pretty famous, but they have a legion of PR people who are very concerned about everything that's going to happen in the interview and how it's going to make the person look. And so I wonder if that actually...

00:25:00 - 00:25:50 | Speaker 2:

undercuts what could be even more fun happening on this show or i don't know maybe people regularly shit their pants on the show i don't watch it so i don't know but my guess is part of why it's popular is because the people who make it and also by the way i think the company that makes hot ones is themselves it's like i forget who it is but it's it's not an independent outfit i think it's some kind of um it's some kind of big whatever i'm sure that they have sort of agreed that they're gonna keep this with the celebrities in the realm of like it's not eric andre okay that's what i'm trying to say finally we got there like when a celebrity goes on the eric andre show all bets are off like you don't know what's gonna happen and that's why beyonce would never go on the eric andre show but there's maybe some universe in which she'd go on hot ones while you were talking

00:25:50 - 00:26:00 | Speaker 1:

about that and you mentioned something about the platform that this is on um and thinking that it's a pretty uh well-known production company is that what you were kind of implying i feel like i

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

remember seeing that and i think it might have started off independent but then i don't know i'm looking at their wikipedia page right now and it says that it's something it's produced by something called first we feast and complex media so i guess this is a complex like complex that like

00:26:13 - 00:27:08 | Speaker 1:

hip-hop magazine oh interesting okay anyway what i was gonna say is really neither here nor there But I still have. I don't know when my satellite radio free trial subscription ends. Every time I turn on the car now, I kind of like brace for the for the blank screen that says call this one eight hundred number to buy Sirius XM radio because I'm still riding on fumes. I don't know when that's just going to cut off, but I turned on the card the other day and I had it on the Netflix is a joke station, which is seems to me about half the time just like stand up comedy tracks. And the other half the time, there's some sort of like comedy interview shows, essentially people like comedians podcasts where they're talking to other comedians. And I saw a familiar name. It said that whatever the show was, I don't know what the name of the show was, but they were interviewing Rosebud Baker, who, of course, who I don't know personally. Have you met Rosebud before?

00:27:09 - 00:27:21 | Speaker 2:

I believe I've met Rosebud briefly somewhere. But actually, you know what? Maybe maybe I've just been from following Andy on Instagram. Maybe I just feel like I'm and also they have a really funny podcast called Find Your Beach. Yes, that's what it's called.

00:27:21 - 00:27:22 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, good.

00:27:22 - 00:27:26 | Speaker 2:

Which maybe just through consuming that stuff, I feel like I know Rosebud.

00:27:26 - 00:28:10 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's kind of the thing. Yeah, so, of course, you say Andy. We're talking about Andy Haynes. I think they got married in the past year or so. Yeah, in fact, I know they did. Yeah, they had a pandemic wedding. They did outdoors in New York. Anyway, so, yeah, just like you, because I follow their podcast and because I follow Andy on social media, I sort of feel like my knower. And I turn on the radio, and I see that they're interviewing her, and she's just delightful, as always. And then she starts talking about her upcoming wedding to Andy. So I realized, oh, this is an old, this is like an old interview that they're kind of re-racking, as we say in the biz. And then she mentioned something about working on a new Quibi show with Will Smith. And for the first time, I felt really sad that Quibi went away.

00:28:11 - 00:28:14 | Speaker 2:

Because it was someone that you feel like you kind of tangentially know.

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Or at least somebody that I root for, right? And I can't remember exactly what the project was, but clearly, like, you're working with Will Smith on a Quibi show. Like, that's pretty freaking cool. And then I don't know whatever happened to that because Quibi doesn't exist anymore. So I felt bad.

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Yeah, I know what you mean. Like it's fun to – and again, almost all this is animated by my insecurity and jealousy. But it's fun to kind of dunk on something like Quibi. And then you remember, oh, yeah, you know, there were a lot of creative people who were probably had a lot of hopes and dreams riding on that. You know, who were hired as writers or performers or directors or what have you. And oh man When I was in LA this weekend I had a chance to visit with our friend Hollywood power player Oh yeah did you tossle his hair for me like I asked It literally was the first thing I did I'll mention by the way We're both vaxxed So I tossled his hair And I said That comes from Andrew Wall She asked me to tossle your hair But we were actually hanging out At the studios at Monkey Paw Which is where he's a Hollywood power player He's the president of that production house And I've never really been in one of those places Like it was nighttime And we were just sitting around Having a couple of drinks Hanging out And just to see without I literally saw things in there In terms of like Things they're working on That I could never repeat on the show It'd be under some kind of I'd be breaking some NDA Or maybe just a friend DA In which I told Wynn I'm not going to disclose this stuff But it was incredible just to see the detail and precision and work that goes into stuff that ends up on TV and in movies.

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I think because I've never really done that kind of stuff. I just – I don't know. I just – my brain didn't really understand it until I got in there and just saw the – just the preparation. I'm trying to be vague here because I'm actually not sure if I even start to describe the thing I'm thinking about. I don't know. I don't want to – I just don't want to give anything away, but I will just say walking around.

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They're working on Pacific Rim 3 this time. It's serious, right? Yep. Okay. Mm-hmm.

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So I just was like – I was really – I was pretty blown away by the – before you even go shoot something, just the work that's going into getting ready to go shoot and making sure that you have everything figured out and worked out from a bunch of different standpoints that I didn't even realize you would factor in. sun position what's the topography of this thing like i mean like stuff that's somewhere much more geometric and mathematical than i would have expected because i just thought i don't know you know you get out there you point the camera at something you hope everybody knows their lines you're kind of like now we're doing it you know it's like no man it's like we got to make sure that sight line from this character in this particular place we're going to shoot is going to work out for the other thing that's going to happen and so we're breaking out some compasses on this mofo like we're like that's the kind of level of detail that we're dealing with i was

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just like wow i was very impressed keeping glare off of eyeglasses alone can boggle one's mind i

00:31:23 - 00:31:27 | Speaker 1:

would guess that's right that's exactly right so anyway i don't know why the quibi conversation led

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me to that but um well i don't know why the hot sauce conversation led me to quibi so i think we're all just doing our best here today on a monday yes we are yes we are all right uh we

00:31:36 - 00:32:26 | Speaker 1:

should take a quick break and then when we come back the latest on ever given and um the bets that were being laid down on that this is slowly just turning into a gambling show andrew which is you know i'm sure exactly how apm would like it um but uh we'll talk about that and the other top stories oh but before we do that andrew i have to tell you once again membership has its privileges i gotta say happy blurs day today to my little brother david from the basement he's turning 24 today andrew you know i love david and i'm happy that he was born

00:32:27 - 00:32:45 | Speaker 2:

But you know that I also love the rules, Luke. And I just look at the calendar today and I just don't. I don't know, man. I just have to lean into this character where I pretend to give a shit if you give somebody a birthday shout out on Blur's Day. I mean, I don't know what to do. Happy Blur's Day, David. How about I'm just gracious for once in my goddamn life?

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Doesn't it just feel good to say happy birthday to a person you like? I do.

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I love that, man. I really do. I think about David a lot. On his birthday, I will say this. I think about David a lot, and I think in many ways he is the person that I strive to be in my interactions with others.

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I say this unironically and unhyperbolically. He is the best of us, our family. He's the youngest. All of whatever positive attributes the other six of us have, and I guess you throw my parents in the mix, it all distilled down into this guy, into this very tall guy.

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Maybe that's why God made him 6'4".

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He needed room for all the different components of being a good Burbank. That's right. And he got all of it. So happy. And actually, you know what? We're going to go over to my sister's house today and have like an outdoor backyard patio safe birthday hang. This will be the biggest family get-together we've had. And part of it's because a lot of us now live in Portland. Also, a lot of us are now vaxxed. In fact, I think most of us probably. So like my mom and dad are going to be there. And my sister Liz and the Chainsaw Twins are coming down.

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The Chainsaw Twins.

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That's got to be the name of their first band.

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Talk about your nephews who have twin chainsaws now. They're not twins themselves, though, right? There's a little bit of an age there. No, they're not.

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People wonder sometimes because they're almost the same age.

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I don't – we can cut this out if this makes you uncomfortable. But you brought this up on the show the other day, and I think you played the audio of this as well. Jack and Jack's brother's name is? Abe. Abe. And their ages are?

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I think about eight and I'm going to say 11.

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Okay, eight and 11. And so you played the audio of a little, you know, cell phone video that you took of them starting their chainsaws. And we heard from people, listeners, who that sound frightened them. The sound of little kids starting chainsaws really affected people. And all I want to say is you guys didn't even see the video. And I have. And there is a specific, I mean, I grew up in the country too.

00:35:00 - 00:35:13 | Speaker 1:

So being around, like I said on the show, like I didn't have a chainsaw. I remember like my dad was very careful around it. But I was around a lot of kind of machinery and farm stuff. So I kind of seeing their surroundings.

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People say, were you one of the Chainsaw Twins? And I say, no, but I sat near them and I studied them.

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But so like the audio of that didn't strike fear in my heart as much as it seemed to some of our listeners. And seeing the video of kind of like the garage slash barn area where they were doing it, kind of, I don't know, it felt somewhat familiar to me. But there is a moment near the end of the video where Gabe, the younger, is, I'm sorry, Abe. Do you ever call him Gabe? I'm going to start. Just to make my story right. So Abe, the younger, as I call him, is trying to start his. jacks is already revving and then jack has told abe to show that that's a great part but abe is wearing these little rubber boots these little rubber rain boots and he's throwing his whole body into starting this death machine and at one point he puts so much into it that his foot slips out from underneath him a little bit he never loses control he doesn't fall to the ground with this thing or anything but my heart stopped my heart stopped when i saw his little rubber boot slip a little bit as he's trying to start a chainsaw uh it was something i will not forget

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soon a couple of things on that one is i just want to clarify these chainsaws the chain is not moving when you start it so it's not like if anybody who started a chainsaw knows this it's not necessarily like you start a chainsaw you're starting the motor on it or it doesn't mean that the chain is worrying yet just so there's that just so you just so everybody who was really frightened knows that it wasn't like they're turning it on and then all of a sudden this like very dangerous thing is rotating rapidly it was more the getting the motor started also the way i think of these guys these these the chainsaw twins is you know that there's a school have thought of how you you know teach a little kid how to swim like little very young you know I don't know it like one-year-olds or something babies have some odd like swimming instincts and there's a school of teaching kids how to swim where you you know kind of throw them in the water you're standing there with them you're in a swimming pool but you you let their natural instincts kick in and then little very little kids can learn how to swim and some people take this approach because they want to make sure that their kids from a super young age like as soon as they can walk are able to kind of handle themselves in the water whether you know if they were to fall into a swimming pool or something like that that's just a lifestyle with these kids they've just been through and they're also like totally fine you know what i mean it's like they just they live in the woods and they just explore the woods they do all these things that i think would be you know a different parenting style could you know see some of these things as being on the more dangerous side but they just seem to have got it all kind of figured out they're also like really weirdly well-adjusted kids so it seems to be working that's what i'm gonna say yeah and i'm gonna continue to believe that it's gonna work we can literally cut one it to all out if i'm if

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i'm kind of putting your family on blast here because but i want to say whether this makes the final show or not i completely agree with everything that you said like i don't want you to think that i'm saying like oh these kids shouldn't be using these things in fact i mean the thoughts that i have is that I would be a bad parent because I would I would create little nervous kids because I'm such a nervous guy and I would overreact to everything. And I think the kids who I see kind of grow up in the opportunities I've had with like friends of mine who have had kids and I've got to watch them grow up. It's always the kids who kind of have the kind of the more space to move about and learn lessons on their own who've grown up to be just incredibly well-balanced kids who I'm envious of in some ways because they're living a childhood and they're set up to live a life that I think in many ways my just paranoia of the world has held me back. So I actually very

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much agree with that. I have a lot because I don't have any little kids and I'm and you know I may someday I don't know I've definitely not made up my mind on if I ever want to have more kids or not in fact i'm sort of lean towards it um but um by the way we will be uh if i'm ever going to have little kids registering them for chainsaws um for the baby shower but i'm just a little teeny tiny baby chainsaws just like a but i mean but but a functioning chainsaw so it'll just be for the little tiny hands but it will you can cut through like a plum with it or something

00:39:43 - 00:39:55 | Speaker 1:

i would think about getting a chainsaw of the month club where you kind of tell them what kind of style chainsaws you like and how big your baby is and then they deliver a chainsaw um once a

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month that grows with your child that's right um but i i

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have a lot because i don't have little kids and but i'm in the world and i see people with their little kids and i know people with little kids i have so many theories andrew about how wrong everyone's doing it you know that i have absolutely no responsibility to try to actually see if it would work in my own life you know what i mean i am just full of hot takes full of parenting hot takes none of which i actually have to test you know what i mean in my mind if i ever had more little kids i would be the most chill parent the kids would just be great and and and like healthy and active and and happy and well adjusted and totally not inside their own heads because of how much i would never sweat the small stuff i promise you if i ever have another little kid i will be following that kid with some kind of a with a roll of bubble wrap that i'm ready to put on them and anything any sharp corner like you know what i mean like i have this idea of how chill i would be and i have a i also have a weird like kind of back of my mind feeling that all of my theories would go out the window immediately when i was actually dealing with it like i'm always like oh man all these kids when their screens like what are we just letting the screens raise our kids at these restaurants i promise you as soon as i have little kids if i ever do You will never see them not holding an iPad You will never see them not Because I can't deal with their shit Go see a Star War Like I know that I'm going to do If I ever have little kids Every single thing that I judge other people for doing Right, right, right Anyway Alright, so that's my way of telling everybody We're pregnant Wait, you and I? Yes You know what we were saying the other day Maybe time for a whole new kind of plot you know a whole new sort of a whole new chapter in the story of tbtl you and i co-raising a child andrew that's oh you know we do have a tbtl-a-thon coming up that's what they were working on at monkey pop production i can finally talk about it he's having a baby all right uh okay now now that we said a bunch of stuff that we should probably cut out now let's take our little break and then we'll be back with more tv chill in just a moment on your mark on your mark get

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set get set now ready ready go everybody rattle dazzle everybody rattle dazzle

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let's thank some dazzling donors wonderful generous people who are making the show possible their dazzling donations each month as a thanks to them we offer them the chance to send us any kind of message that they would like us to read within reason and we do that and what the interesting part of it and the just true kind of nature of the Dazzling Donors comes out in that many of them use their time to tell us that they like the show which is you know pretty sweet scam on our part. I want to thank Jojo Moran Douglas of Nakano Ward Tokyo for checking in and for donating to the show. Jojo says tbtl is a great morning podcast for me here japan's number one morning show sugoi those are that's not jojo's message that's me just remembering when we tried to become japan's number one morning show and i think we're pretty close for a while just because of the time difference uh jojo says i'm immensely grateful for all of the companionship and comfort that tbtl brings and for kind tens all over the world thank you sign jojo jojo thank you we really appreciate it. I wonder what our numbers are like in Japan these days, Andrew. I wonder if it's over or under 10 people.

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In Japan... I say... Could 10 be the line? I don't know if I'm using that

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language correctly. No, 10 would be the over-under. But I mean... So you'd either take the under

00:44:00 - 00:44:08 | Speaker 2:

or the over. What if I just wanted to bet 10? Because that's what I was getting at. I'll bet you 10. We might have literally 10 listeners in all of Japan.

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Well, if you were going to bet that it's 10, I guess that would just be the money line. You're just saying that it's going to be 10. I'd have to give you some good odds on that because it's a very specific number, right? I told you, we're just turning this into a sports betting podcast. So you're going to get more money if it's actually 10? Because if I go over under, all it has to be for it to be less than 10 is any number less than 10. And any number over 10, I've got so many more chances with that bet. But you're going to make a very specific bet. And hopefully JoJo will be able to do a quick survey of the entire nation of Japan and figure out what that number is and then let us know. So when do I get my money? As soon as the results have been certified, Andrew. You know how this works. Oh, Maestro? I took a sip of my coffee, Andrew.

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It might be too hot.

00:45:11 - 00:45:17 | Speaker 1:

Oh, you have one of those, you have a plug-in coaster? They don't probably plug into the wall anymore, do they?

00:45:17 - 00:45:52 | Speaker 2:

They do. This one, it's made by a company called Ohom, O-H-O-M. And Addie got it for me for Christmas. and I had actually forgotten I had left a kind of little box of stuff that was up at Burbank Springs because that's where I was for Christmas and so then Carrie had mailed it down to me and it just got here. Yeah, it's a little like a, it's basically, it's like a wire, or it's one of those round chargers that you can put a phone on or anything. But then there's this very designy white cup that has some kind of element built into the bottom of it and when you sit the cup on that charger, it also keeps the coffee warm.

00:45:52 - 00:47:05 | Speaker 1:

That sounds nice. I remember back in the 80s, my dad had one of those, you know, like a much more clunky 80s version of one of those. Yeah, sitting in his desk at work and it had the coffee stains and everything all over it. My dad recently must have been cleaning out a box of some junk or something. By the way, Theo, the cat, jumped on my desk again. As I'm trying to talk to you, he is trying to kiss or potentially bite my beard because I'm not petting him. He's literally like trying to be nudging his nose into my chin. Yeah, I'll try. But my dad must have been cleaning out some old boxes or something because he started blowing up me and my sister's phone the other day with just photos of, like, old technologies. Like, one was an old satellite radio from, like, the 90s, like a Sirius receiver or something from the 90s. And another one was an unopened charger for a PDA. Remember when we called them PDAs because they weren't phones yet? It said, designed for the Palm Pilot. So my dad has, hey, collectors out there, I won't tell you where he lives because I don't want to worry about break-ins. But my dad has an unopened bubble package of a charger for a PDA specially designed for the Palm Pilot.

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I remember getting, I don't know if I had like a real Palm Pilot or if I got some kind of a knockoff back in the day. Because I would have been like maybe just out of college or something. I didn't have a whole lot of money, but I had something kind of close to it. And I just I've always had this kind of thing in my brain where if I just get some piece of technology like that, I just feel like it's now going to make everything right in my life. I remember getting that Palm Pilot with a little stylus. Yes. And just and just thinking like I'm set like this is it. This is where it begins for me. This is the beginning of my global takeover of whatever industry I put my eye towards because I've got all of the appointments and everything I need to remember is right here in the palm of my hand in this extremely clunky thing that I'm just writing stuff into, which is more or less just like a digital calendar.

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I still have mine, I think. You know, I have my box of outdated technology that mostly has old cell phones. I think I have a Palm Pilot in there that is still in, like, a little leather pouch that one could strap to one's belt, would one want to, which I did not do. But I'm pretty sure I still have that. I've got to make a Hay Dummies video. Maybe that could be this week, a Hay Dummies video of me unboxing some of that stuff.

00:48:24 - 00:48:31 | Speaker 2:

Oh, I would watch that. How long, by the way, Andrew, before I come on the show telling you that my new thing is I'm going to just start using a Palm Pilot?

00:48:32 - 00:48:34 | Speaker 1:

Like the Echo phone?

00:48:34 - 00:48:51 | Speaker 2:

I read like a Tim Ferriss, like, you know, some kind of an article in Verge that's talking about how like the reason that I'm sad is because I have too much technology and what I need to do is just get it down to a palm. This one guy just started using a Palm Pilot and now he's a disruptor in Silicon Valley.

00:48:51 - 00:49:06 | Speaker 1:

It definitely does sound like an article that somebody would write, like my year of just using a Palm Pilot. But speaking of, though, and I don't know if this is fair, because maybe that's not a Mel magazine thing, but R.I.P. to your favorite men's grooming brand magazine.

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Yeah, I was so bummed about that, as was our buddy Chris Hayes, who was tweeting about this. Like, you know, we love that magazine and it gave us a lot of at least gave me a lot of joy. It seemed like the articles had really kind of written by people that must be – well, they're probably a little younger than me, let's be honest. But they had the same interests that I have in terms of pop culture and maleness and whatever. And I don't think – now, I didn't go through every single article, but I think it would be easy if you just did a quick scan of that magazine. If you knew it was run by a shaving club, you might just think, oh, this is going to be like – what was the men's magazine that made the huge splash years ago? Maxim? Maxim. You might think, oh, this is just like Maxim or something, which I will totally admit. I think I had a moment with thinking Maxim was very cool because it was 15 years ago. Now, I probably wouldn't read a magazine like that. because it would feel a bit, like, misogynistic to me. From everything I saw on Mel Magazine, it actually wasn't that way. They actually had, I thought, pretty interesting articles that were written. You know, the parts of the magazine that were about sex were often written by women or people who may be, you know, gender non-binary or whatever. Like, it wasn't just a bunch of guys sitting around, kind of, at least that isn't how it read to me. So somehow they managed to write interesting articles about a lot of topics, Some of them kind of edgy and do it in a way that didn't, to me, feel non-inclusive, which I thought was also kind of a cool element. And, yeah, they just really seemed to pick topics that I always found interesting. So R.I.P. Mel Magazine. I mean, that one, I don't know what their kind of traffic was like. I mean, like with Deadspin becoming Defector, that made perfect sense to me because I'm like there's got to be a way for the collection of people who are making Deadspin to make livings off of their work. Because of how much traffic Deadspin would get And they did They formed this thing called Defector I don't know where Mel Magazine ranks On that, you know, if they could just Keep the gang together and then Just start doing it on their own and, you know, going With some kind of subscriber model, I don't know But I would subscribe to it for the same folks

00:51:15 - 00:51:25 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, I get the impression that I don't know, I do get the impression that the Deadspin was More of a club More of a collective, whereas Mel Magazine It had an identity Exactly

00:51:25 - 00:51:35 | Speaker 2:

Being a Deadspin reader or commenter It was an identity Yes Kind of like you talk about Veves And her being somebody who commented a lot on Gawker That was a whole community

00:51:35 - 00:51:51 | Speaker 1:

Exactly, exactly I was talking to some folks recently We gotta get to our next dazzling donor But I was telling some folks I was doing some work I was doing some consulting work, Luke As you know For another local podcast And the producers asked

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Did you put the appointment in your Palm Pilot?

00:51:53 - 00:53:10 | Speaker 1:

I didn't. I did not yet, but I will during the during the unboxing later this week. But anyway, I just wanted to kind of borrow my ears and my thoughts on some things as somebody who does a daily podcast and has been doing it for a while and talking about kind of listener. Actually, this maybe does bring us back to this idea of the dazzling donors. We're talking about kind of I don't know if loyalty is the right word, but the idea of building community. That's really what we were talking about. And we're talking about the like, how do you measure? Like, how do you know if you're building community or not? And I said, one of the ways that you can really tell if you're building community is when people start identifying themselves as a consumer of your whatever it is in their Twitter bios. Right. So like my heart overflows when I'm scrolling through Twitter and somebody likes something and I look at who it is and they they describe themselves as a TBTL 10 in their Twitter bio. Like to me, that is one of the most special things that I can see as somebody who does this show that somebody that's one. You know, you have I don't know how many characters to write your bio, but that's one of the important characteristics about you. I love that. And of course, we're not by far the only the only podcast entity that has that kind of community. But I love it. And I think that's a great way of kind of showing kind of where you are in somebody's life.

00:53:10 - 00:53:31 | Speaker 2:

yeah yeah that's um it's amazing that uh that somehow this thing throughout all these years has been that kind of connection point for people and also like you said identity you know of being a tbtl 10 speaking of moving to the subscription model and speaking of our wonderful supportive

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listeners maestro on your mark on your mark get set get set now ready ready go everybody

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We're going to thank our second dazzling donor today, and that would be Jeff Clark of Situate, Massachusetts, again. Again, Andrew. I love the pronouncer on this. Yeah. It is a beautiful pronouncer. I would never. And I might have even said it wrong. You did. I think I said Situate. It's Situate. Situate. Yep. I know Situate.

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Yeah.

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Jeff Clark is in Situate, Massachusetts. I love the pronouncers. It doesn't mean I'm going to pronounce the names of the cities right. It just means I love the pronouncer.

00:54:13 - 00:54:21 | Speaker 1:

I also like the way Jeff put a comma in there. So it looks like sit, chew it like it's an like it's an order that he's giving us. Yes.

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Jeff says, I don't have a charity to plug. In fact, this is the most money I've ever donated to anything ever. Wow, Jeff. Thanks, man. This is a call to arms. A call for help. In 2004, I saw a box of coffee-flavored Kit Kats at a gas station in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I have no idea where this is going, Andrew. I've never read these words before, but I love it. This feels like a real TBTL project, whatever it is. I saw a box of coffee-flavored Kit Kats at a gas station in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I had never seen a coffee Kit Kat before, so I bought one and ate it. The coffee Kit Kat.

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KitKat was perfect. It changed my day, and it changed my life. I went back later that day to buy more, but the box was gone. The cashier had no idea what I was talking about, but I know what I had experienced. There's no such thing as a ghost KitKat. I haven't found any other coffee KitKat since then. I've checked every shelf in every checkout lane for the last 17 years. I've called Nestle I've called Hershey nothing I've tried the mocha duos and they're great but they're not the real thing so I'm asking the tens to keep your eyes peeled if you have a lead on Coffee Kit Kat send me an email Jeff at Clarkle C-L-A-R-K-L-E dot com Jeff at Clarkle dot com this feels to me like it could be season three of in the dark the ghost the ghost kit kat like i mean this has every element of a mystery that i love this very vivid experience for for jeff the i mean what are the chances that you go in and you buy a candy bar out of one of those boxes and then when you come back later that day the box is gone and the cashier claims ignorance has no memory of what you're talking about because cashiers if you work at a place you're going to have a sense of what's in the store because people bring it up and buy it you just kind of know you usually have a running list in your mind of the stuff you sell and also if the box was gone presumably what happened was they sold the last coffee kit kat and so some you know somebody went and pulled the box would that cashier have been the last person to ring up the coffee kit kat and and why on earth would they then say that they had no idea what jeff was

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talking about or they aren't lying at all and they really they really believe we we never seen nothing like that around these parts that you're still water oklahoma that's i guess still water oklahoma yeah that's the and you're supposed to get i hope that oh they're i don't know if you heard that but that really got theo that got the hair on the back of theo's arms to stand up just like what they were never here you're telling me they were never here so do you think listener Jeff has just lost his damn mind? No, I think they're ghost Kit Kats.

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I think we're in the middle of a ghost story. Do you think that possibly the Kit Kats had been dead for 10 years?

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I think it was a night exactly like tonight. It was very rainy?

00:57:27 - 00:57:29 | Speaker 3:

Did you say it was probably kind of a little bit on the rainier side?

00:57:29 - 00:57:36 | Speaker 2:

It was a rainy night exactly 14 years ago today, my friend.

00:57:36 - 00:57:50 | Speaker 1:

hello and welcome to top story um i uh was kind of you know last week i was in the middle of

00:57:50 - 00:59:37 | Speaker 3:

nowhere out there in death valley and and then i was in la but we were still working and shooting things and so i was kind of not in my normal media consumption pattern i guess so this story of this boat getting stuck in the suez canal i wasn't as on it as i would normally be by which i mean i didn't have any fire tweets about it andrew which i know the twitter viewers of america were pretty sad about that yeah um it is now finally free and so the suez canal is open again there's of course this crazy backlog of ships i did take issue with one thing i was reading this washington post article about the town there's like a little kind of town or village that just happens to be along the canal in this part of egypt where the boat got stuck and somebody went out was interviewing some of the people that lived in the town and they were describing these giant container ships as sort of like visual pollution or has being ugly and i was like i do not agree with that i love these things like when i lived in port townsend i would spend hours just staring at container ships going by i think there's something very majestic and kind of beautiful about them but that's just me anyway it's now um no longer blocking the suez canal but in one of the articles i was reading this morning they casually mentioned that people had been betting on it um so the website is called like my bookie.com and i went to the website to see you know what had happened i guess those bets are now closed i mean those bets are now over because it's free but these are the other bets that they were throwing up at my bookie.com Which British Royal will be Next time I have an MMA fight I'm going to have a temporary tattoo of my bookie On you know My chest and my back Just to you know they're going to pay me $47 to do that

00:59:37 - 00:59:41 | Speaker 2:

Was that something that happened during This weekend's event or is that just a

00:59:41 - 00:59:59 | Speaker 3:

No just generally like there when A lot of times when you have some kind of like Like a really bad idea for a fight they're going to be like Danny Bonaduce fights You know Marsha from the brady bunch and it'll be like sponsored by bodog.com and then you know or golden palace and then they'll have or when someone streaks

01:00:00 - 01:02:09 | Speaker 2:

You know, a lot of times they'll have, like, the name of whatever shady internet outfit, you know, got them the tickets to the thing or paid them, you know, some amount of money. This just seems like a place, this website seems like the kind of place that would sponsor somebody to run on the field during a Premier League match naked. Here's some of the current bets happening at this place. Which British royal will be outed as the palace racist? Oh, wow. Philip. The Duke of York, well, so right now, it would look like the most likely would be, based on, I'm just doing a quick scan of this, would be Anne, the Princess Royal. You're getting the least amount of money if you bet on Anne, which means they think that she is the most likely. No, sorry, Prince Charles. Prince Charles is right now, you're getting plus 300 on your bet. So if you were to bet A dollar I think you'd win three dollars Actually I don't know if that's the exact math But basically the one they think is the least racist This is what the markets are saying Would be Princess Eugenie or Princess Beatrice Those are both plus four thousand So if you bet on them And they turn out to be the palace racist You win the most money Meaning it's seen that they're the least likely Is Philip not on there at all really? Philip, let me see here Philip is plus fifteen hundred The Duke of Edinburgh Yeah, so that means that that's not a very good bet It means that right now The markets don't think he's the most likely To be racist, if that makes any sense Prince William is at plus 400 The Duke of Cambridge, meaning They kind of think he's probably racist Also Prince Michael of Kent, plus 600 Kind of in the middle there Sarah, Duchess of York, she's plus 3,000 They really don't think she's racist And Prince Henry is at plus 2,000, also seen as not super racist. Here's one. Will Harry and Meghan lose their royal titles? That was something you can bet on. Also, will Prince Harry get his royal securities back? You could bet on that. Let's see. This is first member of the royal family to enter sensitivity training.

01:02:10 - 01:02:13 | Speaker 1:

Oh, wow. Yeah. Who do they like?

01:02:14 - 01:02:35 | Speaker 2:

They think Prince Philip is the least likely to do it because he's at plus 6,000. I mean, let's be honest That'd be really something Because Priest is like 101, right? He's the guy that was just in the hospital If you bet money On him going to Sensitivity training And he ends up going You could really make out like a bandit

01:02:35 - 01:02:40 | Speaker 1:

Wow, yeah, I can't see him in sensitivity training Unless it's like a Saxondale joke

01:02:40 - 01:03:40 | Speaker 2:

Will baby Archie get a royal title By 2022? Right now they think that he will in fact if you bet on that you've got to bet like two dollars to make a dollar on that bet um will megan give birth to her second child you can bet on that when when will megan give birth to her second child first name of harry and megan's second baby right now the leading contender the one you're going to make the least money on meaning that the most likely name the the bettors on the internet would say is diana hmm um they think uh let's see what's the they think jacqueline is a very unlikely name you're getting 4 000 on that ruby is also a very unlikely name um and on and on it goes i know that you're not like super into uh gambling other than pulling your tabs andrew but i know you also now kind of are fascinated by the royals thanks to your windsor watching i mean do you want to go in on something do you want to can i interest you in some kind

01:03:40 - 01:04:59 | Speaker 1:

of a royals related wagering no i can't even really i i you know i still am not good at remembering who's who with that family so i'm i'm good on that i don't need to bet on that did i tell you i did i should not admit this um you know i i don't gamble like and there's not really much of an appeal to me it's not like i'm like i'm against it or anything i mean i think maybe there's an intimidation factor i've never really been to vegas so like the idea of like table games and what have you doesn't appeal to me and some of that might just be shyness and wanting to not um you know not embarrass myself or give myself more opportunities to embarrass myself in a group setting of some sort um but also you know pulling tabs at a bar is just like a fun little thing they used to have more quarter tabs you can get you know four tabs for a dollar like you're just it's just something to do with your hands for like a ten dollar twenty dollar investment or something and every now and then it pays out and it's fun um but one thing i did the other day was i was visiting my old pale teddies the bar around the corner and they are not a pull tab bar uh they're a classy joint and i am so embarrassed to admit this but i was so in the mood to pull tabs that i stopped at the gas station and i bought 10 one dollar scratch-em-ups scratch-off tickets, something I'd never

01:05:00 - 01:06:19 | Speaker 3:

done before i'd gotten them for christmas gifts in the past i don't know five ten years and that was my first exposure to them i think actually once i did sit in a donut shop in la and uh and scratch some tabs i remember we talked about on the show or scratch some tickets i should say because that was intimidating i didn't even know if i was scraping them off right and it turns out i wasn't um but anyway so i did so i took these i took 10 of these scratch off tickets to the bar And I sat in the window by myself, and I grabbed some paper towels off the counter, or off the bar. They have a roll of paper towels. They didn't ask why I was taking them. Nobody bothered me. Nobody asked, are you scratching off tickets over here? But I did do it on a paper towel so that all of the little dusty things. Shavings. Yeah, all the shavings. I didn't want to leave that for them to clean up. So I very meticulously scratched them all off. I think I won, like, two more tickets back or something, and then those didn't win. And then I've got one still in my wallet. I think what it is, maybe I won three, and then I turned them back in, and now I've been carrying around this one ticket. It's called Sock It To Me. You scratch the entire play area. If you get a sock symbol, you win the corresponding prize shown. In this case, I have a sock symbol over the $1 mark. So I'm going to go turn this in later today. So I'm a degenerate is what I'm saying.

01:06:19 - 01:07:33 | Speaker 2:

You know, this is more degenerate. i don't like scratch tickets because that mess yeah it just like bothers me and it's hard to deal with like it's not worth i mean i guess if you want a lot of money it'd be fine but like generally speaking like the actual act of like i like pull tabs a lot because also there's no i mean there's a there's a sort of a little bit of litter that gets created but it's kind of a fun amount of litter because then you kind of can stack up a little snake that's what i do yeah There's tickets. There's all that stuff you can do. But, like, somebody gave me a bunch of scratch-off tickets for, I don't know, Christmas or something, and I realized that you don't even have to scratch them. You can just scan the barcode on them. I mean, you have to scratch them so that the barcode is exposed, but you can expose the barcode and then scan them on an app. Oh, I was going to say. For the Oregon lottery, and then it just tells you if it won or not. And I just had these things sitting in my apartment for so long. I was also worried maybe they're, like, not going to be good anymore. So I just scratched the barcodes so those were exposed and scanned them to see if any of them were winners. And, like, a couple of them were winners. But they were not, like, that's the most unfun way to possibly experience this, right? It's just the methodical analysis quickly if this is a winner or not.

01:07:34 - 01:08:46 | Speaker 3:

Right, yeah. I mean, I will agree with you that I don't find it as satisfying. I'm sure there are people who feel the complete opposite, though, because there is something about it's so funny that you and I are similar with like these weird messes. Like we're a little bit different, whereas like I really like to eat hot wings or ribs. And obviously you don't eat meat now. But like I am constantly like, you know, I do not like the feeling of sauce being on my face. So I'm literally using like one napkin per wing usually, which is not good for the forests of America. And there is something about scratching these things off and creating that little mess, that little mess of shavings. It does bother me, too, in that way. I don't find it as satisfying as pulling tabs. But if you are going to do it, and in my case there, I was sitting there with 10 of these things, like I say, sitting there by myself in this window seat that I like. It's kind of isolated, just like looking out the window. I got into a good rhythm with it. Like when I first started doing it, I'm like, oh, this is such a mess. But then by like, you know, ticket two or three, I'm really getting it down. And I'm knowing where, like, the kind of the boundaries are and, like, what I'm going for. And then you do slowly kind of get into the, okay, well, I see one of these stupid socks or not. So I got into it. I'm, you know, I'm just more of a seasoned gambler than you, I think.

01:08:46 - 01:09:44 | Speaker 2:

Uh-huh. No, that's, I mean, I think that's pretty apparent to me and all of the listeners. Yeah. Let me just play you a little bit of tape. This is the Egyptian tugboat team on a tugboat called the Mash Hur. They're celebrating. They were one of the tugs that got this boat, the Ever Given. Oh. Like, out, and somebody has had a cell phone. They're on the tugboat chanting, Mashhor is number one. these guys are so stoked i love it you could see the ever given in the background these i mean this is just real joy

01:09:44 - 01:10:00 | Speaker 1:

all right so there you go if you were waiting on some flip-flops that were being

01:10:00 - 01:10:06 | Speaker 2:

shipped from egypt to taiwan before coming to your house in phoenix they're gonna they're on

01:10:06 - 01:11:14 | Speaker 1:

their way to taiwan good news can i ask you a question yeah um so obviously i knew about this as a news story and i knew that it was a big thing on social media but it was one of those things where by the time i because i'm just not extremely online i'm just not online the way you and most of america is and so i think by the time i got to seeing this trending so heavily on twitter and what have you um it was already a joke about it being overexposed on social media right it was already the meta jokes about how there's only one thing people are talking about on social media and it's this um it's this ship and my question for you is have people talked about how terrible the name is there is something that drives me crazy and i i assume it's maybe it's a translation thing that's why it's called the ever given but there's just something about the language maybe it was like i don't know maybe is it like the boat equivalent to the smashing pumpkins as a band name and it just took my brain a while to get there the ever given as a ship name just i can't

01:11:14 - 01:12:33 | Speaker 2:

get my head around that it seems awkward i think you're right i think i mean the the the kind of like not lineage of this ship but the like the number of different like companies that like there's a company that owns it there's the where it's registered there's the company that was actually operating the vessel none of those are based in the u.s and so to the degree that like that name ever given is in english it could be a translation thing it could be the you know whoever my guess is that the the idea was to try to say this ship carries all of this stuff that people want and it's kind of always providing it's always providing this stuff but yeah ever given is like a kind of a weird a little bit of a weird construction of that i don't even think i knew the story was happening and i was seeing memes and a lot of the memes centered around that one excavator that was like had been brought in to try to dig out the you know dredge out like the side of the canal and this one excavator when compared to the size of this ship it was so just comically you know small and clearly not up to the task that got memefied like really hard i think i saw that and i didn't even know what that was a reference to because i didn't realize there

01:12:33 - 01:13:37 | Speaker 1:

was a ship stuck in the suez you know i um well even when i knew that the story was going on i I was seeing some, like, real janky memes, and, yeah, a lot of them had, like, face, human faces superimposed onto the excavator. I don't think I say that right. What order do those letters go in? Excavator. You said that, right? Excavator, okay. By the way, I just came across something here. On the Wikipedia page for Ever Given, see, this is interesting. So it does say Evergreen on the side of the ship because I kept seeing photos of it, and I kept thinking Evergreen, And then I'd read an article and it would say Ever Given. I was like, boy, it's weird how my brain kept just translating that to Evergreen. But no, it says the Ever Given follows the ship naming convention of Evergreen Marine. So Evergreen Marine is a company. The ships nearly all begin with the word ever in English and in Chinese. The ship's name in Chinese means long lasting slash gift. So all the I guess the entire fleet of Evergreen marine ships begin with Ever something

01:13:37 - 01:14:53 | Speaker 2:

Okay that explains it I've seen those by the way that's a Huge that's like Maersk that's like One of the evergreen is one of the bigger Companies out there doing this stuff Am I right though on the side of the Ship it says evergreen right I mean probably I don't I mean sure I don't remember Seeing the writing on the side of the boat But I have but evergreen is on All of those ships so I think you're probably right OK, good. I would guess. Speaking of other things that you don't follow on the Internet, Andrew, but that I do very closely, Papa John, who we've been following him for a while since he left or was pushed out of the Papa John's company that he built because of being what he sounds like just a really kind of loathsome human being. And then, you know, we were interested when he was showing off his house, which has a clock that's made of two eagles that are supposedly in, you know, in the act of lovemaking or about to be. It's called, like, the perfect timing clock, and it's this giant sculpture based on this idea that eagles, when they're mating, they fall towards Earth and they have to sort of finish the deed right before they both die. Which, where did we land on that? Is that even true? I think we found out that's not even true right

01:14:53 - 01:14:59 | Speaker 1:

We looked it up on the fly and I felt like it was Mostly urban legend There might be an incident

01:15:00 - 01:15:07 | Speaker 3:

or two among a very specific uh you know breed i don't remember well i was innocently scrolling

01:15:07 - 01:16:11 | Speaker 4:

through tiktok yesterday again while in the airport and i just i don't like follow papa john but he just like popped up on my feed for some reason he's trying to there's clearly somebody who he works with who they must be a younger person because they're it's very clear that he has a social media manager and they are like doing everything they can to try to keep him relevant by having him do all of these kind of very meme back to the memes very like meme-ified tiktok-y things but he clearly has no like first of all he's one of the least charismatic people I've ever seen like on camera like it's really amazing how he's almost like a charisma black hole like he draws other interesting things into himself and then they just disappear And to the degree that he's watchable It's never for the reasons that he thinks Right So like what Oh and the hashtag Papa Bless They're trying to get started So every video that he puts up has like hashtag Papa Bless On it

01:16:11 - 01:16:12 | Speaker 3:

What does that even mean

01:16:12 - 01:17:13 | Speaker 4:

I don't know you'd have to ask Papa John So he So one of the big things he does now is Anytime somebody Has a bad experience with a Papa John's pizza And they post the picture which by the way probably is a thousand times a day because it's a huge company and so with that many events going on i.e. pizza deliveries some of them are going to go sideways and it appears that all he's doing is sitting in his like mansion next to his eagle clock waiting for somebody to say something about papa john's that's negative on social media so he can record a video where he then is superimposed over the pizza crime in a too tight black t-shirt and by the way, looking pretty sweaty not like he didn't just get done doing some kind of drug or alcohol commenting on the pizza this is him talking about a pizza that clearly got kind of smashed against the top of the pizza box so some of the cheese is stuck against the pizza box which is a thing that will happen

01:17:13 - 01:17:35 | Speaker 2:

I think I'll have another heart attack better ingredients, better pizza used to be a way of life now it's just a slogan makes me sick here we go again think i have another heart attack better ingredients better pizza whoa used to be alive now it's just a slogan makes me that doesn't

01:17:35 - 01:17:49 | Speaker 4:

sound like a guy who's not getting getting pretty tight and then getting his cell phone out i think he's saying i think i had another heart attack yeah i couldn't tell what the heart attack reference

01:17:49 - 01:18:01 | Speaker 3:

I wasn't expecting this. I was expecting a lot of, pardon the phrase, douchery here, but I didn't realize it was going to be kind of, oh, yeah, he's kind of cranked out, isn't he?

01:18:02 - 01:18:08 | Speaker 4:

I mean, he appears very shiny and a little out of it, if you ask me.

01:18:08 - 01:18:22 | Speaker 2:

I think I'll have another heart attack. Better ingredients, better pizza. Used to be a way of life. no it's just a slogan i don't think i don't think cranked out is what i meant there i don't know

01:18:22 - 01:18:27 | Speaker 3:

what that means bombed he sounds kind of bombed he sounds yeah he doesn't sound like he's in his

01:18:27 - 01:18:49 | Speaker 4:

full right mind there's also this video random video of him holding a pizza where he's like saying i'll i'll give you a pizza my heart if you'll be my valentine and he's doing this kind of dance and it's clearly he's really trying to emote in this way i'll give you a pizza my heart

01:18:49 - 01:18:56 | Speaker 1:

if you'll be my valentine it is i'll give you a pizza my heart if you'll be my valentine

01:18:56 - 01:19:24 | Speaker 4:

it is really one of the more unsettling videos i've seen in a long time in this one he doesn't seem as much like he might be under the influence it's just a person doing the weirdest thing it's by the way it's people have liked it 42,000 times i have a feeling it's at papa john's expense as opposed to because they want papa john to be their valentine can you do that thing where you

01:19:24 - 01:20:29 | Speaker 3:

look at you can reverse engineer this right can you look at the audio and then see if other people are doing things with this audio of him especially the heart attack one like are people lip syncing it are people adding their this audio to their own thing or is this just living in its own little pizza verse which by the way the problem with this conversation isn't this is the problem with all conversations we have on the show recently is i am now really really hungry and now i really want pizza and i i won't get papa john's but there is a very real chance that i'll be horfing down some pizza very soon i see that there are two other people I don't know.

01:20:00 - 01:21:12 | Speaker 1:

there are there are let's see there's the original and then there's one two actually three four there are four people who have duetted it okay or talked over it so it's not exactly becoming you know the next tick tock viral hit but a few people have decided that they wanted to duet let's see now the one where he's saying i'll be your pizza valentine let me look at that one i'm going to look at the see how many people have decided that they're going to use that as a some kind of an audio thing okay uh give me one second here i'm just clicking through that one's more popular that one has like 11 videos 11 people have decided that they're going to duet papa john saying um this i'll give you a piece of my heart if you'll be my valentine there's also this very it made me sad because of how thirsty it was but it's like oh a day in the life of being papa john that he posted Which is just like the biggest Thirst trap of all time Because it's him getting on his private plane And then it's him flying It's like And there's just music under it Which is why I'm not playing it But it's basically like His point of view He's walking to his private plane Of course wants everyone to know He has a private plane And then it's like going to business meetings And I'm just like I wonder what your business meetings are These days

01:21:12 - 01:21:20 | Speaker 2:

Where are you going? To a business meeting It just sounds like something a kid would say At Army, mother Yes, exactly I'm a businessman

01:21:20 - 01:22:19 | Speaker 1:

yeah so this is the music that he has under his a day in the life and he says like a lot of you have asked what my typical work day looks like so here's a quick highlight of my day hashtag papa john hashtag papa blessed so exactly zero people have asked this is where i know that he has somebody handling it because this music is is pretty like trendy like this is cool tiktok music right as the as the private jet takes off and of course it includes a little a little uh kind of you know point of view cell phone camera walk through the private jet it's very fancy and then it just says meetings and it shows papa john having a meeting although with whom is very unclear and they've also lit him are you watching this now no i just meetings and now it's time for meetings meetings and there's no you don't see who the other people in the meeting are like it's literally just a shot of him in a studio and that he's very lit and made up i really wish they had

01:22:19 - 01:22:28 | Speaker 2:

done the tiktok thing where you get another point of view and it's just him having a meeting with himself that would have been fantastic i mean it's we can't rule that out i don't know who's

01:22:28 - 01:23:21 | Speaker 1:

having meetings with papa john but they're just trying to act like he's he's got to get on his private jet to fly to meetings because you know andrew right there's no way in 2021 for us to have meetings remotely with people that we need to talk business somebody should create something though so so so then uh it's like more meetings again where you then it goes to interviews and now he's walking around uh the studio of i'm sure it's like well let's see i think it shows you on the door it's something called real america's voice oh no that sounds good that sounds up my alley yeah what do you what do you imagine real america's voice just another one of those progressive talk shows it's probably hosted by amy goodman it's probably hosted by medea benjamin i'm going to their website now uh i'm david barsamion welcome to america welcome to real

01:23:21 - 01:23:26 | Speaker 2:

america's voice um you'll be surprised to hear there's a lot of red white and blue on this page

01:23:26 - 01:24:20 | Speaker 1:

yeah so it's like you're doing interviews on on some days like probably to the right of fox news jank outfit which actually i'm sad they probably have millions of viewers even though they're poisoning america then he's doing a podcast that's another thing he did and then it goes to so he's then they show a clip of him hosting or being on a podcast and then they're like and you guessed it this is the script that's over the screen he's now in all red by the way i find this to be especially sad so the the color pattern or whatever you'd call it the color official color of the papa john's pizza franchise is that red right that very like you see it it reads papa john's and in fact when he was in all those tv commercials for all those years he's always wearing the papa john's red he's still wearing that color but it doesn't say it doesn't say his pizza thing anymore because he legally isn't allowed to

01:24:20 - 01:24:26 | Speaker 2:

right so he's wearing so he wants to separate and he he doesn't get anything out of wearing one that

01:24:26 - 01:24:59 | Speaker 1:

actually has the name on it right right but he's it's the exact same color and he walks around wearing these red shirts that look exactly like a red collared shirt or red like he's had a whole line of clothing created that looks exactly like he still works at papa john's it'd be like if you had worked for subway and they had confiscated your sandwich artist credentials but you just made your own outfit that was in the brown and yellow of subway and you just hung out at the subway or you just spent your time online trying to drag subway over bad sandwiches like there's somehow

01:25:00 - 01:25:03 | Speaker 3:

The specific red of this shirt is so pathetic to me.

01:25:03 - 01:25:39 | Speaker 4:

Can I tell you something that I find fascinating about Real America's Voice, at least their website? So it's laid out, you know, what you think it is. It's like a conservative news site. It's not especially high end. It doesn't appear right away to be especially janky, but, you know, it's certainly not a high end website at all. But one thing that I just noticed is this website does not do carriage returns in headlines. They just let the headline kind of run out and then and then continue on the next line. That doesn't make sense. Let me read to you this headline.

01:25:40 - 01:25:40 | Speaker 3:

OK.

01:25:41 - 01:26:09 | Speaker 4:

Hazy forecast for Biden's goal of a green electric. And then the next line, it called grid. Every story Romney receives profile and courage. erred for impeachment vote there it's just like the layout of this they just cut words off and move it to the next line it doesn't matter where it is in the word and by the way it's not hyphenated it just just stops and then it's continue you know what that is andrew that's the real voice

01:26:09 - 01:26:40 | Speaker 3:

of america that is true grammatically disastrous that's the real voice of america grammatically dis... Asterisk. Asterisk. Anyway, that's what old Papa John is up to. I could keep playing this video and narrating it for you, but I think you get the point. The point is, Papa John is doing very well, everyone. And if you don't believe that, just note that he still owns a private plane, and he flies to business meetings, mother, and interviews. These are my interviews from Seb Gorka.

01:26:43 - 01:26:50 | Speaker 1:

Here I go, once again, with the email. every week i hope that it's from a female no man it's not from a female

01:26:50 - 01:26:57 | Speaker 3:

all right an email or v-mail before we get out of here yeah i got a bunch of v-mails i can play

01:26:57 - 01:27:19 | Speaker 4:

for you i went through the voicemail line this weekend um by the way one quick thing that's kind of related here is i see i just popped over to slack for a second and um i think it's listener steve who set this up he actually texted me too and i was supposed to mention this but a listener I think it was Steve, set up a clubhouse room for TBTL.

01:27:20 - 01:27:22 | Speaker 3:

I think I saw someone tweeting about that. There was one member.

01:27:23 - 01:28:31 | Speaker 4:

Yes, I love that. Listener Jennifer tweeted out. That sounds about right. But apparently, so I almost jumped in, but I guess it doesn't apply to Android folks. You need an iPhone to partake in Parler, which I feel like that was probably like a question. Not Parler. Did I just say parlor? The other place where you'll find old Papa John. Clubhouse, exactly. I'm on parlor. They'll accept anybody, but to be a part of Clubhouse, you have to have an iPhone. But anyway, so I think, listen, if you go to the Slack page, you'll find people. They can give you invites to this thing. Apparently, you need an invite to Clubhouse. If you're having trouble or if you're like, I don't want to go to Slack so I can sign up for a different thing, just email me. I'll try to get you in the right hands. But anyway, that sounds fun I was tempted for a moment I was like, oh, I'll join, I'll cut it up With some tens, see what's going on over there But then they're like, oh yeah, you need an iPhone I was like, well then, I didn't want to be a part of this club anyway Can I play some voicemails for you? Or at least one How about I gave all of these slugs But I don't remember what they're actually about

01:28:31 - 01:28:39 | Speaker 3:

This one, Luke Do you want to clarify, slug? Because some of the listeners haven't They're not long-standing media professionals like you and I

01:28:39 - 01:28:47 | Speaker 4:

What was the other one that I said before? Rerack? Did I say Reracks? I'm just a real radio lingo guy today. Lots of terms of art flying around today.

01:28:47 - 01:29:01 | Speaker 3:

Got Theo who's just yelling at me down here. Did that all happen because you said you made a mistake, which is you stood up at some point during the show, like maybe during our break? I guess so, yeah. And then his mind, he realized, oh, the show's over, and now I can start yowling?

01:29:01 - 01:29:40 | Speaker 4:

He was totally asleep on the chair behind me, as he usually is. And then after the show, I'll get up, stretch my legs, go in the kitchen, and that's usually when he wakes up. And then he starts kind of wandering the house and he's trying to sit on my lap and he'll cry or what have you. But I think me getting up in the middle of the show to get an extra cup of coffee really upset those plans. He's now been awake for the majority of the show. And, yeah, he's been yelling at me from the other room. Now he's just sitting here. He wants to jump on my desk, which he'll do in a second. But anyway, here is a voicemail from – oh, when we say slug, it's just like the name I gave the file. Just a quick little kind of name the MP3. And this one I named Luke Dream and Uncut Gems. That's all I know about this.

01:29:40 - 01:29:59 | Speaker 2:

Hey, y'all, it's Stephanie in Portland, Oregon. And I was listening to you guys in the morning while I went to work. And I just finished the episode, and I filmed it a little bit. Anyways, I had a dream last night about Luke, kind of. I had a dream because Luke's sister, the restaurant, Pollo Bravo, is being moved. I'm pretty sure.

01:30:00 - 01:30:05 | Speaker 3:

location is moving um don't worry on that but i thought that they are wait hold on look at this

01:30:05 - 01:30:27 | Speaker 2:

listener knowing things they are they're going to be uh moving to uh a neighborhood i think off of like killingsworth there's a there's a place they're called like a coastal surf or north coast surf which is kind of a surf slash surf club slash beer place and they're going to be in that i believe they're going to be in that area so you know watch that space what i heard um and so i had

01:30:27 - 01:31:18 | Speaker 3:

dream that Luke opened up a restaurant in the space where Puerto Bravo used to be and so I was so excited because I was never going to be able to go and stalk him and see him but then I got there and I saw him working and then I got really nervous and almost peaked and left because I was too nervous to say anything so that was pretty fun oh and also um with regards to the Uncut Gems talk um I have never seen that movie and I don't want to and I don't think that Andrew should either because it just seems like a spiral of terrible anxiety because this guy is just like a liar and is in trouble and does things that stress me out. And so I don't want to watch it, and I just think that Andrew and I share some personality traits, including nervousness, maybe. Anyway, I hope you guys are having a good day. Bye.

01:31:18 - 01:31:21 | Speaker 1:

Did Stephanie nail the vibe of Uncut Gems?

01:31:22 - 01:31:31 | Speaker 2:

Oh, yeah. I mean, I see a lot of myself in the Howard Ratner character, which is probably why I like it. But it would stress you out. I'm assuming you didn't end up watching it this weekend.

01:31:31 - 01:32:07 | Speaker 1:

No, I did not end up watching it this weekend. I do think I'll watch it. It does sound like the type of thing that I mean, I like dark movies and I like movies that I mean, I don't even know how this one ends. But like I actually prefer darker matter as opposed to probably lighthearted fare. so I you know I just but I do think that I need to you know like I need to make a point of sitting down to watch it more than maybe you know lately I'm just such a lazy watcher you know I've just been re-watching a bunch of Seinfelds because I don't when I sit down I don't really want to think about what I want to watch I'm just kind of like zoning out you know what I mean I need to be more

01:32:07 - 01:32:33 | Speaker 2:

deliberate well you and and Chris and I were texting about this and he was saying you got to watch the movie and you said well I may you know you're going to be possibly uh riding solo on saturday night and you were like then i can watch it and i can get up i forget the list of things you described but it was like get up walk around change my pants oh right you know right fix myself some food come back go do something else all the things that make it very annoying to watch a movie

01:32:33 - 01:32:38 | Speaker 1:

with me right exactly that is very much me in all the way in all the times we've talked about our

01:32:38 - 01:32:47 | Speaker 2:

our tv and movie consumption happens i don't know if i've ever really fully grasped what it's like to watch it and is that all the stuff that you do when when you and vives are watching a movie and

01:32:47 - 01:33:43 | Speaker 1:

she's like can we just focus here no I mean that's the thing that's that's why I don't watch a lot of movies and you wouldn't have noticed that behavior around me because I wouldn't do that around other people but if I have the house to myself and I'm going to watch a movie especially a longer movie there is a very real chance that I'm going to pause that movie about 700 times I would I don't make other people have that experience which is why I always feel like okay if I'm going to you know Genevieve will say what do you want to put on the TV and I'll say I don't want to be responsible for what's on the TV, because I will probably get up and walk away at some point. You do you. But if we're like, okay, let's sit down to watch this movie, I can mostly be a good boy about that and sit down mostly. But if I'm by myself, I'm pausing it, I'm getting another beer, at some point I'll realize my hands are too sweaty, I need to wash them, like these pants, maybe it's time to slip into some Tonight Pants. Yeah, I constantly pause movies when I'm watching them by myself. It's not good. I got some sort of undiagnosed issues, I think. Don't we all? Yeah.

01:33:43 - 01:33:44 | Speaker 2:

Don't we all, my friend.

01:33:44 - 01:34:05 | Speaker 1:

Anyway, do you want to wrap it up? Do you want to hear? Can I play one more quickie for you? Because then I have a follow-up to this. This is from listener Diana. This is, I don't remember exactly what Diana's going to say here, but it's regarding the reversible athletic wear, the reversible shirts you were talking about. Pinnies versus pennies. Pinnies, P-I-N-N-I-E-S.

01:34:05 - 01:34:51 | Speaker 4:

Hi, guys. This is Diana Chehalis. I might be your oldest living listener, And so sometimes I know things that you guys are trying to find out just because I'm old. So today I wanted to talk about pennies because when I was in school, they were like the top half of a pinafore. So if you were in PE class, everybody had them in a navy blue or white shirt. And then you put a colored, flipped a colored penny over your head. And that's how you could tell that whether you were on the red team or whatever or the blue team. So I've been listening since day one And you've gotten me through The loss of my husband Cancer treatment and COVID I love you guys Thanks a lot, bye bye

01:34:51 - 01:35:05 | Speaker 1:

I don't think I've ever heard from Diana before I love that voicemail Diana, please call back more often And thanks for the kind words um i didn't really know what a pinafore was but that's like the um the kind i'm looking

01:35:05 - 01:35:40 | Speaker 2:

it up it's a sleeveless garment worn as an apron is right the internet would say the exact definition is or precise but oh my gosh i'm just still trying to like absorb how great that voicemail was right i know listener diana in shehalis i love that so much diana yes please will you call us and keep us posted and it would be great if we could um draw from your wisdom of being on this planet a little bit longer than we have for uh things like pinafores or anything else that comes into your mind that you have a response to please call and leave us more voicemails that would be really fun

01:35:40 - 01:37:02 | Speaker 1:

one last thing on this pinny conversation you asked me if i had these things growing up and i said no but as we were talking i started to remember literally almost had like a um physical memory, a touch, a sensation of this shirt that I had. None of those words are exactly what I meant, but I got close. But I remembered a shirt that I had when I was in high school when I was a freshman at Walsh Jesuit because the school colors there are maroon and gold and it was a reversible kind of t-shirt that said, you know, Walsh on it. And I said, I guess I did have a penny if that's a penny because it was you know purposely um reversible and listener megan posted a photo on slack of the exact shirt that i had and her five is wearing it it says is this the shirt you were thinking about my 11 somehow stashed this away from 1990 and now my five uses it as pajamas that is literally the same walsh phys ed shirt that i had so apparently uh is this listener in ohio i don't know anything more than what i've told you but megan has an 11 who has a walsh phys ed shirt from the 90s and so i'm assuming that person went to walsh in 1990 wow

01:37:02 - 01:37:14 | Speaker 2:

yeah that's crazy now that must really blow your mind there's i mean something about seeing that or maybe even just the smell of it like that's an extremely strong kind of sense memory right it is

01:37:14 - 01:37:33 | Speaker 1:

definitely and also you know like so i would have been at walsh i mean that was my freshman year so i cannot i cannot remember if that was 19 if my year would be 1990 dash 1991 or if i was there for the 91 92 i can't quite do the math on that i know i graduated in 95 but i mean is there a chance that me and this person went to Walsh together.

01:37:35 - 01:38:04 | Speaker 2:

And see, now here's the thing. This listener is saying it's their 11, so it's their, you know, spouse or partner who is not as into the show as they are, right? So that's why they're an 11. So it would be weird if that person remembered. I guess my thought is it would be more likely that the person that you went to Walsh High with would be like, oh, this guy that I went to high school with ever so briefly, now has a podcast let me listen to that that seems like that would be the how that would work out but

01:38:04 - 01:38:44 | Speaker 1:

it doesn't sound like that's what's going on out there no and also like I don't even know I'm trying to think if I had any like that year is such a blur for me because I kind of came into that school from an out as a kind of an outsider like a lot of the people who came to Walsh Jesuit probably came with other friends from other like kind of Catholic grade schools and I didn't really come with that I was kind of coming in cold so I don't even really remember if I had any friends who I only knew through walsh or to what degree i just remember keeping my head as low as possible when i was there so anyway um that is a very interesting and yes seeing that t-shirt again like just like there it is in 2021 the same exact shirt that i was referring to was kind of wild okay let's end

01:38:44 - 01:38:58 | Speaker 2:

the show there all right we're gonna call that good for a monday uh but the good news everyone is we're gonna be right back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you are there any songs that you've been inspired to play based on today's conversation?

01:38:59 - 01:39:07 | Speaker 1:

How about Pennies from Heaven? And we could go with the Louis Prima version here. I don't know if I know this version. I assume I do. So good. Okay, good.

01:39:08 - 01:39:52 | Speaker 2:

So good. This is one of those songs, you want to talk about kind of very strong memories. This is from that era. I mean, not originally, but when this song really came into my consciousness was in the swing dance, the swing dancing 90s the late 90s where it was like you know brian setzer was re-recording jump jive and whale for gap commercials and uh you know pennies from heaven was uh was in heavy rotation in luke's life i'm trying a new thing where i talk about myself in the third yeah i like it this song andrew likes it yeah uh so anyway yeah i love this song all right that's we'll go out with and we'll see y'all tomorrow until then stay safe take care of yourselves and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

01:39:52 - 01:39:59 | Speaker 1:

for you and me I come over here boy Sam and every time it rains it rains and don't you know it's confident

01:40:00 - 01:40:50 | Speaker 2:

Every time it rings red Don't you know it can't contain You'll find your fortune falling All over town, all over town, all over town Be sure that your umbrella Is absurd and sweetly pop A happy sooty hose of white He's got a lot of hungry He's got a lot of soup Oh, but the boys are Yeah, but the hard boy I knew I'd get you I knew I'd get you Let's go, let's go Power out

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