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Call Kenny Loggins because you're in the danger zone from Top Gun. Just be careful. No.

and uh uh right on you midnight cowboy that's not a thing all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a thursday edition of tbtl the show that just might be too beautiful to live brilliant millennial lousy satire and it's a big deal my name is luke burbank i'm your host are you sure that's what they said on ask chiefs Coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center, high in the sky, above Portland, Oregon, where we are looking at another gorgeous, in fact, kind of hot day. It's going to be 80. Mm-mm-mm. I'm flying in hot for that hottie. I am wearing the sweatshorts. I'm wearing the T-shirt. I have been outdoors in Portland the last maybe week or so in shorts, not just while exercising. more than I can remember in my life. I had a pretty strong no shorts for me, trying to not tell everyone how to live, but for me, I just didn't think it was very dignified to be wearing shorts unless I was in the act of exercising. And I don't know, something about this 503 lifestyle, this new version of Luke Burbank, who drinks, you know, up to 100 ounces of water a day here in Portland.

Tastes like soot and hot water. I'm hooked.

By the way, I'm like 62 ounces in already today. This new version of me that has to pee all the time likes to wear shorts. Those are unrelated concepts for the record. But anyway, it's going to be another beautiful day. We've got another beautiful show for you. It's episode 3422 in a collector's series.

Let the fun begin. Turns out you can eat the banana peel. There's a banana craze in America, but are banana days going to lead to banana deaths?

You can use the peel like instead of jackfruit if you're making vegetarian food and you want to create something that's sort of like meat. There's all kinds of stuff you can do with the banana peel, and we're going to talk about that. Also, Target has announced that they are temporarily suspending sales in the stores of trading cards because somebody pulled a gun on someone the other day. There's this whole Internet culture. We mentioned it a while ago because one of our listeners is into it. It's called, like, card breaking, and it's leading to some wild stuff happening around the trading cards. It's unsafe, apparently, for Target employees and customers for Target to be selling trading cards. So we will get into that. And then, time permitting, the story of a woman who was arrested after she entered a high school. She was not of high school age. She was, I believe, close to 30. she went and she had these flyers she was handing out trying to popularize her instagram feed i thought it was interesting though the way that she tried to blend in with the students lol laugh

out loud omg oh my god wtf why the face so we'll talk about that time permitting and we of course

we always make time for the blurs days on a thursday so we'll do that we'll do all of it With the help of this guy, longest-running co-bro of the show.

Hey, Romano!

Maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is Andrew Walsh. He's joining me right now from the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. I've been texting back and forth with our friend Gene Bean Baxter.

I know. I switched on these WhatsApp notifications, and it was a huge mistake.

Yes, it really is. Because Bean texts us both at the same time. And then he and I are the only ones who actually communicate. So I imagine you're just like racking up tons and tons of messages as I'm listening to his new podcast, Cup of Tea and a Chat, and which I'm enjoying a great deal. And I don't know if you happen to see our texting.

exchange last night since you're copied on all of these things but at one point i just wrote in all caps this vin scully tape though i'm wondering if you already know about this vin scully tape i didn't include it in the thing because it was just in beans it was in one of beans recent episodes do you know that five years ago vin scully did some research on the history of beards and just dropped it into a game and it's a whole thing do you know about this tape i don't know about this

tape and i would love to hear it as a uh as a vin scully stan i want to just say something really quickly too i doubt bean will hear this but the i i felt bad about a week or two ago because he was saying some really nice stuff to us about tbtl and and how you know his i would say probably already much more successful than us his podcast cup of tea in a chat um how they you know he kind of took some inspiration from tbtl or at least just modeled certain elements of it after tbtl it was very super nice and he's sending us some links and stuff i at that time i did not have the notifications turned on so i don't use whatsapp very much because it's more for sort of communicating with people that are abroad if you will and so i looked at i felt like i felt bad like i was ignoring you guys who were having a conversation that was very nice of Bean, and so I turned the notifications on, and now I need to figure out how to turn the notifications off. Yeah, you probably do. Because you guys really do text a lot on this channel. That being said, I really want to hear the Vin Scully take. Now, I don't even know

how I'm going to do this. He was weaving it in and out of the show in a brilliant way, but like, this is just from YouTube here. This is from 2016. Vin Scully, during the game, discusses the history of Beard. It's a full five minutes. We can't play the whole thing, And it's a bit of a slow start.

Yeah, we try to keep things pretty tight.

Yeah, that is a good point. Historically.

This is just something else, man. I'm not going to do it now because there's two out and the base is empty. But sometime during the game, if you've been like the way I have been, looking at players with these big beards, I decided I'm going to do a little research on beards. So during the game, yeah, there's plenty of them around. We'll tell you a couple of stories as we go through it. Two down, second inning, no score. And first pitch, fastball, first right. First of all, they say way back to the dawn of humanity, beards evolved, number one, because ladies like them. And number two, it was the idea of frightening off adversaries and wild animals. There's the one-strike pitch, swung on and missed strike two. In fact, it was so serious, if you look it up, there's a divine mandate for beards in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. No balls and two strikes, they count.

Hey, by the way, I'm really hoping that we get to where there's two balls and two strikes and two outs, because that's when we get into real vincally the deuces are wild territory.

Oh, okay. He loves that. His favorite thing.

Whenever there gets to be, and a deep drive. by Castellano, he loved it whenever the twos would show up. And then he'd say, yeah, the deuces are wild. And we are in the second inning, so there's a chance. By the way, I did a TV story about beards for some reason. And I didn't know any of this. This is already more informative than the television piece that I did about beards.

I just love the weaving in and out of the baseball with this.

He sounds like Brockmire, like the character that Hank Azaria has created.

He sort of does, only, yeah, less profane and more sober. Yeah, okay, I'm going to go back to the tape. Yes, please. Oh, no, I hit the wrong button. Give me one second here, unless you want to hear David Letterman. Okay, here we go.

Leviticus and Deuteronomy. No balls and two strikes, they count. Stripling from the first base side of the rubber. Strike two pitch to Nars is promptly hit into right field, and it lands in front of Kike for a base hit. So Norris, two out, single to right, and that will bring up Jemile Weeks.

Number eight, Jemile Weeks.

There became a time where Greek dramatists mimed the popular prejudice against clean-shaven men. Back then, clean-shaven men will look to see, oh, maybe effeminate. And then along came Alexander the Green. One of my favorite stories. Sorry about that.

That's me. I'm just, while this is playing, I'm perusing Vin Scully Twitter.

Oh, that's right, because he logged into Twitter like a year ago, right?

Right, and sorry about that. There was a video that auto-loaded. I apologize for our dueling Scullies. Please continue.

We're getting in.

to some Alexander the Great territory here, so buckle up.

I'm also like, I'll be amazed if we get through this without something that we probably wouldn't say were we not 90 years old. You know what I mean? I don't think Vin Scully was anybody who had a reputation for saying things that were somehow non-inclusive or whatever, but you know what I mean? A person of a certain age talking about beards and whether or not they make someone look effeminate and deuteronomy it just feels like it kind of keeps it keeps threatening to go over the line into something that about gender and such that we don't talk about that way anymore well i thought that

actually him it sounded like he was trying to be very delicate about the with the word effeminate and then later on i think he does say something about man shall not lay down with beard but um we'll get to that later they burdened their lust together man and beard and then along came

Alexander the Great that's another story Alexander the Great was not only great but he also thought he was the greatest looking man in the world oh absolutely stripling ready delivers gets a strike and Alexander the Great said there is no reason to cover up my beautiful face with a beard and so So all of a sudden it started to disappear. I love the idea that he felt he was so beautiful. One strike. Stripling ready. Looks over at Norris. Back to the hitter. And that's lined in the left field for a base hit. Norris goes for second. So back to back base hits with two out. And the batter will be Adam Rosales. after alexander the great wanted clean shade and people it got so that the university of paris banned long bearded men from the lecture halls that's back in 1533 and a few years later the city's chief court outlawed beards on judges and advocates and then you got to be The Russian strongman who liked a shaved face but long wigs. The first pigeon for a strike.

This goes on for another two minutes. We don't have to play the whole thing.

Can I mention, too, that I took us to a real baseball town yesterday, and I apologize. But can I just mention that the Dodgers, I believe, have won the NL West eight seasons in a row. They have been a very good team Over the last decade And so this conversation is not happening Against the backdrop of a team That's 40 games out of first In August where you as the Play-by-play person are just looking to fill This is probably At this moment one of the best teams in baseball Doing their thing While Vin Scully Has downloaded, has printed out

Reams of paper from Wikipedia About beards And I'm trying to figure, so this was posted, they're playing San Diego, but this was posted April 30th, 2016. I don't know if that's when this actually happened, it says April, so maybe it's early in the season, it's not a very important game, but yeah, but certainly, yeah.

Maybe it's spring training, I mean, I don't know, but it's just, I just think it's hilarious that he is dedicating this amount of time to this. And also, I mean, and again, I love Vin Scully, but I just feel like none of this stuff sounds like it's verifiable.

Well, he starts off by saying that at the beginning of humanity, men had beards to attract women and to scare off bears. I think men had beards because they hadn't invented razors.

Yeah, that would seem to be a more likely reason. In fact, if I were a bear, I don't see a beard on a guy being scary at all.

Yeah, right. annoying if I'm trying to eat his face maybe I don't know do bears eat faces I don't like to think so do bears eat faces in the woods that old chestnut that's amazing and it just goes on and on

love that guy and I love that he's still he's still on twitter he tweeted the other day I hope everyone has a great weekend it got 11,000 likes nothing that we ever create or I don't want to speak for you Nothing I ever put on Twitter dot com will get the kind of engagement of Vin Scully at age. I'm going to go like ninety five or something. I mean, the craziest we'll get with. I hope everybody has a nice weekend. I mean, the thing that's so wild about the career of Vin Scully is that he was the Dodgers broadcaster when they were in Brooklyn. Yes, that's just an incredible the dazzlingest of deets to me, because, of course, that feels like many lifetimes ago that they were still the Brooklyn Dodgers.

and that the person who was their play-by-play guy came west with them and then was until I was living in L.A. and he was still the voice of the Dodgers. It's just an incredible longevity.

Yes, and I'm actually glad, you know, I think a lot of people obviously miss him on the broadcasts. Like, he wasn't just around for a long time. He was just incomparable, right? Like, he was amazing. And I heard that when I was in L.A. I didn't really, I mean, this is maybe embarrassing to admit, but, like, not being somebody who grew up, you know, as a big sports head, like, I didn't really know who he was. I'd heard the name before but then I'm down in LA and I'm just like just listening to games or watching games on TV and just being like oh wow this is noticeably better than what I was hearing in Seattle like this was really good content and I remember sitting in our living room in LA just having the game on kind of passively probably playing like Hearthstone or something and Genevieve's in the room like kind of you know tapping on her phone too and then I remember her just stopping and turning to me and saying like this is really interesting like this is really good she's not a big baseball person like but i was starting all that to say that like obviously he was really good and really good up until the end but i'm glad that he gets to have some retirement time too you know like i'm so glad that he's still around and he can um you know be on weird twitter what if he's being what if he slipped into weird twitter what if it ends up being scully and wink

Somebody check Wint Vin Scully is at an age where if he starts doing weird Twitter It might not be on purpose

Right, exactly

Everybody keep an eye on old Vin I remember my grandmother My dad's mom, Virginia Burbank Telling me Because my dad lived in LA when he was a kid In fact, that's where he grew up For most of his life They lived in Claremont, California And Pomona A little bit, I guess, sort of east of Los Angeles proper And also Woodland Hills for a while So I remember when I was a little kid For some reason my grandma, who I didn't know to be a sports fan Saying, oh yeah, Vin Scully is the best And I didn't even know what a Vin Scully was at that time But then when I got to LA, I was like, oh, that was what she was talking about What's her name, Virginia Burbank, did you say? Virginia Burbank She has since departed this planet But yeah, I guess she was a Scully head too which is funny because, again, I didn't know her. She was not like some baseball nut, although you know what she would do, Andrew. She was the bookkeeper for the YMCA in downtown Seattle, and they would get tickets to the Mariner games, I think because the Mariners were terrible at the time. You really kind of couldn't give away M's tickets, but she would get, you know, would be the kind of thing where oh there's free tickets and then like no one's taking them so then eventually the bookkeeper virginia's like well i'll take them off your hands and she would give them to my dad then my dad would take we would go see the mariners in the kingdom um you know some nosebleed seats as they would lose to a good team but we would stop at herfie's on aurora and get a hamburger or maybe it was daggs actually there was a different burger place called daggs And Daggs Beefy Boy I think was what Was the name of the burger joint But anyway, I just have these great memories Of going to the Kingdome Getting a burger from Daggs with my dad And then watching the Mariners just get Absolutely destroyed by a competent baseball Very little has changed, Andrew In the intervening 35 years

Today's Jared Kalanick Day, by the way I don't want to talk about current baseball Oh, happy Jared Kalanick Day to you, my friend I do want to make this nice conversation about baseball memories weird because I would always have to take it to this kind of place, but I was listening to the radio during a day game the other day, like a daytime weekday game, and Rick Riz, the current announcer, said He did like four minutes on the soul patch? He did. He called it the flavor saver? I was just working up an imitation, and I don't have a Rick Riz imitation, so God knows what was about to fall out of my mouth as I tried to do some spoof on the flavor saver. You know,

they say scraggly hairs on your chin save flavor for a day and for a lifetime. Didn't really pay off.

Or what's the thing that I always try to explain that he'll tell these stories, that's when I have to go nowhere, he'll say, I got to meet the young man before the game, and I said, is it strange to be back in this ballpark? And he said, no. Oh, that's a just outside. That's a ball just outside. And that's it. He'll just say, and he said no. Okay, so here's my weird, awkward story about what he said on the radio during this day game, during a weekday. He was referring to the fact that these things used to be called businessmen specials, right? Or no, no.

Nine inning lunches.

There's also, like, businessmen special, I think, or something like that.

Yeah, they'd call it, like, a businessman special or sometimes a nine-inning lunch.

Right. And he said on the radio, he said, yes, back in the day, we would have called this a business person special. I was like, no, you wouldn't. Like, I'm glad that you used the more inclusive. Yeah, and it was just kind of a weird thing because in one way, I totally agree that broadcasters should use inclusive language. That is, I think, the right move there. But it's also a lie. Because in the day, you did not call this a business person special. You called it a business man special.

You know, they might have called it a business person special. You think so? It will be impossible to verify. But my memory, like when you say that, it doesn't sound wildly off to me. Like, you know what I mean? Like, and my guess would be if that was the case, of course, it wasn't because of some great wokeness on their part. It was because they wanted to be as inclusive as possible so as to try to sell more tickets. Like if they said business person special, they thought maybe the marketing department said, well, you know, there are women who are business people and they may want to come, too. So let's just try to throw the widest net we can.

I've never heard it. I've heard businessman special before. And again, I'm not arguing for less inclusive language. I don't have to keep repeating that, obviously. But I've never heard that. I've always heard businessman special and, you know, a quick Google search. Have you heard business person? I think I'm doing that word and I'm seeing me. I'm seeing like SB Nation seven things you can't say on baseball television anymore from 2013 that's probably a terrible article but weekday afternoon games referred to as businessman special there's an article here the businessman special in the art of baseball hooky I mean it might they might have done both I'm just saying what we need to find and this will be impossible is like an old radio ad for one of these nine inning lunches slash business maybe persons maybe man special I'm just I

Again, I'll never be able to prove this, but when you say businessperson special, it sounds more familiar to me than businessman special, having grown up in Seattle and having listened to endless numbers of Mariners games when I was a little kid. But that's not ironclad proof of anything. I just have this weird feeling that that was actually what they called it, strangely enough.

I don't know. The internet doesn't seem to have your back on this, and I've never heard that.

To the Mariners, though, because I'm just saying I'm just saying, like, I'm sure in, you know, sexist places like Boston, of course, it was the businessman special. But here in Seattle in here in Seattle, you know, they may have. I mean, again, if they did say business person special, I would not guess it was because of any kind of thoughts about gender equity. It was maybe just because they thought we want more people to come to these games. because lord knows no one was coming to these games that those would be the games that my buddy peter and i would go to we would literally just stand outside the kingdom somebody would give you tickets you would go in there would be no people in the stadium we would have some crummy tickets that somebody just literally gave us then we would hop this fence they had that was supposed to be separating the good seats from the bad seats like it was like a cyclone fencing kind of thing but it was not very tall and then i remember we were sitting with some business men at the businessman special and ellis burks hit a pop-up foul ball and one of the business dudes who was letting us sit next to them in their fancy seats and were kind of like covering for us um we then uh kicked the shit out of the guy's hand so as to get the baseball from ellis burks and he was like i would

have just given you the ball you know i remember that story i didn't remember that that was yours I felt like I read it somewhere.

No, that was me and Peter and a pop fly, a foul ball from Ellis Burks. And these guys were like, they felt a little betrayed by us. We went crazy. We were, you know, 12 year old kids. They were like, we weren't trying to fight you for the ball, but it didn't have to get physical. Right. Speaking of getting physical, one last quick thing, because we're just doing this, I guess. The other day I was listening to the broadcast and it was Rick Riz and Dave Sims were chatting. And they must have been it must have been a game that was in Minnesota. And they were kind of musing about the last time they'd been in Minnesota. And one of them, I can't remember who it was. I think Dave Sims said, oh, was that when we had the pickup game and the last time we were here? And Rick Riz said, yeah. And Dave Sims said, yeah, that didn't end well. And it reminded me that there was a time in Minnesota where Dave Sims tore his Achilles tendon and Rick Riz had to also get surgery on his biceps from the same pickup basketball game that they were playing in in Minnesota. These are not young dudes. Rick Riz is about 5'5 if he's a minute. These dudes, these.

old heads playing pickup basketball in minnesota and both just really savagely injuring themselves in the same game i think is one of the weirdest quirks of baseball broadcasting i can think of

and also i love it i mean i'm not that i'm not glad that they got hurt but i love the image of it i cannot picture this at all like for either one of them i wonder sometimes if my love of of

this kind of broadcasting that we're doing well let's be honest narrow casting um let's be honest what's what's more narrow than narrow yeah um you know part of what i like about this show i wonder if the early stages or the early thoughts about that got in my head from listening to baseball announcers on you know for the mariners when the mariners were a lousy team and they were really were just kind of like shooting the shit and kind of a lot of their talk would be about where they went to dinner with Kevin Kremen, the engineer.

Oh, dude, they dropped a little story about him again just the other day. They can't escape the Kremen. The criminal, the fun-loving criminal.

And so it was almost like a podcast. It was almost like this show because the mayors would be playing somewhere and they'd be on the road. They'd be losing. There'd be kind of nothing to talk about. It'd be a depressing game. And in those days, it'd be like Dave Niehaus and Rick Riz would just be sort of BS-ing about some chicken wings they had the night before somewhere. It was like a borderline podcast, I guess.

I'm trying to think if this was spring training of this year or early in the season, but they started talking about how Kevin Kremen, their former producer for the radio broadcasts, who isn't even, he retired a season or two ago.

Who the fuck? They can't stop. This show, our show, would give Kevin Kremen, one-time broadcast engineer for the Seattle Mariners,

this much attention over the years i mean i i guess it makes sense you know they they go on the road a lot together as a team those three have probably been you know a broadcast team for a really long time and then also coming out of the pandemic you don't have a lot of new stories from last season to talk about and also i don't think they're traveling this year i think the broadcast teams are staying home in seattle while um and calling the games remotely you know for to to be safe um but they told a story about how somehow coasters came up luke coasters the thing you put your glass on or your hydro flask and there's like oh kevin cremen loved coasters you know kevin cremen was a real coaster guy and they tell this story about how they were staying in a nicer hotel hotel i believe in la and they had really nice coasters there and the criminal just took them because they were he thought that they were it was okay to take them out of the hotel but everybody else was like i don't know if those are really i don't know if those are really keepers

cremin like i was just like i love this i would definitely have stolen some coasters i think there might have been a segment camaro kev could tell us about this because you know camaro kev he was the guy back at the radio station who ran the mariners for a number of seasons So he was the criminal's, like, right-hand person. And I think there even was, like, a segment that Kevin Kremen would do on Sunday mornings where he would do reviews of restaurants or something they've been to. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard of this. I never actually heard it, but yeah. Yeah, anyway. All right. Well, that was fun. Again, thank you for indulging us, listeners who couldn't possibly care less about this stuff. We will try to make the back half of the show highly entertaining. But before we do that, we've got to take a quick break. So don't go anywhere. More TBTL coming your way in a moment.

On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go. Everybody rattle, dazzle.

Hey, let's thank some dazzling donors. These folks are dazzling us with their donations, keeping the show going. I think we had somebody yesterday who said, I forget exactly how they phrased it, But it is clear that they had just fully and completely been absorbed into the world of TBTL where they just, I think it was something along the lines of, you'll never be canceled because I'll just keep giving you my money.

Oh, right, yeah.

And I just would like to encourage everyone to do that, particularly when we have the TBTL-a-thon coming up here in a few weeks. And we remind everybody that this is the business model, that if you like the show and you want to keep going, you donate. and then we give that money to American Public Media and then they give us a small amount of it back and then we get to keep talking about Vin Scully. That's right. It's a pretty simple system. We've got to thank Robin Degrassi James in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.

I wonder what that place is famous for.

Probably Ridges. Uh-huh, yep. Wheat Ridge has ridges, I think is the town slogan. Robin says, I don't have a special message, but thank you.

you for being imaginary friends robin from tenver oh we must be right outside of um denver give me

a second here nope that's the wrong song nope on your mark on your mark get set get set now ready

so what happened there andrew was you and i during the break we were looking at these dazzling donor messages and we noticed that one of them was fairly voluminous and one of them was fairly short and I was going to try to do a funny joke on you where I just read Robin's message and then like literally five seconds into it I just said maestro again but then the joke didn't really work sorry that's on me it's a bad joke and Robin in my attempt to be funny I mildly slept on the fact that Robin has been one of our really greatest and most long-standing supporters of the show. She's been part of all kinds of fun projects and has submitted videos and emails and money and dossiers. So even though Robin wrote a very short but sweet message, I can't bear to only say the brief message that Robin submitted. So Robin, I apologize for that. Maestro? That's all you're getting.

It's hard to switch between windows. I didn't know what we were doing there. Maestro?

On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready.

Oh, wow.

Everybody rattle, dazzle.

This is quite the message from Adrian Hughes.

Everybody rattle, dazzle.

Adrian, who is our second Dazzling Donor today, says, Dear Luke and Andrew, You both continuously receive Dazzling Donor messages with declarations of praise and gratitude. These statements are a big old pat on your back. You know you like it. To quote Tan Mom, it just feels nice. Wow, I got to start playing Tan Mom again. Patricia. Patricia Marie. Patricia Krenzel, I think is her government name. But to quote Cher, snap out of it. As a medical doctor. Okay. We want to thank a dazzling donor, Dr. Adrian Hughes today. As a medical doctor, I feel obligated to confront both of you. I am worried about your health, Luke and Andrew. Dr. Hughes, haven't you heard? I'm drinking like gallons of water a day. I'm doing fine. I'm worried about your health. You both have an addiction to positive feedback. Don't worry. Just breathe. The truth is hard. At this point, I feel obligated to diagnose your ailments and administer the medicine on air. Is this a HIPAA violation, by the way? I think so. I feel very exposed. Is it a violation of the Goldwater Rule? I mean, is Dr. Hughes allowed to diagnose us without having met us? That's a really good point. You know what? Should we just move on? I just don't want to get Dr. Hughes in trouble. We have her license in jeopardy. Maestro?

On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set.

You both intermittently contemplate the horrifying scenario in which listeners begin abusing the dazzling donor segment using it as a sounding board a place for feedback a way to analyze and judge the show worst case scenario the tens rise up and start an award-winning sister podcast called what is working what is not working all the remaining tbtl listeners lose interest due to extreme boredom associated with the lack of tens involvement don't worry this will never happen anyway here are my diagnoses in general treatment recommendations general you both really need to work on your conversational tangent game hard stop of all the feedback i expect us to get from dr hughes i would have or let me put it this way if there's anything i think that we really actually do sort of our war our win over replacement against other podcasters i'd say our tangent

game is strong andrew i would say that too in fact i remember just the other day i was in the grocery store and i started this conversation with a with a person bagging my groceries and And I think I was buying pickles.

You like pickles, right, Luke? Oh, man. I love pickles. And by the way, I want to say, if you are somebody like me who has loved Clausen pickles for years. Yes. I know what you're going to say.

All right. I think there's a shortage, right? There's supply line issues with Clausen pickles ever since the pandemic began.

I didn't know that, but I bring a message of hope, Andrew, which is the Whole Foods kosher dill pickles taste pretty much exactly like Clausen.

We've been on a very similar journey. I bought a jar of those in the pandemic. I rarely buy food from Whole Foods. I mean, I just run across the street every now and then if I need a quick lunch and I'll get some prepared food or something.

along those lines, but I don't usually do my grocery shopping there, but I bought a

jar of those because I couldn't get my damn Clausen's at the grocery stores. Well, yeah, I was in the Whole Foods, and I was looking for some pickles, and I mean, I didn't actually think they would carry Clausen because they've got their whole own system going in there. Yeah. And so I was like, eh, I guess I'll try these, and I had one yesterday, and it was delicious. So if you are not able to find your Clausen's, was Clausen's held ransom like the Coastal Pipeline people? I'm not exactly sure.

I actually not unlike the story we're going to come up to here in a little bit in top stories about the trading card situation, which was something that I just sort of noticed. I didn't read about it until I started noticing, like, I can't just pick up a pack of baseball cards across the street the way I used to. I feel like I'm on to something with this Clausen story because I go to two different grocery stores. Sometimes I cheat on my regular one, and sometimes one of them will have Clausen. Sometimes the other one won't. I talked to somebody in the deli section about the Clausen situation. She said she didn't really know what was going on, but they had been intermittent since the beginning of the pandemic. And most of these other product lines, like paper towels and toilet paper, have kind of ironed out their issues. But something's going on at Clausen, man. But I do think that we will try to work on our tangent game as time goes forward.

Also, Dr. Hughes says all discussions regarding pet and animal-related stories are not cute at all. I mean, who actually likes those furry creatures that also happen to be our family members? Item three, drops. Who needs drops? Just stop. They are super boring. No, this is harsh. Yeah, wow. I mean, you know, sometimes that happens, you know? I think a really good doctor is able to tell their patient the hard truth. Yeah. Individual feedback. Andrew, you absolutely need to work on being more polite and courteous. Believe me, no one actually likes the person who says, oh, no, after you. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. Luke, I completely disapprove of the Christian childhood bash fest you continuously discuss. I mean, I don't know anyone who identifies with your evangelical bubble, world upbringing of born again, promise rings. Wow, I forgot about promise rings. Veggie tales, Christian rap, youth group, fear of burning in hell for eternity. and prayer can heal everything position. That is completely unrelatable. I'm starting to think that Dr. Hughes is being sarcastic here.

I don't know.

I think Dr. Hughes might. Just the fact that Adrian listed all of those things makes me think this may also be a childhood experience that Adrian had. You know that I recently sent my parents this article that I saw in Slate about kids growing up afraid of the rapture? No. And it was written from the perspective of somebody who's an adult and is not in a group in the evangelical world and was very, very traumatized by fear of the rapture. And I sent it to my parents and I said, hey, I was curious to get your thoughts on this. And my dad said, I am really sorry that we subjected you to a lot of this kookiness.

That's really interesting. Yeah. I haven't had a lot of conversations with your parents about looking back at that aspect of your childhood. Have you?

I have, but it usually comes out in a bad way. It'll be like a snarky comment during a family thing, or I'll bring up somebody who was particularly odd that was a member of our church. And I think it makes my dad feel kind of uncomfortable because I think he does feel a bit bad. But I'd never in a more thoughtful, intentional way just said, hey, I'd be curious to get your thoughts on all of this. And it was a really nice response from my dad. I mean, he was not defensive at all. He was like, just straight up, like, I'm really sorry that we exposed—I mean, my parents are still practicing Christians. They've not turned their back on their faith, but I don't think that they—were they raising kids now, I don't think that they would be raising them in exactly the same way.

Hey, can I ask you—I'm being quite serious here. I'm going to ask you a very personal question in the middle of this dazzling counter. Do I have to pee? Yes. Okay, good. So I should extend this as long as possible. No, but this is a serious question that I never really thought of before. you mentioned your grandma virginia earlier do you have any sense that um your parents parents had views like maybe like critical views of the way your parents took to this kind of oh they thought they were nuts oh really okay i mean i'm trying to use all these words to be delicate you're

like no they're bananas my my grandparents um my my grandma virginia and my granddad farnum who i didn't have i was probably closer to my grandma virginia she was a very sweet woman but i wasn't like super tight with any of my grandparents because my mom's parents had passed away and so this was my dad's parents but there was definitely i think a sense in my dad's side of the family that their son had fully gone off the off his nut and but they were also they're also polite nice people so it wasn't like it was like we just did lots of family get-togethers but I'm sure they must have been.

like, what is this commune thing about? What is this lady that he's marrying who's got this kid who, when I was about, I don't know, maybe three or four, I walked up to, I think it might have been my Uncle Roy, which is my dad's brother, and said, if you don't love Jesus, you're going to hell. Wow, that's... That made a real impression on the Burbank side of the family. Right. So, I mean, I'm sure that my dad's parents in particular were kind of confused by this this whole thing this whole worldview um but um but they you know they were again they were polite people so it wasn't like anyone was being shunned in any way it was just i'm sure it was on their mind though that's a real icebreaker too that's why that's actually still how i that's how i still start a lot of internet dates i go on and um just when i'm meeting a new group of people i start with if you if you don't love jesus you're going to hell all right dr hughes is just getting warmed up andrew i mentioned that this one is fairly uh detailed um let's see uh do you want to go to law school uh how about medical school don't worry you have plenty of time to fit that into your super easy schedule medical school listen i do think i could pull off law school but i think medical school would be a stretch um okay combined feedback so now we've had the feedback for andrew and the feedback for luke the combined feedback is i also don't understand how adrian hughes as a doctor had the time to do all of this i feel like you know our doctors are are being asked to do so much right now during a pandemic i don't know if this i mean i appreciate we very much appreciate the support and the donation but i hope that the the writing of this dazzling donor message did not take away from dr hughes taking care of her

patience i mean i'll take the the gentle other side of that i think this is more important than anything else that she could have possibly been working on like the money definitely yeah 100 donating to the show and then you know and then sharing content with tbtl is way more important than i don't know what kind of doctor adrian is but this has got to be more important i mean listen life is valuable right but i think tbtl might be slightly more yeah exactly exactly all right

Combined feedback, work harder, one to two-plus hours a day, five days a week, times 12 years. You guys really need to pick up your game? Fair. Stop creating such a joyous and comforting community of people. You never know. Some listeners might become passionate. Some listeners may begin speaking in drops. Some might purchase a custom TBTL license plate. It could get real. By the way, I haven't read the email, but I saw a subject line. I don't know if it was listener Cheryl in Corvallis. somebody was like what's it worth to you for me to get a tbtl 10 because i think is that who it is who has the tbtl the oregon tbtl i think i think so i think so and i was i was like i would i mean the only thing more embarrassing than me jogging wearing a live wire with luke burbank t-shirt would be me operating a vehicle that said tbtl 10 so god that would be so cool if you rolled up in

Like I'm picturing like a 1980s style kind of convertible, like a Miami Vice convertible, right? I don't know what kind of car that would be, but I feel like you might have had a poster of one of those. And you roll up and you're wearing sunglasses and you've got a license plate that says TBTL. Now, I guess TBTL 10 is – I mean, are you a 10? I don't think you're really a 10. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I'm like an LA3 but a TBTL 10. I'm going to write that down. I love that that joke never gets old for you. All right. We're in the homestretch here from Adrian Hughes's message. I feel this podcast is best represented by the Danish concept of how do you say this one?

Huggy. Oh, you know, I looked that up and I promised myself I'd never forget it. I think it's yeah, I think you got you. Yeah, you. Here, I'll look it up while you do that. I'm disappointed in myself because I looked it up. It's one of those words that I like this word, by the way.

Yeah, it's been really having a moment for the last couple of years, which, by the way, is kind of an oxymoron to have your moment for a couple of years. But I mean, it came into the consciousness a while ago. And I liked what it stood for, what it stands for. A form of everyday togetherness is what Adrian says. Hygi is. Hyga.

Hyga.

Hyga is. Hyga. Right. I said east, meet west. We'll build the golden bridge. Hyga.

Hyga.

I feel this podcast. Coffee. You never open your mouth Until you know the shot I feel this podcast is best represented by the Danish Concept of hygge A form of everyday togetherness A pleasant and highly valued everyday experience Of safety, equality, personal wholeness And a spontaneous social flow I absolutely love you guys Power out, signed, Dazzling Donor

Adrian. Well, thank you, Adrian. Thank you so much for supporting the show. Thanks for doing what you're doing for your job, too. That is an extremely vital thing, almost as important as podcasting. And we would not be here without you. So thank you so much. Hello and welcome to Top Story. All right. I keep promoting this banana story, but I am actually I would like to skip ahead. The banana story is just that you can eat banana peels and it's kind of surprising. And Nigella Lawson of Mikrowave fame on this show Mikrowave? She threw that into a recipe and everybody kind of freaked out It turns out there's a whole history of cooking, particularly from Bangladesh where they use banana peels And in Bengali cooking, there's all kinds of cool things you can do with banana peels And there's like a nine-page article in the New York Times, which I will refer everyone to If you want to find out more banana peel recipes

And can I say just one thing on that? Please I like this I am not a banana eater, but I would very much like it if people started eating their banana peels, because that means less banana peels in community garbage cans and trash cans, which I think is just a very gross smell.

Well, there you go. If everybody starts, if everybody starts, Addie made a banana cake. I do like banana cake. I've never even had it. It was so good. She made two cakes.

Oh, you know, I was just thinking banana bread, so I don't think I've had it as an actual cake.

I hadn't either. it was like a banana pineapple cake so she made two cakes a chocolate cake and a banana pineapple cake for the get-together i think she made one for my mom because it was mother's day and one for me or whatever but i ate them both and uh it was so good i would not normally think banana pineapple cake would be for me but it was delicious um every year for her birthday and other events i buy addy various kind of upscale cooking implements so that she can continue to be become a really good cook so that i can continue to eat the food that's that's really smart that's good yeah it's a good system it's a good system anyway what i really want to talk about is it's crazy story that you sent me that target is like they feel it is unsafe for them to sell trading cards including pokemon cards by the way um because people are like freaking out and fighting each other over boxes of cards in fact someone pulled a gun recently at a target because trading cards are are hot baby yeah um this isn't like it's just like i mentioned this earlier but

again this is just one of those weird things where i experienced it in real life before i realized it was a trend and for me i'm not a big baseball card guy it's just been kind of my you know well i think it's part of my midlife crisis honestly but for the past few years as i've gotten more into baseball i kind of had a and i guess maybe an unsaid tradition i don't think i talked about it I didn't celebrate it that much but I would find myself in the drugstore across the street and they have a thing of baseball cards they're tops usually and I would just buy one around spring training time when I was getting really excited for the season and then sometimes I'd carry it around in my pocket for a while and then when I'd find myself uh needing a little pick-me-up I'd open them up that's a true story and this year uh you know after the pandemic and very not after but you know in in after 14 months of the pandemic or what have you I was thinking, oh, good. Baseball starting again. That'll put a little spring in my step. I'll grab those baseball cards across the street. And there weren't any. And I thought that was just had to do with that particular Bartel. But then I went on a mission to find them. I went to Target, the store in question here, to get they usually have this whole wall of baseball cards and all kinds of collector's cards. They weren't there. It was all empty. There were signs saying, you know, like, go talk to customer service or something. It was a whole thing. And then that's when you got an email luke from a listener who explained that like yeah it's like maybe tied into pandemic boredom but people were like investing in boxes of baseball cards and then opening opening them up online and video streams do i have that right i've started watching this now andrew i'm not

fully doing it yet but i've actually started watching some of these card breaking videos

and they're fascinating to me and they're breaking them open for investors it's not just like hey i bought a bunch of baseball cards watch me open them right like there's something that's more

right no that's gambling it's gambling which is why i find it interesting let me see if i can find the listener who sent this in um i'm searching through yeah yeah i think it was listener robert

by the way and so if you need a second to look for that i can just sort of say first of all shout out to max who posted this uh article today um on the slack channel and the article basically says i think i don't remember the actual i think it might have been wisconsin where a fight with a gun broke out in a Target parking lot over a deck of playing cards, sorry, a deck of collector's cards. And so now Target's like, we're not going to be having any of these collector's cards in our stores anymore. Pokemon cards, NFL cards, baseball cards, you can buy them from us online. line if you want to but it's too much of a risk in our society to have base to have tops baseball cards on the shelves like that is why we can't have nice things i just by the way what genevieve

said it's listener rob in denver is that near wheat ridge um listener rob in denver is the one who had originally emailed me he said card breaks take place on youtube it's basically a guy in his basement unpacking and unwrapping packs of cards um and then this is sort of a uh a little interesting i guess q a in which rob is posing the q's but then also providing the a's okay why would anyone watch this good question normal healthy people don't here's what happens first you get on the youtube live video feed then the guy breaking the cards starts selling teams to people so if it's nfl cards then the guy sells each team at a certain price that price is set by the guy breaking the cards and aligns with the number of desirable players on the respective team. For example, the Chiefs might be $150 and the New York Giants might be $40. You can also pre-order teams on the website if you know that the Breaker, the YouTube guy, has a certain box he's going to break that night. When all the teams are sold, the break is filled and this jabroni, God bless him for keeping me and my friends entertained during quarantine, sits there with like three different cameras on him and opens the cards out of the plastic and displays them one by one for the viewer to see so i've the videos i've watched have been i think they've been around nba rookie cards and something about this certain black label nba rookie card and it's the guy's got you know gloves on like he's got rubber gloves on and this is a very kind of hermetically sealed environment because he's going to end up sending these cards to whoever has paid for them so the gambling aspect is you buy you buy a team or you buy a pack of cards or whatever sight unseen and then the guy opens them and then if you get the really valuable card everybody freaks out okay okay

and apparently this also happens with Pokemon yeah yeah apparently oh and that was the final thing that I wouldn't have mentioned to you I think I told this to you in an email this morning so you know because I've noticed the phenomenon and because I never got my pack of baseball cards this year um they keep the baseball cards charmander pulled a knife on a squirtle in a target parking lot in um yeah in arizona so across the street from me at the bartell drugs they have a little place right by the cash registers where they have like candy and various things and a modest supply of various collectors cards and like i said baseball cards haven't been there all year all they've had are some sort of u-dub athletic cards which i don't

even know what's going on with that god bless to the boundless w but i didn't even know i mean i

know that they make money off of the i mean can do they have do they have player cards for college players i didn't realize that that seems strange to me so anyway i don't know what's in those cards

but they have some sort of packs of never miss a chance to monetize these right i know human beings yeah yeah will maybe get an education out of it exactly um but anyway um so they have those and

a few oh garbage pail kids they brought back some sort of new version of garbage pail kids and that's that's literally that's all that's been there i pass it every day i take a quick look is our baseball is baseball back and it is not it's u-dub cards and some sort of janky you know 17th generation of garbage pail kids i go in the other day luke and this must have just happened in the past week those are now under lock and key they're in the same place where they always are but now they're in like a um like plexiglass case so if i wanted a pack of garbage pail kids or u-dub athletic cards i would have to get them to get their key come from around the counter and open

this case up for me well you know why andrew because guess what there is on youtube 2020 tops garbage pail kids chrome box break number two there you go garbage pail kids round two is

a triple pack. You get one pack from each stack of eight. So three total. He just threw some dice. Nine times. Which I guess

is going to establish maybe the order of things. So here we go. Now I'm going to skip ahead where he's breaking.

Polish Paul. You got an orange Frankenstein. That's our first orange. Number to 75. And then Marcus.

Marcus. God, please let there be a Johnny One Note. Marshall Kate, Webb, and Frank again. Now this guy's not wearing gloves. I don't like this. Ranking. Barry, Rockin' Chrome, me, and Gabe. By the way, this only has 273 views. I think it's probably because the guy's not wearing gloves. And maybe the garbage pill market kids market isn't as hot as, say, NBA rookies. But some of these card-breaking channels will have hundreds of thousands of views.

Yeah, I don't get it. I will admit like that whole. I mean, I know you explained it. There's a simplified version of it. I don't quite understand what's going on or why somebody else is opening your packs. It seems more fun to me to open up your own pack and go through it. But again, I also just really old guy who's out of touch.

Well, the other thing is I seem to remember the baseball card market collapsing at some point.

Yeah, right, because they flooded the market back in kind of when we were younger, right? Like they almost like devalued cards by releasing too many of them.

Right, and then also everybody our age was saving them. We all still have them somewhere because we were – we had been – like our parents, if our parents were into baseball cards or whatever, had stories of their parents throwing their cards out. It was like – so it was this like generational – I don't want to say trauma, but it was this thing that was like you knew to save your baseball cards because you might have a Honus Wagner in there or something. So everybody also saved their cards, which meant, again, less scarcity. So I thought the story on baseball cards was, well, that's not a thing anymore. But it would certainly appear that sports cards are going hot and heavy right now. And maybe there's more scarcity. Maybe they're being a little bit smarter about how they do it. I also think it's kind of funny that I had never heard of an NFT until I was in Vegas doing that story about sports betting with our buddy John. And our sound guy that we had, I think he's a guy who works out of the L.A. Bureau, was just telling me, he's like, it's the craziest thing. He's like, I can buy these, like, videos of, like, LeBron James. And he's like, this one's worth, like, $3,000. And I bought it in, like, a digital pack. He was talking about an NFT. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. This was, like, three weeks ago. Not three weeks ago. It was, like, two months ago. Yeah. And at that point, I had literally never heard of an NFT. This guy's just telling me about these videos he's got on his phone. And I'm like, that's weird. And I told you about it. And you were fascinated. And then think about how, I mean, I still don't understand NFTs. but it's like now just very much a part of life yeah did i ever send you that article by the

local writer whose name i'm blanking on right now um but i promised i was gonna read more of her work and i haven't because i'm a silly goose um but uh did i ever send that to you about like the the falsity the false claims of nfts when it comes to specifically like artists trying to

profit off their work you sent me the article i didn't actually uh take the time to read it yet but what was the thesis was it that nfts are bad for artists or was it that they're not reliably as unique as they say they are because of the blockchain this is good we should talk about

first let's talk about israel then let's get into the blockchain i think it was i i i think the main thrust although it's very complicated a lot of ins a lot of outs but that the idea of nfts is being somewhat championed by you know the people who are invested in various nft markets and they're saying hey hey artists hey digital artists this is a way for you to make money off of your art which has been difficult for digital artists because they're not making say a single painting that then hangs on a wall somewhere and then people invest in and it's a one-of-a-kind this is a way of making this is a way of valuing adding value to your digital art and making them one of a kind and then also you can make money off of it because unlike a painting you can somehow make money every time this changes hands you know so right that's the claim so luke burbank famous artist paints one painting sells it at auction uh or i don't think you would sell it at auction but whatever you sell it to somebody you make a lot of money now you don't own it anymore that thing can change hands at auction a million times you're not getting a piece of that the argument for nft art is the artist always is getting a cut every time it changes hands but this article said that is not true like essentially you might make a little bit of money but um somehow it's actually all the other nft players who are really making money off of this and that basically it's kind of just a false market that has been has been created by d-backs i mean well sort of the

i also just think yeah there's we are in the midst of a fever of speculation whether it's nfts uh crypto currency uh actual physical garbage fail kid cards like there's something going on i think part of it is because there's i mean not for everyone but for some people there's like more money suddenly in the economy because uh people who were able to keep their jobs uh you know were spending less on other things going out trips etc uh stimulus money floating around all this stuff so it's just and then then there's just the like ridiculous wealth of i mean a lot of those people that are buying those nfts also made ludicrous amounts of money in crypto so they have 60 million uh you know to throw at some kind of nft but it's very i mean i'm just my brain is small and these ideas are big so i'm not going to do a good job really sort of explaining them or understanding them i would point everybody in the direction of uh chris hayes of why is this happening podcast

he just did recently on crypto it was very very illuminating for me but one of the things that his guest said that i've now been repeating to people because it makes me sound kind of smart is the whole idea of bitcoin and cryptocurrency is is that of course it's independent of any kind of governmental regulation uh and the governments can't track it etc but what chris's guest said was yeah but you know what if like the i don't know what it would be if it would be you know the Federal Reserve or if it would be I don't know which branch of the federal government it would be but if the U.S. government said we're not it's not legal to accept Bitcoin as a payment for anything by the way no one's even using Bitcoin to buy things people are just hoarding it because it's a it's a it's a you know a speculative financial instrument at this point right like but but if the U.S. government was to say it's illegal to accept Bitcoin as a payment This guest on Chris's show said The market would collapse overnight

So in other words I'm surprised they have the power to do that

Well one of the ways they do And again I'm just doing a very bad job Of repeating what a smart person said on Chris's show But you know There are rules in place currently For getting large amounts of money Out of Bitcoin Because at some point that money has to get reintegrated Into the US banking system And there are rules on paper because they don't want it to be just literally the easiest thing to do to launder money. Like if you have illegal money that you shouldn't have, there are some rules that are actually in place and that actually they could ramp those up. And the point that this guy was making was Bitcoin is this very cool, and I'm just saying that generally, cryptocurrency is this very cool thing, and yet if suddenly I as a person who's going out and trying to kind of hoard and collect this, or I don't want to say hoard like it's a bad thing, but invest in it, get it, If I was afraid that I would never be able to use it to buy something were I to want to, that kills the value really fast. So I guess the point is just even though we're sort of post-governmental whatever, it's sort of like a kid who declares their room. Now I'm going to just go into like my own analogy, which is a terrible idea. It struck me that it's sort of like a kid who says this room is my domain and no laws apply to me in this room. And at some point, the mom and dad are like, yeah, but we are paying the mortgage on the house.

So this is fun.

This is a fun room for you to play in. But at the end of the day, it is in this house that we're paying for. And, like, if the U.S. government decided it wanted to sort of really take the piss, as it were, out of crypto, it kind of could, which is a scary thought for people that have all their money in crypto.

Yeah, and you'd have to be very careful about that. Well, I'm going to make an even worse analogy that is just so, so overly simplified. But it's, you know, I'm just sort of surprised, although as you explain it, less surprised that the government can say, OK, guess what? Businesses, you can you can no longer stop accepting X as a kind of payment because.

By the way, I don't know if they have the I don't know, like legally what the U.S. government can do with that. So I don't I don't want to be on the record. I'm just what I mean is this guy was just saying there were things that the U.S. government could do that would immediately majorly harsh the mellow of crypto.

And knowing nothing about it, I think that's good. I think the government should be able to regulate things like these to protect people, and that's why we have government. But it's like if you and I – let's just say everybody on the fun-loving criminals text chain that we have. How many people are on there? Eight, ten, whatever. We decide that we're going to create something called Crem Bucks, right, or Blur's Bucks. We're going to create Blur's Bucks.

Crem Coin.

Crem Coin. Oh, shit. Yes. That's actually good, dude. Watch out, Doge. Okay. So we're going to create ChemCoin, but it's really just like literally little pieces of paper that we make a certain amount of, and we trade it back and forth, let's say. And then the stew bot starts a company, a pizza company, and so he will accept KremCoin at his pizza company too. And then his friends start getting in on KremCoin too. Is it going to be called Huggy? And eventually, like, this gets big enough. Like, at first, the government can't say, hey, listen, if the stew bot wants to trade a piece of pizza for a creme coin, that's, you know, that's fine. Do it, you weirdos. But eventually enough people get involved. Then the government has to say, this is having widespread economic impacts. And so we need to regulate this.

Yeah, I mean, well, think about it this way. There are laws in place. There are U.S. banking laws that are in place, and those have to do with transactions between presumably two willing parties, right? So there is some precedent for the U.S. government saying, yeah, I know you want to trade this pizza for this thing, but we still have a role in this, you know, as a society and as a government. It's not a thing, Luke. It's a creme coin. Put respect on its name. Dude, honestly, I mean, unfortunately we missed the wave, But if we would have launched KremCoin...

Even three months ago, it'd probably be. Have you heard about this deli in New Jersey? I don't think so. Oh, my God. I mean, the world is, the financial world is crazy right now, and I don't understand it, so I'll just continue to give, like, 30% accurate response to things. But there is, there's this deli in New Jersey. It is owned, I think it's called, like, All-American Deli. it is owned by the local high school wrestling coach i believe last year uh or the last year maybe pre-pandemic they did about 30 000 in like gross business and it's valued the stock that they have put out i guess they went public which i don't even understand the actual like how you do that but the valuation of it is like a hundred million dollars or more and it's just one of those weird stocks that like all these people have bought for reasons that are still kind of opaque this one guy that's like financial kind of um the financial newsletter guy i think pointed it out one time he was just looking around at weird stocks like why is there why are there so many people that own stock in all american deli in new jersey that did thirty thousand dollars worth of business and um it's just because it's again i don't totally understand the market forces but it's almost like game stop it's like people are now just buying stuff because they think somebody else i mean this is what stocks are but it seems to have gone to a new really crazy level where like you'll just buy stock in a new jersey deli that that isn't even open right now because you think someone else will pay more for that stock later or you'll buy game stop not because it's a good uh bet but because it's a good bet that someone else will pay more for it later if

elon musk tweets about it and do we even know like what what is this well i don't think we do so i'm I'm not trying to put you on the spot here, but, like, you know, for two weeks, everybody's talking about GameStop, and then you and I are speculating, well, what does this mean for the future of this actual company? And then, like, has – I mean, somebody must have, but, like, what's the answer there? Like, where are we with GameStop right now? Like, what's GameStop doing? I'm Googling it right now. Either the company or the stock. Let's see what it's doing right now.

It's at 164. So it's actually – well, that's –

Is it 164 Crem coins?

No, that's three Crem coins.

Oh, okay. Sorry. Have some respect for Creme Coins, buddy.

So six months. I'm looking at the six months, the high. So it started out November. By the way, welcome to Mega Creme Coins. It's me and Andrew's financial advice show, loosely modeled off of whatever that Jim Cramer show is. So, okay. So back in November of 2020, it was trading at $11.01 per share, right? The high watermark was three hundred and forty seven dollars and fifty one cents. That was in January. Then it tanked to forty dollars and then it kind of went up and down and up and down. And right now it appears to be at one hundred and sixty four dollars. So even from, you know, when it was eleven dollars, one hundred and sixty four dollars as of today. That's a pretty good increase for a stock that still see. they did put the guy from um uh they put the um the pet guy yeah petco petco right no no that guy

on the board no no no it's um chewy i think he runs chewy yeah yeah i'm actually that that's the part of the story luke that i'm the most interested in because my brain is not obviously sharp enough to understand trading on these scales i seriously i mean i listened to i mean the levitard show was obsessed with this GameStop and NFTs stories and even listening to them like I just you know it was fun to hear them get into it but I couldn't really follow it but I think the interesting story is what is he going to do Mr. Chewy I'll pause for the imitation of Chewy glad to know I wasn't sure if you did it on demand I'm glad to have that precedent set but I'm interested to see what Mr. Chewy is going to do with the company like now you have this influx of cash like now you you are a company that could transition to you know you're competing with everybody just buying their video games directly online from the xbox store slash microsoft or the you know playstation whatever like can they actually make the company interesting and viable again or was this all just

a stupid bubble game well and also it how much value is there to the gamestop brand created by all this wackiness right because i mean it's very clear that gamestop if they have any shot at surviving it's to stop being a brick and mortar video game place where you go in and rent a game or buy a game and become a digital thing do what netflix did at some point which i thought they were totally wrong about right i was like download watch a movie on the internet please i'll take my three DVDs. Thank you very much. Like, if GameStop has any hope of surviving, it's just to become a place, like all those other places you mentioned, where you can get games. Now, they did have, I mean, GameStop was a pretty famous brand, but all of this attention has made it even more famous, or at least in the moment, really, in the zeitgeist. Can they leverage that into becoming a viable online, you know, delivery system for these games? And can it be because of all of this weird WallStreetBets subreddit shit? That would be a crazy development.

That's how I feel. I feel like they have all this. Well, I'm just repeating you, but this is what I've been thinking about. Like they have all this name recognition. Now, that is such a good in because how are you going to get people like I have an Xbox on the rare occasion that I buy a game? You know, I am I just have access to the Xbox store and I don't think there's anything in it for Xbox to allow me to access the GameStop store, you know? So there's like there's like a there's a just consumer side issue there. So how do you make it? you have this brand recognition now but you need an ease of use and you need people to switch over and you need to and so how do you incentivize that and like you know i don't have the answer to that but i think there could be an interesting answer well it would seem and i don't know how

these contracts work and i don't play video games so again we're kind of in my sweet spot of things i should talk about but my sense would be they would have to get some proprietary relationships going with video game developers where they're like they somehow have the hot new game and so you have to go through GameStop to get it right that would have to be it they'd have to be sitting on some content that that you want badly enough that you're going to go not going to just use your Xbox you know app or the whatever you're going to go to GameStop but again I don't know how those things work like if any video game company would do

that deal yeah because then how do you get it onto your console though because again there's so much you know like I just there's an online store that is the microsoft store or the xbox store and i just get it through my account through the actual you know the game box you know the actual thing and so like there's no incentive for microsoft to open that up they'd have to have deals with microsoft too or even i don't know can a third party create a game that is actually distributed on like you know the cd dvd format that you could insert in without having microsoft like sign off on it to to work well with their with their boxes i have no idea i do wonder though well like game stop the game stops here is that good or is that terrible i guess you don't want the game to stop right game start game game stop the game start that's it you

know what i'm shorting game stop but i'm longing game start yes i wrote a tweet a while ago that i thought was gonna get more interaction than it did and it was like something about like you You're shorting GameStop But me, I'm longing John Silvers Oh, just like You're long Like I'm going long I don't even think longing is a stock term But I was like, you're going short on something I'm going long on John Silvers Maybe that's why I didn't get much engagement Your reaction there That may indicate that it was a Well, I'm trying to break into weird Twitter Me and Vin Scully Hey, speaking of the internet, real quick Before we get the drops of Stupider The story was pretty crazy to me A woman in Florida named Audrey Nicole Frank Quaschini is facing burglary and educational interference charges, also resisting an officer. She's 28 years old. She snuck into a high school in Hialeah, Florida, and was attempting to blend in with students, according to the arrest report. She allegedly was handing out pamphlets with her Instagram username on them. This is the part that I thought was quite amazing In order to try to Fit in with the students, Andrew She was wearing a backpack And holding a skateboard I mean that is How do you do fellow kids Was she wearing a t-shirt that said music band I mean that is That's a little on the nose

And I'm sorry, I had to let the cat out of the room That's not an expression Everything's kosher over here Everything's buttoned up But I did have to let the cat out of the room. So what was her end game here? She wanted just better photos with high school backgrounds? Why was she in high school?

No, she was trying to get the kids into her Instagram feed, to follow her Instagram feed. So she was handing out basically like flyers that were saying, follow me on Instagram. She was trying to get high schoolers following her on Instagram. But in order to blend in at the high school, she did not want to be identified initially as somebody who wasn't a student. she was trying to she according to like various news reports she had a backpack and a skateboard and she was carrying a painting these were apparently the things that she thought would make her look like a high schooler carrying a painting that part i don't get it was just in

one of the reports it wasn't an nft that

is just i just love the idea of handing out flyer stuff to get people to follow you on instagram like it's just especially young people like it's like here i've created a bunch of flyers for people to follow me on facebook and i'm gonna hand them out and then i know right follow me on like that's

just so i'm gonna stand outside the game stop and i'm gonna hand out flyers to the young people

anyway have you been on our instagram page is it any good you know what that's a great idea i should

look it up i'm so bad with the gram i can't even look at it on my laptop so i now the one part of this i did watch her arraignment which was kind of odd because the lawyers are on zoom and she's in a mask and she seems pretty apologetic like it sunk into her that this was a really bad idea because you know the charges are real and but the other question i have is i wonder if there's a component of mental illness here that you know everything that you said sounded like that but But the thing is, she does have a job. She's a salesperson for Carnival Cruise Line. And she used to be, I think, like a work for the police department or the sheriff's department. And then she was fired from that job. I forget now. I read like 10 articles about this today. This story and the escaped tiger in Houston are the two stories that I'm actually the most obsessed with. Do you know that one?

No, I don't. I know. I do want to talk about before we get too far away. Can I just say that I'm looking at this article and I'm trying to figure out if I can find her Instagram page. But it's not surprising to me that she's good or at least ambitious on Instagram because girl can take a mugshot, can't she? And I'm not trying to objectify. She's not like super glammed out or anything. But like mugshots are terrible for a lot of reasons, lighting situation, but also the fact that you're in a bad place. And so you're not usually and she is just like kind of casually smiling for the camera. She just looks like you could have guessed that this was just, you know, up against the wall at a party. Just like she seems so nonchalant.

It's funny because one of the news are like TV news reports I watched about it. The local anchor was or I should say the local reporter who was like waiting outside of like the jail for when she was arraigned or whatever. He was clearly so mad about her mugshot. I actually want to go I should try to find the tape He keeps saying well she Sure didn't think this was a big deal Like he's like half of his report is just Sneering about her mugshot and her not taking this Serious yeah right people don't like to see people Smiling in their mugshots right Note to self But I just the dazzling Deet to me that was so funny was the skateboard Because it's like did she see the Portlandia Sketch but is that Portland that's 30 Rock Right that's 30 Rock yeah Steve Right. As her private investigator or something. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The tiger story is also wild that I spent a very frustrating morning, Andrew, trying to watch footage of this tiger in Houston that escaped from someone's house and was just like in the front yard of a neighborhood. I say it was frustrating because A bunch of people in that neighborhood Were filming it on their phones But they've all sort of like Lawyered up, that's not true But everyone, you know, wants to own Their master recording rights on everything And so Every newscast I watched that was Promising I was going to get to see The tiger, I never got to see the tiger Or I'd see one second of the tiger Because I think the people that shot the video Were kind of wanting to have it on their various pages to try to get the clicks and the likes or whatever so i just ended up watching all this really shitty local tv news coverage of this tiger incident but anyway to summarize somebody's like looking out their front window in this like actually very nice kind of seemingly nice neighborhood in houston and there's just a tiger in the front yard across the street and so somebody takes a picture of it and then they post it on like an email thread that's for everyone in the neighborhood and there's someone else on this email thread they called it that it It sounded like it was going to be next door, but according to one article, they said an email chain. But somebody who was a like off-duty police officer or sheriff's deputy hustled over to where the tiger was. And there's some footage that I finally saw of this guy standing with his gun drawn as the tiger is walking towards him fairly casually. And then right as you think, oh, no, this guy's going to pull the trigger, a dude runs out of the house and is like, don't shoot, don't shoot. that's my he doesn't say it's my tiger he says don't shoot don't shoot he grabs the tiger and walks it back into the house like you would walk a golden retriever dog that was being naughty just he had a collar or something grab him yeah like a collar he grabs it by the collar and runs it back in and the tiger kind of goes in but it's like a little bit slinking like i don't want to do this but okay i mean literally exactly like you would grab if your dog got away and you grabbed him by

the collar and brought him back into the house that's the vibe wow then later the guy jumps he He takes the tiger, throws the tiger in the back. of a jeep no one's seen the tiger since this guy though by the way is currently up on murder charges unrelated to the tiger situation oh my god yeah right wild story so um nobody knows where the tiger is the guy's lawyer is claiming that he doesn't own the tiger we do know he was the guy who put the tiger in the jeep or the whatever it was van and got the tiger out of there and the Tiger is not currently, its whereabouts are unknown. And, again, the fact that that guy is on trial for some kind of murder that is not related to any of this is also crazy. That is crazy, yeah. I should say it's also bananas. It's also wild, yes. It's also ba-nuts. Yeah. Nuts is still. Can we say nuts? I can. Can we say nuts to you, McGillicuddy? Isn't that one of the things that Jack Donaghy wants them to write?

Yes, I love that so much.

Yes. Beep, beep, ribby, ribby.

That's just absolute stupidity. I forgot about this. I was all ready to go into Blur's days. You can hear Theo in the background. I had to open the door. I don't know why he woke up in the middle of the show today. He was being so good. He was sleeping here just like every day.

We were interviewing this guy for Livewire. His name is Clint Smith. He's a writer for The Atlantic and a really, really good writer. He wrote this amazing book actually about sort of the history of slavery in this country, which is a pretty serious topic, obviously. But his kid, this adorable little kid, was just like standing on the other side of the door pulling a major Theo. And if he opened the door, then the kid would come in. But if he closed the door, the kid would just be outside yelling. And I wanted to be like, oh, my friend has the same problem with his cat. But I didn't want Clint Smith to think that I think his kid is a cat.

Right. I just left it alone. I think the sound of a child is better than the sound of a cat. I don't know why. I mean, maybe it's just because it's my cat, but it just seems like it's, and hey, listen, I love my old dude, but just the sound of a cat crying and caterwauling is just a bad sound, I think. But anyway, all right, let's move on with today's Drops of Stupider matchup. We have, my friend, two behemoths going against each other. I don't know if that's true. I don't actually think that's true at all. The first one is Trucktober. Laurel says, my people were historically persecuted for celebrating Trucktober, and I didn't even learn of our faith until recently. I rented a pickup to move some furniture, and my mother couldn't stop crying. So that, of course, was several years ago now when we started celebrating Trucktober, and listeners got in on the action with their own experiences of Trucktober. That is going up against—now, this one is a heavy hitter—Cooking with Sean.

Oh, wow. The recipe that Jen selected was Cheez-Its, mackerel covered in Cheez-Its. Right. The Cheez-Its is like the breading. Okay. I don't even want to open this can of mackerel in here, you guys.

Yes, you can open the mackerel. Yes, you can. Will everyone? Hooray for you. I'm going to cut it there. You know, I made a production mistake that I don't have to admit to here, but that is not the edited version of that tape. I played the wrong part. We hardly even got to hear Sean in there. So my apologies to Sean.

Well, listen, I love Japan's number one mixer. Sean DeTore is one of my favorite people on planet Earth. But I would say there were cooking with Sean DeTore segments. That wasn't really a cooking with Sean DeTore segment anyway. That was a Prezine segment. But it was branded as cooking with Sean, though. I think that the mackerel and Cheez-Its were picked because people in prison were trading mackerel. Yeah, it was definitely. And the Cheez-Its were something you get in the vending machine. But again, I'm not saying that wasn't Sean's call. Yeah. I'm just saying, you know, Sean's gotten enough attention on this show. Yeah, exactly.

It's time to finally hear my voice. I'm just surprised. Yeah, well, just on a I think I'm losing my marbles thing. I've been prepping these every day, and I have no idea how I did not edit that tape. But this is just a personal journey I'm going on now. For what it's worth, though, Trucktober did knock Dreamcatcher out of the running. Wow, that surprises me. Me too. I know that the whole thing of Dreamcatcher is that people kind of hate it, But I still thought that that joke was, I don't know, it was a longer joke, and I thought that it could withstand Trucktober, which seemed like more of a single event.

Yeah, Trucktober to me seems like a fun thing, and I love that the listeners got involved, but I wouldn't put it in my mind in the top five TBTL memes, if you will.

Yeah, exactly. But this is interesting. You know, this was quite a matchup. cooking with sean was going up against the tbtl players and um cooking with sean beat that just so handily luke and no offense to sean because sean was hurt yeah well and sean was a part of i mean i don't know i mean sean as a producer i know worked with the tbtl players and um was a part of that as well behind the scenes but um yeah it wasn't even competitive so anyway that's that That is surprising to me because, I mean, also it makes me feel a little bit nervous or insecure because was everyone hating the TBTL players the whole time? You know, in this case. We're really putting it out there with that. I think that – I know that Cooking with Sean has been – we haven't had an episode of that in a very, very long time. However, it has popped its head up throughout the podcast days. like even like one time you were out like this is like four years ago now maybe more but me and Genevieve and Sean did a return of cooking with Sean while you were out we went over to his apartment so I think it's just like for listeners who weren't listening way back in 2008 I think it's just larger in their minds because I think TBTL players did that ever make it out of 2009 oh man um no I don't think so when you say out of 2009 you mean over to the podcast yeah exactly Yeah, it never made it out of the radio station. And that's probably why, just because for a lot of people, they might have been hearing it for the very first time, maybe. Right. Oh, good point. All right. So just let's reset here. So who are we talking about now? So we have Cooking with Sean going up against Trucktober. I'm going to put that matchup on today's show page at tbtl.net. Unless Cooking with Sean just lays a tremendous egg. Yeah. I don't think that can be close. I don't think so either. I just want to mention, too, that tomorrow we will wrap up this round of voting. We're going to do two more matchups tomorrow, and then you can vote through the weekend. And then we're going to be down to just a handful of these things going head-to-head. So exciting times. All right.

You can be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be nothing but fun.

All right, let's get into some Blurs days here. Surprisingly light Blurs day load today. Thank God, because I have to pee so bad. Oh, I mean, not even doing this. So I'm going to read them slower than ever. You're like, I have about 11 minutes of research on Van Dyke. People even know that that's a style of facial hair. They keep on calling. I'm still slogging my way through this Teddy Roosevelt biography, which has really gotten to a speed bump in the plot. as we're talking about, like, just, like, intricate details of legislation going on when he was in the New York State House. It is just like, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Who wrote it? It's the famous historian. I'm reading the book. Oh, McCullough? No. Caro? When I said the name, damn it, I'm reading the goddamn book. This has been an embarrassing show for me. I'm reading the book. Cole Kidman? When I read his name to you, you knew it right away. I'm looking at, I hear Thomas Jefferson. It was, oh my god, it was written, it was written by Thomas Jefferson, which is...

What are the chances?

Very weird. It is Edmund Morris. Oh, Edmund Morris. See, that's interesting, because I didn't know, I thought Edmund Morris was more like nouveau, because I know he did a big Reagan one. Yeah, which was commissioned by Reagan. I think it was like the official Reagan biography, but then it was written, did you know that he created a, it was written not as a straight biography, but he created a fake character to tell the story of Reagan? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, what's the name of the book is Reagan's nickname, right? Oh, the Gipper? Oh, man, this is just the worst. Did you know Edmund Morris was born in Nairobi, Kenya? By the way, happy Blurs Day, everyone. Dutch, a memoir of Ronald Reagan. Dutch? His nickname was Dutch? It was a nickname. Huh. I guess that's so interesting. I guess I didn't realize that. Man, got to remember Edmund Morris's name next time. Edmund Morris is a very forgettable name. Yeah. I mean, I blame Edmund Morris, born 1940, Nairobi, Kenya, past Danbury, Connecticut, 2019. Now I really am just torturing you. Let me get out of my head about that little flub. Let's swell this music. Let's get re-energized. Oh, side whiskers. That's all I was going to say is they refer to, like, because Teddy Roosevelt had what I guess we would call sideburns, but they didn't call them sideburns then. They're always talking about the gentleman with side whiskers. Really? That sounds like Teddy Roosevelt could immediately analyze if he could fit through a doorway or not. Isn't that what cat's whiskers are for? for oh like they're like a measuring device that i think it is a sense of yeah a sense of

surrounding the gentleman with the side whiskers apparently he was like a real kind of dandy he

would go in and he was like younger than everybody and he's like really uh saw himself as very stylish and on top of the trends and he was going with all these older gentlemen and he was just like a real uh a real kind of showman everybody rolled their eyes at him when he was a young man

walking into the state so he hasn't gotten to be president yet oh god no i don't even think he gets

to be president in this book and i'm still so near the beginning of this book like it's just it's i really want to finish it but my god man like and i was really legitimately enjoying it until like this little patch i'm getting into where i mean there were some really dazzling details about how violent the state house was back then and like there are stories about how one time he got something passed simply by taking the leg of a broken chair and having it up at the pulpit with him to fend off literal physical threats to his body like there's a lot of this like there's some fascinating details about what politics literally the story of one man who they say literally punched his way into politics because he was just like a goon for some politician before he became more respected so like there's some interesting stuff in this book but like the the patch that

i'm in right now i'm just like my god edmund edmund edmund focus here buddy this could have been less is more um i hope i hope the book talks about the time when teddy roosevelt and john muir got together because there's an interesting story there that i heard somewhere that basically like john muir did this he was the you know person really i don't know if he sort of got the boundaries of yosemite drawn up but he was you know an incredibly important person for land preservation And he orchestrated this whole thing where he basically got Teddy Roosevelt, I think he was president, to like camp out with him in Yosemite under this tree. And they just like bonded hardcore and had a huge impact on, I think, national parks and things because John Muir very cagely got Teddy Roosevelt on board.

Yes, and Roosevelt's, I mean, his connection to, like, he was, he was, like, creating, like, at age eight years old, I want to say, he was, like, collecting nature samples, and he created the Roosevelt Museum in his house of just, like, bugs and little critters and flora and all kinds of flora and fauna. And, like, he was just, like, he's got, he's a very interesting guy, some of the legislation.

I am looking at the National Park Service 2016 Centennial $5 coin, commemorative coin, featuring John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt, and I definitely have Teddy Roosevelt's profile now. Like, old Teddy Roosevelt. Like, my chin is like, there's just basically like a, I don't know the angle, I'm bad with geometry, but if you ever look at that coin, that's exactly me in profile now.

Only you need a mustache, though, right?

Yeah, I can't grow side whiskers. well anyway those were the blurs days and i've peed my pants

lisa says hey guys wanted to know if the blurs day segment is still going on all you're talking about is a teddy roosevelt book that you're currently reading yet can't remember lisa says i want to wish a very happy blurs day to my friend maya maya is a wonderful person who has now uh listened to tbtl i think it is my fault that she is a listener for longer than we worked together those many years ago so okay i kind of messed up that sentence a little bit so she's now been listening to tbtl for even longer than lisa and maya maya were co-workers cheers to maya says lisa hope we can see each other soon now that we're all vaxxed up

andrew tomorrow i mean we're gonna have 24 hours to digest this but we got to talk tomorrow about this tbtl breaking news that's been coming out as we've been doing the show which is the cdc is saying that if you're vaccinated you don't need to wear a mask indoors even indoors now wow even indoors they're basically saying that uh with a few small exceptions if you are vaccinated effectively you can just go back to normal life wow that's really it's a biggie that's really

surprising to me because you just think that they'd always be playing it on a i mean i knew that these studies were coming out and of course the study about the outdoors um you know about not wearing your mask outdoors was pretty big news it's so funny though like it's here in seattle i I feel like in this case, I guess it really is kind of virtue signaling. We were talking about how it still feels more normal to wear your mask just because you want to kind of, you know, show the people around you that you are safe to be around. But, yeah, that's big.

Well, maybe we can talk tomorrow about it because, obviously, we've both got some life to live in the next 24 hours. And I don't know. Yeah, it's like theoretically. Well, actually, I guess the local law could be different than what the CDC's guidance is. CDC is not making the law. CDC is just suggesting things. So I'm assuming I'll still need to do my mask and all the normal rules. So maybe what we really need to do is check in on Monday about this because it's going to be.

absolutely mind-bending to walk into a restaurant with no mask.

Yeah, if they end up changing the laws. And also, when we have that conversation, remind me, I want to tell you about an interaction I had with a woman in an elevator at the doctor's office yesterday regarding this conversation. I find it fascinating. Here's this from Dusty, who says, I'd like to wish a happy Blur's Day to my five, Ari Brave, who is turning five. He is so awesome. hilarious and kind to his big sister Isla and his baby bro Kalem we're so proud of you mom and dad wow Ari brave there's gonna be a Disney film about that kid yes now I gotta I don't I'm not actually trying to make this longer than it needs to be but I need to check with you on a couple of pronouncers here I think I got Ari A-R-I I think that's how you pronounce that

like Shapiro my former friend who sold me out right I call me the reporter doing that Flaming Hot Cheetos

But is I-S-L-A, is that Isla? Did I do that right? Yeah. And Calum, C-A-L-L-U-M. Did I nail that? Calum, probably. Maybe it's Calum. All right, well, I'll take two for three. Two out of three ain't bad. Not bad at all.

Happy Blurs-D. Ari from Mom and Dad. Their fourth child is pronounced Edmund Morris.

And side whiskers. Kara in Austin says, Hey, y'all, I'm writing in to wish my own damn self a happy Blurs-D. Heck yeah! It's my actual birthday today, and I figure there's no better way to celebrate another year than to acknowledge with my special day over the internet radio waves. I've appreciated your company the past 12 years through the best and the blurst of times, and I'm happy to hit the big 3-7. Nice.

It's weird how as you get older, as one gets older, I remember a time when 37, I would have been like, I can't believe I'm 37 now. I would, like, oh, my God. You're just a wee babe.

I know. At 37. I know. A lot of roads to travel still. Sean says, I want to give a huge shout out to our number one five, Yoshiaki, on this day of his third blurs. It's been a year of growth and good times, and Yoshi has become a dedicated five. One of the best moments for this proud dad was when I asked if he could, oh, was when And I asked if we could listen to a podcast while we worked on our farm. And without skipping a beat, he sang that beautiful refrain, TBTL. What? It's working, y'all. And finally.

TBTL.

Now, I don't think that's actually Yoshi, is it? No, that's Rhiannon. That's Rhiannon, right, yeah. Michael, finally, here. This is Yoshi.

By next year, I want Yoshi to be able to say that. Yeah, can we get a recording of Yoshi saying that, please?

Okay, Michael says, Happy Blurzy, my beautiful fiancée Taylor, who is a devoted ten, an incredible partner, and a wonderful mom to our five-year-old five, McKenna. Cute. That's spelled I-S-L-A. I pronounced it right, McKenna.

No, it's pronounced. Microwave.

I love you so much. thank you for everything you do for us every day and by the way I do thoroughly enjoy our car rides listening to TBTL I'm well on my way to going from an 11 to a 10 love you that's for Taylor from Michael alright there you go Luke those are your blurs days and hopefully we didn't blurs your bladder

I didn't I really do have to learn if I'm going to keep with this by the way somebody emailed me and said that it's not how much water you drink it's when you drink it which I'm a bit concerned about now because oh here we go it was from Caitlin. Caitlin said I'm a physical therapist. I recently watched a continuing education thing on pelvic health physical therapy and apparently research says that how you drink water is more important than how much water you drink. About five to six ounces every hour will allow your body to absorb more of the water so that you actually pee less than if you drink larger amounts at less frequent intervals i was dazzled power out listener caitlin uh also says andrew uh i hope your finger rehab goes well if you need any tips from a pt i'm

here how is your finger you know i don't really want to talk about it today i'm a little distracted today because i um i'm a little concerned about something i see going on with this um well let's not talk about it yeah yeah it's kind of it seems i think my i think the the pins going through my finger might be off kilter i think their shift i had an appointment uh earlier this week and he did this thing that i didn't know he was going to do which was he adjusted it he's like oh yeah looks good looks good took some x-rays and then he's like i just need to i just need to adjust the center a little bit and so he's like kind of grabs my hand and starts putting

pushing the pin through my finger, which was a very, you know, it lasted about 30 seconds. It was a very unpleasant feeling, though. And then when it was done, it sort of had that feeling like in my finger of when somebody tightens your braces. If you've ever had braces tightened, and it's just kind of like, oh. But I was like, okay, you know, big boy pants, you know, we can do this. It's fine. But then I had PT yesterday, and that's, you know, fine, a little painful, but fine again.

Do you ever call them your physical terrorist?

Oh, that's a good one. I will. um but no he treats me with kid gloves too knowing I don't have a very high pain threshold but then I wake up today and I look at my at this like rig on my finger and one of the other pins the ones that was not um adjusted I can tell it's moved quite significantly um so it's not centered in there anymore and I'm kind of this whole show I've been kind of wondering because now I'm my I'm in my head about it like I don't want to be wearing this thing if it's not if it's not on there properly you know i don't want to have to wear it longer or have irreparable damage but i also don't want to like volunteer hey doc i think this thing might need to be re re-pushed through yes exactly and so my next appointment isn't until like a week from tomorrow so i'm kind of

trying to figure out in these days of telemedicine can't you take a picture of it and send it to your doctor that's the only drop i have that has finger in it and i think we're no it's arrested development it's job sexually eating chicken fingers with lucille too i didn't realize that until i activated i'm sorry you're dealing with the real thing and i just played no it's okay audio that none of us will ever recover from this yoshi can you get on that too

By the time you're seven I want you to explain that scene to me

Can you take a picture of it and send it to them And get their feedback

That's what I'm sort of wondering if I should do Or if I should just let it roll And maybe it's not that big of a deal And I just, I don't know

In this case, I would not roll the bones

I would have the doctor

Or the physical therapist I mean, I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life You do whatever you feel comfortable with But I'm sorry that you're kind of having a bit of a stressful moment I shouldn't have even asked

No, that's alright I appreciate you asking Okay so I was looking for a song about water To go out with But I'm not I mean waterfalls don't go chasing them

Let's see I'm looking at I mean you kind of can't go wrong with that But I'm trying to see what I've got here Roger Waters solo How about this There is a song By Bobby Purify And his brother The Purify brothers I think and it's You Left the Water Runnin'. And it is a jam. Are you able to locate that in your system? Yeah, I got it here. You Left the Water Runnin'. I got it right here. I'm excited about this. What was the other Purify Brothers' name? It's like Bobby and something. I don't know.

It's James and Bobby Purify is what it says. But I don't know this. I feel like this is being introduced to me for the first time. This song is good. Would recommend.

In fact, I am actively recommending it and we're going to hear it right now. Thanks for listening, everyone. We'll be back here tomorrow with more Imaginary Radio for you. Until then, have a great Thursday. Stay safe, and please remember, no mountain too tall, and good luck to all.

You turn out the light of love, you left with another guy

That you did, you took off all of your love with me But you forgot to turn off the drive, oh baby

Forgot to turn off the drive, and this is my part I love

You blew the shade, oh way down and forth Did disconnect the telephone, oh baby Power out.