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Hey, I got this number from that sign in Trevor's room over at Sigma Chi's last night. I'd like to place an order to go. Give me a sec. What's the perfect podcast? Okay. I don't know. I have a two-hour podcast. Three, if you got it. I'll take extra out here. I don't really care if you get the top stories either, but extra Dreamcourt, please, and definitely a side of garbage talk. I'm definitely going to need a large order of Phyllis Fletcher, please. Just take my money, dude. She's a goddamn treasure. I'll take Chris Hayes if you have it, or better yet, Kiki Lolo. Could I get an order of Luke doing Counting Crows with the Clinton impression, but only if it's in season? And could you throw in some of those extra fancy packets of Andrew doing Donovan and on the media? I haven't heard that in a while. That'd be great. And I'm going to wash it all down with an extra large serving of crushing self-doubt. But at least we are doing it together. That's my perfect podcast. Thanks, my dudes.

TBTL!

The new phone box here! The new phone box here! In this business of show, you have to have the heart of an angel in the hide.

You know, these two are good. Very, very tough to do a morning show, this chit-chatty kind of thing. But these two have an intellect behind whatever it is they're doing. Notice me, senpai. Notice me. This is the kind of spontaneous publicity, your name in print, that makes people.

All right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. This is special. This is special. My name is Luke Burbank. I will be hosting things today. Sweet berry wine! Coming to you from Oceanside, California. O-side. Speaking of things that are sweet, this might be the sweetest smelling city in America. A beautifully wrapped, glossy, sweet smelling show. I mean, at least the area near the hotel that we were staying in. We had some bougainvillea going on. We had something called natal plum and also, of course, star jasmine, which just smells amazing. Can you tell that I got an app on my phone that lets me scan plants? I'm not the kind of person who would be able to spot a natal plum without the help of some kind of technology. Anyway, very excited to be here on day four of the TBTelethon 12 content list delivery.

That cash could really get me out of a couple of jams.

Delivering the content, or whatever it is we do, to our friends Lisa and Farron here in Oceanside. We're just, we're sort of next to the pool. We have a banner over to the right that's got photos of lots of other 10s who are in their various locales. They're here with us in spirit. And we've got a great show for you. It's episode 3432 in a collector's series. Now, speaking of local news or things happening in the greater San Diego County area, Legoland is opening something called Lego Movie Land today, the Lego Movie Experience. this was put on hold because of the pandemic it's actually opening today and they are promising to allow children to experience lego movies in 4d kids and fantasy i don't know what the fourth dimension is i'm not a quantum physicist but i was under the impression we had three dimensions anyway we'll find out what they're doing not far from here at lego land coming up also we're four days into this trip and i am still trying to fully figure out how to operate this 1993 mitsubishi delica van i'm an excellent driver like i need to just embrace right lane life i need to stop trying to play out there with the big boys in any lane that is not the far right lane because every time i do i get into some trouble i almost run someone off the road something bad happens so we'll talk about what it's like to try to operate this van and get it all the way down here to Oceanside and eventually on to Phoenix, which is our final destination tomorrow. Even though it's TBTL-a-thon week, we would never sleep on the Blur's Days. We'll do those coming up in just a few. And emails and V-mails. All of it with the help of this guy, the longest-running co-bro of the show. He may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships. I'll tell you what, four days on the road.

It's really starting to take his toll on this guy. I have a new symptom that keeps popping up in my life.

It's thin fingernails. He's Andrew Wells. She's joining me right now from, well, just a couple feet to my right. Hey, buddy, how are you doing here on day four of this whole thing?

I'm good. I just got rid of that hanging nail right as we were setting up the equipment here. It was getting in the way. It kept snagging on things. But look, it's all taken care of now. It's pulled off. I am good to go.

Speaking of pulling things off, you almost pulled the pin out of your finger yesterday when we were leaving listener Megan's house. You caught it on a cable or something? How is that going?

It was a moment that I didn't enjoy is the best way I can put that. The listeners can relate to that experience. They've heard the show. Exactly. Yeah, I was, you know, when we are done with these shows, we try to pack up as fast as we can because we need to hit the road for another long day of travel.

I've also got, you know, paternity suits and bill collectors. I try to, you know, Rolling Stone gathers no lawsuits kind of thing.

Absolutely. So we were just, you know, moving fast, wrapping up cables, doing this, doing that. And then one of these smaller cables, like kind of a headphone cable, somehow I was like wrapping it up. And I just wedged it into this weird metal contraption that has pins going through the bone of my ring finger. And it got caught in there. It was a moment, as I said before, very articulately, that I didn't enjoy. But I am fine.

You played it cool, though. So, like, you just, after I think your terror had passed, you casually walked over to me and listener Megan and said, yeah, I almost pulled this thing out of my finger.

Well, here's the thing. Playing it cool would have been me not telling you. I felt like that was a private moment that you did not have to know that I went through that moment of pain, but I felt the need to tell somebody.

You played it Andrew cool. Yeah. Which is a different version of cool. Hey, we have somebody else here helping us out for the rest of this trip, which we are so excited about. She is our friend and colleague, none other than Kiki Lolo. Hey, what's up, Christina Lopez?

What's going on, you guys?

Okay, we swangled through Los Angeles last night and grabbed you. We got a little lost, but we finally found you.

Yeah, you slowed down just enough so that I can jump in the moving van.

That's exactly right. Sorry, that's just how it works. The brakes are not great on the Delica. And I didn't really realize this until we started chatting in the van, But like, you know, during the pandemic, you've been being very, very careful and like have not been going very many places. So this is the biggest like trip that you've taken, the biggest adventure you've had for like 14 months or something.

Yeah. Since I think probably since we met up for it. Did we know that was last year? That was the year before before I saw my family for Christmas in 2019.

So you have been really pretty much sticking to your like your place and just keeping it very. We were able to go get a little dinner last night when we rolled up here to Oceanside And we went to the one place that was still open at about 9.30 at night And it was a place called the Junkyard Sports Bar and Grill And so this was the first meal that you had eaten in a restaurant setting in 1.2 years or something I've been waiting for this moment for months and it's finally here Did the Junkyard Sports Grill and Bar in Oceanside, California, live up to all of your hopes and dreams about finally reintegrating with restaurant culture?

Well, I got to say, it really set the bar high because there was karaoke happening immediately when we walked in.

We heard the sounds floating over the hedge. We were like, is there someone injured? And then we came around like, no, that's just karaoke. Someone's just doing pour some sugar on me. We just lost an umbrella, but I think we're OK. yeah we're okay so so i mean honestly i i didn't realize that either that that was going to be your first restaurant experience and i mean again that was a very fun place it's just bar food that's fine i'm not trying to say anything negative about a local business but i mean there must have been times during the pandemic where you were like imagining like the perfect

bite of like your favorite food like a filet mignon like cannot chicken nuggets you weren't

imagining an onion ring or part of my 7-eleven nachos yeah i was like oh yeah i'm gonna have

like a really extravagant like short rib braised slow braised meal that was like finally prepared by a chef that's like just the chicken nuggets that we got it was all totally fine but it wouldn't

be like yeah first meal back yeah game and also i mean i think the three of us all enjoy each other's company quite quite a great deal but i also don't think that in your fantasy you were with Luke and me for your first meal out.

That's a very good point. Christina, you are going to be kind of helping us keep track of what's going on with the TBTL10s online. Yes. I've been oblivious to this, but apparently there's like a Slack channel just for the Thon, and there's also lots of comments on YouTube where this is streaming.

Yes.

And so can you kind of like keep us posted on if people have questions or comments? I mean, just like the nice comments, please. Yeah. Yeah, right now all we have is a comment from Morgan that says fingernails based on the conversation that we were having about your thin fingernails. Great.

Oh, that's our social media engagement, fingernails. It's a portmanteau, I think. So if you would like to get a message through to us or if you have a question or anything like that or a comment, what's the best – are you monitoring one channel specifically?

No, I'm monitoring both.

What is your job title these days at 8 p.m.?

So it's audience engagement editor, which is actually technically what this is. Yes, you're engaging the audience. So I'm doing my work.

yeah also you you had to zoom into we all work in the same department essentially and so you zoomed into our work call today i did and then you i didn't realize you were doing that then you just kind of panned your phone slash camera over to me so i have attended one work meeting this year yeah that's good i got i got you there did they say anything like good job tbtl does it

they were obsessed with our like backdrop okay nice and um was it the packers flag that listener

or Lisa's flying mostly to try to drag Andrew.

I don't know if that made it onto it, but they were very much in love with the sunshine. This is what happens when you're talking to a lot of East Coasters or Midwestern. It's just like, oh, there's sun. Like, the sun is in your face all the time in California.

I have to say, this is kind of the perfect, I think we're in the Goldilocks zone right now because first couple days it was a bit cold, kind of rainy. Yesterday was beautiful in Sacramento, but the sun was kind of beaten down on our equipment, had to turn off. I was applying mattifier like crazy, burned through an entire Revlon mattifier roller. Today, it's like about 63. We're in the shade, mostly except for one part of Christina's arm, but we're mostly in the shade. This is just perfect. We're by the pool. Like I said, we've got this cool banner that Farron put together. Farron also was nice enough to bring us yard fruit.

Yeah, we had our first kumquats.

Yes. I said this before the show, but I'm amazed we can still say kumquat like in polite society. Every part of that sounds not right. That's what's going to get us kicked off of YouTube. Oh, speaking of which, it sounds like a new exercise, Christina, because, you know, from digital stuff. Yes. How are we doing in our complicated relationship with YouTube? Like, is this making its way to North Korea currently? Because for folks who maybe missed it, we got in a little bit of trouble day one for playing some music that we might have the rights to for a podcast. But YouTube's a whole other thing So we tried to be very careful yesterday And just play basically George Thorogood Bad to the bone instrumental version And talk over it Also I played a song off my phone That you had recorded From a speaker at a restaurant And I was hoping all of this kind of laundering Of the audio would mean that YouTube wouldn't Figure out that maybe it's a little dicey We got flagged again

It was a claim It wasn't a strike It wasn't a strike it was a claim and it was for a song that was neither of the ones that you mentioned. What song was it? It was

Wait, wait, but can I ask you this while you're looking for that? Yeah. Does a claim mean somebody just dropped a dime on us?

It just means that they can like whatever monetization that comes from it, they can

I see. So we played something I see. Well, little do they know there's no money in this. I see.

So if we were to be monetizing this live stream or the video that exists afterwards they would get a cut of that, but we aren't doing that, so they're not going to come to my boss and say hey, guess what, you owe us $40,000. Yeah, they're not going to shake

you down. Okay.

I'm wondering what the song is. I'm very curious. I'm looking at it. Luke, let's do a little mental inventory, shall we? We did not play Words by Doves yesterday, right? No. I don't think we played the Razzle Dazzle song. I think you got it. Could it be Ben Lee? Could it be our intro music? Who has been

on the show and I think is very okay with us using Catch My Disease as the show's

theme song. It was for a song called Samba de Una Nota So. I think that's the

music that you've been playing leading up to the show. My instrumental bossa nova music that I thought was like totally in the clear. Yeah, that's the one. You've got to be kidding me. You kept saying you know what? We're back to it. You know, I've really dragged George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers on this show But I take that back They seem very hashtag chill Yeah they haven't come at us About us using this music Oh you know what You know why the Bossa Nova stuff Also kind of got us dinged Is because we're not talking over this So I think if you're talking over the music The idea is it's just Like there's no way Someone's going to use this Instead of buying the music

You can consider it fair use I guess Right exactly

It's a new piece of art When we talk I mean this is art That we're making right now

Yes yes

Okay so we got a claim Alright well that So I hope everyone enjoys Andrew's suggestion the other day Was a MIDI version of American Pie

And then Luke said, are we trying to drive the listener? This is the TBTL-a-thon. Why would we punish people? Which I feel like you have to remind me of that every now and then. We have lots of great thank you gifts that we would like to offer to folks who can support TBTL this year.

We'll talk about those.

coming up. One of them, though, of course, is this TBTL sound box, which I've got to tell you, Andrew, I was a little late this morning again, as unfortunately has been my custom this trip, and part of it was because I couldn't take the elevator down from the second floor because I was waiting and there was a very nice older couple waiting for the elevator, and all of a sudden, my backpack started going

Don't miss the sausage It would not stop.

It went on an unbroken one solid minute of Frank Shears saying, don't miss the Sausage Fest. Oh, classic Shears. I couldn't find this thing in my backpack. It was like at the bottom being squished by something else. And I just had to look at them and go, please just go ahead. I couldn't get in this small elevator with these people with this just playing over and over. If it would have been any other drop, I would have been okay with it. But Sausage Fest is kind of, you know, Sausage Fest is like the kumquat. of Sausage Fest.

I think we found the title of this show. Yes, right?

That is the most... I'm looking down at the buttons. That is the most embarrassing sound on this thing, right? A hundred percent. Yeah.

And, you know, I mean, fun for the listeners, but embarrassing if you're about to get into an elevator with strangers. See, that one's just to the uninitiated, right?

Yeah, to the untrained ear. That just sounds like me trying to bring a thought to my lips, just like I did right there.

Hey, I wanted to tell you guys about some of the famous folks from Oceanside. It's kind of interesting. Christopher Lloyd. Oh, really? Doc Brown. Really? Is from Oceanside. Barbara Mandrell. Oh, no way. Oh, my dad likes Barbara Mandrell. It's so funny. Oceanside doesn't seem like Barbara Mandrell country. I would assume she's from Broken Bow, Nebraska or something.

That name is so familiar. I feel like my dad was always like Barbara Mandrell, But I can't think of what the song would be

Was she the one that did Actually this is something the listeners might be able to tell us about Christina We had a whole plot line Or at least a Mystery on TBTL years ago About a song where we thought that the person Said peanuts in my coat I was country when country wasn't Cool and we I can't remember Who the singer of that song was but it turned out it was Peanuts in my coat That's what they do in Georgia yeah I was country when country wasn't cool I don't know if that's a Barbara Mandrell Song but it seems vaguely familiar Barbara Mandrell was also Miss Oceanside. Really?

I have to Google who that was because I didn't know who you were talking about.

Yeah. Country Western singer from a while ago. I know. We had a great time driving out here with you, Christina, but it was pretty apparent that there's a pretty big age gap. But I'm like, well, you remember this thing. And then you were like, no, I don't, actually. I was not born yet.

Yeah.

I was surprised at this one. Jason Mraz.

Oh, yeah.

Is from Oceanside. He's from just down the way. Lives down the street. He lives down the street. We're in the Mraz district of Oceanside? We should have gotten a musical guest. Oh, my God. Lisa, this would have brought all of your loves together. You love seeing live music. We could have had Jason Mraz here. Did you? I mean, do you know him? The Oceanside City website says Jason Mraz is here and is often spotted in local coffee shops. Does he busk or he's just having coffee?

He drinks coffee.

He drinks coffee. He surfs. Wow. Living that Mraz life. And write songs. This is what I thought was kind of interesting was he's not listed on the Wikipedia page as being a famous person or a notable person from Oceanside. I learned that from a different source. My point is if you're like the person putting together the Wikipedia list of notable people from Oceanside, you'd have to have Meraz on the list.

Well, I'm also just like who decides who is notable?

Fair, very fair question. I decided that I thought it was interesting that Denise Richards is from Oceanside. Was she on the Wikipedia? She was. Everyone else I'm going to tell you is from the Wikipedia.

I like that you went to multiple sources, though.

This is why I was late this morning.

You went to Wikipedia, and you're like, nah, there's something missing. I can feel there's a meraz-shaped abyss here.

I couldn't put my finger on it, but I knew there was like a kind of summery, beach vibe, like straw fedora energy that was not being represented on the Wikipedia list. Also, this is interesting. Chris Thiele is from here. Remember I said you actually know somebody from here? Our former colleague, the very talented mandolinist and performer, Chris Dealy from Nickel Creek and a one-time host of Live From Here, from right here in Oceanside. Another person who doesn't seem like they'd be from Oceanside, California.

Yeah, you know, I'm wondering, though, those are two musicians. If we quickly drew up some, like, permission slips, some sort of, is that what they call in the music industry, permission slips, but some sort of form.

Yeah, their parent has to sign it and everything.

exactly can we get the rights to their music and we can go out with some feely and meraz at the end of the show that sounds like a law firm that will have to represent me during my next DUI you know I thought I was gonna like

flex and be like, let me text Chris Thiele. I don't even have the number. Maybe I never had the number. Wow.

For some of the younger tens in the audience, this is awesome.

Do you want to just stay in Oceanside, Christina?

No, I just wanted to make a Gen Z reference. So this is apparently also the home of the person who's the subject of driver's license, Joshua Bassett.

Oh, damn. You mean, you said forever? Now I drive alone past your street? Yes. That song is about Joshua Bassett yes oh snap yeah and he's from Oceanside and they met they were in what was the thing they

did before high school musical the series I think it's called okay and I forget the name of this of

the singer she's like the most popular singer in America Olivia Rodrigo thank you we have we have Barbara Mandrell anymore she's the new Barbara Mandrell that's what everyone's calling her

if the streets are of Oceanside are where she learned how to drive to get her do you think

I think that we would get some kind of a flag on YouTube if we just started playing Driver's License, the most popular song in America. It just, like, didn't even talk over it. Maybe we play that, but we play some Jason Mraz. I'm just saying, Jason Mraz very much seems like a person from Oceanside. Whatever that means, just kind of Southern Cal vibes. Chris Thiele, who's very nice, seems, I don't know, like he's from New Hampshire. The mandolin style of music, it doesn't feel surf and sun and fun to me. It feels like a whole different thing. Yeah, I could see that.

Something with, like, you know, cornfields or, like, something like the amber waves of grain, wherever that exists.

Nowhere in the minds of whoever wrote that song. Was that Jason Mraz who wrote that one? I think so, yeah. I bet he's done a cover of it, though. Probably. I wish I had an acoustic guitar. I could do a little Jason Mraz playing Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies.

I think he could do Driver's License pretty well, too.

I would, like, it sounds like I'm trying to mildly roast Jason Mraz, but I'm really not. Like, there was a place that Carrie and I used to go get lunch sometimes in Birch Bay, Washington. They had an outdoor, like, patio. And every time I went there, the Pandora Station was some kind of Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson type of deal. And I'll tell you what, I was as happy as a clam out there. It's just, like, very mellow music. It's, you know, on the right day and the right weather, I'm totally with that kind of stuff. So, lest anyone think that I'm saying anything critical about local resident Jason Mraz, I'm not.

Ruby Thaler in the Slack has a suggestion for the show title.

Okay.

A Meraz-Shaped Abyss.

Okay, all right. A Meraz-Shaped Abyss. We'll put it on the list. It's hard to say, though. A Meraz-Shaped Abyss.

Kevin Barry up in the YouTube is saying that Meraz sometimes scats. How is he not there?

Wow. I mean, that's kind of everything that we care about on this show. Is there any chance that he could literally walk by outside this wall and over? Can we manifest this?

Like, can we share our, like, positive energy?

Can we Meraz-a-Fest this?

Come on.

Oh!

Also, Meraz-a-Fest definitely sounds like a prescription drug.

It also sounds like a festival for, like, Jason Meraz fans.

Don't take Meraz-a-Fest if you're allergic to Meraz-a-Fest. Lisa, so you've seen him around town. Did you get the nerve? Have you ever said, like, what up, Jason Meraz? He has a farm. He has a farm. Golly, well, that sounds fun. Yeah. Also Victor Villasenor Who is a writer Is from here And then I know this is who you're all thinking When I said famous people from Oceanside Everyone was like of course Jack Roland Murphy Who is a jewel thief Surfing champ Musician Author and artist He was known as Murph the Surf Have you read a Murph the Surf ever at the coffee shop? Jewel thief comes first though Is that what you said? Well he was He was like a world-class jewel thief, and he was like a pretty high-level surfer. Wow. Is this somebody you've heard of? No, but he just sounded so interesting. Yeah, no kidding. This guy definitely, I think, had to be from like the 1930s. Yeah. Jack Roland Murphy. But this is, I mean, what a life. Yes. Jewel thief, surfing champ. I mean, were those related? Yeah, that's what I'm picturing. Did he steal jewels while he was at various surfing tournaments?

Right, right, right. Is he jumping out? I always say this, was he jumping out of airplanes with a surfboard attached to his... Wait, nobody jumps out of an airplane with a surfboard attached to their feet, do they?

You've been really into Point Break lately.

I just...

You brought up Point Break yesterday with Ezra.

I don't know anything about it, but I just think of when people are... Because, I mean, that's a movie where they're robbing people, right? Yes, they're wearing presidential masks.

Do you know this film, Christina?

Yes, I've seen Point Break. I've seen the original, not the remake.

Oh, my God, I forgot they remade Point Break.

Yeah, they did. I know. Oh, wow. Yeah, Catherine Bigelow directed Point Break.

The original, right. I think that was sort of a big resume booster. That's some quality Keanu Reeves. That's some quality Gary Busey. That was before Gary Busey kind of went off the deep end. And Swayze. No? I think Swayze in the original. Swayze, yes. Okay. Point Break, the original Point Break. Yeah. Yeah.

Swayze was the guy that was the main guy.

Okay, yeah.

Yeah, he was the leader, and, yeah, something happens. It was very, like.

No spoilers.

Yeah, no spoilers for a movie that's maybe a year younger than me.

The thing about, the thing I believe that was notable to me as a child going to see Point Break, the original, in the movie theater, was that there's a scene where somebody jumps out of a plane, allegedly without a parachute. Then somebody has to jump out after them and catch them. But the thing is, even as a kid, I was like, well, that guy definitely has a parachute on. It was just like a guy with a kind of baggy jacket just jumped out of a plane. And also another guy jumped out after him. But I mean, obviously the dude had a parachute and things fall at the same speed. Right. Or one of them had a parachute on and both had parachutes on.

They were stuntmen. Oh, OK.

But the plot of the film was a guy jumps out without a parachute. I see. That is a thing, though, that has happened now. i've seen on you know like youtube actual videos of that which just that's probably not for you and you don't think so i wouldn't see that that's not my second act i don't see it all right see it

for you seems limiting but okay i think the thing about point break was like that was one of the first like extreme sports uh-huh just at the peak like the dawn of it because i mean surfing and it

was like it was also very clever the idea they were all wearing these masks of like ex-presidents So you had a Nixon, you had a Reagan, and I definitely had the thought, well, if I become a jewel thief slash bank robber slash pro surfer, I'm doing it with the robbing part, I'll wear those masks. We had a very nice note, by the way, from listener Drew McFrizz, who was, you know, humbly addressing the fact that Splooch the Turtle is a very, very compelling story, and he's okay with the fact that it's knocked him out of the running on the TBTL drops of stupider.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, we know Splooch is sticky, so that's what happened.

Did you see the email from a listener, Andrew, whose husband laminated a picture of Splooch, and it is in their bathroom? No, I did not see that.

No, really? Yes. I'll find that later.

It's happening. I love it. Maybe next year we can release some kind of a thank you gift for the TBTL-a-thon related to Splooch. Wow. Much like the music we play on YouTube, I don't think we have the rights to Splooch. Somebody ask Jason Mraz if we have the rights to Splooch. We'll figure it out that way. Let me just see if I can, on the fly, find this email. But that's a wonderful development. I believe it's listener Emily in Florida said, I've been listening to the Thawne and loving it. All of the splooch, the turtle talk, reminded me of something that kind of faded into the background for me. James, my coten, my life bro, whatever you want to call it when you're married to somebody who's also a fan of TBTL. Anyway, when you guys posted the picture of splooch, he printed it out, laminated it, and now resides in our bathroom. I thought you guys would enjoy this. And then she just included a picture, Andrew, of – let me see here. I'm scrolling over. It's taking a minute to load. I'm using my phone as a hotspot. There it is. A laminated picture of Splooch in their bathroom in Florida. Oh, wow. Imagine just going over to their house and needing to use the restroom and just thinking, what is wrong with these people?

What is this weird clip art turtle?

Is this why, like, a lot of families only have one ten? Because when you combine two tens in a family, it's just too much.

It's way too much. Because, like, I mean, you need a natural governor on the situation. So it's like if one person is not into the show, they will tell the person who likes the show, that's not something we should put in the bathroom.

Exactly. This is bad ideas accelerating right here.

Speaking of accelerating.

Oh, yeah, I was going to say, Hess in the YouTube chat said that she has a framed sploosh pic in her bathroom. What?

This is a whole thing. Lisa, do you have that in your bathroom? All the tens are getting them. How about you, Farron? No, not yet. Okay, well, I assume you'll have that remedied by the end of this week because that is apparently.

Or idea for the next on.

merch idea yes again splooch as an nft yeah oh my god how that would work christina you probably understand non-fungible tokens i do actually how would we make splooch the turtle an nft isn't that a non-fungible turtle now that's a show title non-fungible turtle how would we make like how

would we make splooch an nft i think we would have to track down the artist oh well that sounds like a hassle it seems like it's clip art so does that make it easier like hire an artist to make a very

like a slight variation yes Jason Mraz I heard he does drawings yes this is a Mraz fest all over again um speaking of accelerating we ran into a I wouldn't call it trouble but a little bit of a slightly tense moment in the old 1993 Mitsubishi Delica yesterday we were coming over the grapevine so we're coming down from Sacramento on I-5 and then there's this kind of big mountain pass going through Angeles National Forest and then which I have to say I guess it's my northwest forest bias but what I think of as a forest is something that has trees and we're just driving through scrub brush and desert and they're like

Like, now leaving Angeles National Forest. And I was like, okay. We're calling that a forest. Cool. But as we were going over the grapevine, which is very steep, the van started. It did not start overheating, but it definitely, like, the temperature went. Usually it's, like, very much down at, like, cool. And it was getting dangerously close, at least in my mind, to H, which I learned stands for hot. So we had to like turn the AC off Actually blast the heat Which is a move that I perfected Driving many a stone cold beater In my 20s I had a number of cars that would The only way they wouldn't overheat Is if you were blasting the heat while driving Getting the heat off the engine So we pulled that move And we obviously got here The temperature sort of stabilized And then it was okay after that But it had me thinking about I mean I think Andrew you were saying this last night When you and I and Christina were Breaking her back into restaurant life At the junkyard I will never hear pour some sugar On me the same way Ever again It took us about two minutes to figure out What they were singing and the lyrics and music Were happening but we were all going What is this song That's how Let's just say non-traditional The performance was That's a really great way to put it I'm trying to be because it's like no reason to be Snarky to people that are just trying to have fun But it was it was really something to hear that version of the song.

I do feel like if there's anybody out there who wants to do karaoke, but is too shy, like seeing them perform that would actually embolden them to make them like themselves.

Yeah, this is like, yeah, some this is definitely something that should be on YouTube as a practical tool for that. Exactly. Last night we were talking about how we were. I'm a little unsure if the listeners fully understand how amazing it is that we've gotten this far in that van. yeah because it's like it's amazing it's it's i mean it's just not a given that it's gonna like not break down and then i was saying to andrew's like we just gotta get to phoenix and then do the last show and then i don't care what happens he's like you care what happens because if this thing breaks down when we're driving home you're gonna be ripped yeah exactly exactly like it's i will not be happy if we're also stranded in you know baker's field on the way home yeah but i do kind of feel like we just want to get to the finish line when we get to mary's house tomorrow do the show um so we've at least satisfied uh you know the the sort of plan of of this tbtl-thon but anyway another thing is and you made a notice this christina riding down here to oceanside but it's like there's a lot i'm i'm driving this van like a person who's never driven a car before which is i'm like checking all the blind spots the mirrors all the time like hyper vigilant because day one of having it i almost ran somebody off the road because there's a large section of this van that is not in the mirrors yeah and i was just like used to driving like a normal car like my car that first of all has all kinds of beepers and buttons or you know yeah power gloves like if you try to hit you can't even hit someone in my car if you try

imagine driving your car in a demolition derby it's just like refuses it's like it's got all

kinds of sensors and that has whatever part of me used to know how to drive a like a car that doesn't have cameras and stuff that's atrophied and like so anyway i i guess i just uh you know i what i really need to do i said this at the open but what i need to do is just admit that we need to drive in the right lane most of the time but the problem is we're a little bit faster than like a semi but we are much slower than everyone who's not a semi so we're constantly like i don't want to be behind this semi truck so then we go around it then immediately there's someone behind us about to deep trunk us as newman would say r.i.p and so anyway it's been kind of it's been a little bit of a journey and andrew historically on these trips i will do most of the drive but he'll do some of the driving yeah and on this one i said to you not to try to actually that's not true

i've never driven on any of our trips trips except for like half a day in australia i've never drove the rv never drove the rv no i kept offering and you were like no that's okay i kind of like doing it and so that was fine yeah yeah but you need me to drive this you need me to drive

this today to write don't but and again not to try to act like i don't know not to belittle you in any way but like this would trigger like every single anxiety that you have it is not this does

not be a good scene for you i don't think but here's the here's the deal though a lot of things trigger anxiety for me it doesn't mean that i don't do them or can't do them so honestly like you don't have to do this luke like if you don't want to like will i be stressed out sure i just want the listeners to know that i'm badass no no no but for real like i this is something like yesterday i was so thankful for you driving like you know you were you were very you're you were nice to me on the show yesterday talking about you know my skills of setting up the the equipment

plugging in wires and whatnot weren't you guys impressed at andrew's technical proficiency can we get a round of applause that's why i brought that up a two-person round of applause on

oh my god the pity claps the pity claps oh no

But for real, like, I mean, just the act of, aside from, like, setting up all of the routes to get here and all of the pre-planning that you did on this, you're also taking it upon yourself to drive this thing, which is exhausting. And I don't think that should have to fall to you just because I might be stressed out about something.

Well, and also I can, like, help out, too. Yeah.

You drive. Yeah, I do.

But I always think of you as such a New Yorker. I know. That I think, like, maybe you don't even have a license. I do.

I got a license two weeks before I moved to L.A. Really?

I thought you were going to say two weeks ago. No. I was going to say, let's just leave this alone. No, you know what? I'm a control freak, and I'm also very bad at riding. Like, what would happen is if either of you were driving, you'd be doing a fine job, and I would be sitting in the passenger seat stressing out that it wasn't happening the way I think it should happen. So I'm happy to do it, but I just also need to, like, remember. Because the other thing, too, is, like, we started counting those Amazon trucks.

Yeah, I was wondering if you want. I think we're up to number 59. So quick little back story here. I was wondering, I kind of wanted to bring it up, but I wasn't sure if it was interesting enough even for this podcast. But on the last road trip I went on with Genevieve, we drove down to the Grand Canyon and back in January. And I don't know why it started happening, but, well, I mean, I don't know why I started counting Amazon big rigs. But maybe I just noticed, like, hey, there's a lot of Amazon big rigs that were passing, so I started counting them. I don't remember how many we got up to, but it became kind of a thing during the trip. every time you see because you spend so many hours on the road right well um when i got into the van with you on i guess sunday and i saw a couple i'm like i guess we should start counting these and you were gracious you went along with it so now we're just counting every amazon big

rig that we passed except yesterday there was a couple moments where andrew was deep in thought or trying to post the show and it was like we were both kind of entering our own emotional zone spaces and I saw a couple of these Amazon trucks and I just didn't feel like saying there's another one because I thought maybe I don't want to break his concentration so then later he goes okay we're on like 51 I go it's actually 54 yeah I saw a few and he goes well that's a betrayal

yeah I mean just like you know it's like when your spouse watches an episode of something

I guess that's that's our version this is now our version of like I can't believe you watched that big rig without me that's genuinely the vibe i got was like i had really let you down i thought

i was doing you a favor well i just well i think that you were pretty loose with the count that was probably the problem you're like no i saw i don't think you said no i saw two so we're up to this i think you said well i saw a few while you were looking away it's like what is a few what does that mean what does this mean for the count i do have to make a quick shout out for someone

gus just got into the youtube so we gotta shout out gus what's going on i hope you're uh what is that minecraft is going well yes gus should be driving this screenshots uh he usually sends me some screenshots of what he's working oh nice like i haven't gotten them in a while doesn't have school he might be you know just this is recess yeah he's on recess from virtual school

yeah um i uh dog yeah we do um uh for listeners uh who may know the greater oceanside area and I heard that we were going to be staying in a particular Best Western yesterday. I had said on the show that I was a little nervous because there was a kind of typical price for a lot of the hotels in Oceanside near the water. And that price was too much for us. Like that price was like three hundred and fifty dollars. And then I then I found something that was like one hundred and eight dollars, which is a third of the cost of the prevailing kind of cost for a hotel room in that part of Oceanside. but i was like we're gonna go for it well i was a little nervous about that so was listener kevin who said uh i was listening to today's show and i heard you're staying at the best western and oceansides this evening i realize it's coming too late to be much uh use but i want to warn you i had a bad experience with that hotel a couple of years ago i was i want to just mention lest we get in trouble for any kind of you know i don't know slander etc right right this is one person's experience this is kevin's reporting what he says he went through uh yeah seven co-workers and i were staying there for a week we had our own rooms two of the rooms had bed bugs so uh i just want to tell kevin and anybody else who was worried

there were quite a few people according to the youtube chat who were worried about the hotel

we did not go to that best western because i screwed up the reservation andrew and you don't believe in a god i had i had like i had like really one primary job with this with this week of shows and that was to figure out the hotels that we were going to stay in call them with my american public media card and make reservations for me and andrew and then for the three of us and i am so it's four days and i am now batting well i'm batting 500 which would be great in baseball but it's terrible in scheduling hotels for your colleagues we showed up at the place and eureka they had one room for me no rooms for andrew and then last night or yesterday i should say i called both of the best westerns in oceanside yeah and uh neither of them had reservations so we ended up at the courtyard by marriott in the junkyard bar and

grill district just so everybody knows i like the fact that you think that you're like i had one primary job for the tbtlf on it was to book some hotels no i'd say that your primary job is to host

uh five shows as a travel as a travel agent who dabbles in podcast hosting by the way phyllis

has joined the YouTube chat. Phyllis in the house. Shout out to Phyllis, too. And she does say that Gus is on a break from school. Nice, okay. He's not playing hooky.

I just wanted to clear up that. That was not even cool of me, too. Like, haters gonna hate. Why would I try to blow up Gus's spot? It was totally unnecessary. Well, okay, here we go.

What are we looking at? Are we worried about the music?

No, we're gonna talk over it. Sweet. We're gonna thank a dazzling donor. So we, this, I think, happens every year. We announce the end of the dazzling donor messages, and then a number of dazzling donors who either had maybe their message get kind of caught in the pipeline or who were a little bit unaware of how the system worked, then say, hey, wait a minute. Could you guys please read my message? And we have one of those folks right here. It's dazzling donor Ryan Young. Here's what Ryan says. Some time ago, Luke talked about Jasper Mall, a documentary about a dying mall that he appreciated because of how it captured the mundane little details of the ordinary, everyday world. I wasn't quite throwing my phone, but I did desperately want to tell Luke that he would probably like any Frederick Wiseman film because they are all about observing the world, catching the dazzling details of daily life, and appreciating the things as they are. Luke didn't hear me, of course, as I shouted this into empty space. Yeah, Ryan, just a heads up. That's not how any of this works. But it's good that Ryan realizes that. I was able to post my thoughts on the TBTL Slack group, and he said no one really cared about my dumb thoughts there either, but that's to the side. Why am I talking about this? Because TBTL does the same thing as Wiseman in my eyes. Paying with Apple Pay isn't momentous or profound. Also, I think I'm starting to say momentous wrong. Paying with Apple Pay isn't momentous or profound, but it's a moment of lived experience that I recognized. I think Ryan is referring to the fact that I was very proud of myself that I made my phone pay for a coffee somewhere. This was, Christina, earmuffs. This was a week ago. Like, I'm pretty late in the game for that, but I was pretty stoked about it.

Is that how you pay for most things, Christina?

Yeah, I mean, especially after the pandemic. I don't want to touch that pin pad. Get out of here.

That's funny, I'm still paying with cash.

Why?

Someday you'll be cool like me and listen to Ryan and Christina.

I just lose things too easily. so like i have lost money out of a pocket out of my pocket before so like i just don't i just don't want to deal with that and yeah my my dad used to always get up so he's like you don't know what's gonna happen you should have money yeah like you should have cash yeah um and i still don't and especially after seeing like stuff that happened in puerto rico where like the electricity was out and like you can't get atm access yeah and so yeah i just i should have cash you should

always carry a hundo okay you should always carry a hundo yeah i'm gonna throw this out there how

much should you have on you and how much should you have at home in cash for emergencies so if you want to talk in the comments of the youtube or on the slack please let me know for the record

though you know we are driving to phoenix through the desert and if we're talking about all the cash we're carrying that's a recipe for highwaymen i'm actually not that's the problem i'm not living my

own rule right here i'm pretty i'm pretty people are also very concerned if the car is going to

make it to the phoenix uh route it's a real question lisa and farron were were mentioning that we are in fact driving through the desert. So I guess we're going to find out how the cooling system works on the old Delica. Ryan continues in his dazzling donor message. It wasn't momentous or profound, but it was lived experience that I recognized. Someone else had these thoughts.

So instead of using Apple Pay, a couple people in the YouTube chat are talking about maybe starting a sploosh coin.

Oh, that's it. Damn it, where's my bell? Where's my kumquat? To the moon! That is serious. Yeah, I'm like the Elon Musk nobody cares about. I'm just trying to pump the price of splooch coin. A splooch coin. Wow, that was really tart. Oh, no. That was a very tart kumquat. Hold on. I'm just trying to push through. Sorry, Ryan.

Abigail Kirkland said that if we get stuck, she can come to the rescue. Okay, thank you.

It's good to know. We'll drop a pin, Abby. Ryan continues. Somebody else had these thoughts. Another cool person, which felt like validation. It's one reason why when I listen to TBTL, I feel less alone in the world. I feel connected not only to Luke and Andrew, but also to the other listeners in the community. For whatever reason, I've shared things with the TBTL 10s that I've never really shared with anyone else. Nothing tawdry.

He says, just a little emotional venting, over the course of the last 14 or 1,000 months, TBTL and the community it's inspired has been there for me, and I've needed it. Things at work got bad, and I got very depressed when I couldn't put my son to bed because I couldn't stand to be alone with my very negative thoughts for even a few minutes. I listened to TBTL while I did the dishes and cleaned the kitchen, and I felt okay. For a few minutes, I could focus on something that wasn't my brain telling me terrible things. Oh, right. I always get too earnest in these messages, but TBTL holds a special place in my heart, and I want people to know what it means to me. It's weird. I don't know anyone else in my real life who listens. My Eleven tolerates secondhand TBTL stories. She only asks me if the story is from the bad one or the other one. Is that when I'm the bad one? It depends. Is it bad at broadcasting? Yeah, man.

Thank you. We don't even need it. We can just use Christina.

The bad one checking in. Is it possible? Is there any universe, Andrew, in which maybe you're the bad one and not the other one? Yeah, if it's bad at talking, yeah.

I mean, you do wear a lot of black t-shirts. That's kind of bad boy-ish.

I really struggled with my outfit choices for this trip. I went with black t-shirt under this jacket because usually I wear like collared shirts. but I'm not really fitting in those so great anymore at this point in the pandemic the shirts I bought before the pandemic and I thought also be a little bit binding when I'm trying to drive this here Delica so I thought black t-shirt but I also thought I will button the middle button of this jacket so as to create a bit of a midline yeah that's where we land working kind of I think it's fine I'm not

critiquing no no I appreciate that I appreciate that but I just like I'm also down for people having a Steve Jobs moment where they just have like one outfit that they just wear every day? Can we all just do that?

I think there's something to that, like, for people. In fact, I have a limited number of things that I will wear. A certain kind of collared shirt when they fit. This T-shirt, this is from Everlane, former sponsor Everlane. And anyway, sorry, Ryan, back to your message. I always get too earnest in these messages, but TBTL holds a special place in my heart. I want people to know what it means to me. My Eleven tolerates secondhand TBTL stories but asks if it's from the bad one or the other one. She prefers Knowledge Fight, which is another podcast, apparently. For the outro song, Ryan is asking, Could you play Don't Be Denied by Neil Young from The Time Fades Away? I discovered it recently, and the chorus has become a bit of a mantra for me. Thank you both, and to all the sweet, kind people that you've inspired for what you do. Power out. Yes. Listener Ryan. Andrew, can we play that song for Listener Ryan who wrote us such a sweet note? Nope.

We can't today.

Christina, can you sing the song? We're worried about getting – How does it go? I've not heard it before.

I've not heard it, but what we're going to have to do is maybe –

I'm assuming it's kind of like this. Wait, that's not how he sings. That was my Neil Young impression.

I'm sending myself a note. You guys can see me doing this right now. I'm emailing myself this request. We will fulfill this request at some point next week, Ryan, when we are not streaming on YouTube. and we don't run the risk of having the whole operation collapse around us.

We will definitely play it for you, Ryan, and thank you so much for the really heartfelt note. Thanks for the donation. Thanks for being part of the TBTL community. Speaking of which, if you're somebody who, I mean, look, let's be honest. If you're streaming this right now, you are in the bag for this show. It's happening. If we are outside of your condominium or if you drove up from San Diego at 6.30 in the morning to go to this, you might be a TBTL Baron thank you so much if this show is something that you like hearing and that it kind of does maybe even a tenth in your life of what it sounds like it's doing for listener Ryan and you want to help us keep doing it we sure would appreciate heading over to tbtl.net and supporting the show if you're already supporting the show and it feels like you have a little a little you know financial room if you wanted to maybe see about supporting it a little more each month if you're comfortable with what's happening and you can go up that would be awesome if you've never donated before this would be a cool time you know they would we would love to get as many people donating as possible even if a lot of those people aren't donating a whole lot of money that would be a like good

system yeah it really like every little bit helps and they notice how many people they have a

goal for us I don't know what it is they don't tell me there's some donor goal which is the number of people that donate not the amount that's donated as a separate goal but the idea would be if we can just get everybody who's hearing this who is in a position where they can do it and everyone's life is in a different place so you know you know your finances if this isn't the year for you it's not the year for you but like if we can get as many people as possible supporting the show again even maybe at just a really

small amount each month just like an amount that you will probably not even be mad at when you see that it's going out of your bank account like uh that would be great because that makes this show sustainable what's not sustainable is like a small number of people donating a massive amount of money we're trying to stay away from that business model because that's what took down cosmo.com so anyway andrew what are the thank you gifts for folks that might be considering donating on this Thursday.

So, of course, we have the sound machine box that you were just talking about earlier.

It's really great.

It's pretty fun, isn't it?

This is the first time I've seen it in real life.

Feels good in the hand, don't it? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like... Love it, love it. We have the rights to that Shatner thing.

Hey, let's not... Can you not... There's a Shatner spider that's going to go crawl up into that on YouTube and get us in trouble with that guy.

We have some wonderful pins for folks who have been collecting the enamel pins that we've been giving away the past several thons created by artist Gigi in Minneapolis. We have another set of those that are really fun. They represent audio drops like Let the Fun Begin and What Up Dog. And we have this retro.

Do you mind if I hold this up to the camera? Great.

Good thinking, Christina. Do it, my dude. Thank you. By the way, Lisa, did we? Lisa was just talking. We are in trouble.

We are, this particular part of Ocean's Eye, we're in butts right up against Pendleton, Camp Pendleton, and a person in full military camo just was talking to Listener Lisa. Everything cool? Are they shutting us down? Is this our last episode?

Oh, this is a neighbor. We're in this spot. Oh, we're in a neighbor's spot. We're in a military man's spot.

If there's anybody you want to tick off, it's somebody with military training. Oh, my gosh. Arms and weaponry. Wow. Thanks, Lisa.

Thanks for running interference. Thank you. Wow. I'm so sorry. Thank you for your service of letting us have your parking spot. I know. I know. Anyway, yeah, so go to tbtl.net. We also have a cool retro cooler that we're giving away. And, of course, you, me, David from the basement, and Genevieve watched Fellowship of the Ring a couple of nights ago and did a riff track. Riff track. A riff track on that.

I uploaded it yesterday. Nice.

Oh, actually, people have been asking about, do we have any kind of idea about when that would be available?

I think sometime today, but I'll check in with Sarah and Sarah Van Dam, as I've been calling her.

Nice, nice. Yeah, and that's for anybody who donates at any level. So to what you were saying before, Luke, too, like if somebody just wants to donate, you know, maybe it hasn't been the easiest year on the finances, but you want to hear that riff track, just, you know, throw a few bucks in and, you know, show your support and you get to listen to that. So, yeah.

I made some special art for it, so. Oh, you did? I can't wait to see it What is it? Thanks, Kiki It's just, like, I took the logo of you guys in the boat The rowboat, and put you in a movie theater

Nice, I'm excited Thank you

Anyway, that's what it is Okay, well, thanks everyone who has been supporting us for all these years And who's gotten us to this point Episode 3432 In a collector series Where we've recently ticked off Half of the military population at Cat Pendleton Again Nobody thought we were going to make it this far so this has been a minor miracle this may be the last show but thank you very much for supporting TBTL we really do appreciate you

and it really is amazing isn't it yeah

like yeah it's like people are always shocked that this thing is still happening when I run into friends they go you're still doing that

but not only that I just mean like seeing the TENS community is also kind of like how they help each other and like I don't know I just always like pop in there every once in a while just to like see if any feed issues are happening or something I need to check in on and it's just like sometimes I catch a glimpse of, like, some people doing nice things for each other or helping each other out. It just seems like a really, like, cool group to be a part of.

Absolutely. You got, like, Farron here is having, I think you're the one that coordinated this, right? Like, all these tents who are in different places in America and they're not on this route that we're on, unless their house is in the desert and we break down near their house, maybe they'll be on the route. But they all took pictures and sent them in and Farron put cute frames around their pictures and then made this huge banner that's now taped up here by the swimming pool. It's like, this is just such a cool community of people. All kind of looking out for each other and being in on this, so that's really awesome. Not far from us. Well, I don't know. How far is Legoland from here, Lise?

20 minutes.

20 minutes. Okay, that's pretty close.

Are we going to Legoland?

I mean, we took Andrew to Disneyland yesterday. Yay! It looked like a gas station. That was the, it's a small pump after all. Yeah. Right? We actually went to the Arco across the street from Disneyland yesterday, which was the closest Andrew's ever been to Disneyland. That's absolutely true. Did it live up to all your childhood dreams?

Yeah, I mean, that smell of gasoline wafting up from the pavement. The fact that the ARCO was closed. The fact that you guys couldn't get in there to get any snacks. I've never had that happen before.

And, you know, I'm sure it's just the person working there didn't have anyone to...

cover for them and I just wanted to deal with something but I've never like it was 8 o'clock at night and we walk up to the door of the gas station and it just has a maybe it was like 7.55 and it said well I'll be back at 8.05 and I was like okay I guess you're just closed now. And did you stick around

till 8.05 or because we were there for about 5 minutes or something. We were talking about like 8.02 Okay yeah so I'm just wondering because when somebody says 8.05 I kind of don't believe them

It's really because we saw some youths with skateboards and it was just like we gotta

get out of there. Luke brought his skateboard I wanted to bring this up before we were at a different gas station in a different part of the country. I think it was that Northern California. Yeah, it's like near Clear Lake. Yeah. And we stopped to get some gas. And so we gassed up the van. Then I went inside, I think, maybe to grab a snack, maybe use the restroom. And then I come out and somebody zips from behind our van on a skateboard. And I'm like, youth. And then I'm like, no, it's not youth. It's Luke. It's a youthful Luke.

No, you know, I was first of all, I was a little bored. And then second of all, that parking lot at that gas station had like really nice smooth asphalt. So I was like, all right, I'm waiting for Andrew. I'll take advantage of this. You look pretty good. You look pretty stable up there. I mean, on very, very flat ground, I can roll for like 100 feet without hurting myself.

Isn't that what skaters say to each other as compliments?

Yo, dude, you look real stable up there. That's exactly what they say. Actually, you know what? We're kind of in Tony Hawk country, by the way. He's from Carlsbad, which isn't far from here.

I'm surprised you'd risk breaking a bone while Andrew has one broken already.

We're very different people. I never even thought of that. You're right. That was a terrible idea.

Why did I even bring that thing? I think I've asked you this before.

You have broken bones, but as a kid, right? A broken arm.

You haven't broken anything in a long time. I broke my arm when I was a kid, and I broke my ankle.

And the arm one was baseball. Football. Football related. Okay, gotcha. And the ankle was sports?

I wish. It was trying to do, me and my friends, John DeYoung and Joe Dolan, were really into something we called 60s, which really just meant 360s. Okay. We would like to jump off of things and try to do as many 360s as we could. Sure, in the air. Like, just running, jump off this curb, and try to spin around. We were very into it, and I was trying to do a 360 down some stairs at my high school. Like, long stairs, jumped, did a 360, landed in a weird way, and broke my ankle. Don't like to hear it. Don't like to hear it? You know, it was exactly what I deserved for thinking that was a good idea. Anyway, not far from here is Legoland, which has today, literally today, they're opening. So TBTL is not the only exciting thing that's happening in the greater Oceanside area. What a day for Oceanside. I know. Gosh, they'll remember it forever. The Legoland is opening this thing called Lego Movie World, which is the biggest attraction that they have. They were supposed to open it last year. The pandemic, you know, delayed everything. And so they're opening it today. The thing that stuck out of me is that they're promising a 4D style ride that transports young passengers to fictional lands featured in the Lego films. It's all built around. I guess there's like two Lego films. Lego one. I think Lego two is where someone steps on a Lego.

And then all the Legos are melted down. It's a horror film. But the first Lego film was like hugely popular and critically acclaimed. Did you see it? Yeah. Yeah. Was it good?

It was enjoyable, yeah.

It's like Batman is played by Will Arnett.

And he had a spin-off movie. Lego Batman had its own spin-off. Oh, right.

Yeah. You know, when we stopped in Corvallis, Julian, Cheryl's kid, had made us like a Lego TBTL thing with ketchup on it and a hot dog. Very impressive. I was not good with Legos as a kid because I don't have the attention span for it. Were you a Lego kid, Christina?

I don't remember building a lot of things with Lego. Maybe it was still gendered back then, you know? Right.

get them for girls they were like here or maybe if they did it was like oh there's a pretty princess

yeah exactly they probably didn't even do that yeah they weren't even doing that when i was growing up but uh i i distinctly remember the pain in the feet that you feel when you step on one

yeah yeah i lock block guy yes and so you do know this i was going to tell you so i'll keep it short because if you know if you remember this story the listeners certainly do but i feel like you and i luke uh kind of had a similar experience but from completely opposite um ends of the spectrum which was your family would sometimes, like, buy you—you would be wanting a toy or a sneaker or something, and your family would get you maybe an off-brand version of that because they maybe couldn't afford the nicer version. Yeah, I think I got some GoBots one year, which were, like, the bunk Transformers. I liked GoBots better, but I get in fights with Kamara Kev about that all the time, and I trust you guys on that one. I was probably wrong. but uh my family we were not uh we were not poor um in fact we were probably i was pretty spoiled as a kid yet my parents had some ideas about which toys were just better and they got it in their head that lock blocks not the big you know ones for like for toddlers but like lock blocks that are about the size of legos they were just like no these are better than legos and so i always had lock blocks which were cool they had moving parts and some like Thank you.

battery-operated motors, which was cool, but everybody was playing Lego. I just wanted to play Lego. I didn't want to be better. I like that you're using the proper

terminology, because I grew up, we called it Legos. Oh, you want to do some Legos? But then when everyone got really legit about it, it's Lego. I guess they should pronounce it the right way. Movie World, Lego Movie World's biggest single attraction is Emmett's Flying Adventure Ride. Who's Emmett?

Do we know? He's the main character of the Lego movie.

You are seated on Emmett's triple-decker Flying couch You will feel as though you are soaring above lands That are familiar to Lego movie viewers Including Middle Z-Land Cloud Cuckoo Land Pirate's Cove and the Sistar system I assume this all means something to Gus Gus in the house Surrounded by a full-dome stereo passengers on the ride Will begin their virtual journey When the gondolas facing away from the screen Rotate 180 degrees yada yada yada Here's the point During the course of the ride housed in two three-level theaters, 4D effects will come into play, like mists of water, puffs of air, and a marshmallow-like scent in the hidden realm of cloud cuckoo land. My question is, do we think a puff of air

is a fourth dimension? I remember this. They were doing this in movie theaters a while back. The seats would rumble.

They would do this for Fast and the Furious. Yes.

Have you experienced that? Yes. Really?

Yeah, they have it in the Manch Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and so if you go and you watch something like Fast and Furious, the seats will rumble when you're driving. Did they spray anything on you? I think you got

wind, but I can't

remember any mist. Wow. I remember

hearing about it, but I've never experienced it, and you know what? I kind of don't want to.

I just think that sounds fun, and I would be into that, but it's not a dimension. Are we just at this point, have we declared a puff of air to be a dimension? I think it's like engaging another sense is that what is okay so what are the three dimensions does anybody know x y and z are they axes that's like a boy if something is three-dimensional i want to mention to the listeners your donation your donations are non-refundable so if you're mad at this

conversation and you've donated it's too late okay if someone can explain it in the yes well

somebody in a very succinct way can you please somebody jump on i don't know youtube or slack and explain dimension is like time space like dimension like it would be well if something is

3d it seems like if something is 2d it looks like a flat piece of paper right right hold on let me

just try this we can work this out we can work this out if something is is the army guy know if there's the guy with that wheel that just came by what's it saying okay that doesn't help a solid three-dimensional shape is a solid figure so like yeah if something's

two-dimensional, it's flat. Height, width, volume, the fourth is time. This is from Morgan

on the slide. Whoa. So height, width, volume. Those are like what we think of like this phone is in three dimensions. There's a height to it, there's a width to it, and there's a volume to it. These are the three dimensions. Well, then a

3D movie isn't a 3D movie either. Three dimensions, that's not there's no volume to a three-dimensional movie. But it feels three-dimensional.

That's the idea. It's a 3D movie. It feels like It has all the three dimensions we think about I just don't think A Puff of Air From Cloud Cuckoo Land Is another dimension

However, call it what you will Wouldn't you love to see a movie like Let's say My Dinner with Andre in 4D Wouldn't that be amazing?

That's, you know Do you know about Waiting for Guffman? Are you old enough for that?

Yes, I have seen Waiting for Guffman I love David Guest Christopher Guest? Christopher Guest. David Guest is the one who married Liza Minnelli. Yes. Christopher Guest.

I do love, can I just say, I don't mean to step on you there, but I love having you on this trip, Christina, because like you and I can vibe on like David Guest and Liza Minnelli stuff. Yeah. There's a whole world of pop culture that I think Andrew is just too good for. I just don't remember. I don't know. But you don't care about it. Those aren't spaces that you play in either. This sounds like I'm being critical and I'm not. You should consume the pop culture you care about, but I consume a lot of trash culture and you and I can't talk about that. Is Liza Minnelli trash culture? Well, the idea of David Guest... I didn't know this.

David Guest might be trash culture.

This kind of washed up, this sort of washed up producer, or just like Oddball, who then marries Liza Minnelli. It's a big media circus. That was, like, that's the kind of stuff that people like me and Christina, if I can, loop us in together, get into. And, like, I can't, I have, we can't do any David Guest material on this show with you.

No, I apologize for that. I could... Don't apologize. I mean, just give me a heads up. I mean, you know, if you think that maybe sometime in the next two years you're going want to riff on david guest let me know and i'll i'll read up on that is that how it works he wore

aviator sunglasses at their wedding which i think was a bad which just seemed disrespectful to the process as a person who's been married twice and almost three times i think i know about respecting marriage and i would just say aviator sunglasses during the ceremony you're not respecting it did

They had a contentious divorce. They did divorce. Yes, they did. And I will also say that John Takemoto.

John Takemoto. John Takemoto.

A measurement of length in one direction explains width, depth, and height are dimensions. A line, one dimension, 1D. A square has two dimensions, 2D. A cube has three dimensions, 3D.

Okay.

And then we've had some buffering issues with the stream. So people are wondering if buffering is the fifth dimension.

The Fifth Dimension is a band from the 60s, I think. I was surprised. I think Lisa probably saw them live at some point, like some version of the Fifth Dimension. No, it wasn't an age joke. I just meant that you've seen every band.

Have you tried not alienating the people who are hosting this?

Do you want me to look up? I guarantee that some version of the Fifth Dimension is still playing like rib cook-offs right now. It's like the cousin of the lead singer and five other bozos. That was not an age joke. I promise. I've got to get out of here.

Let's mention to folks that don't remember maybe from last year, we chatted, Lisa, with you during last year's Thawne. And is it 50 concerts by 50 was your goal? What's 500?

500.

Okay, that's a lot more. That was way more. How close did you get?

I got there.

You got there. 500. Really? Our friend Lisa, who's hosting us along with Farron.

There has to be some really crap ones in there.

She's a very...

No?

I'll give you the list. yeah in fact i believe you you like tweeted at me that maybe we should cancel this because counting crows are playing somewhere right now oh oh my gosh whereabouts in california redondo beach oh i love redondo i have to say adam duritz the lead singer counting crows is doing a round of media uh to promote i think this tour or maybe this new album that they have coming out and i mean you know people like to give him some grief but he's been through a lot i think and he's been pretty public about that, just kind of some mental health stuff. But he's got all his dreads cut off. Yeah. And he just looks like so different. It's not even that it's bad. It's just he just looks like a guy.

He just looks like a dude.

He's gone from being this mythic but dreadlocked kind of, yeah, like sad stir to just kind of like a guy who might be able to tell you about some investment strategy for being able to live comfortably into retirement are you going to reach out to see if he can come on live wire you know i would talk to him i mean i i feel like there would weirdly enough even though we've maybe had people who are as notable as adam duritz from counting crows i think i would be weirdly nervous to talk yeah sure because well i guess i always i put all those caveats down because you know a lot of people are a bit dismissive of the music of counting crows but i so maybe you'd think i

wouldn't be nervous to talk to him but i think i would be i'm not here for the counting crows

erasure that's been happening i am not here not the counting crows erasure for me no sir no i'm i'm i'm totally into their program and in fact would be probably pretty nervous to talk to i think i

think that would actually be an interesting interview i think that's a really cool dynamic you've been a big fan for a long time it was one of the first things i knew about you was your love

of the wow okay that's a little high no as far as my personality traits i like the band i don't want to be like someone's like oh luke he was at the thing which guy is that the guy that loves

Yeah, no, it's a character type.

You guys, Broadcast Coffee Roasters has joined the YouTube chat.

Oh, Barry, Broadcast Barry. Barry checking in.

Has he come back stateside? Yeah, where are you these days, Barry? I'll let you know if he answers. He's a real globetrotter. Yeah. All right. It's a Thursday, Andrew. Is it time, Luke? It's so time. Are we going to do this live? We're doing it.

It's happening. We're doing it live.

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

Oh, wow.

Yeah, yeah. It keeps going. Is this one going to get us kicked off of the YouTube? I want to know.

No, I was just enjoying the vibe.

How's that stream going?

By the way, it's still going on, but we're having some buffering. Oh, no. But I've explained, you know, we're on a hot spot today.

Okay, but mostly people are able to catch up with us, right? For the most part, yeah.

Right now, it's very bad.

All right. Well, everyone, just please go download the podcast and listen to it later today. That's actually the thing that we're here raising money for is the podcast itself.

Exactly, right. Let me kick off this Blur's Day segment with a message from Sarah in Woodinville, who says, I can't believe it's that time again to wish my daughter Kylie a happy Blur's Day. Kylie is a smart, funny, artistic teen, an all-around great person. Happy 16th, cutie, and enjoy your new— Wait, it says C-U-T-A. I think I said cutie, and that's not what I meant. Cutie.

Cuta, cuta, what is that, C-U-T-A, anyway, enjoy your newfound freedom on the road, 16 years old. I think that might be, that's got to be a typo, right? I'm not sure, I thought that maybe.

Is that a thing they say in Oceanside, C-U-T-A, happy 16th, cuta, cuta, do the millennials say C-U-T-A? I don't know.

I assumed that maybe I just was on the outs on that word. But anyway, happy 16th. Enjoy your freedom driving, Kylie. That's from Sarah in Woodinville and from us in Oceanside.

Also, Skylar is wishing Happy Blur's Day to their mom, Vicky. Vicky listens to your podcast. And as I'm typing this, she's going on and on that I should email you because it's her Blur's Day or something. She'll sometimes force me to stand around in the kitchen for like 10 minutes while she scrubs your show back and forth trying to find a clip she really wants me to hear. Sometimes she doesn't find it and just starts listening to the whole episode again. Anyway, I guess you're supposed to mention her name on the show now. So much tood. Oh, I love it, though, because you know what, Skyler? I'm going to guess. I don't know Skyler's age, but I'm going to guess Skyler's maybe like 16. And Skylar's playing the role Of being kind of like Not into it And like I guess my mom But you know what Skylar took the time To write this message Exactly And to carefully document Vicky's activities Which is really Which is really cute There's so much love there There's a lot of love there Like with you and me Andrew Exactly We love each other But we just pretend That we're annoyed at each other A lot of the time I guess I'm supposed to do A Blur's Day now That was an imitation of you Before the Blur's Day Yeah Can you turn up my volume On my computer a little bit I just feel like this is the most relied upon sound effect from my computer during these little messages because everyone's always like dedicating birthday messages to their cute kids etc

Got a note here from Kristen who says Happy Blurs Day to my 11 Tanya on our last road trip she agreed to listen to one TBTL a day and particularly enjoyed the Blurs Day segment So happy Blurs Day Tanya

From Kristen I want to mention, I don't want to use any names, but a friend of ours, Andrew, who listens to the show, said, I listen to every, and they actually got mentioned on the show, and then they texted us about it, and I said, oh, you listen to that far into the show, and they said, oh, I listen to every single minute of your show, except I skip the blurs days.

Because I'm not mentally unwell or something along the way.

Yes, exactly, which I think confirmed all of your suspicions, Andrew, that you wonder sometimes if this is the best use of 20 minutes of the show each week. Well, you then responded some kind of joke to this person. I said, that's not the right way to roll. And then they, like an hour later, came back to us and said, I'm on a road trip. I'm out of TBTLs. I just went back and listened to all the Blur's days for, like, weeks on end, like a hobo looking for cigarette butts.

Like scrounging cigarette butts, exactly.

So I'm just saying, if you're out there judging the Blur's days, You may find yourself someday going back and, like, you know, scraping the resin of the Blur's Day segment.

Is that a thing that people do with weed stuff? People used to. I don't know if they still do it anymore, but I will say that I've scraped some bowls in my lifetime.

Donna, uh-oh. Donna says, I'm sorry, I just put my knee right into Andrew's finger. No, I put my finger in your knee. Let me wrap the sound cable around that pin. Andrew is also, I wonder, I mean, we'll never know, But I wonder, Andrew, if some of this was your imagination or this was really happening, we stopped to get gas somewhere, you know, along the route from Sacramento to down here before we got to you, Christina. And you said, Andrew, you had unwrapped your finger for a minute.

Just because I went into the restroom because I just pumped the van full of gas. So my hand was really dirty and it's really hard to really wash your hand with this gauze wrapped around it. So I removed the gauze in the restroom, gave my hands a good washing, and then I was going to wrap it up again in the van. But first I was going to buy my Slurpee drink in the gas station.

Yeah, that was an unexpected move. You came back to the van with a Slurpee. I mean, it was a graveyard you'd made.

Yeah, it was a black raspberry and cherry, I believe. It was surprising to me, too. I just saw it and I couldn't stop myself. But anyway, no, this has happened to me twice now where I've been buying something because I leave my finger unwrapped at home because I'm at home. It doesn't matter. And one time I went to get a bagel and the same thing happened where the person who's like giving me taking my order and giving me money is like stealing like they both times. These were women who could not stop sneaking glances at my finger. I guarantee you it was not in my head because I've never seen anybody react that way to me before.

I'll tell you this. I have seen your finger unwrapped. It's not that gross. I don't think it's gross. There are people that have way more intense piercings like voluntarily.

That's what I mean. I don't think it's about that's a gross man. And I think they're like.

Like, what is it? Because it's got these big, it's got this, you know, there's a piece of metal going through my hand, and then it's got these little green balls sticking off of it. Beautiful green balls. So it looks like it is body art in some way. I think that's what it is. I think people are just like, wait, what is that thing? Is that a ring? Lean into it. Is that a ring he's wearing? Is it some sort of a tattoo? You're not a tattoo, but a piercing kind of situation? I'm not saying that these people think it's, like, gross or cool. I think they're just like, what is that?

Is it better? It's wrapped right now. You just bumped it on my knee. Is it better that it's wrapped? Do you think that made it hurt less than if it would have been Kind of protective

You know what I did is I think because I just banged my pinky on your knee But that's also broken

Let's not let people forget his pinky is also broken No way Yes I know It's amazing that he's here Donna says happy Blur's Day to my fellow Baltimore 10 And TBTL progeny Laura I guess that would mean Donna turned Laura On to the show Thanks for being such a great friend neighbor, and supermom. I can't ask for a better friend to live in such close proximity. Not once, but twice on two separate coasts. Hmm. Somebody's stalking somebody. The close together on two separate coasts, that's an amazing coincidence. And it's working, though. That's true. That's true. I know we're on the edge of a cicada infestation. As I mentioned yesterday, the cicadas are, I think, a menace to society. They could be peeing on us. Right now, and everyone's supposed to act like that's cool I don't think it's cool It's not cute to me Anyway, we're on the edge of a cicada infestation First a pandemic, then an infestation What's next? Water to blood? Frogs? May we be able to avoid all of the biblical plagues On the extended Blur's Day weekend Oh, right This is an extended Blur's Day weekend because Monday's a holiday? That's right, yeah Sweet, so happy Blur's Day to Laura from Donna I think that's it

We're going to leave it there today. What a Blur's Day. A live Blur's Day segment beneath the beautiful sun, but in the shade of Oceanside.

With just the nice breeze coming in. You can hear the Jason Mraz music on the wind. It's just lovely. Christina, I know the folks may or may not on YouTube know what's going on because of buffering, but any final thoughts from that sector of the population?

It was mostly the buffering. I was going to check in on the phone just to see what was going on.

I think we're gone, right? Have we lost the feed?

it just keeps buffering we're there it just pauses every once in a while

all the more reason to donate so we can get a hot spot that doesn't suck

I did remind people to listen to the full podcast

I know some people have been concerned about that like they're worried that we're cannibalizing downloads from ourself by doing the stream well if you're hearing this maybe later on when you listen to the podcast we would love it if you could support the show thanks so much we really do appreciate it. What should we go out with Andrew that won't get us in

trouble? That is a really really good question. First of all can we get Meraz over here to scat live? Meraz. Cheers. Sorry. Well that one I don't really I don't feel bad. And also I grew up with my dad's friend was something Meraz. You know it's probably

Meraz is probably the right pronunciation because like you're from Cleveland. There's a lot of folks with that kind of last name. I feel like

he would have corrected people by now. No no but

You mean, like, it probably changed at some point in his family, or he made the decision. Is that what you mean, Luke?

Yeah, I bet you that Mraz sounds jazzier. Mraz rhymes with jazz. Yeah, it does. Mraz rhymes with Nas. So I bet you that, like, maybe his folks, or maybe he was like, this is a pepier name. I'm going to go with Mraz. But I bet you, like, the Cleveland, heavily kind of Eastern European-influenced world of, like, people saying Mraz is probably the way to go. That might be it.

Either way, I appreciate you having my back. I just was bringing up some words by doves here. You cool with that?

Yes, but I'm going to use my words over it so we don't get in trouble for copyright. Although, if we're buffering on YouTube, I guess it's like having problems on YouTube. It's less of an issue. How do you feel about Non-Fungible Turtle as the show title? I like it. I love it. All right. Well, that's going to do it from here in Oceanside. Next stop, Phoenix, Arizona, where we will force Mary the TBTL Virgin to listen to at least one episode of this show. Thanks for listening, everybody. Lisa and Farron, thanks so much for letting us come hang out. Farron, thanks for journeying up here. Christina, a.k.a. Kiki Lolo, thanks for joining us on this adventure.

Thank you. It was great to be a part of it. I love reading the comments. Everybody, keep going. I'm going to try to keep updating people on their journey. I bought a new Tiny Mike for this.

Oh, you did bring your Tiny Mike?

I did bring a new Tiny Mike, a brand new one.

You said the guy we called Tiny Mike in high school. It was huge. That was the weird part.

Yeah, I'll share my Instagram profile and maybe do some stories when we're on the road.

Nice. I promise you tonight, if we make it to Phoenix, we will try to get some dinner at a place. So your second dinner out after the pandemic can be a little bit. it better so all right thanks so much everyone uh we'll see you tomorrow from phoenix until then have a great thursday take care of yourselves and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

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