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Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks. Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on 3rd. There's Hammocks or Us, that's on 3rd too. You got Put Your Butt There, that's on 3rd. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex. It's the Hammock Complex, down on 3rd.

Oh, the Hammock District!

Are you on the internet? Isn't that for techno geeks with spreadsheets?

You know, what happened next was, you know, they'd open their mouth, they'd speak, they'd get laughed at, they'd get called Polacks.

I'm not very good with chit chat. I like a structured communication. I like a hard out, you know, chit, chat, chit, chat, chit, chit, where are we going with that?

That was great. That was good. You went for it. I appreciate that.

Mark, if they do good, put it on YouTube. If they do bad, cancel it.

All right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. Intelligence for your life. My name's Luke Burbank. I'm your host. That's a no from me, dog. Coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center, high in the sky above Portland, Oregon, where it's not as nice as it was yesterday but it's also not actively raining we are not getting wet though so that's good it's day eight without any coffee for me i made this coffee yesterday i almost went down to i the one of the major upsides of living in a city like i do is that i am walking distance from no less than probably nine coffee shops i almost uh this morning went out and asked if they had decaf but it's like i don't even know if that's a thing that hip coffee shops do sort of in the way that um they often don't have splenda because that's seen as sort of basic b i feel like ordering like you can definitely get some decaf if you're at denny's If you're out with your grandparents, you can get some decaf. But can you walk into, like, a hip Portland coffee shop and order a coffee decaffeinated? I'm not sure. I'll probably find out at some point because I think I'm staying on this train for a while. Speaking of trains, this train refuses to stop and finds itself at episode 3,522 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. i don't know if you ever had this experience where you're applying for a job and maybe you get an interview or two in and then you just never hear back from them you get ghosted by

this potential employer i mean it's so rude i can't believe it that's it's so damn rude everyone

i know has had this experience well now a recruiting firm in the uk is launching a campaign to try to get companies to stop doing this to stop ghosting on people who it has decided for whatever reason not to hire and i think it's high time for this uh so we'll get into that also the uh dollar tree store has announced i mean it's not just one store it's like thousands but the company dollar tree has announced they're gonna start selling things that cost more than a dollar my dollar makes me holler honey boo boo uh which is both understandable and also seems to be antithetical to the entire premise of the place uh so we'll talk about that also a guy in turkey He got drunk, went into the woods, and then came out and joined a search party. People were looking for a missing person.

Drunk people are so mellow.

Well, there was an interesting detail to the story, which we'll tell you coming up. And because it's a Thursday, a.k.a. a Blur's Day, we will do the Blur's Day messages. All that with the help of this young man. The longest-running co-bro of the show may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is a soulful rocker from New Hampshire. Sure. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now from the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Good morning, my friend.

Hey, Luke. I think we just had what we call in the podcasting game a content miracle. I did something embarrassing yesterday that I forgot about, but then the email came in like a response email came in just like, I don't know, 45 seconds ago, right as you were introducing me. And I'm like, oh, that's right. I did that thing. And this is embarrassing. But it's something we can talk about at the top of the show Because sometimes there's stuff to talk about on the top of the show Sometimes there's not A little BG on me Oh my god, Luke, this also offers This story also involves BOGO Which coincidentally has been a topic on the show lately So, here's where my tale begins

Have you ever heard of Chipotle? It's a fast, casual chain of burrito restaurants.

I defy your grandparents. I don't mean yours, but one's grandparents to properly pronounce Chipotle.

How do they say it? When you're at the Denny's.

No, you said it right, but I think, yeah, Chipotle, Chipotle. I feel like when you're at the Denny's and you're having the decaf coffee on a Sunday morning brunch with your grandparents, one of them is going to talk about it. They put a Chipotle in near us. I love the Chipotle. People just love that Chipotle.

Well, I do love the Chipotle. In fact, I don't want to brag here. But I think I, I mean, I could be wrong, but I think I got a taste of that sweet, sweet Chipotle before maybe a lot of America did. They put in a pretty early Chipotle in the college town of Kent, Ohio, while I was going to Penn State University. Wow. Like, really, like, I mean, I was-

The listeners are so relieved that I've gotten off of that habit.

But, yeah, like, did you have one in college? Because we had one in college. You know, and again, I think it was just probably a test market thing. I don't know why they decided Kent, but I will say this. I remember they came in and everybody was freaking out because this new burrito place was giving away free burritos on the day that they opened. And I was Andrew even back then. So I was like, I'm not waiting in line all day for a free burrito. I'll go tomorrow and spend seven dollars on a burrito. You know, I'm not I'm not going to wait in line. But I do remember they did that as sort of a marketing stunt, and everybody was excited about it. And then I tried these burritos.

I might have tacos when I go home. I'm not quite sure yet.

They were like nothing else I'd had before, and I really did love them. And the first time I went in, I got this order, a chicken fajita burrito, no cheese, corn salsa, and the red hot salsa. That's what I do. A little bit of lettuce sprinkled in there, too. But the fajita is key for me. I don't like the beans I like the fajita mix people know I see so that's because I've always

wondered about that because I think of a fajita as being like they bring out that the plate is still sizzling they're warning you it's hot yeah and that's one kind of thing so a fajita burrito I was always like if it's wrapped in in a tortilla if it's wrapped like up like a burrito does it at that point cease being a fajita but you're saying it's actually the ingredients that make it the

fajita it's just like a presentation yeah it's like a fajita mix and again actually even when we speak of chipotle at all like i you know i know it's not authentic burritos if a burrito can be authentic i like i just like right you know like it is a food that i like that is a fast food and call it whatever you want i just feel like they're owned by mcdonald's i believe right certainly at one point was and i believe still is it was kind of the big story on it early that i

remember was yeah before there was even a chipotle near me it was like reading about like hey mcdonald's has launched or you know i yeah i guess it was mcdonald's corporate has launched this like very engineered sort of quote unquote i guess mexican food uh fast casual restaurant i don't even actually know if that's considered fast casual but so it was almost more like a business story i probably pitched it to marketplace and then who would you know did not receive a response back but anyway yeah so back to uh your story you got the uh hold on let me see if i can do this from memory From 30 seconds

By the way, it does look like McDonald's sold Chipotle Business Insider 2015, the ridiculous reason McDonald's sold Chipotle And missed out on billions of dollars So you would get a

The first order you ever got in Kent, Ohio Was a chicken fajita Burrito No cheese Corn salsa, spicy salsa

Yep, little bit of lettuce, perfect That's what I got the very first time I walked in those doors, Luke, I've never gotten anything else i go to chipotle as often as possible in fact uh after college when you're not tub thumping when i'm not tub thumping uh after college i moved to new hampshire where they had no chipotles at all and i spent 10 years missing chipotle and then uh i moved to seattle and you know how many children grow up in chipotle deserts i know it's really sad it's heartbreaking and now you know maybe not once a week but certainly once every couple of weeks i'm chipotle is in my regular rotation of lunch spots right i love me i love me my fajita burrito and i always get the same thing recently you know since things reopened um during the pandemic and again i i say that knowingly that the pandemic has messed up all kinds of supply chains and stuff they have been very iffy at least at first they were very iffy on whether or not they would have the fajita mix Maybe it's not as popular. Maybe I'm one of the only people who orders that. But there are a couple of times going back maybe six months now. I remember waiting in line one time, getting to the front and seeing that the little Chipotle canister. I'm sorry, the little the little fajita canister was empty. And that's OK. No reason to panic there. Usually when that's empty, they're frying some more up in back. Right. But this time I get to the front. It was a very, very frank.

friendly, long-haired kid, college kid behind the counter, behind the glass there. And he said, yeah, we haven't had it. It's been hard to get in here. Like, I don't know what's going on. He was actually really kind of spilling the tea on Chipotle corporate a little bit there. I remember him telling me, you're basically feeling somewhat victimized as somebody who works at this local restaurant but isn't getting the support from his corporate masters, right? And so I was like, okay, no problem. But I also don't think I got anything else. Like, I'm just not interested in getting a bean burrito from Chipotle.

So did you just like walk out?

Yeah, I'm like, that's all right, no problem. And Luke, this is something that is happening more and more. So that happened one day. Maybe I go in, get my usual order a couple of times after that, but then it happens again. And now in the past few months, it has happened consistently. Before I said it's iffy whether or not they have the mix. Now it's less iffy and it's almost like they're not going to have the mix. The other day I went in there, I'm going to say maybe two months ago, I went in there and I waited in a very long line. But college is – oh, it couldn't have been two months ago because college was back. And it was my first experience of waiting in that Chipotle line since school has been back in session. I'm just like waiting, and maybe it takes 10 minutes to get the front, and there's no fajita mix. And I'm like, are you guys cooking it up anymore? And they're just like, no. I'm just like, are you just not doing it anymore? And they're like, we're doing it. We just don't have any. And I'm just like, okay. And I don't want to give the kids a hard time, right? It's college kids who are just like working their ass off trying to keep that line moving. Like I'm not going to try to make it. And it's certainly not their fault. They'd rather me have a fajita burrito if it was up to them.

I literally said this to the person at the Whole Foods last night. I was buying some groceries, and there was a long line, and the very nice person who helped me check out said, hey, I'm so sorry about the line. And I said, anyone who's showing up for their job right now is a hero to me. How did they respond? They just, like, chuckled or something. But, I mean, I really feel that way, particularly jobs that are in the service industry Because, you know, just a lot of people can I think can sort of choose right now. I don't actually know the latest on it. I'm not trying to make this a economics discussion, but there is just a shortage of employees. And a lot of the employees who are showing up, particularly for like food service jobs, are then getting yelled at because the service is taking longer or they're out of fajita mix. And it's like they're people are blaming the wrong people. Right. Exactly. You showed up to do this. I salute you.

And that's why I really want to reiterate here, as stampy as I can get at times, if I feel that I'm put out as a customer, I promise you, I'm very aware of the state of the world. And I'm not trying to make anybody's life harder because I can't get my fajita mix at Chipotle. But I would be lying if I said I don't miss it. what i've been doing for the past couple of times i would say in the past couple of weeks i have gone in there i've seen the very long line and i will kind of um go around the line kind of in this way you don't cut in front of everybody i kind of go around into the into the dining area and kind of cut around and i take a peek in fact the one day a kid said to me working there he said uh sir can i help you where are you picking up your food did you how did you order i'm like no i'm just checking to see do you have do you have the fajita mix and he's like uh hey hey hey hell do We have the fajita mix and the silent head shake. And I'm like, all right, no problem. I'm out of here. I just didn't want to wait in the long line just to get that bad news.

Teriyaki Madness it is. And Teriyaki Madness it is. By the way, really quick interjection, because I meant to tell you this when I was in Texas. My hotel was by a place called Teriyaki Madness.

Yes, I think there's a national chain called Teriyaki Madness that is not related to our local chain.

Who would have thunk that would be such a strong brand for the intersection of mental illness and...

Yeah, chicken and rice and sweet chicken. Yeah, no, I have no I have no idea because I know there's one in Minnesota, too. I think in the Twin Cities or maybe outside the Twin Cities, because I know the stew bot sent me a photo of a teriyaki madness. But I'll tell you this. It's definitely not our teriyaki madness. No, because those are part of a hostage situation. Exactly. Those signs aren't made out to be like, what do you call ransom notes? Ransom note. So anyway, so back. So back to Chipotle. I've done this several times in the past couple of weeks Again, not trying to cause trouble Just trying to take a peek If you have it, I'll get in line If not, I'm just going to get out of there And that's fine, again Nobody's fault, it's a pandemic But then yesterday This is where things get embarrassing Because I'm going to read the actual note I sent God, I hate myself I was sitting here and I was trying to figure out Where to go to lunch I'm like, oh, I want Chipotle And I was like, eh, they're not going to have it You're just going to be disappointed I was like, you should just send a note to corporate. Just like let them know that. Just like maybe they don't know. Or maybe they're just never bringing it back. And if they're never bringing it, I mean, listen, I'm not going to crack that story wide open. I don't think they're going to be frank with me about that. But I'm just like, maybe I just need to get in a period of my life where I realize Chipotle is something that I used to do. Or I need to change my order. But I'm not big on beans. Anyway. yesterday is there a time on this i can't even see but i'll tell you what time it was it was lunchtime because i was hungry and i i didn't want to go i wanted to go to chipotle but i knew it'd be disappointment so i i went to the website i'm like can you uh there is no good way to contact somebody um but then i guess the only way you can really communicate with them except for publicly and social media which i did not want to do i'd like to save it for the podcast um uh it was kind of like more of a complaint form sort of thing so you're like okay you can you you had an issue like was it a delivery issue restaurant or whatever i'm like i'm already uncomfortable i'm like it's not really an issue i'm not i'm not trying to get anybody in trouble here and so i'm like yeah it was an in restaurant thing you know which location and i drop down menu select the location university district on the ave that will come up again and eventually i get to the common part like what's what's wrong what's the complaint and i wrote hi exclamation point like

friendly right like right you're trying to say like even though the the only way that i can do this is under the sort of a bit of a complaint tab i want to initially i want to immediately indicate that i'm not mad i'm just checking in on this hi that's how i want you to read that

with the exclamation point hi this is not a complaint just more of a question i used to eat at chipotle all the time i wrote this yesterday and i'm like who is this mfer hi this is not a complaint more of a question i used to eat at chipotle all the time but for the past several months you've been out of fajita mix at this location parentheses this has been the case at least eight times in the past three months or so i don't don't check my numbers on that it's close it's been it's been a lot it's consistent uh i assume it has to do with covid related supply chains but i wonder if you're aware of the issue and whether or not you think fajita options will return i miss going to chipotle exclamation point that's my email i love that note uh and then i forgot about it i fired it off and completely forgot about it and then moments ago exactly 15 minutes ago now it says um andrew i hope this email finds you well it did by the way it found

me very well it found you also right in time like you said a content miracle very well i'm so sorry

you didn't get the best experience with us. That's not what I was saying, robot. We want you to get the delicious meal you are craving! Hi! I'll be sure to pass this along to our The Av team, so we can be sure we are stocked. I'll pass it along to The Av team. Your wife's new name is The Av, Targus. So we can be sure we are stocked up on all of your favorites. I've added one BOGO offer. Buy one main menu item get one free to the reward section of your chipotle account for you to use within the next 30 days i don't think i have a chipotle account you can use it on any online order or you can scan the code to redeem it in store thank you for reaching out please let me know if there's anything else i can do for you stay safe stay healthy sincerely ella customer care coordinator of chipotle mexican grill um and then i have a qr code for my bogo offer which i don't think i'll use because i don't even want one of their items let alone two if i can't have my

fajitas well i'm coming up to seattle this weekend you want my bogo could i borrow a bogo buddy could you spare a bogo i was going to propose your wife's new name is the av as a show title but buddy could you spare a bogo is also pretty good wouldn't it be brother isn't

the expression brother yeah brother could you spare a bogo that's an old isn't that an old like Bing Crosby songs.

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Anyway, that's all very embarrassing. I forgot that I'd sent that email, but honestly, I can only... That's the type of thing that I would tell absolutely nobody, except it's funny on this podcast, so I'm telling everybody. Like, what's wrong with me?

But here's the thing. Here's what... Now, while you were talking about that, I was like... Because I've actually gotten that fajita mix as well. Like, I think I've gotten like a fajita bowl from there or something. And I like it, because I really like they got red onions in there they've got green peppers so i was like what is in this and so i i did a google search for the chipotle fajita mix and i ended up on culinary hill.com by the way this is the culinary hill that i will die on it is a very simple ingredient and they're there this was like how do you make a basically the exact fajita mix from chipotle but make it at home oh yeah the ingredients quarter cup of olive oil two large green peppers stemmed cord and sliced one large red onion a half a tablespoon of oregano and some salt yeah yes just those are all items that i feel like are still very available supply chain issues be danged well but you don't

know what i mean in all in all seriousness like you just don't know about supply and demand and i'm not trying to like fall on my sword for some huge company i mean they're doing fine but

But like if there isn't a huge demand for it and, you know what I mean, it just could be deprioritized. And I think, you know, I'm willing to give a company a break at this at this moment.

Right. I mean, I guess I'm just it doesn't seem like an exotic item. It feels like they must have green peppers and other things and they must have onions and other things. And I know what you mean. Supply chains are weird. like there's some vent there's some you know vendor or system through which they get this stuff and there's probably a kink in that in that hose right now but it's still weird because these are the most basic of ingredients you know what i mean i'll tell you what i can't find anywhere in portland asian beer so i when i get thai food which is a lot lately or any uh asian food uh but particularly Thai food, I really like to have like a, like a, a Sahi or a Kirin or a Sapporo, like a very dry Asian beer. That's my favorite thing to have with Asian food. And it's, it's one of the few times when I'm not drinking to sort of get somewhere with the alcohol. It's literally like a flavor enhancer for me, for the experience. And I found myself the other day. Well, here's what happened. I woke up and I knew that I was going to order this one particular soup called this Asian rice soup from a place called Thai vegan basil here in Portland. Like, it's just this kind of weird vegan Thai place. I mean, it's not weird. I don't know why I would say that. It's just it's it's random that I ended up ordering from there. It was through DoorDash once and I just got this soup and I loved it so much. and sometimes i just wake up in the morning thinking about this asian rice soup yeah make and then is it a coconut based kind of broth no it's not it's not like a tom guy or a tom yum or anything it's just almost like a chicken noodle soup but it doesn't have any you know bone broth in it it's super flavorful it just has i guess you could get it with like tofu but i just get with extra veggies so it's like broccoli um uh i don't know celery uh bok choy and then some rice and then just this soup this this broth that's so delicious the day that i uh went on my fruitless asian beer search i woke up and i wanted to get this soup so badly and then it did the place didn't open until 4 30 and i was just like on a countdown all day until 4 30 when i could call them and order this soup yeah yeah so i was like doing a bunch of errands here in portland and i thought you know it would be great with my soup that i've been looking forward to all day is a nice like sapporo or asahi or whatever and i went to no less than four different places including this fred meyer that has like the largest beer section i've ever seen and i the fred meyer was the final place that i went to and i was like something must be up and i went to the guy in the wine slash beer department i said do you guys have any like japanese beers any asian beers and he said no supply chain issues we can't get them and he walked me over to where they

usually keep kieran and it was totally sold out huh yeah and what's up with that right like what what's the reasoning i'm gonna i'm gonna write a note today and see if i get a bogo on that i'm

already writing to fred meyer and i'm writing to chipotle yes hi here i have a regret i had a

more of a comment than a question I had a little bit of a situation yesterday in Portland where I was unable to get my hands on any so so what ended up happening was when I go to the Thai place I think well you know maybe they have a supply maybe they have a hookup and so I asked the very nice guy who was giving my me my to-go food this is not a particularly scintillating what I'm about to say but isn't it interesting the way that restaurant culture has changed because of delivery food delivery places and the pandemic like most restaurants now at least places like thai food it's 90 of the operation is is to go orders that are being taken that are being taken out through a series of different ways you can order food and have it delivered you know particularly in a place like portland so it's like this guy's just working his tail off because he's got all these orders out And they're all set up in these different, like, seamless caviar, DoorDash, you know, whatever. So he was super nice. And I just said, do you actually have beer? Do you sell beer here? And he was like, yeah. I was like, do you have Singha, which is a Thai beer that I really like? And he was like, yeah. So I, like, ordered two of them, which I don't know why it strikes me as odd to order, like, beer to go from a restaurant. Like, I would go into a grocery store and buy a beer. It wouldn't seem weird. But somehow it seemed like I was doing something slightly illicit. But anyway, he just disappeared into the back of the restaurant, and then he was gone for a few minutes. And it was one of those moments that I've talked about on the show where I was thinking, am I late for something or am I just annoyed by any slight delay ever? Because I was...

was just gonna come home and watch the baseball game and eat my soup and drink my beer so i didn't have to really be anywhere but i'm just at the point in my life where if i have to wait for anything it just feels intense and so i realized i was like no i'm fine everything's okay this guy's busy he's back there probably dealing with these five million to-go orders he comes back and what he had done was like he had like a plastic bag like kind of the old school white plastic bag you would get at the grocery store which have been mostly outlawed now he had the last one um and he had filled it with ice and he had these two singhahs that i had ordered tied into the bag so they were on ice oh my gosh it was just like the the nicest thing it was such a small gesture also it to be honest was kind of irrelevant because i was just going to come home and put them in the fridge anyway it wasn't like i needed them to be cold on the ride home but it was just this like i was like so impressed with this guy i was like that was just such a nice little thing that you didn't have to do that was just meant to make my life a little better yeah that's really sweet i love that i really love that it's like total i was super touched i've been thinking about it for like two days now i'm probably gonna have to get that soup again tonight i've been eating that soup like probably out of the last seven days i've had it like

three days four days andrew you know we talk about being adults and not living the best life that our childhood versions of ourselves would have expected you know like i'm gonna eat candy for dinner um or whatever and i'm gonna live in a fort but i honestly think that eating the same food day in and day out and not feeling shame about it just because we happen to like it and knowing that we're going through a phase and it will probably burn out in a little bit and that's fine that is kind of the closest maybe i get to that like it's like you know what yeah i like this this big like kind of full meal wonton soup with egg noodle that they have at a place called noodle palace on the app and sometimes i get i go there and i order the same thing two days in a row not often but there's always a little bit a little voice in the back of your head right like you can't do that two days in a row andrew you're an adult like yeah exactly i'm an adult and i can do that and nobody cares like yeah the restaurant is happy to have my business oh this is the place i was telling you about that has like the the dallas cowboys parking uh signs or whatever all over the place and like teriyaki sanity exactly and uh i just love that place and like they're selling me soup they're not like judging me you know but like in the back of your head you're like well you can't do that walsh like you know what right like you're embarrassed if you if you

walk into a place if i go into the same restaurant like you know a couple times in a week i'm thinking that the proprietor is like oh there's burbs again but they're probably like oh there's eleven dollars again that we're making on the sale of this food that we've come here to sell

if they're thinking anything at all other than right there's a rush going on and i need to you

know serve everybody yeah that's the other thing is i'm always the main character in the film of my day and turns out they're the main character in their own film and I am at best an extra

you know what I wish I had done in this I'm kind of I actually have a regret here I really wish I put one more extra line in my original note saying by the way the service at this establishment is great because those kids who work there really are they work their ass off and they're always so they're either like neutral or leaning towards like very polite like one time i went in there and this is this is a long time ago maybe before the pandemic and there's some young woman working there and she was like i don't even know how the topic came up but suddenly she we're talking about vintage bathrooms together like in a very very brief in a very brief interaction

i'll have the number three what do you take on those pink bathrooms that everybody was tearing down but now they're actually there's a whole website save the pink bathroom oh also no cheese

Right. I don't know how it came up. I don't know if she was talking. I really, especially with young people and people in the service industry, I don't try to be chummy with them. I don't insert myself into other people's conversations. I honestly don't, but something must have happened. Again, this is going back a ways, but she was maybe talking to somebody else or said, I don't know how it came up, but she mentioned something about a vintage bathroom or something. And I was like, oh, yeah, I follow Vintage. I'm like, oh, I love that. She's like, yeah, me too. And she was, like, super excited. I was like, I follow, like, Vintage Bathroom Love. I don't know what it's actually called. But, like, on Instagram, I follow this account, Vintage Bathroom. She's like, I follow that too. And she seemed so GD delighted to just randomly. Like, she kept talking to me. I was like, I'm holding up the line. Like, I got to go. Like, I hate holding up a line. But she was so nice. And I've just had several other experiences like that here. The first guy who told me about the supply chain issue with the fajita mix, very going out of his way to just be a human being and a job that does.

not often um emphasize the humanity of of those workers or necessarily the customer so i wish i had done that i wish i had just given a little shout out at when i was writing to corporate to let them know that those guys are doing a really good job you know what andrew it's not too late

there's no emma's still there uh virtually and robotically yep waiting for an update you could say thank you for the bogo and i just wanted to also mention that the employees at this location

are just excellent the employees at the av are excellent all right let's take a quick break and

then when we come back we got some top stories and some blurs days and all of that coming up here on tbtl all right let's thank some donors of the day these are the folks who are making today's episode possible because during the last tbtl-a-thon when we said we need your financial support to get to do this for our job they heard our call they heard our our plea and they're donating every month and it's how we're able to do this we want to thank darren boak night of case south carolina we're really heavily in the uh northern part of carolina the other day Remember, Charlotte kept coming up the research triangle. Yep, yep. I was reading about why people recycle the tabs on there, why your parents are throwing the tabs. Yeah. And that was explained to me by the Ronald McDonald House of Durham. Yes, it was good information.

I was actually thinking about that yesterday. I'm a little distracted because I'm just wondering if it's Casey, South Carolina, or do you have experience with this?

No, you know it very well could be Casey. It's a C-A-Y-C-E We could call the Waffle House And I promise you there's a Waffle House In this town And they could tell us That's my trick right when I need the pronunciation on something I just call like a local business In the area Old producer's trick I think Speaking of The Carolinas And jumping back into North Carolina I saw a funny picture Online of I follow a guy named David Gura who's a he's a business reporter for NPR now used to be an MSNBC he actually used to be I think a newscaster on the Bryant Park Project back in the day he's from North Carolina and so I think he's his radar is set for all things North Carolina anyway there was just a picture of Mick Jagger having a beer clearly the stones were in Carol in in North Carolina the other day you know they're touring the u.s right now and he was at a place i want to say it's called like the lonely that's like the drunken beaver or the soggy beaver no the soggy beaver actually is a bar in seattle i think it's like a hockey bar in greenwood that place is going to be jumping off now that the kraken exists i've never heard of that um yeah it's like a sort of canadian themed bar i think it's up on greenwood but um anyway i i wish i could show you this picture i don't have it right in front of me but it is like just imagine the angry beaver angry that's what oh the angry beaver is the seattle one yeah so mick jagger is just i think the caption from mick jagger is like um popped out for a beer last night or out getting a beer last night And it's just kind of like the dirt back area. So it's like a very, very forgettable kind of dive bar in North Carolina. I'm going to guess in Chapel Hill, but I don't actually know. Where you might go when you're in college and then you'd get a beer and you'd go like stand outside at kind of like a table and you're standing in like grass slash dirt. And there's just people sort of milling about and sitting. but it's Mick Jagger and no one seems to be aware that it's Mick Jagger and I just thought is Mick Jagger going through something like I like these kinds of bars but that's because I'm a nobody and no one's going to talk to me when I'm at the Angry Beaver or whatever they call this place in North Carolina so I could go there and I could get a beer and I could just stand around and drink my beer or if you and I were together we could stand around and drink our beers but if you're mick jagger it's a situation i would think when you go out in the world yeah and he chose to go to this place and it almost felt like a cry for help i love this photo i'm looking at it you found it okay what's the name it's the name of the place is behind him what is

it called the thirsty beaver saloon thank you it's actually not dirt it's a little patio area

but you're right it's just like i apologize to the to the the publican at the thirsty beaver

No, no, but it's, and you can see inside, I mean, this looks so much like. Like my kind of bar, like inside it looks kind of old school stools and black and white tiled flooring and just like a very like almost handmade looking sign outside with like maybe some Edison lights hanging down. But very, very chill. And there he is just standing there by himself. No posse, no security, no friends, frankly, just chilling. It's a really cool photo, actually. I just love it.

I know. And I don't know if the people around, you know, there's people in the shot who are like talking to their friends. I don't know if they all figured out it was Mick Jagger and they were playing it cool or they just they didn't know it was Mick Jagger. But it's such an interesting place for him to go have a beer. Yes. To me, because he has access to beer in his nine star hotel or wherever he's staying in his. I assume the Rolling Stones have a spaceship that hovers over whatever city they're in. And it's, you know, fully appointed with everything they could possibly want. so the fact that he was like oh let's go out that's god that's a bad bill clinton the fact that all right let's do it that's my impression of mick jagger in the film free jack where i believe he says all right let's do it um but like he just the idea that's where he went it just cracks me up i love it and it's also so weird to me it was like i felt like he was going out hoping to just rub elbows with normal people and like have a conversation have like a fun conversation at a bar it just seems so random to me and again i kind of love it yeah um i don't need to extend

this conversation with my own hair bald um ideas but i hair brained i meant sorry i got cats um but you know we were talking um last night me and genevieve and camaro kev while we're watching The Mariners sweep the Oakland Athletics.

Hence my trip to Seattle this weekend, my friend. Go Orioles. We are all Orioles fans right now. Is there another Orioles game today?

I didn't know.

I believe so. Yeah, they're all playing straight through. The Mariners are the only team that's in the running with a break today. That has Thursday off.

Oh, gosh, I've got to get my Orioles hat back on then. Yes, sir. Today's the last day of that series. Okay, 4.05 our time. Go O's. So anyway, we were having a conversation that I feel like a lot of us have been having recently because we're all getting older. And also, I think these last two years were seem like they kind of disappeared on us. So maybe that brings age to the front of mind as well. But I believe it was Camaro Kev who maybe brought up this idea of just like how you here in, you know, 2021, if you look back at like 15 years ago, it was like 2006. And we can barely tell the difference or you know what I mean? like it's just there's no huge cultural shift as compared to like the example that I give all the time of just like me being a kid in the 80s and listening to Beatles music and thinking I was listening to something from like a different world right something that seems so ancient to me it was 15 years maybe 20 years you know right um and so we're kind of having a conversation like that and so bringing this back to the Mick Jagger thing like and and also I'm thinking about the way I just saw a headline today something I want to read later about like why uh younger generations are just now getting into The Sopranos because they're coming out of a certain age and they're discovering it. And I think that's an interesting phenomenon. And again, something like, to me, I'm like, oh yeah, I don't know when The Sopranos go off the air, last year? Like, no, it's a pretty old show now. And so there's a... Oh, is it about meat? What'd you get?

Oh, then what? If you don't love me at my gaba, you don't deserve me at my ghoul, Andrew, I think.

So all of this is to say there is a chance that Mick Jagger is can walk into a college bar potentially right not definitely but potentially can walk into a college bar and not raise a lot of attention because he just looks like an old man now the problem with that is as soon as he opens his mouth I feel like so all right let's do it you used to play that drop all the time you could barely hear it right it's super noisy and you can sort of hear a British guy in the background. The Freejack one? Yeah, don't you have that? I'll continue to filibuster here. It's not even alright. It's

actually okay. I'm going to just play this, hopefully. Okay, let's do it.

It's actually slightly better than I thought. There was an airplane. I love that

I wasn't even saying it right. Okay, let's do it.

So anyway, my point is he could maybe pass. Like, you know, a guy in his late 70s in the hat, like just getting a beer. Okay, that's fine. If somebody gets him the beer, that's fine. I do think that you walk into a like you know if you have an accent from a different place you raise eyebrows anyway like neither good nor bad but you know what i mean people would comment when we were in australia that we clearly are not from there so and also he has a distinct i think uh voice and accent so i do feel like that would kill it but there is a chance that if if mick jagger is safe in public anywhere without getting recognized it would probably be a place where people who are like 21 are hanging out yes that is probably you're you're exactly

right that is probably the place where he has the greatest chance of going unnoticed just because of yeah that sort of age difference and stuff just the idea of him ordering a beer from that bar is also funny to me all right i'll have a sam adams like what do you think he's drinking yeah Right, right, right. You know what I mean? What's a regional beer, too? I'll have an angry orchard. He's drinking a bottle of beer. It's like, what beer did Mick Jagger order at that particular bar?

That's a good question.

All right. Back to our doters of the day. We've arrived at Chris Herbert, who's in Bloomfield, New York. Thank you, Chris, for supporting the show. Jeremy Jewell is in Kansas City, M.O. Nice. Not far from where the Stones just were They were in St. Louis I know this I promise this show is not going to deteriorate into me You know so much about the Stones

Yeah, it came up the other day We went out with a Stones song Because you saw that he was in one of these towns

I saw he was in St. Louis Standing by the Arch Oh, right, right Which isn't super far from Kansas City, MO Kelly Shannon is in Edmonds, Washington The home of Rick Steves And then Tim Crane is in Monroe, Washington. And then we've got Clea Stiebel checking in from Blucifer's Stomps, Denver, Colorado. Whereas I like to say, I thought maybe you had one more thing to say there.

I do. I'm just thinking about whether or not to bring it up. Are you trying to edit yourself? Sort of. Like, okay, so I mentioned the last time that Blucifer came up on the show that there is a, there's a part of that statue that is, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, anatomically correct. Anatomically is the word I'm looking for. Thank you. I was really, my brain was hiccuping there. Anatomically correct. And if I recalled, even passing it in the car seemed slightly more detailed and graphic than you would necessarily need for a statue like that. But whatever. I'm not an artist. I don't know anything about art. I mentioned that casually on the show. Next thing I know, I'm enjoying my weekend. and, you know, I get TBTL texts on my phone now. I haven't been great about answering them all. My apologies, everybody, but I'm getting them. And somebody sent me a photo, a close-up from underneath of this part of the horse. You're right, by the way. They didn't take it themselves. They Googled it. The person who sent this to me Googled this and sent me this close-up. I mean, a veiny, blue and red, disgusting close up of this part of the horse. You know what? It wasn't even weekend. I think it was Thursday. I was eating soup when I got this. I was sitting at the Knickersville Tavern eating soup at the bar. I get a text message. I open it and I'm staring directly at this disgusting thing. and the listener who sent this to me had the audacity and I don't even know who this is had the audacity to say that I victimized them by somehow forcing them to google this image I'm like you are not the victim I am the victim here I was eating soup and you're just like just jumping into my dms with this pic it was really upsetting I have been victimized by both

of the people in this story you and the listener because i heard you say that the other day but i didn't think about it that much but then when you brought it up again i was thinking is it possible that blucifer is anatomically correct and then i just googled it and the answer is yes so now my day has also been ruined so i want to thank you for that i mentioned uh i think on yesterday's show that becca and i when we were in san antonio went to the san antonio museum of art and they have a really incredible collection of um like uh well egyptian art like things like you know stuff that was like in i mean probably should go back to egypt to be honest with you but like you know mummified remains and and and uh you know sarcophaguses what do you call a multiple a sarcophagi maybe um and all this like really incredible stuff and they also have a lot of um statues from like rome you know the kind of think about like the statue of david but like a slightly less well-known one but they had like two or three of those and what i thought was notable was in each case someone had knocked off the statues dong like and i thought i guess they also had a sense of humor back in uh you know 12 bc like at some point each one of these statues which were otherwise pretty intact um someone had come up and said wouldn't it be funny if i wailed on this on the statue's peen with some kind of a hand

there was like three of them and none of them had an intact member anymore i just thought huh well i guess we've always thought that was funny there's an snl skit from like the first

era of snl like in the 70s or something where there was like a a roving band like back in the day of of vandals they called themselves the vandals and they basically did stuff like that good story walsh uh were they like vandals from like uh like the viking days let me just see vandal sketch i really wish i hadn't brought this up this is just stupid that was the type of thing where i had nothing to say but i um but i see that it is i found a uh transcript of it would you like me to act it out it was i would love it it was from october okay let's do it 1979 how do you not have a video of this snl hold on the vandals it's a steve martin thing which is probably why i know about it because i think i had a lot of um his comedy records or I did have his comedy records, but this was an SNL thing. But I think I had a VHS cassette of, like, the best of Steve Martin. You know how they would have, like, the best ofs?

Yes. I do remember those. And so they somehow got the rights to actually put this SNL sketch on there.

Yeah. And I'm trying to see here if – is this the skit? No. Okay. Do you want me to read it to you? Are we just going to do the transcript here? Let's see here. Here's the – We haven't even gotten to the top stories yet. Here's the cast. We have Steve Martin as the centurion. You have Tom Davis as lieutenant. Garrett Morris as the captain. Gilda Radner plays the pizza delivery woman. I know. Peter Aykroyd plays the guard.

Huh. Is that Dan Aykroyd's brother?

Is that a typo? I don't know. Al Franken plays the juvenile delinquent vandal. Bill Murray plays Mr. Gundrick. And Jane Curtin plays Mrs. Gundrick.

That's a hell of a cast for that sketch.

I'm not going to do the whole thing, but it sounds like the announcer, because I remember the voice that introduced it. The announcer here will, I think, explain the premise of this, and then we can get on to top stories. Are you ready?

Yes.

Among the barbarian hordes who sacked and pillaged their way across Europe during the waning years of the Roman Empire, no tribe was more notorious than the Vandals, a Germanic people driven westward by Celtic expansion during the 4th century A.D. That should be Celtic. Celtic, Andrew, you stupid. Ignorant Walsh. Sorry. the Celtic. How many people just like crushed their phone? The Vandals established a kingdom in Gaul where they quickly became the most feared tribe in the known world. That is the world as it was known at the time. In saying this, we do not mean to take anything away from the Visigoths, the Lombards, the Huns, the Franks, or is it the Franks, or the Ostrogoths. These nomadic groups were certainly terrifying in their own way, but the Vandals were unbelievable. And then it goes on to show this horde that just does things like orders pizzas for people who didn't really want pizza, etc.

I can totally see how that sketch came about. It was like somebody was thinking, huh, that's funny because we talk about vandalism, and then we have this thing, the vandals, being a fearsome tribe, and what if what they did was really more just like vandalism and pranks? Yes, exactly.

So they are paid off, I guess.

All right, thanks to our donors of the day. Yeah, sorry. Appreciate you supporting the show.

Here I go once again with the email. Yes, it happened.

did we get over the river did we cross the river did we cross the rainbow bridge oh wait hold on

are we going to right over the top story was this just a mistake with the with the firing

or are we no i did that on purpose because i feel like we just are not going to be able to get any of these top stories in today and then it also means i've got tomorrow's show sort of handled do you want to how about this what of those top stories that are on the list what are you the most interested in and i will give you the two minute version of it you know scratch one off

the list i read about the drunk guy uh in the missing person search party that's a short little

story that we can do quickly right yeah this is in turkey um uh a guy uh a 50 year old guy they have his name his name was behan mutlu uh he's from a rural region of turkey and he was out drinking with friends when he wandered off into a nearby forest every group has that one person who when they get drunk they're going to wander off into a nearby forest yeah right yep you know that was kind of my move Camaro Kev will confirm this that was kind of my move in my 20s there was a point of inebriation for me when I'd be hanging out with Camaro Kev and our friend JD in particular where I would just be inebriated to the point where I just wanted to be home I think you can identify with this but I also wouldn't tell any of the people in the group That I was going home I would just disappear There would just be a point in the night where they'd be like What happened to Luke? He just ghosted I'm kind of surprised

That that was your move My friend Paul Used to disappear a lot in high school And college parties he would just disappear Um, usually there was, I think he was also in like some sort of emotional torment. Um, but, uh, I am a ghoster. I ghosted on a party a couple of weeks ago. I felt really, it was, it was sort of deliciously scandalous. Um, I kind of knew that I was going to ghost, no offense. And I don't think the person throwing the party is going to hear this, although she might, but, uh, Genevieve and I were going to a friend's party. I knew that I wanted to say hello to some folks, but I just was feeling kind of exhausted. And it was it was after a whole day of suit shopping, Luke. And I was just like, you know what I think? And I told Genevieve in advance, I think I'm going to ghost because usually if we're going to go to a party like that, we would take a car, you know, in case we had too many beers or whatever. But I said, you know, let's just do this. I'll give you a ride over there, which you'll you know that Genevieve appreciated that. I'll hang out for a little bit. And then at some point when the time is right and the crowd is big enough, I will just Homer Simpson like fade back into the bushes and disappear. And I was just like, but you need to know this, because if the time is right and you're not around, I might be ghosting on you, too. Like, you know, like I don't want to make a big deal about saying goodbye to you if I'm ghosting here. And she's like, OK, understood. But then I went over the plan about five more times in the rest of the afternoon until Genevieve said, yeah, no, i understand the plan but um eventually worked though it did work i think i think ders was at the party and apparently ders asked after me i don't know if the host did and i haven't i haven't had the uh the gumption to text her about anything since because uh i'm i'm embarrassed and i don't

know how rude that doesn't it feel i mean and i'm a pretty social person and i i definitely like you know hanging out with people and celebrating things and etc but there's almost nothing more fun than when you are leaving either on foot or in your car or whatever when you're leaving a party that you were really ready to be gone from like when you do the move that you're talking about it feels like steve mcqueen in the great escape just feels like you're jumping a motorcycle over a fig of barbed wire like it's just like oh my god i just pulled this off i'm free i know like that feeling of like just sneaking out and then just like like getting in your car and then just knowing i'm gonna go home i'm gonna have some andy times i got that's just a great feeling and i and

I think you know this, and it might just sound like I'm covering my ass here, but in all honesty, there was nothing onerous about this party at all. It was actually quite pleasant, and I didn't know that Durs was going to be there. I thought he was out of town, but it was great to see him. It was actually a really good group of people, but you know me. I also just love my alone time, and if I can go, say hello, hang out a little bit, and then come back home and get a little bit of alone time, amen. You know what I've been watching lately, Luke, in my alone times is I downloaded through some means that are likely legal. The entire first two seasons of the 1980s show Amazing Stories. Do you remember that Steven Spielberg project?

I do vaguely, although I think I confuse Amazing Stories with That's Incredible and with one other show that was kind of like that. But Amazing Stories was sort of like, wasn't it kind of like, not the Twilight Zone, but a little Twilight Zone-esque? Sort of.

It was basically, it was a Steven Spielberg project while he was kind of at the height of his 80s fame. This is like 1985 was season one, I think, and 85 to 86 and maybe 87 to 88 or something for season two. So he's a big deal, and he's pulling in all these famous people. Like one of the most famous ones, or at least the one that me and my family remember, was there is an airplane, like I believe a bomber making its last mission in World War II. And you have Kevin Costner as the pilot you got.

oh right this was the one where you have the belly gunner and the landing gear won't go down

and he has to draw it well spoiler alert no yeah no that's exactly that it's like it's like um it's got a lot of magical realism in that one and that one is more of a kind of a drama like i say with magical realism and i remember that but then i'm just like i downloaded the entire two seasons which these are when seasons were like 20 episodes i cannot believe how many of these there are and i I watched one the other day called Guilt Trip. Listen to this 80s explosion. It stars Dom DeLuise playing the character of guilt, Lonnie Anderson playing the character of love, Charles Durning. Do you remember Charles Durning? Of course. Yes, playing like – they never say the word God, but he's clearly like God's assistant. You have Gordon Jump from WKRP in Cincinnati. Charles Nelson Riley is in this Like as you're watching it You just get nice Mick Jagger That was a great Clinton Anyway it's just like one of those things And of course like Dom DeLuise Is just Dom DeLuising it up And it's just like It's just And this one was like Very much a comedy And so the premise of the show Wasn't to have them all be Like kind of freaky mysteries Please.

necessarily but just like you know the whole like open of the show is just like we've been telling stories from the beginning of time like they don't say that but you see like cavemen telling stories together and then you see like the modern era of storytelling and so I think the idea was Steven Spielberg is the storyteller of our day and oh oh and by the way uh who directed this Burt Reynolds directed this episode by the way of course Burt Reynolds would cast his buddy Dom DeLuise and Lonnie Anderson who was probably his wife at the time oh I didn't realize they were a couple oh there you go anyway I just find it delightful I mean if if anybody is my age going

through a midlife crisis I can't recommend it enough amazing stories that's right all right so I have an amazing story for you this guy in Turkey gets drunk he wanders off into the woods his friends are then worried about him and so they alert the authorities who set up a search rescue mission to find him this is according to the turkish tv channel ntv when news of the missing man got out efforts to find him intensified in nearby neighborhoods with a large group of volunteers joining the mission uh the search party was calling out mutlu's name for several hours when suddenly a man from within the group spoke up and reportedly said who are we looking for i am here which this that reveal is very funny to me yes like i just i suddenly you hear it wait are you saying my name i also feel like this is i like that this guy is this proactive while drunk yeah like when i'm that many sheets to the wind i'm not helping anyone with anything i'm not i'm not joining any search parties i am you know trying to find a new episode of american greed To watch on my television And lying on my couch or whatever I like that he was Even though he was drunk he was still helpful And then at some point realized He suddenly realized They were searching for him It's unclear This is from this Vice article It's unclear how Mutlu found himself In his own search party Or how his friends didn't realize That he was right under their noses the whole time Police escorted him to his home This isn't the first time a missing person Joined their own rescue mission in 2012 an asian tourist who went missing in iceland was found in her own search party if she

reportedly failed to recognize her own description you know when you sent that in the show sheet and i saw the headline i thought wait a second because every now and then you and i will be throwing some links around and we'll accidentally get caught up on something that is old that is being recycled for some reason and we don't realize that it's from several years back because i saw this headline And I'm like, Luke, I think we already talked about this. I remember this story from a long time ago. But I checked the date line. No, this is a new story. And again, I think you said you're reading from Vice magazine. And then when I got to the last line of the story, I'm like, yes, I think I remember this this other story from 2012 when somebody was in their own search party.

These are the kind of stories that when I see them, I immediately want to forward them to the wait, wait, don't tell me staff. Because I'm like, oh, this will be helpful. But then I'm like, they know what they're doing. And then I also saw Tom Bodette was tweeting this story today, so I figured they're on it. Everybody is notified about this.

Hey, before we go on to Blur's Days, which we should do here in a second, I just sent you a link. And I don't know if this really works for the listeners, but I have some more dazzling details about this photo of Mick Jagger. So I found the original tweet that Mick Jagger sent out, out and about last night in Charlotte, North Carolina. What the hell was that accent? Okay, let's do it. Okay, let's stop doing that accent. Okay, let's don't do that. I just sent you the original tweet, which maybe you saw, but I don't know if you scrolled down on it. People are jumping in this and saying, also, take a look at where this bar is. That is not the back of the bar we're seeing. That is the front of the bar. This is a tiny, unless I'm being really spoofed by the internet, because some of these look fake, but then there's other versions of it. This is a tiny, tiny little square box of a bar that developers have built all around it. It looks like it's one of those things. Oh, it's a real, like, it's like the up house. Yes, or a little bit even like my place, Mike's Chili Parlor, which is in Ballard, and everything is building around it, but you have this tiny look.

Well, you know that Mike's Chili Parlor is literally, like, two blocks from what's called the up house, the Edith Macefield house.

I knew that that existed in Ballard, but I didn't know that it was two blocks away.

Yeah, it's really close. Yeah. So that same thing is happening to Mike's Chili Parlor?

Yeah, I don't, well, Mike's Chili Parlor just always gives me that vibe because, yeah, there's a huge, like, new, like. Oh, my God, this is hilarious. Yeah, the first photo almost looks fake, right, the way the lighting is. But then if you scroll down, people are like, no, this isn't a joke. Look, like, this is one of those tiny little bars that. Like, it refuses to sell to a developer so they can build around it. And it's basically in a tiny little parking lot. That adds so much to this for me.

That's amazing.

Yeah. I mean, maybe that explains a little bit of why they wanted to, they saw it, you know.

from the tour bus or something so it is a little bit of an anomaly but it's still just like i don't you know i don't understand how he's not being mobbed by people but again maybe it's the age thing or maybe just people are that cool and people are cool i like people being cool um uh i don't love the it's not the why do i have to go negative at the end of the show there's also the comments are just people trying to get mick jaggers attention by making puns about Rolling Stone's songs? Dear Mick, are you waiting on a friend? At Mick Jagger. It's just a lot of that, too. It's a lot of people just kind of wanting to make contact with Mick, which is a completely fine thing, obviously. But anyway. Well, this is interesting.

I'm seeing that my old colleague and somebody I would like to consider a friend, although I don't know if he remembers me, Eric J. Lawrence has hopped in these replies, says, next time you're in West L.A. and looking to kill some time with a can of Zero Sugar Mountain Dew and a couple of episodes of Doctor Who, feel free to hit me up. So I don't understand why Eric felt like commenting this.

That's a comment someone you know put under the photo of Mick Jagger at this bar in North Carolina.

Yes, in North Carolina, somebody who lives in Los Angeles. And also, by the way, interestingly, I would say posted this 13 minutes ago. So since we were first talking about this story.

The content gods just keep raining down content on us today. All right. We should get out of here. I have the perfect song to go out with.

There's a right way to rock And a wrong way to roll You can't just listen to your song

This is my first time doing the show. I apologize.

This is number one You can be having so much fun Just remember that life is much fun You can be not number one

All right, Luke, let me dig in here with the first Blur's Day message from Catherine, who says, my son Quentin is turning eight. Happy Blur's Day to my sweet little Q. I hope your day is filled with cats, Pokemon, and rainbows. Lots of love from Mom, Dad, Lola, Willow, and Eddie.

Adorbs. I love Q. It's worth naming a kid. I thought the Pokemon would still be going.

Yeah, I know, right? I'm still tempted to try the Pokemon Go to the polls game.

Jason and Miriam say, Could you please wish our wonderful, sweet, smart five Simon the most happy Blur's Day from his mom, dad, and little brother, Leo? Yeah, do you know this next song? Do you see what they're spoofing here? Hold on, I got a... Yeah, let's see here. You take a great kid, you raise him on... Oh, I don't know what song is this. Please.

You take a great kid, raise him on a pod cart, forget to buy him presents. Happy birthday, Simon.

And then the meat cat does something. The cat flies away. You got cheesy blasters. That's great. Pretty good. Happy birthday, Simon.

Katja says, I would like to wish a very happy birthday to the love of my life, John, who is turning 61. I can't believe I am married to such an old man Hey, wait a minute Hey, what happened there? But I look forward to many, many years of hiking and laughing Eating your inspired meals and talking for hours on end I love you, my huersterino Cute What is that huersterino? Or is that an inside joke? I don't know Huesterino, I should say

Huesterino I wonder if that is just an inside joke It seems like it Is that a Spanish word I've not encountered yet? I don't know I don't know Nicole says, I'd like to wish my five, Madeline, a happy third Blur's Day. Madeline, you are hilarious, dog. You bring so much sunshine to our lives. And I can't wait for your Elsa birthday party. Jalapenia! There's a word we know. Now that's going to be fun, by the way. Whoops, this isn't the jalapenia I meant to play, but whatever. Enjoy it.

Jalapenia! Jalapenia! Jalapenia!

That's an Elsa birthday party I think Elsa is the main character From Frozen Let it snow

Jesse says Dear friends I am an 11 My wife enjoys your podcast I understand you make a tradition To wish your listeners a happy birthday On Thursdays If you would kindly wish Alexis loving I usually Take out the last names But here we are You got one through Jesse

Maybe there's just a comma there. Yeah, well, that's why I was wondering, yeah. That's what you're saying, like, happy Blur's Day to Alexa. Loving a happy birthday on my behalf.

On my behalf, yeah.

I would be very grateful to you.

from Jesse, who is very much a real person and not several bunny rabbits inside a Canadian tuxedo.

Listen, Jesse, get hip. Get into the show. If that's your level of comedy, rabbits inside a Canadian tuxedo, this is the show for you. That's a very well-constructed

Or maybe we should listen to your podcast.

Marissa in Maryland, home of the Baltimore Orioles, who will defy expectations and beat the Boston Red Sox today, says I can't believe Marissa put all of that in I know that's the email prescient for happy blurs day to my adorable five Avi this five turns five today he is the sweetest most affectionate boy in the whole wide world and he loves the tbtl sound machine almost as much as he loves the Nintendo character Kirby mama loves you mama loves you uh

Avi do you remember talking to Marissa on the phone We're doing our call-in shows from the Undisclosed Location. Didn't she tie one of these kids to a tree? I believe that's exactly what happened. I'm glad you're still there, Avi. Stephanie says, my husband Gregory lives for his birthday shout-out on TBTL. Please don't forget him. Stephanie, how could we forget Gregory?

Happy Blur's Day, Gregory. Lori says, I'd like to wish a very happy Blur's Day to Sarah of Magpie Mouse fame. I'm so pleased that I finally got to meet her in person just a few months ago and buy yet another pair of lovely earrings from her. Happy Blur's Day, Sarah, and I hope it's a good one.

Of course, if you want to check out Magpie Mouse Studios, all kinds of ceramic jewelry and goodies, I think you can still find that on the Tens Helping Tens page. I believe it's tenshelpingtens.com. Justin and the Fur Prince Bobbo Would like to wish a happy Blur's Day to Liz You are the bright, shiny Agate What is an agate? It's a rock

When I was a kid We would go to Ellensburg, Washington For a church camp every year At the Lazy F Ranch And then we would go looking for agates And I never knew what I was actually looking for

I'm sorry that I didn't I didn't have that ready to go Usually I pre-read these, and I'll put in a little pronouncer. I'll do my research ahead of time. You are the bright, shiny agate standing out amongst the beach rocks. We love you. That's from Justin and the Fur Prince Babbo to Liz.

Dude. Maria, a Minnesotan, says, My great-nephew Henry just turned one. His great-grandparents, my parents, died in 2020. Between those two deaths, he popped in. He wasn't one of those. I didn't even know I was pregnant, pregnancies. Ha ha. That's good. Glad for everyone. Everybody knew they were pregnant. Proper medical care and all. He's filling our hearts with so much joy. I can't wait to do projects with him. And since he can't type yet, I am submitting my own Blur's Day too. I see. So Maria is going to let Henry slide on not submitting a Blur's Day for her. So this is kind of a double dip here. It's Henry and Maria.

Maybe Henry can make an art project for Maria's Blur's Day. We'll see. Yes, absolutely. And finally, Julia says, I'd like to wish a happy belated Blursday to my mom, Nancy, in St. Petersburg, Florida. She's the 10 to my 5 and the Andrew to my Luke. Or, as she calls him interchangeably, her friend Luke or her son Luke. Aw. That's very sweet. The best birthday present. I can always use more mothering and more maternal energy because I can only give so much. The best birthday present you could give her would be another show in florida fingers crossed that that happens soon well happy blurs day nancy from julia and your son luke and i you know you know what nancy i consider you a second cousin

once removed i could see us getting back to florida at some point it's amazing how much you know i i've said a version of this like a thousand times during the pandemic but you know we had such a great time doing those road shows and we're doing that show at the Waffle House and everything and yet also stuff like that does give you and I a certain amount of agita but not getting to do it now for whatever it's been a year and a half I would I would you know crawl across hot coals to go do a show in Florida or anywhere honestly yeah just to get

to be around people it would be nice let's you know let's keep an eye on things you know some I see some public health experts are feeling optimistic about the spring or maybe cautiously optimistic about the spring so we'll see we'll see

We're crawling out. All right. So whereas I previously tried to end the show prematurely, and it's now actually time for me to end the show. That was a really good save, by the way. Remember that stretch of time where I think it was about six, seven weeks?

in a row I forgot that we do blurs days on Thursday it was new then yeah always trying to end the show it's also because I just have my little oh I see that was also why that's why you were extra confused when I played the email thing see that makes so much more sense to me I forgot we were doing blurs days and so I thought the emails were going to be the end of the show and that's why I jumped to that that's why I was just confused all around actually because I thought that maybe you went to hit top stories and hit the wrong thing I don't know anyway We got there, and I think it was another award-winning show. Although the MacArthur Genius Awards were announced this week, and we were once again left off the list. What about Jen Flash Andrews? Was she on there? I did not see her name. I did see Hanif Abdul-Rakib, though, frequent LiveWire guest. He got one. Nice. Which is cool. I know. I'm stoked for him. Poet, right? Writer? Writer. And I don't know if he would describe himself as a music critic, but just an amazing font of knowledge. on just about every kind of music that has ever existed. I think he's Niff Muhammad on Twitter if you want to go follow him, everyone. Alright, that's going to be the show for today. Thanks for listening, everyone. We'll be back here tomorrow with more Imaginary Radio for you. Until then, have a great Thursday. Stay safe. Go Orioles. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

Once I built a power Now it's done Brother, can you spare a dime Once in khaki suits Gee, we looked swell Full of that Yankee doodly-dum Half a million boots Went sloggin' through hell And I was the kid with the drum Say, don't you remember They call me Al It was Al all the time Say don't you remember I'm your pal Buddy, can you spare a dime?

Freejack stars Emilio Estevez as a race car driver catapulted into the future where warring parties battle to capture him and steal his body. It's a grim vision of the future and most of the audience

got the message. Free Jack is a great statement about what could happen if we don't get our hands

out of the sand. Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is the main villain in pursuit of Estevez in the film. It's his first movie in over 20 years but he told Garrett Glazer that his decision to do it

was rather spur of the moment. Right now I'm working on a solo album project and just before that started they said we would like to do this feature and I said let me see it so they said well I've got to know we've got to know by next week because it starts shooting in three weeks so I said okay I'll do it so probably if I had six months to think about it I probably would have turned it down and said oh no it's not quite the one I want Emilio Estevez what was it like working with him I enjoyed working with him I thought it was a really good fun guy we went out a few times went to a few strip clubs in Atlanta did you that's what people do in Atlanta it's I'm perfectly okay, darling. I'm off to the strip club after work.

Jagger has a second film out now, the concert film Rolling Stones at the Max, which is in IMAX theaters around the country. Power out.