Muse

And we've become great friends. I mean, close. We'll just sit in the front room, and we'll sit there. And he'll walk, he'll go to the front door, kind of knock on the door, and then sit down, then I'll sit, and then he stands, and he's out in the front. And then he'll come in, and we just sit there. And he'll stand, and I'll sit, and then I stand, and you sit, and then we're both looking at each other, and we're just nodding. Like a couple of nodders, right? T! T! T! T! B! T! T! T! T! T! T! T!

T! T! T! T!

T! Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is?

It's Friday. Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend.

Well, there's that fine line between, you know, showing emotion and being a hot dog.

What do you think the stripes are in the American flag? They're hot dogs. They're boiled and unboiled hot dogs, white and red and white and red.

Isn't it a shame that this kind of thing has come up? It's what the Bible calls an abomination.

Well, obviously, I'm not a big guy. I'm not a Carl Weathers, par exemple.

We have to get drinks. Several drinks. Don't you think? Let's celebrate.

Celebrate drinking.

Okay.

Alright, hello, good morning, or maybe good afternoon to be more accurate. And welcome to a Friday edition of TBTL. It's your lucky day. The show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. You want to do a make-believe radio show in a room somewhere. I'm telling you, there's no money in that. Coming to you today from the offices of Walsh, Walsh, and Dormat. It is interesting just how deep the pathways in my brain are, the grooves in my brain are, as far as the things I say at the top of the show. I'm sitting here at 2.15 in the afternoon. It's moving towards getting dark. And my brain went with good morning, even though it hasn't been morning for a long time. We have arrived at episode 3548 in a collector series.

Let the fun begin.

We've got a fun show today in store for you. As part of our special afternoon programming, we are going to be taking your phone calls.

Answer your telephone. Answer your telephone.

I was tempted to give out the number, but then I realized that won't help anyone because as you're hearing this, the show has been released on the Internet, but it's too late for you to call. We're getting dangerously close to Mr. Show. Everything that we're talking about was on last week's show territory. But basically, Andrew is going to put the phone number out on the social media at some point, and then people will call in, and then we will chat with them, and we'll have a fun time.

Hold up! Is this a friggin' booty call?

Hopefully the booty calls will be kept to a minimum, but I don't know. It's Friday. We could get fun. We could get flirty. I just mentioned that it's like we're getting into that time of year in the Northwest where anytime it's past like 2 in the afternoon you're really on the kind of downhill slope to it getting dark outside and that is only going to be exacerbated this weekend

don't stay in my house if you're dark sided

because we are about to fall back as they say even though everybody in the state of Washington agrees that we should stop doing this There's something called the Sunshine Protection Act that needs congressional approval so that we, the state of Washington, and I think a few other states out here, can just stop doing this, can stop falling back and therefore making the feelings of darkness even darker. And I'm not going to say this is more important than the Build Back Better plan, but I would put it right there with that infrastructure bill. If we can stop falling back I would be very into that So we'll talk about that Between phone calls or maybe during phone calls I don't know Plus we have some music for your weekend on this Friday And we've got this young man The longest running co-bro of the show Maybe best known for his depictions Of the tall ships He's furiously filling out post-it notes And posting them to his computer Which is how I know he is ready for action today He is Andrew Fuck you I'll rollerblade till I'm bloody What was that? What was that? And he's coming to us right now from just across this table. I want to apologize to my nieces. I have a drop called For the Hardcore Bladers. That's all I know about it. It was in my iTunes, and I just thought it was something about rollerblading, but instead it appears to be Genevieve using the F word. Wow. That caught me off guard, my friend. You know what? It caught me off guard. I'm almost speechless here. I want to apologize. I couldn't preview the drop because you're sitting right there.

We'll talk about the Daylight Savings issue later on. Did I say savings? Oh, God.

I'm only saying that. That sounds very pedantic of me. I'm saying that to remind myself.

I would like to compose an open letter right now to one Gene Bean Baxter. Bean, I failed you today. I am sorry. You know, this is one of the two or three hills. Hey, in my defense, I can't even say the word three. So, you know, or cryogenics. I've been practicing. I think I nailed it there.

The census thinker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans.

It's just the thing that said bean. I'm not playing any more drops because you're right. They're going way too dark on this Friday.

But I know that that is one of the things that he did.

These are the three. What are the three? The three legs in the Bean Baxter stool. i didn't know we're gonna be talking about hold on do i have any upsetting drops about stool

wow um i would say daylight saving and not mispronouncing it as savings um he used to be and i am as well pretty hardcore about taking photos in landscape mode not vertical mode on your camera uh-huh do i say camera funny and then um a third one well i don't know this is really a hill he dies on but he's a huge taylor swift head sure oh so it's really four so now we've christmas i guess christmas and half christmas and three-eighths christmas and christmas music and

exactly in fact i don't know if it's still his email signature but i feel like for a period of time every email that i got from him it had like a link to christmas music wow and pluto was a big one too clyde twamba he's got a lot of hills doesn't he's got well he's got five legs in his

Oh, goodness. I'm so sorry. I'd like to open up. I'd like to compose an open letter to Bean Baxter right now. Bean, I'm so sorry that Luke keeps talking about your stool.

It's listen, I said this as the intro music was playing to you. I am at the intersection of exhausted and ecstatic right now because I've had a pretty busy week. I was in Arizona yesterday I was doing some work for the Microsoft Corporation this morning I've just been kind of you know and then my normal compliment of other radio jobs with Livewire and the like it just you and I sitting here together talking on this show I kind of knew that it was the end of the rainbow for me this week and I knew I was going to be really relieved really happy to be seeing you which I am this is fun And really just like glad that I've kind of got all behind me I think later today we may go Socialize a little bit which I'm also looking forward to But what I didn't remember Was that I was also going to be Exhausted Even though I got a lot of sleep last night I Made a promise to myself Andrew That I wasn't going to have yet another Show where I sort of Whinge about travel stuff But I'm going to do that really quick

Probably if you're playing about Comcast instead

I said this yesterday when I was in Arizona, which was if you are going to be traveling, particularly if you're going to be engaging in air travel, I'm saying this to the listeners, be aware that everything is just more frustrating right now. There just aren't enough folks to staff things I think the airlines have probably drastically cut down On the number of flights they're flying Because they're probably I mean they were just hemorrhaging money And so now they're trying to get more people Onto fewer flights I think to probably maximize their profits The rental car situation Yesterday I was flying from Arizona Up here to Seattle And the plane did this thing That it only makes me mad I don't think anyone else cares, but if you're flying from a point that is south of Seattle, and I knew exactly where we were supposed to land, and we were not landing, and we were above the clouds. I couldn't tell where we were, but I knew what was going on instinctively, which is we are flying past Seattle. We are flying up to about Everett, and we're hanging a U-turn. We have pilots in the listening audience, and people have, I think, explained this to me before. But I don't understand why it is that they can't have the flights coming from south of the airport land, you know, on a runway where they come over Tacoma and then they drop down and land. I don't know why it is.

And then, you know, there's a reason, though, because there is a way that the airline wants to just be burning extra. I totally recognize there's a reason.

I don't think it's because the pilot got lost and I don't think it's because it's fun. It's like it's fun to fly a plane. But there's something about an. Again, really what it was, was I was dealing with a level of personal exhaustion that was making me irrational. It was, and I know I've long pitched the idea of acting irrationally in irrational times. But I was having irrational frustration that we were flying north over the airport and then more north. And then every second that we continued now flying away from the airport was making me feel really, really frustrated. So we finally do our U-turn. And I kept trying to say, you know what? I'm listening to my The Tallest Man on Earth music, which I like. I'm looking out the window. We've now dropped below the clouds. It's beautiful. I see the Space Needle. I'm on a very short list of human beings who've ever gotten to see this, like in the total time of human existence. Enjoy it. So I kind of got there with it. But then we landed. And then it was one of those things where we were kind of hanging out on the runway for a while. The pilot was maybe a little more chipper than I want him to be. Thanks, everyone. We just have a little bit of traffic here on the runway So as soon as these planes back out We will pull in That's really good

Just a little bit more of the extended throat Kind of What do you call it? Everybody complains about A vocal fry

A little bit more vocal fry Ladies and gentlemen Just a little bit of traffic here So then that's just a little more delay I was thinking of you because I was like If I was Andrew right now I'd be counting through the number of things Really the issue started in Arizona for me Andrew because you drive To the rental car place You drop off the rental car it's very far From the airport you get on a shuttle bus Take the shuttle bus to The terminal that they let me on and I said Oh this isn't terminal three they said no you get off here And you go to the sky train You transfer you transfer from The rental shuttle bus that you took from The rental car drop off to A terminal but not the terminal where the Airplane that I needed to get on was I had to go up like six stories in this thing get on a sky train and take that to the terminal that i was

flying out of so it was a sort of like building thing sky trains by the way great pr people for sky trains because like it could just be called a tram yes or whatever but it's called a sky train it's so exciting this idea of being on a sky who doesn't want to take a sky right normally i'm big

on a sky train yeah at this point i was kind of like uh i would like to just only have to take one mode of transportation to get from where the rental car was dropped off to where i'm flying but so anyway by the time i got to seattle i was a little wound up and then uh i go i get the rental car and i i pull around and i've i'm very hungry i have not timed the day well in terms of food so i didn't really eat any food at all during the whole day because it was at this tv shoot and then i was rushing to the airport of course the flight doesn't have any food anymore it was pandemic and somehow whatever so all i'm thinking is i want to get off this airplane i want to eat something that's very comforting to me and i want to go to sleep because i have an early day the next day and for some reason what pops it well first thought is i wanted to go to a restaurant that's near my hotel that i really love called barolo they stopped serving at 10 now my flight mind you landed at 830 so between landing and actually getting through the concourse on the shuttle they don't call the sky train in seattle because it's underground taking that thing rental car shuttle bus three shuttle bus wait to get on the rental car shuttle bus at ctac in other words the

first one's full the second one's full the third one i got on take that get to the rental car i'm

looking at my watch now it's by this time it's like 9 20 and i'm thinking i could maybe get up there drop my stuff in the hotel and go to barolo and have a yummy little thing of pasta that'll feel good that will because there's nothing that staff wants more than to see somebody walk in at 9 45 well exactly but you know what i'm i'm i will be that guy because what's happening in my

mind i wouldn't be surprised like i'll bet you they would even probably send you out at 9 45 i'm

sure there's an area i don't know i used to play poker at goldie's with the main dude there okay if he still works there so we cool but anyway what's happened in my brain at this point is i'm i'm totally exhausted i'm totally burned out and i have now decided that whatever this food is that i'm going to get at the end of this is going to be what makes me whole is going to be the light at the end of the tunnel if you will and so i realize i get in the rental car and i come around the corner and there are 20 rental cars waiting to get released out of the rental car area because of course there aren't enough people working there's only one booth going so there's

a bunch of people milling about and cars kind of in the well no they're in just in cars there

are just cars imagine a traffic jam in the rental car center at sea tech oh i see so that you cannot I got you. I can't get out of the safety gate. And so I'm just sitting there and about 20 minutes goes by. I'm inching ever closer and I'm watching this window for this restaurant Barolo close.

Yeah, you need at some point for your own sanity to just like release desire.

And then my brain does something weird, which is it decides here's what will make me feel better. Two to three orders of French fries from Dick's Drive-In and a chocolate shake. And I'm like, that's a really unhealthy meal to eat at 1030, but I don't care. I am really hungry now And I'm not going to reward myself With a drink of alcohol Because I have a big day the next day So I have to reward myself with something else Which is very salty french fries And a milkshake And I make the decision Plus they're open late So I know there's the dicks that's over on Lower Queen Anne And so I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way To get there and get to my hotel So I punch it into Waze And Waze tells me weirdly enough Sorry this is so specific about Seattle Roads But Waze tells me, don't go on I-5. Take these back roads like 509 to 99. And I'm thinking, I don't want to do this because it seems too involved. But every time I disagree with one of those mapping things, I'm wrong. You know what I mean? There's a traffic jam or construction on the main. Like when it tells me to do something that seems weird, it's usually right. So I'm like, I'm just trusting it. I'm like, okay. So I'm taking these back roads. I'm down on like marginal way, kind of like way south of Seattle on these like where that Green River Marathon is that I did once many years ago. And of course, at some point I look away from the ways thing and I get off the road I'm supposed to be on. And I am now just in the southern industrial like Duwamish area because you actually made a mistake. And I made a mistake because it wasn't it wasn't like super clear. Yeah, I got confused as to what it was asking me to do. And now I'm just in like, you know, we're like the Green River Killer was operating.

just what if the green river killer was just hangry i was i was contemplating doing some

green river killering uh i was so now i'm i'm still i'm just like i'm super hungry and i just keep going down the wrong road and then ways is having it's just now it's telling me to do these like origami patterns like a god's eye of different turns to try to get back to 99 and I'm just like I'm coming very close to having an emotional breakdown because I just need to get to these french fries so I I but I just I'm talking myself through it I'm like this is fine you're okay you're safe you're gonna be fine so I finally get on 99 and the whole time I'm also mad because I'm like did I need to do this compared to the i5 which I know how to do that right I don't need a mapping software so I finally get go through the tunnel work my way around and I am about to take a ride on the street in seattle that's called mercer which is going to get me over close to where this dick's driving is andrew and i look and i see something deeply upsetting standing at the corner of mercer like fifth and mercer or wherever i was people in kraken jerseys oh the game the

mother trucking hockey game has just let out when they opened up and it's not just like any city either when there's a sporting event like they specifically had major concerns about reintroducing professional sports in this arena which is right in the heart of queen anne and does not have any big through ways around there it is a concern nightmare were founded it is a nightmare which is also i wonder if that's related to why ways was spinning you around i guess although i5 would

seem to be un sort of there are other dicks too like you didn't have to go to that i could have gone to the one on Broadway 45 I could have gone to the one on Lake City and probably would have saved yeah now I'm just trapped on Mercer amidst thousands of jubilant hockey fans oh the cracking one they did there was a hat trick that the first hat trick ever history of the franchise I mean three in a row it means three goals scored by the same player and this one was a natural hat trick in that I believe the person scored them one two three it wasn't like a goal someone else gets one and they get two more good for them I'm just sitting there now I'm just locked you know that feeling of like trying to leave a pro sporting event and you can't go in any direction and i'm just like you didn't even get to go to the game i didn't go to the game dicks is off the table now of course i mean that is going to be surrounded by people i just like at some point take very illegal evasive action and take a right up some street on queen anne that's probably the wrong way i'm just like i gotta get out of here and i just drive like over queen anne and i drop down i get back on aurora and i just go to my hotel and i just go to sleep nothing no food because the hotel restaurant was was done serving the um any door dash around there peace and love To our sponsor DoorDash Was like an hour Everything closes at 10 now

And are you staying Without giving away too much Because I assume That you might be staying Another night But were you staying In that area The Kraken area South of there By the monorail Kind of like by the Palace kitchen Everything down there Is closed The reason I asked Was also because Not only the closing thing But if you did try To like DoorDash something Are they going to be Trying to like drive Through all of this It's just

There's just nothing Open around there It's like this kind of Dead zone in downtown Seattle There were Tom Douglas restaurants there But they're all like out of business right now Lola's closed Palace Kitchen, Dahlia Lounge They're all, the pizza joint Like everything's just done There's just nothing there

Was there a vending machine at the hotel? I mean, clearly you weren't interested But I'm just like When I'm that hungry, I gotta eat something Even if it's a bag of Fritos

I honestly just lost my will to do anything Like I just got into the hotel There was a restaurant there And I went over to them and they said we just stopped serving yeah and it was just like okay and then i just charlie brown did charlie brown sad walk in the hotel by the way did some intermittent fasting yesterday so that's a yeah there you go woke up this morning went to the coffee shop and and bought like five um kind bars and just housed those this is before your gig before my gig and that's what i've eaten today so yeah anyway uh the good news is i was able to fight the urge to complain about my traveling this is you that was me but but it's all behind me now and i here we are so what have you been

aside from the kind bars nothing i don't like that i don't either when you food when you're

posting the show i'm going to um order us a mountain of pizza pizza mountain you hear that yes pizza mountain coming your way okay enough uh complaining from me let's get to the listeners complaining yes i did tell people did you tweet out the uh let me the heads up i will do that

during the break because you know somebody's going to call in immediately and then we're going to put them on hold for a long time we got to thank the donors of the day and stuff so um but yeah but i did say and again i don't know who i'm talking to right now because i can't give this advice nobody's listening to us right now but what i i want i would love to live that dream of mine of people calling in just to get things off their chest petty grievances uh problem with the neighbors let us if you want us to adjudicate anything that's the kind of stuff i'm hoping to yeah picks and pans picks and pans exactly cheers and jeers yeah roses and thorns that's right so um all right so anyway we'll go to a break we'll come back we'll take fries and kraken games were you gonna i'm just gonna torture you were you gonna dip the fries in the milkshake i don't do that i don't enjoy that yeah i don't do it except for when i was a kid at wendy's i would do it because a Frosty is somewhere between a shake and ice cream, I guess. So I did dip. I bet it would taste good. There was something about that.

Also, the problem is Dick's French fries are kind of – Yeah, they're a little wobbly. Yeah, not shoestringy. I don't think you have enough structural integrity to get a good – By the way, we will be going there at some point today, tonight. I'm going to be like, you have to go get those dang French fries.

I got to tell you, when we come back, can I tell you about the diner I went to yesterday? It's just like I'm just collecting places that have booths that I like and food that I can tolerate at this point. I just went – I drove north to Shoreline yesterday. That's going to be the name of your travel log. Yes, exactly.

Booth that I like and food that I can tolerate. Oh, I think I know. Wait. When we come back, can I guess? Yes. And then if it's the place, I want to tell you a story about it. Okay, good. Okay. All right. All right. First, though, this break on TBTL. hey let's thank some donors of the day who are making today's episode possible with their generosity thanks to Doug Horton in Fraser Colorado king of the tuck tuck sound there's

something about the way and I'm exaggerating in my head but in that skit where he says king from, I think you should leave, King of the Tuck Tuck Sound. In my memory, he kind of, he says that, he almost yells it in a way from the diaphragm, King of the Tuck Tuck Sound. And in my head, I keep exaggerating it more and more. Right, of course. And then, like, I'll be walking around, like, a Target or something with Genevieve, and I'll just be yelling, King of the Tuck Tuck Sound. It just gives you this look like, what are you doing? First of all, you don't even sound like him. That's Tim Heidecker, right? And also, just like, we're in public here, my dude.

My version of that is, where be your nutcracker? That's the line from that sketch that just, like, as they say, lives rent-free in my head. Always thinking of it.

Here's the thing about gazpacho.

Laurel Humphrey is in Burien, Washington. Thank you, Laurel. I play the high C all night, I believe. You should play the one with the kink. That's all I got.

Yeah. I've run out of references.

James Norton, where be your nutcracker? Probably in C. Seattle, where you live. Thank you, James. John Pelletier is in Phoenix, Arizona. That's one of my favorite places to take a rental car shuttle to the Skytrain. Skytrain. Ooh. Martha Zumach is in Oxford, Great Britain. What about that? How about that? Well, we have a Rhodes Scholar listening to us. Tee-da. Martha.

Well, Rhodes Scholar. That's a special scholarship at Oxford. Am I wrong about that?

You're not wrong about it. It's a very prestigious thing you get to do. What's funny is, well, I'd say more tragic than funny, is a recent appointee to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, was being described in conservative media as a Rhodes Scholar, which was incorrect. She went to a university, I believe in Indiana, called Rhodes University, which maybe we have listeners that went there. I don't want to besmirch it, but it's not.

Road Scholar means something very specific.

Road Scholar has a very specific meaning to it.

I'm just asking questions.

Exactly. You know who never asks questions because he knows all the answers? Raymond Williams, who is also in Seattle, Washington. Thank you, Raymond. And thanks to all of our donors for making today's episode possible as loopy and goofy as it's going to be. Because I can already feel my brain starting to just basically dribble out of my ear.

Good. just in time to I'm reaching the perfect

emotional place to interact with the listeners

I did send the tweet out phone line is open the tweet has been sent do you want to take a guess at what diner I went to yesterday was it O'Shea's it was not O'Shea's ah dang it we have a call here I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and pick up this call but we're not going to go to the call right away because I want to talk about this diner

good this also get me time to get my phone answering sound effect ready to go which you think I would Oh, do you want to take the call right now?

Or do you want to talk about diners?

Let's take the call and see what their thoughts on diners are. Ahoy, hoy. Who is this? Ahoy, hoy.

This is listener Jamie from Maryland.

Hi, Jamie from Maryland. How's it going?

So great. I can't believe I got through. It's like a miracle.

You must have really been hitting refresh on Twitter a lot.

No, I just saw it, popped up, hit it, and then there I was. I was like, oh, this is going to take forever. But, you know, sometimes you just get lucky.

Andrew is, and this is the difference between me and Andrew. Andrew, I think, wanted to wait to tweet out the number and wants to try to not have listeners have to be on hold for like 20 minutes because you're staring at the screen, Andrew. You see the listeners and how long they're languishing. I don't, so they almost don't exist to me as a concept.

I don't mind keeping people on hold for a while. I just want them to know that we haven't forgotten about them. Last time we did this, I think there was some confusion about whether or not they knew they were on hold or not. But, Jamie, we got to you right away. Now, it's kind of getting to be evening where you are right now, right? What is it, like 6 o'clock where you are?

Yeah, you know, I don't even know what time it is. That's how sad. But it's getting dark out, so it must be something like that.

What are you up to on a Friday? Yeah, what do you do out there to get crazy on a Friday night?

Well, we're about to drive to Pittsburgh, so don't be too jealous. But, yeah, I took the day off of work.

What are you doing in Pittsburgh?

I've been running errands. We're going to my husband's sister's 50th birthday party.

Andrew wants to turn this segment into kind of a picks and pans, kind of like something that you're either really happy about or something that grinds your gears. Do you have either of those things?

Always. I have lots of opinions about everything, pretty much. I will regale you with things I hate where I live.

Okay, give us your hottest take right now.

All right. My biggest thing is I really think that in movie theaters, they should have people like up in the rafters with little like airsoft guns or something, little BB guns to shoot people who talk. It's not hard. I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt you. I just want you to shut up. Really. Yeah. That's maybe, you know, I don't wrinkle your paper, a Nerf gun or something.

I'm trying to think of something that's, you know, at the lowest level of, of, of, of letting the person know that it was, oh, airsoft gun. That means BB gun though, right?

Oh, yeah. You know, I'm thinking, like, can we get, like, a softer BB? I don't really know all about BB guns. But I'm just thinking some kind of projectile.

What about Nerf footballs? I would actually volunteer for that job. That would be fun. You get to sit up in some kind of a perch, and you have Nerf footballs. And when someone talks, you get to try to just wing them with the Nerf football. That would be fun for everyone involved.

I think it's going to be a little too much fun. I think that's going to cause more havoc.

It's going to distract from the movie. If I can just recommend something, Jamie, because I've been attending a lot of movies lately. Well two which feels like a lot This is if you really hate people Talking in the theater this is Your time to start attending Movies because there's nobody in the theater It was empty the last day We saw last night in Soho

And we were the only people in the theater. By the way, that movie was just terrible. You did see it? Okay, yeah. I was going to say, I keep seeing commercials for it since you mentioned it, and it doesn't look like my kind of movie.

The first half of the movie is pretty entertaining because it's kind of set in sort of the swing in 60s of London. There's cool costumes and music, and then it just goes off the rails for the last 50% of it. But I was just going to say, Jamie, if people talking in the movie theaters really bothers you this is your time to see a movie because they're you'll be pretty much by yourself

maybe i'll try to go back because i haven't been in a while you know one of the last times i went i got so angry at a child who had thrown gum into my hair well that's worth getting mad about yeah he was they were being brass and they were throwing gum around and food and whatever and i just got like blindly furious and i went back to these group of kids and i said which one of you little uh jerks through gum at my head and one guy put one little kid pointed at the other one i took the gum out of my mouth yeah oh he was but i took the gum out of my mouth that i had been chewing and i squished it into that kid's hair no you didn't i just assaulted were there yes i did

were there parents there were these were these when you say kids these like tweens teenagers

Gosh, they were like, they were probably like 11 or 12. So they were bragging.

How did the kid react to the gum?

I mean, I didn't just put it in there. I like pushed it down and like squished, like rubbed it in. That stuff was not coming out. And then I realized, you know, he looked shocked and I probably looked even more shocked. And then I just left the theater because I was like, now I'm going to jail.

I think you did the right thing. That's a life lesson.

You are straight up unhinged.

That kid is never going to do that again. What was the movie you were seeing?

You know, this happened quite a few years ago. Pretty much after that, I was like, maybe it isn't safe for me. I mean, I was a lot younger. It may not be safe for the other people.

Yeah.

Wow.

Hey, man, just don't throw gum. That's all I'm saying. No, I'm with you. Have some decorum.

I'm on your side. I was just curious, like, are you or were you a parent, you know, of your own children when this happened? Like, were you a younger adult at this point, or were you coming off as an authority figure? I just cannot imagine the mindset of these kids when an adult comes up to them and smashes gum in their hair.

You know, they looked completely shocked. One looked like he might cry. And I can almost guarantee you, though, and no, I don't have any kids. I didn't have kids then. I don't have them now. But I can guarantee you that somewhere on some other imaginary radio show, that kid is probably telling this thing. That's a great story. Gum into my hair.

No, that honestly, that's that is probably I'm just going to say in the top three most vivid memories of that person's life.

Yes.

I mean, that is like you made an impression. And I promise you that person never threw gum in anywhere again.

So, yeah, you know, hey, that's what I'm here for. I'm just helping out the world, taking out one jerk at a time.

All right. Well, have fun in Pittsburgh and don't get into anything at your husband's family's birthday. They try to keep the confrontations to a minimum.

Can't make any promises.

All right. Thank you, Jamie. If you get into trouble, call the listener line and let us know what happened. Okay.

Will do. All right. Thanks, guys. Bye.

Thank you.

Bye.

Okay. So, Andrew, what diner did you end up going to that wasn't O'Shea's?

I think off the top of my head, I think it's called Floana's. It's way up north. It's actually, I think, technically Shoreline. When I say way up north, it's like, I don't know, three miles north of here, four miles. okay um but so here's the deal like i'm trying to picture it in my mind because i do a quick google map search it's way up there it's like across from showgirls there's there's like i realized in driving back so this is kind of north seattle in an area i don't hang out around too often but on the way back i was like wow there are two showgirls gentlemen's clubs within like walking distance to each other in this part of town it's on like 522 up there i believe oh in bothell is it Does that say Bothell? What I was looking at said Shoreline yesterday, but I think it's Flo Anna's. And it's an old, like, diner that just has, like – so I go in there for a late lunch at 2 o'clock. I'm just interested, basically, in a place where I can read my book, have kind of a lengthy lunch. I want soup. I know the food isn't going to be awesome, right? I just want food that is edible, but I want it to start with some sort of a soup, ideally Italian wedding soup, And then like have some sort of a sandwich and fries after that, along with a nice big Coke. And there's a little diner more in my neighborhood I've been going to lately that provides exactly this called The Varsity. And I've been doing that. And I was just there like two days earlier with my book. And for some reason, I was like, I don't know. Like, I think I'm good for once a week at The Varsity, but maybe I should expand out here a little bit. And I almost street viewing this. Yeah, I'm trying to. It's on, like, a four-lane road to...

non-boffle way technically i mean it's just like a not it's like a incredibly like not um pedestrian friendly area you know a little rough around the edges but it's a greek place you go in there

of course no you know what that's the uh that's the day i i that's the deja vu uh that was right across from the from the the taco bell it's a deja vu not a showgirls right it's a deja vu okay That deja vu, when I was a kid, we would pass by this deja vu strip club every Sunday on our way to church and later every Sunday on our way home, and their sign always said, hundreds of beautiful ladies and three ugly ones. Oh, that's the place. That's like their kind of catchphrase, and I still, to this day, need to go in there to get to the bottom of that whole situation. But no, I know exactly what you're talking about. So you basically just kind of went – you went a long way on Lake City to where Lake City turns into Bothell Way. Exactly.

Now I can picture this. By the way, we do have a caller on hold here. We don't have to go to them right away, but I want the caller to know that we know that you're on hold. But, yeah, I was just in the mood to do that, and I was like – you know, I'm always looking for diners in Seattle, and I don't really have a favorite diner in Seattle. What about drive-ins and dives? Like there's, you know, Roxy's, which is kind of okay, but I didn't feel like driving into Fremont and looking for parking. I'm just like, what if I start looking for places that are on the outskirts of Seattle? So I just type in like – I think I typed in like diner, Lake City, and this is the first place to pop up. And I guess it's run by probably a Greek family because like the first Thursday of every month is Greek dinner night where they have like a prefix menu if that's the right word for it.

Well, you know that the varsity is also – as is Vula's, as is Patty's Egg's Nest. It's a I think that's something culturally that or it tends to be a lot of Greek American families run a lot of these diners.

And I love and I love it. And so I go there and I actually wanted to tell you this part, too, I guess. So I go. And again, like the food is I don't want to talk badly about this place. I want people to support this place. But I also don't want to, like, recommend it like, oh, you have to you have to go there and try the X. It's just like it's exactly what you think. It's just diner food. It's also like it maybe used to be a pizza hut. Oh, I got the impression it's been there for a long time. And it isn't shaped like a pizza hut, I don't think. Are you looking at the place with the red sign? Maybe I just didn't know. Maybe it was. I don't know. Maybe it's been there less.

Put it on the pole, Guillermo.

But anyway, so I'm there. And here are some of the things I observed. So when I first go in there, I think I'm the only customer except for two very old men, a white man and a black man sitting at a table together. Again, this is late lunchtime. I don't even know if they're eating or just having coffee and just talking too loud about stuff.

And like, you know, that, you know, we call that they're solving all the world's problems. Is that what you just like? There's like, I want to be like one of those old guys that gets like black coffee at six in the morning with my buddies and we just solve all the world's problems.

That's exactly what these, I loved it so much. I was like, I looked at them. I was just like squad goals. And they're, and like, I go to sit down and then I overhear one of those guys yelling like, oh, did you hear about these guys waiting for JFK Jr. to come back? What the shit? Did you hear about that by the way? Yeah, yeah. He had a turn of phrase that was so perfect. What kind of shit is that? I think he says. I just love it. And then so I'm kind of eavesdropping on them, reading my book. And then another very old man comes in and he looks a little bit more down on his luck, a skinny guy. And I don't know, he looks maybe he's in his 70s or something. And then he orders. He's sitting kind of close to me. So he orders a salad and a cup of soup, right? By the way, sorry, caller, who's calling in and on hold right now.

These are the stories you get. I'm going to tell this caller something. You're getting to hear this before anyone else. Yeah, this is an Andrew Walsh exclusive. You're welcome. Pew, pew, pew. Okay, everyone else has to wait two to three hours for this to get on the internet. You're hearing it right now.

But he orders a cup of soup and a salad, right? And they have that soup that I like. It's that Greek lemon soup, avagnolo. I don't know how to say it. Sorry. I can barely say cryogenics. um but uh anyway so he orders a cup of soup and a salad and then the waitress who's like she's i love her she's really great and she's like oh by the way i can give you the the um combo instead that would be instead of a cup of soup would be a bowl of soup and the salad and you get some bread and the guy's got like 17 follow-up questions he's like wait it's gonna cost me more no no it's gonna cost you less it comes bread bread she's like yeah and he's like is it like hot is the

bread hot you know what i actually don't think i don't think that's a terrible question it's not

a terrible question but it was one of a series of questions that was it really seemed like and maybe he doesn't spend a lot of time in diners it really seemed like this was all new to him he didn't interesting and then the food comes out and it's the bowl of soup he's like this is a cup this is a cup she's like no no this is the bowl you ordered the combo which is cheaper than ordering the cop in this

salad look at all this food he's like delighted at how much food he's like there's only 10 50 he's not talking about it being 10 50 i think i regret not doing this i eventually pay my bill and i almost went on the way out went up to the counter and almost asked her can i just pay for that guy's meal just like i'm out of here i'm not looking for praise just like do a little no you're hoping he pays for the next person's meal no no no no no like no um expectation expectation of anything other than this guy's so excited about how much food he got for 10 bucks what if he comes what if she's goes to pay the bill and somebody paid it and i would have even sold her like don't tell just say that somebody got it you know what i mean like i just thought that would just kind of delight this guy right yeah i didn't do it i chickened out as i'm walking out of the diner i was like ready for if she was like facing me and ready to say goodbye and maybe by the cash register but like when i go to leave her back is to me and she's talking to somebody in the kitchen and I'm just like I don't want to it wasn't like excuse me it wasn't the ten dollars yeah it was the the process of trying to like do this move and also I just don't know how weird that is like at a bar you buy somebody a drink I've done that for people before you know usually when I'm trying to have sex with yeah no but like I've done that I've kind of secretly said hey get that person's thing for whatever reason it's rare but I just like I don't know also is that like me acting like I'm like I'm a man of means or something I don't know I just started to feel uncomfortable you got in your head about I just got in my head and she if the circumstances was right as I was walking out I would have done it but I didn't want to be like excuse me excuse me I want to do this thing so I just left what I sort of regretted it kind of what did you actually eat what did you order so I got that soup and then a um uh corned beef sandwich which was fine you know toasted bread uh I skipped the cheese I said bring me some mustard um and the fries were better than I thought they were going to be they were the um kind of like the rough hewn fries you know the rougher hewn fries that are kind of brown after they're deep fried. Because they leave the skin on I think. They leave the skin on the tips and then also I thought they were going to be a little bit cakey for my taste but they were actually pretty good. So you know it was just a really in a giant thing of Coke. And it was just like great. It hit the spot and I finished my book.

I think at some point you will become the expert on Seattle diners. Yeah. I could write a book called Diners, Diners, Diners. That's a show title. I'm writing that down. Why don't you

answer this call? All right. Diners, diners and diners. Do we have a Mr. Burns that we can... Oh yeah, sorry, I've been too busy street viewing him. Ahoy, ahoy. Who we got on the line from the 3-2-0.

Is this, why is this happening

with Chris Hayes? Oh my god. Wow, does this sound like a musical, Stubot? The Stubot. How you doing, man?

Just study it out and you'll see. Hey, buddy.

oh my goodness i am so glad that i was on hold for 10 minutes so andrew could tell a story about

getting soup at a diner yeah but think about how much earlier you got that information than than everyone else i mean you would have had to really wait i mean that's just absolute

stupid that should be your new intro tape are you calling non-fungible token of audio

be honest are you calling in because you want to talk about aaron rogers

honestly that's not wrong oh no i was just i was in the car i saw there was a tweet out there i'm not you know it's just i wanted to say hi it's so nice to hear your voice buddy oh yeah i mean i'm in the car i'm obviously i am going to get piper because that's what i do on friday afternoon

you're very well aware does she have some kind of is she at some sort of uh dance rehearsal type thing right now?

Oh, no. Now she's into film now. Oh. She's going to watch a Nicolas Cage movie.

Wait, was it her or Celia who thought they were hipping you to David Lynch the other day?

That was Piper.

Do you want to relate that text exchange?

Well, she asked if I'd ever heard of the movie Mulholland Drive. And I'm like, yeah. And I like David Lynch quite a bit, brother. And that's like she was like blown away that I knew who David Lynch was because, again, I'm a 50 year old man with no like taste in anything. So it's I thought I get it.

I thought her what she said to you next was honestly like the most compelling argument for David Lynch films. I say this as a person who I don't really get the day. I don't get most David Lynch stuff, whether it's Blue Velvet or, you know, Mulholland Drive or the like. She said something to the effect of It's really weird but it's kind of a whole vibe Or something to that effect Like which I thought that was actually a very well That's a really good way to describe it Because I think my problem is I go into that stuff Looking for kind of like I'm looking for it to be What was the What was the movie that had Russell Crowe And Guy people

You're L.A. Confidential.

Oh, yeah.

I'm, like, going into Mulholland Drive looking for L.A. Confidential, which is a very tight plot, and, like, you know, it all makes sense, kind of. And that's not what you go into that movie with. You just go into it for a vibe.

Yeah, there's, like, a guy in a cowboy hat and a dream sequence and a whole bunch of people doing, like, dances. It's a nonlinear narrative.

The guy from Quantum Leap.

Oh, that's right. That's right. Billy Grace Cyrus is in it.

He's also in the original Dune, which David Lynch directed. We just rented that the other night. I think I saw it once in college when I was going through my Piper-esque David Lynch phase, and I was ready for the – I don't know. I wasn't ready for that, and I've heard since that the reason that movie doesn't hold up so well is because it was like chopped to bits without his permission and whatnot. But we just – having seen the new Dune, we wanted to see the old Dune, and yeah, he showed up in it. He did not ask Ziggy's help at all during the entire movie.

You know that I went down a real Dean Stockwell rabbit hole the other day because I saw a headline that Scott Bakula had said that they were in early talks or preliminary talks to, you know, maybe do a reboot of Quantum Leap. And he made a joke to whoever was interviewing him something about, well, Dean Stockwell costs too much. And I was like, I can't believe Dean Stockwell is alive. And I googled him and not only is he alive He lives in like New Mexico somewhere and there was a local Article from the New Mexico paper He does elaborate artwork with Dice If you go to Dean Stockwell's house He's got all of this art that he's made with Dice that he's really proud of It takes him like months to glue These dye together So that's what's up with Dean Stockwell

In case you were curious There it is an afternoon with Dean Stockwell So I would watch that.

It's only funnier if it's Dice Clay instead of actual Dice.

I think the end of that show is really like when the series ran out, and obviously that I love mostly for nostalgic reasons. I love that series, but obviously it was hit or miss, I would say, to be generous. But I think the final the final line of that TV show is he never found his way home. Like that was a TV show that really ended just like.

So is he trapped? Who was Bakula trapped in?

I don't. I think he might have just kept leaping. I think he's still leaping to this day. So it's actually kind of primed to have a reboot. Let's find out what's happened.

OK, Stu, you have managed to low key the Aaron Rodgers conversation thus far. But just because you and Andrew were you in particular, but also my friend Andrew, were, I think, sort of ahead of the curve on not liking Aaron Rodgers. And, again, peace and love to our Packers fans out there. I'm thinking particularly to Lisa, who I know is very into that team. And having a hell of a week.

They are going through it.

I want to try to be cognizant of that and nice to our listeners in Wisconsin who are bummed out. I don't know how I would react if this – like, Russell Wilson hurt his finger. That sucked. But Aaron Rodgers has hurt the soul of a state. What do you make of this whole thing, Stu?

Boy, I just, he seemed like such a otherwise normal sort of smart dude. But Andrew, as you mentioned, was on to him quickly as kind of a fake kind of smart. And I just didn't like him because he was a Green Bay Packers quarterback. I mean, both equally valid reasons to dislike somebody. But, yeah, this is just, you forget that he's from Northern California, which is like the epicenter of like a lot of where the whole vaccine hesitancy movie movement started before COVID like that's where a lot of people would just like take their crystals and their treatments and that was going to keep the measles and the mumps away which is not right and his dad's a chiropractor

I didn't know that his dad who he doesn't talk to which if I can just take it to personal town that was one of the weird wrinkles of Aaron Rodgers's life that i knew was that he doesn't talk to his family and i was like hi i wonder what's up with that and now that i know that he was lying about being vaccinated i'm siding with his family whatever the beef is i'm kind of figuring it's on aaron rogers i'm not even kidding isn't that what you're

you you had a very successful tweet today didn't you stew bot oh i sure did andrew oh is that what

you're calling in is that burn about is that still burning up the tweet what was your tweet What was your good tweet?

It's just basically a C, quote unquote, Aaron Rodgers family.

Yes. Oh, I didn't see that yet. Okay. So I'm glad that you took it to Personal Town before I did. Now, Personal Town, by the way, is adjacent to Flavortown, and it's less fun and more hurtful. The other thing, too, and this is another very bizarre place for my brain to go. for the list.

Listeners who are going to hear this and don't know what the heck we're talking about. The quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, has tested positive for covid. That's shocking because at one point earlier in the season, he was asked if he was vaccinated and he responded, I'm immunized. And everyone just thought he was confusing being immunized with vaccination. No, he was very carefully choosing that word because he had not been vaccinated. He was taking some kind of, you know, holistic B.S. that clearly didn't work.

But he was going to build Clinton town there. There you go.

And so I was shocked. What I think is, like, what does Shailene Woodley make of this whole thing? His fiance, the noted actor, and I would assume smart person. I don't know anything about Shailene Woodley's politics, but she's from Holly Weird. I just assume that she's probably pro-vaccine, pro-science, pro-a-lot-of-things that I guess Aaron Rodgers isn't.

I guess, but it's funny that you assume that about, like, the L.A., like, star community. because, I mean, that's also where you have, that's also Elrod and Hubbard Town, right? And you also, I mean, there's all kinds of people.

You're calling Shailene Woodley a Scientologist on the record.

I don't think that she does. I mean, I think I'm on the record as saying that she is. Get the breaking news sounder for Andrews. She is problematic and a leader in the church there. No, I. Where is Miscavitch's wife? I'm just saying that, like, I don't think of L.A. TVTL breaking news. As a place that is, you know, a stranger to alternative theories.

Well, I've got three headlines we can choose from. New York Post, Twitter turned on Shailene Woodley after Aaron Rodgers' COVID controversy. Or the Mercury News in San Jose. Don't blame Shailene. Woodley's not responsible for Aaron Rodgers' diva COVID. And then Vulture, Aaron Rodgers, who got homeopathic treatment instead. And then I can't read the rest of the headline because it trails off. I don't know. I guess it's just weird to me because I know that you both didn't love Aaron Rodgers for the reasons that have already been stated, but I thought because he guest-hosted Jeopardy, he wasn't bad. He seemed to have a bit of a sense of humor. He's about to marry somebody from Hollywood who seemed like they had their own interesting life and was reasonably age-appropriate as far as I could tell. like you know what he mean it wasn't it was just he seemed to me to sort of embody a football player who got it you know putting aside team loyalties and boy does he ever not got it well he's got

joe rogan on speed dial that's what he's got well he was on the pat mcafee show today i believe right i mean his very for the first words out of his mouth on the pat mcafee show was something like i know i'm going to hear from the woke police before you put a final nail in my cancel culture coffin or whatever like that was why i was gonna open today's show coming out of the gate i'm just like oh my god i like here's my favorite aspect of this entire thing it's watching this play out between our friend the stew bot who joins us now and our former boss steve el ropo nelson who of course is also a green bay fan like our listener lisa lee and uh i believe he tweeted at you today I just picture you eating a fake soup like a football player after getting a sack or whatever. Feeding himself. Were you doing that all day?

I have just been smiling all afternoon. You don't really see an NFL great torch their entire goodwill in one day. Usually there's somebody in a white Bronco and the NBA Finals are on when that happens. Right. This is really new territory for me.

I was not to get too sporty because we've already probably been too sporty here. But like, I'm also just surprised that this story actually blew up the way it did, because I don't know. I could just see I could see a different maybe if there had been bigger NFL news this week, I could see a different version of where they were just like, oh, he misspoke. He said immunized, not vaccinated, whatever, moving on. But this there were not moving on. Like, it feels like there are more dominoes that will fall before this is all said and done.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I think they've got Seattle the week, next week, right?

Oh, you mean God's team? I feel like Seattle now is, if we have to face Aaron Rodgers, his first game back, I feel like the divine favor has fallen upon us because we are, although watch out, you'll find out that, like, Pete Carroll's not vaccinated. he's got some he's got some kooky theory I gotta be careful

he's up there on the list guys

he kind of is he's just asking questions which always makes me nervous anyway well listen Stu thanks for calling in man we miss you it would be nice to see you all in person at some point

knock on wood all this behind us you back in town here at some point all right give our love to the fam tell mandy good job running that marathon thank you man love you guys talk to you soon have a good weekend bye

there he goes the stew bot the stew bot uh while we wait for the next call uh i don't actually i mean i think i said everything i was going to say about the sunshine protection act at the top of the show which is just it is with a heavy heart that i actually it's gotten nice now all of a It's with a heavy heart, though, that I contemplate this weekend and us losing an hour of light. I did see something on Twitter that I thought was interesting because there's this kind of debate that happens around this time of year in the Northwest, which is like, is it better to lose an hour of morning light or an hour of afternoon light? Is it what's better to be driving to work and it's light out or to be driving home and it's light out? And what the person on Twitter said is, how about we reframe the conversation to be, does the workday need to be so long? that you're doing it the entire time it's light for like three months of the year, which is more of a question probably about capitalism, I guess.

Yeah, and it's funny that even structuring a question that way, I think so many of us are just like, what is driving to work? You know, that's kind of it too, so it affects me less.

Well, more like, how about waking up? Well, again, I guess it doesn't quite hold up. But because, you know, if you're working from home, you will get to see some of the light. But I I this morning this is going to sound like I'm trying to pat myself on the back but I got up not crazy early I think I got up at 630 I took my sweet time in the hotel room I listened to some morning edition I read some tweets got my running clothes on went down to the gym did the treadmill came back up. it was still dark it was like 7 30 7 45 and it was still dark and I thought that's not a good feeling like morning darkness I think morning darkness gives me a worse feeling than afternoon even though I don't love afternoon darkness morning darkness makes my body feel tired makes

me feel like I'm up too early yeah yeah although sometimes you get kind of I mean I can sometimes associate that with kind of an exciting feeling that I haven't gotten up you know well I guess The mornings have been darker, but I haven't gotten up at an extreme pre-dawn hour in some time. But like growing up, my dad used to get up for work around 4, 430, and then he would drive in. I think at that hour, maybe the drive was like a 40-minute drive into Cleveland. And on some occasions, he would take me with him on like a Saturday maybe. As a little kid, I'd hang out in his office.

He would still get up that early on a Saturday?

Yeah, and so there are – and by the way, we have a caller who's been on hold for a few minutes here. By the way, caller, we haven't forgotten about you. I have. I mean, we will eventually, but this is just the process. Trust it. Hashtag the process. Don't trust it. But anyway, I have an association of just like waking up when it's still dark out and then that smell of coffee. This is before I would drink coffee, but like that smell of coffee early in the morning mixed with my dad's Old Spice or whatever. And then we're like in the pickup truck. That sounds kind of fun. Yeah. And so every now and then, like if Vives and I, let's say we have an early morning flight somewhere. You know me, like I love sleeping and I hate waking up early, but I can sort of trick my brain into it a little bit of kind of feeling special or exciting because I have those connections. Before we go to this caller, I'm going to take a huge left turn here because I'm thinking of something now and I want to tell the world here before I forget. I was listening to the Dan Levitard show yesterday, as I often do, and a close friend of TBTL was on. Sam Bingman.

Yes. Did you hear that? No, I saw it on Twitter, and I was so happy for him.

I am so glad I didn't see it on Twitter first. I was just listening to the pod. Wow. And all of a sudden, you know, they introduce guests in a very kind of rambly, kind of like non-head-on kind of way. Unlike us. Yeah, exactly. And so I don't even realize they're building up to a guest until. And so I'm sort of half listening. I'm not even really, you know, I'm puttering and just like TBTL. That's a show that you can sort of just half listen to sometimes and let it wash over you. All of a sudden they're introducing Sam Dingman. I'm like, what? I didn't even hear what he was on to talk about at that moment. But I'm like blown up his messages and Twitter just being like, oh, my God, you're on Levitard. I love it. And then it occurred to me he's on there. I'm like, I hope he's not on there to talk about something serious. because sometimes they talk about, like, very serious allegations. The family ghost of a player. Right. But, no, he was on to tell – he's got a new project, of course. So people who don't know Sam Dingman, he did, I would say, the best promo for TBTL I've ever heard. He's a longtime listener of this show, and he had his own very successful podcast called Family Ghosts for quite some time. And on his show, he did a really nice little love letter to TBTL introducing his audience to us.

Which I'll be forever grateful And now he's been working on this thing called The Rumor A new podcast that's out now Do you know this story? I will butcher it if I try So here's the thing

I don't know the story But I know that I'm going to be obsessed with this podcast Because it involves Cal Ripken And something about a power outage In Baltimore

And a rumor A rumor that Oh shoot Who's the Field of Dreams guy? Kevin Costner A rumor that Kevin Costner was having an affair with Kel Ripken's spouse at the time, which potentially this is apparently a rumor that's been out in the world for a long time and nobody ever really investigated. And that Kel Ripken could not play in that game that night, which I believe would have been a playoff game. And there are there are rumors that somebody purposely cut the power so that that game would be canceled because Kel Ripken was so upset having caught his partner in flagrante. I believe. Hey, look at me getting words right

It's a Walsh W Friday

So Dingman and his Co-producer, I guess, go deep on this And actually apply their journalistic Rigor to this thing The podcast is called The Rumor It's on Blue Wire Podcast I think people should really check it out And of course support Sam because he supports us

Yes, what if this call was from Sam Dingman

Okay, let's go to this call right now Thank you for holding Only five and a half minutes Ahoy, ahoy. Hey, who's calling in from the 651? Is that Minnesota?

It is Minnesota, but this is Caitlin in Boise.

Hey, Caitlin in Boise. How's it going out there?

Hi, it's good out here.

What's new?

Well, I'm sitting right now in the Albertsons Headquarter parking lot. And we are here for the Pediatric Vaccine Clinic.

okay so you live in uh in minnesota but you're in boise for work no no we live in boise actually

eagle idaho oh okay um and i'm from minnesota and i still have the old 651 number gotcha but now what's going on at the albertson's hq so this is where they're distributing pediatric

vaccines oh are your kids getting vaccinated yes they are heck yeah i have a seven-year-old

who's excited a five-year-old who is nervous and a three-year-old who is thankful she is too young to get a shot today can we talk to them oh sure here can we talk to the one who's excited first

here they're on speaker hi hi there congratulations uh that you're about to get the vaccine which one of you is excited who's excited me what what's that what's that one's name what was that it's gwyneth gwyneth oh hi gwyneth gwyneth congratulations on being brave i have to tell you i've gotten this shot like eight times now it does not hurt it they have gotten really good at it i'm not even kidding this is you're not even going to know what's happening

and then my nervous one is five okay and her name is her name is treva and we've already had a few meltdown on the way from school and I've tried bribing her. We have stuffed animals. We have suckers. We have an ice cream trip planned afterwards. Trava, Trava, talk to me. What's

making you nervous about this? What makes you nervous, honey? She's already tearing up about it.

Oh, we don't want to put you on the spot, but if I can jump in here, if Trava can hear me and

You don't have to talk if you don't want to definitely hear you.

But I want you to know, and Luke will back me up on this. I am one of the biggest scaredy cats in the world. I am nervous and scared of almost every situation. I'm scared right now, but I promise you, I had the shot twice to get vaccinated and it did not hurt at all. In fact, it was kind of fun and you get to meet a bunch of really nice people who are all excited that people are getting the shot. And and it's you know, you're special because you're getting it nice and early, too. So I know that there's no rational way to calm your fears, but just try to remember that you talked to a really big baby today, and even he says that it's not going to hurt.

And you actually played this right, Trayvon, because you're getting an ice cream party out of this. Yeah. You really negotiated well with your parents. Oh, yeah.

He's getting a lot of things.

Andrew didn't. He just got the vax. It didn't hurt, and then just probably went to a diner and had a corned beef sandwich. That'll make more sense when the show comes out. Yeah, exactly. I promise.

All I got was some clam chowder, and it wasn't even that hot. What's the line like there?

Like, what's the scene?

So we have appointments, and they're kind of staggered like 10 minutes apart because I think they're anticipating children like Treva.

Sure.

Yeah, so they're not back-to-back. I think they're hesitant to give them out in the actual grocery stores and have screaming children over at the pharmacies doing this. So they're having it at the corporate headquarters.

Oh, I see. And because Alberton's is based in Boise, right?

Yes, yes, they're out here.

So are you guys inching? Well, when's your appointment?

Oh, we got here really early because we live kind of on the other side of town, And we had to do school pickup and all this kind of stuff to get here. And I did not want to risk being late.

Yeah. How relieved are you just as a parent? I mean, this seems like it's a really a big a big kind of weekend and a big change of life for a lot of American parents.

Oh, yeah. It's huge for us. I mean, our three year old will still not be vaccinated, but she should be pretty protected being around us. We're in a pretty high risk area. Yeah, Boise is careful, but kind of the surrounding areas aren't that careful. Kind of like how Andrew experienced that when he drove through Idaho and even stayed in Idaho that one time.

I'll tell you who's probably not vaxxed, the other Luke Burbank who lives in Caldwell. I don't know if you caught that episode, but there's a guy with my name out there who's not a fan of mine. He's probably part of the problem.

Yeah, he's probably not vaccinated. But yeah, it will be a big difference in our life. My husband is a physician and he's been taking care of COVID patients. And so this will just be a good layer of kind of protection and security for our family going forward and being around our grandparents and being around other little kids. My daughter, her friend got vaccinated at school yesterday. Tessa, yeah, she got vaccinated. And the first thing she said was, in five weeks, we can have a play date.

well I'm so happy for you all and I know it's probably still it's going to be a stressful you know next 45 minutes leading up to the event but um but it's going to be so great for everybody when you're on the other side of it I'm really happy for you and all the parents out there who can who can get their kids protected I mean that I feel like during the pandemic and I'm sure I've said this a bunch of times on the show one of the greatest divides had to be do you have young children i mean in just the kind of trying to take care of young children at home and then it moved into the well where the adults are vaccinated but you have children that are in a range where they could still potentially get sick and you can't do anything about that that just sounds so stressful

oh yeah it is especially the school situation coming into the year we didn't know if there were going to be masks if they were even going to be protected or taking any kind of precautions and luckily we ended up being in a place where they did take precautions but there are areas around us that aren't doing anything and that's why we had crisis standards of care in Idaho hospitals that's why my husband had to work so much for so many weeks until the third I'm sure

that wasn't frustrating for you at all trying to take care of these three kids while your husband Or, I mean, I don't know exactly what your guys' life situation is, but the idea that one of these parents is being called away because people won't be responsible and wear masks.

This is probably the first time that he's expressed any level of kind of frustration or anger was in this last surge. He's been so patient about it. It's been me that gets all worked up and angry about it. He really level-headed, wasn't headed through it until this last hospital rotation. It wasn't like he got really angry, and he had really great patients this last time that expressed gratitude for his care, and their family members were thankful, and they even said, we're letting our neighbors know they need to get vaccinated, this is real. But then some of his colleagues had patients that were still in denial and were angry about everything and demanding drugs that weren't really being used in the hospital. Horse dewormers, for instance? Yeah, exactly.

Worm dehorsers? Yeah, and also it sounds like he's somebody who put his own health and maybe in some cases his life at risk to help these people. You know what I mean? I mean, I assume that he's been on the front line since the beginning.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And, you know, in March 2020, in April 2020, he would be in the hospital. And we didn't really know what we were doing at home with, you know, keeping the kids safe. So he slept kind of in the guest area of the house and stayed over there.

Oh, my gosh.

And ate separately from us, like out in the backyard and would look through the window at the girls.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, it's been different. We haven't been doing that isolation stuff since he was vaccinated. but we don't want to return to anything like that either.

I've had marriages like that, but just for totally different reasons, kind of interpersonal. There's been no pandemic related problems anyway. Well, was it Caitlin? Yes, it's Caitlin. Caitlin, thank you so much for calling in. And I don't, you know, I know you're just going to be super relieved and happy and on your way to ice cream town after this. But if you want to send us a little update email or text or I don't know, record the kids on your phone. I don't just let us know how it goes, will you?

Yeah, I'll send you a voice recording of their reaction, especially the five-year-old. We'll see how that goes.

Please do. That'll be great. Really quickly, and I don't mean to play matchmaker here, but out of curiosity, have you met any of the other menches on the benches out there in Boise, or have you been able to check out the broadcast coffee that our buddy Barry just opened up there?

You know, I just found out about the broadcast coffee thing, and so we'll be going down there to do that probably in the next week or two because i finally realized that was there um but i haven't met any other tens out here in boise i know one other ten and she's in ohio

um nicole well if you jump on the stens page i bet you you could kind of uh hook up with the the other tens that are in boise at least you know virtually kind of say hi to them and they're awesome they're an awesome bunch of people some of our favorites good people they have bulldogs yeah yeah exactly um just mostly it's about march the bulldog so

all right well i'll do that okay guys okay well good luck with everything today thanks for calling in all of these hard times for the last year and a half i really appreciate it well we appreciate

you all right thanks and good luck everybody have fun yeah bye everybody have fun storming the castle um oh my gosh that's so i mean it i know the kids are a little stressed or at least one of the kids was a little stressed but that's still just like that's a big deal yeah like to I mean I have lots of friends who have kids and it's that's I was just sort of saying this to Caitlin but it's like you know I think of friends of ours who I guess I won't name because whatever it's it's sort of private and I don't want to put anybody on blast but we have friends who have kids and once we all the adults were vaccinated a lot of and I was like well cool it's fixed everything's over we're good let's go to Teddy's yeah and a lot of my friends were who had kids were like yeah I still can't yeah my life is still living as if I'm not vaccinated because I have these kids and if I were to get a breakthrough case or something that was mild to me but I pass it on to them

yep like it's you know the same boat as you on that yeah so anyway um struggle continues sure

does all right let's do a little music for your weekend before we uh ski daddle um starting with

you my friend what do you have i was in a um coffee shop the other day um in fact i've gotten into a nice little rhythm on thursdays now yesterday was my my diner day and so i've kind of done that i'll go oh you mean from your tv show diners diners and diners exactly and so and i've done this a couple of weeks in a row now where i'll go have a late lunch on thursday after i get the show posted around two or three or something i go have a late lunch and then i still have a lot of work to do on like the newsletter and stuff so i will because i now have what i've always wanted a nice little compact little portable laptop not like my giant laptop that i smuggled in from czechoslovakia um uh so i will throw this in my backpack and after lunch i will walk on over to broadcast coffee is usually closed by the time i'm doing this i'll walk over i think it's called distant planets now which is like a little coffee shop in my neighborhood that is aimed specifically at nerds and nerd culture you know like a lot of that kind of stuff I love

it one time I was opposed to the coffee shops that are for jocks like it is I mean it's like

deep into Firefly and there's like kind of like all kinds of like iconography from like various sci-fi kinds of things and also you can just tell that they are a safe place for people who maybe don't fit elsewhere one time I went in there there's a giant table kind of in the middle that maybe seats I don't know eight people and I went in there I think it was on a Saturday and it was just like a it was like a group of people look like from various walks of life but they all just brought their dolls and there didn't even seem like there was a through line between what kind of dolls they were but they just had them all piled up and they just all positioned their dolls on the table between them and they all sat around and you know like I was describing this to a friend of mine and of course he kind of laughed and I was like I like it like I'm not into doll culture but i just love people who have interests like that finding each other and having a place to do it so anyway i have a special place in my heart for i think it's called distant planets it might be distant worlds anyway so i go there on thursdays and i will uh i'll work on my newsletter until like six or seven and then i'll head over to teddy's and see my boys there it's a nice little neighborhood day for me and i was there a couple of weeks ago and you never know what kind of playlist they're going to have going yesterday was much more along uh it was much more up my But a couple of weeks ago I was there and they were playing a bunch of like kind of late 90s, early 2000s sort of R&B songs that I was like not really familiar with. Like that's a real blind spot for me. Right. But do you remember I Shazammed one of them. Do you know an artist named Candy? Was she really big? The song came out in 2000.

I looked it up later. That doesn't ring a huge bell for me. I wonder, though, if I'm familiar with the song, but not the person who she might be a one hit wonder.

Yeah, I'm not sure. And again, it was exactly the year 2000. And the song is Don't Think I'm Not. And I will say that the verses are very pedestrian. Like, there's not a lot here. But man, I got the hook stuck in my head for quite some time. So I don't again, I have no idea if this is a popular song that a lot of people in our audience already know or not. But this is an artist Candy, K-A-N-D-I, with Don't Think I'm Not.

Now I don't have to question Where you were last night Cause I already know what you will say I already know you lied But I can be mad at you Cause there's something that you don't know That when you're gone, I do my own thing And I catch a bone while you're dogging me

When you're out in the club, don't think I'm not And when you're out making love, don't think I'm not When you're feeling good, it's a mighty spot It's getting hot, don't stop Just don't think I'm not, cause I'm not getting mine When you're out in the club, don't think I'm not Even when you're out making love, don't think I'm not When you're feeling good, it's a mighty spot Getting hot, don't stop Just don't think I'm not Because I'm not getting mine

That's the hook that I love so much, and I've just dialed up some dazzling details on Candy. Have you been doing the same thing over there?

No, I haven't. I've been reading up on the music I'm going to suggest, but enjoying the music of Candy.

Three dazzling details. Number one, she's exactly my age. Not exactly, but she was born in the spring of the same year I was born in the fall. She first gained notice as a member of the female vocal group Escape. Oh, sure. In the early 90s. And she's known for her writing contributions on the TLC hit song, No Scrubs.

So there you go. Candy Burris. I love that song, the song you just played. And this is going to sound like I'm mildly negging it, but it sounds like an amalgamation of every single song from that era. But it also is just awesome. I love the hook. It gives me a really good feeling Because it makes me It causes me to remember the time in my life When every song I was hearing on the radio On like popular music radio Was a version of that My little music suggestion Is per usual Something my daughter told me about She sent me a message this week saying The new Sam Evian album Doesn't miss She says it's all bangers There's not one miss on the album And the album is called Time to Melt I had been driving around a couple years ago With Addie and she was just playing a bunch of songs Off of like her Spotify And there was one of them I was like who is it She's like it's this guy Sam Evian I guess his real name is actually Sam Owens But when he's playing music He plays as Sam Evian He also produces a lot of music Like he's produced stuff for Big Thief And Cass McCombs and Widow's Peak Which are all singers and bands That I'm kind of a fan of Or at least know some of their music And so this is his latest album Time to Melt And this is actually the song Time to Melt Off of the album Time to Melt So take a listen to this It's a little Sam Evian

It's time to know what is wrong I hold my hands into the sun Our wax is flowing in my veins Humanity is going to

all right so there you go that's a little time to melt by sam evie and this is i'm sorry by the By the way, that's me.

The batteries are a little bit low on my Walkman that I'm playing it off of, which is why it's kind of got a little bit of that warble.

That warble. To me, this album, and his previous stuff doesn't sound exactly like this, but this album, a lot of it sounds like the love child of Washed Out and Toro y Moi, which are two kind of, I guess you would call them, like, chill-fi bands that I really like a lot. So that's kind of everything I like musically in the world. That seems like good. Melting together.

There's a certain kind I mean I guess I mean you like this kind of music In all walks of your life I'm sure But All walks of your life In all times In all seasons In all seasons of my life But I There's a specific kind of vibe That I think about Which is Luke on an airplane Sort of Because you used to talk about Listening to air a lot I was listening to it last night On the airplane

Were you listening to air Or this I was listening to air I was listening to this as well And M83 Is that a big one M83 And then this other guy Time Cop 1983 Oh yeah right We talked about that

Which that all sounds like 80s movie soundtrack Back in the day. And all of that seems, yeah, very much like you, when you're not hangry and getting mad that you had to hook up to Everett to land, but generally like coming down out of the clouds, landing in Seattle, listening to that. When I'm vibing like Piper watching a David Lynch film. Right, exactly.

This is the music for me. Our listener suggestion this week comes from Hollywood Mike, who says, I've got a music for your weekend suggestion. All the talk of Luke's near electrocution made me think of this lovely song from the Magnetic Fields epitaph for my heart, which is, I love this song so much. This is, and you got to kind of let it go because, so this song starts, it's sort of, it's Stephen Merritt kind of singing what would be, I guess, the like warning label on a box or something. And then the whole like kind of vibe of the song changes after I've met another first 45 seconds or minute. But it's basically The beginning of the song is talking about Trying to avoid electric shock So it reminded Hollywood Mike of this song And I'm just such a fan I was like let's not miss the chance to play this song By The Magnetic Fields

I was very late to The Magnetic Fields Genevieve liked them in high school and college And I just like I knew of them But I didn't really listen to them And then everything I heard I liked And weirdly from my public radio jobs I've met him a couple of times now One time he actually was you know he's got a reputation for being a huge pain in the ass second time i met him he was as sweet as could be um but uh so this song is off of 69 love songs yes and like that was my introduction that's probably a lot of people's are but like the album is so long it's got i don't even know how many songs it's got on it but um see what i did there yeah i did 69 it's pretty

69 i like i like the joke for phyllis if she made it this far on the show and i didn't even mean that

as a 69 joke i was just uh pausing for laughter which is something you should never do um but anyway because it's so many songs like you know I mean it's hard to wrap your head around so I know I've heard the song we're about to play before but I couldn't tell you they all just kind of run into each other

I got really into this band and really into that like three disc set I think it was three discs right I think so yeah and it was at a time when again you didn't have unlimited digital options and I remember going on a road trip up to Whistler with my first ex-wife and some friends and just playing, just wearing these discs out. And it was the perfect way to get into this because you're just driving. You're kind of zoning out. You know what I mean? It's the right way to get exposed to something like this. And then after that, it just became kind of go-to music background of my life. Anyway, this is what we're going to play. Before we hit play on it, though, I just want to say thanks, everyone, for listening this week. Thanks for being part of TBTL. We will be back here on Monday with more imaginary radio for you so please do join us for that until then have a great weekend stay safe stay dry uh if you're in a place where some kind of uh bomb cyclone is going to descend and uh please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all Caution, caution, caution to prevent electric shock. Do not, do not, do not remove cover. No use of serviceable parts inside. Reuse of a center.

Qualified service personnel Let this be the epics have for my heart

Cupid put too much poison in the dark This is the epics have for my heart Because it's gone, gone, gone And life goes on and on and on And death goes on the world without end And you're not my friend

Who will mourn the passing of my heart Will its little droppings climb the pop chart Will take its ashes and sing He was king of the tuk-tuk sound?

Is this another jazz guy? Time! Ah, come on, guys! We didn't get one. That's because they're supposed to be celebrities everyone knows. Oh, you mean like household names like Roy Donk or Jack Marshall who wrote the Munsters theme song? Roy Donk? Power out.