Muse

For he's a jolly good fellow, and nobody can do it, but I can. Nobody can. I'll get this. Okay. But I can. I'm going to look up those lyrics. You got it. All right. That was good. T-B-T-L.

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 you're here to make friends making friends is the name of this show but if what you want is superman the only way you

can get him is illegally from a modern day pirate sometimes people say that my head is too big for my body and then i say compared to what look man you know your stuff but you're like a crazy

volcano you have to show me you can bring it down a notch i'll bring it down a thousand notches if i

have to all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a friday edition of tbtl the show it just might be too beautiful to live i'll say what's up dog my name is luke burbank i'm your host oh yeah coming to you from the hollywood broadcast center in portland oregon where at the exact moment that I am speaking to this microphone, it's not actively raining, but, oh doggies, it has been just an atmospheric river for the last 12, I don't know, 14 hours of water. Didn't know you like to get wet, though. I think we're looking at more rain this weekend. This is just, I guess, what happens when you find a northwest climate in the Alps this time of year. Anyway, we are at episode 3,558 in a collector series.

Let the fun begin.

Which is promising to be a good one. This is historic. For the first time in the history of this country, a woman will have presidential powers. Or maybe even as I'm recording this, has presidential powers. I think we can all agree that it's a great time to be a lady in America. Kamala Harris is in charge of things while Joe Biden. or those of us who watch too much TikTok, Joe Byron is under for a colonoscopy so we will look into the implications of that. Also the Philly fanatic is back. The original Philly fanatic. All I know is he's from Funky North Philly. After the lawsuit with the Muppet creators has been settled the original Philly fanatic is back and I guess the temporary fanatic the fill-in fanatic if you will i assume they spell that with a p-h-p-h-i-l-i-n-p-h-a-n-i-t i don't try to spell on the radio that's one of the first rules of doing radio anyway the fill-in philly fanatic has written a letter to the philadelphia inquirer it's surprisingly salty uh so we will uh get into that i don't know if we'll have time for this but at some point i want to tell you about my absolute favorite uh youtube obsession right now it is this five-year-old kid who has perfect pitch and can play basically every instrument kids and fantasy and he just his parents put up these videos of him literally producing like albums or at least songs off of albums by himself doing every single part of it and it is fascinating and i am spelling that also with a ph for the record uh we'll do that plus music for your weekend because it's a friday aka a Fri-yay. We'll do all that with the help of this young man, longest-running Cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's Andrew... Oh, sir!

Just one more thing.

Walsh, and he's joining me right now from the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning. I did that thing. This sometimes happens. I did that thing when you sent me the show sheet this morning, and I got everything confused. I thought that for the first time in history, the Philly fanatic was going to be the first Philly fanatic to hold presidential power.

Not the case. The fanatic is actually fourth in the chain of command. I see, I see. So it goes Biden, Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer.

Okay, oh, I see, okay, Schumer.

I should say fifth, I'm sorry.

Okay, gotcha, then Philly fanatic, then Mr. Met?

Then Mr. Met And then the really buff Denver Nuggets Cougar

And if we get down that far We're in a lot of trouble

But if we need a president who can jump off a trampoline And dunk a basketball I think in that way Things will be really working out for our country

I actually think we do I think we do need a president who can jump off a trampoline And dunk a basketball

Don't send a real message

To Vladimir Putin. Yeah, do you remember back when George W. Bush was president? Everybody would say, oh, he's a president I'd like to have a beer with. That was kind of something that was bandied about. How about a president that I'd like to jump off a trampoline and dunk a basketball with? Nobody ever talks about that, but I think it's time. How about a president I'd like to see shooting T-shirts out of a cannon?

Yeah, oh, how about hot dogs out of a cannon? During a break while that song...

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do I think what we discovered, it seems scandalous at the time. Now so much water has passed under the bridge. But I'd love to eat too many hot dogs. Remember somebody was suing because they got hit by a hot dog. Let's see how much of this I get right. They got hit by a hot dog out of a hot dog can. And I want to say it's a baseball game. But what we learned in covering that legal story was that they were like hot dogs that were majorly wrapped up in like duct tape. And they weren't meant to be edible. It's technically a hot dog in there But then you take the hot dog Wrapped in tape to the concession stand And you trade it in for an edible hot dog So essentially you're just shooting bullets That happen to have a hot dog center Supposedly

You remembered so much of that story Andrew I want to give you credit Yes not to be confused with Andrew WK This is an Andrew Wynne Friday Andrew W Friday Fan suing Kansas City Royals After being injured by mascots hot dog oh throw oh throw me what according to the AP the Royals are being sued because John Coomer of Overland Park Kansas was hit in the eye with a hot dog thrown into the stands by none other than the team's mascot oh really I would put that person at the

top of the list of suspects well the

skipper was hit in the eye by a hot dog thrown into the stands by none other than Ruth Bader Ginsburg that would be a surprising end to that sentence the person hired to hype the crowd and interact with them known as the mascot would be the first person i would think of to throw the hot dog into the stands oh and then look at this royals mascot slugger i don't even think this is the same story by the way we have we're we're dealing with multiple hot dog lawsuit uh situations royals mascot slugger cleared of wrongdoing and hot dog accident oh okay you're the wrongdoing um a hot dog launched from an air cannon turned into so again i mean no offense we got to go back to it bleacher report i'm sorry mike moriadis 2013 was a hard year from all of it for all of us i don't know what you were dealing with but this this original article that i saw is just bad on so many levels it was not thrown he was hit in the eye with a hot dog thrown into the stands by none other than the team mascot back in september of 2009 it was not thrown it was shot by a cannon as we know from cbssports.com yeah okay so so so the this person writing for bleacher report completely misdescribed how the hot dog was being launched and that makes a big difference right because if i throw a hot dog into the stands it's one thing if i shoot it out of a cannon And like you said, if it's a just a basically a projectile that's nominally a hot dog, but it's wrapped in tape and whatever, a hot dog launched from an air can and turned into a civil lawsuit after a fan suffered a detached retina. But the mascot involved in the incident has been cleared. On Wednesday, Royals mascot Slugger was cleared of any wrongdoing and a hot dog tossing. Well, come on. Now we're all over the place. I'm sick of Mike X. CESA of, I mean, you know, this is the network I work for, so I don't want to get into a nice scene on it, but come on. Stop describing it as being thrown or tossed because it was shot out of a cannon.

Of course, now we have two references to it being tossed and one out of a cannon. Are we sure that the cannon isn't the wrong reporting?

Because I don't remember this being something in Kansas City. I feel, my memory is it's more like it was in a basketball stadium or something but i also didn't even remember this story until you started telling me about it yeah

i do remember i mean for me the takeaway was not the injury not the lawsuit not the precedent but this idea that they're shooting things that they say are hot dogs but really aren't to me that was the real expose right me too like deep underneath all of this tape somewhere I don't know.

is a hot dog that you can't eat. Well, then what's the damn point? Why don't you just shoot, like, something else?

Andrew, your news instincts are actually very, very sharp still, even after all these years. Wow, you still get around. I still get around. I'm just saying, like, you know, there was a time where, you know, you were, you know, sort of your news judgment was extremely important when you were the executive producer of a daily news show. I feel like I feel like TBTL could have potentially atrophied those abilities, but they haven't, because when you you said, well, there's two references to it being thrown and one to it being shot out of a cannon. So maybe the shot out of a cannon is the mistake. And I think you're absolutely right. Later on in this story Brian Shores Who portrayed Slugger for more than a decade Told the star That he had met with his boss prior to the incident To discuss his hot dog Shooting technique Second hot dog shooting Reference but then this is the quote From the mascot We'll get there During the trial Brian Shores Said he had met previously with his boss Regarding the promotion and that the boss Had wanted to see quote, more arc on some of his throws, depending on how far away the fans were. Shores agreed with Bob Tormullin, the attorney for Coomer. Coomer was the guy with the detached retina, that the hot dog toss that resulted in the alleged eye injury was a no-look behind-the-back throw. That's vice presidential material right there. That's pretty definitive that it was a no-look behind-the-back hot dog throw.

But if you don't mind, can I interrupt here? Do you have more on that story? Because I found the story. We were conflating stories. Actually, the story we were talking about that I was trying to recall where somebody got hit by a duct taped wrapped hot dog. I actually remember this now. This person did get hit and she was cool about it. She was not suing, even though she got injured. And who shot this particular hot dog cannon? None other than the Philly fanatic. This is from a source we can trust, Deadspin, the old Deadspin, Dan McQuaid here, writing. Oh, I love him. Dan McQuaid, he's on all things Philly and Jersey related. And he's such a good writer. The Philly fanatic aimed his hot dog gun, pressed a button, and fired into the stands. The duct tape-wrapped dog flew through the air and hit Kathy McVeigh in the face. It knocked off her glasses, gave her a black eye, and sent her to the emergency room. She has ice on her face every 20 minutes. She has to ice her face every 20 minutes He's a good writer I'm not a good reader But I am sounding things out

That's so much better And again it's clear what happened I'm like still very upset At the kind of casual misuse Of whether the hot dog in Kansas City Was shot or thrown I think I've landed on it was thrown But regardless

Yeah so where are they even inserting this canon They wanted it They wanted the canon to be in the story So they added it, but that's not good journalism.

It's not at all. So, you know, I guess I'll go back to I want to I want I want to retract my initial criticism of the first writer because that writer was. I guess they were correct when they talked about it being thrown.

It was your organization, actually, that let us down. But this Kathy McVeigh is a gamer. I'm withdrawing both of my stories that are airing this. By the way, McVeigh was a great sport about it. She said she's fine if people laugh at the situation, which is great because it is pretty funny. and was happy to talk to Action News because she wanted to warn Philly fans of the dangers of flying hot dogs. She has no intention of suing the Philly fanatic, the mascot who is named the most sued mascot in the majors in a 2002 Cardoza Law Review article. This is so great.

Okay, we're just talking Philly fanatic, and what we were going to talk about at the top of the show, we'll slide down. There has been, Andrew, an incredible use of the TBTL sound machine that I want to tell the listeners about. This is just, it's obviously, well, it's not obvious, but I'll just mention it. It came out of a very intense situation, but it's an incredible, I guess you would say, utilization of the TBTL sound machine. I want to tell the folks about that, and I do want to talk about Kamala Harris being president for about an hour. But let's just update you on this. The original Philly Fanatic will return to Citizen Bank Park this year after the lawsuit. Remember, we talked about this kind of a lot. There's a husband and wife team who had worked with Jim Henson and consulted on the Muppets in the early days. They were hired by the Phillies in the 70s to help come up with the new mascot. and they came up with the Philly Fanatic and I believe at the time if i remember this correctly the phillies were kind of in tough financial straits and so instead of paying an extra i think it was like five thousand dollars to have lifetime rights to the fanatic to like uh you know official uh in perpetuity rights the the owner of the team at the time or the gm said no no we're just going to license this thing because i don't think that that gm or the owner even thought the fanatic was going to be very good or maybe they just knew that the fanatic would become the most sued mascot for sight and so uh as you might imagine uh whenever legally it was like 30 something years later when well they renegotiated at some point in the 80s and then 30 years after that the uh co-creators of the fanatic uh made the case that they because of how contracts work they were allowed to renegotiate obviously what it was there was a shitload of money involved in the philly fanatic between merch and they knew that philadelphia didn't want to go out and get another mascot so they knew they kind of had the team uh over a barrel to some degree and they sued and then the the team put out a new fanatic who was slightly different um and then they eventually now settled the lawsuit and so the real fanatic can come back This is what I thought was kind of wild, though. I thought this was a spoof. Our listener, Maggie, sent this to me. This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer. This is a letter from the fill-in Philly fanatic.

Now, are you sure this isn't a spoof? I read this. Now, I read this. I think Maggie sent this like a week ago or several days ago. I think maybe I'm wrong about that. But I thought this was like kind of a spoofy thing that the Inquirer wrote, Kind of like our buddy Randball's Stu will write funny, spoofy articles for the – what is he writing those for? The Tribune?

You mean our blogger and artist, Stu?

The Stubot, yeah.

I think he – maybe he writes them for the Tribune. I know that he posts things online that are kind of sports spoofs. I'm sure that's what he loves to call them, sports spoofs. I think this is actually the creation, Andrew, of a talent agency that manages the Philly fanatic, Galapagos Associates Management Enterprises. Because I don't think At no point does it say This is a joke Or I should say At no point does the writer Somebody named Jamina Conde Do they say this is a joke Or a parody It is written Kind of in all seriousness But then it references This overly specific thing Called Galapagos Associate Management Enterprises Which makes me think That's who's behind it Because we live in a world, Andrew, where everything has to be maximized at all times in terms of attention and social media, what have you. And so instead of the new fanatic just sort of coming back, of course, the Phillies recorded a whole video where the old fanatic kicked down a door. And it was like a big announcement thing. It was a hype thing like he's coming back. So this is the letter from the evolved fanatic was what they called this version, the one that they were using while the lawsuit was going on.

Can I mention one thing here, though? It also says that the Inquirer has has has exclusively obtained the farewell letter as well. So the Inquirer. So we can't cross reference this either. It's only in the hands of the Inquirer for whatever that's worth.

Right. I guess my feeling is if I mean, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still the paper of record in Philadelphia. It's, you know, the Seattle Times of there. and i feel like if you were writing this in the seattle times the editors if you if the reporter was literally inventing this story like writing in the voice of the fill-in philly fanatic i feel like the editors would for journalistic integrity make it so that larry stone or whoever was writing it would have to say something like we didn't actually get this letter from the fill in fanatic but if we did it might read something like this like the way this is being presented to me feels like it's a thing that the management agency wrote and then submitted to the inquirer and said this is exclusive to you and this uh person at the inquirer was like i gotta print something today and this is what got in there okay i'm for the record i'm still just

kind of dubious but maybe i am tainted a little bit by these spoof things that our buddy stew

Well, I also complimented your journalistic tendencies earlier in the show, and now I feel like you really let that go to your head.

No, no. As a matter of fact, no joke, I wanted to – I meant to ask you about this yesterday, and then I was going to talk to you about it during the break. And now we –

didn't have the break to talk about it but either way this is an interesting conversation so you read the story and i'll keep on poking around i am going to email this writer hamina or i mean it

starts with an x i don't really know how you pronounce an x at the beginning of someone's first name shamina condi whoever this person is uh this person works for wo yeah they came from wisconsin public radio uh and now they are doing stuff for the inquirer i am going to email i can't dm them because they don't follow me on twitter i want to reach out oh here i've got i've got their email yes i'm going to email this person and by the end of the show i am guessing andrew we will have an answer as to if this person shamina condi wrote this letter or received this letter from the management company that i think it came from okay that sounds good um hey philadelphia it's me your evolved fanatic fake fanatic or as the federalist once put it the phillies sorry attempt to clone the fanatic by now you've heard the philadelphia phillies have kicked me to the curb after almost two years of busting my wings hyping the team i think that was one of the differences in the fill-in fanatic versus the og fanatic was they gave the fill-in one some wings

i remember that because they just had made small changes around the edges right so aren't they Are they little wings or am I misremembering that? I didn't even remember.

I don't think they were very pronounced. I think it was like, and this was also, I want to, I don't know if there was a lawsuit around the fill-in fanatic, but I do know that the people who claim credit for creating the original fanatic took a very dim view of the updated version. Their thought was, this is just the fanatic. You're just trying to get around paying us our money. I'm also, let's see, I'm trying to type this email.

I know, I realize it. Did you want me to read while you type, since you already have the email going?

No, I can do both. I'm a very, very talented multitasker. I should have listened to Philadelphia Phil and the Phillies. The Twins had my gig with the Phillies in the 1970s before mascots were even a thing. Obviously, those were whatever was going on with the Phillies before the Fanatic got there. You know what happened to them, right? After more than five years of dedicated service That's right, they too were quietly put out to pasture I only learned I was officially out of my job When my cousin, the fanatic Thinking himself of Michael Jordan Announced his return through our shared business managers At Galapagos Associates Management Enterprises Now, Andrew Tell me why those words would ever be in this letter If this was not written by Galapagos Associates Management Enterprises

Yeah, you're right That's a really good tell You're right, because the reporter wouldn't just throw that It's way specific.

Also, that spells game, which I'm sure is not a coincidence. G-A-M-E. I'm back, he wrote. A heads up would have been nice. I should have listened to the twins' cautionary tale and realized I was only a pawn in the royalties battle between my employer and my cousin's parents. The Phillies didn't even bother changing my name when they hired me to step in for my cousin, the Fanatic. They simply said the Fanatic had, quote, evolved, as if you wouldn't notice, dear reader. were they saying all green birds from the galapagos look the same i think that's the origin story on the fanatic is that the fanatic is from the galapagos islands uh i leave the job knowing i gave it my all my only wish is that i could have shown you more of my interpretive dance moves in my time here and stood up for myself when the haters called me a walmart fanatic a walmart fanatic don't you see i wanted to be my own bird but my employers wouldn't let me alas don't see this is also interesting i'll tell you who didn't write this the phillies no certainly not it's certainly overly yeah which then raises the question okay if my theory that this is the management company that owns maybe this management company only owns the updated fanatic that's that's

the impression that i get and i'm coming around you're right with that clunky sentence in there i'm sort of coming around to your uh to to your uh viewpoint on this but hopefully we'll have a

definitive answer but it but it definitely um you know it makes me think that they are not the company that's managing the og fanatic because clearly as much as we as much as everybody wants to you know go viral and get attention online this is not good attention if you're trying to

currently work with the team no this is a this is a bridge burner uh alas don't worry about me

the incredibly fit rabbit mr hip-hop a discarded former six by the way i forgot about this the sixers had a buff rabbit it was so messed up it was it was some real uh donnie darko shit

it just would stand there that's what i would want to do just get a mascot that just stands

there and looks sort of out at the crowd, but also sort of head tilted down and doesn't

move at all. Dude, I'm Googling this right now. Hip hop, the Sixers rabbit was hip hop.

It's called hip hop.

Really upsetting.

I feel like this triggers like all of your kind of, yeah, like pulls all of your anti mask, all of your anti buff mascot triggers.

Andrew when I tell you That hip hop the Sixers Rabbit is unsettling If you put that Put that name into I mean I'm not Kidding it's really really Donnie Darko And also every picture Is hip hop doing like doing some Dunk off of a trampoline my least favorite thing For a mascot to be doing but your favorite

Thing for a president to be doing I believe Vice president vice president One sorry Oh god where Have you are you looking at hip hop Yeah, hip-hop has the sunglasses on, like aviator sunglasses.

Oh, no, they're more like, no, they're like Oakley blades. Or at least the one I'm looking at, it's like what Jay Buhner used to wear in the outfield. Maybe he's got different pairs. Is that like a do-rag or is that a bandana?

Oh, my gosh.

It's a do-rag, which gets kind of interesting because it raises the question of appropriation and have we established an ethnicity for the rabbit? And if the rabbit is white, is that appropriation? It's a lot going on. Wow. Anyway, to wrap up the letter from the fill-in fanatic, as I make the most of my fun employment.

I got a photo of this rabbit holding a baby. Did you get to that? Holy God. You're right. He wears different sunglasses at different times. These are the blady kind of ones you're talking about. I think I did see some aviators. But this is a rabbit standing outside somewhere, outside of like a tennis court. It must be maybe he was at an event and somebody said, can I get a photo of you with my baby? And I don't I don't know who owns the rights to this, but I think I have to make this the show pick. I have to figure out a way to make this the show pick. It is it is. I don't think I can do the rest of the show. Did you find it here? I'll send it to you. There's another one.

S.I. Kids, Sports Illustrated Kids, meet the 76ers new mascot. And then it's a picture of this rabbit shaking hands with a clearly upset Allen Iverson. What's funny is at this point, Allen Iverson is not a Philadelphia 76er, which is the team that he made famous or he was famous for playing on. This is when Allen Iverson was a Denver Nugget. But I guess they wanted to get the picture with Iverson because he was very, very associated with the Sixers. And it is just this rabbit shaking hands with Iverson. and Iverson looks like he wants to be anywhere on Earth other than shaking hands with this rabbit.

I wonder if they have some sort of a... This photo might be actually haunted because I'm trying to download it. I'm getting messages on my computer that I've never gotten before. I'm trying to get this off of somebody's Tumblr page, and my computer refuses to download it. It says, Dylan and the Hip Hop Rabbit can't be downloaded securely. I don't know. This is cursed.

Show title?

It's actually cursed. I'm going to take a screen cap, though, and send it to you. All right.

You know what? Let's do this. Let's take a break because I bragged about my multitasking skills, but I need to dash off the email. And I can't do it while talking to you and while looking at Donnie Darko.

Can I make one more argument?

What is the history of that within Philadelphia? I mean, I consider myself a kind of quasi-Philadelphian based on my heritage, et cetera. I don't know the story of how – like a Liberty Bell would have made some sense, something Ben Franklin related. I believe it was Ben Franklin.

You have reached the end of your Ben Franklin quote subscription.

But like how actually, you know what? Paul F. Tompkins would be a great one to ask because he's a Philadelphian and he likes Philadelphia sports. He probably could could give us the story on how that weird ass rabbit became the mascot.

Well, do you want to do a promo? Don't you have don't you have him coming on Live Wire on the 16th or something?

Thank you, Andrew. I absolutely do. on uh december the 16th we will be at revolution hall here in portland and if you're vaxxed and masked you could come see us and paul f tompkins will be there deep sea diver will be the musical uh act it's going to be a really fun night so come see us and get the question answered how did the uh 76ers end up with a demented rabbit as their mascot for some period of time here's one

thing that does go to your argument about this not being a spoof is if you look at you know our buddy the stew bot he goes by this name randballs stew when he's writing for the star tribune sports page but everything that he writes i'm pretty sure everything or almost everything is a spoof like i think the last thing i read and i'm looking at it now potential lockout already impacting beat writer's shirt purchases. I don't know if you happen to read this. It's hilarious. The prospect of a major league baseball lockout is growing by the day. Impacts on free agency in the 2022 season are only speculative. But some segments of the economy are already facing consequences of a potential work stoppage head on. And it's the male beat writers buying their new spring training shirts. And so the whole thing is a fake story about that. But if you click on his name, all of those stories are kind of spoofy. Whereas this other reporter, I don't see any other spoofs that she's written. So I think I'm coming around to your side.

But I still think And she may hear this now Because I have now officially sent the email And if you know If this reporter has the time and energy Maybe they'll look up what I'm talking about When I said I need to know this information To settle an argument on this podcast But I'm a little bit surprised I guess the thought would be Everyone knows that the fill-in Philly fanatic Is not a real person So if you publish a letter from them in quotes it's implied that it was it's implied that there is parody being you know sort of used here so we don't need to say this is a letter from the management company that owns the evolved philly fanatic or this is a thing we wrote to try to uh get inside the head of the evolved philly fanatic like maybe you don't need to to sort of asterisk that because we all know that that's not a real person whereas if you said this is a letter from joe biden yes and you made it up you have to say not really this is a joke so maybe that's i'm just a little surprised that the inquirer didn't have some which hey by the way if i were the one putting this in the paper and my editor came and said i had a conversation with a cbs fact checker about a story this weekend andrew involving whether or not you could say ranch dressing is low calorie oh my god and basically the guy who invented ranch dressing was trying to make a low calorie version of blue cheese um maybe you know unsuccessfully so but our fact checker said you can't call ranch dressing can't call it low calorie because it's not which which it isn't really but the point was he was trying

to make a low cal version of blue cheese well wouldn't you just say lower calorie because then

you're comparing that's where we ended up yeah yeah but i guess my point is if i were putting this piece in the inquirer and i i thought it was funny and i kind of wanted people to you know have some fun with it and then my editor came and said well you've got to put a line saying this isn't really from the evolved philly fanatic i would be so mad yeah but i would be so annoyed

what you know this person we've talked about her on the show um i think our listeners are a big fan of her but she writes parody columns for the washington post all the time and i don't think there's a big flag on those we've actually even discussed it before because alexandra petrie That's exactly it. God, you're good. For real. Like, I just that is definitely her name. I just couldn't get there. But yeah, like, I don't think there are big red flags on those. I think that there these these, you know, newspapers just know, like whether we're talking about the Star Tribune or the Washington Post or and again, I'll maybe back off this particular one. I think that when something is obviously parody, you don't have to put like the big red letters that say this is obviously parody.

Yeah, I guess so Well, I am hoping that this reporter in Philly is sitting by their computer And gives us a definitive answer by the end of the show But if not, that'll give everyone something to tune in for on Monday All right, let's take a quick break And then we'll be back with the rest of the plan for TBTL in a moment all right let's thank some donors of the day these people are making today's episode possible with their generous financial support chris rupp is in seattle washington thank you chris Christopher Stremlau is in Kirkland, Washington We've got a Chris We've got a Christopher And then obviously the third link in that chain is Ignatius It's a classic Chris to Christopher to Ignatius situation Nate Henschel is in Seattle, Washington Thanks, Nate

Oh, you know that Ignatius goes by Nate?

I do I believe, if memory serves that that's what Ignatius goes by. Nice. With his friends. Kind of like how they call Hidden Valley Ranch HVR, if you're in the know. Do they really? Yeah, it saves time, I guess. It sure does. Alexa Jackie is in Seattle, Washington. Thank you, Alexa.

You've met Alexa, I believe, at an event. Maybe the boat show. I talk to Alexa every day. Really?

To make grocery lists.

Oh, I didn't even get your joke. I thought you were just being weird.

Ha ha ha ha.

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I guess, I don't know if it's happened already, or I don't know what the exact timing is, But at some point today, Kamala Harris will be the first woman in the history of this country to have presidential powers because Joe Biden is getting a colonoscopy. Something that we've got to start thinking about soon, my dude.

I almost brought that up. I know. That's whenever I hear that. I hear that.

It's actually the reason I know this is because Howard Stern's wife just got one, Beth Stern. and it's been a big topic on that show and apparently it is they have really they've really um kind of improved the the the experience i don't think you have to drink eight million gallons of barium you just take some kind of a pill i don't know if barium is actually even the thing i think barium is maybe when you're going to have a cat scan of some kind because it's shows up better on the scans whatever it is that they have you do for a colonoscopy where you basically clean out your whole system i guess it's it's not as bad as it used to be do you know that steve martin and martin short and it might be chevy chase although that makes me sad because chevy chase seems like kind of a jerk i know for a fact or at least i've heard that steve martin and martin short get together once a year the night before they get a colonoscopy no and they hang out like they hang out at steve martin's house which you know he's rich so there's probably like 20 bathrooms and everybody like drinks their like whatever solution you drink the night before a colonoscopy and everyone kind of deals with what they're dealing with and when they're not actively evacuating things they just hang out and they make it like they make it a whole event would you consider becoming my colonoscopy buddy

I love that story when I think about them doing it but I don't think I want to participate in that not not don't take offense to that I mean no matter who is inviting me with maybe the possible exception of Kanye I'd like to just hang out with Kanye to see what's going on

go out to the ranch in Cody Wyoming

see what's going on yeah crap your brains out and i wouldn't by the way i'm you know i'm not going to get into politics or anything with with kanye but i would just like to see his studio and

stuff he um yeah i mean well what a loss what a loss because that guy is an absolute genius when it comes to music but boy i mean there would have been a time where i would have put him in like the top five people i'd want to get to spend a day with and now i feel like it would just be exhausting

well you know what just happened there i think you can tell my brain is moving a little bit slow today what happened there was Kanye was always my go-to for that because I did I always my my my fantasy like I've been saying this for like I don't know 15 years ago when I was going through like maybe my first big Kanye uh fandom wave I was just like he would be I was like I want to be Kanye's intern I want to just like be in the studio I want to learn how his brain works how he makes these beats I want to yeah I just like I was always had this fantasy of being Kanye's intern and then just a moment ago when I was just trying to think of anybody literally anybody like the one person who I'd have a colonoscopy party with I just I couldn't think of anybody but Kanye because he's taken that space for so long but what I've done now about hip-hop hip-hop yeah I derailed the show because he's so he's not the Kanye of 15 years ago you can't just say like the thing I mean

And Kanye, like if you mention him, it just immediately – it's like dropping, you know, oil into water or something. Like it's immediately going to create a ripple effect that's going to change the sort of texture of the conversation. Yeah. There's no casual Kanye mentioned anymore.

Exactly. And that's just – you know, and yeah, so I regret that. I definitely derailed the show by saying, Kanye, I need to – so that's my homework for the weekend. And I need to come up with another go-to name just at my fingertips who, like, that's my one person.

I really think it could be hip-hop the Sixers first-while mascot. I mean, the other thing is there's no casual mention of that either because you're going to have to explain that. But that's a fun thing to talk about.

Potentially even more problematic than Kanye. One of the few mascots more problematic than the real Kanye West. Well, you just said we're not going to get political.

I don't want to, but this whole story about Joe Biden, the reason I called him Joe Byron at the beginning is because there's this tick tock video where a guy is out in Coney Island and he's just interviewing local people. And he's talking to a guy who's, let's just say, appears to potentially be dealing with some issues, maybe of the mental health variety or of the substance abuse variety. And he asked the guy who the president is. And the guy yells, Joe Byron. And then he asked him, like, what he would say to Joe Byron. And then basically that audio has now become memefied in the world of tick tock to the point where I when I hear Joe Biden, I think maybe his name is Joe Byron. Like, that's what I hear when I hear Joe Biden, but not to get overly political. But this, of course, raises this quite shocking detail. I think Jonathan Karl at The Washington Post might have been the person who, you know, actually, I don't think it was him. I think it was Stephanie Grisham, who was a spokes, you know, whatever you call it, like the spokesperson for Trump who had zero press conferences. I forget what the title of that job actually is. Jen Psaki currently has it in the Byron administration. I think it was maybe her tell all. It was one of these tell-alls that came out that mentioned that Donald Trump was so worried about giving up power to Mike Pence for one hour that he chose to undergo his colonoscopy without anesthesia. So because that's why, you know, obviously they have to that's why they why the presidential powers have to get passed over because you're not you're out of it for an hour. And Trump was so worried about handing the power over that he underwent that procedure sans anesthesia, which is just – I mean, how do you even begin to unpack the levels and layers of how deeply weird that is? Well, yeah.

This is the first time kind of hearing of this angle, but – Oh, really? Yeah, I didn't know that. You didn't know this was a real thing? Yeah, it's – No, no, yeah, yeah. Well first of all I think it's not true I think this is a spoof story No I'm just processing it

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You're A No I The I But obviously that comes from a deep paranoia Intelligence for your life And not believing in your hand-selected, you know, running maiden vice president. And there's all kinds of issues with that, all kinds of problems with what you just described, Trump, you know, skipping the anesthesia. But on the other hand, and I don't know why I'm just giving you my honest gut reaction to hearing this. Like, I guess in a certain way he walked the walk. Like, I wouldn't have expected that of him. I still – I find it shocking. I don't find the paranoia shocking. I don't I don't find all of the absurdity around the situation shocking, but I actually am surprised that he put his money where his butt is. Like, I just can't believe. Sorry. But like, I just kind of I kind of can't believe that he would actually put himself through that. He would actually make physical sacrifice in a way because of his warped paranoia.

I'm with you, actually. I think that might have been when I first heard the story, kind of my reaction as well, which was like, wow. what i would have expected him to do would be one of two things either just skip the colonoscopy yep yep because he has questionable theories on health including exercise is bad for you because everyone's like a video game character and the your life power starts at a certain point and everything you do just runs down your battery uh you know he also eats terribly as is wait that

The story about the video game stamina, that's not written by the Philly Fanatic. That's a real thing, too?

That's a real thing that he has said on the record. He doesn't believe in exercise because he thinks you get a certain amount of life power, and when you work out, you diminish your life power.

Huh. Having played a lot of Ninja Gaiden as a youth, I guess he has a point.

But, like, I would have expected him to either skip the colonoscopy or, like, get it. Lock up pens for a second in the afternoon. Yeah, like, finally. Someone gets locked up Yeah I would see him doing some something Super extreme where he Swears everyone to secrecy and basically Like puts the nation at risk by making His handlers his inner circle Lie and say he didn't get a colonoscopy When really he did So he can be put out but he didn't actually Hand over the reins like what I wouldn't Have seen him doing was actually going Through something deeply uncomfortable Exactly because of his feelings Because to me it's like when push comes to shove with this guy He always wants to do the more comfortable thing for himself It's part of the whole problem with him He doesn't have the He doesn't

have the ability to do anything that is actually challenging to himself which is why he lives in a complete state of narcissism and it just wants to feel okay in every moment and the way he and whatever he needs to do or say or ever needs to crap on is you know he will do that so he never feels discomfort this is something that we can assume is quite uncomfortable yeah i would assume

yeah it feels like he wants to live that life but he wants to other people around him or the american people to carry his burden of of you know his his paranoia and everything but anyway okay so um we have we have so do we know uh i guess we don't i'm trying to find the timing on this

because i saw the announcement this morning but i'm trying to figure out at what point is is it like right now is kamala harris technically president um i don't know and also an hour seems kind of short i guess i don't know how how long that whole thing takes but they must put you i don't think it's like a full-on anesthesia like if you were getting like open heart surgery i think it's like i actually heard i believe beth stern referred to it as twilight so it must i think it might be a thing where they give you you know some sort of anti-anxiety sort of stuff as opposed to like you know there's an anesthesiologist who comes in and is monitoring you the whole time and you're, like, completely out.

This has happened, by the way. It was 85 minutes total, so a little bit more than expected, one hour and 25 minutes.

Well, Joe Byron is well-known for his long colon. You can't oscopy that thing in 60 minutes, tell you what.

Looks like POTUS was in good spirits and at that time resumed his duties. He will remain at Walter Reed as he completes the rest of his routine physical, says, oh, Saki. How do you say her name again? Jen Psaki. Psaki, is that how you say her name? Yeah. By the way, Jen Psaki is so good at her job.

I know, I know. I mean, unbelievably good at her job. And I'm not just saying that as a, you know, partisan dem, because, you know, there have been Republicans who have been good at that job as well. But she is particularly talented at dealing with the media and giving clear explanations of things.

When people use the phrase, like a boss, I believe that that is exactly what we're talking about when she takes the podium.

Yeah. Well, again, I'm trying to keep we're talking about the president, vice president and the former president. So it's hard for this to not get political. But let's just say I feel fine about that. Eighty five minutes and I wouldn't even be mad if that eighty five minutes got extended to four years sooner rather than later. Because because I am a I'm a fan. All right. I am actually very excited to play this bit of audio that was sent in from listener Jennifer out in Colorado. uh we got an email from jennifer the other day uh talking about a very serious matter a family member had um had a health situation uh where they were having a hard time communicating um and uh jennifer had the bright idea to bring in the tbtl sound machine this thank you gift from our recent thawne and uh give it to her sister and it's been it sounds like a very effective communication tool the tbtl sound box take a listen to this from listener jennifer

hi luke and andrew this is jennifer in denver i just wanted to share a story about what joy the tbtl sound machine has brought to our family um my sister had a near fatal brain aneurysm about a month ago and has struggled to make um small steps we've cheered her every step of the way from when she was able to wiggle her toes to when, um, she was able to say her first words again, and now she's saying sentences. So we're really excited about that, but communication does remain difficult. And so I brought the little TBTL sound machine in yesterday and she just had so much fun with it. You know, she was telling, uh, we were talking about how we are so proud of her because she um you know was able to stand with assist for 30 seconds instead of 10 seconds and you know she pressed the the jalapeno button and um you know she she has different uses for the various buttons she definitely has her favorites she gets asked um for neuro checks um you know every hour every two hours the same old questions um what's your name where are you um and she just gets sick of it so she has taken to just using the she just uses that one over and over when they ask her questions so she has definitely kept her sense of humor she just had us in stitches yesterday um finding uses for all of these buttons um throughout the day so i just wanted to thank you for that and let you know You know, the TBTL continues to spread joy through the world. There's a little extra audio at the end that I really like. There you go. Wow. That's so powerful. That's incredible. I mean, Jennifer, we are thinking of you and thinking of your sister and happy to hear that she's recovering. And who to thunk, right? Like our little silly joke thing that we thought the listeners would have fun with, which they certainly have, would in this one scenario actually be something that, you know, is bringing some kind of joy and happiness into this obviously extremely hard situation. So that's – I use this term sometimes. I hope people take it in the spirit it's intended, but it's really humbling to hear that tape, you know, because it's like we're just mostly doing nothing. worthwhile here talking about philadelphia sports mascots and then somehow from this every once in a while something kind of truly important happens like that and it's it's very humbling i am curious

as to how much playing a drop of somebody saying they was trying to say i was drunk i only had eight beers when that's your response to what's your name during a neuro check i am i'm a little bit worried about how that's going to read out on the final documents but i am glad it's bringing

joy certainly and the human brain is so interesting and the human brain when it goes through an injury and how it recovers it's just so fascinating because based on what jennifer's saying it sounds like her sister is very much in there because that's a pretty like high level joke you know you're not just mashing the buttons at random you're making a joke about whether or not you are cognitively aware you know but it's like you know what i mean so it's like that's you know maybe something that would be difficult in the particular moment for Jennifer's sister to verbalize at this point in her recovery, but her brain totally gets it. That's a funny response. And so she's just like playing it. It's just the human brain is just an absolutely fascinating organ.

Yeah. And I hope it, I hope it's okay. I assume it is because Jen sent this into us, but you know, the sound machine gift that we gave away during the TBTL-a-thon was your idea for from a long time ago luke and it was almost like a kind of a kind of a goal or a dream it was kind of like there were just like a lot of um a lot of complications in making this something that we could actually create and give away right and um there were some folks at apm who you know i think it took like actually three years from the first from the first moment the idea was sort of like thrown out in a meeting by you to it actually happening and so i sent this along to some folks at APM and some folks who aren't at APM anymore either who actually made it happen Sarah exactly colleague Sarah is really instrumental in making this happen yep and Emily as well and so um I was uh I was just like I sent him a note and just said this is like this is just one of those things where you and I do the show we're incredibly self-deprecating maybe for good reason um and we're just doing this silly shit right and like we know that we touch people's lives in ways I mean we lost we lost a person who's very important to us in the community earlier this week and and of course we talked about that and that hangs over all of our heads this week and also it also kind of brings it brings the community out to support each other in in a way that's really beautiful as well and so we talk about that and we know that and like you say we're humbled by that but then there you get an email and a voicemail like this that you're like who would have who would have possibly thunk it it's fart jokes like you know what i mean like who would have thought that the silly stuff we do could possibly become an important part of somebody's life in this particular way it is just it's really mind-blowing for real yeah uh yeah i mean i'm just kind of

gilding the lily here but you know we've been doing a lot of thinking about the early days of tbtl this week because of the passing of our friend mike frizell who was a huge uh part of tbtl really up until very recently um but particularly in the early days and it's just wild to think that this like when jen and i were sitting down and like azteca on east lake r.i.p and going huh what should this show sound like and you're mowing your lawn in new hampshire you know months later and somehow hear about this silly thing and you're listening to it there's just no way that any of us could have known kind of where it would all end up you know and it's like you would work on the show and we would at some point see a viral clip where a guy was arrested for drunk driving at a demolition derby i still can't find that source material

i've tried so hard it just like it just is ephemera like i think we have the only is it

possible i invented it is it possible that was me outside of the mandarin gate. I think it was. I think Mandela affected it into being something else. We also have a little button on here that says I bleed for you. Yes.

Well, that's what he said when he won. No, I mean, I believe the original story was this guy won a demolition derby and was arrested for drunk driving. I believe so, yeah. Demolition derby. And of course, famously said they was trying to say I was drunk. I had eight beers. That was it. They were trying to say I was drunk. I drank eight beers yesterday. That was all I drank. like just the kind of confluence of all of those things. And then again, a very serious health matter for Jennifer's family. I don't want to sound glib about it or overly center us in the story, but just the confluence of all these events and, and the idea that, that in Colorado there would be this at least brief moment of levity because of this piece of plastic that our friends, Sarah and Emily got somebody in probably China to make based out of the clip. we can't find the origin anymore based on a show that was just because i missed my daughter living in seattle and i was in new york doing the bryant park project just like the weird way it all has kind of played out is is um is amazing and again little moments like that where you realize oh it is having an impact on someone's life it's just it's just it's kind of really something to observe all right before we get out of here we should do a little uh music for your weekend speaking of music andrew i want to tell you on monday about this five-year-old kid with perfect pitch oh yeah who i thought it was a i thought i was watching speaking of your your journalistic suspicions i thought i was watching like a funny or die video or something kind of like when will ferrell's uh you know i think that's adam mckay's daughter right pearl the one that's yelling at him in the landlord video oh yeah yeah i think so famously um but i almost thought i was watching a spoof Because I could not believe what this kid was doing in this video So we'll talk about that on Monday In the meantime, we do have some music for your weekend That we would like to present Is there a song that you have been enjoying this week You'd like to share with the listeners?

Yeah, I don't know anything about this artist Kota the Friend K-O-T-A the Friend Are you familiar, Luke? I believe they're a real housewife Ah! as what if every week most of my music for your weekends are every week you were just like

introducing us to an artist so that it turns out they're on real housewives orange county or

whatever i wish i knew the name of one real housewife so i could spoof on that but like i literally have no idea i'm no help on that topic but this is one of those songs that just came up i don't listen to algorithms all that often like i make my own playlists and you know whatever i listen to albums but like i don't usually just tell spotify like i'm in this mood go with it i do from time to time but i think the other day i was listening to i've been listening to a lot of um diggable planets like their second record which i had never really gotten into when it was a new record and now i've been like listening to it on on repeat and i think i i think i told spotify hey why don't you why don't you mix it up with this or something and at some point this song came on it's called volvo like the car by code of the friend i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say I think you're going to like it.

they like so what i could spend a whole week on my sofa shout out to the chip on my shoulder i don't dance i just kick it on the side yeah new year every year is my year new york where i'm from i'ma die here don't like me i'm in see if i care hey oh so don't fall road so low oh hey i might Pull up in a Volvo Go hard I ain't trying to live so-so Do my thing, uh I am free, uh With the steez, uh Get my piece, uh Get my bread right Get my head right No regrets, never stress What it ain't like Put my chair where the grass is cut Yeah, that's my queen And she bad as Yeah, bad as

What do you think, Luke? Oh, I think you were right yeah it's pretty good right i like that song pretty chill man super good coda the friend

yeah the whole record i was listening to the whole record one night um just once all the way through so i can't like tell you any other good highlights there but it's good he does a lot of messing around with like um kind of ambient sound and like you heard those kids playing at the beginning and just like you know what

Thank you.

sounds like kind of random tape here and there like samples that i think you would appreciate

on a production level you know it's kind of interesting because i think we generally think of algorithms as being the kind of anathema to good music or good music curation or whatever we think of like how we listen to music we're talking about the black crows yesterday and what people don't realize is sometimes we'll be talking about something and then we'll go into the break and then we'll just keep talking about it during the break we just continue doing the show which happened yesterday and i was saying to you how when i put on that that black crows album recently i listened to it all the way through because when i i bought that cd at some point and i was in the days when you bought a cd and you listened to every single song on the cd and you knew all the songs you knew the 12th song on the album whereas now it's pretty rare that i get there with an album and so i guess i think of that as the quote-unquote good way to listen to music or discover music or whatever and i think of algorithms as being kind of soulless but you only heard about that song because you said to spotify i like diggable planets find me some other stuff like it otherwise it probably would have never come into your life and i've had that happen with a lot of music actually sort of like in defense of algorithms there is some i mean i guess it used to be the radio but even that's a different kind of metric Because the radio is only going to play songs that test out to be popular. So when we were growing up, you'd listen to the radio. Maybe college radio is different.

Well, it depends on what you're listening to. I mean, that's kind of like, I mean, the exciting thing, I mean, the ideal, and I don't actually listen to a lot of this stuff, but the exciting things for us happens on the KEXPs and the KCRWs where they actually aren't just like picking the stuff that is already popular, but they're being tastemakers and saying, hey, I'm going to shine a light on this. This is a band out of Wisconsin or what have you.

Yeah, that is true. I guess I'm talking about like top 40 radio, but I guess I all I'm trying to say is maybe there, you know, occasionally is something to an algorithm because I'm glad that it delivered that song into your life. Yeah, definitely. And by extension, the life of the listeners. Listener Brent just texted me a New Yorker profile of PD USA. Oh, really? I'm going to see PD USA. Did I tell you that? Oh, you are? Yeah. My friend Evan is going to be there, Evan, who I go on those sailing adventures with, and he actually asked me if you were going, and I said, I don't think so, because I thought I brought that up with you, and I didn't remember you saying you were going to go.

You know, when we talked about it, it was already sold out, but I got an invite from a very, very special person who goes by the name of J-Dog.

Oh, J-Dog. Sure, I know him. He's going to be in Portland the following night, But that's the night that I am going to be doing Livewire at the Alberta Road, excuse me, at Revolution Hall. So I'm in direct competition with PDUSA, which, you know, it hurts me to destroy him in the manner that I will be destroying him. But I got to do it. Yeah. Step up. That is pretty funny that, like, Brent, thank you for sending it along. That's pretty funny that it's Khalifa Sane in the New Yorker. It's like it was only a matter of time before Khalifa actually got, you know, on to PDUSA because he's so great. So the song that I would like to suggest is from Courtney Barnett, one of my very favorite singers going today. She's got a new album out called Things Take Time, Take Time. And I heard her being interviewed on All Things Considered earlier this week. And she was talking about her kind of that she was dealing with some depression during the pandemic. and that a friend of hers advised her to just think of small things that she could look forward to, like the sunlight hitting the windowsill, and at first she thought it was kind of corny, but she started doing it, and she said it actually really helped her, and you can kind of hear traces of that throughout this album, just like these little, I mean, I think Courtney Barnett has just the greatest ear for, or maybe it's brain for, because she's writing it, just these little moments that say so much about life. Anyway, this album is really good. I've been listening to it front to back this week, and I just wanted to play Sunfair Sundown from Courtney Barnett's new album. Could you play that, Andrew?

Oh, what a day. And congrats on the keys to your place. You've escaped the rat race, as they say. Now you're settling in for the stay. Anyway, you got a blank slate to renovate. Take it all. Yeah, you reap what you sow and sow goals. What you put in the ground comes around when you don't.

really know what you're missing at all in a daze i can picture you whittling away with such care with such patience and grace and i smile when you say that you build me a table one day well i'd be so grateful Sometimes it's hard Getting lost, you say, is a fine art

I was texting with Addie about this album today, and she said, Her voice is so comforting. When she sings, it feels like catching up with an old friend, which is exactly the feeling I have when I put on a Courtney Barnett record.

Yeah, especially, like you say, because her stuff seems so much like it's ripped out of the pages of her diary, too. I actually had a similar thought Maybe not articulated in that way But that articulates it perfectly Because I didn't hear this song yet I'd heard some other songs off this album But haven't listened to the whole thing And like you were actually talking about album listening before And like Courtney Barnett Like I just feel I personally just have this huge When I hear her voice I'm drawn to it Because that was one of my last big Like kind of album listening things I told you like you had played some of her stuff With Kurt Weill And I heard it and liked it Didn't know much about it But then somebody put a bunch of posters up in my neighborhood for her previous album. And I was like, I've heard of her. Then I happened to be at a store that sold cassette tapes. I was like, oh, I can buy Courtney Barnett cassette tape. So I did. I had just gotten my Walkman. Remember my little Walkman obsession? And I just remember walking around Seattle with my Walkman, listening to it, flipping it over, knowing which side which song was on. And, like, knowing which song closed out side one or whatever, which, like, just gives the album a different arc, sort of. And, yeah, I just kind of got obsessed with that as an album. I'm excited to get into this one.

Yeah, it is really, really good front to back. So our listener suggestion is from listener Lauren, who says, oh, this is kind of in praise of algorithms, if you will. So Spotify just recommended this song to me, and it's the kind of song that completely carries me away. It's by a Japanese singer-songwriter, Kaho Nakamura, from her 2018 album AINOU. The track listing is in Japanese, but with some Googling, I think it's called Sono Inochi, meaning That's Life. and I love this song so much Andrew and I am going to actually like go back and listen to this whole album because the song is really catchy suggested by listener Lauren so that's how we're going to wrap the week up thank you so much everyone for hanging out with us this week we really appreciate all of you and again this feels like an intense week because we said goodbye to Mike Frizzell and learned about the therapeutic benefits of the TBTL soundbox it's been a big important week here on the show so thanks for being a part of it we'll see y'all on Monday. Until then, have a great weekend. Stay safe, take care of yourselves, and please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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The fanatic loves to bring joy to the fans however he can. And after the fifth inning, that means taking a ride around the ballpark and shooting hot dogs into the crowd. My mission on this night, to join the fanatic on his custom-made nitrogen-powered Hat-filled hot dog launcher.

Do you have any advice for a first-time user of the hot dog launcher?

Well, you know, aim high. Aim high. They come out hot. Power out.