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Hello and welcome to a Friday edition of the TBTL Winter Games. I'm Luke Burbank, right over there my friend Andrew Walsh, twiz the night before Christmas Listen, all through the Hawaii, Andrews and Genevives were, I guess what? You're actually in Hawaii by the time this hits the internet?

I was trying to think of a rhyme there. Yeah, it is the 24th. Nothing rhymes with Hawaii. I know. I was just thinking. Well, Orange does, right? Door hinge. Did Eminem do that? I have a little bit of a conundrum speaking of the holidays. so today is Friday it's Christmas Eve I'd actually like to know how you feel about these holidays appearing on the weekend but let me tell you my conundrum first tomorrow is Christmas Day there is a Browns game tomorrow that I kind of would like to prioritize now that'll be on it like I'm in Hawaii so this is like I think it's going to be like 11 a.m. start time so that's kind of manageable it's not like I have to get up super early for it but it also shouldn't like ruin any kind of special Christmas Hawaii plans I think I think that's manageable I just you know I'm a little self-conscious about putting browns before anything else during my vacation with Genevieve on Christmas Day I mean I guess

it being Christmas Day that's kind of a biggie but I also think that you know Genevieve loves you and understands that we all vacation differently I'm sorry I use it as a verb I really don't like that I don't like all the ad campaigns where they talk about how you can money now you can pizza like um but everybody enjoys themselves on vacation differently and if your enjoyment is watching the cleveland browns uh you know whatever is left of them post covid protocols which i know it's a week after you know we're recording this this is going to air a while later so hopefully everyone is back ship shape and able to play but i think vives probably understands that and recognize that you're also allowed to enjoy your vacation the

way that is enjoyable for you yeah i think it's fine i already kind of uh gave her a uh what i call a soft heads up uh that this is something that is happening on christmas and yeah she's like okay yeah that's fine um i uh i know you don't like the word pizza used as a verb but how do you feel about the words out pizza as a verb as in no one out pizzas the hut well i don't really like it but i find it very fun to say i know that's why i love to think about ways that i

could maybe out pizza the hut or if somebody does something good in the pizza space i love putting on twitter that they may have in fact out pizza to the hut so i guess some of them do work for me like out pizza in the hut uh the um the descent into madness that is the papa john schnatter tiktok page is is that getting recommended for you are you stumbling i mean yeah well that's that's one of those things that it pops up on tiktok and i don't next it i let it

play out in all of its demented glory what's going on very clearly well very clearly what

happened is he has a bunch of money from uh selling his you know his share of papa john's or being forced to sell or whatever happened. It means a lot of dough, so to speak, Andrew. Merry Christmas.

That word has two meanings. Now you can comedy. Nobody out comedies the Luke show title.

Anyway, he's got a lot of money. He has this ridiculous home that we've talked about a lot. He has this sculpture of two eagles mating, I believe, right before they hit the ground because of I believe it's a misunderstood I think I think that's a rumor that is not in fact true that when eagles are mating in midair they fall to the ground and they have to like detach right before they die I think we we actually looked that up and it's not true I mean it wouldn't be a lot of eagles around if that's what happened if that's how they made more eagles it seems you know it's a pretty risky way to do that but anyway he's just in this big mansion he's just pissed because he doesn't get to see his face uh uh you know 80 times during the super bowl because he bought up all the ads and it's him and peyton manning or whatever and so i think he is he feels very wronged he has an excess of money he has hired someone to be his social media manager so that he can you know kind of make his way back into the conversation and seem relevant and so what they've they've got him doing or he does all kinds of whatever is a big meme on

tiktok he'll be doing a version of it but it's always about pizza and it's always about him being mad that papa john sucks now so just you know i can't think of a perfect example but it'll just be like some song there was well you know that walking in the sand song oh yeah um i can't

remember the original girl group that did it um is that yeah yeah yeah and then i think aerosmith

did a cover of it and there's that part of the song that goes oh no oh no oh no no no no so that got really big on TikTok and you know people would just be playing that sound under something going terrible like a big crane trying to lift something but it's too heavy and now the crane is tipping over that would have it and I remember seeing once like Papa John is just he's got it's a split screen and on one side is him just wincing to the oh no no no song and the other side is just scrolling through bad reviews of Papa John's

I have a question for you I'm actually being a hundred percent serious here do you think he's right not do you think that he's mentally fit but do you think he's right do you think that the quality of papa john's pizza has gone down since he left here's why i ask genevieve and i are kind of in a pizza rut not a pizza hut that's different but um it's a good nobody out pizzas the rut but you know we always get our pizza from this local joint called Pudge Brothers, who I would encourage people to get their pizza there. I like it a lot. They're a good local business. But lately, just like any long-term relationship, we felt like spicing it up a little bit. And weirdly, we've been spicing it up by dipping our toes back into the, I would say, like a pizza chain water. Mass-produced. Mass-produced, yes. So we got a Domino's pizza the other day after seeing our friends get one and being tempted, and it paid off. It was good. I forgot about how good that crust is with the garlic salt or whatever's on there. But before that, we got a Papa John's and I didn't really think too much about it. I was just starving. I wharfed it down. But Genevieve was very disappointed in it. And I think there was a time when Papa John's pizzas were celebrated. And now we have at least one person in my household who is very disappointed in Papa John's pizza, almost as disappointed as Papa John himself.

The reason that I don't think there's probably a direct effect is because I don't think, at the end anyway, I don't think Papa John was spending First of all, I resent that I'm still calling him Papa John

I know, do you resent the fact that Genevieve just walked into my open door, stuck out her tongue, and gave me a big thumbs down for Papa John's pizza?

Yeah. I don't disagree or I don't find it unbelievable that the Papa John's pizza that Genevieve ate was less than satisfying or less than, you know, delicious. But I also feel like towards the end of his reign as Papa of the land, Papa of the pizza land, I don't think John Schnatter was doing a lot of QC, a lot of quality control on the pizzas that were coming out in Seattle. I feel like there are companies like that where they get very big, but that sort of, you know, it's legendary how that, you know, people at the top or a person at the top, you know, stops in to individual restaurants or cafes or whatever the thing is and samples the things and I never heard about him being that person. And this is just my experience. But I remember Papa John's Pizza always being terrible, at least not being something that I particularly liked. I will absolutely mess with the Domino's pizza, but I have a very specific system, which is I go thin crust. I really like the Domino's pizza thin crust. I will absolutely try to and fail to out pizza the hut. I'm in a pizza hut desert.

Me too. We have been. Veeves and I, as we talk about possibly moving and we're talking about what our priorities are. And we've been saying our priority of a new neighborhood might be walkability. but actually we realized it's Pizza Hut ability is number one and then walkability is number two.

Yeah, Pizza Hut is one of those that it's – I don't think anyone's going to confuse it with like high-quality ingredients, et cetera, but boy does it ever scratch an itch for a certain kind of very, very basic pizza. The other one that I've really been getting into – well, I started getting into it in Bellingham and I don't actually think I can get it delivered in Portland. so I've driven to get it a couple times, is Roundtable. Oh, never had it. I really love Roundtable, and I have to say it's very consistent. Like getting a Roundtable pizza in Bellingham and a Roundtable pizza in Portland tastes very much the same, and that's sort of in between. It's not like Pizza Hut. It's not so mass-produced, but it's also not as artisanal as even like a Pudge Brothers. But back to the Papa John thing, the other thing that makes me mad is that it's actually working. His strategy to hire some social media person to.

you know basically tell him do this lip sync to this and he's of course truly bad at it like what sells a lot of these like i don't know what you even call them like i guess you call like a lip dub where someone is talking over a pre-existing piece of of tape or or mouthing the words to a song or whatever part of what sells it is some people are very good at it like they're just they match it up perfectly then there are people like papa john who are unbelievably terrible at this And yet it's so bad. And he is such a spectacle now. He's a very weird. It's like he's he's like the guy. He's like Citizen Kane. Right. He's just like in this mansion, just resentful and losing his marbles rapidly. But it's all being documented and put on social media, especially TikTok. And he gets thousands and hundreds of thousands of of of likes and retweets and attention. He's not realizing that it's because I think most of it is us making fun of him or kind of gawking at the spectacle that he is. But he is getting the feeling that he wants, which is he gets one hundred thousand people hearting his. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no thing. And so in the end, he kind of wins, which I don't like.

Well, I'm stumbling on something kind of interesting here. I've told you that, or we were just discussing that you and I both live in Pizza Hut delivery deserts, and Vivs and I have, for a long time now, I think our last three apartments, if you include L.A., although I'm not 100% sure we tried in L.A., but that just got me thinking here, and so I wanted to see, like, what are the Pizza Huts closest to me? Because I know that Kamero Kev was saying not all that long ago in a similar off-air conversation, he was saying, yeah, all the Pizza Huts have been closing around here. And so I just looked at, you know, Google Map, Closest Pizza Huts. There are these things called Pizza Hut Expresses, and a lot of them say no delivery. In fact, the nearest Pizza Hut Express, this might be the problem here, Luke. How about this? This Pizza Hut Express apparently has no dine-in, no takeout, and no delivery. For me, one of those options would be helpful in eating a pizza. I wonder what that business model is, Starla. It says they do have money laundering, though. So that explains how they're able to pay the rent, I suppose. So that I mean, I'm assuming that that's some sort of a Google typo. But a lot of these are all Pizza Hut Expresses. They're all like they're all curbside pickup. Now, they're not delivering even where they have locations. What is with that?

OK, we really need to go to the break and we really need to get to this winter game. But I have to say one thing on the subject of pizza delivery slash takeout frustrations. When Becca and I were in Chicago, she had never been to Chicago before. She'd never had deep dish pizza. I'm not particularly a fan of Chicago style deep dish pizza, but I felt like when in Chicago, got to have a bite. So we were we were it was a horribly rainy, cold day. the weather had just turned and because we were outside we were doing an architecture tour, everything was great and then the weather just changed really fast and we went to, we walked I got on my phone and I said what's the closest Chicago style deep dish place and it said there's a Giordano's that's like six blocks away and so we walked over there, Giordano's actually gets pretty good reviews the weird thing about deep dish in Chicago in my experience is the internet mostly sends you to these places that are not Like artisanal or one-off It's like Lou Malnati's Which has a bunch of locations And Giordano's It's like sending you To kind of the like Pizza Hut and Domino's Of Chicago style Which is surprising But whatever We walk to the Giordano's It's the rain is going sideways It's very unpleasant But we get there And we go in And the woman Working in the register says I said a table for two please And she said Oh we're under construction Right now So we don't You can't sit here We just It's only pizzas to go and i said oh okay and i was a little bummed out because we had actually where we walked it taken us further away from any other chicago style options and it had not said anything on the particular corner of the internet that i found this giordano's on it hadn't said anything about this and i said to her becca was using the restroom and i said to this cashier i said boy if i were you oh and let me mention this while i was standing there a little bummed out that this is was not information that i had before we walked all the way over there two different groups of people walked in asking to be seated for their deep dish pizza and both of them were told you can't sit here and both of them were handed a map a pre-printed map that was filled out and highlighted showing them where the nearest other giordano's pizza was which would indicate to me that this was something that was happening a lot and so i said to the person working at the register I said, boy, if I were you, and this was me being, I guess, 5% passive aggressive. because i was annoyed but i wasn't framing it as why didn't you just tell me by way of the internet that there was i couldn't sit here i said if i were you i sure would talk to the bosses and ask them to put a big thing on the internet that says this store is not or this restaurant is you know you can't eat here and she said oh yeah they do they have it it's really big and i was like well whatever they have it doesn't appear to be working because i came over here those two groups

of people came over here you have a stack of pre-printed maps and we got into this weird argument where she was very dug in on the side of giordano's is doing a great job telling people that you can't sit for pizza here and i was just watching a parade of people come in and try to sit there and be sent away with a printed map and i just eventually realized the only person that suffers in this is this employee who has to just deal with this all day and i don't want to make their life worse so there's no point in me trying to prove my point but i wanted to just say does it feel to you putting aside that it is on apparently on the website etc etc and she was telling me the size of font i was like i would make it in a big font she goes it's in a pretty big font like it was turning into a curvier enthusiasm type situation everything i said to her i was like well then i would make it red she's like it actually is red like everything i was saying to her about how to improve this experience she was countering with it is that and then i was just kind of like, well, then do something. I don't know. Your whole job is telling people that they can't sit and have a piece of pizza here. So, but then eventually I just said, well, have a great day. And then, oh, the other thing was I said, do you have a restroom? And she said, well, we're not really supposed to let people use it, but I'll, I'll let you. And so she opens a side door and, and shows Rebecca where this restroom is. And then she's gone for a long time, which also got really awkward because after I got kind of annoyed, then I just said, well, I guess you have a system that's working for you have a good day and then i had to stand there quietly for about six more minutes which was terrible and then when becca finally came back we were walking out and i was explaining to her the whole thing and then i said also that where was that bathroom she goes it's just the subway station it's just all she did was pointed me down like four flights of stairs to the platform of where you get the l in chicago and that was the bathroom she was it wasn't like a Giordano's bathroom right it was just it was the city of Chicago it was nice of her to oh she

just pointed her in that direction though but it sounds like this this this host person like kind of you know kind of went out of her way to show her the place which is nice especially if you guys

were I have a question for you did she she opened the door and pointed down the stairs I thought what she was doing was letting her use the Giordano's bathroom right right she wasn't she was digging in her heels that not everything behind her was was was closed down locked off and not to be visited even though obviously they have a bathroom the people there use the restroom no she pointed her but she made it seem like she was doing us a solid she was like i can open that door and and let you use it and i was like oh use it i assume it their bathroom no i can open this door and point you down to where the subway station is anyway you think during you think

during well now i'm going to get hung up on this we really we're going to regret um going too long here later um but do you think that during regular business hours um you know when they are open or whatever do you think that there's a different restroom that customers use because i thought you were describing you know like there are certain restaurants i'll go to like you know like a thai place i can think of right now that's in the u district that when you use the restroom you go into this kind of public area that is shared by other businesses in the building type of deal but that was not what you felt like was going on here no this was a pretty big restaurant

and it's like families eating pizza you know sitting around my guess is they have a bathroom uh they have probably an well they probably have a bathroom and right now it's just the employee bathroom although normally it was again i don't know the i don't know the architecture of this store but i definitely think that they under normal circumstances have a bathroom that you can use if you're sitting in this giordano's eating your pizza i think she was you know probably instructed or decided she didn't want anyone using that bathroom so that she you know directed becca towards this other one and that was nice if we're to at least point her in the

direction i'll give her that but i am i do apologize for saying this but are you purposely avoiding saying which location because i kind of got to know i'm on their website right now i'm clicking on all i'll tell you okay go ahead it's on it's the michigan avenue one i think that's

probably what it's listed as so it would be it would be kind of it would be near like i don't know there's a teeny tiny little street is the cross street but that it's it crosses michigan

um yeah so i don't know what it wouldn't have been that wouldn't so i was looking at navy pier and west loop slash greek town west loop it's west well it's not navy pier i mean it's if they're calling this navy pier they are stretching it because it's nowhere near i was just here no no i was just clicking on things that i know that are like in chicago proper um this is something eight

15 west van buren street i don't know if that's the one that's listed as west loop greek town there's definitely nothing on their page or certainly nothing obvious on this one if that's the right one this looks like it's kind of close to was there one that's just called like

the loop or river north or something or millennial millennium park um it looks like this is actually

pretty close to millennium park so i think this is probably the one um if you look at it on a map

Which I don't know if this is possible If you see that It is basically in the It's on a small little side street But what it's very close to is the edge of Millennium Park And also one street over is a very big street Called Michigan And just down the street is another very big street Called Wacker And the interior of the Intersection of these two big streets Michigan and Wacker But it's kind of like a block in from both of those I'll tell you what

The way this website is set up I'm not able to look in that way Especially for an area I don't know well But let's take a break I will let you know Because I'm kind of Now I'm kind of like that raccoon That sticks its hand into the log To grab something shiny But then won't let go Where the red fern grows You know what I'm talking about I'm like that with this So I'm going to look up Michigan I love it

I almost wonder if we shouldn't just Skip today's game And just spend the rest of the show Maybe this is the game Maybe this was the game all along Let's take a quick break Let's figure out what the hell is going on And then we'll be back with more TBTL In a moment

okay luke coming in with a little sorry go ahead luke you're the hugo what were you gonna say You were pausing. I thought I could sneak this in here. We are coming back with Chicago here because we're talking about Chicago. I've belabored this much too much, but I want to say I am on the specific location page for Giordano's, if I'm saying that correctly, on South Michigan Ave. It's listed as their South Loop location. I'm feeling like this must be the location you're speaking of from everything you've told me. i see absolutely nothing on their website if this is the right one but it's um it's everything you told me makes me think that this is yeah the place you're talking i see zero on the website

that it's just so funny to me because again it it only makes the life of that person working there a little bit more annoying but hey you know maybe what makes them happy is being right That kind of makes us all happy to be right, I think. Sure, of course. And I feel really happy right now because I feel like I was right. So take that, Christina. All right. What are we going to be playing here for this Friday winter game? Okay, this is a weird one, I think.

So this is from listener Aaron who says, I've created a game that Andrew, Luke, and the listeners can all play together. So that's great. That's not weird. I've taken snippets of 11 Christmas songs, and I've reversed the audio. Your task is to guess what the song is when you hear a clip of it reversed. And this is why I say it's weird, because, Luke, I think of you a lot. Well, I just think of you a lot. But when it comes to music, I will hear a song sometimes, and I will think Luke wouldn't like that because that would give him the bad feeling. As a matter of fact, I was wondering, I wanted to ask you earlier in the week, how do you feel about the bangles song we've been using to open the show because that was my idea but i thought that you might feel like it's too ominous sounding because it's a little bit in that i'm assuming a minor key although i don't know for sure um i for whatever reason because

i liked this song when i didn't know the uh was it mamas and papas originally uh no originally it

It was Simon and Garfunkel, I believe.

Oh, okay. So I only knew about the Bangles version, and I liked it because I liked anything the Bangles did. So I have a good association with the song. It does not give me a bad feeling. So is this stuff going to have that effect of backmasking that I grew up with? It's exactly what it is.

It's backwards music, which always sounds weird, especially this first one. Since we went so long, and this was my fault, on Chicago's pizza websites. Let me just play this first one for you. It'll serve as both an example and you can hear what I'm talking about about the bad feeling. So here's a little bit of a backwards Christmas song presented by Aaron.

A.K. Wellness check.

Are you still cool playing this game? Merry Christmas.

I know. Wow.

That's not even the end of the sample. I just wanted to check in on you. And I have to let the whole thing play out because the answer will come after this. Okay, there it is.

I feel like that is, is that from Saw? What's the name of the bad guy? Is the bad guy called Jigsaw?

I'm not sure. I've never watched this.

Is it like you get chained to a radiator and you have to listen to that when you're in the movie Saw?

If you want, we can talk more about the website of various pizza shops around the Chicagoland area.

That turned out very well for me because it proved my point. At least I'm going to assume it proved my point. You know, what's funny is, yes, that did give me a weird feeling, but it also, I felt like I was almost getting the song. I think, and I can't weigh in.

Is it Holly Jolly Christmas? No, unfortunately I can't weigh in on this one because this is the only one I know the answer to because I was testing this the other day when I was putting the quizzes together.

Oh, I see, so you won't know the next one.

No, I won't know the next one so we can play together starting then, But this one, I know the answer to. Is that Bing? Is it White Christmas? It's not. It is a deep voice. And I'm wondering. Wait. I'm wondering if he did the voice for this character. Here is the answer.

Okay.

Coming up any minute now. Oh. Who did this voice? Do we know? I don't remember. I'm sure the listeners know. So there you go. You're a mean one. Mr. Grinch, okay? Maybe that made it extra scary, because that song's already a little scary to me. Exactly, I agree, I agree. Let's hear what a nice, normal Christmas song sounds like backwards. And this by the way is not, I mean I love that Aaron submitted this, I love any kind of audio quiz, but it also adds to the spookiness the fact that what Aaron was able to do was probably hold like some sort of a recording device, like a phone up to a speaker, giving it that that echo that's what i mean sounds very much like something that the authorities would be

trying to isolate in the background to figure out a clue about where the hostages are honestly when

i was putting these together i'm like well this would be the obvious uh game to play on christmas eve because it's christmas music related but then i was also like am i going to give everybody like nightmares that wake them up and then they're going to go downstairs and catch santa coming down the chimney okay here's the here's the next clue i don't know what this is okay i know it i think i know who it is i don't know what it is what do you think it is

i think it's um i saw mommy kissing santa claus by jackson five ah i saw mommy kissing

santa claus okay here comes the answer right here i i thought it was the jackson five too

you're absolutely right i recognize uh michael's voice

but I couldn't quite I couldn't quite put my finger I love this game now because you were right alright let me go to the next one here sorry it's like a video so I have to cue it up here

I think I know yep i know oh yeah you got it didn't you yes

santa baby right yes by eartha kit is it eartha kit okay cool let me just go forward a little bit

here isn't it isn't it weird how i could hear the bit that told your brain what this was like i got there maybe a second early but like then it's strange how even backwards there could be something sonically that, like, tells our ear and our brain, hey, here's what you're listening to. Exactly.

In this case, I kind of like that sound. And this does sound like, because of the way it was recorded, it sounds like an old-timey radio somewhere, you know? Right. It feels like the era. Which, that would have been, was that early 60s? Is that kind of Eartha Kitt? Yeah, probably.

I know Eartha Kitt was a guest on KUOW when I was a work-study student there. And I just remember whoever the host was of the interview saying there was a bit of a failure to communicate.

Because she would have been getting on in age Maybe at that point Yes, I believe she was not young by then

You know, this would have been by like the mid-90s She was not young And may or may not have had All of her faculties Was the sense that What I heard from this person Was that it might have not been Whoever was sort of, you know Promoting something by sending Eartha Kidd out May have not been Doing her any favors Was the sense I had I don't love that song, by the way. I know it's a classic. I just mean, and it has nothing to do with Eartha Kitt's performance of it. I just have never really liked that song. You don't like people sexualizing Santa Claus. Well, that's a big one. I don't like people being greedy. That's true. I mean, also, you have to specify the color of the car light blue.

I mean, come on. I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's do one more of these. How about that? At least. I'm liking this now. Oh, you're liking it. Now that we're getting them right. Okay, we can keep going. Okay, here we go.

Nobody out-back masks the burbs. He's going to keep hitting that joke. I know this one. Do you?

Oh, is this Mariah? Yes, I believe it's all I want for Christmas. Oh, wow. Let's see here. Hey, look at us. Look at us This song is what Look at us Is this song like 30 years old now or something This is like our newest Christmas classic Right because to be a classic It has to have been around for a little bit But I still think of this as You know a pretty new song Because it happened in our lifetime I think it's like 27 years old or something now Am I out of my gourd

I don't think you are I think you're probably right Although I just can't even And I can't quite process that information that, you know, because I think of it as a new song as well, because it came out in my lifetime. But, yeah, it's probably 30 years old.

When I look it up, all I'm getting is, yeah, it came out in 1994. I actually had this thought the other day, obviously, because there's holiday music on at all times and even on my beloved Kixie Radio. I'm hoping that the holiday music might give Kixie Radio some ratings boost. I actually, I don't want to use any names here because I don't want to. But anyway, a dear friend of ours who actually listens to the show works for the company that owns Kixi Radio now. And, of course, I was a big fan of Kixi before she even got the job there. And so now I'm always peppering her with Kixi questions. And I was driving around the other day and I turned on Kixi and they were playing Christmas music. So I texted her and I said, does Kixi get better ratings during the holiday seasons since people who might not usually be interested in, you know, old timey music will turn to it during this time of year? I didn't put all of that. I just said, hey, does Kixi get better ratings during the holidays? And she said, I don't think Kixi gets ratings. And that is not something that you want to hear about. Yeah, they probably don't pay for the book, right?

Right. We have another friend who works in radio, and their station doesn't use Arbitron.

Yep, yep. But they're successful, though. That's the difference. Like, that station, I think there's a level of success. Well, Kitsie's still on the air. I consider that successful. Although, do you know that they keep on chipping away at it? Now there's two long news blocks, two two-hour news blocks during the morning and afternoon drive time where they took away my beloved music, and they're just playing the, what's the, it's like Bloomberg News Hours or something along those lines. Really? Yeah, it's a real bummer. The weekends have been totally sold off to like barbecue shows and other weird talk programming. I heard some quasi-religious talk programming on Saturday afternoon this last weekend. It's a heartbreaker. But, you know, what can you do?

I like the idea that it's a religion built on worshiping the band quasi.

Quasi-religious? Are you spiritual? Well, I'm quasi-religious. I follow the principles of quasi Quasimodo Alright so One more One more of these And then we gotta get out of here And then we gotta skedaddle This has been a fun show though Let's not It actually has

And I was right about Giordano's That's the important thing

And about a lot of these songs Here you go I'm actually I'll take a back seat here I'm gonna let you do this one yourself

um is it um uh did you get it have you gotten there no oh yes i did i just got there

Is it Elvis? I think it's Elvis. So that would be Blue Christmas, maybe? That's what I think it is. Let me go. There it is. Why do I always think of this as a Hawaiian song? No, for real.

Because wasn't Elvis in a movie called Blue Hawaii?

Oh, maybe. That's right, because he did do those kind of tropical set movies. It's kind of beach blanket kind of films.

All right, there you go.

Hey, that's pretty good. That was great. Thank you to Aaron.

After our little misstep, my misstep at the beginning, I think we really got the nose up on that scary, scary hostage music.

Well, I think we'd make a good Christmas team in a Saw-like situation.

All right, let's thank some donors of the day before we wrap today's program up. These are the wonderful, generous supporters of the show, and thank you so much. I almost slipped into, and very proud of all of them we are. What's that? I'm not doing it right.

Is that a song, or is it something that a radio person does?

No, it's something that an actor says in a film. And the problem is I'm getting the words wrong. Okay. So that's helping. And I'm also, I don't know how to do an impersonation of this person. So who said words close to these?

Yes. Who said words close to these? And what are the words again?

I mean, do I have to draw you a frigging picture, Andrew?

Probably. What are they?

And very proud indeed we are of all of them or something. It's supposed to be in Lebowski when he's looking at all the photos. and I think he sees the Lebowski Jr. Achievers or something, and Philip Seymour Hoffman says, yes, and very proud of all of them we are, or whatever he says.

I see. I do love him in that movie. For a long time, even upon watching that movie on the 10th, 11th, or 12th time, I would always be delighted to remember that he's in that movie because there's so many people in that movie. That movie is so long. They're like, oh, that's right, of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman is in this, and he's a delight.

He sure is. Okay. And very appreciative of all of them are we. Indeed. supporters including A.J. Nolan A.J. Nolan I kind of slipped an extra D in there You're welcome A.J. for the extra D on the end of your name A.J. Nolan that is is in Norfolk, Virginia I always feel a little bit edgy when I say the name of that town

Especially on the radio The Norfolk Nolans, that's how they're known

Uh-huh, that's their minor league team Um, Jaron Schneider is in Seattle, Washington. Thanks, Jaron. Stan Heist is in Ellicott City, Maryland. We stan stan.

We do. I also wonder if stan is often suspected of crimes. With a last name like heist, I just feel like you're on the watch list. You gotta be.

If you're wrongfully accused of a crime, stan, we will stan you. We will create a GoFundMe. So, you know. Just stan you around. Then it would just be the circle would be complete because you've been donating to us, and we're ready to donate right back to you, Stan. Thank you. Richard Lohmeyer is in Monroeville, PA. I am loving the geographic distribution of today's donors. We're doing a good job. Kevin Barry is in Issaquah, Washington, and then Zachary Hunter is down there in Austin, Texas, home of Barton Springs, A giant outdoor kind of natural spring and swimming pool and cool thing that Becca and I were once turned away from because we were visiting and they said it's only open to residents. And this is because of the pandemic. And I thought that's actually kind of cool, even though now what we know is that was probably not necessary. Oh, yeah, I get. Yeah. Well, that's a whole not. I was happy that they were erring on the side of course. Yes. Yes. I appreciate I didn't pitch a fit. but it is funny now looking back on it because we know that the chances of us you know transmitting something or getting something because we were standing outside at a place was fairly low but i was happy to see that austin was taking it seriously so yeah i heard i if you don't mind

me just interjecting really quickly i heard somebody on the radio the other day we don't have to answer this question but i i was listening to a sports radio station not 710 actually another station that actually goes that I think leans slightly more knuckle draggy in fact and I was flipping through the channels and I heard them talking about COVID and vaccines I was like oh where are you guys going with this but they were all on the right side of it they were talking about why um you know getting a vaccine is important or whatever they were just kind of goofing around they weren't doing a public service message but I just didn't know where they were to go but one of them just offhandedly said yeah it gets more comp this whole situation gets more complicated every day and i thought does it because i don't think it does if you think back those early days we didn't know what the hell what the hell was going on i mean it does get more complicated with new variants but it's not getting more complicated every day we have eased

into a bit of normalcy yeah i think that's just the kind of thing that a person says because they are trying to sound diplomatic or trying to sort of please all sides but i would agree with you it is not it's not growing more complicated it's pretty straightforward what we should all be doing and not doing exactly um in that way it's it's much more simple we should all be kicking

me and Becca out of Barton Springs they just didn't like the look so yeah hey I didn't know if you had a song lined up in case not I just put on Feliz Navidad this was going to be the

next song love it in Aaron's quiz oh nice that's perfect because it's also the day before Christmas So this is the last day that we can play Christmas music Thank you everyone For listening this week to the TBTL Winter Games Thanks for being part of the show Thanks for Spending time with us, we really appreciate it And appreciate you letting us have a little Vacation So we'll be back here on Monday With more TBTL Winter Games for you So please do join us for that Until then, have a great weekend A Merry Christmas Stay safe, take care of yourselves And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Prospero año y felicidad. I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas. I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas. I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas.

From the bottom of my mouth.

You know that little ice rink across from Santa's Village?

The rinky-dink. Know it? I named it. I named it after my dink. It's very rinky. Power out.