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All right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone. Welcome to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. A beautifully wrapped, glossy, sweet-smelling show. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

I'm not even here to grind and hustle because f*** that. I'm just trying to chill.

Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center right here in Portland, Oregon, where, would you look at that, it's March 17th. It is St. Patrick's Day.

Limp in the hood, come to do no good. Limp in the hood, come to do no good.

Erin go bra to all who celebrate. Got all kinds of St. Patrick's Day pictures flying around Hawk Squad. I'd say other than Thanksgiving, this is like the highest holiday in the Burbank family. Thanks to my very Irish Catholic, well not Catholic anymore, but still Irish mother, susan marion kelly um and i was going through you know how it's it's like a thing now on instagram or even on text chains where it's customary to like or to heart the photos the cute photos that people put up of things that are going on in their life and my couple of my sisters were were sending out some pictures on hawk squad of them uh dressed in their green irish uh you know finery on this Thursday morning on this St. Patrick's Day and I had liked one of my sisters I had hearted one of my sisters photo and then all of a sudden it was time for me to talk here on TBTL and I hadn't had a chance to like my other sisters photo and I was it was really

stressing I did it during that lep in the hood audio lep in the hood come to do no good lep in

the hood terrible film but long enough audio clip that I was able to like my other sisters photos so there would not have been a period where maybe she looked at the thread and thought does Luke only like one of our St. Paddy's Day pics? I don't have any green clothing in this apartment literally not a stitch of green but I did get out a what do you call it I don't know a tub of Kerrygold Irish butter and just pounded it just ate the entire thing to celebrate my family heritage so that puts me in a great place to bring you episode 3642 in a collector series let the fun begin i was so close to going to sleep last night like i was i come home from hanging out at becca's house i was i'd gotten into my my pajamas which are really just some sweats i got at the nike outlet but i got into my my comfy sweats and i was like you know what i'm gonna do I'm going to have a little piece of chocolate. I'm going to drink a little bit of delicious club soda. And why don't I just turn on Netflix while I'm doing that for the next five minutes or so?

I've made a huge mistake.

Four hours later, I had watched all of this Netflix show that dropped yesterday, I think, called Bad Vegan. And it's, well, it's quite a show. I'll tell you about it. I did learn something, though, from that, and that's really from both Bad Vegan and Inventing Anna, which is the Anna Delvey kind of story, and also Tinder Swindler, and a bunch of other scam shows, shows about scams. If you are with someone, like a friend, a potential romantic partner, and they seem like they have a lot of money, but their credit card is declined even once, run. I'll give you my reviews of both Bad Vegan and The Righteous Gemstones. A show that's well into its second season that I'm only now starting to watch. Oh, if we have time, I want to talk about...

Maybe the cutest thing I've seen at maybe the best airport in America, San Francisco International, has something called the WAG Brigade, which is a bunch of adorable animals that are brought in by their owners to kind of help emotionally support and also just kind of be there for folks who might be a bit nervous about flying so they can kind of pet these unbelievably cute animals. and they've added a new animal to the menagerie, Alex the 28-pound Flemish Rabbit. I feel cute today. Which is just adorable. Anyway, maybe we'll talk WAG Brigade as well. Also, I do have thoughts on SFO. I think San Francisco International Airport is arguably the best airport in America, and I can tell you why coming up. Also, it's a Thursday, a.k.a. a Blur's Day.

Blur's Day today.

We've got Blur's Days to get to. And we've also got this guy to get to, the number one St. Patrick's Day appreciator, maybe in the country. He started partying at exactly 12.01 a.m. today. They're trying to say I was drunk. I drank eight beers yesterday. That was all I drank. He's eight beers in. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now from the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Good morning, my friend.

How are we out of music? This feels so weird. That's a good point. Well, I decided to tell a couple of stories.

You know, it's funny. I've noticed that as well because, you know, we've been more concerned about music these days and how much of it we're running. And I feel like there have been a couple of times where maybe there's been music that I'm used to talking over that gets ducked a little bit earlier or I'm just being more verbose. and it's it's weird how when you're used to a certain sonic background to not have it is feels you feel like the wily coyote who's standing out off of the cliff and you just realize you're

actually in in space well i have a confession to make i think one of i don't know if you if you know specifically of what you speak or if you're just rarely on this program that's not even what I meant to say, really. But I don't know if you're thinking of specific examples, but I will tell you this. It's a bit of an admission on my part that I was not going to bring up with you because I didn't want to necessarily get in our heads about this as a collective show. But I also don't think you'll care that much. But I got a couple of emails since we've started thanking the dazzling donors. I've gotten a couple of very nice emails from people who are saying hey buddies any chance we could swap out that dazzling donor music we've been hearing it a lot and it's a real earworm and what have you so it sounds like the dazzling donor music is a little bit divisive and so that's what i've that's what i've noticed yeah that music goes away really fast i've been ducking we start with the music and then i try to duck it out a little bit earlier than usual as we're talking over top of it and as a because i didn't respond to anybody i wasn't trying to make it a policy decision i was just thinking maybe i could kind of be what's the word solemnatic here solemnic solemnic you could cut that you could cut that

audio in half and i didn't say what really happens in the story because then we'll get a bunch of

emails about triggering people exactly but i mean if you are against that if you're against it i can i can start leaving the music it didn't to me it didn't sound bad to duck the music out a little

bit earlier it did not it does not bother me but i noted it because i was like oh usually there's a certain sound in my ear as i'm doing this and now there's not that sound in my ear so it definitely just like for instance just like what happened to you because it's probably once a year i talk so long at the top of the show that there's no music left for you yeah i mean i i think i have a a pretty decent solution to this problem if you are a dazzling donor you can certainly request no music we can go you know we can you can we can hold the music most now everybody who did

now everybody who submitted their dazzling donor messages on time and were congratulating themselves for being good you know good dazzling donors now they're like why didn't i wait until the last minute i could have i could have requested something else uh i for one love the song

but what i was going to say also is if you are a dazzling donor and you love that music like honestly that music puts some pep in my step every day and i promise you i've heard it at least as much as any listener yep like and then um so i see you could request no music you could request longer music and if you're not the person whose name we're reading and you're not a dazzling donor you know that's a strong motivation to just move to the dazzling donor level next year and um request no music for your particular one for your particular one i don't know if you because i mean Look.

I think you were wise to not bring it up with me, Andrew, because we how do I put this in a way that is doesn't seem overly sensitive, but also like keeps us in the positive spirit of St. Patrick's Day that I'm sure historically non problematic holiday where there's probably nothing that ever went wrong. I'm sure the history of St. Patrick's Day is totally great And everything is cool around it So let's try to stay in the spirit of the inclusion of St. Patrick's Day And just say For as much as we complain about having no listeners on this show We have enough listeners That almost everything we play Is a problem for somebody Like It becomes There's a sound effect that I was playing That involved a person Who someone one of our listeners had a had an unfortunate experience with so that's off the list there was a sound effect i was playing that's giving someone's pets a negative reaction so that's off the list eight people don't like the razzle dazzle music it's like if everybody weighs in on the one thing they don't like it feels like we don't have a lot left that isn't somehow bothering someone somewhere and i don't exactly know how we how we solomonically i mean i actually think what you came up with for the razzle-dazzle music was probably a very good middle ground but you know what i mean it's like everyone we love the listeners so much we couldn't be here without them so many of our listeners have so many opinions and so many personal experiences with stuff it's complicated to figure out which one of those pieces of feedback do we honor and which ones do

we barrel forward past you know yeah that's right that one came in and i don't remember the listener's name and it came in as a text and it was really sweet i sent it to you this weekend and i didn't know how you're going to feel about it but i guess you play a bell sound um like that is a is it a mac it's an apple sms text sound sure yeah and somebody said it really for some reason all those mac those apple sounds for some reason have been like really um getting into their dog's head and their dog will have these like kind of freak outs uh that will last apparently for hours after you play that bell sound so i was like right so it's like okay you don't want to do that We don't want to be torturing dogs, yeah.

Okay, but right. So now that's off the list, and I don't want that person's dog to have any discomfort. The person was very nice how they wrote that. It wasn't like a pushy text. But obviously, I'm not going to play that sound effect if it gives a dog a hard time. But if everyone weighs in on the one piece of audio that is a problem for them, their pets, their neighbors, it greatly reduces the amount of audio we can play without it being in our head. You know, so I just it's just, you know, I want to really try to figure out how to super serve our P1s and be really thoughtful and and not do anything unnecessarily that kind of bothers someone. But I feel like everyone can take issue with some part of this show. And if we eliminate the parts of the show that somebody has an issue with, at some point, the show feels like there's like less of it, I guess, or something.

Well, in honor, I'll tell you what, in honor of retiring that bell sound, would you play taps really quickly?

Another thing that we used to play that some people expressed a problem with Because I think feeling like it was disrespectful to the legacy of someone they had lost Maybe through military service Again, at a specific level or at a case by case These are all totally, I would say, reasonable requests And I would definitely say this They are things that are very much rooted in our listeners' lived experience And so as each one of these is presented my response usually is well then we should just stop doing that because why would we do it if it makes even one person feel not great which is why we never play that midi taps anymore but if everybody emails in if out of however many thousand people listen if everyone emails in about the one thing that they don't like for some reason or another and then my policy is well then we'll just drop that you end up dropping a lot of stuff and i don't even think that's the wrong approach it's just it's just like um it's a it's a sometimes it's a challenging um uh line to walk to try to be as responsive and thoughtful towards our listeners as we can be while still balancing because you know what there might be a larger number of people who love me playing the midi version of taps or who love the razzle dazzle song or who you know so i don't i don't know i I don't think we need to do a survey, but knowing how to balance these things is a challenge that I still clearly, as you can hear in my voice, have not fully mastered.

Well, you know what I have not received any emails about at all? Turkey gobble. Bearded lips. People apparently. Your silence speaks volumes. People love it. The more I can say it, the better is how I take that silence.

Anyway so I apologize for the For the unplanned rant At the top of the show I love

our listeners and we wouldn't be here without you and you know the more engaged listeners are the better so i see you and i hear you but just know i guess here's what i would say just know that if there's something we're doing that doesn't work perfectly for you see if there's a way that you can continue to enjoy the show if it becomes a total deal breaker let us know but at some point We will have to retain at least some amount of TBT of audio of audio for it to continue

an audio product as a show.

I'm sorry that like, you know, you know, so anyway, I, again, peace and love, peace and love. Someone will probably say, we don't like it when you play peace and love.

Oh my God. We have a listener. We do have that listener. We're too hard on Ringo. We're too hard on Ringo. Remember?

Oh yeah. Somebody got at us on like Twitter because we were being too mean to Ringo. As long as I don't take away my bell, my precious, precious bell, Andrew. This is all I have. Every time you ring that bell, I get really hungry, though.

So I don't know.

I need to bring some turkey legs in here. We had a birthday here for Addy back in February. And some of my family that listens to TBTL, on occasion anyway, came in to this little room that I'm broadcasting from. And we're quite surprised that this is an actual physical bell that I just have sitting here. and I realized that's honestly I'm like Steve Martin in the jerk okay I'm holding that weird little balsa wood paddle with the ball that comes off of it I'm holding a chair and I'm

holding this bell and that's all I need and this paddle ball game which you already said but that's all I can remember from that bit yes and did you ever have one of those as a kid that paddle ball game I feel like I didn't enjoy it that much Luke I thought it was overrated it was very very difficult it was not satisfying to play it even on the occasion that you maybe got you hit the pink ball with the paddle like it just it was like foosball for me it's just never satisfying

it's only frustrating i the whatever that paddle ball game was called which again has really i feel disappeared from the childhood experience that was a huge part of being a kid when i was a kid even if you didn't like play with it it felt like everybody had one of those and i agree with you it was mostly unsatisfying because if you were out of the rhythm it was just awkward it was just this kind of weird floppy like little you know pink ball on a string that you kind of couldn't hit right there would be times where if you got in the rhythm of it it was very satisfying but those times did not last very long they'd be like a few seconds of just of the perfect bounce and maybe there were kids that were really good at and I was just not one of those kids but I always

thought those things were a bit overrated so you know that of course I grew up in a very rural area right and I had my friend Tony who I've mentioned on the show quite a bit he was one of my good friends growing up right and then yeah I think it was a I think it was fifth grade when he moved away from Valley City Ohio the rural the rural area where I grew up he moved away to go live with his mom who is in canton ohio which to us was the big city um and i remember tony like telling me about his adventures and the things that he would do either by himself or with his friends in the big city and i was so jealous because like for me to get around like i had no i mean listen i didn't really have didn't really have many friends or people to hang out with anyway so when tony left that like kind of you know cut that pool in about half um but also like i just you weren't very mobile growing up in the area i grew up in like i had a bike i think eventually i got a 10 speed bike but like i would have to ride it literally five miles on roads without sidewalks to get anywhere to get to like a closed pizza shop or something you know it was just like you're pretty landlocked there and then he moves to the metropolis of canton ohio where he is just riding his bike during rainstorms and calling themselves the writers on the storm group they They were kicking bags in parking lots and finding money inside. And then this.

He had basically turned into a combination Hardy Boy, James Dean, and Rebel Without a Cause. He was living the life.

I'm trying to. No, I feel like he was more. Well, the River's Edge is actually rural. Was he in the Outsiders? Yeah, maybe more of an outsider-y kind of situation a little bit. But he would tell me. He would tell me about how he had this game he would play where he just got himself some sort of a paddle. I'm assuming it was probably like a ping pong paddle or maybe it was more like a racket. I don't know if it was a squash racket. I don't know if he found it somewhere. I don't know if he got it at a thrift store or what it was. But then he would go to his Kmart. This is the second time Kmart has come up in two days on the show. But he would go to Kmart with a bunch of quarters and he would buy those bouncy balls out of the little vending machine, the bouncy ball vending machine. Super balls. He would ride his bike to the back of the Kmart where he said, and I'd never seen this, but he said there was a giant brick wall, a big flat wall.

would just burn through a bunch of bouncy balls by like just kind of playing some form of racquetball with bouncy ball by himself and i was just like i have got to move to the city like that is big city life i was i am still jealous of that i am not joking i was driving in ballard the other day with genevieve kind of a couple months ago um not that it matters i was driving in ballard at one point in my adult life and um and some little not some little kid but some kid maybe a 10 year old or something kind of kind of zips between my car and the car in front of me and hops on the sidewalk and then it was a little bit dangerous but it was also the kind of shit I would do if I was 11 years old on a little bike like that and I thought of Tony and I thought is that kid going to go play racquetball with bouncy balls behind a Kmart somewhere he seems so free and he this young kid I was seeing I was like you live the life young man you are growing up in a city you have it all you're on a bike you have no idea how

amazing this moment of your life is exactly i i'm jealous of childhood me because some of the most sublime hours of my life were spent doing very similar things there was i mean i've talked about on the show endlessly but in our little alley behind our like uh second rental that we had when we lived in seattle was there was a a garage on the other side of the alley and it was brick and I could stand out there and pitch off of that thing for hours. But also the elementary school that I went to, Bagley, well, I went there sort of intermittently, but in the summertime when there would be a new sport I was trying to learn, they had this big brick wall that had like a design feature. I mean, it was huge. It was probably a – it was the side of the gymnasium. So I don't know, 70 feet high, 50 feet high brick wall. Huge, wide. and but there was a break in the middle of it and it was this just it was probably something for rainwater drainage it was anyway there was a there was a brick and then at about the roughly the height of the top of the strike zone or the top of a tennis net there was this break in the brick wall and it was it was cement and it came out kind of at an angle so if you hit it directly on it was going to skitter the ball off in some weird direction as long as you missed that little mid break point as long as you missed that it was great but that added to the whole drama of the thing so i remember like wanting to get good at soccer i when i was in seventh grade i went to a new school and they didn't have football but they had soccer so i remember just sitting out there for hours and hours and hours by myself kicking the soccer ball off this wall with my right foot stopping with my left foot kicking with my left foot i remember deciding i was going to get good at tennis once because Peter Williams and I were playing a bunch of tennis so going out there with a racket and hitting it and always trying to aim it right above or right below this thing that was going to kick the ball off I would also pitch out there I spent so many hours of my life in front of this brick wall at Bagley and it was so fun I think about that as my happy place so I all of your suspicions about how great it was for Tony behind that Kmart Andrew are true that's a very fun part of childhood if you are somebody who is lucky enough to have that in your world and have the freedom to go take part in it those are very fun wholesome times in my memory I'm still jealous

I'm like I gotta go find a wall right now of course now I did get don't rule it out get a

baseball mitt get a tennis ball and go chuck it off a wall man you know there was a small period

of my life it felt long um I'm gonna say maybe this lasted a couple of years max maybe it's just one year but in my in in my memories i've extended it but i was living in new hampshire this is before i knew you and we were really really close friends with our friends ben and nicky and their sons and um we all belong to the y the ymca which was not as especially nice um place to work out but it wasn't terrible um the facilities they had the they had the one i think i've talked about this before the showers were just one big room so that was like my least least favorite part of it but you get used to it like whatever um but uh you know and i would go there and i was actually in relatively good shape thing because i was going to the gym almost every day and just doing regular cardio stuff but then i don't know whose idea it was but somebody's like hey there are squash and racquetball courts here in this why like we should just get some squash stuff and so we did and it turns out they weren't talking about the produce so i returned the squash and i instead came back with a squash racket and a little squash ball which isn't i don't know for people who don't know the difference i'm sure there's a lot of differences but i can tell you that a squash ball is more of a dead ball it doesn't really bounce that much you got to hit it really hard and me and ben and nikki and genevieve whether we're playing uh doubles or singles or whatever we spent a lot of time like sometimes i would get done with my kind of workout and then we would go You into the squash ball area and some of us play squash and little Liam, their son was very young at the time and he would run around sometimes. He was never in danger of getting hit by the ball. I promise. But it was just like, it's such a gloss. What's the word? We almost like a gauzy gauzy memory for me. Yeah. It's like, that was so much fun. And we've moved apartments so many times since then. And every time I see this, I still have a squash ball from what would this have been? like when when did schubert dip come out this is like 2004 or something i still have a squash ball that is in a in its box still ready ready to use and a couple of squash rackets and every time i'm like are we going to move this stuff again are we ever going to find ourselves in a situation where we are in a squash zone and if so are these the rackets that we're going to want to bring into that squash zone anyway but i can't bring myself there's got to be in fact i know for a fact there

are some gyms in the sweet cream district um so you might want to see if they have you know if they've got a squash quarter or racquetball quarters i i was always very fascinated with that stuff i never i've never had the equipment or known how to play it or played it but i i was always intrigued at various gyms that i was a member of if they would have that room and you just see people coming out of there just drenched in sweat just like the workout that you can get from running around after that little ball. Speaking of which, Andrew, little balls, I just realized something. With baseball coming back, it's also...

Yeah, I can hear your spalding...

It's almost spalding high bounce ball season.

That's right. Now, wait a second, though. You had set up your strike zone in your old apartment. What's the setup going to be here?

I don't know. I don't have... I had a big cement wall in the other place. I don't have that here. So I may need to just go down to the schoolyard with this thing and my transistor radio and just listen to the Mariners and throw this thing off a wall. I mean, that's acceptable for a person of my age to do, right? I mean, I feel like you don't see that a lot. You see kids doing stuff like that or people in an organized setting. Like in some places, when I used to live in New York, you see a lot of people playing handball. It's kind of a tradition around there. But if you were just driving down the road and you just saw a guy my age just firing one of these pink Spalding balls off of a brick wall at a local elementary school on a Saturday by himself, what would go through your mind?

Well, I'm glad that you found a school, so that's a good start. Make sure that it's a place where kids congregate. Saturday. Saturday. I'm trying to come up with how I would feel about that. I would think that, you know what, I watch people do all kinds of wackadoo things with the, you know, people are not going to like the fact that I call these wackadoo things. But, you know, your slack liners and your jugglers in your park and your unicyclists who are going around in a circle and the people who are playing the Harry Potter game. And, like, you see all of that stuff in the park. Like, I don't think, you know, it really depends on what the situation is and, like, kind of what it looks like, I guess, as far as, like, what this. If it's, like, kind of if it's getting dark out and you're just out there and kind of cursing to yourself and sweating too much and throwing this ball. I think how much I'm sweating is a big part of how weird it is.

That would be rough. If I'm just out there, just, I mean, also how into it am I getting? Because it's one thing if I'm throwing this pink ball and just kind of just enjoying myself by myself. It's another thing if I actually fully bring my mitt, which I have, and I get a tennis ball, which this used to be my move. Because you can't throw a real baseball off of a brick wall for very long before the baseball disintegrates. So I would bring a tennis ball and my mitt, and I would then create an entire baseball game in my mind where I had to pitch three strikes before I pitched four balls. And if I pitched four balls, then that was a ghost runner on first. And if I pitched three strikes, it was an out. And I would do, Andrew, nine inning games this way. Totally imagine it. Yep. But and so and I would be frustrated sometimes, you know, as a kid, if I was like, if I just couldn't find the strike zone, if I just went straight up Fernando Rodney on it. And although I was always able to eventually get, you know, a basis loaded top of the ninth, I'd get somebody to like pop out and then I would shoot an arrow into the sky. But no, if you see me at age 45, by the time this happens, I'll be 46, right? Because my birthday's in May. You see me at age 46 just yelling to the heavens because my tennis ball didn't go into the imaginary strike zone and I'm sweating profusely. That could probably – that could prompt some calls to law enforcement.

Or doing the arrow in the sky thing, certainly, taking an imaginary bow and arrow and shooting an imaginary arrow. Promise.

It's all great, but that arrow comes down, and who's that going to hit?

That's what they never talk about. Yeah, it's going to hit an imaginary fan, and then where are you? Another imaginary lawsuit. Exactly.

I assume Fernando...

rodney has is still pitching with a major league team this season like he did some time in minnesota

after seattle am i right or do i have that reversed i think he went to tampa for a minute

he's bounced around i mean they're always what's the age-old joke in baseball it's like what do you call a a 38 year old right-handed uh relief pitcher washed up what do you call a 38 year old left-handed uh relief pitcher crafty like if you're a left-handed pitcher which i assume rodney is but i guess i don't know that for a fact but like there are just there's some somehow there always seems to be some place that wants to try the fernando rodney experiment he is actually

playing in the mexican league right now so he's not in the majors and i think he's a righty all right well i was uh i was two for two on that yeah that's good hey look i just got an email from somebody said could you be wrong last time oh wait that was addressed to me andrew could you

be wrong on the show so there you go let's take a break and then uh well we'll uh we'll thank some dazzling donors and then i do want to talk about this show bad vegan uh and uh and do the uh blurs day messages as well here on this thursday so stay with us this is tbtl we was hoping for

some razzle dazzle razzle dazzle that's right man razzle dazzle on your mark on your mark cut the

music i was just hoping you'd be like on your marks i need that record scratch sound oh we'll find that yeah let's thank some dazzling donors these are the wonderful generous donors who are dazzling us with the dough that they're donating uh christina homer is one of them right there in san francisco california hey good time of alex the 28 pound flemish giant rabbit it's part of The Wag Brigade, Christina, says, hey, friendos, another year of dazzling hashtag content from Luke and Andrew. It's something I look forward to every day while puttering around. I do have one request, though. Could you play the drop of a British football commentator saying ignominious and something about bringing shame upon the entire country and the crown? I don't know if I remember this audio. Do you happen to have this?

No, I meant to give you a heads up about this beforehand, because I don't know if I know this either. um i did have i feel like that was in i feel like that was in an intro package at some point it

rings a very faint bell which sounds like this here's what i have here are the only two things

that even come close i think is i have these british baseball drops that i don't think this is what you're talking about smack me wowsers in me trousers it's a home run like and it's just from some like mother hubbard look at all those sailors and i think that was some sort of spoof like somebody i i don't know what the spoof was maybe had something to do with cricket versus baseball or something but that's not what we're talking about right no and i can kind of hear this

audio but it's definitely not something that started with like radio days of tbtl or it's not audio i ever i think i've ever had but i i have a vague memory or this just could be mandela effect but i have a vague memory of it being in the in an intro package years and years and years ago but um christina i am sorry that we cannot make good on the request do you have any other info can you in your next year's dazzling donor message give us any more clues to go on as to

finding this audio yeah that would be i mean i kind of we've had a couple of drop mysteries recently and let's add this one to the list if anybody has any more information about you know maybe the like you say the hive mind can come together and unveil some more clues here that we can piece it together because I'm trying to look up ignominious in

my audio thing there's no way if I had that audio there's no way that I would have titled it ignominious because yeah I could I couldn't spell that word you know if you offered me a million dollars so it would have been called like british football something and i don't have anything that fits any of those search parameters i bet you a listener knows what christina is talking about though so please will you hit us up if you know what it is christina is requesting and christina we will play it for you and everyone else the second that we get it um christina says i've been trying to find that audio for a while now anyway power out yep we've been looking for that audio for a while

now too like well about eight seconds yeah somewhere between eight seconds and three minutes i'm a little distracted by because i can't i'm gonna stop looking i just don't i i'm i'm often wrong about these things i just don't think that came from my computer but i also am haunted by an argument that you and i had a really long time ago where we had jason sudeikis playing clinton or talking about a burger and a mcdonald's and and it turned and i said i didn't have that and then you said yes you did and and then i eventually found it

Dacus pretending to be Mitt Romney. Romney being relatable. Romney. Hamburger sandwiches. Right, exactly. Do you think that we should play that one now? Is that good enough?

I mean, why not? You know, I mean, it's better than nothing, right? Do you happen to have that one? I think I have that one here.

You know, people think I'm fancy, but I like nothing more than to end the day with one of these fine hamburger sandwiches from the good people at the McDonald's.

I also have here Romney imitating Jason Sudeikis.

I met a guy yesterday, seven feet tall. I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

He wasn't in sport. But he wasn't in sport.

I don't know if he's played that one in a while. That's a drop that I miss.

Yeah, we haven't heard that in a while, have we?

Used to play that all the time on the show. Yeah. Well, Christina, this has been a success for us because I was reminded of the Mitt Romney he wasn't in sport drop. Anyway, Christina, thank you for your support. We really do appreciate it. Maestro, Jamie Nettles in Columbus, Mississippi, noted hydrologist. That's right. I knew that Jamie did something related to the forest. I know that she, at some time, maybe still, was in the employ of a big company that had owned a lot of land and timber land and things like that. I guess somehow I missed the thread that Jamie's angle on the whole thing was the behavior of water. Anyway, Jamie's also an expert on the behavior of Luke and Andrew when we're trying to get more listeners because Jamie won the listener, whatever we called it, contest. We were trying to get lots of people to listen to a specific episode of TBTL. Jamie hosted us in her lovely home in Mississippi and is just the all-around best. Jamie says Cue pomp and circumstance I appreciate Wait, do we have pomp and circumstance? Has anybody Why would we have this ready to go? Under any circumstance Let's see I'm going to YouTube Oh, beauty, thank you Cue pomp and circumstance I appreciate having the chance To reflect on my senior year Here at TBTL Hi, I've been listening since 2010, and considering summer breaks, I've spent more days here than I did in elementary, middle, and high school combined. Wow. I have to admit, it's passed a little faster, but I do think it's made me a better person. Besides cribbing enough information about sports and TV to carry on a polite conversation, I listen in the morning when I take my dogs for a jog, and hearing civilized, gently liberal friendos first thing gives me a mental lift and a diversion from stress. I am really glad to be able to support TBTL and looking forward to the future, no mountain too tall, listener Jamie. you know jamie i really think of this not as an end but as a next chapter that was a very well written um i guess graduation speech from jamie i'm glad to hear though at the end that jamie is not graduating from tbtl because we really need her yeah no that's part of this whole thing yeah she's the glue i didn't know together i didn't know how that thing ended

And I was like, and so I wish you, the students of TBTL University, the best as I move forward to listening to Crime Show on Gimlet by way of Spotify.

Do you think Jamie timed that out perfectly? Because I noticed that the, for lack of a better word, that's called the beat drop on Pomp and Circumstance happened like right at the post happened like right as she was wrapping it up. That was kind of perfect. I'd love to take credit for that.

If there's a listener who might have planned it out that way, it would be Jamie. She has this wonderful spot in her home where we did TBTL from where they call it Sunstroke Studios, and she has people come through there, musicians. Many musicians I'm jealous of that we have not been able to book on Livewire. So she's a very sort of audio-focused person, and I could see her timing that out just perfectly. So, Jamie, thank you so much for being such a vital part of old TBTL over the years. We really appreciate you. I wouldn't be here without you. That's for darn sure. Hello and welcome to Top Story. I feel like, for once, Andrew, we may be ahead of the conversation on this program. I, as I mentioned at the top of the show Last night, I was already for bed And I did something I don't usually do Usually when I'm already for bed But I still have like five

5% of my energy, maybe I'll get in bed and I'll, like, look at TikTok, which is exactly what they say you should do. You should try to, as much as possible, stimulate your brain through a sort of some kind of phone device right before you go to sleep. As long as there's artificial light two inches from your face. That's right. That's the sweet spot. That's what I usually do. But for some reason, last night, I was like, I'll just, I don't know, I'll just poke around on Netflix for a minute. and the first thing that popped up was something called bad vegan and of course as a person who's generally speaking vegetarian i um i was intrigued by that uh title and i assumed that it was i mean i could tell it ticked a lot of boxes for me it involved the word vegan and it was a um i guess you would say a a docu-series you know it wasn't an actor portraying elizabeth holmes right it was the real thing it was a documentary about real people doing real things and i noticed immediately that was directed by somebody named chris smith chris smith is the person who did american movie oh okay i wouldn't have recognized that name yeah and um and and a bunch of other things but that was i mean that i think american movie is one of the is one of the most entertaining interesting documentaries that's ever been made um so when i saw chris smith's name on it i was drawn in now i assumed it was a docu-series about a vegan restaurant where they were actually like putting meat in the food or something that's what bad vegan made my brain think but it's not that it's a story about a a woman in uh new york who opened a very successful vegan restaurant and then got drawn into this unbelievable wild scam that ended up costing her her freedom. She had to go to jail for a period of time. She lost the restaurant twice. I mean, it is a really, really, really well-told story and well-produced docuseries. The reason I say we're ahead of the curve is because I think it dropped yesterday. I think yesterday was the first day it was available, And Andrew, I watched all four hours of it I went to bed at like 1.45 Which is so late for me Because I just was like I couldn't stop watching it I wanted to see what happened next And it's, I would, if you like that kind of stuff If you like those kinds of You know, the Tinder swindler and stuff like that Basically shows, and also what's nice about this one Is it's true crime, but nobody gets killed You know, the stakes are high I'm sorry, I should say The portobello mushrooms are high Steaks, portobello, swap it out I'm with you But it's not one of those shows also where Somebody lost their life And I'm deriving entertainment from a story

That is something where those were the events So that also kind of felt good The events were very rich people Are being defrauded by way of this restaurant That is catering generally to probably a fairly affluent clientele this raw vegan restaurant called pure food and wine that was kind of wildly popular in new york i i'm trying to be careful with how i talk about this because i don't want to give too much away or or take any of the fun out of it for folks who might want to watch this bad vegan thing i guess the other thing i'll just say is my whole like we're we're ahead of this is i feel like this has the potential to become the thing everyone's talking about like it's very compelling there are a lot of really interesting characters in this um in this this series it really like again i want to talk about it i want to just like download the whole thing to you and the listeners but also that'll make it less fun for folks so i'll be sort of vague um but i think i think we're getting like maybe not tiger king levels it's not quite a tiger king thing there's no um you know joe exotic in it but i think it's the kind of thing that we are going to be you're going to hear a lot about it there'll be people tick talking about it one of the elements i didn't expect is there's a heavy dose of alec baldwin in it meals like seared salmon with preserved lemon and quinoa because alec baldwin loved this restaurant that so the the the woman who who she started their name was sarma and she started this restaurant with her at the time i believe husband or partner who was a chef as well and this restaurant was super popular then they go through a breakup their relationship ends and uh he leaves the restaurant you know and it's now just her restaurant and she owns it she takes on two million dollars of debt in order to own this restaurant pure food and wine outright and because she's now single and she's a very strikingly beautiful woman who's this amazing chef and is very like very instagram friendly you know she's sort of someone who uh looks great on the cover of a vegan cookbook and stuff there were a lot of it sounds like according to people in this in this documentary there were a lot of men who would come into the restaurant particularly powerful men who would become very enamored of her right and one of them was alec baldwin and so alec baldwin is going to this vegan restaurant to hang out all the time and just becomes like he's talking to her all the time and they're they're texting and the implication is that Alec Baldwin had a massive crush on this woman Sarma but she was dating someone at the time and so she she said he kept I forget exactly how she puts it but it was like he kept telling her how lonely she was and she kept sending him links to rescue

dogs that he could adopt so she's and there's even this like i have to say there's this like i mean alec baldwin's gonna baldwin right but there's this one like tweet that baldwin sends out that's like um pure food and wine is like the place to go if you visit new york if only to stare at at sarma so like in other words if only to go look at how beautiful this woman is you know yeah i know right it's like that's not doesn't hold up he's been married for a while right so this well here's where i'm going with this so so this is that's also part of the story in a way so this uh the owner of the restaurant sarma is in a relationship and so is sort of um not engaging with the romantic side of alec baldwin's overtures and just kind of keeping him in the friend zone as it were and then alec baldwin while he's at this vegan restaurant not getting uh the attention he's hoping for from the owner then sees across the room a beautiful woman who we would later

learn is named Hilaria that I remember when the Hilaria story was big a couple of years ago I remember part of that gate yes exactly I remember you know we were all delving into their their their relationship and origin story is the word I'm looking for and I remember that was part of it she saw him in a fancy restaurant and that was this restaurant she walked by his table or something and their eyes met etc he crossed the

room apparently to go I mean I don't know who was walking where but basically he went over and introduced himself to Hilaria and his now wife and you know the mother of their many many children and a possessor of a somewhat questionable accent um but um so he meets his wife in this in this restaurant where this woman sarma is kind of presiding over everything and then sarma breaks up with this boyfriend or that relationship ends maybe he breaks up with her a month or two after alec baldwin meets hilaria and what this sarma woman says in the documentary is i sort of had this weird feeling like i totally connected with Alec Baldwin but I thought he's significantly older Than me and then A month after And then like I'm with someone And then he ends up meeting someone at my restaurant Who's significantly younger than me So He's dating someone who's younger than Her and they end up having this Mostly wonderful beautiful life Together and then her boyfriend they Break up and then she's just like sad and lonely So she was pointing out That it just felt like this kind of weird thing but she Also it doesn't stop there she is like follows alec baldwin on twitter and alec baldwin is like twitter buddies with and is retweeting some dude on twitter named shane fox and this shane fox guy is like you know always making these like you know he's replying to alec baldwin tweets and then alec baldwin is responding to him and he's asking for like where to get a custom suit made and all this stuff and um because of this kind of alec baldwin connection she thinks well maybe this is my alec baldwin i missed out on the alec baldwin baldwin train number one meals like spiced turkey meatball pitas with bibb lettuce and carrot salad but there's this dude on twitter who baldwin likes and maybe that's the guy for me and then she ends up in a relationship with this fellow and um then the story really takes off let's just say i would recommend checking out bad vegan if that's the kind of if you're into those docu-series um i mean there's like i can't even explain like that things end up in pigeon forge tennessee near dollywood there's a uh a unhoused person who she Is a befriended who is Like in a car driving down

the turnpike going to doll dollywood to fight someone to get a dog back of hers i mean the story just keeps going and going and going with this bad vegan thing only because you're bringing

all the cultural criticism to the show today i this is not a joke i found literally what i was probably watching while you were watching that yesterday evening and i'm going to play a little bit sorry there might be some spoilers in here but i'm going to play a little bit of what i was

actually watching last overall scores for this leader are for domination i would give it an eight the extra gold can help you field a larger army and the bonuses from your alliances will help you with unit production and at level three you get a free promotion for your units for science i'll

give it an eight this is true is this a youtube video about minecraft it's like a is this like a

tutorial on how to do a certain kind of minecraft close it is a tutorial on a certain strategy for the game civilization six or civ six which is like a i this is the first game i was obsessed with back when i was actually pretty new on tbtl i would go up to my old attic office remember that and uh and play civ five back then yeah now of course it's civ six which is again these games i sort of cycle through them depending on what i'm doing like most of the time if i'm like you know addicted to a podcast like if i'm in a heavy lebitard stage i'll just like go in the other room and play video like sports video games with the sound down and just listen to the podcast but lately for some reason i've come back to civilization six which i'd put down for a while and the thing is this game is out i'll sorry i'll let you continue this started as a joke and now i'm actually talking about it but um the civilization six like just imagine a a world map you know like risk or something and there's a million strategies and things that I don't even know about the game I was always just like I don't know I'll just move things around and try to beat up other countries until the game tells me I'm out of turns and I essentially lost but recently I was like you know what after 10 years of playing this game I should learn no more than that I should learn how to play this game like I don't even know what I'm doing I'm just moving things around and and creating explosions so um yesterday i decided to say i'm like well i'm playing cleopatra so i started watching this tutorial on how to win when you're playing as cleopatra or the egyptian civilization i see so it's different civilizations yeah you choose one there's a long long list of civilizations from different areas and different eras and then you choose it and then those different civilizations have different strengths like as you just heard as i'm sure everybody noted apparently and this is something i'd even know i've been playing i'm sorry gats you want to get as many gats exactly but like trade routes are apparently uh especially beneficial to this civilization whereas another civilization might have other you know other keys to it so anyway and i never knew any of this suddenly i'm like oh i can watch like a 10 minute youtube video and then maybe actually get more out of this game anyway that's what are you ever um hold on are

you have civilization six i'm looking this up are you i mean this is a game that's decision making essentially like it's not like mario brothers where you're trying to jump over something this is more like you have this landscape there's there's all this stuff there and then you keep kind of zooming into different parts of it and making decisions and depending on how if you made the right decision you get an outcome is that more or less how the game's

yeah i mean it's a really long game that would take you you know usually like kind of days and many sittings i think there's like you have 500 turns and then after that you can just keep playing you either win or lose after 500 turns or less um but what i have done in the past is at 500 you've built up such a civilization that you don't want to stop and then you just start blowing up other countries um because you start with nothing you start with just like your first creature or your first like little player is just something with a little club like that you so you can defend yourself and no cities and then you start developing settlers and then as you develop settlers you can start settling cities and then and then all of the all of the technology starts from you know pretty archaic to very modern and then you eventually you get to like the actually the nuclear age and what have you and then there are all different kinds of ways you can win you can win with a science victory a culture victory a religion victory and so there's all these different A religion victory, that sounds good Yeah, exactly, it's also So not satisfying, I've only won Like once with a science victory

I'm glad you won with a science victory And not a religion victory I wonder why they even wrote that in the game I feel like that's most of what's been Terrible over time in this world Has been religious victories, and I say that With peace and love to our listeners Who have a faith practice, but you know Like, the Inquisition Not, you know, great

Well, you can also, if you have a lot of science, you can also create atomic bombs and actually drop them in other countries where the fallout is just absolutely devastating. So I think the game is...

You know, kind of neutral when it comes to morality. Right. I also have started watching The Righteous Gemstones on HBO because it has a bunch of things in it that I like, a bunch of people. And I see it meme-ified on TikTok fairly frequently. And I know people that love it really love it. So it's Danny McBride, John Goodman, Adam Devine, I think, who is Adam DeMamp from Workaholics, and he's been in a lot of things since then. But they kind of play the main people in this family, the Righteous Gems. And then there's an actor who's their sister, who I wasn't familiar with before this show. But they're like a mega church family somewhere in the south. And it's kind of, it's sort of what you would expect in that they're, you know, they're all living lives of kind of quiet deception as they're going on stage in some, you know, massive sports arena every Sunday and fleecing their followers. I will say that, like, there's a kind of a, there's some plot to it that has to do with, like, an attempted blackmail scheme. And, like, there's kind of a sort of a crime element. Violence. Yeah, like, actual, like.

Oh, you've watched it. Oh, yeah, yeah, we've talked about it. Remember, I played the song for Music for Your Weekend. I don't think you're to the good song yet. Oh, my God, of course. Yeah, we can throw down on this. Yeah, Misbehaving is a great song, yeah. Oh, my gosh, of course. I'm sorry. Yeah, duh, now that's welcoming back to me. I will just mention that that was something that—

I'm so used to you watching Civ 6 videos that I've forgotten that you also do consume pop culture. Sorry I was explaining righteous gemstones to you. The bonuses from your alliances will help close the gap if you're behind on research, which is likely since Egypt doesn't get Misbehaving.

But I was going to say, because I know that you're going to launch into a bit of a review of this, but since you kind of mentioned, that was the thing that really surprised me. Because I wasn't, I think I waited a while before I watched The Righteous Gemstones, and I just knew that it was about like a megachurch family, you know, like kind of a spoof on that. And I thought, well, all of the plots or the plot will just revolve around the ridiculousness of that situation. So the fact that this started off with like this very heavy plot that has nothing well that has very little to do with them being a megachurch family but also like has to do as you say with like kind of kidnapping and and killing and blackmailing all these things. I was very surprised that the show needed to bring on that element of a plot because I thought the plot would just be more having to do with the church.

i actually find i'm like three episodes in i have found the crime element to be the most compelling part of the show because the idea that like you know televangelists are are phonies sure yeah it's just such well well trod territory trod is that i think so that sounded right you can build in civilization yeah we have a trotter gotcha like it's just that's been done so many times that i'm just like again i watched i started watching it because i like the actors who are in it but i thought am i going to get tired of this pretty quickly because like we get it you know you're you say one thing on sunday and you do something else on a different day um but no the kind of like the the the plot of it is actually compelling to me what i am starting to have a problem with andrew and this is really what i want to talk about is danny mcbride needs to find a new character to play because and i say this as a person who i was low-key obsessed with the idea of danny mcbride when he first hit the scene i was totally in first of all i thought his comedy was hilarious he was in this movie the foot fist way which uh we play this sometimes on the show do you think y'all can handle this you know he was kind of this like he was a cult comedy figure to me because he you know he got he finally sort of broke through when he was getting a little bit older he had been the overnight manager of a holiday inn in burbank i believe for many years he had somehow scraped together the money with some of his like north carolina friends to make the foot fist way about like a karate you know kind of a karate teacher in a like strip mall somewhere who drives like a DeLorean or an old Ferrari. It just, it ticked a lot of like pop culture comedy boxes for me, the kind of comedy that like me and Camaro Kev and JD really like sort of were always interested in. And he, I just, and I, you know, I feel like there was something else before Eastbound and down. There was Foot Fist Way and then a few other things where he would just show up. He would have these cameos in these movies, whether it was like Tropic Thunder or even like Pineapple. express he just started showing up in everything and he always killed me i always just thought he was so funny but all i can think when i watch righteous gemstones which he wrote and produced is now maybe his character evolves over time and i'm just haven't given it enough time but the moment i'm having right now is like i'm not i don't have any interest anymore in watching danny mcbride be a guy who's pompous and confident for no reason has unearned confidence and is a jerk to everyone i feel like we all watched that for many years on eastbound and down like

did you have any sense of that watching this show well that one didn't hit me quite as hard because

i was expecting that i've sort of felt that about danny mcbride for a while like genevieve is a huge fan a huge fan of the show vice principles which is also is also that yeah and i haven't i have i've only watched a little i only watched the first episode of that and like i was out i was like this is just danny mcbride doing the thing again she's like no there's more there's more nuance to it and i think camaro kev is is on that train as well um and and i guess jeez i guess this is maybe a slight spoiler for righteous gemstone so maybe just they're not as righteous as they say so take that as the spoiler in case you care this i think it's minor but walter goggins appears in righteous gemstones later too and i don't know if you're to that point yet because that was kind of a surprise to me i don't think i knew that going in and that they don't reveal that until a few episodes in so that was that was the only and he was the he played opposite danny mcbride in vice principles yeah and so i was kind of like out on vice principles because i was like i've seen danny mcbride do this before um but anyway and then i watched this one but here's what here's one thing that i think might be affecting your i could be wrong but that might be affecting your opinion of this too is that this show has gotten way more buzzy and celebrated in its second season when i first turned on the righteous gemstones i was putting it on as a puttering show i remember putting it up on my ipad on the toaster while i was washing dishes and i remember thinking yeah this is fine you know this is fine and it wasn't until i was into episode like five because it's a very because i find it to be very uneven i feel like some of it's like the first episode is like okay all these characters are kind of what i thought they were going to be except there's also this other layer of of plot like i said that did surprise me um but then as the show goes on you mentioned their sister who plays i don't know the the actor's name but um she plays judy gemstone she's great by the way she starts off good and

gets better like she's already my like her and the adam divine's key sort of possible boyfriend the satanist yes the dmv keef yes and judy are yes by far and away the most interesting characters

on the show absolutely and that's the thing so i started watching the show just like okay yeah whatever i just want something to stop the thoughts from going through my head so um so i'm watching it and it's fine and then as as that judy gemstone character develops more and keith is just keith like he is what he is from the beginning but like there are these charming moments and that's the thing i don't think the show is perfect and i would never recommend it to you like you gotta watch the righteous gemstones luke you'll love it it was like it it kind of unfolded on me because every now and then there are some really really great moments and some and it's one of those shows too where you get a couple of actors in the room who haven't been in the other scenes and you realize oh you guys have a pretty good spark here and you're going to see that more with Goggins too and so like that is the level that I would recommend this show some really delightful moments but in you know not a perfect show and it's uneven I almost worry that and I haven't seen season two yet um but now people are just talking about it like it's really like kind of the best of premier tv and i'm like oh that's a that's setting a really high bar for this show it just is and i don't even mean that to neg the show i just think that it's important to go in

with certain expectations okay well i'm going to keep at it then because again like you said those other characters the supporting characters are so are so great but it was i can't stretch this enough as a person who was i mean how how else would i know that danny mcbride worked at the holiday and in burbank is because there was a period of time where most of my internet searches Were about Danny McBride Because of how much I Loved His comedic contribution To so many things I just thought it was Amazing but I just I guess I wonder and maybe The answer is indefinitely how long Can Danny McBride play The same character because So far anyway this character Is just the more religious Version of Kenny Powers

Yeah just like just somebody who can't read A room who's self obsessed who who puts himself first there is some character development that goes out i don't know if it'll be satisfying to you he does become i think a more complicated character but you know there's one aspect of this that i find fascinating too that i sort of stumbled on so you remember i was i when i got to the episode where the song misbehaving pops up which is now i'm sure like like meme-ified and everybody, even if you haven't seen the show. Actually, I believe it has been, but I heard it first from you, so.

Yeah, and that song is, you know, it's so catchy and it's so funny, and I fell so hard for that moment that I, you know, I read some probably New York Magazine blurb about the background of it, and it turns out that that wasn't, that was sort of written on the fly, like something was happening on the set, and Danny and the other writers had to, They were still in the middle of writing the show while they were filming the show, which is an old school way of doing a TV season, right? Or a TV series. And the point of this article wasn't like, hey, this is one of those shows where they're writing it as they film it. It was just like, hey, this is the origin story of this song. And something was happening on the set. And they were thinking ahead to the next episode. They had some time. They started saying, hey, we should put a song in here. And Danny and somebody else wrote it. Danny and his co-writer wrote those lyrics in that song. Probably Jody Hill then. Maybe. But anyway, the thing, but my takeaway was, wow, people are still making TV like that, especially this kind of TV. And the thing is, once you know that, it almost, not that I want to make apologies for the show, but you're like, oh, that would be why this show kind of is uneven. Like, it comes and goes. Like, there are plot elements that you're like, huh, you're going to take it there. Okay. Like, I guess I don't care that much about it. But that's not what I would have done there. And you can sort of tell that it's being written as they go, which isn't that shock. Does that shock you for an HBO show? I just would figure any HBO or Netflix or any program like this would be totally plotted out before anybody starts filming anything.

Yeah, I mean, maybe by the way, it's not Jody Hill is the longtime co-collaborator with Danny McBride. I mean, they made like the foot fist way. Everything they've ever done has been the two of them. But this song, I guess, was written by Danny McBride and then also the music supervisor for the show. And then, I believe, let's see, and then Edie Patterson, who actually plays Judy Gemstone. Oh, Edie wrote it, too. So that's the name of the actor, Edie Patterson, who plays Judy. Yeah, okay, yeah. So it was written by Danny McBride, the music supervisor for the show, and Judy Gemstone. Joseph Stevens, by the way, is the composer for the show. Gotcha, yeah. I was going to say, though, I was going to say something, and I forgot, which usually is God doesn't close the thought window without showing me the door, which is maybe what he's doing.

Were you going to react to this idea of kind of writing and filming at the same time on an HBO show?

Yeah, I guess maybe Danny McBride has such a successful track record. Danny McBride and Jody Hill have such a successful track record with HBO with like Eastbound and Down that they can get they can basically get greenlit on something because the network, they have enough good faith built up that they can do that. I bet you you and I couldn't. But yeah, it's I mean, right now, I don't want to argue with you, but I don't know if I agree with you. But I but but that is that actually is intriguing and kind of makes me more interested in the show. If that makes any sense, because of it just being like, yeah, just because of the idea that it's more dynamic and it's more it's it's more in the moment. Because when you I mean, I have a certain amount of respect for a show that, you know, you ask the showrunner or the writers, did you know that this person was going to do this in episode nine? And they were, yes, we knew the whole time that that's exactly what would happen. And there's I have a certain respect for that, too, because it just means you're very organized and you have a really clear plan. But there's something cool about it being kind of a dynamic thing that's reacting to what's happening and then responding, I guess, to it with with new content.

Yeah, definitely. And it kind of goes back to you and I and the type of radio that we like as well, right? I think if you and I were just in a traditional radio station right now and if there was one show that everything was pre-produced and kind of immaculate and edited and then it's all done and you've all listened to it a million times and then you're ready to air it, or you can work on a show where you're going into a meeting two hours before we go live and you're just throwing a bunch of papers at each other and trying to book guests, I think you and I are both the type of people who would take the latter. Am I wrong about that?

No, you're absolutely right, 100%. I like it messy and sort of unrehearsed, and yeah, I like it happening in the moment whenever possible. Would you be surprised to know that Edie Patterson, Judy Gemstone, was born in a place called Texas City, Texas?

No. Any other Texas City was not Texas enough for her.

Exactly. Like, well, oh, Dallas? That might as well be Massachusetts. That might be New York City. I'm from Texas City, Texas. Just listen to your soul Just remember that life is number one You can be having so much fun Just remember that life is much fun You can be nothing but one

All right, let's blurs some days. By the way, if you want to submit a Blurs Day message, please do it via email email me andrew at tbtl.net and put blurs day in the subject line that way i will not miss it and this first one comes from ariel who says happy blurs day to jacery from your loving girlfriend and your fat cat francis we want to wish you the happiest birthday we love you i believe luke that is indeed jacery aka jake the perfect daddy

In Chicago Peter says A one day belated Blur's Day Wishes to Sherry My wife, fellow 10 And jigsaw puzzle co-bro In Port Townsend More jigsaw puzzles Yeah, in Port Townsend Now that's the thing, doing a jigsaw puzzle In Port Townsend, in the small maritime village of That's That smells like relaxation

With the view of the harbor, watching the boats Come in and out, maybe in that little pub that you and I had lunch at that one time.

God.

How did I end up here, Andrew, and not there? Yeah. God, what an idyllic time for all of us. I'm glad to know that Peter and Sherry are still enjoying that life out there in Port Townsend. Peter says, may she enjoy many more beautiful sunsets, friendly dogs, and delicious fish tacos. I'm in. Can you guys adopt me? Where are you getting those fish tacos in Port Townsend? Oh, you know I know where they're going. Where? There's a spot, right when you pull into town, there's a spot, and I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but there's a brewery, there's a great coffee company called Sunrise Coffee, and then you go back into, there's the Blue Moose Cafe. And this is all kind of, again, because it's Port Townsend, everything is clustered around the water. There's a fish taco kind of like, you know, I guess not really a truck, but there's like a fish taco place you stand outside of. That's my guess would be the fish come right in off of the water there. And this hop right into your tortilla. They do. You don't even cook them. You just look them in the eye and you say, go to sleep.

Diane says, is there a term for when your birthday is on an actual Blur's Day? Maybe we should call that a golden blurs. Oh, okay.

I don't know.

Is that confusing, though? Because a golden birthday is like when you turn 27 on the 27th or whatever. Right. So maybe that confuses things. A turquoise blurs? Let me think on it.

I bet your listeners will have some good ideas.

Anyway, whatever that term is, it's happening today for my amazing daughter and fellow 10, Grace. I want to wish her the happiest of blurs days and remind her that no matter what her age is, she will always be my kid. Grace, I love you lots and can't wait to see you this summer. Happy Blurreds Day, Grace.

All right, I hope you're all sitting down, because this is one that's kind of epic.

Yeah, I try to keep these short. Please, people, keep them short.

Colleen says, happy 30th birthday to Darren.

Happy Blurreds Day, Darren. From Colleen and me and Luke. And Mackenzie I'm just throwing that in there I assume that Mackenzie wants Darren to have a happy Blur's Day But Mackenzie really wants his wife And fellow 10 Wendy To have a happy Blur's Day Mackenzie says she's young Scrappy and hungry With disdain I'm not even here to grind and hustle Because f*** that I'm just trying to chill By the way I'm also hungry after all that taco fish tacos But Mackenzie says that Wendy is young Scrappy and hungry With disdain for those who tell her to talk less and smile more. Sometimes when I'm in a separate room, she walks in and my heart goes boom. Oh, come on. That's... Oh! Also, those words rhymed and you didn't even mean to be a poet. For those wondering if it must be nice to have her on your side, it is. She is truly the best of wives and the best of women. Happy Blur's Day. Congratulations.

Rold says, our friend Rold, I'd like to wish a happy Blur's Day to my oldest five Hayden she turned 15 on Saturday can't wait to celebrate this weekend love you dad also known as listener rolled I believe I met Hayden at the picnic some years ago we gotta do I mean Hayden

would have been like 10 or 11 then

no not

10 but it was it was just before the it was whatever the summer we were doing things before the pandemic shut everything down so yeah they grew up so fast i love hearing from rold and his fam matt says happy 24th blurs day to my amazing daughter elaine while my birthday sometimes falls on thanksgiving she was blessed slash cursed with a birthday on the unwavering saint patrick's day after a virtual college graduation in the thick of covid she launched into the tough world of real estate and she's doing great i'm so proud and i can't wait to see what she's gonna conquer

in life happy blurs day elaine elaine and the hood come to do some good that's right here on this saint patrick's of days happy blurs day elaine robin says to hell with it i've decided to blurs myself i want to say happy birthday to me today on saint patrick's day the past year has been pretty lonely and crappy but if you're building something new and better be nicer to yourself you deserve it love robin and tenver robin that is some really sage advice i was i was thinking that the other i was being really mean to my good friend luke and then i thought what if i was nice to myself like in my head you know i was just like having a lot of not super positive thoughts about myself and I thought what if I tried a different tactic what if I tried to actually think about things about myself that I do like and Robin sounds like you're working on that same journey at least as far as you know being nice to yourself so glad to hear it and happy Blurs Day

yeah coincidentally similar for me just the other day I was having negative thoughts about you Luke hey yo I thought you were going to say Robin hey yo you want to really get edgy say you were having negative thoughts about Robin I'm not doing that to Robin. Christian says here, finally, I want to wish a very happy ninth Blurs Day to my five. Zadie Rosem. Would you say? I almost said Rosemary, but no, Rosemary. Zadie Rosemary. Probably. Happy ninth Blurs Day, Zadie Rosemary. She's the weirdest weirdo out there, and we love her very much. Happy Blurs Day.

Man, that's a cool name, Zadie.

Yeah, it is. And Rosemary, don't see it on that one either. Yeah.

Happy Blur's Day to everybody. All right, then, my friend. Can we go out? Well, I don't know. I guess it's a little bit of an adult song. Oh, and you know what? It doesn't matter because we didn't get to the story anyway. If we had gotten to the story of Alex the Rabbit at SFO, we'll talk about that tomorrow maybe. When I was looking around for rabbit audio, I saw the Magnetic Field song, Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits. Oh, yeah. is such a cute song but maybe we'll we'll save that for an episode where we actually refer to rabbits at some point so all right i uh am having to wrap things up andrew because i'm off to shoot the beginnings of a tv piece here in portland which is semi-rare for me but i'm very excited about it or like not very far from where i live is what is being described as the first i guess you would say women focused sports bar in america it's called the sports bra

Yeah, we were talking about that the other day.

Yeah, so we're going to do a TV thing on it, and I'm going to go over there and get a tour of the place and film it. So I'm off to do that, which means we've arrived at the end of this Thursday edition of the show. But the good news is we're going to be back here tomorrow with more of this imaginary radio for you. So until then, have a great Thursday. I don't want to tell you how to live your life, but just I'd say two green beers max. That's probably as much. I mean, regular color beer, go nuts. Do what you want to do. The green ones, that can't be good for your system. Oh, my gosh.

Well, I'm glad we didn't mention this at the beginning of the show because it would have just derailed us and we would have told the same stories over and over. But you know what? I don't think of today as St. Patrick's Day. I now think of today as the anniversary of the day that I almost punched an Uber driver and you almost punched Stu's friend.

Oh, wow. Nice polonais. Nice Polonaise?

That's the one. Oh, God.

What a St. We'll talk about it tomorrow.

The day after the anniversary.

Oh, my God. What? I forgot all about that. I mean, you and I were just at our best. It's not a mystery why. Yeah, don't drink like my friend.

Don't drink like my friend.

All right. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

And good luck to all. a humongous part about being a celebrity is cashing in on it making loads of money having expensive luxurious things that way In case one day you're not famous, you can still be rich as hell and better than everyone around you.

Power out.