Muse

Forgive me, Father, for I did sins.

Adelante, mijo.

The basics. Fornication twice. Theft once. Impure thoughts. Some. One of them I thought was pretty, uh, pretty deeply impure. And that's it for this week. Thank you.

I see, I see. Aren't you leaving something out?

Oh, gluttony. I wolfed down a lot of food unnecessarily. I wasn't even hungry.

For the next little while, it's going to be you and me together alone. I want you to lock the door and turn the phone off and really concentrate on what we're going to do.

The enormity of their flat brain, the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming.

If I were you, I wouldn't focus on what he's saying, but more the fact that he's saying something. You know, these two are good. Very tough to do a morning show, this chit-chatty kind of thing. But these two have an intellect behind whatever it is they're doing. Watch the party, watch the party.

Alright, hello, good morning, and welcome everyone to a Tuesday edition of TVTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

If God wanted us to listen to audiobooks, she wouldn't have given us eyes to watch TV.

My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. Oh, you've gobbled your last ghoul. Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center right here in Portland, Oregon. Nobody cares about this stuff, but I feel like I really... I was bearing false testimony yesterday when I said it was going to be a nice day. It looked like it was going to be a nice day because the sun was out. And then it proceeded to like torrentially rain for most some somewhere in the back of my brain. My thought is someone downloaded TBTL. The moment it became available, they lived in Portland. They were walking outside and they thought, do I bring an umbrella? Do I put on a rain slicker? No. My friend Luke, trusted source for weather news, said it was a beautiful day. In fact, even played this sound effect.

Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful.

And then they just got rained upon and they shook their fists to the heavens. That being said, it does look like it's going to be kind of a nice day here in Portland for episode 3,655 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. I cannot be held responsible for whatever happens the rest of the day. I'm just telling you right now as I look out my window at the Hollywood Broadcast Center. Looks like it's going to be a pretty nice day. We have some top stories to tell you about today. Top stories we didn't get to on yesterday's show when I was misleading a nation. Free colon the weather. We want to talk about this TV station that uncovered some archival footage of Prince.

Apparently, I've never been on live television before.

They were looking around for some footage because of a recent teacher strike, and they found some footage from the 70s, and it turns out it was a prince as a kid talking about a teacher strike, which is kind of cool. Also, a woman threw out a winning lottery ticket and then was able to find it, And really, more critically, I think I may have missed out on $222 million myself. So you got my money? And I'll never be able to know definitively if I, in fact, did miss out on the money. That's what's so maddening about the whole situation I want to tell you about. But also, let's see here. Oh, I want to play a round of mystery sound with my friends. The past is history. The future is a mystery. I say a round of mystery sound. Like, this is a thing that we do. I heard some tape today. It's the 45th, I believe, anniversary of something. And I want to play some tape for my buddy Andrew and see if he can guess at what it is. So we'll do that. Oh, speaking of my good friend, Andrew, the longest running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is getting ready for a fantasy baseball draft.

I'm like seriously excited. I'm kind of shy, but mostly excited.

And he's joining us right now from the Sweet Cream District of Seattle, Washington. Good morning, my friend. Good morning, Luke. I'd like to start off today with a question.

from me to you more of a comment than a question you're cool if i ask a question here yes all right here it is i meant to grab that and and play it for you today actually well when we were having that conversation yesterday i made a mental note and clearly my mental notepad is not very reliable I was like, I got to grab that audio and use it to intro Andrew.

Let me tell you about a little journey I took today. I came down here about five minutes late to dial up. And then I logged into our little system here and I was waiting for you to ring me. And at the very last minute, I'm like, oh, shit, I got to play that for Luke. And then I'm like, oh, he's going to play it for me instead. I got to beat him to it. And then I'm like, wait, how can I do this? I don't even have the technology to have kind of a third audio input here. So I quickly opened your third audio eye yet. I find, I didn't even know the name of the song. I find the song online. I record it as quick as I can. I find that, you know, post. So it is ACDC. It is ACDC. The song is Are You Ready? I have to isolate it. And then I'm like, okay, I need a third audio input. I'll email it to my phone. I email it to my phone. I plug it into my aux connector. It's very janky. I'm blowing dust out of the way. I'm trying to get it to play right. This whole time, I'm waiting for you to dial me up. And then I got it set. And I'm like, okay, this should work. And then this whole time that you've been doing your intro and playing all of the little drops, I'm like, please don't play that. Please, please don't ruin my joke. I've put too much janky work into this. So I'm glad that your mental notes are about as good as my mental notes.

Well, yours are slightly better because you actually had the audio ready to go. But this is one of those, this is just a kind of a perfect bit of serendipity that I didn't remember to play that. Because I really did commit myself yesterday to the task of making you laugh by playing that ACDC. I would have been so bummed. I would have cried instead of laughed. So I'm glad you forgot. Are you ready? Repeat X4. I'm reading the lyrics to Are You Ready by ACDC. Okay. Are you ready? Paranthetically, repeat four times.

Yeah, no, they don't have really an economy of language.

Sweet apple pie. From one show that doesn't have an economy of language to another, we know. Sweet apple pie, standing in the street, hands out of line, looking for some heat. That, by the way, was my Tinder profile when I was single for a few minutes. I feel like if I read the rest of these lyrics, and I honestly have not previewed this or scrolled through this, my guess is we're going to get into something that is a way of talking about relationships that you and i don't generally wait are you saying that they might put a double entendre

in their song where they say some words but they might mean something else what is the what are

the chances that more just like more just sort of misogyny oh maybe although i don't even i mean

maybe i think of acdc more as though just like making as many like terrible word plays on sex as possible like you mentioned heat i'm surprised the the line about a dog in heat is not in there i will tell you i got to the chorus where i pulled this from and i believe the chorus is tell me if i'm right about this be my fact checking because it's are you ready for a good time then get ready for the night time are you ready for a good time then get ready for the

night line for the night line is it a train which is i mean or is it the ted coppel tv program

Oh, my God. What if they're using that as some sort of double entendre, like get ready for the night line?

Trouble in Iran.

Luke, I think I've proved that I am not. Sorry, I have it. Now that I have it set up, I got to use it and I'll unplug it at halftime as we call it first break.

I just love the idea that the guy from ACDC is trying to hit on some gal.

And he's just kind of like, you know, it's like, are you ready for a good time?

And they're Australian, right?

They are Australian, yeah. So they would refer to Ted Koppel as a presenter, if that's what you're getting at.

I'm trying to summon my best Australian accent for a reference to the guy asking this gal that he met on the street who he is. Let's see here. what are some other lyrics in this song um uh let's see when she make you pump heat she make you fly because that's her thing she make you dry i guess that's because all the You know, fluids that left your body, certain kinds of fluids, and you know you're broken in, who all I need it, who all need it, parenthetically, yes, you do. You all breathe it. We're just, this is a trove for our friend Lynn Pham over at Marsupial Gurgle. Stand down, stand down. I love the idea that, like, amidst all of this ridiculousness, he also would love to watch Nightline with you.

Yeah, right, exactly. Is there a line about Lester Holt in here anywhere? Oh, you mean Lester? Or Lester, as he's known in my family. Didn't you say that that's the... Yeah, my dad will go downstairs to watch Lester.

Like Lester doing the news, not Lester doing the interstitials of Dateline, right? I believe the news, yeah. It's so interesting that they still have him do certain elements of Dateline, Because I guess they just feel like That Lester Holt You know sort of Impromoteur matters But he doesn't go out He doesn't interview people He has nothing to do with the show Other than they make him stand in this very bizarre Studio that looks like Where maybe Joker takes Batman In the like Midway through the film Are you ready for a Gate line Show title are you ready for a date like it's like it's so bizarre the set they have him on like i guess because it's about true crime they feel like we need the background to indicate crimes are happening or something because it's again it's either where it's like it's a combo of like something from the batman movie meets the steel factory that homer takes bart to when he's worried that Bart is gay.

We work hard, we play hard.

Because Bart has met a character voiced by John Waters who owns an antique store.

John Waters, right, yes.

Oh, by the way, I'm interviewing John Waters for Livewire. Oh, that's fun. I know.

Ask him if you'll marry me and Genevieve. Genevieve and I don't have any plans to get married, but a long time ago we said, well, because John Waters was doing weddings at some point. He was marrying people. We're like, well, I guess if John Waters married us,

I guess that we would we would make that exception to our this is a major development for the show Andrew you mean if I get John Waters to commit to marrying you and Genevieve you might actually get married after 20 plus years well I didn't think that that was actually going to happen

but sure you could ask him see what happens that'd be an interesting twist in this whole

TV tale adventure and we need to add some new um we want to check in with Genevieve on how she

feels about that I mean it was her idea at what point at one point but again that was 10 15 years ago can i tell you something funny about my studio down here that i'm ready for a good time are you ready for a lester um i uh so this studio that i'm in down here used to be somebody's bedroom right it's kind of a wood paneled room which actually sounds really good i can hear when i'm editing the tape how much better this room sounds than my old room at the uh at the apartment but um you know this house that we moved into recently um they split it into two units a top unit and a bottom unit and the more i get to know this bottom unit or what is just our basement i feel so terrible for that was also on my tinder i feel terrible terrible terrible for the people they rented this out to because it's so clear that like whoever owned this place was just ridiculously cheap i was trying to fix something a light fixture yesterday i pulled it out somebody had used scotch tape luke scotch tape to tape not even wires together no not even Irish tape scotch tape to tape two wires together right here it's just ridiculous um but somebody who was renting this bottom unit and was using this as their bedroom I don't think I told you this used some sort of stick-on letters homemade or otherwise that are now gone but the glue stains are still on the wall um from top to bottom so it's a it's a it's a vertical line um and one letter per little uh panel of wood right next to my door right in my sight line as i'm talking every day it says namaste did i tell you that just old gluey outlines of the word namaste in some sort of uh scripty font peace and love peace and love it's like the ghost of namaste

has it that's also a good show title the ghost of namaste has it in any way impacted you to the positive like has it caused you to be a little bit more peaceful a little bit more centered a little bit more whatever the the principles of namaste are well it might have but unfortunately

as you do know because i was telling you about this last week and even sent you some photographic evidence about five feet away from it around the corner on another wall even closest to me i believe i have a slender man it was It looks like somebody spilled something that was maybe greasy or something, and it sort of dripped down the wall a little bit. I don't know exactly what a Slender Man is, but I'm quite sure this is a Slender Man living on my wall. I have seen a photo of this.

It's pretty terrifying.

It really is, right?

I am terrified. I'll use it as a show pic. I'm terrified with this story. We talked about this offline when you mentioned the Slender Man. I have a theory that it's I don't think it's like I know from flooding basements and I don't think that this is like going to be a problem for you per se like but it it strikes me as water that was seeping in from the outside and for some reason formed that slender man yeah I don't

think so you know I think that at the the photo that I sent you the baseboard looks like it might have something else that might have been water or something but and I was showing this to Genevieve and saying the same thing like the thing is I mean this is stupid to talk about on the show but it's clear that whatever this liquid is came from the inside because it dripped down the the wall and then dripped over the molding which is a thick a much thicker piece of wood at the bottom of the

floor it's clear that it dripped down from the inside intruding well once it once it seeped through the wood then it's there's no difference between if someone spilled it on the wood or if

it seeped through the wood yeah but usually things don't seep through so strongly that they are then dripping down the inside of the wood you know i mean these are drips these aren't these aren't just like the wood hasn't just absorbed it in this in this manner all right that makes sense

yeah no i think you're i think you're right and i hope you're right because again well we'll see If the Slenderman becomes an abominable snowman, then I think we might have a problem. What would you rather have? Some kind of phantom-like murderous devil in your house or a water situation?

Genevieve and I were... Water. Yeah. I don't... I mean, Genevieve would definitely have a different answer for that. Genevieve was hoping during this house hunting process. She was hoping upon hope to find a haunted house. She wanted a ghost so bad. For property value. I mean, she wanted to find a house that was affordable because it would be very nice. But because it was haunted, it would be affordable to us. That to her was like the killer app.

Because she would be like, oh, wait, you're going to actually, wait, there's a house that's nice to live in that the sellers will just accept the listed price. But sometimes a lady comes around a corner holding a head.

Yes, that's what she was into. Exactly.

I'm with her. Like, you can just like, you know, cut the lady, cut the ghost lady in on the deal. Yeah. Like, oh, we're going to go 200K over asking. Cut her in for 50K.

Right. Everybody wins. I assume that you don't have any issue with us. We've just met. Let's just get off on the right foot. I had a somewhat different idea, which was, I guess, the other side of that coin. And I actually did run this by our realtor. She said that there was, I believe she said there was no precedent for it. But there were a couple of houses that like Genevieve has had her eye on for a really, really long time. But weren't for sale, just houses around the neighborhood, including one that she calls her dream house back in our old neighborhood. And I was asking, like, is there a chance that we could Scooby-Doo the house? Is there a chance that we could somehow haunt it and, you know, get the people to leave? It sounds like there was maybe some legal gray areas, though. So we did not go that.

I love the idea of you taking on a role as the gardener at the house.

Right.

The mild mannered gardener. Yes. And just, you know, it's a years long project, but eventually at some point you are doing all kinds of shenanigans to try to get the owner to want to sell the house. And then those you would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for these damned kids.

I'm 45 now. I need to just like kind of accept the realization that I guess I will just never be in a house with a secret bookcase that leads down the stairs to an entire.

Andrew, don't give up on your dreams. there's a lot of that on tiktok like people i've noticed this people um build those things or have those things built all the time like the the the staircase that you descended to get down to your studio with a possible slender man in it there's i mean actually i haven't seen the exact layout of your house but there's no i don't think there's any pressing reason why that couldn't be accessed

via a bookshelf oh like we install our own bookshelf that then spins around yeah that's

what i'm saying like that's people do that like you know you get to be like you said you're 45 you get to be our age and you have a little bit of disposable income and then you start to act

out your childhood fantasies yeah now has anybody created the one where um you pull a book out and that activates it and it spins around i haven't seen

that one, but that is actually a very cool idea. I mean, that's the way it's got to work, I think. Yeah, absolutely. I think a lot of people just kind of go with the more lame version, which is faux bookshelf that is actually a door. It's a door, yeah. You can open it and go down to your secret lair or something. Speaking of secret lairs, and I've already given too much away, Andrew, I want to do this mystery sound with you. Ooh, are we doing this now?

I'm excited about this. No, let's take a break.

cool uh and then let's uh let's let's do the mystery sound right after the break here on tbtl

this is a very appropriate time to take a break by the way and you know are you ready for a god

i'm ready for it i was born ready andrew we was hoping for some razzle dazzle razzle dazzle

that's right man razzle dazzle on your mark on your mark get set get set now ready ready go Hey, let's thank some Dazzling Donors.

These are the folks who are dazzling us with their donation of dough, which is a big deal for us. It's how we're able to keep doing this. I promise you, no Dazzling Donors, no TBTL. Or maybe like two TBTLs a year. Yeah, special.

I wonder if people would like that. Just two really good TBTLs. We still wouldn't prep for them. They stood exactly like this

It would be like When Homer's Acapella group Gets back together The B Sharps First they have that Let it be moment Where they sing on top of Is it the quickie mart Moes

Maybe it's Moes

But then if I remember right They get back together Later Like they come They come together Andrew And then One of them brings their pet Rocky Raccoon And then a I'm going to see how many Beatles references I can pack into this They like I feel like there's this moment where they Reunite on the roof of Moe's That would be us Like two times a year reuniting to do TBTL You know With a lot of nostalgia and wistfulness

But from a more Safe altitude

probably not a big roof oh right i feel like you would be good on mose roof well you were not good on the roof of my house which isn't really designed for it yeah are you are you okay with flat yeah right are you okay with heights if it's there's a there's a proper kind of barrier and you know like a proper you know whatever you'd call it like gate system like would you go up in the space

needle i went up in the space needle and it really freaked me out i was not comfortable in the elevator on the way up there and then yeah like going up to the edge of it and looking over the glass this is before the big renovation of a few years ago now i understand they actually have one of those things that's made of like some sort of i don't know if it's glass or plexiglass or whatever like a chunk of the floor you can walk out on and look straight down is that correct

is that part yes yeah i have to tell you that i went never i my you know my biological brother from philadelphia who i only met late in life uh he was uh he and his girlfriend were visiting seattle so we went to do the the touristy things in seattle and we went to the space needle and i have to say like it was intense yeah that kind of walking around on very clear glass that makes you feel like you are not standing on anything, it really did kind of get to me. So that would not be for you because I'm not as afraid of heights as you are.

So you did walk out on that, huh? What did you do? What are people doing? Is there a long line and you walk across it quickly? Are people hanging around? Are kids stamping on it or jumping up and down on it?

It's just the floor. So there's no line for it. It's just they took what was, I guess, a regular floor at some point and then they swapped out this clear, very thick, very safe glass. So a large part of the – I forget which level it is of the observation tower, but a large part of it is just clear, and you can just walk on it.

So it's a large part. It's not just some – I was picturing it like just one small part of the floor that everybody's lining up to get to, but it's a big chunk of the floor, so everybody can –

It's a big chunk of the floor. Now, what they have going on at the Sears Tower in Chicago is part of the – they've sort of, like, bumped out part of the building way high up so that you can walk out. And, like, it's, like, not – you're going outside of the building and standing on clear stuff, which seems really scary. There are some places like that that have a slide.

Yeah, I've seen that.

They even go on until you slide outside of the building and back around. Again, these all sound like things that are not –

Probably a great fit for your lifestyle. No, not at all. But anyway, yeah, we're like the B-sharps. They might be great for Eric Hansen, though, of Golden Valley, Minnesota, our first dazzling donor we want to thank. Eric says, this is my first year as a dazzling donor. I've been fortunate to keep employment throughout the pandemic, and I thought I'd pitch in for others who couldn't. Good looking out, Eric. Yeah, thank you. No joke. Appreciate that. I'm a new listener starting just before the RV trip to Austin. when did we do that

five years ago

six when was the miracle on dirt that's actually a good question when was Mike Zanino's most critical moment as a Seattle mariner actually let me look that up

you keep reading this

I started after the just before the RV trip to Austin I imagine I have a pretty typical origin story of how I found the show it's the old become friends with a college buddy of the stew bot deny that stew as a real person go out to verify his existence and you meet his quote adult sons story that got me to try it out classic so when i listened to my first episode that monday it was a recap of closing down knives and going hard in saint paul no i'm not the one luke wanted to punch how i mean what does it say in the bible um be kind to your enemies it will heap coals upon their head if this was the dude that i wanted to punch at nye's oh my gosh and then he was donating to the show what a what a beautiful bit of trolling yes that would be amazing um the eric was not that guy eric was a different feller at the at that epic nye's night i mean that was across the board andrew a night of potential violence from us because you had your run in with the cab driver

or uber driver whatever it was the driver was by the way i've maybe exaggerated this a little bit in the in the years to follow but i was steaming mad because this driver was essentially it we always say that it was on um saint patrick's day but it was not like late at night it was like at

five o'clock it was daylight daylight i was already getting tuned up at some yeah some alleged irish bar on first avenue and you just showed up steaming i didn't show up steaming the

three of us all had a drink at this irish bar and then i called the uber or the lift or whatever it was and the guy was just like lying to me traffic was not that bad he was just like lying to me and then like i can't remember what it was like he kept saying he was somewhere where he wasn't and he was just being really rude to me and then eventually he canceled my ride and then we were like fine i guess we'll walk out and we walk out of the bar and there he was he was stuck in traffic at a red light right after he had like hung i think he hung up on me he hung up on me and canceled the riders and he was so rude and then there he was stuck in traffic at a red light and there i was and i saw his license plate and i knew exactly who it was so i started yelling at him through the window and that it wasn't the best look for me but also it might not be quite as bad

as as i again it wouldn't it was it was not even the worst behavior in our friend group that night That was reserved for me, wanting to punch the guy who I thought was being rude to the Stubot. Anyway, that was not Eric. It was not dazzling donor Eric. Eric says, anyway, you guys have been co-bros ever since, and I can confirm the Stubot is real. I would like to plug an incredible nonprofit organization in Minneapolis, Juxtaposition Arts, the only black-led arts and design organization on the city's north side. oh, Andrew, this is the perfect dazzling donor to set up one of our top stories today. Oh, great. Because Prince was from the North Side. Oh, right. You know, his nickname was Skipper. No.

That's what they called Prince when he was a kid. No. Did he manage a baseball team?

He did, but poorly. He made them wear... He was very interested in the costumes. I'd watch that. Yeah. Prince manages... The St. Paul Saints. As managed by Prince Rogers Nelson. Anyway, Skipper from the North Side is how they referred to Prince. I would like to plug this Juxtaposition Arts. Juxta trains and employs young people in arts and entrepreneurship. They are celebrating 25 years with a $14 million campus expansion. If you are looking to support young people and the arts, please consider supporting juxtaposition arts. That's it. Thanks for keeping this pod cart going these many years. Targus, Targus. Targus, Targus. Eric gets the show, Andrew.

I think so. And Eric also is dying to hear this clip of tape from May 26th.

2018 two outs nobody on the two-two pitch the miracle under here a walk-off bomb against the twins mariners win this one

That was in the 12th inning. I did not realize we were so deep into extra innings. Every time we played this, I remember another. Yeah, I remember that.

I have a picture of us from that moment, Andrew, on my phone all these years later, and we are blissed out.

And we were listening to that on the radio. I don't even know if I've ever seen it before. Well, probably because I probably play that once a year.

Yeah, we were out somewhere in New Mexico, outside of Albuquerque, I believe. We would later be darkening the door of some casino there.

First we would darken the door of a shuttle that would take us to the casino. I remember we were on the fence about whether or not to go. I'm not joking. I feel like we were on the fence about whether or not to go. Or maybe just I was, but I feel like we were. And then the shuttle just kind of showed up outside of our little RV.

In the RV park, it just rolled up. Yes, totally.

And I think we were the only ones on it or something. and we're just like, all right, I guess we're doing this.

Yeah, I mean, that's actually pretty smart of the casino that's near the RV park. Just like, send Doris over, have her just do a hot lap and see if any of these people want to get in the shuttle and come over here and give us some of their money.

Isn't a hot lap an ACDC song?

Are you ready for a hot lap?

Maestro?

On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go. Everybody rattle, dattle.

We've also got to thank Dazzling Donor Sue Strauss of Orlando, Florida. Now, we have these pronouncers, which are very helpful. And Sue says Strauss, like as in Levi, like Levi Strauss. But then I started to get in my head about that. Have I been saying that wrong? Would you say Levi, like Levi Strauss? or would you say Levi Strauss? I would say Strauss, but... I've been saying Strauss, but I bet if you went back to the old country where Levi was from, I wonder if, like, you know, it was Strauss or something, and we've just kind of, you know, we're saying it wrong in America, but nobody's going to complain about it because they've made a lot of money with their denim concern.

I'm looking at old commercials. Like, do you think there was ever a time in America where they said the full name, Levi Strauss, in a commercial? Probably not. I have one here from 1976, But, like, I've only heard them called Levi's. But then you look at them and they're Levi Strauss.

And that was the story on that, of course, was he was outfitting people for the gold rush, right? Oh, makes sense. Like he was in San Francisco or he was in California. And, you know, denim was a very like it was a durable product that you could wear while you were digging around and doing all that gold rush stuff. and then you know ironically a lot of the people that went out looking for gold you know went broke or never made it but the guy selling the jeans to the people to go make it rich he made it rich in

the jeans department and they were very sturdy right with the yeah i think that was rivets and

they're not rivets oh uh um grommets grommets right yes exactly sue strauss from the levi strauss Fortune is in Orlando, Florida Sue, honestly We appreciate the donation, but I feel like You could do more Just putting it out there

Sue does a lot behind the scenes

Sue, thank you so much for donating Sue says, you too have been Lots of company for me As I do my housework in the morning I feel like you are right in my house I have to tell you something, Sue Took a turn there We're actually In the laundry room Right now And don't open the door Because we need kind of privacy You know if you listen to the show Sue Which you obviously do You know Andrew and I get very very nervous About people overhearing us Or seeing us do the show So just leave us alone We're in the laundry room We'll clean up after ourselves But yes we are in your house

Just don't look me in the eye

While I'm podcasting for God's sakes Do not make direct eye contact

with Andrew whilst he's podcasting please hello and welcome to top story all right Andrew let's

play a little round of mystery sound again I love that I'm presenting this like it's a thing we do all the time it's time for another round of mystery sound can you the first ever

I had an idea if I can forestall this for just a quick second. I don't know if I used forestall there the right way, but just give me one second. I had an idea for a quiz I want to give you at some point, and I'm going to tell you what it is now, the premise. Maybe somebody else could make this quiz for us. Maybe that would be the easier way to go.

You know, the summer games are just around the corner.

I'll try to make this myself in advance. um i uh i i you and i both love kind of archival tape and i was listening to something one of these podcasts over the weekend and they're playing some archival tape and it was like so clearly of an era actually i think it was from 1995 it was that podcast one year i was listening to and i was like man 95 has a sound and just like news tape from the 90s has a sound right and i was thinking if i could just grab tape of like people talking like average people being interviewed on the news but going back from the 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s and 2000s wow could i just play a clip of tape of somebody on the street commenting into a news microphone and you guess what era it's from what decade it's from that is a great idea yeah game i need to i need to do that it'll be so much

fun i love that sound i would love it if it's like yeah they're they're aces by me 28 skidoo I'm like, 1998.

Right.

A guy, you can hear the guy waving a pennant that says state on it. He's wearing a fur coat while he's flagpole sitting.

While we're, while we're on this subject, I mentioned to you really briefly before the show that they have old episodes of that early reality, quasi reality comedy show. I'm with Busey that aired in 2003. And this was a show that, you know, this is long, long before I met you, Luke, and knew about your own obsession with Busey. Or maybe your obsession with Busey was just budding at this time itself. Great to be alive! But it was, I can't remember the comedian's name, but, like, the premise was, like, I'm a big fan of Busey, and so I'm going to make this half-hour show on Comedy Central that's going to be kind of, what do you call it when it's, well, I guess reality. I don't know if they called it a reality show, but where like he's he's hanging around with Busey and Busey is sort of bullying him and trying to teach him various lessons, like how to how to find romance and how to be a man and all of these.

Oh, I see. So that was the premise.

That was the premise. And it's just an opportunity for Busey to be super, super weird. And for this guy to look at the camera like, isn't this guy super weird? But I used to love that show. What was the show called again? I'm with Busey. And I knew it was from an era early on in my relationship with Genevieve Because we were dating, but she was in Boston and I was in New Hampshire And I didn't have TV, but I believe she and her roommates had cable at the time So she would record I'm with Busey for me on VHS tapes And then I would go to her Boston apartment on the weekends And we would watch the latest episode of I'm with Busey It's a very specific, very, very specific time in history And I hadn't seen it basically since then And I wasn't even sure what year this was. Turns out it was one season, 2003. And watching it last night, I was shocked at how much 2003 looks like 1999. And that always happens. Around the decades, there's always bleed through, right? Like the early 80s looks like the late 70s. But I always need a lot of perspective on it. And finally, here in the year of our Lord, 2022, I can see how much the early 2000s just seemed like the 90s bleeding over into the new millennium. Does that make sense? Do you know that feeling?

I guess I guess I just don't have a strong sense of what the late 90s looked like to see it bleeding through. Like when you said I almost thought you were joking when you're like 2003 looks like the late 90s. I'm like, probably it does, because those are all just a kind of a blur to me. um but this apparently it was uh someone named adam de la pena oh yeah was the creator of the show and it's funny because i that named i was googling because i thought oh it's probably like you know someone who now i know about their comedy career but this was maybe their early stuff like it was nathan nathan fielder or whatever but uh but no i've never heard of that person and And for how large Busey loomed in the sort of world of TBTL in the early days, I mean, I have so much Gary Busey tape.

It's not advice. It's sharing information from the heart and the spiritual level. Like, I have 40 Gary Busey drops. Gary Busey lemonade. Here's one. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life cracks your head, use a helmet.

Here's one. Which was, I guess it's ironic coming from him because he had a motorcycle accident, right? That kind of seems to be part of maybe his unconventional. How do we talk about traumatic brain injury in a respectful way, Andrew?

Well, the article I was reading, I think it was a Wikipedia entry about this show.

that sort of peeled back the curtain a little bit was even saying that like his motorcycle accident was in 1988. And this was a way of him kind of leaning into this character of I'm a wackadoo now because because of the accident. Now, I don't know. I'm only like sort of trying to paraphrase and they didn't use the word wackadoo. But it sort of sounds like a lot of this was performative. Like he knew what he was doing. All of these sayings he came up with, like apparently like it was supposed to be like reality TV. But they admitted later that they were coming up with scenes and then they were improv-ing around the idea for each scene. I mean, of course. That's how this stuff works. Nobody's really just walking around with a camera without any plan whatsoever. And also it was a vehicle for him to come up with these expressions that he would later bring back in some other reality TV show like Celebrity Hot Tub with Lorena Bobbitt or whatever.

That's a 30 Rock joke. It's easy. It's a mind that's open to everything yet attached to nothing. It's called freedom.

that's what it is let me really is i know this is so much good i'm sorry but like please remember when he was on the apprentice and he was talking about pizza and i think this was like the donald trump era i he's voldemort on this show i hate to even say his name but like i think this was like

the trump era the apprentice where busey was like i know little john and i were thinking about how

can we he's like he and apparently someone and little john are trying to open a pizza shop or

something it was like the challenge plug gary into this situation all of a sudden gary goes into this crazy preacher rant about pizza you have that look on your face that you look like you need to

be saved get in here and buy a pizza for a hundred dollars and you'll go straight to heaven and i'll take you out your garbage for a week you get this pizza you'll see the spirit of god come down to like a three piece that's great and i tell you this and you won't be happy unless you get off take your garbage out for a week

I feel like that would appeal to you it speaks to the heart he was before you play that sound let me just try this this is not isolated I'm just trying to kind of needle drop this in the first episode of I'm with Busey he and the comedian is it Adam is that his name? Adam. They're having lunch or something and I believe this Buseyism that he comes up with here

this show is directed by Sam Sater by the way I don't know who that is He was Sam Sater was He had a show called Morning Sedition Well actually That might have been Marin's show But he had a show On Air America Oh okay And he is a big Kind of progressive Twitter personality And so it's just funny That he was randomly The director of this I'm with Busey

Well this is an admission I'm going to play here So he's showing He's showing Adam How to eat oysters It's gross and stupid But then he gets into This whole thing about I think I'm going to do this From memory from last night I think he His Buseyism here is try stands for tomorrow's reality yesterday and my admission is as he explained it i was like that kind of kind of works it kind of works so here take a listen take a listen to this i think i'm

close i don't know for sure though i've never seen anybody eat oysters in my life what's good about this you suck the oysters up and you always keep some on your face to let the oysters know that you're proud of in the horseradish let it drip let it pee okay just give me a second here in the sauce here put it in here and then in front of your teeth rubbing around it has a teeth cleansing in it what does it taste like

okay this is not this is not working out but i mean like what what like give me something else

to go by okay it's uh it's wet and it's cool Go on And then it gets warm Then it drips It's like a The symbology of this What's the symbology? The mouth to your heart Is your freedom and your independence And your identity

Hold on now, let me get my crazy

Okay, then he breaks in Maybe I went too far Not far enough either way But try just remember, try stands for tomorrow's reality yesterday because you didn't actually accomplish whatever you set out to accomplish.

I wonder if those like Busey isms like that one, try what you're right. It's right on the edge of being profound. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like it's profound adjacent. I wonder if like if he makes those up in the moment, like if he's in a flow state, if the game is slowing down for him or if he is writing them out. beforehand or kind of like I wonder if that was the first time he ever said tomorrow's reality

yesterday I'll bet you that one was you as you watch this show like even knowing that it's kind of like it's not what it claims to be knowing that you know obviously he's in on the

joke and they're all playing characters or what have you um it's still just sort of fun to watch them pale around because there is a lot of improv in this obviously but you really you can tell i sort of feel like you can tell when he's riffing because it's not quite as good right i'll bet you a million bucks that he had rolled out that try thing earlier at least had some version of it in his head before it came out on this particular show there are other times where you can see him trying to come up with something like that and then sort of just like they just look at each

other and sort of smile it's still a fun watch yeah i the bucey thing is interesting because like i just said it was a huge component of tvtl it's possible that some of his behaviors are the result of that motorcycle accident or a traumatic brain injury i feel like we wouldn't lean into the bucey as hard and now like if if somebody showed up on the scene called gary bucey in 2022 you and i wouldn't go as hard with the audio from it but boy it was a real it was a real

moment for the show yeah exactly and this show doesn't full like i said it's still a fun watch at times there are other things that like don't really hold up either there's part of like the whole point of this episode is uh episode one is like bucey is going to show adam how to become a man or how to really be a man and hone your inner man which the premise of that right away is not something that really appeals to me and then bucey ends up dressing up in drag and this they go to a mall and he he gets a makeover and that sounds uncomplicated right exactly and then it's um and actually Busey's uh I don't know Busey just seems to enjoy it like he's dressing up in drag like so what but like there's this there's a moment where and again this is where I'm like I have to like think like really we did that in 2003 like Busey's like I'm just gonna dress up like a woman and I'm not gay and then he like kind of says it several times and then Adam is like hey you know you're saying that too much you're saying that too much you protest too much whatever I'm just like why would there be any shame about that you know i mean in 2003 seems like such a modern time you're just like really you're just like straight up gay panicking on comedy central right now about whether or not somebody thinks you're gay like who gives a shit you know and so like you hear stuff like that and it's cringy that's for sure all right let's go what were we talking

let's go let's go past let's go past 2003 let's go all the way back andrew to 45 years ago to the day okay when a television program premiered uh i'm not sure which network it was on but this is the theme song to that television program tell me if you can identify what this is

It's a TV show.

It was a TV show.

What's 45 years ago?

45, well, 1976. We know this because I'm exactly 45 years old.

Oh, right, as I'm 76. I feel like I've heard this. It's got the vibe of like a cop show, right? Like a cop or an Avenger show, like a street Avenger of some sort. 1976.

It was the Golden Girls.

Really? Oh, I hear it now. Right, yeah. Oh, the cheesecake. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love just like this is a minute long, no words theme song. Network television was like, let's burn a minute of this show.

I feel like I can picture the font. I feel like I can picture the hairstyles. I don't know. What is it?

The Amazing Spider-Man. A live action version of Spider-Man that, Andrew, I am telling you, is so bad.

I remember seeing reruns of this as a kid.

You and I, with our phones, could make a more convincing Spider-Man show.

with our own sewing machines and we don't know how to sew right doesn't he i mean starting from

abs you drop us on an island with two coconuts and a volleyball you and i could it is it is unbelievable there is the opening scene of the of the i guess the credits for this show spider-man is very clearly just jumping off the roof of a house and probably like the valley and then it cuts to uh some stunt guy jumping off a building like a a high rise in chicago like it doesn't even match it's like it's like again you and i if we were making a video for tbtl we would be like yeah that's continuity error there we can we have to we have to make this more convincing it is also the costume doesn't fit like i remember that part yeah like it's so kind of saggy in places and like,

Like, like, I mean, obviously with the whole Marvel, I'm currently also working on a TV story about the Marvel Universe. So this is sort of on my mind. But like, I mean, the costumes and the whatever, the physicality of the whole thing is so intense now. It's just hilarious to see that they just put some dude in an ill-fitting Spider-Man suit and had him jump off a roof in Topanga and called it good. It's really something else Now this is I'll play you another Version of this This was like a trailer That I found for this show This has more Like speaking on it

He's back And he's ready For the adventure That will be the greatest challenge To all of his powers

he does a lot of karate too oddly for a spider person no i feel like everyone was doing karate in this era whatever you're you might have a radioactive spider that bit you but it's going to come down at some point Karate.

That's how races for survival happen, suddenly.

They just come out of the absolute blue. Only the man who can become Spider-Man.

The president's speech begins at three o'clock, unless my demands are met.

I don't even know the context, but I love that. The president's speech begins at three o'clock, unless my demands are met. That's some real, like, Black Mirror shit, right?

Well, I was thinking that it reminds me of, like, a pulp novel. like there's a there's a novel uh called black sunday that is by oh luke who's the author who

wrote silence of the lambs um oh michael creighton no no no he that's sorry he's more of a um he's

andromeda strain guy uh it does i'm looking it up let me see here i'll get there um thomas harris anyway i genevieve recommended it as a beach read she's a thomas harris fan she's a silence of the I'm saying and and this is not part of that universe at all but it's like somebody is the plan is to hijack a blimp to assassinate the president when he's at the Super Bowl in like 1979 or something and it's just like I love it so much it's always or the Manchurian candidate thing like the president is going to speak it's always a there's always going

to be a hit on the president do you know there are only like 18 blimps in the world or something Really that's all that's left Which I learned from this And you follow them on Instagram I think as well This like Instagram feed that's just like The weirdest parts of Wikipedia

Oh yeah they're having a real moment man They were just written up in the New York Times Yeah there was a New York Times article about them That was how I found them Highly recommend

Yes right And then when I like went and found them And started following it was like Andrew Walsh There are about 25 blimps still in existence and only about half of them are still in use for advertising purposes. That was something I saw on there. But I saw the Goodyear blimp. Put all your Ice Cube references aside. I saw the Goodyear blimp when I was in LA a couple trips ago. And honestly, Andrew, it just gave me so much happiness. It was the weekend of the Super Bowl, which is why I was staying in Pasadena. I remember I had to go down there for a job and neither i nor the producer from cbs had remembered that the literal super bowl was in los angeles that weekend yeah meaning we were staying in pasadena very far away from the center of activity but i was just driving around la i was getting really into um that uh uh that big thief album that i'm that i'm loving right now called like it's the weirdest name it's like i love you majesty heart something it's got like 35 words in the title and i was driving around la listening to this big thief album and and then saw the good your blimp just unannounced and it

just really filled my heart with happiness i had a moment like that in la you know my first year in la was a really tough one and then things kind of smoothed out when i started doing tbch with you full time and i started to like i wasn't under so much pressure all the time so i was able to like kind of slow down a little bit and enjoy the city it took me a little bit to i think enjoy the city and then i remember i feel it's like one of those snapshot moments i remember sitting on our tiny little uh balcony porch thing in our apartment in la not smoking not smoking it was daytime I was sitting out there with Genevieve I think and it was right around the time Dr. Dre released that album Compton it was also around the time that the NWA movie was coming out straight out of Compton so those things I don't think they were happening in tandem on purpose although I could be wrong about that but either way the album was definitely dropping and I believe Dre just hired a skywriter you know one of those planes to write Compton in the sky and we're just sitting there and I don't think I saw it happening but we're just sitting there and I look up and it just says Compton in the sky right as and for I really wanted to like that record especially after this moment I really wanted that to be a moment I know I never really uh never really dug that record so much but I remember just being like I think I even I think if you dig into my Instagram or maybe Twitter or something which I don't recommend doing there's not a lot of good stuff there but I think at one point I like just took a photo of that i said all right la you got me like i i i give up this is cool this is cool

the name of that big thief album is dragon new warm mountain i believe in you oh okay so

i don't know i couldn't remember that albums album name i know uh i know that like that's

not a very strong sales pitch for it but really i just i love this record so much you know what But speaking of our listeners, I wrote when I was having this moment in Los Angeles and listening to this record and feeling really good about the world, I wrote on Twitter something like Big Thief might have released the first perfect album of 2022. And then it was like the listener Paul in the heart of London said all 20 tracks because it's just like too much. Like you really got to yuck my yum, Paul. Really? That's where your brain went. It was a pretty good burn This is where this Spider-Man journey Led me though, Andrew I have, for my whole adult life Thought that the real song to Spider-Man Was Spider-Man, where are you coming from Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are In fact, I feel like this came up on the show A while ago And so I was like I wonder what iteration of Spider-Man that was And it turns out it was from the electric company

Oh, okay Because I was thinking of the cartoon, which is Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does everything as Spider-Can. That was the cartoon of the 70s, right? Right.

But I also have always had this song in the back of my brain, Spider-Man, where are you coming from, Spider-Man? Nobody knows who you are. And it turns out that was from this weird bit that the Electric Company did. The Electric Company was kind of the edgier version of Sesame Street. It was a kid's show. I never heard it described that way before Had Bill Cosby on it They never knew how edgy it was going to become But it was like Morgan Freeman Was on there, Bill Cosby In fact Morgan Freeman did the narration For The Electric Company's Spider-Man Which was, I've been reading this morning The first, it was, it actually Predated the network Spider-Man show It was the first live action Spider-Man ever The first time they ever made someone dress up like spider-man and filmed it and presented it as television and that was the electric company's version yeah the electric not the one i started by playing but the electric company's version and it was kind of like spider-man he's sort of living in a comic panel and just he has these he has these sort of nemeses nemeses um like one's called the spoiler and the spoiler likes to just

like spoil everyone's fun i love the idea of it just spoils the endings to binge worthy tv

let me tell you about the end of severance um it's funny because like one of the things that spoiler does is puts a um no dogs allowed sign on a fire hydrant he's spoiling the fun of dogs

that want to pee on the fire hydrant but he's not spoiling the the cleanliness of the firemen who have to use that and or the people who have to walk near it yeah like that was the first

that i had was like as somebody who lives in an apartment building that the outer areas reek of dog urine yeah still that's that remains an issue even though i've moved apartment buildings like i think no dogs allowed is fine like i think the spoiler was on to something with that but anyway this is the spider-man nobody knows who you are song from the electric company

Spider-Man

Where are you coming from, Spider-Man?

Oh, Zazzy

Nobody knows who you are Spider-Man You got that spidey cut, Spider-Man. You are a whistling inside.

Whoa. All of these songs sound like you hit the jackpot. You got into the bonus on a slot machine. A Wonder Woman slot machine in Las Vegas. There is, I'm not exaggerating, like a two-minute musical interlude.

And this is a show within a show. This isn't even, like, the titles to the full show. This is just a skit, right?

Right, yeah. I think when they would play it on The Electric Company, they would just kind of, like, duck it down. Like, because this whole song is three minutes, and I watched a couple of these Spider-Man sketches, and they were not longer than three minutes. So, like, I think they just went with the Spider-Man, where are you coming from? Spider-Man, nobody knows who you are. a weird like a weird lyrical flourish i think but but kind of you know in its own way cool

yeah it almost has um well i don't i know not of what i speak but almost like a i don't really know lounge music except for the way it was parodied by bill murray on snl but it sort of seemed like those lyrics were um maybe it seemed almost impromptu a little bit right

we're still in the instrumental part I love to just think about the orchestra that was hired to play this.

Spider-Man There we go Where are you coming from? Spider-Man Nobody knows who you are

Spider-Man

Where are you coming from? Spider-Man Nobody knows who you are

Whoa

i know right really committing freak out it's a kind of a banger honestly yeah and then they just have like

30 seconds of spider-man and it's over that is a long intro just spider-man uh you know

dealing with the spoiler yeah right right spoil everybody's fun yeah all right um i uh because that we've been now i think we've we're entering day two of me promoting these top stories uh i should probably uh deliver on that promise uh interesting story out of minneapolis so they recently had a teacher strike and somebody at the tv station wcco in minneapolis was going back and looking through archival tape from the last time that this particular school district had a teacher strike or maybe it wasn't the last time but it was a time when this had happened and it was in the 1970s in fact it was april of 1970 and this dude is sitting in the you know whatever library of this tv station they don't really have libraries but and he's watching this footage and he sees this kid being interviewed he's like that looks really like prince and so he takes a picture of it by the way there's no audio because this tape there's this the film was so old that they didn't even have the equipment they could play it but they couldn't it didn't sync with the audio so he's just carrying around this like screen cap on his phone of this kid and he's showing it to everyone and he's like i'm not going to tell you who i think this is who do you think it is and they're all like it's prince so they wanted so this is this kind of like there's apparently very very um limited footage or photographs or whatever you want to call it of like pre-teen prince um you know it was the 70s we were just not documenting our children the way we are now and so this is kind of a cool thing that they found it but they they couldn't just say it was prince because he does not identify himself in it as prince yeah and there was funny if he did identify himself as prince at that early age i mean um this is also a topic that comes up I talked about the story yesterday on the Livewire podcast that I do now, the Best News podcast. What I said there was, if there was a child who would self-identify as Prince, it would be Prince.

Or the artist that will someday be known as Prince. Right.

Like, it would be possible that he would just look into the camera and go, I'm Prince now, but at some point I will renounce my name so as to get out of our house.

record contract because i am one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time um but uh so they but they again they they thought it looked like prince but they didn't want to declare it to be prince so they had to take the footage around they found a friend of prince's a guy who grew up with prince who called him skipper from the north side um and they show the video to the guy who was prince's friend he was like that's prince that's skipper and then they took the footage and they showed it to this woman who is like a prince historian i mean i don't think she has a formal position as such but she's just like obsessed with prince knows everything about prince and she starts crying when they show her the footage because it's like she has just she is a person who has wanted to absorb every single bit of information related to this guy and this was new information you know like for like she's watched i'm sure every video that you know has ever been released about him etc etc so for her to get to see new in for new new um whatever you know evidence of this guy is like a huge deal to her this is the tape so this is like a newscaster interviewing prince about this teacher strike that was happening in minneapolis back in the day

are most of the kids in favor of the picketing how come um i think they should get a better education too because um and i think they should get some more money because they work be working

extra hours for us and all that stuff so he was pro labor he said i think they should be getting some more money because they're working extra hours for us and all that stuff so that is like uh nobody knows his well i guess we can find out what his age is it was 1970 so i guess if i google when was prince born it's that leading up to 1970 so i don't know eight nine years old he was born in 58 so oh wow yeah so 12 so that would so 32 30 30 well 31 and a half yeah um i also wanted to tell you the story andrew of this woman who threw out the winning lottery ticket and uh she has been playing it's kind of like me with roulette you don't have my i have my four numbers yeah that i always play um if you play if you gamble and if you have your kind of like your your go-to numbers you're very burned in your brain and this woman i think in michigan i actually tossed out the story so i'm going to do this fully from memory what could go wrong she uh she had uh played the whatever it was the particular lotto and but she forgot she was she was unclear on which day they were announcing the winners so she like she forgot which day she was playing it for and so when she heard the numbers she basically threw out her lotto ticket thinking

she hadn't won just like you threw out this story i feel like it's apropos you gotta you gotta let the coffee dry off of it get the coffee stains off jeez louise i got a lot of show sheets in here

they all start with hey andrew hey what do i say what do i say what do i say after you do that are you ready for a good time wednesday march 2nd wheel of frustration hey andrew hey there wednesday february 9th wow mask mandate is scheduled to end in oregon by march 31st and sooner in some places how are we feeling about that is wheel of frustration was that a

Live wires? Because why didn't we name the show that that day? That's really good.

I believe that we even discussed that I had titled the segment in real frustration.

That irritates me because I probably gave it a stupid name. I don't like it when we get through the show and we don't have a show title and then I have to come up with one. Sometimes I can come up with something. Yesterday was terrible. Just terrible. I don't even want to talk about it.

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You haven't emptied your recycle bin in a while

I don't It takes a long time You know the other thing that I really Drag my feet on is the bathroom garbage i was thinking about that the other day like i take out the garbage in my kitchen you know every couple of days it's very regular the bathroom garbage could languish for an indetermined amount of time because i'm just throwing like dental floss in there it's like it's it's a random melange of things going into that bathroom garbage yeah yeah i mean i think again you're

living there alone i think that plays into it as well sure but i'm not lonely we established that

i believe on yesterday's program i'm i'm jogging i'm glistening that's right arm candy everything's going great yeah i am not steve martin in the lonely guy everything is i'm crushing it at life here andrew anyway this woman basically was misunderstood what day she was supposed to be monitoring the lotto and so she throws her tickets out and then realizes oh no um actually the lotto is the one that i'm playing for is tonight and the numbers come up and she immediately identifies that they are her numbers because again she's been playing them forever and so she and her husband have to go to the basement to where their recycling garbage has been one of them has taken it downstairs she digs the ticket out of the garbage it's covered in coffee this is for like a hundred and ten thousand dollars or something and they scan it because like all these lotteries now have an app and you can just like actually use your phone to scan the barcode on the ticket and it tells you if you want or not they scan it and it says she's not a winner and she's looking at the numbers and she's like these are the numbers of this day's you know winning and uh her husband's like well let's let the coffee dry so they like place it on a counter And when the coffee finally dries When it dries out Then they scan it and it says You are in fact a winner Whoa $110,000 Now the reason that this story was interesting to me Was because I don't believe in like astrology Or any kind of You know I don't know Woo woo stuff But I am very keyed in on Repeated numbers So anytime I look at my phone And it says it's 11-11 i try to take that entire minute to just quiet my brain and sort of just like be present or if it's 12 12 or anything like that i think someone once said those are called like angel numbers so i looked up the other day when i was driving driving down the road here in portland and i saw that the current oregon lottery was 222 million it was three twos the deuces were wild as vin scully would say and i told myself i gotta buy a lottery ticket for this that's a sign 222 million not 221 million not 223 million 222 and then i forgot to buy the ticket yeah and i will live andrew for the rest of my life under the assumption that i would have won that if i would have bought that ticket and i will never be able to prove or disprove that but i will always think That I missed my chance at 222 million dollars Because I didn't play that number

Yeah but how about this then If I can't take away that belief from you How about I add another belief to it How about also the narrative that in that timeline That money destroys you in some way

Oh I like what you're doing here So I do I play the number I see 222 million I pull off That's what it sounds like when I pull over Yeah you gotta slow down I drive a goose, by the way. Like an actual goose. I drive the Aflac goose. I have a little saddle that I put on its back. It doesn't like it, but them's the brakes. No, I pull over, I buy the ticket, I win, but then my life is totally destroyed because of it. That's a really good way to look at it, so I feel less bad about the fact that I missed my...

You dodged a bullet, my friend.

I saw somebody wrote on maybe like Twitter or some other social media thing that when they are having a tough time with their kids, this person appeared to have young kids. Like when they're just kind of getting worn out by their kids, they try to imagine that they're like 100 years old and they've been able to time travel back to one day of their life.

Yeah, yeah.

And this is that day. We were kind of talking about this. I think listener, maybe it was Lisa in Bellingham.

Yeah, I knew Bellingham. Yeah, Lisa in Bellingham. Exactly.

I kind of chimed in with that thought of like, you know, just how appreciative we should all be of the moment of life we're in because we get to be in a moment of life.

Yeah, and we'll look back at it someday. And even if it's a frustrating day here in 2022, I'll look back at this day fondly in 2033.

If you could come back, like, you know, flash forward 50 years from now, if you and I are both still on this planet and i assume that when i'm done you're done i mean we did i remember a pact i don't remember what it said it was in albuquerque and the mariners had just won and you and i made a death pact i know that i have a scar in the shape of a z

on my right shoulder that's what that's from um no but like yeah of course in in you know 40 years from now this will be the best day of our life like this day you and i are in will be the best day of our 85 year old selves could ever imagine and it's a really that's a really good piece of perspective and i it's just kind of i i know i said i wanted to say that because it was like it's been kind of like resonating with me like just be aware of the fact that today is so much better for us for any of us than very likely than like 40 maybe unless there's a baby listening maybe it's going to get better for you you'll hopefully be shitting your pants less 40 years from now but then 70 years from now exactly so i mean that the timeline kind of depends on the age of the person who's hearing this like 40 years from now better 80 years from now worse i mean

honestly things started to get better for me around because i mean you're almost saying like the opposite of um of it gets better right the dan savage thing that was big right right it's worse as i think i'm trying to bring today i mean i don't know man yeah i guess you got to be careful with that because people go through different phases i mean i like that idea of you know it don't it also ties into not not to be vain about it but how and we shouldn't look at ourselves this way probably but you look back at a photo of you from 10 years ago and you think boy i felt ugly in this photo at the time and i'm so much better looking i would kill to look like i would kill

and go back to that time in my life but that was the other thing i really like um i really like i'm allowed to kill you if it allows me to time travel you also agreed to that yeah i know i just

like just a lot happened that night um by the way 2018 was miracle under and i had it earlier than that so it wasn't that long ago that is a new listener who wrote in um but anyway um yeah i mean you i guess you want to be a little careful with this about how how far you take it i also don't want to make it sound like we like especially because you know we have we have listeners who are quite a bit older than us and i'm not i don't want to make it sound like their lives are terrible because oh like things are so much better now because i'm 45 as opposed to 55 like i think we have some 55 year olds who would take issue with that and maybe rightfully so you have to go you know so you have to you know i i i like the idea of putting this stuff in perspective and thinking about these things but also let's not paint a picture that it just gets worse and worse and worse until you grind out uh of this life you know what i mean that's not the case some people You know, I didn't truly find happiness in my life until, you know, and I grew up in a very secure household. I was loved. But as far as, you know, not feeling like going to school was like sort of a battleground, I didn't get that until I was like 16 or 15, which is, I think, a lot later in life than other people. So you also go through phases as well, I would say.

No, you're right. i mean it is it is there is a problem around like one of the things that i used to think about a lot that i am trying to do less is oh this is a day i'm not feeling particularly great but guess what i didn't get a uh you know diagnosis of some illness that would be you know really bad for me or whatever like i'm i would always think of like what i consider to be the quote-unquote like a worst case uh scenario and then i but then i started thinking yeah but what what about when that happens to me because it will eventually like it happens to all of us i mean most of us anyway like i don't want my happiness to be based on the idea that i it's not worse i'm not older or sicker or whatever because then when that happens then what do i fall back what do i fall

back on yeah this is a pretty dark thought i haven't even admitted this to genevieve but something i've been thinking about lately it's something i've been somewhat struggling with and i'm throwing this out here not as a as a as a um i don't know i'm not trying to be flip about it but it's weird like i've had to really i have to keep telling myself to get out of this mindset but i'm so happy right now we're going through this you know we we have this house now that we just bought and we're going through the this new phase of our life and i'm so excited about it that it's it's hard for me um to shake this feeling that something bad is going to happen now which is a terrible feeling to have and i you know it only hits me for a second and i say don't think that way that's not that's not how you get through this life but i i wonder if other people know that feeling as

well right you're kind of like some part of your brain is like and by the way that's just self preservation right that's just what our human brains do i mean anxiety is us just trying to stay alive unfortunately for a lot of us it gets out of control and it becomes counterproductive but it's like the non-anxious cavemen all got eaten and we are the result of the of the cave people who were like what's around that corner that seems scary like they lived longer and here we are

the result of it so like that's i think that's fairly natural to kind of be have a thought of like oh what's the other shoe going to be listen it has no impact on the real world i will tell you this though if paul rudd dies it's on me at this point oh that's right because what did you last week i made a joke about paul rudd trying to we're using the term joke very very loosely here i just said the only way that paul rudd can get conan o'brien at this point with his mac and me tape would be to instruct someone to play it at his own funeral which i'm really glad you're

doubling down on that i felt like we kind of um dodged a bullet by kind of forgetting about that and moving on you know who's not gonna dodge a bullet paul rudd oh my god now you're threatening

jeez louise i'm trying to describe a circumstance that would be unlikely for him to die in paul

rudd is giving a speech hail of gunfire paul rudd is giving a speech at 3 p.m and unless my demands

are met it will be his last speech uh news out of los angeles today paul rudd was killed in a drive by uh i feel pretty safe that that's not going to be how how he goes but anyway my point is just i i'm like you i don't believe in jinxes except that i kind of do yeah or i don't believe in

luck except for the bad stuff or something along those lines something weird like it's like you

You know, before we started the show, I think yesterday you and I were talking about no hitters and how we have this mutual acquaintance who you feel like probably ruined a no hitter for James Paxton.

Yeah, yeah. No, I don't mind calling out Ron Opshaw. I'll never forget Ron Opshaw. I'll never forgive Ron Opshaw. Like, what are you doing? And I wasn't even watching the game with him. I was just like, we're watching this game. I'm pretty sure it was a Paxton going for a no hitter. I think made it to the ninth, I think. Made it to the ninth, if my memory serves. And I think our text chain was relatively quiet Somebody might have texted out an eyeball emoji Or like the wide eyes emoji or something But that's it Or maybe you text your buddy like Hey, check out this game You know, whatever And I'm watching it And then suddenly I just get a text message From Ronald Upshaw I want to be very clear who this person is Hey, are you watching this no-hitter? And then it quickly became For people that don't follow baseball Not a no-hitter It became a hitter As they say in baseball

a classic hitter game for people that don't follow baseball there's a superstition around if the pitcher is pitching a no hitter you don't ever say it it's like saying craps at the roulette table it's like the bad word nobody talks to the pitcher in between innings it's like it's a whole thing and if you follow baseball at all you know this is a whole thing so for somebody to be like look at this no hitter this is amazing like the announcers will not call it a no-hitter after a certain inning. They'll say he's not giving up any hits. They'll kind of talk around it, but it's just a known thing in baseball. You don't describe it as a no-hitter or basically bring it up because you will jinx it.

Hey, Paxton is having a really special night tonight. You know what I mean? Shaping up to be a pretty exciting night at the ballpark for those who are just joining the broadcast.

It's kind of a fun thing, actually, to listen to how the announcers. I'm really having kind of a renaissance, Andrew, with the Mariners' announcers. Like, I really like Aaron Goldsmith.

Yeah, I love him, too. He's so good.

I can't believe that the Mariners have retained him as long as they have, because I feel like he's destined for the network pretty soon. You know, we love to raz Rick Riz and Mike Sims and stuff. But like Dave Sims Dave Sims, excuse me I played basketball against a guy named Mike Sims He played for Seattle Christian in the 90s And that is what my brain was connecting to Which is weird I just have been listening to a lot of spring training And spring training is so fun Because they're just like There's really not enough to talk about So it just gets really loose It becomes basically the TBTL of baseball

Yeah, Dave and Sims and Riz Were reminiscing just the other day one of your favorite things to talk about when they were, was it a spring training trip? No, they were just on the road during the regular season and they played a pickup basketball game against each other and some other guys and they both got injured. They both got injured in the middle of, and I think they had to miss some broadcasts, both the TV and radio guys. They had to have surgery. That's right, and Dave Sims was saying that he didn't even want to play. He said that I was they invited me to play and I said, no, I'm just going to do a workout by myself and they said, but we just need one more.

I didn't know that backstory.

Yeah, they were just bullshitting about it the other day.

Fascinating. I think you already mentioned this, but it was in Minnesota, right?

I didn't remember that part, but I know they were on the road somewhere.

I think they were in Minnesota, and it was the pickup game that took down the majority of the—

Yeah.

I believe Dave Simpson—

had to like stay or one of them either is or since had to stay in minnesota for surgery i do think that's the case yeah somebody tore something yeah but both of them got injured and one of them really profoundly from that i mean i guess it's not a joke but it's just so weird that it'd be like okay uh we're gonna have um who's the um who's the producer who occasionally he calls you know maybe a third of the games but he's also the producer oh i um i can't think of the name off the

top of my head there's a few of those so i would call them sort of tertiary broadcasters whose

names i have trouble with i think it's interesting though because the mariners i have never i have not experienced this before as a baseball fan and i guess you know it's 87 minutes into the show we're just gonna this is this is fun times andrew for us um i have not experienced this before where someone who is the producer i.e the person pushing the buttons turning the microphones on you know sending handing stat pages to the announcers is also a very competent broadcaster it's gary hill jr i think gary hill jr thank you and i'm fascinated by it because gary hill jr care he you know ends up calling a fair number of games but there's a lot of games where he's just sitting there like you know handing rick riz some statistical information and i mean and i'm not besmirching that job that's actually a very cool job to have but i wonder what it's like for him on the nights when he's not doing the announcing is he relieved is he bored is he just like counting time or marking time until it's he can get behind the microphone like our whole text chain the fun loving criminals is a reference to a guy named kevin cremen who was the mariners producer for many many years and was a gem of a dude uh he helped me out one time when I was early early in my broadcasting career sending me a bunch of Alex Rodriguez tape but like Kevin Kremen was never an announcer he couldn't just like start calling the game so the idea that Gary Hill Jr. is a very good announcer and also most of the time just the dude sitting over there turning the mics on is kind of uh interesting to me well it's interesting I mean I think there's

so much more to the job than turning the mics on like I mean I know you know that but like the way they talk they still so kevin kremen retired and after the 2019 season i think i'm looking that gary hill has been producing since 2020 and um they still talk about kevin kremen it's almost like bill brasky is that the snl to bill brasky like they're constantly i think i have that name wrong is it bill brasky luke bill brasky yeah okay um it sounded wrong coming out of my mouth which is maybe just maybe i just shouldn't say it anymore but um they talk about him so much kevin cremen and he's been out of the game for a while now but like they were telling a story about how he loves coasters uh and like when he would go to like various nice hotels sometimes he'd have these uh debates about whether or not he was allowed to take the coasters with them whether or not that's a freebie um they were talking just the other day about like he as a producer he always had uh post-it notes that post-it notes and one other thing and they're like he must have had stock in post-it notes like whatever he was doing as a producer he was just flooding them with post-it notes all the time and i can't oh and sharpie no it wasn't sharpies whatever but like i just feel like kevin cremen whatever he was doing as the executive producer of the of the radio broadcast just his his legacy looms so large and i love it i don't even know what the dude looks like they will talk about like going on road trips and they go to some steakhouse and how much kevin cremen ate i wonder if gary hill is just kind of like hey guys i'm right here i'm right here

You know who probably has some interesting Criminal Kind of observations is our friend Kamaru Kev Because he ran For many many years he was the Person at the radio station When Como had the Mariners He was the person running the broadcast from that Side so you had Kevin Kremen At the stadium doing What he was doing and then it was all going back to the radio Station where our buddy Kamaru Kev was Was dealing with all of it and i do feel like i forget if it fell on camaro or if it fell on cremen like in the later years of dave knee house's career he would i think the story was that he just would get like annoyed about having to do live reads during the broadcast okay so like you know some like less schwab tires or something pays to have you know dave knee house mentioned less schwab tires in some kind of a thing and then if he doesn't do it then it's like they're they're sort of they're they're like stacking up he'd have to do you know you need to do like five of them in the last two innings and he'd be super pissed about it but it was kind of his fault because he should have just done it in the first inning and like the stories that Kamara tells about I don't know it was him negotiating with Niehaus or if it was Kevin Kremen negotiating with Niehaus to get him to just do his job basically is pretty funny it's such a celebrated broadcaster to having to at the end of his career having to deal with just like all right we now have 15 minutes of reads or as i once heard at an uh late well i guess for some reason i won't name this guy a late night announcer on kuow who i believe is still there one time opening up his mic during live npr coverage i believe this was leading up to the 2016 election i can't remember what ended up happening with that election but um i'm sure it all worked out but uh i remember him coming out of maybe a debate or some sort of live coverage he's just like well got a lot of underwriting to do the network did not give us many opportunities to do this so let's get through it and then just started reading that was on public radio i kind of love it except it was so grumpy and unprofessional like it was almost like yeah i don't know i could have liked it under i i think i have a bias against this person

if we're thinking about the same person and we probably are i think it is remarkable to me that that person has maintained their job i mean probably for a variety of reasons but the one i'm thinking of is i remember working with that nighttime announcer i mean 20 years ago if not more and at that point they were talking about we don't really need to have a human in here Doing the announcing Like and that was 20 years ago Like the idea that you need And you know I think More alive present humans Talking into microphones on more radio stations Is better

If this guy were alive and human I would be 100% with you

I just remember it being kind of like Him always being very sort of Concerned that they were going to eliminate This position because He could do the whole job This is when we had DigiCarts I remember he used to go in and record His entire shift On DigiCart in like 45 minutes and then have 8 hours and 15 minutes To kill because Even in those days there was it wasn't quite Automation but like you could basically just like Set all these you know You could do a bunch of stuff on a DigiCart put it in the machine And then it would just play it when it was supposed to And 20 years later the guy's still there which is remarkable to me just that it's maybe it's at this point I mean is KUOW unionized that's got to be part of it so maybe that's saving the position and again more more live people less automation is to me the way to go so I'm glad for that side of it but he's also a person I had a huge breakthrough just in life with this guy because he was i i had a really awkward time interacting with him it always made me kind of stressed out when he would like because he used to have a desk near me and he would just mutter stuff to himself like he would say forking a a lot indeed like forking a and like he just had this like kind of running under his breath monologue and so for a long time i would pretend i would put my headphones on like i was editing audio in saw andrew did you ever use saw no you know i was waiting i was going to

tell you i was listening to uh i mentioned it the other day i was listening to that podcast where they were breaking down the origins of macarena and it was not just like these people recorded a song and became famous it turns out there were all kinds of like remixes and other people trying to put their stamp on it and one of the things was some miami radio station um dj somebody said hey In order to play this We need your remix of it for some reason And so this is a guy at a radio station He says so I take this song and I put it in the Digital audio workshop or workstation Or whatever it is I'm like Dawes I don't even think I ever messed around with Dawes But didn't you hate Dawes wasn't that a thing I never used Dawes I used Saw Oh okay did you is Dawes a thing though Or am I or did he I thought he said Dawes maybe I'm thinking of Saw

Anyway go ahead Dawes might be a Different system that we didn't use K-U-O-W had invested in Saw, which was not dissimilar to GarageBand or something now. But anyway, I just would always feel really awkward when this guy would kind of be hanging out near me saying things that I thought were probably looking to elicit a response from me. But I didn't know what the response would. And then one day I just said to him, he said some weird thing. And I just said, I have no idea how to respond to that. And he laughed And it just like broke the tension In our relationship Our professional relationship Because then I could just always say to him When he would say something weird I'd be like That doesn't make any sense Like the pretending that what he was saying Made sense to me Was creating a lot of agita for me And finally just calling it out And going I don't like know How to respond to those words

I can't work with that

That does not give me anything to work with It really It really revolutionized our relationship

because then I just didn't dread him coming around because I knew that if he said something and I didn't know a response, I could just tell him, I don't know what to say to that. So I don't know if that's a little life hack for anyone out there, but that's a freebie. I don't know how to respond to that. Thank you for coming.

Here I go once again with the email. Every week, I hope that it's from a female. No, man, it's not from a female.

uh any emails or v-mails of note yes i have two emails i would like to read i'm going to give

our um voicemail button a rest for a second today although i do love that we have a lot of voicemails coming in on the voicemail line please keep them coming what is the phone number 206 414 8285 but i want to read a couple of emails that i've been sitting on here this one came in last week um this is uh not at all related to anything we've talked about on this show but i love it marie says my in-laws just told me a story that they're too embarrassed to share with anyone else so i thought i would tell you apparently last thursday morning when my father-in-law was taking out the garbage he discovered that a skunk had dug into their trash and was now sleeping on the patio with their peanut butter jar on its head my in-laws i know it's sad my in-laws not realizing that the skunk was stuck decided to just let it sleep in its snuggly peanut butter snack when they went back to check on it the skunk was gone and then later that day they saw this

on the local news potentially stinky situation in willow grove at first glance this may look like a skunk that's just aimlessly roaming around the front yard. But if you look closer, the animal actually has a jar stuck on its head. Christy Chacon says she was surprised to see it while getting her girls ready for school. We went out to look at it and it's just spinning in circles. And I'm telling her, I don't know what to do. We got to call animal control. Chacon says at first the skunk was just in her backyard. Then minutes later, she noticed it was doing donuts into her neighbor's yard then down the driveway and then back onto her

property now i don't like hearing that i don't like animals in distress in this i mean just the thought of that is upsetting but like can you imagine i mean can you imagine turning on the news and being like oh shit that's my peanut butter jar on that thing's head like just to be

like and seeing that somebody else called animal control yeah you just thought like hey that's funny a skunk is doing a thing and someone else was like no this is a emergency situation yes i

I know, but anyway, thank you for sharing that story, Marie. I appreciate it.

Does the end of the news story give any indication of if they got the peanut butter jar off the skunk? Let's find out.

I think maybe that's as far as I've watched.

Her Willow Grove neighborhood now all abuzz, watching the skunk try to free itself from the jar. It's a skunk with a can on its head. It's been wandering around my backyard. Jacone called police, and officers Cruz and McGovern from Upper Moreland showed up with a plan.

Oh my gosh, I love you guys. This is what skunks get when they have a night of debauchery going through the neighborhood trash cans. You get your head stuck in a peanut butter jar.

I was about to say, so it was a peanut butter jar that was on the skunk's head.

I couldn't tell until they pulled it off when Officer McGovern handed it to me and it was a skippy peanut butter jar.

Handed it to them.

The skunk was like, okay, thanks, bye. The skunk is fine. It ran off after being freed. And now the family has, you know, they can watch these videos and just laugh about it.

Happy ending. And also, that skunk is a story for a lifetime. Sure. A lifetime movie. That skunk should start a podcast. Yeah, it should. I'm glad you actually asked me to continue that, Luke, because I hadn't gotten that far into the story. And so I am glad to hear that it had a happy ending. And also... Skunks are so cute.

I feel like... I mean, they had nothing to do with this. But the fact that their defense mechanism is to, you know, excrete an extremely acrid liquid and whatever gas, it's a real bad deal. It's a real bad, a real stinky situation. It's a real bad deal for them because they are, if you took that out of the equation, I think there's some of the cutest animals out there.

Yeah, they have nice coloring. I mean, you know, any kind of rodent like that is, you know, a little, I don't know.

I see people with pet skunks on TikTok all the time. People will have them. This is actually like, you want to talk about man's inhumanity to skunk. People can have them as pets because they have their, like, you know, whatever, their sprayer glands removed. So if you take that out of the equation, they're really great pets. But it's also like, those are there for a reason. Should we be, like, you know, de-stinking these skunks so that then they can just, like, live in your house and be on TikTok?

Well, once they're in your house, hopefully you are protecting them. I mean, I don't know. I don't want to weigh in too strong because I don't know much about this. But, like, to de-stink a skunk.

Is that what it is?

It stinks. To de-stink a skunk and then letting out in the wild would be terrible.

But if you're like, okay, you're a pet now, and then you get into this whole thing of this, like, well, should these things be pets, I guess? But if the idea is, no, we are keeping you safe, you live within these walls, we feed you, you don't need that anymore. I could see that.

Right. I guess it just comes down to the question of, have you deprived the skunk of its essential skunkiness? You're right.

Yeah.

But I'm with you. Like, I mean, probably my guess would be a skunk that's living in a human's house that is a pet that's being fed whenever it wants and given water and is safe is probably happier than a skunk out in the world just trying to survive with a peanut butter jar on its head. Well, certainly with a peanut butter jar.

Yeah. Anyway, I wanted to read one more email to you here, Luke, because I just brought it up on the show. That podcast I was listening to one year did a deep dive on the origins of the Macarena and the evolution of it. And Lauren Tucson wrote in yesterday, a couple of weeks ago, I was in Egypt for an amazing once-in-a-lifetime trip with my family. To cap off the trip, we took a sailboat trip down the Nile at sunset. It was truly perfect. Ancient temples, beautiful scenery all around us. We found a baby. He saved the Israelites. And then it started. Those iconic notes building up to, hey, Macarena. The staff on the sailboat decided we needed some ambient music. So as we blissfully drifted down the Nile, it was Macarena on repeat and loud enough for people in other boats to turn and look at us as we passed the way the pharaohs intended.

That was the people don't talk about the ninth plague that was brought upon the Egyptians. It was after frogs. It was after boils. It was Macarena Macarena That is why Pharaoh finally Let the Israelites go who

Signed off on that Wow yeah

That's like I'm just Thinking I'm also googling Nile River cruise I didn't even know that was a thing

Now I'm obsessed with it next week yeah I've gone

From not knowing it was a thing Andrew To I'm gonna be I'm gonna be dialing in from the Nile next Week if you need me you're gonna get a Could we do the show at 10? The job as a tour guide so that that's your new life now. I'm looking. Oh, my gosh. These look amazing. But, yes, the Macarena is if you're in Cabo and you're at like, you know, Senior Frogs and people are blowing whistles and forcing shots upon you and the Macarena makes sense. But not on a peaceful Sunset Nile cruise.

and so loud and on repeat and so loud that other boats can hear it not good kidding me not good

not good yelp review of a lifetime that's what they're getting all right let's leave it there for today as far as emails and emails are concerned okay uh that's gonna do it for the program today um we've been doing some long shows lately yeah relatively long i uh this was a good

one i felt yesterday mondays are rough man it takes me a while to find my voice i feel like And so I'm glad that I was able to wipe, wash the stink out of my mouth. It stinks. It stinks. All right. But anyway, yeah, fun show, Luke. Looking forward to doing it again tomorrow. Oh, God, we have our draft tonight. You're not going to participate in the draft, right, this time?

I literally have this on my show sheet. How are you feeling about the fantasy draft today? And I never even asked you about it.

I am feeling somewhat ambivalent about it. I need to study up.

Do you want me – would it make you feel emotionally supported if I – I don't know anything about baseball players other than, like, the Mariners I know from last season and our guy Max Scherzer. Like – Yeah. So I wouldn't be any real help to you, but I think I could call in and, like, you know, I mean, I could be on the phone with you if that would kind of, like, make you feel –

No, I think we're good. I like the idea of you. I'm not trying to patronize you. Why don't you, like, put on, like, chomping on a cigar, you're, like, calling in, just, like, yelling at me, telling me, take the Grom, take the Grom. I'm sure the Grom will be here.

And then I'm just, like, tearing up racing forms. Yeah, exactly. I'm tearing up bets that didn't come in on horses.

I'm not worried so much about, no, I'm, like, whatever, it'll be what it is, and I can do it myself. But the thing is, what I'm more worried about is our boy, Pauly, who isn't even part of our team, isn't even officially listed as a manager of the team, has already done more work on our own draft. He sent me a spreadsheet, insanely, sorry, but an incredibly detailed spreadsheet of how we should handle the draft tonight. And the truth is, I feel like I'm going to be letting him down because I have barely looked at it.

That's what I need to do this afternoon. Isn't that for techno geek? Isn't that for techno geek? Stop. Stop. Stop. There's nothing. We're already to the lyrics of words.

There's nothing that makes me. No, I'm saying stop to the computer. There's nothing that makes me more upset with myself than when I play a drop twice in a row.

Oh, I thought you were playing that twice in a row to bug me.

No, I was playing it once to bug you. But then I played it twice because I was trying to pause it, but I activated it again. Yeah, twice bugged you.

So, yeah, when you point a drop at me, three more pointing back at you, remember that?

Exactly, and one at God.

How are people pointing? How are people pointing these days? I have a whole theory on that expression. We don't have time to get into it, though.

Okay, tomorrow. And we'll also hear how the fantasy draft went for you. Okay. On tomorrow's program, which we hope you'll all be able to join us for. Until then, have a great Tuesday. Take care of yourself. May the 5th be with you. Is that a thing? I don't know. April 5th? It feels like every day has some kind of... I'm just going to burn all the way through the ending music. I didn't even know there was a post in the middle of the song,

and now we're burning it.

You had the perfect dismount. I know, but I feel like every day, like May the 4th has a thing. I feel like every day has some special, I don't know what you would call it, designation. Does April 5th have a special designation? May the 5th be with you? Not that I know of. I don't think so. Forever be known as the day we burned through the entire song, Words by Doves. All right. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow. Until then, please remember, no mountain too tall.

And good luck to all.

despite the fact that your little girlfriend gave me the stink eye in our class yesterday trina's not my girlfriend all right and i doubt that she gave you the stink eye that's just the way her face looks, you know? That's just her face. Power out.