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Someone has mixed an amazing Spider-Man in with the Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man series. This will not stand.

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A, that is not water, it is Diet Mr. Pibb. And B, I... Tell me, how do you feel about 45-year-old virgins who still live with their parents?

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Don't try to change me, baby. TBTL!

This stuff is so funny, by the way. Did the comic come up with this? Because some of this stuff, I feel like I could see somebody doing it in their act. Right? A duck that's friends with a monkey who he can't swim. That's hilarious. That's like something I would do. I would be like, could you imagine yourself being like a duck? But you don't want to get in the water. Yeah, that's the way I feel every day when I hop on the 48th freeway.

Are you taking my duplication investigation seriously? Or are you disrespecting my duplication investigation? Isn't there a slanket somewhere you should be feeling with your farts? How does it feel like?

I'm serious, how does it feel like? I've only seen one person ever have it as much as you currently do. Your vocals are amazing. I think it's just a combination of our voices is what works. They literally become one.

I'm talking about duping. Duping.

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Duplication. Show me how this duplicating machine works. I want to learn all about the process.

All right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to the Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

Oh, yeah.

My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. You call hamburgers steamed hams. Yes, it's a regional dialect. Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center in just absolutely gorgeous Portland, Oregon.

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

It is as blue as it can get in the sky. The sun is out. It's lovely. It's going to get to 80 today here in Portland.

Things are going to get hot. They're going to get funky. Somebody better open the window.

And as I mentioned yesterday, let me double check the weather here. Today, it's going to get to 80. And tomorrow, in the early morning, possibility of frost and maybe some light snow flurries. So, it's a real rollercoaster ride out here. I can tell you, though, it's going to be smooth sailing here on episode 3,657 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. Which is the episode of TBTL we have arrived at together. Remember, I don't know, a thousand episodes ago or something when me and Andrew went to Australia? Australia is a wonderful island. Trying to solve the mystery of what happened to a dude named Paddy Moriarty in a town in the northern territory of Australia called Laramah. Well, there's an update in what they think may have happened to old Paddy Moriarty. In a case gone cold, could a podcast bring the heat? We will bring you the update coming up. Also, we were talking about the official song of the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, which got us talking about team songs. It turns out there are a bunch of team songs out there.

I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

That we didn't know about that we are going to listen to some samples of today on the program, as well as celebrating the blurs days on this birthday day and talking to this young man the longest running co-bro of the show may be best known for his depictions of the hydration occasions and the tall ships that float upon them he's dealing with a slender man situation in the

sweet cream district of seattle washington i am petrified petrified with this story he's andrew

walsh is joining me right now good morning my friend good morning luke do you know what

i realized i might do later today what's that mow my lawn oh boy oh boy i am i gotta tell you

the uh shoe is really on the other foot these days because not that long ago i was in the burbank springs broadcast center and i was just a lawn mowing fool and you would talk about how you kind of were, you were envious and you remembered your days in New Hampshire of lawn care. It is the day for it, my friend. I was out this morning on a little jog around the neighborhood and so many of the lawns are freshly mowed and to the degree that they still have that fresh cut grass smell just emanating. I mean, that's, and you got your, you got your, your wish regarding your Seattle Mariners baseball team. You mean, I thought it was weird that they

We were starting on a Thursday and then taking a...

day off and then continuing the series on saturday i don't want it to be on the record that my wish was that our opening day would get rained and snowed out in minnesota because i know a lot of people are bummed about that but from a um entertainment perspective i would rather have the series all grouped together and i will be able to watch it better on friday than i was going to

today so it kind of worked out for me what did we do in a past life as a team that we have to start our season on the road in minnesota the twins should play the first two months of their season in boca raton florida like i mean the minnesota had for many years of course i believe it was the hubert h humphrey dome and that made sense because they're you know certainly the month of of april can be very hit and miss in that part of the world i mean you know the springs in minnesota but it can be lovely, but it's cold right now. I wonder what the temperature is going to be tomorrow for these two teams to throw a really hard rock very close to each other. Imagine being a batter tomorrow for either team and getting hit by a pitch if it's 39 degrees outside. And then when they built the new stadium, which I believe is, well, of course it's outdoor, otherwise they wouldn't have been canceling today's game. like i thought that'll be fun in july but it's gonna really suck for the first bit of the season and i wasn't wrong about that andrew and of course us having to play there as our first road trip like why couldn't we have our first road trip against the marlins i see that a lot of people

are you you actually just one quick thought you mentioned that like how tough it would be for the players for both teams to play in these um cold conditions also keep in mind they're just they're just getting out of spring training they're coming back from places like arizona and i don't know where minnesota spring training is if that's is that's arizona or florida fargo that they gotta get ready for it that would make sense it's up by the wall in the north um but they call it the white monster yeah they they call it taking the red and blue wait what color are the twins they're kind of red and blue right no what color are the twins uh yeah i would say i mean kind of a a grayish blue and some red red white and blue yeah how did they come up with those colors anyway um yes so it is going to be tough on the players there's some there is some like you know mumbling and grumbling going on today i'm seeing on twitter people saying uh why didn't they build you know a dome on this new stadium or on this new field it's target field right am i wrong if only we had somebody who is both a friend and contributor to tbtl who knew anything about minnesota sports we could really uh tap into that knowledge base but unfortunately that person doesn't exist stew um but uh i wonder how the locals feel about the fact that they built this new field without a dome because i'll tell you one thing a lot of a lot of mariners fans today wish they had built it with a dome but i also kind of get it like oh yeah buddy unless it's retractable like you have here in seattle like you don't want to play baseball under a dome all year round it has to be retractable

these days right i think my guess is the target field kind of fell in this little kind of um netherworld of it doesn't my sense is it doesn't rain a lot in the summertime in minnesota so to have the the retractable roof in seattle i think was a gimmick because we think of seattle as being so rainy that they were people were like well if you're going to build an outdoor stadium how are you not going to have many many rain outs now i think the actual data is kind of sort of belies the decision to build that expensive retractable roof like how many times a year do they actually have to close the roof because of rain i think it's not like i don't think seattle would have a ridiculous number of rained out baseball games compared to other outdoor stadiums but it's nice

i'll say i mean i've been there on multiple occasions where they close the roof during the game and it's like there's no interruption it just starts slowly moving like something out of star wars if you're you know in the fans you're mostly covered anyway but you can be getting you can be getting some uh i always be sneaky like how i get my chocolate oh that's how you get it

yeah exactly sneak maybe i'm wrong about that i just remember hearing something years ago about how because that was the big concern with building an outdoor stadium like i said in seattle was all the rain outs and somebody like just did the weather math and was like you know seattle it can be very rainy in the spring but of course when the summer comes around it's uh it's pretty dry actually anyway my guess would be that in minnesota they of course didn't have to worry about too much rain uh it's more of the cold and they probably also did the weather math and said look it's if it ends up being two games a

season or three games a season that have to get moved versus however much a retractable roof costs yeah expensive i'm sure it's just not worth it because the number of games that would actually be interrupted for weather are actually statistically not that probable or there's not that many of them now you also get the thing that's going on in places like florida where they

play indoors because it's actually too hot yeah right they have to they have to play inside air

conditioning units exactly yeah so yeah well i don't know and also there could be a chance that You know, Seattle has the roof. I mean, this is kind of bolstering what you're saying a little bit. Seattle has the roof, so they use it. But it doesn't mean that every time they use it, that would have been a rained out game, obviously. It would have been maybe a delay. Or maybe you just play through it because it's just a little bit. But they're kind of like, well, we're here. We have people who are getting a little bit drizzled on. Why not close that baby?

It is kind of a cool party trick. I'll give them that.

It really is. There's one person assigned to the button. It's a switch, actually. It's a big switch, and it's like a light switch. It's exactly like an old-fashioned light switch, only it's huge. It's just like it's about 30 times the size of a regular light switch. And they have one person assigned to it, and that person is just praying for rain. Just wants to put this one so bad. He's pulling a full-on Christopher Robin.

Tut, tut, looks like rain. Tut, tut, looks like rain. He's just walking around waiting for his chance to shine with the – or her chance to shine. I don't know why we have to gender this. um but uh that's right women can flip big switches now too luke yes they can the flip the switch flipper was a woman doctor andrew that's what you didn't see coming um all that is to say i am quite excited for tomorrow for one o'clock when the baseball oh just so update for for folks curious the low in minneapolis on friday the low looks like it'll be 20 degrees but it will be a balmy

38 degrees by game time that's right baseball's back the freeze of the face the crack of the ice

yes and i i want please we outside of seattle probably our largest sort of grouping of listeners is in the state of minnesota and particularly in the twin cities peace and love you know like we love you and i'm not of course i'm not trying to attribute this to the city of minneapolis or the twin cities it just is what it is but wow i would not be my ideal conditions for for possibly getting hit by a baseball or having a baseball bounce off my shin when i'm playing short stuff i would never recover i would be looking for end of life options if i got hit by one pitch in that game yeah hey i did want to say one thing though

just regarding this lawn mowing thing i don't know if i'm going to do this today or not but But it is one of those weird situations where it's like, well, I should mow the lawn today before the snow comes, which I don't think that's how shit's supposed to work. I'm not a meteorologist.

I don't know what actually has worse weather tomorrow, Minneapolis or Seattle?

Joining you from the AccuWeather studio in the Sweet Cream District. No, but the thing is, this yard here is very weird. I don't know how to describe it, and I'll try not to get into too much detail. But it's fenced in all the way around, but then there are also like some sort of like kind of sub fencing things going on here and there that kind of break up the flow of the yard. I think the reason is being because probably for dogs, maybe, but also to maybe keep the backyard for one tenant when this was a rental unit in the front yard for another. Although that doesn't really make sense. We can't figure it out. There's so much weird stuff about this place, but it's going to be a weird lawn to mow anyway. But the thing is, I don't we didn't buy a lawnmower. We didn't bring a lawnmower. They did leave a lawnmower here in the garage. But, Luke, have we already talked about this? It's a lawnmower that you plug in. Now, I know a lot of people might be familiar with those, but I am not. Right. There is one. There's actually two different places you can plug it in. They're right next to each other, one on the garage, one on the house. I don't know if I'm going to need extra cord. I've never mowed while the actual mower is plugged in. I know they have, like, slick electric mowers these days. that are battery run that sounds pretty cool but like i've never done this before this just seems like a pain can i have it where is it is that at your old place talk to carrie about it i don't

know if she's actually you know what i switched no i had an electric one i think i gave it to like the um you know habitat for humanity folks because it was not robust enough to do the amount of lawn that i had but when i had a smaller lawn in port towns and it worked great um a ryobi battery powered one was pretty good i had to switch back to a big gas powered guy um that's what i think i

want because i i mean listen it's probably irritating to neighbors but like the lawn mowing the lawn mowing experience to me is the i just sound like i just sound like so old-fashioned but like i do love the smell and the sounds and everything that go along with traditional lawn mowing

blowing and so maybe that's part of this for me but also having this long ass cord that i'm trying not to run over and i'm gonna have to be flipping this thing over a bunch of fences to get to these weird little areas of the yard which are not very big at all but i the the grass is growing very long there and i don't want to be the new neighbors who already have the lawn going to seed you know

what i mean yeah that sounds like a total hassle like the whole reason that you asked for a cordless dyson animal yeah for your house is because the you know once you've once you've lived in the land of milk and honey and no cord on your vacuum cleaner it's pretty hard to go back that whole move everyone has their own particular flair for it too it's the closest i'll ever get to being in a rodeo where you're like whipping the cord behind you like yeah yeah cord trying to make it go around a corner trying to get it off of something it's hooked on like you spend more time dealing with that than the actual vacuuming process that in a lawnmower situation sounds awful right in like around the corner of the garage and just like you're you're almost at this you know kind of like you're almost at the end of your row that you're mowing it just stops yeah just unplug yeah or it unplugs that just that doesn't sound that doesn't sound very fun so um i i you know as your friend and trusted advisor i uh as your attorney i advise you to buy

a very fast lawnmower i don't and i think i can get like you know it doesn't have to be a huge investment i mean i know at some point i might want to get a nice lawnmower but i'm sure i can like i bet you i can go to goodwill like i saw a bunch of them lined up outside of the big goodwill and ballard the other day i'm sure you can get a used lawnmower for next to nothing because people are always upgrading the homeowners love upgrading their lawn equipment don't they they sure do well

you know what it fills the emptiness and for at least a minute or two i'm concerned look i've I'm seeing a Craftsman. You can get on Craigslist for $140. Push Lawn Mower. I mean, again, you don't need my advice on this, but definitely I would say you want to make sure that it is self-powered, though, right?

Oh, yeah, that would be a nice thing, too, where, yeah, you can push it down and it can drive itself a little bit or it gives you a little boost.

I mean, I don't know exactly the size of your yard. I've only seen photos of it. But, like, certainly if your yard is any bigger than a postage stamp, it's surprising how – or if there's any uphill that you have to do for some reason, it is really, really nice to be able to just, like, let the lawnmower kind of do the work.

I do apologize that Genevieve won't let you know where we live, by the way. I mean, obviously she has good reason, but it is a little bit awkward.

It makes it more fun for me to try to locate it. I'm getting – I think I've narrowed it down to about an – probably eight-mile radius.

Good, good, good. Anyway, I'll let you know, I need to, I'm doing that thing now where I went outside yesterday to take care of one little task, but then like I look around me, I'm like those weeds that are growing like in the sidewalk, I need to take care of them right now. Like I kept on thinking like I'm going to put on my, one of these days I'm going to put on my working outside pants, which are also my painting pants and an older pair of shoes and I'll really go to town and we'll have gardening day where we're really like mowing the lawn and cleaning things up and weeding and doing all this stuff. But then, like, as you're just taking care of other things, like taking out the garbage and cutting up boxes and all the other things that go along with this, I keep on like on this little walkway we have passing this area where the lawn is encroaching, like the neighbor's lawn is growing up into this area that should just be pebbles for us and whatnot. And the weeds were just getting bigger and bigger. And I just couldn't take it anymore. So then yesterday I'm out there in clothes that are not gardening clothes at all and shoes that I should not be getting covered with dirt. And I'm just like, I can't take it. Like, I just hit a breaking point. And I'm just like, I'll just pick this one weed, this one, like, tuft of grass, and you start pulling it. And I forgot how both frustrating and satisfying that can be, like, when it doesn't come up at first. And then it starts popping, and you start feeling these pops happening way down below the earth as you're pulling this up. And then you're like, ah, okay. And the next thing you know, I'm moving these, like, edge stones around. I was only out there for a half hour. But the thing is, like, I was not supposed to be here today. Like, this was a job for the weekend. but like I just couldn't I don't think I'm ever going to play Minecraft again because I think I'm just Minecrafting around my house now it's just like I can't I can't focus on one thing one thing always leads to another leads to another leads to another

I don't want to say anything that sounds like I'm being dismissive of Minecraft but this seems so much better like all of that energy to terraforming things but you're terraforming your own house

I think that's so cool I tore a form into my gardening pants I gotta get some new ones

you know what you gotta do what you got to get man and i i got i've got two sets of these one i got from carrie's dad and the other camera where i got it but basically like a monkey suit and i mean you know a gorilla

outfit he's got issues sure right i don't know if you saw his work in potterville i was gonna say i've seen pottersville yes i'm very familiar Thank you.

No, but that just kind of like, you know, like an auto mechanic would wear and you zip it up. That thing was so great because like on a Saturday morning, I would get into it. And once I zipped it up, it was like, I'm in freaking, I just heard the Home Depot theme. I heard the let's do something theme. Where doers get more done. Like, I was just like, it was like, as I zipped it up, it was like the Home Depot theme came on until I unzipped it. And it was actually very good kind of – it was good for me at focusing or I should say it was good for me in terms of putting me in that mindset and leaving me in that mindset because what I wasn't going to go do in that outfit was go sit on the couch. Sure, yeah. You know, or like – Go to the casino. Go to the casino. Go to the local bar. Go to whatever my distractions might be. I would just put that thing on. i would you know put my i had this a tradition where i would always listen to stack of dimes jd and thunders podcast and then you blew it with our friend roden on there that was if the mariners weren't playing those guys were kind of my official like yard work or whatever home project saturday kind of listen so i'd catch up on like 10 episodes of their stuff and just again for me it was just and plus then it was like i was totally and completely unfazed by any amount of dirt mud grass plant matter like nothing could hit that thing that would even bother me because you just take it off hang it up in the mud room and just you know say i'll see you next saturday

and how often do you wash that i never washed either of them hmm see that's where i mean

that's where we part ways i liked him being i liked him having a patina i'm not kidding i like the whole upside was that they could just be i mean they're not they don't have like you know dog poop on them i almost said that like uh bruce chandling they don't have dog poop on them you know gas prices here we go no but like i honestly somehow subconsciously i didn't want to wash them because they were like something totemic about them having the grass stains of many saturday projects on them i can see that why that is yeah and i definitely like

i have a work shirt the shirt i've been painting in and again i'm not i'm it's a you know it's a kind of a oversized very very old western style shirt with snaps or whatever that i've had for i mean just forever um and now it's like my official work shirt because it used to be one of my tonight shirts but then i started painting it and now it's definitely a painting shirt um so that's my official like kind of work shirt and i don't wash that every time certainly i was just curious like what your what your ratio to wearing and washing is like i'm not saying that i would wash these things every single time especially because i don't i also don't like like washing my jeans because then they they're tight the first time you wear them and i just some people love that feeling i hate that feeling i like it when they're broken in and so i'm sure that these things feel these overalls or coveralls or whatever you call them are better when they're more broken in i i couldn't see myself washing them too much but i i do feel like i would need to wash them

occasionally it was probably the only time that i ever even kind of got adjacent to what our sort of normative idea of manliness is which is also probably why i loved it and why i wanted to leave the grime on there you would you would wear them while you're playing minecraft like it really was like putting on it was cosplaying what it's like to be an actual person who again i'm going with you know the traditional idea of masculinity here but it was like me cosplaying as a guy and then you know i'd go down to like the home depot or wherever i had to whatever errands i had to run and i would jump in my old funky forerunner in that outfit and go and pick things up and walk around and kind of look i had a certain swagger when i'd be in the heart like hardware sales was like the cool hardware store in bellingham i would just it was imperceptible to most people but inside i just felt like i finally fit in somewhere a little pep in your step in this outfit and then i would you know go home finish my job take it off take a

shower and then go watch below deck on bravo for six hours put on a tuxedo sit down and watch below

deck on bravo it's after six answer what am i a farmer hey um listener rob sent me a interesting piece of what i'm calling guerrilla marketing for live wire did you happen to see this photo that

rob in portland sent in i did i saw it the other day i was a little confused by it i i think i know

what it is but you can explain it before i jump in well it's a old live wire banner that i don't even know where it came from like where how it originated but i was talking about how in portland i've noticed something that a lot of folks who are unhoused will get one of the things that and And I'm not sure if there's an actual formal process of.

distributing these things out to folks or what but a lot of the billboards now like the big billboards that you see if they're not digital they're vinyl and so when that like casino ad or whatever is done when that northern lights casino ad is no longer relevant there's this large rectangle of vinyl and i've noticed a lot of folks who are unhoused kind of repurposing that to kind of probably waterproof things and stuff so somebody what listener rob saw was a rv that somebody had covered with kind of a lot of stuff probably to keep water out and then a live wire

banner but what was cool about it was bottom right and it was like a range perfectly sticking out the kind of covering it was it the rear wheel of the front wheel the front outside wheel this

person couldn't have been doing this more of a solid because right there live wire with luke burbank like i don't think this person was consciously trying to help the cause but they really did like some i emailed it to the livewire staff and someone said we finally got that billboard lauren had always wanted yeah it's not quite a billboard but i was like this was hung with some care like you could see livewire you could see my name it's a high traffic area there's a lot it might arguably be the biggest piece of promotion we have going right now and nobody knows where

this thing came from you guys have a big banner that's new enough that it has your name on it i mean i guess you've been doing that for quite some time now but it's not like some holdover from like you know the previous era of the show i mean it's new enough it's from the modern era of live wire but nobody has any recollection of when somebody had a big banner made apparently not um maybe i'll ask tonight because we're actually keeping an eye on that budget i want to know where this money's

going mostly this was just a chance for me to bring up the fact that live wire is happening here in portland tonight uh maybe you might want to swing by it's going to be really fun gregory Gorday from Top Chef will be here Cecily Wong who wrote this great book Gastro Obscura and then No No Boy and it might sell out because of this new banner that I just learned about so you probably want to try to get your tickets soon and fast and early and come on down to Livewire tonight. You might want to ask

the person in that RV too if they happen to have seen two signs that say podcast delivery two magnetic signs that say podcast delivery

The irony really in all of this that we lost the signs that you and i purchased yeah no i can't get a sign to save my life apm purchased we lost the signs that we actively were trying to use to promote what we were doing and then this banner which i'm guessing we were no longer using for live wire and probably were giving away or maybe tossing away it's absolutely serving its design function it's advertising the radio show even as we speak somewhere here in portland on like division or something yep yep yep all right let's take a quick break and then when we come back the update on patty moriarty and also um team songs in the news and by the news i just mean someone sent us some team songs um some gambler's date yes oh right right uh coming up on tbtl 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

Let's thank some dazzling donors. These folks are dazzling us with their donation of dough. They are donating at the top monthly level of the show, and those dazzling donations really do make this thing possible. Every donation that we get is a part of the pie, but these are particularly helpful, And we are very appreciative of folks like Katie Bracken in University Place, Washington. Katie says, from the bottom of my nurse heart, thank you, Luke and Andrew and the TBTL community. I could not have survived the last two years without my imaginary friendos. I lost my job, started a new job, got divorced, and then the whole pandemic thing. God, Katie, that makes the last couple years of my life sound smooth sailing.

Why are you listening to us complain about masks or whatever?

Why are you paying for us to complain about what's going on for us? Katie says, listening to the show, throwing my phone. All right, now easy. There it is. That's okay. Fine. Throwing my phone, interacting with fellow tens on social media, and participating in the Christmas card exchange helped me feel loved and as, quote, normal as possible. Also, I would like to send a quick shout out to my awesome daughter, Miranda, in Lakewood, Ohio. Heard of it, Andrew? Lakewood, Ohio.

Indeedly do. Neighbor, you know?

What's interesting is that University Place, Washington, I don't think is super far from Lakewood, Washington. Moran is out in Lakewood, Ohio. It seems like Katie's family has a real thing for the Lakewoods of the nation.

I'm trying to remember having a real brain fart. I can't remember what road I lived on in Lakewood. I loved that place. That was the first house I lived in that I absolutely loved, only because the other ones I kind of grew up in and I didn't learn.

to appreciate things until i move but uh what oh dang it's 27 that wasn't burgundy bay though right no no no that was like that was like that that was the epitome of like um of uh cul-de-sac development yeah suburban uh cul-de-sac-y life no this is a lakewood is like a you know it's a city in and of itself but it's a more like a neighborhood of cleveland that's awesome uh i lived right on the edge of bird town where all of the streets are named after birds but um clarence I lived in Clarence Avenue.

Like by yourself or with roommates or with your dad?

No, me and my dad. It was the time that my parents got a divorce, so me and my dad went to live in the city. And it was like the most I'd ever lived in the city before, you know, as much as Lakewood is the city. Just finding bags of money and riding bikes. I had a job in the mornings, and then I would get off work around noon or 1, and then I would have the rest of the day to ride my bike around town and go to used record stores. It was the life. I love Lakewood. What was your job in the morning? It was working for my dad. So I'd put on the Cintas uniform with my name on it, the dark blue pants, the light blue shirt that said Andy. I'd go in. I'd sort metal, drill holes in things just like in the movies with the drill press thing. Usually I was just cleaning the drill press, but one time they let me use it.

You were about how old at this time?

Let's see. This all happened, I think, when I was about 14, 15, I would say.

I see. so you worked there but your dad also was cool with you doing like a half day so you could also do 14 year old stuff for the second half of the day

it was ideal and you know and all of that money I was just saving it and then spending a little bit of it on like used Aerosmith CD or cassettes I should say that were like $2 I wasn't even a big Aerosmith head but it's like well I mean you can get this for $2 I'm trying to think what's one of those like classic Aerosmith tapes I literally listened to once because it was $2 and I was like okay i'll go home and play my nintendo my nes and listen to this uh or i remember buying for unlawful carnal knowledge by van halen and looks like that was that era and listening to that and being like well this probably isn't for me but it was two dollars it's so great being that little

moment before like when you don't have any real bills but you can kind of make like you know a little bit of money particularly if you're willing to put in the hours so where that was like me working at dick's drive-in i didn't i didn't know what to spend the money on like i just kept buying fitted hats at the pro image at northgate mall because that was all my brain could conceive of like you know i didn't i didn't like have very expensive taste but i was making seven bucks an hour and i just had you know paychecks just kind of sitting there on my dresser like i don't really you know i don't i can't all i can think of is if i could buy every american league team's fitted hat and some jordans and then i'm that's i'm out of ideas by the way i'm sorry i'm just going down

memory lane here but i did not know that bird town was an actual designation on google maps like i'm just i'm looking at my old address here in lakewood and i typed in clarence avenue and there it is right next to bird town now where are the actual bird names if i'm going to be talking

about this anyway we should probably let you find those while i wrap up katie's message katie says um i'd like to thank my daughter miranda for blessing me with a new granddaughter mave my nana heart is bursting that's so cute that's wonderful lastly i'm ready for some irl meetups tacoma tens any tens let's go love and hugs to you all power out i'm kind of getting the same feeling katie i mean i know everyone's uh in their wherever they're at with their level of comfort with gatherings and you know their own health and all that stuff but as far as i'm thinking and based on my kind of personal health history and stuff i am ready to see some tens irl very soon so hopefully that will uh that will happen for you as well katie and thank you so much

for the donations we appreciate it maestro sorry i was looking at i'm a little disappointed i see robin street quail street and lark street but like that's it it can't just be three streets

but anyway sorry i was on the wrong page here on your mark on your mark get set get set now ready

ready go everybody rattle dazzle we've also got to thank james mccracken of louisville kentucky james says my second round is a dazzler things are going to start happening to me now I can't believe I've been listening since the radio days And even the Bryant Park days Wow, James That's incredible I don't know if I've been listening since the Bryant Park days When did you start listening?

When did you start listening to TBTL?

Four minutes ago Midway through Katie Brackett's message

It was the Birdtown conversation That really reeled you in How much

How much of the rest of your day is going to be spent ruminating on Birdtown and the lack of birds?

Yeah, I'm seeing three streets named after birds. Something is wrong here. I'm not looking at this map right. Anyway, go ahead.

James is relatively far from Birdtown. He's in Louisville. And he says he can't believe he's been listening since the radio days, even Bryant Park. This show has really made a mark on how I interact with the world. Wow. That's a really extremely nice thing to say, James. I mean, I'm assuming that's a positive, right? Yeah, I hope so. This show has really made a mark on how I interact with the world. He's just, like, angry all the time now. I mean, he's just so, and he's walking around with so much rage. So many people have been hit by phones that James has thrown. People are just being punched in Louisville. He's on his, like, fourth strike from phone throwing in Louisville. We're going to guess that that's a positive, James. And if that is the case, I'm really glad to hear that, that that's the impact that the show has had. I have nothing to plug except the new designation of Tentuckian. Oh, and I need an updated bingo card. That one is pre-laminated.

The bingo cards. Do we have any more of those? Those were fun.

Yeah. I love Tentuckian. I like Tentuckian. I want a bingo card. Or Tentucky. Why don't I have a bingo card? Well, you got to, you know, donate at a certain level. Touche. I think Tentuckian and Tentucky is, that's strong. Now we just have to get more listeners than just James in the great state of Tentucky, and that could really take off. James, thank you so much for supporting the show. We really could not do this without you and folks like you, so thank you so much. Hello, and welcome to Top Story. You sent me this yesterday, Andrew. Did a listener send this, or do you have a Google Alert for Larima?

No, in fact, somebody sent this to me via Instagram, so unfortunately I don't know who that person is. But yeah, kind of an update to the Australia story. I like the way you set this up. I almost mentioned this at the top of the show, but I didn't want to kind of derail us or get us into the story too early. But I like the way that you framed it like we went to Australia to help unravel this mystery, where I think my expectations were a little bit lower. I was just going there to see Australia and see this place.

Well, now we've unraveled the mystery by having one of the listeners or someone you know send you an article someone else wrote via Instagram. I consider that to be some real shoe leather. The case gone cold, but this podcast heated it up. You know, Lester. In a case gone cold, could a podcast bring the heat? We've been bringing the heat over there in Laramie. They knew it was only a matter of time before the pressure that we've been bringing on this show day in and day out was going to cause someone to crack. So in case you are relatively new to the show or just need a kind of one-minute update on what this story is all about, I got really into this podcast, this great podcast called Lost in Larima, which was put together by a journalism student and a journalism professor in Australia. And there was also a really interesting New York Times article about this case of this guy, Patty Moriarty, back in 2017. he went to this place called the pink panther pub in a very remote part of australia called larama i think it was maybe like 11 people living there technically or something at the time and then he got on his quad bike with his dog and zoomed over to where he lived which was like a converted service station or something not far from the pink panther pub and i know this andrew because you and i have scoped out both places with our own eyeballs and he was never seen again and what was mysterious about it was that his wallet was still inside his little house his uh hat his cowboy hat which he apparently was never seen outdoors without and also the fact that there were reasons to suspect a number of the other like 10 people in this very small town there was the guy who had been a bartender and kind of running the pink panther pub who maybe had sort of had some disagreements with patty there was fran uh the woman who runs fran's devonshire tea shop which was across the street from where this dude lived like across the highway it's weird talking about all this andrew because it just reminds me of the period for us where this was sort of in the abstract and then the period for us where we were just standing there looking at these physical locations yeah well i want to um we're not to

this part of the story yet but i think and i don't know if you had the same thought too i think we met one of the people in this story that you're about to tell did you get that while you're reading

this yesterday um are you talking about the guy uh who was uh in the number one suspect now and

i'm not talking about him owen lorry is that i don't i'm trying to get this article up in front of me i'm not talking i don't think we met the main suspect now who we'll talk about in a second i think we met somebody else who claims to be a um like a Thank you. material witness uh near the end a truck driver or as they say what do they say a uh a road road truck road truck road train uh operator that guy who's quoted near the bottom of this article which i'm still trying to open but the internet isn't being cooperative uh printing my friend

printing listen to this listen to the russell the russell of printed paper of no future for it's got a future of me baby as long as we're doing as long as we're doing podcasts either will be one person who still uses a printer in this um uh well let me just while you're while you're um getting that going i'll just kind of quickly speed people through the rest of the story as as quickly as i can so they never found him or his dog he had had sort of disputes with a variety of people in this small town which for a town of about 11 people it was surprising how much bad blood there was and um one of the big issues was this tea shop across the little highway from where patty moriarty lived people would pull up and park and sometimes i guess they would park in such a way that it would make this guy patty moriarty upset so he would have these back and forths with um with fran the owner of the tea shop so it just the they couldn't the investigators couldn't get anything definitive on the case for many years and uh have finally um kind of released i guess sort of what information they do have and it's certainly according to this particular article from abc in australia there seems to be pretty good reason to suspect this dude named owen lorry may have been involved he was living at the tea shop um as the gardener and the police i guess suspected either him or fran one of the things i remember back when the first investigation happened was they went through i think the like septic and or the sewer pipes of fran's devonshire tea shop to look for human remains because she also sold meat pies which had a real sweeney todd kind of element to it and they didn't find anything um but i guess at that time they put secret recording devices in the house or in where this owen lorry guy was living and actually got these recordings of him they're described as these kind of scratchy like kind of hard to make out recordings where it sure sounds like this guy is kind of admitting to uh committing

the crime like very i told you in a text message yesterday very robert dursty sort of like yes Sounds like he's muttering to himself now in the case of Robert Durst he was wearing a microphone for an interview that he forgot was still hot and he goes to use the restroom and he mutters like what'd you do you killed him of course you did and then that was like kind of the smoking gun on his case in this case though I think it's fascinating that like oh yeah very different legal system like they just straight up wired this guy's house which I mean I guess you can get wires but this sounds so casual the cops just like put a recording device or two in this guy's wherever he was living apparently.

so this is what i think it's kind of funny the way that this is set up in the piece these because like you said it's it's allegedly i haven't heard the recordings but the article says it's hard to make out what they said what what he's saying exactly but it goes the prosecutor told the inquest that detectives had listened with headphones and believed mr laurie had allegedly said he had killed mr moriarty with a hammer i'll say

trigger warning by the way this is yeah it's pretty brutal describe some pretty gruesome

violence here but i was like let's get everyone headphones how about we get the inquest folks instead of being like i we've listened with headphones and we can tell what he's saying how about we get everyone's how about we enhance enhance enhance how about we get vanilla ice on the case right get some beats by dre like come on get somebody to eq this out i feel like this is a knowable thing because if he says what they're alleging he says it doesn't sound great so they've got this recording thing set up in the house and they say prosecutors say that he says to himself he's singing a song they say which is kind of also weird a song that goes bleeping idiots yeah tell them what i've done hit him with a bleeping hammer tell them how i hit you with a bleeping hammer he's alleged to have said on one of the recordings and another recording this is a capture between January and June 2018, he's alleged to have said, I killerated old Patty. I bleeping killerated him, struck him on the head and killerated him, basherated him, doof. Yes, he did. Basherated him.

So there's, there is not 100% clarity whether or not he's the murderer, but there is 100% clarity that he is Australian. I mean, he's wandering around saying I killerated him. He also has some Maxwell's Silver Hammer stuff going on here. But then Killer... rated him bash rated him doof yes he did bash rated him referring to himself in the third person like that is some that is some australian talking to yourself right there i mean yeah it is intense

and again it's it is really brutal yeah it's really gruesome and brutal and we don't want to like kind of elide that but um what is interesting is even with that it sounds like they don't have enough evidence to charge him he then said oh i didn't actually say that which is kind of weird because like i'm guessing the prosecutors would say we have a recording of you were you singing something that just rhymes with killer rated like what were you saying that sounded like like like you a suspect admitting to the thing that we think you might have done um but uh he's also stopped talking to investigators and invoked his right to an attorney etc so the the the sort of takeaway from this is not that they have charged anyone in fact it makes me think you know barring some kind of new evidence down the road seems like this will probably there will never be a they'll never be able to bring charges because as i learned from a lot of the true crime shows that i watch it's like knowing that somebody did something and being able to prove they did something are very very different things from a sort of legal standpoint um the one other thing you think we

met the trucker though yeah the one other thing this article mentions by the way is of course you know the the woman who runs the meat pie place um was a suspect early on and then if she was in if she was in this um i'm gonna say relationship but like i think working professional relationship with this guy who was her gardener or whatever you know people are saying well maybe she hired him to to do it or they were somehow in on it together uh which she uh totally denies she says i can tell you now i never ever ever ever paid anybody to bump patty off i swear to god on my mother's grave i know nothing about patty i don't know why that struck me there was something just sort of chilling about reading that and really thinking about the story again like you and i it was part of a you know this caught our imagination and it was a driving reason why we wanted to go up and see this pink panther pub but also the god the just the gritty realness of this is really there was something about this where i was reading it like my mouth agape just like how close we were to these folks that we were there that it really is like you have to remind yourself sometimes and i think the story did it for me just like god this was more than just like an adventure to australia like this is this is chilling chilling stuff i also don't go in for a lot of true crime stuff so i think you know people who are listening to a lot of true crime podcasts and watch the true crime shows like you do luke are probably a little bit more used to delving into these details more than me anyway um but anyway yeah where's the part of this article where it mentions the road train uh person who says that he was a witness and i think claim i can't remember exactly what he claims i'm pretty sure that was a guy that was kind of annoying us in the pink panther pub right he was the guy who wouldn't shut up

well i in this article there is there was a guy who claimed their site this guy who claimed that somebody else had killed patty moriarty and and the dog like some basically drifters um is that

the guy that you're referring to you know what's weird is i'm looking at this article on my computer now and i'm doing searches in the article for like truck road train and it's not in there anymore i'm wondering if this article was updated and they've taken this quote out now because the one i read yesterday had a mention of this person i saw the same thing there was there and it was

weird because it was just like one line that basically said i think their point was that the prosecutors don't give a lot of credence uh or veracity to this one counter theory which was that like some drifters came through and offed him for some reason and then left town the the point of including it in the article and i've got the article andrew have i mentioned print it out

i've got the article in two places now but yeah we but but you did see that uh that i saw it yeah okay that's interesting they must have updated this for some reason and removed that quote i guess maybe they thought it was extraneous it's like the internet you have plenty of space i

don't know i yeah i wonder that's very strange that it's no longer in the article for whatever reason and also there you'd think they would do they have to put a retraction there if they if they take something out of a piece so they have to retract it or is it only when they have to

you know yeah i don't correct something i don't think that i think if they correct something they put it in there but often you'll just see like articles online that just say updated you know published yesterday updated today at 10 a.m so people are constantly moving things around and

stuff but um anyway it is i mean not to center ourselves in the story but it is very weird to something about reading this and like you kind of already said this was something about reading this and then just thinking of how we literally walked the grounds of all of these places pretty much you know i mean we did a show from the from the the hotel in larama we we Thank you.

sat at the bar um you know in in the pink panther pub and and and cut it up with the locals we went over to patty moriarty's place we really were kind of like very enmeshed in this for all of like a day and a half but to think it also probably speaks to just from the crime solving standpoint i mean this was so remote it was so far away from that like where would the police even come from like you know the the idea that nobody knew this guy was missing for some period of time that had to be an extreme disadvantage for the crime solving aspect of it because it was like i mean i don't know the exact timeline but my guess is it took a long while before anybody showed up asking about patty moriarty because here was the other thing and not to besmirch this guy but the sense i got talking to people in this pub again a lot of people who just been living there for a long time was that he could get on everyone's nerves like i didn't i don't remember talking to anyone who was like a lot of times if someone you know meets an untimely end everyone's just like they lit up every room they came into they were the salt of the earth that was not the story on this dude story on him was that he was kind of a big talker that it was kind of like you know i don't know i just wonder if a component of this was that nobody was searching that hard that none of that means that someone should lose their life but i just get the sense that the investigators didn't show up until it was way way way way way late in the game to really solve a crime like this in an extremely remote place where there's like it's not like you know if you i don't know how anyone could even commit a crime of any extreme level in a place like portland like every time you walk down the street you're being filmed in 30 different places anytime your car drives down the road it's being scammed like it just i'm always surprised at how low the clearance rates are on felony crimes when you know i mean i just my sense is if any if if i ever do anything illegal i don't i just assume they would immediately figure out it's me because they would just look at where was my phone when the thing happened or whatever like this is a very different world the northern territory of australia is i guess what i'm trying i mean this is the middle of the middle

of the middle of nowhere i mean if you look at this on google maps which i guess i encourage people to do i mean you'll see it's like what maybe how many buildings are even around this area there was this was such a creepy i just remembered remember they had a little um some sort of a broad what they called a broadcast museum or something that was um it was an outpost during world war ii and there was like this shack area and i went in there myself and remember how i think you did a little tour by yourself in there too like just a bunch of dusty old military radio equipment and i'm just like crawling around in this area where we're there because somebody had been murdered in this tiny town this is also the next morning where um those two dogs came rushing at me that like kind of killer looking dogs who didn't end up hurting me in any way but we're just like racing at me i'm just like am i gonna be the next patty moriarty or like whatever like a you know just some some doofus with a podcast gets eaten by dogs in the there's just not there is nothing here there is nothing here and as i'm reading the story and sort of reliving this i feel like when you and i were first talking about this story it was a year before we ended up making the trip there by the time we made the trip there it was so much the stuff of legend and also we were just so for me it was such an otherworldly experience that entire trip driving across australia in six days or whatever like it's just yeah otherworldly it's hard to wrap my mind around and i almost feel like i'm having now four or five years later like it's really just kind of hitting me reading this yesterday and like yeah it's really just now hitting me where we were and who we met and how i don't think that anybody we met that night we end up having a really good time with a bunch of um what do they call ranchers out there uh they have a special name yeah um cattle station yeah cattle station operators or whatever and we had that big bonfire and they're kicking it it was fun and i was like now i'm aboriginal folks coming

that's right now that's right yeah that was a dynamic people coming and going yeah odd to me the kind of sort of segregation that still happens out there where i mean we were in a lot of places where you'd have the white Australians really kind of in a place and then the Aboriginal Australians kind of, like, keeping to themselves or staying in the porch area. It was weird.

Kind of on the edges, yeah.

Kind of on the edges of everything, but in this one night, everybody was all standing around the fire, you know, and it was a really fun night, actually.

It was, yeah, and, you know, I was reading this article yesterday, not to bring it back to the crime again, but I think I was like, especially that quote, that phantom quote that has now disappeared, Thinking like I think that might have been the Somewhat like boisterous somewhat Obnoxious truck driver that we were both Talking with at various parts of the night That was inside the cafe area by the way I don't think he hung out at the fire but If I'm thinking of the right guy do you remember

Was that the guy who kept yelling things Like we're doing the broadcast And he was like kind of like acting like I don't don't talk Don't talk to me I don't want to be on and then He He would.

would be like we would be posing some question and he would be kind of like from far away yelling

the answer i don't remember that is there a chance that that was happening when you went into the cafe to interview you had a little bit of tape that we didn't do like kind of live on the podcast but you went and you collected some tape with my um little field recorder and i think you asked him to talk and he said no but then when you went to interview the other guy he was saying stuff in the background or am i just that might have been in my okay uh i i have this i have a memory of us

getting slightly more attention when we because we i mean we kind of we kind of punted on doing the show like right at the bar because like that was the original idea was like just set our gear up in this in this pink panther pub and just go for it and i just couldn't i couldn't get up the gumption to do that so we sort of set up over like a little across this courtyard from there where it was a little bit less obvious what we were doing although still over the course of the recording i feel like i mean you want to talk about my whisper voice i'm sure that was like whisper 2000 voice i'm sure that was as whispery as i get hosting this show because it was a pretty overwhelming thing to just try to do what we do in that environment with the people who are part of the story even if only because they were there drinking with this dude before he disappeared

and a crocodile in like a in a caged area like what a giant crocodile one chicken a week and

is being apparently cared for by a guy with no formal training right remember the guy that showed

us around yeah yeah you didn't like that i remember we were like oh well let's see this menagerie and then i you're you were both i think uncomfortable and outside your element but then also i think you were feeling a lot of compassion for the animals that were there

yeah it didn't seem like the most fun place if you're a 17 foot saltwater crocodile to live in an enclosure that's 23 feet. Yeah. But what are you going to do? I guess he has it better than old Patty Moriarty did, not to be dark.

There's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll. You can't just listen to your song. Just remember that life is number one. You can't be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be nothing but funny.

One of Blurs. Yes, we ran out of time for sports songs, but we'll do it tomorrow because I got to be honest with you. I don't want to like I don't want to cause a tune out factor for tomorrow. But, Andrew, I am going to be all sported up tomorrow with the Mariner season starting off. So it seems like the right day to do team songs.

And is that game at 1 o'clock tomorrow?

1.10 p.m. local, as in our time.

Pacific time, yeah. That'll be good. Yeah, I've got to try to get everything done. Before that.

Love our first on-time 10 a.m. start in here.

All right. So, yeah. And by the way, the quick background on that is when we were playing the Guardians, the new Cleveland Guardians theme song the other day, We got emails from several, several listeners around the country saying, hey, my team had a song back in the 90s. This is what it is or this is what it was. And so I haven't even heard them yet. I'm saving them. I want to be surprised on the show. So we'll do that tomorrow. Meantime, let's blurs ourselves. Maggie says, happy belated birthday to my big sister Liz out there on Mackinac Island. Luke, did I say Mackinac right? Yes, you did. Is that here in the Pacific Northwest?

No, it's in Michigan. Oh, okay. And it's a very interesting place, actually. I've always wanted to visit Mackinac Island. I think you can only get there maybe by boat, and it's a whole kind of wonderland that I've heard much about.

Well, that's where Liz lives, big sister to Maggie. Maggie says, hoping to see you in person someday soon. Miss you and love you. P.S. Hey, my phone's auto-corrected feature knows Blur's Day now.

Lisa says Happy 49th Blur's Day From me to me As I launch into the 50th year of my life Starting it, not finishing it I'm still working on crushing it Or at least crumpling it I like that

I thought it said crumping it I thought she was just making something up Which I also like Oh well you know what crumping is though, right? Oh no, is that a thing? Oh, I don't want to look it up.

No, no, not a bad thing. Oh, good. It's a dance style. Oh, okay. Crumping. There was a whole Dave LaChapelle film. I think it was called Rise. A really cool documentary about crimping and crumping, which are not just things from an intro tape that we might play on TVTL. Was he crimping or was he crumping? That's what I was thinking. But about the sort of crump dance movement.

Oh, interesting.

Which is a very cool.

I think it kind of got started in Southern California and would recommend that Dave LaChapelle doc. But no, Lisa says she's at least crumpling it, which I also think is kind of nice. Maybe it's hard to crush it every day, but maybe you can at least crumple it.

Yep, yep. I crumple more cans than I crush.

Thanks to all the awesome tens in my life, says Lisa. Happy Blur's Day, Lisa. Here's to you crumpling it today.

But Lisa wasn't forgotten by her ten friends. We got this note from Tricia, who says, I'm writing to you while wearing a hair shirt and pausing to flog myself periodically for not sending this Blurs Day last week. Sounds like a fun, sexy time. Please, please, please allow me to wish a belated happy Blurs Day to my dear friend and TBTL Mama Lisa. Her birthday was the second, but she will always be first on my list. Love you, LP. Raising a glass of champagne to you. Where do you even get a hair shirt these days? It's, I don't know. Why do I associate hair shirts with R.E.M.? Does he wear one in Losing My Religion? Why do I always think of R.E.M. when I think of hair? Or does he sing about hair? I think R.E.M. might have a song called Hair Shirt. Maybe that's when I first learned what it was or something.

That's definitely kind of, I think, something that's gone largely out of fashion, right? Mortification, self-flagellation, hair shirts. I mean, yeah.

Are we done with that mostly? I think so. I mean, how long did, oh, yeah, R.E.M. has a song called Hair Shirt. Well, there you go. That's why I think of that. But, yeah, I think that that probably... Who do you think the last person was to wear a hair shirt?

St. Francis of Assisi or something? One of those dudes. Brian in Portland checking in to say he'd like to send a big Blur's Day shout-out to his co-bro, Nate, in Tacoma.

Oh, yeah, Nate.

By the way, Nate and his wife are currently building a hot tub and outdoor pub slash performance space in their backyard.

That sounds like a little Pink Panther. Pink Panther Pub.

Just, you know, hope that everyone's accounted for, Nate. It's not. Let's keep everybody. Let's keep on good terms with everyone there. Yeah. So now's a good time to make friends with him if you live nearby. Brian is essentially saying buy low on Nate and his wife's backyard experience. Can't believe I just said Nate and his wife's backyard experience. But you know what I mean. And this is the time to become friends with that family because it sounds like that backyard is going to get very cool with that hot tub and pub and thing like that. So that sounds awesome.

And Brian even gave Nate's address here. It's 4213 Birdtown.

Oh, I was wondering where you were going to go. Mockingbird Lane. I feel like Mockingbird Lane is the 555 of address. Yes, you're right. 1-2-3-4 Mockingbird Lane. Exactly.

And what's the origin of that? Because I've been saying that my whole life, but I don't know why.

It was just like the thing.

Isn't it 1313 Mockingbird Lane?

It was just the stand-in kind of fake address when we were kids for some reason.

And it was 1313, right? Maybe so.

I remembered it as 1234 Mockingbird Lane.

Oh, you know why? It's where the Munsters lived. 1313 Mockingbird Lane is, I believe, where the Munsters lived. I think. I'm getting a lot of Munster Mansion hits on this, which is not where I thought I'd end up today. where were we we were with rachel who says i want to wish the blursiest of blurs days to my husband mike hey listen it's not a competition um perhaps better known on tbtl is the man with the laugh like chris hayes you are my best friend and the most amazing dad i'm so lucky that you are in my life i love playing wordle with you and not playing wordle with you we could not play wordle forever love you that's from rachel to mike that is sweet and in new hampshire says i'm gonna blurs

myself this year sounds gross not as bad as talking about the backyard situation at nate's house and my 11 has to travel for a family thing this week and tuesday will be the first time in 32 years i haven't spent my blurs day with him i'm kind of sad so i thought this would cheer me Yeah. Oh, and yeah, well, that's very, very sweet that it's a pretty good run. Thirty two years on your birthday with the same person. And assuming that he's coming back, I'm guessing you're thirty four. You'll get right back to get right back to it. So just know that you're hanging out with us.

That's right. And I don't know if it's worth noting or not. So this Anne sent this in and it was she sent it on a Monday. So it was actually this Tuesday, the 5th, that was Anne's official Blur's Day. So that Tuesday of Blur's Day by herself was by herself. So I hope it went well. I'll speak of it in the past tense. I hope it went okay. And I hope that Anne got maybe a little bit of me time and it wasn't so bad. maybe plugged in her mower mowed, listened to a Mariner's game wait, got the mower cord stuck on various things, shook her fist at the sky, had to keep on taping up the cord so it looks like a rosary, got really sweaty, looked like the guy in True Detective

Maddie says

happy birthday to Julie Fena 10 extraordinaire

Fena 10

is that how you would say it?

they call them Fenecians if they live in Phoenix I think they're trying to go for Phonish 10. Yes. I mean, Maddie, look, it's a little bit of a stretch. Let's be honest.

And, of course, we do know Julie. We've met Julie anyway. Maddie says, Julie is the most dedicated of your listeners and a wonderful soul. Thank you to TBTL for us meeting. Truly a cure for global loneliness. Wishing you an amazing day full of hot takes with your family and loved ones from your broette Maddie. Happy Blur's Day, Julie.

You rarely hear someone wishing someone else hot takes Yeah

A day full of hot takes Giving them and taking them maybe I'm not sure

Sarah says I want to wish my partner Andy a happy 30th birthday When we met three years ago One of the first things he told me about himself Was that he listens to this podcast out of Seattle We live in Minneapolis And I had never heard of it So naturally I asked what it was about He made sure to tell me it wasn't about anything and he doesn't even really recommend it. Rude, I know. Sarah, I don't recommend it and I work here. Yeah, but we can say that. Andy working, or Andy listening and you at least having been somewhat subjected to us is more than plenty. I'll just tell you. I don't, I mean, it would be nice if people want to proselytize, but I also, it makes me anxious because I just imagine the scenario where someone's trying to kind of like foist this show on someone else and then the someone else is like, what is wrong with you?

It almost sounds like a confession, though. It's like one of the first things he said, so it's important, but also it's filled with shame. Like a superfluous nipple.

I just want you to know, before I take my shirt off, I listen to this podcast called TBTL. Oh, goodness. Well, happy birthday, Andy. How about that for the marketing? The superfluous nipple of podcasting? TBTL? Since then, I've been forced to listen to you guys on many long road trips, and I consider myself a bit of a 10 by osmosis. So happy Blur's Day, Andy. I love you. Cute.

Then we go to San Diego, home of Kelly, who says, Happy birthday to my sister and boss 10, Annie B. Annie B. She's not only my TBTL daddy, but she is also the smartest, most compassionate person I know. She's a wonderful sister, daughter, auntie, and friend. And I cannot wait to see her in a few weeks to celebrate. Happy Blur's Day, Annie.

And finally, happy 46th Blur's Day to David from Aaron in Portland. Congratulations on being the newest TBTL10 just two weeks in. Wow. Oh, my gosh. Everyone be very careful picking David up. Support his head and neck area. And also, there is a soft spot where parts of his skull are still fusing. This makes Aaron in Portland a proud TBTL daddy. I'm so happy we met and that for some reason You took my suggestion to check out the show And actually liked it Unicorn brain Explode emoji You're super sweet, thoughtful, smart, kind, funny And fun Sending you the best Blur's Day Vacay vibes I'm excited to celebrate you With you when you're back in the PNW

Nice I'm going to take this opportunity, Luke To ask you to check your email And grab the latest Blur's Day email I sent you because I'm going to barrel forward here. We have two more to do. Alicia says, Happy Blur's Day to her mom, Kathleen. Mom, can you believe your actual birthday fell on a Blur's Day? I heard they call that a super blurs. Is that what we're going with? I like it. I think so. Alicia's just calling it, and I love it. I just thought that was something to celebrate. Thank you for all that you do. Love you. Happy super blurs. Luke, we're out of music. Do you have the last one here? Do you just want me to barrel forward?

Happy Blur's Day to Eric in Tacoma. from Jason in Port Orchard. Everyone just sing along in your head. I'm really happy that we've both been listening to the same imaginary radio program for so many years now. We were just talking last night about how Missing Trash Day is one of the biggest L's you can take as an adult. Also, Jason, do you want to come over for the F1 Australian Grand Prix on Sunday? We can get breakfast burritos as long as you bring my Space Jam DVD. Are these more Hamilton references?

I love that. But I love people just using the Blurs days to just make plans. That's a good Blurs shout-out right there.

So this is Eric in Tacoma inviting Jason from Port Orchard down. So I wonder where they go. Go for those breakfast burritos in Tacoma. I could go for a breakfast burrito right now. I'm so hungry. Let's get out of here. All right. Hey, thank you, everyone, for tuning in today. We have got another show coming right at you tomorrow. The same bat channel. I would say same bat time, but honestly, you never know when this thing will make its way through the Internet and to your little podcatchers. But anyway, we'll be back here tomorrow with more Imaginary Radio for you. Until then, have a great Thursday. If you're in the Northwest, enjoy the 80-degree weather before it snows tomorrow. This is a real special time, weather-wise, in this part of the world. We will see you tomorrow. Please remember, though, there is just absolutely no mountain too tall.

And good luck to all.

I know.

I put you on the spot. How did I? Because I was like, in no detail too wrong. Wait, no, that's what?

No, because I formulated it wrong. Because what would the propers want? There's absolutely no mountain too tall. And then I guess you could just say, and good luck to all. I did say it weirdly, though.

I am just astounded that I was flummoxed there. I literally, I say this every day, and I could not. You break up the routine a tiny bit. Anyway, good luck to you. Let's just start over.

Can you play the intro tape again?

All right, thanks, everyone. See you tomorrow. In three, two, one.

Western Australia, Northern Territories and South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, these are in Australia. Okay, now say hi to Luke and Andrew. Hi, Luke. Hi, Andrew. Come back safely. You come back safely. Power out.