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You're living in a nightmare that starts at the crack of dawn.

All right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Wednesday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. It's an audiophile's nightmare. My name's Luke Burbank. I am your host.

You know, you gotta eat that microphone.

Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center right here in Portland, Oregon, where everyone says this about their town, and I don't think, I mean, I guess it can be true. It could be true everywhere. Everybody likes to say, you know, boy, you get all four seasons in one day. But when we were getting ready to do the show, I looked outside, and it was nice, and the sky was blue, and so I queued up this classic piece of TBTL audio.

Oh, Ma, Pa, it's just beautiful.

And in the four minutes since we did the sound check, it's now gotten cloudy. It's less beautiful, Ma and Pa. I read a statistic this morning that in the Seattle area, and my guess is this would also apply to Portland. This is the latest it's been in the year without hitting 80 degrees in forever. like in the northwest and i know that are you know eastern washington eastern oregon are already in like drought and wildfire conditions which is the weirdness of what we've been living through in the northwest with weather but as far as the the parts that are not desert it hasn't been 80 degrees yet even one time and here we are uh june 15th um so uh i just you know i wanted to complain about that to you the listeners real quickly before i start complaining about my cat let the fun begin which is of course most of the content on this show now speaking of there is something about the soul of a cat i um purchased this product at andrew's recommendation to scare the cat

off of surfaces i don't want her to be on but the problem is i am petrified petrified with this

story it's actually scaring me much more than it scares the cat that's what we'll talk about that We'll talk about the treadmill. She's really building her beef castle. Oh, and speaking of sports, we'll talk about the guy known as Fake Clay Thompson.

Brother, who are you?

What are you doing? Who has been banned for life from Golden State Warriors games for impersonating Clay Thompson. And apparently getting on the court and shooting around before the game recently. So we'll talk about that, plus emails and V-mails. And this guy, the longest-running Cobra of the show, may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is Andrew Firedall. Well, she needs to join me right now. Good morning, my friend-o.

Good morning, Luke. There was a moment, maybe a year or so ago, when I was feeling very optimistic about starting my day right. And I started opening up myself to signing up for daily emails from various, mostly news organizations and other things, right?

And the thought was, you'll sort of, in the morning when you open your inbox, you will see a bunch of relevant, interesting content for both your life and maybe even the program.

Yes, and I knew I wouldn't read every single one, but sometimes it's just good to check in with different places. So even if you just sort of see the subject line, you can decide whether or not you want to click on it. Like I never thought like, oh, every morning I'm going to wake up and read every headline.

In every one of these emails But you know Newsletters kind of came back into fashion I like to think that we were kind of part of that Back in 2015 You were part of it my friend

You write an amazing TBTL newsletter Which comes out on Fridays And I'd like everyone to please subscribe to it This week featured me Unnaturally sweaty Ooh I haven't watched the Hey Dummies video yet I almost I wanted to have that Whatever that Technology is that allows somebody to pull back an email i wanted to pull that back from sending it to you and our friend james because i re-watched it and i was like why am i so sweaty in this video i haven't even watched it but thank you

for telling me that because now i know we can name it didn't know you like to get sweat though i'm writing down because we have to come up with a title for but here's the deal i um and the truth is about the tbtl newsletter when our boss at the time steve nelson Steve Nelson asked us to start a newsletter for our podcast I thought he was off his rocker I was like who signs up for newsletters it's 2015 we have social media we get everything from Twitter now our inbox is filling up with this detritus but it turns out he was right it was kind of the beginning that was pre-substack it was the beginning of the newsletter revolution And so I've, as a receiver of these things, started to be more open to them. But I, Luke, need to make some decisions. And I don't know where to start cutting. But I'm trying to do a list right here. I don't have them all in front of me. But before I wake up in the morning, this is what's waiting for me at least. And I think I'm missing some things here. But two emails from the star, from the, is it the Minneapolis star, Minnesota star? Yeah. The Star Tribune. I'm sorry, the Star Tribune. One is a focus on St. Paul The other one is just their headlines wrap up I'm now apparently Because I signed up for The Athletic Yesterday with my free New York Times subscription Or free with my New York Times subscription I'm now getting two emails From The Athletic with apparently different Focuses or foci on different Things I'm getting the Email I can't cut this one from our colleagues over at the Slowdown where it includes a poem Every day and a link to the Slowdown show i'm getting the new hampshire bulletin which is a independent uh news organization that is uh that was started in the past year or so and my friend's a writer for it and she's a great journalist so i signed up for that i don't know what we're up to i know i'm missing some i'm still getting the um the uh what's the new dead spin called i just resubscribed for that yep i resubscribed for that yesterday because i wanted to read one article um and so i get defector emails every friday i just like i have i think i'm up to getting and i'm not even talking about the p the press releases and the and the stuff from um music publication companies everything that just kind of comes and goes i'm just talking about right off the bat the things that i've signed up for i think i'm up to 10 or 12 emails just sitting there waiting for me in the morning

it's too much except it could be worse i clearly my email account was compromised probably by me you know trying to sign up for something on the quick and not being you know I guess uh sort of diligent enough around where I was putting my email address because just the other day do you ever have this happen where all of a sudden you start getting a bunch now I've deleted them so let me see if I can actually get to them all of a sudden I started to just get in the morning a ton of emails from companies that I've never interacted with oh companies I don't like this you mean selling stuff well trying to but it's like the weirdest stuff it's like well norton keeps telling me that my subscription has expired it's like guess what norton i don't think i ever had a subscription with you something called true green affiliate i get a quote today for your true green lawn something renewal by anderson which i think is like a window thing leaf filter affiliate lifeline affiliate blood sugar this is all this morning these are all like spammy emails just show up in my inbox now insta hard actually that one i'm gonna flag i could uh you know just do some reading on that insta hard oh no oh dear that's in mail enhance i wish i hadn't asked a follow-up um the uh you don't like to um spend time contemplating me what else is on your list anyway so clearly my email fell into the wrong hands my email address and now i'm just getting spammed by all and they're all say affiliate which is weird which tells me it's from the same bot right i i don't even want to click on them because i don't want to give them any more attention or somehow further integrate them into my email life but it's obviously something where they're trying And I think that's a good thing.

to approach me as if I sell something called True Green Lawn Care. I'm an affiliate for them, et cetera.

That's kind of interesting. Do you? Should I click on it? Let's see. I'm kind of interested in knowing if you can get me any inside deals. I do have a lawn.

As a lawn haver, as a verified lawn. Okay, well, hold on. Let me click. Let me go back to True Green Affiliate. Here we go. Welcome to your True... Well, see, that's so weird. Oh, you know what? The email address. It's coming from something that's listed as True Green Affiliate. But if you click on it, the actual email is email 7VTZBFF at 874146.yumasun.com. So that sounds legit.

That sounds legit. I would click on it twice.

It says, welcome to your true green lawn. Get a quote today, Luke Burbank. Huh. Huh. Let me click on InstaHard and see what they have.

Yeah, let's skip that one. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I don't like that. That's given me a bad feeling just hearing about all those things in your inbox. So every morning you have a bunch of stuff like that. And are you just like the very first thing is my dad would say you're just blasting out emails in the morning or what? Or do you just leave? Yeah, I don't even sit there.

I am hoping that eventually it just goes away. I'm deleting them, but I'm not going in and unsubscribing because sometimes I feel like if you I don't even want to click on the link, obviously, in order to unsubscribe, because that just tells them that I am a person. And my experience with this stuff is it just kind of ebbs and flows and it just will eventually go away, which is also weird because why would it ever go away? If it's just a bot somewhere, I've said this before, when you were getting all those calls, like, were you getting like a million spam calls on your phone?

Oh my gosh, yeah, there was a time I was getting like more than 20 a day and like sometimes I would get literally one a minute while we were doing the show. That was amazing, I'd forgotten about that.

But it just went away on its own, right? Yeah, it did, it really did. And it's like, why does that go away? If it's if it's a human being who's having to like dial a phone number and call you, obviously, at some point, it wouldn't make sense for whoever's paying that person to try to sell you something or scam you out of something to keep doing it. But if we were talking about a computer program, why do any of them ever stop? Why don't they just go on indefinitely? Because it doesn't seem like there'd be any cost to allowing the bot to continue to do its thing.

yeah like i'm thinking about my example with the phone calls i mean that must be i mean focusing must be part of the process right like so they were hitting me like i almost feel like when i was getting hit that hard with those calls that was almost a malfunction i feel like which is sounds like why you need those yeah because it was you have it was very clear to

it was very clear it was very clear that it was not a real person so that would not be to their advantage to yeah so much that it obviously isn't real but again i just don't i don't know why it is these things seem to sort of like they they swell up for a period of time um that's actually i'm reading directly from the insta heart email god we gotta get off this joke they they anyway um they sort of enlarge for a while but then they tend to just go back although if all right i'm not even gonna i was gonna make a if your email lasts for more than four hours to contact a doctor joke um so how is your wednesday morning going outside of not liking this line of

conversation from me um it's going okay i really do wonder if i should start unsubscribing for some of these things because there is still part of my brain and this is maybe why i bring it up and i realize it's not the most interesting topic but there is part of my brain that says even if i'm waking up and just clicking and deleting 10 emails every morning there's still a chance that even in this in the and that's like the lowest i'm usually clicking on one or two but let's just say that i don't have time for any of this and i delete them all there's always the chance that i will see something in the subject line in one of these that will be useful to me and is it really that big of a deal to wake up in the morning and select 12 things and hit the delete button probably not yet right there's something about me though that likes tidiness and orderliness you know i see and there and that has served me well in some cases and it served me poorly in some cases the fact that i am not a chaos muppet as we say in this house um means that maybe sometimes i maybe i'm not as productive as i could be as some of my chaos muppet friends like you or as open to

because you never know when that like email that comes in from the the saint paul pioneer press or whatever that's gonna like actually either be something fun for our show or just fun for you to know in your life but if you unsubscribe you will never know the one time per year when that

delivers you some useful content sure yeah or it just kind of gives me a sense of just kind of like if i like the athletic here has something about otani right otani's on my fantasy team like maybe i should maybe i'll click on that one maybe i'll just like it's almost like i'm making the argument for email osmosis i think is what i'm talking about here should i just try to lean

into the email osmosis you should you should because it doesn't take that long this is a this is uh your growing edge andrew it does not take that long to blast those things

out of your inbox in the morning and there is a chance that you'll learn something about otani that's useful to you by allowing those things to come into your inbox and then you can blast them out it does not mean your life is disorganized it does not mean it's true you're not going to be able to whatever the whatever the kind of anxiety is around allowing those 10 emails to show up in your inbox just name it and uh and dismiss it you know what i saw yesterday that was very scary to

me was i opened up my tbtl email the email at andrew at tbtl.net the one that listeners can send me stuff at um and it was flashing that i was 95 full now i do not ever get that close but i think what happened was the the go daddy system that we sorry it just doesn't sound real but the go daddy system that we use oh that's who was emailing me about insta hard right yes oh i'm sorry that was go zaddy yeah um but uh they switched like the the software they integrated with microsoft or something and they switched things up and i think whatever like delete things that have been in your in your uh trash box after 30 days that got turned off or something so i had like my delete folder stuff that i had already read and dismissed was going back to whenever the switch over was which was more than a year ago so luckily most of my problem with my email was that my trash bin was way too full. But, man, when I looked down and I saw you're 95% full, I felt like, well, Carol, hold my calls. This is what I'm doing for the next four days.

Meanwhile, my inboxes are all 195% full.

Yeah, sounds about right. And that's just how I live. You're oozing.

It's like ooze, overflowing. It's not oozing. It's overflowing, what does Homer say? Oh, with the pig. Pig poop is he talking?

What's going on here? Uh, nothing, nothing. I'm not sure that pig should be in the house. And by the way, what are you doing with his leavings? Don't worry. I've devised the most elegant solution.

Oh, it's leaking.

It's not leaking. It's overflowing. That's what describes my email. Am I right? Is that from the movie? Yes, it is. God, I almost kind of forgot that that was a thing.

i think i saw that in the theater i saw that in a theater too we didn't see that together did we but i went to a movie theater to see a simps it's god i used to be so fun andrew i don't like i used to go to the movie theater to watch the simpsons now i can't be bothered to turn it on my giant television that is the size of a movie screen where every episode ever is saved either at fox or fxx or you know wherever like i can't becca is a huge huge simpsons fans fan and she's the only person she and her brothers who can out well that's not true a lot of people can out simpsons me but i have never been i've never dated someone who will just casually drop say something and i'll go what is that from and they're like uh simpsons season six when mo did this thing like because she and her brothers would just sit around endlessly watching and re-watching the simpsons when it was in syndication and like memorizing every line and it really does make me want to go back and like re-engage with this whole simpsons world but um it is a miracle that we even are recording this andrew and doing the show because i'm not kidding i put on the show script the cat literally ate luke's homework today i am sitting there on my couch getting ready for the show this is part of why i dialed you up a little bit late today and the cat did the thing that she loves to do it she just jumped right on the laptop but in the process of doing that she deleted my drafts folder in my email program oh and i couldn't figure out how to get back to it now i have a very weird working system which is the drafts folder on my email account is where i do literally all of the work it's where i write cbs sunday morning scripts it's where i put our show sheet together i don't have word on my computer and i guess i could use google docs but for some reason i just have over the many years developed this system where everything i'm working on from a writing perspective is in a draft email and so that's just it's it's where my to-do list is it's where you know it just everything about my sort of work life is really goes back to my drafts folder and the cat jumped on my laptop and all i heard was on an on a mac when you throw something in the garbage it makes this like garbage sound like poof yeah like i can't do an impression of it crunching sound no this one was when you take something this wasn't because she didn't like take it and put it in the trash can and hit delete she moved it in such a way that it was like no longer in my field of vision or no longer on that screen and it made this like poof sound and i spent a good 45 minutes trying to figure out how to get back to my drafts folder i was on the internet. i was in the help section of my email account and finally i figured it out but she okay there was nothing that she could have done that would have made my morning more challenging from a productivity standpoint of all the things for her little paw to hit how in the world did it hit

delete the email draft folder well it's probably not an accident it's probably i mean she's

communicating with you the way she can right and she needs a little bit more um lucas time i think and she needs you to spend less time.

She's getting so much Lukal's time, Andrew. It's like we, I am turning into a shut-in now. All I do is watch, hold on, relax, stop. Speaking of which, she's crawling up my leg right now. All I do now, Andrew, is sit on my couch, watch the baseball game, text you all about it, and play with her, be it on the treadmill, which is going great, by the way. Although I really think that the breakthrough, more than the treadmill, the breakthrough is the laser pointer. like i bought a little laser thing at the pet store she is obsessed obsessed i don't know if it's because the kind of cat she is a bangle or if it's because she's never seen a laser pointer before but i hope that she maintains this childlike wonder with it because it is vastly improving my

life with her i've never seen that thing i don't think i've never seen a cat not freak out over a laser pointer i think that it'll stick with her even um really yeah for sure yeah my concern is

that like if i overdo it early then she'll just kind of figure out that it's not a real thing or not you know whatever her brain is telling her that little red dot is she'll sort of get wise to it and then i won't have it as a tool in my toolbox but as of right now she is totally obsessed and what i sent you this video the other day what i figured out is i get her running around looking for the laser pointer dot and then i put it on the treadmill and then she just runs and runs and

runs on that thing yeah so it's actually really working that video you sent me is very um very impressive she's very athletic when you see her really like stretch out and really go crazy on that wheel and just like she's just running as hard as she can like you can see the you can see

the beast right you can just right and i didn't realize how how athletic as a cat she is compared to a lot of house cats um and that's because probably her you know breeding etc but like add i sent that same video to my family to hawk squad and addy has a cat named blue and she was like uh blue uh just looked at me and said uh she's feeling really body shamed by this yeah yeah because it's you know and saying like becca's cat uh is a like i think you call the tuxedo cat like the kind of cat that's got the black and white markings named holly and holly eats like four pellets of food a day and is roughly a circle like when you see holly and bubbles next to each other it's hilarious because holly is just so built so differently um so i didn't i don't think i realized yeah what sort of how athletic this cat was until i saw her or got her and then see her compared to other like a typical house cat that's just kind of sitting around a big ball of

fluff yeah i was digging around in my uh recycle bin here i just found the video you sent me the other day i'm gonna use this as a show pick today i'll try to get one of the most athletic shots of this cat it is impressive i do have about you have roughly 10 oh you have 10 to 20 hours of footage i can send you on this topic you're like you might imagine i found this you're like i have

so much well i have better i have like you know better footage of uh of her doing it now because i've had like uh a few days with it to kind of get her used to it and figure out my whole system um i am okay a couple of things andrew i know we probably have real stuff to talk about but one other thing related to the cat and then i will retire cat conversation on this wednesday I bought one of those cans of compressed air That thing called SCAT That you told me about That y'all use for a professor sometimes And what I can't The part of this So it's a can of compressed air And it has a motion sensor on it By the way, not cheap It was like $55 or something

Yeah, and then the replacement cans are pretty expensive too I think it's like $60 for three cans or something Jeez Louise Yeah, that's why you don't want to accidentally trigger it yourself Which sounds like a problem

i've done that probably a hundred times so yesterday at the end of the show i was talking about this and you said that you and genevieve have a house guest who was scared by this thing because again it sprays this blast of air basically uh when something moves in its general area so you were telling that story and i thought oh that's funny okay and then i said you know no mountain too tall and then hung up and then i walked into the bathroom having completely forgotten that i had this stupid can set up and it went yeah like it scared the crap out of me 40 seconds after we talked about that thing scaring the crap out of

someone else yeah it um it will get you it'll always get you um it's a payoff though it's one of those things like we really need it now in the one part of the house where bananas has calmed down a little bit, but she was happy. having accidents on this one rug and so we really had and it was she was kind of acting up because whatever we're trying to dial in her her food situation we moved we used to feed two cats now we're feeding one I don't know but whatever she was like when she was feeling like she wasn't getting food in the morning on her timeline she was like pretty regularly taking it out on this carpet which is an interesting it's an interesting thing for cats you know it's mostly instinct but it's also you can see how it is related to whether or not you're providing for them or not strange situation but like yeah do i love every night putting you know finding the scat thing and putting it down on the floor and then scaring the hell out of me in the morning when i forget to pick it up for the first time no it's not my favorite thing so that happens to you as well oh yeah forget that it's there i mean yeah and you know we've been using these things for years and years now i mean they kind of come and go i mean i think we had some of the the tops you put batteries it's kind of hard to explain but really the piece of hardware is the the top of this thing it's this plastic mechanism that takes batteries and then you swap out the air can underneath it almost like a i guess is that kind of like what an air horn is like you just buy new cans and you pop it onto the air horn i guess i've never i've never purchased an air horn me neither i've never used one i don't think you must have used one in all of your in all of the goofy things you've done for like a performance or something you must know never an air horn i mean

a megaphone many times i'm a somebody walking in my yard i am a can you uh do you tap dance for a second okay i will all right i am a fan of the mini megaphone i'm just talking to the listeners now because andrew's over there doing security there's somebody yeah there's somebody with a

clipboard just wandering around my house looking at my house i feel like i should go ask them what

they're doing well then why don't we do this let's take a break thank you sorry about that and then We'll come back. You can tell us what's going on with the feds at your house, and then we'll do more TBTL. Stay with us. Hello, and welcome to Top Story. All right. Our top story is the person in Andrew's yard, the mystery feet that Andrew saw walking past his Kixi window cling. What was going on? Who was the person? What were they doing?

Well, it's funny. Was it fake Clay Thompson? i don't know i let him in he's shooting hoops uh he's playing nba jams in my rumpus room as we speak um yeah no it's it was somebody and this is kind of embarrassing but it's funny you mentioned the window cling but it's actually somebody from kick scene they heard that i was sort of complaining about some of their new programming i don't know did i tell you i'm sure i've complained about this that they've replaced some of the music with three hour rolling stones now they're playing that rock and roll music no they're just playing bloomberg news for six hours a day and And then some rotating midday show of just, like, low-level, I don't know. I don't even know. Some days it's a tech show. Other days it's a banking show. I don't know what's going on. And so they said that they need to take my window cling back because I have been besmirching.

You can no longer tell people about their fried pickles.

Exactly. No, somebody from a terrorist organization. No, Genevieve apparently set up an appointment to have somebody come and give us an estimate for a house painting job We're thinking about having our house painted at some point And so that's what that fella is doing I mean, when I saw somebody with a clipboard, I figured it was an insurance person One time an insurance person was here, like, checking out the house, doing a little inspection I figured it was, I wasn't actually concerned about it being like a prowler It was pretty clear it wasn't

Although that would be a pretty, pretty smooth move. If I ever get into the prowling game, I get myself like a, sorry, the cat is also just absolutely terrorizing me. Speaking of terrorist organization. Yeah. She's decided that now is the time to try to physically climb my body while I'm doing the show. But anyway, I get, get yourself a clipboard. Actually just dress like the Orkin man.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's classic. No one's going to mess with you. What about painters? What about you get yourself a painting truck or a painting van and you get some coveralls? overalls it's yeah that's in the movies that yeah that's always that's when the fbi is doing their

stakeout yeah but they're in like a you know i feel like that's a little i just feel like the orkin man is really the way to go yeah i can all of your for all your burgling uh needs yeah yeah

especially that so everything's handled irony there too if you were planting a bug i don't know why we're you know what the mission is here but that'd be so ironic if you're like pretend to be fighting bugs but you're actually planting bugs that would be that would i believe that is the definition of irony that is one of the most stressful situations in a movie or tv show when somebody especially i feel i don't know if i'm only thinking about the tv show the americans here but i feel like it is again kind of a trope or something that pops up a lot like somebody who is not trained to be a spy is deputized and has to place a bug I don't know. somewhere where they're not supposed to be you know what i mean sometimes it's like a maybe a cleaning person or you know somebody who works for an organization and they need to get it in their boss's office or something like that like that stresses me out i feel like you'd be good

at it though uh it's always the way that the the scene is always set up is the person who is about to be surveilled is always walking kind of back to the place where the bug is being planted and they're doing something else there they have no idea that the exact speed at which they're walking will make or break the rest of this film and they're just kind of doing their thing they always stop somewhere to admire something or whatever and then the person is just like and then what usually happens actually i can't think of one film where the person just opened the door and they just see the person trying to plant the bug that from a narrative standpoint would really

kill the rest of the film but it always comes close right and this is always comes very good because they would come in and be like hey what are you doing in here like and you know not actually seeing them planting the bug and the person just goes housekeeping right that's where i feel like that's where you need to just be a smooth criminal right like you just need to like act like you're supposed to be there and don't get flustered i would get flustered i would say i don't think it's gonna make it through the mountains and they'd be like are you talking about the mitsubishi mirage again i'd be like i don't know whereas you just be like listen uh i'm I'm just in here rearranging the furniture for feng shui or something like that.

I would just fake Clay Thompson it. Yeah. Speaking of which, let's talk about this for a minute. Then, but can you, I actually have a pen here. I can make a note. I want to talk to you about a couple of other things, too. I don't want to forget this Andre the Giant photo that I'm obsessed with. Okay. And also, I'm making a note, a list for myself. I love this. I had a major breakthrough with my air travel situation, with how I moved through the world as an air traveler.

Oh, okay. This is like, this is, people are seeing the sausage being made here. Yes, this is the process. This is a show sheet being made live on the air.

This is basically me laying out a series of topics that will probably get discussed in three weeks, if at all.

I was going to say, we could go back, I could get some music playing underneath, and you could do some promos for these things, or we can just barrel forward here.

The San Francisco Chronicle, the top three most read articles at the San Francisco Chronicles website, which is SFGate, are all about this guy who kind of online presents himself as fake Clay Thompson. And he's actually just like an Internet pranksters name in real life is Dawson Gurley. But pretty much all of the most viewed stories are different versions of articles about how he's been banned from going to Golden State Warriors games for apparently sneaking. I don't know if he actually snuck into the arena or if he had tickets, but then when in the arena, sneaking onto the court and shooting around, actually getting on the court for, he said, like 10 minutes. now he bears a slight resemblance to the basketball player clay thompson and what he's done that's very effective apparently he's kind of a cult hero in the bay area like he's been going to warriors games for years and he will shave his facial hair so that it because clay thompson always has like either a goatee or a beard of some kind and so he has he's always got his facial hair doing whatever clay thompson's is at the time and um and he was wearing golden state a Warriors hoodie and shorts so he kind of looked like he was about to go into the game although as the Chronicle by the way a nice piece in the Chronicle by Grant Merrick pointing out that the players don't show up at the stadium in their uniform ready to go which is part of the thing I hadn't thought about like if you're going to sneak in to the stadium and pretend you're one of the Golden State Warriors you really shouldn't show up in the outfit or apparently you should or apparently I guess you're right but I guess they come in in their street clothes and then in the locker room they put on their uniform but this guy showed up in a in a war in a clay thompson jersey and a hoodie and he has the hoodie pulled up in the videos that i saw he has the hoodie sort of pulled up over his head and kind of cinched down a little bit and the article makes it sound like he looks nothing like clay thompson but i mean he actually i think he bears a certain resemblance to clay thompson um again facial hair helps it helps that this guy is pretty tall like he's got to be like six four maybe even taller so he you know he looks like he could be a pro basketball player from a height standpoint he is heavier than clay thompson and in fact steve kerr the coach of the warriors and i hope our next president was being interviewed about this like a while ago i don't even think this was recent but at some point steve someone asked steve kerr about fake clay thompson he said yeah i turned around and saw him and i thought it was clay but he'd been having a few extra cheeseburgers yeah i saw that quote um so anyway this guy apparently managed to get onto the court and i keep saying apparently because a i

just want to do an apparently kid impression apparently but also because this is all just based on sort of the online musings of this guy um dawson girly but wait you didn't see you didn't

see the video of him taking shots on the court oh i didn't i saw a picture of him on the court i

guess i didn't get that far yeah yeah so we actually so so we can probably say with a certain

amount of attitude that he gets on the court it's not i don't think it's a deep fake so they post so on his own little you know he's a youtuber so on his youtube page he's posted like this 15 minute um this 15 minute video of what kind of happens uh as he again sneaks through security not even really sneaks through just walks through security and then gets on the court and then eventually gets kind of found out and escorted out and the thing is the san francisco chronicle links to this thing about mid video and i'm not exactly sure why but if you go back a ways you get to see some more stuff of him actually going through security and taking shots on the court and actually landing all the shots until then he goes to pick up one of his own rebounds and then like doesn't, I don't even, I don't know basketball, but he does a layup, but it's an air ball and you hear his cameraman laugh at him or something. And then right after that, um, I think that's when security is kind of like, they find out like through a, like they see this guy shooting around and he's the only one out there. It's not, there are no other stars out there. And then that's when they start escorting him out. But as I told you before the show, I was really impressed with like you see one police officer, you see some security people, including what seems to be like kind of the main security woman. And she's so nice about it. She's got such a good sense of humor about it. I found her to be very winning. At one point, this guy says, we were just looking for the team store. And she just like laughs and like pushes his arm, kind of like Elaine on Seinfeld. Like everybody was just like kind of taking this for what it was. I appreciate that. That's good. Yes.

That is how it should be handled. It is not, we are not dealing with a terrorist event. Nobody, you know, nobody needs to be tackled or zip tied or whatever. It's, it's, you know, it's until you needs to be zip tied. It's this cat. Hey, relax, bubs. I'm going to have to actually, can you have the Orkin man take her on a walk? Can we get, Oh, speaking of home improvement projects, I am, I, you know, I'm doing, I'm working on this remodeling thing. And so I'm going to get some sliding glass doors. and so i went out to the uh discount window center here in portland yesterday and a couple of things one uh the name of the product line that i'm it's from milgard but it's called the intrinsic collection as in intrinsic hold the in which i was having such a hard time referring to it with a straight face to this like window salesman oh is this from the intrinsic

collection well i'm trying to so intrinsic means um what's the word it's like it's part of the it's the basic it's the basic makeup it's intrinsic it's intrinsic so what is if you're taking off the i n what does intrinsic mean it's not part of outside it's brought in the last yeah

it's not non-essential i don't know right it's like um uh what's what's another word that's like that where it's like basically you never like disgruntled you never hear about somebody being gruntled right the perfect example yes yes um so yeah this is apparently these these sliding glass doors are not they are not essentially part of the milgard collection they are not intrinsic to milgard they are in fact quite intrinsic very intrinsic to hella intrinsic but then the other thing was so i'm walking around this like um lot with the guy looking at different examples kind of of, of, of what the, this might look like. And then we get back inside and then that's when he casually says, Oh, and just so you know, cause I was like, yeah, this will work great. This is kind of what I'm looking for, et cetera. And then he says, okay, just so you know, it's six months for any of this stuff to be delivered. Like it'll take six months, which I was like, uh, we could have led with that because I have these contractors hired to start working. I mean, they're supposed to start working now. Um, but everything, you know, they're on another job. So it will be a minute, but definitely the plan was not for this to happen in six months. So I don't know what I'm going to do about that exactly. But I just thought that the term intrinsic was really funny and weird.

Hella intrinsic is definitely a leading show title. Yeah, I want to get there's a little piece of this.

Oh, my gosh. When I dinged my bell, I knocked over my clean canteen, which hit the sound machine, which made a bomb sound effect. I don't know if you can hear that in the background.

I thought that was cat related. I want to play a piece of tape for you From this Clay Thompson thing But before I say that That's the one thing It sounds like Genevieve is getting decent Estimates for painting our house By the way our house is like It's an aluminum siding I guess that is currently It doesn't matter. It's like a kind of a neutral color. And I was saying, like, you know, because we have projects in our house that we've listed as like, you know, when we moved in, like first week projects, first month projects, first year. And we also have like kind of a list of five year projects. Right. Like, oh, someday it would be nice to do this. And I was kind of surprised at how house paintings snuck up so early on the list. And I guess we're getting decent. We're getting some decent quotes. But I was telling these like we are living in the weirdest, most difficult time for getting stuff like this done from labor shortages to supply chain issues, to inflation, to everything that's going on. It's kind of interesting that we want to push through and do this now when getting contract work done is kind of the most difficult it's been. I guess I guess it hasn't been too bad on the painting side of things. But, yeah, like if we can wait on some of these things, it seems like it might be things got to ease up at some point.

right i am so genevieve yeah it's not even funny i love that genevieve the five genevieve's five year plan has all been moved up to the five month plan yeah exactly and you're trying to move it to

the 50 year plan i'm not trying to move it to the 50 year plan i'm really not i'm not trying to drag my feet too much but like right you know we can we need to prioritize some things over others so let's take into consideration what priorities we should be looking at well the thing that that i

realized was so i'm i'm gonna hopefully get this deck built at this house and because i'm a genevieve as soon as i decided i wanted to do this and i had a contractor then my next thing was okay i have to buy all of the wood for this and so i was like all ready to do it and then the contractor said to me why don't you wait to buy the wood until we're actually ready to go because this particular decking if it's just sitting outside in the sun endlessly it'll get a little warped sure so and i was like annoyed with you're gonna people are gonna hear the name Troy a lot in the next six months apparently in between now and in my intrinsic collection shows up but I was like back my mind was like I just want to get this done I want to get this on the five-month plan and then I read an article so I didn't order the I mean I I got the list of wood I need but I didn't buy it yet and there was something about not having secured it that made me feel it's funny you the anxiety that you feel is around a certain kind of thing and the anxiety I feel is around the almost opposite expression of that I think like I don't have a receipt for this wood right now and therefore I don't feel okay in the world uh-huh and then the next day I look at an article in the paper that says the price of lumber is plummeting oh like it had been so expensive that's great now because building is slowing yeah uh and so now like lumber places are trying to price their lumber In such a way so that they don't end up With way too much stock So I mean this is just how market forces work But I was like every week I wait to buy this lumber It actually probably saves me money So I was quite relieved that I hadn't Bought at the top of the South Pacific Redwood Market bubble But again my instincts and my impulses Are just to like get everything Bought and locked in And super possess it Even if it's at my own financial peril

yeah i finally hung a picture yesterday that i'd been putting off for quite some time i just used one of those i tore down a fireplace on sunday um i okay i'm not there was something else i was gonna say but i'll i'll move on to this clay thompson thing so you got this guy what's his name again his real uh dawes yeah dawson girly um okay dawson girly um the santa dawes uh is how i'll call him um anyway he's he's so this video and i didn't watch the whole thing but i mean i think people know me well enough to know that like this is not my scene this is the opposite of things that I like like youtubers going around being pranky and kind of getting in trouble and then laughing about it with their cameraman or whatever like totally not my scene but of the five to ten minutes that I scrolled through of this video like I am just impressed with everybody's behavior like we said before talking about the security people just being like oh come on get out of here you you scamp you know and like there's as he's getting kicked out or kind of escorted out like there are some people there who i think know him because they're inside they know him as the youtuber and they still want photos with him so there's like this dichotomy between people who are fans of him as fake clay thompson who are like hey can i get a quick photo and the security people allow that they're like okay yeah we're just kind of laughing and they're escorting him out and saying you know you're probably not going to be able to come back in here um but then there's a big part of the um video after all of this where now he's outside right and there's all kinds of fans and they're asking for his autograph and most of these fans think he's clay thompson i

can tell but the very first one so not to interrupt your flow but i'm glad you actually sort of went back in the video to the previous part because you're right the the newspaper bookmarked it or whatever in the wrong and i only watched the part yeah they bookmarked in the wrong place Thank you.

i just watched him getting kind of escorted out but i didn't get to see the shoot around or anything you should one thing i did see was a a person who works in a hospital yeah yeah don't

don't so i this is what i'm getting up to so i want to play this for you so i he one of the people who comes up to him is somebody who has met the real clay thompson before because she works in a hospital and i am kind of i'm getting kind of puckery at this part i'm like come on dude this woman works in a hospital like don't be a d-bag prankster here and here let's take a listen to the tape how this all unfolds i'm hoping i know they have subtitles here i'll read them if you're

having trouble hearing the conversation not will be good because this seems to be working just fine

so this woman says uh can i take a picture please i'm one of the doctors at uh kaiser oakland

okay and i saw you when you came to the pediatric ward i work at the pediatric ward oh really yeah

and i take care of a lot of the cancer patients so she works in the pediatric ward if you didn't hear that of or the cancer ward of this pediatric part of the hospital and she wants a photo of him and she's telling him hey i met you when you took a tour of the hospital because she thinks that this is the real clay thompson gotcha yeah so just so you know i'm not actually clay thank you bro he says just so you know i'm not actually clay and then she laughs taps him on the shoulder and says can we get a photo anyway like everybody like i'm so like he handles this right he knows like yeah this is not a prank moment and everybody's just chill i'm telling you

i was charmed by this the video is not labeled fake clay thompson pranks hospital worker right

exactly he's like just so you know like other people he's just signing things as clay thompson saying gonna try to get the w for you tonight but in this case he's like just so you know i'm not him

like come on he's able to do the video he's able to recognize the seriousness of the cancer ward situation the pediatric cancer ward nurse i mean that's where the fun happens right exactly like that's you get into that kind of work just because you basically want to you know they say um love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life i'm sure the pediatric cancer ward is a uh is just a uh not at all emotionally stressful to be a part of yeah after 12 hour days of working

there and you're getting off your shift so anyway i was just of everything i'm watching this i was just really kind of proud of everybody's behavior i thought it was pretty pretty charming yeah and

also i mean i guess probably they shouldn't let him on the court and it's not like the i mean the thing is the warriors are not hurting for publicity or for um sort of love within like the bay area community but there should be some way to harness this guy for good with the warriors don't you think yeah like a shoot off between him and clay thompson again it's like the warriors don't need to do this we're not like a struggling franchise but he seems like a relatively cool dude as far as what we've seen i don't know what the rest of his youtube page looks like the warriors seem to be kind of rolling with other than the fact that they banned him for life yeah which he's got the letter that he posted on like twitter or something of them saying yeah you can't come back here but you would think that actually it would be kind of a fun thing to do something with him and clay

thompson now it would i mean yeah i'm sure legally you know what i mean that organization is so big and there's so many people involved i'm sure legally they probably have to take these steps because you don't want to and i understand you don't want to encourage yeah i guess other

people to do it if you turn this guy into a folk hero or more of a folk hero if the team officially recognizes him then what's next someone's going to show up looking like draymond green right exactly

So they but that but again, it doesn't seem like they're the statement isn't like super draconian or something. There's like, you know, he can't be on these properties because we can't have people sneaking out of the court. I mean, that is a hell of a thing, man.

I mean, in any time during the NBA season, your inner Lebowski, man, that's a hell of a thing.

Oh, by the way, the guy, the guy who made that video, Josh, I can't remember if you remember the Josh Rubin. Yeah, that's a friend of a friend of ours, by the way. really our friend cat is friends with that oh my gosh i didn't realize that to hear him on the show

man oh that's amazing yeah i i was looking at his tiktok page and he is a filmmaker so i mean he's not a professional jeff bridges impersonator right but um but he does a lot of other stuff so that would make sense because our friend cat of course is a accomplished uh filmmaker and television producer and person who made the shivering truth and uh tiara wax video and things like that also i know oh but i was just gonna say though getting on the court of any nba

game is is a huge i don't know if i should call it an accomplishment but a huge feat unless you're an actual nba player but what was it was game five of the nba finals i mean that's huge and you understand the organization has to like tamp down on that like that is a breach right it's not

like a November game between the Timberwolves and the New Orleans Pelicans with Zion Williams.

sitting out like on a tuesday exactly what i was gonna say it's a high i'm gonna i'll get you on to basketball uh before we're done with this journey walsh and i know the process the stages of andrew walsh sports dumb starts with i don't know anything about this sport even when i was talking about clay thompson you're like my face blindness my basketball blindness it starts with you saying you don't know anything about the sport and then it and then you get into a team in the sport and then eventually you're managing a fantasy team of ours that i never checked on

and you know vastly more about the sport than i do oh my god i'm i am just it isn't you need to get your name off of this fantasy team i mean for your own good i am like i was at the bottom but now the gulf between me and everybody else starting from the bottom now you're here starting from the bottom now i'm still at the bottom and i'm remaining at the bottom and crawling along the bottom um but yeah you this is going to hurt your reputation this is going to hurt your seo

this is going to um hurt everything about your career start at the bottom with a lot of hard work continue along the bottom and finally end up at the bottom what usually gets me into sports

though too is and this almost happened a little bit with basketball a tiny bit i guess two seasons ago although the basketball seasons have been so bananas with the um with covid kind of changing everything up i think they end up having did they end up having somehow three playoffs in one

calendar year i don't know man i totally lost track when they were in a bubble yeah like a disney world this is probably you're going to talk about levitard right yeah exactly i was

listening to so much levitard it was during that it was the bubble year and so because they're a miami-based show and i was listening to like every word of that 10-hour daily podcast unintentional hassan whiteside fan i started watching miami heat some of those miami heat playoff games and And rooting for them, the most I've ever rooted for a basketball team, which wasn't a lot, but it was more than I've ever rooted for a basketball team.

Well, I probably, if I, I wanted to embrace the Blazers because I live in Portland and they actually were a really, a fun bunch of folks. They had CJ McCollum, who seems like a really cool person. And they had, oh, how can I forget his name? Really, they're like a top scorer who could just, was phenomenal. And somehow I'm drawing a blank on him. But they just had a lot of, like, players that I sort of liked, and I was living, like, three blocks from the Moda Center. But then they traded everybody away, and they are just very, very actively bad now. So that kind of was – that made it a little bit tough to stay engaged with them. But I probably would say – I just like the Warriors a lot because I love Steve Kerr, and I love Steph Curry. And that's, like – I'm not saying much. Steph Curry is one of the most popular players in the NBA but I just I find his game to just be uniquely fun to watch because he's just so inventive and was so kind of like in a way sort of passed over I don't know if he was taken in the first round out of college maybe he was but certainly I don't think anybody thought that he was going to be the player that he's become even though he was in college he was at Davidson College the reason I always remember that was because that was one of the many places that mailed me stuff when I was graduating high school You know because I put liberal arts down When I took the Pre-SAT they said what kind of college Do you want to go to and I just checked the box For liberal arts to this day I still only have a vague understanding of what that

Means serious question here Because I know that you Were you know You grew up in a conservative household and you Were even working in conservative media Maybe not at that point but I mean that's how you Look to the world and your family If beats could be Defiant even if the lyrics weren't fresh in your house like very you know somewhat some very conservative and somewhat myopic worldview um when you checked off liberal arts did part of you think like uh-oh i can't tell my parents about this like you were like what is what am i signing up probably liberal here i i don't have

a specific memory of that but based on the circumstances probably because you're right being a liberal was that was a not a bad word in my household but it was a bad world a bad word in my general life my parents have never been that strident about politics they were certainly there they were deeply religious when i was a kid and very as they would say pro-life and things like that but they weren't like we weren't a real political family we didn't have yard signs my parents you know they would vote for the republican because that was what people the church were saying but i went to a school that jesus creek that was very sort of anti-liberalism so i'm sure that when i checked liberal arts and what's funny is i actually held those beliefs myself because that was what i just been inculcated into that world so i don't even think if i checked liberal arts it wasn't because i was trying to push back against the orthodoxy of the world i was in but i'm sure that i was like i wonder what this means i don't know how i ended up checking that box but what i do remember was i did get a mailing from davidson college so that

Then when Steph Curry was tearing it up at Davidson, I was thinking we could have almost been alums of the same, which was never going to happen. I was never going to go to that college in, I think, like North Carolina or something. But the fact that I had received a glossy mailer from them made me feel connected emotionally to Steph Curry.

Do you think that he ever thinks of you, I guess, is the question?

I would assume constantly. Particularly when I show up in my fake Steph Curry outfit and I take some shots. I like the Golden State Warriors as an as an I mean, I do think it's sort of uncool that they moved out of Oakland. Yeah. I mean, because that's just what happens now. Unfortunately, there's so much money at stake and these are big businesses. And it was cool that the Warriors were actually in Oakland for all those years. But now they're back or they're in San Francisco. My thought and nobody asked for this today and nobody wants to hear about this. But my memories of the Golden State Warriors are the Chris Mullen, Tim Hardaway, Chris Webber era. Actually, I don't know if Chris Webber was there yet, but the Golden State Warriors were actually really good a long time ago. And this was when the Sonics were coming up with Gary Payton and Sean Kemp. And there was a particular playoff series where the Sonics were the real underdogs. And they went in and they beat Chris Mullen and the Golden State Warriors. And that was a big that was a big upset in the world of the NBA. So I have always had fond thoughts about the Warriors Even when the Sonics were beating them I was just like It was a very exciting time in my life Which was then stolen from me by the NBA When they let the team leave Do you know this

I don't know if this is really interesting to the listeners So this is just me talking to you here for a second Oh really?

Do you think my musing about the Chris Mullen era Warriors

Was interesting for the listeners? Do you know that a I will say friend, but certainly a former colleague of ours is the in arena announcer for the Golden State Warriors. Matt Pittman. Are you kidding me? No, you should follow his Instagram or don't. Maybe you'd be jealous. But yeah, no, he's been doing that for, well, several years now, I think. Yeah, that's he left Cairo radio and all of the stuff he did there. He was like an imaging guy and a promotions guy and a producer. and uh and also he used to host um before that he would host like the mariners pre and post game show i believe back in the day and i always enjoyed listening to his show in fact um but yeah now he is like he just he calls the game in the arena for the golden state warriors it seems

awesome that's great good for you matt i'm very i'm i am i mean that's just another connection to steph curry that i have you're one degree of separation from steph curry i have fist bumped matt pitman who has probably fist bumped steph curry right so i mean did we just become best friends i think so speaking of um high performing athletes andrew i am gonna need the help from the listeners to try to track down this andre the giant photograph okay that i really want to have and um like maybe get a copy of and then do my thing which is to enlarge it by 20 times and then frame it in my house i was getting my haircut yesterday at a rudy's here in portland it was the wrong rudy's by the way so it's very confusing they have a rudy's that's on hawthorne and then they have a rudy's that's in the hawthorne neighborhood so i went to the wrong one it was like rudy's hawthorne yeah and then i went to hawthorne street i went to the rudy's on hawthorne street but that's not the that was i get there and i was like um all the time i know they have to get they've got to think about how they're naming these places but so i showed up and i was like i have a five o'clock and they said um actually uh you're at the wrong one this happens all the time but they were so nice they they had they had room in there actually it was really it was kind of hilarious so they had a little bit of room in their schedule the wrong rudy's where i was so they said we can probably slot you in nice good and we'll call the other place and just tell them that you're going to be here instead of the other place and as i was standing there this other guy walks in and he goes are you taking walk-ins and they said well no we're full but something just opened up at the other one that's five minutes from here so they called over and they gave my reservation to this other dude who by the way was wearing the same shirt i was wearing we were roughly the same height he was a much handsomer version of whatever

it is i'm trying to be this is a multiverse situation i think dude it was i'm sorry but

the matrix just glitched a little bit because a guy this guy had a beard i mean i would like the story to be that we were like identical looking we weren't again he was much more attractive than i am and he had a bit of a beard but this guy walks in wearing the same shirt as i am trying to get an appointment at this place and they said it's full but we can give you this other dude's appointment so they call over and switch it to him and then he leaves and goes and presumably

gets his hair cut wow so if he had shown up i don't know three minutes earlier he would have gotten the slot and they didn't rat you out right they didn't say like it's this guy's

slot i ratted myself out i was like they i mean he would he seemed totally unperturbed by it but i did think of that i was like okay we're both here trying to get a haircut they're giving me the slot and they're sending you somewhere else yeah um but he didn't seem he didn't seem upset by it he was just wanted to get his haircut and he was happy to travel the seven minutes to the other place to get his hair but anyway the point of the story is i um this this rudy's i went to is right next to something that has always fascinated me in portland which is something called nathan's coney island and it's just i didn't know if it was like a legendary old haunt or whatever i think it's called nathan's coney anyway it has coney island on the sign but it has a really iconic old sign and i didn't know if maybe it was like this was a restaurant that literally existed in coney island and then they branched out to portland or whatever but i'd always been intrigued by the sign so after i got my haircut i went in there for a minute And I was very pleased to learn that they have beyond sausages So they make all kinds of crazy hot dogs But they also had beyond sausage So I got the Philly But they did use the beyond sausage instead of the regular thing

So what kind of sausage are we talking about? We're talking about like a big link or a sausage patty or what is it? It's a link

It's like what you might call a kielbasi

Okay, gotcha

So they didn't have like a veggie dog but they had this thing that was a sausage and actually those the beyond fake sausages are i think the i will i i cook those all the time i cut them up and fry them in the pan they taste the most like uh the thing they're trying to be veggie dogs are are kind of hit and miss like the thing that's trying to be like an oscar meyer hot dog but these ones actually really work as a sauce as a fake sausage link not link but as a fake sausage product so i'm getting my this is going to be one of my go-tos this summer here in portland is going over to this coney island place and getting and now they were a little initially the guy was a little confused because he was like well the beyond dog is not going to be long enough to fit in the bun that just like you know it's because it's they're using a regular hot dog normally and then he went back and talked to the cook and the cook was like i worked it out for you so they like basically they had to shorten the bun they basically had to customize this for me but it was so good it had jalapenos on it and

cheese whiz it was delicious but um everything was coming i gotta say we we will slip and it's never a good look for either one of us but when we slip into the mode of a conversation where we're kind of complaining about like never getting a break with customer service or hoping that somebody's gonna like kind of fudge things a little bit or just be open to the universe and like you had a day where people were really accommodating to you so we should we should

acknowledge and celebrate that absolutely yesterday you were giving the new york times a put up yeah I want to give a put up to Rudy's and also this Coney Island joint. But here's where I'm going with this. I'm sitting there. I'm eating my delicious modified Philly. And I look over and they have all kinds of framed pictures, framed photographs everywhere. It's one of those places where it's like the wall is covered in different photographs. And one of them is of a pretty young Andre the Giant and like three or four random dudes walking down a street. it looks like it's like the late 70s maybe early 80s and it's just such a cool photo and i was like i want to figure out who took that photo see if i could like buy a copy from them or their estate and then display it in my home because i really liked it as a photo um but i so i spent the whole time that i was eating my dog um googling andre the giant street four guys chevron station because you can tell he's kind of near a chevron station andre the giant 70s black shirt like i couldn't none of my search terms brought this photo up and this photo may just have been something someone took that's never actually made it onto the internet in any form or fashion but i'm really obsessed with trying to figure out the story on this photo so that i can get my hands on well did

you take a photo of it i did i'll send it to you right now because have you tried google goggles i don't think it's called that anymore i think it's just called google image search now but like google has all these tools where you can just take a picture of something and then it'll scan the internet and find it for you so Genevieve's been doing that with and I know you've done a little bit of this with some nature stuff you have a different app I think you use for that but she was just in the backyard taking photos of like you know literally our plants and getting results but you can also like you know if I were to take a picture of a G.I. Joe character like a doll that I didn't know who it was or something it would kind of scan it was very futuristic You would see it, like, kind of scan up, down, up, down, and try to get information and then try to match that information with stuff online and then bring back pictures that are similar and then get your info. In fact, I think I've probably talked about this with you before, and I don't know if you know the picture I'm talking about, but. Years and years and years ago, Vives and I were wandering around a Goodwill in, I think, Davis Square, somewhere in Cambridge, and I came across in, like, one of those boxes that has, like, just a whole bunch of rolled up posters. I unrolled this one poster that I immediately loved. It's a black and white photo, almost sapient tone, of three boys. It looks like it's from like the 50s, maybe, or maybe 60s or something. They're three young boys and they're playing with popsicle sticks and they kind of have shit eating grins. And one of them is looking at the camera and there was just something about it that I really liked. And so Genevieve said, I'll frame it. And this is going again. This is way back in the day. And she found a frame for it that I really like kind of a heavy, bold frame. And we've like had that up in all of our houses and apartments for years now in some place or another. And it's one of my favorite photos. And we've always loved the mystery of it. There are no markings on there. There's nothing at all to tell us what the origins of this photo is. And I kind of realize now we might have the technology to figure it out. My guess is, and I could be wrong about this, I'll bet you it's not very special at all. This could have been like a poster. You know how sometimes, like, let's say you have, like, a Gap store or an Old Navy or something in a downtown area, and they might have, like, kind of three windows or something, and, like, maybe in one window it's a poster, in one window it's a poster, and then in between them is the poster that explains it all, you know? And I feel like this could have just been a tertiary poster from a window campaign. I have no idea. I don't know if it has any kind of artistic bona fides, but I love it so much. But I kind of want to throw it through the Google, but I also kind of don't want to know.

Right, exactly, because if you find out that it was just something that they were using at Walmart to decorate the hall on the way to the bathroom, or I guess more to the point, if it was posed, if it was professionally taken to kind of have this sense, because I've seen that photo, it's a great picture, I really love it.

I love it so much, yeah.

Because it has a really – it feels like somebody just took a picture with an old camera of some kids living their real life. Yeah. That it wasn't staged, that it wasn't a photo shoot for a product. That's what's so cool about it. So if you find out that it was actually, you know, like an ad for Plymouth Voyager minivan or something.

Although that's always – yet it's always been my assumption that that is the case, that it is just something like, again, for some reason I'm picturing like a downtown kind of department store or clothes store or something. but um because it's kind of you know because it does kind of have a cool vibe to it but i don't even know if i'd be disappointed it's just that i wouldn't be able to wonder about it anymore i'm gonna do it i mean i'll i'll try to scan it today and see if i can answer for you all right we throw

my andre the giant in there too did you see the picture i sent you by the way oh where did you

send it here oh let me take a look at this here it is yeah perfect um oh that's real cool yeah isn't that an awesome picture that's real cool yes and i want to know who those other guys are

Now that I'm looking at this I have it open on my laptop too I can enhance, enhance He was crossing Southwest Oak Street I think this is a knowable thing Because there's enough Detail in the photo That I can zoom in on Let's just say that the image software Did not deliver The info that I'm looking for I bet you I could actually piece this together Based on just businesses That are in the background of the photo because this is portland you're you're uh i don't know if it's portland i have no i mean the photo is being displayed in portland but i i don't know if this is i don't if there is i mean there's probably there's always a southwest oak street somewhere but uh but i don't even know if i don't know if he's on the streets of portland there's a license plate on one of the vehicles which i can't it looks to me like maybe that's new york it doesn't say new york but the color Anyway, this is descending into deeply uninteresting conversation, but my point is I want to figure out where this photo is from so I can get one and rip off your move of enlarging it and framing it in my home.

Yeah, I'm going to try. I don't think – again, I used to use something called Google Goggles, which was an app. I just like saying that, but that was like 10 years ago, so I'm in – I'm online now. I'm trying to see if I can run this through the Googles while we're on the show today, but I'm not sure if that's going to be possible or not.

here i go once again with the email every week i hope that it's from a female oh man it's not from

a female all right uh any emails or females jumping out at you yeah i got a couple here

here you know i'm gonna play this one um i apologize for the um sound quality of this one this is rough this is somebody calling um while they're driving and using their bluetooth which is that's not that's not usually a great sound but i feel like the content needs to be aired in fact something definitely

need to be aired um take a listen to this this is d from akron hey luke and andrew i just had to

call and tell you about some sky jinx that i saw over the weekend she said sky jinx there i don't know if you're sky jinx over the weekend there was a woman sitting next to me uh on a plane who uh started flailing her arms uh a lot during the flight and i thought what is wrong with her And it turns out there was someone in front of her who was farting. I've never seen anything like this in my life, but she actually asked to be moved.

Okay, so just in case, it's a little bit hard to hear. So Dee is on this airplane. Somebody near her starts flailing her arms around, and she realizes it's because somebody had been farting in that area.

The word was F-A-R-T.

And then this person asked to be moved. They want their seat moved because somebody was passing gas.

She moved because of the fart sound. The woman successfully relocated on the flight, even though it was a very full flight. And I think there might have been one seat available and we had just taken off. So apparently someone's farting in front of you, which was true. I did notice it as we continued to fly. It was not me. I think the woman is sitting in front of us. but she was successful in getting noob because of farting.

So Dee says, first of all, I don't know if you've heard that.

Is there a blanket somewhere you should be feeling with your farts?

Dee says it was not her. She wanted that. She's like, I smelt it, therefore I doth not dealt it. I've been learning some lawyer in from our Danny-focused legal team. But yeah, so Dee wanted to know that she did smell it though as well and it was rough, but one person actually was able to say, I mean, I, how do you, how do you broach that? And do you say it loud enough, hoping that the farter will hear it or do you try to be

subtle about it? So, so you ring your flight attendant button, they come over and then you say, uh, someone is, um, someone is dealing with a flatulence situation and, uh, it is untenable for me. So please move me. Like that is a weird conversation to have. And again, I'm surprised to hear that those are grounds for getting your seat moved. Right.

Exactly. exactly but i mean i guess you know and it kind of depends on who you who you get you know what

i mean probably obviously if the flight is totally full what are they going to do make someone else sit behind the fart right into my butthole it's like a fart transplant um like that yeah that just raises all kinds of questions do you let's say the flight was completely full like there is not one empty seat and that's happening more and more by the way because the airline industry they eliminated a lot of flights during covid and they have not brought them back due to staffing and due to like wanting to make all their money back that they weren't making during the pandemic so they're just like making everybody get on the same flight the one flight a day that's going somewhere yeah but if it was totally packed i wonder if anyone has ever been approached by the flight crew to ask them to please stop passing gas because that's also could be a medical situation yeah yep there's you know also the air recirculates on airplanes the entire all of the air on the plane recirculates like every minute or something so you'd to be honest with you i can count on one hand the number of times when i've even noticed a fart on an airplane because i feel like the air recirculates pretty well there's a lot of fans going everyone's got that overhead thing happening like that must have been bad bad stuff for it to be that noticeable to listener d

and to the person who got moved i i believe i have noticed it i've been i gotta be honest i think i've been on both sides of this before i think there have been times where and this is really embarrassing but where you think you know you're on a long flight and you just think i you think i can get away with this one right and then you're like whoa oh shoot no don't get away from that and then what you have to do of course is you have to be the biggest reactor oh god who did that oh it's probably this guy over here can i please move he just was what if the person who got moved

was the farter now i got the impression what if the fart was coming from inside the person who was because it by your theory the larger the reaction you offer the more you're going to throw everyone off of your scent so to speak so by that logic the woman who asked to be moved was

obviously the farter but i think that d said that she continued to smell the the issue after the woman moved that was the impression that i got from that voicemail also does d just have a nose

of steel if this was sufficient that the other person had to get moved but d was just like i'm just staying right here in the blast zone i mean there's only one only one seat also like it is

Like, I mean, I have to be pretty put out to ask to be moved.

in that situation right that's where you almost wonder this is right like a follow-up call from d you have to wonder was this person who got moved also kind of extra as they say yeah unless the person was like again you know i don't even know how it would have to be unbelievably unpleasant for me to i've never under any circumstances asked to move asked to move my seat on a plane but certainly not over flatulence it would have to be tremendously unpleasant which kind of makes me wonder like d sounds like she's fine d sounds like they're okay after all this or just driving around uh where are they at again somewhere in the midwest oh akron driving around akron calling in on their bluetooth d seems fine in other words this was a survivable situation so what was going on with the person who has to be moved as well they feel extra to me just in as i consider what

happened i've run this photo you have through google and google has brought back well it's brought back a result and it has identified this as a snapshot oh good we know that this is a snapshot so that's good i'm gonna try i'm gonna try editing the photo a little bit so that we don't have the edges of the frame and maybe that's it like i don't think i need by the way can i get credit on that snapshot sound effect i just did oh i kind of you know what i thought you were just doing stuff i didn't even oh i was making a no that makes sense but what i had to do was take

a picture of the desktop of my computer yeah by hitting shift command four i learned that from phyllis fletcher by the way and then nice so i just have no now i'm just making endless snapshots of my desktop but i mean what an audio journey i mean go on it's a great sound um and

i'm not saying that sarcastically it is a good sound but i mean it is kind of amazing that google has this incredibly powerful tool that you can identify what things are and you use google images to tell you that google has images i mean that's basically what i told you it's like oh thanks for using google images what you have here is an wait for it image thanks yes but andrew

andre the giant is not a very unique physical figure no that is true i mean who in a photo maybe the AI would be able to identify. Like, I mean, he's very run-of-the-mill, and so it's obvious why this software was not able to figure out the details of the photo.

Well, now I've cropped it. I'm going to try again, and if it comes back saying Dread Pirate Roberts, I will give it a...

Anybody want a peanut? Anybody want a peanut? Why am I doing an impression of that when we have the audio? That's weird of me.

Plessy, are there rocks ahead? If there are, we all be dead. No more rhymes! now i mean it i can't believe you still famously a live person wallace sean i love that yeah but still just saying that what we have here is a snapshot luke so great thanks google well good

that'll be can we i know you were gonna post an athletic photo no we'll use this can we use this as we have to yeah we try to turn the uh turn the hive mind on for this one yeah and then maybe

tomorrow unless something else comes up i can take a photo of those boys uh in that poster that I have, since we talk about that a lot, too. Yeah, I do love that picture, so.

All right, I bet we should wrap things up. I bet we should wrap things up in a weird way. I bet. How would you love getting a great deal on insurance, Andrew? That's peace and love to Japan's number one mixer, Sean DeTorre, but whoever wrote that script for him.

Oh, how would you love, yeah, that always stands out to me.

How would you love to save money on insurance? It's like, well, we already know. We've answered the question. That begs the question. We would love it. It's begging the question. How would you love to get a great deal on insurance? Yeah, that was somebody to write that copy better.

Somebody said, wait, well, how would you like? And somebody said, we can make that better. How would you love? And they were pretty proud of themselves, I'm guessing.

How would you love for this to be the end of the show? I think the listeners are more than ready. So we're going to wrap it up here. Thanks for listening, everyone. Oh, you know what? I'm just burying this, but we on Friday are going to do the show a little later than normal. thank you because i've got this live wire uh retreat that i'm going to and it's in the time when we would normally be doing the show so uh friday is going to be a late show and it's going

to be oh there went the music no the music's going away because i remember there's something else we have to talk about here but complete your thought sorry sorry complete your thought

um the uh friday show is going to post more like at night because we're going to start recording at around 3-ish West Coast time. And we're going to call the TBTL Happy Hour because, honestly, I'm probably going to be having an adult beverage after this week that I'm having. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to be just absolutely smashed. But just a heads up, Friday the show is going to post late, so just be aware of that. Now, what was it that you wanted to talk about? I wanted to talk about this at the beginning of the show,

but honestly, now that I'm...

I'm realizing how this is going to come off. Maybe it's best that we have it buried here. But could you do me a favor? Could you open up the Too Beautiful to Live website at tbtl.net?

Okay.

We have to actually, that's why I stopped the music. We need to actually come up with a decision here. Okay. I'm at tbtl.net. And then you see that there's the three latest episodes there, right? Yeah. But you can see recent episodes. Hit view all, and it'll show you all of the, it'll give you a list of all of our episodes. Doing that, yes. Then you can see yesterday's episode is at the top. it's 3704 hierarchy of worries exactly what's the next one down 3703 yeah barely andrew next one 3702 ah that's my brain then the next one 3702 a pyramid of nonsense i don't know where or how the original sin started whether it was on the show sheet whether it was my mistake whatever's going on sure was mine um we use the bidet that's a good show title yeah that was uh yeah anyway um so we starting several episodes ago and we got a note from a listener who's concerned with these things um starting um on june 9th we had 3702 which was right but then june 10th we repeated 3702 again now we already have like we've already split the timeline there do we what do we do do i change 3702 do i go back and do i change all of our last three episodes to correct the number and potentially wreak havoc on people's rss feeds i don't know if that'll make them reappear in the feeds i don't think so but it could um do we just go back and relabel the june 10th show is 3702 dash a or 3702.5 3702.5 exactly um and then just let it the last then just like skip today's i don't know what to do here no i'm leaning towards changing them all what do you want to do

never apologize Andrew and never admit defeat just stick with it we just keep going it'll be a fun quirk it'll be like the upside down airplane stamp someday that episode will be worth even more but it's not

just that episode it's it's the fact that like now we'll always be off I saw somebody was already doing math about when the 4000th episode will be and whether or not we'll be doing a live show for that now that person's math is all off by one I mean we need to cancel the streamers and the balloon

rental like i'm just worried about that this is the same guy who's trying to delete all of his

emails from various news outlets i can't live this is that brain at work okay this is that brain at work that's it there's two 3702s and and i just feel like it's less work for you 3705 and

that's and if it endangers the rss i think for me it's like if it endangers the rss feed for someone or it's going to make it a hassle for people i vote we skip it also i don't know how much work that is for you to hack into cody yeah the number of the shows it's probably not

to get christina lopez to do that she doesn't work here anymore i um i actually i if i'm being honest my guess is it would it wouldn't really probably do anything to the feeds and it's not that much work i could do it within i could do it in 10 minutes or less probably but well i don't know but i mean also is it just sort of funny do we leave it this is the meeting that i wanted to have i'm really glad we didn't start the show with this though i'm glad we're doing this now

um i you know i i if it's going to bother you then definitely change it and i'll i'll just tomorrow will be 3707 we'll just but then that means 37 or some well because that would mean today is 3706 right um right yes right so i just jump two numbers up for tomorrow which i'm happy to do if it will make you feel better to go re re-number them re-number them i'm fine with that But if you decide you don't want to, I'm also fine with that.

I'll probably change it. I don't know. I'll let you know after the show how we went with that.

Well, that'll be a real cliffhanger for people to tune in tomorrow to hear if I say 3706 or 3707.

God. People say, how do you keep the show fresh?

There you have your answer.

This is exactly how you do it.

All right. Thank you, everyone, for listening. We are going to be back here tomorrow with either episode 3706 or 3707 in the Collector's Series. until then have a great Wednesday stay safe take care of yourselves and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

this is why another version of you appeared in the barber shop yesterday that's exactly this is the multiverse I just realized

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