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June 23, 2022 | 01:10:27 | Leisure, Comedy

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After hearing from many listeners, Luke has a new theory as to why some characters pronounce the word "bear" like "bar." Andrew disagrees. Plus, a sriracha shortage may be around the corner, and a photojournalist captures a breathtaking moment as a swimming coach makes an underwater rescue.
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00:00:00 - 00:00:39 | Speaker 5:

For Kids Appreciation Day this Sunday against the A's, all kids will eat free, eat a free Mariner's, have a, let's try this again, they will not eat a moose for free, that would be just awkward and strange. Gotta be really hungry. I've heard that moose is a delicacy in some parts though, Rick. Here's the pitch, and it's a strike. Kids will, they'll have a free moose poster, which seems so less complicated. The 0-1. Swing and a tap or foul. Have you had moose before, Rick? Uh, no. TBTL!

00:00:43 - 00:00:54 | Speaker 1:

If we wanted to, we could have our own business. No, I agree. If we really wanted to, we could. It's just that, do we want to do that? Do we want to have a website and a blog and be like, this is what we did today?

00:00:55 - 00:01:05 | Speaker 4:

No, it's too much work. 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.

00:01:05 - 00:01:17 | Speaker 3:

You know something? That was pretty funny. You should think about being a comedian. Yeah, I gotta say, this seems like a bad idea. I don't think any of you could really understand what I was saying, but let's throw another switch.

00:01:19 - 00:01:28 | Speaker 7:

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

00:01:29 - 00:01:33 | Speaker 2:

Well, I guess this is the part where the art gets made.

00:01:33 - 00:04:15 | Speaker 7:

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Oh, la, la. Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center right here in Portland, Oregon, where it's another absolutely gorgeous day. I said this yesterday on the program. For all the complaining that we were doing about the bad weather, it was like the universe knew. First day of summer, we're bringing out the summer weather, and we're not looking back. California got sunshine. So we've got a beautiful day here in Portland and a beautiful show in store for you. It's episode 3712, 3,712 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. Speaking of warm, spicy things. It's going to be very hot. It's going to be very uncomfortable for everybody. there is a sriracha shortage or to put it differently is it time to start stockpiling sriracha there's an interesting story actually about the creation of this particular I guess you could say hot sauce seasoning that I didn't know till I checked out this story in the New York Times about the fact that they basically if you like sriracha and you see a full bottle of it for sail somewhere snatch it up sriracha is the toilet paper of uh of summer of 2022 ironically if you eat too much sriracha you will need more toilet paper so there's a certain i guess you could say irony and all of that anyway we'll talk about that oh and talk about this incredible series of photographs of a United States swim coach rescuing a U.S. swimmer who was at a world championship event in Europe. I think it was in Hungary. And the swimmer lost consciousness. And apparently none of the lifeguards did anything. And so her coach had to swim down to the bottom of the pool and rescue her unconscious body. It is an incredible series of photos that what i that that was it was yeah that was that was on the same uh that was crazy man that that's unbelievable really unbelievable stuff so we'll talk about that uh oh and because it's a thursday aka blurs day we'll do some blurs day messages uh we'll do all that with help of this young man the longest running cobro of the show maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships if i were to be drowning in a swimming pool i know this guy would swim down to the bottom of the pool and save me as long as he could be fully dressed while doing

00:04:15 - 00:04:30 | Speaker 6:

I am courageous he's Andrew Walsh and he's joining me right now good morning my friend as long as you weren't drowning in vinegar I guess is really the key thing there because we know that I do not mess with that stuff well actually the other problem with my hypothetical

00:04:30 - 00:04:37 | Speaker 7:

is that would involve you being at the pool party yeah where I was a party it's not like

00:04:37 - 00:04:38 | Speaker 6:

and it's not part of our workout.

00:04:40 - 00:04:47 | Speaker 7:

I was imagining it more as like we're socializing. I guess, okay, so what would you be more likely to attend if you and I were doing water aerobics?

00:04:47 - 00:05:00 | Speaker 6:

I feel like maybe if you're training for some sort of swimming event and I'm your coach, and so I'm on the sidelines, white shorts, white shoes, white socks, white shirt, white...

00:05:00 - 00:05:51 | Speaker 2:

White towel, kind of, like, not a huge beach towel, but, like, bigger than a hand towel, smaller than a beach towel. Do you have a classic stopwatch in one hand? Oh, God, do I ever. It is a beaut. I have a whistle for some reason. I use that a lot. It echoes in the indoor pool chamber in a way that I think we can all picture. And you're doing your laps. The sound of sneakers squeaking. Wait, that's a different word. Yeah, but I am yelling I didn't hear no bell for some reason in this scenario as well, which is, I think, something from Rocky. Hey, really quickly, if you don't mind, quick, abrupt change of conversation here. I need to get something out of my system. Actually, the listeners, I think, need to get something out of their system, and they did by emailing us, texting us, tweeting us. I don't know if you caught. Oh, yes. Do you know what I'm leading up to here? What am I leading up to, burbs?

00:05:51 - 00:06:11 | Speaker 1:

Well, again, unfortunately, there's a fairly long list of things that I regularly mess up on the show and people finding it frustrating. But something that seemed to have kind of risen to the surface of their frustration the other day was that I was calling a vice a vice.

00:06:11 - 00:06:13 | Speaker 2:

Oh, that's not even what I'm getting at, but sure.

00:06:15 - 00:07:50 | Speaker 1:

People were telling me they were throwing their phone. i was talking about this house that i'm working on and how um the previous owner i had this kind of like i had an idea about this person and again a lot of it was because of what i perceived to be his politics because he's a member of the nra because i get his old mail sometimes and that sent me and also the fact that i didn't his home decor choices he and his i presume wife's home decor choices were not what i would uh choose i wrote a whole story about this guy and yet that story has started to unravel a little bit as i noticed like little notes that he wrote in all kinds of places about how to and he didn't write them for me but just like there's a fireplace in the basement and he's got this he has good penmanship which for some reason is interesting to me and he like it was clear that this guy actually like really liked this house he lived in and and was a person who was sort of present in the world more than i expected but anyway i also noticed that downstairs actually both in the garage and in the basement of this house there are workbenches this guy has a lot of workbenches going and they many of them there's probably like maybe four or five vices that are attached to the workbenches in various places and i was calling those vice grips and a vice grips of course is that silver actual like looks almost like pliers but it's not and it's got that kind of that screw in one of the parts of the handle where you can like i guess kind of lock it in place or or or some somehow control what's going on with the vice grips and i think we got i got about five emails that were people were upset

00:07:50 - 00:10:17 | Speaker 2:

that i was saying i saw two that did seem unreal like at one i remember at one point you did you called a vice a vice grip um and i did notice it in the moment but i it just didn't matter like i knew we all knew what you were talking about you said he's got those vice grip things on the on the workbench and we moved on i know what vice grips are because i use them probably more than any other tool in the toolbox i feel like they just always come in handy they're you know what is that little lock into so basically they're somewhat adjustable the screw thing is so that you can sort of adjust it to get to about the um the width that you want the things to close on and then when you close them um they lock into place they're not like pliers that you have to keep holding the pressure and they lock the pressure on then you have that like release thing right that little other thing releases it when you're done with it and like i do use them a lot like for like removing nails sometimes or we had a we were oh man don't even get me started on my can crusher we installed a can crusher oh boy i love my can crusher my neighbors probably not so much because all hours of day and night they're hearing me that thing is not quiet my new can crusher but it's installed i don't know if people know these things you install them on a wall but you have to make sure you're installing it like on a stud or something that is very um that is very stable because there's a lot of uh torque involved in crushing these crushing these cans so anyway like when we were installing that uh the wood was so um tough that it kind of we had a we had to abort mission on one of our um screws and the only way to get that screw out of there was vice grips worked like oh really you couldn't back it out no everything was stripped about it It was just it was kind of a nightmare. But those things helped like in a second. So anyway, here's my so the vice vice group thing. I was a little surprised that that was a that was a pretty loud reaction. Well, I was wrong. So, OK, this one record corrected. This one. Nobody seems angry. Just disappointed. No, nobody seems really angry about this. They just wanted us to know that we went on a pretty long journey yesterday for the second time in TBTL history, I believe. about the way Sam was. what's-his-name, says the word bear. Sam Elliott says the word bear in The Big Lebowski. He says bar. Sometimes the bar eats you, he says, and how you and I, for the longest time, thought he was actually talking about a bar. Do we want to hear it for, I mean, do we need to hear it? Sure, we'll play it.

00:10:18 - 00:10:19 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, why not? If you got it, you're right.

00:10:20 - 00:10:21 | Speaker 2:

I don't have it isolated.

00:10:21 - 00:10:41 | Speaker 3:

Not too good, man. Build up here. Yeah. Well, a wiser fellow than myself once said, sometimes you eat the bar and let you buy it. Sometimes the bar will eat you.

00:10:41 - 00:10:54 | Speaker 2:

So that's the quote we're talking about there. Is there something about the sound of the dude clinking those ice cubes in that glass that just makes you want a White Russian? I don't even know if I've ever had a White Russian, but that movie.

00:10:54 - 00:11:45 | Speaker 1:

The cutaway Russian phase, pre-Lebowski, I think when I started to drink alcohol, I really didn't have a taste for it because I started kind of relatively late. By late, I mean like when I was 21, but not when I was underage very much. And so I couldn't most just like a straight up beer or certainly a cocktail or whatever. That was way too alcoholy for me. So I was a real Kind of like connoisseur Of things that had alcohol in them But that didn't taste like They had alcohol in them And for some reason I had a big white Russian phase At around the time When Lebowski then was released Which I thought was hilarious Because I was like Oh he's drinking that drink That I like to have But I mean One white Russian goes a long way Is what I would say You mean not as far as

00:11:45 - 00:11:48 | Speaker 2:

Alcohol content But just as far as Sweetness and dariness Yes

00:11:48 - 00:12:05 | Speaker 1:

yes i mean it's it's also i mean it's yeah it's dairy it's extremely sweet dairy with booze in it and my thought is the next day it's the it's the sweet treatness of it that's going to really make you regret the decision more so even probably than the alcohol there's a funny kids in the hall

00:12:05 - 00:13:08 | Speaker 2:

skit that i already regret describing here because why would i just describe a 23 year old skit or whatever it is older than that i guess um but uh also weird that i landed on 23 uh but it's called girl drink drunk and it Dave Foley I don't know if you know Dave Foley I think you do news radio kids in the hall etc and he's somebody who doesn't drink but he's at some sort of business dinner and they sign some deal and the person he's signing the deal with says no you have to have some drink we need to celebrate and so he gets him like the rudiest tootiest fruitiest like you know umbrella drink and Dave Foley's character falls in love with it and then totally just falls off the wagon and becomes what they describe as a girl drink drunk where he's going around like he's feeding his addiction as he gets more and more depraved but he's not drinking from bottles. He has to like get a bunch of bottles and umbrellas and sweet juices and then like go hide in a storage closet somewhere so he can make his girl drink drunks.

00:13:08 - 00:14:25 | Speaker 1:

Like if your absolute rock bottom was like, you know, sex on the beach or right that's exactly it some kind of overly complicated Mai Tai type of situation my my I've I know I've mentioned this on the show before too but for some reason when I was young and I knew absolutely zero about drinks I knew that there was a drink called a Mai Tai because Jodie Foster in the movie Little Man Tate which I loved when I was younger have you ever seen that movie I know of it I don't think I've seen that one no jody foster is kind of a scrappy single mom and she's got this kid and he is just a genius and they're living in like a kind of a pretty down market apartment kind of uh you know with like a swimming pool kind of a you know probably green swimming pool in the courtyard and i believe she may work as a bartender and or maybe she's just ordering a drink sometime but she's ordering a mai tai or putting the order in for a mai tai and someone's giving her a hard time and she goes m-a-i-t-a-i my tie and i don't know why that line from jody foster from the movie little man tate has just like that enters my head about once every four months and has for the last

00:14:25 - 00:14:32 | Speaker 2:

30 plus years i do love me and my tie by the way it is a fantastic um fantastic beverage i almost

00:14:32 - 00:14:38 | Speaker 1:

what did we get wrong about or what did we what what i don't want to talk about it okay no i'm

00:14:38 - 00:14:59 | Speaker 2:

just joking um no we didn't get anything wrong but a lot and again huge outpouring of responses on this it's just surprising sometimes what like kind of really stands out to people on the show um but no again nobody's angry at us but just wanted us to know that famously in the song the ballad of davy crockett they also pronounce the word bear as

00:15:00 - 00:15:07 | Speaker 4:

bar as in this as sung by fess parker who played apparently davy crockett in the miniseries and

00:15:07 - 00:15:20 | Speaker 1:

also sings this song i think born on a mountain top in pennessey greenest state in the land of the free raised in the woods so he knew every tree killed him a bar when he was only three

00:15:20 - 00:15:45 | Speaker 2:

killed him a bar when he was only three wow now okay so i got to give the listeners credit that is an example i had said yesterday there are no examples i've ever heard of someone else saying the word bear the way sam elliott does that clearly um would uh that would that would be a clear example of someone saying bar as bear or bear as bar but my question is is that an accent

00:15:45 - 00:16:02 | Speaker 4:

yeah it must be and like you know i saw yesterday during the show i was googling around a little bit to try to pinpoint sam elliott's um accent and it looks like it's a texas accent which is probably something i should have known but if that's a texas accent would that scan with davy crockett

00:16:02 - 00:16:49 | Speaker 2:

well um no because davy crockett was not a texas guy he was king of the wild frontier oh right crockett was yeah you know i think davy crockett was probably more up in like i don't know like i don't know the states and this will just generate more emails but maybe this is the maybe this is the sort of parasitic and uh parasitic host relationship we have with the listeners or the symbiotic relationship where we say something it's wrong they have to email us and then we go back and we correct the record but we say something else wrong and then they have to email us it keeps them engaged yes it keeps me engaged davy crockett was i think he was out in like you know the territories i want to say like kentucky and places like that um uh was where the legend of davy crockett was from or maybe tennessee i mean didn't they just say they just said it oh

00:16:49 - 00:17:01 | Speaker 3:

my god oh my god nobody was angry at us before but yeah didn't we just hear him as you were saying the word tennessee i heard it in the song i was like oh tennessee yeah we just answered our own

00:17:01 - 00:17:29 | Speaker 2:

question but now i'm in um forum.wordreference.com trying to figure out if what that accent is supposed to be so i guess if we're to if we're to believe uh fess parker by the way i miss those days where the people in the thing also sang the song for the thing so you're saying fess parker played actually played davy crockett in something but then he also sings the davy crockett song

00:17:29 - 00:17:55 | Speaker 4:

i'm scared to say anything but i think so yes i think it was a some uh one of the listeners i'm sorry i don't have their name because i did just get flooded with this but one of the listeners said that um fess parker played davy crockett in a mini series not to be confused with another show that he actually portrayed another frontiersman that was actually a full-on series. I'll see if I can find that email, or maybe it doesn't matter.

00:17:55 - 00:18:07 | Speaker 2:

I'm trying to think of some other examples of where, like, because Alan Thicke, right, famously wrote the theme song for whatever that show was that he was in with, Growing Pains, was that?

00:18:08 - 00:18:15 | Speaker 4:

Yeah, you know, I don't know if I knew that. I'm trying to figure out if you're reminding me of that or if you're telling me that for the first time. So he wrote that song. Did he sing it?

00:18:16 - 00:18:56 | Speaker 2:

I feel like it was a duet. Maybe he was the male part of the duet. Now, the problem with this is a lot of things, Andrew. Yeah, a lot. One of them is I constantly, this was an era, like when Growing Pains and Family Ties were both out and big hot shows, that was when I was young and not allowed to watch TV very much. So I don't have a really good knowledge on those programs. And I often sort of conflate them And combine them So I think I always think of the What would we do baby without us But that's I believe The Family Ties theme song

00:18:56 - 00:18:59 | Speaker 4:

Yes that yeah Yeah I was pretty dialed into Family Ties as a kid

00:18:59 - 00:19:59 | Speaker 2:

Okay and so then the By the way Sha na na na Sit Ubu sit Good dog The dad from Wait that was the same production company That produced That was Am I messing that up? No I thought that was the end of I think I'm messing everything up no no no no you're not i um you know what's really interesting andrew is the dad from family ties gross michael look at this it's michael gross yes it is michael gross look at you i know like that's a weird pull michael gross is also in the tim and eric sketch for the sleep party mask no sorry that's not true he is in a different sketch which is a special chair to watch your friend sleep in you've seen that one no i haven't seen that one it's so out there it's basically a kit and it's the dad from family ties and his buddy they're hanging out if you just google this like sleep watching kit tim and eric i think this actually could slightly pay off his audio okay

00:20:00 - 00:20:13 | Speaker 4:

He and his, Michael Gross and his friend are hanging around. His friend gets tired and he's about to fall asleep. And Michael Gross asks, would it be hard if I watched you? And then the Cinco product is a whole kit for watching your friend sleep. Okay, let's just take a listen to this.

00:20:14 - 00:20:17 | Speaker 2:

I can't believe you are still seeing Janelle.

00:20:17 - 00:20:20 | Speaker 1:

You know, I like her. She's hot. Trouble city, though.

00:20:20 - 00:20:23 | Speaker 2:

High maintenance, would you say? That's gross.

00:20:23 - 00:20:39 | Speaker 1:

As long as they're hot, I really don't care. You know, I'm bushed. I think I'm going to hit the sack. Mind if I watch? Not at all, buddy. You can use my new Cinco sleep-watching chair from Cinco.

00:20:39 - 00:20:46 | Speaker 2:

It's the new and exciting sleep-watching chair from Cinco. Okay. Finally, a practical way to watch your friend sleep.

00:20:47 - 00:21:06 | Speaker 3:

So maybe you said this and I was Googling around, but I thought he was just going to maybe fall asleep on the couch they were both sitting on. But no, now we are in the bedroom of the fellow with the higher voice. And he is now, he's laying down in bed He's pulled the covers up And Michael Gross' character is sitting in this special chair With a lot of doohickeys on it Right next to the bed

00:21:06 - 00:21:07 | Speaker 2:

Adios

00:21:07 - 00:21:09 | Speaker 1:

Good day my friend Robin

00:21:09 - 00:21:30 | Speaker 2:

Now the show begins The sleep watching chair comes with a sleep watcher zoom lens So you don't miss a single detail of the action Wonderful And a dreamer's book Perfect for recording what you think your friend is dreaming about Fascinating The nightmare prevention tone helps control unpleasant dreams. Just press this button, and he'll be awakened

00:21:30 - 00:21:32 | Speaker 1:

from his nightmare. The bear's gonna take a bite

00:21:32 - 00:22:00 | Speaker 3:

out of me! Okay, now this is synchronicity, Luke, or synchronicity, because he writes down when you're supposed to write down what you think your buddy is dreaming about, and what Michael Gross writes down is pursued by bar? Question mark? Pursued by bear? And now this guy is having a nightmare that the bear is going to bite him. Should we keep going, or have we heard the best part? No, I think we get the idea of it.

00:22:00 - 00:22:40 | Speaker 4:

Now, I'd like to give out more questionable information about bar versus bear. Now, this is somebody named Tanabil here on this forum, wordreference.com. The question started, like, what are they saying in that movie, The Big Lebowski? What is this, you eat the bar thing? And then a bunch of people are chiming in. They're saying it's from Lebowski, and here's, you know, you're saying bear. And then Tana Bill says, bar means bear, most famously in stories about the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone carving in a tree. So, of course, this connects to the thing you just played.

00:22:40 - 00:22:48 | Speaker 3:

Daniel Boone, I was getting hit. Yeah, he's the one who had the actual series while Davy Crockett had the miniseries, both apparently featuring this guy Fess.

00:22:48 - 00:23:11 | Speaker 4:

Gotcha. Well, that's actually in this thing. Daniel Boone carving in a tree, quote, D. Boone killed, and killed is spelled C-I-L-L-D, a bar, B-A-R, oh, this tray, T-R-E, 1775. And it's in the theme song for the TV series Daniel Boone with Fess Parker. Okay.

00:23:11 - 00:23:12 | Speaker 3:

So that's wrong.

00:23:13 - 00:24:07 | Speaker 4:

They're confusing him with Davy Crockett. But what I'm wondering, though, is, is it possible that this whole thing started because whoever it is here, Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett, maybe it's Davy Crockett, somebody carved into it, somebody who obviously had limited literacy, and we're also talking about 1700s, somebody with limited literacy was trying to commemorate that they killed a bear, but they didn't know how to spell it. so they just carved it in because this this i don't know if this is you know verbatim but this is like riddled with spelling errors d boone killed c-i-l-l-d a bar b-a-r oh this tray t-r-e 1775 is it possible that whoever whichever one of these people we're talking about here just didn't know how to spell bear and so they like carved it in wrong and that's where we're getting bar versus bear so you're seeing a screenshot of this no i'm seeing tannebill

00:24:07 - 00:24:21 | Speaker 3:

putting it in quotes oh i see i don't trust tana bill because i think that i mean we just heard the song we know the person who kills a bear at age three is is davy crockett right we just heard

00:24:21 - 00:24:47 | Speaker 4:

that with our own ears i'm looking at it here uh this was found in louisville kentucky oh uh one such trophy carving was found in the forest of a louis of louisville kentucky it read d boone kilt a bar so d period boone kilt k i here they're spelling it k-i-l-t kilt a bar 1803 okay so you're right to not trust tannabill tannabill had almost none of the details right actually that person

00:24:47 - 00:24:59 | Speaker 3:

could work on this show andrew yeah i was gonna say would you agree that this conversation is unbarrable by the way can i go back Horrible lightness of being.

00:25:00 - 00:25:23 | Speaker 2:

I you raised a question before that we never really answered, like the idea of people singing their own theme songs. And for a second, I was going to throw a Jim Neighbors up on that pedestal, but not really. Jim Neighbors sang and Jim Neighbors acted in TV shows. But I don't think he ever sang his own theme song. He didn't like sing the Gomer Pile theme song. Right.

00:25:23 - 00:27:24 | Speaker 1:

No, Jim Neighbors was very big on. he sang a lot of gospel numbers yeah which i always thought was hilarious when i was a kid because i knew him as gomer pile yeah but then those are all reruns by the time i was seeing them and so what was actually slightly more recent would be these like albums with like a very serious gym neighbors like wearing a turtleneck and it's like songs of glory with yes neighbors and it was such it was so kind of uh different than the image he was playing in gomer pile and and his voice This was very, like, kind of operatic, right? Yes, I thought ridiculously so. Okay, we're going to bring this to an end now, Andrew. But I want to tell you, the Wisconsin Historical Society's website, which I'm going to believe that the Wisconsin Historical Society is trading in decently reliable information. They have a photograph of a tree. The headline for this post is, D. Boone killed a bar. And in this case, killed is spelled C-I-L-L-E-D. I'm starting to have more and more faith in whatever the person, weird, non-existing word, Tannabill or whatever that person was named. It's a photograph of a tree that's got a carving in it. Description, a beech tree with the inscription, D. Boone killed a bar, 1760. We've now seen multiple dates and multiple different versions of how killed is spelled. But what has not changed in any of these accounts, and now I'm looking at a photo, Andrew. So I'm like looking at the tree's actual bark. What has not changed is that bar is spelled B-A-R. And I will, my new theory that I will take to my grave is that this whole bear versus bar thing got started because D Boone, and i don't know if this is the daniel boone or someone uh celebrating something they thought that daniel boone did whoever carved this into this tree didn't know how to spell bear

00:27:24 - 00:28:14 | Speaker 2:

okay this is what this is aside to what you're talking about but i feel like i'm losing my goddamn marbles over here so we did just hear the ballad of davy crockett right i don't have that wrong it was the davy crockett song we heard i'm gonna play it again and i'm looking at it on youtube right now and the picture is of somebody i'm assuming fess parker portraying davy crockett it is him with the famous kunst cap with a blue background but you keep on talking about daniel boone killing a bar so i looked up daniel boone theme song i get another youtube video that says daniel boone theme song and it's got the same literally the same exact image associated with it on uh youtube so let's do this again this is the ballad of davy crockett on youtube

00:28:14 - 00:28:33 | Speaker 4:

okay so that's the chorus i only knew the chorus of that growing up so then what the hell is this

00:28:33 - 00:28:39 | Speaker 2:

the Daniel Boone theme song, which has the exact same album art. What is this?

00:28:39 - 00:28:59 | Speaker 3:

Daniel Boone was a man Yes, a big, big man With an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he. Let's see if he says bar Daniel Boone was a man, yes a big man He was brave, he was fearless and as tough as a mighty oak tree

00:28:59 - 00:29:03 | Speaker 2:

It's a relatively short song. From a coonskin cap on the top

00:29:03 - 00:29:04 | Unknown:

of old Dan to the heave

00:29:04 - 00:29:27 | Speaker 3:

of his rawhide shoe the rippinest roarinest fightinest man the frontier ever knew Daniel Boone was a man yes a big man what a boom what a doer what a dream come a truer was he never mentions a bar

00:29:27 - 00:29:28 | Speaker 2:

and he killed the bar

00:29:28 - 00:30:05 | Speaker 1:

but they both have coonskin caps so I I mean some i'm sure we have some historians out there or amateur historians at the least who know the difference i my guess is that they were the coke and pepsi of their day of dudes who supposedly wore coonskin caps and went around being adventurous in one way or another but again i i i really i feel like i've unearthed something here this is original scholarship you're witnessing it in real time happening, Andrew. Yeah, no. I mean, honestly, listeners, send your letters of thanks to us for today's show to Andrew at TBTL.net.

00:30:05 - 00:31:34 | Speaker 2:

Because I'm just telling you, I have never heard any accent. And now, admittedly, I haven't spent a ton of time in Tennessee or Kentucky. And so maybe there are some areas there where it would be normal for someone if they saw a bear coming at them. Because you know what you're supposed to do if you see a bear coming at you, right, Andrew? This is not a joke. You punch them in the nose. no you make yourself big you make yourself big and you yell hey bear yeah and that's what because i like those i'll see those videos pop up online sometime of in fact just the other day i saw one where this family was out kind of hiking and this bear starts following them and it was actually kind of a tense situation because of course you don't want to run um but you do want to scare them off and so the thing that people yell is hey bear hey bear now is there a part of the country where in the same situation you'd be yelling hey bar hey bar i've never i have never experienced that accent anywhere except for the song you just played me and sam elliot in that movie and so what i am led to believe looking at this carving that misspells bear as b-a-r and also someone who writes killed as c-i-l-l-e-d that the whole thing is just whoever d boone was didn't know how to spell bear and that's how we got here but that but but this i'm hoping is true because otherwise it means i've missed a regional accent somewhere in this country which i don't like to do

00:31:34 - 00:31:57 | Speaker 1:

i i'm not going with you on that i mean i'm not gonna like i have no proof to the contrary so that's fine that seems pretty far-fetched to me uh it seems like it's just it seems like it would be birthed more from the way people talk not one person seeing it carved and then being it applied to a different character from the frontier like that seems a little bit odd to me well why were

00:31:57 - 00:32:20 | Speaker 2:

they talking about how he killed a bear i think it was i honestly think at some point someone confused daniel boone and davy crockett literally in the writing of that song because although how random is that that you write there's a famous tree d boone killed a bar and then in the song about davy crockett they're talking about how he killed a bar isn't that like a weird and also we don't know the difference between the two people is it possible that someone who wrote

00:32:20 - 00:32:53 | Speaker 1:

that song actually got confused i feel like we're really um testing occam's razor here it's sound i mean again i'm not trying to be argumentative i i'm fine with you believing that i won't argue against it i'm just telling you that i can't go along with that reasoning it seems way too complicated as as opposed to just people have accents and sometimes words come out in a funny way in a different time and in a different place and in the you know in the american frontier By the way, how about this? Oh, go ahead. Okay.

00:32:53 - 00:33:44 | Speaker 2:

First of all, I would love it if we have listeners in Kentucky, Tennessee, anywhere in the U.S., honestly, if we have any listener who is from a place or has spent time in a place or has family from a place where people legitimately pronounce the word bear as bar on the regular, I would love to hear that because, first of all, I'd just be very curious to get that information. But I actually don't think that this – I hear what you're saying with Occam's Razor. I think this is a very clean, very straight line, though. You have this famous thing about one of these frontiers people killing something that's spelled as bar. You then have a song that's written about a famous frontiers person who's adjacent to that. Then you have Sam Elliott saying it in the movie. Those are literally the only two examples of this I've ever encountered in my life. So to me, it actually doesn't seem that far-fetched, but maybe the listeners have more input on this.

00:33:44 - 00:33:58 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, we're going to need some solid intel on this. So, you know, everybody who is quick to send me this song, thank you. But now the real work begins. You just messed up.

00:33:59 - 00:34:40 | Speaker 2:

That went from being that went from being a very quick three minutes on the show to being literally the only thing I care about. This is literally the only thing I care about. Yeah. OK. All right. Let's let's wait. Did we did we do anything? That was it. No, that was it. that was what you want because i i remember that at the very beginning of the show you said you want to talk about something and then we went on a long long long digression but i think that what you wanted to talk about was the the song you want to play the song okay good and i'm so that means i regret nothing nor do i i feel really i feel really good about this theory honestly um so i guess we'll see how this plays out over the next few days and i also just think it's good you know

00:34:40 - 00:35:07 | Speaker 1:

i've been getting a lot of feedback on the show from various channels a lot of people just say like you guys agree too much we need more of that sort of like the tension that we would um you know that maybe we would be embracing more in like a more of a like commercial radio station sure or like a kind of a pardon the interruption pti exactly Oh, my God, can't you see that along the side of the screen? Like, coming up bear versus bar argument.

00:35:10 - 00:35:22 | Speaker 2:

All right, let's take a quick break, and then we come back. Coming up, stockpiling sriracha and swimmers fainting here on TBTL. Here on, oh, I'm so sorry I interrupted you.

00:35:23 - 00:35:24 | Speaker 1:

I love you, man.

00:35:30 - 00:35:41 | Speaker 2:

Hello, and welcome to Top Story. All right. You know what? Let's actually start with this swimming story. Did you happen to see this photograph? I didn't see this. This is one that I'm unfamiliar with.

00:35:41 - 00:35:42 | Speaker 1:

Should I click on it?

00:35:43 - 00:36:31 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely. If you can click, I think that this Washington Post article written by Jennifer Hassan, I think has the best versions of the photos of this event, because the photos are kind of bouncing all around the internet now. Some people have cropped them differently or selected different ones from the series. But the headline is U.S. Artistic Swimmer Who Fainted Underwater at World Championships Rescued by Coach. Wow, that is a stunning photo. Are you looking at the one where the coach is swimming towards her underwater? with the coaches the coach uh by the way uh is named andrea fuentes where she's just fully extended going towards the swimmer who's unconscious almost kind of standing on the

00:36:31 - 00:36:46 | Speaker 1:

bottom of the pool i am seeing that one as well the first one that i reacted to though was the one where she's actually so it's a completely underwater photo and it's the coach already has the swimmer in her arms and is just beginning to like kind of push off the bottom of the pool

00:36:46 - 00:37:27 | Speaker 2:

to bring her to the surface i mean so what happened was uh this um swimmer named anita alvarez was performing at the world aquatics championships in budapest um and uh this uh this swimmer is part of team usa again the coach is andrea fuentes and she is um i don't i think it's called uh i forget the exact name of this artistic swimming which i i don't know this i guess it wouldn't be synchronized because it would appear that anita alvarez was just swimming by herself but it seems like it's a version of it's kind of like a dance sport that's in the water

00:37:27 - 00:37:45 | Speaker 1:

it's called artistic swimming yeah has that changed because i've never heard it called that i almost feel like there was i thought there i thought there was something called i thought it was like swim dancing or water dancing or something but as that comes out of my mouth it sounds kind of silly so i must be wrong about that this is some kind of a sport where you it's not

00:37:45 - 00:38:46 | Speaker 2:

strictly like you're trying to swim from one end of the pool to the other as quickly as possible it's where you're doing you know performance kind of movements and choreography and things like that but all in the water it's called artistic swimming and in as uh anita alvarez was sort of somewhere in the midst of her program she fainted and sunk to the bottom of the pool and it sounds like her coach andrea fuentes was waiting for the lifeguards that's so for one thing it's so wild to think about having lifeguards at the world championships of any aquatic sport because you would sort of think if there's any group of people that'll be able to get themselves out of the pool it's probably the people that spend their whole life in the pool swimming and practicing and doing all of the training for this like on the one hand it's like you probably don't need lifeguards there but on the other hand it's like no you have hundreds of athletes in the water doing stuff that's really hard and like of course you have lifeguards but in this case it sounds like the

00:38:46 - 00:39:41 | Speaker 1:

lifeguards weren't doing anything yeah and i as i follow your point and also though i'm sure that you know it's and and i know you know this but also the art of uh what is it a swim art artistic artistic swimming now uh that that is a different skill set than you know grabbing somebody and saving their life and and being prepared to drag somebody out of the water well what do you mean the art of artistic swimming i mean the the the skills i mean yes there are some similar skills between a lifeguard and somebody who can who can do artistic swimming but i think that you know just because you're a good swimmer doesn't make you a good lifeguard in the same way just because you can drive a car doesn't make you ready to be a driving instructor you know i mean there are things that go into being a lifeguard that you are trained for oh i know because i was a ymca lifeguard nice did you ever have to wish i would get into it did you ever no no it was like

00:39:41 - 00:40:00 | Speaker 2:

this tiny pool that nobody ever went and it was mostly p but if someone would have hurt themselves and i had to do a rear active or rear passive save on that uh but um so the other thing i was realizing though was i can kind of understand why the lifeguards may have held off because also this is a performance

00:40:00 - 00:42:52 | Speaker 1:

this is a world championship if you are the lifeguard and if somebody and i'm not trying to be glib here by the way um by all accounts anita alvarez is doing fine now so that's good um but if you're let's say you're the lifeguard and somebody starts to float to the bottom of the pool and you dive in and grab them and that was just part of their performance you have now completely effed up their world championships of this sport which does put the lifeguards in i think a little bit of a tough position now the coach who is you know seen every second of this uh program this choreography knows exactly what is and isn't supposed to happen which is why i think she realized something was amiss uh the other reason she knew something was amiss was because this is not the first time that this has happened to this swimmer oh and the other time this happened the coach this same coach also had to save her like it would appear that this particular athlete Anita Alvarez has some kind of is that like was that a like a vasal vagal response or something like some kind of this this is something that happens to this particular athlete when she is really exerting herself or at least it has happened before and she just sort of lost consciousness and then floated to the bottom of the pool it had happened already once and the same coach had saved her I don't know if that was during a performance or just during a practice but these two had experience with this happening so clearly this coach was aware kind of what was going on but she also was waiting for she told people later was waiting for the lifeguards to jump in and they never did so she dives in and then meanwhile you've got this um photographer who's i think working for getty because that's what the um the like uh what do you want to call the watermark says getty oh i see yeah um and uh i'm trying to get to the actual name of the photographer i'm going to my twitter feed here real fast the um this photographer is taking these underwater pictures and it's so it's so interesting to me because it's like is this photographer in a scuba outfit how are they or is it just a stationary is there a camera that's planted underwater i mean it's a really like i said incredible series of photos but i'm wondering how the photos were actually gotten by the way the person's name appears to be only scarf who's working for agency france press and getty images so that's who took these pictures somebody named only scarf but like what do you think were they underwater in like their physical body underwater are just hanging out like with a scuba tank waiting to see the swimmers, you know, when they would go beneath the surface? Or is this from some kind of other camera? Like, I'm wondering about the mechanics of how these photos were even gotten.

00:42:52 - 00:43:43 | Speaker 2:

I'm not the one to ask, obviously, because I'm not there. But I will tell you this. Here's one thing I'm sort of deducing because I'm on Ali's website right now. And they're a photojournalist. They have all kinds of intense photos, some from sporting events, but a lot of things from from from protests and all just all kinds of all there's some amazing photos here from firefighters of firefighters trying to fight a blaze and wow these photos are amazing so my guess is this person was in the water before I was on their website I was thinking that oh well this is an event that you know involves you know art underwater so you have a bunch of cameras set up underneath there and then the person who clicks the button and maybe sets them up is the person but i'm starting to think though based on this person's other photography they might be

00:43:43 - 00:45:56 | Speaker 1:

somebody who would be who would be in the water this i i again this is terrible podcasting because we're talking about something very visual but this photo the one that that i just can't get over and that I tweeted about this morning where the coach is swimming and has not yet gotten to Anita Alvarez. And the posture of the coach is just like the most incredible thing. She is totally and completely engaged. She is swimming. She's got one arm back. She's got one arm going forward. She has a ponytail that's somehow like perfectly flowing with the whole sort of like aqua dynamics of the situation. and it is like heroism like it's it's it's a snapshot of someone being a hero in a way that i can't think of an analog for and the weirdest thing was i kept looking at these pictures today this one and then the one where she's bringing this swimmer to the surface and i got so emotional like i kind of started crying which is weird because first of all the person is okay which is great and this has no relation to me like i'm not somebody who is like i'm not into artistic swimming i don't spend a lot of time in you know at these events it has no relevance to my life other than watching this pure moment of a human saving another human's life just really got to me like i just felt so emotional looking at the pictures and i think it was just because we live in a moment where there's so much animosity and it's just like every day it's like i turn on the radio and it's the january 6th here it's just like so ukraine there's like just so much stuff out there that makes me feel like we don't love each other as people and then you just see this extremely real moment of it and also i know that these two people love each other anyway because this is her coach right like these people spend so much time together and the fact that this is it's almost a maternal in a way there's just something about this coach grabbing this person and saving their life literally saving their life it was just like it really hit me

00:45:56 - 00:46:53 | Speaker 2:

emotionally today this is um maybe not worth bringing up but you asked about the photographer whether or not we think that person was in the water with them and if the photographer was in the water it makes me think of all those maybe not all those but maybe one or two conversations we had in my media ethics class which uh was one of my favorite classes in college and one of the most you know cut and dry sort of um problems to solve is when does a photographer put down their camera sure to help the person in trouble you know and if you do have ollie the photographer in this case underwater at some point like at what point do you start counting down in your head like okay i have these photos but unless i see somebody else jump in here pretty quickly then i need to I need to jump into action myself right well I mean that's the part that that's the part that

00:46:53 - 00:47:56 | Speaker 1:

I'm trying to understand is like did this person themselves did the I would be very surprised if this is what happened but did the photographer jump off of the deck of the pool and then go underwater to get the photo was the photographer already stationed underwater in scuba gear was this a stationary camera that was actually underwater being controlled remotely because those are all if we knew the answer to those things and we would also have more info on at what point you're right does the photojournalist put down their camera and start going towards the problem as it were i just want to say if this picture in particular the one that i keep obsessing over where the the coach is almost reaching her if this does not win i don't know what the like what the highest is a pulitzer if this doesn't win a pulitzer i don't know what should i mean this is an amazing photograph to me yeah it's something else um are you a sriracha guy i am in fact you know there was did you know there was a sriracha shortage a

00:47:56 - 00:49:27 | Speaker 2:

shortage um i was trying to do it didn't didn't succeed um i did actually i saw a headline a couple of weeks ago that said the manufacturer is warning there could be a shortage coming down the pipe or something along those lines and it was funny because i happened to see that article on the same day that genevieve and i decided to buy the smaller bottle of sriracha i don't like having big i'm still fine with the decision by the way um i don't like having big containers of things in the refrigerator i go to the grocery store a lot anyway we don't need the biggest bottle of ketchup because there's nothing i hate more well fascism sucks but aside from that there's nothing i hate more than a giant bottle of ketchup with just like i don't know a quarter left in it and it's taking up all the room in the refrigerator and just for like the little bit of ketchup that's in the bottom uh apply that to sriracha barbecue sauce all of your condiments even the mustards in our life and i have many mustards in my life so um it was funny viz was going to costco which uh sells things in bulk as you may or may not know and she said oh we need sriracha should i get it there and i said nope don't get it there even though we use it a lot you don't need a lot of it usually in your recipes or whatever you're adorning it uh or whatever you're using it to adorn um that's still not the right construction but we'll push forward anyway the point is sriracha tends to last a really long time yes and i don't want a giant freaking bottle of it in the

00:49:27 - 00:49:59 | Speaker 1:

refrigerator but we'll find out if i made the mistake or not apparently the issue is that there is a certain kind of chili pepper that's grown in mexico um they are uh red chilies and they are grown primarily in four northern states of the country during the first four months of the year uh by the way this was a piece by christine chung also in the new york times because i have a real diversity of no the other one was the post man the other one was the post i do thank you good call i am a unicorn.

00:50:00 - 00:52:25 | Speaker 2:

I consume the two most popular newspapers in America, both of which I pay for, by the way. That tells you that I value the news that I get from these two places because I am a paying customer. But anyway— Did you ever get your athletic subscription set up? No, I forgot about that after we talked about it. I should actually check in on that, though. So the problem is, of course, that there have been all kinds of weather issues and things that have been happening where these red chilies are grown in Mexico. And so the the sriracha folks are not they're just not able to get the chilies that they need to make the sriracha. What I was kind of surprised by, you know, if we think about sriracha and you think about that iconic bottle, it's got the rooster on it. and it's made by a company called hui fong foods in southern california i believe yeah irwindale i just i don't know i had written a different story for sriracha in my mind i guess i assumed sriracha was like a traditional and i'll be honest now and this is doesn't reflect great on me i didn't realize i didn't have a theory as to what specific part of east asia sriracha was from but i remember seeing writing on the things on the packaging that made me think oh this is something that started out over in east asia somewhere and now they've just read they've just someone in the us repackages it or whatever like this is something from over there that's made it over here but like it's definitely not something that was started um in like the 1980s in irwindale california Which is apparently exactly what happened. This guy named David Tran is the founder of Hoi Phong Foods. And after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, he landed in Los Angeles where he decided to make sriracha, a sauce believed to have been invented by a Thai woman named Thanom Chakapak. By 1980, he was mixing his sauce and delivering orders in his blue Chevy van. Over the ensuing decades, interest in sriracha exploded. This is all, by the way, there's a documentary about sriracha that came out in 2013. And now he says something like, at least by 2013, the company was making 70,000 bottles of sriracha a day.

00:52:26 - 00:52:50 | Speaker 1:

And by the way, I know I bring this up all the time. I don't know if this is in the article, but one of the things I find most fascinating about the history of sriracha is the guy. Did you say his name is Tan? I'm sorry, what's his last name? Tran. He did not copyright the word sriracha. I believe he came up with it, but he didn't copyright it. And he has no regrets. He was like, yeah, whatever. I sell plenty of my product and other people can use that too. They can make their own. Is that in this article too?

00:52:50 - 00:53:55 | Speaker 2:

I remember that coming up. No, it's not. But you're right. Sriracha is such a popular idea that every other company in America now has thrown it into their – I'm sure there are sriracha potato chips and, you know, Arby's probably has a spicy sriracha, you know, whatever, big Montana or something. But that is kind of refreshing for somebody to be like, you know what, I'm doing fine in the money department. And in fact, you know, I mean, he's even crediting or at least in the documentary, this other person, this person in Thailand is credited with coming up, which is also kind of interesting because you have David Tran, who is an immigrant from Vietnam. who is which also i'm going to say this could this could add a little bit to my confusion as to the specific origin so you have somebody who's coming over from vietnam but then they're making a sauce based on something that somebody in thailand apparently invented and then they're just producing it and selling it out of the back of their truck or van driving around irwindale and then it just really takes off it's kind of a it's a very interesting it feels like in a way

00:53:55 - 00:54:09 | Speaker 1:

a very american story right um i think as a refugee too i'm reading one article here not the same when you're looking at I'm looking at the trademark history and they they refer to him as as a refugee as well which really I mean that kind of adds to that story too I think

00:54:09 - 00:55:00 | Speaker 2:

so the in this article they go around interviewing people who are basically like sriracha heads people who put sriracha on everything and cook with it and uh how people are starting to freak out because there's one woman in the article uh Joyce Park a longtime sriracha fan who lives in seattle said she grabs bottles whenever she sees them at the store an instance that she described as increasingly rare uh she had hoped to marinate meat in sriracha to serve her upcoming back you backyard barbecue um wedding she was having she said she might instead have to make uh chicken seasoned with um tajin have you seen this i might be saying that wrong but this tajin is in everything t-a-j-i-n i always call it tahin but i'm probably saying that no no i think you're right no i actually think you're right i think it's tahin um which has confused me because it's uh mexican but to he

00:55:00 - 00:55:08 | Speaker 1:

makes you think of tahini. Yes, right. Which is more Middle Eastern. Yeah, yeah. But no, I think you're totally right. I think it is tahini. And I feel like that tahini is having a real moment right now.

00:55:08 - 00:55:22 | Speaker 2:

Well, you must have come across that a lot in L.A., right? When I was in L.A., that was a thing. You would buy fruit from the fruit stands and they would sprinkle tahini on it. And that was a classic treat in Southern California. Hold on. Yes, I would. I'm going to sneeze. Uh-oh.

00:55:22 - 00:55:24 | Speaker 1:

What did we decide? We're not muting our microphones.

00:55:24 - 00:55:29 | Speaker 2:

I always instinctively mute mine. There you go. Get it all out.

00:55:30 - 00:56:32 | Speaker 1:

um good boy uh okay now that got weird um but i know yeah i know what you mean like in la it's definitely something that was in in pretty heavy use but i feel like i wasn't seeing it in tons of recipes in like say the new york times cooking section or if i was at a restaurant in saint paul or something i feel like i'm starting to see tahin show up in a lot of places outside of a place like L.A. maybe or even Texas where you have a lot of kind of Mexican culinary influence. So I guess people are going to try to use that as an alternative. I mean, here's the thing. I have a bottle. You know me, Andrew. So my first thought when I read this, because I do, I really like Sriracha. My first thought when I read this was, all right, anytime I see a bottle of Sriracha, I'm buying it. And then I remembered, I have a bottle of Sriracha in the refrigerator here that is 90 percent full because as one person living alone unless you have an addiction it is really hard to get through an entire bottle of sriracha a little goes a long way even though yeah that's

00:56:32 - 00:56:54 | Speaker 2:

a little goes a long way and like i say i'll bet you i use i'll bet you i use sriracha wow like maybe daily i mean because i know if i'm using ketchup or maybe not ketchup but if i'm using barbecue sauce which i use a lot i'm almost always nailing it with a little bit of sriracha in there um i eat pho at least once a week that's put a lot of sriracha in there oh

00:56:54 - 00:57:06 | Speaker 1:

that's my number one today that's when i get my that's when i really get the sriracha going like if i'm at a restaurant it's like it can be troubling how much sriracha i'm putting in my

00:57:06 - 00:57:27 | Speaker 2:

bowl oh god i'm doing that today i have a new favorite pho place it's actually up in shoreline um it's called tic tac pho yeah which i think is probably supposed to be tic tac foe like maybe that's the play on words there tic-tac-fo i would guess but anyway it's complicated but you know that place i'm because you knew it right away have you been oh yeah i used to go oh many times

00:57:27 - 00:57:49 | Speaker 1:

really it's great it's great fuck it's delicious i used to um particularly back when i ate meat i would that would be a big hangover cure for me go up to tic-tac-fo or tic-tac-fo it is funny because i feel like i think you're right by the way i think that that was named to be a play on words there's no there is just absolutely no i don't think there's another industry that likes

00:57:49 - 00:57:56 | Speaker 2:

wordplay more than the pho industry i know i mean but i like i would say beauty salons to it may

00:57:56 - 00:58:38 | Speaker 1:

maybe take second fiddle but this is the problem that the issue with the funny names of pho restaurants is that for the first like i don't know decade that pho was becoming a thing i think a lot of people particularly i'll just say white americans thought it was pronounced foe like i certainly was like oh are you what is that soup you're getting it's foe everybody thought it was foe and so the nicknames like tic tac foe is predicated on people not knowing that it's actually pronounced pho and then like so many things we became slightly more culturally literate and now nobody in my friend group would ever call it foe but it means tic tac foe is kind of doesn't

00:58:38 - 00:59:20 | Speaker 2:

work as a name anymore yes and but and there there will be plays on words for both foe and pho i'm looking for a place right now i'm trying to remember the name of it there's a place on the ave that has a terrible punny name that i swore i would never go into based on the name how much i dislike it i'm trying to figure it out um here uh but it turns out they have really good is it pronounced bun or boon i don't know i think it's bun um but the rice vermicelli bowls you know with the salads i love those um and so this place that i hate the name of has wonderful vermicelli bowls and so i'm looking up the name of it now there's a lot of what the pho yeah i

00:59:20 - 00:59:27 | Speaker 1:

think that might be it yeah there's a lot of faux show yeah i've seen like again it was a

00:59:27 - 00:59:33 | Speaker 2:

shizzle i believe that's the one that i go to on the ave i reluctantly go there but they actually

00:59:33 - 00:59:46 | Speaker 1:

a pretty good food but pho shizzle i'll also give them credit because even when it was pho you would say pho shizzle yeah either probably right pho shizzle still works enough pho shizzle

00:59:46 - 01:00:47 | Speaker 2:

works better than tic tac pho yeah it does but either way i if anybody wants to meet me for lunch i'll post this after lunch but i am going there it's a sunny day i know a lot of people like You lean towards the pho on the more range. overcast days. I mean, I certainly do, but I don't limit it to that. All right, Luke, I'm going to ask you to go first today Because another Blur's Day has come in since I sent you the list So I have it on my list, so if we alternate, that one will be mine Does that make sense? So you go first

01:00:47 - 01:01:28 | Speaker 1:

Yes, I'm ready. I even forgot to play my little sound effect to start things off Heidi says, Happy Blur's Day to my wonderful wife, Amy As she recently bragged about in her dazzling donor message, she has successfully converted me from an 11 to a 10. Hey, Heidi, welcome to the team. Thank you, Amy, for being a loving mother to our two beautiful children and for speaking my love language, acts of service and quality time for the last 30 years. Wow, Heidi and Amy, congratulations. 30 years. This is getting serious. Yeah, you guys should seriously lock that down.

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I want to offer an apology because apparently, and I still cannot figure out why this is, but Heidi spent weeks trying to get this email into my inbox. It apparently did not go into my spam folder. I don't know what happened, but I think this original message was intended for like maybe mid-May or something along those lines. So my apologies for that. Heidi, Amy, I want you to know that Heidi was on it. It was just technical times, and that's why this is belated. Just consider this an early Blur's Day message for next year, Amy. Heidi was way ahead of the curve. That's right. Jeremy says, happy Blur's Day to Levi, our buddy Levi. Jeremy says, Levi's a super nice guy, and much like Harry Smith compiling the anthology of folk music, Levi has spent nearly 20 years gathering music from Seattle musicians and releasing it under the Ball of Wax compilation albums. I haven't seen Levi in person in a few years, but I hope that changes soon. Happy Blur's Day, Levi.

01:02:36 - 01:03:05 | Speaker 1:

I'm going to ballofwax.org because I know that. I mean, we've corresponded with Levi many times on the show. But it's funny because, of course, I'm not up to speed at all on the Seattle music scene. But if you go back to, you know, the late 90s and probably up to about 2010, I was very, very aware of a lot of these bands that Levi has highlighted, you know, kind of sort of featured in Ball of Wax.

01:03:06 - 01:03:23 | Speaker 2:

And now you're wondering, let's see. Oh, yeah, because these are archived. So it's not like it's I thought maybe you were testing to see how well you still knew these bands, but it would still potentially be in your wheelhouse because it's not like the the latest and the greatest. This would be from kind of your formative years here in Seattle.

01:03:24 - 01:03:40 | Speaker 1:

I don't know. Actually, I'm looking at it right now and I don't recognize any of the bands. But again, that's just because I think I think I've kind of I've aged out of the demo. Thankfully, Levi refuses to age out of the demo, just continues to compile this stuff.

01:03:42 - 01:03:47 | Speaker 2:

Sheila, is it my turn? No, it's your turn. You go. You do, Sheila. Sorry.

01:03:47 - 01:04:00 | Speaker 1:

Sheila in Ithaca says, happy Blur's Day to Cindy and Aurora. As a time band, I know you won't hear this for another month, so I hope you had a wonderful birthday. I miss you, dear friend.

01:04:01 - 01:04:21 | Speaker 2:

Are you willing to take a note on that one, Luke, from me? Can we get another read on that? Because had is all in capital. You emphasized wonderful, which is nice. But Sheila really trying to emphasize the had because Sheila realizes that Cindy is going to be hearing this in the future. So you want to give that another go there?

01:04:21 - 01:04:50 | Speaker 1:

No, I would just like Sheila to let Cindy know that it's on today's show. I feel like there's an elegant solution to this, which is Sheila also send a message to Cindy saying, cindy just go ahead and kind of you know skip ahead a little bit also let her know that i have in this episode i have hatched i think the definitive theory on why it is that sam elliott is saying bar versus bear just kind of give cindy a heads up on what she's about to hear

01:04:50 - 01:05:36 | Speaker 2:

including a blursday message here i'll take a swing at it so i hope you had a wonderful birthday Ah, shit, I messed it up. Virginia says, my 11 is turning 10 this year. Annie is smart, funny, and a great friend. As we move into her first decade, she enjoys Gilmore Girls. Did you just ring your bell too, or did mine make a double ding? I rang my bell. Wow, we rang at the same time. Hip-hop step and listening to TBTL with Dear Old Mom. We are excited that she will join the 5th grade band playing percussion in the fall. that was percussion happy blurs day in power wow we did it the exact same time you can hear how

01:05:36 - 01:06:47 | Speaker 1:

much rhythm i have i um saw this thing on uh well i think our friend roden was retweeting it i don't know where it started out if it was tiktok or twitter but it was a guy playing drums we're speaking of rhythm but the he was playing rhythm but the rhythm that he with the instrument he was using were empty tobacco tins. Do you remember that move? Did you hang out with anybody who chewed in Ohio when you were, or even in your young adult life? And you got that thing where you're packing your dip. I do remember that. Yep. You got the, I was not, I did not dip. So I guess I don't really know what the point of that was, but it was a thing that everybody I knew who dipped always did, which was you, you hold this you know like round can of skull wintergreen or whatever and then you're holding it with your thumb and your middle finger and then your pointer finger your index finger is loose and then you thwack it down on the you thwack it down on the on the tobacco tin or whatever this guy could was playing like I think it was like maybe a Foo Fighters can you if you google this does this pop up for you I think it's Foo Fighters

01:06:47 - 01:07:17 | Speaker 2:

that's the show title that is great no so do you spell it pho i think so um drums on tobacco tins is that this is going to be i don't think this is going to turn up anything because it's so hard to find these viral videos but okay hold on i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna find it now here yeah you might have a little bit more information on this that you can i do i'm gonna go to our friend rodent oh nice yeah

01:07:17 - 01:07:57 | Speaker 1:

that's probably the better twitter feed which is where i saw it here we go i found the guy so now let's see here uh it's like shout out to this dude who does this is a tweet from someone who goes under yonko shout out to this dude who does drum covers on packs of dip and if i remember right i feel like this is like maybe a fu fighters song by the way forever ruined ruined yes um should we just go out with this should we go out with this guy playing now just just remember he is in each hand he's got a he's got a can of dip and he's just whacking away on it so that's what we'll

01:07:57 - 01:08:11 | Speaker 3:

that's what we'll go out with today a little special i'll play from here dip dip dip like not that i know but i haven't okay because you know that's my favorite kind of music the kind of music when they say you love it dip dip dip well the funny part is you you don't like

01:08:11 - 01:08:16 | Speaker 1:

that kind of music but i do think it's the music you're best at singing i'm not kidding like that's

01:08:16 - 01:08:21 | Speaker 2:

a pretty good like i can do a very limited imitation of a doo-wop singer just with i know

01:08:21 - 01:08:31 | Speaker 1:

but i honestly think that it's it's one of your best impressions just overall and i and and you have a pretty good like that kind of bass you know bass person singing the kind of like the low part

01:08:31 - 01:08:45 | Speaker 2:

and then the high part i do wonder if i could sing at all which i can't i can't carry a tune But if I could sing at all, I wonder what my range would be. I assume it would be the lower ranges, right? Like, would that make me a baritone?

01:08:47 - 01:09:50 | Speaker 1:

Hold on. I'm trying to find. Oh, I'm trying to find the. I wanted to find the name of the guy who's actually playing this music so we could credit him because he's obviously put a lot of time into this. But I can't find it. And then I found something where there was a kind of a – someone else's name, which was Cock Lesnar. But I clicked on that, and that's just an OnlyFans page. Okay. So don't click on that. Unless you want to go to that person's OnlyFans page, which I totally support. But maybe by tomorrow I'll figure out what this person's – oh, you know what? I think I can – it's like Backer Canman. So B-A-C-C-E-R-C-A-N-M-A-N. That's the name on TikTok of this person who's going to be playing this rhythm on tobacco, on dip, dip tins, dip, whatever you call it. So, OK. All right. That's going to do it for our show this Thursday. Thank you for listening. We're going to be right back here tomorrow, though, with more imaginary radio for you. So please do join us for that. Until then, have a great Thursday. Stay safe. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

01:09:57 - 01:10:00 | Unknown:

Everything I've ever been through

01:10:00 - 01:10:26 | Speaker 1:

It kind of slaps Power out

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