Muse

There is something about the soul of a cat. There is something intrinsically secretive about a cat. Almost touching on the borderline of being seductive.

Just like 16-year-old boys that try to go find dates, and that's what he's thinking about.

Loves to be held.

You know, sometimes I say about to people, you know, there's a stare about this cat, glassy stare. A lot of people get scared by that look. I love the way they look. They're very affectionate, and they're smaller than horses. The cat, when I lie down with it, I kind of have that fantasy that I'm lying down with the tiger or the lion. But for somebody else, it may be another thing.

T-B-T-L. Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is?

it's friday friday gotta get down on friday everybody's looking forward to the weekend actually you know what i can email you or you know you can email me at uh splat2 at splatnet.net splat1's my father i mean i'll be sad to see him go it'll be nice to get my hands on that handle

you know hi my name is olivia i live in woodbury minnesota and i really liked your show it helps me fall asleep but you say the effort too much can you stop y'all are joking are y'all kidding

with me i'm talking about dupin you in charge of duplication yes sir show me how this duplicating

machine works i want to learn all about the process all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a friday edition of tbtl the show that just might be too beautiful to live i don't know

what those words mean are you in the middle of some sort of aneurysm my name is luke burbank i

I am your host. Spock, sabotage the system. Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center right here in Portland, Oregon. Happy July, everyone. It's July 1st. Much to talk about on the show. I will not bore you with more content related to the cat.

This is so boring and forever taking.

Although she really did outdo herself this morning as I was touring the apartment. It's just one thing after another that she has decided to basically, the word isn't destroy because she's not very destructive, but she just like, she goes around, she pulls down the dish towels, you know, that like hang over the oven door, just kind of walks over, pulls those down, come in here to the studio. all of the papers that I've printed that usually stay in the printer have been pulled out of the printer now and are on the floor. It's just a real trail of destruction. Remember how I said I wasn't going to bore you with an update on the cat? Well, that didn't work out. I wanted to bore you with an update on my possible ownership of a riding lawnmower that's been unfolding slowly but in real time since yesterday afternoon involving the Home Depot Corporation where I bought it and they said I could come get it from the store but then they're mailing me part of it and then I had a weird conversation about the year 1996 today with a guy at the local Home Depot. This is so confusing, Ron. It is so confusing and I'll confuse all of you with the story coming up on the program. By the way, episode 3718. That's where we're at. 3,718 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. It's Linda Skeen's world, y'all, and we just live in it. Linda Skeen's, certainly, as far as Wise Virginia is concerned, the most decorated state fair competitor probably ever, maybe.

I'm in it to win it.

Just absolutely dominating all things crafty and culinary at the state fair level. I call cakes big old cookies. She won in the cakes department, the spaghetti department, cross-stitch, you name it. Linda Skeens is good at it. And yet the internet can't seem to locate Linda Skeens. We'll get into that. Oh, and we've got an update on a vital part of the TBTL universe, the Marsupial Gurgle website. Of course, where our friend Lynn has been compiling TBTL audio drops every single day for years on end. And, well, we'll give you the update on what's going to be going on with that website. Because today is the day that some changes, I believe, go into place. Speaking of changes, looking out the window, cool, it's raining. Didn't know you like to get wet, though. July 1st. Interesting. Anyway, you know what? I've got to thank this young man.

for the fact that I am not out jogging in the rain right now. We were going to dial up in a bit, which would have timed it so that I would be out getting soaked right now, but instead I'm warm and dry here inside the broadcast center and talking to the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. I don't know if I'm his best friend, but I would say he's definitely in my top five best friends. Best friends are very cool to be.

Very best friends are dope to be.

He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning.

Good morning, Luke. It sounds like we have a lot on the agenda today, but do you have time for a little story? Yeah. Maybe related to my favorite radio station?

Oh, I actually meant to put this on the show sheet because when I saw the text.

Don't give it away. Yeah, don't give it away yet because there's a buildup here. There's some irony in this story.

Andrew, can I retract something really quickly? Before you get into your radio story I'd like to formally retract playing this audio drop Didn't know you like to get wet though Because I just realized what's happening They're washing the windows on my building But this is what they do that I've not seen before Because they started yesterday They are also sort of pressure washing things Like usually on a large apartment building like I'm in The window washers, they repel down and then they just have kind of like a bucket and a squeegee or something. These folks are going much more ham. They've got pressure washing equipment, and what I'm seeing is just the mist blowing down from that. They're up a couple floors above me doing something. So in case people in Portland hear this and they think, what is he talking about? It didn't rain on Friday. It was only raining in my locality.

Although I did happen to see that while we've had a couple of days of sunshine here and it's we really got that summer feeling as jonathan richmond would say it's gonna haunt it's gonna haunt me um but i'm looking ahead to the weekend and according to the seattle forecast it is supposed to rain on sunday and monday which is like the holiday right like that's when we're supposed to be out are you um well maybe we can talk about this uh we can talk about this later about what our plans are for the holiday weekend but um i don't know we're supposed to be outside blowing stuff up i thought but uh i don't know i don't know if that's gonna happen um hey here's my story yesterday i'm driving to the east side with genevieve this is not a usual thing in our lives um let me guess you're going to pick are you going to pick up a free composting barrel exactly not free it's not free but genevieve found a little composting barrel on the east side out in redmond um on craigslist i just try i triangulate your life via vives's instagram right yes and apparently also maybe uh my twitter or or no no you said you saw some text messages anyway here's what's going on so i'm driving and um it's just rare that vives and i would find ourselves in the car in rush hour traffic at like 3 15 or 3 30 in the afternoon right it's just kind of a strange strange day but it's like she's like i'm gonna go pick up this this barrel i'm like i'll go with you let's let's do it um i was putting off i was so putting off writing the newsletter is really what was happening there but anyway so we turn on the radio and of course i was using the car last so the sports radio station is on i'm like okay we're not going to be listening to sports radio here together genevieve has no interest in that um so oh i'll just switch to kick see like i didn't even think about it my finger just went there but then i'm like oh god it's like this isn't the old kick see radio where k-i-x-i of course music is cool now as it was then where you would turn it on at any time of the day or night and you would hear great classic songs from the late 50s and early 60s over over the past couple of years or so they've been adding more and more talk programming to the station in a way of trying to save it I understand that like this is not a public radio station this is a radio station that is supposed to earn its keep to stay on the stay on the dial right it is a commercial radio station And apparently there isn't a huge hunger out there for for music that I like from the 50s and 60s. So I understand they're trying to they're trying to increase ratings a little bit, sell some advertising, make some money. And so they started airing like these, I believe, two or four hour chunks in the morning and afternoon of the Bloomberg Radio News or whatever. I don't really I don't really mess with that. but leading into the four o'clock bloomberg radio news they now have like a strip of programming from three to four and the show changes every day i didn't realize it was local by the way i found

that out later in this story um and it is well i mean i guess i just got to be honest because i've already kind of put it out there to the world it is ridiculously bad i mean almost like comically bad so we

We turn on Kixi Radio, and I'm like, oh, Vives, you've got to hear this. I don't even know what this show is that we're putting on it. So Wednesday, you know, I assume that the same show airs every Wednesday at 3 o'clock. A different show airs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, et cetera. But we turn on the – I'm like, Genevieve, you're not going to believe this. Just listen to this for a second. And we turn it on, and a woman comes back from a break, and she is hosting the show clearly on Zoom. Like, not even good Zoom. Like the host comes on the radio in a major market and sounds like she's buried under several layers of Zoom. And she's talking to either a guest or a co-host who's completely in high fidelity, but he's not really doing much talking. And she's just sort of saying things like this. And this is, I swear to God, as close to a quote as possible. So social media. Dan, I don't know what her what her guest's name was. let's just say it was Dan. Dan, when I say social, what does that mean to you? And then Dan kind of just, I don't know, just kind of says, well, I don't know. I don't even think he really answers the question. And then she comes back and starts sort of just like freewheeling on what she thinks social means, and then somehow backs into a conversation about what cocktail parties were like in the old days. And she's going into this. I mean, again, I know this is coming from me, Like I use more words to say so little. I shouldn't be a soapbox here, but like it was astounding. It was unclear what they were doing, what they were talking about. She's talking about cocktail parties in the past and how people would go to these things. And she was going to incredible detail about they would get off work at five thirty or five o'clock and they would go and they would have just a cocktail party and they would go from five thirty to six. and then the people would leave and then they would either go back home or maybe groups of them would go to dinner together and they would contain their continue their evening and she's just going on and on almost like almost just like free associating it's unclear what any of this is about until we finally just turn it off and Genevieve is it's like it was like it was like a parody or something but I don't even know what it was a parody of it was just terrible

well I don't I don't want to put anybody on blast but it would appear yeah the show you were listening to i looked at the title don't ask me to talk yeah and then it has the name of the host so i have to at least give them credit for truth in advertising exactly maybe this isn't the person we should ask to talk in this particular context it well and that's kind of and that's

where this is kind of all going to because here i am now on a podcast where more people are going to hear this so yeah don't i mean you could find this stuff out but there's no need to call this person out but all of that is to say we listen to a little bit of that and then i'm just like okay I've got nothing to offer you. Sports Radio and Kixi are both out. Genevieve, you win. We'll switch over to the FM dial and listen to Jet, which we did. There's some good stuff there. Anyway, we arrive at the house of the person who is selling us this composting bin. Right. But there's some confusion. Genevieve is trying to text this person, ring the doorbell, takes a little takes, I don't know, five minutes to roust this person who's selling us this thing. in the meantime I you know do what most Americans do when they have a moment of downtime I pull my phone out of my pocket and I look down and see what my push notifications are telling me missed an email here slack thing there and then I see that my Kixi radio app yeah I got the app has sent me a push notification for a little survey it wants me to take and I believe although I should have this in front of me right now it says should we bring Kixi back which is astounding to me for a couple of reasons because number one i never got a true admission from kicksy that kicksy went away you know what i mean they're they're fiddling with the formatting i understand that i think of kicksy as being gone away but it's interesting that they have a poll that says should we should we bring kicksy back it's got four questions on it and it's like what musical artists would you like to hear more of what artists would you like to hear less of are you enjoying the local talk programming airing on Kixi that's when I learned oh these are local shows so I sort of start judging it differently and again I don't want to be cruel um and then it says are you still enjoying the radio dramas airing in the evening so I'm like Luke I mean this is my dream come true like Kixi wants to hear from me because Kixi is insecure with their current lineup the changes that they instituted let's say maybe a year ago and now they're they're they're listening they want to know now you can go on the kicksy website right now and find neither head nor tail i bet which is also a show by the way that somebody pays to play on saturday mornings neither head nor tail actually that sounds like a show i would host again like i feel a little bit mean going so hard on what i heard in the car your point is really bad programming i don't want to be cruel to the people who are doing it. And I know that I'm not necessarily great at it myself I just want those caveats out there

But what you're saying is We're not trying to be harsh on anyone Who's on a specific show or doing something It's more just like as a kind of concept It doesn't feel like there's a coherent idea Behind the radio station right now I mean they used to just play What I would call oldies And what you would call music That's as cool today as it was back then But now they've shifted to this other kind of Odd pastiche of things that To your ear Not only is it not the oldies But it's not even like, you know, honestly, like if you're really going to take over Kixi, just make it a hard right political. Just make it a QAnon station, which would be horrible and gross, but it would be more consistent and you would probably pick up some listeners.

Exactly. And that's why, you know, for whatever it's worth, this station is owned by a company that has a small group of stations here in Seattle. And they're based actually in Minnesota. But it is a small family run radio company. It's not like a behemoth. And I appreciate the fact that they're they're trying. Like, I'm bummed that several years ago there was a big round of layoffs there. And it sounds like there was like one guy who was really doing a lot of the work at Kixi, like programming the station. I think he had his own show. I think that he was also like literally like the operations manager and probably also doing a lot of the housekeeping, like literally the housekeeping. Like, it sounds like Kixi was really kind of locally run and on the back of a person who was doing a lot of the work. And I think that he was basically laid off. And I think they've been kind of programming it more from their St. Paul headquarters. But I think it's generally speaking a good company. And like you said, it's radio. There are ways that they could make money off of this valuable real estate on the dial that would be much worse. And they're trying to preserve some of the programming, including these these radio dramas that they air at night. I love that. Which you do love. I do love that. I know. I mean, listen.

That's how you get down on a Friday night. Yeah.

I like the real classic stuff. They do air some new stuff. There are people who are making new radio dramas, and I think some of that's local, too. Again, I applaud the effort. I don't want to do anything that would – but that's less for me. But I love hearing the stuff that's actually, like, from the radio dramas from the 40s and 50s. There's one show that kind of will – it's a modern show that will kind of present and wrap up a bunch of – they'll take a year. I think they'll take 1945 and just like dedicate two hours of the stuff that was happening on the radio back then. It's really great. So anyway, there's some good stuff about Kixi. I don't want to come down too hard. A dear friend of ours works for this company, by the way.

I know. That's the thing. This shouldn't be shrouded in any kind of mystery for us. We've got someone on the inside.

Yeah, and who I love. And I hope, you know, I think that she I think it's OK that I'm she's not she's not making these programming decisions. But but, you know, they're they're doing their best. I still love Kixi. I'm not mad at Kixi, but I really am excited about this opportunity. So what did you tell him? Well, here, I'll tell you. And then here's where my so I thought it was somewhat I don't know. Again, ironic is probably the wrong word, but it was kind of interesting that this poll popped up on my phone right as I was playing this thing for Genevieve, which was incredibly again just an incredible an incredible thing to hear on the radio in the middle of the day much not what you personally turn on that radio dial to hear and very amateurish i mean just incredibly amateurish it did lead to a conversation of genevieve and i just say what would it take for us just to put our podcast on one of these well that's i mean and that's what

you've figured out is that the show in question which we're being delicate about because there's no reason to um you know yuck someone's yum but it's not it reads like the show is a podcast that then is slapped onto Kitsi. And that could be also part of the issue is in the modern podcasting environment, I feel like there's a real range of audio quality and what people value, not value, but what they prioritize in their shows. Some shows that are just like an incredible, beautiful diamond of audio, as I often call them, you know, these gimlet type shows and stuff. And then there's just two people on Zoom where you kind of can't hear anything.

Right, right, right. And this was yeah. And again, they're just like just it lacked a certain, I would say, broadcast urgency. So anyway, I guess I get this again. I know. Amazing. I hear it. I hear it. But anyway, so this is what I sort of feel bad about. So I fill out this. I fill out this quick poll. I'll share my answers here now. But then I felt bad about it because I ended up sharing my results on Twitter. I took a screen cap of this thing and I tweeted it out saying, oh, I said, I forgot about this. where I said I've completely given up on democracy in this country with the exception of this Kixi radio poll. And I tweeted it out. And so here are the four questions and my answers. But I tweeted out my answers, too. And then I felt terrible because it occurred to me, you know, I wrote something pretty mean about this local programming, and I really don't want to be mean, or especially if any of the people who produce that stuff locally would happen to see this. What musical artists would you like to see? you like to hear more of on kicksy i wrote classic oldies like you used to play 50s and early 1960s music is cool now as it was then that's my answer luke what musical artist would you like to hear less of on kicksy billy joel are you enjoying how are you going to find out who didn't start the fire the thing is they don't play that kind of billy joel it's weird when they're playing their music blocks they're playing all this stuff from the 50s and 60s and then they'll just throw in one of the billy joel songs from the 80s that sounds like it's from the 60s oh yeah you don't like hearing up you feel like uptown girl is that's what it is that's astroturfing that's astroturfing and they really lean into the billy joel i don't know if there's a deal on billy joel songs or what it's no of and this isn't even me like being like oh you know how some people like to argue about billy joel it's kind of like one of those cultural things i'm not doing that here i just mean on kick see i like to keep it sure you know i want to just say i was one of those

people andrew because i had and i remember when i talked about this on the show some months ago but i had i had seen a tweet that said people who think they like rock and roll because they like billy joel just like musicals and or something to that effect and that resonated with me because i'm not a really big musicals fan and i'm also there i i had i had thought that billy joel was a certain kind of person like on a personal level and this was just based on my miss assumptions and And then I heard him on the Howard Stern show, and he was so incredibly lovable and racked with self-doubt, which is all I want in a person. All I want is for a person to low-key hate themselves. That's how I got the job, I guess. That's right, baby. But I came away from that conversation just being so pro-Billy Joel as a person and then by extension much more open to his music. So I have seen the light. As a person who was kind of snarky about Billy Joel, I want to say that I've changed my ways.

Yeah, and I can take Billy Joel or leave Billy Joel. This isn't about that. But on Kixi, I like just to keep it from the actual era. And then I wrote, they said, are you enjoying the local talk programs airing on Kixi? And this is where I was a little bit mean. I wrote, no, it's bizarrely terrible. I thought it was a joke at first. That's pretty cruel. I didn't mean it as a dunk, but it's also honest. I did think it was kind of a joke at first. but then also i screen kept this and sent it out on twitter and said are you still enjoying our radio dramas airing in the evenings i said yes love it thank you so i wasn't trying to be a troll here about this but i did sort of feel be i felt like i was being a little bit cruel again once i went back and looked at this i'm like oh it's local talk programs this isn't stuff that they're just grabbing from wherever like these are my these are potentially my seattle radio colleagues And that kind of made me feel a little bit bad

Yeah, I mean You said a moment ago something that was interesting Which you said it was a bit harsh But it was also accurate Or at least accurate in your mind And it made me wonder about When people are critical of us And if they're I don't know We obviously are famously thin-skinned We tend to do very poorly when people criticize us I'm wondering though If we were putting a show on even like tbtl in the radio days there were plenty of people who would talk about how much the show sucked and i'm trying to remember if that actually hurt my feelings or not i don't think it did because i felt like well that's their opinion and also they might be right i don't know i'm trying to i'm trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who who you may have and maybe me now being dragged into this conversation have maybe been a little harsh around and kind of trying to figure out what that experience would be like by comparing it to when people roast this show and i for some reason it doesn't bother me i take a weird perverse delight in people saying this show sucks because that was sort of the point from day one and also that's how i got the job and then well no that actually i'm sorry it became the point on day on day 170 no but like it's weird for for being as sensitive as i am and easily triggered and like insecure and all of those things they call me the billy joel of podcasting um for for all of that if somebody says oh my god how can you listen to tb chill some part of me feels like i totally get that like i really do and also it just doesn't for some reason that doesn't hurt my feelings of all the things that

do hurt my feelings that one doesn't yeah i could sort of see that i mean again it depends on where you catch me how you catch me what the tone is how i who it is who it is how i'm coming across it

if it's ira glass it like hurts more than if it's golf man i mean seriously yeah of course um okay

so i think the point of the story other than me feeling a little bit bad for being harsh maybe not even being harsh to send in such a harsh comment but then to publicly on twitter and now Of course, I've only amplified it here. on this podcast kind of being cruel to somebody who is you know potentially like kind of a colleague or a peer i sort of feel bad about that but let's not miss the broader point here folks kicksy is listening they're trying to figure out the future i'm not asking anybody to contact kicksy radio who has never listened to kicksy radio i don't want to astroturf this however if you are somebody turf away if you are somebody who lives in seattle or lived in seattle and enjoy kicksy radio and and you want to see it go back maybe you maybe you like the new programming that's great i don't want to tell anybody what to feel or think but if you're like me and uh you want to maybe be the change you want to hear in kick c radio uh i guess contact them i can't tell you how to get to the i can't tell you how to get get to the poll or the survey because it doesn't seem to be on their website i only was able to get it through a push notification yesterday but you

could probably send them an email i have not been to the kickseer website maybe ever but i am guessing it is as as kludgy as a website gets i thought you're gonna say it's kludgy now as it was then that might be a show title absolutely right i thought lack of broadcast urgency was a good title and also a way to describe what we're doing here uh andrew speaking of broadcast urgency i would like to give an update about the website marsupial gurgle which i mentioned at the top of the show um our dear friend lynn who has been maintaining i mean and maintaining is underselling it who has been spending hours and hours of his life for years now taking each episode of this show and grabbing select bits of audio and then putting them up on this website which is marsupial gurgle i'm just um typing it in as i'm talking i'm going to go to the website i i don't actually know the number of clips here but i'm it's got to be well into the thousands oh goodness yes into the hundreds of thousands maybe tens i would say so here's let's see just uh a sample this is the uh 37 17 my goodness so this is yesterday's show andrew it's already up here this is how quick our friend Lin Pham has worked over all of these years. And this is part of the time commitment. Lin will listen to the show, load it into another program as he's listening to it, and then start pulling out select bits of audio. For instance, things such as Andrew saying, let's see if I can just play

this right forward. I'm sorry about my words today.

Oh, that's funny. I was going to

play one of you. Please, my lord,

don't bang the plates. Ooh, I'm funny. I should have an afternoon show on Kixi. Let's see.

Because I'll talk to myself sometimes, right? And I call myself the burbs. No.

So for years now, Lynn has been documenting and, again, kind of archiving all these little bits of weird audio that we've said over the years. And I will tell you this. Sometimes if we're ever looking for anything from an audio standpoint that involves us, marsupial gurgle is the first place that we go. because Lin's knowledge of this show and what happened when and what audio, the origin of a lot of the audio, his knowledge is just so much better and more thorough than ours. Well, anyway, I was wrapping up a Livewire recording some months ago, and I was chatting with Lin after the show, and he mentioned that as of today, as of July 1st, I think today might be the last day that he's going to be actively grabbing audio from our show and putting it on Marsupial Gurgle. Now, Marsupial Gurgle will continue to exist, which Lin is still paying for out of his own pocket, along with supporting the show. TBTL, it is like financially and coming to LiveWare and just being an absolute minch. Lin is maintaining Marsupial Gurgle, but is not going to be spending three hours of his night every night putting audio up. And so I just want to say, Lin, thank you for all the time that you put in on this over the years. It's incredible. It was one of the things I would always bring up to people when I was trying to indicate to them that TBTL is a real thing. I just said how, like, if somebody says TBTL is bad, I kind of get a weird sense of pride over that. But on the other hand, sometimes I'm trying to prove to people that we do have fans and that this show is a real thing. And I will say, yeah, we have someone who actually has a website, an audio website dedicated to things we've said on the show. And people's eyes always widen like, wow, OK, maybe this is real. So I just wanted to update everybody on Marsupial Gurgle and also just to say to Lynn, thanks, buddy. We really appreciate you. And it's been very awesome having all this audio over the years. And we'll continue to refer back to it as an archive.

Yeah, absolutely. I use it a lot in the TBTL newsletter. You know, we always ask listeners in the 10 of the week segment or section of the newsletter, like, what's your favorite?

audio drop that we play and nine times out of ten whatever the answer is i can find it on marsupial gurgle and i link to it and it's just a huge asset for a lot of things sometimes triangulating when something was said on the show or just like digging in the archives it's been a great tool um but i'm also really happy for lynn because i think lynn is just making this decision because it's just a lot right to listen to a podcast every day and just do it like obviously more work than doing the show oh obviously and so i think that like i honestly do think that like i I don't think Lin's – I don't know, and it's within his right to do so. I don't think Lin has any intentions of not listening to TBTL anymore or being a big part of the community. I think it'll just be nice to be able to listen to it without having to think like, okay, stop and pull, stop and pull. Lin can just be driving somewhere. Does he like cars? I don't know if Lin likes cars. Unclear. But maybe Lin can just be driving somewhere and listening to the show and not feeling like I need to be doing this behind a computer. So I'm hoping that this will bring some more fun of TBTL into Lynn's life.

Yes, exactly. That's well put. Because Lynn has been such an awesome ally to the show for all these years. And the fact that he could just listen and have a nice time and not have to clock in for his work. Pulling Andrew, saying things like... It's Bubbles the cat. She's feeling lonely. True story, by the way. She's been outside the door meowing. I hope it hasn't been too loud. No, I haven't heard anything. I just can't. Yeah, right now. She was especially frisky this morning when she woke up, and it was – it's cute, but again, she's, you know, like – she's just very, very distracting. And I don't like to feel like I have to be sitting on – even though I did an entire CBS commentary about working from bed. I do work from my bed a lot. At like 7 a.m. when I'm awake and I'm having coffee, I don't want to be sitting in my bed working. I'd like to be out in somewhere else in my apartment, and literally nowhere was safe from her today. And it's just, I'm going for my jog later, so I'm in running shorts, and she just like, I'm sitting there typing on my laptop, sitting at the one place that's kind of a little harder for her, and then she just jumps from the floor up in my crotchal region, Andrew, and just like Alex Honnold free soloing up El Cap, she just like digs both of her paws like right into my legs for purchase so as to pull herself up. and i'm like come on i'm trying to buy a riding lawnmower from home depot bubbles uh speaking of which why don't we do this why don't we take a quick break and then when we come back i want to just tell you about the trials and travails of i don't know supply chain life life in 2022 as it relates to this ryobi electric lawnmower that i bought i want to hear about that i also

you know it just occurred to me as we're talking about pets something um interesting has popped up in my life vives and i have been um in email communications with a dog i don't think it's

gonna happen but we should probably talk about it what's up walsh we should maybe talk about that after the break forget about my lawnmower sorry i'm not trying to just get a new mascot

i just hear that bubbles i just uh i just remembered that was something we should talk

about i hope you liked it while it lasted cat all right back with more tv till in just a moment hello and welcome to top story all right we have a new top story sorry linda skeins and ryobi uh what is going on with dog emails i don't want to make too big of a deal of this

Cause I doubt it'll actually come to fruition and I don't want to, I don't know. I don't want to over.

You also thought you were like two years away from buying a house.

Right.

When you started the process.

Have you met Genevieve? Yeah. Right. Well, here's, here's the truth of the matter. A lot of people know that I, as, as you coined Luke, my dog, illogical clock has been kicked, click, ticking for some time. And, you know, um, I've been, let's say dog curious, but we always had, we always had two cats and we lived in an apartment. And so it just wasn't the right time. Now we have one cat and we live in a house with a fence and a hedge all the way around it. That's perfect for dogs. You can tell because I could start a used tennis ball store based on the number of old tennis balls that are way back in the recesses of the hedge that I discovered when I was trying to get those blackberry brambles out of there. Anyway, this is a pretty good house for a dog. But recently, and I've talked about this on the show, Vives and I kind of had a bit of a change of heart. We were pretty gung-ho about the idea of getting a dog within maybe a year or so, but our cat, Professor Banana, is here. It took a little bit longer to get used to her new surroundings here. I've become very, very protective of her from, like, losing her friend Theodore Murray to these new surroundings, and she's a little skittish. And just in the past, I don't know, few weeks, she's finally, like, kind of relaxed.

And she feels like this is her home, too. You can just tell, like, she's got her little spots and she's happy. And the idea of bringing a dog into the house with this cat who's finally feeling comfortable and at home kind of broke my heart a little bit on her behalf. And so Vives and I have been talking about that. Vives feels similarly. And so we started talking maybe about getting a new kitten instead and just staying as a cat family. And I think that's where we've been for maybe the past couple of weeks. And then yesterday, apparently Genevieve was on like Craigslist or something, just flipping through cat pictures or cat listings as she's wanting to do. And for some reason, the algorithm, there's a glitch in the matrix and a dog popped in there, right? So it's already feeling like that dog, right? And one thing that Vives and I have talked about is if we ever do get a dog, maybe we don't get a puppy dog because puppies are an incredible amount of work. I don't know that I – I've never had a dog before, so I'm not sure that I have the patience and the skills to train a dog the way my favorite dogs are trained. Like you can see a good dog and a bad dog so plainly, right? And it's the people who just like are so patient and do all of the work that needs to be done. I don't know. I don't know, man. I could get lazy. So anyway, we've been saying, well, maybe a more mature dog. Maybe somewhere out there there's a dog that's a few years old or something, and that would be maybe more our speed. Well, this dog that just, like, randomly pops into Genevieve's cat feed for some reason is a dog that is, like, six years old, is, like, its previous family had to move out of the country and couldn't take the dog Roscoe, by the way. Solid name. Yes, and it's a little pit mix, which is, like, totally our kind of dog. Like, we love those pits and kind of the shape of their heads. Like, that's just what melts us. So it's like just ticking all these boxes. Like, pit mix, relatively small. Name is Roscoe. I love that. Genevieve, I guess, not so big on it. But also, this is the important part, is apparently really good with cats. And then apparently is dog selective, they say. Like, gets along really well with some dogs and doesn't with other dogs.

and the family always did have an understanding nature god you just have that weirdly did weird

so anyway um so the the family that has this dog right now they're kind of more like fostering him and and their it doesn't get along with their other dog but apparently a real sweetie with cats and then viva's like should we just should we just see should we just send an email and i'm just like yeah yeah let's just sleep on it and we did and then yesterday i said well what's up with that dog is it still listed i love it she's like yeah it's still listed like we can just reach out and like send an email like you know maybe another family already found it and if that's the case like that's good we just want what's best for roscoe right but there is a chance and um you know genevieve is out there working right now we haven't talked much this morning i don't know if this genevieve sent an email this afternoon i don't know if she's received anything as of last night she had not received a response which is probably good news for roscoe probably roscoe is maybe with another family now maybe not i don't know but there is a chance that maybe this afternoon if we get an email back from these folks that will be visiting a dog and i told vives like before we even send this email you know that unless something goes really sideways if we meet this dog yes like we're gonna bring the dog home so that's exactly what i was gonna

say and i learned this with the cat that i had previously olive like carrie had been wanting to get a cat and and her friend Brianne had this you know her barn cat had a litter and she was like why don't we just go look at the cat and I thought okay and then of course we go out there and then we're bringing this cat home and then I told the story to someone they were like if you go look at a kitten you're bringing a kitten home yeah yeah you go look at at a cute dog and the dog is available for adopting you're bringing that dog home probably once you decide to go check them Plus, Andrew, I have a weird number of Roscoe-related drops already.

You're a dipstick. A 14-carat dipstick.

I guess that one doesn't say Roscoe. That's just Boss Hog yelling at Roscoe.

I wonder, do you think that you did a TVTL Players back in the radio days of a Dukes of Hazzard episode?

We must have. Because why would I have? I mean, honestly, I want you to get this dog just because this is the perfect drop for the dog.

Because Roscoe always did have an understanding nature.

I mean, come on You can finally write off all these drops Well, that's Andrew I'll let you know That's a big cliffhanger over the long weekend Big plot twist Which I'll be very excited And, you know, obviously If it doesn't work out With Roscoe For your family Or if Roscoe goes to someone else's family Great, then there'll probably be somebody else In the pipeline And you'll one day be like However it works out is how it works out I don't want you

I don't want you to put any pressure on yourself. But that's cool. I'm excited to hear about that. Yeah, we'll see. And of course, now. I love the pickleball court. That's one of the things. Those dogs are renowned for their love of pickleball.

It still makes me nervous. I mean, again, I'm still so protective of bananas. Like, that is Professor Bananas the cat. Like, I just, not Bananas the fruit. I don't care what happens to them. I don't like bananas. I'll eat your banana bread, though. But anyway, yeah. So I, that's the one thing is like, I was looking at her yesterday and she was like, so calmly, you know, like sitting on my lap and I was just like, I know this sounds weird. I know I, I must sound like such a, um, well, I don't even know the word, but there's plenty of words for what I must sound like when I'm just like looking at this cat and just being like, I don't want her to feel like I betray her because like, if we just suddenly like, you know, even this dog that's supposedly good with cats, like it just, a dog just brings a different energy into a house. And I can just imagine her like going to ground because she's like uncertain what's going on with this this dog, this other creature that's like twice or three times her size in the house. even if it's a sweetie um just the sound you know i can't explain it just the sound of a dog coming into our house and shaking his leashes or shaking his collar you know that that sound and bananas just like going behind the going behind the um boiler or whatever the furnace in our little furnace area and not coming out for two weeks kind of breaks my heart and i'll feel like i'm

betraying her i will defer to you on that because of you know so far i haven't had a cat bubbles is her own whole freaking energy and then even olive olive was much more skittish but wouldn't you you know that's interesting i'd never heard the term go to ground before i heard you using it i don't even know if it's a thing i i i mean i'm i believe it's a thing because again my knowledge of cats is super limited but i had never but like i just haven't ever had a cat who is as i'll just use the term maybe sensitive as it sounds like the professor can be so because like for me i'm thinking of it in terms of either olive or bubbles and both of those cats would just like give as good as they as they got but that's just a different personality and i'm going to use this related to a cat which is hilarious lived experience so i i think you know i'm sure that there is something to you i don't think you're crazy for for really wanting to be careful about what professor's experience in the house is you know what I mean like I don't think that's insane of you because you know this cat you've lived with this cat forever and you know kind of like how she's wired

yeah and if it changes her personality forever that would be a real bummer by the way that was just interesting you know I use that phrase go to ground I never really thought about it much go to ground means to hide to become inaccessible to disappear from the scene often for a lengthy period of time there's some in there's some dazzling deets here originally go to ground was a fox hunting term meaning that the fox in question had escaped into a burrow or an underground den then in the 1960s the term go to ground was first used figuratively to describe someone who has gone into hiding uh they go on to say that like um saddam hussein literally like had gone to ground

right like see it's just funny because it's just a small variation of i would have said gone underground like oh they've went i mean even like in the a-team theme song they escaped to the los angeles underground right so i always think of i mean i've been using a version of that phrase my whole life but i just never heard it said go to ground yeah i don't know where i got that but it's a thing but well you're but you're but you're accurate you're probably even more accurate than the a-team theme song well i feel like that is not that we need to break i don't i will take that i

don't know if we need to break it down but i do think in that case the underground gives more of a sense of like there's some sort of establishment there as opposed to something just hiding in a hole somewhere but like going right the underground like that it meant that there was a system there you know right weapons are being passed around i need to talk to you about linda skeins and

lawnmowers so i don't know why i'm bringing this up but how do you feel about the mariners faux a team promo ad they now oh i haven't heard that is that radio or tv it's a tv i haven't seen

oh you know what i don't see it because i'm watching these um slightly less than official streams and so just i forgot that you cut the cord i don't see tv commercials oh i don't even

see tv they've got this package right it's not a package but there's basically like 30 second ad that's presenting the mariners as if they were the a team but it's about how good they are at defense and it's like the same kind of like voiceover and sort of uh you know drum beat or whatever it's it's it's clearly a parody of the a team but it's like the glove team or something or other i'm looking for it i can't find anyway go ahead those all of those promos it's like when the mariners are playing well and like if like j-rod has just made an incredible catch and then they happen to be running that thing after i'm like yes but boy nothing just nothing tonally hits more wrong than when they're just having a hard time and then it's like one of those very braggy ads i know we talk Thank you.

about this a lot okay they're better than they were though i will say this year they i think

they got the message they toned they got the tone yeah they learned like maybe we we shouldn't like we shouldn't be talking about how great we are on the off chance that we're gonna actually kind of be struggling which i i mean hey four games under 500 it's been a while i know you want to

move on we will i won't play the whole thing but i do want to remind you that one time after getting no hit at home by i believe the pits no the detroit tigers a struggling team after getting no hit at home i swear to god luke they literally played this commercial welcome to seattle the jet

city we're just south of downtown we put big planes in the sky and just up the road you can

watch small objects fly and i was very galled i was so galled oh i know just that voice that they had such cocky voices and all their voiceovers last i know they clearly made and i think i might

even know the people the agency that was doing those ads and there are people if it's still if it's still with the ad agency that i'm thinking of i love those people dearly but whoever said i mean if it's the same agency that was producing the very funny kind of tv commercials over the years that are just actually quirky and full of in a way self-deprecation yeah yeah if at some point and it's probably what happened was the team came back to them and was like we want to be more like we just want to be like more like we're awesome and so then they had to come with this whole campaign about how awesome they are just like oh tonally not what i want my i want my baseball team uh winning but i also don't want it to go to their head yes exactly that's the that's the energy that i'm looking for okay all right um i you know what this is now that i've kept referring to this and making it sound like it's a big thing it's really not a big thing but you know i have been trying to decide if i was going to buy a riding lawnmower uh because i you know i have this house that i'm working on and it has a it has actually a fairly substantial amount of property but a lot of it is wild just like um kind of a i keep calling it a prairie i guess it's what i'll continue to call it and some big tall trees the majority of this land is actually something that i have no intention of ever really doing anything to just letting it kind of be wild because i think it's cool looking and it's kind of self-regulating but it does have still a pretty substantial yard and it's on a slope and it seems like the kind of thing whereas when i was 25 and i lived on beacon hill and i had a pretty big yard i really looked forward to like a five-hour session on Saturday of mowing I would get the uh speaking of the baseball game I get the baseball game going in my headphones and I'd get out there with the lawn mower and I would do my thing I'm not into spending five hours mowing the lawn anymore or pushing a mower up a hill a lot because I'm old now so I thought well maybe I can get a riding lawn mower and then I found out that they actually make electric ones which I was very intrigued by because I think my lawn lawnmower anxiety is that i have owned many lawnmowers in my life that had starting issues because there it's a gas engine and if the gas is bad or if there's something you know the spark plug isn't firing or just feels like every year when you try to fire up the lawnmower for the first time it's a roll of the dice and because i don't know how to fix anything it's like i'll either have to take it to somebody to fix it or i'll have to just like who was the move we talked about put it away and just kind of give it a couple days later wheel it back out which seriously has been my system historically but when i heard oh there's one that is just electric that would be really really cool um and so i found one uh at the local home depot here and it was on some sort of sale and i was like okay cool so i i pulled the trigger yesterday because everything is i got the lawn mowed it was two hundred dollars so you know you do that ten times you're talking

some you're talking a lawnmower's worth of money yeah so i could just also buy a lawnmower and do it myself plus it is very fun and satisfying so uh and i want to look like the guy at the end of true detective the good guy right i think that guy was the good guy right ah god luke you're

straining my memory of that show i just remember we do or don't want to paint flowers on each other

that's the bad guy the guy who's ultimately the bad guy oh yeah driving the lawnmower at school i think he's like the custodian at the school yes it's like so upsetting yes so deeply upsetting that guy right anyway so i anti-hero i i go on the website and it says there it says hey they have this for pickup at the location i was like cool so i i go ahead and buy it and then i also also by the attachment for it which is this like the grass catcher because i want to be able to at least the first time that i mow i want to be able to i don't like it when you mow the lawn like when the lawn's really long and then you mow it but then it just has like rows

of dead grass because you're not collecting the grass now once the grass is kind of short then i'm totally down for mulching but for the first like right now the grass has already gotten out of hand again and like you know what i'm talking about like it just feels or i guess you could rake it all up but it feels unsatisfying to me to mow a lawn and then just have these giant mounds of like dead grass everywhere i know exactly what you're talking about although i

feel because but I could be totally wrong here but when I was growing up that was always a thing because I mowed the lawn you know that was my thing growing up I had to mow the lawn that's why I hated it but you know but that was before they had the mulching function and it would just sort of shoot to the side or what have you and you would kind of get those rows that you're talking about I feel like all the mowers I've used since and maybe it's just my circumstances have what they call that mulching function so like it chops it up more finely and puts it back into the grass Not leaving the lines Even with my Well again your grass is probably way higher than mine But even when I came back from Denver And had some pretty tall grass I was impressed that my lawnmower did not do that at all It pretty much just took care of business

Well okay so you know what That's something to think about Because I think I thought that mulching was a myth But maybe it is Maybe it'll work I'm going to find out But the point is I buy this thing I buy this grass catcher as well to have and because you know i'm a completist with this stuff and i get up this morning and i'm all excited because i have my whole plan i'm gonna like i'm gonna on saturday i'm gonna rent a pickup truck uh which has a trailer on it i'm gonna get this thing on a trailer i'm gonna drive it out to the place i'm gonna plug it in andrew it's gonna charge up i'm gonna mow the lawn i'm gonna listen to the baseball game i also bought one of those um solo fire things um you have that right as well yep and you like it it works great oh it's the big in um i'm not sure this is probably i don't

know how big it is i can pick it up i can pick it up myself pretty easily so i'm guessing no it's it's like the size of the one i always see in all of the all of the ads one quick aside on this was like i you asked me if i like it and we love it in fact when we first got it was a gift i was like oh this is great this will get us by until we just dig our own now we have no desire to dig our own because it burns so efficiently, the way it's built and the way the air passes through it. And every time we use it now, Vives and I quote our friend, Durs, who was over here. We were burning things in it like, I don't know, several, a couple of months ago. And me and him and Vives were just standing around looking at the fire. And I just said, this is really an amazing machine. And there was a long pause, the most Dursey pause. And he just stops and looks at me and says, you think this is a machine? And now, every time we're burning something and we're just amazed at how efficiently it's burning and you can see the kind of air jets it's creating, he'll turn to me and say, so you think this is a machine? Anyway, I thought Durs was going to look at you and go, end of an era. it was just one of those moments like his timing is so good and also um and i i can say i don't think he listens to the show anymore so i'm not even blowing smoke as it were um he just it was

just the timing was just impeccable like a moment of owning me well addy has one of them and when addy and i were up at the house a couple weeks ago on father's day we broke it out and it was and she has like this the i think probably the smallest size because it's also a little like cook stove you could you know heat up your coffee on it or whatever and it was so great the only thing was we had to chop we had to really break the wood down into pretty small pieces uh to get in you couldn't put like a you know a quarter of a like a you couldn't put a reasonable size piece of firewood in there it was all kind of kindling and small sticks that sounds smaller than mine then yeah so so uh i'm excited because i got yesterday it was really the perfect crime which was i got an email from rei saying i had 150 in dividend oh that's right because they're like a co-op or something yes and i don't know what there's i mean obviously that is a well-funded organization um but also i feel like they really do come through on the dividends like it's a few hundred bucks a year for me like it's real money that is so i'm like okay i got a free 150 bucks at rei and i was in the neighborhood because i'd just gotten bubbles for shots by the way that went fine although the vet told me that i definitely need to get her set up with a a full service veterinary clinic because right now i've just been taking her to this like traveling vaccine situation called vetco which is good they just they're itinerant they go between petco's

and just will do shots and they put on shows on the road they'll do like puppet shows

and what have you sure they have a kind of an old wooden trailer in the back has these red velvet curtains right yeah i'm familiar uh but um

But – and I'm on the list, by the way. The thing is, here in Portland, if you want to get your pet in – and they're not currently a member of a particular veterinary practice, it's like a three-, four-month waiting list. So I'm on a couple waiting lists. But in the meantime, just to keep her shots updated, I have to keep going to this Vetco thing. And the guy was like – he goes, you know, probably the next time that we have to do any kind of procedure, you're going to need to take her to a – because bangles are very, very – They don't like shots. I'm like, are there cats that like shots? But they gave her the shot. She screeched. She didn't like claw them. She just was not liking it, right? And he was like, what we usually do with bangles when they do about a year is we give them gabapentin.

What is that?

Well, I feel like gabapentin is really having a moment. Gabapentin is a, I think it's a chemical that also exists in the human brain, which is kind of like a pleasure. i believe it's like a pleasure um chemical if you want to call it that i feel like i'm hearing more humans talk about their gabapentin or i'm out of my gabapentin is is depleted or whatever i guess they also give it to cats so that they'll relax like basically he's like the next time you bring her in when she's like a year old and we got to do something she doesn't like she's going to be too fierce for us because she's a freaking jungle cat yeah and we're going to need to basically like Like, give her, like, laughing gas and or anesthetize her in some way so that we can do what we've got to do. And that you cannot just do standing in a Petco. You've got to be at, like, a legit, you know, veterinary office. So that was interesting. I just didn't realize they were giving Gabba Penton to cats.

I'd never even heard of it before. I'm tempted to name the show Yo Gabba Penton.

I think that's a great idea.

I don't even really know what Yo Gabba Gabba is. That's a kid's show or something? Like I, for some reason, my brain latched onto that when you said Gabba Penton, I thought Yo Gabba Gabba, but I literally don't even know what Yo Gabba Gabba is. Do you?

It is. I do just because of being aware of things in pop culture, but not because I ever watched it because Addy was a little old for it. But Yo Gabba Gabba is a kid's show, but it was kind of like the kid's show that like they'd have, you know, I don't know, Steve Malcomus would write a song for it or whatever. Oh, it was the hipster. like oh i see fred armison had a role on it of some sort yes it was like so people like i think people of our generation loved it because when they were having their kids yeah they could watch it but they could also it was fun for the parents as well i just remember there was one yo gabba song called don't bite your friends which i thought was just just a great this is a great

life lesson really is yeah i learned that the hard way so i was anyway point is i happen to

be driving past the rei after getting bubbles is shot and i was like got this free money and then i walk in andrew it was so great because i'm like do you have any of those um solo stoves and they go yeah we do right over there and there's like one left and it's the the big one which is what i wanted and it's sitting right below a sign that says fourth of july sale 25 off oh nice and i was like don't mind if i do so i ended up it was i don't know it cost me like 30 bucks after my dividend and wow i know i'm so i was as you might imagine quite chuffed on that so here's what i'm trying to say i've had this whole i'm excited for this weekend plan of of mowing and then having a little fire and becca was going to come by and it's a whole thing and and uh so imagine my surprise when i wake up this morning and i get an email from home depot going your item has shipped i was like what and it was not the mower itself which weighs like 400 something pounds it was the attachment that catches the grass and i was like who in what universe if i'm coming to pick up this lawnmower in what universe do you think i want you to mail me the grass

catcher in two weeks from now interesting so you are your your your lawnmower is still secure you're still you can still pick that up tbd because here's what happened so this then sent

me on a whole journey this morning i'm on the phone with with the 800 number and i'm like i don't please don't ship this giant grass catcher attachment to my apartment by the way yeah right right right of course like like i just want to get it from the store when i get the mower and then of course what i learn is none of the stores have the attachment that's of course why they're shipping it from uh you know a warehouse facility in frisco texas or something like okay of course because supply chain right yeah so then i called i i i get on the automated system i'm on the website now so i now i'm like well i guess the grass catcher thing is it is what it is because i was like can i just buy one at the store and return the one you're mailing me she's like no no no one has them i was like okay so then i like i go on the website and i'm looking for something else and i click on the tracking number for that the grass catcher and it also indicates what's going on with the mower and the mower says now yesterday I bought it. They said, we have one. Come pick it up. I buy it. Today, the thing says, we're assembling your item and we'll let you know when it's ready for pickup. And I was like, I don't like that. So then I call the store. I call the physical Home Depot that I'm going to. And I get a guy and he's like, he's asking me for, he's like, what's your whatever track, whatever order number. And I give him the order number. This is the weirdest part of this. it's like a series of nonsense letters and then 1996 and he just goes he pauses for a long time

he goes 1996 terrible year what was so bad hold on let me figure that i i'm a year out of high school i'm starting college was this related to my college career in any way i'm trying to think why was 96 so terrible i was so afraid to ask yeah yeah because i was like this has got to have

Something to do with Stopping the steal This has to do with some kind of QAnon bullshit I didn't want to get into it But I was 5% curious But I just said Oh, I go, huh, okay And I did not ask a follow up But he volunteered it And I'm glad to tell you, Andrew, it was not QAnon

I was going to say, I'll bet you My instinct there is It's a personal thing for him That's what I was going to guess What was it?

he goes telecommunication act of 1996 and i'm still like okay i don't know what that is i'm like thinking that could still be q anon because it could be what he thinks is why he can't have his website where he's talking about election fraud or something but no he goes on to explain to me that that was when the consolidation of american radio stations began and i was like are you in radio he goes i've done a lot of stuff with music i was just like okay yeah that's when That allowed Clear Channel and all those folks just to take everything over. That allowed Clear Channel to buy all the radio stations. And I was like, this was not the conversation I expected at 7.30 a.m. with my local Home Depot guy. Yeah, I know. I love it. But so then I'm like, okay, putting the FCC aside, what's going on? Why is it telling me that they'll let me know when the item is ready for pickup? he goes oh it's probably because when you bought it it thought there was one left here but there actually wasn't because the system didn't update so now we're waiting on them to mail another one potentially i was like really so i went from yesterday thinking i had purchased a lawnmower and a thing to catch the grass that i could go get today or tomorrow and drive up to the place i had my whole little plan it turns out he's he the guy is currently investigating the lawnmower situation you're supposed to call me back at some point but it turns out i may have acquired neither

of those items we are living in weird times man this supply chain stuff is is i i don't know man it's just like we're coming off of this pandemic like because part of me was like oh yeah i guess in this day by the way i had to catch myself because i was thinking totally incorrectly about this i was sort of thinking yeah i guess in this day and age we just think that we can get everything immediately and then just start mowing our lawn but of course you always have to wait for things I'm like, no, no, that's the opposite. Like back in the 80s, you would just go to Sears and buy a lawnmower and you would have it immediately. Right. It's like it is again and again, you and I, I mean, I don't think we have to say this, but I will like you and I obviously are not the biggest victims of what's going on in the world right now writ large. But the supply chain shit is real and weird. And when you mix it in with the inflation and everything else that's going on and us coming off of this pandemic, like, well, as my friend would say, what a world. Ha, that guy sounds awesome.

He should have a show on Kixi. Hey, he's got a skateboard. Ooh, a skateboard the cat likes to ride on now, as I mentioned the other day. Yeah, you know what it is about the supply chain stuff, I think, is it's surprising what is and is not affected. Uh-huh, yeah. That's the thing is you will never—it's not a certain category of products. It's just kind of—it'll just be random. Like, you'll go into a grocery store, and they'll be like, oh, we haven't had red onions for months. What?

yeah like peanut butter i bought skippy peanut butter a couple of weeks ago we go through a lot of peanut butter because we're health freaks and we buy that like you know you we're a jiff family i came home with skippy peanut butter it's gif okay i get it for a second you got in my head there i was like is it um i come home genevieve's unpacking the groceries that i bought she seriously like she's like what is this and she's holding the skippy peanut butter i'm like i meant to tell you i meant to tell you they're they're out of they're out of jiff or gif um she's like oh i don't who who are you she's like do i even know you anymore and anyway we had it it was a small jar it was fine we're running low again i went to get some more yesterday they don't even have skippy anymore i bought straight up atoms you had to go straight up

adams no i think it's just like fred meyer brand peanut butter like i i don't know and again that could just be this particular store who knows like but for some reason like i can't get my peanut butter but have you ever messed with adams no is that like the more natural stuff that you mix up i brought one of those home one time and genevieve really did almost break up with me she's like you can have that but like i'm getting i'm still getting jiff like i'm not eating when i was a

kid one of the yeah one of the many things that i was envious of of all my friends were they were not subjected to adam's peanut butter it's like that it's and i'm sure it's way better for you and actually now at this age i probably would like it more or at least i would feel better about eating it than yeah um something that's super processed and mainstream and sugary the shit i buy is so packed with sugar well that's the thing this stuff was just like it was always like two inches of oil had settled on top yeah of the peanut butter and it would be like you'd have to mix it every time you use it and my friends would just have like freaking jiff with like crunchy sweetened peanuts in it i'll just be like that's living what are we doing over here

with this adam's bullshit from the co-op i will say though i do not not that we need to have some bullshit uh debate about this but um i don't like chunky is it a sandwich is a peanut butter sandwich a hot dog um i uh i uh i don't like crunchy peanut butter I don't like the mouth feel. I don't like the texture. I like it to be smooth and creamy.

What I have realized in my adult life is I have moved much more towards liking textural differences. When I was a kid, 100% smooth and creamy all the way. I would have been like, no thank you, crunchy, anything, really. But now, as I get older, that's why I like things to be more al dente at times. I like a little more crunch than I ever did when I was a kid. I can see that. yeah because now you have a taste for life all right we ran out of time on linda skeins maybe we'll talk about on monday maybe we'll maybe you can just google it um that'd be great if that's my new approach that's our show just a list of things just a list of things to google you know that might be useful like that could be the space that could be really the space that we start to occupy is just telling people things they could google and don't even include links like i could

do it in the newsletter too just like you should probably google this story here are some keywords

um let's do a little music for your weekend before we get out of here uh what would you like to play

on this friday andrew okay well speaking of um sitting outside and enjoying the summer though late it came and burning things in our solo stove um that's what genevieve and i were doing a couple of nights ago and i just had on some you know algorithm station on uh on spotify and i don't know what i don't remember what my starting song was right but it was playing i think it was actually maybe like a sonic youth song or something so uh it was playing kind of a bunch of 90s alternative stuff that um i generally liked um and then the song kind of uh i would say kind of a deeper cut off of the breeder's famous last splash record of course that's the one with cannonball on it that's their big breakout record in 1993 there's a song called saints on that album and the chorus when they get to it says summer is ready when you are and it i was like i wasn't really paying attention what i was hearing and then suddenly i was sitting outside oh i think this was the day after i had worked like six hours of fighting those brambles too in the hedges and i was exhausted and we're just kind of enjoying literally cans of coarse light Around a fire burning Some of the stumps that I had pulled Out of the hedges and just and then The that's got to be sad And then the universe is just saying Summer is ready when you are and I Was just like oh that's music for your weekend but then I listened to it again today this morning and I'm Like I don't think most of our audience Probably like that song it's kind of A tonal or what have you but the song After it on that same record Is a song that I think You know and love Luke and I Used to put this song on every mixtape I made from, like, 1993 to 1996. Maybe not every one, but it was such a summer song to me. It's really chill. It's really laid back. I'd often end a mixtape with this one. This song is Driving on Nine by The Breeders.

Driving on nine You could be a shadow Beneath the streetlight Behind my home Driving on nine I sure miss you Pass the motel Looking at the pines Driving on nine

That has all the energy of my high school summers behind it right there.

um it also sounds like it could have been a jenny lewis song sure or a rilo kiley song which is like i know you love you the jenny lewis like i wouldn't have even if you played that for me i would have said is that who is that whoever is opening for angel olsen that's a good point and

you know her current tour and i was pretty late to that rilo kiley stuff and eventually the jenny lewis stuff that would come much much later in my life like even post well post college but yeah this song is not and you so you don't know that song i thought we've bonded over that song before

oh yeah that's i don't it's not we did and i forgot about it but i but that's not one that you knew okay that's no mine or that i remembered my knowledge of the breeders is pretty limited to

like cannonball really yeah i really like that song and it is unlike anything else on the record but i was always just so enamored by it it was the type of song because it's so different it really stands out i think it's yeah the second to last song essentially like kind of the last real song on the album and it's just a great way to close it out love it i was going to suggest this

week the um domi and jd beck that jazz duo that i'm obsessed oh yeah yeah they've released another song it's called what up okay um they're just kind of releasing these little singles but i just played them or i just suggested them a few weeks ago so i decided instead to um just remind everyone of the album swimming by mac miller which i love so much i just think it's a really really great album front to back it's one of the last records i could think of where i could just listen to it from like literally track one until the very end and then of course it took on this added importance in my life when he passed away i was really sad about that and um i think this is probably the first summer that i'm really ready to re-engage with the album i don't know if you have music like that for you where it's like i loved it so much and then he died and i was really sad about that and then every time i would listen to it i would get kind of transported back to the sadness about this guy who of course i never met and i'm about 20 years too old for the demo like i always felt self-conscious too about being as bummed as i was about it but i think this summer i'm ready to try to re-engage with this album uh swimming because this really was a summer album

For you too right this was your kind of Living your peak Bellingham Life right peak Burbank Springs

Floating in the swimming pool Listening to the Mac Miller like It was all everything was coming up Burbs sometimes I call myself burbs Andrew so do I myself But um anyway I love this song I mean I love every Song off this album but I really love this song small World so can we play a little bit of that here on Music for your weekend yes I just

Nail my microphone with my shoulder Sorry

yeah yeah the world is so small till it ain't yeah i'm building up a wall till it break she hate it when i call and it's late i don't want to keep you waiting i hope i never keep you waiting yeah i think i know it all but i don't why you always at the mall when you're broke and i just want to ball maybe dunk but i've never been tall yeah i might trip i never fall I love the, I guess it's, is it probably guitar?

Is that guitar in the background? It's so, that little guitar riff is so, is so good to me. And like, also I feel like this song perfectly encapsulates the kind of, What I liked about Mac Miller's lyrics, which is kind of vacillating between cockiness and vulnerability, which I think is very much a part of this record. Like he was, I believe when he made this record, he was sober. And so, you know, a lot of the album is about his sobriety. Unfortunately for him, that ended and, you know, he died of a drug overdose. But I like I said, I think I'm ready to I'm ready to reengage with this particular album. Yeah, that's smooth. Good summer vibes. A lot of Anderson.

pock on there too i was gonna say yeah you know i was actually while i was listening to that when i think of because i i i'm not as big of a mac miller fan as you anywhere near as much um but it is it does make me sad and also just the the vibe of this record sort of has a bit of a well it's got a summer vibe it's got a little bit of a heaviness to it and again if you know a little bit of that background and as i'm listening to this now whenever i hear him i think about anderson pock because they were so close and anderson pock was just so heartbroken um by

losing his friend that there's an npr tiny desk that he did um and i think thundercat was there playing the bass uh for that session and it was it's really i mean i'm sure i talked about it a lot back when he passed away but uh it's definitely worth checking out i saw somebody i forget who Somebody who I follow on NPR was saying how they travel all over the world, and they may even be in Ukraine right now or somewhere in Europe, saying they'll try to explain to the people they're talking to what NPR is, and they'll have no idea. And they'll go, have you ever seen the Tiny Desk concerts? And they'll go, oh, yeah, yeah, I know what that is.

Wow.

I love that Tiny Desk is now the calling card for this news network. It's pretty amazing. Wow, yeah, that's surprising. Yeah. All right. But hey, speaking of our good friend Lynn, that's our listener's suggestion this week. It comes from Lynn. He says, hey, y'all, since I will be wrapping up my tenure as unpaid associate audio producer this week, I don't think you're getting out of it that easy, Lynn. We'll still have some asks. I was wondering if I could request a song for music for your weekend. I would like It's All Been Done by Barenaked Ladies from their album Stunt. So that's what we're going to play. Lynn, I will salute you and say, yes, it all has been done over there in Marsupial Gurgle. So thank you for doing all of it. And we really appreciate all your help and support with the show. So that is how we're going to wrap things up on this Friday. That brings us to the end of our broadcast week. Thank you so much for spending all this time with us. We'll be back here on Monday with more Imaginary Radio for you. Until then, have a great 4th of July weekend, whatever that looks like for you. And we'll see you on Monday. Please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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