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We just gotta ask ourselves, WWJZ do? What would Jay-Z do? Yeah. He'd probably rap about it. He'd rap about it, and he'd rap about it, and then he'd pass the mic to Blake. Nah, nah, I don't want the mic. Give it to Adam. I don't want the mic either, so I'll pass it back to yours. It's back to me. I don't mind that, because I'm a R-A-P-P-E-R. Where's my car? I mean my whip, guys. Where's my whip, guys? Rapping, snapping. I don't want the mic. T-B-T-A.

I don't know whether to call it a foobar or a snafu situation. It's hard to argue which one of those two it is, but it is fouled up.

You said you were going to go fondle your sweaters. No, I didn't. I said I'm going to fondle with cheddar. I was thinking about making fondle with cheddar cheese for dinner tonight. No, Gene, that is not what you said. It is what I said.

Sounds like you're really going through some tough stuff right now. It's too bad there's not doctors for your mind. That was really good pizza.

Oh, this is the best pizza in a cup ever. This guy's unbelievable. He ran the old cup of pizza guy out of business.

He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!

This party is going to be off the hook.

All right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. Oh, la, la. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

That's a tuna, bro.

Coming to you from the Hollywood Broadcast Center right here in Portland, Oregon, where we are looking at a beautiful Thursday on this July the 21st. Oh, Ma, Pa, it's just beautiful. It feels extra beautiful to me because I have figured out a life hack related to the cat. There is something about the soul of a cat. Maybe a cat hack, I don't know, but it is, I can tell you it's already radically changed our relationship. It's a kind of magic. for the better. So that puts me in a great frame of mind to bring you episode 3732 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. A Kentucky football player is getting a certain amount of grief on the internet because of how he takes his coffee.

This song goes out to all the coffee lovers of the world.

He puts mayonnaise in it.

You're a gross person.

Which sent me down a... A bit of a journey today, a bit of a rabbit hole, trying to figure out if mayo is actually an especially gross thing to put in your coffee based on the other things that we put in our coffee. So I'll give you a full report coming up. Also, a woman says that she was rejected from a job interview or for a job. They said, no, thank you. And then she sent them a fire meme. He's got like every meme ever produced on the Internet. He can knock us out with his memes. And then they said, we would like to talk to you, actually. An interesting story of a meme helping with professional development coming up on the show. Also, it's a Thursday, a.k.a. a Blur's Day, so we'll do the Blur's Day messages. And we'll talk to this handsome young stranger, the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships, their grace, and their splendor. He is Andrew Walsh, and he is joining me right now.

Good morning, my friend. Good morning. Have you had any sophisticated conversations with your pet recently in which you didn't ask her if she's a good girl?

Wait, we're in that. Andrew, it's that time of year where I can't remember if we talked about that on the real

show or. Oh, no, we talked about them on yesterday's podcast. I said, I'm going to stop trying to have conversations with my cat where I'm just kind of like, are you a good kitty you're such a good kitty it's not even a question for me usually it was like you're you're such a good kitty aren't you bananas you're a good kitty and then i started to feel like that was condescending it just sounded like well i wouldn't say that to

you i wouldn't say i remember the conversation but we recorded so many hours of content yesterday that i wasn't sure if it happened during the show show or during one of the summer games

yeah well that's why i never say you're a good podcaster i never i never luke you're luke are

you being good i'll tell you this so bubbles had was with becca a bunch because i was in austin and then i got back late so she stayed an extra day or two and boy they grew up fast andrew because she is fully not in a teenager mode like she's being extra meddlesome she is in a teenage mode like she has gone from being obsessed with me to only being moderately obsessed with me and i honestly miss it i miss the olden days where she just wanted to know what i was doing at all times i can already see in a matter of like five days i can see her personality evolving to where she's like i got up this morning and i thought something was amiss because usually by about 6 45 7 a.m she's you know pawing around in the bathroom she might have thrown a meow or two under the door to the bedroom but like nothing i woke up and i was like did i leave a door open did she jump back in the refrigerator i got worried no she was just chilling just not that interested in me all of a sudden

you know that literally yesterday on the show you said something like i can't wait to get to phase on the real show or on the on the real show you said i can't wait to get to the phase where the cat kind of can mind its own business and now i know and i don't like she did it for like 15

minutes and you hate it i hate it i didn't realize it's actually you know it's not unlike human children which i have the experience of having one human child like each phase they're in i'm sure the parents in the audience can kind of identify with this each phase of life they're in when they're in it particularly we're talking like zero to five although i guess a baby is never zero they're like one like that they're one second like the youngest a baby can be is one second right i guess that's true there is no zero for a baby but anyway from one second to like five years there it's a lot of work obviously and yet weirdly you miss it when it's over like like when they're you know when they're two you're like oh god i can't wait till they're 15 and they'll just like take care of themselves a little bit and then they get to the age of five and you really remember when they were two and you kind of you're you're wistful about the whole thing

that's what i'm going through with this cat right yeah it only is happening at an accelerated pace right because it went from yesterday complaining about too much cleanliness to um today just missing the good old salad days of clinginess which i understand it's just it's just it's just It's just moving so fast

She's learning Andrew She's learning She can turn Randy the Roomba off now

Because it annoys her

Or she just accidentally sits on it No because I think It annoys her Slash perplexes her This has happened three times now I thought it was a fluke She's not sitting on it She's not like a cat on TikTok Who's riding on a Roomba You know like for effect she stares at it from about two feet away and apparently now goes and pop hits her paw on the there's a giant i mean it's it's pretty cat friendly if you're gonna sort of design a device that's going to actually be something an animal can turn off this is a pretty good one for it because it has a giant green illuminated flat button on the top but she likes to whack that and turn it off and now today was the third time she's done it and i don't think it's a coincidence

Wow. That could actually be an issue. Like, literally, if you're trying to use your Roomba.

No. Honestly, it happened this morning. I was like, the Roomba was going. I was brushing my teeth. I was getting, you know, ready for the day. And then all of a sudden, it turns off. And I was like, that makes no sense because I cleaned out the basket on it. It's got a full charge. And then I go out there, and she's just sitting right next to it looking at me. Like, what are you going to do about it? Knowingly. Yeah. so she's um she is certainly figuring things out in this place but this is the game changer for us andrew spray bottle my friend like i mean i'm not the first person to talk about this or to come up with this as a plan i know this is a thing with cats but i for some reason i didn't want to do that initially i didn't want to have a water bottle that i could spray her with and i don't really know why i guess maybe i thought we would just have a magical relationship where i would never have to resort to such sort of corporal punishment for her but i got three spray bottles at ace hardware the other day and i i had to use i've used the spray bottle twice and it has completely transformed her behavior she hates the spray bottle to such a degree that

if i reach for it she stops whatever she's doing so when you've used it twice what was the behavior She was on the coffee table

Which I didn't like And then she was on the breakfast I don't know why I call it the breakfast bar Because you could really eat any meal there It's not specific to breakfast But there's an alliteration there That makes me want to always call it the breakfast bar

It's probably by a window And there's something about eating your breakfast And watching the day come alive Outside the window Do I have any of that right? I've never been to this apartment

Or had breakfast Or I've never had breakfast

I've seen a window I've had the one that comes after it, brunch But never breakfast

I know you're a huge bruncher The reason that I really Well, I mean, it's fairly self-apparent That I don't want her to jump on the place where I eat But it's made it, you know When she was just jumping up there Kind of completely undeterred It was making it really hard To just have any kind of meal in my apartment Because I'm sorry. I just couldn't there was nowhere that was high enough where she couldn't jump up so I wanted to establish with her that that's not okay and sprayed her one time and she has not messed with the coffee table or the breakfast bar since then and even in here I have one with me remember I sprayed it yesterday was that on the real show or that was on the summer games I don't I don't wait did you actually spray the bottle maybe during your intro yesterday you sprayed a bottle no he did a thing where I was talking about this oh yeah that's right I do remember that now yeah

Yes, that's right. And I had wished that I could have guessed it because it was the distinct sound of a spray bottle spraying. Yeah.

But even like so, you know, she has been interrupting the broadcast a lot of late because she'll jump on this one desk and then up on this table. If if she were to even look at that desk and I were to pick up this spray bottle, she would just stop whatever she was doing. And this is again, this is a real game changer. The other thing that happens that's kind of great about it is if I do hit her with the water, she then spends the next 45 minutes licking the water off of her body, which is a whole, like, I'm going to call it entertainment for her. Yeah, well, it certainly gives her something to do that isn't being on your table. It redirects her energy. Now, I'm sure somebody's going to email me and say that there's something not okay about spraying your cat with water. but I'm not trying to hear those emails today because I feel like I finally had a breakthrough with this cat. Yeah, no, I mean, I don't

I don't think there's any kind of moral, I mean, whatever, email me too I'll delete your email. No, I mean, yeah, I mean, I want to be kind to animals, but I think, I mean, don't go overboard don't, like, set up, like traps so that a bucket of water falls on her head Don't carry her? What about a bucket of chicken blood? Don't give her a swirly in the toilet, but like a little spritz uh on the behind or whatever like um you know baseball rules avoid the head um but like there's i just don't think there's anything wrong with that it annoys them and they clean themselves off for a little bit and it tells them and what and by the way it doesn't tell them that they can't go on the counters anymore it tells them that they can't go on the counters when you're around anymore this is true and that's fine i'm okay with that like i was thinking about

that exactly yesterday like i when she tried to get on the coffee table i sprayed her she jumped off and i was like this just means this doesn't happen when i'm here which is which is one of the

and i'm not even joking so this my first indoor cat was alex and i got him when i was about 13 i want to say 14 years old um and then i had alex all my life and then you know i moved away and then uh we had theo and bananas here um so i've had indoor cats for big big chunks of my life And I will say that I went overboard with the spraying when I was young, but one of the things that drove me bananas with Alex and with all of the cats since is that because it's clear that they know they're not allowed to go on the counters after a while, let's say you've trained them as a kitten and you've sprayed them, they still go on the counters when you're not around and you can hear them thump down when you're in the room. Like if you're coming towards the room, you can hear the soft thump of a cat landing, especially when they're older and bigger. And that it was hard for me as a kid to not take that personally, which I realize I know that I know how I love what a rule follower you were, even as a child.

But it was just kind of other people to follow the rules.

Well, it galled me. I was like, come on, man. Like we're in this together. Like, you know, like there was something especially aggravating about that being like, you know, you're not allowed up there, but you do it anyway. and then you hear me coming and you jump down and then you try to act like oh you were just sniffing this bag on the ground oh what hey hey I was just sniffing this bag what's up with you bro and it's like no I'm not your bro I mean obviously I took it too personally but it really was I'm not joking when I say that like that was something that I would complain about I would get so angry I'd be like but dad the cat knows and I took it too personally

see I am totally fine with this cat doing within reason you know as long she's not breaking things i am totally fine with her just absolutely running amok in this apartment when i'm asleep or not here again as long as everything's not knocked off the counters i just don't i don't really care what i want to be able to do is eat some thai food in peace while watching the mariner game and until i got these spray bottles i did not have an actual mechanism for that i would just like she would just come over and jump on me again maybe two things are happening at the same moment though which is i've already kind of lamented the fact that she is growing up like she's she is five percent less obsessed with me this morning than she was even yesterday like it's noticeable to me so maybe she is kind of getting like she's maturing a little bit and so maybe she maybe she's in the place mentally where she wouldn't jump up if i'm trying to eat dinner and it was at the same moment when i got this spray bottle we'll never know but i'm never going back.

Because I feel empowered as a cat parent now In a way I have never felt before There's a non-lethal way for me to make her stop doing Whatever she's doing that I don't want And I'm loving it, Jerry I'm, um, this is a weird, this is a weird By the way, lethal is a pretty How about non-injurious way? Sure, yeah, right, exactly I was never going for lethal

I'm, um, this is weird I'm on the PETA website I was gonna make a joke about, like, putting, like red food coloring in the water and then spraying her and yelling like fur is murder or something but then I was like that's not right it's meat is murder what is fur so I'm on the I'm on the PETA like merch site now this is a weird journey I've taken here and I guess the term is fur is dead meat is murder fur is dead I don't know if I knew that but I'm like great Smith's album you can get meat is murder is really a Smith's album You can get key fobs, you can get bumper stickers, you can get all kinds of stuff, but then you can get something that isn't, I'm not exactly sure what or why this is, my apologies, this is a little bit dark, but you can get a coffin, or this is a sticker, this is a, I don't understand, you can get a sticker of a big blue coffin that says PETA, lifetime member, why would it be a big, huh, it's, okay, I'm just going to close this tab because it's kind of upsetting me but anyway those folks at PETA sometimes sometimes Luke they're not very

relatable PETA coffin lifetime I have to see this now I'm trying to understand what that's all about

here I can reopen the tab even if it does upset me and I can send you the link if you can't find

it I'm looking at it right now yeah huh I wonder oh you know what is it because you know what they also have is an urn for cremains that says lifetime member I think this is so you can literally be buried in a coffin that says PETA lifetime member

oh my goodness so it's a sticker buried in this you don't buy the coffin because I was like why would a sticker also be $75 so in other words you don't buy the coffin you just buy like a big sticker wrap for your coffin or stickers that can go in your coffin that say PETA coffin and urn stickers take your activism to the grave no that's what it says on the pita website what i don't understand it talk about a coffin flop i didn't read shit i didn't do shit i'll kill you that is such a strange thing to have in your merch store and also something that we will start giving away as a uh thank you right after we get

the chatty kathy dolls yeah yes it'll be tbtl 10 coffin stickers i mean yeah look we this i feel like i say a version of this every time pita comes up on the show which is fairly frequently like it's obviously ridiculous but it's just their general vibe like they seem so unfun but for one thing they in my experience usually end up on the right side of history about various topics and they it's effective what they're doing like we're talking about them once again and all the feed two birds with one scone etc it's like it kind of works so i got to give them credit on that and again i think ultimately what they're what they're working on

behalf of is is actually a good thing um i mean is it working because i'll tell you this i'm eating a giant turkey leg while or a drumstick while we have this conversation you know i i know it may not work on you right just the conversation is happening as an organization yeah maybe one of

my nieces who's listening right now either maddie or mary whichever one loves me more will consider going vegetarian because of this conversation about a pita coffin now i want to make it very

clear i don't care about what i'm going to say but i know that whenever this comes up we do get like people will post on social media like that is a terrible organization why don't these goofuses know how terrible pita is and i've heard you know i've heard that my whole life i don't know exactly why um and maybe people are actually saying that on the like on the stens the last time this came up i know i saw something on like slack of somebody losing their shit over it or something and and again i gotta tell you like i'm not well informed on this so um i'm not saying that to you luke like luke we can't say this anymore because we're gonna upset somebody who doesn't like pita i just want to know that there is apparently i want to put it out that there is apparently people who are not for the murder of animals but also think that pita is a bad organization why i don't know i don't read it that is a bad faith that is a bad faith argument

as far as I'm concerned because like what PETA is um embezzling PETA is not like run in a particularly great way very possible but I promise you whoever is like well the structural organization of PETA or the tactics PETA uses are inappropriate that is a person who feels threatened by the idea of

wearing less fur less leather eating less meat like that's like people saying like oh the national organization for women um if they were really trying to stand up for them they would do x y and z it's like you just don't like what their kind of agenda is in my opinion i i think there's

accusations that they operate kill shelters um let's see here okay who's okay i'm just going through there's some thread i didn't even know this there's like some thread with a million replies i'm looking at now all these people are saying pita is a horrible organization um and i don't know i'm trying to read this now um pita doesn't believe that companion animals should exist at all in the shelter they run in the east coast is an ultra high kill shelter

people are saying so i'm just reading in this now an organization that gets in the news more for compelling people to try to think about animals in a different way and i will sign up for that one for now it's pita whatever's going on with the you know ultra kind of esoteric issues with pita people just got to deal with that again provide me an alternative group that's as publicly aware or as aware to the public as pita and i will sign up for that one but for now that's what we're

are you looking forward to people educating us though are you looking forward to no what what

This is not the morning for that.

What this is going to create. I'm 100% interested in being educated by anyone on PETA. You need to set up some filters on your inbox right now, my dude. I'll wait. Oh, I had to filter my inbox right out of existence. Yeah, I was going to say.

God, it's quiet and peaceful on the other side, as they say in the song. Come on, get happy. Like, if you never look at the email, then you can't get educated on PETA's kill shelter guy, smart guy pointing at his head. at his head meme right exactly um anyway my point is the spray bottle is an absolute game changer here uh at the hollywood broadcast center and i'm and again she is just sleeping like i'm sorry this is so boring and i'm just kind of narrating my day and and by the way if you like this kind of content you'll really like the hey dummies video this week because it's me just sitting in a car with her climbing all over me next to the world's smallest park basically narrating my life for seven minutes it's like way too long of a video but this morning she we would normally be in a much more chaotic moment of her life again and i don't know how much of this to attribute to just the fact that she's getting older or the spray bottle but she has not jumped on anything she's not supposed to jump on and she's just sleeping like a baby right now like it does really feel like something has tectonically shifted and i'm i'm quite here for it i'll give you a full report though today after i watch the baseball game and have some dinner and do all my normal stuff

if she maintains this level of chill yeah exactly but i mean it is you're right it probably is a combination of age and just behavioral you know reinforcement so there you go the other day we

were we were on a walk becca and i and she said well she's about 10 now and i was like no she's not like in human years but then i was doing the math is it possible that she's 10 in human years

i don't know what the math on that is and i've also heard that the dog seven year thing has been rejected by society now too i don't know what to believe right and i would assume so if

one year in human life is seven years to a dog and cats tend to live longer than dogs you would think that it would be more time sure she's she's not yet one year of age so there's no way she can

be 10 yet i mean if i were better at math i could figure this out but what do you think the average

age of a cat she's 100 and that when she's if she gets to 15 which happens for cats how old did theo get to 21 almost yet so if it was 10 years that would be like 210 in human right well

that's what i that's what i was gonna ask you i'll bet you what do you think the average lifespan of a cat is 15 years probably i'm gonna guess sounds about right probably about right 15 and 17 so we could do the math on that we won't but we could do the math on that i don't know how to that's what matters yeah i don't know how to do the math on that like i have those two numbers i don't know what to do with them i could smash them into each other like the large hadron collider and just see what happens but that's all i can do with those numbers have you been getting into this speaking

of um scientific breakthroughs have you been geeking out on this james webb telescope stuff

at all you know luke i'm an idiot no i haven't been geeking out i don't even i know that the telescope is grabbing these images and that they're memefied all i know is everybody's got like really fire memes with the you know with the starry background but that's that's all i know

i'm it it really pushes the limits of my pea brain to try to understand what's going on but what i found interesting about it if i understand it is that it gives us a chance

to look at the universe at pretty close to its sort of inception, if you will, because we are able to now, with this thing, look at light from various celestial bodies and galaxies and things that was created so long ago. It took X number of quadrillions of years to get to us. In other words, we were able to see stuff that it's taken so long for it to travel to where we can see it, that it's essentially a record of the beginning of the universe, if I understand it right, which is, again, it's like sitting around trying to think about what the edge of the universe looks like, what infiniteness looks like, how does that work? Is there just a brick wall at some point? When I was a kid, I thought, well, you get to Pluto and then if you keep going past Pluto, you just hit a wall or something. That's got to be the end of this whole thing. I believe Kyrie Irving still

believes that, for whatever it's worth.

not able to play not able to um play baseball in toronto either

right hey you know um this is well i well i've started to say it so i'll just say it um but i was listening to a podcast last night that came out a while back actually i think it came out i think near the beginning of the pandemic but it's not about the pandemic at all it's just one of my comedy bang bang offshoot podcasts with scott aukerman and somebody else sean distant um But anyway, I'm listening to and it doesn't matter when you listen to it because they're like kind of talking. They're reviewing movies that Scott hasn't seen. The name of the podcast is Scott hasn't seen. But they mention they're telling a story about Kyrie Irving. Sean Diston, the other host, had met him at some point. He's like telling the story and he starts to say something. And Scott says, oh, for a second, I thought you're going to say he's an anti-vaxxer. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. And this happened, I think, before Kyrie was known as an anti-vaxxer. And I was like, oh, buddy And I couldn't tell, and it doesn't matter What was I going to do, write a letter to the past I was going to write a letter to those stars That everybody, yes, I should He's an anti-PETA Anti-vaxxer But it was one of those moments where I was like No, but you guys, he is And I wasn't sure if they didn't know Or if we didn't Know yet

It was being recorded at a time Where he had not come out Listen, this is the thing I'll say about Kyrie Irving With if people don't know he's somebody who plays For the Brooklyn Nets he's a super Good basketball player but he's Anti-vax and I will Give him credit on this one Thing he has cost himself Millions of dollars Over this issue which At least he is putting his money Where his brain is Right he also is well Potentially a flat earther he's a flat

Earther and also he's not Kyrie Irving Irving is not like in The business of doing himself favors either They're like, I don't know much about this. You know this. But didn't his own shoe line finally drop? And then he started going on social media saying how much he hates his own shoes. Oh, boy.

This is a while. I don't know about that, but I would be unshocked to hear that. But I guess what I'm saying is, like, I feel like most people, even if they were getting bad intel on the vaccine, would if it was between making one hundred million dollars or the weirdest thing was he was able to play in road games. did you know about this because basically new york had a very stringent rule about being vaccinated in public spaces etc so he was like playing this weird modified schedule he could basically go play in places where they didn't give a shit about right yeah but like not on the arizona games like florida arizona were definitely on the list but no like he couldn't play any home games in brooklyn and that you know he doesn't get paid for the games he doesn't play and again he's wrong about this but i at least give him credit because i think most people would just get the shot to make the money like he believes this on a deep level and again he's deeply wrong about it but i at least give him some credit for taking a hit to his pocketbook that was that is avoidable that speaks to how deeply and truly he believes this craziness yeah and he but i think he is like

straight up crazy though right like he is just you mean like you think mentally ill like isn't he yeah i mean doesn't isn't he just like a disaster of a human being well i mean i don't

know i it seems that if he were like profoundly mentally ill it'd be difficult for him to have achieved as much as he did in basketball in fact there was a guy i think his name was royce white who came out of oklahoma and he was someone who really was dealing with um mental illness and he was drafted maybe he didn't come out of oklahoma but he was i want to say he was drafted by the thunder or something but he basically wouldn't fly with the team because of his anxiety and because of other things that he was dealing with in terms of mental health. And he was just out of the league after like a season and a half. Like the, the, the life of being an NBA player is a lot of having to be at certain places at certain times and be physically able to do it and be somewhat well rested. Like there's so many strictures around being an NBA player that I think it would be difficult for someone to be dealing with active mental illness and be able to make it to all the things you have to make it to. The crazy part about this Royce White guy Which I could be getting his name wrong Is that he is now A leading voice Around QAnon And you know MAGA stuff and Trump He's like basically beloved on the right For being like an extreme Like extreme MAGA QAnon person Which you know Having a mental health issue would not To me not be predictive of eventually getting into the QAnon thing

Mm hmm. I mean, I think he's like Antonio Brown level, you know what I mean? Like that. I see. You know what I mean? Like, and again, I'm not trying to diagnose somebody here irresponsibly. But like, and again, I don't I don't follow this stuff closely. But he's just, you know, maybe it's just from the all the lebitard I listened to. And I don't really pay attention to the basketball stuff. But maybe it just seeps in. But like, I just feel like it's always story after story of just doing stuff that is just incredibly selfish, yet also stuff that is incredibly self-destructive. yes um and self-sabotaging and um and just like stuff that doesn't really make sense yeah he said on a podcast that he believes the earth is flat um right so i mean that but it raises the i guess

to me it's like disaster of a human versus i mean this is a real question and yeah we don't want to violate the um goldwater rule here which prohibits little little listen to podcasts like ours from I'm trying to diagnose someone's mental health from afar. But it's like, is Antonio Brown, he's a, for the three people that don't know, he's a football player, played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for a hot second. He played for the Rams, ended his career at Tampa because they have zero standards. Although, in fairness, Russell Wilson was also trying to get Antonio Brown to the Seahawks, so we can't really talk as a fan base. And then just walked off the field. Just royal tenenbaughed off the field. With, like, four or five games left in the season or something. And now just kind of shows up. Usually he's with Floyd Mayweather Jr., another person who, it's an open question, what is the line between mental illness and just being a titanic douche, right? Right, yeah. Like, just acting on your impulse at all time, just being a complete and total, like, what's the, your id, basically, right? Like just being a human id Because like the id is the part of us That just like wants things right And is kind of like just self-serving And impulsive and all of that And the whole thing is trying to tamp down our id A guy like Antonio Brown Is just a raging id at all times He just does whatever he wants Is that mental illness Or is that just being an asshole

He apparently I'm just kind of learning this now He apparently has talked about his mental health a lot So he's kind of throwing that out there as well

As he said specifically It says that he talks about his

Well, it says that he Takes a lot of mental health days Which I realize is kind of a different thing But I don't know, I'm just sort of It looks like he's talked about Mood, when Kyrie Irving Talks about mental health issues Our tone Changes, I don't know Anyway, there seems to be a lot of buzz around This particular person and his mental health Including him talking about it and him acting incredibly erratically at photo shoots and what have you.

Oh, I didn't know about that part. By the way, a little clarification on the Royce White situation because we have listeners who probably have thrown their phones, driven down the road, done a U-turn, come back and pick their phone back up. So this is the perfect time for me to clarify. He actually played at Iowa State. He played at Minnesota and then at Iowa State, and he was drafted by the Rockets. So I was in the right part of the country, but he had nothing to do with Oklahoma City. I don't know why. I put that on him. But everything else I had more or less right. He's somebody who has a history of generalized anxiety disorder and and was dealing with a variety of things and is now a. Yeah. Super duper MAGA guy, which is just a real bummer to see for anybody, but especially somebody who had a completely different course of life going amid he was drafted in the first round. He was a very highly touted basketball player.

But I feel terrible. I don't know what's going on with me today. I'm enjoying talking to you, Luke. But man, I didn't even wake up super late or anything today. But my brain is not working right.

So far today on the show, I have led us into two – I have, like, backed us into two quasi-serious conversations about something I don't know shit about. And I'm, like, reading it while I'm trying to learn – like, if this was somebody's first exposure to TBTL, I would be – well, I am embarrassed, and I'm mortified to think that – Well, they stopped listening in hour three of me talking about my cat's behavioral development. But, like, this was terrible. That's the good news. But both of that – I want to just own that. Like, both of that is on me. i don't know why i keep on raising topics that i don't know anything about but i know they're controversial like that is and then i'm trying to read headlines as as google gives them to me on the fly so my apologies for that i have a theory about the kairi stuff yeah my theory about

the kairi stuff is you listen to a lot of lebitard and they probably have a lot of takes on kairi

is that well i think i also just listen to a lot of sports radio generally speaking like just like i flip on by the way the new what would it be like 10 to 1 show on 710 espn is really good it's uh michael bumpus and stacy joe roast i always say your name wrong i think she is i think one of the most talented people in local sports radio she is so goddamn good and she hosted with somebody else for a while i wasn't a huge fan um and then uh he went on to work do you know this that um wait heaps is gone heaps went back to work with uh to work with russell wilson again he went to denver like he really is like friends and because they would always introduce him as like as as russell wilson quarterback coach jake heaps i'd be like what does that mean did they like work out together one time but yeah no apparently like he did go to denver and he's again with russell wilson i guess so he's like break up that team limited

so he is lee he is not gonna host a sports talk show because he needs to full-time toss tennis balls at Russell Wilson while he sprints around a field somewhere. That's amazing.

I didn't really listen to Russell Wilson moving longtime personal QB coach Jake Heaps to Denver is the Sports Illustrated headline. Wow. So this wasn't just a local story. So this is a national headline. And that headline broke exactly one month ago today on June 21st. So, yeah. I like Michael Bumpus. Oh, he's so good. The show is so good. Even though he's a Coug.

but um no i like he was doing a lot of pre and post game stuff for the seahawks yeah i think he's he think he's really good so that makes me happy because i mean i thought peace and love but jake heaps was an off-brand brock heward which is yeah he's you know yeah really saying something in the sports talk department i'm talking about people as human beings uh i i i like brock heward i'm glad he didn't beat me up for hitting on his wife when i didn't know that they were engaged etc but uh michael bumpus seems like a big upgrade in that just bring lydia cruz back though please i

know right but yeah and stacy lydia cruz stacy is such a good host and such a good like showrunner if that's the right word which i don't think it is but just like she's um she i don't know i've just been a huge fan of hers for a long time i'll be honest you know i don't want to be rude here but i was the opposite of a fan of jake heaps as far as his radio stuff is concerned and it just really kind of bummed me out that it's i sort of felt like that show half of that show was so good And half of that show was less And now I'm a big fan of Bumpus I mean I didn't really know Bumpus And so I started hearing him on the radio See here's what happened I moved the conversation into something I know But nobody gives a shit about it So this is I don't know man

You choose between Like interesting topics that we know nothing about Or uninteresting topics that we know everything about This is the dichotomy

Oh my god I'll tell you what When we take a break I'm going to go get some more coffee I'm going to try to see if that helps my brain And I'm also just going to shake all of this off and we're going to come back, and we're going to have the best middle segment of TBTL in history.

During the break, I'm going to mercilessly spray my cat for no reason and donate to PETA.

And yell, fur is dead.

I'll be busy. But, yeah, we will take a break here, and then we'll be back with more in a moment here on TBTL. Hey, let's thank some donors of the day. These wonderful, generous people are donating to the show, making it possible. Big thanks to Allison Scheiderer of Edmonds, Washington. Ooh, Whirlyball. Rick Steves. Whirlyball and Rick Steves.

Oh, yeah? That's what they're all about in the Edmonds, Washington district. Don't they have a statue of Rick Steves playing Whirlyball? They do. They do. We should play Whirlyball again. Yeah, I mean, I hope that place is still open. Right. Wait, it is Whirly Ball, right? Now it's like every time I say it, it sounds like it's not the right word anymore. But that's like you're in little carts. Go carts? Lacrosse. Or like bumper cars meets lacrosse meets basketball sort of, right?

Yep, that's actually a perfect description. And weirdly, they have Whirly Ball in Seattle and I think Chicago are the only two places at last check that even have Whirly Ball locations. It's not a complete failure, but it also is not lighting the nation on finals. No. Or in between. Unlike Pickleball.

Are you glad that your CBS piece on Pickleball came out before the New Yorker piece on Pickleball?

It hasn't come out yet.

Oh, son of a gun. You guys were ahead of this one.

I know. I forwarded that article well Becca forwarded it to me and then I forwarded it to my bosses and I said with by the way thanks to our donors of the day I said with with only a little bit of snark hey did you see the New Yorker just did a piece on pickleball thank God we also have a piece on pickleball that's ready to go oh my God and it didn't like get bummed for a big news event or anything it's just they're just no it's just everything it's you know it's just they have for a show that you know is often worried about the bottom line and costs as they should be they sure do hire a lot of people to do a lot of stories that never air that never air there are perpetually you know 50 stories that are just sitting on a shelf somewhere so hopefully pickleball will get on but um it is funny that i have to leverage other media organizations doing the story that i had already done in order to get my bosses to put the story i'd already done on television so

I know that it wouldn't, nobody would ever give access to this because, well, because of rights issues and all kinds of things, but, like, wouldn't it be an awesome podcast to go back and if just, like, one network would open up their archives of stories that never aired going back to, like, just going back, like, not just from the last five years, that wouldn't be that interesting, but going back to the 60s and 70s and just, like, soft pieces that just never aired and you could, like, explore that. That would be awesome.

You know, I just heard a rebroadcast of This American Life. Again, I would like to continue to thank our donors. I just heard a rebroadcast of This American Life over, I think it might have been last weekend, that was a show they had done a long time ago, but it was so genius. It was for their 400th episode, I believe, or maybe their 300th episode. And it was, they just did stories that their parents had been pitching to them. Oh, that's such a good idea. Bad ideas. And then the challenge was, make it a good story. And then they all listened to the stories together. and then they voted on what the best story was. Oh, my God. That's such a good idea. So genius. Yes, it really is. So genius. It really is. Jonathan Tang, by the way, is in San Francisco, California. Thank you, Jonathan, as well, for your support. Kendra Miller kicking it in Bellingham, Washington, the Bay City. What is up, Kendra? Annette Sakab Tan is in Livonia, Michigan.

Boy, I've got memories about Livonia.

You do?

Ooh, I was going to say that sounds like a made-up place. That sounds like if somebody's going to start their own independent country in the midst of Michigan, you call it Livonia.

The Ea on the back sounds like, you know, like ring light-ia. I'm looking at a ring light, by the way. Anything you put Ea on the back of it, it sounds like it's some kind of a country.

And the live, kind of live free or die, echoes of live free or die don't tread on this autonomous nation. But you've been to Livonia?

Oh, I've spent time in Livonia because when I covered the Super Bowl for NPR, which I just shamelessly wanted to cover it because it was the Seahawks. This was when they played in Detroit against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And it was the kind of thing where in those days at NPR, sports was such a low priority. I think it remains a fairly low priority, but I got media credentialed for it. And then I was like, does anybody want me to go to the Super Bowl? i'm i'm cleared to go and they were like all right fine i guess and um but i got in so late like into the whatever you want to call it or at least npr ranked so low in the minds of the super bowl people the nfl people that instead of like putting like it was this weird thing where you you couldn't just book a hotel well everything was sold out and so you couldn't just get a hotel in detroit proper so i ended up in livonia michigan but the weird part is like the nfl assigned me this hotel which i've never had happen in a story before where they were like you are staying in livonia michigan uh-huh and i used to go so i was there also the thing about the super bowl is it's like a week of bs before the game happens where you just keep going to the stadium every day and the players are standing around on the field and doing things and there are shenanigans so i was like in livonia going down to ford field every day for a week and uh also going to this bar called stables in livonia and um making friends with the locals nice that's my livonia memory

Annette, raise one for me at stables if it's still there. Now, Kayla Harris is in Stockton, California. Hey, Kayla. I've also got stories about Stockton. That was where I did that story about the Ocean Liner, which has aired, by the way. Oh, yeah.

And you did that after the pickleball one.

I did. You're absolutely right. Good memory. Thank you. But I was in Stockton. I was in Stockton, California for that, where Kayla Harris is. Wait, Kayla. Kayla. Yeah, we know Kayla. Is Kayla Christian's mom? Exactly. I think of Kayla as Christian's mom That's her title Kayla is her own person She's like How dare you reduce me down to the mom of a kid That's right Who is on one of those Zoom things that we did During the THON and was really awesome Rebecca Butler is in Philadelphia PA, thank you Rebecca Thanks to all of our donors for making the show possible We really would not be able to do this without you hello and welcome to top story a woman named carly swanson uh went on tiktok to say that she had been turned down for a job uh interview and was kind of bummed about it in fact i'll just play you the tape from tiktok andrew oh good i want to hear this i read the story and i

forgot i wanted to listen to this so good here we go so good i just woke up but i got you know

another rejection letter from a job they applied for. And I really kind of wanted this job. So I took a lesson from Gen Z and I sent them back this.

The thing she sent them back was this meme that I actually had never seen before, but it literally makes me laugh out loud when I look at it. Have you seen the meme?

Yeah, I was going to ask you about that because I had never seen this meme either.

But I guess I think it's got to be generational. It must be, you know, it must relate to younger generations than us. but it's it's pope leon the 10th it's a painting by fernando botero in 1964 but it's a painting of this pope who's kind of a squat little dude he almost was like a minion yes yes especially

the way it's painted yeah it's a very funny painting i'm actually surprised to see this

was painted in 1964 oh it was oh yeah no i thought this was what it says in this article I'm reading from the New York Post It seems like they painted it back in the days When people didn't care If you made them look like a minion By 1964 you'd think I'm guessing Pope Leon X was long dead At this point Presumably Because in 1964 he wouldn't have been the Pope

Pope John Paul or something

So the painting is of this Squat little Pope And then just in lowercase The letter Y and then t-h-o it just says why though question mark which i know like as a phrase why though

like that's i mean it's also self-explanatory but i had not seen it paired up with this uh image by the way pope leo pope leo the 10th i believe this is from the late 1400s leo the 10th or leon the 10th oh uh oh sorry they're in this article they're saying leon they are but when i google it Google changes it to Leo interesting so Maybe the New York Post got it wrong I'm not sure though because I'm also on Know your meme and they call him Leon There oh my god I did it again I backed Myself into a corner on Google that I Don't understand and I'm bringing the Showdown let's move on all I know is if

There's already been a Pope Leon you Don't get to be Pope if your name is Leo Sorry yeah we've got enough people that Have a name that sounds like this anyway she sent back she basically said she had nothing to lose because they had said we're not going to interview you for the job so she just sent back this why though meme and then they actually were like uh okay we will talk to you why though anyway it worked they sent me another email

saying that they do in fact now want to interview me i believe that worked now unfortunately they

ended up not hiring her for the job so it's like the story doesn't sort of fully pay off and the

job again i think it's said in that article i'm just having trouble finding it do you recall it's

like yeah it was administrative or it was a scheduling uh well let's see uh she omitted this she said it was located in los angeles um oh she was applying for the job of scheduling coordinator okay for for some company that i don't think that they specify the company okay um so it's not like

social media job is maybe the reason i brought it up there you know right because that would

actually that would be relevant to that right i guess you can kind of imagine if you're an hr person i could totally see this though like you're an hr person you're just sending out a whole bunch of emails that are like thank you for applying but we've you know found a candidate or whatever and then somebody just hits you up with the pope leon why though right yeah i would be like, oh,

OK, let's at least talk to this person. Yeah, it's a pretty good strategy. And also it's self-selecting from the side of Carly Swanson, because like if the company gets that that's funny, then that might be a good place to work potentially.

Yeah. And if not, I guess what's the harm, you know, unless unless you're worried I'm going to apply for other I'm going to apply for another job down the line and I don't want to be taken, you know, not seriously. I don't want to be taken not seriously, but yeah.

I don't not want to be not taken not seriously.

You know what? Thank you. I really need you today to clarify these things. I'll carry you. There's only one set of pod prints. Anyway, yeah. So I guess, yeah, no harm, no foul. I got to say, and I am not trying to shit on the story as because, I mean, you put together the show sheet and then I'm like, why would we talk about this? Don't you shit on my show sheet. Well, wait, you told me you put the show sheets by the door when you were training me. You're like a show sheet shitter with free samples, Andrew. But I got to admit, like, there's one of those stories was kind of like, but then she doesn't get the job. Like, I was reading it yesterday or the day before, and I was kind of like, wait a second. Why is this in the newspaper?

Right. It's because basically there's not any real news out there. Yeah, there's nothing else going on. i i i feel like for you know the first place i saw this was the new york post which is my go-to for all things about hunter biden and also just generally bullshit yeah but they do they i have to say they do find some gems and i think that basically they have a whole team of people who just scour tiktok yeah for something that is news adjacent yeah yeah no and they're pretty good at

it and you know and it's nice to have the the fun stuff to talk about i think and now that i hear the tape i sounds like one of she sounds pretty charming so that kind of gives it very likable yeah and the company kind of gets some publicity out of this as well well and mostly she gets some

actually i don't think the company does because i don't think we know what the company is oh you're right she gets publicity because this has been viewed millions of times and so she said even though it didn't work out with this particular company she's like enjoying the attention and also feeling like this could actually help her get a job somewhere else sure because she's on more people's radar than she would have been otherwise she's also doing a thing in the video which i mean again i just don't have the confidence for this kind of a move but like she's kind of maybe in bed she got a blanket pulled up around her she's in bed she just said full repose like the the angles that people are on now for doing tick tocks it's like you know i'm so old school i would be like i'd have a ring light going i would have the camera like you know three feet above my eye line so as to like low you know i would just be doing a million things to try to like make myself look a certain way and i think it's actually kind of refreshing that there's a whole version of tick tock where it's like no i'm not doing that i'm just gonna actually be comfortable and i'm gonna like be physically comfortable but also emotionally comfortable enough to just videotape myself as is and throw it out there it reminds me of that tape you sent

me a long time ago or i don't know several months ago that we played as intro tape i'll play it again here this was jokes for your mom and this again was a tick tocker a young person and i think they were just like kind of like very very this kind of energy just lounging around and

some people are living a life that i don't understand at all like wearing matching rings with their boyfriends or putting everything in their little briefcase and going to a building that looks greek for some reason some people are making a smoothie and they got two kids crawling on the floor next to them some people work in a cubicle and ironically hung up one of those like cat posters but it kind of does inspire them some people are popping all these off a half pipe some people are in like a bunch of snow and they're like that's fine and normal some people saw the house of horrors at the county fair and they were like i'm gonna be that what are you guys

up to when you said that to me i didn't know if like i was like is that too weird for intro to i mean it is weird and again that's jokes for your mom i end up following them on on tiktok

oh yeah i follow them on uh tiktok as well i love them i will tell you uh one of the great things about memory loss is that was it was as if i was listening to that for the first time

it was real nbc new to me yeah if you if you've inflicted brain damage on yourself through too much drinking it's new to you that was the original nbc slogan i think and they kind of

tightened it up a little bit they did it was just uh kind of an economy of language this uh kentucky

quarterback named will levis was doing media day for the sec and he for some reason i don't know there's limited info about this because i don't know how they knew to ask about this during sec media day but apparently he's known for putting mayo in his coffee and so they somebody at the sec which is the southeast conference i believe um they videotaped him putting mayo in his coffee and stirring it and drinking it and of course people are losing their mind i was looking up what's in mayo because i had this moment of thinking is it that different than you know people put butter in their coffee oh yeah i guess i've heard of that i've never seen that though i was just i was wondering if mayo was at a kind of from an ingredient standpoint if it's that different than other things that we add for creaminess. I mean, I know you're not a mayo guy at all because of the consistency, et cetera, but it's actually pretty different. It's like oil and egg. Oil and egg.

And is there a touch of vinegar in there too? Because we have a friend who doesn't like mayonnaise because he says it's too vinegary, and people always look at him funny. You're right. For me, I don't like mayo because, well, I think it was mostly just kind of in my head as a kid. It looked gross, so I didn't eat it. But honestly, now, like when I go get my Tubbs sandwiches, they put on some sort of like garlic mayonnaise or something. And I don't I just eat it like I don't I I'm not as I'm not as wary of it as I used to be. But I also would the idea of taking a scoop of mayonnaise and slopping it on some bread myself actually kind of makes me gag a little bit. But oh, I love it. I absolutely love it.

i did not as a kid i think i got a hold of some sus mayo as a kid or something where i just didn't like the taste of it but now it is a critical component to any sandwich that i get i don't even care like i don't there's a bunch of things that i could take or leave with a sandwich but mayo is not one of them i need to have some mayo on there um but and so again i was kind of thinking well you know it's it's just something is it is it similar to butter or in some way similar to cream but like it's definitely not like i'm trying to understand it's not a dairy it's a it's not dairy like it's not i mean i probably you should probably test it on the show andrew we should

probably have you do a test run with it yeah that sounds like something that i would do

the guy who didn't want to have balsamic and uh club soda on the show maybe i'll do it maybe i'll take another one for the team maybe a tomorrow show should i why though well what else are we

Pope Leo the 10th says Why though?

There's a right way to rock And a wrong way to roll You can just listen to your soul Just remember that life is number one You can be having so much fun Just remember that life is much fun You can be not number one

All right, Luke, before we get to Blur's Days, there's something on my mind. I actually had this thought yesterday while we were talking about something, and now this last segment we just did made me think of it again, and I'm going to ask you. So yesterday on the show, we were talking about the general manager of a AAA baseball team, I believe in Eugene, Oregon, who was at the baseball game and getting a prostate exam in the announcer booth while he sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh inning stretch. And we think it might have been to raise awareness for men's health, but unclear. Anywhoos, you said you would never do that for as many wacky things as you would do, like getting a tattoo on the air or drinking balsamic vinegar on the air or eating super hot peppers. You wouldn't do that.

Or tomorrow, putting mayo in my coffee. Are you really going to do that? Don't you think it'd be interesting? No.

I'm sorry. I'm terrible today, but I'm also just being honest. I just don't think that adds anything to the world. I'm curious what it tastes like. Okay, I mean, yeah, I guess so. To me, it's just like, I don't know anything. To me, it just sounds so gross. And I was never one of those kids who was kind of like, do this thing because it's gross. But anyway, putting all that aside, if your phone rang, and I'm picturing an old-fashioned phone. It's not a cell phone, so you don't know who it is. Your phone rings. You pick it up, and it's Jane Pauly, right? And she says, hey, for CBS Sunday Morning, for men's health and raising awareness for prostate health, we're going to have you have a prostate exam on CBS. And, of course, it would follow all of the guidelines of a CBS Sunday Morning piece. I think that this would air in two years after the New Yorker, after Adam Gopnik got a prostate exam. You know, somehow it's done. where at least your face is on camera while you're getting examined or something. I think you would actually do that.

I think you're right because I am desperate for approval.

I'm not even saying... No, no, I'm not taking...

I'm not thinking you're insulting me. I'm being honest. I think this would be the process. I would think... Well, first I would be not excited about having digital penetration going on and then I would be like that will be embarrassing but then my next thought would be that would be potentially funny and then I would be like yes I'll do it like if I could see a universe in which it would be I would be like that could actually be pretty entertaining I would say yes because that rules everything for me is would it be kind of potentially funny like putting mayo in my coffee would it be funny and I'll do it

what was your story that went a little viral because what's his name The former basketball player who's now just a meme machine retweeted in your CBS stories.

Sure. I'm sorry, Blakey and his name. Hornets, and his name is, oh, my gosh. You can't avoid him on Twitter. Come on, brain. Be so smart. Come on, brain. Think of things. I can't believe I'm spacing on his name right now. It starts with an R, and I am so mad at myself. I'm mad at myself. Rex Chapman. Rex Chapman. Thank you, Rex Chapman. Sorry. What is the deal with the brain that I knew he was a Charlotte Hornet I thought that was interesting too I would have never known that Why is that the part of Rex Chapman's existence That my brain remembers but not his name Anyway, he retweeted the story I did about the sports bra Which is the sports bar here in Portland That exclusively shows women's sports on the television

Right, exactly

So that must have got a lot of traction

because he basically is the internet at this point, right?

Which is such, speaking of stories, I have pitched a story on Rex Chapman. I mean, me knowing his name would, I guess, be an important component of doing the story. But I have pitched a story on Rex Chapman to my TV bosses so many times because what's very interesting about his kind of arc of his life is he was a basketball player and then he fell into addiction and then through, like, opioids and pills And then he was basically getting arrested shoplifting after having I believe he won the either the dunk or the three point contest, which those are very different things. He he won one of them, probably the three point contest. He played at Kentucky, by the way, he was a Kentucky Wildcat. Another detail I know about the guy whose name I can't remember. But so he you know, when Rex Chapman started to sort of resurface in my mind, it was when unfortunately he was being like, you know, there were mug shots of him for like stealing an air conditioner from Walmart or something. to sell and get money and that was unfortunately where his life was and he got sober and totally turned it around has been sober for many years now and has become this sort of um curator on the internet of things that are positive and fun and like has all these followers and is i believe he might even be a coach at uk now like you know in the in the basketball department like i don't know what he does there but he just completely turned his life around and it's very inspiring to see and i think would be a good television story and so he tweeted out and unfortunately

he didn't tag you in this which that would have really that would have shot your numbers look

who's look who can't remember whose name now yeah that's what you were just nagging him just now

that's totally just you can't remember my handle well i can't remember your name but he just basically just took the link of the sunday morning piece you did about the sports bra and tweeted it out it has um almost 7 000 likes and 800 retweets and 200 quote tweets

luke so uh people i mean i'm only i'm kind of i'm adjacent to that because it's basically rex

chapman is getting the likes but it's your story though it is my no luke burbank no rex chapman that's what i'm saying and i stand by that should we this music's been playing for a bit should we go ahead and do some of these days i like the donors of the day andrew i just woke up luke so i needed to uh add some content all right kj and kenmore says i'd like to wish myself a dandy day today and it's actually a july 21st blurs day by the way because it is my actual blurs day so yay for me yay for kj in k more amen sorry i'm saying amen more these days i'm my new

thing i'm trying to figure out if rex chapman won the dunk contest or the three-point contest It's got to be the three-point contest. I can't, I didn't think he was, I mean, he could dunk. He's a basketball player, but I don't think he was, like, that high-flying. Now, Brent Berry for the Sonics did win. Brent Bones Berry did win the dunk contest. test one year yeah anyway that's my way of saying well here isaac is checking in no we're gonna say no i'm i found something that you probably already found it's wrong it says greatest moments in nba history rex chapman three-pointer but this is from a game right sorry um isaac

says hello i am a 12 or maybe it's an 11 or a 10 i'm not sure well isaac if you're not sure It's probably not a 10. But we do appreciate you checking in because he says, I'm married to someone who listens to your podcast religiously. She's pretty awesome, and she likes you guys a lot. Her name is Tricia, and Tuesday is her birthday. She said that I should email you guys about something called Blur's Day. I have no idea what that means. You did great. Isaac, good looking out, good spousing, and a huge happy Blur's Day to Tricia.

Indeed. And as a gift to Tricia, this is from me. I want to let everybody know that I Googled Rex Chapman three-point contest and what came up but one of those suggested questions people also ask, did Rex Chapman win a dunk contest? And I got this little clip from, I guess, Wikipedia. It says over his 12-year career, he averaged 14.6 points per game and appeared in two slam dunk competitions. Wow. All I can say is, wow, did not see Rex Chapman as the dunkmeister. Yeah, and people were also asking, did he win a dunk competition? So you're not alone. And I like to think that we brought you a little bit closer to people today, Luke. Yes, we did. You're not so alone. Maya says, happy Blurzay to my friend Lisa. Time has gotten away from us, and we haven't been able to see one another for quite some time. But I hope she considers this message a formal invitation to get together for some summer drinks and pimento cheese soon. Why would you ruin these beautiful sentiments by bringing up pimento cheese? Oh, my God. Pimento cheese is the best. I don't know.

Pimento cheese used to be just it was it was partitioned off below the Mason Dixon. And it's made a move. It's it's it's gone. national, and I am so happy about that. Pimento cheese is one of the most delicious things. I know you're not into it, Andrew, but it's one of the most delicious things

out there. I remember seeing pimento loaf a lot as a kid. Of course, I've only eaten pimentos in an olive. I think that's been my full extent of my exposure to pimentos, but I assume that pimento cheese and pimento loaf is like a similar deal there. Only one is made out of processed meat, and the other one is made out of cheese. Well,

Well, pimento cheese is a kind of a whipped up cheese that has pimento in it.

It's whipped. Okay, I was totally wrong. I pictured a block of cheese that had pimento stuck in it.

But I can understand why. And when I was a kid, I remember going to the like, you know, deli and seeing pimento loaf and just wanting to yak. Yeah. Like nothing looked less appealing than pimento loaf.

It really looked like a mistake.

I mean, it really was just so rarely associated with any. If you're not talking about bread, loaf is almost never a good thing. Although meatloaf, I didn't eat a lot of meatloaf growing up, but man, I love meatloaf. I hated meatloaf. Meatloaf was one of those things, and I don't think there's any chance my mom will hear this, so that's the good news. There were kind of a lot of things we ate in my household that I thought were just bad food products, but I realized later that there were ways to prepare those dishes differently. I didn't like spaghetti until my probably late 20s. I didn't like meatloaf. And I've had really good meatloaf at times, and I do think it actually can be kind of yummy. I think of a meatloaf as a big-ass meatball, right?

Like, isn't it very similar?

But I think it comes down to, if you're having it at, like, a restaurant that's doing it right, it comes down to the seasoning and all kinds of things like that. You could probably make a pretty convincing meatloaf that was actually plant-based because of the things that they make that are like, because you were saying Veeves eats some of that fake ground beef from time to time, right?

She likes that, yep. If she's at Burger King and she eats, you know, she will eat regular beef, but if she's at Burger King, I think she defaults to the Impossible Burger. Right, but the loose ground beef. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, she makes patties. Yeah, yeah, she'll make patties.

It's pretty, like, it's fairly convincing. Like, you put it in tacos, you really would not know the difference.

Oh, yeah, I bet you, especially for tacos with all the topping and you put the seasoning in there. Seasoning and everything. It's kind of the ideal for that. Let me just do this really quickly, if you don't mind. I'm going to reread part of Maya's message here. Happy Blur's Day to my friend Lisa. I hope you consider this message a formal invitation to get together for some summer drinks and meatloaf soon. Cheers. How did we run out of music? This was one of the shortest. We only have like... Two words, Andrew. Rex Chapman. We've been Rexed. We got Rexed. Ooh, that's a show title. We've been Rexed.

Or is it Rex in effect?

That's what I was about to offer, yes.

Cassandra in Victoria. I'm guessing Victoria, B.C. I'm guessing that, too. Although that could also be maybe Victoria, Australia. But I'm guessing British Columbia says, can I please send a big happy Blur's Day to Sarah N. in Portland? is is that one of the architects down here i don't think so that would be sarah b okay now that now that the border is open okay now we are talking about bc now that the border is open and covet is uh what is covet actually doing anymore cassandra writes god if you if you find out cassandra will you let us know yeah i'm just a i am a mess with my mask my personal mask mandate I was thinking about this at at Mike's memorial because some folks were masked and I was maxed a masked on the plane going out there and I was masked in the airport and the Uber and all that stuff. And then I get to that event and then I take my mask off and then I'm just talking to people. Some who are like, it's I'm so inconsistent with it. But yeah, to answer your question, Cassandra, we don't know what COVID is doing anymore. We know that the president has it.

That's what we know.

Yes, I know. And like for a second, I was like, well, whatever. He's, you know, he's fine. He'll be on Pax Lovett or whatever it is. But then I was like, he's not young. No, he's not. Did you see the Onion headline? Like, majority of Democrats polled concerned that Biden will be healthy enough to run for re-election. I did see that, yes. I was like, it's funny because it's true. Anyway, Cassandra continues. Either way, we can travel again, and I can't wait to see Sarah in person.

Have an amazing day, lady. nice well happy blurs day to everybody boy you and i really pulled off a miracle today i don't know how we had one of the shortest blurs day lists of all time and yet we ran out of music so early but there we are it was a weird show today i definitely um you know owe everybody an apology for some of my performance but i think we i think we pulled it together by the end certainly

i think we got the nose up yeah the cat just emerged the cat just pulled a full-on kramer She just came out of the closet In such an aggressive way That it was like Kramer busting into Jerry's apartment

I love that That's good energy All right

We're going to end the show on some good energy And say thank you for listening That will be the end of this particular edition of TBTL But the good news is We are going to be back here tomorrow With more imaginary radio for you A Friday show It's always fun So please do join us for that Until then have a great Thursday Take care of yourselves Go Mariners Oh, boy.

Not today, though, right? They're not playing today, are they? Oh, is it tomorrow? I think they're back tomorrow. Well, I'm giving them an early go Mariners for tomorrow.

No, that's true. We can build these up. Yeah, exactly. We need 48 hours of encouragement for them to beat the Astros. All right. Thanks, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow. Until then, please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

Thank you.