Muse

we're in it thinks i'm falcon hello you want to hear it talk yeah i'll ask it how it feels i'm fine how are you excellent it's a long time how can i talk it's not a real voice uh this box just interprets signals from the computer and turns them into sound Shall we play a game? All right. TBTL.

All right. We shall play a game. We shall play day two of the TBTL Summer Games. Hello. Welcome to the show, everyone. My name is Luke Burbank. Right over there, my friend, Andrew Walsh. I forget. Good morning, by the way. Good morning, Luke. I forget Matthew Broderick was in War Games,

a very young Matthew Broderick. Now, can you name the other person in that scene? And I think I'm right about this. I watched this yesterday, and I think I recognized her.

It would be cheating because as that intro was playing, I was Googling Wargames cast, so I see Ally Sheedy. That's what I was going to say, I guess.

But I'm going to get a point for today's game, though, already. You're a leg up. I'm a leg up, too, because I didn't look it up. And I'm not great with names and faces, but I saw her. Or, you know, Broderick gets into a little, I mean, is he doing a little mansplaining or boysplaining there? Do we call it boysplaining? I mean, she didn't ask the question, but he's got this sort of like kind of boysplaininess to him, I feel like, too.

Although I will give them credit, that much of what the part we just heard, I think more or less lines up technologically with what was happening, right? like considering how advanced everything is now versus the 1980s when they made that i could have just as well believed uh or expected him to give some completely cockamamie explanation of how this all worked because computers were just so novel at that point sure and in fact the idea of a computer you know playing sound or talking to you would be fairly advanced yes i think so in fact there's a

little speaker that is attached it's like this sort of like very old fat not an old-fashioned looking speaker very plain well as tom petty once said in the in the song spike which i think i'm the only person who's ever heard it aside from tom and one or two of the heartbreakers um the future ain't what it used to be they used to be my favorite expression because the way we envision line yeah the way we envision the future always changes and it's always rooted in where we are it's just like why why the future looks so different in the original star trek series than it would today right so um there's this kind of clunky box with a hole in it and that's what the computer is speaking out of i saw an amazing commercial from 1980 i want to say three the other day and um it was for wrigley's spearmint gum and it's like this guy behind his computer he's like a he's like a young man and the commercial begins with him just finishing up whatever work he was doing on the computer and the hilarious thing is he begins by saying ah time to take a break and have some juicy fruit or wrigley spearmint gum i should say which is just kind of like i think he says time to relax with some wrigley spearmint gum which is like that's not how we use gum right it's not like we've withheld gum all day during the hard tasks and now it's time to take a break so gum them if you got them like that is that's not the Show title, question mark. Yeah, heavy on the question mark. But then the computer starts talking to him, and it wants to know the gumming experience. So it, like, sucks a piece of gum into its hard drive. And then it starts analyzing the gum. It's hilarious what they thought computers were back then.

So, oh, so that's an old. I thought that's this whole time I was imagining, like, one of these more updated. Like, you know how, and you do know this because you co-host a podcast about commercials, but how the candy space, in a lot of ways, is really the edgiest space for commercials. Yeah, the Skittles. Particularly all the Skittles stuff and Starburst. I mean, like, things that just border on kind of, you know, almost absurd Tim and Eric level kind of sketches where people are just getting Skittles pox and stuff. I was picturing this as, like, an updated commercial. No, this is, like, back in the day. Yeah let me see if actually

Let me go ahead and just kill this music really quickly So this was a commercial that some people might remember I need you to keep this relatively short Because I want to talk about the actor Barry Corbin

Okay sounds good I guess that takes precedence I've got a lot to say on Barry Corbin

Now we return to Short Circuit Starring Ali Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg

Okay that's a coincidence There you have another Ali Sheedy This is the NBC Sunday Night movie That was a total coincidence But Veves and I did spec

that this might have been the they showed the long one minute commercial uh of this computer um gum commercial because this was probably debuting during the the tv debut of short circuit which would have been a big tv event at the time time to relax definitely time for Some Wrigley Spearmint gum. Wrigley Spearmint? What? What is Wrigley Spearmint? Exactly. Well, it's pure chewing satisfaction. Pure chewing satisfaction? Okay, I don't have to play the whole thing, but somebody says, what is Wrigley Spearmint, and you say it's pure chewing satisfaction, you would say it's gum. Right. Nobody says that. Who's the robot here?

All right, what do you want to say about your guy? Well, as I was looking up the War Games cast, I noticed that Barry Corbin was also in that film. And, of course, I love Barry Corbin because I was obsessed with the TV show Northern Exposure. Oh, okay. And he played Maurice, who's like an ex-astronaut who lives in Sicily, Alaska, I believe, is where Northern Exposure was. Fictionally said, of course, it was actually in Roslyn, Washington. That's where they filmed it. But anyway, Barry Corbin was kind of one of the like, you know, I'd say he's a top maybe four people on the show. And I just thought he was I just thought everybody on that show was great. I loved it so much. And I was really interested in Barry Corbin. I thought he was great. And so, you know, when I saw him listen on Wargames, I thought that was pretty cool. And then I made my way over to Barry Corbin dot com, which is a very interesting website that looks to me like it's definitely run by Barry Corbin, who a still alive good he's like 81 or something and it's amazing because if you go to the bottom so you go to the top is go barrycorbin.com it's got a kind of a banner that's just got pictures of baron barry playing various roles in lonesome dove one tree hill urban cowboy etc and then it's got like all like him on the radio like he's the voice of the wolf 99.5 somewhere so you can hear him say the wolf 99.5 if you want to you can buy northern exposure season two on dvd um barry talks openly about his own experience with alopecia areata and people's lack of understanding about it so that's something that he's dealing with and then you can email barry corbin this is the part that was interesting to me barry at barrycorbin.com you could just email him that definitely seems like it's going right to barry corbin is there anything that we want to ask barry corbin that's the problem i didn't get up this morning with any burning barry corbin questions but just the fact that you can clearly just email barry corbin also the uh this website was copywritten

in 1998 yeah that's the thing i have a feeling that's a that's a dead end probably should i

email Barry Corbin and just see what he says.

This is the credo of the wolf. Respect the elders. Teach the young. Cooperate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your feelings. Leave your mark. The new 99.5 The wolf.

My God, that's intense. That makes me think, by the way, first of all, what kind of music do they play on The Wolf? I'm trying to figure that out. That's a very intense liner for like a radio station that's about to blast some Kenny Chesney. The Wolf makes me think it's definitely country. Yeah, it's definitely country. But also the fact that that file just worked as well as it did makes me think that this is actually not a totally defunct website. Maybe not. Because the first thing that tends to go or the click are the links, you know what I mean, for stuff like that.

yeah exactly I don't know where they're being I don't know where the audio is being kind of housed maybe it's at the I don't know but you're right I did not expect that to work and I did not expect it to be so god damn good that was amazing I want to listen

to the wolf I'm just I'm emailing Barry Corbin right now really fast hey Barry I've loved your acting ever since I saw you on Northern Exposure just wondering is this really is this really you from a fan Luke Burbank Do I put my auto signature on that says Media things I tend to do

No don't and if he responds then we ask him To come on TBTL because I think we should do that

Okay just sent it It's been sent We may have made contact with Barry Corbin everyone And you did not get a bounce back No bounce back yet Well I sent it five seconds ago You know my email is hanky

Usually you get a bounce back pretty quickly It's not bounce back

Thank you. We have not bounced back. All right. I'm excited. There's no bounce back. We might have a new best friend. Very exciting. Okay. Let's take a quick break, and then when we come back, we are going to test our spelling skills, or at least our ability to decipher whack-ass ways that companies are spelling their names now so as to stand out in the crowd. Stay with us here on the Summer Games. All right. Spelling is the order of the day here, Andrew. This is the second game that listener Chris submitted. My question to you, what kind of a speller are you and were you as a kid? Where's spelling kind of rank for you in terms of core competencies? Terrible.

And the fact that I say it terrible.

You spell it really just like Charles Barkley says it. Terrible, terrible.

It's true. I am a terrible speller. It was a real – it was, I think, a point of embarrassment when I was in school. It wasn't that big of a deal. And then it was a bigger deal then, of course, because it was like something that you're supposed to be learning. Then it became a pretty much a nonstarter for most of my life, because then, like, you know, my work life, I'm doing my writing on computers. You have autocorrect or nobody's really seeing my work. But then my terrible spelling reared its Doug. It's Doug Lee head again. Again. Yeah. Turns out it's spelled different. You spell that word. Hold on.

I'm writing that down. Rearing its Doug Lee head could be a show title.

At my job at KCRW Because I would try to lead these meetings And we would talk about segments we were going to do And we'd be mapping out the show On the whiteboard and then I would misspell Something and my lovely host Would love to roll her eyes That was already a space

That was already a space where I think you felt A lot of pressure and there's nothing There's nothing that causes one To flub something that they otherwise Wouldn't flub like feeling pressure You know what I mean like they probably had you questioning every single word you were writing even though if you were just sitting at your home writing it on a pad of paper it would have been fine but that kind of pressure nothing brings out

the best in a producer than being jeered by his own home team by his own team anyway so keeps you sharp yeah it really just makes you want to come into work and do your best um okay so here we go this is from daddy chris aka reverend chris can you spell it daddy chris a quiz of sensational spelling it says the deliberate spelling of a word in an unexpected way to draw attention to or trademark an otherwise common word so um we're actually going to hear chris's voice here as he says the name of a product i understand and then we're going to have to spell it oh i i mean i kind of hate this already let's take a listen to this

good day players how are you today great your first sensational spelling is fruit loops

again that is fruit loops okay interesting so is it f-r-o-o-t l-o-o-p-s i think this is a trick question right wouldn't it just be the typical spelling of no i think the whole point is that

these are all brands that have misspelled common words in order to avoid copyright or to leave their impromptu. Oh, okay, that's a good guess. Yeah, no, all of these are going to be misspellings of traditional words.

I thought, see, I thought it was going to be like, I don't know, what's an example of like a word, like does Tinder use all of the letters? Like, you know how there was this, it was very in style to like spell everything like you were the singer of The Weeknd. Right. Like, just to drop a letter? Yeah. Yeah, like Flickr did that. I thought that was the nature of this. I thought we were going to have to figure out what letter these various companies dropped. But this was more like skirting existing copyright law.

S-K-U-R-T-I-N-G, copyright law. I don't know if it's copyright law, but it's just kind of a way of branding themselves. So I'm going to say Fruit Loops is probably F-R-O-O-T-L-O-O-P-S.

Okay, I'm going to go with you. I think that's the only logical way. And if we're not going with the actual spelling of Froot Loops, that's the only. Oh, wait a minute, though. What about a Z at the end? I'm not going Z. You won't go that? That's a bridge. I won't go Zed. You would do anything for our show, but you won't do that? I'll do anything for Love, but I won't do Zed. Also a decent show title. Froot Loops. I feel like maybe that's the. Okay. You know what, Andrew? We decided it's more fun if we have different ideas. I'm going to go with fruit is spelled correctly, F-R-U-I-T, new word, L-O-O-P-Z, Fruit Loops.

And I'm going F-R-O-O-T, L-O-O-P-S. What was the name? Because I said so. What was the Doug name that you said? What was the show title that we're going with before?

Rearing its Dougly head? Oh, right.

Okay, I was just curious. Okay.

The answer is, there it is, Fruit Loops. The answer is Fruit Loops, Luke. Okay, let's move on. It's F-R-O-O-T-L-O-O-P-S. And do we get an explanation of what Fruit Loops were? What do you mean? Fruit Loops, the cereal. Wait, are you trying to tell me that the cereal that I would eat as a kid on the rare occasion I get my hands on it was spelled Fruit Loops? I would have never noticed that either. But like, O-M-G, Andrew. No, no, O-O-T. mind explosion i'm looking at the box what's in the box what's on the box what's on the box i have never ever registered that fruit in fruit loops was spelled in a funky way and it raises the question to what end was it because they didn't want to be accused of putting fruit in it Or accused of false advertising Did they just think it was cuter To have the kind of echo Of the double O in fruit With the double O in loops That's my guess by the way Because when you look at the box The O's are basically the cereal That's what it is They wanted to use their cereal They're showing images of their cereal As the O's and the letters I cannot believe It's a real Berenstain bear situation right It's very much It's real Mandela effect If we get into that goddamn sun on the Raisin Bran having on sunglasses, I'm going to be... Oh, is that another Mandela thing? Yeah, that's a big one. Does it not have sunglasses? It doesn't have sunglasses. Oh, wow. I didn't know about this one. But yeah, I assumed it did. Yeah. I assumed Fruit Loops. See, okay, now I'm getting it. So this is just things that are spelled weird, but sometimes something I've interacted with maybe for years of my life and just didn't register. Okay, wow. Good one, Chris. Okay, here we go. Here's number two.

all right moving right along your second sensational spelling is nestle quick nestle quick i think i know this yummy powdery chocolate and strawberry drink you loved as a child

now i don't think i think i might know this one i think it's just a quick right it's k w i and then is it ck or just k oh i thought maybe it was q w i k oh i think you might be right but I'll submit my answer anyway, even though you're swaying me. Let's do it this way to add a little bit of tension here. I'll go with my original. I think you're right. So you're Q-W-I-K, and I'm K-W-I-K. I think you might be right, actually, but let's find out. Click here for answer. You are absolutely right. Q-U-I-K, or Nesquik. i wonder why that again i guess it's just to be fun and flirty like because it's just more fun to say quick to write quick that way than actually q u i c k i get i mean you i don't want to google because i'm in the middle of a slideshow here but i guess you could google it if we're interested in that um while you do that can we take a listen to the next clue here uh this is oh what do you got by the way i i think i might have been wrong wait what's is nesquick nesquick is different than i think they've changed it in the interim now it's just called nesquick yes well that is true but i mean i'm telling you you should see the slideshow so chris has given us an actual timeline of the different spellings 1948 to 74 q u i k actually he's just showing looking at it now oh my god nest quick started in 1998 yeah i am looking at a this is just it's taking me to ebay on the subject of quick vintage nestle strawberry quick tin 1989 andrew when i look at this i am time traveled to my childhood remember how nestle quick came in those tin boxes and it was like a power that i forgot i forgot about that but now that you say it i remember seeing the tins we used to have that around like we didn't have a lot of sweet stuff in the house but we would have that when we would have one of those i was so freaking psyched because i could just make i could just make the world's most unhealthy chocolate milk situation but then there was the strawberry quick and just this is just one of those things that to look at this is so evocative of my child because this is 1989 which would have been exactly the era when i'm eating that or drinking that or consuming it also they went 48 88 for it just the tin just that i i don't know the what do you think the shelf life of that strawberry powder is probably is probably indefinite right yeah longer than you want but not as long as it should be no flip that and reverse it um we were not a nestle quick family i remember seeing the tins around i feel like we had a tin with buttons in it or something but like i don't I don't have that visceral memory.

Taking a picture of it, by the way, in case maybe we want to use it for a show pick. Oh, good call. Did you use the syrup? Did you have chocolate milk makings in your house? Did you just get chocolate milk in the thing? You know, we had syrup.

Now that you say that, that's exactly what it was. On the occasion that we made chocolate milk, it was probably still Nestle Quick, but it was the syrup.

Yeah, I don't know why we had the powder. That's weird. My parents probably thought, well, again, we're talking about a woman who brought Go-Gurt to Easter. So there's no knowing what my why my mom purchased what she purchased in the store. But we were a powdered family.

OK, I'm trying to say syrup more, by the way, because it's not I always said syrup. I'm realizing syrup my whole life. Syrup. But it's really syrup. And also I said spinach the other day. And I really emphasized the CH when I was talking to Vives because my whole life I've been saying spinach.

I say syrup. I grew up saying syrup and I would have said spinach. i would have probably said both of those things exactly the the way you're describing as being incorrect ever since you got in my head about electrician it's really that one's interesting to me i like it better i think it's more fun to say electrician like it honestly it's because you know what it sounds like the thing that's happening like like it's very onomatopoeia and i enjoy that about how you pronounce it so please don't take that as criticism if you're a bad

would like you to keep doing if you're bad at your job you're not an electrician you're an electrician electrician okay here it is number three okay you're doing great your third sensational

spelling is real cream real cream i'm not quite sure what it is but i think it's what old-timey people used to put in their hair i think you're right chris i think you're right daddy chris um

I think, um, I would just think it's B-R-I-L-L.

Here's where I think that this gets tricky.

Hair is where it gets tricky.

I think it's Brillo cream. I think there's an O there, and I don't know why. I've never heard that. Daddy Zaddy, I don't know why Zaddy Daddy Chris is leading this flock astray by saying Brillo cream. I've heard, when I was growing up, people would call it Brillo cream. I don't think so.

I think you're saying of Brillo pads. Brillo pads are the things you clean with. I might be. i've never heard brillo cream don't i as your friend and your attorney i would say don't have

to know here uh i know but it'll be but can you imagine if i was right i mean it makes no sense i think you're totally right i think brillo pads and brill cream i'm confusing them but what oh i know what it is i bet i know it is it's got a cream's got to be c-r-e-e-m right oh yes i'll

bet you i was focused on the brill i'm like b-r-i-l-l or did they leave an l off but no that would be the brand anyway how can you misspell a name i'll bet you it's c what do you say c-r-e-m or c-r-e-m-e i think it's e-e-m c-r-e-e-m okay all right i'm just gonna go with you on this one i'm just gonna i'm so curious i want to see where the guy who thought it was brillo cream four seconds ago let's trust him oh my god i couldn't have been more wrong you couldn't have been more half right it is first of all brill cream is spelled c-r-e-e-m however luke lukels mcdukels brill cream is one word and also how do you think brill is spelled b-r-i-l-l b-r-y-l-c-r-e-e-m They were so high, Luke. These people were having so many martinis at lunch, and they came back with a word.

This was right around when they started using LSD as a therapeutic model. This was like Cary Grant used it. There was a movement in Hollywood to expand the mind and offer LSD, which, by the way, may not have been totally crazy. There was a lot of interesting work out there around hallucinogens in micro doses. but these people must have macro dosed. Yes, they were macro dosed. B-R-Y-L, out of here with that shit.

Exactly. All right, let's take a listen to this. We're at number four, and there's eight of these. There are a couple of bonuses, but we could keep the bonuses for later in the week if we want. Here is question number four.

Your fourth sensational spelling is cheese whiz. Cheese whiz.

I got this one.

Okay. Containing neither cheese nor wizards.

um oh i'll go for i geez i can't even picture the logo because i wouldn't play in this space i'll go c h e e z e yes w i z i think you're i think that's exactly right my friend

the only thing would be maybe if there's no e on the on the end of cheese Aha.

C-H-E-E-Z. I don't know that for like a fact. But I do know that there's this, and for our listeners in Philly, I'm sorry if I'm mangling this, but there's kind of a term. So a Philly cheesesteak traditional will have Cheez Whiz on it a lot of the time. And I believe they just say wit. Like I'll have a cheesesteak wit, and the wit indicates Cheez Whiz. Like that just is enough. The person making it will know that you mean Cheez Whiz with that, a cheesesteak wit. Oh, okay. Okay, so you're saying C-H-E-E-Z-E-W-H-I-Z, or just W-I-Z?

I said W-I-Z, and you want to knock the E off the end, and are you adding the H?

No, I'm not. I'm going with cheese, C-H-E-E-Z, and then W-I-Z, because I just don't think they want any extra letters. They want to keep it tight. No unnecessary letters. They want to keep it tight.

luke oh we're both wrong spelled brillo cream is called it's spelled c-h-y-y-l-y no it's um you are scottish you got cheese with you got the cheese part right c-h-e-e-z so i got that one wrong and then whiz is w-h-i-z and we both got that part wrong so nobody wins interesting why

would you it's weird that they would want that h in there which is a fairly superfluous we've already at this point we've said we're leaving we're we're we're achieving escape velocity from traditional spelling now we're out in space we can do anything and we still want to keep the h

what's your theory i have a theory now i haven't eaten this stuff before it looks absolutely disgusting to me but it's so much i wonder if it has something to do with the idea of cool whip adding that h there it's like there was cool whip right although i don't know how that's spelled um and isn't there another thing that oh miracle whip and i feel like it's probably more like the cheese whiz this is like the miracle whip of cheese maybe cheese they want you to know

that it's it's sort of it's it's light it's sort of it has those properties i think you're exactly right i think that they want they want you to understand that it has the properties of something at least in terms of physical structure it bears a similarity to a cool whip okay or things like

that let's speed round this a little bit we got four more to go i want to do this one number five

your fifth sensational spelling is oreo double stuff oreo double stuffed interest oh wait there

was a clue there at the end wait i need to listen to this again listen to this again

Your fifth sensational spelling is Oreo Double Stuff. Oreo Double Stuffed. Okay.

Did you hear what Chris did there? He said it differently. The first time he said stuff, and the second time he said stuffed. And I'm wondering. You're going to get that past us, huh, Zaddy? You're going to say it twice two different ways, and then we're the losers, Chris. We're the losers.

I might be bringing the wrong energy to this.

Yeah, maybe we don't want to berate the people who took a lot of time to make these really awesome quizzes for us so that we can have a little time off. And has donated to the show since the beginning. Okay.

It sounds like the clue is double. It sounds like he said stuffed the second time. And so I'm going to say Oreo, O-R-E-O, double, spelled traditional way, D-O-U-B-L-E. And then I'm going to say S-T-U-F-F-D. I'm going to go for that. I can't picture it. It seems messy and ugly to me, but this is the same company that named their cereal Oreo O's instead of Ori-O's, so they don't know what the hell they're doing.

I am going to, for the sake of competition and to keep this interesting, I'm going to say they misspelled double for some reason. D-U? Maybe like D-U. Okay. D-U-B-B-L. Why do we get rid of the O there? Why do we not want the O? I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past them. So I'm going to say D-U-B-B-L, double, and then S-T-U-F, one F. That's what I was going to say until I heard the stuffed.

Or no. Yeah, okay. So you're saying F apostrophe D? That's what I'm saying now. I'm not trying to talk you into anything. But before I heard his specific pronouncer at the end with what sounded like a D there, which maybe that was just like an audio element that I'm hanging too much of my future on here. But I'm going to go ahead and click and see.

I think it's stuffed.

I do think that they are called stuffed with a D, and I like S-T-U-F-F-apostrophe-D.

That's my final answer.

I didn't say apostrophe, but I was picturing it there, so I'm going with that. But you're also misspelling double. Let's take a look here. I'm misspelling double. Why did I let him trick me? It is Oreo, O-R-E-O, double, spelled traditionally, stuffed, S-T-U-F, which is exactly how.

i was thinking it before i heard the little stuffed at the end of uh daddy's um message there boy that was uh that really threw us for a loop yeah it really did i want to put the whole system on trial here i want to take a listen to this clue one more time am i oh my god your fifth

sensational spelling is oreo double stuff oreo double stuffed huh that was just freudian yeah

Chris was sitting around in his zaddy layer thinking, God, as soon as I'm done with this bullshit, sorry, I apologize. Chris, it's been 8,700 days since my last confession. I don't think it's a good one. But recently on the show, I said a bad word. No, but like Chris was thinking, I can't wait to have an Oreo double stuffed afterwards. And that's where that came from. It was just a slip.

Yeah. Okay. Here we are. Number six. I'm not trying to put the system on trial here I'm just a sore loser and I'm going to stop being a sore loser I'm going to start being a sore winner after this one

This is one for all you donut lovers out there Our sixth sensational spelling is Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme

I know this one

Lovely donuts we all just can't get enough of

Are there K's involved? There are K's involved I think cream is K-R-E-M-E and crispy is spelled crispy with a K that's right that's what I think is going on here I'm going to take a look and by the way I'm not even a crispy cream guy not that I'm against it I just didn't I haven't gotten into that phase yet

I've never had a crispy cream donut and not enjoyed it like I've never been like boy I'm bummed I'm eating this right now but it's certainly not for me personally something that even in the early days when it was really a sensation not the kind of thing that I would be like I'm going to go wait in line for that. Or, oh, my gosh, I'm going to get Krispy Kreme. Even though, again, every time I've ever eaten one, I've been like, damn, this is a fine donut.

Exactly. I've had them, I think. But probably I know people were really kind of fetishizing them when they were like fresh out of the oven and they were kind of a big thing there. How did we spell cream again? Did we say R-E-M-E? Yeah. And Krispy spelled with a K. We are right. That is indeed the Lidoo. This is number seven. We have two more here. Let's take a listen to the Kris.

This one is brought to you by the Spotless podcast. Nice. I'm familiar. It is Febreze. Febreze. Spell Febreze.

Can I take a stab at this? Yes. I think I know where you're going with this. Okay. Do you want to go first?

I feel like I'm always going first, so I'm sorry to hog this. No, no.

Go for it. Go for it.

I'm going to say F-E-B-R-E-Z. I want to say Neesy. I know. Is there an E? is there another e on the end c-r-o-u-c-h c-r-e-m-e no um i think f-e-b-r-e-z full stop oh wow there could be an e on the end of that though god i had a very we're getting a rare

uh police uh activity going on past i mean i don't think anything's happening literally in front of my place but i've been very happy since i moved that the number of ambulances And they don't use the street in front of my apartment It's not, I guess, as much of a thoroughfare As where I used to live But I had a crazy I had a crazy long hair idea That I'm now already regretting But I just want to do it because it's more fun this way I guess What if there's, I know there's an E I know there is an E, but what if it's just an apostrophe What if it's F apostrophe P-R-E-C Febreze

And are you putting an E on the end of it? Because this is what's killing me

I think it's F-E-B-R-E-Z f apostrophe f apostrophe b-r-e-z-e that's what i'm going with febreze like it's italian

hey febreze is here it means fake it means fake smells should i before i click on this should i put the e back on the end i'm gonna put the e back i think you need the e on the end yes i think you're right b-r-e-z-e i'm gonna it's a three e situation i'm gonna click here for the answer Ladies and gentlemen, Febreze, F-E-B-R-E-Z-E.

Nice. We did.

I'm so glad. You missed. You forgot to read the apostrophe. There is something that sort of looks like a tilde above the Febreze, but I believe it's supposed to just be an illustration showing air smells good. Ah. You know, the famous air smells good. All right. Here's the final, final clue.

I feel like Febreze was one of those things that also was in that how to—you know, we talked a while ago about the Nathan Fielder show, the rehearsal. And something I didn't say during our discussion that I had meant to say was— I think how to be a person with John Wilson or how to with John Wilson is such a better show for my. Yeah, that's what everybody says. Yeah, it's you would love it, Andrew. I mean, it's involves photographing random objects around the streets of New York and then stitching together an interesting narrative. Like, I feel that it's a show that was almost scientifically designed for you to enjoy. Also, John Wilson's just a very understated droll approach. Like, there's just no showing off. It's just it feels to me like a show you'd really like. But anyway, the Mandela effect episode that they did, which is where I learned about the sun not having the sunglasses on and the et cetera. I feel like Febreze came up in that because there is there's an online argument about how Febreze should be spelled or used to be spelled. And there are people who attribute that to this Mandela effect, the most hardcore of which believe that the alternate version, the misremembered version of all this stuff did exist, but just in a multiverse situation. And the fact that we remember the sunglasses on the sun is because the matrix is glitching, essentially.

Right. Yes, yes, yes. We've been talking about that a lot after these messages the past few weeks, because there was another thing, too, about Jif or there's another there's a whole Mandela effect theory that there was once a there was something called Jiffy peanut butter that people swear they remember. And it's like, no, there was Skippy and there was Jif and you conflated it in your head. But now you have all these people who are making YouTube videos saying they've erased the history of Jiffy.

Yeah, I'm looking at 50. This could be for the winter games, Andrew. 50 Mandela effect examples that will make you question everything.

Ooh, that would be fun. Okay, here we go. Last one. Last question from Reverend Chris. This is number eight.

Our eighth and last sensational spelling before our bonuses is Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A. Mind the hyphens.

Mind the hyphens. Isn't that what they say when you get on the tube now in London? Yeah, and I have, like, an old poster of that on my wall. C-H-I-K. I think I know this one. K-H-I-K.

Yes.

Chick. There's no hyphen in Chick, right? C-H-I-K. Yes. F-I-L dash A.

Yes. That's, I believe. I may have had Chick-fil-A one time in my life, but I see the signs everywhere. Let me do this. That the end times are near. Those are the signs I'm talking about. Those are the signs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. No, they're there.

Chick-fil-A signs as well. Just study it out. Study it out. I'm going to go ahead and click the answer. Okay. No. What? First of all, I didn't mind the hyphens. There were two hyphens. I only gave one. And also, chick is spelled with a C. I think I went C-H-I-K, I think. I did, too. I feel like I can picture it.

What?

No. Look it up. Study it out. C-H-I-C-K Reverend Zaddy is high He's been getting into the communion wine Dash F-I-L-Dash-A Two dashes All one word Double hyphenated

Oh my god

Isn't that what you call somebody Who's like a Like somebody who's a multi-hyphenate Like because they do a lot of things Yeah like they're very talented Yeah exactly

This is blowing my mind I would have bet A thousand dollars That it's C-H-I-K I would have I wish I could have taken that bet If I had known That's amazing I am looking at this This is certainly a word that looks very different When it's typed out on the internet Than when you're driving down the highway And you see one on the side And that's what I blame Because also, most of the time That I read Chick-fil-A It's being written by a cow, Andrew Yeah, I know, right? And they have terrible handwriting It's like, who do you think you're fooling?

I know

I know that we need to wrap up this episode But I just have to tell you I was driving between the house that I'm working on in portland the other day and there is this island that i think i've looked it up before i believe it's called deer island which is slightly misleading because what i love about it are the cows that live on the island and they i'm not actually even sure what stretch of river it is if it's the columbia or if it's the cowlitz at this point but these cows it was really warm out right and they they live on this island which obviously there's some access to it because they're you know there's somebody oh somebody owns these cows they love to just stand chest deep in the water of the river and it's the cutest thing i would die for these cows something i just have never seen you just don't see that inter interaction or intersection very often when it comes to cows they're usually in pastures they're very landlocked areas this is one of the rare times where I've just seen

cows that are living by a big you know kind of free-flowing river that they can just go stand in on a hot day to cool off and i pulled my car over andrew and took picture from the freaking highway from i5 by the way bad idea don't do that it was terrifying it's like the longest 45 i didn't get out of my car i stayed in my car with my hazards on but it was still like freaking really scary it's like if one of these if one of these semi trucks the guy looks down at his phone i'm toast yeah so i took my picture i got out of there but i just like i'm rooting for the cows that are writing eat chick-fil-a on the billboards i'm rooting for the cows on deer island that are standing in the river i'm in fact i'll can i send you a picture of those cows and maybe that show pick today tell you you should have a cow man all right let's thank some don't you know who would let me have a cow andrew consuelo pearson yes minster colorado classic consuelo uh we're thanking our donors of the day by the way the generous people who are donating to the show that's making this whole thing possible literally we would not be here not to go all um rob low on you in parks and recreation we literally would not be here without these donations thanks consuelo also thanks to denise antonelli in parksburg pennsylvania if you can make it there you can make it anywhere sally jenkins is in redmond washington thank you sally uh then thanks also to wendy Mathea in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland. Thanks, Wendy. I'll be out not super close to Baltimore, but I'll be in D.C. Around the time this is all airing, doing Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me at Wolf Trap. Baltimore is on

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you commonly say you think the Orioles it's maybe the best logo in baseball

I believe it is very much the best logo in baseball and there's a Twitter feed dedicated to, there's an artist who takes that logo but then he basically takes all different kinds of birds and fits it sort of into that logo and that style it's one of the best Twitter feeds out there

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Yeah. Amen. Absolutely. Thank you. And by the way, I love the summer games. In the words of Father Zaddy Chris, amen. He's like, hey, don't bite my rhyme. I yeah I'm having a great time so far we're only two days into this tomorrow we're going to have a guest on the show I think we mentioned this on yesterday's episode but we are going to have listener Kirk who is a therapist come on the show and quiz us about psychology related things that also have an intersection with TBTL so needless to say I am nervous yeah if it

involves any kind of psychoanalysis of us it in the words of Bartok the Bat from Anastasia the Cartoon. This can only end in tears.

Can we get through one show

without you doing this? This can only end in tears. Alright, thanks everyone. That's going to do it for today's Summer Game. We'll be back here tomorrow again with more of this, so please do join us for that. Until then, have a great Tuesday. Take care of yourselves and each other. Please like and rate us in iTunes. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

Good luck to all.

Samir Mishra returns. Numbna. What do you want?

Numbnut

Numbnut is a felt or sheepskin pad placed between a horse's back and the saddle to prevent chafing Can I say it and then you say it?

Yeah

Numbnut

Oh, Numbnut

Thank you.

That's a relief. Power out.