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Hello, Princess Diana. Tomorrow you're going to marry Prince Charles, the future King of England. But what if you didn't? What if you ran away with me? I cannot promise you gold and titles. I was born in a creek. What I can offer you is a wonderful life in the beautiful Queen City of Cincinnati, Ohio. You can live out your days in medium luxury in a ranch house that is less than five miles away from three separate outdoor malls. We can raise two beautiful boys named Mason and Gunner, probably. We will spend our Sundays rooting for the Cincinnati Bengals, who have been historically bad but are actually good now or are supposed to be good yeah get this diana we have a generational talented quarterback one of the best receivers in the league our number two receiver would be a number one receiver on any other team in the league and a top 10 running back and we can't move the ball you're probably saying wow what are the odds of having all that elite young talent under contract at the exact same time it's astronomical diana especially for us diana we have historically had a very hard time as a team in this league you know what you guys do to the irish that's what god does to the bangles and this is happening to us because our head coach has a monkey brain, who in his career has lost 75% of his games. Oh yeah, and we went to the Super Bowl last year, which you'd think would be a good thing, but it turns out it's a bad thing, because now we can't fire this guy this year, and probably not even next year, even if we miss the playoffs. I feel like I'm going crazy. I feel like I'm in hell. What was I talking about? TBTL!

Hello. Did you say hello? No, I said hello, but that's close enough.

Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again what a bunch of clouds how's he keep up with the news like that when do we get to sing it's raining men hallelujah it's raining men i'm done with wolves now i'm into angry unicorns if i was a unicorn i'd never be angry in a few hours you're going to be smarter than anyone you've ever met targets targets don't praise the machine well all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a tuesday edition of tbtl the show just might be too beautiful to live it's an audiophiles nightmare 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 it is just unbelievably beautiful today oh ma pa it's just beautiful We're hitting one of those kind of sweet spot bluebird kind of days where it's like it's actually dry. The sun is out, but the leaves are all orange. Some of them still on the trees. It is just absolutely wonderful outside inside the broadcast center. It's a different situation because, you know, Bubbles, the cat, had a surgery recently. And so she is supposed to be wearing this, like, soft kind of collar cone thing. So she won't look at the stitches. And she figured out how to take it off, which was part one. And she has now hidden it from me. I mean, like, I looked everywhere in the apartment this morning.

Had your kids, had your wife.

And I cannot find it. she has taken it off and put it where I can never find it so then she never has to wear it again so that's what's going on here as we arrive at episode 3810 in a collector's series on election day by the way

heck yes I'd vote for you

hope you all got out and voted or will be voting or sent your ballots in or did whatever you have to do. I voted yesterday, and I was very surprised that the position of coroner where I vote is partisan. I don't know how a Republican or Democrat or Independent, I don't know how they would bring their political affiliation into the job of coroner, but I voted for the Independent. There was actually no Democrat in the race. It was a person who prefers Republican, A person who prefers independent. So I went with the independent person. And we'll see how that all shakes out.

Let the fun begin.

By the way, the National Parks have had to put out a press release asking people to please stop licking giant toads.

I would say, can you please stop doing this stuff?

They say that it may help you trip balls, but it also may kill you, and they'd like you to please not die in their national park. So we will look at that. Also, if you are stressed and there are no toads to lick, you might consider digging a hole. It's a waste of time to do that. Interesting science. science behind the kind of relaxation that digging the hole will bring to a person. So we will talk about that. And we'll talk to this guy, the longest running Cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships.

It's cool.

And it's also Andrew Walsh who is joining us right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. I feel a little bit bad. Today's the first day that I actually had to lock my little kitten out of this room while I do the show, but he's getting, he's so lovey, but he used to sleep during the show, and he's just getting so and so more kitten-like with his activity, and this is a very fun room for him to be in because there are a million cables in places that are hard for humans to get, and he likes to come in here, tip over my garbage can. I mean, he'll do it 50 times in a minute if I keep on setting the garbage can up right. He tips over the garbage can. He pulls out little pieces of tissue or crumpled up pieces of paper. Those become the best toys in the world. He peles them back to the back corner of my studio where I can't reach him, but there are a million cables that he can mess up. And then he just kind of keeps doing this cycle where then he jumps up on my lap using his claws and then just runs around the room. I felt bad. I closed the door right on his little face today, right on his little face. I was coming into my office, and he was right behind me, and I said, Oop, nope, you stay there, and I closed the door, and Luke, he gave me a look that I'm going to have to live with the rest of my goddamn life, and I don't know if he's out there right now. Now, remember my old cat, Theo, if I did that to him, he would just sit outside the door and yell and yell and yell. Luckily, Bingo is maybe both younger and doesn't have whatever attachment. Give it 17 years. Yeah, in 17 years, we'll see where it is. right now he's pretty he's pretty self-sufficient like if i close the door i'll bet you he just turned heel and walked into the other room and sat down on the couch or something um but man it made me feel bad he just wants to be near me he just it's like literally shutting out somebody's love like he just wants to be near me because he loves me and i'm saying no your love is too much

while i'm podcasting i i go through this same exact procedure with my cat and i wonder it's like will she someday be withholding to me because of how i've had to shut her out of my life occasionally or even right now you know she's like she's um still recovering from the surgery so i won't throw anything for her like usually i was saying this yesterday we usually play a lot of fetch and it's the saddest thing because so i will usually because i'm old okay now not cool

dude see literally she's literally on the yeah you know what lock her out bubbles lock her out

give her the bingo treatment lock her up but her emails why are you making my life so hard right now dude um like so because i'm old and my prostate is uh you know probably not doing great i wake up at probably 5 30 most mornings and i have to go to the bathroom and so i do that And then what I will do is I will open the door to the bedroom and let Bubbles come in and hang for a couple hours while I go back to sleep. That's our little detente.

Does she snuggle a little bit? Does she hop up on the bed? I know that you're a no pets in the bed kind of guy.

I am generally a no pets in the bed, but we have a system now where it's like I can't have her there when I'm trying to go to sleep because she's active at night. But she sort of gets the memo in the early part of the morning that she's generally fairly chill. I'm able to get another hour of sleep or whatever. But what I realize is as I'm sleeping, this has been since she had her surgery and I'm not doing any fetch for her, she goes out into the rest of the apartment and she gets various things that she wants me to throw for her. so i will like wake up at like seven and i'll look down and there'll be like two diet pepsi like bottle caps like plastic bottle caps this mouse that has rice in it that she loves um she has a um like a ping pong ball with an eyeball on it that she got when she was at the cat boarding place she'll bring everything it is actually kind of it is eerie she'll bring everything she can think of and she'll just place it on top of the duvet so hoping that i'll throw it for her and of course i'm not not i'm not throwing it for her because i don't want her stomach to i don't want her stitches to reopen right it's not because i don't love doing that with her but there's no way for me to convey that to her similar to like if she's in here being wild i have to like lock her out when i'm doing the show all of these little microaggressions that i'm I'm imposing upon her are for her own good but I wonder will it accrete to some kind of like you know someday I've you know had a seizure of some kind and I'm lying on the kitchen floor and she walks over to me and I'm

I'm like, call 911. And she's like, yeah, I would have liked it if you would have thrown that mouse for me two years ago, my guy.

You're like, bring me my phone. She's like, no, I bring you nothing now. I used to bring you things.

I used to, but then you broke my heart.

Right, exactly. We have an ongoing thing in my family. I think I have this, right? There were two things I used to bust my dad's chops about. and I think I kind of realized later that one of them maybe was a little bit too I don't know kidding on the square or kind of it it actually did bother him more because he was disappointed he didn't do this because growing up we grew up in the country and of course my dad worked at and ran this like metal fabrication shop and those things all congealed to a reality where we had a dune buggy i know that sounds like a weird statement but like we had i think i've talked about on the show before but like basically somebody at my dad's shop had like some sort of volkswagen chassis and engine and then i think it's a volkswagen and then they uh they built like kind of uh metal tubing around it like the fact that like i don't know for some reason they had this like homemade dune buggy thing that i loved i have a photo of it somewhere if i can i think i have a digitized version of it if i can find one power do you think the uh motor was was like a lawnmower and no no it was a car it was like a car it was the chassis of a car so it was like you know it wasn't that's pretty burly it was never yeah it was really burly and also like you think of doom buggies as often being like those kind of plastic um or i guess it's um fiberglass kind of frame but this wasn't because it was a steel fab shop like they it was this metal tubing that at one point was painted green and yellow another time was orange and blue and

it really popped i'm dying to see a photo of this yeah i'll see if i can find one when i'm done

talking here and maybe email it to you um i can picture one photo of it like kind of across the pond i don't know if it's the best photo did it go it was a car you know it was it was a car engine that but then they had this this whatever you say dune buggy was it for driving in the dirt though well it was for off-roading like we didn't there aren't a lot of dunes around cleveland ohio but like we had a lot of property so that we would drive it through like the dirt fields that my dad would kind of carve these paths back in this long grass field we would have. And then because the roads were country roads, it wasn't technically street legal. It didn't it wasn't technically street legal. It was light treason. Was it four wheel drive? No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it was rear wheel drive. It had these two huge back wheels and then two smaller wheels up front, kind of like a race car kind of thing. And then it had like a big kind of four exhaust pipes that all came together in the back Like a like a ponytail on it or something sticking out the back top of it It was pretty badass and my dad would sometimes take it on the country roads with us It wasn't technically legal but there weren't like a lot of police And it was just like you know he wasn't he wasn't being super irresponsible with it Right we were just he was taking us on rides It might not have had seatbelts maybe no maybe it had seatbelts anyway he would kind of sneak it out sometimes and i mean this thing as a little kid this just i mean this was the bee's knees this was the pinnacle this was like the idea of like when my dad and it didn't

have a windshield or anything it was all i just put a bid in on a 1963 no reserve volkswagen powered dune buggy on uh reserve price 20 000 how's it saying no reserve but the reserve is 20 000 i don't even know what that means well usually no reserve on an ebay thing is you can there's not a minimum price they're trying to get oh okay oh right right right yeah so in other words like you could theoretically win it for a dollar um but this one says oh i see it already sold dang it i'm never gonna own a dune buggy i'm gonna send you so i found the photo i was

thinking of unfortunately i don't have tons of these photos and this one it's like it's kind of in the distance across the way it's kind of across our pond but if you zoom in on this photo that I'm going to send you as soon as my computer kind of connects to my phone. I have trouble getting my computer sometimes to talk to my phone when it comes to text messaging.

I have the same problem, and mine are all, you know, it's all an Apple situation, but I feel like that's one of the things that the handshake is sort of bad.

Yeah, okay, I'm just hitting send on this now. You're going to need to zoom in on that thing, and I'll make this the show pick, too.

Well, thankfully, I have my glasses on, Andrew, because I have to wear them all the time now.

Okay, well, I'll just finish my story quickly here. um i uh i so the joke was or not the joke but the thing was my dad always said that one day he would pick me up at school in the dune buggy and i just found like one of these days and you know kind of a nerdy kid didn't have a lot of friends whatever but one day my dad was gonna roll up in this thing you know it had a loud engine and when you see this photo you can see like it's got the exhaust

coming out oh my god dude that is so great this was this pond at your house yeah that was the

that is substantial yeah we had a bunch of land it was out in the country so

like when you you've talked about this pond before and somehow i thought it was you know like i didn't realize it was this is significant yeah it was something i used to i used to get in

this little we had an orange rowboat that was actually a lifeboat like a plastic lifeboat not inflatable but a plastic lifeboat and there would be so much algae build up in this pond that we had some sort of chemical that would like these god what was this stuff and should i even admit to this on the show now that i say it out loud it was the 80s god knows what it was but i would we had a bucket of these blue crystals that looked kind of like the stuff they were selling in Breaking Bad only it wasn't crystal meth but we would scoop it out and put it in old socks like an old athletic sock or whatever and then tie it up and then then tie that sock to the back of the boat and throw the sock into the water and then my job would be to row around the perimeter of the pond and get this chemical to like kind of swirl around the pond and fight the algae you were trying to create like a whirlpool effect no we're i was just trying to spread this chemical around the pond by um so we were throwing multiple socks full of the chemical the sock is the chemicals in the sock the sock is tied up the sock is then tied to the boat and then it's dragging it i'm dragging it around the water as it dissolves into the water and um and the chemical spreads around like that's

what my childhood was i loved it i really like how these trees are planted by the way as well in the background like was that was that the road you would take into the house those trees I believe

mark the line between there's not a road there those trees mark the line between us and the neighbors I believe but as you can also see it kind of didn't matter like when we say we had land the neighbors had land like it was just all just like whatever all of this is to say my dad never picked me up at school in the dune buggy and like I would tease him about it like oh yeah dad just like just like you were gonna pick me up in school and then one time I think I was old enough to bring up that joke I could be wrong about this I don't want to misrepresent him or his feelings or to the degree that he remembers us now but i feel like at some point later in life i made that joke and he was kind of like he kind of winced a little bit i'm like oh that might be actually something that he kind of feels bad about like that he didn't fulfill that promise i don't care i don't really carry that around i don't think i had a bad childhood because my dad didn't pick me up in a dune buggy somebody would have just punched me the next day and said that's because your dad has a dune buggy like whatever like um but uh i anyway all of that is to say that's what we're doing to our cats right now we're giving like right now bingo is not getting picked up

in a dune buggy it's funny though that or interesting really is the word i'm looking for that that your reaction presumably at least the day of your dad rolling up in the dune buggy it would have been a feeling of sort of pride and excitement for you because for some reason And anything that my parents ever did related to me mortified me as a kid. So even that dune buggy is bitching. I'm looking at it. But if my dad rolled up in that dune buggy to pick me up outside of Jesus Creek, I would have rather died, which makes no sense. It's a cool thing. You would want your dad to come get you in a cool thing. But my reaction would have been like, this is so embarrassing. But it sounds like you would not have felt that way.

As I was telling this story, I was trying to kind of kind of remember my exact feelings because I'm not a look at me, Louie, as they say on the Dan Levitard show. Like, I actually don't like any attention drawn to me. So I think I was very young. That's why I don't really think my memory of this isn't me being super sad about this. It was me maybe being disappointed or some some like kind of fantasy I had that never exactly came true. But like certainly wouldn't have lasted up through seventh grade. Like, I definitely wouldn't have wanted it then. That would have been too much attention. Right. So I'm guessing I was pretty little. And, like, as a little kid, there are all these photos of me, Luke, as, like, a very little kid with these little nerdy glasses on. But I'd be on the back of, like, my dad's dirt bike.

Oh, I know about nerdy glasses, Andrew.

And then I had these, they would wrap my legs so that I wouldn't burn my legs on the tailpipe of the motorcycles they were driving on. They would wrap my legs in cardboard. And so I had, like, these robot legs. Like, I was a little kid who just loved this kind of shit. I just loved motorcycles. why you have your dirt bike fantasy yes exactly i always part of me always says like someday if i ever really got if we win this money ball that we've gone in on with our friends is it called money oh really i believe it's powerball powerball yeah have you been playing the money ball the whole time that's part of your problem i think i've been just trying to get on base i mean i

don't know man just like you're like i'm looking at the numbers our war is insane

but anyway yeah um yeah like i always have do have this fantasy of maybe someday like oh god if you get extra money buy a little plot of land where you could just go berserk on dirt bikes or whatever of course the older i get like i haven't ridden a dirt bike since i had a honda 50 you're

about a 10 year window yeah i if that to start doing that you know what i mean not that people

on their 50s. and 60s don't do that but for me to finally start doing that again full excite bike I'm taking a break from ages 13 to 63

golly I have I have really a lot of questions now but I'm going to start at the important stuff you got new glasses I don't even have a power in or out for that I just have to wear glasses now Andrew I got them a while ago I wasn't wearing them because I didn't need them and in the last I'm not kidding like three weeks something has radically shifted in my vision to where i can't read things unless i have these glasses on like and you know you you've worn glasses uh you know for your whole life we have lots of listeners with different levels of vision including no vision so i'm not you know i'm not trying to play the world's smallest violin here over the fact that i have to wear readers but it is it's a new experience for me that's for sure my glass my eyesight even though i've been wearing

glasses since i was two my eyesight has degraded so much over the past two years i got an eye exam i'm going to say about two years ago and i got my first kind of pair of um progressive lenses and i feel like they they aren't strong enough like i still have the instinct to take my glasses off all the time in low light like my glasses when i was i was filling out my ballot the other i haven't dropped it off yet i have to do that today yesterday i was trying to fill out my

ballot yeah and i didn't have my glasses it was low light welcome to 46 year old podcasting but yeah i was like i was having that exact experience yesterday yep and i had my glasses on and it was

still like kind of dizzying for me now it was because i was doing it it was kind of low light in my basement office when i was filling it out and it's like man i can i never used to think about like oh how much light is in here i swear when i was a kid i could read in the back of a car you know in pitch black i could read a hardy boys book you know and now it's like if it's dusk forget about it get get at me in the morning which it will be for the next eight months here in the

northwest right right right do you remember those ads for a thing called the owl no i think it was called the owl it was like a it was basically like way pre cell phones and it was a little like it was a magnifying kind of glass with a light on it so that you could read menus in restaurants that had low light and i remember being a kid and thinking what kind of person needs that and it turns out this kind of person i'm because i i am so like if i go into a restaurant with becca and it's like it's it's it's dim i'm like oh i got no chance i'm i'm breaking out the cell i'm putting the flashlight on my cell phone out it's a whole thing i think i found a this is like 90s

you think or 80s yeah probably i think i found a commercial for it oh yes now even luke's eyes can tolerate the owl bat meets owl it's bowel my bow's so pretty go ahead paint your bowel lips I won't play the whole thing But just glad that I

First of all good spoof Second of all I was really hoping We were going to actually get the real ad For the owl Okay so back to My list of questions What is the deal with Powerball

What are you in for

What do you win Who is it with I need to know

So it's the Wordle group of people So there's about six of us or whatever I don't know if everybody's in or not But somebody sent Well, you better know

This is what I'm talking about

No, I know that we're in I know that we're in I talked to Genevieve about it She handled it Our pal Roden sent out a call Actually, there is an interesting point here And I think Roden sometimes listens to this show So it'll be interesting to see If he appreciates the way I tell this story Hey, why is it sweating in here? So I wasn't paying a lot of attention to this I figured Genevieve will take care of it So a group of our friends I don't know 4 or 5 or 6 of us or something Have gone in on this thing And I think we I asked Genevieve last time As a group how many tickets did we buy And she says she thinks about 70

So we bought about 7 tickets So you guys are like 30 or maybe 100 I don't know how much is it Is it 2 bucks a ticket or something I don't know But this is the thing You're going to win And if it's 4 people that are in that's one amount of money that you and vives are going to get if it's five it's a different amount and this is why i need you to know what the shot i'll definitely figure that out when this is going

to tear the entire friend group asunder no no no you know what's going to tear the entire friend group asunder is rodin the guy who bought all these tickets for us told jenny them told his whole is holding them and also told genevieve yesterday that he You his wife also bought a couple for themselves.

Nope. Oh, you mean two people who just did an incredibly expensive remodel on their home? A beautiful remodel, yeah. A really beautiful remodel on their home? Who, you know, could probably use a little extra cash? Wait, wait, wait. They're holding the tickets that are co-mingled with the group tickets?

Absolutely not. I'm coming to Seattle right now, Andrew, to sort this out. my i don't know how this works my guess is when you buy 70 numbers it's not literally seven 70 slips of paper right i'm assuming that there's no it's all on one piece of paper with 70 but like

sometimes i'll go in and i'm actually going to do this i guess later today before i fly out um i'm i'll buy like uh ten dollars or something and i think it's it's all on the same sheet because it's it's you know you get a different little um maybe 70 is a big enough number that you would need multiple slips because each each ticket you buy is its own distinct like set of numbers right so 70 it might it might take a few a few tickets to to fully you know represent all

of those things but you see what i'm saying that it would be pretty clear well i was going to say that would be pretty clear like i don't know how many the rodents bought for themselves let's say that they bought 10 or whatever that would never know until they win pretty clearly be on one slip of paper whereas that it would be separate from the one they didn't buy 70 themselves and 70 for us and you never know which one is for the courts to decide i love the way like nobody's i mean

no we're not gonna win this like no it's it is so i haven't even played it since it's been going crazy isn't it like it like almost a it's like a one and a half billion or something it's 1.9 billion it's like almost two billion dollars it's it's like a it's like a 14th of a twitter or whatever i haven't played it and every time it goes again every time i i don't play it and then it no one wins and it goes up i'm like i just won i just won i won twenty dollars of not trying at this although that's really not how it works because theoretically my twenty dollars could have been the string of numbers that would have won it so it's my my my sort of um whatever you want to call it it my theory on this is actually not it's it's like schrodinger's uh powerball ticket like if i don't buy it and i don't win it doesn't mean i wouldn't have won because i i can't know if those numbers would have been the winning numbers but even so i feel somehow weirdly relieved when it nobody wins it and i'm like hey i didn't spend any money on that and it's still growing So today I'm going to go throw down a 10 spot.

Yeah, I wouldn't even know how to do it. You just go into a 7-Eleven. You say, I want the Powerball. I literally don't know. I've literally never. Because I've bought scratchers now. I'm slightly less scared of scratchers. But I don't really. Is this the one that has to beep, beep, beep out of a machine and you're holding up the line while some guy wants his Gatorade behind you?

Well, no. First of all, everyone in the line is also buying the Powerball. Like, so everyone in that 7-Eleven is there for the same reason, and there are people, now this is the thing, there are people who have their lucky numbers they play, and so they actually get, like, you know, you take, like, a little, you know, whatever, sheet of paper that has, like, it's like a cat test. Did you guys take the California Achievement Test in Ohio when you were a kid?

You know, that's funny. Yeah. Would that have been a national thing? Not just West Coast things. It sounds very familiar. I feel like I took a cat test.

I think. Well, we took it in Seattle. I'm guessing it was national. But anyway, you get a thing that's got the little, you know, bubbles. You can fill in your own numbers and then give them to the hardworking person at the 7-Eleven who then has to key those numbers in.

I didn't realize you get to choose your own numbers. I thought you just buy them and they're randomly given to you. So people around the country could be choosing the same number. So you don't just split it between you and your friends, but some jamoke in Jersey. Exactly. That's who Roden's going to be splitting it with. Forget this. You know, after taxes, it's not even worth winning.

You actually get ahead if you lose. Well, that's been my philosophy so far in having never won it. But you also can just have the computer pick the numbers. So what I do when I, on the once a year occasion I do this, is I just give them the money and I go, So can I please have $10 worth of Powerball? And a ticket is spit out by the machine. I bring it home. I forget that it's happening. And then later I go online and I look and it's not the numbers. Can I talk to you very quickly about – I need to return to a topic, but it's related to this in the 7-Eleven. talk now i haven't been to a 7-eleven in a little bit but i am an a.m. p.m. man because there's an a.m. p.m. near my house or an arco i call it an arco my friends say to call it an a.m. p.m. whatever if you're getting gas it's an arco if you're getting candy it's an a.m. p.m. right well i was in line there yesterday getting myself a grape gatorade and um while i'm waiting in line i realize i'm standing next to this like candy aisle or whatever and i'm looking at the reeses section because i told you i feel like i used to group there were reese's pieces all over the place there's something very satisfying about like they had like brown orange and yellow right that those were the colors like i've just been thinking about reese's pieces a lot lately and the fact that why don't i see them anymore well yeah it's because everything has to be flavor blasted and oh no oomphified or whatever i'm standing cool ranch yeah right i also think i said oomphified which isn't a thing but um i took a photo so i'm going to read this to you so what do they have they have Reese's peanut butter cups up top then they have Reese's sticks they have Reese's sticks fast break next to the sticks they have who has the time Reese's go-go in this

hectic go-go world who has the time to eat a regular Reese's you've got to have a fast break

they have a Reese's take five they have a Reese's white chocolate I guess um peanut butter cup and then some Reese oh the more fast breaks down there and and one of them isn't one of these also I guess this isn't in this photo but they also have the kind of that are like Reese's cups but then the Reese's pieces are jammed into the cups like they have all of these goddamn Reese's products but no Reese's pieces however Luke what's right above them peanut butter M&M's peanut butter M&M's which somebody might say hey listen they're basically the same a peanut butter M&M and Reese's pieces is essentially the same thing to which I say nay nay I love the color palette of a Reese's Pieces bag like they did a

Reese's Pieces by any other name would not taste as Reese's mm-hmm would kind of really I kind of lost the thread there at the end but but yeah I'm with you like I don't want to eat the M&M version of the Reese's what we would consider a Reese's Pieces yeah I just

want and people have been sending me photos of from like because I brought this up on the show the other day and people do love talking about candy you know people have been sending me photos The kind of big family pack bags of Reese's Pieces What I want is a regular bag And a 7-Eleven An M&M's size bag of Reese's Pieces Personal Reese's Pieces

Okay, so I was Googling about On this topic As you were talking about it And I just realized that there is something That you can get On Amazon And probably in other places Reese's Peanut Butter Sauce Great for baking Toppings marinades well first of all no uh and shakes this must be some kind of hyper sweet peanut butter

but probably not as thick maybe maybe i don't yeah i don't even i don't know what the utility

of this is but i am i'm intrigued reese's peanut butter sauce it must be for making desserts and stuff right i mean i mean it looks like health food yeah so i think it's probably for like if on keto or something maybe you like this also reese's peanut butter topping which you can put like on ice cream why are they they're branching out in every direction other than their core value

which is reese's pieces and i mean to me i mean i guess i'm just old oh i see like yeah this sauce is much more liquidy than um it's almost like a chocolate sauce only it's peanut butter flavor because i'm seeing pictures of like people putting this on cupcakes and ice cream like a scoop of ice cream and then this stuff you're talking about the peanut butter sauce not the kind of

stuff that's in the squeezable uh box yeah whatever you call it thing this is the reese's

peanut butter sauce it's like a big jar yeah but it's not like peanut butter it's like much more um liquidy so it's like a chocolate sauce peanut butter flavored now i'm gonna say something here

and i want to preface this by saying it is a it's a it's a very triggering word okay um i'm reading the ingredients of this uh reese's uh peanut butter sauce ingredients peanuts peanut oil sugar salt hydrogenated vegetable oil and then i'm gonna say this and i apologize rapeseed maybe we change the name yeah whatever that is call it something different like how is that how is that a word how is that a an ingredient how is that a how has that not been change to something else um yeah i don't know and i don't know that i've heard of it have you i don't i haven't either yep i am uh i'm shocked anyway uh i will probably at some point after two glasses of wine buy this four and a half pound jar

Reese's peanut butter sauce and report back by the way it has that doesn't seem like you

four and a half well anything for the show Andrew no I'm not joking it doesn't this I'm surprised that this appeals to you at all I thought this would well I'm just curious and I feel like I

want to I want to I want to buy it so that I can tell you what it actually takes I'm just curious but you're right I'm not a big sweets person so most of the time uh I this kind of stuff doesn't appeal to me but this is purely scientific purely research-based i could be i'm just googling on

the fly which is um never a good idea but i'm on something called medical news today wait no this is medical news yesterday no i'm on medical news today and it says rapeseed is a plant um grown to produce oil for cooking in the u.s people call the edible variety of oil canola oil so great and that

does actually rings a bell to me now that well you know what i would say let's call it canola oil on every label please so call it canola seed whatever you call it that is not the other thing I said I mean that is that's fairly shocking to see alright we should take a quick break and then when we come back I do want to talk about licking toads and digging holes and oh an update on the Julia Roberts my factual error related to Julia Roberts which I will tell you about um it's not don't don't don't get excited you're doing a forward promo luke don't say don't get

excited i am on the edge of my seat i have forward i see that you have a note here that says you have another update on that and i've been meaning to ask you about that i'm dying to find out don't tell me it's not interesting don't tell the listeners that it's so interesting it's like a do it's more exciting than being picked up in a dune buggy after school does that dune buggy exist is it at your dad's place somewhere sadly the answer is not yes it's um because we don't have you know there's the you know my my parents live in like uh you know they don't live in a place that has all that land anymore um they live in kind of the the suburbs of cleveland now but um they uh they sold it i guess they sold it when we left that property so i would have been pretty young but i do vaguely remember being pretty bummed about that i think they sold it to somebody who you know maybe a friend of a friend or something like that i don't even you know what I mean, what are the chances it even exists anymore, that beautiful machine?

Oh, I bet it does. I bet it's what they call a barn find. Now, do you know about barn finds? I don't think so, but I could... This is big in the classic car and also the Chris Craft, the wood boat community. There is this sort of dream is some farmer passes away, and then you go, and his widow is having an estate sale, and you go into a barn, and there is like a perfectly preserved 1972 Mustang that's under like a tarp that like, oh, he used to love to tinker with that thing. And you're like, hey, will you take 200 for it? And they're like, sure, get it out of my hair. Or it's a Chris Craft that's like up on blocks, perfectly preserved. I bet you that dune buggy is somewhere in a barn under a tarp. In Medina County, Ohio somewhere? Yep. I hope so. Heading there right after the show to go and find out about that. Anyway, all right, let's do this. Quick break, and then we will be back with an extremely fascinating update on the Julia Roberts situation. Stay with us.

Thank you, baby.

Hey, let's thank some daily donors for making TBTL possible today with their generosity thanks to jason kroeg of puyallup washington is this the second day in a row we've had a puyallup right and yes because we're talking about the fair yesterday i used up all of my fair material yesterday jason i apologize do the puyallup do you have

anything else i got do the puyallup i will say this when you walk into the puyallup fair near One of the entrances There is a giant slide Like the kind of What do you call it Is it like a rucksack slide Or whatever You get into like a rucksack And you slide down And it looks like the one That was causing All the commotion In Detroit Belle Isle Yeah

Which by the way Makes an appearance In Detroiters Oh really Belle Isle does Or the slide does Yes Both Really They have They're at a Like a family barbecue For Sam Richardson's family Where he has going to become the grill master. I apologize. This is so boring, but I'm just so in the world of Detroiters right now.

It's so good.

And they have it at Belle Isle and they show the slide.

Oh, nice. They just show it. And does anybody make a comment about the dangers of it?

No, this was, I think before they had over-greased it or whatever was making a danger. dangerous oh hey i should tell you here we don't have to get into it but i am now i think i'm exactly halfway through um well severance would be the name of the show i was trying to think of their severance i am halfway through i just got to a huge bombshell last night question a huge

bombshell last night i want to ask right now but um maybe i would love to get your yeah your take on it so far if you're enjoying it if you think it was overhyped etc okay um well thanks jason

Did you ever go to the Ohio State Fair or whatever? We would go sometimes to the Medina County Fair, and that's often where we would maybe see a demolition derby or something along those lines. Did they have a footsie-wootsie there? I remember the bus driver playing footsie-wootsie with me. No, I don't know what a footsie-wootsie is.

These were a thing that they had at the Puyallup Fair that I had never seen before and I haven't seen since. it was a little like a bench that you would sit on and you would pay like 25 cents and then there was like a thing like a metal thing that had the imprint of two feet on it and you would put your feet on there and it would vibrate the hell out of your feet oh no and after you'd after you'd walked around the fair all day and your legs were really getting tired you'd sit on the footsie wootsie thing you put your money in and it was like a it was like an amazing foot slash calf

massage really no never heard of that never seen it it sounds like something your mom would say though footsie what does it does sound like something from suzy billy yes my mom uh the when

the phillies you know of course sadly they didn't win the world series but when they were uh the second game i believe they went up like five nothing or seven nothing they were really killing it and my mom just said like go phil's woozy and i was like huh okay maybe we can integrate that

into the into the sports vernacular woozy that's just a mate that's is that an attempt at something that is slightly off or is it just a pure joy it was just like sort of onomatopoeia or something

i like it and it wasn't i don't even think it was even spelled like woozy when you're kind of you know feeling a little bit like you might pass out it was like three o's a z it was just she was just expressing her joy in this form that was writing woozy yeah because on the text chain i kind of

like it yeah because woohoo is you know woohoo is fine but this was just like like a woohoo where

she just starts mashing the button she's so excited exactly yeah i love it uh pure joy uh thank you jason for the support uh thanks also to shannon roberts in seattle washington oh can i tell you

something about uh shannon roberts shannon roberts um spends her time updating wikipedia pages to make sure that they're inclusive and highlight now you've now stolen my thunder andrew of my forward promotion that i was it was shannon who you were thinking of the whole time not julia

now i'm googling footsie woodsy puyallup fair to see did i hallucinate that entire thing people will uh i'm sure there will be some of our listeners who know exactly oh yeah i'm looking at it you know that's wild that i put footsie woodsy puyallup fair in and just got a bunch of images

of this exact thing so this is real i'm looking at some and i'm looking at some modern footage of this but it's just i just typed in fair so this is at the la county fair just posted i love

it is i wasn't wrong it's called the footsie woodsy yeah you're absolutely right one of the rare times when my memory is actually serving me uh that's exactly what shannon roberts is paying for uh today as is jennifer miller in fullerton california thank you jennifer i i it's miller i think i might have said mayor i apologize oh i think you said miller but oh good yeah i was thinking of john mayor while i was saying don't think of john mayor while you're thanking jennifer don't think of the pink john mayor in the room uh thanks jennifer also thanks to jordan anderson in university place washington remember i was talking to you about the um whole foods where they give you the um they'll pay for your toll uh and i thought that was in gig harbor it's in university place it's where jordan anderson is i just wanted to clarify that i was i was internetting it after we talked about it and it's actually a university place and what is that

university that is referenced in the name university place because this is not oh you know

what good question my guess would be let's see so that's like kind of outskirts of tacoma it's it would have to either be um pacific lutheran maybe plu okay i think it would be plu i think that's the the major university that's uh near tacoma university of uh i almost said puget sound

oh university of puget sound ups the university of puget sound or puget sound is i want to start calling it who Why does that sound dirty? What does Poojit sound dirty? It sounds rough, yeah. Sorry, Jordan, but thank you for the support. Also, Heather Kenyon is in Chicago, Illinois. Our friend Heather, thank you for making this possible. Also, Dave Austin is a Snohomie out there in Snohomish, Washington. Thank you so much to all of our daily donors for keeping us doing this thing day in and day out.

Let me jump in here, too, and just say a quick thank you to Teresa Truex of Seattle, Washington, Who was a donor of the day a couple of days ago I think last Friday And we accidentally mispronounced her name Which has became a grand tradition Of mispronouncing Teresa's last name Some people pay extra for that, Teresa Yeah, so anyway, thank you And sorry for messing that up

Hello and welcome to Top Story Okay, the Julia Roberts thing is actually not very It would be exciting if it turned out that Julia Roberts was also sort of like side hustling creating Wikipedia bios for underappreciated scientists because that's what I thought was happening when I brought that up on both this show and also on Livewire she is not she remains a person who is not doing that to my knowledge but what happened yesterday was so because with Livewire we record a lot of stuff at various points and sometimes it's for something that's going to happen or air in like two weeks or whatever so i was under the impression that my mistake around the julia roberts information which i had said on the air was already out in the world and i was a little surprised that nobody had called me on it and yesterday we were recording uh this other thing the best news podcast that we do and i brought this up and i was told uh by the producers that that episode had not aired yet that makes sense okay so so i was like and but then they were like they were like um it's already in the can this has already all been uploaded to the whatever you know like and so i'm i'm doing the the the best news podcast and i noticed that one of our producers our editor a extremely talented person named melanie sevchenko is no longer in the frame and somebody on the chat function says yeah uh melanie left to go fix your julia roberts mess up like his she is she is resecting it from the episode that will now air i believe all over the country this coming weekend so i i have not i've only made that mistake on this show nobody who listens to live wire will know that i was i was loud wrong about julia robert which is why this show is better because you got all i agree honestly is it weird that i kind of wanted them to why would i want them to leave in a thing where i'm wrong and looking stupid because but there was something about them taking it out that i was kind of like oh that's no fun yeah which is the most bizarre

impulse i'm picturing that editor like i'm actually not even picturing the editor i'm picturing her chair her swivel chair just like spinning around without her in it anymore and she like zipped out of her office to run to the studio to go clip the tape before it goes up to the bird and then down to all the stations, yeah.

I mean, and obviously that's the right call, but that really, I think that points out the real difference in how I like to broadcast versus the talented producers of that radio show. They're like, we shouldn't put out complete misinformation regarding Julia Roberts, and I'm like, yeah, but wouldn't that be a lark? Like, let's just, let's see what happens. That would be fun. And they're like, no, that wouldn't be fun. That would be wrong, and we're now going to take it out of the show.

That's why you lost that job as the morning edition editor. Yeah, but it would be fun if it was wrong.

I had that on my cubicle. I had typed it and printed it out and just said, wouldn't that be fun? And I pinned it to the part of my cubicle when people would arrive there. And, yeah, a lot of mistakes were made. Hey, we have these top stories to talk about, but it is also Election Day, And you and I have both kind of casually referenced filling out our ballots in low light. You got that done yesterday?

I got it. I filled it out this weekend. I have to drop it off at the Dropbox today.

Don't sleep on that. We got to know. Like I vote in Washington because that's where the well, first of all, that's where I've been registered the longest. And also it's where this house is that I bought. And that's where they're mailing everything. So yesterday I had to drive up to southern Washington, go to the actual, like, whatever you'd call it, like voter registration office of the county. And I have to say it was very, it felt very civic. I really enjoyed it. Like, it was really nice to see these folks that were working at this place. Like, they worked for the county, and they were very jazzed about it. And people were coming in and asking questions. They were making sure everyone got a ballot. People were coming in and, you know, dropping off their ballots. There was a box there, whatever. Like, it was really nice. I mean, I know that obviously for access purposes, anyone should be able to vote, you know, from whatever works for them, if it's their home, et cetera. Like, I get – I think it's better that voting is mostly now done through the mail and however else. In some states. But there was something – yeah, right. But it was really kind of nice to be around people that were being part of this process. Side note, this is in a county that will likely go heavily read. It wasn't even like everybody there, the people working, I mean, how can you know these things? But the people working there read to me like me and them were the four Democrats in this county. Like between the purple hair and the tattoos and the trying to count every vote, it felt like we were all kind of on the same team. Oh, you liberals love counting all the votes. I know. God, we're just obsessed with that idea. But, you know, people that were coming by and dropping their ballots off, certainly if I'm just going off of the visuals, there were probably people that, you know, were not voting the way that I was going to vote. But it's just the whole thing just was actually quite affirming, you know, life affirming to me. It was nice to be around that energy.

Yeah, it's very convenient to vote from home. And, you know, I'm sure I have the option to go to a poll here. Well, I clearly I do because you did that yesterday. I have not.

Well, I don't think there are any polling stations. They're just drop boxes.

Oh, but you mean, but you went to a poll.

Isn't Washington only vote by mail other than you go if you. So what happened was I was inactive as a voter because when I moved from Bellingham, I hadn't voted since then. and so I had to go to the like county office where they like I filled out a form and they like reactivated my thing but are there in Washington are there like polls at like a school where you can go on the day of and and stand in line and do that whole thing is that still a thing oh I

didn't think so but I thought you're I I guess I misunderstood your story I thought that's what

you did in Washington yesterday no no it wasn't like that kind of thing like when we were younger the way that which again i love that now i know again that's a also a not everyone uh has access to those equally etc like i think it's good that more people can vote but i really do love that i loved the the days of going to the like local elementary school and standing in line i would go vote at my old elementary school actually oh that's because i just i just liked the smell of the of the cafeteria and it reminded me of whatever but i don't think they have those

anymore uh in washington oh that makes sense yeah i mean that's how i did it in new hampshire and like again like from a nostalgic point of view and like it gives you a little boost of civic pride or whatever i i do like doing that but it would also be like okay i'd have to make arrangements like i'm leaving work at this time and of course you know i work for a public radio station they would make they would make it easy to go vote you know but it really is so much easier with the drop-off but like the or the mail-in or the drop-off ballot situation that i've been doing since i moved out here but yeah i mean in new hampshire i mean especially in a place like new hampshire right that really takes like elections right election process so seriously or pride themselves on that at least and it's very you know it's just i mean imagine it's it's november in in new england and you leave work quickly to go to a local school like some brick building where you know it still smells like the 60s in there and like you go into the one of those little booths where i mean i can still feel the the curtain that you know the the red white and blue curtain that you go behind which is like so it's almost like it's like so thick and stiff you know it's almost not even a curtain you go back there and you make your choices so no there i definitely have some nostalgia for that but um i don't know if i had the option that i would necessarily take advantage of it because it is just so much easier just to know that i've had this thing all i have to do today is find a drop box somewhere and drop this thing off i think if they still had that i would

absolutely do it but also there's a lot of privilege around that because i have the kind a job where you know i can take an hour and go do that it's not a big deal i'm not dealing with like young children like all the things that make it hard for normal people to actually get out and vote i don't suffer from any of those conditions so i have the privilege of of having my whole afternoon to walk down to the elementary school if it suits me but um i do i do kind of miss that

there is some nostalgia around that for me yeah i get that i dig that i did not get to vote for a what did you say the it was coroner I voted for a Grim Reaper I voted for Mike Nichols I wrote in Mike Nichols

you voted for the mascot from Iron Maiden

I was like between that and the guy from Gwar that guy has a name by the way I didn't know he had a name isn't it like a skeleton with hair or something I don't even know what I'm picturing Thank you. You're picturing it correctly.

His name is Eddie the Head. That sounds like something from The Sopranos. It's so funny. Hey, that's Eddie the Head. Silvio and Eddie the Head are in a whole thing,

and Tony has to basically mediate.

Where's Eddie the Head? Oh, he's in Witness Protection. Sure he is. Sure he is. Right.

You know that the guy from Iron Maiden, I think his name is Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer, is also a commercial airline pilot. He is qualified to fly like a 747, and he flies an Iron Maiden 747 around? You mean he's got a private Iron Maiden jet that he flies around? I believe so, which, by the way, who knew that Iron Maiden had enough money to have that kind of a jet? Yeah, he has an Iron Maiden. Hold on. I'm getting – yeah, I'm looking at a 747 that says Iron Maiden on the side of it.

Yeah, I'm looking.

Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of Iron Maiden, is a commercial pilot, brewmaster, entrepreneur, and creative business thinker. I am on something called coolintalk.co.uk. And it turns out Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden is way more on the ball than I thought. Oh, remember how we said that the guy is called Ed the Head? Yeah. Are you looking at this plane right now?

I'm looking at a different article. I was about to tell you the name of the plane. Is that what you're going to tell me? Ed Force One? ed force one this article says says named after the band's mascot eddie they don't even call it

ed the head they just call it eddie please use his christian name it's edward the headward okay that's the show it's so funny this picture of bruce dickinson giving like a ted talk like the guy from iron maiden he's in a blazer like a blue oxford he's clearly making a point this is on cool in talk uk it is the most opposite of whatever i think of iron maiden is as being about like when i was a kid iron maiden was 100 on that list of like bands that were considered like demonic like um we watched the that documentary documentary we watched that propaganda piece hell's bells it was about all the satanism and all the music i promise you iron maiden was featured in that meanwhile bruce dickinson just over here giving ted talks and

flying a 747 called ed force one so the i'm trying to read up on this on the fly so the the plane um kind of came into existence in 2003 as an air flan an air as an air flance airplane an air france airplane and then in 2016 it sounds like the band took it over for their 2016 tour and turned it into a special iron maiden plane is that what you're getting to yeah but this is

another kind of interesting element to the story. This is from ultimateclassicrock.org JK, ultimateclassicrock.com Bruce Dickinson says the sudden end of his career as a commercial pilot was distressing. The Iron Maiden singer was employed by charter service Asterisks until the company's collapse. So there was a period of time where Bruce Dickinson was actually just working as an airline pilot so there you could have gotten on a chartered flight and the pilot could have been the guy

from Iron Maiden now that would be kind of exciting right I mean some people might be worried about that but I think I'd be excited to know that the guy from Iron Maiden that Ed

the head would be flying the plane you were on you had found your way on to Ed Force One you know what's funny is I don't think I know I'm I was looking up what are the top Iron Maiden

songs i don't think i recognize any of these you know i don't know one iron maiden song i went through a little bit of a metallica phase as a lot of hallowed be thy name by the way is allegedly

their their top song according to the internet huh i think it's that song's about jesus i would guess they were a christian band right that's wild though because like definitely quiet riot which did bang your head loud enough to wake the dead like i could i know some quiet although interestingly enough i believe quiet riot played either a small casino or maybe even like a pub called the hawkeye in smoky point washington there was a moment where camaro kevin i were marveling at the incredibly small venue that iron or excuse me um that quiet riot was playing at and it was kind of like boy they had some hits how is it that quiet ride is playing this like you know bar that holds a hundred people um clearly the iron maiden folks handled their business differently because the guy's got a 747 but i can't name one iron maiden song

quiet right i guess they did come on feel the noise which i know that song but i had to looked that up and i was like oh yeah quiet right they were in the peewee's big adventure movie but that's not true that's twisted sister and what did twisted sister sing i get quiet right and

twisted sister confused uh twisted sister was fronted by d snyder right who by the way a great follow on twitter extremely progressive politics okay for reals um oh we're not gonna take it and we're not gonna take it remember that no we ain't gonna take it we're not gonna take it anymore

now I Wanna Rock was another song of theirs which I know more from the video that's the one where the I think I might even have the tape of this maybe I used it as intro one time where the father is upstairs screaming his head off at his little boy or something saying like

is the father also played by Dee Snider

I don't think so and then there's another band that parodied that I feel like because isn't there a version where somebody's yelling at Macaulay Culkin saying you're never gonna be anything if you keep listening to that rock and roll.

That's definitely not Dee Snider in the video. Yeah. I wonder who that is. Because Dee Snider's whole thing was, I feel like he would, he was very prominent in these Twisted Sister videos back in the day, but I guess I'm thinking of we're not going to take it more than, sorry, now I'm just watching a Twisted Sister video as we're supposed to be doing our job here of hosting a podcast. Does anyone care about licking toads in national parks?

I didn't really listen to your setup for that. Is it interesting? I'm just noticing here that I remain in first place in my fantasy football league, which is like I've never been in week nine or going into week 10 in first place in any kind of fantasy league.

Is that the one with the listeners?

No, this is not. This is a group of friends. Actually, it's two people I know and a bunch of people I have no idea who they are. But it's origins were through my Relationships at a institute Called Teddies But anyway yeah so now

Who's your quarterback?

My quarterback is Mahomes The name of my team is Mahomestown Heroes And yeah no I've been in

I would have gone with rolling with the Mahomes That's kind of a low key Oh man You're not going to be any help on this But what was the movie that Alicia Silverstone was Clueless.

Oh, okay, yeah, I know that she was in a movie called Clueless, yes.

Yeah, and Brittany Murphy, R.I.P., was in that movie as well, and at one point she says very... There's a song called Rolling with the Homies that was kind of their song, and then Brittany Murphy is very sad, and she says, Rolling with the Homies, in like a very downcast way. That's always been in my brain. So you have Mahomes at quarterback. Who's your running back?

Well, I have David. Well, I was kind of doing this thing where I have two Chicago running backs, David Montgomery, and then what's the other guy's name? I'm actually looking up here. I don't know. Khalil Herbert. And so I was actually, since last week, I did end up making the right choice because I'm never sure which of them to put in. You don't want to put in two running backs from the same team, but it's been a little bit confusing as to who to put in, who's going to get more touches, and who's going to do more with the ball when they get it. So I was actually hitting up our friend Chris Hayes, the only Chicago Bears fan I know. Oh, I think I was on that text chain. I think you were on that thread, yeah, because he hit us up with something. I was like, hey, while I have you here, who should I put in? I don't know how I ended up with both of these running backs on the same team, but I ended up doing okay. I kept in David Montgomery. But I also have, more importantly, I have Austin Eckler in there who does quite well.

I lost a lot of money on Austin Eckler a couple weeks ago. And Saquon Barkley, by the way, would be another notable running back that I have. Oh, yeah. Saquon is back with a vengeance. I love that guy. I really do like him as a person. I'm glad he had an off game against the Seahawks. But, yeah, I have this amazing – I don't do any fantasy stuff, but, of course, I bet on a lot of these games and players. And I have this – like, it's funny, that intro that we played that was like that guy Will Sennett talking about the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah. So I bet heavy on the Bengals two weeks ago when they just absolutely crapped the bed. I mean, they might have had like 100 yards of offense total. I think it was either a Monday night game or a Sunday night game. It was terrible. And then they came back this week, and they scored like 14 touchdowns. And I have an amazing ability to put my money on a team on the week that they're just going to stink on ice because i had austin eckler to get 100 yards and score a touchdown and it was like the one game where he has like five yards well so i will

i'll share a little personal story here um that i hope it's okay to tell but i was i think watching a game or something a couple of weeks ago with genevieve and i mentioned my um i mentioned my you know fantasy team is doing pretty well and i mean back in the day veves and i would be in a fantasy team together and she would actually do most of the

work on it like she we were like co-managers and like once she decides she's got a project like she would she would manage that team and i would just sit back and watch the money roll out um but uh i mentioned to her actually i think we were always playing in free leagues but this is a you know we pay to play in this league and and she said how much was it 50 bucks i'm like no it's 100 bucks and she was shocked shocked i mean this is our money right and i'm not somebody who 50 powerball tickets and i'm not somebody who like gambles a lot or anything so it's not like an issue but i she was like she thought i was joking because you know me i'm always like i don't know i'm i'm annoying i'll i'll give somebody a shocking answer to get a reaction and be like just kidding what time is it four o'clock just kidding it's only two you're not late andrew you're an idiot i know anyway um get out of that dune buggy i'll never pick you up from school um but anyway so genevieve thought like she was like waiting for the punchline when i said 100 bucks but like 100 dollars to play in the fantasy league like i'm not saying that i throw money around but like that seems like kind of normal now right and of course if i win i'll get it i'll get a payout so now i feel like vives is definitely invested i just sent her a screen

cap i'm like i'm still why didn't that work in any of my marriages i'm like i'm still leading honey we're heavily invested in what's going on at the silver reef casino currently because

your wives could take they could keep track of your parlays i think probably the issue there

honey why don't you want to go to silver reef it's where most of our money is doesn't that raise your interest level you know that's not an offshore account right luke do you know do you understand how many momentum points we have at illinois and yet you don't want to go there with me i don't know what a memento i have memento points yeah exactly some nights it does feel like i have memento points i just wake up in the parking lot covered in tattoos that are

try to tell a story of what happened don't bet your usual numbers at roulette

here i go once again with the email every week i hope that it's from a female no man

it's not from a female all rightily an email or v-mail before we before i get on an airplane andrew and fly to new york city i forgot you're going out there yeah you know i'm trying to open

up my email now because i got a note actually quick follow-up to something we were talking about on yesterday's show that i kind of am you know yesterday was one of those topics um that really stuck with me all day which was the billy corgan eating chips on stage and just such a casual manner using like a i can't explain that like there's details around that they would even say that like at the end of his chip eating he wipes his hands off with a cloth napkin that looks like something you would get at like kind of a italian restaurant or something and there There was just something so, like, hotel room service-y about him wiping his greasy potato chip hands off on that little thing. Like, I don't know. I'm putting a lot on it. But it was just, like, I just keep thinking about the image of him beating chips. I'm telling you. That's how I said.

It was just so uncool. When I brought it up yesterday, I said, I can't stop watching that video. There's something mesmerizing about it.

But when I so I sent it to my wordle slash money ball slash power ball of text chain and our friend.

You're soon to be former friend group when the rodents conveniently hit the number.

Why do you now have two kitchens? But Camaro Kev said, oh, good to know, because we're seeing them, I think, this Saturday. Like the tour is rolling into Seattle soon. In fact, here's the email I was looking for. This is from listener Chris and Everett. I'm going to the Smashing Pumpkins concert At Climate Pledge Arena I hate saying that This mid-show snack situation really adds A new layer to my concert going experience I would be glad to serve as your TBTL chips and dip correspondent Please advise Well yes I advise you to keep your eyes out Because what's going to happen is You need to take field glasses with you Chris and Kamara Kev if you're listening Because what's going to happen is During the drum solo All of the monitors and TVs They don't call them TVs, but, you know, that's all going to focus on what's his name, Jimmy, whatever, the drummer. And nobody's going to be focusing on Jimmy, Billy Corgan. Sorry. So you need to zoom in with your eyes or your field glasses on what Corgan's doing. And because I want to know some people have said that this has happened at several concerts, which if that is true and if they're not just lying to get attention online, And it feels more like a bit as opposed to, hey, Billy was just like he needed some sustenance and just like tried to sneak this at one show in Milwaukee. You know, I want to know if this is a thing.

I promise you if it wasn't a bit before, it now will be because of how much attention it's getting. Like Billy Corgan is is, I think, fairly savvy. And if anything, he may just come eat chips at the front of the stage. Yeah.

I would imagine it's all anyone's really looking for Like, you know, Gish, forget about it September, who cares Isn't there a song called September?

There's a song called 1979, maybe

That's the one I'm thinking of Don't they do the, um, do you remember? Yeah, that's Smashing Pumpkins That's Smashing Pumpkins, right? Yeah, and by the way

This is a thought that I had later Maybe I don't even have to bring this up And make things awkward Because maybe nobody was thinking this anyway But later on, I was like, boy, I hope nobody in the audience thinks that, like, the joke here is, like, it's body shaming or something like that. Like, I don't think Billy Corgan's, like, super out of shape or anything like that. Oh, he's super out of shape. Oh, is he still? Because I knew he used to be, but that's not the point of this. This isn't like, oh, look at the overweight guy eating. Like, that is not it. And I've, you know, I've had some issues in my life. And nobody has called us out on that. I was just thinking later. I hope nobody misunderstands, if you didn't see the video, what's so funny about this. What's so funny about it is it's just like the least rock and roll thing that a guy in full white face paint with black devilish marks around his eyes can be eating on stage before ripping into a guitar solo.

I told you the thing that I was I remain obsessed with is the Adam's apple shake. That was the of all of the things, the dainty way that he then reached up with two fingers and kind of did a little almost like he was Rodney Dangerfield adjusting his tie. Except it was his own Adam's apple That for some reason I can't get over but yeah definitely it wasn't About like food choices that Anybody's making or what anybody's body looks

Like well I told you there was another Video that I stumbled on but I was just like on my Phone yesterday morning Trying to dig into the story and figure Out like how recent it was and I found Either a different Like a different video Taken from a different angle of the same Event or I think it was advertised as him doing the same thing in a different city and somebody posted video but it definitely was from a different perspective and now i can't find that video but like if he does the if he does the throat waggle or whatever you were calling it it can it can tip us off either if he's doing that every time or if this video is actually the same incident from a different angle if that makes sense so i need to spend some time this afternoon maybe this story isn't considering buying tickets when

the Smashing Pumpkins come through Portland only to observe if this is now a thing.

We have eyes on it now. We got Kamara Kev and our listener is going to keep an eye out on that. And then did I have anything else to share with you? Let's see here. You got to get on a plane. There's a great Mary Lou

Lord line, by the way. Whenever the Smashing Pumpkins come up, there's a song called That Kind of Girl that she does and it's basically about she has a crush on a person who just he always has a crush on a different kind of person a different kind of girl and there's this line countries just for bumpkins that's what she always said she likes smashing pumpkins she'll smash one on your head and that line just like bangs around my brain anytime the topic of smashing pumpkins comes up

hey I'm gonna you know I'm gonna do something that this is gonna seem a little self-serving Luke and I don't mean it to be we don't usually just play emails that compliment TBTL or what have you but I just got this very nice voicemail from listener katherine who's been listening for a long long time i think as long as i've been part of this show we've been hearing from uh katherine and um katherine just moved into a new place and just sent this nice voicemail that made me feel good and i think it might make the rest of the

tens feel good too hey friends this is listener katherine calling from portland and i feel a little sentimental today, so I thought I would give my pod bros a call. I'm moving again, and I was just kind of thinking about all the times that I listened to TBTL while moving. I have moved to college. I've moved to Germany. I've moved back to college. I've moved back home. I've moved back to Germany. I've moved many, many places. This is my third or fourth move in Portland, and that entire time i've had tbtl and i'm so excited to move into this new lovely place with my partner who he loves tbtl he doesn't know it but he loves it and um yeah anyways that's it just thought i'd give you guys a call i'm really excited and sometimes it's fun to just share those big moments with the people who have been there um for you for a while i love you guys so

love you love tptl power out very sweet thank you that is awesome thank you katherine appreciate always love hearing from you and yeah and also a reminder of of of how nice it is that we've had

these friends for so long it really is like we are so so lucky and also i don't know if he'll get this far in the show but shout out to listener chad here in portland who i ran into at andrew my father's I'm going to pull. The bar, not your dad's place No, yeah, the bar Where Chad is now in the employ And it was funny because I was there It was after Livewire And I popped by for a drink And a little video lotto Making good financial decisions And as I was checking out Chad said, hey, I'm a 10 And I said, you know the rules, right? And he goes, yeah, I'm observing the rules right now I'm telling you that I'm a 10 what part of hey i'm a 10 don't you understand i don't know somehow i was like you need to identify yourself even more and then chad sent a very nice follow-up email saying it was really nice to meet you and this if you want to really know the way that we are in the listener's heads he was like i hope me working here doesn't mean you'll stop coming into my father's chad good instincts because i had considered it because i was like no it's actually good for me It's like it's nice to know that this bar that I really love will also have a 10 there. And also, I should not just go completely loose like it might be good for me to have a little accountability there. So, Chad, I will be seeing you again soon. And it was nice to run into you the other night. All right. That's going to do it for our show today. Thanks, everybody, for listening. Please go vote. If you haven't, just go where they're handing out the ballots and identify yourself and get a ballot and put it in. We need this. I'll be in New York tomorrow, so I'll see you from there. Until then, have a great Tuesday. Please take care of yourselves. Go democracy. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all. Please understand that nothing personal is intended here against anybody. I don't hate these artists. I'm not trying to say that God hates them. and I'm certainly not trying to get you to hate them. Power out.