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TBTL I can't understand a word you said the whole time. Did you eat some peanut butter or something? Yeah, you sound like a dog with peanut butter on the roof of your mouth.

We're just a bunch of savages, right? We're not like your fancy California friends here, George Clooney and your California raisins.

Fair warning, I party pretty hard. I've been wrecking parties since I was 13. I was like the Hunter S. Thompson of Bar Mitzvahs.

I thought that was some of the funniest sh** I've heard you guys do in a long time. I was L-O-L-A. How can they say this about me? I don't believe it. I show them. I record everything.

All right, hello, good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

It's like someone punching your brain, but in a weirdly satisfying way.

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Oh, la, la. Coming to you once again from midtown Manhattan in a New York City where the rains have moved in. We had a couple of unbelievably gorgeous days, but now it's kind of, it's a little bit, a little bit damper. Not that much colder. That's the weird part. I was very muggy today when I was out there in Central Park trying to get my exercise on. I did jog past what I think might be the coolest person I've ever met.

You're like the coolest person I've ever met.

I didn't really meet the guy. I just observed him out in the wild. But as I wrote on Twitter, I don't really understand how time travel works. But I'm really hoping that this 85-year-old guy that I jogged past, who was also out there jogging, who's just absolutely blasting sultans of swing by dire straits on his iPhone for all the world to hear as he was jogging along. I hope that somehow that's me from the future. Is that possible? Could me from the future and me from right now be at the same place? I told you, I don't really understand time travel. I do understand TBTL, though. Let the fun begin. Because I've been doing it for 3,812 episodes, which brings us today to episode 3,813. So I know this is going to be hopefully a pretty fun show, although it starts off on, I guess, a somewhat somber note. R.I.P. to Gallagher.

Please welcome God's one and only voice of comedy.

He has passed away at the age of 76. We will take a look at Gallagher's career and also read you some Gallagherisms, some of his jokes, some of which are not really that bad, actually, in a certain kind of way. Also, Larry David made a commercial for a company that played during the Super Bowl. It was a good commercial, I think. So good that it turned out to be oddly prescient.

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

So we'll talk about that. Also, I'm very excited today.

I'm so excited about this show.

Because when we're done here, I am heading to a video game arcade in Brooklyn, New York, to interview the inventor of Trombone Champion. Remember that? It's like Guitar Hero, but for trombone. It's amazing. I have spent the last couple of days steeping in the world of Trombone Champion, and it is incredible. So I'm excited to go meet the fellow that invented it. So we'll do that later today. But here on TVTL, we'll also bring you some music for your weekend because it's a Friday, a.k.a. a Fri-yay. We'll do all of that with the help of this young man, longest-running Cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning. Not to pin you down here or make you defensive at the beginning of the show, because I know how you get, but explain this alternate reality or potentially future you blasting the Sultans of Swing in the future. Are you a fan of the Sultans of Swing? Do you like that record a lot, or do you think that sometime time between now and when you're that gentleman's age you will become a big fan of it i do like

dire straits i do like that song i would say right now 2022 luke is that the song i'm gonna bump as i'm jogging no but i'm not 85 year old luke yet and a lot can change so you're gonna connect even

more with that exactly

I have the initial connection to the song, but I think that that bond can grow even deeper in the next 40 years or so. Now, I've had a similar experience with this before, Andrew. You know me. I'm not a—I don't believe in a lot of woo-woo stuff. But I was on a cruise ship. This was the cruise that we took for Camaro Kev and Anita's wedding in Croatia. And there was a casino on this cruise ship, and I was sitting at a blackjack table. I was at first base. And at third base was a guy who looked seriously like if you aged me up by 30 or 40 years. He looked physically like me, but just older. And we were playing blackjack and we were killing it. And we were doing all of the same little small quirks, like hitting a soft 18 against a face card and all of these. I mean, there's the basic strategy of blackjack. And then there's people's sort of personal preference on things that are basically coin tosses. like you're as likely to win if you do this or this in this moment and it was wild every single thing that i was doing he was doing and vice versa and at one point he looked over at me and he just winked and i became very convinced and i explained this to carrie at the time who was on the trip with me chills i think that's me from the future coming to visit me from right now and just say

like you're doing okay buddy yeah i've thought about that a lot like honestly most of my life I've thought about this kind of I don't know if it's a paradox of time travel, but I always thought, like, listen, there if I were to go forward into time, if I were to build a time machine or let's face it, buy a time machine or find a time machine, if I were to go forward in time, if you were to buy a time machine for forty four billion dollars, which then was valued at eight billion dollars and you were to kick everyone off the time machine. And I have some very strict rules about how the time machine can be used after all. You know, I couldn't like sneak up on future me because future me knows what past me looks like, but not vice versa. I don't know exactly what future me is going to look like. And so, I mean, I'm talking about since I was a, I'm going to say a kid, I would think about this. I'm like anybody on the street here, especially when I was younger, like now I'm, you know, 45, 46. The amount of change in me between 40, I guess I'm 45, between 45 and 55 or 45 and 65 is less than the between age 12 and 32 or 42. Right. But when I was a kid, I was like, any of these adults could be me in the future coming back to check up on me. And the fact that I was going to ask you, like, what did what was the interaction between this older version of you at the table? And the fact that he winked at you is very cinematic. Is that the only communication you had, just kind of a knowing look and a wink? That was you. That was you. I'm pretty convinced. How old was he? What do we know that you make it to?

I would say he, well, this was back when I was like in my mid-30s, so he seemed very old to me, but he was probably like 65 or something. Okay. But he looked like me. He had the same shape. He didn't have any hair, but he had the same facial shape that I do, and I don't figure I'll probably have very much hair left, if any, at age 80, let's say. How was he dealing with his hair?

Was it shaved, like, just to the skin? Yeah, totally shaved.

Shiny. I would say that he had kind of like, you know, he looked like someone who had had a pretty relaxed life of a lot of being out in the sun. He had some age spots. I remember him. We were also on a cruise in the Mediterranean, so maybe this was just how he was there, but he seemed pretty tan. he looked like a feller who'd had a pretty okay life and was kind of you know on his victory lap mode sitting at this blackjack table um with his uh you know girlfriend who may have been now part of this might just be me trying to make this more cinematic or more something i feel like he was with a much younger woman which funnily enough is not really my vibe so again maybe that changes over time now here's the issue though andrew i've now seen both versions of future me and they don't look the same future me at the casino was one kind of dude and future me jogging in central park listening to sultan of swing was a very different guy i don't think that the duality of burbs no

those both can there be multiple future me's no i think the guy in the boat was you was the casino on a boat or this was at a stop this is a casino was on a boat okay yeah so yeah so boat luke was you i think this guy was just somebody who kind of inspired you because he had a certain energy

that I think you're right I want to be I want to be 85 year old running in Central Park me but I think I'm desperately trying to hold on to life by dating someone younger me at 80 I think I'm I think I'm guy on the casino boat more than I'm guy jogging in Central that's

interesting though but you do have them around I mean just I mean I know that there's we're playing with a lot of loose numbers here but you're putting boat Luke at about 65 and running Luke at 85.

Like, north of 70, actually.

Oh, okay, gotcha. So these are different guys.

This guy was definitely north of 80. Okay, yeah. No, I'm going to say that you met future you. Congratulations. And you're getting girlfriend vibes, not wife vibes?

Again, this is where my memory is probably not super reliable, but I feel like he was maybe a wife. Maybe he was just married to somebody who was significantly younger than him. Also, maybe he was alone, And maybe he was with someone who was exactly age appropriate for him. In my mind, I've now this guy has morphed and become some other sort of version of whatever he was. I don't know why, just because it's funnier or more interesting or more stereotypical or something. But I didn't make a good mental note of everything around him in terms of exactly the person he was sitting next to. And if it looked like that person had a ring on or not. I just remember looking over this guy from first base and him looking at me. And he was also betting way more than I was. like i was betting a fairly significant amount i don't know 25 bucks a hand or something that seemed like a lot of money to me it still does actually and he was over i mean he was making like thousands of dollars and and then i was just struck by the similarity in in these again these these little kind of things that are almost specific to a person if you play enough blackjack and then he just looks over at me and he just winks like peter falk at the end of the princess bride when he says as you wish and it was just like yeah that's me from the future 100 100%. Did he say as you wish? Was it Peter Falk? He didn't, but he did push me down a hill one time,

which was weird. I don't know how listeners are enjoying or if they are enjoying this kind of alternate reality talk, but I will tell you this, you saved us from dream talk. I woke up a little bit later than I intended today, probably about an hour before we dialed up, and I had one of those dreams, and I'm not going to tell you about it here, but I had one of those dreams that went through a whole bunch of phases but it was very linear and I remembered so many parts of it and all the different chapters of this dream and all like I and here's the deal today is Friday right and so usually on a day when I wake up I you know the first thing I usually do is take a shower and I stand in the shower for a while and sometimes I I do a little inventory check is there anything that I want to talk to you about at the top of the show, what's on my mind, and today I was doing that, but it's also Friday, and I haven't written the newsletter yet, so I'm kind of doing this, I'm sort of bleary-eyed, I have some talk radio on in the background that I'm not listening to, and my brain is sort of trying to wake up, and it's doing two things, it's thinking like, okay, anything for TBTL today, and anything for the newsletter, I gotta write a newsletter, I should have done that yesterday, oh dang, and I'm doing that, but my brain just keeps returning to this dream, in which something I think somewhat somewhat traumatic happened to me especially as a as an audio visual uh as somebody who's hobby for in the dream yes yes in real life that it made its way into the dream no in the dream something kind of traumatic happened to me uh and my radio equipment and so anyway i was like do i want to talk about that or not and i'm just like don't talk about and then i was like boom you know what sometimes it's like the clouds just part and a ray of light shines down and everything is clear And I had clarity, Luke, and I realized I will not talk about the dream on the show today. And I haven't. I've told you I've had a dream. I haven't told you what's in it. And I will tell the folks about one chapter, one specifically triggering chapter of that dream in today's newsletter. So if you want to unsubscribe from the newsletter, I don't know how to do that. My apologies. No, that's a good. You look like a dream catcher came to life.

i will tell you that i only remember a snippet from my dream last night and it was that i realized i had been at some kind of important thing i've been wearing a backwards hat the whole time and i didn't like a base for whatever reason yeah backwards baseball cap it was a fedora but it was backwards it was weird no it was a knit cap but it was backwards i was the only one who knew honestly it's kind of the same front no i was wearing a baseball cap backwards i think because when i've been running in central park i've been wearing i don't usually wear a running hat but i'm in new york and i want to look presentable and my hair i look like christopher lloyd in back to the future when i wake up now because my hair is long and it's sort of a semi comb over it just goes nuts great so i've been wearing i've been i also yell great scott the whole time that i'm jogging by the way everything is about time travel yeah i saw future me in the park i'm christopher lloyd um i'm looking at a clock tower right now andrew that were to get struck by lightning i'm not kidding this is i'm i'm i'm sort of jumping topics but i mentioned yesterday that i've never seen the top of 30 rockefeller center from this angle um because i don't usually stay in midtown and i'm on the 48th floor of this building every day i reveal more about work. i'm staying i'm on the 48th floor of the sheraton good luck getting up here there's a lot of security but anyway i've never looked at 30 rock from this angle which is where it has the comcast aka cable town um kind of signage on the top of the building also i'm looking right down 7th avenue and there is actually amidst all of these much newer taller huge you know buildings there's actually this old school one with a clock on top of it that i'd also never noticed in my life because i've just been walking down seventh avenue and you can't you don't have perspective on a lot of this stuff you really can't see up because there's so many buildings and they're so tightly clustered together so this has been kind of fun to get to just see this city from a different perspective and i'm always a fan of some older building that somehow hasn't been demolished and rebuilt in some kind of boondoggle for um the kushner family right

anyway back oh sorry i realized i thought you were going somewhere on the building okay gotcha

so no i will tell you that i'm looking at a i'm looking at a newer office building uh like that's right across from me and there are like one two three there are about seven completely vacant floors and i have a feeling that i'm looking at a sort of anecdotal indicator of the real issues around commercial real estate and if people need to come back into Manhattan or not.

Yes, exactly. Work from home. Actually, you know, I left you hanging there because I thought you were still in the middle of a story and I didn't mean to leave you hanging. But here's what I would have said had I known that you were ending your thought there. Regarding the building thing, you said that you're getting this beautiful perspective from being up there. Is there a chance that snow will fall while you're there? I mean, it's mid-November. You're going to be there a little bit longer. Like, wouldn't that be something beautiful? The first snow in New York?

i would absolutely i'm looking at the weather forecast right now for the next few days it is well i mean it's gonna it's it's saying it might get to 36 on monday and tuesday i mean right now it's like 60 degrees so it's we're nowhere near snow but i'll tell you what yeah that the the first snowfall in new york city is uh is is quite beautiful although again here in where i'm it's such a bizarre environment because there's just the buildings are so tall and so packed together that it's almost like i don't know if the snow can even if it can really like sort of blanket properly this area of new york because it's just there's so much um stopping it from happening but all i was gonna say about my backwards hat dream is i think it's because i've been wearing a backwards hat while i'm jogging and that seeped into my brain and the way it manifested in the dream was i realized at the end of whatever this event was i was like oh my god i've been wearing a backwards hat the whole time why didn't anyone tell me um so anyway that'll also be in the newsletter this week although i've sort of spoiled the surprise there

a little bit on that i'd say like if you'd like to write the newsletter this week that would really that would get me out of a couple of jams all right listen i said i wasn't gonna talk about the dream aside i can't get this dream out of my head i'm just gonna say one sentence about this dream you don't get to ask me any follow-ups but um because i'm not spoiling anything there were so many different chapters of this dream in one of them luke i decided that i was going to spend some time rollerblading and i i was still a rollerblader or like an aspiring rollerblader in this dream and i put these things on my feet and i wasn't half bad i wasn't great i was still stopping myself sometimes with my hands but i was like zipping around town kind of killing time and i remember like kind of even going down some stairs in them somewhat clumsily but being like hey you know i think i've got this and you know it kind of makes me sad that i gave up on my dream of being

an expert rollerblader i thought of you this morning because as i was doing my little my little tour of central park there was a guy sitting on a park bench and he had clearly just rollerbladed there and i thought oh this would be a fun it's very flat that's what i like about the loop of central park there i mean there's a couple of very mild uh inclines and declines but But it's a pretty flat situation. And anyway, I saw the guy with the rollerblades. I thought, oh, that Andrew could be here rollerblading right now.

No, those people always blast music, right? If you're rollerblading, you have to be blasting 80s synths.

The reason I thought of you was because he was more like I feel like you would be. First of all, he looked sort of like – who's the host of the – I just interviewed him too, by the way. The host of The Best Show, Tom. Oh, Sharpling? Tom He looked like Tom Sharpling And he was just in a Like a normal t-shirt And some I don't know Jeans or something So he wasn't Like you know You think rollerblader Out there You think like Full body spandex And like You know A fanny pack That's got a speaker in it And they're just like Going for it Like they're just They're Sort of What's the word I'm looking for Aerodynamic And they're feeling That's like a Like that's

Thank you.

like a venice beach rollerblader have you ever seen that kind of yeah i know you're talking about

and then there are also not not to yuck yums here but there are also some people who are also you kind of saw this around um the pandemic two people who got into roller skating but really got into the fashion of roller skating more than the roller skating itself you know it's like some people i think the the reason for putting on the roller skates is so that you can wear the socks

and everything that go along with which hey listen i mean i don't want to be creepy but i'm not i'm not hating that look for people i think it's kind of i think it's sort of fetching but i know what you mean like there's a few different versions of being out there on wheels this guy seemed real andrew to me like he just was a normal looking dude he by the way he had the roller blades off he'd and then my thought was oh he definitely looked like me then well no i mean he was either about he either had rollerbladed there or he was about to start rollerblading but he had these rollerblades with him they were out they were on the ground my first thought was oh that guy is rollerblading then i was like he's not wearing them and i was like is he just gonna walk barefoot and i realized he has shoes on still so what i know is he owned rollerblades

and that's the way that he seems similar to you he seems a lot like me now that you say that yes what if that was future me or past me or or just like three weeks future me right what if future

future you comes back but it's just from like 11 hours it's just not a particularly interesting

amount of time has gone by you know you were talking about well you mentioned um tom sharpling and i was thinking about the fact that he doesn't have a beard and i do or at least i don't think he has a beard i don't know those things change but for for real this actually was a thought i had when you were talking about future luke um being shaved like you said that that that fell on the boat shaved head but sturdy not um but not buzz cut not even not even extreme buzz cut but like wakes up every morning and actually razor blades his head so it's shiny he looked like

honestly like he might have had and this part i don't think i'm crazy about i believe he looked like he may have had alopecia totalis okay so he might have been a person who didn't have even eyebrows oh okay sounds good well like so so that's how little hair he had i don't think he

had very much hair at all on his head and face well you know as i continue to age and lose more more hair and you know at first I was like you know for years and years now I've been seeing my hair recede you know my hairline recede and I've been used to that and like it's only been in the past like two years that I've started to see like kind of glimpses of the the back top of my head and maybe a video here or there or because I can't see that in the mirror and I realize oh I'm also getting that male pattern baldness too and it's all starting to come together into just baldness Right. And I'm fine with it. Like, I don't I don't have a lot. I don't have how I don't have a lot of hangups about that. I only have hangups about it when it's not treated right. Meaning that like when my I used to like let my hair get pretty shaggy even after I'd cut off all my long hair and like shaggy hair. I kind of look like a zany professor or whatever when I was a younger man. But now if my hair gets long, it looks stringy and kind of gross and weird. And, like, again, I don't mind being a balding man, but I don't want to be a balding man who also just, like, kind of has gross-looking hair or certainly any kind of hair.

You mean you don't want to look like Gallagher?

Well, yeah, there's that, too. But I – so anyway, I went to get my hair cut the other day, and I came home, and I took off my hat, and I showed Genevieve. She's like, whoa, that's really short. And I'm like, yeah, but I think that – we didn't really talk about it. I always get my hair, like, scissor short. I don't use, like – I don't have them use, like, you know, shavers on my head. but I think my hair kind of naturally has to be cut shorter and shorter because the places where there are no hair it'll look weird if the hair around it is too long right and again I'm totally fine with that but all of this comes around to my beard I have like my cousin Skip I think he shaves his head he like straight up shaves his head but then has this big bushy beard but he's got this good like kind of hipster look he's very tatted up you know he's an artist and he also who works at a brewery, like all that works for him, his whole like vibe works. But like, I'm not the type of guy who can have a totally shaved head and a beard. In fact, Genevieve even said, like, my beard, which is relatively trim right now, was seemed longer than my hair. And, you know, that's something that I need to consider as well. And I have had on my mind lately whether or not I need to, do I need to start thinking about shaving my beard because I'm losing my hair on top and my haircuts have to reflect that and my beard has to complement my haircut.

No, I think your beard is very nice. I'm jealous because I can't grow a beard. And I just think, I do think, though, you know, God gives his thickest beards to his baldest shoulders.

Hold on, I need to write that down.

Not always, but there is sometimes a connection between, like, I do have, you know, I wish I had more hair, but I have some hair.

on my head and i have no ability to grow a beard and a lot of guys i know that can grow a really good beard i think as a testosterone thing i think if you have a decent amount of testosterone in terms of body hair and facial hair that also can sort of add up to like maybe less hair on top of your head because there's very much a look for a guy and you're right you've described your cousin it's you know it's a guy who often has a lot of tats has a pretty thunderous beard and then has a shaved head yeah and um i actually think that's a cool look i i mean i couldn't achieve that look um which is why i take many milligrams of finasteride every week so what's left of my hair on top doesn't fall out because i don't have that beard option but you know i'd never even had occurred to me and i don't think you're considering that as a look but you could become one of those leather apron guys i can't become i'm not becoming a leather that sounded much more s&m than i meant it to i just mean do you have anything that says daddy loves cooking and

leather um i uh that's the thing like i'm not changing my whole i'm still me i'm not changing

my whole thing we could do this together i mean you could do it and i could kind of encourage you to do it the taming of the drew oh my god please can that be the show title today i don't

know i i kind of have a lot hung up on god gives his thickest beards to his baldest soldiers

well listen i think this would be a fascinating project you get over the course of the next year the taming of the drew you get yoked okay that's step one because those guys are always kind of yoked okay great and you get some tats and you then grow your beard way out and then you shave your head way down and then yeah you become you you there are only a few industries you can be in when the chief one being brewery brew master something in the brew space uh there's also um you can be a uh like a a tanner of leather you can make fine leather goods i can probably work

in one of those kind of upscale like not well like i could work in like an upscale butcher shop sort of like in a cool part of town or in one of those places that's kind of an open style restaurant where the person in the leather apron also brings out your meat to you yes yes you could

definitely do that you could also just be a sort of standard you could be a bartender but it would have to be at a place that specializes in whiskey yeah yes exactly and you have to have a lot of

opinions about the kind of whiskey that people are drinking there's a bar in greenwood that everybody likes but i will not go to because 10 years ago i went in there with a group of people and some guy with a um twisted mustache like acted like it was a huge favor to like tell me what kind of beer he had or something and i will never go back to that place i can't remember it's like some place that has a cozy name like the library or the dead or something they love that

people that are like whiskey snobs love to name their bar the library yeah it's one of their favorite things to do i had an experience a few weeks ago too where i was um just trying to order i like this whiskey called suntori um it's a japanese whiskey it's literally the whiskey that bill murray is doing ads for in lost in translation and i'm sure that when i first saw it i was like wait that's a real thing like i thought that was just a joke um and so i ordered it but i actually really like it because it's very light the kind that I get it's called Suntory Toki first of all it's not very expensive it's probably about as much as like a thing of Jameson and it's very light it doesn't get you as drunk and you don't feel as hungover the next day and I ordered it somewhere and the guy was like well you know what I really like from Japan it's da da da da and I was like oh that sounds great maybe I'll check that out sometime and then he just kept talking about it like he was like almost trying to stop me from just ordering what I wanted to order and then he was like yeah i don't really like that stuff like the stuff i'm getting i'm just thinking like okay you don't have to have it i'm having it i'm ordering and i had to like basically talk him into just pouring me a shot of this thing that i wanted and i was like this is not really how this transaction probably ideally would be going but it sounds like he was at least nice and trying to bro down a little bit he wasn't being a jerk yeah he wasn't being like here's i mean honestly i don't know if this is we have lots of folks that work in the food service and stuff i don't know maybe he saw his job as educator as well but like if i'm working at a bar and somebody orders a thing you know what my the great likelihood of what i'll say is oh cool i love that stuff do i love it i don't know but i'm they're getting it cool like hey do you can i get a mono pilova and soda oh sure yeah i love mono pilova that's kind of my go-to or whatever like i just feel like positivity in that space is better than like being like oh you're ordering the wrong one. Let me educate you on a different Japanese whiskey that you didn't even ask

about. I like it when somebody gently offers an alternative.

alternative because if they're if they're just being friendly but like do it once and move on you know what i mean if somebody says hey listen if you like that there's another thing on the market that i've been really digging you want to try it and if you say you know what maybe i'll try that sometime but i'm gonna stick with my centauri this time then that's it like i actually like that i've tried believe it or not i've tried new things because of a friendly bartender or server or whatever it doesn't happen all that often when i'm at arby's and i order the the jaw buster and they say have you tried our new super jaw buster but anyway yeah like growing down a little bit in offering hey have you tried this is a nice thing but yeah but come on let's let's also you know what I'm going to be honest

and done I was you know let's if I'm ordering Suntory I may have already had a few Suntory so I'm not a reliable narrator I can tell you it wasn't it was not listener Chad at my father's place they don't I promise you they don't

have Suntory at my father's place

That is not the place for that at all. Anyway, okay, we've got to take a quick break, and we come back, maybe a little Gallagher talk, and then some Larry David explanation on his ad that turned out to be very on the money, as it were, and then music for your weekend, all coming up here on TBTL.

Thank you, baby.

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Oh, I'm looking at, oh, man, he's got like a, he's, wow, that's an aggressive mascot. Is he wheat or corn? Can you tell? I cannot tell. The nose is busted up like he's gotten in some, like he's been drinking a long time and has gotten into some brawls, right? Am I wrong about that?

No, I just think that's a funny way to, I hadn't thought of it, but yes, That is sort of a vibe

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His name is Woo Shock Love it Thanks Tyler Go Shockers Also thanks to Carrie Maloney In Seattle, Washington Thank you Carrie Thanks for the support Carrie Thank you also to Claudia Carrillo Sorry I'm battling the fact that I chugged like half of my starbucks coffee uh when the music was just starting and that was a bad idea andrew because now it's it's not all going down peacefully um thank you uh carrie also thanks to claudia carillo in pacoyma california gosh that's fun you know who the mayor of pacoyma is not literally but the figurative mayor of pacoyma is one danny trejo oh that's why pacoyma kept coming up on I went to Pacoima with Danny There's a massive mural of him On the side of a building And it was funny because we were standing in front Of the mural of Danny Trejo with Danny Trejo And everyone was just stopping On whatever the main street is in Pacoima To get out and take pictures and be like What's up Danny?

Is he allowed to run for I don't think you know the answer to this so I should just shut up But I was going to say is he allowed to run for mayor Because he's a former felon

Great question I mean I feel He seems to me like somebody who i mean why would that even that's such a weird rule to me this is the part of the show where we start talking about um disenfranchising former felons which i know running for office and voting are different but like i find it so shocking i find it so wichita state shocker zing that a person who committed a crime but then served their time in prison would not be allowed to vote anymore as if they are either less of a human or there is an idea that they are going to team up and what elect a robber with like the black thing around his like a stripy shirt and a black thing around his eye yeah like like who keeps the hamburgler who keeps electing the goddamn hamburgler it's all those felons who are still allowed to vote after doing their time it's like it is that is just the most bizarre law to me like if if someone has done their time and they're out in the world they have every right to say to have their say in our political process and i just have never understood that same for running for office now the reason i pause was because if Like, let's say Donald Trump was convicted of a felony. I would love that to somehow make it so he can't run for office. I guess it depends on the person. But Danny Trejo seems to be quite a pillar of the community. You know, he's been sober ever since his days in San Quentin. And he leads a lot of meetings and has, I mean, I've been to his house where he's just got a bunch of random sober cholos hanging out. Like, he is walking the walk. So if he wants to be mayor of Pacoim, I sure hope they wouldn't stop him.

Yeah, I mean, for me, and I'm not obviously well read on this stuff, but the idea of losing your right to vote, I mean, it just underscores the idea that the prisons are not even expected to help for prisoners rehabilitate and get, you know what I mean? The whole point of this isn't just so that we can feel better because we got somebody committed a crime and now we as a society get revenge on them by putting them behind bars. We're trying to improve society by having deterrence. Yes. But also that we have these facilities where people have to be outside of society for a while. But hopefully we're rehabilitating them and preparing them to reintegrate so that society will be better with more better people in it. If we're saying, no, you can't ever vote when you get out of it, then it belies the entire idea that we're even trying to do that.

It's ridiculous I just don't understand I mean and whatever It's like this bullshit that DeSantis pulled in Florida Where he sent this team of you know shock troops out It was really just the local police Who I think were as confused as anyone honestly To arrest people who had committed quote unquote voter fraud These were people who had had some sort of conviction Who were then often told they were allowed to vote And then voted Like they were signing up for their driver's license And I don't know if Florida is one of those motor voter states where, you know, you can register to vote while you're also getting your driver's license renewed or whatever. But these people mostly were just completely normal folks who had gone to renew their license or something and had been told, hey, are you registered to vote? One of them said, I told them I'm not allowed to vote because I'm a felon. They said, no, we think you are. And then they just voted in like the dog catcher, you know, race in Sarasota or something. And this was all a political theater to try to create this idea that there is widespread voter fraud and that it has to be stopped, this idea of like integrity around the vote. And the only way they can do it, because, of course, there is no widespread voter fraud, is to trick some people into voting when maybe technically they weren't allowed to and then arresting them and then publicizing it. I mean, it's just one of and this is saying a lot for DeSantis, one of his grossest moves of the last year. And he's done some gross stuff.

Well, you just did a service to the scented oil industry because I'm slathering Egyptian musk on my wrists as you talk to calm myself down because I'm getting agitated. Yes, hit your pulse points. Either way.

I'm sorry, Claudia, that I turned this into a rant. I just want to say Pacoima was lovely when I visited it. Pacoima also makes, I think, some appearances in the Bugs Bunny cartoons because the writers of the Bugs Bunny cartoons back in the day either lived in Pacoima or just thought it was a funny sounding name. It is a funny name. And so it got a lot of play. I knew that Pacoima existed as a kid growing up in Seattle due to the writers of Bugs Bunny. Okay, moving on and thanking Claudia, we are now thanking Samantha Hartman, who's in Missoula, Montana. I don't know which movie stars are from Missoula. I bet you there are some movie stars living out there, though. So Montana is one of those places where I was filming a TV story out there a while ago, and I was shocked at how many famous people have places in Montana and live in Montana and just are hanging out in small towns. You'd be like, oh, there's David Letterman walking down the street. Not that I actually saw David Letterman, but everyone had a story. Maybe even Samantha Hartman. Thanks, Samantha.

Steve Albini, by the way. Steve Albini grew up in Missoula. The record producer, yes. Cool. I would have never known that. I'm just looking it up. Was he, did he do Nevermind? I get it confused. Didn't he, he did some Nirvana and some Smashing Pumpkins, I believe, right?

Do we have, on the subject of which, we've got a listener, right, who's going to be our Smashing Pumpkins correspondent.

Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have Chris or somebody checking in. And also Kamara Kev are going to be going to the, that's this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah, to check out the Smashing Pumpkins. We need eyes on this situation.

And is Billy Corgan going to eat chips during the drum solo?

I'm wrong. I think I'm wrong about Smashing Pumpkins. I don't see him doing that. I think the Nirvana record that Albini did, I could be wrong about this, was their last one, their last studio record. Oh, okay. That was like really... Was it like Jack? Wait, was Jack and Dino? I want to say it was like really noisy and it kind of had that Albini edge, but I could be wrong about that.

I am hopeless with music producers because I don't have the kind of ear that picks up the sort of a style of production kind of like a way that like you said that what was the sound you associated with steve albini like really raucous I feel like I just don't I wish I had that and speaking of our friend Camaro Kev he really has it like this ear for like a way that a producer tends to produce stuff that stuff

is just so lost on me yeah me too I don't mean to because it sounds like he did some breeder stuff here so I don't even know if that's right I just think of that and I did confirm here he did the in utero in utero record and so I do remember like that that album really had a um yeah whatever If I start talking about this I'll annoy myself But I'm with you Every now and then I think I hear something And I like to talk to myself about it But I don't trust myself talking into microphones About the sound of producers Because I'm not that smart when it comes to that stuff

We should interview that kid Miles that I just interviewed in Chicago The little junior music genius To hear him just talk about What Charlie Puth does on a record Or He could just sit in the car and hear a song And if it's popular enough, he'll tell you who produced it based on the way that the stuff is arranged. It's quite a talent to have, which I don't have. You know, James Callahan, though, in Vernon, Vermont, has the talent of supporting TBTL. Thank you very much, James. And then Anthony Mao is in Seattle, Washington. Thank you, Anthony. Thanks to all of our donors today for keeping TBTL going. We would not be here without you. hello and welcome to top story uh well gallagher has passed away he was uh 76 years old he passed away in palm springs where i guess he had been in hospice care so it sounds like his he was in sort of poor health for a while um i uh of course anytime the topic of gallagher comes up do you think we have listeners who don't know who gallagher is by the way do we need to give any context he's the guy who smashed watermelons there everybody knows he is the pump the watermelon smash i've got a lot of smashing pumpkins on the brain yeah i think i was confusing oh sorry this

is just living in my head i think butch vig did a smashing pumpkins right oh i get those names

confused sometimes sorry um so gallagher was the guy known for smashing watermelons and he was a real sensation in the 80s he was sort of everywhere of course whenever the topic of Gallagher comes up I am I am my brain immediately goes to Gallagher too which is just a fascinating footnote about him and we've talked about on the show before but he had a brother and his brother wanted to go out and also do comedy and there's actually just it's sort of a sad story to me because it sounds like real gallagher which is leo gallagher was trying to help out his brother ron gallagher who'd been having some trouble in the early 1990s gallagher's younger brother ron asked him for permission to perform shows using gallagher's trademark sledge-o-matic routine that was the big giant you know what do you even call it's not even a sledgehammer because it's made out of wood giant mallet right a giant mallet giant mallet um gallagher granted his permission on the condition that Ron, who shared a strong likeness to Leo, and his manager clarify in promotional materials that this was, in fact, Ron Gallagher, not Leo Gallagher, who was performing. Ron typically performed in venues that were smaller than that, of Leo Gallagher. After several years, Ron began promoting his act as Gallagher II, as in Gallagher T-O-O. In some instances, Ron's act was promoted in a way that left it unclear that he was not the original Gallagher. This and also Ron's offstage troubles left a stain on Leo's reputation as well. So then you've got real Gallagher, it sounds like, if Wikipedia is to be believed. So his brother's like, can I go do comedy as well? And he's like, sure. But could you just make sure everyone knows that you're not me? And he's like, sure. And then he starts calling himself Gallagher, too. And he's off at the bar, like, you know, having trubs in the public space. and so then real Gallagher is like okay could you do me a favor could you just not use the Sledge-O-Matic routine could you not do the one thing that I'm known for which is Smashing Watermelons um Ron nonetheless continued to tour as Gallagher and use the Sledge-O-Matic routine

I mean it runs in the family I mean if you if you're a family and you have two children who are both gifted at Smashing Watermelons with a mallet and one of them says well I got there first like what if they're both gifted guitar players do you tell the one oh can you stop

playing guitar it's like if peyton manning told eli manning you can't play quarterback right exactly um well the courts sided with leo gallagher who passed away uh and found that his brother ron by the way somehow and peace and love to our listeners named ron it seems to me quite fitting that the other gallagher brother I'm going to do it. who was kind of the bad seed, was named Ron for some reason. Frank Stallone situation, sort of. It kind of seems like a real Ron move. And again, peace and love to our Rons out there. But anyway. And to Frank Stallone. Yeah, I believe. What's Frank Stallone's? He likes to sing, right? I think he puts out albums. Boy, Sylvester Stallone is really in the news right now. Why? Not for anything bad. He's just on the promo circuit, because he's got a new TV show coming out on like some streaming service. And I think it's called like King of Tulsa. Yeah. And he has been, it's funny when you can just tell that a star, like a pretty famous person like Sylvester Stallone is promoting something because just all of a sudden they go from like, I hadn't thought about Sylvester Stallone for, I don't know, four years of my life to everywhere I look, Sylvester Stallone is doing something, you know? It's like he's out there right now really promoting that new show.

Yeah, we did the ranking of his movies that somebody named Andrew Walsh, but not me, had posted to the Internet earlier this weekend.

Right, and I bet you that was probably tied to this King of Tulsa thing.

Probably.

We had a, there was a piece on Sunday morning, a profile of him, and Kamero Kev, knower of all things Stallone, texted me. He was like, how did you miss out on the Stallone gig? And I was like, you clearly don't understand where I am on the pecking order of CBS Sunday morning correspondents. like uh the guy who did the interview the great lee cowan he is going to get the first crack at sylvester stallone and then it's going to go to tracy smith and then it's going to go to a whole host of other correspondents and at the very end if no one wants it maybe maybe they'll give it to

me but certainly not sylvester stallone do you remember the gal sorry are you is there more to

the gallagher legal uh no that's the story yeah too i you know i grew up just like think i didn't

really like Gallagher but it was like something that I you know saw a lot of in the late 80s and early 90s and it was just like kind of the silly thing but what I'll always think of now and again maybe we shouldn't speak ill of the dead but in this case I don't really care uh Lindy West and I look this up right now this was way back in 2010 so this is getting kind of long in the tooth as you'd say but do you remember Lindy's amazing piece in The Stranger um back in 2010 where she went to like one of his shows and she's like oh yeah this is a quirky thing from my past and he was just a straight up racist homophobic just like the things the quote-unquote jokes he was saying at the expense of gays and and and and uh obama was in office then and all this like racist shit against obama's like whoa man i'm not shedding any tears today i mean not that i wish anybody dead but like i'm not celebrating this guy he didn't um seem like he had very good

takes probably ever in his life but certainly while we as the rest of society hopefully we're starting to i mean so much stand-up comedy in the 80s was terrible like in terms of the worldview that it presented you know even like eddie murphy sorry no don't say sorry it's hate there's very little watching that there's very little stand-up comedy and i'm not trying to like i i'm also not really a gallagher uh apologist or anything i'm more of a gallagher 2 guy myself wouldn't it be great if gallagher 2's act was really woke that would be great he's smashing the patriarchy and that's what was making gallagher 1 mad was that everyone was thinking that gallagher got woke but in fact i mean that would be i'd watch that movie

he literally writes patriarchy on a watermelon and smashes it the humor isn't any better but

at least it's on the right side of history no i mean i i think that you know i'm sure gallagher's humor was our always incredibly like uh racist homophobic um anti-woman because because of course so much stand-up comedy in the 80s was playing into any stereotype available right that was the that's the joke it's just like you know these people whoever you're talking about are this way and these people are that way and that was the comedy and very little of it holds up now some of the people have hopefully uh from that era i mean not even that many of them are probably working anymore because that was not so long ago but some people have i hope evolved with the times and their act as you know i would i don't know eddie murphy's politics i would hope that if eddie murphy did stand up again it would be a lot more inclusive than it used to be but i think probably what happened with gallagher was he never got the memo or he didn't care about the memo and so i yeah that reading that piece from lindy many years ago was it was kind of shocking because i'd never really watched a whole set of his i never cared about him enough to even know how kind of super

bad his stuff was i feel like i could be wrong about this and maybe i was just blind to it but i don't think he brought up all these social issues earlier like i just i remember him kind Because there was some special, and again, I didn't.

didn't like it but i felt like i don't know man when i finally got cable when our family got cable in the the kind of late well let's see here this would have been my high school year so i guess early to mid 90s um it was like the um era where there was stand-up comedy on almost all the time if you knew where to look for it like vh1 had a bunch of specials comedy central was newer then so they had tons of comedy specials um and then it just leaked into other things as well mtv had their comedy specials and like all those i guess viacom stuff um and i just remember there was some station that would always play like one of two gallagher specials that seemed like they were just omnipresent and you'd say like well andrew just changed the channel right but it just seems like i don't know for some reason it was on and i would see and i don't remember it getting into any like it sounds like when he was appearing in uh tukwila or wherever he came in 2010 um gallagher was like really leaning into the culture wars in a way that i don't think it was associated with i'm sure there was some casual like you say maybe some casual misogyny or homophobia here or there but like i don't remember that being like such a a point of the act well it also probably tracked

with his age which unfortunately happens to a lot of people who aren't comedians right you get older the stuff that's happening in the world seems more confusing to you or you know it's just it's not the world that you grew up in and so it feels weird and off and and you want to point that out and unfortunately you know you've got a lot of insurance salesmen walking around doing this gallagher was just one who would stand on stage and smash things with a big mallet yeah so he had a slightly bigger mouthpiece for it now speaking of comedians though andrew um would you would we consider larry david a comedian i mean he's not a stand-up per se but he's he makes comedy right he um was you remember uh this ad from the super bowl actually a very good ad i thought i wonder if we even talked about it when it came out where it's the premise is larry david is always historically been wrong about what was going to be the next big thing you remember this ad right yeah very much so yeah i didn't know you you because you do the uh advertising show with genevieve you probably saw the full two and a half minute version i'd never seen it before today

What did they air during the Super Bowl? Just a minute-long version? I don't know if I saw two. I mean, the one I saw was pretty epic, but I don't remember if it was one or two minutes.

When I internetted Larry David FTX ad, I got this one that had elements I'd never seen before. So basically, it's history, right? And Larry David is showing up at different historical moments, and he's dressed in whatever we think they were wearing at that era. And he's just telling people who just had huge breakthroughs of one kind or another that these are terrible ideas. Now, I've sort of edited this for time and clarity, but the things that he says are not going to work out are, well, one is the wheel, which we will hear in this ad. One is coffee. He hates coffee. This person is being like, it's a new drink. It's called coffee. He's like, this isn't going anywhere. He thinks that people should not have the right to vote. He's at basically the constitutional convention, and he's basically disagreeing with everyone there. He also shows up at some offices of, like, I guess it's supposed to be Sony. He's in the boardroom when they're talking about portable music. Yep, I remember that. Oh, and also the toilet. He says the toilet is a bad idea. And then at the end, he's being presented with this idea for this crypto trading platform called FTX. And he says that's a bad idea. Take a listen to this. This is the wheel one. I call it the wheel.

hmm i don't think so what does it do it rules yeah so does a bagel okay a bagel you can eat one of the worst ideas i've ever heard my lord what is it a toilet my lord a toilet you expect this court to do its business inside we're not animals we go outside like humans Edison, can I be honest with you? Oh, right. It stinks.

He thinks the light bulb sucks.

Maybe your wife know what's going on here. She knows I go to work. You're wasting your time, and it's sad. Like I was saying, it's FTX. It's a safe and easy way to get into crypto. I don't think so. And I'm never wrong about this stuff. Never.

and of course the irony is ftx is about to absolutely go under probably if they haven't by the time of this broadcast they will be very soon um they uh basically were heavily heavily leveraged they owe all this money i think they've got to find something like four or six billion dollars i thought a couple of days i thought it was maybe it's eight Yeah. Yeah, I thought eight, but I also don't, you know, understand.

It's more billions of dollars than they're going to probably be. They were about to be acquired by their enemy, something called Binance. And then Binance looked at the FTX finances and was like, oh, hell no. You owe everyone money right now. They're having a what you would call liquidity crisis in that everyone was trying to get their money out of FTX. And FTX, it's like the more tech bro version of It's a Wonderful Life. Your money's not here. See, it's in his account and his crypto wallet. So everyone tried to get their money from FTX, which didn't have all their money. And that just really sort of pulled the rock off of all of the financial bugs that are crawling around in the FTX finances. So the idea that Larry David was actually very right about this in the ad, which, of course, is played for a joke and is an ad for FTX, is kind of – it's interesting. I guess you might say it's ironic. His and his funky monkey and her funky monkey.

What do you call those monkeys? They're not funky monkeys. You know what I'm talking about. Oh, bored apes. Bored apes. I call them funky monkeys.

Maybe if they were funky monkeys, NFTs would be doing better.

I do have to update the audience on one thing that we talked about this week because I feel like this is one of those arcs that we set up and then never delivered on, but we did not win the Powerball. I just want to let everybody know that me and my friend group, we did not win the Powerball.

I think it's implied, Andrew, because, well, that's not true. If I won the Powerball, they would never hear from me again. But I could see if you won the Powerball, I could see you continuing to do TBTL because you would feel a sense of not wanting to get, you know, too big of a head, etc. Like, I think I could see you doing TBTL, even if you were independently wealthy.

Maybe. I mean, I enjoy doing this. Wow. So I think so. You think you know someone. Well, no, I just don't know if I would do it because I would feel like about a big head. I think I would just because I'd want to talk about it. I think it would be an interesting thing to talk about. But the thing is, I wouldn't be talking about it now, right? In fact, maybe when I say that we didn't win the Powerball, maybe you shouldn't believe me because there's a period of time where the winners can't be named for their own safety and they have to get everything in order. So maybe that's what I'm doing right now and trying to get everybody kind of off my trail. Wow. Can I raise a question to you? Now, I'm stealing this from another podcast. I'm pretty sure it was Levitard. I heard this is going back to when the Super Bowl happened last February and this commercial was new. I think it was the Levitard podcast where they were debating whether or not they thought Larry David was paid in Bitcoin for this commercial. And same with with Tom Brady. Do you think if you're doing a big Super Bowl ad for some sort of Bitcoin or some sort of cryptocurrency product, do you think you are paid in crypto? And if so, like does Larry David really believe in crypto enough to do this commercial and to be paid in crypto? And if so, is he suffering?

This is a good question. And one that's – my attempt to answer it is going to just infuriate our listeners who understand the crypto space. But I don't think FTX itself is – it's not a coin. It's an exchange. It's a way to buy crypto. So – or it's some kind of account in which you keep crypto. I don't – I could be wrong.

That sounds right to me. But if you're playing in that space, wouldn't that also be your currency though?

Well, maybe. i could see a world in which ftx came and said and again this is where i just don't i literally don't even understand the basics of how this works yeah me too but i could see a world in which ftx approached these famous people and said we want to hire you to do a super bowl ad we will pay you some money or we could give you tenfold that money in whatever it is you know a stake in ftx or um you know crypto that we sort of uh or you know certain kinds of crypto that we can get access to for you or something i did see this doesn't answer the larry david question i feel like larry davidson asked to be paid in soup yeah i feel like he's one of the only people that be like ah give me some soup yeah like i think you're right like i feel like he would be like and he's probably saved himself by wanting to be paid because he can still eat that soup that soup is still good uh the ftx stuff less so because i read a headline somewhere and i don't know if this is i mean this is if this is real or if this is just kind of people piling on old tom brady like i did yesterday a little bit i made a kind of dark joke about his marriage um which you know i feel like i joke enough about my failed marriages that i if there's anybody who's allowed to make jokes about people's marriages falling apart it's probably me but i read that tom brady and giselle bunch and i guess were pretty heavily leveraged into like ftx stuff like it was a big thing for them so maybe that indicates that he was paid with whatever that is or he just was a true believer and was had a lot of money in there now my

sense is i mean in fact i did see that gisele bunchin had bought a like a 15 million dollar mansion across the waterway from tom brady in tampa so they now have kind of like they can see each other's mansions from across this like little kind of inlet um so i think they're still okay for money that group that that that you know co-parenting operation but it is interesting to think about you know did they get paid with that stuff and also did tom brady just like did he just lose along with having a bummer season along with his unfortunately you know his marriage dissolving etc like he's definitely having a for somebody who's had a very charmed life he's having a not particularly great year and to think that he might have also just like erased millions and millions of dollars because of this ftx thing that would just add to the not great news for that guy

we're running out of time here i just want to say one quick thing while we're talking about sort of the some of the more cultural points of the nfl right now good i'm sure you've seen this too but I just want to say good on Gino Smith for not taking the bait from some dumbass reporter that tried to set up a question so that Gino could dunk on Russell Wilson and his high leg kicks or his high knees that he was doing on the airplane. Did you follow all of this? A reporter asked.

I didn't see that. I saw wristband gait, though, which I thought was also very interesting.

Oh, yes. That's something different. But anyway, you know, Gino now in Germany after this long flight, some dumb reporters said and they got the term wrong, too. They said, did you do knee highs on the plane because Russell Wilson, I think we said this on the show, like he was kind of I don't know if bragging, but he was letting it be known that for like four hours during his flight to England with the team, he was going up and down the aisles, like doing high knees and stretching his legs and everything. That was a little bit cringy. But then, of course, the world piled on Russell Wilson. The piling on of Russell Wilson is now getting pretty cringy. And somebody like teed up Gino to make to make fun of Russell, essentially, in the press conference said, hey, did you do is they said knee highs on the plane? And Gino just responded by saying something along the lines of I think you're trying to do something there. But no, I mostly rested and I did this and I did that and did not take the bait at all. And you know what? If if the roles were reversed and everybody were dunking on Gino Smith right now and Russell Wilson was having a really good year, Russell also wouldn't have taken that bait. I was very proud. I was very proud of Gino for not taking the bait. And also Russell wouldn't like I think Russell Wilson has been doing some really cringy things. And, you know, it's cringy and we make fun of it. And we've talked about Mr. Unlimited from long before all of this drama started. but also like we don't need like we don't need reporters trying to get quotes by trying to get one of these one of these former colleagues think about you know they call them teammates but you know what i mean like i'm sure that gino smith has a lot of respect for russell wilson and while enjoying his own success probably isn't like loving seeing russell wilson like suffer in front of the cameras a little bit and be embarrassed i want to say i'm on the record and i even said

this i think a few weeks ago i am personally now i feel that russell wilson has been dunked on plenty and has been you know like it's that kind of thing where i wanted of course i wanted russell wilson to have his production fall off when he went to another team so i would feel better about what was going on with my team i could not have imagined things would have gone as starkly as they have but i i'm with you i think like being dunking on russell wilson is now it feels a little bit like kicking somebody when they're sort of down and the other thing is this is a crazy league this football league and i could absolutely see a world where russell wilson starts slinging yes and all of a sudden they're winning and maybe the seahawks you know gino has a bad game it's in the words of one francis sinatra that's life that's what people say uh you're riding high in april shot down in may like the number one thing that gino smith could do to hurt the seahawks chances of doing well would be to do a victory lap on russell wilson right now i agree like that would be 100 the thing that happened right before geno smith threw five picks yes and uh you know what i mean so like take i'm glad he's taking the high road and i hope the rest of the seahawks organization does at this point i mean i literally do feel sort of bad for russell wilson he is he's got the cringy things that have been well documented but it's like it's just it's not it's not fun when someone hasn't done anything genuinely evil yeah like he's not deshaun watson yeah like to watch the entire league delight in just like stomping a mud hole in this guy's chest it's like okay he's corny and he wanted to make more money and probably was a little bit selfish as a teammate at times or whatever okay fine none of those are you know felonious events it's like just people just delighting in in hating him is feels to me to be kind of extreme at this yeah and i

the deshaun watson thing i think is relevant because we're going to see his terrible face you know i think we're getting near the end of his suspension so he'll He'll be joining the league soon and in a matter of weeks. Right. And and like, you know, that the league, you know, the the coverage won't be dunking and slamming on him the way we've slammed on Russell Wilson from creating a cringy commercial for Subway.

They will never this NFL, this National Football League will never like, you know, Susie Colbert on the sideline. I'm not trying to zero in on her, but like they will call Deshaun Watson's things off field issues. yep that's all they will no one will ever it would be hilarious i mean darkly hilarious but it'd be very interesting to see when deshaun watson starts playing again somebody into a microphone during a national broadcast say well you know we'll see how deshaun plays of course he's been suspended because over 20 women said that he sexually assaulted them you will never hear those words come out of any of the announcers mouths they will just say he's been working back from off-field injury or off-field incident and we'll see how he does because they they they can't

call it what it is and if and if he does well they will interview him as if he overcame some sort of it will be a story of redemption yes exactly like like because i i heard them do that to other people like well how did you overcome everything that happened to you off season it's like you're the one who beat up oh i'm not talking about deshaun watson here i'm thinking of somebody else i don't have to get into it but like um i remember it's like how did you get over that incident and it It was just like the incident was you being caught on camera kicking a woman. You didn't get over that incident. You know, that was somebody else. Exactly.

Yeah. All right. I have to tell you, A, I do really have to go because I'm going to go interview trombone champion, which I can tell you about on Monday. But I am very excited about this sport weekend here in New York City because, one, I'm getting a little head start on that Seahawks sitch in that it's at 930 around here. I think I'm going to go, I think I might try to find the worst ESPN SportsZone bar in Times Square and just post up at about 9.15 and then just watch, starting with the Germany game, and then just watch football all day like a complete DJ. Oh, God, I'm very excited about that.

And the days that you can clear off to do that. Totally. And you're in a different state, so you have the excuse to be like, no, I don't want.

I have no social obligations on Sunday. I don't have to do anything. I'm going to try to go for a long run tomorrow So I'm not even going to jog on Sunday I'm just going to be Sunday is just going to be Slam Dunk 360 Pointers And ESPN Times Square Zone

Oh my god You're going to be like in a Buffalo Wild Wings commercial I am so going to be at a B-dubs I have a thought for this Only because I'm looking at the clock And I know you have obligations What if we just do the listeners music for your weekend today?

You know, I like that Because I was going to bring back a song from the past that just reminds me of New York. But I think that maybe on this week, you know what, Andrew? I love that you're working off of the wristband. I love that. That's making this music for your weekend go so much smoother. Thank you for doing that. Let's do that. Let's play a song from listener Taya, who says, Hey, Luke and Andrew, I'm super stoked on this song right now. It's a nice mellow little ditty with some organ soulful lyrics. It's got a pretty long instrumental beginning, and it gets to the singing about a minute in. The band is called Silver Saturn, and they're a local Olympia band that I think is pretty rad. And the song is called Turn Right Back to You. And then Taya says, I've included both Spotify and YouTube links. I hope I've done this right. You have, Taya. You've done it very right. Thank you. Taya says, you guys are the best. Thanks for keeping me company. So that's how we'll wrap things up today. We'll play a little bit of this band suggested by Taya. They are called Silver Saturn, and they're from Olympia, Washington. So enjoy this. enjoy your weekend uh stay safe go seahawks and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

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