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When you eat pasta, you are essentially sending a hormonal message to your body saying pack on more fat. That's what's happening. So even without cakes and chocolate, pasta itself turned into sugars in your body. That's what makes you gain all the weight. That's it. We're throwing our pasta out, Peter. All pastas, lasagna, all of it. We're done. All this stuff.

Oh, no, no, no, no. It just happens so we can look at it. No, we're cutting it out of our diet. We are done with pasta. We are done with spaghetti. We are done with linguine, fettuccine. Fettuccine doesn't count. It absolutely counts.

No more pasta. Just have a bowl of spaghetti. Come on.

No. What happened to you? What happened? No more pasta for you or me. Okay? It's over. We're done.

Okay.

TBTL.

He is a fan of the outrageous. He loves to surprise. He loves other things as well.

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

Game day, bucket, go boom.

But it's not on TV. That's just an internet thing, okay? all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a wednesday edition of tbtl i can't believe you're still on the air the show that just might be too beautiful to live my name is luke burbank i am your host i'd like to grow a pair sometime coming to you from the redmond over lake district of the eastern side of Seattle, Washington, where as I look out the window of this aloft hotel, I see snow on the ground, I see icicles forming, and, well, I feel like this is the perfect weather pattern for us to arrive at episode 3826 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. I'm over here on the east side of Lake Washington because I've been working on this, I guess, film project for a certain fairly large software concern over here in Redmond.

Isn't that for techno geeks with spreadsheets?

And I have been learning something. In fact, I've been learning a bunch of things the last couple of days. One, really pack your patience, my friends, when you are filming with animals, especially a dog.

I'll say, what's up, dog?

Also, I've learned that sometimes when you're traveling and when you're filming, you don't get a chance to have a proper meal. And then you get back to the hotel like I am right now, and you order some pizza from the restaurant downstairs. Sometimes you've got to stop and smell the pizza. And you're looking forward to eating it quietly during the recording of your podcast while muting your microphone. but then you look in your bag and you realize that somewhere in all of your travels you manage to lose the cough button i wish i hadn't done that how do you lose a cough button how do you find yourself without the little device that you use to mute the microphone so that you can eat your pizza and clear your throat and do all that stuff how does somebody lose a cough but that is the reality that i am dealing with as you are hearing this wednesday edition of tbtl thank goodness i've got this guy to help me through it all he is the longest running cobro of the show maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships he recently enjoyed a birthday he is andrew he is andrew walsh and he's joining me right now good morning

my friend hey there man i am um right now as we speak on slack talking with listener danny who is one of the tbtl lawyers of course whom we keep on retainer uh danny lives in um new hampshire i don't know if she lives in concord or just works in concord but spends a lot of time in concord and also i probably shouldn't be giving out her address anyway but um anyway she hit me up on slack because i guess we were talking about um just keep on playing that quietly in the background

yeah yeah about a uh i felt like it was so quiet i could just it would be kind of a nice little audio spackle as we say behind what you're trying to say and she mentioned i guess that i mentioned

a tgi fridays recently and and danny was just checking in to say that uh the tgi fridays on loudon road in concord new hampshire is still alive and well but then i said what about danny What about that Pizzeria Uno? I don't know.

all of our listeners have had the experience of a pizzeria uno i don't think i'd gone to one until i lived in new england but you know it's another you know medium size maybe large chain restaurant not unlike a friday's only i'm going to say a little bit more emphasis on the pizzeria although they had a wide menu and there was a pizzeria uno which apparently according to danny is still in concord new hampshire where luke on days exactly like today when it's cold and dark and rainy and I'm hungry and I just want to eat my feelings you could go in there and get a bowl of incredibly just perfectly perfectly mediocre French onion soup I thought it was good but it was just chain restaurant French onion soup done

right I'm just shocked at how that sentence

ended yeah and you would get that and like I would get like a schooner of Sam Adams something that again I don't think I've had a Sam Adams Since I left New England And just to be there I think there was a fireplace inside that Inside that Pizzeria Uno, Luke And like right now, technically I'm here In Seattle, Washington Talking to you, doing a podcast But mentally and emotionally

Can you see me from across Lake Washington?

I can see you across the table At this imaginary Pizzeria Uno situation That I'm living right now And that is where I am That's where I'm talking to you from right now emotionally

If that's your happy place I welcome you to journey to it but like okay the reason i said that that sentence didn't end the way i expected because my only knowledge of the uno pizzeria and grill is that there is one in chicago and they i believe it is a deep dish style of pizza and there's always this kind of very furious debate online when you go to chicago and you're trying to figure out where's the best deep dish there are a few there's Lou Malnati's comes up and then Pizzeria Uno which is now kind of a chain and so the debate is do you go to the place that's been franchised out and it sounds like even to New Hampshire or do you go to some kind of hole-in-the-wall place but when when you were talking about Pizzeria Uno I thought you're going to talk about some kind of delicious deep dish or some sort of pasta dish but you're going French onion soup well that's what I you know I mean as

i was telling that story i realized that i don't think i ever had pizza at pizzeria uno i remember it as like a you're the uno person who's ever gone there and not had the pizza i mean they do have you know what now that i look at it maybe i tried the pizza from time to time but it's also kind of a burger place and i i think i would go there for like they have a lot of i'm looking at the menu now oh god what am i doing why am i doing this they have all kinds of like oh yeah they have some like kind of italian style like chicken parm subs but they also just have like a lot of uh burgers and like my move was go to pizzeria uno get the uh french onion soup and a burger i think that's how i thought of it it wasn't until i said it just now that of course it's a pizzeria but um well it's like i love to get my deep dish at wendy's hey man when you live in i love to stroll into a wendy's try living in concord new hampshire for 10 years and then tell

me about your options for food now okay let me just get if you hear a certain tension between Andrew and I, it's only because you've been waiting, would you say, seven hours for us to actually record this episode of TBTL, which I want to go on the record as saying, thank you for your patience, my friend and colleague, and I'm so sorry that you've been waiting for this to happen, because I have been on this video shoot, and it went on forever and ever. It's a miracle i'm here though because i was very close to expiring from hypothermia recently on the shoot on the shoot we were filming outside in a parking garage and because the uh the outfit that i wear uh in the in the person that i am in these videos is it's like a collared shirt and an extremely light blazer and that's for five years i've been filming these and that's what the guy wears and so it wasn't like this could be the first time he's just wearing a parka and we were it is very you mentioned rain a minute ago but over here where i am it's it's pretty sleety it's definitely snowy and it was it was incredibly cold and i love all of the people associated with this project i really do but there was a point where we were on take number i don't know 30 where everyone else is inside the vehicle which is it was the large suv so the idea was i come up to this large suv and i deliver a few lines and the majority of the people on the shoot were now inside the suv ostensibly so they had a better view of what i was doing but i think realistically because it was the only non-freezing place in the parking garage and somebody said uh another take but this time.

so first it was like another take but look at the camera and i was like okay and then they were like okay let's do it again but don't look at the camera i was like all right and then take 37 was let's do it again but this time look at the camera and i just said in all seriousness are you with me like are you is this are you are my being am i being trolled right now and um and they were not trolling me it was just we needed more takes and so i uh i barely got to my rental car with like functional kind of movement in my extremities it was so so cold that I basically drove directly here to the hotel and just like turn the heat to 85 in the room and now here we are normally I would be over at your house because I'm very close to you and usually we like to do the show in the same room but things have just gotten so kind of out of whack tonight again by the way we're recording this Tuesday evening so that's why I'm saying night anyway so here I am sorry for the

delay i am um looking i can't find it there's such a great oh is this it here hold on let me

just try to see if i can just play this glad to do the show on broadway there'll probably be other

offers this is one minute long it's from waiting for guffman um i just want to see uh the catherine o'hara is here along with uh why am i blanking on uh um with willard fred willard so this is fred willard and catherine o'hara and i'm hoping she's going to say the line that pays off here based on what you just said about looking at the camera and then not looking at the camera.

But I don't know if the theater and the stage is for me. For one thing, there's an awful lot of memorizing of lines. And I think...

Also a problem for me today.

Yeah, that's always been the way.

The ultimate goal, Hollywood. Even when I was a kid doing my impressions, here's looking at you, babe. You don't care about anyone but yourself. Who is it? Henry Fonda. and I always have to tell her who I'm doing. She always laughs at us, but now who is that? But I think back there, there's always the germ in my mind that that's where I'd end up on the silver screen, and you got the face for it too, darling.

You know, I want to try that less is more kind of acting, where you just, when you're talking to someone, you close your eyes, and then you look at them when you're not talking to the person. I mean, you open your eyes when you're looking away, but then when you talk to the person, you go like that, and you open your eyes, and then you look back at the person, but you never open your eyes when you're talking to them.

That line that she gives there is one of Andrew Walsh's top 10 mangled quotes of all time. I think about that scene a lot. And there's a lot of physical comedy there, too. Of course, she's kind of like closing your eyes when she's looking at the person she's supposed to be talking to. But I try to quote that a million times a month, and I always mangle it, always.

Well, actually, speaking of sort of movie quotes that live larger than life in our heads, we have an RIP for later in the show about somebody who said something in a film that has definitely been a go-to for me for many years. The thing is, okay, so Waiting for Guffman, it's genius work in the words of Jay-Z. But there's so much improvisation in there, and it's like so incredible. And I think as I've been out here on the east side trying to do these like this video project and be sort of funny, I have been trying to improvise and I've learned that there's one thing, one life form you should not try to improvise with. And that is a small dog, because we yesterday we were the scene that we were filming. I'm I'm holding like a small kind of a maybe a Scotty dog or something. I think that this dog was named Bronx, was kind of a mutt of some kind, but the entire scene involved me holding this guard dog, and the joke was that it's a very tiny dog, holding this guard dog while doing all of the various dialogues. And when I tell you that Bronx was not into the program, I cannot overstate how much Bronx did not want to be part of a video for this particular place, how much Bronx didn't want to sit, how much Bronx was over it from, like, from the jump. and I'm like I'm I don't want to like I love animals as you know and I want to be nice to them but I'm after filming with the dog yesterday I understand why they used to regularly give child actors like uppers and downers like I wish I could have given Bronx like a sit downer pill something that would have made Bronx just sit throughout the 35 seconds of this scene So we could have just filmed it in a few takes instead of 90 takes.

Was there a dedicated animal handler? And were they? Absolutely. Were they properly chagrined? Like in the movie?

Nope, they were doing a great job. Yeah. No, the person who was in charge of Bronx was actually extremely good at their job. The problem was she could not be close.

to the dog because then she would be in the shot so she had to be lying in an extremely unnatural position on the floor like 30 feet from the dog holding what she called a high value treat in various positions so as to try to get the dog to look this way that way to stay seated all of the things that that we needed the dog like if the trainer would have been able to just be like a foot from the dog i think that it would have worked out but as it was she was she was very far away but not through any kind of like you know failure in training on her part she was actually extremely

good well of course you have to say that but i'm not letting her off the hook man i'm not i don't have to work with these people i i'm willing to libel and slander as many people oh actually speaking of libel and slander i decided not to play this voicemail that i heard today that somebody left on our voicemail line only because I don't know if I want to get I don't think it could get us into legal trouble but maybe it was just a little bit more detailed than I think we should get into but

are they slandering or libeling us or would it be slandering and libeling someone else if we played it I'll just tell you what it was

you were talking about your apartment complex where you live and how it's owned by this very big company Gray Star We got a voicemail from somebody who said Oh yeah I'm like a An attorney who represents I think Renters like some sort of a housing Attorney here in Seattle And I didn't realize this Gray Star is Literally the biggest rental Company in the country And this person was saying

It's actually on the signs in my apartment building Really that seems like a weird bragging point I agree Well first of all don't name your company Gray Star Starting with that As we pointed out when this came up the first time, that just feels like you're the evil empire. But then the signs in my building say, Greystar, the leading residential management company. It's something where they're kind of trying to let you know that they have the most units under management. And again, not a selling point.

Like the old McDonald's signs. It should say, like, over 400,000 units rented.

Right? Like, I would like to go to a burger place. It's like, we've made about 100 of these. the first 20 weren't great but now we've dialed it in but we haven't made so many that we're dead

inside that's one thing that i think um that is a kind of a reference that's lost to history huh i think it's been a really really long time since i mean for you uh young people out there oh luke by the way we also got an email from a listener i think named eric i don't know if they're a young person or not but they're young to tbtl they've only been listening for a couple of weeks now

Oh, God, Eric, I'm sorry about this show. I know it sounds like I've been drinking. I'm just honestly, my body is thawing out. I'm just getting command of my hands and even my tongue.

But, yeah, I was going to say, if you don't know what we're talking about, because it has been a long, long time. McDonald's always had like every sign. They would update it as you would be driving down the highway or wherever or the byways. You'd see a McDonald's and it would say over blank number sold. right it was always over five million it might have been served oh maybe served okay yep that sounds about right and then it was changed to i think billions and billions of served yeah or

something that's general at some they got generally our fact checker at cbs sunday morning said it's like cat lewis said you can't say that number and they were like well how about we just go billions and billions right okay that's hard to prove in court go for it and now it's just now

it just doesn't exist anymore and you and i are the last people on earth to remember that

we really are we're the institutional memory of how mcdonald's used to be bragging that they they sent so many burgers out the door that well they must be good they've sold that many except the culture has totally changed now to where that's not a thing that anyone is trying to emphasize we sell the most of this if it's the food space anyway right it's like we all want something that feels like it was made with love for us we're the first person to ever eat this particular breakfast sandwich at dunkin donuts because we are a snowflake that deserves a very

unique approach pizzeria uno over 500 000 bowls of french onion soup served and a bunch of and

that's just to andrew just to uncle andy okay uh we should take a break here but when we come back Andrew, I apologize because when you and I don't talk for a day of TBTL, and by the way, thank you so much to both you and Genevieve for covering for me yesterday. I really do appreciate that. I do have mixed feelings about it because every time Genevieve is on the show, I think it lets the listeners know how good the program could be. And I don't want to give them hope in that way.

way as they say in the shawshank redemption hope is a very dangerous thing and it'll be now like 364 more episodes before the listeners get to hear the kind of co-hosting that genevieve does but um i do appreciate you covering for me if it means anything to you i took off my shirt and

kicked her shins under the table the whole time so that she wouldn't be quite as good as she usually

is so i appreciate that thank you for looking out for the brand i was thinking about you when you and I don't get to talk for a day I really do have like an extreme backup of just boring anecdotes I think only you would care about so I have a number of those that I'd like to I'd like to lay

on you when we come back from the break if that's okay that sounds good to me and also I might I don't know man I'm kind of getting excited about I don't know if we have time for today or not but I kind of am getting excited about maybe digging into this gift that Genevieve got me over the

weekend yeah all right um happy birthday again i know that you don't like to high key that but um but happy birthday indeed all right let's do this quick break and then we'll be back with much more tbtl in just a moment hey let's thank some daily donors who are making today's episode of tbtl possible with their incredibly generous financial support folks like alex booth in seattle washington hey alex can you see me close to see all the way over here are we wishing on the same 520 bridge you and i you and i were not so different i'm just over in redmond and you're

in seattle washington alex might be more of a 90 and i 90 person yeah i do kind of feel

back in the day now i don't know i i don't really know from seattle anymore but back in the day when i was a traffic reporter there was these certain kind of rote kind of scripts and things that you just got used to saying all the time and one of them was i-90 is going to be your better bet meaning 520 was always going to be an s show and i-90 was always going to be your better bet and i will i will live my life by that by that sort of concept whether or not it's even true anymore i assume i-90 will be your better bet but you took the you took 520 today though it sounds

like oh wait no no you didn't have to do that because you were shooting on the east side and

you're staying on the east side right and i flew up here actually which was kind of a last minute decision i was gonna i was going to drive and then i got worried because i flew up on sunday and uh that's you know the sunday after thanksgiving and i got concerned that i-5 was just going to be an absolute nightmare and then i i flew from portland to seattle when i landed i got on a ways and i kind of looked at what the actual traffic pattern was and it was if not the normal time which is about two hours and 50 minutes it might have been shorter it might

if you had driven you mean from port i mean it might have been shorter than normal like it might

have somehow they had shaved an hour off of the normal drive time between portland and seattle so the flying was completely unnecessary although on the good side randomly my rental car that i got from avis was a toyota four runner which seemed like overkill at the time but as i look out this window again we're recording this on tuesday night as i look out the window and watch the snow falling everywhere i'm kind of glad that i'm in a four-wheel drive vehicle yeah i believe it i don't know what things look like in mount lake terrace washington but that's where jenny davies is who's also a uh a supporter of the program and somebody that we really appreciate and then holly snap actually you know what holly snap is in kirkland she's over here she's team

east side andrew yeah i see how it's kind of people are splitting off here yeah does that

mean that you and so is it basically like you it's you alex and jenny against uh me and holly

so far yeah now are we going to broaden this out a little bit oh i see well you know what i consider

Somerville, Massachusetts, the east side I mean it is the farther east than you are and that's where Tristan Foley is

Also, by the way, there was a Pizzeria Uno there in I want to say Davis Square that Veves and I would sometimes sneak into. Now imagine that. Now you're in Boston. Well, I guess technically Cambridge. No, Boston Right? Whatever. You're in Boston I think. No, you're in Somerville

You're asking noted Somerville What am I talking about? The reason I brought it up

Is it Somerville? Yes, no, of course, it's Somerville. It's not Boston or Cambridge. And now you have a lot of restaurant choices. You had Vives and I, and I remember being, and we're pretty young, but I remember being in a pizzeria Uno there and both being kind of like, we shouldn't be here. We have a lot of restaurant options, but we just want the soup. I'm not even kidding you.

I will never get over the fact that that's the attractive nuisance for you. Like, the French onion soup is what got you in the door. Thank you, Tristan. Now, here's the thing. This is one of these shows, Andrew, where I wouldn't mind a teeny bit more info on where Kelly Blower is because it's Whitehall. Whitehall? And I don't know where that ranks in terms of East and West. What side of Lake Washington is Kelly Blower or Blower in Whitehall?

Oh, did I not include, when I sent these to you, I didn't include the state. Look at you dangling out there without all the information. I mean, Whitehall sounds like it might not be in the U.S. That's a good point. It sounds British. No, this is Whitehall, Michigan, so you can claim Kelly.

All right. Yes, I got it. Okay, hold on. Just to remind, I don't have my bell here, but I just want to say, ding, me and Holly snap ding me and kelly blauer ding me and tim petrick in cam loops yep you know where that is

i mean although are you kidding me boy that's a close one but yeah yeah slightly east it's a close

one but yeah slightly east it's it's west of yellow knife but it's east of victoria andrew You've embarrassed yourself once again in front of Tim Petrick of Kamloops. Wow. And then, as we mentioned, Tristan is in Somerville. Thank you so much to all of our donors today. We really appreciate you. Thanks for making this. I'll tell you what. I don't have a future in making these videos for this software company due to my inability to withstand sub-zero temperatures and or hand wrangle a dog during the shoot. And your inability to tell the director

Are you fucking with me

It wasn't the director, it was the assistant director It was Paul, he's very cool Paul's main job Listen, you know what, that was collateral damage Because the only reason Paul had to tell me that Was because he was outside of the warm Vehicle And you know, I'll name names I will name names That's where Kurt and Chris were I like this, this is better I use their names because it matters Also, you know who was out there with me? My friend Patty, who told me that she listened to TBTL on the flight up from L.A., the show where I said I was trying to not get sick for the shoot. And as you know, Andrew, I then immediately became terrified that I had said something inappropriate about the shoot when I learned one of the senior people on the project had been listening to the TBTL from like Thursday or Friday.

Now, is this somebody who listens regularly or somebody, and there are a lot of people in my life, I think, who are like this, who maybe I don't see them for a long time. They know I do a podcast, and it's a very personal podcast, so they'll listen to it maybe right before or after I see them to either find out where I am in the world or to find out what I'm saying about them after I hang out with them.

Well, that's why this was so surprising to me. So my, I guess you would say, colleague on this shoot, I mean, I believe technically she's my supervisor, is a really good friend of mine named Patty Emery, who I have worked on advertising stuff with for, wait for it, probably 25 years now. She used to work at a really great agency in Seattle called Copacino Fujikato and just was always extremely kind and helpful and generous to me in the very early days of me doing this stuff. and you know i mean i my guess would be she's aware of like wait wait and things like that but tonight in the freezing parking lot she said oh yeah i was listening to tbtl where you were talking about trying to not get sick before the shoot and i was already cold but somehow a new colder feeling ran through me of terror because i just would not have imagined that she even knew that this was a thing right yeah you know what i mean you know that feeling yes i know that i know

that feeling very well um but i actually though while you bring this up i wanted to ask you about this because i even think like i don't want to get in your head but even since the break i feel like i can hear your voice sort of struggling a little bit now just late at night i don't usually talk to you at eight but you've been working all day long in the cold two days in a row actually it's late now we're doing the show we really should we can skip the we can skip the opening um thing that i was talking about before because we really should like are you starting to feel a little raw because you're starting to sound a tiny bit raw and we don't need you uh being sick for the

last day of the shoot well i figure i gave them two good days so whatever happens on this third

day well continuity is gonna be a problem if like you're not shooting in order well you know

true like if we're just gonna get real so we're all covet tested and when i showed up on monday the first thing that I heard was two of our background actors had tested positive for COVID. And luckily this was a scene where there was a lot of folks that were, you know, set up to, to, to. do it so they were able to shift people around and basically get the effect they were going for but as I was taking the COVID test in the parking lot I thought you know I was extremely masked I was on an airplane but I was very masked up and trying to be careful I thought if somehow I caught and I'm asymptomatic this is really bad news of course I didn't have it that was great and then I was told by the producers we're testing everyone on day one if you're clear on day one then we're going to be good for the three-day shoot it's like great so all i did yesterday was did the shoot came back to the hotel had a little dinner and like went to sleep at like nine because i was pretty wiped went in this morning and as i was standing where the coffee is at craft service one of the producers the kind of lead producer approached me and just was holding the test kit again and went you know what let's just do this again because you were on a plane and then i was like oh my gosh i i got through this one time is this going to be the day is there some kind of like i don't know like lagging indicator of my covidness that is now going to every day i've been worried i'm going to shut this entire shoot down due to my own failings but i also passed it this morning thankfully so i'm not sick sick but i just think my body is starting to well i could send not that you care but i could send you some photos from today it's like that would kind of describe or visually represent my current life in a in a series of pictures so one of them would be me standing in this kind of isolation booth they just randomly happen to have in the offices of this company i guess the reason they have this booth it's like a sound booth right it's so because it's a real open concept workspace if you have like a call that you need to make or you just need to concentrate or you need to get away from the noise of your colleagues they have this quiet room and you would see a photo of me standing in this quiet room re-recording something for a cbs sunday morning piece onto my phone that i had to send to new york because it's for a story that's going up this weekend and then you would see me a little later in the day in a different part of the building trying to quietly record a live wire promo because i owed them something and then you would see me later standing in the freezing cold in the parking garage trying to get through this last bit of the filming all of which is to say i'm i'm sort of pushing my body and my vocal cords to the edge and they're not great as it is so i'm not surprised to hear that um that you're noticing a

little fatigue in the old pipes yeah well let's we'll try to keep this one somewhat short today because, again, I don't want to do Thursday's show with you, tomorrow's show with you, and you're going to be like Ira Glass. He used to do this all the time. I haven't listened to that show in a long time. I know, that was weird, right?

But you'd always say, don't worry, I'm fine. I'm going to keep doing the show. I'm just doing the intro.

He definitely, and, you know, I don't want to violate some sort of gold water rule around the public radio goat, but there was definitely a period, which is to say I don't want to diagnose Ira Glass with some kind of a I have a cold a lot condition. but like he definitely there felt like there was about a year of this American life where there were more shows where Ira didn't have a voice than ones where he did and I could be getting on the edge of that territory myself yeah we should be careful minus the talent yeah oh the other reason we need to wrap things up early Andrew is because I got it in the midst of all of this I got a text from my sister Liz saying hey can Jack interview you for a school project that's due tomorrow jack being your little nephew who's jack being my awesome nephew and a luke in training in that he's uh the first time that i think he ever got busted with some sort of contraband content or viewing or whatever like they don't have tvs out where they live but they have like an ipad he was watching late night with seth meyer and my sister thought it was a little too grown up and he was like i just love the monologue this is like like a seven-year-old kid at the time sneaking seth myers like under the covers on the on the family tablet and also

if you're gonna like the monologue like seth myers has the most like kind of trenchant sort of newsy well i i don't know i don't watch these shows maybe colbert but like i really think of seth myers as really kind of extending he's like that kind of closest to a daily show or an extension or John Oliver or John Oliver yeah I mean I again I don't watch them so maybe I'm not in a place to say this but you don't watch the news because you're a kid I feel like if I were to just say okay I'm gonna watch one of these for a year and then write a book about it or whatever I think I would watch his or like if I if I had to choose one if I had to choose one I think I would probably choose Seth Meyer I think or Colbert I think Colbert is a genius but I think that Colbert's show is just too my guess is it's the most it's very traditional along the lines of that time slot where Seth Meyers feels a little bit like the new

era i i would agree 100 i mean seth is in the time slot let's see so he is on wait he's on

after fallon right i couldn't tell you for sure but that sounds right to me he's on the later show

right right which is kind of the like traditional wait that's not cordon is it now i'm confusing which network uh they're on it's late night with seth myers that's nbc that's nbc okay good so that would be on like after fallon and yeah i feel like that time slot that's where conan was for a long time that's like the incubator and you're right you can you can do stuff in that time slot well like in the conan era would be like the masturbating bear and like bring a bear out who's been chained up because it profusely masturbates or something right they don't do that kind of stuff as much but seth meyer their thing might be let's see if we can go really like sort of intellectual deep Dive on a concept which we've been traditionally Told the television viewers don't have The patience or interest in right that's Their version of pushing the envelope at that At that hour of the night now and That and that's the one that your nephew Who's how old or ish Jack my Beloved nephew who is going to interview me Later for his class project In the range of Twelve

Somewhere between 12 and 22 He's watching the Seth Myers monologue by the way it's on it yet is It's the show that's on at 1240-ish, so yeah. No, I love that. Boy, I hope you're prepared for this interview, man.

I'm not, and by the way, if I cannot talk tomorrow during our filming or Thursday for our show, just know that my voice died in the service of something more important, that is a class project for my nephew at like White Salmon Middle School, so. It was worth it.

Hello and welcome to Top Story. Thank you, Stubat.

Well, Steve, Christmas came early because here we are talking about Clarence Gilliard Jr., who was a television star. He was on Walker, Texas Ranger, but maybe more critical to the lore of TBTL, he was also in the movie Die Hard. And he was the person who says, and the quarterback is toast. He was sort of the, like, I guess you would say the hacker brains of the sort of criminals in Die Hard or Takeover Nakatomi Plaza. He was the guy who was in charge of all of the, like, security access and all the security cameras and stuff. He was kind of sitting at mission control. And there is a moment where he takes a piece of gum out of its wrapper. him consuming this gum is almost as sort of vivid for me andrew as him saying and the quarterback is toast like the he did so much else as i've turned out he was also a professor of uh of film and theater at unlv college in las vegas and he is remembered really fondly there folks just absolutely loved him somebody said professor gilliard was a beacon of light and strength for everyone around him. Oh, wow. He was just a person who really appeared to live a life that was rich and full and had all kinds of acting success, and yet the utterance, the chewing of the gum, first of all, the denuding of the gum, the stick of gum, the taking it out of the wrapper, the putting it in the mouth, and the saying, and the quarterback is toast, that lives, as they used to say 20 years ago, rent-free in my head. I think about that line easily once a week.

And does he have a big smile when he says that, too? You've seen that movie a million times. I've seen it bits and pieces here and there. But am I picturing that right? Huge smile.

But what I'm trying to remember is what is the plot point? Like, what's he getting Hans? What's he gaining access for Hans Gruber to? I know I ended that sentence in a preposition. But, like, what is he breaking into when he says the quarterback is toached? I can't remember if he's shutting a bunch of stuff down or if he's like turned off the security on this like safe where they're supposedly the better bonds. I can't remember what quarterback he was toasting. But anytime there's anything digital that I'm dealing with that is sort of proving to be a challenge, if I gain access to it, for instance, if I like my Avis.

account has been just bedeviling me lately. And we all know I'm an Avis wizard. I shouldn't even have to sign in. I should be able to look at the computer and it should start doing my bidding based on my wizard status. But it hasn't been doing that lately. Every time I try to log in, it says my password is wrong. And then I create a new password and then I put it in and then it says that password is wrong. And then it says you're locked out because of too many failed attempts so the other day when I was landing here and I was trying to get in I finally got in and was able to rent my Toyota 4Runner I said to myself in my brain and the quarterback is toast I said that on Sunday night not even realizing that um you know it was all due to Clarence

Gilliard Jr. I really wish Genevieve was an earshot right now but I think she's upstairs this is oh wait hold on she's outside the door can we just do this i mean this is very similar to what we did on yesterday's show but we really this is a barge in as we talked about uh when genevieve was on the show yesterday but we did a lot of um talking about movies genevieve told me the story of a bunch of action movies that i hadn't seen uh yesterday because that's one of my favorite things when i haven't seen a movie i asked genevieve what is a what what is it about and we'll just spend a breakfast with her telling me the story. Hi, Genevieve. Hey, Luke. This is the perfect question for Genevieve. Can you repose it, Luke, or do you want me to because your voice?

Well, I take issue with this entire barge in because, Vee, as I said at the beginning of the show, you were so incredibly generous with your time helping us with Tuesday's episode. But it's like the listeners, imagine the listeners are in the desert.

Yeah.

And your appearances on the show are just a spritzing of water. Sure. Just enough to sort of add a little moisture to their dry, cracked lips.

Prolonging their lives, but also their misery.

But only just for a little while. And then they have to wait. And I was like, you know, this is tough. But now you're back another day. You're giving them hope once again. And I feel like hope is a dangerous thing.

But maybe she's like my favorite car, a Yaris. I mean, a Mirage.

Welcome back, Genevieve. And thank you for your help on yesterday's episode. Yeah, happy to do it. What were you going to add to this?

The question here is, Vives, we're talking about the fellow who plays Theo on Die Hard, and he is the guy who famously says... His name is Theo? His name is Theo.

Oh my God, the quarterback is toast!

And Luke and I were just talking about that scene and how iconic it is and how much we refer to it on the show and in our own heads in our daily lives. But Luke was saying, but now that you think about it, what was he hacking into? What was he hacking? Why is the quarterback toast? What was the moment?

This is, I'm sorry, Andrew, just to be more specific. It's your question, yeah. What I'm trying to remember, Vives, is was he getting Hans Gruber into the safe where the bearer bonds were? Yes. Remember they're drilling through that thing? Yes. Is that, like, what was the triumph that he was celebrating?

So the bearer bonds are in, as you say, a safe, and there are a bunch of security systems that prevent them from getting in. the last one being that it's physically just like it's just physically impossible like to break these electronic locks but to get to that point they're like seven systems that have to be

hacked like in a computer way seven systems of highly effective yeah and i mean i might be

misremembering the number of systems or whatever but there are there are multiple like layers and types of security on this thing and that's why he says you didn't hire me for my sparkling personality because he has all these hacker skills so he hacks it all the way through and then and this is what i always found hilarious is like he gets they get to the end where he's like okay i've done everything i can do i've done everything like the computer part of this can do and basically he's like he and the other robbers are like what's next like we can't get through this this final like these final locks because we've done we've broken all these other security systems but we We cannot break these these locks that are like electronically or magnetically controlled. And that's when the FBI is brought in and they go through their FBI playbook, which includes turning off the power. And if they had not done so when so the final thing, if they had just turned off the power, none of the other systems had been hacked or whatever. I assume they wouldn't have been able to get the safe open. But after Theo does all of his magic, all that's left is for these with this one set of locks to be unlocked. And what the one thing that accomplishes that, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the FBI.

And is that that's something that that's something Hans Gruber had accounted for.

Yes. So he had accounted for it. But somehow he hadn't let any of the other, including, you know, this this hacker genius. He was just like, just trust me. And I guess they did.

And what is the he says you wanted a miracle?

If you want to do a miracle, I give you the FBI.

I give you the FBI. And then he says, shoot the- glass yeah uh now can i um can i mention one other thing of eaves that i had said to andrew before you were within earshot which is i feel like the gum chewing that um that theo is doing he takes a piece of gum out of a wrapper and puts it in and i feel like it might be the prototype for the entire tane sketch the casual consumption of something while a really complicated thing is

happening on a screen yeah it really stuck with me yeah um theo has a lot of great bits he's a he really steals the show in every scene he's in i like the scene when they come in and they kill the security guard and he they the one of the ways that they kind of catch the security guy off guard is that they come in they're talking about a basketball game or something and theo's like he's like doing a full like yeah like he's reenacting of the space of this basketball game and it clear it's like a just an absolute like look over here at the at the birdie kind of thing look at this shiny thing and miss the other this guy pulling a silenced uh like gun out of his jacket and shooting the security guard right in the chest yeah he yeah he really i feel like he

well i'm trying to think of uh well obviously alan rickman has some just unbelievable like we'll shoot the glass that really comes up but like i'm trying to think of other characters now I just want to talk about Die Hard for a while. Other characters who really, the guy who comes out of the bathroom with the Coke, like the guy who's having on Bonnie Bedelia. Baby. Like the real just grade A D-bag. What am I, a method actor? That's when he's supposed to get killed. You missed some. Isn't that like Bruce Willis telling me you missed a spot or something?

That's a pretty good Bruce Willis.

Coke knows. Argyle, we have a lot of love for Argyle too. That was also my introduction. I did not know Christmas in Hollis until Argyle starts bumping it in the limo.

Yeah. You know, Genevieve brought up an interesting thing about Die Hard that I don't think we've talked about on the show. And again, I am not an aficionado of this movie like you guys are. But I do. This lives in my head all the time now. Genevieve points out that iconic line when Grubman, is that his last name? Gruber. Hans Gruber says, shoot the glass. He's talking to one of his henchmen, for lack of a better word.

Another German.

Yeah. Yeah, and he's- Why switch to English, right? Yes, exactly, that's the point.

He says, she's stint finster, shoot the windows, and the guy looks at him kind of baffled, and then he says, like, as if to translate, like, hey, dummy, what I said was shoot the glass.

In a foreign language to this guy.

Yeah, like, it should have been the other way around, where he seems confused by shoot the glass.

Say it in English first, then emphasize it in his native German, but instead it's backwards.

and as a kid I will tell you all of that was lost on me but I was like oh my god Bruce Willis doesn't have any shoes on big trouble from it's so visceral it really was and like like for many years my buddy Peter Williams and I who were obsessed with that movie we would rate all other action movies compared to Die Hard and what we always liked was what we enjoyed was how down and out Bruce Willis is in Die Hard I probably said this on the show before but like the shoot the glass thing and all the glass in his feet and he's wearing that terrible just tank top and he's got like you know one cigarette left that epitomized what I loved in action movies and it was why I never liked like the Steven Seagal movies the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies anything where the person is just like constantly crushing it yeah I just wanted my action heroes to be really really hanging by a thread yeah

based on Die Hard I mean that's why Die Hard so successful and such such a now I mean it really is a classic it's like the best it's best in breed for that kind of movie everything is compared to it and I think like yeah you don't want your hero to be so invincible that every fight is it's never in doubt yeah can I jump in here I want to swing

things back around to Clarence Gilliard the the the character or the man R.I.P. yes who who by the 66 years old when he passed yeah i know so young here's what here here were my um i guess dazzling details from this article i didn't realize that he plays one of the pilots in top gun he plays i would have never known this but the actor the character's name was sundown so he was one of the pilots in top gun i don't know if you guys knew that and then this is the thing he was in matlock he was in like tons of matlock episodes he was the one that um now we're getting into andrews he did a crossover with murder she wrote matlock is not one of those shows that i've watched as an adult i only know it from my youth and i don't know how much i watched it but clearly enough because i do remember that matlock had a private investigator that they brought on i think like halfway through the series or something and um i'm looking at it now his name was conrad mcmasters and that also was gilliard and so that was andy griffith's p die the guy who would go out and like investigate these things and who and who does he play in die hard oh no that's him this is theo this is all the actor died these are all these things yeah oh

that oh i didn't i i missed a lot of the setup for this conversation so so that actor just so

theo just passed away sorry yeah the guy who says and the quarterback is toast um clarence gilliard jr has passed away and he had like all like he was apparently big on walker texas ranger which is i would say for me a fairly big blind spot although they just rebooted it by the way so there's now a thing it's i think it's just called like walker oh really this very he had this hunky guy named um jared padlecky who was on the show supernatural is now the new walker texas ranger

but um i'm surprised that chuck norris doesn't own all of the ip for walker texas ranger well

maybe he does and he's making bank off he is yeah yeah well thank you there are some

yeah vives thank you so much i was about to go down a a chuck norris rabbit hole about like camaro kev has turned me on to all these videos of like chuck norris when he was actually really good at karate like long before he became sort of a parody of himself yeah dude was fairly legit yeah i believe it um um can i just before you leave these can i um check in on one other thing quickly because i'm talking to two members of airy number one definitely yeah i heard a rumor from the secretary of the eagles which is clearly not our friend katie it's somebody else and it is andrew it is laying out the process that you had described to me kind of generally uh-huh of uh of kind of cementing my membership and it is incredibly involved you're talking about the ceremony the ceremony the things that have to happen the limited number of days it happened the way i need to identify myself upon walking into the building it is oh i don't remember any of that vastly more legitimate than i thought it was when i was legit i'm telling you guys i

want to be part of the club i don't want to undermine our esteemed secretary whoever that might be um our worthy secretary our worthy secretary we didn't do any of that we just showed up on our initiation we paid our 65 dollars we filled out a form our godparents

co-signed it and then what are they technically our sponsor sponsor i like to call them our god

parents right um and since we share a sponsor that makes us sponsor siblings luke um oh wow but all we did was show up on a wednesday that was designated as initiation night and we went down and they sacrificed the goat and we drank its blood and it was it was a done deal and we purified ourselves in the in the blood of the goat right uh-huh and i've had i've had great

financial success ever since do you think i don't think it's not a wednesday because that's not great

for me for goat blood drinking well that is going to be that sort of wednesday is kind of like that that's a kind of a that's a hard you know must do yeah i've heard a rumor that they're gonna maybe

well maybe i shouldn't say i heard a rumor that there's a chance that you could maybe do this

remotely well i would love to do it in seattle and again i don't want to further center myself in every conversation we have, but I would love to see all of you all and do it kind of like realistically and legitimately, but I'm trying to find the email now and I can't because it came in from a sort of odd account that wasn't Eagle's secretary with some version of those letters and now I'm not finding it. But I was surprised at how thorough the thing at least allegedly is.

It sounds a little needlessly officious to me. I wouldn't sweat it too hard.

I'm not here to, listen, I'm not here to speak ill of another eagle, even though I'm not technically yet. Am I, how much of an eagle am I currently? That's a good question.

Well, you have not been, you have not done the initiation ceremony.

Can you be a little bit pregnant? But I mean, you gave us the money. Yeah, we got the money. I mean, that's the important part. I don't care. Was that your favorite part? I just love the money. I don't care if you go through initiation.

Talk to Katie. Katie can straighten all this out for you.

Well, again, I feel like my MO is always to try to get special treatment, and I'm really not looking for that. I want to show up on a Wednesday night. It would be awesome if it was convenient for you all to be there. I'm not trying to phone this in. But, again, when I was reading the real kind of specific details of everything, I know the higher power stuff I knew about, although I would have liked it if the secretary said it could be Diana Ross. Right, a supreme being.

Because they say you have to acknowledge the existence of a supreme being.

and this person did not add that little fun footnote and they just said you have to acknowledge

a supreme being and i was like where's the fun part and not in the email yeah you know luke we um i had an email that i was going to read for you but here's the deal something happened to me at the eagles this weekend that i've got to tell you about and i need genevieve here for this as well because she knows this You story um but let's just do it let's take a break here if you don't mind let's come back with the the email theme and then i've also found this emails oh okay oh good perfect so it is an email

so i've got even more intel okay great yeah good call okay quick break and then the last of this

tbtl 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 right, Andrew, what happened to you at Aerie No. 1 that you would like to report back on?

Yeah, this will be technically our email segment, because also mentioned in here is you received an email from the Eagles.

I'm going to read an email, too, from the secretary of Aerie No. 1, so it qualifies.

But Luke, you know that I'm not much of a gambler, right? But I like to pull my tabs, right? Which, for those who don't know, they're basically like, I don't know, they're like the equivalent of scratch-off tickets or something. You buy them in bars. You can buy them for like 25 cents a pop up to much more, you know, and there are these bins behind the bar. And usually I'm going for the cheapest ones, like 50 cent tabs, right? And you can win up to, I don't know, it depends, 300, 500 bucks. Usually I don't win anything but maybe a few more tabs. A dollar here, a dollar there. So I'm in the Eagles on, I don't know, sometime over this long, weird weekend. And there's also a dice game there that you can roll the dice for a dollar.

And if you get a, if you get a, I thought you meant that the, the, the members throw dice at the end of the bar and I was like, how have I not become an Eagle already? That's really my speed.

Yeah. Well, is that, well, there, there has been that before I've played some of those dice games, but there's also one of those up on the bar where it's a dice game where you can roll these five dice. And if you get five of a kind or whatever you would call that, what was it? Five of a kind. I don't know. You can win everything that's in the pot, or you can win a free drink if you get four out of five or whatever. So I'm at the bar. I'm going to be pulling some tabs later on in the evening, but I see the dice game, and so I turn to our fellow eagle, Darren.

He was the one that was the president when we joined, and he's the one who told us, if you believe in Diana Ross, you believe in a supreme being.

So I tell Darren, hey, I want to play the dice game, but I don't have a dollar. And he says, here, I'll let you borrow a dollar. So he gives me a dollar and I put it in there. And the pot is only like $79. There's three movies starring Woody Harrelson that are based on this premise.

I said, this is what I said. And there's a Nicolas Cage movie that's also like this.

This isn't like Robert.

It could happen to you.

Yes. This is Squarers. That's what I call this movie.

I believe Bridget Fonda was also in that film.

So listen to this. So he lets me borrow a dollar. I roll the dice. I come very, so you get like four rolls, I think. i think my first roll i earn enough to get a free drink but i wave it away i say no i want to keep rolling and try to win the 80 bucks i yeah and then i keep rolling and then i bust out but whatever i didn't win anything it was a dollar then i don't know maybe 10 15 minutes later i'm like okay it's time for me to buy some pull tabs so i get some money from the machine or whatever and i buy 20 worth of one dollar pull tabs so that's a dollar a tab right i get 20 tabs i can

pretty rich for us for tabs yeah no that's i believe that's the most expensive pull tab you

could buy there right yeah i think so here yeah and so and the available prizes left in this bin i think are like the top most is 300 and there's like maybe four or five chances to win that there's also like 150s and maybe there's six of those so i tell darren okay i'm gonna get 20 pull tabs and i'm gonna give you one of them you see where this is going how you get i'm gonna give I'll give you one of them, and I'm going to take 19. So I take 19 back to the table. Oh, this is actually like the day after Thanksgiving or two days after. It's the Apple Cup, right? Because we're there with your mom and your sister. And so I'm at the table, and I'm pulling, and I keep on getting $1 tickets back. Maybe out of the 19 that I'm pulling, maybe I win $4 back or whatever. And then when I'm done, I turn around, and I see the bartender paying out Darren. I thought they were pranking me. He won $150 off of the one tab I gave. Oh, my God. Luke, I haven't won big on tabs. And I mean big. Like, I haven't even won anything more than a dollar in probably two or three years. Like, I've just been putting money into it. Now, here's the deal. Darren, of course, was so nice. He tried to give us the money right away. He said, you should take the money. I said, no way, Jose. That's not how that works. His name is Darren. And then he's like, well, you've got to take half of the money. You've got to take half of the money. I'm like, no, no, no. I'm not going to take half the money. And then Genevieve said, hey, Darren, why don't you spend $20 of that? Buy us another bucket of tickets. Yeah. And if we win, win. That's Solomonic, by the way. Yeah, I felt like that was nice because Darren wanted to do the right thing. He's being a total bro about this. But I also was like, no, that was the thing. I thought the story was great.

The point is that it's a chance. It's a game of chance. It's a game of chance. That dollar paid off for him.

Exactly. He gave you a dollar. You gave him a dollar. Yes.

It's just one of those dollars flourished in this way that was sort of unexpected.

But then this was really sweet. So then the night goes on, and then I go to pay my tab, and he has left half of the winnings with the bartender, Mike. For our tab. And he said, here's the catch. What a mensch. He really is. Exactly, yeah. But how about that? I never win a pull tab anymore. I give him one pull tab out of my 20, and it nets him 150 big ones.

But that's such an Eagles story all around, right? Like, every part of that, to me, is why we love the Eagles. Like, it's fun. There's, like, a little bit of, like, everybody's having fun with each other and being generous with each other. There's, like, a little element of gaming and excitement. But at the end of the day, everyone's just really there, like, looking out for each other and trying to do the right thing and make sure everybody feels, like, whole and like they had a good night. That's what I really enjoy about that whole community.

Yeah, exactly. In fact, when I thanked Darren by text because he was long gone, he said, oh, yeah, of course, just make sure to tip Mike the bartender. You know, like that's what everybody wants to pay it forward.

Well, I look forward to becoming part of this environment of winners who occasionally get 150 bucks off of a pull tab. But this is what I have to go through. These are what the bylaws stipulate for me as a new applicant. One, we read your name on the Aerie floor at one of our twice monthly meetings. So I guess my name will be read aloud. And then we forward your name to the membership committee for an interview. I'm assuming the membership committee is there for this. There is not. My name is read aloud. And then do I go to a breakout session with the membership committee?

I don't think so. I think so. Here's what I think is happening here. This reading your name aloud. I don't think you have to be there for that. That's in just one of their meetings. And I think that this this membership committee thing has always been in place in theory, but not practice. And Luke, now that they're implementing it in practice They asked me if I would be one of the interviewers So if you do have to go through with this I'm the one who would be I'm one of the people who would be interviewing you And I am easily bought There are so many layers to that Being the dynamic

One There's no human being And this includes many ex-wives There's no human being on planet Earth I've talked to more than you So I feel like you're able to just say like we we did the interview it was called yesterday's show it

was called the last 10 years oh i yes i could do that oh and also in you could exactly and yet

in talking to me so much i feel like i mean i wouldn't be surprised if you did not recommend

me for membership you're not even allowed in lake city anymore when i'm done with you

i can't even i can't even go to that um uh to the tubs that's yeah right right in the far north region um so that's like it's it's interesting that you're on the committee and that whatever so then the committee interviews me that's you i guess or the committee the committee's recommendation is read on the airy floor does that happen a different day i'm assuming the says we've interviewed luke burbank and we have found him to be of sound you know a character

Morally upstanding.

By the way, please lie on all of that. If they ask me what my biggest weakness is, I will be, I am too morally upstanding. That's my go-to. And then voting by ARRI members on the application at the ARRI meeting. Is there a vote? I don't remember this.

There is technically a vote.

And again, you're probably not there for that.

You're not there for that. I don't think all the members vote.

I might need to be there to electioneer on my behalf. I'm going to hand out buttons.

You have to stay at least 500 feet from the airy during the voting.

What if I just want to guard the ballot box?

And no one can bring you water.

What if I want to wear camo and sit 100 feet from the ballot box while wearing an AK just to preserve the election integrity?

You can't do that, but you can hand out little buttons that say, I ook Luke. So that's good.

Show title?

Yeah, I was just reaching for the pen.

I ook Luke. We love that.

That kind of makes it sound like the whole club votes on you. That's the part that's what intimidated me. That's not accurate. It's just whatever, like, the people who take part in the week, in the monthly or bimonthly meeting. And it's not like they get all, I found out recently there's like 600 on paper, 600 members of our area, but only like a couple hundred who are active.

Okay. They're not sending us all paper ballots to, like, check off. That's what it read to me as. And I just I was worried that like a bunch of, you know, I just don't know. I know the core group that I know. But I was like, if this is a if I were in the Eagles and I had never heard of this Luke Burbank person and they were just, you know, asking me to vote on them, I might go, you know, I might say yes, I might say no. So I'm glad to hear that that's more of a formality.

It is absolutely a formality.

and then How do they get into, yeah, what happens next?

Let's see. Your attendance at an initiation ceremony at an Aerie meeting. Yes, there it is. That's just number six. I guess that's the real sticking point, is that I need to be there for an initiation ceremony. But that doesn't, oh, the third Wednesday of each month. Okay, let me look at my calendar. Can I ask you this, and this is in all seriousness. If I can make it there on a third Wednesday of a particular month, Would you all do me the, could you make me the happiest Eagles, you know, whatever you'd call it, like attempted Eagles member by showing up on the third Wednesday of a given month?

Well, you need to know something. We're happy to be there, but we would not be in the initiation ceremony. Those are for like the elders, not the elders, but the people who hold position or whatever, who have to, you'd have to kind of go through the ceremony, which I'm not going to talk about here. We're literally supposed to not talk about it. But we could be there so when you emerge from the basement, so we could be upstairs already well into our cups.

Yeah, you know, newly formed as a brother and an eagle. Okay. Like a newborn baby. Yes, and you will be in the nude. I think some people you know pretty well will be in that room. I don't know if I'm supposed to say who they are. Also nude? Oh, everyone's nude, yeah. Everyone's always nude. Everyone's just always nude.

This is actually getting – how's January 19th for everybody? That's the third Thursday.

I think that's great for us.

of January I'm putting it down Andrew would you consider giving me one one dollar pull tab if I successfully break into the Eagles area number one I will I will buy you in fact I would

like it I mean you've purchased your own fair share of pull tabs there as a guest but I would be honored to buy you your because there is a bin that only members can pull from and I would be

honored if I could buy you there the other night yeah as you know with the gambler's instinct I have i was like i think all the winners are in that and i'm not getting access exactly all right

let's count on it we're excited that you're joining you'll be a you'll be a brother i'm

legitimately very excited about this and i'm shocked that it took me this long to uh to you know sort of throw my my uh my hat in that ring because you guys have all been doing it for a while now and it's super fun being there and i really love that place so my only concern is i

think the 19th is a thursday did you say the 19th or the 18th i thought it was the third third oh

third wednesday oh that's bad for me i mean you know what this interview is not going well i'm in singapore on a tv shoot about the backup drummer for the divinals so anyway well we'll just look down the calendar and figure out when we can do it so all right veves thank you again so much thanks for letting me crash as always yeah no this is really it's really the best the best thing that happens on the show thank you andrew thank you as well for being so patient uh for today's recording i apologize for wasting your time but i think we can all agree it was a humdinger of a show from my standpoint losing my voice and slowly thawing out here live on the air for all the listeners i think it was

fun i had a lot of fun genevieve tell them how good the french onion soup was at pizzeria uno

in concord um i mean to to a 23 year old uh person it seemed good yeah exactly my i want to

I want to mention, Vives, I have no quibble with eating the French onion soup at Pizzeria Uno. I find it odd that Andrew's never had the pizza.

I don't think I've had the pizza there. I feel like I always went there for soup and a burger.

At a place that is legendary for its Chicago style pizza pizza pizza.

I didn't know it was legendary. I always just thought it was like a cheapo chain. So now I feel like I've missed out.

It's like, again, when you go to Chicago and if you go, like, where's the best deep dish Chicago sauce? Pizzeria Uno is the first one that comes up.

legitimately bummed because I've never had deep dish style pizza and I wouldn't have figured that Concord would have been the place to try it and now here I am out in Seattle with no Unos

well next time I'm in O'Hare airport they have a pizzeria Uno in the airport I'll bring you back something

thank you that'll be good two days later

alright thanks everybody for listening we'll be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you until then have a great Wednesday stay safe and please remember no mountain too tall

and good luck to all Oh my god, the quarterback is toast.

Power out.