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I used to be able to name every nut that there was, and that used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop naming nuts, and the joke was, of course, that we lived in pine nuts, and I think that's what put it in my head at that point. So I'd go to sleep, she'd hear me in the other room, and she would just start yelling. I'd say peanut, hazelnut, cashew nut, macadamia nut. That was the one that was sent her into a gone crazy.

TBTL You know, I would like to take this straw and stick it in your ear and extract everything you've ever thought or felt or seen or even dreamed about your profession. I gotta be honest with you, sir. The kind of work I do, I don't think it's as interesting as you think it is. My podcast is on life support. Hey, I need new listeners.

That was a joke. Humor is the tool of the interesting.

I was skeptical. It seemed too good to be true. I'm so glad I tried it.

All right. Hello. Good morning and welcome, everyone, to a Thursday edition of TBTL.

It is weird. It is beautiful. It has a plot that goes in fascinating directions.

The show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. I'm an activist and house party enthusiast. Coming to you once again from Columbus, Ohio, a.k.a. Cebus, a.k.a. the ninth largest city in America. We did it. We are racing Columbus up the charts. Even as you listen to this, here on episode 3832 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. I'm looking out on the state capitol of Ohio and I'm watching just a series of school children emerge from the state capitol and get in their school bus. Kids and fantasy. Have their civic minds energized by visiting the state capital of this fine, fine Buckeye state. We have a fine, fine show for you today, including a big, big announcement.

Attention everybody, madames and miswas.

About a fun TBTL event that you can attend from anywhere on planet Earth.

The vibes will be the illest, and the jams, Narva Day.

We'll also talk about the Noggin Bros, which is the folks that sell the big hats. And I mean literally big hats, which are taking over sports culture in America. And because it's a Thursday, a.k.a. a Blur's Day, the Blur's Day messages as well. And we'll talk to this guy, the longest-running Cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's Andrew Welsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. This was, I mean, you accuse me of doing this often. It's very rare that I do this, but I will admit that I was not paying as close of attention as I usually would. I accuse you of something often that you very rarely do. Yes, which is totally tune you out during the intro. I'm usually listening, but... I tune myself out, so honestly, don't beat yourself up over it. Today, I did tune you out because I was looking for a text chain or a text message to a group of us. I think you know where I'm going with this because I mentioned it to you before the show. I'm in a little bit of a conundrum here, and it's a conundrum involving somebody who I think might even hear this on the show for the first time. I was trying to text him before I brought it up with you on the show, but we have a holiday party slash Seahawks primetime football game collision course going on here, Dano. And a friend of ours invited us over to a holiday party on the 24th Collision course And I knew that there was a Seahawks game that day Christmas Eve Collision course Collision course Indeed And so I'm trying to reach out to my friend to see I'm trying to Again, now the thing is you'll probably hear this on the podcast before But I was trying to think of a nice way to kind of send a text to the people who were on this chain when he was inviting us over where I was just going to be like hey just checking in to see if you were sort of thinking this as a sort of like a Seahawks slash holiday party like do I bring the chips and dip or can I bring chili can we turn one of your rooms in your house into a Seahawks watching room but like you know this is

a person who likes football but isn't as addicted to the seahawks and doesn't watch every game i don't think the way we do so it clearly wasn't on on his radar so i'm trying to figure out like is that is that totally rude to like kind of just kind of check in and be like well hey just wondering what the plan was for the game or should i not say anything and just bring my laptop which was

my other which was the other thing i was toying with um i think it's totally reasonable for you to inquire on that because well first of all i know the the other folks that are invited to this are are folks that you generally watch the game you might watch the game with that yeah even the

eagles exactly yes and this person is somebody who i watch games with sometimes i think it would

be i think it's totally reasonable uh on on christmas eve of all days if there is a a seahawks game i think it's reasonable to say what's the football watching sitch and also the person who is uh doing the inviting has an entire building exactly adjacent to their home which has a television which is presumably connected to uh some kind of network tv situation so you could honestly just take over that building and turn it into the da zone which i assume is what you call the area that you watch the seahawks uh-huh turn into the seahawks zone well i gotta say i've always

said that i'm not i gotta say i've always said i never say um i'm not somebody who likes to wear sports jerseys i don't think that i look good in a sports jersey it's not for me i like to fantasize about like what jerseys i would get of my favorite players but i don't think i'll ever actually get a jersey um i have thoughts on this by the way this is the one time where i sort of wish i had a seahawks jersey because i think and one of those like big like green and blue wigs with the like the crazy hair and like a foam finger that says sea hawks or maybe one that says sea and one that says hawks and maybe one of those defense signs because i would love to show up like on christmas or sea fence uh on christmas eve as people are probably dressed up nicely i can picture it like and this is a a beautiful home that our friend has everything will be like very everything will be very um you know sort of elegantly presented at this party i believe and i want to show up just like spilling chili out of a pot that's sloshing around while i'm wearing two number one foam fingers one on each hand and i have a sea fence on my back and i'm wearing the wig and the jersey i think that would be a look you want to look like painted hawk and lady hawk is that are those two

of the super fans that are out there those are literally the names of those people of a couple of those people that are the diehard seahawk fans who paint themselves up you know so much about

birds well i i like to play a lot of birds actually yeah anyway we'll figure that out um so anyway uh i did hear that columbus has uh risen in the ranks of uh big cities so

congratulations not the not the city not the colonizer person yeah thank you yes um yeah i think i think it's at number five right now wow that's amazing started it was yeah it was number 12 the influx to columbus ohio is is quite something to behold there's also this this beautiful building that i'm looking at that's actually not the state capitol which is also pretty cool i'm looking right across the state capitol at this other very beautiful building which looks very historic but then it has a giant number eight on top of it and i'm wondering if it's a super eight like it doesn't have a super eight like it doesn't have a sign that says super eight has the numeral eight on top of it and i'm going is this the world's fanciest super eight motel and as a newly minted fan of the super eight motel chain in that i was staying there recently

i need to go investigate this the eight it's got to be this the eight east broad street building is on capitol square in downtown columbus am i giving up your that would make sense here's the

address here's luke's room number i'll be i'll be long gone on my way to irvington new york Before anybody hears this

Built in 1906 It was the tallest building in the city Until the Levesque Tower was built I don't think I'm saying Levesque right Sorry, Colombians The architect was Frank Packard Presently It's a residential building Housing condominiums On a development called Eight on the Square No, it's a regular eight It's an average eight

I'd call it like a Columbus eight Yeah We don't usually I sort of, we don't talk in those terms on this program, but could Columbus 8 be the show title today?

Well, I'm trying to think, like, what is the lyric slash expression? Columbus 8 with a Toledo booty, or what would be the... I'm messing that up really bad. What am I thinking of?

L.A. Face with an Oakland booty.

Yeah, and what song is that from? That's Sir Mix-A-Lot. That is Sir Mix-A-Lot, okay. That's baby. L.A. Face with an Oakland booty.

got back but then there's also i want a dime that's top of the line slim waist uh slim uh cute face slim waist with a big behind i need a dime that's top of the line what is it now what is that that's not also the same song is it uh that's uh beethoven oh that's it i wow so they

took they took out the lyrics for the famous songs is that how that works they did it's mostly

harpsichord but almost none i mean that the way that he was ahead of his time is really quite something they replaced all the rap lyrics with harps i can't delay this any longer i am bursting with excitement to tell the tbtl listeners that we are doing a big tbtl holiday get together on zoom on friday december the 16th what time is it at you ask are you asking me by you i mean me

So it's what time is it at? It's a holiday party. There is no football in the way. If you're a Seahawks fan, it is at 5 p.m. Pacific time on Friday, the 16th. So that's one week from tomorrow.

yes uh we we like to wait until right we like to have our colleagues john and may work very hard on something and then wait until only like seven days or eight days before the event to announce it so we're hoping you all can show up this is going to be a get together on zoom and the theme is uh the great tbtl holiday food off meaning if you have some kind of a um like a food that you you like to make around the holidays or even a drink of some kind could be alcoholic could be non-alcoholic we would like you to make it and then tell us about it on zoom while we're all there and then even consume some of it for our enjoyment watching you via zoom eating or drinking your special as i say it out loud i realize what a ridiculous premise it is uh we're also going to announce a winner of the great tbtl holiday food off how we're going to actually decide who the winner is not being able to taste any of it well that's in development let's just say yeah but we would love to see you on friday december the 16th starting at 5 p.m west coast for the tbtl holiday

get together. Yeah, that's right. And so if you go to tbtl.net right now and you kind of scroll down and then you think you're at the bottom of the page, but scroll down a little bit more and you'll see an announcements section. You'll see some fabulous artwork that I made last night

involving a hot dog wearing a Santa hat. Oh, by the way, I just stole that. I fully approve of the you were circulating an idea for the thank you or I should say the prize for whoever wins the great tbtl food off and i i didn't respond to that but i just want to tell you over the airwaves i approve i did i don't think i didn't know our colleague john mentioned something in the

in the meeting that he then returned to is it possible i had a dream last night that you sent something to me is there a chance that i had a good idea but then i am so scared of having good ideas that i have forgotten it because i don't think i've come up with any i thought we were just gonna say at a at a boy at a girl at a person if somebody won maybe at a human at a human or

whatever you might be as a carbon-based something form this is wild i in all of my kind of running around yesterday which was even by my standards pretty involved i thought i got a message from you it must have i swear to god i got a message from you i know what i can picture this hot dog Is it wearing a Santa hat?

It is. I just grabbed some clip art of a hot dog wearing a Santa hat.

Why do I know that the hot dog is wearing a Santa hat? What was that email about?

So what I did, what I sent, oh, maybe you're just confused. I just made that little badge for the website. I had to build a little website last night so that people could go somewhere and sign up for the Zoom event. Boy, we are good at promoting things. And so I spent some time, it was like we had no art. And I was just like, and again, you can, APM has an art department, but they like to, you know, they need a heads up you can't call them after hours and have them create amazing art for a website uh in a mere five minutes which is what i was able to do um so anyway i just kind of made that and i said graphic design is my passion because it's just terrible oh it's just awful

well there was an idea had been floated well now it's out there so this is no longer going to be the thank you gift but the idea had been floated for a hot dog related nft or a tbtl nft i believe

Yeah, that's what John had said in the meeting.

Yeah, for the thank you. And then I guess when I saw that message from you, I thought you had created the NFT. I see. You had just created the art for the announcement that we're having a get-together.

Which brings us back to the important thing. How can you, the tens of TBTL listeners, join us on Friday? This is next Friday. It is a Zoom event. So, yeah, if you go to TBTL.net, find that little picture of the hot dog. Again, scroll down and then keep scrolling and you'll see it. It'll be on the Slack page. It'll be on the Facebook page. I'll tweet it out today. It's just as simple. You click a button and then you register for the Zoom event. I'm sure you've all done it a million times. It's free, of course, and it's just a way for us to get together And just sort of like kind of, you know, chill with some holiday vibes

And again, if you're the kind of person who, you know, wants to chat with us That's awesome, we would love to chat with you If you're the kind of person who would like to just kind of kick it background style You can also do that Yeah, I'll be doing that This is something for everyone, for all sort of socially outward and socially inward type of ways that you can be If that makes any sense In other words, no one's going to call on you or make you talk if that's not really your vibe, but also if you would like to eat some kind of lime jello mold in front of us and dazzle us with that, you're welcome to do that as well.

Yeah, exactly. So if you don't want to kind of participate, if you don't want to make a food, if there's too much going on in your life right now and you don't feel like baking something for a Zoom party, that's no problem. You don't have to come with something. But it's going to be for those of you who joined us for the TBTL Show and Tell Zoom events a couple of years back now. It'll be kind of like that. If you want to share what you've brought, you can sort of raise your hand in the chat, and we'll spotlight you, and we'll chat with you for a little bit. And it's just a way for everybody to kind of get together and, again, enjoy the little community that we've built around the holidays. So that's one week from today, the 16th, and just go to tbtail.net to sign up.

Yes, 5 p.m. West Coast time. Now, our colleague John did go to the highest levels of American public media, which I assume is probably Molly Wood or maybe I think she's supplanted Kyra's doll as the highest level of American public media and and got them to somehow sign us up for an account that accommodates more than what is it more than 500 people.

Yeah, there's like a 300 limit usually, and we said, we may need more than that, and people at 8 p.m. said, if you're going to have more than 300 people, you can't handle the truth, like, you need to use different software, like, that's just not right, you can't handle a crowd that big, and so our pal John spent, like, weeks going back and forth fighting for it. An immense amount of his professional capital. Yes, to get us to that, oh, okay, we can now host this event with over 500, and now we're announcing it a week in advance. We'd like to get to 50, please.

Don't make John's work for naught. Can we get to 50 people for the great TBTL holiday food off slash get together?

We want this to be bigger than the population of Columbus, Ohio.

We want this to be the seventh largest city in America, which Columbus just recently hit. Oh, nice. Within the last 10 minutes.

Fantastic. I think we had it up at five before. So there folks were. No, it's actually slipping. But still, seven is pretty good.

considering it was 14 yesterday.

Yeah, absolutely. I was looking it up. So right now, by the way, I know you don't really care, but I believe Phoenix is officially the fifth biggest city in America. So that's what we're... I think Houston might be number six. So this is what's in front of us.

Wait, there is no way Phoenix is bigger than Houston. Is that true?

Let me take a look here. I thought they were next to each other in the standings, but I can also check secondary sources. Yesterday, I had a few websites open. Today, I only have one, Which is my move dot com Slash city guides Slash largest U.S. cities I thought you were just saying that's your move No, my move dot com Philadelphia is number 6, Phoenix is number 5 Houston is number 4 I might have swapped those, sorry

Okay, I'm just, only because I think of Houston as just being an immensely Large city, although doesn't this really Come down to what suburbs Are we including generally That's a good point, yeah, the greater area The sprawlier a city – if you're not talking about New York, the sprawlier a city, the larger it's going to be if you include enough of that sprawl, which would explain how Phoenix makes it in, right? And again, we have some great friends and listeners in Phoenix, and I love the city of Phoenix. But I just don't think of that as being like a number five American city in terms of population. But I bet you if you throw in Scottsdale and, you know, other sort of adjacent kind of cities that are of a sort of medium size, if you count that as the Phoenix Metroplex, then you get pretty big pretty fast.

You know, though, when you started, I was with you at first, but then you threw in the Scottsdale example. I think why didn't you stop there? I was with you at first. I was with you at first. And then I continued to be with you.

And then I remained with you.

And then I...

I pumped my fist, and I said, could I be with this man anymore? I mean, that's an interesting question, because you do consider the suburbs, but then when you start naming other cities, like I'm trying to think about it. What's on the list? Okay, so the actual list that I'm going back to here is- Can I try to guess? Yeah, you want to do the top 10? Can I try to name 10 Ohio-based bands?

Yes. We have Elvis's Daughters, and then The Breeders.

sit pair ubu sit all right um what do you want to do here do you want to name that's a show title you want to you want to use that before i don't think anybody's ever said that word before

or that phrase before that's a great honestly that's a that would be a that would be a dynamite tweet that would only get liked by the stew bot but would be worth it oh i got um who's your

favorite uh weird twitter guy um uh drill aka wint the other one the with the avatar with the braces oh josh letterman aka old friend 99 yes he liked one of my responses yesterday luke i meant

no way yes i might i have to get back on twitter to see that that's amazing well it's not like i

did so this guy who just or this person who just tweets really really weird off the wall humor That's out of nowhere What is his current avatar It is like this man child with braces Oh it's still that

It was literally an old guy For a while Yeah that's right

Old friend 99 Is the handle Josh quote letterman Is apparently the name they're using now And they tweeted Yesterday morning When a character that dies comes back in a flashback later in the movie how do they do that cgi question mark and i happen to see that i miss twitter i happen to see that as it was a fresh tweet i saw it come in live on my phone and so without thinking i just responded they shoot the flashbacks first using look-alike actors and i got i got the immediate thumbs up from josh letterman aka old friend 99 and then

i felt validated i feel i have to tell you i've been talking a big game about how i don't miss twitter but i'm also not appreciating that our friend television's chris hayes is still a power user as is uh jelani cobb who wrote a piece in the atlantic about how he is staying on uh he was a person i was following on twitter about how and why he's staying on twitter for the time being I feel like there's been a movement of of people who I admire and like a movement of folks saying we're going to stay on Twitter, you know, until further notice. I wish I would have gotten the memo earlier. I maybe wouldn't have deleted my account.

You're you're already regretting your commitment or not commitment. I mean, you made a you know, you stood up for something, Luke. Just don't pack off from that. Now, first of all, it's too late. Well, I can't. I'll just stand up anymore. I mean you could make a new one and start over But no the point is like

I do it's C. Johnson 80808 or something Literally I made one the other day while we were talking So you could read stuff Yeah so I could read something Read stuff and it defaulted to this like It made my name This a version of this ridiculous Gmail account that I have Just for like signing up for you know Like Avis rewards and stuff And so I didn't I was while we were talking I was just kind of like Going into twitter and it's like do you want to use a gmail Account to log in Or to sign up and i was like sure And i was just kind of punching in little Numbers and i'm not a robot and whatever And then all of a sudden it said uh welcome to twitter Your name is like c johnson 8080808 or some kind of crazy Thing so i'm back baby

That's that brings Do you mind i have two quick i think quick things i want

To i don't mind but i would like to try to name the top Five american cities based on population

Let's do let's do that first but i do have two things Maybe we can do it after the break. Two social media slash text-related things that I need to ask you that are very current in our personal lives. But, okay, name the top five biggest cities, not counting Columbus, Ohio, which is getting into the mix. It's got to be New York, right, number one? Yes, exactly. Is New York number one still?

Yep. Okay, Los Angeles would be number two, presumably. Interesting that I would have maybe thought of Houston as number three, but I'm going to say Chicago number three. Oh, you're killing this list.

You're just killing the list in a good way.

and you already told me number four is houston um and then uh we said number five is is phoenix

and number six is philadelphia i'm just i went to i went all the way to phoenix six is philadelphia now number seven i don't think you'll get number seven is san francisco it is san antonio so you get half credit. Wow. which is a half a bell. Wow, all I can say is wow. For the San. And then another San, San Diego, coming in at number eight. Wait a minute. Now hold.

I don't know what you want me to do.

Now hold on a minute. Okay, let me double check.

Because San Diego and Seattle, when I was, it's funny that we've been talking about Columbus being the 15th or the 14th or the seventh largest city, because I remember when I was a kid, I was very invested in what size of city Seattle was on a national basis. And Seattle and San Diego would regularly swap positions between 12th and 11th. Sometimes it would be Seattle. Sometimes it would be San Diego. They were always neck and neck. But you're telling me San Diego, they must be counting like so much of, again, back to my statement about sprawl. There's no way Metro San Diego added that many people. Well, there is a way. They may have. but it seems to me that that would have to be are they adding Temecula what is going on how is San

Diego number eight I am trying to so this I'm on two different lists here and they're both they they confirm each other so I'll call that good enough for now for good enough for podcasting and it is based on 2020 government podcasting it's based on census data and I truly believe it is based on the last census of 2020 so I don't know I don't know that although even the census

I'm just surprised they jumped up. Is Seattle 11 now?

No, Seattle's way down the list. I'm going to actually read some of these.

Seattle is losing population? I find this shocking.

I don't know if Seattle's losing population or if other cities are just growing at a faster clip. They're coming from somewhere, Andrew. They're coming from somewhere. We got Dallas at number nine. We have San Jose at number 10. Okay?

Now, this surprises me. Are you? Come on. San Jose, California. Peace and love to our folks there. But like San Jose, California is now larger population wise than Seattle, Washington.

What was the controversy controversy over the census this last time around?

Because I remember Trump was in office. Right. And and there I feel like basically Trump because it's it's it's it's how congressional seats and other things are are basically sort of. Appointed is the wrong word, but it has to do with a lot of a lot of things around sort of funding of things and also the way that Congress is set up where the population is. And, of course, the Republicans led by Trump did not want there to be as many people in the places that they didn't want to support was basically the what the issue was.

I guess what I was getting at there was like we trust these census numbers, right? These are the 2020 census numbers.

You've painted me into an impossible corner, which is either side with Donald Trump or agree that San Jose, California is larger than Seattle, population-wise. I have no good options.

I'm the three-card Monty of census data. You really got me.

You've really hemmed me in, my friend.

Number 11. Now, I find this one to be the most shocking so far, more than these others. Poughkeepsie. Austin, Texas, coming in at number 11, according to this. Jacksonville, Florida, 12.

1,000 of those people are just Joe Rogan. Yeah, right. He's on that much, what's Liver King on? He's on that, I was trying to think of the specific steroid that Liver King was on, but anyway. I'm not surprised to hear that about Austin because it does, again, all of my thoughts on this are completely unscientific and totally anecdotal, but I feel like I hear about a lot of people moving to Austin, so that one checks out for me. I mean you know San Jose is a tech hub It's you know a big part of Silicon Valley So I guess they're just folks moving there too But Tell me this Andrew is Seattle even in the top 20 anymore

It is in the top 20 So where are we now we're at 11 with Austin And then did I say Jacksonville Florida is number 12 Now we're going back to Texas For Fort Worth At number 13

Wait what wait Dallas is like number

I don't want to fight with you Luke

I don't want to fight with you I can't Andrew this is rocking my world I have grown up believing in a limited number of things Rick Riz not a great play-by-play broadcaster Seattle number 11 or 12 city population wise in America and everything you're telling me is just absolutely it's an earthquake in terms of

what I think about when it comes to this country well you know what I can tell you this just occurred to me that I have information here about the the percentage of change in population um it says since 2020 so are these actually 2022 numbers um yeah I guess this is not 2020 census this is actually 2022

Because I can tell you the amount of change since 2020 and the past two years, Jacksonville, Florida, has increased in population by one point three three percent, which is quite a bit. Austin, you're right, has grown by one point seven five percent, which is, I think, the biggest growth on this list, except for number 13 Fort Worth, which has grown at one point nine percent, Luke. And do you know number 14?

Seattle, Washington.

Do you know number 14, Luke? Why are we talking about this?

Don't tell me. I swear to God. If it's Kirkland.

Why are we talking about this, Luke?

I'm losing my...

How do we get on this topic? Look out your window.

Seattle, right? Seattle 14.

Look out your window. Look out your window, Luke. Where are you? Columbus. Columbus, Ohio is number 14. Home of the Super 8.

The Super Super 8. Number 15 is Charlotte. Wait a second. You're telling me Columbus... Hold on. Okay. I know it seems like I'm ginning this up. I'm really not. You're telling me Columbus, Ohio is actually, for all our joking, is actually larger in population size than Seattle, Washington right now. According to this list, and I'm looking at two different lists.

The United States Census, which I believe. But on the other hand, though, how do they – because I'm not on a US.gov website. I'm on two different websites, and I'm bouncing between, but they seem to confirm each other. So I feel like these numbers are viable, but I don't know where you get these kinds of numbers in off-census years because supposedly these are 2022 numbers. Having said that, according to this list, I'm looking at Columbus, Ohio is at nine hundred twenty nine hundred thousand people. Seattle is at seven sixty two hundred thousand people.

Interesting. I think if you count I don't know why I'm so invested in this. I think if you count, you know, Bellevue and and like the sort of greater Seattle, quote unquote, greater Seattle area, I think Seattle goes over a million. but this just must be they're only counting seattle proper as it were and they're probably only counting columbus proper like i don't it's not that i don't believe these numbers andrew it's that i don't want to believe them oh yeah sounds good oh sounds like that's how a lot of people vote i have bellevue here which puts me squarely back in the trump camp i have bellevue

at 177 on the list with 157 plus thousand people let's call it a hundred let's round up to 158 thousand so you still don't get to a million if you combine those two maybe if you start throwing in a Redmond and Kirkland and stuff but I how about Renton can I get a Bothell can I get a Bothell for a day or a lifetime would you believe a Bothell okay so that was my get smart impression number 15 is Charlotte North Carolina we still have not seen Seattle on the list Indianapolis Indiana is coming in at number 16 San Francisco is at number 17 and finally Luke at number 18

you have Seattle. I don't believe I can't live in a world where San Francisco is 10 positions behind San Diego I'm just I am shocked by I am shocked by this reality. Yeah I mean

maybe it is I mean they could be measuring suburbs differently or maybe unincorporated areas that doesn't sound right but yeah because like in this case we know that they're not counting like Bellevue right it would even like would rent in right there's no way Seattle by itself is 700,000

there's no way Seattle plus yeah well I say there's no way it seems unlikely to me that Seattle plus Bellevue would be 700,000 so I'm guessing you know Bellevue's on the list

as its own thing as like 170 or whatever I said before so yeah there's the reality Seattle is number 18 Denver 19 and Washington DC at 20 and that's it that's the top 20 the a part

of why this is surprising to me is because it also, in a way, well, maybe it doesn't. I was going to say it challenges my notion of why people move to places, but maybe it actually supports this. I think most people, maybe not you or I, but a lot of people want to go where it is affordable to live, there is less traffic, and they can get a job. Those are sort of basic human needs, and that would drive them to places like Jacksonville, Florida, right? And I guess it means that fewer people are living in Seattle and San Francisco because it turns out it's very expensive to live there. It may be challenging to get a job if you're not in sort of tech or some highly specific sort of thing. And there's a lot of traffic, et cetera. I think people – I would just assume that people would go towards – people would follow the path of least resistance, which again – and I know we have listeners there because I've read their names before. Which I think would lead to Fort Worth, Texas as well Like that makes sense, I guess It's just I'm observing it happening People are streaming out of places Like Seattle and San Francisco By the way, I do see hear that these 2022 estimates are from world population review based on recent u.s census estimates seems legit i will say that kent is the um smallest washington state city that still makes it onto this list of 200 it's coming in at 197 but the fact that kent washington has its own listing makes me think that this is specific to the city limits not not the suburban areas

around it right well Kent Washington home of one Sir Mix-a-Lot oh really so it all it all comes

together are you surprised last thing on this cute face slim waist with a big behind as Beethoven once said are you surprised that Cleveland is small is like significantly smaller than Columbus

I'm shocked at that news I really am like and also was Detroit even on the list Detroit is one of

So here's, again, that Cleveland number, the Cleveland coming in at 367 hundred thousand makes me think that they are not counting suburbs because that was something with Cleveland early on, even in the 70s. It was one of the greatest like kind of urban sprawl disasters where everybody left the city and started moving out to white flight as they very white flighty. Exactly. Detroit is one. So every city that we've talked about so far, except for Cleveland, which is coming in in the 50s, every city that we've talked about so far has shown positive growth. over the past two years at number 28 29 30 and 31 is the first time we're seeing populations decrease and those cities and i'm no no offense meant to them are memphis tennessee detroit michigan baltimore maryland and milwaukee wisconsin um so almost all midwesterns not counting memphis and detroit is on the list at number 29 but it is declining significantly

Do you know that I almost took a radio producing job in Detroit? No. And it was because at the time Detroit was the number three radio market in America. And that must have been, they must have been counting, you know, like the radio, the sort of radio, you know, reach is not the same as like the actual boundaries of a city, but it was producing a morning show and it was like, yeah, you could work in the number three market in America. And I remember really considering it, even though the pay was complete shite.

I also wonder how much they kind of cherry-picked those numbers to, you know what I mean, to call it, like, during this certain time slot and for this. They were, like, five-plus.

It's the third largest city in America if you go three to seven, age three to seven. It's one of the largest cities in America. Right.

What? Ages nine to 99. I'm looking now. Don't worry. I'm not going to go deep on this. I'm already exhausting myself, but I'm now looking at a list of radio markets versus actual population. And it looks like, oh, in the land, like I have to make the comparison, but it looks like they match up pretty well. New York one, L.A. to Chicago three.

Although I will say this, KQED in San Francisco, I know this because Livewire was on it and is no longer on it. Please write your congressperson. But San Francisco is was the number one public radio market in terms of total listeners. That just could lead that could just owe to San Francisco's kind of liberal leaning tendencies or something, because obviously city population is different than how many people are listening to a frequency. But San Francisco and New York regularly jockey between number one and number two in terms of total public radio listeners.

Public radio. Well, also, San Francisco must just be a big radio town because even though it's pretty far down on the list of population, you know, it's like in the top 20, but it's not in the top five. It is number four on the market size on the radio market size. So really, that's the first city that really kind of makes the jump between population to market like radio market.

So I don't know how I actually think this might be part of what why my I'm having such sort of dissonance on this topic is because I have long thought about cities as. How many radio listeners are there?

Seattle-Tacoma area, number 10 as far as a radio market is concerned. Are you starting to feel like the world is kind of getting back into the proper tilt?

Yes, I feel finally comfortable taking this break, Andrew. Okay, good. Because I did want to go to the break with the world just being completely topsy-turvy. But now there seems to be some sort of gravity, which I think allows me the opportunity to take this quick break. And then we'll be back with more TBTL in just a moment. Hey, let's thank some of our daily donors. They are keeping TBTL in business with their financial support from all over the globe, including the 73rd largest city in Europe. cologne

germany where anastasia hoffman is checking in thank you so much anastasia i'm just i made an executive decision andrew before we got uh recording here you said you were unclear if it was anastasia or anastasia i'm going anastasia yeah i like that that makes sense yeah i know an anastasia i believe um but who's to know i will also say that anastasia's out there thinking she's all fancy because she lives in cologne i want you to know that i spent a great deal of time in Axe Body Spray, Wisconsin, which is also a beautiful place. I was trying to figure out where you were going with that, and I was like, did Andrew spend a lot of time in Cologne, Germany, and never told me about it? Such a bad joke. Also, it's not probably the 73rd. I'm going to guess. Cologne, I bet you, is the 19th largest city in Europe. I'm going to look it up. Would you mind? Could you do me a kindness and see what size city Cologne, Germany is, while I thank Alan Jones. What did you put it at again? I said 73rd, which was probably low. But then I moved it up to definitely top 20. Top 20. It's not in the top 20, but I'll keep giving you information as we thank the donors. Where does San Jose rank? In Europe, on the list of European cities. Thank you, Anastasia. Thanks also to Alan Jones in Studio City, California. Lovely Studio City, California. Yep, you used to pass through there all the time. Yeah, right? Would you go up there like when you were living in L.A. ever? I feel like, unless I'm getting confused here, I feel like Studio City, if I was taking Surface Streets home from Santa Monica to the city of L.A., I feel like I would drive through Studio City. Does that sound right to you? It could. Also, if you were maybe jumping on the 101, for some reason Waze was telling you the 101 is your route today, you might have bopped up through Studio City. I went to a house of, this sounds like such a humble brag or name drop, but with our friend John Goodwin, CBS producer, I passed through the house of one of the people, the Foo Fighters in Studio City. And it was my dream house And I thought, I gotta get in the Foo Fighters This is how they live You know, I was totally wrong about what I thought Studio City was No, you're right, it's way up by the 101 I would never go that north just to get from Santa Monica to L.A. Never You probably went through Century City You probably went on Santa Monica Boulevard through Century City Home of Nakatomi Plaza And is that where a lot of studios are? I just remember driving through a lot of studios So I think I mistakenly thought I was going through Studio City But no, Studio City is much bigger than what I thought And it's up by the 101 And I would pass that if I was going out to like Sherman Oaks or whatever The Ikea in Burbank Sure, yeah, exactly Or some such

Yeah, Studio City is nice and Alan Jones is extra nice Thank you, Alan Thanks, Alan Also thanks to Jim Hayes in South Orange, New Jersey Thanks, Jim That's a very familiar name I have been looking up hotels in New Jersey Andrew because I am going to be staying in New York tomorrow today is tomorrow today it was yesterday okay I am going to be staying in New York tonight but I'm going to be up in like yonkers because we're doing an interview with with somebody who lives in Irvington New York but then tomorrow night Friday night I'm staying in the city and hotel rooms now I don't have to thankfully i don't have to pay for this is on cbs but hotel rooms in new york city are going for around thirteen hundred dollars a night yeah that's the proper response that's how i felt when i heard san jose wow and so i was like i was just looking at a map again i'm not paying for it and i'm not paying thirteen hundred dollars i'm you know where i'm staying andrew the fairfield inn that you and i stayed in in brooklyn oh no kidding oh yeah i remember that that was actually a pretty nice place yeah that was you know what i remember about because we recorded a you and i did a live show there but then we also recorded our regular episode up in um i believe we we set up a little recording situation in my room there and i i'll never forget that was when you first played for me do you know the tape i'm gonna say i don't think you remember no as specifically as i do that's the first time i heard meme dad you played for me meme dad during that show and i could not contain my joy though i was losing it yes oh man yeah so i'm staying at that which do you know how much that fairfield inn is it's like 550 a night jeez louise i mean

were small i mean it was a clean it was a nice place it was clean you could tell it was kind of like updated recently nice place but small rooms sure yeah no i mean i'm happy to be there but i mean i just what's weird is i could stay in the city and i could bill cbs the 1300 but somehow i just can't do that to larry alardo no don't larry's done enough for you it's not his money but somehow it's like so i was looking at like hey how much are rooms going for in hackensack And South Orange and other places adjacent To New York City Which are places where Jim Hayes is Specifically South Orange, thanks Jim Also thanks to Laura Piles in Shoreline, Washington I also looked at hotels in Shoreline, Washington That's a bit more of a commute though In the morning It is, but I'll take the green line like you like to do When you're in the Twin Cities Yeah, I love the green line I'd take the green line to Kent if I could Tell me Throw in another guess While we thank these listeners Throw in another guess. It's not in the top 20, Cologne, as far as the largest cities in Europa. I'm just going with round numbers. Is it number 30? You're very close, but it doesn't quite crack the 30. It comes in at number 31. So 75 was less far off than I thought. Yeah, it comes in at number 31. Number 31, Cologne, Germany, where I have not been, but where I would like to go someday. I'd also like to go to Bothell, Washington, Andrew, for an undetermined amount of time. That's where Andrea Duesenberry is supporting the program. Thank you, Andrea. And then Eric Jagger is in Petaluma, California, home of, birthplace of, who, Andrew? Petaluma is birthplace of, I'm going to say, Richard Milhouse Nixon. That's not right. Golly, that's a great guess, but very wrong.

Yeah. I think of her as the Richard Milhouse Nixon of being in reality bites and also Stranger Things. She's the star of Stranger. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, my God. My brain. Wait, I don't want you to say it, but also we have a podcast to do. We have to move on. Oh, I don't like doing it. This is the I don't like this. This is what this is. Oh, life is what happens when you're out making other plans. This is the show. my friend uh wyona wyona driver not driver though right oh my god winona rider yes why am i saying

wait did i is it wyona or winona winona it's winona or if you're johnny depp wino forever right which is the way he got his name he had a tattoo that said winona forever and then when they broke up he had it altered to being wino forever which also apparently is a lifestyle for him so you know you've you've got to i guess tip the cap to that if only you as drill would say you absolutely do not have to give it to them i know forever tattoo also shout out to eric though i want to point out that eric is also only because this is a very special thing in tbtl lore he's also the person who made the oops the dirty monster cartoon the dirty monster which is like my favorite thing we've ever done so i wanted to shout it out yeah thank you eric uh now i'm double checking this um hometown winona i'm sorry uh wino forever hometown yorba linda of course is where nixon was born everybody knows that i just freaked out and said nixon before golly i'm wrong i couldn't be more wrong uh well first of all i didn't know that winona ryder's name is winona laura horowitz and she was born in olmstead county minnesota oh interesting all i have pictured winona rider being she must have spent wait a second here because i just typed in famous people from petaluma and the very first name on the list is winona rider okay so i'm not losing my mind thank you there's some reason you think that yeah in minnesota but then maybe grew up in petaluma Eric can tell Eric can draw a cartoon about it yeah we'll get exactly yeah thank you Eric thank you to all of our donors today for making TBTL possible we really do appreciate you hello and welcome to top story I really thought I was going to get you with this big hats thing but it turns out Andrew that you're already up to speed on it due to your um love of the Washington Commanders football team? My obsession with the Washington Commanders. No, so you sent a text to me and some friends saying, like, are you guys, I think it was you who initiated that, are you guys, you know, hip to this giant hat craze? And I said, I've seen this going around only because, and I don't know if this was the origin of it or if I was late to it or not, but there's some rookie running back on the Washington Commanders who showed up at a press conference or something wearing... one of these giant oversized but in the shape of a ball cap hat that i just love i mean i love this type of shit so much uh it's so funny things of scale i do i absolutely things that are out of scale yes and it's just and it's so funny because it's both like i said cool and ridiculous at the same time um and somebody tweeted it out that brian robinson by the way is that the running back and player for the commanders yes and he was saying i know the guy who makes these hit me up if You want a giant hat. Now, was that the origin of this? Because now these hats are all over the place.

Apparently, it was sort of the first time that it went widely viral. Although, what I found out in doing a little sleuthing is that this is a company called Noggin Boss. And they actually went on Shark Tank. Oh. With these ridiculous, as my brother Sam would say one time. we were in oh gosh I can't we were driving home from Bumbershoot and I was driving and it was like Addie and Sam and David and they were very young and some organization had given out some kind of silly hats at Bumbershoot I think and everybody had gotten one but only I think David was wearing the hat and at some point Sam just looked at him and said take off that ridiculous hat and it's just become a thing in our family this ridiculous hat idea was a thing they went on shark tank with and this is what i was kind of uh struck by they went on shark tank trying to get fifty thousand dollars and offering 25 of their noggin boss company now you know fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money to me but if i went on shark tank i wouldn't probably be selling A quarter of my company for $50,000 unless my company Was giant ridiculous hats

I guess I love these hats I Wonder what they're and I can see the video here but I don't Know if we should play it but What was their pitch you Know what I mean and when it comes to fashion especially like Kind of outsider fashion Like this I mean how do you convince The I've never seen that show but how do You convince the sharks that this is fashionable It

Worked apparently in that one of the sharks damon john bought 30 of the company so i don't know i haven't watched the video either so i don't know what the sales pitch was maybe hey would you look would you like to look absolutely foolish you think that these are the hats for you things you don't like these things that's well i don't you know what it's weird i sort of like that they exist but i'm much like what i just recently learned about the size of u.s cities i'm apoplectic like i don't understand what the utility is at all they seem like you'd get your head stuck trying to leave the elevator like they seem like they'd be i'm sure they're not heavy i'm sure that's part of the whole kind of the the killer app to them is that they're gigantic but they don't weigh anything it would be my guess but i just i'm trying to understand when you would wear this hat i guess

if you were going to a game yeah i see a lot of people wearing going to games yeah and you wanted

but but also i mean are they so large that it would would you bump into the person next to you at um human field if you were wearing one you hope so i just think it would be great it looks

like a bunch of clumsy bobble heads out there rooting for your team with these giant hats on i mean i'm not joking these things freaking delight me how much these things run do you know Well, I know what you're getting for Christmas.

Yeah, well, maybe if I'm good. So the folks from the company, the hat company, are claiming that the sales of the hats have gone up 2,000% since this Washington Commanders player wore the hat for the press conference, and it became a thing. I think they were wearing versions of this on some kind of sports TV show. It's becoming a thing now, these big hats.

That's how you do it. All you have to do to become successful is just find a rookie running back who's willing to wear your product at a press conference after an NFL game. It's simple. There's a roadmap.

I love that he's wearing it backwards in one of the photos, Brian Robinson. I mean, that's, for some reason, that's, I think, what really sold it.

It's so cool looking. I really do love these things. But I really am trying to figure out how much.

Unironically, you think it's cool looking.

Yeah.

I mean, when I see somebody wearing one of these hats, it makes me smile. Like, that's the only way I can put it. That's a good point. It puts a big ass smile on my face.

Okay. I'm looking up. I'm getting you. Here, shop a Seattle Mariners noggin boss hat. But the thing is, I'm going to be cheap about how much I think they should be sold for. Like, if they're ridiculous. Well, actually, you know, these plain... Get me a camo one. I'm in the... How about one that says CEO on it?

I'm at the noggin boss website. Yes, I don't see the CEO one. Do they... Oh, God. Have you seen the how it works tile, which has kind of tweens wearing... One of them is wearing one that says respect. One of them has like the shocker on their hat. And one of them has a hat that says CEO. I have not gotten to that part.

I'm just, do they have any?

Do you have ETL noggin bosses? Oh, I love. My friend for the next Thawne. Oh, God. Don't even say that.

What if our thing is tiny hats? Fascinators? You guys really got into fascinators a while back, didn't you? We did. Yeah. Now, I'm a little confused because you see people wearing these things on their promotional photos that are actually licensed to professional teams. But then when you go to the shop store, I don't see a way to buy any that are affiliated with a team. Like they must not have actually reached those agreements with. Right. Yeah.

Which I'm unsurprised actually to see. So somehow they they must have made like a non licensed commander's hat and sent it to Brian Robinson because you're absolutely right. They do not have the rights to any professional teams because all these hats are. It's like Rob Lowe wearing a hat that says NFL NFL.

Exactly.

Yeah. The one Ludacris is wearing says you do you.

I just want the one with a big generic baseball on it. Just like that is very Rob Lowe energy there. I don't know if you saw that one. It's just like I think it's a black hat with a big white baseball on the front of it. That's what I want. I like baseball Hey speaking of baseball

I'm really fascinated with these I'm obsessed with The ways that they're trying to be adjacent To pro sports But do not have the rights Obviously They've got these three Very conventionally attractive women One is in a Cubs jersey The other is in a What's the Arizona team The Diamondbacks jersey And the other's in a Rangers jersey And they have them all strategically Covering the actual logos in the photo Being poquettish with these baseball bats But then the hats just say Chicago, Arizona, and Texas They're so not the brand Or not the MLB brand But trying to just kind of trick your eye Into thinking that's what's happening

Yeah, exactly Let's see here

Okay I could just sit on this website All day shopping noggins Andrew but I won't They look relatively comfortable They must have an NBA tie in Are they selling NBA stuff? Yeah they have the 76ers They have the Mavs Okay and you can buy them Oh they have the Pelicans They have the Chicago Blackhawks What is going on? Why are they so bad at this? Like if you click to the choose your noggin Part of the page You get a bunch of We get a model wearing a bunch of actual Like licensed major sports hats But then if you look at their main page It's all this kind of off-brand crap

Yeah I can't figure it out I don't even know where you are I mean this is terrible probably As far as content is concerned But like I'm just on the shop noggins Hey man I'm just over here Hanging out on the shop noggins page

How much do you think a noggin goes for by the way Well that's why I was looking

How much camo noggin is going to run you These generic ones And again I haven't seen the ones That are officially affiliated with teams which might be more pricey but the generic ones are $75 which is you know a chunk of change for a big ass hat that you're gonna have to find a place to store when you're not wearing it like that's one thing right there that you got to figure out right um but you know when I go to a Mariners game and I buy an official Mariners hat I think you know like a fitted Mariners cap I think that's like 35 40 bucks or something so you know you get a lot of hat here so like it's not like disproportionate on like per square inch of fabric i mean you can't afford not to yeah right exactly i buy them and i melt them down luke that's what i do yeah honestly like

there's a decent buck in that i don't know if they actually have the rights to these nba teams or if they just have kind of a rogue like banner going on their website where it looks like you can buy a Philadelphia 76ers giant noggin hat, but I have yet to be able to actually purchase that on the website. I will be reporting this to Adam Silver directly. Yes. And for that, I'm out.

I think that's what they said.

say on Shark Tank. Well, look at this. It's a special birthday today because Nick, a.k.a. The Perfect Ten, one of the longest listeners of this show, is celebrating a birthday this week. I've got a message here from Jake, who introduced Nick to the show. Jake calls himself the Perfect Daddy because of that, but I don't know if we acknowledge that. I'll allow it, only in the case of Jake. So Jake says, I want to wish the Perfect Ten a happy 32nd? question mark blursday we're getting to the age where i have to do some quick math to remember how old we are i can't believe we're still listening to the same silly show we were in our dorm room three decades ago i don't think it was three it wasn't three decades ago it was 2009 jake but also i can't believe nick is only 32 yeah he's a mere child he's a babe nick wrote in uh himself as well he said it's been a tough year full of change and growth But I'm taking it one day at a time. Here's to a great year of fun and baseball and hoping the Mariners and Rays never meet up in the postseason. Happy Blurs Day, Nick. Hope you're having. Yeah, I hope things are shaping up for you this year. Appreciate you. The good news is every Blurs Day, every person on this Blurs gets a free big hat from Andrew. From Jake. Right to your perfect daddy, Jake. Things are looking up, Nick. Mike in Sacramento says, I want to wish a happy Blurs to my 10-in-law, Kelly. So I guess this would be an in-law who is a 10? Yeah, that's an interesting, yeah. Yeah, I don't know which in-law. Or maybe Mike is married to a 10 and then their sibling is Kelly? That could be it. I want to have happy blurs for my 10-in-law, Kelly. While I wouldn't dare even guess which birthday milestone it is, this one is important because my name was just announced on the Daily Donors last Monday. And if it weren't for Kelly pointing out that my name was called, I would have missed it this year. So thanks, Kel and HBD. Why would Mike have skipped Monday's show? You and I both did the show, right? That wasn't one that I was doing solo. No, I actually solo hosted Monday. No, wait. I was wearing my big hat. My big hat said solo host. Wait, no, Monday. I was wearing it in solo host. No, there it is. I caught you, Mike. So Monday was the show that you weren't on. People skipped those shows. Whenever I get emails from somebody who say, I don't think I was thanked on the show this year, I go back, and I find it, and it's because I was hosting, and you were out, and people didn't listen.

Everyone, do me a favor, okay? Don't. Please download the show. Because when Andrew does me a solid and covers and does the show solo, it costs me capital within our relationship if you don't download that show. It doesn't cost you anything. It doesn't cost you anything. I need those to be the most downloaded shows so I can do fewer shows. So I can just be like hey Andrew Could we have another hit show please I'm going to be out next Monday I need actively download the shows That I'm not on please We need that juice Anyway I sort of forgive you Mike But the important thing is happy Blurs Day to Kelly Who did listen and heard Mike's name Exactly And Karen says I want to wish my husband Josh A happy 37th Blurs Day He's a great partner dad and dog dad And deserves the best Our almost two year old recently started having separation anxiety at night. Josh spent the other night quote-unquote sleeping on the floor next to his crib with his hand inside to help him sleep and to let me sleep. Happy Blur's Day to Josh. Come on. Hand inside the crib. That's the best. Happy Blur's Day, Josh. Also, happy Blur's Day from Jonas to their mom who is a 10. Jonas says i am her oldest five it's her birthday on december 20th and she strongly hinted to my family that she wanted us to contact you about getting a birthday shout out her name is mia and she was the 10 of the week or month or something this summer you know what jonas don't sprain anything listening to the show that's fine we have a whole thing going here we just love that you love your mother mia we appreciate you for that um she was the 10 of the week or month or something this summer my dad might also email you about this but he probably won't since he is very forgetful i know this fam yeah mia was a ton of the

week uh i think back during the tbtl-a-thon and i remember the photo of mia and her kiddos surrounded uh surrounding her out in a park somewhere it was a very very sweet this would have been a great place for an email from mia's husband yeah it would have been but proving jonas wrong there's that would have been that would have been pretty dope unfortunately that email did not come in my dad might also email you about this but he probably won't since he's very forgetful and we also have a happy blurs day to mia from her husband would have been nice but unfortunately jonas knows their dad jonas knows what's up andrew in minneapolis who i don't know how andrew's voting these days but has been some of a spotty track record i would say and some of his decisions for president and what have you why do we do this to andrew andrew in minneapolis Andrew is such a great supporter of the program. How he got trapped in this, we like to joke that he's a Trump supporter. Universe is deeply unfair. I'm sorry, Andrew. I think you made that joke, Luke, like you made that joke six years ago or something. And somehow Andrew just carries this around, yet he still continues to listen to the show. He sent me the most polite email saying, I hope I'm doing this right. I want to say a happy 16th birthday to my five, Meredith. It is impossible to imagine that you're actually this age, but you're doing great work with it. You're such an intelligent, funny, kind, lovely, and smartly sarcastic daughter. Your mother and I love you more than we could ever say, and I am more proud of you than I could ever convey. You're awesome, kid. Happy birthday, Meredith. Love that. Just don't vote like your dad does. Oh, that's right. He's a real Alex P. Keaton. You get to make your own decisions, Meredith. We need you. So if Andrew is the Alex P. Keaton. Please cancel out your father's vote, Meredith. Yeah. What was the father's name on Family Ties? Played by Gross, right? Peter Gross? Yeah. Or not Peter. Alan? Alan Gross? Yeah. Because they were like. No, Alan Thicke was the dad on that other show. Yeah. Was it? It wasn't Peter Gross. think. What was that guy's name? I'm looking it up, but I remember the dynamic being that Family Ties, the parents were like... Alex P. Keaton was a young Republican. Exactly. The parents were both very liberal. In fact, they portrayed him that way by making him like a producer on a public TV station. Did you remember that? Oh, seriously? I'm pretty sure that Alex's dad, Michael Gross, and Meredith Baxter Bernie, of course. And I'm pretty Be sure that Michael Gross's character was a producer at PBS or something along those lines.

We also need to wish a very happy Blurs to Brenda from Amy, who says, Happy birthday to the one person that keeps me sane in this workplace. Also, you were dying to know what I was writing when you popped your head in my cubicle. It was this, your Blurs Day message. That's awesome. From Amy to Brenda. That's great. I'll mention birthday surprises are very fraught because, you know, I told the story a while ago about, like, being in the back of a car while this guy Kelly Potts was trying to get my Uncle Mike to go to a surprise birthday party. And my Uncle Mike just wanted to go to Stuart Anderson's Black Angus on Aurora, which is now, by the way, the place where you like to get your chicken fried steak sometimes. I've never had chicken fried steak there before But I've gotten a French dip a couple of times The 25th Street Grill What is that place called? The 140 125th Street Grill, I think Yeah, but anyway So I can just imagine Where like Brenda pops into Amy's cubicle And Amy's like being kind of weird Exactly And Brenda's like, what are you doing? And it's like, nothing Nothing at all I'm just making a reservation At Stuart Anderson's Black Angus on Aurora For you Happy Blurs, Amy We appreciate you And happy Blurs to everybody From our list today And who's out there And maybe You know Didn't get a message This is for you Happy Blur's Day Can I ask you a quick question Luke? I just realized Yes but I have to go Catch a flight Oh never mind I can save it for tomorrow I got two questions for you For tomorrow Then never mind Okay Were there the two questions That you wanted to ask Like eight minutes into the show And I said Hold on Let me just try to name The cities in America Based on population And then I just woke up Four hours later That was still Talking to this microphone But the good news is I will forget these questions by tomorrow, too, so don't worry about it. We don't have—they weren't important. All right. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll be back here tomorrow. I will be in Yonkers. I've never been to Yonkers, New York, Andrew. I'm kind of—I'm excited to get lost there, like the Neil Simon play.

but that's where I'll be tomorrow so we'll see you then until then have a great Thursday take care of yourselves be safe and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

I can have a meme war

with anybody and destroy them and I've done it and people actually bail at the end and go who is this guy he's got like every meme ever produced on the internet he can knock us out with his memes and I do I have tons of memes I just keep memeing him to death until they just surrender because they just can't do it anymore they don't have the memes that i have

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