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Hidden somewhere in this noisy, chaotic morass of society is our fellow-traveller, Voldo. A man unstuck from place and time, he travels the world on foot. His only lifeline to his friends and family, a litany of dreary picture postcards sent from arbitrary locations the world over. His postcards do nothing to convey the humanity, the madness of Voldo's adventures. For that, we must go find him. At the ski slopes, I find him almost immediately. At the sea, I hunt until I am mad, and yet Waldo does not reveal himself to me. We search for Waldo, but what is Waldo searching for? Does this man even want to be found? Or, in searching for Waldo, did we really find ourselves?

Hello and welcome everyone to day two of the Winter Games. That's what it sounds like when I forget that we don't have quite as much audio whatnot at the top of the program. Of course, because this is a special episode of the show. We are now two days into our special winter programming. My name is Luke Burbank, by the way. Nice to talk to all of you. Right over there, my good friend, Andrew Walsh, the longest-running co-bro of the program. Good morning.

Good morning, Luke. As this airs, I believe I will be packing my bags and getting ready, I believe, to get on a plane tomorrow for the city of Honolulu.

You mean for, as Werner Herzog would call it, Hawaii? Hawaii, exactly. We search for Waldo in Hawaii, but we find only vaves he doesn't say only with a V I don't really know

he puts V's on everything it reminds me of a joke that my dad told I think it's okay to tell this joke yeah it's fine some guy do some people actually call it Hawaii where did that come from by the way let me start with that because that's the premise of this joke I don't even know if it has a leg to stand on

somebody who spoke English with a sort of accented German could say Hawaii?

Because I remember my dad telling this joke. I mean, this is going back to like the 80s. I remember him saying there was a guy and he never knew if it was pronounced Hawaii or Hawaii. So he met a person from Hawaii and he said, hey, can you settle something for me? Is it Hawaii or Hawaii? And the guy said, it's Hawaii. And he said, oh, thank you so much. And he said, you're welcome. I get it. You saw that comment.

Hawaii. Who would say that though? Because we would say Hawaii, somebody who's from there might say Hawaii or something, but like Hawaii, that would have to be somebody from a part of possibly Eastern Europe or Europe where they switch the W's for the V's.

Yeah, I'm a little confused now. Like, I think I was so little when I heard that joke that I assumed that there was some confusion over whether or not it's pronounced Hawaii or Hawaii. But now, as a 46-year-old in the year 2022, I'm thinking that the premise of that is pretty shaky. I don't think that that is actually a conundrum a lot of people are having. Or I'm not hanging out in those circles.

Right. It was somebody was kind of inventing the problem to justify the joke that they wanted to write. Which is a thing we do on this show a lot, actually, so I respect game-recognized game.

Absolutely. We say things incorrectly on this show just so that people will write in and correct us, and we have more stuff to talk about.

Speaking of people writing in, speaking of our colleagues and possibly our actual boss writing in, today we've got a quiz from our colleague at American Public Media, one John Sklaroff. What is the quiz that we're going to be taking today as part of the Winter Games?

Marvel movie characters, real or not real? Oh, okay. John says, I'll give you 11 characters and describe a few of their powers. You have to identify which is a real Marvel Comics character and which ones I made up. The first one is a gimme.

First one better be Martin Short in Santa Claus 3. Claws for concern. That is so good. You know, I once read an entire book about a guy who read all of the Marvel comics, so I should have maybe a tiny advantage on you, but as you said yesterday, Andrew, and it stuck with me for the five minutes in between the recording of yesterday's episode and today's episode, one or two trips around the old goldfish bowl and something goes right out of my mind as well. So I don't know if I remember There's a book called All the Marvels That the guy named Douglas Walk wrote And in it he endeavored to read Every book

Everything in the sort of Marvel comics universe, which is a lot of stuff. It's millions of pages, I think, and or at least hundreds of thousands. And he read all of it and then wrote about it. And I read his book. But we'll see how much of it I retained.

Yeah, that's also just a lot. There's decades and decades of a very complex universe to take in all at once. Yeah. While you're probably also working on other news stories at the time. So this first one, like John said, is a gimme, real or not real. We'll just use this as like an example. Wolverine who has accelerated healing, animal like abilities like enhanced smelling and tracking and has giant metal claws, an entire skeleton really that are nearly indestructible is that a real character or a fake character? That is

that's based on the life

of Hugh Jackman. That is absolutely right, that is why they ended up casting him in the film. It's very rare that somebody gets to play themselves but this is one of those times

Exactly, so So, okay, that was a gimme. Thank you, John. Shall we dive in? Yeah, let's just keep rolling then.

Yeah, yeah. I have a little fun fact from John here, too, about Wolverine. His first comics appearance, he fights with the Hulk. So very, that's coming on the scene strong, just fighting with the Hulk. Like famously in the words of the Hulk, Hulk take quiz. You know that I didn't have tons of comics growing up, but I got into them a little bit, I think, as maybe more of a teenager or a tween. And the only Wolverine comic I had that I loved Was Wolverine vs. Spider-Man It's funny, it's like Wolverine's always fighting people

I always think of Wolverine as being good Why would he be versus the Hulk or Spider-Man?

Well, because there's always complications There's the bad boys in the comic books I know I'm skipping to the DC Universe But you had the whole Batman vs. Superman thing That even got made into a movie

Again, why fight? We have common enemies Like Tim Allen in the Santa Claus

Right, do you know that in his second Appearance Wolverine fought Tim Allen Tim Tool Time Taylor Alright, here's number two Real or not real Tim Tool Time Taylor What's his name, Taylor on the show Sadly far too real

What if the whole winter games This year just turns into my personal vendetta I've also said this on This show many times now but literally one of the few you know when you and I say literally now we say it like Rob Lowe's character in Parks and Rec and we're wearing a hat that says NFL when we do it one of the very few stories I've ever turned down while at CBS was a profile of Tim Allen I just thought one of two things is going to happen either I'm going to try to drag him in this story which is not really what CBS a Sunday morning does, or I'm going to praise him and highlight him in this story, which I didn't personally want to do, so I handed that off to somebody else. Who did it?

Do you know? Martin Short. Interesting. Real or not real, Dazzler can convert sound into light. That's amazing.

Oh, wow.

Echolocation, light projection. You know what? I want to live in a world where the Dazzler is real. I want to be the Dazzler. I want to convert sound into light and vice versa.

We somehow convert words into boringness.

I know.

We're sort of the Dazzler's nemesis.

Yeah. Okay, here's the deal. John, of course, is part of our crew here on TBTL and a daily listener. We also have some, you know, John works in the fundraising department where we have Dazzler donors. Yes. I feel like this was created by John, created well, by the way, but I feel like this one is a fakie.

I imagine John sitting in a room full of all kinds of, like, you know, maps with pins in them and strings going from place to place all about, like, TBTL fundraising. And there's one wall that's, like, dazzlers. And then he was looking at that. He was, you know, it was late at night. There was, like, half-consumed cups of coffee everywhere. Paper cups, by the way. He's in, like, a shirt and tie, but the tie is loosened. He's rolled up the sleeves. And he looks up and he says, ah, I've got it. I'm describing what I believe Stan Lee's process to be. I can do you one

better, though. I think they're styrofoam cups, man.

Oh, yeah. Okay, styrofoam.

Sure. Let's make it the 80s. Because John also

famously hates the environment. He does, which is

a weird dazzling detail about him. I'm going to go, I'm going to click

through here. I'm with you. I think Dazzler's made up from the mind of John Sklaroff.

Oh, Dazzler, real, can convert sound into light. Echo location, light projection. Fun fact, Dazzler, real name Allison Blair, is a mega pop star in the comics and also part of the X-Men. Damn, dude. That's a great superhero. The Dazzler was a woman. I don't know if I said...

anything that betrayed this online but that's i was just picturing i was i was picturing uh male superheroes which i'm glad that john sort of uh broke me of that habit right here because that is

uh gross of me i didn't i hadn't even taken a moment to consider the possible gender um but i but i really thought that was made up golly john you criminal mastermind i know he knew he knew picking the dazzler would lead you and i to think it was a tbtl reference yep when in fact it was a real thing now if um if the next superhero is dream story that's not even fair that's then that's not fair that is unfair okay I couldn't well how is it that we've done 3,800 and however many of these in fact by this point who knows maybe we're in the 4,000s by the time this airs and I couldn't think of one and all our show is is go-tos we have like five things and we do the same five things all the time and I couldn't think of one of them the best I could come up with a dream story bullied in school what's the most what would be the most tbtl marvel character well that in terms of just playing to our how about the a character he's called the breaker and he goes to the break

50 minutes into every episode are you looking at this thing no number three real or not real the breaker no you're messing with me no real or not real the breaker strong as hulk I'm sorry I'm actually talking like the Hulk I don't have to do that As strong as the Hulk Indestructible Except when exposed to aluminum Can jump as far as Lake Michigan is wide Real or not real The breaker How did you just say that?

That was just one of those weird things Where if you make enough sounds with your mouth Some two things will come into alignment I was trying to make a joke about how we never get to the break on time But now I'm thinking the breaker has to be made up You're in my head Sklaroff

and you don't believe in the breaker and you don't believe in the santa claus i'm gonna say this is because i'm gonna say causing a commotion i think um plausible deniability i think the except when exposed to aluminum is a tell there i think aluminum is such a

jumping the width of lake michigan is also yeah like at that point don't you have almost infinite jump what what forces of physics are acting upon you that the width of lake michigan is where you get limited yeah right but forget it lake ontario right like it's like okay that's really far i mean i love this character and i love that we got there i got there organically my mind is blown i'm gonna

say i'm gonna say made up by our colleague okay number well hold on uh the breaker not real yeah so no dazzling details here except of a gif of a little muppet saying i lied i was going to say the perfect tbtl character would be power out right it's a character as some sort of superhero who goes around but it's like the uh what are they called the pinch in oceans 11 a piece of technology that like kind of like knocks all the power out in an area this

character don cheetle is like down underground oh you know you know huh don cheetle with a cockney

accent. Are you in Ocean's Head?

I'll watch any movie that has Don Cheadle doing a Cockney accent. I did like, I will admit, I really liked that movie. Me too. I think the sequel I liked as well, I didn't see Ocean's 8, but I like any, you know what I like are those taut kind of caper movies, you know what I mean, where there's just like, there's some kind of plot afoot, and then there's usually like some kind of John Lurie music happening, and I'm kind of propelled, you know, along with the story.

Yeah, I'm trying to think, Veeves and I love those movies too And we call them something else, not caper But I can't believe this word is escaping me Heist movies, yes, exactly That's exactly the word I'm looking for We love heist movies In fact, there's a movie called Heist That is a mammoth movie, in fact Oh, is it good? It's pretty good It's got Rebecca Pidgeon in it And I have a very soft spot for Rebecca Pidgeon But she's definitely doing her Rebecca Pidgeon style Kind of stilted acting, I believe And I think it also has well speaking of superheroes and supervillains I'm blinking on his name beloved beloved especially in this house not enough to remember his name but he played Lex Luthor in the Gene Hackman Gene Hackman I believe is also in that too so by the way Gene Hackman

alive yes very much retired and apparently doing great I was just reading an update on Gene Hackman recently and it was like he you know retired from acting probably 20 years ago just wanted to enjoy his golden years and he's just It sounds like he's just having a nice retired time and enjoying himself. And, you know, he's not young, but he seems reports are he's in good health. I like a world where Gene Hackman is just kind of chillaxing somewhere in like Arizona. Me too. I don't think we have time. do this now but i i tell everybody listening go to the imdb page for um him for gene hackman and you'll just want to stop everything you're doing and just watch all of his films like it's just he's just he's been a million things and he makes them all better one of genevieve's favorites is uh the boat that flips upside down and everybody has to crawl on this big ship from the bottom the poseidon adventure he plays a fighting starring shelly winters as well right yes and then they remade it in the 2000s anyway we should have a break i could talk hackman all day with you but but we're here to take a marvel quiz from our colleague slash boss john so let's take a break and then we'll come back and do more of that in a moment here on tbtl the whistler that's the superhero that just is doing this song do you know that that is an old-timey radio show that i listen to on the reg because somebody has posted it as a podcast every episode of the whistler and i thought it was something they play on kick see radio dramas as cool today as they were that's how i heard about it i think yeah i mean i think i would hear an episode of the whistler on kick see and then i was like oh i bet you i can find a digital version of that but yeah sometimes when i'm trying to fall asleep or if i'm puttering around and i'm out of all my other podcasts and i don't want something too challenging i'll put on an episode of the whistler from 1944 does the whistler like whistle before is the whistler the good guy or the bad guy the whistler is just more of a conceit to package little stories around so he's got a got the creepy voice i actually want to just kind of play does he whistle he kind of he he just sets up the story almost like a rod serling or a um or like a crypt keeper sort of guy he is he i'm the whistler i wander the streets and hear stories like this one i just feel like i don't want to yuck your yum at all but why would you do that well i would like him to have a little like well you yeah that's almost literally what you hear hold on oh good so there is whistling yeah and it's just sort of in the in the um in the setup of it here radio show i gotta i would just yeah i'm just saying if you're called if the guy's called the whistler i would just like him to do a little he's a small amount of whistling

he wanders around the streets whistling the signal oil program the whistler great

i just almost whistled what's going on with me today this is almost literally what you just whistled first i got the breaker and then i almost whistled the whistler's tune i unfortunately can't do a lot of fast forward or rewinding here because i'm literally on an 11 hour and 44 minute montage of the whistler stories on youtube so if anybody's interested but also you can just look for the whistler as a podcast and you'll hear stuff like this i was literally listening to it this past

weekend i like it oh that's is your signal for the signal oil program the whistler okay now wait a

minute you gotta go with a word that's not signal if the next word's gonna be signal it's the name of the oil that whistle is your signal well there's signal oil is here i think they're just really trying to like really sending it home really like a couple words between signal in there i do not need signal abutting itself in the copy i don't but i but i would listen to that andrew i would legit listen to that that sounds i just want you to hear the whistler's voice i know we gotta get back to the quiz john put a lot of work in it but i want you to hear the whistler's voice as he sets this up now here's the deal wherever i am in my listening i'm like probably a couple of seasons in or something so this seems like maybe it's the very first episode So I don't know if it's going to sound exactly like what I'm used to.

I am the whistler. And I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

Tonight's tale is probably what comes up. Oh, I would listen to that. I'm telling you, man, it's great. You're puttering around the house. It's nighttime. It almost could be too eerie for me, honestly. I love it. If I was here in Portland, safely ensconced in an apartment building with various security systems, no biggie, but if I was out at the house that I'm working on, where half of the house is plywood boards, and the wind literally whistles through it, and I'm listening to the whistler, that could do it. Put a little bit of a scare into me. It could freak you out a little bit. All right, let's get back to John's quiz, which he put a lot of work into. This is another one because it's a slideshow. I actually don't know how many questions are in here. Hopefully we'll get through as many as possible. But tell me if you think this is a real Marvel character. Alpha. cosmic energy projection superhuman strength and speed force field projections i feel like alpha is definitely something that could have been created especially during that long cold

war era right comics writing definitely sounds very much like a character in fact i would be sort of shocked if there wasn't a character called alpha but and then would their enemy be omega Or their sidekick would be Beta But then But then they would always be kind of stealing Beta's like girlfriend Yeah exactly it gets real toxic real quickly No they're better together honestly I mean I know I started Out kind of liking her but that's fine You know what they're like actually kind of a better Fit The thing is though I'm now trying to just play You know when you play poker they say You're not playing the cards you play the other Person I'm trying to play the Sklarov here And I'm wondering would he go Is he alternating real fake real

fake or is it like fake no we had a cup i think we had two reels a fake and a reel yeah well if

we count if we count wolverine and then the dazzler or dazzler yeah and then um uh breaker so maybe it's going breaker was maybe it's going real real fake fake i'm going fake andrew i'm i'm gonna say alpha is all right i'll just go real just to keep things spicy i think you're gonna be right if they missed out on the chance to have something somebody called alpha that

would be wild to me alpha is real fun fact character's name is andrew mcguire you he was a classmate he was a classmate of peter parker luke who's peter parker um he was he the guy that picked a peck of pickled peppers spider-man my dear boy in the first two spider-man franchises peter parker is played by toby mcguire and andrew garfield oh that's interesting so So Andrew McGuire is the classmate of Peter Parker, and they were played by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Barfield. Oh, I see. Interesting. And complicated. Number five, Power Man. Superhuman strength and stamina. Nigh invulnerability. I think that might be high invulnerability. Accelerated healing. Either I don't know what nigh means or that's high invulnerability. Skip that one. Accelerated healing. Power Man Power Man Power Man Goes everywhere a power can

I'm going to say fake I'm going to say real because I don't think John, again, I'm just playing the player and I'm losing by the way badly since I started doing that I feel like Power Man is a very basic name for one of these guys I feel like it's real it was like before they had good names for these characters, like early Marvel I'm going to go Power Man is real.

I'm not a Power Man. I'm a Power Man. The answer is Power Man is real. Congratulations to Luke Burbank. I believe we're now maybe tied on this.

I just raised John on the river, even though he had raised. I re-raised him because I was like, John would never make up one called Power Man because it sounds made up.

This is interesting. You might know him by his character's real name, Luke Cage. Now I don't know anything by Luke Cage But I know of Luke Cage Which makes me think that like Is this one of the only superheroes that we know better By the real name instead of the

Nom de plume Well they made a movie Was it a movie or a TV show Maybe it was a TV series called Luke Cage That rings a bell So that's why I think Again I'm somebody who only lightly dabbles In this CU This cinematic universe But I definitely knew who Luke, I know that there's a character named Luke Cage. Also, I think, I feel like, okay, there's a comic writer who writes Marvel stuff named Brian Michael Bendis. I know him because he lives in Portland, and I've interviewed him on LiveWare. And I think he was part of maybe the reboot of Luke Cage in some way, shape, or form. So anyway, yeah, I would have never known that Luke Cage is Power Man, but I know that name.

For some reason I always associated Luke Cage With the Daredevil comics But I don't know why Because I haven't read or really watched Anything in that kind of corner of this universe But Okay, number six Real or not real Trashmaster Their body can produce and expel Toxic waste They're impervious to baths Magically controls all garbage trucks In a five mile radius I think we all know that that is sadly, and for the worst, fake.

It's basically an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character, unfortunately. Danny DeVito, can I play that for you? Trashmaster. They're trying to come up with their wrestling personas. Do you remember this one? I think I remember you playing the tape. Most important part of our routine.

is the entrance yes absolutely

frank what the hell are you doing man that's my character i'm the trash man i come out i throw trash all over all over the ring and then i start eating garbage and then i pick up the trash can and i that's gonna be a disaster no no nobody's gonna get hurt i'm telling you it's like you said it's all fake but it has

Anyway, that I wish was a real Marvel character, but I am going to go with you and say, what's it called? Trashman?

Trashmaster is not real.

Trashmaster not real.

Trashmaster is not real. What about Grumpy? Body produces stinky explosives, has an inability to smile, and the character is a failed actor turned villain using acting talent to commit crimes. God, I want this to be real, but I feel like it's fake.

Yeah, me too. He was on the phone with... I was trying to... How is it that for all of the grumpy audio that I had, this feels like a veiled reference to Johnny Depp, for all the grumpy audio that I had, I could not find it in the moment. It was a real opportunity. How about the opportunity misser? Is that a character? That's number eight. That's one I'm developing.

Grumpy is not real. In fact, on the slide telling us that it's not real is a gif, gif an animated gif if you will of johnny depp's pirate character saying yes i lied and the pirate character let me see if i can do this the pirate character's name is i literally don't think i know the name of that character i've never seen those movies before do you know jack sparrow jack sparrow of course of course of course now that you say it i know it but i have even before i kind of developed a dislike of johnny depp because there were some early movies that i really loved some of those um early like 90s movies or whatever but uh what's eating gilbert grape and things like that and things of the things of that nature um i uh i've never ever seen a pirates movie on in the background or a commercial for it or whatever and it looks appealing to me it's like and i don't mean that like they're bad movies or one shouldn't like them i just mean that they're the exact kind of movies that i don't like which are mostly action you know what i mean like i'll sit through a little bit of action if i have to but like a movie that just sort of seems all just like just explosions and hijinks or whatever i have very little time for i think it has to do well

for a lot of folks not everyone with do you have children of a certain age i feel like i went to one of those movies with addy and my little brothers maybe that yep um and i i remember you know thinking it was sort of a fun romp it's also you know it's interesting that ride at disneyland pirates of the caribbean has it's like people love it so i mean this is a movie that's based on a disney ride yeah but there was a sort of existing fan base like all i mean everything that's written for the film is is just some writers going like okay we have this one thing it's a popular ride at disneyland now what if we expanded this out into something what would the

ride do in this situation is something that would come up a lot in the writer's room right exactly

like we have to be true to the ride so at this very point would it be would it be creaking would it be how tight are the seatbelts and the safety restraints like we need this to be very very true to the origins of the right exactly how tall must one be to ride in this movie

is there some pink sawdust on the floor where a kid uh got a little bit too excited do you want to do one more and then how are we on time here yeah let's do one more for one and then take a break okay um here let me actually let me just give you this one i'm going to skip ahead a little bit because i want to find a real fun one to uh to uh here how about this real or not real moon girl and devil dinosaur moon girl transfers her consciousness to devil dinosaur and vice

versa and they're super geniuses now this has me on a the horns of a dilemma because i feel like if it's not real it should be in other words if if john is now creating what would be boss ass characters for the mcu yeah or and and and now it's just out there and now like you know the folks at marvel could just like steal this idea it's a real shame so i guess i'm gonna say it's real because i hope it's already out there because if it's not it means john just gave away

some gold no i'm saying those are real characters this sounds i'm gonna say real to moon girl and devil dinosaur because if not then we have like john who's like just like sipping some of his mushroom tea in the corner kind of tasting colors and coming up with a moon girl and devil dinosaur here let's see we're both saying these are real characters real indeed fun fact this delightfully weird duo is getting their own tv show in 2023 nice nice marvel's moon girl and devil dinosaur sign me up do you know that i may have broken this bell

not broken it but worn it down yeah it's not i didn't even know that was a thing it's not it doesn't ding as crisply as it used to like i think it's just from overuse i mean this is the main but it's metal i don't understand how you could wear how you know that was a good one but i had to do that very specifically and intentionally i used to be able to just kind of like whack this thing and it would it would make a good it would it would have a clear ring to it and now it's seems like it's kind of i don't know man i may have actually worn this thing out i didn't know that was even a possibility you know what it is is like and yours has this too you know the little thing that you push down it used to sit kind of like okay the little i don't know what you would call it but the um the plunger if you will yeah perfect it used to be it used to sit very high and yeah it had more action it had more it had way more action and now it has like almost

yeah it's like me it has no gets no action yeah no i i mine is kind of similar although i don't use mine as much as you but i will say this my kitten bingo just hit this perfectly the other day and i was so proud he didn't do it on purpose but i didn't care like he was walking on my desk and he rang that bell perfectly now if he did it all the time that would be annoying but i was so impressed for just a one ring a ding rang that's a really that's a proud day in a parent's life

and it's the beginning of his origin story as the ding-a-linger yes his character fake Andrew you know who the real superheroes are

Oh what a good transition

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Thank you to donorators Andrew and Lydia Scarvey Of Dothan, Alabama Real? Very real Although I'm wondering if I'm saying that city I've seen that city written many times Now the thing about you get down in the south like that And they'll be like It looks like it wants to be Dothan But they'll just be like Down here it's Dothan

I could see either one Dothan

But thanks Andrew and Lydia Thanks also to Bill Esseltine Of Concord, California Another Concord Yes, although I feel like we've skipped ahead in our Concord There's been a Much like somebody going through Some kind of gamma radiation, Andrew For you and I it feels like just today we were talking about concord massachusetts but in fact to the experience of the listeners it was many weeks ago yeah i guess i wasn't referring to that

just the fact that there are i think of three concords you know you have concord mass concord new hampshire where i lived for a long time of course and then out on the west coast you have concord california which maybe this is just my own personal experience but often overlooked by me when I'm counting up the concords to fall asleep to.

Yeah, that's how you fall asleep. You only get to, like, two and a half.

Uh-huh. Conquer.

You're like, okay. Conquer, man.

Honks new.

You know, I wake myself up with my snoring now. Me too. When I'm by myself. Yep, me too. When I'm with my by myself. Mm-hmm.

I do the same exact thing. I know that feeling. It's usually if I'm taking a nap or something, because usually I do not sleep on my back. But every now and then, if it's a day where I'm like, Well, I'm just going to rest my eyes for a second, and the next thing I know, I'm waking up startled by the sound of my own snoring. Yes. It's great. Sexy times. Indeed.

Also, thank you to Donna Traynham in Baltimore, Maryland.

Donna in Baltimore. Hey, Donna.

Thank you. Good morning, Baltimore. Hairspray the Musical is coming through Portland. I've already seen it twice, Andrew, and I may see it thrice. I'm a fan. Really? I'm not a big musical person, but the musical for Hairspray, I truly love. Oh, that's great. I also truly love the support from Becky Finch, who's out there in West Jordan, Utah. Oh, U10. Nice. Yeah. Who are you 10-ing? It's just to the west of Jordan and to the far west of East Jordan. It's West Jordan. Yeah. And we appreciate Becky. Thank you. Also, Aaron Highland is in Bellevue, Washington, where Aaron loves to pal around with fellow Bellevue resident. I don't know if there's a—I mean, I grew up in Seattle. I grew up going to Bellingham. I should say Bellevue. I don't know if there's a nickname for people that live in Bellevue. People in Bellingham, they sort of call themselves Bellinghamsters. Bellevueers?

Bell, Bellevueites, Bellwethers. Ooh, I like Bellwethers. Aaron loves to hang out with fellow Bellwether, Aaron Taylor, who's also in Bellevue, Washington. Bellevue Masters? Did you have a View Master growing up? No, but there's a Burger Master near Bellevue that I used to go to right off of 520. Also, I believe, to bring things full circle, I could be wrong about this, Andrew. I think the mascot of Bellevue High is, wait for it, the Trash Men. No, the Wolverines.

Oh, I could see that. I'm looking this up.

Are you looking at Bellevue High Wolverines? Will you look that up?

The Wolverine, the school's mascot is the Wolverine.

God, I had to hit the shit out of that bell to get that ding.

It would be great if they really were like the Marvel Wolverines, too, where they have claws coming out of their hands. They got a bad attitude and they have a drinking problem.

I feel like that would be probably against the rules. but you know you see how far you can get with that yeah it's like all your linemen just have literal metal claws it's like nobody from east side catholic wants to go in the game coach they have metal claws on their hands doesn't seem fair coach um all right thank you so much to all of our uh what i call them daily donorators we really appreciate you um you make tbtl possible So thank you for that. Thanks also to everyone for listening. We are going to be right back here tomorrow with another winter game for you. Featuring friend of the show and talented Seattle artist and author Megan Kelso will be jumping in the hot seat. Are we quizzing Megan Kelso or is Megan Kelso quizzing us?

She's quizzing us, especially you, but I'm going to ride along. This is a fun quiz that was kind of created specifically with you in mind regarding the funny pages in Seattle in the 1980s and 90s, Luke.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have been preparing my entire freaking life for this. Perfect. Okay. That's tomorrow, so tune in. Until then, have a great Tuesday. Take care of yourselves, and please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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