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It's Friday, Friday gonna get down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. Well I've read everything

on your syllabus and how do I put this delicately? It's all stupid garbage. When you knock us down we're gonna get up and on the way up we're gonna bite a kneecap off all right and we're gonna stand up and then it's gonna take two more shots to knock us down all right and on the way up we're gonna take your other kneecap and we're gonna get up and then it's gonna take three shots to get us down and when we do we're going to take another hunk out of you before before long we're going

to be the last one standing all right that's going to be the mentality well all right hello

good morning and welcome everyone to a friday edition of tbtl the show that just might be too beautiful to live i'll write it and we'll do it live my name is luke burbank i am your host i'm an excellent driver coming to you from las vegas nevada vegas baby vegas looking out on the bellagio fountains i think i figured out my next job when this whole podcasting thing runs its course which you know seems like it could be any day now i want to be one of the people who drives around in a little boat in this massive man-made lake in front of the Bellagio Hotel, okay, where there are these extremely elaborate and I'm sure environmentally unfriendly fountains that, like, shoot water up, choreographed with, like, Frank Sinatra music or whatever. But right now, as I am recording this, I'm watching some guys putter around in a little, like, Boston whaler just kind of checking on the nozzles and things in the sort of fountains that are submerged beneath the man-made lake at the Bellagio. That is my next act, my friends. If you need me, I'll be puttering around Lake Bellagio fixing the nozzles on the fountains. I mean, this is Las Vegas, my friends, and, you know, you can do anything here in Sin City.

You know, with my fecalist in jail, I can eat whatever I want today.

What I want to do is bring you episode 3,858 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. I went to a show last night here in Las Vegas.

You want showmanship? You got it.

Called Freestyle Love Supreme. I'm the president of rap music, and I need to work with you right away. And it was flipping amazing. in I went in with one set of expectations and I emerged with a different set of experiences and I want to talk about it was really really incredible we'll also talk about this movie trailer story that we've been threatening to discuss all week I think on Friday I think we will finally actually get to it and we need to have a conversation at some point on this show We need to have an open and honest dialogue about marijuana in America.

It stinks.

Because everywhere I go, I got to be smelling it. And I don't think it's fair to those of us who are not smoking doobies. That's what they call it, right? Those of us that are not blazing up a fat J. Can we come up with a system where we don't, the rest of us, have to smell what you're doing? doing all the time enjoying your stuff anyway uh we'll talk about that and we'll do some music for your weekend on this friday and we will also say hello to this young man the longest running co-bro of the show may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships i would never let anything

happen to this guy you and i are showmates dude i got your back i'll make sure nobody f***s with

you he's andrew walsh and he's joining me right now good morning my friend good morning i have

I have some pretty good news, I think, here, Luke. You know how sometimes on this show about once a year I'll get on my soapbox and complain about the company that we work for and how they make us take this? I consider it somewhat insulting that they make us spend a bunch of time taking the same IT cybersecurity training year in and year out with the same questions and the same answers, but you can't fast-forward through it. You just got to sit down and take like two or three hours.

You just found a USB flash drive in the parking lot. The good news is I was just checking my work email because I'm a good little doobie. Speaking of doobies, I was just checking my work email and I see that they've changed the system up, Luke. Now, instead of doing that one time a year for several hours, we get to do it four times a year for supposedly less time each. Right.

in the what if i just promise to never pick up a flash what if i sign some sort of blood oath that i won't do that i also won't harass anybody that we work with i mean that one honestly like in the world we live in it's probably everyone could probably use more training on not being creeps yeah exactly so like i'm less mad at that one but what if i just promise to not Can I use my gig with a major software concern in Redmond where I literally host endless numbers of videos related to cyber security? Can I use that as some kind of waiver? Like when you go to college, you can test out of like Spanish 3. Like you just, you take the test and they're like, okay, you can, you know enough Spanish that you don't need the foreign language component. Can I do that with cyber?

That's what I've always been aiming for or suggesting. Let us take the test first. If we don't pass it, then make us, you know, go through the so-called training. It's because, well, you know the answer to that. Get Beth Perlman on the line, Andrew. Because it's not really about that. It's just about them, you know, covering their asses. I mean, what if we just did all of our work with pen and paper? Can we do this podcast just with pen and paper? I guess the hard part would be. It'd be safer that way, honestly.

You want to talk about cyber? If we were to go back to, if we just completely stopped using computers for this job and for interacting with our bosses. You can't hack something that's on a piece of paper, Andrew.

That's right. So here's how it would work. I would write down my thoughts, and I would mail them to you. And then you would write down your thoughts, right? And then we would back and forth it like that for a while. You call it sort of a thought for your thoughts kind of scenario? Kind of a thought for your thoughts. And then I will turn those thoughts into a podcast, which I will. And we've tried doing this before. I will then hand deliver the podcast on cassette tapes, not thumb drives.

Wait, I have a better idea. Don't even write it down. Even that's dangerous. What if we just spend one to two hours a day, five days a week, telling each other our thoughts? And then we put that on the internet. Could that be happening?

Well, we can't put it on the internet, though. No computers in this scenario. You see what I'm seeing? Skywriting. We could do skywriting. That's a good point. Yes. I mean, there might be. I mean, how do you feel? i've been meaning to ask you this for a long time anyway how do you feel about ham radio and no it doesn't involve eating ham by the way i learned that the hard way that's a that was a story that

i pitched this american life long long time ago which was that the the fact that if if the s really hits the fan in this country the last line of sort of communication is ham radio and there are a bunch of folks and by a bunch i mean i think it's like seven it was seven louis died um we're down to six there are folks who get on their ham radios every morning presumably with a cup of black coffee i would honestly eat my hat if anyone in this scenario is drinking something that's not black coffee by the way get on the ham radio and just kind of like they check in the way that like um you know the folks from king of the hill do when they stand around the alley and just go like they just get on their ham radios and just kind of sit there i think largely silently drinking their black coffee um but they are the people that this all like the society rests on these people if everything else breaks down because it's it's that's a sort of unhackable super durable uh mode of communication i remember a simpsons joke speaking of the simpsons and the

tape we heard at the beginning of the show I swear there's a ham that funky winker bean that killed me I know thanks to the listener who sent that in I'm sorry I don't have your name in front of me but I'm pretty sure they show ham operators like uh communicating around the world and the translation for what everybody is saying is just I have a ham radio does that ring a bell to you I feel like that was a Simpsons joke at some point now the good thing here too if we go the ham radio route um I think we get nicknames is that true don't ham radio operators like operate

with a specific like well i know cb i think cb folks like you know truckers they definitely get cool handles and they get to say cool things like rubber ducky rubber ducky what are you leaving behind stuff like that um i don't know if that's a ham radio thing but i mean we could make it a ham i i honestly feel like we if you and i joined ham radio we would be probably a majority voting

interest in what goes on ham radio has something they call call signs it looks like here and a Call sign is a unique identifier. fighter assigned to each amateur radio operator so a common format is a combination of two letters followed by a number and a suffix so it's not sexy luke like one might be kd2abc kd2abc so you know i could be alw i don't know is it real basic the letter k and the letter d letters or numbers um these examples i'm looking at now say uh two letters followed by some numbers and letters so k d lb 23 come on you don't think that's sexy 23 because of michael jordan's number together at last sex on a stick that's right so anyway that's where i'm at today okay just reading the emails trying to figure out how i can get out of more security training because again last time i believe i got 100 without even reading the questions yeah

um well i'm in las vegas andrew and i hope i don't know how much of this is coming down the line to you during this current broadcast but i actually have the um the sliders open uh in my hotel room because i have this little uh a little very small balcony that looks out on the aforementioned fountains and it's nice here it's probably like 60 degrees it's not warm but it's you know warmer and drier than it would be in the northwest and i just i love to get that fresh air and i love to look out on the the monstrosity that is las vegas nevada um but i'm not enjoying the fact that everyone adjacent to me appears to be smoking tremendous amounts of weed on their balcony and listen they're enjoying themselves the way they enjoy themselves and i have no problem with that again as i've said on the show many times i wish i liked marijuana more it is so much less bad for me than alcohol but it is not my thing it is other people's thing and i salute that i just wish i didn't have to smell it so much and the reason this is top of mind for me is because my lobby in my apartment building in portland is now constantly a cloud of marijuana smoke and it's like i live in a you know they try to call it a luxury place on the website but it's you know it's a fairly upscale apartment building everything is is a pretty dialed in it feels kind of annoying to me that i have to walk through the like what i'm trying to say is in portland people smoke so much weed that it's just like in their clothes and hair all the time so that when they like no one is lighting up in the lobby but their physical bodies are just in the way that a smoker like a cigarette smoker now you can kind of smell it radiating off of a person it radiates off of weed smokers and it is my constant companion and it just feels like if if if for me to have a gin and tonic if it would also make the entire lobby of my apartment smell like gin and tonics I guess I would think twice on that um I you know I I don't know about the other

listeners I haven't experienced marijuana radiating off of anybody's hair or clothes so I can't really speak to that I will say that you for cigarette I've never experienced that in Seattle Washington

Walking down the street, you never walk through a cloud of marijuana smell or go into an elevator and it smells like weed and there's no one in there. You have not encountered that.

I've walked through the smell of marijuana outside, both in Seattle and even in on vacation in Hawaii and whatever. The thing is, like, I like the smell, so it doesn't bother me. But what I've smelled is like people like somewhere that I can't see them, maybe, you know, around a corner smoking a joint or something outside. But that isn't a smell that bothers me in the same way that I kind of like the smell of cigars and pipes. If that's wafting from somewhere like that, I've got me.

I've got I've never smelled could work with named Walter B. Yeah, right. Yeah. Chain smoke cigars the entire day.

But, you know, as far as it being in people's clothes and hair, no, that's certainly nothing that I can even say that I've experienced.

But I I'm guessing at that part, I'm guessing at that part, because I know that nobody is walking through the lobby of the apartment, just like like with a bong in their hand or whatever like so the only logical explanation to me is that it's just like it's it's just on people's like persons and then when they're just moving around the world it's kind of like shedding off of their personage and again i know that i sound i said yesterday that i was as old man ish as i could sound but i've found a new way to be even more old man yells at cloud of marijuana. I know that because it's not my thing, I'm probably more sort of sensitive to it or whatever. And again, I do all manner of things that are way worse for me than smoking marijuana. It's just weird because it's one of those things that it's more externalized than a lot of other ways that we relax as a society. And again, I was excited to go sit on this little balcony this morning and have my cup of coffee, and it just reeks of weed out there, which is weird because I can't even see the other people in this hotel, but they're smoking enough weed that it's on this balcony.

What I was going to say was when I used to be a cigarette smoker, and this was like a part of TBTL for like kind of an embarrassing part of TBTL right around the time, I think one of the first big narratives we had in the show around the time we signed with American Public Media was I was living in L.A. and, you know, renting an apartment that had like a courtyard and we had a tiny little balcony and I was a smoker and I understood that you can't smoke inside apartments. Like, I mean, I grew up, I mean, I mean, I grew into adulthood being able to smoke in most of the apartments I lived in. And then that eventually kind of phased out and you get used to that. But then I remember being whatever I was, mid 30s, living in L.A. And my landlord saying, hey, you know, don't smoke on your balcony anymore because all the windows are open around here. It's Los Angeles and it's, you know, we can all smell it. And I was just like, you're telling me I'm renting this place and I literally cannot go outside to smoke cigarettes. I mean, I was really, really put out by that. in the same way that I've been, you know, I was put out when I learned you couldn't smoke inside coffee shops in the late 90s, you know, and I sort of feel like that when I learned we have to take four cyber security things a year. Right. Exactly. Would we have signed with APM if we knew that was going to lead me to start smoking again? But anyway, I do remember at the time being really put out and be like, oh, so now if I just want a couple of cigarettes at night, each time I want one of those, I got to put on my shoes, go outside, make sure I have my keys, go past this gate and then smoke my cigarette in this alleyway. I remember being very put out by that. Right. And just thinking like, listen, this is my outdoor space. People should be allowed to smoke outside. And then, you know, that was seven years ago or something. And even now, you know, I quit smoking maybe five or six years ago now. Well, my math doesn't add up on that. Whatever. I quit smoking maybe four or five years ago. But my point is, like, when we were on vacation in Hawaii, we were staying in like a high-rise condo, you know, up on like a floor in the 20s. And, you know, with a little, I can say this because, like, as you said, it's Hawaii. Don't say balcony. Say lanai. You can go with either one there. Thank you. But we have a little, you know, balcony slash lanai area where Vives and I would go outside and play cards or whatever. And then at night we would, you know, go to bed. And the bed was right by the sliding glass door. And there was twice, and it happened very late at night after we were already asleep, that somebody on their lanai lit up a cigarette. And it must have been very close to us or it must have just been something about the air pattern. And in our little condo, like the whole place, like I woke up and I was like, oh, my God, my eyes almost sting like that is so much smoke. And what was that person doing? They were doing something way up in the sky, you know, not even down in like a near a courtyard the way I was. And that's we are so not used to smelling smoke in our society now that I was like, oh, my God, I cannot believe how I, you know, we're staying at our friend Barry's place. And he wasn't there. And I was like, I hope Barry doesn't think we were smoking in here. Like, that's how much it was blowing in. And now it's like I have to go back and look at how like I was on my, you know, big soapbox about how I should be able to smoke on my balcony in Los Angeles.

And so, wow, times change and perspective changes. And maybe if that was a really big cigar or a pipe or a blunt, maybe I'd feel differently about it. Maybe I'd feel the same. I don't know. Cigarette smoke for me, it really depends on the circumstance. like sometimes if i smell it from a far away from a far away it kind of smells nice other times if it's too strong it smells really bad to me i go kind of go back and forth but like i definitely gain different perspective on this the older i get this shows you how hypocritical i am i like

the smell of cigarette smoke like within reason you know i don't want to be like in a car with james demuth's dad chain smoking with the windows up as was a lot of my childhood but just in the distance i actually like if if the people adjacent to me in this hotel were just smoking cigarettes i wouldn't be on this harangue which makes no sense it's just one thing smells funky to me uh and one thing reminds me of childhood and so i'm mad about the thing that smells funky to me i will tell you too that i forgot you can smoke indoors in vegas oh you can still yeah of course right yes and it's what like because i'm doing this tv story down here and i've been we're we're filming in a casino we're filming in the venetian casino oh more on that by the way coming up not only the show that i saw last night but my epic journey getting from my hotel to the venetian by the way andrew i'm looking at the venetian i am looking at it if if i were you know if i were at your house i don't want to give away too many details but if i were at your house it'd be like it looks closer than that arco that you go to like way closer like it looks like it might be A four minute walk tops It took me about an hour and a half To get there last night But anyway walking through these various casinos People are just like walking around Openly smoking cigarettes I almost tackled someone at first I was like that can't be legal And then I realized oh yeah it's Vegas I guess it is legal here

It's also legal to tackle strangers though So you still would have been fine Yes it is If you are an elite member of the Cosmo Identity Club or whatever the little like rewards program is here, I always get one of those cards when I stay somewhere in Vegas. And I mean, believe it or not, despite my my gambling ways, I never build up enough like clout, but I'll carry that silly little card around for like two to three years after that. Like, my wallet is always some card that I got printed out at a random casino I was at. On the off chance I would get a discount at the salad bar afterwards.

Yeah, I got that with teriyaki joints. Like, and I never know what the rule, like, I go to this teriyaki joint near my place all the time. And there's usually one of two women who will kind of take my order and give me my takeout food. Now, is it teriyaki madness or something else? It is not teriyaki madness, although I do love me some teriyaki madness, although it is scary. I mean, you've got to watch out. teriyaki madness why do make you take a proof of life photo yeah with the ransom note letter so um no but i really do like this little place and um the the woman the woman who's maybe a bit older maybe i don't even know if she's my age but she seems maybe like whatever she's the other person's much younger but anyway the older woman who i order from i go in there at least once a week and one day uh maybe a few months ago she gave me a little loyalty card she says here you know like you're in here all the time have this or something and i like i feel weird handing over the loyalty card i don't even let me get this out here i don't even know like you buy i don't know x number of meals that are worth more than ten dollars or cost more than ten dollars and you get something free here it is uh customer purchase 10 meals get 11th meal free up to nine dollars and 25 cents and like i don't know like i sometimes i hand them the card to get the stamp and sometimes i don't like generally speaking i would rather just not like both because i don't need free stuff from them i'm happy to support a local business it's not a chain and then secondly like i don't know i just i don't know why i feel it's like here's my credit card and my loyalty card can i get a stamp please i don't know i feel weird doing it so it's a stamp it's not like a plastic

card that gets scanned in some way and it's also not something that it's like has that little like

punch like star you know punch that they use sometimes it's like that but it's a red it's like a stamp instead i don't want to tell you too much about what the stamp looks like as people start counterfeiting these things all over town obviously no it's just you know like i think that you know you've had these before at some point in your life like there was a pho place in my old neighborhood that would give me them too but like i would i racked them up during the the pandemic but i never wanted to use them because i know that they were a struggling business during the pandemic you know like generally speaking i don't want to use these but like the woman literally like kind of identity it seemed like a friendly gesture she's like here you're you know like she's she said oh and because i know when she gave it to me she stamped off a few of them that's right because she's like because you're in here a lot so she already looks like she pre-stamped it was like such a nice it was such a it was such a heartwarming gesture i am so far away from what you were talking about though i'm sorry but it reminds me though that i don't want to put anyone

on blast but a person who i'm well i not i it's not that i may or may not be dating them i am dating them but a person who shall remain nameless who was a real there's it down to about 25 people well that's the thing and that's what's great about my love life uh-huh is that it's you never know who i'm talking about because it's you know it's a fairly long track record of different folks But this person, when they were in high school, was this person is now like pretty much the most like upright citizen that I know, pretty like an incredibly composed, responsible person. But was a little wild in high school, including the time when this person and their friends stole the very specific puncher, hole puncher from like a espresso stand. like the person making the espresso went in the back and they grabbed it and then proceeded to just give themselves maybe thousands of dollars of like frappuccinos and stuff until until eventually the place got wise there was i think a chain in this part of the country where this person may

or may not have gone to high school this may this person may or may not even exist i mean yeah i mean i have no idea who you could possibly talk dream that i had right right so let me get this straight though this this imaginary person bubbles um you um you're dating your cat um don't forget how you may or may not be oh right let's let's hope for the not um so wait a second this person was an employee and that's how they got access to this thing or they had they were

like in the drive-thru the person in the little slidey window turned their back oh wow just smurf the puncher and then also they had a bunch of cards and they just like currency for them in High school is like handing out these full.

punched out cards it's amazing how long it took this small salem oregon now we're narrowing it down it is bubbles um coffee concern to figure out that why do all these high school kids how have all these high school kids bought 30 coffees or whatever they're all getting the most expensive coffees we sell they eventually changed the stamp and the the jig was up and it was a relatively

small coffee concern this was not starbucks or something so we can celebrate no in fact you know

i think no yeah and that's why you know i don't mean to put bubbles on blast for this it wouldn't be and i can't stress this enough that would not be a thing that this person would ever do now it

would be a thing i would do now yeah but i mean high school if i could get my hands on that sweet sweet hole punch that is i mean from as a high school heist i can appreciate that if you were 35 and you were doing that i'd say come on let's no yes not do this we really i we have actually a

lot to still talk about on the show but i just want to say one thing on the topic of teriyaki i feel like teriyaki maybe it was just the places that i went to in college there was like about three teriyaki joints in the u district that i loved as a as a college student i feel like teriyaki as a business leads the nation in printing out checks that have bounced and posting them behind the person who's giving you the teriyaki have you noticed that at the place you go to no i haven't well no one writes checks anymore so i guess this is kind of yeah that ship has sailed equated yeah back in the day the three one was called nasai teriyaki in the u district the other one i forget the name but it was in u village and that was where i first heard the music of kim gunmo who has a song called in my pops or a record called in my pops which still slaps to this day and then the other place too that i would go kiku i think it was called they all had this move where if you wrote a bad check there they would take a photocopy of the check and then they would xerox it at like 15 times and large and then they would post it like on the wall behind like and it was like don't take a check from this person Mm hmm. And I you know, I was a pretty broke, pretty sketchy college student. But I was like, my one goal in life is to never be on that wall. Yeah. Now, if Red Robin would have had one of those walls, I would have been public enemy number one. Right. That was a move for some reason that the teriyaki joints in Seattle back in the day.

The one thing that the only thing that I can remember is Kona Kitchen, which is a Hawaiian restaurant here in Seattle. And they opened a newish one up in the northern suburbs of Seattle. But I don't know if we've talked about this on the show, but I'm a big fan of Kona Kitchen. It's a family-run place. Do you get the Moco Loco or whatever? I sometimes will. Yes. In fact, I believe they have a pork Loco Moco, which I will get, which is really good. And then you just try to not feel guilty about eating pork. But, yeah, no, it's a great place. But anyway, I think, and they just renovated recently, so it might not be true anymore. but i do believe when you were paying your bill on the way out they used to have i don't know if it was bounced checks again that sort of seems like from a different era but they definitely had like people's names and faces a few of them tacked up behind them like i don't know if they were dining and dashing or what it was but it was like a customer do not serve list which is something that i remember like kind of from my youth a little bit um but that's the only place i can think of in like kind of uh modern days i don't want to like i don't want to generalize

here or say something that is you know I don't know what overly generalizing or stereotypical but I wonder if there is a connection culturally because you know folks that are running Kona Kitchen maybe have a background in being you know from the Pacific Islands and folks that were running the teriyaki joints definitely appeared to be maybe like Japanese American or like I wonder if that's a thing kind of in that part of the world I mean there's a real big japanese contingent and japanese american contingent in hawaii as you know having been there recently i wonder if there's like a thread that runs through all of that because that i've only seen it in teriyaki places and you've only seen some version of it in kona kitchen yeah i'm not

sure but that reminds me there was a another great hawaiian place in west seattle called maono that had great like uh fried chicken and um i think i just heard that they closed their main location in west seattle recently i hadn't been there in a long time that doesn't really help this conversation but it just popped in my head and i said it it's good though because it brings

us to the point where we need to take a break anyway if you had said something dynamic there then i'd be off on another tangent and it'd be two hours from now we still wouldn't have gone to the break you once again are looking out for the show and helping us get to this break we must take and then we'll be back with more tbtl in just a moment

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Thank you, baby.

Hey, let's thank some of our daily donors who are making TBTL possible with their financial support. Folks like Julie Brown and Doug Stark down there in the Ladder District, Renton, Washington. I feel like if we've done one thing as a show, it's to establish Renton, Washington as the Ladder District. Exactly. That's where you get a line on a ladder. God, I hope that takes off. Thank you, Julie and Doug. Thanks also to Linda Hatani in Seattle, Washington. That's just north of the Ladder District. That is, right.

It's gateway to the Ladder District, as you like to say. That's how it's often described.

Thanks, Linda. Thanks to Dana Hoyle, who's in Portland, Oregon, which is just a few hours south of the Ladder District.

Do you think that Dana's one of those doobie smokers who's stinking up your city?

Very possibly But you know what If that puts Dana in the state of mind To support TBTL I'll tolerate it

You think anybody can support this show sober

Jeez Louise Many people have to alter their consciousness To decide that this is worth supporting financially Absolutely and I support that Yeah we do The problem Andrew with me doing the show From a place like Las Vegas And in a room like I'm in Is that I'm just looking I'm gazing out upon so many things that I want to talk about with you. This is why the show is going to be extremely long and not get to any of the points that we want to, including thanking the Daily Donors. From where I'm sitting, I can see these insane private villas at the Bellagio. So you get an entire floor or something of the hotel, and then you have your own private swimming pool and trees and shit. and I feel like I could sneak into one of those.

Get yourself one of those punch cards. Like I'm looking at the parking garage. Do they have a punch card system for getting in there? Because if so, I know somebody who may or may not exist. Bubbles, give me this thing. Yes.

Oh, man. I want to pull a real axle fully and just like I can see the whole route because there's a parking garage that I could get to, obviously, and then I could hop up onto this roof and then hop up onto another roof. These aren't like high. These aren't roofs that would give you a bad feeling, Andrew. These are like huge, wide, like, you know, like five city block wide roofs. I could get up on there and then I could just walk over and I could. I wonder how long it would take them to figure out that I wasn't staying there. I don't want to. They have walls. I could hop over one of these like low walls and just be like I could live like I could live like David McMahon of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Andrew. Bellagio money supporting TBTL money.

Thank you, David. I don't want to get us too far away from thinking the donors, but I was just sitting here thinking, as you describe Las Vegas, like, I literally have never had, like, the classic Vegas visit, right? I've driven through there once with Genevieve, but literally didn't even stop. And the only other time I stopped was when you and I were on a road trip for a TBTL-a-thon. We were in an RV for the first time, and we stayed in an RV park. Now, you did, in something that could only be described as National Lampoon-ish, you did drive me down the strip in our RV so that I could take in all of the lights. And then we just kept driving to, I believe, East Vegas or maybe it wasn't East Vegas, but it was like kind of the eastern part, like kind of off the strip. Well off the strip. We just parked. And then the only taste of action that I ever got in Vegas was you and I finding one of the diviest dive bars we've ever been in. And again, I want to make this clear. You and I have been in some dive bars before Oh yeah But this was one of the diviest dive bars we've ever been in I sat next to you while you played video poker I drank some shots and beers And like it occurred And I had a great time by the way If we could go back there I would now play video poker Not to brag but I know how to play jacks or better now And I feel like I almost don't Here I am at age 46 I don't want the classic Vegas experience Maybe it's best for me if like that's what I think Las Vegas is like, like that's my Vegas.

I'm kind of with you, actually. Like, first of all, that was a super fun night that you and I had. And it's weird for me being here for work because I'm by myself and I'm not like going crazy on gambling or drinking. I'm like just walking through the casino when you're not in that state of mind. and there are just, like, gaggles of bros. There's, like, what do you call it? An accumulation of, like, Vegas frat dudes. Like, there's a Vince Vaughn of bros everywhere. Right. And, like, when you're not in that state of mind and you see those guys, like, scream.

you mean because they hit a blackjack hand it's so unappealing it's like you see it it's like it's like when you see it for what it is right yeah and when you're in that mode it's so it's so fun i'm i'm also very old now i'm also 46 and it's like i don't i mean famous last words but i don't know if i'll like come back here socially again as like there are things that sound more fun to me to do with my friend group than wander around las vegas i've also thoroughly explored that experience but it's just it's interesting to be here and not be in that state of mind and sort of observe it from afar because as tom bodette once said to me tom bodette who has been a sober person for for many many years and i was trying to explain to him this night we were going to have in dc involving going to a place called russia house where all these russian mafiosos hang out and he said to me boy when you don't drink these things really sound like what they are And you know When you're just trying to get to your hotel room And you're walking past a Vince Vaughn Of bros you're just like I don't like in other words I think you had I think you might have had a really great Vegas experience And we should just keep it special And it probably fits my personality A lot better as well And not to be mean But that was one of the few nights that when someone Peed themselves at the bar it wasn't you or me

I've never for the record i've never had an issue with that particular thing but you are right i was thinking about that in the back of my head like that is such a sad detail of that night that i know i don't mean to be mean to that person but it really underscores the type of establishment

that it was there was somebody there that it was not even it was not even remarked upon it was just sort of like well you know jim is up to his i mean literally no one even said anything and and what

You know, didn't that guy was thinking good thoughts. He went to sleep. Didn't he end up going to sleep in a booth or something? Am I. Do I have that right? My memory is a little. That was me, actually, you know, you're in free his. But his head was on your lap. Anyway. OK, let's get off of that. And let's thank some.

OK. And let's talk about April Nilsen, who's in Edmonds, Washington, where we once had a absolute stranglehold on the local politics. but i believe that i mean it was like it was like tammany hall man i was like the boss tweed of edmunds and that whole area for a minute thanks to mayor gregerson um and nigel but uh unfortunately our political um like hold on that area has elapsed yeah yeah but thanks april we'd still appreciate you being up there in edmunds and then robert white is in issaquah washington where we've never had any kind of political clout but they do have an absolutely

banging taco time is issaquah is on the east side of the lake right issaquah or am i wrong yeah it's

okay it's kind of you're very right you take i-90 yeah and if you're going over the pass if you're going over snoqualmie pass issaquah is one of the last kind of like large cities that you'll hit before you start to get into the sort of north bend and yeah okay not buckley but there's another one that i'm forgetting that's out that way but beautiful i have often stopped at that uh at that

taco time in issaquah i could be wrong about this i need to check with genevieve and get back to you on monday because this is important but i'm pretty sure that the the composter that we picked up this summer was from issaquah from a isaac craigslist maybe now that's the composter district yeah we

will map the entire northwest based on where genevieve has gotten free stuff it's come offer

up or whatever yeah i believe we paid a solid 45 for it oh sure okay i don't know well listen

And speaking of free stuff, thank you to our donors of the day for making TBTL possible. We absolutely would not be here without you. Hello and welcome to Top Story. All right. I really want to talk about this Ana de Armas movie trailer thing just because we've been promoting it all week. And you and I both flagged it during the break as something that was interesting to talk about. But before that, just very quickly, I want to mention that I went to this thing, Freestyle Love Supreme. last night um i'm doing a story about beatboxing and the show is the sort of rhythm section of the entire show is performed by this woman named kayla who has won the international beatboxing championship like three times or something i mean she's like incredible and i have to say full disclosure i had seen clips of this thing and i was like is this like i'm not again i know that this is like why why why do i need to tick our listeners off if there's two things that our listeners love andrew it's you and me that's three things it's tbtl and hamilton like the venn diagram overlap of the people who like our show and like hamilton is a perfect circle so i don't want to yuck anyone's yum but i'll just say that when i finally sort of saw hamilton I don't know.

It was difficult for it to live up to the hype that I had experienced or had, you know, heard about it. And so I love that people love it, but I'll just say that it's not like it doesn't it doesn't light up my world the way it does for some people. And this Freestyle Love Supreme is is sort of, you know, created by a lot of the people who created Hamilton, including Lin-Manuel Miranda. So I went in thinking, is this sort of like hip hop for people who maybe don't listen to a ton of hip hop or something? my mind was friggin blown last night like i've never seen anything like it it's improvised music it's not all hip-hop per se but like it's just it's like an improv show where they take prompts from the audience but then they just on the fly make up these incredibly elaborate songs which work musically and call back everything from these various prompts they've gotten i mean it was just an absolute feat i was very pleasantly surprised so it's like a combination of improv and broadway

rap well i i hear i i i hear i don't know what to say i mean i'm glad that you enjoyed it i'm just

saying andrew what i'm saying to you is if you came if i promise you if you went to this thing you would be like holy shit because you and i are the same you and i are the same way and that's why the give me that big bass in your face like you and I both are not musical fans and also I think probably like think that I wouldn't say I'm a hip-hop knower but like I like I like a lot of hip-hop that like my sister Hannah doesn't probably like and my sister Hannah loves Hamilton right like there are sort of there are just different ways of enjoying this kind of stuff and I went in thinking like this is going to be brought rap the musical and it was it was just really like it was an it was an incredible thing to witness five people on stage actually make all this music up on the spot and have it be actually pretty listenable and also like reference it was i was very impressed as all i wanted to say so for our freestyle love supreme fans out there i just want to say do you need another member in the club because i'm ready to sign up you were in a wilco

cover band like you don't sleep on that as you're as you're pressing your case here luke well let

me put it this way i have a majorly i i suffer from an incredibly exotic combination of issues one is massive edge of my seat well it's it's andrew it is it's it's so cool being inside my head because half of it is massive insecurity and the other half is massive overconfidence and it's just it's just a beautiful thing to witness a person who has who both feels at all times like they suck and also thinks they're slightly better than everyone um oh okay never

i was gonna open my mouth to say something but i can't quite place it i i i was just having those thoughts about not not that exact thing but that overconfidence who was oh my god i can't believe But I'm saying this because now I literally don't know if I want to refer to something that I saw in real life on a small screen, on a big screen or in a dream. But I swear I was just mesmerized by somebody's lack of self-awareness and just utter confidence and just wondering like in it and watching that person again who might have been in a dream as I say this. but i remember just being like should i be more like that person or is it better that i'm just absolutely racked with insecurity and think i'm not good at anything because i really don't want to be that person and i can tell you of the only thing i know is it wasn't you so rest easy on that it might be somebody that you may or may not be dating but aside from that i can tell you

bubbles is very confident here's my point i often when i'm looking when i'm watching a performance of some kind the part of my brain that is has unearned confidence says oh yeah i could do that that's what i think about most things i was sitting there last night watching this going i could never flipping do this that which was a cool experience because by the way i can't do any of those things the other things that i think i can do i also can't do even if i stayed at a hampton inn last night or what was that commercial like that we're like people were trying to do like Open heart surgery And they're like It's fine I stayed at a holiday inn Last night

I don't know that I remember that I don't know if I remember Really

Yeah They must have predated ATM Because Yeah there was this Whole series of commercials Where it was like Somebody was trying to do Something that was Clearly way out of their depth And they were like It's fine I stayed at a holiday inn Last night Which was actually A pretty good campaign

What is the commercial Boy I'm really off my game This is really more like First of all I should mention it Before I say this I am sober. It is morning. time but this is i feel like my participation today is like if i were three beers in at a bar sitting next to you i'm just asking questions like what was that thing was it a dream was it you're just going jiminy glick yeah like but what there's a commercial that was airing in the past five years or so it was one of the funniest commercials i i swear it was funnier than most of the things on tv at the time where a doctor comes into a room like in pre-surgery i think and says to the patient something like are you nervous and the guy's like yeah little b's like yeah me too but i just got reinstated everything should be fine do you know what i'm talking about

that is one of them i totally remember the commercial i do not remember what it the product was which is this must come up on after these messages a lot that is the inherent tension right of making commercials because a good commercial may or may not actually cause you to buy the product because those were good that was a good commercial and i couldn't tell you what it was for

I think I'm getting closer because I think the tagline is good enough isn't good enough or something along those lines, and I want to say it's for some sort of a carrier, like a cell phone plan or something. So I'm going to say Verizon, and then we can figure out later. When Genevieve tells me later on whether or not we got a composter from Issaquah, I'll double-check that fact as well.

um well just uh just to finish that i greatly enjoyed freestyle love supreme and i had all of the suspicions that you would have andrew going in and if we ever do another crazy dudes trip to vegas you and me um we're vegas baby vegas we're going to freestyle actually it ends

like january 29th but you get the idea yeah yeah i was just gonna say it could have been like part of me is kind of like boy the way we described it like maybe you and i should do a fundraiser from Vegas and I'm like what is a worse backdrop for asking people to donate to your show than Vegas like it's literally even though it's like kind of like boy it would be sort of a fun narrative like Luke and Andrew do Vegas but like I don't think that that would be a good fundraising idea

could we do it from the headquarters of FTX in Jamaica what's something that seems even riskier than us picking Vegas like please support the show we're coming to you from a room just off of where sam bankman freed is working anyway you were transitioning beautifully and i cut you off go ahead well uh beautiful would be an overstatement but i did want to talk about this anna de armis uh thing because it's a pretty wild story i've sort of been setting up parts of it all week but basically these two guys sued um the the the film company or the studio that released that movie yesterday which is the movie about a guy who kind of wakes up and like he's the only person who knows about the beatles again i think it's a genius premise for a movie because i lie in bed dreaming of things like that what if i woke up and nobody knew about x and then i could just do that and then everyone would think i was good you know um but uh there so the uh actor anna de armis who was i think pretty well known for being in this marilyn monroe movie recently and like she's a very um pretty famous actor at this point was i guess in the movie but then was cut out of the movie um i think the the problem was that the test audiences were sort of confused about the main characters like love interests like it's not anna de armis it's someone else but the anna de armis character was apparently confusing to the audience is what i had heard and so they cut her out but she's in the trailer and these two guys who must be real de armis heads sued um basically to say you put a person in this movie trailer who's not in the movie and we paid $3.99 like to stream it or something and we want i think i forget the exact number it's they want millions of dollars i don't think they want it but they're saying the the public the viewing public was deprived if you took everyone's three ninety nine and added up of millions of dollars because we all thought Ana de Armas was going to be in the film. And what's interesting is a judge agreed with them. A judge basically said this is commercial speech. A movie trailer is a commercial for a movie. And when you put something in a commercial, when you promise something and it doesn't happen, that's false advertising, essentially. So the judge is letting the case go forward.

Yes. And like, and that makes sense from an advertising perspective, right? Like if I was watching a commercial for, I'm just going to make something up on the spot here, like a soda stream, right? And then, you know, I see the commercial that puts bubbles in my water, but then I get the soda stream and it turns out it doesn't, it just warms up the water or whatever. Like that's clearly false advertising for this. I mean, first of all, it's not a product, it's a piece of entertainment, and things do get cut up in various ways, right? Like, there, I mean, I know that I have seen trailers for movies with...

where a scene has been in the trailer that is not in the movie. Like, I just remember that. That makes me so mad when that happens, by the way. I can't think of an example now, but I just remember, like, it feels like more, like, maybe in college or something, being like, hey, I remember there was a scene. But, like, you know, you're just like, well, that's part of the process. They go through various incarnations until you get to the final product and these trailers are cut earlier. It sounds like you don't necessarily know this, and I read this article, again, like two or three weeks ago now. and i don't think it addressed it but like what what were these two guys really up to here like are they really just big fans of hers and they just wanted to say hey that was disappointing and then it started as a lark and then they lawyered up and now it's here or are these two people who are actually interested in in challenging this in court for some other you know to set a precedent do you know are they a couple of what i can tell you is the plaintiffs

Who love Anna DeHarmis Worst trailer ever I am getting strong comic book guy Vibrations off of this The plaintiffs are Connor Wolfe of Maryland And Peter Michael Rosa Of San Diego County They each paid $3.99 to rent yesterday On Amazon Prime And they are seeking at least $5 million As representatives of a class action Of movie customers What are the chances that connor and peter met in a subreddit yeah because they both were a thousand percent because

that's what i was thinking too like these guys probably weren't friends who sat down to watch it together because then they would have just one of them would have paid or maybe they would have split it a dollar 79 so it would only be a 2.5 million dollar lawsuit exactly so yeah you're right though they probably just started talking about it online and maybe just decided because i just can't figure out what their motivation is i mean it could be millions of dollars for some

people see that as a motivation yeah there aren't there isn't a quote from them um to say in the piece that i'm looking at from the washington post i think but um yeah i mean i could see it being a thing where they were like look we need more truth in movie trailers just generally and so we're again it was the pandemic maybe they were bored yeah but i mean i'm just not i am not an obsessed fan of any actor that i can think of where it's like them being in a movie is the reason i would see now i'm a fan of actors i really like you know i could list them now they involve folks like brad pitt and george clooney and um well that's it those are the two actors i like um no but like i can't think of a movie where just the presence of one person would be why i would see the movie and then if they weren't in it it would have been a wasted experience for me um but i guess yeah maybe they were just like maybe they were bored and just trying to kind of um you know uh uh make a scene or something but uh but it's working because now it's it's moving forward it's going to the discovery phase um which uh i mean what's the discovery on that actually you know what that would be very interesting um to see the emails um uh of like the the studio and the editors and the like cutting out of anna de armis because that would have to have been a fairly controversial thing within the the production of the movie right like i'm assuming you know they paid her a significant amount of money to be in the movie she's pretty famous she does have a lot of fans and maybe danny boyle was like i don't know who wrote the movie but whoever wrote it like wrote this presumably wrote this character and then all of a sudden they test the movie i mean really what this makes me i'm sure that there's a good reason why they focus group movies but this for some reason makes me feel sad about the fact that they focus group movies right like you have you write a character you have an actor portray them on you film it you edit it you someone does their hair and makeup like it's a whole thing and then the audience is like I don't know what was going on with that person it's like cut him out of the movie like there's something that feels very inorganic about that kind of movie

making to me yeah and it also depends though like how how pure of a process this was i mean there's a lot of inorganic things that go on in in the in the making of movies too like if you have a small kind of art film or somebody who's maybe has made some art films and is now like kind of taking their first big swing in hollywood and they're face to face with the cutthroat nature of these things because on the other hand for some really and i think danny boyle sort of in the middle of that right like he's made some huge huge hits but was also sort of an indie darling with uh he was a train spotting right yeah um and so like you know at this point in the career it could be that we don't even know at least in the i don't know i don't know if you do how big of a role anna de armis's character was it could have been one of those things where never know that's why i'm suing the right three million dollars the right people knew the right people and she's kind of an it girl right now and so they work out an agreement to well we can work her into the movie this way. Like, I remember being a kid and, like...

not being savvy enough to watch a trailer and realize oh Bruce Willis is in that movie but like now as an adult you can watch a trailer and be like Bruce Willis is in that movie for two minutes and got a lake house out of it you know like you can really sort of spot that now so we have no idea like was this really an organic character that was in the script originally or is it somebody who was sort of worked in because somebody knew somebody you never really know you know we had

danny boyle on ross and burbank i don't remember that he directed the movie with james franco about

the guy who had to chop his own arm off oh okay yeah i mean i think i was probably working

i don't 53 hours or something you know the guy who was like hiking yeah yeah he's hiking and a boulder like settled on his arm and trapped him and he was going to die and so he of course had to cut his own arm off and uh and danny boyle directed the the hollywood version of that story and was in studio at old r&b you probably booked that probably i don't remember it but i mean it

also could have been my predecessor libby but i i don't i don't know but it also sounds like you know whatever somebody's gonna be in town i'm having dinner with her tonight really yeah nice i'll be honest all right i'll just be honest with you because i don't think pitch you'll hear this obviously liby is one of my favorite people in the world but it was one of those things where several weeks ago and i have like this is a weekend where i have kind of a several um social engagements lined up and um you know i care about one of them which is which is like several more than you would generally and i'm saying this like pointing fingers at me here not the other people involved i know that i'm a recluse and anti-social sob but i did wake up this morning i was like oh wow we put something on our calendar like three or four weeks ago about you know i'm not a huge fan of going to dinner at people's houses and uh we kind of had this on the calendar i was like oh we haven't heard anything from libby like maybe this sort of just slipped off the radar and like this morning about like 10 minutes before we started airing we got the text message saying hey see everybody tonight and again i cannot stress enough how much i absolutely love libby and her partner like i really do there's some of my favorite people in the world but it really did sort of feel like oh my god i was about to get away with something And it's like, hey, see y'all tonight, son of a... I'm awful. I am the worst. You thought it was going to be the perfect crime.

I am literally the worst. That's how I feel every day when you email me when it's time to do the show. I think you've forgotten that we have to do TPTL again. Yeah.

And then you're like, huh, it's 1030. Where are you, dude? Hey, I know that we got to do music for your weekend, but hold on one second. I want to hit play on something here. Sorry. Take a listen to this.

in the book he describes it as as plunging your arm into red hot volcanic lava and leaving it there is how he describes it in the book and you have to find it i'm watching a video here on

youtube of you in the studio handheld very cinema verite i don't know who shot this uh over the shoulder shot of danny boyle talking to you in a studio i'm getting the impression this might not

have been live this might have been pre-tape actually is when he finds as he stumbles over that canyon he eventually comes across a dutch family who were hiking in the area and he shouts to them this this individualist this completely self-reliant guy shouts at the top of his voice i need help that's the climax of the movie you know who you did this with was our buddy tom

tangney of cairo radio yeah so i can say that this was posted to youtube 12 years ago my young

friend oh no really if you need me i'll be slowly walking into the bellagio lake with rocks in my pocket 12 years ago all right let's do some music for your weekend before uh we slide into that weekend uh i realize i said weekend two times it's okay it's not copy you're just talking here it's okay you're not yeah you're not writing copy there was copy echo my brain was creating copy echo and i regret it um so anyway let's do some music for your weekend what song would you

like to play today this is a song from um i'm gonna say the early 2000s i think even maybe 2001 this is from a band that i had not heard of before uh i think wednesday of this week when my friend paul who really knows what kind of music i like said hey i just heard this on the i don't know if it popped up on an algorithm or whatever and he thought hey this is the kind of music my buddy andrew likes um this was a band called call and response i don't know if they're around anymore i believe that they were like in kind of a california-based uh very sugary pop band i was trying to read up about them a little bit before the show today i didn't get too far but um people were comparing them to like stuff like the archies from like the 1960s only with a little bit more Like sugar, sugar. Yeah, exactly. Only with a little bit.

more of a like kind of a just a slightly modern kind of a bass dance groove um and i've only heard this one song and it appears to be their biggest hit uh to the degree that it was a big hit it's called roller skate by a california band called call and response and again this is going back about 20 years here but yeah paul paulie knows me i like this take a listen

Feel the vibration Underneath your feet An on-ground flight That begins tonight Before you learn how to walk Before you learn how to rock

You learn to roll the skate You learn to roll the skate You learn to roll the skate

I thought I'd let the bridge air out there.

I know that song. Do you know that song? I do. It must have been on either a Stereolab or Bell and Sebastian algorithm that I had. I know that song. And I love that. I didn't remember the name, obviously, but that song, that's great.

When Pauly sent it to me, I was like, oh, yeah, this does kind of remind me. I didn't know what era it was from. I thought it was a new song when he sent it to me. I said, yeah, this reminds me of that sort of like lounge revival of the of the late 90s. And I sort of thought of the cardigans and that kind of stuff. And in their description, like one of the first name references is like kind of inspired by cardigans and then also some other like oldies music. So I'm definitely very interested in I think they have three records. I'm interested in hearing their range. I don't know if it's all like this or if it gets poppier or whatever, but I definitely love that song.

Yeah, that song is way good. I would like to suggest a song by a kind of a sort of a relatively unknown artist named Bob Dylan. That's his real name?

That's what he was born with?

Yeah, his name was. He changed it later to Robert Zimmerman. Oh, interesting, yeah. That's what he records under mostly. but um he uh it was interesting last week uh working on that house project with my dad because i had to try to strike a balance in terms of the music that i was playing my dad's like my dad is like will go with anything but i was also like not wanting to like subject him to a bunch of music that was unfamiliar for him or whatever like i tried to sneak the war on drugs in at some point because i was like this kind of sounds like springsteen my dad's not a big springsteen head but i was like this music sounds like it's from an era that because all we were listening to was neil young which don't get me wrong i really love neil young but at some point i wanted to branch out and i snuck the war on drugs on and then like halfway halfway through one song which is to say eight minutes into it i know you love the length of those war on drugs songs my dad was like said a very my dad thing which is like huh who's this which is his way of saying what the hell are we

listening to sure yeah so i was like okay you sure wasn't like who's this i would like to put it on

spotify when i get home i'd like to bit torrent this and play play it while i'm watching rowan atkinson are they on kaza light my dad is probably the last person using kaza and every song he listens to has that weird glitch somewhere in the middle of it or easter egg yeah right yeah That was like the song Circles by Soul Coughing for me. I had kazawed it, and it will always have this one glitch. Anyway, so I started playing Bob Dylan because we could both agree on that, and then this song came up that I had never heard before. I'm curious, Andrew, if you're familiar with this song. I was trying to do some research on it. There is very limited internet sort of footprint for this song. It doesn't have a Wikipedia entry. It's called Too Late, parenthetically, Band Version, And it's from something called Springtime in New York, the Bootleg Series. Are you familiar with this song, Too Late? No. Band version by Bob Dylan?

No, I'm not that familiar with much of Bob Dylan's even kind of popular. You know, I have a few records or whatever.

But it's I don't know that much about him. So I never have gotten into the bootlegs. And I'm hoping that I mean, I have something here on Spotify. It says the bootleg series volume 16 springtime in New York. And so I think I have the right song here. This one's off of volume 15. Oh, shoot. Oh, yeah. A little bit earlier. Some of the earlier work.

Yeah. Yeah. I kind of get into earlier Dylan bootleg than you. Yeah. This song is I just love the chorus. It's just so catchy. And I had again, it was just the algorithm delivered it to me. And then I took a picture of it on my phone Which is how I track music now And was like I gotta listen And I've been listening to this song a lot this week So can we hear a little Too Late by Bob Dylan Yeah again I hope that

I assume with all the context you gave me That this is gonna be the right version But stop me if it's not Okay

Well, the weather was a murder I don't know I wasn't there I was busy visiting a friend in jail There were just two women On the scene at the time Neither one of them saw I think both of them were well in bed They said it was a natural situation He reached too high and tumbled back to the ground You know what they say about being nice to people on your way up You might meet them again on your way back down But it's too late to bring him back Too late, too late, too late, too late, too late to bring him back He had a brother named Paul hang out at the Café Royale Where Miss Dolly plays and her views have been mixed

The thing about Bob Dylan is he sounds like he's doing an impression of Bob Dylan.

I was going to say that this is from, for whatever it's worth, this is from his 80s era. It looks like this collection was between 80 and 85. Never heard it before, but I like it, and I'm not trying to dunk here, but it does sound like the imitations you would have seen of him on SNL

back during this era. Well, it doesn't help that we played that Austin James Johnson or whatever his name is. You got it. I was leading in the wrong direction. Doing that impression of the eras of Dylan, because now that's what I'm hearing. But I am a pretty big Dylan fan And I've listened to, I think, a fair amount of his music And I had never heard that one And so I figured I would put that on everybody's radar

Yeah, I like it I do like it

Our listener's suggestion is from our dear friend, listener Nick Down in, I think, the greater Tacoma area Also known as the King of Ska Also known as the guy who was driving a drug delivery van A legal one, by the way A legal one, not illegal A legal one He was driving weed around to all the people in Las Vegas so they could smoke it on the balconies or at the Cosmo. Nick says, I just heard this on KEXP, and I thought one of you might dig it. As the kids say, it's a vibe. It's nice music to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2. So we know how Nick is whiling away the hours on the weekend.

Yeah, if I didn't have a dinner party the next two nights, that's what I'd be doing.

Yeah, that sounds like a way you'd like to spend an evening as well. The song is, I think, is the song called Loque Yo Quiera? Yes. Or is it, so the band is called Ili?

Yes, the artist. I don't know if it's a person or a band. I know nothing about this. This is all coming. But according to YouTube, I-L-E, lowercase I, capital L, lowercase E is the artist here.

And the song is called Loque Yo Quiera, or Quería. So that was a free Spanish lesson for all of you. Thank you for the lesson. Am I turning into Sean Connery? Easy money, Penny.

I have a, I've dialed, I've dialed something up here that I'm going to play at the end of the show after we power out here of, and I'll bet you this does not hold up at all, but this was from my era of watching SNL, or the era when I don't even know if I was allowed to watch it, I would sneak it or whatever, like the 1990s, and it's Dana, oh, this is just Dana Carvey as Bob Dylan, but I swear somebody comes out and does Tom Petty as well on Weekend Update. It's got, who was the really sarcastic, David Spade, who hosted Weekend Update. Oh, Dennis Miller.

Yeah, this is Dennis Miller era SNL. You talk about imitations of people. It's like Brezhnev went in and decided to get Mary Lou Retton on his case.

This is probably going to be one of the most painful things I play all week, but we'll bury it.

Well, then my Dennis Miller impression I just did. Hey, well, it's no un-Mike's Danny Boyle from 12 years ago. That's for damn sure. Listen, we want a Peabody for that interview. How dare you? Me and Tom. All right. That's how we're going to wrap up the broadcast week with this song suggested by listener Nick. That'll bring us to the end of our broadcast week. A lot of copy echo. And I apologize. I'm just distracted by all the helicopters flying over me here on the Lake Bellagio in the background. Anyway, thanks for listening. Thanks for being part of TBTL. It's fun to be back. We will be back here on Monday with more imaginary radio for you. In the meantime, have a great weekend. Stay safe. Go Seahawks. It's hard to beat a team three times in the main in the regular season, Andrew. Right. In the same season. That's what I'm telling myself as I walk zombie like to the sports book at Caesars. The weather is going to play. The weather is going to play a part, man. It's hard to beat a team three times in the same season. I'm just going to stare into the eyes of the person taking the bets and just say that over and over again. And they'll say, sir, are you placing a bet? I'm going, no, I'm just establishing the point that it's hard to beat the same team three times in a season. Place a bet for Seahawks to win the Super Bowl for me while you're down there. I told you, I've got a bet with DraftKings for the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl based on a botched roughing the kicker call. And people thought I was crazy before the season when I put that bet down. But now who's laughing Anyway We'll see y'all on Monday Until then have a great weekend And please remember No mountain too tall And good luck to all

No te esperes que mis noches vuelvan con tus días No te creas si te pierdes, yo te buscaría No te creas que me diste lo que yo quería No te creas que tu fue...

Earlier this week at the Grammys, Bob Dylan received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Since his acceptance speech time was limited, Bob has decided to come on Weekend Update and further elaborate on his feelings about receiving this prestigious award. Bob Dylan, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome, Bob. Now, I'll translate for the Dylan impaired. He said good evening.

Receiving the award was a great honor.

Can you believe they're making a Star Trek 6? Did you see that girl with Trump? He's just using her. You know, Zim Man, I didn't get that one. Listen, I need some help interpreting this part. Let's get one of the Wilburys out here. Petty, get over here. It's Tom Petty, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, yeah, it was Chip, Chip with Chip. Yay! You want a salad with me?

Power out.