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Excuse me, Mr. Lavender, John Tesh is here.

Oh, great. Send him in. Okay.

Knock, knock.

There he is, Mr. Entertainment tonight.

How are you guys doing? Hello, everyone. This is my brother right here, Dave Tesh. It's a pleasure, pleasure. I did not know that you had a brother. Oh, yeah, you know, he's not just my brother. He's also the genius in the family. Meanwhile, I'm blushing. Okay, well, let's see what we've got for you. We've written a song that we like to call Round Ball Rock. Now, it started as one of David's poems here, but then it just grew into something bigger than both of us could ever imagine. It's me on keys and Dave singing. Can you believe this is our job? All right, fire away. All right, ready to do this? Yes, I am. All right, two, three, four.

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I'm sorry.

I think we probably, we weren't clear. We actually meant, could we hear it with just the music?

Oh, um, I defer to you. Uh, my gut is no. TBTM.

Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is?

It's Friday, Friday. Gonna get down on Friday.

everybody's looking forward to the weekend i saw a woman psychiatrist and she said i was ocd one cool dude and she understands the way i think right now and everything's cool everything's cool pathetic everybody's happy and i'm happy too sweetie have a good show what you do is so important

all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a friday edition of tbtl The show that just might be too beautiful to live.

Is it too early to get a fish sandwich?

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Welcome to my world. Coming to you once again from Anaheim, California, in the shadow of Interstate 5.

Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful.

I wouldn't say Interstate 5 is beautiful, but the weather outside is lovely here in Southern California. And I'm glad it is because apparently I live in Anaheim now.

You've got to be kidding me.

Just finished dealing with a situation regarding the transportation that I was going to try to use to get from here, Anaheim, to Los Angeles International Airport, where I'm supposed to be getting on a flight and flying home tomorrow. So, anyway, if you need me, please forward my calls to the, what is it down here, 714? I'm not sure what Anaheim is. But anyway, I'm here, and it's episode 3903 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. And we are going to get into it. Now, of course, Ticketmaster is well known for gouging would-be customers when it comes to big, high-profile tour events. Like The Cure, who are back out on tour. Sounds expensive. But they are actually doing battle with Ticketmaster and kind of winning. Leave it to Robert Smith to actually get Ticketmaster to offer a rare acquiescence. So we will talk about that. Also, time permitting, we will get to a story that we didn't get to yesterday because time did not permit, which was about vanity license plates in Maine that might be a little bit too bawdy. I know you're just trying to be stupid and as funny, but it's not funny. I've also got some audio that I recorded surreptitiously in the hotel gym today. Really? I'm trying to build my beef castle. when somebody was annoying me, quite so, in the hotel gym. So we will play you that audio as well. And, oh, speaking of beef castles, let's talk to this guy. The world needs to see the madness that is my upper torso, okay? He is the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for the madness that is his upper torso. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend. Good morning, Luke. It happens to everybody in your position, or almost everybody. You went down there. You are a Disney cynic, but it got under your skin. You're now part of that Disney lifestyle.

It's the happiest place on earth, Andrew.

You want to stay a little longer, and you're blaming it on a car rental. Can you just be honest with us for once? What are you, Hal Rudy at CBS Travel? I am. Now we just got a last name.

Wow. I put those ears on, Andrew, and everything changed.

Yeah. It was like from black and white to color.

I found a pair just lying in the lobby of the hotel, and I picked them up kind of quizzically. I was like, what are these? And then I put them on, and when you wish upon a star, my friend. I can see your face widen into a smile. Magic. I mean, honestly, the magic of children. What is going on with you? Nothing good, man. I'm so annoyed. What's going on? I'm in what is essentially a slow speed car crash, except no one will give me a car with which to get into a slow speed crash with. What I mean is I have known this moment was coming for, like, probably seven days, and yet I was still really ticked when it happened. So when I was booking this trip, I was trying to rent a car from the airport down here in Orange County, Santa Anita Airport. We're no longer calling it the Duke Air. And I was not able to get Avis to rent me a car, despite my wizard status. And I kept getting this weird error message that said, like, we are very low volume of cars right now. I was trying to rent a car here in Anaheim and then drop it off at LAX. That doesn't seem like a huge ask. Like, both facilities presumably have thousands of cars. And sometimes those cars need to travel between facilities. Like, it's not like I'm trying to rent a car in Seattle and drop it off in, what, Tallahassee or something.

Although we have tried that before. Swap out Denver for Tallahassee, et cetera. It's happened. We've done that.

We've tried that with vans we had to get towed home. We've done that with RVs that I had to drive to a frontage road in Austin somewhere and have a guy at a tire center agree to take it back. Oh, my God. You're right. We've been through this. But anyway, I couldn't get a reservation. And so I was trying to figure out what the solution was. And what I came up with was, so today, when we're done recording this, I'm going to go out to Corona, California, known for the virus, by the way. And I noted that I went online and the Avis app let me rent a car from the Avis location in Corona, California, and then drive it to LAX. But I had a few. So it was like, yes, it approved the reservation. I had the car reserved everything but I was like what are the chances that a random Avis in Corona California is going to actually have the vehicle when they say they're going to have the vehicle and I'll be able to get it it's not associated with an airport or anything it's just like probably in a strip mall or something what are the chances they're going to have the vehicle when I need it because also the other thing is I'm kind of threading the needle here I was going to take a lift to the avis in corona california grab the car throw my luggage in there go to the shoot and then drive to lax anyway i tried to call yesterday and it was doing this thing that is so frustrating which is i was dialing the local number i was dialing the number for the actual location which by the way i don't even think it's a full-time avis now that i've talked to the guy i think it might be like a convenience store that has an avis capability if that makes sense they also do that with U-Haul a lot you'll be like oh I'm going to a U-Haul and then you just like roll up and it's like a DSW but they also will rent you a U-Haul maybe I don't know why I went with a designer shoe warehouse reference but I did Andrew and I make no apologies so I was trying to call yesterday and I kept doing that thing where it would ring and ring and ring and then I would get the 1-800 number and I would ask them hey do they have any cars at this location they would say yeah uh it looks like it and i would think yeah but do you really know like you're not anywhere near this design shoe warehouse in corona california like how can you know and so i kept calling and calling and calling and i could never get a human being at the location and then this morning while i was on the treadmill i see i have a missed call from like the 971 or something and it's the guy at the location saying hey i noticed you have a reservation today i just wanted to let you know

we don't have any cars and i was and you were waiting for that right like you kind of knew

that that was probably going to happen i had a sense it was going to happen but i felt i i don't know why i called him back because it was like it was what it was But I decided I wanted to do some Seinfeld cosplay and do that whole clearly you don't know how a reservation works. And by the way, it's not even this guy's fault. Like this guy is just a small business owner. Like he's not, you know, Don Avis or whatever. He's a small business owner who has some kind of franchise agreement with Avis. And he's also, I think, beholden to whatever their software is. Right. Like it just is what it is. But I called him back and I was like, and he was like, he did this very long answer to the phone. He was like, said his name and the location. And he was like, how is your day going? And I was like, not super great because I had a reservation for a car at your location. And then you called me and said, you don't have any cars. And then he said, yeah, we don't have any cars. And I said, well, what is the point of the reservation then? And that was when I felt like I was really leaning into my Seinfeldian life. i would i wanted to quote your partner genevieve and say you're gonna get the yelp review of a lifetime that happened at a rental car place yeah it wasn't this it really wasn't this guy so i wasn't like i recognize that so i wasn't trying to be a jerk to him he's just dealing with whatever you know his deal is but he goes i said so how is it that the system allows me to make a reservation but then there are no cars and he goes well because when you made the reservation there were cars and i was like yeah but that was like six days ago he goes but now there are no cars and i was like okay well i guess you've explained it when i made the reservation there were cars but now there are no cars and he was like well because people don't bring the cars back sometimes and he goes i have 10 reservations and only four cars and i said well who's getting the four cars

can i get on that list yes sort of game of thrones challenge right i was like oh you're You messed up, sir.

You just indicated there are, in fact, four cars in Corona, California at this DSW.

I can already taste the Kia, my friend.

Oh, God, I would kill. Isn't that a Dinosaur Jr. song, Taste the Kia?

Wasn't that Roden's theme song for Air Raid? Here's the deal. Can I just jump in and say one thing? Yes, please. Because in a certain way, and maybe this is a change in attitude because the pandemic messed everything up, And maybe like we just have a little bit more acceptance in our lives that things aren't going to go as clockworky as maybe we would hope or expect three, four years ago. But also you reminding me that Genevieve once had had to somewhat yell at somebody on the holiday or like during the holidays in a strange city or I guess it was Atlanta. She knows Atlanta, but in an underground garage and just say, you're going to get the Yelp review of a lifetime because we're just like we had rented a car months ago and months ago. And our whole trip was based on getting this car and driving an hour to where we needed to get and just saying, like, no, we are not providing the service that you reserved is so frustrating. And here's the thing, like airlines and rental car places like they could make sure that everybody gets what they paid for the way they paid for it. But in order to make the amount of money that they make, they need to not have too many things in reserve. They can't have too many empty cars. They can't have too many empty seats because that would cut into the CEO's profits.

They are rolling the dice with our happiness at all times for their own profit is what it comes down to.

Exactly right. It's not I mean, again, airlines, I mean, the ability to get in something so huge and fly across the sky. Like, I understand why it's not just the same as as just renting a car or renting a scooter or a bike or what have you. But certainly with cars, like you look at these huge car rental agencies, like they could have more cars on reserve and it wouldn't break the system. Like I think with airlines, because it's so complicated and magical, like you could make arguments. It's like, really, the system maybe has to be this way to survive, not for rental cars. That's purely just profits. Yep.

They could have more Kias and they choose not to because it's a it's an ROI situation. So here's the big issue, though. I'm in Anaheim. I have to get to L.A. I got turned down by two lifts yesterday trying to go to my film shoot, Andrew. Jeez, turned down by? This is no country for old burbs down here.

What did you do? Oh, you know what? Somebody listened to the show yesterday is probably what happened.

Oh, you're right. Well, because what happened was I put a lift request in, and the first car was kind of taking a while and then it just said, good news, we found you a new driver. And I was like, really? That doesn't seem like good news because it was going to be four minutes and now it's going to be eight minutes. Explain to me, Lyft, how that's good news for anyone. And then the new driver showed up and I've never had an interaction like this. He drove to the hotel and then he rolled down the window and goes, where are you trying to go? And I was like,

Thank you.

sycamore street in orange california the thing i put in he goes it's given me all kinds of it's not letting me go where i want to go which i guess you know one of the things you can do now with if you're a driver for one of these ride shares is if you have a certain status i think you can like um sort of say that like if you want to work your way home it's supposed to only give you ride assignments that are taking you towards where you ultimately want to be that's cool that's

cool they solve for that because i always wondered about that like your last ride is so far away from where you need to get that's such a screw to the drivers i've heard from i mean here's the

thing it should be priced in like if i want you to take me to the moon the cost of the ride should account for the return trip is my opinion but yes you're right it is a cool feature it apparently doesn't work in anaheim because the second guy that showed up yesterday was like was like really annoyed that he was gonna have to take me to orange california and i just said to him bro live your life and then they just went and called a different like he's i'm canceling the ride i was like okay i was surprised he drove up to tell me that he wasn't gonna take the fare i would have

canceled it like three blocks away oh by the way happy whatever year anniversary to the day of me standing in the street in minneapolis minnesota yelling and almost pounding on the window of an uber driver who was rude to me it wasn't that saint patrick's day you mean yes it

was and we were on first avenue yeah i remember that that was a that was a bad look yell and pound on a friend of stew's not really pound on but wanted to anyway yeah happy anniversary happy anniversary stew hey what do you get someone for the seventh anniversary of when they yelled at an uber driver in minnesota more shame that's what you get more shame oh man but anyway all sorry i've been belaboring this my point is i don't feel like i don't think that when the lift driver shows up later today in we're going to be in corona california later today which is a half hour from here half hour away from los angeles in the wrong direction i'm going to be in a random you know warehouse district where this casket company assembles caskets do you think if i just call a lift and i go sir good sir please take me to los angeles which on a friday afternoon is going to be like a two and a half hour drive there is no universe in which they're going to take me in other words i'm trapped here and i'm sorry when is your flight out of la it's not till tomorrow

oh okay but still nobody's telling you is there any indication that a car might free up is anybody

even giving you that lip service no no the guy at the dsw slash avis slash pizza hut taco bell said call the 1-800 number and make a reservation i was like yeah you think you think that's gonna solve this problem calling somebody uh you know in some far-flung place and and asking them to Please find me. Like, no, that's. So basically, I'm I'm down here for the foreseeable future. I really don't at this very moment have a solution for the problem.

And I'm sorry that I get a little confused on the timeline. So you do have more shooting today, too.

Yeah, we're going to be filming later. And in fact, where we're filming, like I'm going to call a lift from this hotel to the shoot location. But that, in fact, is a half hour in the wrong direction. So that's only increasing the issue. Like for me, like, I guess maybe I could go back to the airport and call a lift there because like what I really need to do is manage the expectation of the person who is picking me up that we might be going on a on a fantastic voyage together. And I feel like if you pick somebody up from the airport, you're you're you're you are sort of aware that there could be we could be on a long drive or you pick somebody up at a random, you know, outside of just kind of a random place in Southern California, like where we're going to be filming. you're probably not expecting this as to the next five hours of your life yeah right exactly now

this is off topic for you but it's just blown my uh brain grapes um we were referring there to the anniversary of the time i got very angry at an uber driver in the middle of the street

in i think by the way that that was justified i don't think yeah no he was he had hung up on me

several times he would he would been he'd been super rude horribly communicating with me uh hanging up and then because we were just trying to find him and he wasn't helping us find him and then finally he cancels the ride and then there he was as I was crossing the street there he was in front of me it was almost pulp fiction-esque in my memory of it um but anyway that was during a trip to Minneapolis St. Paul for work uh you and me TBTL business APM what year do you think that was either give me a year or how many years ago you think it was let's see when did schubert dip come out maybe this is 2023 now i'm guessing it was five years

ago i'm saying it was 2018 that's my call that's what i had it was 2016 my friend that was seven years ago how have we even known each other that long we already we were already starting to not like each other by that time i don't understand but then we went to nye's polonaise then everything then we bonded everything changed everything came together anyway i'm sorry you're going through that but i guess yeah wolf i mean the good news is people tune in on monday find out you know if those mickey mouse ears are getting more and more permanently planted on that skull of yours yep there is a surgery you can get i realized that that was a weird way of putting that

my apologies to you i promise you there is a surgery at disneyland where that stuff can be permanently affixed to you okay i'm sorry that i'm just like i'm actually not in a terrible mood even though I sound very misanthropic this morning, but can I tell you about one other thing slash play you some tape that I recorded in the gym today?

Yes, but as your lawyer, I heard you say that in the intro, and I'm like, wow, recording things in gyms is pretty verboten. And to play it publicly? Audio, please. Okay.

Calm down, Linda Tripp.

I just wanted to separate myself. I believe it's called reasonable expectation of privacy.

And this guy did not, I think, care who heard him. This is a guy on speakerphone on the treadmill, two treadmills down from me. Is that?

in any way appropriate behavior no it's absolutely rude people do it all the time i mean it's common behavior at this point but it is i mean i will yell at this cloud with you and i know how i sound but i mean when people do that just like really you think you're the only person in the room what if we all do that you know that if we all do that that's not tenable right if there's five people in that room and they're all holding a meeting and talking about it would be cacophonous so you know not everybody can do it you just think that you're the one who can i just i've this is

what i always say when this topic comes up i am so envious of someone who has the confidence to do that i i don't even mean that sort of sarcastically i mean i am so like if i have to make a phone call and i'm in a restaurant i am going outside 100 i'm i can't i don't have the confidence to be around people and then be having a phone conversation with someone who's not one of those people like it makes me just feel for some reason super shy like to get on the treadmill and then you know to just okay what we you and I both agree so here's where you and I both agree that that's rude behavior and now I'm going to take it to a place that you will not go with me and you shouldn't because what I'm about to say is borderline inappropriate and probably ableist on some level but also it was like this person and again we never know no one knows what's going on with anyone but he was very casually sauntering on this treadmill whilst talking on the speaker phone and i just thought couldn't this be a thing you're doing somewhere else right now like you don't even seem like your purse like you don't appear to be even working out like couldn't you be walking around the parking lot of this hotel having your phone call like why what's happening here like you got on the treadmill you're sauntering and then you just put your colleague on speakerphone like it was just it was just a giant f you to all of us in that gym it's a giant

f you that's for sure yeah i don't care how fast you're going on the treadmill like you said i that that seems irrelevant to me um but what isn't irrelevant is you're inside in a public place i mean it could be a coffee shop too like it's the same like if you want to be outside at a picnic table in a park somewhere there's not a lot of people around except for people walking and jogging by go ahead have your have your meeting like you've you've given some you've given some credence to your surroundings but if you're inside of a half-filled Starbucks and you're having that conversation I'm already dropping little Starbucks references into the show since they may be a

sponsor Luke from what I hear did you agree to those terms because I did I um I thought I was the only one I thought I'm the only one allowed to drop Starbucks references on this program

currently we got we often will get emails from our colleague Annie saying hey is this you know these folks might want to sponsor the shows is something that you're open to. We give them a thumbs up or a thumbs down. These are for the ads that we will read, you know, with our voice, with our voices, not other people's voices. Anyway, but this one, Luke, it wasn't a question. And Annie just said, Luke, I signed you up as a tribute for this one.

I believe she said, yeah, I submit you as a tribute. Yeah. So it was not.

games that one was not a question that was just like annie listens to the show she knows your relationship with starbucks and that you spend time in there anyway i'm uh way off track here but basically same same deal it's it's not about how fast you're moving or what the activity is if you're inside around a bunch of other people don't have your goddamn cell phone loud conversations with cell phone loud conversations i just turned into my dad oh my god as as a future starbucks

Pitch person Andrew I can say I'm more okay with it in a Starbucks Only because Starbucks have turned into a De facto office By the way that is the ad copy they sent me Starbucks your de facto office Like I feel like if I'm in a Starbucks When I go When I go into a Starbucks My headspace is I'm gonna get me Some coffee and I'm going to just be On with my day or if I'm gonna Sit down I'm going to expect that the people sitting next to me might be having conducting a job interview there might be somebody who's got their laptop and a bunch of you know papers spread out i think of a starbucks as being a borderline office and therefore for me i'm just talking about myself it would irk me less if a person was on a speakerphone there than in the uh gym at the viv hotel in anaheim you know i guess we

should address what probably a lot of people are thinking now and this is where it is i mean i realize that this is like the least cool and oldest I've ever sounded like yelling at this particular cloud like an old man I don't care I mean like I'm not in this to be cool I'm not in this life game to me I'm not here to make friends as we like to say Luke but I think the argument is and I do think it's very generational I think there are people who just say what do you mean like we live in a world where we all have earbuds on at all times like it's it's almost more up to us to block out other people's sounds and look at me I'm the one who's saying to our listener Paul in Britain who has a neighbor whose alarm clock is going off too early and staying on for a half hour and what did I say the other day because I was too exhausted to deal with the problem head on I said put in earbuds and I think that that's what a lot of people think if you're at a gym you probably have your own earbuds on and you're listening to something else I don't happen to think that that should be the expectation I think the expectation of course that's earbudist yeah that's assuming right yeah that's assuming

that people have access to airpods or earbuds or beats by dre or whatever like to assume that somebody has to have a technology to make your behavior less annoying obviously it seems uncool

to me yeah definitely i don't i haven't been like kind of going to you know when i lived in my old place i would go to lunch off and i'd be sitting in like i don't know little noodle places or just like places where you can get a quick bite to eat but you could stay there and eat right and almost always there would be if not one a couple of people watching shit on their phone with the volume turned up really loud without headphones on and just like just that blasting tinny noise right i'm just like how like how do you think that's okay and i think that if i were to ask them which i wouldn't i think they would be like we'll just put in your earbuds man

yeah i don't have any by the way okay we should go to a break even though there's a truck driving down i5 that i've seen this so many times and i think it's one of the weirdest names for a shipping company it's called super ego isn't that a band do you know that that's a major trucking company in america it's called super ego trucking no i thought super ego was a band i'm not joking that's not a band uh super chunk i know super chunk um um there is really a truck i've seen it many times and i think it's the one of these days we got to get to the bottom of how that became the name of that shipping or that trucking company because it's a very like is it a statement about you know us as humans super ego trucking is a really interesting name to me do you think it's because id was already taken hey oh all right i was trying to think of an id id joke this is what happens y'all when one of the hosts of the podcast you love moves to anaheim you sound broken you

listen i'm not saying that i might my jokes are the best in the world and we also have somewhat of a funky line today but i will say you are funky little line i'm i'm worried about you you

you sound like a broken man i'm just telling you i i usually have i'm usually able to kind of like um you know get myself out of a couple of jams but i don't know if i'm ever leaving anaheim i'm just staring at the five i'm just staring into the middle distance as super ego trucks drive past and my ego deflates rapidly just picture you sitting on the edge of your bed

bent over your forehead on your arms which are on your knees and you're just sobbing and just

you're just saying this is the happiest place and i open it i open the drawer by the way i'm in one of those rooms with two beds and i don't know why that bothers me because each bed is large enough for me to sleep on uh-huh but i do not like that i'm a fan of the king the one king bed or the one queen bed. I do not like the two

beds in the room so neither one of these beds is as big as a queen like they're both smaller

no they're both no that's the thing they're probably they're probably both full size you know so like one step down from queen but that's more than sufficient for me like that's plenty of bed for me to sleep on by myself and yet when i walked in and i saw that i was just like but anyway uh to to continue the imagery me sitting on one of these two beds in this room At my wits end And then opening the cabinet The drawer that's between the two beds And seeing that they do have a book of Mormon Which they do Literally they have a Gideon Bible And a book of Mormon Maybe it will be the legacy of Joseph Smith That finally gets me out of Anaheim, California We shall see

You might end up getting on the back Of one of those super ego trucks Just heading north

Sure, or riding the rails There's got to be a train around Get me a bindle I don't know what was going on I'm sure they sell bindles at Disneyland

The other day I grabbed Bingo And I just said that's it Vives Me and Bingo are leaving And she just yelled pack a bindle That was her reaction to me leaving her

My new thing that I like to do with Bubbles Is I do a version of the song by Europe The final countdown Oh yeah okay But I say it's the cutest kitten And then I kiss her stomach In the rhythm of the guitar So instead of da-na-na-na, da-na-na-na, it's a... Anyway, we have fun.

You're listening to TVTL. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to thank some dazzling... Somebody's got to do this, Luke. Somebody's got to do this.

Is Phyllis available to become the new co-host of this program?

Yeah, we're going to find out what's going on with that controversial vanity license plate in retiring. That's all coming up. In just a second, here on TBTL.

All right. I had to get the last one. I had to say all the way quietly.

We was hoping for some razzle-dazzle. Razzle-dazzle. That's right, man. Razzle-dazzle. On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go. Everybody razzle-dazzle.

All right, let's thank some dazzling donors. These wonderful, generous folks are dazzling us with a donation of dough. I'll tell you what I could really use would be a ride to LAX. But also we will take the dough from these dazzling folks.

You know that we have listeners in Anaheim who are probably trying to reach you as they hear this.

Right? By the time this hits the airwaves, I will be filming, meaning that by like 4 o'clock on this Friday, I'm hoping to have a couple of a couple of offers for a lift up north, please. Oh, we got to thank Bobby Pape. Bobby. Bobby's pronouncer is he keeps his bobbies in his sleevies. Oh, thanks. Makes sense. Out there in Albany, New York or the greater Del Mar region, I think is how most people think. Exactly. Bobby is, of course, a long, long time supporter of the program, wonderful human, and a person who really knows their TBTL, I will tell you that. And so much so that Bobby has listed six topics and says, please roll a die or Google a virtual one if needed and spend 60 seconds exploring the corresponding topic. What are we, your puppets, Bobby? You know what, actually, we are. You paid for this.

We're expensive puppets at that

Number one Topic number one Or I should say potential topic number one Gary Goldman on how the states got their abbreviations That's a bit that I love to Bring up on the show And then play the audio of multiple times Throughout the year Never remembering that I'd already played the audio And described that bit Number two George Brett Black Bucks No socks Just a classic Maybe the most classic TBTL Well, I don't know It's got to be up there In the pantheon of classic TBTL tape Number three, video interpolation And or cable management Oh, I have thoughts, Andrew My problem, only 60 seconds on any of these? Can you do George Brett in 60 seconds? Number four, Dave Thomas Arena I saw a stand-up comic on TikTok Said that it's kind of crazy that dave thomas named wendy's for his daughter wendy because his oldest son was named double cheeseburger that's pretty good that's a good spoof right yeah i don't if that's not my joke that's a stand-up who i did not recognize sorry i don't have their name at the ready um number five kai risdoll and parenthetically luke's impression of him That sounds like dangerous territory I'll load this die to avoid that one

And number six, Golfman Boy, that's a blast from the past When's the last time we talked about Golfman on this show?

Probably Over a decade But still too soon

I mean, we discuss Golfman, though Post being a radio program, right? Actually, you know what? If we roll Golfman, this will be part of the six seconds So I'll shut up and let you roll the die, sir

yeah okay ready i don't know if you can tell i've been talking where because i moved my microphone a little bit closer to my desk so if i'm gonna roll a die i want people to hear it right so let's do it it's a real die and again i if it lands on five i'm reading okay three what was

which paladin is that i get the sword of wounding that's my impression of a person playing dungeons and dragons this is a 35 sided die by the way we're lucky we got one of video interpolation

and or cable management i can move my microphone back okay that's better um did that pay off how did that how did that die sound it was great i feel like we need all the way down here in anaheim california where i live in my the bay city uh okay so okay how do you so we got a slash one 30 seconds sir i'll no no no let's talk about this let's talk about this because i don't let this to me these are two different conversations and the clock has not started yet by the way Okay. Video interpolation, that is, I would hand that one to you to explain the backstory of the Tom Cruise and everything like that, because I don't really know anything about that. That just scares me. Cable management, I can tell you how I manage my cables.

Okay, why don't you start with that, and I will see if I have that video interpolation tape.

Okay. In 60 seconds. So I'm going to hit start. I'm a little timer here. Imagine you hear a ticking sound effect because that's one thing I didn't prep for today's show. I brought a die in here, though. We're 10 seconds in. So I have a fishing tackle box that I've had since I was a little kid. In fact, it's got a little sticker on top of it that should have been a decal on a G.I. Joe toys door. But instead, I put it on this tackle box just to give you a sense of how old this thing is. And because I haven't been playing with G.I. Joe's since I was 32. And this is what I keep all of my cables in. And you wrap them up. Some of those cables have the little doohickeys on them that would fit no modern television. In fact, generations of TVs have gone by that these cables would not attach to. But I keep them anyway because they're my babies. And I had a dream.

Do you have any of those little horseshoes?

Oh, yeah, certainly. And I have the reverse version of those, too. The Game of Horseshoes. Yep, and I have the other ones that have, like, the little cable input and then the two little screws on it that you would hook horseshoes onto to connect it to the TV. So that's my minute. When's the last time you used those guys? No, I mean, that's the thing. I almost threw them away. I was clearing out the box because it was overflowing, and I had to thin out my collection a little bit. This is back in my Wallingford place, and I had those things in a pile. I was like, there will never be another need for these, and I was going to throw them away, and then I was like, I can't, so I grabbed one of each, I think, just because I was like, someday I may need it, or, like, why not? Like, these things take up, what, six full inches, six square inches of my life. I can hang on to these things. They were once very important to me.

Also, was there anything more satisfying than when you would screw the screw down and get a good tight fit on that little horseshoe deal?

yeah sometimes they had the little washers in between the screw and the thing to have a cleaner

connection very satisfying very yeah uh the uh video interpolation thing was i'm trying to remember which movie was it one of the mission impossible movie i think he was on set of mission

impossible but this was pre-pandemic and i think the pandemic put that i'm gonna play your whole

i'm just gonna play the audio and i believe this is tom cruise and the director of whatever the film is uh talking about this i'm tom cruise obviously and i'm chris mccoy obviously and we're talking to you from the set of top gun maverick whoa top gun maverick yeah that's

what we said so i said mission impossible oh you did i'm sorry i said i thought it was a mission impossible movie i don't know how to explain this to people but i was right in my head but wrong out loud which is probably the name of my book i was picture because he's wearing like his flight suit right isn't he like wearing like right it just seems so long ago they must

have been filming that movie you know like you said it was pre-pandemic and then that's what i

was referring to yeah yeah that movie everybody was like you said mission impossible i heard top gun in my head but i was picturing top gun yeah they that movie started production this thing circulated pre-pandemic and then the movie was put on major hold got it okay that makes more sense

because i was thinking you know yeah this video was from a long time ago and i think of i mean top gun maverick was like nominated for an oscar this year but anyway um so uh here's what they're talking about we're very proud to present mission impossible fallout oh andrew jesus

Okay, so it's from the set of Top Gun Maverick, but they're referring to Mission Impossible. I want the listeners to know that's exactly what I was thinking and not just what I was saying. Well, you're not – I mean, you're – like fundamentally you're correct, which is that they were – this was filmed on the set of Top Gun Maverick. now they're trying to get you to watch mission impossible correctly for them but uh so so but it was on the set of topical maverick so i think i think your larger point holds and we want you

to enjoy it to the fullest possible effect just as you would in a theater to that end we'd like a moment of your time to talk to you about video interpolation video interpolation or motion smoothing is a digital effect on most high definition televisions and is intended to Reduce motion blur in sports.

All right, whatever. The point is, I love that I'm like, enough Tom Cruise. You know what's driving past me, Andrew? Another super ego truck. My super ego is so large, I think I'm more interesting than Tom Cruise and the director of Top Gun Maverick. Anyway, the point of that whole thing is there are these settings on a lot of, well, probably all kind of new smart TVs that are meant for sporting events and things like that. And what they do, if you're watching like a film film, is they make it look almost like a soap opera. It's basically too many frames per second. And so, you know, the people that put all this hard work into a movie like Mission Impossible would like you to watch it in a way that looks more like, what is it, 28 frames per second? Is that the typical?

I can't remember. I don't want to go on a limb on that one. I think it's 28 frames per second. That sounds right, but I don't know.

They would like it – that's, you know, the way that we – the way that our eyes, at least if you're old like me, the way that my eyes and brain interpret film is based on the model of film when there was 28 frames per second or however many frames it was. And with all the newfangled stuff and the fact that they're shooting digitally – I mean, this is the thing that we also talked about a little bit sort of with the new Avatar movie, right? Like, it just got – it got really roasted in the New York Times, I think, about the different film speed they were shooting on or the – you know, it's not film, it's digital. But you know what I mean? Like how they were James Cameron was actually he was sort of doing the opposite of what Tom Cruise is doing here, which is like he was making it like a soap opera intentionally for reasons that the reviewer couldn't figure out.

Yeah. And sporadically, seemingly. That was an interesting piece. OK, we have another dazzling donor to think, but I need to ask you a quick question here. Are you caught up on The Last of Us?

No, I am not caught up on it.

All I'm going to say is there's a scene with an animal. And I think most people who've caught up on that show. Is it a crossover? It is not a cocaine bear. It's not a bear. But there's a scene with an animal. And clearly, in order to film it, it's not like a dog or a cat. You know what I mean? Is it a CGI thing? It's charismatic megafauna. Is it a gorgon? Well, the thing is, the effect of seeing this animal is real. It looks so fake. I mean, it looks so absolutely fake. And I was like, oh, my God, you really CGI'd that animal. And then I was like, you know what? I'll bet you a million bucks this looks so bad. I'll bet you a million bucks this is one of those things where the animal is actually real. But they CGI'd everything else around it. They just covered it in ping pong balls.

real andy circus on it i'd love to see that that would be so great a green suit with a bunch of

we've hired andy circus to train a platypus in how to motion capture um anyway uh it is um i think i

just gave away the animal so i'm gonna try to uh edit that out sorry about that anyway um but it was one of those things where i was like i'll bet you a million dollars that they'll say no that isn't fake because it's real but yeah but it doesn't matter if you do this effect and it looks fake because it's real but everything around it is fake that still looks really fake it's also just kind of a it's just that there are several things about that particular scene that just make no sense the show set up such a high bar for me that when it dips below it i get so angry at it i'm like wow you're really not respecting me as a viewer and there was a couple of things in this scene that that felt that way to me but uh but and then later on i listened to a podcast and i think they referenced the fact that like no that animal was real everything else was fake i'm like yeah who cares looks stupid tom cruise would never settle for that if the if the ultimate effect is

that it looks not real then it doesn't matter that you were motion or whatever you know you had found a real rhino or whatever the hell it probably is um yeah i'm in very i'm teetering on the edge of not completing that show which you know i really enjoyed the first few episodes but between my um uh burgeoning alone habit and also the fact that i live in anaheim now uh i can and also

just like i can feel myself kind of losing touch with the end of the show the last or at least the end of this season you know how that happens sometimes where you just kind of get off you sort of get off the merry-go-round with a program you lose your momentum and then you can just feel like yeah i'm never gonna probably get back to this i was on the razor's edge of that with

this show because like i said it's some in some parts it's some of the best tv i've seen in other parts i just think it's kind of schlocky and i will say i last night i was like if i don't just sit down and watch the last two I thought I was three behind but it turns out I guess it's just a nine unless I'm totally mistaken about this it looks like it's just a nine episode series I was like if I this is like an hour and a half of my life I actually counted up the minutes it was like 50 minutes and I don't remember exactly how it timed out but I was like just sit down and barrel through these two shows otherwise you'll never go back other seasons will come out and you'll be like well I never finished season one and I'll say like there is some there in the last two episodes there is still some really really good shit especially i remember really liking the second to last episode but you know nothing is perfect and so i think maybe i just hold it to a pretty high standard i need to out of a sense of

professional obligation to this program andrew i need to just power through as well because a we can talk about it in more detail and b then if there are subsequent seasons that are really good we can yeah because i'm with you if i don't watch the next three episodes i'll never watch season too like i will just fully be a non a person who does not engage with whatever that franchise is so i will um oh maybe on sunday you know what i'm i'm this is now how i navigate my world again if i am able to return to portland i just i do all my job stuff and all my real life stuff so that i can spend a sunday afternoon on the couch ordering doordash and just watching television this is how i it's the carrot that i dangle in front of myself as like a donkey i'm pulling a cart down the road aka my job you've tied the carrot yourself yes it's kind of a self carotting situation um so yeah that actually maybe that's what i'll do on sunday although the weather's getting nice well i don't know that's the other thing yeah you gotta you gotta

get some lawn mowing to do you got yeah and now i'm sure you'll be out at your house even more

I'm going to tie a carrot on the top of the lawnmower, and then I'm going to drive it around and mow. Anyway, so there you go, Bobby. There's your 60 seconds. Maestro.

On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go. Everybody rattle, dattle.

Hey, look who it is. Laura Gosling in Accra, Ghana. That was my Ophabia Quist-Arcton impression. Yeah, pretty good. Which I'm known for. Wow, Laura is in Accra That is so cool

I didn't even notice that when I grabbed this this morning That's awesome

Yeah, did we have someone in the Czech Republic recently too?

We did, yeah

It's quite an international feel this week

Yeah, and didn't we also have somebody In kind of the Middle East region Why am I forgetting that? Oh yeah, yeah A listener who's coming back to Puyallup

Exactly

Maybe Lorraine? Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine Lorraine Yes, yes, yes. I know, I know, Lauren. It's coming back from Kuwait or something? Yes, right.

Well, Laura, this other L donor, Laura Gosling, is in Accra and says, As always, I just want to say how grateful I am to this community and to TBTL for giving me a comfort listen as we continue to serve overseas. Our first year in Accra was not the easiest, and TBTL was huge in helping me cope with some negative experiences. Oh, sorry, Laura, that was something you went through. By the time this airs, we'll know where we're going next, and we'll have less than a year left here. I don't have any projects to plug, so instead, I'll give some entertainment recommendations. Watch Andor for Star Wars if it were produced by AMC.

I see. What does that mean exactly? So Andor is one of the Star Wars, I assume, series. I have not, or did I say Endor? Is it Andor?

It's written Andor here. Is it Endor, like the Ewok planet?

Let me look this up. It does say Andor, but I'm not sure if that was an auto-correct. I don't know anything about Star Wars.

I would watch a show just set on Endor. That was one of my favorite. No, this is Andor. One of my favorite places in Return of the Jedi.

You and I just didn't know that Andor was a thing. But yeah, so let's see. So it's a limited series. And so I think what Laura is saying here is like, if you like Star Wars as if it were produced by AMC, you're going to love Andor. And I don't know if it is produced by AMC, but I assume it is

Okay, that sounds promising Also watch Glass Onion Oh yeah For some truly great ensemble work and a great mystery That's one of those things And is that part of the Knives Out universe? Yes, that's right

You know what? I get that reversed. I've only seen the first one, which is called Knives Out. Which is Knives Out, right? I've seen Knives Out, Glass Onion, or Glass Onion, and Knives Out story, or Fast and Furious. But the first one was good, right?

I mean, I heard really, really good things about it. First one's amazing, yeah.

Really good, yeah. Look, locked room mystery kind of thing.

And then Laura says, if you'd like to discover some great authors, read some John Scalzi, some Becky Chambers some Lev Grossman or some Ann Patchett so those are the recommendations

from Laura in Accra guests there no live wire guests

no that's you think I would keep that sugar on the shelf if I'd read any of those authors you don't need nudging on that I have not read those folks but they sound like they're worth checking out Laura thank you for supporting us And really good luck with, you know, where you're living and where you will be living in the future. Hope everything works out the way you're hoping. And thanks again to Bobby as well. Thanks to both of our dazzling donors. We couldn't do this without you. Hello and welcome to Top Story. All right. This main thing, I'm just the whole point of it, Andrew, was that when I first read it, when I first read this article, i really thought that this guy was being fresh as my mom would say because the license plate so what happened is in maine at some point they they got rid of any kind of regulations about what you could have on your vanity plate and then i guess people went nuts and so then they decided that they were going to actually rein it in and they had like 1200 or so vanity plates that were like found to be inappropriate for one reason or another and this one guy his plate was love to f you And they banned it Except it turns out he just loves tofu He's a vegan It's love tofu

Where have we landed? I haven't read it because you told me in the show sheet twice

Right because I wanted to see If I told you Someone had a bandy play called love to F you If you would think it was dirty like I did But it's just love tofu And the guy legit is a vegan He loves tofu This is legit how do you know it's legit because i watched a genie moo cnn story on him oh okay and and he just like he also has bumper stickers that say like vegan on his car like he's he's just a guy who loves tofu but the funny part is they still refuse to they still refuse to let him have that that vanity plate they offered him the chance to a replacement plate that was vegan where the e was

a number three well hey turned it down why'd he turn it down i thought that'd be better than love to f you that's that's what so i didn't realize he'd been like fully vetted on the national stage in that way so i mean i guess if if cnn kind of spent a day with him it would be hard to fake all of that but like the fact that you wouldn't take the other license plate says that there's something else going on here too there must be something about personal freedom or something it's like why would you not take vegan that's so much it's so much better than love to f you so what is the

answer to that why does he not the answer there is no answer uh by the way genie move i don't think has left her office in manhattan in years yeah she just did a voiceover full of terrible puns and then somebody went to maine and filmed this guy no it's rough yeah it's basically like it's my nightmare scenario for a cbs story yeah where it's like you know it's like i i actually was rolling the audio into the computer in case we needed it and then i couldn't handle the amount of like the punnery because it was all just like it wasn't even they weren't even good just tortured i know this it was like and they were using all this stock i don't know how this turned into just a criticism of cnn's production but they were using all this obvious stock video footage of people cooking tofu like they didn't even have him they didn't even have the guy who loves to f you cook any tofu it was the worst b-roll of all time so what it was was a very brief interview with the guy who again i actually believe just like god i love tofu like that was really i think a real thing but then all of the other footage was just like grabbed from some getty stock video footage of like a set of hands making tofu and like you mean to any mu saying saying things like he was he was and then like tofu is going into like a walk and then him going he was fried over learning that he couldn't have his license plate i was just like god you have to

stop doing this oh my god i know those were so right i haven't seen one of those commentaries in years probably the last time i was probably pulling some tape will you do me a favor as a

will you just google it will you just google it it is like cnn

tofu license plate and just play just let's give the listeners a flavor of what i had to suffer

through okay it's gonna take me a little bit of a second here oh here it is i'm just a vegan that

was a pretty good return but again i'll just continue to tap dance here and say the part that's mysterious is that he turned down vegan which is such a superior if that's your thing that's such a superior vanity plate to i love to f you yeah that's that's why i'm like okay maybe

even if he came by this naturally i'm just getting through an advertisement here but um sure if he did come by this and his story is true something else is now going on that he doesn't want to swap it out he's insulted or he's mad that i mean whatever it is um can you when you play it do

you have your bell can you ding every time there's a very bad pun or even a good pun anytime there's wordplay can you just ding i mean i don't want to break my bell you break it yesterday are you

Are you going to buy me a new bell? Okay, I think I'm here. Okay. Okay, Luke, I got to be honest with you about something here. I misunderstood. I misunderstood the license plate. I'm not joking. This does change my – I need to set this record straight here. This package begins with a tight close-up of the license plate. I thought the license plates And I'm sure you said I know that you said this right And I just heard it wrong See Tom Cruise Earlier in the conversation I thought it was L-U-V The number two F-U And so the fact that it's actually written out It's L-U-V-T-O-F-U It's actually spelled tofu properly Does make me change a little bit I misled you

Not intentionally But I was saying Love 2FU So I was kind of I was saying in a way That was a bit confusing

You didn't spell it all out Okay so in my head The way we've been talking about it I'm like okay LUV the number 2FU Like that's so clearly

That's why earlier you said Toofu And I didn't know What you were talking about

Yes okay But it actually is It's like it's how you spell tofu If you were going to write Love tofu But you had to like Spell love LUV This is how you do it So that makes more sense to me And why he might think Like this is better than Vegan with a 3 Because you're not just like Doing more word number play or whatever huh okay now i need to rethink okay i'm gonna cut everything out here's where the story begins we have we have hired uh genie what's her last name uh moves um to uh do the

story for us for tbtl set us up genie thank you it's like an eye test for a dirty mind what do you see wait hold on hold on i don't even know if i should ring the bell what does that mean

i don't know i don't consider that to be a pun i'm okay with that by the way i'll allow that Because that's like, that's like, it's actually kind of a funny, that's like an interesting way to describe it. I'm okay with that as a way to get into the piece.

Okay, it's like an eye test for a dirty mind. Okay, gotcha. Right.

Again, I don't think that's a thing people do, but I'll allow it.

It's like an eye test for a dirty mind. What do you see when you look at this license plate? Well, the state of Maine saw the F.U. at the end and recalled the plates, while the owner saw only plates of tofu.

My license plate literally says, love tofu. I'm just a vegan. No ill intentions. Wait, what did I miss there?

Uh, like the license, the state of Maine said no to the license plate while the owner only saw plates of tofu. What?

Uh, yeah, I didn't, I didn't even know that that was a ding. I thought that was just an awkwardly constructed sentence. And I know something about awkwardly. Do you know what I'm saying?

Like, license plate, and then she says plates of tofu. Oh, plate, plate.

Okay, okay, okay, sorry.

Naturally, Peter Starostucki was sizzling. After being told his plates were considered vulgar, he appealed and lost It's sort of the opposite of what happened to Kramer in Seinfeld

I'm not the ass man, I think there's been a mistake

Cosmo Kramer, you are the ass man DMV insisted Kramer keep the tasteless plates While Peter's taste for tofu got him nowhere A firm or extra firm tofu? states tend to be extra firm rejecting plates that read see you in hell or damn on the other hand the vanity plates that was worth it why are you going to the why are we going to the vanity

we understand the concept of vanity plates already an eighth of the story was just footage from seinfeld why are you going oh i'm telling you this has no nutritional content

that's why I said Ginny has not left her office in fact she hasn't probably left her office at her apartment in Manhattan in years this is the most phoned in thing of all time

why am I watching the Ghostbusters and now I'm about to watch Parker not Parker Lewis

can't lose the other one plates and ghostbusters would pass muster the ferrari and ferris bueller's

day off needn't feel nervous i think it's a problem that i can't remember ferris bueller's day off i can only remember parker lewis can't lose i feel like i'm really stuck to the beta

max of that conversation but again by the way this is where i don't mean to be mean to my dear friend jenny but like the there's nothing like basically the story of the guy with the i love tofu is so brief that the rest of this is just filler it's like showing other times where vanity plates have been in the pop culture like including ghostbusters and then ferris bueller needn't be nervous because i guess the license plate said nervous on that car that gets kicked out of that very stylish garage that glass box like but it doesn't make sense it does not make sense logically that ferris bueller would be nervous you know that they fixed that glass garage up by the way

because you can see all kinds of um expensive exercise equipment advertised in that exact garage you know what i'm talking about really there's oh i mean i don't i don't know that it's the same set but like how many commercials do you see where it's like some beautiful person who's exercising in front of their exercise mirror. They're rowing a bowl of water. Yeah, right. But they're in that, in Ferris Bueller's garage. By the way, that is my

dream. Yeah. As you might imagine, that is my dream. I just want to live in a glass box. I know. Like in a canyon. Yeah.

Like that. It is really beautiful. Do we want to keep going on this? Oh, well, no. I want to react to what you just said. I think we got the point, but like you said, there's so little to the story, but like I mean, this is an under two minute story. I mean there's so I have so many questions for this guy and again I'm not saying that every I mean I know what her deal is I mean this is what she does that's not her job to like drill down to the bottom of this but you don't you didn't need this much filler there was more stuff to explore in the story like absolutely why doesn't he take it like at what point did he he go from just wanting a silly license plate to not backing down and wanting to become an advocate or like a wanted to fight this and I guess be an advocate of some sort.

Right and also I mean it's an interesting first amendment conversation because it's also interesting why there was a point where Maine said we're just going to like let anyone get any license plate they want and then yeah when what was the license plate that broke them and they were like no no no we got to get this under control like there it is an actually interesting story. Now, again, that's not, you know, different kinds of media can cover things differently. As that one young listener once said, people can like different things and people can do different kinds of journalism. But it is kind of, there is actually some interesting stuff to the story, none of which is addressed in this piece.

No, no, exactly.

All right, let's do a little music for your weekend before I jet out. I guess what I could also do, Andrew, maybe I could see if they could just move my flight down here.

Oh, not move your flight time wise, but fly out of there.

Fly out of Orange County. Oh, yeah. That could be the ticket. There you go. Maybe I'll make some calls.

I have a question for you regarding music for your weekend. We had a dazzling donor earlier this week who had a song they wanted to check out. Is that locked into the show sheet? Yes, sir. Okay.

Yes, it was listening to Chris, and the song is a Kurt Weill song. Great. And the song is, I believe, I had it in front of me a second ago.

I can probably get there. So that means it's One Trick Ponies, I believe, is what that song is.

One Trick Ponies is going to be the listener's suggestion.

But we'll go out with that. Okay, so then I really do have to pick one, because I was going to say, if that wasn't in the listener slot, I would. No, it's fine.

Oh, we could just have two today, by the way. No pressure.

No. Oh, I see. Instead of three, right? No, I got some stuff here. I just kind of don't remember the background of these musicians. They came into my life via a press release at some point in the past couple of weeks. I liked these songs well enough to throw them into my ongoing playlist, but I don't really know much about them. But maybe that's good. Maybe I talk too much. There is an artist named Carolyn Rose, and this is a song called Tell Me What You Want. Is it possible Was that person on TBTL years ago I'm not sure Or is that a song in my playlist Because it was already a music for your weekend Was it was Carolyn Rose on recently

I think Carolyn Rose played on TBTL At my old house in Mount Baker Came and brought her piano

I wonder if a listener sent this to me I'm looking this up now I don't see this is my problem I don't see anything on TBTL But I could look more later

I also thought Kevin Ruse from the New York Times was gay yesterday Which he's not, by the way Let's not trust Luke's brain on these things

Anyway, I don't My only concern here is if I have the song In my playlist because we've already played it on TV

recently. I don't know if that's the case or not, but I know nothing about this song. I know nothing about this person other than that I heard this and I liked it. I heard it and I liked it and now you'll like it too. Music for your weekend. Music for your weekend.

Tell me what is wrong Cause I'm no longer having fun Oh fuck it all, I'm done Life goes on I just gotta take a beat Get some fresh air in my lungs I just gotta do my thing And shake it up

If only it were that easy A flick of the wrist A turn of the page

There you go. Caroline Rose. Now I remember it. Yeah, pretty intense song. Kind of an intense video. But I like it. That's good. Yeah, it's good, right?

How do you spell the Caroline?

With an I-N-E. Do you think it might be Caroline, do you think?

We have a, I was just Googling TVTL, Carolyn Rose. We had a donor, a supporter named Carolyn Rose of Truckee, California.

Oh, do you think that's, do you think, are we fans of each other?

It sounds like a different spelling, but this one is spelled C-A-R-O-L-Y-N.

That'd be amazing if I just sort of like heard of a musician through a press release. I play them on the show and it turns out they're a listener. I don't think that's ever happened before. Do you have any music for your weekend?

I do. It's from the band or the singer Cumulus Oh Who's also been on TBTL before Definitely Alexandra I was in a random airport somewhere I was coming outside to wait in the rental car shuttle line And what do you think I heard But a song called Night Swimming And I was like this song is amazing This also sounds like Cumulus And I shazammed it And it was Cumulus Oh nice Yeah it's beautiful I listened to it this morning to refresh myself I do not think it is a cover of the R.E.M. song

Yeah, that's what my brain went to But I assumed it was not

I was trying to listen carefully to the lyrics Now, maybe Alexander has just done such a great job reimagining it That I missed it But I think this is a different song called Night Swimming But can we play this by Cumulus?

Going back to the town where we met Images of you dancing in my head I remember swimming in the dark You took my hand, we don't write in I'm afraid of anything Getting lost in treats and waves You'll kiss it like a hurricane All of these young loves How they burn us All of these young loves How we burn lives

So there you go, that's a little bit of Cumulus I love her voice so much I can never get enough of that band cumulus. Yeah, that's amazing. Well, Andrew, I guess I have an answer to how I'm going to get home. I'm never going to get home. I'm just going to stay in California. Now, while we were talking, they asked me, the TV people, if I can do a profile of Juliette Lewis in L.A. next week. Lewis! I was

about to say, I hope you said no because you're just going to do that every time her name comes

up. Lewis! What was it like being a natural-born killer?

How were you? How did you put that poison in me, too?

A thing that you would have never known existed.

No, never. And I'm sure a bunch of listeners as well. And by the way, Luke, sorry for the language, but extra F you.

My middle name is Lewis, you jerk. Like, literally, it's my name.

This is something you need to not have poisoned in your life because it comes up.

But when I hear the name Lewis, I no longer think, hey, his name is my name, too. I now think, Lewis.

Love it. I love it. All right. As has been mentioned...

The listener suggestion this week comes from listener Chris in Philly, who did some some interior architectural work for one Kurt Weill, a singer songwriter that I'm a big, big fan of. And and Chris suggested a song, One Trick Pony, for us to check out. I believe he said, I know we're not allowed to suggest songs in the dazzling donor message. But here we are playing a Kurt Weill song to wrap things up. So that's how we're going to end the week. Thank you so much, everyone, for listening. We will be back here on Monday. I guess I'll still be in L.A., probably. Until then, have a great weekend. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

Loved you all a long, long while Looked down into a deep, dark well Called all your names And they echoed down for miles and miles And all that other mystical wealth Never you mind Love them all through many a lifetime Some are gone, but some still strong Some are weird as hell, but we love them Some are one-trip ponies, but we embrace them Cause I've always had a soft spot for repetitions

Hey, Lewis, did you see my proposal to Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines? Yeah, one about you wanting to identify all the ducks and beavers flying Alaska and Horizon out of Portland. Yeah. So that Alaska and Horizon can designate one side of the aisle for ducks. And the other side for beavers. Well, yeah, who wouldn't see the brilliance of that? Lewis. Power out.