Muse

I have something I need to tell you.

I'm all ears.

Right, I'm not going to beat around the bush. I'm just going to get straight to the point. No f***ing around, because that's just annoying. And definitely no procrastinating. That's a good word, isn't it? Procrastinating. Procrastinating. I wonder what the etymology of that word is. Obviously, pro, very good. But crest, crest, I have no idea. Hey, why don't we look it up? Have you got a dictionary?

Not on me. Are you doing okay? T-B-T-L I have a beta sequence I've been working on. Would you like to see it?

You have to be it so we don't see it. You have to live it or we won't forgive it. You have to inhabit it or leave it in the cabinet.

I know everything there is to know about computers, okay? All the Twitters, I know them.

That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.

What's on the website probably isn't going to be where it's actually going to be. A lot of the times we will play like a Home Depot parking lot or a Best Buy parking lot.

All right, so follow the website.

Well, all right, hello, good morning, and welcome everyone to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

I heard about that thing on the AM radio.

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. In case you're wondering what's going on here, I'm having an absolutely fabulous time. Coming to you from Chicago, Illinois, where it is absolutely gorgeous today. I can only see a tiny sliver of the sky from the hotel room that I'm in.

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

Well, last night as I was checking into this hotel, I asked the guy at the front desk, and I hopefully did it in a not super annoying way. I was like, is there a chance of having one of the rooms that looks out towards Lake Michigan? Because those, I guess, are some of the rooms in the hotel. And he said, I'm sorry, sir, we're at 105% of capacity. And I thought, it's going to come as a real shock to the 5% who can't stay here tonight. But anyway, I'm looking through a tiny sliver of the window at the Blue Sky, which is not over Lake Michigan. It's over, I guess, the other part of Chicago. But I'm so happy to be here and telling you about episode 3,947 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. whereas the person at the front desk of this hotel again very nice person we love him we stan him nobody come for him right but he's not my hero having allowed the hotel to be booked to 105 capacity but i do have a couple of new heroes and they're in atlanta georgia and to um my hero that's who i chase they're called the boot girls and we're going to talk about them coming up Also, it's a Taco Thursday here on TBTL. I might have tacos when I go home. I'm not quite sure yet. Now, I know you're used to Taco Tuesday. You're like, why is my guy Luke talking about Taco Thursday? Well, we don't have the rights to Taco Tuesday, nor does Taco Bell. But they're coming for Taco John, who has the rights to Taco Tuesday. So we'll taco about that. Again, buckle up for many of those kinds of jokes. I know we've done that on the show recently, but we'll taco about Taco Tuesday here on this Taco Thursday on TVTL. And it's a Thursday, a.k.a. Blur's Day, so we'll do the Blur's Day messages with this young man. He's a handsome stranger and the longest running Cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships, their grace, their power, and all those intricate riggings. He is my hermano. Hey, hermano. He's Andrew Walsh. He's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

And he's being punked by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, apparently.

Once again.

Once again. My best friend and my worst enemy, the Star Tribune. A while back, as I've mentioned weirdly a lot on this show, I signed up for the newspaper's daily email newsletters. And one of them is called Star Tribune Talkers. And I think it's like, you know, the type of stories that maybe...

To be confused with Talkers Magazine, who we recently covered.

Yes, exactly. But, you know, there are probably more the type of articles you would read and then tell your friends about. I'm assuming that's why it's kind of Talkers. And the headline, the subject line is, when her ring fell into the toilet 13 years ago, she thought she'd never see it again. She was wrong. And so I'm like, well, okay. You got my attention, Star Tribune. Absolutely. I click on it, and the email.

is empty it just has it was an onion ring what's that it was an onion ring yes at a chi chi's and someone i was trying to think of the worst outcome for that story i was not a good example but you're saying the problem is there was nothing in the link oh i thought you were making like some sort

of layers of an onion thing no there's no link there's no nothing i think whoever's sending out the newsletter just forgot to add the content they were so excited about their subject line It just has the masthead, and then it says, like, connect with us on Twitter here. They just forgot the content.

Can I predict what the story is? Yeah. And tomorrow, probably within today's recording of the show, I bet you'll get an update. Yeah, right. That'll be, like, you know, updated, and then they include the link. But can I predict what I think the story is going to be about? Yeah. Which is also going to be disappointing.

I do think, I will tell you this. I do think that this is one of those headlines where the story itself is going to be disappointing. That's my prediction.

So the good version of this story Well A is to include it But in the email But once included The best version of the story is A person was living in a Sixth floor walk up in New York City And their ring fell down the toilet And they thought they would never see it again And then Years later It washed up in You know Galveston, Texas I'm trying to keep it coastal I'm trying to think of a way that a ring could have gone out to sea, you know, in like the harbor of New York and then and then tumbled around down past Florida around to Galveston, Texas, a.k.a. the third coast. And then someone found it and then someone put it on that Reddit page. By the way, I do have a submission for that Reddit page of like, what is this or help me find this or something. And then it got back to the person. That's the best case scenario. Here's what the real story is. this person and her partner lived in a house probably in bemidji the ring fell in the toilet years later roots intruded into the sewer system of the home and then they called a plumber out and when they were replacing the pipes they found it roughly four feet below the toilet

i have a better version of the best case scenario i think so better than galveston texas 13 years ago there was a city employee working down in the sewers there was one of those big uh what do you call it a ninja's turtle oh shit you're right wait that's even better yet okay okay it's iterative this is the iterative process 13 years ago there were four turtles who were also mutants and hear me out also ninjas and also teenagers let's not mutant shame them are they no longer teenagers that's an interesting question too there's like middle-aged mutant ninjas turtles um anyway tell all my 45 year old turtles this it's all leonardo it's time for a colonoscopy um no pizza for 24 hours uh but no so there's a there's a you know um an employee a city employee and bemidji is working in the sewers maybe trying to unclog one of those giant uh didn't chris hayes or somebody go down and do some sort of like yeah wasn't it our buddy chris who went down into the sewers to report on the fat burgers down there or did he just send us reportage about it maybe not i probably

have that wrong sorry anyway i would i mean i honestly like listen i don't want to i don't want to privilege shame our friend television's chris hayes but if he's going down in the sewers for a fat burger things are tough over there msnbc yeah why do i think that um maybe he sent us a story also maybe he went down there my memory is very faulty these days no this is uh let's see

here uh anyway i was looking to see if this the story did not pop up when you type in chris hayes sewer what happens when you type in chris hayes sewer mouth let's see here now um anyway that is a weird thing that i would expect why did i think he would do it it seems so far out of his beat yet I feel like he did that, but anyhoozles, this guy's down there 13 years ago, and he's kicking at a fat burger, and he's trying to pry some pipes open. I don't know what plumbers do, and then from above, a ring tumbles down and hits off his head and then splashes into the water, and he fishes around, and he picks it up, and he sees that it's inscribed with the person's name, And he spent 13 years looking to get it back to this person. And when he gets it back to this person, this person now in 2023 is single, ready to mingle. And it's a love connection.

Oh, they fall in love.

They fall in love.

She falls in love with Donatello.

Yeah. Yes. And then Donatello is the best turtle at the wedding.

Her favorite food is pizza.

That's right.

That's great. That's the ultimate meat cute.

Yeah. So anyway, let's see.

So anyway, we're hoping that the, what is it, the Star Trib? The star trip doesn't actually I'm actually hoping they don't send the follow up email because I like the story that you that you just described. That's my new favorite version of that. We don't need reality intruding on this on this meet cute.

Do you know what's really going to happen? And this is the God's honest truth. They're going to resend it. It's going to come in. You're going to forget about it. No, I'm going to speak of it again. It's going to come in. I'm going to click on it. It's going to say, oh, sorry, you have a paywall.

issue here i'll be like oh well my friend may i refer you to archive dot is oh oh is that a way of getting around the that's my personal it's the it is i'm sure it is a website that directly feeds information to vladimir putin but i don't care because the what comes after the dot changes every time i put it in there i think it started with archive dot is which was a a way to get to content that folks are trying to stop you from getting without some amount of signing up for me it's sometimes paywall sometimes just i don't want to you know give them all my info um but every time i put sometimes it's arch i'll put archive.is and it'll just autocorrect to archive.ph nothing good comes from a website called archive.ph did you even know ph was a no is it a suffix what do we what do we call that do we know ph was even out there uh it's ph balance for a woman that's all i'm it is but it's strong enough for a man yes a man called luke burbank who is trying to read it but uh just saying you throw it into archive.ph and um and and read it if you need to

um no i got it here actually it's not behind a paywall and i just googled you want to know the story yes i do it's not as good as the best but it's not as bad as the worst and it's not behind that describes tbtl what is somewhere i don't remember which platform it's on but i think i in a hurry had to describe tbtl in a bio and i just described it as the best podcast within reach and i've always thought that that's a good way of describing i think that's really good i actually

think that might that's in some some part of our literature in our world yeah it might have been

one of those things where it's gotten copied and pasted around but i remember doing it in a hurry and it's sort of stuck.

It's a very good, I think that's a very good description of the show. I'm going to read directly

from the story, giving credit to the writer Jennifer Brooks of the Star Tribune. In a flash, in a flush, the diamond ring slipped off Mary Strand's finger and swirled down the drain. The Strands frantically dismantled the toilet and searched the pipes, but the ring was gone. A small, shiny treasure swept along with the millions of gallons of wastewater the city of Rogers Flushes in an average day That should have been the end of the story

Named for the Jets quarterback

Remind me Does Aaron Rodgers have a No he has no D in his name Does anybody spell Rodgers with a D I think some folks do But not him

Is this city in Minnesota R-O-D-G-E-R-S

A G rather So it is named after Aaron Rodgers By the way While we're on a quick tangent here keep everybody i think it's very strange that we when we spell fridge which is short for refrigerator we add a letter is it the only nickname that adds a letter when we're trying to be brief on something like refrigerator has no d in it but if you spell out hey you know get something from the fridge we've added a d that is really a great question other things where we add

A letter to short when we're abbreviating It right I feel like I'm Also like did we not trust Did we not trust the people Of the English speaking world To just know that if you said F-R-I-G E maybe it'll look like Fryge And there is an E in refrigerator so Okay we'll give it to but yeah but how about fryge Or even fridge again You know trust people yeah like Adding a D that's a really great question So I'm trying to think any other I'm also trying to find our favorite refrigerator audio, and I don't have it on this computer. I will come to your house.

For a second, I was like, oh yeah, microwave. No, that's something.

I probably have that one here, but I was trying to find our good friend from, where are they from? Like maybe Denmark? I will come to your house. I will go to your refrigerator. That's a person who's not adding a D. Frisciator Frisciator has no D in it

I cannot say the word refrigerator without saying Frisciator Frisciator

I would imagine there's a large contingent Of the listeners who have also Been ruined on the word refrigerator Because of that yes

And Microwave as well. Okay, so that should have been the end of the story. So it was 13 years ago. It slipped off, and it says that should have been the end of the story. And for 13 years, it was. Until March of 2023, when a Metropolitan Council repair crew peered into a malfunctioning machine at the Rogers Wastewater Treatment Plant and saw something sparkle.

Are you kidding me? This is not just. This is so much better than the worst case scenario. This is good, right? lack of galveston this is the best case scenario like this is so much better than i expected

i couldn't believe it said donatello a turtle ninja who was living in the sewers wait hold no no i have that quote misattributed mary strand said on wednesday standing upwind of the wastewater treatment pond as she held her recovered wing so i scanned the rest of this i'm sorry can you

please repeat who wrote this piece because this is quality right it is good writing is jennifer

brooks who i'm guessing is maybe like a columnist for the tribune but maybe a reporter um columnist yeah so anyway yeah it's really well written but uh okay so scanning this briefly it looks like the wastewater treatment people found this thing and put out a call saying we found a ring and apparently hundreds of people responded because why wouldn't you sure um but somehow they were able to identify it as um as rogers i was gonna say as uh mary strand's ring and i guess her daughter heard this news and said this must be your ring from 13 years ago and they live about a mile or a half a mile away from the wastewater plant um and so hundreds of people at least

hundreds of people what a great story yeah it's great you know my mom my mom lost her ring it wasn't it was not her wedding ring i don't know if my dad gave my mom a wedding ring my mom had this engagement ring which also i don't think my dad gave her because it was in her family and uh like it was her great aunts or something it was like really her sort of pride and joy and she dove into lake washington we used to take the bus to matthews beach have you and veves ever

been out to matthews beach on lake washington no definitely not or it's pretty cool it's like

lake city but you go all the way over to lake washington but north and southwise it's like lake city area and apparently my mom dove into the water at matthews beach and she said it would the water was so cold it shrunk my finger and the ring just flew whiffed off and uh and she lost it and then we never got it back and in fact some friend had like a metal detector and i remember being a very young kid and it's going back to the beach and this person from like the bible study wading out in the water with the metal detector passing it over the water which I don't think is how any of that works but we never got the ring back so I'm not surprised that Mary Strand's daughter knew the lore of the ring down the toilet because like a lost ring within a family I think it looms large as a story yeah I think so

too I lost I'm trying to think it was well technically my dad lost my glasses on vacation I was a kid with really bad eyesight so losing glasses on vacation really puts you in a pickle right because you're like well yeah you didn't you this is before the internet jackpot yeah do you know that tape i don't think

so it's some of the greatest baseball like uh like umpire dealing with like angry manager talk oh yeah i think we talked about this on the show years ago yeah the umpire was like explaining to you know yelling to the coach that his at the umpire's ass was in some kind of jackpot now yeah that rings a bell um anyway so bob lost your glasses on vacation in florida was this the vacation one of the vacations where you guys drove the van with the with the with the uh shades

i'll bet you oh i'll bet you yeah so for a big chunk of my childhood we would take uh one week or whatever it was maybe over a week drive down to florida from ohio spend time there you know in the same place that's why i think i'm so non-adventurous when it comes to the vacations that i prefer as an adult like for me it's just like you go to one place maybe you return to it year after year and it almost feels like a home away from home i'm into that by the way and then just like relaxing and that's and so anyway one of our traditions when we went to this place in florida which i believe was kind of in the sarasota area um we would hunt for shark's teeth there was this one beach that was really famous for shark's teeth. In fact, we started traveling with our own shark's teeth sifters. Almost like sifting for gold, if you can imagine. They were like these wooden things with like a screen on the bottom of it and we would take them to the beach and you would shovel up a bunch of sand and then you'd sift it, sift it, sift it, and then you'd find shark's teeth. And I had a lot of shark's teeth

growing up. Are they a triangle, which I assume they would be, but is it basically a triangle?

Yeah. Basically a triangle, yeah, with a little pizzazz to them. You know, sharp on one end, kind of bulby on the fat end of the triangle where it would be up in the gums. I don't know why this beach was famous for shark's teeth. You know, I don't know if the sharks traveled there to lose their baby teeth or what it was.

It's where the shark tooth fairy would take all of the—

Oh, I would put these—oh, I should have put them under my pillow to see if the shark tooth fairy would come. What a scary fairy. But anyway, so I loved it. It was always a highlight. And this might even have been the first year that we went down there with these special things that I'm guessing my dad made or something. And so me and my dad go out to the shark's tooth beach or whatever it's called. And I wasn't swimming in the water, but I took off my glasses for safety's sake because I'm just kind of splashing around, running around in the waves or whatever while I'm looking for shark's teeth. And so my dad takes my glasses and puts them in his trunks pocket. That's right. He had trunks with a pocket, which is pretty cool. I don't know if they all had them back then. I have some too, not to brag.

It's the greatest thing. It really is. This is, you know, oftentimes women talk about like, why don't they put pockets on dresses, which they should. Also, they should always have pockets on swim trunks. It's a very useful thing, unless it's your dad putting your glasses that you need to see in said pockets. But otherwise, very functional.

Yes, but I think I have a pair of trunks with pockets now, but they have like Velcro or something or they have some way of securing them. Maybe that's in the back pocket, but this was a side pocket and there is no way of securing it. So as my dad is, you know, also wading out into the shallower waves and looking for shark's teeth. At some point, the water took my glasses away. And I wonder how we dealt with that, because I don't have a strong memory of what happened next. But this isn't like, oh, I'll just go on to my email and get my glasses prescription and go to a local place. Like, you'd have to go to an eye doctor.

I'll go through Amazon to Warby Parker. Right. Yeah.

Like, you could manage this so much better in 2023. I think I might have just squinted my way through the rest of that vacation.

Oh, man.

I don't remember ruining my time, if that means anything to you.

i was wondering i was curious how it was that we knew 100 that this was on your dad and the way you described it uh sort of uh solves that mystery for me but like i thought maybe it was going to be a thing where it was like i don't know who had the glasses last and uh i guess it was dad and he lost them i was like wow i can't believe bob took the l on that but no he he was holding them for you in his trunks yeah and then he lost them now i i assume there was also some period of time where both of you were wading around in the surf of Sarasota, Florida trying to find the glasses.

Yeah, I should look up what that beach was because it was somewhere around Sarasota and isn't like Siesta Key around there somewhere? I don't know why you should know that. There are these flowers. This has been a big thing in my life and I'm sure I've bored listeners with it on the show before. They're these small white flowers that have a very perfume scent. Perfumed scent maybe is a better way of putting that slightly um and i remember when we got to our destination in florida like three years in a row we stayed at like if not the same exact condo like the same you know complex complex yeah um the the air started to smell like these flowers and to me it hearkened the beginning of vacation because there was a whole archway we would drive under that that was like that these flower vines were growing through and there's a little alleyway um that i visit quite a bit here in seattle that has these it's it's a neighbor's garage that i store stuff in and i will go there sometimes and they have that stuff stuff they have that those flowers overgrowing their fence and every time i go there it's not quite in bloom yet can you do me a favor

can you download a free app it's called it's the cash app i need you to send this to my own no it have you have you ever um used uh this seems like a thing veeves would be into do you know about i seek i'm not kidding the the the app i seek which identifies plants um using the camera

on your phone other people use it but i don't i have not used it myself it is really amazing

and again is free and it just it's so good at identifying plants and the other thing is like you can take it'll ask you to take a picture of the plant if it can't find it in the moment you can take a picture and it'll look for it later I'm sure that's a lot of like the iSeek app getting up in the guts of your phone but still could you or if Veeves has it could you iSeek what that plant is because I want to plant it your description of it whatever that beautiful smelling thing is. I want to plant that everywhere at the house that I'm working on. So this time of year when I'm there, it smells like whatever that is.

I think I got it. I think I got it here. Because I knew it had star. It's not a star lily, but I think it's star jasmine. And I'm looking at it here, and it is. And it looks like it's like white, little white flowers. Yeah, this is it. Very small little white flowers. It looks like it kind of grows like a vine, I want to say. It looks like it can take up a lot of space if you just let it grow wild, which i love that that kind of look um and yeah so i remember when we would arrive near our destination the air would start to smell like that and then more and more intense as we got to the actual like i say condominium complex and you would drive underneath a archway that was laced with this stuff and i just remember being like that and that smell meant that first of all the road trip was over we were going to be playing you know on a good night we might be going that

That smell meant your vision was about to get noticeably worse.

We would play. There was nothing like playing putt-putt golf in the early evening after arriving in the Sarasota evening. I had a pretty good childhood. I talk a lot of shit about the bad parts of my childhood, but I got to remember the – man, those were magical times.

Why does putt-putt golf so possess the mind of a child? Like there was nothing I loved more than mini golf. as a kid i lived for it like hit a ball through a windmill sure that's or you know is that some sort of frog's mouth going up and down some kind of abraham lincoln but he's moving his arms in front of his legs doing a dance from it's a wonderful life like it is four score and seven

putts ago because he just waves a wooden hand one time in my life one time i actually remember like

so there'd be like the uh the 18th hole or whatever the last hole would be on the putt and sometimes there's always the thing that traps the ball yeah and then they send it back but like there was the they had a thing at some i don't even remember where this course was i love that i call it course i was uh hitting in front of vj singh and we were both following john daly on this course um but it was like if you hit it into the hole so it was kind of like you know this long little thing and then it went up this ramp and then 99 of the balls would miss this hole that was in the middle of this kind of raised hill which had a always uh like some kind of like um what would you call it like fencing over it because they didn't want you to go up and like try to steal your ball back like on the 18th hole of the putt but it was like once you hit it down there it's done you're done go home now and the ball would roll all the way back to like

whatever the ball collection place was right exactly and so but there was this one where it

was like you're trying to hit it towards this hole that was like very hard to get to most people miss it and then it just rolls down into this other thing and it gets collected i hit and if you hit it into the hole it was a free additional round like that was the sign if you hit it in here you get a free round of whatever and i hit it in there and to this day it's my greatest athletic accomplishment not that i had that many but like that is how big mini golf or putt putt was in my mind as a kid like i i still think about that sometimes that one time i hit the ball into the

thing that meant you got a free game and that's a man who played against the harlem globetrotters

if i recall thank you and god you know this we talk about this on the show a lot which is that any photograph of yourself that you think you hate give it 20 years and you'll be like god i wish that was my main problem right now i was i was such a dingus in that game this was at the harlem globetrotters came to i believe mercer island or something and dave ross and i uh were part of the clearly they'd run out of real celebrities and we were part of the celebrity contingent and i was so mortified because of course i have the show off demon and i needed to like somehow make myself seem special or different and so i believe when they introduced me i ran out i jumped up and grabbed the net and then climbed up to the rim and like hung on there or something and that was such a dumb thing but if you put a gun to my head i couldn't do that physical move now at this age and wait you know what i mean like like it was embarrassing and sad but also i would kill to be able to do that embarrassing sad thing physically anymore i remember fondly

the video the video teaser that we made leading up to that daniel bagley elementary school that's right i think i have it on my private youtube i'll send it to you i don't know if you want to

see it or not remember you and me again i'll take any i'll take anything i did 10 years ago just

in terms of physicality you and me and dave rost like just like getting done with our radio show and then like going to just like a court behind a school and just like my elementary school setting up all these different angles oh here it is here dave and luke practice their game did we set it to the tune of sweet georgia brown i believe so let me see i'm going to dismiss this offer hey there you have ads on your private youtube page we have got we have um you wearing i had the same exact shirt at one point i don't think i really you're wearing your um uh uh whirly derby shirt what do you call it the oh whirly ball shirt uh dave ross is sort of grimacing and wearing his cornell sweater sweatshirt of course hey there weird flex but okay dave ross here we

have got a big charity basketball game coming up this friday night at bellevue college we're playing some team dave pickup team luke it's a pickup team yeah i hear they're not very good this should be a cakewalk but uh we thought just just to be on the safe side we're gonna just uh sharpen up our skills and our elbows right and uh just uh get ready for the game stop talking i just laugh at

my own joke you did i was like the way dave ross shuts you down here too he's like shut up just get ready for the game stop talking let's play oh round ball rock not sweet georgia brown and now i have a montage of like this is so inspired by the big chuck and little john shit that i grew up with i'm gonna i'm gonna try to share this in the show on the show page today or something

or maybe i'll put it in the hey dummies video this week yes so i don't have to do one um yes do you want me to joke i'll no no i actually i want to link to i want to link to this in the

newsletter no matter what so if you want to if you want to not do a hey dumb how about this can

i intro it as my hey dummies be i'm introducing yeah okay we'll do that uh anyway this is great

and i'll make it the the show pick too anyway that's a very fond memory of me like you and dave just acting like you're like just doing the worst acting while you fight over a ball or you're just like missing the easiest shots and you're just like because i bet you dave ross

could sink a couple too if he wanted to absolutely also i believe dave ross was 30 when we made that video that's what we don't talk about when was i bet you do you think dave was probably over 47 when we made that but probably not by a lot i just remember being like you know this is the elder statesman of seattle radio yeah yeah but like i bet you he was closer to 47 than we would

like to consider around our age yeah you're right right maybe 50 but you know that's not that's not

far off for us so yeah all right this break uh is not far off for us either and we should take it uh we'll do that and then we'll come back with more oh i want to tell you about the kansas city airport when we come back if that's okay and then we'll talk about boot girls as well in Atlanta. Coming up on TBTL

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You know, when my mother, so my sisters, I come from a family where apparently the children take the parents on vacation. My brother David took my dad to New Zealand to look at all the Lord of the Rings sites. And my sisters took my mom to Ireland Oh I didn't know that By the way nice work if you can get it Addy when are we going to Fiji When are we getting a lady bong in Fiji

It's a lady bong in Fiji

But my sisters took my mom to Ireland And everywhere she went This is back when she was drinking So this is a long time ago Everywhere she went She apparently said top of the morning to you And also asked are we doing karaoke at this pub She would get

Get pubs to turn on karaoke systems that they didn't even have to drive them in. I mean, my mother's like Irishness and the way she vibes with folks in Ireland is is really something because like she gets them and they get her. She would get people to bring in like karaoke equipment to some pub in County Cork that didn't have karaoke so that she could sing Stand By Your Man.

It won't take no for an answer. Maybe this is where you get this from

I'm taking no for an answer more though I don't like it Either I'm becoming a normal person Or I'm losing my gusto Anyway Katie says Top of the morning to you is not a thing She says I learned that from personal experience Anywho Dearest Luke and Andrew Top of the morning to you No she says dearest luke and andrew thanks for giving me the opportunity to attempt to dazzle i want to express my immense gratitude and appreciation for this community while the show is great and all it's the love support and interaction on social media in real life and the card exchanges with all the tens that warms my heart katie if i had my bell here in chicago i would ding it because you have hit on the the the actual uh i think this term is overused but i'll overuse it again the special sauce of this show is the tens and all of that kind of stuff the card exchange and folks online and the stens page and other places crab rangoon and things of that nature um katie says i've been a listener since episode number one holy holy moly but i have to say the last few years have meant the most to me without repeating too much of last year's message divorce the pandemic yada yada yada life has been challenging used to and the tens made it so much more bearable thanks for the laughs the phone throwing and sometimes controversial difficult discussions slash opinions your willingness to be so open and vulnerable and for creating this beautiful tbtl family thank you for that i love you all um slancha i only know that because katie was kind enough to include the pronouncer i would have said how would you have pronounced that word if

you didn't have the pronouncer oh i mean gail this i'm assuming this is a gaelic word it's s-l-a-i-n-t-e

with i would have said slainty slainty looking slainty and a little slainty slantia that's how you say that word what does it mean though that's what i'm looking at it means that katie is going to migrate her donation over to too beautiful to biz it means health it means

health and katie is keeping the show healthy with her generous they do love i'll tell you that gaelic

it loves to uh make sounds that as a non-gaelic speaker you wouldn't expect i i point to the actor sarsha ronin sarsha ronin whose name is spelled looks like sour sea from ladybird and And other such things You know who the Saoirse Ronan is I bet you do if you saw her face Did you see the movie Lady Bird

I did not no I should I heard that I would really like it Honestly you would really like it Who directed it again famous director everybody loves

I think it's I believe it is the Greta Gerwig right

So I'm like I'm pretty behind On my Gerwig stuff I know that She's like kind of a phenom but I don't know

You stopped after Greenberg starring No never that's another one

i have greenberg on a hard drive and i've never watched that either and everybody's like i don't

think greta gerwig directed it but she acts in it and there is this is kids close your ears there is a a sex scene in greenberg that featuring one ben stiller i think i'm gonna call the math like a minute ago one ben stiller and one greta gerwig that i think is the best sex scene in any movie because of its absolute verisimilitude oh is there a lot of crying there's some crying i believe it's on a medium it's on a medium nap carpet in a slightly under furnished sort of condo like it's it just it has none of the pizzazz of cinematic sex and all of the reality of real sex sometimes um but she didn't direct that one but uh francis ha i believe also she was in and uh oh that's a

Noah Baumbach joint, Baumbach, if I'm saying that right. But I have Greenberg. I downloaded it, let's just say legally, years ago, years ago, Luke.

You got on a thumb drive from Walt.

Yes, and I still haven't watched it, only because it's really sad, right? And I love sad movies, but somehow, am I wrong about that?

My only takeaway is that there's a very, very realistic sex scene. I mean, I don't think it's the feel-good hit of the summer, but I don't. My

memory isn't that it's overwhelmingly sad other than it's just it's realistic it's one of those movies like american splendor or something where it's like a real that's that's the movie where paul giamatti famously utters the phrase i need a win here i could i could really use a win here

she's also in a movie called damsels in distress which is a wit stillman film from 2011 i thought i'd seen all of wit stillman's films how did this wit stillman escape your radar my radar i was so into Whit Stillman in college, you will not be surprised to hear, I'm sure.

Wow. Anyway, would also recommend Lady Berg starring Sloncha Ronin. And thank you, Katie Bracken, for the Gaelic pronouncer.

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

dattle. I told you we had two great pronouncers today, and the second one comes from our dear friend and long time Promoter Would you say promoter of the program In that John Takamoto Is the person who first posts On the Stens page Often that the show is active

He's heading our media division Our media outreach division

And we're going to lean on you heavily John Come July 3rd Once we no longer have The tremendous resources Of American Public Media We're going to need even more help from you uh john says his name is pronounced t him goat man goat man or those are his preferred i guess preferred pronouns i wouldn't say i guess so i guess so uh john famously was it a chateau sam michelle event that john showed up to dressed as goat man i think so yeah yeah you remember the

origin story of goat man it was a topic on tbtl a goat sure a man dressed as a goat was just showing up in some it was did that take place in america or was that actually in ireland or something i believe it was in uh utah in utah okay yeah that's all i remember some a town was confused by the appearance of a mysterious goat man i believe there was a it was like a wildlife

photographer or somebody was out in the wilds of utah and they i'm being so confident now and now i'm wondering was it utah but anyway somebody was out somewhere in the wilderness and they took a picture of what they thought was a goat and then somehow later and i forget how this happened now yes i remember later it was exposed that it was a person dressed as a goat who was not out there for a bit what i mean is they were not doing a bit i believe they were out there for a long time even longer than a bit of time but like there was a person whose thing they were into was dressing as a goat and being out in the wilderness and they were just randomly photographed like this wasn't a sticker stop for utah's greatest hits of yesterday and today this was not some part of a larger promotional uh effort this was just a person who liked to dress as a goat and be out in the wild and then was was documented doing it if i remember am i getting any of this right you're

getting some of it right but it wasn't totally randomly and it wasn't just something that this person enjoyed doing i'm reading to you from nbc news here mystery of utah's okay goat man is solved and here's a the photo i now remember like it's so it's so far away that in order to see this you have to zoom in and like you know it's published zoomed in and it's very kind of grainy but you do see somebody who's dressed head to toe in white in some sort of a you know a goat outfit kind of scrambling along the rocks here and it says a mysterious man spotted earlier this month dressed in a goat suit on a utah mountain has been identified as a southern californian hunter preparing for an archery hunt of mountain goats uh let's see hill somebody let's see here somebody with the utah division of wildlife told the standard examiner on monday that the elusive man is a 57 year old hunter from southern california they're not publishing his name He was spotted by photographer Cody Crichton on July 15th I don't have a year This is one of the, oh, 2012 Yeah, so this is when we first started working together So that's it And so anyway, our friend and dazzling donor today John Takamoto showed up at a TBTL picnic event Dressed as Goatman And I think multiple events after that too, I believe

Yes, and I hope future events, John Because that really made me happy John's in Kirkland, Washington, home of the Jeans and says i've been a follower of the show since the cooking night at the cairo studio days with jen sean and luke i wonder if john is referencing we had a like we had listeners into the studio we did a lot of cooking things at the at the station in our brief time there um and uh quite too much to the um chagrin of everyone who had to do the shows the next day when we would cook in the studio, but we did one where we brought listeners.

and i wonder if john is referring to that it brought me a joy and laughter the show was a great way to laugh and listen in today i'm reaching retirement oh wow john congratulations more time to scramble around the mountains of utah in your goat suit and i wanted to show my appreciation to andrew luke and the stens community for their uplifting ways during a very hard year thank you for everything guys ah john thank you man we really appreciate you what if john means he's retiring from goat man life you know what i assumed it was from his regular job but you're right maybe he's passing like in a green lantern-esque fashion he's hanging the goat suit up green lantern got the ring from a guy who was dying and had been green lantern i think like an airport like there was like an like a jet crash in the desert and this guy hands the green lantern ring to green lantern do you know this lore i think you and i have talked about it before because there's been a bunch of it was on super friends okay all of the only superhero kind of knowledge that i know is from the cartoon super friends but um i wonder if i can just imagine john handing the goat suit to the next goat man yes or i'm thinking like i don't know if you've seen

the trailer i've seen this a bunch now um for the new flash movie and that's coming out and it i the character of the flash apparently the dc universe clearly taking a page from marvel is like kind of creating a whole bunch of uh i guess alternate realities or you know there's some sort of fragmentation of time and space or whatever and so the flash i don't know the flash is human name let's just go with the flash kid uh is uh going around and meeting various versions of batman including um uh who did that ben you just mentioned not ben affleck it would be interesting it was ben stiller uh ben affleck but also although there is a universe in which ben stiller is i'd watch that that actually would be great his character from mystery men he's just squeezing a stress ball and saying don't correct me it infuriates me but uh you also get michael keaton's batman in there too and i know it's just a ploy and a play to get my dollars and i'll bet you the movie is terrible but the the trailer spends so much time like they they bring back the danny elfman music for that batman and everything and the old batmobile and everything and like i've seen this several times now in the theater i'm just like you got me you're gonna take my money i'm gonna say what a dumb movie but i was there for the michael keaton batman part

that's what i was gonna say you had me at michael keaton batman yep like i will i will i will pay how much does the movie cost now 25 i think 30 to 50 i will pay i will pay 20 to 50 to reserve my seat which i know you hate to reserve my uh you don't like those loungy seats right just the

last movie i saw what um oh it was beau is afraid um yeah it's just like first of all there's very there's so fewer seats in a theater now because the theaters are smaller and that makes sense that changes with the the industry but then then they just have these giant barka loungers in there because we're americans and we can't sit in a regular goddamn movie seat for two hours i love

it i i i love that but um but i love i also love that you don't like it because i feel like that's the maybe the hottest take currently going in america i bet you if we surveyed 1000 americans there would be one of them who were like you know what these wide reclining comfy seats one of them would be like yeah but you know what there's a downside and it's you and that's what keeps the show going it sounds like i'm being sarcastic i'm not like i love that that's your take it's got to

be tied somehow to like my tonight pants thing too i don't know exactly how but it's like we go in there weren't on like a lot of seats available because there's only like let's say 25 seats in a theater now and again i don't even i don't even mind that the smaller movie screen experience it's just like the way audiences uh go to movies now and if that's the business model that's the business model but then like so we couldn't get two seats that aren't next to somebody so i actually got the aisle and genevieve got the seat between me and some stranger and it's like now you're like kicking back and reclining with somebody you don't know

you can't make your jokes we know this is your best joke

environment I make my jokes

just right over the person in between

oh no no I'm sorry it's me at the end Genevieve and then she has to sit next to a stranger oh I see yeah yeah no I'm not whispering into strangers here tell Genevieve this

how do you feel about the latest ad with Nicole Kidman where she says somehow lounging feels good in a place

like this somehow goat man wait no i'm not even gonna finish that hey thanks to uh goat man aka john takamoto and

katie bracken for supporting us today we could not do this without you hello and welcome to top story okay very quickly i'm really not going to belabor this

But I was in Kansas City yesterday, and they just built a beautiful new, I guess, I don't know if it's the entire airport or just one part of the airport, but I guess in February, they opened a new version of the Kansas City airport. And it is, it's glittering. It's beautiful. They do run out of gum, I learned yesterday. I went to the store and said, can I buy some gum? And the lady said, we ran out. And I was like, and she goes, yeah, it's kind of new. They haven't worked out all the stuff. And I was like, okay, I get that. So note to the KC airport, more gum at the Hudson News near the United Terminal. But they, okay, a couple things. They have a quiet room, which is a very cool thing, like just kind of a comfy room you can sit in that's totally quiet and you can just relax. If I'm being totally honest, Andrew I was going to try to record a CBS voiceover in there Because it seemed like a good place for it But I knew as soon as I broke out the equipment Some other person that just wanted to use They have rugs Like if you were a person who's Muslim You could pray It's a place for quiet reflection Not for me voicing a story about tumbleweeds But anyway, I'm sitting in there And as I'm sitting in there In the quiet room Trying to get up the nerve to break out my audio equipment the thing that is interrupting the quiet in the quiet room is the pa system and it's like i don't want to i don't want to hurt anyone's ears but it's basically like imagine just like it's a quiet room everything's cool and then she's like uh terry johnson terry johnson did you leave your um pokemon uh backpack at security please come to secure terry johnson and i was like that's weird

they pipe that into the quiet room yeah especially if somebody's praying or some right thank you so

um or recording a cbs piece the other most sacred act and so it just keeps happening i'm like well that's strange and then i walk out in the airport and i go get a little bit of like early dinner and the whole time that i'm in this airport in kansas city every probably i would say maybe 10 minutes the pa system goes john johnson john johnson bring your identification to security and talk to a police officer we have your phone like they have decided at the kansas city airport that anytime there is a lost item they're going to announce it over the pa system and i know that that is helpful if you lose an item but it is amazing how many items are going lost or left behind in an airport and you would have no idea until the system in place is we're gonna go on the PA system for every single one of these like people I was sitting waiting to get on the flight and people we were all looking at each other like they're doing this again like it's not I don't think it's good for the rest of us Kansas City Airport maybe don't do that something that you

just said reminded me of a question I have for you I got a I got a text message from a listener They're on the TVTL voicemail line, 206-414-8285. Yesterday, that just said, Luke, question mark, exclamation point. And it's a ticky-tocky. And I know that some of the stories you do for CBS end up being TikTokified or what have you. Or sometimes put on the, not Colbert, but, you know. Oh, Last Week Tonight, I think they used one of them. John Oliver's show, yeah. So I see these from time to time. But this one, so I don't even really know what this is. I'm going to play it for you.

Is it me and Juliette Lewis?

it is not this is there's a quick so this is like somebody doing their own tiktok news sort of and it's something about desantis's immigration uh policies and how there was some i'm trying to figure this out here maybe i'll play it although i'm not even i do not want to endorse this because i don't really know who this um who this tiktoker is or what it is but they've put together like a bunch of little footage of people working out in fields and stuff and then there's a shot of you interviewing somebody in like it looks like on a warehouse floor with crates and crates of maybe

oranges around you or onions that's probably i think that's probably from yeah onions i bet i think that might be a wahee produce in um ontario oregon and that was the same story that was one that they put in the um the last week tonight so i'm but if if it's the same if it's

the same one i'm not looking at but i just emailed it to you to your email account um but i uh emailed to your email. In other words, I didn't text it to you.

But anyway, it's where I get some of my favorite emails.

It's so clear that they're just like using random clips of like just some reporter. That's you in this case talking to somebody who is standing next to a bunch of produce. But like it has nothing to do with this story, which I'm going to hit play on right now. I think the state's tough immigration law just isn't working out. Most immigration workers left after the law took effect. So this.

Hired Americans problem is He says most show up late Work slower and are ready to Head home after lunch now this is not your Story though right

Well it's me It's not my story but that Is a I'm watching it I mean I just mean this is

Used way out of context it says That voiceover which sounds like a robot

Using my story oh my God is some of this is a Bunch of this footage Oh really this is all this footage is 100% the story that i did but we did not have a breaking news scroll beneath it and this is not

the story you didn't do a story about americans showing up late for work of course not no that is

crazy oh my gosh that's actually kind of mildly upsetting uh-huh uh like just in that like some thing that i worked on is being put and then i don't know what misappropriated and there's some hashtag on it that i don't know what that means uh what i again i don't want to give this any more oxygen but like i don't know what hashtag f-a-f-o is but it's like welcome to the hashtag

f-a-f-o stage desantis so it's it's anti-desantis i believe and i think okay that's good i'll take It seems like the point – I could be wrong here, but it seems like the point here is the harsh immigration policies that DeSantis would back would actually hurt the agriculture business in the United States because American workers aren't willing to do the work of immigrants. I'm guessing that that's the point here.

You know what I think F-A-F-O is fuck around and find out.

Oh, yes, because people are like, oh, I love seeing people learn lessons in real time.

Looking at this comment, can you imagine? Somebody named Kristen Raichel does, I love watching lessons being learned in real time, crying emoji. How weird is it that some TV story that I did years ago that was in no way attempting to be related to fucking around and finding out has just had a robotic voice generated over it and then breaking news added as like a thing that wasn't on our story. And then Kristen Rachelle is just loving people learning lessons in real time crying emoji like the the you want to talk about the fractured media environment. This is as fractured as media gets.

Well, what I was I thought you were going to point out. I didn't notice this until you started mentioning that comment. That's the top comment right now from this person. Love watching lessons being learned in real time. And then that comment alone, which was posted yesterday, already has thirty two thousand thirty two and a half thousand likes.

promise you that rivals the number of people who saw the original television story yeah i'm trying

to see who um it the whole thing has like almost 6 000 comments um it was posted by somebody named the dude i can't tell how many impressions the actual video has because i'm looking at tiktok on my computer screen and so it's not really set up for this as well but um this is very strange and yeah i mean listen we got through a whole show almost without talking about ai but you sort of like you just got a little chill watching somebody take something and totally misappropriate it this isn't an ai thing but like you kind of understand where it's like wait like what is what what is our future hold as far as knowing what anything is right that's that wasn't that

wasn't you know what you got to hear it you love to hear luke finding out things in real time listeners and you just got to hear me finding out something in real time that was an interesting experience to see something that i did and i'm now looking at this person's uh overall web page and the good news is i do think that they're anti ron de santis so i support them in that yeah but it's weird to see something that you did just kind of like why why add the breaking news like it's it's weird because it's something that i worked on that has now been repurposed in a way that i had nothing to do with and don't have any way of stopping if i were to not like it and also

like is there any truth to this at all like clearly they are lying about what you're seeing they literally said this farmer found out and it shows a picture of you talking to some guy in a warehouse so it implies that this farmer found out that american workers aren't as good like that is not the story so like you say i'm glad that this person at least had caught caught up in an updraft of anti-desantis yes but also just like it's straight up misinformation though like

and that's that's that's rough too right um is it though andrew but is it in that this now i this didn't get in the piece but the farmer did say that because of i should have to go i should go back and watch it first of all i feel weird about this whole thing um no matter what but the farmer guy we talked to did say that because of trump's immigration policy he was having a hard time finding people that would come out and do the work oh okay now so it was an immigration story

that you were doing this wasn't just some it was it was

That was a piece of it. So what happened with this farmer we interviewed, his deal was he couldn't get enough folks to come and actually work at his various farms. So he had a huge field of asparagus, and it was going to go bad. And so what he did is he went on TikTok and just said, hey, if you want some free asparagus, this is the address of my farm. You can come have it. And on a Saturday, thousands of people showed up to pick the asparagus just to have it, like to cook it at their house. so and so that was what intrigued us and we went and did the story and you want to know how how unpredictable people are though this was because of donald trump's immigration policy at the time and i said to him in the interview um well something about the quote-unquote current president and he then took about 10 minutes to explain to me that it wasn't trump's fault which i thought was wild like because this guy is he's mormon and he's from a part of the world where there's a 99 trump support this like very rural border of idaho and oregon and i was quite surprised to hear him say that the person who called people from south of the border extremely hateful names and had created a policy that was blocking people from getting in therefore fewer folks to come work at his farm i was shocked to hear him say it was not on trump that this was happening but none of that's in the piece so you know uh i i would say it's weird that they are appropriating this or i should say misappropriating it but weirdly they're not a thousand percent wrong they're about a hundred percent wrong because at no point did he say americans are lazy like that is a that's a bold statement that was not ever said to me and was

not in the piece now since we probably won't get to top stories anyway my question for you is you

don't talk about taco thursday should i hit play on the foco friday would you would you consider a

foco friday should i hit play on the next thing that tiktok is recommending to me which is our boy when i say our boy we've played his tape on the show quite a bit lately some guy mark doing another every dude with a podcast gonna blow your mind i'm trying to think if this is one that we've already passed a long private can i blow your mind this is uh the one about the pyramids let's

take a listen can i blow your mind right now okay giants used to walk the earth and there is tangible evidence of it so we all know the colossus of roads right you can look this up if you don't it was a massive 150 foot tall statue that stood in the port of roads in ancient greece okay it allegedly collapsed in an earthquake and yet we never found any rubble let that sink in okay and if you really want to go down this rabbit hole with me chris is leaving he just

got here he's already leaving because he knows where i'm going with this ask any by the way he's got a either a new bit or a bit that i didn't realize is he's taken off so far two pairs of glasses, but he's always

got a pair of glasses underneath. Egyptologists that you know. And they will tell you that Cleopatra's father was exiled to Rhodes when she was a child. So is it not possible? Think about this. Is it not possible that while the future queen of Egypt was living in Rhodes with her father encountering one or more massive creatures that she would not employ them later on to help build the pyramids

we don't know how they built the pyramids that's it um he eventually takes off i love his i love his ticky talk that guy is really good what's his some guy mark if you want to give him a follow because tv tale is devolving into just playing his tick tocks on the show or and also my tv

stories with new voiceover right

there's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll you can't just listen to your song just remember that life is number one you can't be having so much fun just remember that life is much fun you can't be not Oh, that's right.

There's a real tongue twister coming up in today's Blur's Days. And I purposely set it up so that if I read the first Blur's Day, Luke, you will get the tongue twister later on down the line.

So I'm up to the task.

You're up to that. But we will start with this message from Rahul, who says, I'm married to one of your longtime listeners, Elena. we know Elena the costume designer from quote unquote Hollywood we always say Elena from Hollywood I know that she'd absolutely love it if you guys wish her a happy Blur's Day

Thanks to her, most of your catchphrases, drops, and theme music are now etched into my memory. Sorry, Rahul. Also, thanks to you guys, I don't get to listen to any music when I'm in the car with her. Rahul went on to write. Double sorry, man. Very nice things about the show anyway. But very, very happy Blur's Day to our pal Elena, who also, if I tell you this on the show, ran into our friend Hollywood Cat on a set recently. So all the tens in Hollywood cutting it up.

If we get the, if the audio is ever edited by Hollywood Mike, we'd have a real TBTL trifecta. Yes.

We should move down to Hollywood. You know what? This is a time, I sort of feel like, where we should make this a real Hollywood podcast.

It's time to lean in to our Hollywood roots. Yeah. Plus, it's not going great with the remodel. My dad locked a door. No one can get in. It's a whole.

Oh, is that true?

Yes. So they're supposed to be – sorry, Elena, that I'm tagging this to the end of your beautiful Blur's Day message from your partner. So they're supposed to be putting up the ceiling in the future TBTL studio. But I gave the contractor guy the key to the top of the lock, and I said, definitely don't lock the bottom of the door because – like, there's two locks. There's a deadbolt in the other one because we're going to have a lot of expensive audio equipment in there. I need two locks So I was like don't lock the door because this key only works for the top part He was like got it So that's what he did And was setting up all the scaffolding And then my dad God bless him And my mom were driving home from being at the Mother's Day thing And my dad wanted to show my mom what he and I have been up to Which is awesome Except for the fact that he then when he left Locked the lower lock And then they went to Seaside, Oregon To hang out with their friends At Worldmark and the guys can't get into the studio and your dad has the key he has a key i mean there are there are some keys floating around but i've been in the midwest like so my dad has a key in seaside i have a key here in chicago the person who doesn't have a key is the contractor and he was like yeah the door is locked for some reason and i looked at the camera and i saw my dad and my mom at the house i was like dad did you go to the house he was like yeah i was showing your mom i I was like, cool. I go, did you lock the lower part of the door? And he goes, oh, yeah, sorry. And so then I followed up with, are you going to be passing back through the area at some point? And his answer was just no. And that's the last we've talked about it.

How many days ago is that?

No.

No plans at this moment.

Point is, we're moving to Hollywood.

I can't get back into the future TV. I'm going to burn it down and start over. By the way, this is just a little thing for you in the middle of the blurs days. Listeners, just take a break for a second. Have you talked to our friend Kamara Kev lately? And has he told you any stories about his latest interaction with a locksmith friend of ours?

No, but as I would say in Australia, no.

Okay. Call your girlfriend tonight and have Kevin tell you the story of last weekend. But just here's the teaser for you. He now can only get into his Hummer by breaking into it. And he starts it by hot wiring it because he had to get his Hummer back from a mechanic who didn't want to give it back to him. God knows. God knows the back story.

Do you know this is not the first issue with starting this Hummer up? Did I tell you about shenanigans with this Hummer?

Oh, well, this has been in a lot of.

This man lost his keys to his Hummer while we were in Chelan, possibly at the bottom of Lake Chelan. Who knows? So he went to the local Ace Hardware, bought a blank key, and then from basically memory slash the internet looked up what the pattern was, filed it himself, and it started the Hummer.

I mean, you've got to give him credit for being a good locksmith, I guess.

Give it to him. You have to give it to him on that. That was a pretty boss move, but now he's hot wiring it every time.

And again, he might hear this. Love you, buddy. He will not hear this. He probably won't hear this. But, like, I mean, how much shady shit went down for him to now have to hot wire his own vehicle to start it because the mechanic that he works with, for some reason, didn't want to hand the keys over. Like, I mean, how many levels of shady?

I would say that the not handing of the keys was the collateral that the mechanic thought that they were possessing.

I have a strong feeling I side with neither. Anyway. Oh, all of that is to say, happy Blur's Day, Lena.

Absolutely. And Lisa says, happy Blur's Day, Dykstra. No, I'm sorry. I'm misreading that. Lisa says, Happy Blur's Day to Maya. We met years ago at work. Since then, we've had several different employers. She's had two babies, and I've moved out of state. She's a warm, kind friend and genuinely interested in people. She's the kind of person that you keep in touch with and visit when you come in from out of town. I hope your day of blurs is filled with giggles and adventure. Ah, happy Blur's Day, Maya. Maya sounds like the person I'm trying to be Yes

Be a beacon for all of us No pressure Keith says could I request a Blursday shout out To my amazing 10 Annette She often shares with me stuff From your show and always has to preface it With the boys told me this Today which I find hilarious Let's see so Keith signs Off B-O-A-I-S-O My love I have no idea what Keith Just made me say, I hope it's not filthy.

B-O-A-I-S-O. I'm trying to do a different emphasis and see if that solves it. It's like the verbal version of one of those magic eye posters you stare at in the mall. I keep waiting for the waterfall to show up.

Bank of America. And then ISO has to do.

Is Soros owned.

Oh, my God. No, just turning up the music for a while. And I was like, let's wash our earphones out.

Levi says, happy Blur's Day to the inimitable, indefatigable Johnny, who rules for many reasons, and not just because he created the Gubba Gurgle drop. Dang it. I felt like I was like, I got like, I did okay on that until Gubba Gurgle.

Gubba Gurgle. I don't know if you have that or not. I don't think I do.

I don't think I do That's a marsupial gurgle with gabagool With a side of gabagool I'm so hungry right now It's like almost 2pm in Chicago I could go for some gabagurbel right now

I just had While I was on one of those websites Fact checking I don't know which one it was There was a huge banner ad For Jersey Mike's at the top And Jersey Mike's kind of filled the hole That Tubbs left in my life I could see that

They love, they got that same shredded lettuce situation going.

And I haven't been there in quite some time, but I might have to go there today. I could door dash that right to this hotel. There's your gobbledger. That's the gobbledger.

By the way, I'm embarrassed because I'm guessing this was the tongue twister that you were trying to lay me with. And I really failed. I was, I went in, I got cocky. I mean, I think Levi was setting us up there, right? It's inimitable, and it's... Indefatigable. exactly but you know you have to like two of us can't say two of us we have one good read but i

was practicing that before the show because i was going to try to do it but i seriously did say no i'm going to give this one to luke because it's impossible to say those two words next to each other inimitable back because that it could bowl i guess i got close because they're asking your

brain to do two different complicated pronunciations of um syllables that are very similar yeah but expressed differently so it's like your brain can hang with inimitable your brain can hang with indefatigable wait you said that wrong are you sure in d how do you say it indefatigable yes

there it is i i did that once on the show too and i don't i think we even bleeped it out because it's something like hate speech if you flip the g and the t around but i think i just did the same thing that's what you just did which is why i rudely said you got that wrong indefatigable is how you say but it's really hard you really have to concentrate on that especially coming out of Inimitable.

I cannot believe Levi made me say hate speech.

Levi, you're fired.

You have to, Levi, your punishment. Listen to that Macklemore song about everyone's okay, like a hundred times.

Anyway, happy Blursday, Johnny. Also Johnny, of course, friend of the show. Johnny, play the blues. Katie says, Lordy. Oh, this is our friend Katie and our friend Liz. It says, Lordy, Lordy, Liz is 40. Happy birthday to my friend since third grade, a 10 almost as long. You know what I like about this, Luke, is Katie used to send in Blur's Day messages to her friend Liz for years now, and I didn't know who Liz was until a couple of years ago, and now it's nice to be in on the Blur's Day wishes. Katie says she's been friends since the third grade, a 10 almost as long, and a gal who makes the world better. Sorry that roller skating injury knocked you down, but looking forward. But what a way to go. But what a way to go.

Honestly, if you're going to sustain an injury, I mean, roller skating is the way to do it. Yeah.

I hear it's a real ouchy, too, like a kind of a mad one. So sorry about that, Liz. Looking forward to celebrating.

Celebrating all summer long, it's the summer of Liz. Happy 40th. Friendship at age 40 is so much better than friendship as school-aged kids. That's really sweet. Happy Blur's Day, Liz. Cute.

Aw. Katie, I'm really sorry that Levi made me say a hate speech. Yeah. I'm sorry that it had to happen on the same day that you sent in a Blur's Day message for your friend Liz. Yeah, it's on Levi. And also I'm sorry that I haven't fulfilled my full initiation at the Eagles.

Oh, that's right. They told me they had it set up. They're offering it to me as Zoom. The first time in Eagles history, they offered you to do it via Zoom and you offered it Zoom and I was like on a plane or something like I agreed to do it.

And then I was stuck in some CBS situation. And then and then I texted the people involved and I said, hey, I'm so sorry. I have this. The CBS thing is happening right now. I can't get out of it. And then Andrew or sorry, Camaro Kev said CBS equals the casino. Yeah, that's like you've embarrassed me in front of my future fellow Eagles.

That's like having a bar called the library or the office. Exactly, the office. Yeah, you need a bar slash casino called CBS. Called CBS Situation. Sorry, I have a CBS Situation.

I'm sorry, I'm in CBS Situation right now. Sherry says, Peter's birthday, by the numbers. You'll be 60 in a few days, though someone recently mistook you for 45. Where's my bell? Ding, ding, ding. Peter, must be nice. someone recently mistook me for 85 so enjoy it yeah i'm happy we've been together 25 years and to have been your wife for 18 years you're my 11 and also a tbtl 10 you're my number one my true love oh golly i'd feel choked up just reading that that's so cute happy blurs day

peter sweet yeah very nice happy blurs day everybody sorry about luke yeah i keep going

to the hate speech please do really bleep that if i if i if i said it in a way that i mean you

just stumbled over your words you didn't really say hate speech obviously but you know what god

did you see the i mean i got fired over that though i made the same mistake one time and

you were just like i think you got that wrong and i think i was so embarrassed that i cut it out too again obviously we weren't anyway what do you talk about the oakland guy the oakland announcer

was talking about having been at the negro league museum which is in kansas city by the way i learned when i was in kansas city and he had a he had a verbal slip and he said a word uh that was wildly inappropriate and he was pulled it was interesting though because whereas the the guy that you know and then castellanos drives deep to left or whatever the that guy was obviously just like a hateful person who was in a hot mic yeah this was a per it struck me as a person who had a A mispronunciation that was like The worst one you can have pretty much

Well what about the Who's the college coach Basketball coach I think Who literally said the F word The hateful homophobic F word Twice knowingly On a radio broadcast last week Or earlier this week and just got reprimanded And still has his job This is another Ohio thing By the way

Make the Oakland A's announcer Make the Oakland A's announcer the new coach of that

basketball team i'm telling do you not know what i'm talking about i didn't hear about that like he's on some like local sports show first they make kind of a the one of the hosts make sort of a kind of a transphobic reference um and then and and he's making i guess this coach maybe used to coach for his rival across town or something there was some it was about some sort of rivalry around i want to say the cincinnati or dayton area um and he referred to them as catholic f-words and then said it again and they're all like kind of then the radio host realized oh i've taken this a little bit too far they don't know what to do about it but then they also say like i told you this guy is the best isn't he i'm just like and so far as i know

everybody's kept their jobs god gross i promise you that show is called locking balls we're like you know what like i promise you it's a two name it's a two last name situation they said this guy Is the best after he uttered That word twice intentionally

It looks like he might be a West Virginia I don't know why I had this It's Bob Huggins yeah you know Bob Huggins Oh sure Bob Huggins

Bob Huggins is a legendary College basketball coach And I'm I can't tell you how surprised I am to hear that it's Bob Huggins I see so he's like a name Because he's very successful Yeah but Andrew Because if you are good at making Grown people run around in laundry and put balls through hoops then you can say hateful things it's okay if you are good

at your part of that disgusting i guess he's getting a suspension and a one million dollar salary reduction honestly i am happy to

hear about that because a million dollars i mean i know bob huggins makes way too bob huggins is probably the highest paid highest paid public employee in west virginia would be my guess unless the west virginia football coach makes more than him but i am glad it's costing him a million dollars i'm not saying that's a fair punishment but i'm glad at least there's that yeah why did

i have that as oh i thought for sure that was ohio but anyway it doesn't matter i got a lot of the

details right um because because he was once the coach of the cincinnati bearcats oh okay and then

there's some sort of catholic yeah maybe that's in there's some catholic university that they're in a rivalry with because i know that he referred to them as as a as a bad as a word but catholic blanks so anyway what a terrible place to end the show do you have anything up well here's the thing

no i it's my fault i was talking about so this raises the question with the oakland guy he uttered the word now he was mispronouncing the name of the museum he had been to but do you like i i don't know if i've said that word aloud like since probably i was like eight do you think you can just say that word can you say that word accidentally if you don't say it ever in normal life is my question and i don't know the answer to this but that's what i've been pondering around this oakland thing because i mean couldn't you see a situation where you're

you're a little because you know we don't say negro in any other context other than the negro leagues as well so when you and i were talking about that the other day i was kind of like oh wow i guess i realized i've heard it a million times i've read it a million times but never have i said it never i said in a microphone i even comment i'm like oh that's a little strange huh um and so maybe if you're doing a live broadcast i don't know by the way i'm only hearing this from you i'm not trying to cover for somebody who might i don't think the guy was fired by the way i think

he was he was like reprimanded well i don't know okay well then that's fine i guess um but uh i

could also see a situation where i mean again i try not to throw too many rocks around glass houses since i'm such a mumble and well here here you go i'm such a mumble mouth myself and often mess things up pronunciations and words or what have you and so um you know i i don't know what's this person's heart or what words they use but i could see him being absolutely aghast over a you know saying a word that he didn't mean to say i have no idea yeah um i watched it they had

scrubbed it what's wrong with me by the way that like they had scrubbed it from the internet but i found it somewhere because no one would say the word that he said well you want to hear it in

context there i wanted to hear i had read the transcript of what huggin said but then there an ability to listen to it and I wanted to hear it I wanted to hear the context of it and there was something very telling about how the people react around it as well

uh-huh yeah absolutely alright well that seems like a good place to end the blurs days

I really want any of these top stories I started it

I 100% I started it by saying hate speech during the message that Levi made me say and then I made it worse by following up with a little ender on the oakland athletics the long time radio voice of the oakland athletics i guess you want

me to beat that word i somehow i feel like you just stumbling is not as bad as me beeping it and now of course it's it's in the fabric of the show i can never take it out now because it's basically it's into fabricable it's into unfabricable okay you know what is that show title

you know what levi you got us there thank you all right have a great thursday everybody we will be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you until then take care of yourselves be safe and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all it's the first line of the film man it's got to be on the money here

Power out.