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I know we've only known each other for four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week, and the second day seemed like five days, and the third day seemed like a week again, and the fourth day seemed like eight days, but the fifth day you went to see your mother, and that seemed just like a day. But then you came back, and then later, on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days. So in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day, and that started seeming like four days. So at the end of the sixth day, on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

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It's Friday. Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend.

There are many ways to keep one's lips conditioned. I don't kiss, for example, 24 hours before a performance because kissing makes your lips mushy and we cannot have mushy lips and be a champion.

Actually, you know what? I can email you. Or, you know, you can email me at splat2 at splatnet.net. Splat1's my father. I mean, I'll be sad to see him go. It'll be nice to get my hands on that handle, you know?

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

Hey, Lloyd!

my name is luke burbank i am your host gotta do it again right now coming to you wow for the final time from the hollywood broadcast center right here in portland oregon where it is it's actually kind of a crummy day so i think portland is letting me know it's time to leave and it's time for us to do episode 4003 in a collector series let the fun begin i am moving and i am surrounded by boxes and i am yet to put everything in the boxes but i the good news it stinks is that i have created what i did not realize was the absolute best case scenario for a cat there is something about the soul of a cat i purchased 200 of cardboard boxes 200 worth and i've assembled all of them i've taped all of them and bubbles is never leaving because this is her greatest dream ever is just boxes everywhere she can jump in she can jump out uh we are gonna jump in and jump out of this episode where we are gonna talk about things like the guy who spent let's say i think it's like might be two decades three decades um collecting the signatures of presidents and first ladies and then he on a little card on an engraved card and he was he took a picture of the card and he sent it to his family and his sister said something very prescient she said take good care of that my friend I wish I hadn't done that he did not take good care of it he has lost it we're going to try to help him find it with the tens in DC we're also going to talk to this guy the long surrounding co-bro of the show maybe best known for his depictions of the

tall ships i warned you i was lonely but you didn't seem to care that you could have been

doo-doo but you da da uh he is andrew walsh and he's joining me right now good morning my friend

good morning luke do you remember i i remembered your name there right at the beginning i'll go with luke or rook or mook um hey or jamook do you remember about two weeks ago i was talking about how awesome the summer of 2023 is shaping up to be with all the big events the Taylor Swift, the Barbie Heimer, or the Oppenbarbs or whatever. I was excited. I've been going to a lot of baseball games here in Seattle. You had the all-star break. A lot of people were talking about the 4,000th episode of TBTL last weekend. It just seems like there's an energy this summer. And what I'm now realizing is everybody has COVID like two weeks later. Have you been like, I'm talking about.

And, like, this is so anecdotal, and I did a little bit of a Google News search a moment ago to see, like, what was being written about COVID, like, if there's been a spike. And it seems like they were keeping an eye, like, they, the powers that be, the health community, were keeping an eye on maybe a slight summer spike. It doesn't seem like the numbers hold up, that it's, like, some sort of a huge boom. But like I won't name everybody like both of my parents in Ohio who just like flew somewhere to take a cruise in Alaska, you know, ended up having to cut their trip somewhat short because they both came down with it because, you know, you're on airplanes. You're you know, everybody, I think, was so excited for this summer to kind of like kind of leave the covid era behind. And it's had this energy. But now I feel like I just got another note from a friend who can't come to our party tomorrow. I'm sorry, Genevieve's party tomorrow, because they and their partner have COVID. Like, I just, oh, there was a string of tens. I'm an activist and house party enthusiast. I saw a thread of tens talking about, like, I don't know if I got this at the TBTL events or before or after, but just to be responsible, I want people to know that I've come down with it. So, I don't know. I mean, it could be totally anecdotal.

Are you saying our 4,000th episode was a super spreader event?

It was a super spreader event, which is why I wanted to call it TBTL 4K super spreader event. And you nixed that.

Is some of this because you would like to not have to do this party this weekend? No. No, no, no. I know what you're saying is real. But would it make you sad if only a handful of people arrived at your house for the party that you and Genevieve were throwing?

um i mean once you're you know my thing with parties is like i always correct myself and say it's not our party it's genevieve's party because i don't throw parties right like if i were living by myself or if genevieve had no interest in a party there wouldn't be a party i don't throw parties having said that once you're swept up and everything and you're planning it you know those moments as the party starts to begin like you if only three people show up that doesn't feel great you know what i mean like you're i'm wrapped up in it now i want it to be a success however

how do we measure success boy if only we had a thrive type system uh for from an hr standpoint you know what i i forget who it is but somebody else in my social media feed was talking about how they got covid for the first time and how they were like look at me i thought i was uh you You know, Mr. Big Time, never getting the COVID, and now I'm getting it. I do think it is going around, for real.

Yeah, my parents, I think this is the first time they both got it, and they're all vaccinated up and everything, but they did get the official diagnosis. So they're quarantining, and I still think that I have avoided it somehow.

See, I have a theory that you did get it in Hawaii, but you got a very minor case.

That is because one day, I was very paranoid there, and I told you one day that I woke up. For one hour, you were feeling unwell. There was one hour that you had it. I had like I had flown on the plane the day before and also drinking heavily the night before. So I think that I was a little hungover and I had like a little bit of a scratch. And I think sometimes I can wind myself up. I'm pretty sure. I mean, I know I didn't have it there. Like hearing what everybody's experience with COVID is like unless I just totally caught it and didn't have any kind of like symptoms. Like, I never had a fever, never had the chills, especially knowing what a fever feels like having, you know, gotten some kind of bug a few weeks ago and having the fever for the first time in years and years and years. I'm like, oh, this is what it feels like to be sick. And I haven't had anything like that in forever.

I mean, do you think that you like Camaro Kev are somehow one of those kind of like sort of super immune people? No, I don't.

But I think that I'm actually, and the thing is, I don't think I handle sickness well. Like, I think I'm kind of a baby about it. Like, whatever I had, I keep referring to a couple of weeks ago when I actually had a fever. Like, I was telling everybody about my fever for, like, weeks. Like, it was an event in my life. Like, I don't think that I'm, like, kind of like one of those, this isn't what you asked me, but I feel like it can somewhat be related. I am not the type of person who's like, oh, I never get sick, or when I get sick, I just don't let it bother me. Right.

It's not like a thing that you're trying to flex on.

Yeah, exactly. You'll know. I think it's just a weird, fluky thing because, again, I also am not, you know, I took all the precautions that we were asked to take as a society. But I wasn't like out of my mind. Like, you know what I mean? I took public transportation as soon as we were allowed to. I stopped masking as soon as we were allowed to. I wasn't like super, super fastidious about it.

But this is why I wonder because I took the same, you know, precautions that we all did. and i have had it two times and you have done the same stuff i've done and you've had it zero times and i can't imagine it's just because it didn't enter your life i think it's because you might be a super cyan i might it be a super scion or a super yaris i i don't know i'm not exactly cyan right isn't that like

a video game like a super cyan i don't know i i thought i was speaking your language no i don't

i don't think so um hey do you want to join blue sky with me luke we got to talk about your move but i just i had this tab open on my computer you you sent me one something that you posted in threads the other yesterday i believe and yesterday on the show you said yes i'm still on threads as i i don't know what's going on over at threads but i it's good by the way oh you like it okay you're not looking to leave i thought i thought i caught a little bit of you being like i don't know about this threads thing i think threads is going through that sort of like maybe

the typical thing that happens when it's like a a social media platform that a bunch of people jump on and then they kind of don't know what to do with it and so it then gets kind of a little bit it goes from being very active to being a little bit kind of mellow and now i'm hoping it becomes active again by the way super cyan is a um dragon ball z reference oh okay gotcha i've heard of that but that was try to keep up yeah i'm i'm rocking 2014's hottest video game references

here yeah that's a i think that's a millennial thing i had some friends i had never heard of what is it super powerball z no what is it super dragon balls dragon ball z yeah i remember i think Nick Jarin mentioned that I was like I have no Idea what you're talking about he's like I grew up with That that's not new I grew up with it I said I'm an old man anyway so you're Liking threads okay never I have some I have some

Blue sky invites I'm sticking with it but it Does not feel maybe because I only Have I don't know 500 followers It's not at this Very moment giving Me whatever the dopamine of Twitter was But it's Feels like it's kind of like still

Decent yeah I I just haven't been on it that much and again my weird complaint about it which it sounds like somebody said that maybe they made another tab to sort of mitigate this or something but like it just felt like from the moment I was on it I wanted to start very slowly and just like one by one add contacts and be deliberate about it but the app did not I'm talking about threads here did not let me do that like I couldn't get to the end of the line it would just always keep populating my feed with just like random stuff that I just didn't know about and it was just trying to get to know me but but by sort of pushing all of this stuff on me, and it was a real turnoff. So I just, I never got into it.

You did like a thread of mine yesterday.

Yeah, you texted it to me, yeah.

Oh, is that why? That's kind of one of the reasons, too,

because you texted me a thread, and I was like, oh, you are doing threads, okay.

I mean, I was texting it to you so you could see the content, but...

Yeah, and then I liked it. That seemed like a polite thing to do. It was from that TV show Quarterback.

No, I feel a little sad. I thought you were just out there in the wild on threads being like Luke is creating good content let me like this it was because I had sent you that Kirk

cousin yeah which lived up to it it was him and it was him as an adult showing off his high school t-shirt from his acapella group what's the name of it again I think it's like extreme tenors extreme tenors yeah no that paid off yeah

well Andrew my friend I am surrounded right now by boxes and uh i have not put anything in those boxes but i know that when we are done talking here my time is going to come that i'm going to i also have a bunch of like packing peanuts and other things i am going to put everything in this room every piece of equipment we're using to talk to each other everything in the kitchen you name it into these boxes and then i'm going to wait until sunday i'm going to hunker down until sunday when these mover guys show up to take this all away and i think that i have cracked the code on moving yeah which is buy 200 worth of boxes tape them all together it might be too many boxes i don't know and then just put stuff in them throw everything you have into them like not like um a thing where you figure out how many pots and pans you have and then you buy the number of boxes To sort of house those pots and pans I'm starting from I have so many boxes In this house right now I think I could put probably like one cable One like mini to Quarter inch cable Into one box And then throw a bunch of packing peanuts in And then just have that be one of the boxes Like I've over committed on boxes So that I did just Like I feel like I now can just take everything In this house, throw it into any old Random box and then have the guys take it away and take it up to the other house.

Yeah, Genevieve is the complete opposite of you in this way. And Genevieve, when we have a big moving project, I mean, she definitely takes the lead on these things. I like to help, and, of course, I'm very meticulous. I love to tape up the boxes, pack everything, label everything. You can imagine my process.

More on that in a moment, by the way.

But Genevieve, once we realize a move is in our future, she, first of all, starts collecting boxes. The last resort is just to go and buy a bunch of boxes. It's funny how, again, we'll-

This is the only way in which Vives and I are so dissimilar.

It's interesting. There are certain things, and we all have them in our lives. Yeah, of course, I'll blow $50 on poll tabs and not think about it, But what you expect me to buy boxes to move or whatever it is. Also, Genevieve's not really blowing 50 bucks on pull tabs. I exaggerated there. But like it's there's something in her brain that's just like you don't buy boxes unless you absolutely have to. So she'll start going around to comic book stores, liquor stores, all kinds of stores to get these boxes. And also like near the end, like as we're this is constant process of packing and obtaining boxes at the same time so that it's the exact opposite of what you're saying. so that we do not have one extra corner of space in any box. Everything panned out perfectly. On the other hand, everything you move is in a Cuddy Sark type of box. Oh, yeah, right, the liquor.

What is Cuddy Sark? Is that a whiskey? I think it's a whiskey, but when I was a kid, I grew up in a pretty dry household. The one thing I knew about booze was it was called Cuddy Sark, and we had many boxes of it, not the alcohol, but boxes we had used to move things in the basement.

It is a whiskey, and it's, oh, so it's named after a ship. Yeah, that sounds very maritime, doesn't it? Get ye on the Cuddy Sark. Exactly.

So, yeah, so I have done a real anti-Genevieve, and I have purchased so many boxes. Some of them might actually have just, like, one ring light. Maybe I'm going to put you and me Our bobbleheads Andrew In different small boxes I honestly for a second thought you were packing us up I was like oh Well we've had a good run Episode 4003 You know the other day we were talking about moving And you said Or you were talking about how Moving into your place The place you and Genevieve have Felt for you maybe like for the first time in a while Like it was I don't want to say forever home because i really don't like that term but like for you it was like hey maybe we're never going

to move again there let's settle in like this is yeah like i would say for the first time ever i

felt that way well i was not feeling that way but based on just how much i've spent on boxes you i'm never moving i'm never moving this is it when i get to the the uh you know the new house that's it we're done you could make a little outbuilding with all the extra boxes oh i've actually thought about it not uh an outbuilding with the boxes but i do have a whole plan for an outbuilding where i can put my lawnmower and uh also the boat that's falling apart and some part of it might have a treadmill in it so um i mean the house itself is currently unlivable but i have big plans for the outbuilding that's going to be roughly the same cost as the house you mentioned

that bubbles is enjoying the um the box situation have you cracked open the packing peanut situation and how is Bubbles going to react to that?

Honestly, I'm worried for her because everything will be downhill in her life from the point at which I open the packing peanuts. Right now, I do not have them open, but the boxes are everywhere and she is standing on top of various non-supportive kind of systems in these boxes. Also, packing tape. what bullshit do you have a system for packing tape like for the tape the clear tape you use to tape up and maybe if you guys don't actually buy boxes maybe you don't do this no yeah

I guess my system is I put it on I mean you need it on one of those rollers we have one good like kind of packing tape roller that you can just kind of like slide across the box like a professional and kind of it cuts off at the end are you trying to do it without one of those because that's a pain to cut it what are you

getting at no i have i have one of those i bought one at this like um u-haul store in the pearl district of portland but it's wild to me that they've been getting away with this for as long as they have because first of all it's very sticky it wants to stick to itself it's also has static cling going also if you lose where the cut is you'll never find it again it disappears into a disc or whatever you would call it, like a sort of round thing of tape. Like at every turn, this thing is trying to defeat you.

Let me ask you, so tell me more about the tape dispenser you have. Is it the kind that's almost the size of a name your price tool? You got me progressive. Is it like the size of like a... thing that people used to carry around in a grocery store putting the price tag on stuff. So it's the big one. It's not one of the little red ones that's junky. Oh, I have a red. Wait, the red ones are junky? Well, do you have the tiny little red one where it's not that much bigger than the roll of tape itself or do you have one that actually has a handle

on it? I don't have a handle. I think you might have the little

red guy. That little red guy and you have to thread it through the two little plastic things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one is a little rough. You can get yourself, oh man, you could have borrowed ours it really it gives you a feeling when you use the real kind i should

have gotten a real one i think because i went to this random like i was searching yesterday for like a u-haul store that sold boxes and it for some reason led me to the the pearl of portland which is a very uh on a um like on a thursday afternoon it's the hardest place to get to in portland traffic uh you know young people just cavorting and then i was in this one little there was like a niche in a building that i parked in and then found a couple of like very nice russian dudes who were like oh yeah we have boxes and these things and this is this is where i think i might be like genevive i was like how much for the boxes they were like i don't know five bucks a piece i was like that seems high and so and then i was like how much for the um you know the the tape and they were like it's like three dollars for this one i was like okay and the whole time i felt like i was getting ripped off because of the neighborhood of portland i was in like i was in a fancy part of portland and then uh so i got all the stuff i took it home then i later went to the um a packing store like a you know uh like a post office place around the corner from my house the boxes were more expensive ah these ruskies were totally giving me a reasonable deal like my my my suspicion was totally unfounded i mean here's what i'm gonna do here and this is

just awful this is one of those things where it's really a disservice to the listener to even do this um but also we've done so much for the listeners lately you know what i mean i mean the tbtlathon the way we donated to them during the tbtlathon what have you but i'm going to send you two different pictures of different types of uh tape dispensers and you let me know whether you have the red one or the blue no i have the janky one you definitely right when you said it

i knew that your your words your words had wisdom in them andrew yes like yeah experience yeah so that i think that's part of the problem but still it is very very hard if you're using the janky one like i am to extend the tape enough so that you can like cover the seam of the box without the tape adhering to itself in some weird way and then also if you cut it like i've been i was doing a bunch last night then the wherever the line on the tape is it just disappears into nothingness and then you find it i spent like thank god the mariners won thank god the mariners had a holy shit a heck a heck of a comeback not since the days of phil bradley have i seen a grand slam of that kind my friend but like other than that like i was just sitting there trying to find where the tape had re-taped itself to the little whatever you call it are you cutting it using the

using the the the serrated edge on the red holder are you using scissors or something because i think if you're using scissors that is going to be a recipe for disaster well i i ended up using

scissors in this way that uh was i found to be effective which was i would tape i would find the end of the tape right i would put it on the um the countertop in the apartment and i would i would run the tape down then i would cut it with a knife or with a scissors while i was still on my like my other finger was holding a little bit extra of the tape so it didn't like re-tape itself to the thing and then i would that was what i was doing eventually and it was actually kind of effective i also did this thing where i would cut a little piece and i would tape like it's hard to explain but i would basically like cut two pieces and tape down the ultimately the thing i wanted to tape on the boxes that like turn the boxes you know bottom side up then i would tape the little corner so that I could then put the longer piece of tape down. You were tacking it down. It was me and Bubbles. I didn't have anybody holding the box down, so I would kind of put a little thing and a little thing so it was at least under control, and then I would put the longer thing down.

I think, okay, if we're sticking with this red one, I mean you do you. I don't want to be telling you what to do here.

I made a terrible mistake.

I think what you need to do is, and it's going to be a little bit I haven't done that with the red plastic ones where you can make it work, but really go look at the.

red plastic thing carefully and look at how there are like these two tabs that are supposed to hold i did i fed it under there okay you and it's slippery it wants to come out of there but if you can keep it in there you can do it properly which is just like you should just be able to like with basically one hand just kind of hold the box down put a little piece of tape on one end and go across the box and then cut it with with the serrated edge and you should be able to do that all in one motion without having to like tape it to your counter or anything sure

Well, if ifs and buts were cherries and nuts, every day would be Christmas, Andrew.

I think you're sleeping on one of the best imitations I've ever done on the show, which is the sound of tape going across a box. That was good. I actually I don't even I'm too scared to try to recreate it because I think it was. That was very evocative. As I was making the sound, I'm like, they know they know what I'm talking about. That was actually very good. Pride. It will fail me.

I do need to get you're totally right, though. I need to just get the legit thing I won't do the impression Was that a cat in a box? That was a cat that is obsessed with a ladybug That's on the outside of the window We're going to miss this for her She just loves to sit on this little desk And then try to destroy insects That are on the outside of the window

She's going to have so much fun at the new place There's going to be so much more, I think, kind of stuff to get her attention. I don't know if you feel like getting into this now. Honestly, if you just feel like not talking about this now, we can skip it. But like now that the move is imminent, are you now just ready to make her an indoor outdoor cat? That was the original plan, if I understand it correctly, which I might not.

I may have floated that idea, but I'm actually kind of nervous about her being outside because every time I go to this other house, what I see are giant feral cats just roaming the area. I feel like she will not do well. Here's what I'm going to do, and I would actually love a little hive mind on this. So if you're a listener and you have an idea on a good tracking thing to put on a collar for her, I'm hoping that she never gets out of the house currently. But if she does, I would like to know where she is And it can't be one of those things that's like a Like a tracking thing that only works If other people Are in the area and they have the same thing On their phone

Like it's gotta be

It's gotta be something that if she Heaven forbid were to escape I could just find her Or at least I could see where she is And I would not need a hipster in Williamsburg To be biking past her With the app open on their phone

so as to triangulate it yeah yeah because you and i like so there was something called square was kind of the original thing in this space right that was sort of a brand name oh tile right because square is the the payment processing thing tile but then and it's i think we talked about this even at the time we briefly had a sponsorship uh on tbtl through american public media with something that was not called tile but it was like basically a competitor and it was the first and one of the only things that we tried out and like we did a commercial for it and then i kept using i'm like this is not working like it's not and i told them like i don't think we can keep doing these and i think they sent us some more and said oh you maybe got defective ones and they sent us some more and they didn't work either and we just said i believe rudy was wearing one

oh yeah she got lost within the house in port towns yeah i didn't i'm not even kidding that

but i think i might have had them on keys or something or i was just testing and i was like this doesn't work and we had to tell the salesperson who was a nice person and totally was receptive to this i believe current donor that's right and somebody who donated during the thon amazing but anyway um yeah we told sally like i don't think we can do this she's like all right if the product isn't good obviously you can't go on the radio and say that it's good but like i don't know why i'm bringing that up but yeah i know what you mean like some of those the idea of them the promise of them is so great but if it doesn't work like it's absolutely worthless and actually worse than worthless because you think you have an out, you know?

Right. I need this, whatever I'm going to put on her little collar, I need it to be a thing that I can, you know, if she were to get out of the house and be missing, I need to be able to find her. It cannot be some crowdsourced or whatever you call it. You know, it can't be a thing where we need other people to be in the neighborhood with the same, because I promise you Brian and Bob, my immediate neighbors, They're not on whatever frequency Bubbles' little collar might be on

You know, it's interesting to talk about this idea of You said you're going to try to keep Bubbles indoors for now I think some people will be happy Like listeners will be happy to hear that I think it worries some to think of a cat going indoor

And people are concerned about the birds as well, which is a which is a what's the word I'm looking for, which is a reasonable, reasonable is literally the word I'm looking for is a reasonable response. It's funny how my attitude has either changed over the years or would change based on the circumstances, because like, OK, so we have two cats right now. Bananas is getting, you know, a bit older, 13, 14 now and is scared of everything like she does not belong outside. bubbles is a cat of leisure he will jesus bingo i can't even know my own cat's name bingo will roll this morning i watched him he was lulling around on the bed and just accidentally rolled off the bed and fell down and then made a weird sound and ran away here his sheer comfort in the world he's just yeah he's just he can never just he's always hanging off of something like some sort of a mc escher painting or is it escher i don't know whoever has the melting clocks and And, like, he's always just fallen off. It's not Esher. Dolly, yeah. And, like, he's just, like, such a fancy lad, you know? And so I don't think that he could ever live outside. However, like, if I were living in the kind of area that your new house is, right, and I didn't have any cats, but then I brought a new cat into my life, the idea of integrating that cat as an indoor-outdoor cat from the beginning sounds really appealing to me. I love the idea of an indoor-outdoor cat. It seems like such a seems like such a happy life. There are more dangers involved, but it does seem like such a happier life for the cat. But the idea right now of like me, I have these two cats in my life and the idea of either one of them getting outside is one of the scariest things I can possibly think of.

Do you know what I think is going to really happen? I am going to do everything to keep Bubbles safe and indoors and collared and tracked and tiled and whatnot. I'm going to actually put one of those anklets on her so she can't drink alcohol. I think it's called a scat or whatever.

Could you also put one of those little ball and chains around one ankle?

I'm going to do all of those things. I think I'm going to do all of those things And try my very hardest for her To not get outside And I think she is going to do it And I think then we're going to find out You're going to F around and find out I think we're going to F around and find out Like not intentionally I'm not trying to make that happen I want her to be safe and inside the house I just think it's unlikely That there will not ever be a time Like Becca comes home And finds Bubbles bubbles in the neighbor's apartment like literally inside their house you mean when she's watching

bubbles and bubbles is over at her place at becca's place and escapes from becca's apartment

and then is wandering the halls of her apartment building and then is occasionally brought back to her by somebody when she gets home like hey we have bubbles so it it feels to me unlikely that i will be able to keep bubbles totally contained i'm going to do everything i can to make that happen but there is going to be a moment where she is going to escape and then the bubbles is going to meet the road like she's either going to come back or she ain't and i think that's going to be a real that's going to be a a really a big uh sort of critical moment in her life and my life

and she's going to come back with a little kitty tattoo a little heart with a little it'll say are

you here it's going to say are you here like i've been having a real problem being present Yeah, right. Hello and welcome to Top Story. I've been going on and on about my move, but how are you feeling about this party?

Oh, the party that Genevieve is throwing tomorrow with my help. Yeah, with a lot of your help, presumably. Yeah, I'm fine with it. You know, I'm weirdly sanguine about it. Yesterday was kind of a long day. I had planned, because we also, I mentioned this on the show, I think, we have some out-of-town visitors coming tonight who are staying with us who are then leaving, I believe, before the party. I don't even know if they know that we're having this party. And so Genevieve is sort of like, she took today off. She has to go to Costco. She has to do all this, like, party planning stuff. And at the beginning of this week, I was pretty dialed up about everything that had to get done. I feel like I was like, I got to clean the house. like these folks are coming over it's like a family like you know my two friends and their daughter um are staying with us and I sort of feel like you know that's different than just like Camaro Kev crashing on the couch after a long night or something you know so I'm like okay I know that there's some cat allergies involved we have a long-haired cat I need to clean this house Genevieve had pointed out that even though like our lawn is in this really terrible mode right now where it's basically dead from the sunshine but also weeds are like kind of sprouting up and it's just kind of like I had to mow the...

Dusty Lawn, if that makes sense to you, which is like this Tom Waits record. I was going to say, that definitely sounds like some kind of Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

And so I was kind of like, I don't know, I'm going to get all this done. And then I did mow the lawn on Wednesday. By the way, got a pretty nasty case of poison ivy or poison oak, something I've not had since I was a youth. From your yard? Somehow, or, you know, I was also digging in the hedges trying to cut out this one, whatever, these brambles of a bush that I don't like, and I wonder if maybe that thing has some sort of poison in it or something, but I've got, like, some sort of itchy rash all over my arm that's driving me bananas. But anyway, so I did that on Wednesday, and then I had to work late last night working on some stuff, and then it's like 9.30 at night, and I'm like, well, I guess it's time to clean the house. You know what, Andrew?

Call it what it is. You were building a sweet-ass intro for the week in review, which I think is really, really dope, actually.

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. So, yeah, so here's the deal. Today, you and I, when we're done with this recording, we're going to record our very first week in review as a thank-you gift to the donors who donated during the TB Cellathon, I think at the, what, $25 level or something very generous like that. So we've been talking about, hey, we're going to create new content as a thank-you gift for those donors. but it is all great when it's theoretical you know what I mean and now I'm like oh wait no we gotta do this we gotta do this so I'm looking forward to it but there was some stuff to prepare for that as well as get all of the newsletter stuff out of the way so I'm not trying to write that and get this posted while my friends are supposed to be getting here like I don't know anytime after one o'clock today or something so anyway so my point is it's like 9 30 at night then I'm like I gotta clean the whole house well I did do a lot of vacuuming to get up the cat hair yesterday but i got to a certain point last night where i was like you know what it is what it freaking is like the house is basically fine i think we've even cut out my grilling roll at the party on saturday oh usually i want to grill because it gives me something to

do stop the show i don't have that drop right now but wait that wasn't the drop It wasn't actually Yeah

Andrew every time I've been to this party

Which is maybe like two times Once I think You're grilling You're listening to the B-52s It's a whole scene You're not grilling for this party

Last year So the things that we usually grill for a party Is we get a bunch of those Like kind of frozen hamburger patties I mean we're just going to do this now I'm going to tell you all the details I'm going to tell you all of the feelings going through my head please so we get these hamburger patties because yeah and then veggie versions as well maybe some hot dogs as well and they seem like the easiest thing to grill i have a relatively small like standard size weber charcoal grill right and i like grilling at these things because it gives me something to do i don't like to just meander around and um i'm really i'm just bad at glad handing i'm glad i'm glad at small talk uh as you can see and um if i have a task it seems like i'm more in my comfort zone people can come up to me and talk to me and then walk away and i'm grilling you know what i mean um but the thing is i was really disappointed with how the food came out last year because i'm grilling these frozen burgers i like my meat you know kind of pink inside a little bit but i know not everybody does and i've been at parties before where people are like putting their burgers back on my grill and that just pissed me off i was like strap on a set which is a great thing to say that's classic Andrew classic I'm just like strap on a set I don't know it just seems so performative to me and and maybe my feelings

were just hurting or whatever just like the burger to be a little bit there's a little bit of pink

yeah exactly so then so basically last year so during the course of the summer when I'm grilling for me and Genevieve or whatever and I get into my routine and I kind of learn kind of how the grill works to what I'm cooking I never make hamburgers we so rarely eat hamburgers just us so number one I'm not really that familiar with it secondly it's the food that um grease falls down into the coals and then it flares up which is something that is really kind of hard to deal with and also I tried to not undercook them for people and I ended up kind of overcooking them and they got cold immediately so last year I just remember like thinking I'll make a smorgasbord of burgers and hot dogs but like by the time people were eating burgers i feel like they were like cold hockey pucks because i overcooked them the grill flared up too much then they're sitting out they get cold immediately and i was just like this sucks i told v's like i don't want to make that but then the foods that i am comfortable making on the grill are not party foods i'm not going to make good slow cooked barbecue chicken for everybody at a party that's not a party food like that's a mess so anyway i i was like i really wanted to grill because it gives me something to do but then i was thinking about like the actual it doesn't start until like eight o'clock is there an genevieve feels like there's an expectation of dinner food at 8 p.m i do not feel that way but either way i don't think grilling is going to serve the needs of the guests nor the host so what are you guys going to do i'm going to find another task i'm gonna go um but i mean like what's the plan for i think these ones i don't know they put that cordy these might be inspired by those sandwiches that we got at the neptune theater that you ended up giving away at uh at big time brewing um thank you katie beck for helping yes but i think that i don't know genevieve has made some noise about maybe just getting some sandwiches or something like that but something like not catered but like getting trays of something and and putting it out i honestly i think a party that starts at 7 38 o'clock on a saturday you can just have like heavy snacking i don't think there's an expectation of sandwiches or hamburgers or hot dogs necessarily it's a summer party so grilling is nice but if you cut that out i don't think sandwiches are going to be expected but whatever it's not my party well not my circus

It's not my monkeys. I would say, I think that, first of all, there should never be an expectation. In my mind, there should never be an expectation that the people that are being nice enough to buy the drinks and the snacks and the whatever are also going to feed you. Like, I don't think that that should be the expectation. That's why people have that thing, bring something to the grill and something to swill, right? Like bring something if you want to cook something If you want to have a steak Bring it we'll throw it on the barbecue If you want to drink something some expensive Whatever bring it So I don't think anybody should expect Anything from you and Vives that being said I do think people are going to be hungry

Yeah that is true like I if I go to A party I like I actually prefer It not to be a meal but just like Really good hors d'oeuvres I guess Whores d'voors like Luke it's so rare I go to parties but like we went over to it's so rare you're invited it's true we went over to like Roden's house now this is around the holidays so it's a totally different deal it's an indoor thing it's not an outdoor summer party but like we went around the holidays for a little holiday party at Roden's and like they had Swedish meatballs I don't know if they were Swedish meatballs but they had meatballs you know

fresh from the Ikea and they were in a

crock pot I don't remember He was making like these I don't know little things with tortilla I don't know what he was making but it was like We didn't all sit down there were no like Sandwiches but it was just like really good Snacky foods I think that's what you want at a party Right something you can eat on the end of a toothpick

Sure yeah And again I I know you and Genevieve And I know that you guys Are you know going to splash out for this Party but I worry for you what you Will do with yourself if you're not hanging out by the grill what do you think will now sort of fill your time that's an interesting

question yeah um am i gonna yeah am i gonna have to like be a little bit more actively social

will you be at the eagles or at the uh what's the place with the fishing pole that uh oh the pub at pipers creek are you gonna be at what point will you be at the pub at pipers well we are gonna

be putting i i am worried and speaking of cats and like worrying about them getting outside is like we are gonna have to put our cats in our bedroom i think which is not a favorite thing of mine i'm gonna have to put a temporary litter box in there and just have to be prepared to

clean up all of the so bingo is not going to be able to roam no because there's gonna be like

people are gonna be coming indoor outdoor indoor outdoor constantly like i just i can't he will get outside he will want to hang out at the party he will then run away and the thing is i say the word run away i don't think that like bingo is like i gotta get out of the scene man i'm gonna pack up my little bindle and hit the rails i just think this is the thing wander this is what i'm

going to find out about bubbles at some point because if and if and when uh this house that i'm working on ever actually is like inhabitable and also is a place where i can have people come over bubbles is going to be running around all over and i think she's the same way i think she just wants to be around people but i again i get very afraid of testing that theory because maybe She has a wanderlust that I don't understand.

Yeah, cats. I mean, that's the thing. The last time it was really scary, and this is years and years ago now. But when we had Theo and still Professor Bananas and they got out again, boy, Luke, that's more than five years ago now, I think, or around there. It was super scary. And I kept thinking, like, why did Bananas leave? You know, like, she's scared of everything. It's because they're just compelled to do so. If they see an open window, they can't not go out it and then sniff around. And then what happens? She finds herself under the neighbor's shed and nobody can get her out because she plants herself in the exact center of underneath.

How did you actually figure out where they were?

I was just looking all over the place. And I think I got down on my hands and knees and I saw her under there. My neighbor might have even found her.

How freaking relieved were you when you saw that?

Yes and no. Genevieve was I think Genevieve was very upset and I think low key furious at me because.

We didn't know how they got out, but we assumed it was my fault, which I honestly think is a fair assumption. I think I ended up figuring it out.

It was likely my fault.

Knowing me and how I go through the world, I probably did something. So seeing her under there, it was a relief to know she was under there, but we had no idea how we were going to get her out. In fact, nobody could reach her, so we had to wait for her to come out, and she did come to us.

Just knowing where she was must have been just some kind of relief.

And then Theo went on some sort of a, what do you call it, a rumspringer for like five days. Oh, so he was gone longer. Oh, that's what really killed me, yeah.

I thought that they were, oh, yeah, I was under the impression that you found both of them in the same place, but that was not the case.

No, she came back, and that's the thing, that's kind of, I guess, my point of degree that I have one, is she was compelled to go outside, but then went outside and was like, it's scary out here, and hid under a shed, you know. i think theo went out i think he probably had a pretty good time and that's when we had to canvas in the neighborhood when after the three day mark went by i thought we were never going to see him again it was really sad but then he ended up coming back which was great he was he was coming back to eat the food that we were putting out uh out on our back porch and then one day we actually uh saw him and grabbed him but uh it was a huge relief but like that's what i mean like a cat's like i always say oh the cat ran away but the thing is the cat didn't run away the cat just can't not go out a window i didn't tell you this luke just saturday morning the you know the day of our huge 4000th live show at the neptune uh vives and i got up not especially early i'm downstairs in the bathroom maybe reading the reader's digest um and i saw that on instagram by the way what's that you posted oh yeah yeah yeah that were that were sent in but um no the this is last saturday and uh all of a sudden i hear genevieve yelling she's like hurry up hurry up now now now emergency and i'm like what's going on and so i i i clean up and i run outside and it's she says the bingo pushed the screen out of the window we have this one window that's behind the headboard of our of our bed and um he's been doing this thing recently where it seems so uncomfortable but he jams himself back there kind of like almost repels down and then just squeezes himself up against the window screen and just enjoys the outdoors that way I guess well Genevieve just woke up was making the bed and saw that that screen was pushed out like just straight up pushed out open air and so she's freaking out and just that feeling I described this to you before and you know it you're just like oh my god and I'm like okay how is the rest of this day gonna go

like I'm spending the rest of this day I mean I told you this and I talked about on the show but i thought bubbles was lost at the other house um for this was 20 minutes and i was like well my life's over yeah like i was like i measure my life in terms of before and after this event

it it was 20 minutes and she was still in the house it's stunning the feelings we have are stunning anyway and then also i'm kind of like wow this is it's like what t minus eight hours before you and I take the stage there are a million we have to unload lunch boxes at the venue we have to go shopping for green you know there's a million things on my list to do that day ending with walking out on stage and hopefully not making an ass of myself am I going to do all of this stuff while not while Genevieve is wandering around the neighborhood like crying looking for bingo well it turns out the scare lasted about five seconds because we just said bingo bingo bingo and he came jumping out of the storage area we have where he goes back and sleeps in the cat cage that we store back there.

So he had pushed the screen out but had not tried to leave the house. He didn't go outside.

We just assumed, like, cats, windows, freedom. But no, he was just like, oh, apparently the screen opens, and then he went back into his office.

See, that's what I feel like, I hope anyway, is going to be what happens with Bubbles at the other house, is there's going to be a moment Of me being super scared Because I'm going to assume That she just wants to run For the hills But she'll just be There being like Hey where's the food You know what I mean Like She will be I'm hoping that she is More into me We have such She and I have such A weird relationship Because She's obsessed with me But every time I pick her up It's the least Sort of enjoyable experience She's ever had And what I If I lived around A big weird ogre and every time i went by the big weird ogre they picked me up and they sang some kind of a song to the tune of bubbles b like sometimes let it be but sung in the style of bubbles b and turned me upside down and then petted my stomach like the first time that happened i'd be like well i'm not going near that ogre again but she's around me constantly like anywhere i go she is like i want to be near this dude even though everything i do annoys her and i'm hoping that that sort of whatever you would call it that that system of her wanting to be near me will will continue to be the case even when she escapes from the house which i think she's going to do at some point but she'll still be like i want this guy to sing bubbles bee and pet my stomach even though i hate

it if you have not signed up for the tbtl newsletter i would encourage you to do so as you hear my voice we'll get this show posted and then the newsletter is going out at 1 p.m pacific time today in it there is the usual hey dummies video but this time bingo decided to hang out with me the entire time with me now i'm gonna have to subscribe exactly i don't even like the newsletter i don't i don't usually i'm not usually proud of my hey dummies performances but i will say that there's something kind of cute happens at the end of this one so um pay attention for that or pay attention for that what the hell yeah sold pay attention all right let's do a little

music for your weekend oh by the way i'm going to a show tonight with addie and becca i'm going to see big thief and lucinda williams yeah that's right then they're up here tomorrow night i think yeah pretty exciting stuff that is are you considering skipping your party to go see big thief and lucinda williams no but der's is i don't know where he ended up landing on that but

he told me months ago he's like i don't know what to do it's your party but it's also big thief and

said it's not i mean those are two things that i love so much uh and for you know sort of different reasons like lucinda williams i've just loved forever and ever you know there was a long period of time where i thought lucinda williams was jordan peele's mother oh yeah you've mentioned this yeah i had heard i'd gotten some bad intel that uh jordan peele's mom was the singer lucinda williams and for years i was telling people this and then one day i googled it and it's very much not the case oh yeah but didn't you met him like one time a long time i met him a few times and

but when you met him that one time you know when he had been i think you said maybe he had been on mad tv and some other things he wasn't like the auteur that we know him to be today he wasn't even on key and peel yet um during that meeting didn't you weren't you under that assumption that

whole time too no i think i i came under that misapprehension later oh okay because that would have been the main thing i wanted to talk to him about yeah if i would have known i'd be like your mother is lucinda williams yeah good thing i guess who does the song crescent city off of uh car wheels on a uh on a dirt road what no i think it was only later that i got that bad information and then again told so many people it was one of my favorite things to trot out at a party hey you know um jordan peele from a get out his mother is lucinda williams well the good thing about that is

nobody else has that information so you definitely were blowing a lot of tiny minds totally and it's

also one of those things you could never know the real answer to right yeah we don't we're not walking around with some kind of supercomputer in our pocket at all times that could have disabused

me of that notion but do you know what i'm remembering right now and i'll tell you why it's relevant and this is a little bit of dream talk but you know what everybody can pay attention and deal with everybody can nut up what'd you say yes this is i don't know strap on a set gross strap on a set what a gross thing for me to say my my apologies um anyway uh i had a dream just this morning that i kind of blacked out during music for your weekend here's how the dream went from the point that i remember the dream is you and i were wrapping up a show and i just ended with words by doves and then i had this moment where i was like wait today's a friday why did i end with words by doves and i turned to you and i said didn't we have any um listener music for your weekend and you turned to me and you said yeah we we just did that segment where have you been and you even gestured down and there was the cd case for the listener submission that we had just played and i realized and we both realized that i yeah exactly that i was sitting there talking with you and I somehow blacked out during the last bit of tbtl and I didn't even pay any attention to the music for your weekend even though I was talking to you and pushing all the buttons that is relevant I realize now because I don't have any music for your weekend I think that's why I was dreaming about that because I have not been listening to music much lately especially or having a four weekend what's or having a weekend right the here's what I will

play though so i just opened up my um my spring my song if you want to if that helps buy you some

time i think i know what i'm going to do here this is um uh you know earlier this summer i was listening to a lot of nick drake not a lot of but i had maybe one weekend where i was like um bopping to some nick drake and uh this is the song that i listened to a lot uh earlier this summer this is the song i don't think i played this on the show recently i don't know i've been blacking out during the music for your weekend but i've heard that here's nick drake things Behind the Sun. Please beware of them that stare They'll only smile to see you while you're dying away Once you've seen what they've been to When the earth just won't seem worth a night or a day Oh yeah, what I say Look around you, find the ground is not so far from where you are I don't know too wise For down below, they never grow, they're always tired And charms are hired from out of their eyes Never a surprise Take your time and you'll be fine Say a prayer for people that Will live on the throne And if you see what's meant to be done Name the day or try to say Happen before

I just wanted him to say the name of the song, but I guess we're not going to get there until the next time. No, I love the part where he kind of goes up,

you know, like, look at her. I'm not going to do my Nick Drake impression, but I was listening to a playlist that was Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Our House, when I was driving up to the Tinned Fish shoot, and it tended to deliver a lot of Nick Drake. I was just like this this guy don't miss like I love that guy so much yeah I um it's funny I

think there are some he only released three records and I don't even think I know them all completely I had like I think we talked about this recently I'd like the the Ryco disc sampler of all three records or something um which is weird because I was not usually a kind of a greatest hits guy but what do you think the mood will be if people come over to the party on Saturday and

i'm just playing that tone of music uh pray uh play what's it called a brighter later oh yeah that's the one kind that's the one upbeat the one upbeat number put that on the on repeat put that on repeat uh the song that i would like to play is by mac miller and yesterday as i was walking around the apartment taping up boxes dealing with the madness that is packing tape uh they uh played uh they were talking about mac miller because it was the five-year anniversary of uh mac miller's tiny desk concert which i just loved so much so he put out this record swimming and uh and around the time the album came out he also did this uh with thundercat who's like this insanely talented bassist uh they did a tiny desk thing and it was just kind like everything in my world uh was sort of i don't know addy might have even been working on the tiny desk at this point like it was just like this is for me uh and anyway they played uh they they had the producer of that particular tiny desk concert yesterday on all things considered talk about what was going through his mind when mac miller was there and kind of like what the vibe was and all this stuff because you know mac miller has passed away and when i tell you andrew that it got a little dusty for me which i say this every time the topic of mac miller comes up but like i have no business having the feelings that i have about mac miller like i'm old i'm boring i'm uh i don't know there's something about and in particular this album swimming that just got me at this particular moment in time and him passing away just really really did a number on me so of course yesterday when the producer of that tiny desk show was talking about him i was just like i was like walking around like uh sweeping up the house and mildly crying so anyway this is not uh from the tiny desk show because i don't really know how to do that i don't know how to find one of those songs but this song was featured on that and it's small worlds by Mac Miller. So can we play that?

Yeah. Yeah. The world is so small till it ain't. Yeah. I'm building up a wall till it break. She hate it when I call and it's late. I don't want to keep you waiting. I hope I never keep you waiting. I think I know it all, but I don't Why you always at the mall when you're broke? And I just wanna ball, maybe dunk, but I've never been taught I might trip, I never fall, God knows I came close I know I probably need to do better, fuck whoever Keep my shit together You never told me Being rich was so lonely Nobody know me Oh, well Hard to complain From this five-star hotel I'm always in a rush I've been thinking too much

Sorry, I forgot to say there's a swear in there. I think that's okay. Yeah?

You think we can... People can hang with the... I think people can hang with that. Speaking of... He says he wants to ball, maybe even dunk, but he's not that tall. I received my basketball in the mail from Maggie yesterday. Thank you again, Maggie, for that. A brand new... Can you send me a picture? Wait, hold on, Luke. Hold on one second. It's right outside the door. I need... Okay, okay, fine.

He's going out. This is me stalling. This is me stalling. You know, a lot of radio professionals would say something interesting. What I'm going to do is just open this American cheese slice. Ew. Hey, come on.

Spalding Street, Luke, is what I got. Oh, street. It's performance for all surfaces. I've always noticed you to be very street. Exactly. So, oh, that did not make a good bouncy sound. Sorry, that just sounded like a good one. Can you show me a picture, by the way? Sure, yeah, I'll send it to you. It's a brand new. And so the compulsion to bounce a basketball, even when you have nowhere to bounce it. Do not fight it. It's carpeted down here. So what I did was yesterday I went outside. You picture, Luke, the little tiny stairwell outside my office outside. It's like a it's like, what is it? A three foot by three foot little square of concrete with a little like, I don't know, five, four stairs leading up to the yard. I was just bouncing the ball in that little square where it's actually really good.

That's a really good exercise. Go up the stairs and down the. Oh, that's interesting. They're very small. It's difficult. It's difficult to hit the ball on there. Oh, my gosh. dude please send me a picture yeah i am like here's the thing that's so crazy i have been thinking about it makes no sense at this house that i'm moving to in two days because it's very windy up there but i've been thinking about like putting some kind of cement thing in with a basketball hoop and what i think about when i do that is you playing at that like you whatever

universal life church in your neighborhood well why does it just because of the wind it doesn't because i think it makes absolute sense except for i guess if you really think it's just too

windy to shoot well uh no i'm first of all you know me i there's nothing i love more than a bad idea so i'm probably going to do it um but it also some of it has to do with where the ball will go if i miss oh you know what i mean like it will literally go into the columbia river yeah that which seems bad but i will still probably do this but when i when i'm like oh hey by the way i fixed my knee yesterday oh that's right while you and i were talking i popped my knee and then it

was fine and then i ran how did you pop that oh how did you just i don't know it just like popped

like i was kind of moving in a weird way and it went like oh okay you weren't like kind of taking

your hand and trying to like move your leg back into place or something like that no because i

talked about this yesterday about how i was kind of like bummed about my knee being weird and not being able to jog i ended up having a wonderful jog yesterday my knee just needed to pop but um but yeah when i when i think about doing a basketball thing at my house what i really think about is you at that church playing basketball which i haven't even done yet it's

just an idea and i don't even think it's a very flat surface now that i've got the ball i was like now do i have the gumption just to go over there and start shooting into somebody else's hoop and then like be prepared for somebody to say hey um you know who who are you and why are you in our parking lot like or even walk through the alleyways and potentially see somebody see me with a basketball and just be like what is he going to put that under his under his shirt and pretend like he's pregnant for some sort of a comedy bit it just doesn't look like a match made in heaven me and a basketball do you have a pump for the ball no it did come inflated though because i was thinking about that i knew it was probably going to be waiting for me at the po box i was like oh i'm gonna have to stop by big five sport big five yes isn't that where the isn't where u-dub is now going to the big five sports uh if they're lucky in northgate

you better hope it's not 3gi which was the old sporting goods store which only a couple old heads will even get that reference but up on holman road there was a it was called 3gi and that was the other other than big five the big sports

Do you want to know, I'm sorry, Andrew, I can't help I can't help for it Do you want to know how you know if the, this is not a joke by the way If your basketball is at the right level of inflation How? You basically hold it in your hand And then you, let's just say that you're holding your hand More or less in front of you Like at roughly the level of your chest Right? And you drop the ball And then you put your hand back to the top of your shoulder So that your elbow is out And if the ball bounces back to your elbow It's inflated properly

Kind of raise your elbow So your elbow is sort of sticking up to Where your nose is basically

Not that high Your elbow is kind of where your chest is But you drop the ball And then you bring your hand back And then where your elbow is Let's just say right below your chest A little bit below your chest If the ball bounces back to where your elbow is It has the right level of inflation

Well that's interesting And again I don't know about these things but I was very pleasantly surprised by the level of inflation in this. You know, we're talking about inflation here. I don't know if we want to get into a conversation about the Fed or whatever. But, again, I don't know if it's perfect. Once again, it comes back to Janet Yellen. It certainly does. But, yeah, I would say it's like I'm pressing it now. It's like the consistency of an overripe avocado or like a peach that has been sitting in the sun for months and months and months. And that's right. That's how it's supposed to be. My thumbs are going into it Yes I'm very excited

I'm so excited for you We have a listener suggestion From listener Jay Who says hey guys First congrats on the 4000th show I've been listening since the awesome not awesome segment On Madeline Maddie Brand's show I knew that was going to Create What would you call it Revenue You being on you being on that yeah yeah yeah it's i used to have to sneak i used to have to sneak into a studio at cairo and like isdn with like uh kpcc back in the day to do awesome not awesome anyway and it it netted us listener jay he says uh can't thank you both enough for the years of enjoyment uh now then on the topic of your recent mention of la oil refineries in plain view i think this is when you mentioned, Andrew, that there is a building in L.A. that has been built to hide an oil well, Derrick, and I believe that listener Jay lives near there. One of them is near where we rent. It's wild to see a tower surrounded by drought-tolerant native plants and decomposed granite. The neighborhood is full of modest homes that start at 1.2 million yeah that sounds right that sounds like an la story uh a vinyl only record store a vegetarian restaurant and this danged oil refinery anyhow i have a screenshot of the joint from gorgle maps here as well as a view from the hipster coffee shop down the street and jay was nice enough to include a little um google whatever you call it like aerial view of things uh the uh this song is a personal favorite and it's a los angeles related synergy i think you'll like it it's a song called los angeles by dougie pool do you know dougie pool andrew no i don't think so the name

really rang a bell but i don't recognize any of this i don't either but i feel like this is a

person that you and i would be into having listened to this song okay it's extremely up our respective alleys oh great well i'm excited yeah we're gonna hear the song los angeles by dougie pool uh suggested by listener Jay. That's going to bring us to the end of this broadcast week. Thank you everybody for being part of TBTL. We really appreciate you. Have a great weekend. Go Mariners and go eat a bagel and please remember to a mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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And I thought that did disturb me

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