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TBTL! In this brochure, it says this tour is crunk. What does that mean?

The beginning is horrible, also the middle, so I'll give it a four.

First of all, I'd like to see the chef face to face. These are the best Cajun chicken niblets I've ever had.

Yeah, most people think I'm on drugs because I'm always happy. Are you on drugs? No, I'm not. I'm high on life.

If there's a better use for the internet, I haven't found it.

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

This whole conversation bothers me.

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Indeed, Queen. Coming to you from the Riverhouse studio first high above the mighty Columbia, where the absolutely ridiculous heat will apparently break or has broken, and we will be merely in the high 80s today. Please clap. Will be a huge improvement. Hopefully it will allow me to record this episode of the program with all of the windows closed. Because outside those windows, there is a lot of construction noise going on, a lot of compressors compressing themselves and other sorts of power tools, power tooling. I don't even think that the windows being closed is going to do a lot of good, but I'm going to try and make that happen for you. So this, episode 4,012 in a collector's series, will be especially enjoyable for all of you.

Let the fun begin.

Or somehow less annoying than normal. That's what I'm going for here. Scientists have done something quite amazing in Shanghai.

Just ask this scientician.

They have implanted sort of monitors, I guess you will. They've basically been able to read the brainwaves of people who are listening to music and then recreate the music they were listening to just based on brain activity.

It's like someone punching your brain, but in a weirdly satisfying way.

We'll tell you about the latest with that. And we'll play you the sound of 20, I think it's 28 people's brains making the music of Pink Floyd and why they picked the music of Pink Floyd for the study. Also, we just talked last week about driverless cars becoming legal. for rideshares and such in San Francisco, and they're already running into problems. A driverless car drove into wet cement on a construction project. What an idiot. So we'll get into that as well. And it's a Thursday, a.k.a. a Blur's Day. So, of course, we'll do some Blur's Day messages, and we'll talk to this guy, the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships, their grace, their splendor, and all that intricate rigging. His name, his name's Mr. Mr. Mr. Unlimited. But he also goes by Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. You're breaking a rule right now, my friend. You're breaking the cardinal rule. I have one rule. Wow. Do you know what my rule is? No, but I'm really curious to hear what it is. My rule, as you well know, because it adorns many mugs and pillowcases in my home, is don't even talk to me until I've had my caffeine. And Luke, I haven't had my caffeine today, and here you are talking to me. What are you doing? You're setting me up here.

You haven't had your moon juice?

I slept too late today, so I don't.

You haven't had your java?

I haven't had my java. I haven't had my cup of joe. My joe-mentum is down.

Do you even have, do you have any, or do you need me to tap dance while you go out to the little kitchenette and get some coffee?

I need you to bring me some coffee. No, I have some. You will be shocked to hear that I have part of a routine in the afternoons and evenings that includes me prepping the coffee for the next day. I don't set the timer, but I get everything else ready.

But wait a minute. You said afternoons. Is it literally sometimes the afternoon that you're getting tomorrow's coffee ready?

Usually it's like an evening activity, but maybe I slip that in because I do feel like yesterday after work, You and I were recording some things, and, uh...

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why I included that. I wrapped up. I had to go pick up a chainsaw from a friend of mine, Luke. More on that later. Yeah.

Okay.

Drug deal gone bad. That's what you're thinking. You're absolutely right. But no, I had to go pick up, run some errands, and I got home. And I just remember making the coffee yesterday. It was still daylight. Maybe it was 5 or 6 or something, so I said afternoon there. I've derailed the whole thing. But yeah, no, I make, I prepare the coffee, grind the beans, have the beans waiting in the filter in the basket, water's in the chamber. That way, if Genevieve and I, whoever wakes up first to, I almost said milk the cats, but no, to feed the cats, we just hit go on the machine. Sometimes I put a little sticky note on there that says go or something like that, which means you're all set. Coffee is ready for you.

I put my empty, clean mug in front of the coffee maker to tell my brain in the morning that it's ready to go. That's my little subtle indicator.

I had a feeling you did the same thing. I think you've mentioned that before. If possible, you're prepping your coffee the night before, too.

Yeah, it's a good feeling. I don't always nail it, but, you know, I do. It's kind of a nice little, as the evening draws to a close, puttering around and getting everything all ready. Excuse me, I muted my own microphone there accidentally. That's a weird sound. Well, because I'm sitting here, Andrew, I'm riding the mute button today because there is just so much construction noise happening that whenever I'm not talking, I'm trying to keep myself muted here, but I just did it while I was actually trying to talk and that was a big mistake. Anyway, so you're grinding the coffee, you're putting a post-it note with the word go on the machine and then what happened?

And then, no, I just woke up really late today and then I'm like, you know, I have a cup of coffee here sitting next to me. Like Genevieve has had her coffee but I didn't start sipping my coffee until the intro because I stumbled in here like 20 minutes before showtime to do a little rep. Can you feel the caffeine waking you up? Can you feel it? Coursing through your system? I don't know if it's that or just your magnetism, honestly. I'm trying to figure out what is giving me this spring. I'm having energy for both of us today, Andrew. Thank you. I appreciate it. What you're sending down the line. Actually, can I – just going back to my puttering for a second, I did have a stray thought yesterday. Actually, in that – around that time that I was puttering, maybe it was because I got to my puttering early yesterday. Maybe there's a reason why we drilled down on that a second ago because, like I said, I ran some errands. And I came home, put away some groceries, and then I did start doing things like making, I make ice cubes once a night, usually set up the ice trays, whatever. I still haven't told you about hot dog ice, but. Oh, that's right. We got to get to that. So I have these little routines that, you know, are getting probably more and more. Rigid. Well, if not rigid, like mentally suspicious, maybe is a good way of putting it. Oh, okay. Let's keep an eye on these things, you know, until, like, you know, if the trajectory keeps, I'll be, like, 70 years old and just, like, nothing but, like, routinely going around. Like, I'm literally in the game of Minecraft just moving one thing from one shelf to the other back and forth and back and forth.

You're creating some sort of an exoskeleton of a life around yourself of tasks that's just there to sort of scaffold and hold up what's left of the inside of you.

For some reason, I have me kind of with the movement of a Lego man at this point, just arms at sides, elbows out, moving boxes from place to place and making ice, making coffee.

The definition of an automaton.

Yeah, yeah. Must make ice. Must make coffee. Brain is good. But anyway, yesterday, I'm sort of in that mode, kind of getting some stuff done. And one thing that we also have to do around here is keep the birdbath full of water. As you know, it's been super hot. So the water has just been, I mean, it's kind of hard to keep that thing full anyway. We have it kind of attached to our deck. It's just a very kind of, you know, shallow. There's nothing fancy about it. It's just a little plastic birdbath, very shallow, concave little deal. And we usually fill that up using a water fountain, or I'm sorry, like a watering can that we fill up inside in the sink. And yesterday I noticed that it was totally dry because, you know, the weather's been so hot. Whatever was in there was splashed out.

The crows will yell at you sometimes. They will berate you if the water is not in their birdbath.

Well, I mean, I always feel like everybody's hollering at me, so that's my interpretation of it. But, yeah, the relationship with the crows, it's died down a little bit as the summer's gone on.

How many crows live there? Have you ever counted them?

Yeah! As soon as I'm done smashing these pumpkins, I swear I'm going to count these crows. But anyway, yeah, no, the crows were leaving us some really macabre gifts and putting them in strange places, like specifically like eye-level places for me and Genevieve around our yard, like remains of animals and stuff and fish sometimes left in the birdbath. For a while there, the crows were bringing almost days.

daily some hardened stale bread that they were getting from some dumpster somewhere bringing it to our birdbath letting it soften in there and then taking it away so again when that happened we'd have to clean it out a lot point is viva and i both keep an eye on it we fill it up with water yesterday i filled up the watering can took it outside then dumped that water into the birdbath then i did one thing i had never done before which is i said you know what this water is probably going to evaporate quickly again why don't i just fill up this watering can again and then set it outside next to the birdbath in other words usually the the task would begin by filling up the watering can but this time I was thinking you know what the next time we go to do this it'll be nice the watering can will already be full for us and that is when I went and started having these thoughts about like it kind of what I was just saying before like how much preparation can I do eventually it'll be like well if we have two watering cans then we'll always be ready like at what point and also do i spoil future andrew because that's part of it too i'm like future andrew will be glad that i already filled up the watering can but then am i setting up future andrew for disappointment if i if i don't live up to any kind of new routine that i create does that make sense i feel like i'm babbling but i also feel like i'm trying to make a real point

i hear where you're going which is like it's it is disappointing sometimes to make a plan in your mind like this is going to be the new way that i do it whatever it is and then you just actually kind of totally fail at at whatever your new plan was on the other hand it can also get out of hand where there's just 36 watering cans in a row you're just howard husing these watering cans for some reason they're full of your own urine which also seems to me like you like you said

mentally what was the term you used mentally suspicious still not mentally suspicious not not great but okay i want to just tweak that a tiny bit though because i am i'm not i'm not trying to defend my weird behavior here and i was kind of kidding about like how many watering cans would you set up but when i say that like am i setting up future andrew for disappointment i think the coffee is the perfect example of that um like it is very unusual for me not to have prepared the coffee the night before at this point like it started as a novelty at one point then i would do it sometimes and i'd always leave a note on it for genevieve when the coffee was ready right but we got to a point it's been years now that with the a very rare exception of you know maybe once a month or something the coffee is ready to go in the morning you don't need a note it just is and so therefore i'm wondering like does does being ahead of the game sometimes screw you over because when you can't be ahead of the game everybody's going to assume that the coffee has been made or i'm going to assume the coffee has been made or i'm going to assume that the watering can has already been full but it's not you don't see that's what i mean not about not living up to the expectations of it but just like stumbling because something that is always ready

suddenly isn't right you've created an expectation within yourself yeah that there's another step there and then all of a sudden there isn't and then you do that weird awkward thing where you

think there was one more step and then you have well then the next day you're like oh shit i hit go on the coffee maker and all it's doing is you know making air sounds because there's nothing

actually that does loom surprisingly large and on my list of fears that i will that's why i have my whole system with my coffee mug because i do worry that i'll walk in and hit go on the coffee machine and it'll be the day that I didn't set it up. So that's why I have my system of indications as to what the deal is, what is going on.

It's rare that something like this happens, but I swear one time I started the coffee-making task and then didn't finish it, so Genevieve hit go in the morning and it just was hot water, I think, or something along those lines. I've done that. Yeah, because there was no beans in there.

Yes, that has absolutely happened to me. I will tell you this. i am using here at this house i am using a twenty dollar mr coffee machine that i'm absolutely in love with bought it at the walmart in longview washington and which turns a hundred by the way i noticed today i was going down to lake sacajawea to get my little jog on and i saw a big banner

that the town is turning 100 oh the town is i thought that store was no the town is turning

100 and they had a big banner of all the things going on i thought this has strong blaine missouri sesquicentennial vibes going on yes if there's a play you should if they're putting on a production of red white and blaine i am there for it and i'm bringing a balloon like roy loomis at the end of waiting for guffman who they think is the the uh critic who's going to take them to broadway is the

balloon just like for his niece or something i believe it's for like one of his like his niece

her nephew she'll get a kick out of this i believe he says but anyway um i uh i got this coffee maker and it's so great because it is so simple it just has an on button and an off button it just says brew and you hit this thing and it doesn't now becca at her house because she's a connoisseur she um does the uh she foams her milk

now you know you have do you have one of those little no power kind of agitators it has like looks like a spring on the bottom of it and it like foams your milk for it's a little wand you

put in your milk it seems so i don't i drink milk in my coffee so that i don't have a use for it but that's one of those things where i wish i did just so i could do that and i'll tell you it takes like

any kind of milk you're having and it just it just it's a uh it's a real game changer like it just somehow it's like sometimes on a sunday morning we'll be listening to will shorts and Aisha Roscoe doing the puzzle, foamed up milk, sloppy steaks, slicked back hair. I know second day in a row I'm making that reference, but whatever. Don't judge me. Anyway, all of that is to say.

I'm worried that Aisha doesn't know that people can change.

Here's my point. I was at Becca's house the other day, and she was out on a run or something, and I had to Google, I had to watch a YouTube video, too much of a YouTube video to figure out how to run her coffee maker. because it has I believe it's I believe it's a Cuisinart and it has Andrew I am here to tell you the worst designed buttons you have ever seen the button to make the coffee says literally brew off we got a brew off we got a brew off on our hands a good old-fashioned brew off it was i seriously and then also i mean god bless but god bless the guy in like jersey who decided to record a video for youtube about how to operate this particular queens and our coffee maker because it had like it had okay one button said one dash four i assume that meant if you wanted between one and four cups first of all i don't even know how that works isn't one cup and four cup very different isn't one of them is four times the other wait this makes just an individual cup of coffee i guess i'm just telling you from memory the buttons okay one of the buttons says one dash four well i was making more than one to four cups of coffee um so i didn't want to do that because i didn't want the ratio of water to be out of whack there was you know what i mean like the amount of grounds and water was probably for making like seven or eight cups so i didn't think that was going to work there was a button that said clean i didn't want to clean the machine there was a button that said brew off i thought well off is always a bad sign when you're trying to turn something on and then about 15 minutes into this guy's like unboxing and using of this cuisinart he goes and if you just want to make a cup of coffee you hit this button that says brew off i'm you gotta be kidding me can i guess the worst design of all time did you find i i have not

seen this thing and these things are very complicated but i'm wondering if that one through four was more of a strength like at what what kind of strength he said he said um the guy

I found the video said if you want to do between one and four cups of coffee. Oh, okay.

Oh, okay.

But I don't understand how that works, though. Those are different amounts of something. How does it, like, if you want to do four cups of coffee, here's the button for it. But what is between one and four cups of coffee? I'm also trying to see if I can find.

I'd love to hear this, Jersey guy. Because I'm wondering if you hit that button, is there a light that lights up that says one? And if you hit it again, does the button change to, say, two? Or is there, like, any kind of LED display?

You know, maybe that's totally possible, a Cuisinart operation. Also, I don't even remember if it was a Cuisinart or not. Let's see here. I'm doing this. Okay. Oh, yeah, here we go. I think this might be – let's just see. This might be the person. I'm sure also we'll have to watch some ridiculous ad beforehand because you don't film yourself operating a Cuisinart coffee maker, Andrew, and not monetize it. Tell you what. So let's see here. Okay. I don't even know if this is the same video.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the channel. Yes. And in this video, I'm going to cover how to navigate the control panel on the Cuisinart 14-cup programmable coffee maker. I love this.

By the way, are you getting strong Jersey vibes? Maybe more New York. 15 minutes? This is 7 minutes and 28 seconds. I'll take it all.

And this is the perfect temp model. The model number is DCC3200. And I believe this is the latest model that there is. um i checked the site um it's late august 2021 so i do believe that this is the most up-to-date model and we're going to get straight into it starting with how to set the clock and no we're

not timer no we're not are we skipping ahead yeah so here we go um time's gonna flash 12 o'clock

there's some um let's see here skip ahead double check with time um oh god you said it for just in case you forgot you just press and hold it can you pause it for a second and i'll show you

Yes, and I'm also trying to find where he's – the majority of the video appears to be setting the clock.

This is so funny. I found the – I want to tell you something about holding that button in, but first I just want to mention that I did find this exact device on Amazon, and it mentions the one through four cup setting in the headline. Cuisinart coffee maker, 14-cup glass carafe, fully automated.

for brew strength control in a one through four cup setting. Anyway, can you zoom in? What does it mean? Can you zoom in on brew off, by the way? We could on brew. Let's see here. Brew off or auto off. Brew off. Oh, no, it's brew slash off or auto off. So it's like either brew or off. That's what that means.

The slash is doing so much work in that sentence for me. And it's really tiny.

I'm enhanced, enhanced, enhanced on a computer. Like if I was in this kitchen, I'd be taking off my glasses

and bending towards the machine it's just i just don't think you should ever have the word off on the same featured in the same unless on is the other i was gonna say yeah no this is they're

just replacing the word on with brew if it was on slash off no problem but yeah the fact that

it's brew slash off is confusing there's something about that it just really it really threw me and true um which is why i love my mr coffee my 20 dollar mr coffee and i love that you still have

that formalized relationship where you have to call each other mister i uh wanted to say like upon second reference i have a i have a very simple coffee maker at our place and it's like it's like smeg brand but it's one of those like faux pho yeah it's cute it's like turquoise yeah and it's kind of cute faux retro sort of although i don't even really know if it's faux retro but it's just kind of this cute little thing and it's got a pretty small carafe but it works for for me it's not about the size of the carafe luke jeez louise um but anyway because it's like this super simple design it only has like three buttons one of which is like a little arm that sticks out that can also like like a little almost like joystick that can like wiggle up down left right and they don't want to mess the look of this thing up with a lot of buttons so each one of these buttons does a million things and none of them are labeled it'll just be like well this one's a circle oh great this one doesn't have any label on it okay and this one is maybe a wisp of steam and so what you need to do is like and i like when i'm descaling this thing i always i've had this thing for five years i always have to watch the youtube video to figure out wait i gotta push in this button with the wisp of steam and then the one that's the joystick is also i can push that in and then if i hold my breath and count to five then it'll be in descale mode but if you don't hold your breath while you hold both of those things then it'll just make a regular cup of coffee like it is really like they have to assign so many combinations it's like it's like that um nintendo thing a b a b what is it the konami code that's kind of what it's like to make coffee in my house

i was going to say well the name smeg made me think it's probably scandinavian and i was going to say they know how to do this because they just have a better educational system this is like the dream of like the socialist state is that everyone would know how to operate a complicated coffee machine and speak a couple of languages but then i looked it up it's actually italian is smeg the least italian word you've ever heard it sounds like it's the beginning of us of an italian it has not but then it just stops yeah that's such like what do you have on the menu well we're

serving smegatoli tonight exactly it needs the toli it needs the atoli like smeg just doesn't

look like an italian word to me at all like it i it needs to end and i oh my gosh andrew thanks a lot now because i put that into the internet i'm seeing like a smeg oven hood that's oh yeah

like incredible orange yeah like look at the fridges look at the refrigerators fridge fridge

where you can keep your butter 2199 dollars that i don't have for a smeg orange oven hood that is so designy and and whimsical and i love it i don't usually like things that are whimsical but yeah i got to give that this company credit they do have a good a sort of a good eye for oh they've got this dishwasher that looks amazing everything looks like they stole it out of the

world's most fun airstream yes like the refrigerators look like um in fact we might have do we have one of the I think we have one of these smeg refrigerators too I was about to yell to Genevieve it doesn't matter we have a new refrigerator downstairs and I think it might be a smeg or it's in the style of this and they almost look like old ice boxes the way that they're like

kind of rounded at the corners speaking of my little trip down to Lake Sacagawea this morning andrew i saw something that just absolutely warmed my heart and it was um so there is it's odd even at like 7 30 in the morning there are a lot of cars parked at this place i think it's kind of the main hangout if you're going to do any kind of walking or i don't know just like staring at the pretty lake kind of stuff in the town of longview washington um because i just figured it's kind of early like why there's also a hospital there so maybe people are parked uh who are you know visiting folks in the hospital but there's this one section where there usually aren't cars parked and i think it's because it's pretty close to where some folks are clearly living in their cars and have set up some you know some kind of like tents and things like that that's uh that are kind of i think some people are a little leery about maybe leaving their car next to these folks whilst they're off doing their walk i am not one of those people because honestly there's nothing of any value

you in my car and I also don't think being poor makes you a criminal so I park my car there do my little jog and I come back and I'm standing there I'm just kind of catching my breath and I see this car pull up to this area where I'd say it's maybe three or four cars that folks are kind of living in and then a couple of tents I see this like white not particularly fancy I don't know Chevy something kind of smallish Chevy crossover type of deal pull up and this lady gets out and she just has all of this food from burger king like she just got all this breakfast food from burger king she's not somebody who's like living there she's just somebody who's walking around to these folks and handing them bags of breakfast food from burger king and then she just gets back in her car and then just leaves like that was the whole event and like i know that this is something that you volunteer with a lot on a weekly basis which i'm i know you're not doing it to hear this but i mean that's i think an incredibly um kind thing that you and your other uh folks that you do that with are doing so you know i know that you know this world much better than i do but just this one little moment of kindness you know that was just like and the you know i don't i don't know anything about this woman's life who was dropping the stuff off but let's say she didn't pull up an alexis and she didn't you know she wasn't again i don't know i don't know what her financial picture is like but the fact that just on this morning she was just like let me let me just you know try to help some folks out I just thought it was so cool and I was like man that's an inspiration to just be more like that in the world yeah I mean one and I'm

not trying to like nitpick here but one small correction I would say there is no absolutely the reason I volunteer on weekends is so that you will mention it on this show like that is mission accomplished I thought I made that abundantly clear at this point um yeah no there were some I have similar thoughts sometimes and then I also sometimes I'm like well I don't want to be like a look at me Louie there were some folks who are like kind of right by my house parked like less than a block from my house on the same side of the street who like and again I live in an area where there's always a lot of sketchy stuff happening but also there's just a lot of poverty and I think you make a good designation there just because somebody's poor or like really just trying to survive in some some way whether it's on the streets or half on the streets or whatever it is doesn't mean that oh they're a criminal like i hear a lot of that from the folks that i volunteer with just like this is this assumption that society has that we group crime with homelessness together and obviously that's a problem um but then also where i live you just see people doing sketchy ass shit like all the time you know like and so or or assume or maybe i should say assume that you're seeing some sketchy shit and and sometimes you're definitely right i tell you god this is dark did you see in the newspaper yesterday another person was shot and killed like yes i did not bring that up because i didn't uh want to

overly feed into the narrative yeah um seattle is dying but yes i did see that and i did google street view it and i because you know i knew the rough coordinates but i was like let me remind myself and then i i developed like four theories about what happened right away and they all any

We have them involve the Dancing Bear. The Dancing Bear Theater.

They sure do, which I believe is now called, is it called Sugars now? I think it's Sugars now, yeah.

But I only...

I would be uncertain.

I don't think it was the paint store. Right. Did I tell you about the time we went into that paint store in the middle of a Saturday afternoon and they share a wall with the dance club? And this is, you know, like a strip club dance club. And when we say dance club, yes. It's a strip club, yeah. But I did not realize, yes, Vives and I, when we went to buy the paint for my bathroom, so we were renovating that this winter so this was six months ago or something we go in saturday afternoon and there's two people working and the one was new and um kind of a quiet person but we go in there and the wall that we're looking at the wall samples on is thumping luke absolutely vibrating thumping i was like i didn't even know that people would be dancing at one o'clock in the afternoon or maybe they're i don't know i mean i guess it's a 24-hour situation um but also then the person who was kind of like helping us a little bit was new and kind of a shy person and they were just kind of like yeah i just think it's so funny it's just so weird i'm like how are you doing just hearing like for an eight hour shift or whatever it is just hearing the constant like thudding like the wet thudding of bass through a wall you know what i mean like that non-clear kind of sound but um what was i going to say oh um so all of that is to say i saw some people yesterday kind of like kind of getting a bunch of stuff out of this car that looks like it was so smashed up that it doesn't run anymore but clearly this was some sort of a some sort of a base for i i couldn't tell if i was seeing two people or three people i drove by them kind of twice um but it was really really hot the reason i'm thinking of this right now is because i was sort of thinking like i should may i live so close i should just maybe check in and see if they need some water or something now again they weren't like camped there they it looked like they were just kind of like, I don't know. getting stuff out of the trunk, moving stuff from one bag to the trunk or whatever. And I got to say, for a second, I was like, well, they kind of look like they're up to something sketchy. This is kind of weird. Like, what's going on? Do they just store stuff in this car? But then I was like, why do I automatically assume it's sketchy? Like this could I think there were just two people. There might have been three. But I'm like, this could just be a really poor young couple who, yeah, probably have made some decisions that maybe I wouldn't have made in my life. But like just because I see people like kind of like moving things in and out of a smashed up car doesn't mean that there's anything illicit going on. it could mean that they were absolutely broke af and then the last straw was they got into this goddamn accident or something and their car had to stop here and now as they try to make their way you know just try to survive this heat they have to come and go to their car to pick stuff up i don't know maybe it was sketchy maybe it wasn't but you know even me where i like to think i'm the type of person who gives people the benefit of the doubt at first i'm like oh what sketchiness is this it's like that that could just be literally people surviving like you don't know

You want to talk about sketchiness, Andrew? This morning at about 4 a.m., okay, as has been well documented now on the show, where I live now is not in the heart of any kind of major city. I am kind of out in the sticks a little bit. I have neighbors, but it's like, it's not a very high traffic area at all where I am. And I was, well, I'm really obsessed with this show, Untold, I think is the name of it, on Netflix. It's made by the guys, the brothers, or I think they're brothers, McClain and Chapman Way, who made Wild Wild Country, and they made The Battered Bastards of Baseball. And they have this series on Netflix that's just basically talking about taking on major sports stories but in a real documentary fashion and usually kind of like shining some light on them that didn't have before so i was watching that last night after another successful mariners game and i fell asleep and uh i was still sleeping on the couch uh at like 4 a.m which is generally not my deal but i think because i don't have a bathroom upstairs i'm like kind of i'm like well if i fall asleep on this couch and it means that when i wake up to need to go to the bathroom i'm on the same floor as the one bathroom. Maybe this isn't the worst thing. Relatable. So anyway, at four in the morning, somebody is standing on my front porch. Well, because there's gravel, like there's a gravel kind of parking area up some stairs, and I hear crunch, crunch, crunch, and I hear somebody coming down the stairs. And I only know this is happening because I'm in this, the one functional room basically in this house currently happens to be next to the, like there's a window between it and the front porch. and somebody is on the front porch and i am like this is not great there should not be anyone here at 4 a.m this is what is going on and then my watch buzzes and i realized it's an amazon drop off oh yeah equipment that i ordered yesterday when we were recording some summer games and having all kinds of technical troubles and it just so happened that i mean literally the window of time they were like yeah we'll have this to you by like later today by 4 a.m tomorrow which is now this morning and so some person drove out here at four in the morning and dropped it off on my porch and took a picture of it and left and i just i mean first of all they could have waited until like 8 a.m today that would have been okay with me a second on the larger conversation about amazon and we you know we've i've been kind of missed i've been what's the word i'm looking for We're not mystified. I've been really surprised at how close I am to some sort of Amazon fulfillment out here because stuff seems to show up really fast. But I've also said that, you know, Amazon is really ruining the world. And what I need to do is just kind of like figure out I need to plan my life better so that I don't need to always buy everything online while talking to you and hoping it gets here in two hours. Then I just thought, man, someone's at like four in the morning driving a piece of computer equipment to my house. It's like what a weird world we live in.

Also, I was very glad I wasn't being burgled because I had nothing to defend myself with. I was like, I really had the thought, like, is this happening right now? Am I going to have to, like, fight someone off or chase? I was also, you know, woken out of a dead sleep, so it's kind of confusing. But it was just Jeff Bezos.

Well, finally, is he doing Undercover Boss? Is that what it's called when the CEO?

Yeah, the person had, like, he had, like, an Afro wig on and thick black glasses. Oh, interesting. And a mustache. And we could not recognize him at all.

Yeah, interesting. Groucho Marx, like glasses, nose, and mustache. I also think about those folks who are having to do that and, like, have to. Yeah. I scared the hell out of a delivery driver a couple of weeks ago, and I felt so bad because people drop stuff off. You know, we get our cat food through a delivery service. So, you know, various things from Amazon for both me and Veeves. my grove box like more and more stuff i am having shipped and so i think that it's almost probably daily that something is being dropped off at our house so i feel like a lot of the drivers sort of know the routine

Mostly they're dropping these things off when nobody is I don't even know if they knock on the door. They just leave it at the door and maybe you get a notification on your app or whatever. But the one day I happen to be in my kitchen where there's a big window and I saw a delivery driver kind of making her way up our little walkway and trying to like kind of futz with the gate to get through. And so right as she's I don't know, maybe halfway up my halfway up my little walkway thing, I opened the front door and it scared the living hell out of her. she yelped and then we laughed and i'm like i'm sorry i'm sorry i was really trying hard to like kind of get your attention so that i didn't do that i somehow i had a feeling that i was going to startle this person i didn't want to do it but i also just wanted to grab the package from her so she didn't have to leave it on the porch um but anyway i think about that this person is like in some rural part of the state like having to crunch up your driveway at 4 a.m oh my god you

don't have a dog that is going to be well that's the thing i would be nervous entering you and vives's yard because you have that gate and that oftentimes can i don't even want to part of why i'm driving to another town to go on these jogs in the morning is because i don't want to run in my neighborhood for a few reasons one is because there's not a defined really shoulder on the road and that makes me nervous and also i don't want some dog chasing me or some dog that's not particularly well i don't know contained like it's funny because i love love dogs um obviously but also when i'm like when i'm jogging if someone has their dog on a leash and they're in any It happened yesterday. I was at Lake Sacagawea, and there was a guy standing there, and he had a German Shepherd. And the dog looked perfectly nice. It had its mouth open, its tongue out. It didn't seem like a threat. But he was talking to a couple of other people that probably he knew, and he kind of just loosely had his hand on the leash. And I'm doing this analysis as I'm approaching because there's this, like, gravel path, and they're on it, and I'm on it. And I'm, like, looking at his hand, the dog, the leash, how much slack is there? Is this guy even aware? because I'm this big, sweaty male thing that's going to go past. That's how I describe you. That was my Tinder profile. I'm going to go by, and if this guy is just not really paying attention, and if this dog reads the situation wrong, thinking that I am messing with them or a threat or coming after its owner, and I'm doing this huge calculation. By the way, the dog didn't even bat an eye at me when I went past it at all. Everything was fine. The dog was on a leash. that everything was a-okay but it's a it's weird i've never even been bitten by a dog and i like dogs but it's weird how worried i am about a dog acting up on me even though it hasn't actually happened before but like i'm particularly when i'm jogging i'm extremely aware of if people are paying attention to their dogs near me because i always think if i was a dog and something that looked like me and probably smelled like me on my runs ambled up or what was the word we used for Vogelbach? Rumbled?

Rumble in the third. If somebody that

looked and smelled like me rumbled by, I would think, this is not, this is, I should be on high alert. Like, this is what I've been training for. This thing is here to do, is up to no good, this thing being me. And I'm going to kind of make sure that it keeps its distance. I mean, I wouldn't even blame the dog for yelping at me. But anyway, for some reason, so anyway, if I were like a delivery person of any kind, of any sort of you know particular business I would just be I spent all my time being worried that I was going to enter a yard and some dog was going to come for me I almost I have a follow-up

for you on that but it also might be sensitive so it's okay if we don't come back to it but quickly though I wanted to text you yesterday I was thinking of you because in an unfortunate part of yesterday's baseball game Salvador Perez the catcher for the Royals ended up I think getting a single which he ends up scoring on which there's a million things to say about that he wasn't even supposed to reach base was a bad a bad call before he got that hit but um the the announcers said because he's a he's a guy of a bigger frame too so to tell the listeners what we're talking about here is luke and i both love the verbs that baseball announcers will use for large framed usually catcher style base runners because like you might say hey somebody flew into first base But if it's somebody if it's if it's Julio Rodriguez, he's flying into first. Right. Exactly. But but if it's Salvador Perez, he's rumbling in. Yeah, they didn't use a rumble, though. It was such a good word. I bring this up opportunity. I can't remember the word they use. I want to go back and they archive the radio broadcast. I should I should listen to it. But yeah, I love those words that they use. He he he he didn't thunder in. He didn't rumble in.

but it was something like that yeah yeah I was so mad about that because he scored from first base on a play after that and it's like as we used to say you can time him with a sundial Salvador Perez is a not a fast person and like the fact that the Mariners let that happen I was like but also isn't it true that he was not even supposed to like there I was listening on the radio but it sounds like there was an atrocious call um by the ump who I think was Angel Hernandez last night he wasn't even he should have been out there was a call a missed called strike three what's the proper terminology for that but they called it a ball which gave him another chance to get that yeah I was in the other room

when that happened and I came back in and I heard the announcer saying something like tough break yeah they were really bummed on the radio yeah yeah that makes me I mean that's the that's one of those things about baseball that makes me so crazy I mean it probably more than any other sport works me up in this emotional lather that's really not healthy and it comes down to things like when the ump misses a call that then extends an inning for the other team and then something really bad happens to your team it's like it feels like you're in a slow speed crash yes as you were like it's just it's a particular kind of emotional pain he's not even

supposed to be there i was going to ask you though and again i'm not saying this to needle you but in all seriousness i um everything that you just said about dogs seems to like contradict your the things that you would say when like rudy would be like off leash somewhere and i felt like your your attitude a lot of times when somebody was kind of scared or leery of your dog rudy um because i remember times you were like okay technically it's not an off leash area but i mean you see this dog You see that she's friendly. But remember, there were a couple of times, I believe one time a woman really dressed you down for like not like kind of she like flinched and was very scared of your dog. And it's like, don't you see that other people have that? They don't know Rudy. They any dog could be scary to a person.

Yes. In fairness, you are right about that. And yes, I am probably very hypocritical about this whole thing, because my whole thing, my big problem with my problem with other people and their dogs is they're like, I know this dog. and I know the dog's fine and I'm like yeah but I don't know your dog but then when it was my dog Rudy I was like I know this dog and she's fine now I also would say to me breed does matter a little bit we're going to have dog people this is good because the people that are mad that I might let my cat out you can all take the day off and the people who are mad that I'm assigning any kind of behavior to a dog breed everybody you all clock in

like take the baton

it's probably just because I've had a yellow lab uh in my life and i just know them to be generally extremely or even like a golden retriever like tbtl employee numero uno john sklaroff has i think 11 golden retrievers currently yeah like i i really and truly think if i were jogging up to someone who had a golden retriever i would not do the calculation i did because of the german shepherd now what people are going to say and they're probably not wrong is it's not really about the breed it's just how the dog has been raised, and there can be really, really nice dogs that we associate with being a kind of an aggressive breed, and there can be dogs that are, you know, we think of as big teddy bears that just have some kind of anxiety issues and might snap. I'm sure that's all true, but I am saying the fact that it was a German Shepherd did play in my mind, because those dogs are oftentimes, you know, trained for, like, kind of like security and things like that. If it were a lab or a goal, I guess my thing with Rudy was, well, again, just pure hypocrisy on my part i'll just start there but i will also say that out when i'm out in the world if i was jogging somewhere and i saw a yellow lab not on a leash no part of my brain would be doing the calculation that it did the other day or if i saw a golden retriever or uh those would be the two main ones those are the two breeds that just seem like i mean they're just they just have no they just in my experience just don't seem to have but then again you know rudy would literally jump on people i think she's too fat to do that now honestly like she's moving a little slow although for people that are interested she's still doing great by the way living her best life in fact

right would you say she's riding low in the water is that i feel like that's an expression that you use and it's sort of she is riding a little low in the water it feels like a good thing to say

about a dog that might be on the heavy side but she's still she's still she's you know getting out there she's uh still enjoying her life up in bellingham happy to report but um but no i mean to answer your question I mean yes it's hypocritical because if I have a dog and I know it's a friendly dog I want everyone else to just know that instinctively and leave me the hell alone but if it's somebody else's dog I want them to be extremely aware of if it's going to like bark at me or nip me or something

I was scared of little dogs as a kid I was scared of all dogs there was a time I think I was at my aunt Rose's house and like I mean Luke this is a very gauzy memory but like i was i just remember a house that was definitely the house of a pre of a pretty old woman in the 1980s like i'll just picture oh whatever your brain does with that lean into it like probably like a lot of floral patterns uh wallpaper probably plastic on the couch

nice wall-to-wall um salmon colored carpeting i don't know but i guess it's the vibe i got at this relative's house where i wasn't where i didn't spend a lot of time and i think that i want to say aunt rose we'll just go with that name um and she had like a little yippy little dog that was probably some sort of a i don't know like some sort of a little terrier mixed with a i don't know like what's a smush faced dog like uh yeah you know some little some little dog about that size and shape you know with kind of longish hair or whatever and i remember going to use the bathroom or something but somebody was already in there but the bathroom is at the end of a long hallway or what seemed to be a long hallway when i was a little kid and this little dog like trapped me in the hallway like between like me and the door but like you say oh wow because you're just hearing about it from the perspective of like i don't know what i was a six-year-old or whatever an eight-year-old i don't know how old i was 15 19 um but the thing is like nothing was wrong this was just a little dog that was probably playing with me but i i had no context for dogs at all so if a dog was barking at me the dog was angry at me and it was going to eat me alive like that was it like that was my understanding of dogs as a kid and i remember it was father dunphy i believe introduced me to the first dog i liked i can't remember his name but it was a golden retriever And Father Dunphy was a kind of a new priest who came in while I was an altar boy and like at this church in the country, St. Martin's that we went to. And I remember like he seemed like such a young, cool priest. He was probably like 50, but he seemed like such a young, cool priest. And he would let his dog into the church on like a Saturday, like before the service or whatever. We're getting ready. And like this really friendly golden retriever is just in church. It blew my mind.

And I would actually go to church. I jogged by this beautiful Catholic church down by the lake today. I mean, it's been there for a long time, but I just noticed it today. It was so beautiful that I was like, I might become a Catholic. Like, that was how beautiful the church was. If I knew there was a golden retriever in there, I would be...

God loves a terrier. Yes, he does. God loves a terrier. That's because small, sturdy, bright, and true They give their love to you God didn't miss a stitch Be it dog or be it bitch When he made the Norwich merrier With its cute little derriere Yes, God loves a terrier

Now is that Best in Show or is that Guffman 2? That's Best in Show and that's Eugene Levy

and um katherine o'hara again we've been playing so much of her so much of her musical body of work yeah on the show of late hello and welcome to top story speaking of music this is kind of interesting scientists have been able to use the brain activity of people listening to music to reconstruct that actual music, or at least a kind of a version of it. Have you read this article yet?

No, I have not. I only saw the headline that you sent me.

Okay, so I want to see if you can figure out the song that this is a combination of... So don't look at the article, please, because I want to test you on this. This is recordings from the brains of 29 people who were epilepsy patients between 2009 and 2015. As part of their epilepsy treatment, the patients had a net of nail-like electrodes implanted in their brains. This created a rare opportunity for the neuroscientists to record from their brain activity while they listened to music. So they're listening to a Pink Floyd song. And this is, they took all these different frequencies that were being represented in the brain activity of these folks, and they put it together to, so this is the song they were listening to, this is their brains experiencing the song. Tell me, and I want to preface this by saying, it's kind of eerie, like...

Because it's being recreated by, like, not MIDI, but, like, it's being recreated by some sort of an electronic device?

device it's some kind of yeah yeah it's it's it's the brain activity is is is being somehow it's being translated into these sounds right so this is this is them listening to a pink floyd song, take a listen to this.

No, I think it's the wall.

And that's where it cuts off because it's TikTok. No.

That's all the news. I know it's probably their most famous song, but the only thing I sort of thought I heard in there was Another Brick in the Wall. Was that it?

Absolutely correct, sir.

It's funny because if Sid Barrett was part of the band, that is what it would have sounded like.

Great Sid Barrett joke.

You ever listen to those early Pink Floyd? I mean, it seems like the type of thing that you would absolutely hate, but those early Sid Barrett, Pink Floyd records.

No, but there has been a point. There was a period of a couple of years where when Camaro Kev and I would be tuned up to a certain degree, he would break out the Sid Barrett he's a real big Sid Barrett guy and Sid Barrett has some song about dominoes, do you know that one? no I think it's solo work, I don't know if it was like maybe before Pink Floyd or like after Pink Floyd or whatever, but I would never have identified this as Brick in the Wall if I didn't know it's what it was I'll play it for you one more time

That part there.

Yeah, that's the biggie, the brick in the wall. Now, I thought it was an interesting song to choose. In the article, by the way, this is an article from the New York Times, Hannah Kuros writing, Scientists recreate Pink Floyd song by reading brain signals of listeners. The team chose the Pink Floyd song partly because older patients liked it. If they said, quote, I can't listen to this garbage, then the data would have been terrible, said Dr. Schultz. Plus, the song features 41 seconds of lyrics and two and a half minutes of moody instrumentals, a combination that was useful for teasing out how the brain processes words versus melody. Now, the reason that this is particularly, could be someday of use, is because they think it is a first step towards creating more expressive devices to assist people who can't speak. Over the past few years, scientists have made major breakthroughs and extracting words from the electrical signals produced by the brains of people with muscle paralysis when they attempt to speak. But a significant amount of the information conveyed through speech comes from what linguistics call prosodic elements, like tone. The things that make us lively speakers and not like a robot, says Dr. Schalk. By better understanding how the brain metabolizes music, scientists hope to build new speech prosthetics for people with neurological diseases affecting their vocal production. The aim is for these devices to relay not only what someone is trying to say, but retain some of the musicality, rhythm, and emotion of the organic speech. Amazing. Which is kind of cool. I do think that the song, though, I mean, I guess they picked it because people in the study liked it, but it feels like a very rebellious song. It almost feels like, hey, teachers, leave those kids alone. Also, they say it feels like a song where someone should be ripping the electrodes out of their brain and storming out of the study you know like it feels like the the vibe of the song is the opposite for then trying to do like a bunch of people in lab coats right with with clipboards are standing around you in a circle while you're hooked up to all this stuff that feels like the video from another brick in the wall right of the bad thing or from the movie the wall like i don't know if

you know that like the the wall the album was a concept album like i think it was like a double or triple disc and it tells it you know it's like one of those epic you know it's not it's not unlike tommy only this is way more psychedelic and disturbing in a way that you're describing like you're absolutely right there could be a like in the movie is sort of mixed media with like very intense sort of psychedelic yet kind of uh somewhat i think violent and then sometimes super sexualized uh like um uh animation mixed in with kind of grotty filmmaking or whatever And yeah, it supposedly tells some story I can't tell you what the story is right now But it's very rebellious And yes, you can absolutely What you just described is absolutely Like the epitome of a scene from that movie Where somebody, almost like What's the one where they hold the eyeballs open And force people

Oh, Clockwork Orange

Yeah, like something between the wall and Clockwork Orange You could totally see them ripping off the electrodes And storming out Even if it's something like Oh, well, these patients are of a certain age And so, you know, I assume that's boomer generation and they want to listen to rock and roll from the 1960s or even early 70s. You're right. They went with a very specific kind of upsetting narrative of a song.

I feel right. And I feel this. I know that we have a summer game coming up. That's going to be where we are trying to guess what movie we were talking about that we didn't see.

Yes. This is such a good idea for a quiz listener. Lauren took direct quotes of you and I describing movies as best we can and kept a list of them and then is sending them back to us saying, can you remember what movie you were trying to describe here? Well, I'll give Lauren some material for the winter games, which is myself. of the wall and probably why i don't know much about that movie is it's the whole movie is a bald british an angry bald british either like principal or research or like weird doctor is like looking into like a fisheye type of lens and yelling at someone that's what i think that whole movie is and it probably isn't but that's just i think what my kid brain filed away no i mean that

is part of it and cartoonish right i'm also thinking that that in like the face of and i might be mixing up my references here but i also think that like there was something possibly vaginal about that face of or or phallic or something about the face of said principle does

that ring a bell to you no i would not have been that it sounds very fresh i mean it's exactly what

you like not only i mean it's just like it just yeah just like it's the exact type of thing that

would have upset you so much as a kid yeah totally um the other article i saw today that that was kind of interesting we were talking about cruise and waymo and how in san francisco that's been basically authorized to just let these uh ride share cars that are driverless just kind of go wild now and we're seeing evidence of that because one of these cars just did like something out of a movie just drove right into a giant thing of wet cement like it's like what did dom de louise say when it happened he peed his pants and then burt reynolds just shot him a look i mean it is like it is honestly if you wanted to like if you were part of the the contingent of people that just don't want more of these driverless cars this is the photo that says it all like there's a perplexed construction worker in orange standing next to it there's a traffic cone and then there's just a driverless vehicle sinking into the concrete in san francisco this reminds me we

have a long time listener actually i say that i don't know if she still listens but i still follow her on social media but remember our friend simone who was on um jeopardy one time luke anyway a listener going back a long time um she lives i believe in the bay area where these cars are around this cruise car i'm looking at this photo now and um i don't want to blow up anybody's spot i think she was just making a joke but i didn't get the joke and i was wondering if you could explain it to me like that um like that reddit thread i belong to where people just explain jokes to people by the way it's a good thread if you're dumb like me um but she had taken a photo or maybe a short video of one of these cars parked you know it's like one of these electric vehicles that looks kind of like a normal car with a bunch of equipment on the roof of it but then also there's an orange cone nearby and she kind of goes back and forth between the cone and the car and says should i or dare me or something i'm trying to figure out like is there a prank involving cones if you put the cone on top of the car does it mess up the navigation or something do you have any idea what i'm talking about i don't know that i'm glad i was able to that's not a meme

that i'm familiar with i do though i feel like this happened the other day we were talking about that that crazy story in new york of the kid who was like protesting the hotel and the guy who's like this isn't even a two i think we and i said i really like that guy he's like you wouldn't believe what we see around here i think that guy is getting a run for his money by the from the person who took the photo of the car his name is paul harvey not that paul harvey but you and i are we are just old enough to know about the legend of paul harvey that's not something that like addy would have any sense of there was a folksy radio guy named paul harvey uh that was everywhere it seemed in our childhood paul harvey this was a piece from san francisco chronicle written by joshua bote um i guess paul harvey is the guy who took the picture of the of the car that got stuck in the concrete the cement paul harvey a san francisco resident who lives in the area told the sf gate in an interview that he saw the car stuck at the construction site um i can see five different scenarios where bad things happen and this is one of them harvey told san francisco gate it thinks it's a road and it ain't because it ain't got a brain and it can't tell that it's

freshly poured concrete but it ain't because it ain't got a brain oh i wish we had that as a drop

i know dude this guy paul harvey though he's a skeptic of driverless cars harvey acknowledged one of the key marketing points brought up by cruise and waymo in the days leading up to the vote was that human drivers are prone to making errors when a light turns green at a traffic light i don't just jump on the accelerator he said i look left and right for some idiot who's going to run the light it does happen but he's skeptical of the autonomous vehicles which he described as, quote, creepy. Anyway, I just like, because it ain't got a brain. That's Paul Harvey for you.

It looks like a road, but it ain't. There's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll. You can just listen to your soul. Just remember that life is number one. You can be heaven's. So much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be nothing but one. Listener Flash, who also submitted a couple of quizzes for us for the summer games, says, happy Blursday to my sweet English rose, Juliet. I'm such a lucky boy to have the benefit of her patience boundless knowledge and loving disposition I almost rank alongside her pets and favorite nieces okay I almost rank alongside her pets and favorite nieces but that's more than this clueless hillbilly could ever aspire to endless love and hopeless devotion to my sweet sweet Juliet that's from Flash

I just realized I don't have my awe sound effect on this computer I mean, all I have is when I search for awe, all I get is this one.

I am awesome.

Well, that's pretty good.

We could use that.

Are you opening a bag of chips, or is that on my Archer drop that I just played?

I'm pulling out a new TBTL sound machine. Is the awe sound on the sound machine? I got that one, too. But I don't know if there's an awe on here. Is it the doggy?

These are the two things you and I swiped. From all that merch that we had at the show.

Because I had one sound machine, but I think the battery pooped out. I think you can replace the batteries on these things, but I figured I should, you know, these were a very special gift. I wanted at least two. That's not, is there any, I'll let you take it from there, Luke. Yeah, thanks, I've got it. I'll keep reading. That's for Justice, who says, Biagio, I'm sorry, I'm such a big dummy and forgot to blurs you last week, and it's even worse since your birthday was actually on the Blur's Day. Anyway, happy late Blur's Day, and thanks for organizing the Duluth TBTL meetup last week. What a great time from your terrible brother-in-law, Justice.

Spock, sabotage the system.

Duluth, who loves you, baby.

I'm proud of these little icons that we came up with to represent the things.

This song goes out to all the coffee lovers of the world.

I know. This was a really, really good thank you. That's my wife. Thank you, gift. Wait, oh, is the wife the little like a...

I was wondering. Wait. It's a little person figure there above the browns one, yeah.

Spock sabotage. Wait, why do I keep doing that? I want to do the fire one. I just love hot Cheetos! There you go. There you go. That's a hot Cheeto. Okay.

Anyway, how about this? From Judy, who says, Happy Blur's Day to my 11 and my 5. My husband, Tom, is the love of my life. and has kept me laughing every day for more than 20 years. My son, Audie, turns 18 this week and is heading off to college. Oh, wow. Jalapeno. Changes. He is the sweetest, warmest, and most fantastic boy a mother could hope for with love from Jack and Zelda, our cats, and from me. Feeling so lucky to be part of this family. Ooh, I haven't been swelling the music. That always adds a little... Sorry, everybody. Did it seem a little flat today, Luke? Don't blurs me until I've had my coffee. Well, that's the thing.

They're trying to say I was drunk. I drank eight beers yesterday. That was all I drank.

Did I skip anybody here? How about Emily in Vermont? It says, happy Blurs Day to the only person who really has my back, James. We are partners in life, partners in parenthood, and now partners in business. And I wouldn't want to do any of that with anyone else. I love you. That's from Emily to James. I wonder what the business is. Any tips for us?

I don't know why I keep going back to that one. I try to play some of these icons. I guess that's a rocket ship. So that's Star Trek.

Oh, I see. It's not Star Trek, Luke, because I don't know that we would have the rights to use that. That's just a voice of somebody saying Spock sabotaged the system.

Also, what's the kangaroo?

That's a marsupial gurgle. There you go. Love it. I got one more of these. These are from our pals, Julie. Well, it's from Julie to Adrian, both of whom I consider pals. Julie says, yo, Adrian, happy Blur's Day. Thanks for being my P1 and my karaoke ride or die. I can't believe I'm your brother's wife, and I also have you in my life. It's a little weird that your brother is our TV-tailed daddy. That's my wife. But are origin stories really that important? Probably not. From Julie June. Happy Blur's Day, Adrian. good to see you guys at the 4000th episode as well thank you for the gifts i'm really excited

about this soundbox andrew which is hilarious because i've already had one of this one's brand new out of the package it's loud and proud you know what i mean like it's really yeah like it's it's uh it's the it's

again seriously like it almost seems like it's putting out more volume than the other one because

it's you know at the beginning of its life cycle yeah it reminds you of a just when we were much

younger men exactly that's an interesting place to end the blurs day segment but yes although

i haven't had any complaints andrew so oh you're reading different message boards okay

all right i guess that's it that's it that's all um thanks for listening everybody A tight hour and five today? I think I'm like subconsciously worried is the wrong word, but I feel like the construction guys are kind of like trying to be quiet for me, and I would like them to be loud. I would like them to be loudly building the deck. So today's show has to be a tight 66 minutes or so. No, that's good. We've been doing some really long shows lately anyway. Yeah. Well, okay. we'll be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio I think I'll actually be down in Portland gonna be crashing at Becca's place so that'll be the first time I've done the show from the beautiful south waterfront of Portland so that'll be an adventure for all of us I'll have Bubbles and Holly crawling all over me while I was doing the show

well maybe we don't have time to get into it when you come back from that trip to your new house are you bringing Bubbles with you for the grand are you gonna carry her across the threshold? I need to

yes because we are married andrew i don't care what i don't care what you think of it um i the project that i need to do before the answer is no um bubbles is still going to be staying with becca for a little bit longer because i have to this is such a boring answer but i the the floors in this house um some of them anyway had this weird finish on them that i thought was off gassing something it always smelled kind of chemically in here and so i had somebody sand those things off that that finish but what's underneath now is just like a dusty raw wood floor that has all this red dye and stuff coming off it and like basically what what would happen if bubbles was here right now is she would walk on it and then she would walk on everything and everything in the house would be covered like in this weird red markings like even the wall that i'm looking at when i put my foot against it which i guess i do subconsciously a lot it's now covered in this weird red shit so i have to paint the floors here just as a temporary stop gap so that when bubbles is here she's not getting red dye on the couch and my nice chair and everything else so that's uh that's what has to happen before she's going to be out but then she will be and uh we'll see how that goes it's going to be an adventure nice so that's the plan well i got a watering can to fill yeah i know you do i got some i got some coffee to prep for tomorrow All right. Brew off, everybody. See you tomorrow. In the meantime, have a great Thursday. Take care of yourselves, and please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

My dream is to sail around the world on a catamaran with two members of every cat race and share my love with cats for all the humans to see around the world. Power out.