Muse

So what about you? What did you do for a job?

I was a temp.

Oh, I'm sorry. How old are you?

I'm 41.

Oh. Okay.

Well, you know, it's not something I'm super proud of.

You mean not something in which you are super proud. Were you an English teacher? No. I was an office manager at a hot sauce bottling company. Sounds like a spicy job. No, I didn't work with the spices I was filing.

All right, hello and welcome to week number two of the TBTL Summer Games. Here we are with you on a Monday. Well, we're sort of here, of course. We've recorded a couple of weeks of brand new content, of spicy new content to keep you all entertained while we're taking a little, and I'll say it, well-deserved time off. I'm Luke Burbank, right over there, my friend, Andrew Walsh. Hello there.

It's not spicy content, Luke. We just work in the filing departments. That's weird intro tape. It kind of ends at a strange place, but Last Man on Earth, man, that's getting old now. That's like 10 years. Can you believe that tape is like 10 years old?

I can't believe that. Something happened the other day. I forget what it was, but it was exactly... Oh, I know. Somebody emailed me asking about the history of Bumpy's frozen yogurt. Where I used to work. Somebody was doing... Oh, right. By Green Lake, right? Yeah. And somebody who's like a history writer in Seattle... Oh. ...was trying to find out about sort of the story on Bumpy's fruit and yogurt. And they were doing some kind of LexisNexis search Or whatever people do now Maybe Google It's probably more likely Google And they found a reference to me Talking about Bumpy's Fruit and Yogurt On Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Years ago

So this isn't a local I was going to say it's not Felix, right? It's not Felix Banal Who I love

But no, it's another It is a local Seattle writer But she apparently found out that I had some association with that place by way of a transcript of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, where I had mentioned working there. And then she reached out to a mutual friend of ours, one Ross Reynolds, who then put us in contact. And I said, well, the reason that this comes up is because it's almost exactly 30 years ago I worked there. I was 17, and I'm now 47. And so that was 30 years ago. That was even longer ago than Last Man on Earth

came out. Yeah. I can't hang out with Ross anymore, because Whenever I hang out with Ross, he always asks me, so how is it working for Luke? And it always gets me good.

Tell me he's doing that jokingly.

I think that might be what kidding on the square means, although I'm still not entirely sure what works.

Little did he know that we both work for John. Certainly nobody works for me in this job just because I'm too absent. But speaking of bosses, this was the thing that ended up coming of this whole back and forth where I mentioned to this writer, Paula, I said, yeah, I worked there. This was the name of the owner. It was a guy named Dave Graber. I said, I believe he saw the technology for this particular kind of frozen yogurt machine during his time in Israel. And I said, and I think he was a pretty serious like trumpet player or horn player when he wasn't running a yogurt shop. And it turns out, and this is kind of a sad twist to the story, that the guy who started Bumpy's Yogurt passed away quite suddenly about two weeks ago.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Just that recently. Just that recently. I assume you were just making up the part about the technology by way of Israel and the trumpet playing and everything. You were just trying to spice things up for this reporter.

No, it wasn't spicy, Andrew. No, no, I worked in the yogurt part. No spices.

Wouldn't that be amazing if you were just telling straight-up lies

Well, this is where I'm going with this because, as you know, Andrew, as you know, as one of my employees, I often bring up stories to try to pat myself on the back. And this was the thing. I was quite sad to learn that Dave Graber had passed because he was a really cool boss. He was a wonderful guy. And I was a terrible employee. He was kind and generous and long-suffering. I believe I was, like, fired once and then, like, brought back on at some point because he was like, okay, I think you've learned the error of your ways. I'd forgotten about this just until I said this to you. I believe there was a period of time where he said, you're covered on the schedule going forward, meaning I've got your shifts covered. And I had to, like, I had to go do some time in the cooler or something and then come back and get my job back. Anyway, all that is to say.

But this writer, Paula, had found David Graeber's obituary. And in the obituary was everything I had mentioned to her. Oh, really? Now, I don't want to make this a story about, wow, I actually can remember things from 30 years ago. But I was shocked. He had lived in Israel where he had been a chef. So presumably that was when he saw this particular kind of frozen yogurt machine. That's kind of a novel thing. It's like a big corkscrew that you smash the yogurt and fruit together with. The yogurt is chocolate or vanilla, and it's separate from the ingredients, and you kind of make it on the spot. And also, he was a very serious trumpet player. He played with the Seattle Symphony, had studied at a music conservatory. And there was one other thing. I forget what it was. But basically, I was like, wow, I actually was pretty spot on with my recollection from three decades ago.

Okay, do you mind, since it is the Summer Games, would you mind if I just grind this story into its most boring components?

No, if you take a different story and then elements of the story, you put them together in a big corkscrew and you smash them through and then we have a delicious podcast.

I'm just confused about the way this has all unfolded. so this reporter and i understand that you're not the reporter so you might not have all the answers here but this historian uh this writer who reached out to you they are doing a piece on like frozen yogurt generally speaking and this is a component of it or they are doing specifically

a story about bumpies i think what this person has noticed i would say reporter slash historian or historian slash reporter definitely a writer what they have noticed is that this technology this kind of thing that we used to do at Bumpy's Yogurt, where this person, I think, used to be a customer. I've figured out through a couple of emails. So my sense is this woman used to go to Bumpy's back in the day and noticed, oh, that's an interesting approach to how you make the frozen yogurt. We don't see those everywhere. And then what she explained was that she has seen the technology popping up now in different places, and what it's now called is New Zealand ice cream. And I know this because I then, Andrew, did a little research, and there's a place in Portland called Nico's, famous for their new zealand style ice cream which is just the thing we used to make at bumpy's yogurt like the exact same device so i think she was she was sort of looking around for she was investigating if there was a story to be written like a journalistic piece to be written about the rise of this interesting approach to making frozen yogurt and she remembered that a long long time ago there had been a store there had been a yogurt place called bumpy's that had 30 years ago that

had used this technology i guess what i'm getting at here is it sort of sounds like she interviewed you or talked with you first and i was a source you told these stories and then later found the obit it just seems strange that this person got to you first and then confirm these stories via the obit that you wouldn't have like very quickly kind of figured out oh who ran

the company back in the day and reach out to them because she was not able to locate the name of the owner i see okay i had this you want to get you want to hey andrew do you have your grinding shoes on always are you wearing your grinding pants just wait every article of clothing sounds

more upsetting don't let me in the club with those pants anymore for some reason um uh yeah

let's just grind the shit out of this i'm gonna grind wait what quiz are we on by the way what

game are we we're in the middle we took a weekend break in the middle of a quiz from listener lauren where we're reading descriptions of movies based on our own words and then guessing if we can use our own words from the past to guess what movie we were possibly talking about.

If I can grind this even deeper into an interesting town, but it goes to how sort of repetitive I am with my jokes and the construction of what some people would call entertaining anecdotes. One person called them that one time.

I was going to ask, but I figured let's not grind – let's not examine that too closely.

If I remember right, the initial email said, hey, I'm looking into this kind of yogurt technology, and I was curious about Bumpy's Yogurt. I was trying to figure out who the owner was. I saw this transcript of Luke Burbank talking about the yogurt shop on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. He mentioned that he had a boss named Randy, and that Randy – he kind of didn't like Randy. now i don't think i ever worked with a randy there uh and by the way i the i kind of think i remember who i might have been describing and it wasn't this guy dave graber who was the owner it was the guy who worked for him who was just kind of a a bit of a lunatic like just a a guy who had like like i don't know if burning man existed then but he definitely would have been a guy who didn't didn't want to stop telling you about burning man

Yeah. This would not be the only time in your life that you would work with somebody who irritated you who had strong connections to Burning Man.

That's true. That's true. Let's move on. So in other words, I think part of what I think my point in this story is I think Randy is a real go-to name for me. When I'm trying to think of a name on the fly, and I want to play it for comedic effect, I think Randy is probably over-indexed for me in terms of names that I just kind of throw out there as a sort of placeholder. I probably didn't want to say the real name of this guy who was the manager, who was just kind of a flake, and so I said Randy. But my point is, this journalist was initially trying to investigate who's Randy. Did Randy own the yogurt shop? And the answer was no. It was a guy named David. And again, that was not the person that I was even referencing in whatever my lame joke on Wait, Wait was from 15 years ago or something. But that is how we've arrived, Andrew, at my response to you saying, man, wasn't it a long time ago that Last Man on Earth was out on television? And then I just took it to a completely other place.

And now it sort of seems like years have passed since we started this quiz last week. Certainly for the listeners Without a doubt So where were we Okay so here's the deal

I think I was saying it's DC's answer to Superman

That I believe was the title of Friday's show

I tried to explain that joke to Becca over the weekend And she's not a DC head I was trying to explain how inane that comment is But because she has no idea that Superman is from the DC universe

It went over flat I'm dying for our boss slash colleague slash employee our boss slash employee john posting these episodes to uh to actually hear that conversation

because his head might explode as well and we may return from the summer games and have tbtl

employee numero zero sorry john um all right so i i think i described it okay so basically listener lauren went back through the archives or i think she at some point just started keeping track of us trying to describe movies because we're not great at it and then writing down our quotes about these movies now the quiz is can we from reading our own quotes guess what movie we were talking about and i'm going to pick things up right here luke with question number eight on the quiz as lauren has it set out here uh and i don't know if this is interesting or not um but she also includes why start now what episode number so this was from episode 3596 i was

thinking about this over the weekend the deep dive that lauren must have had to do to find these examples i mean there's every single episode features us being wildly wrong on things or wildly unentertaining but to go find specific times where we were trying to describe a movie or i guess one tv show from last week's show like how do you even find that what do you search for

what kind of ai chat bot has lauren written well my guess is i don't know if lauren mentioned this in her original email to us but my guess is she just started keeping track at some point if you know what I mean like just start let me see her to the same

that's amazing so just listening along and going like there's another one let me mark the time code

there's another one I sort of feel like that's what happened because I got the impression that this was something that she had been working on and then didn't end up sending in that's the only logical answer

because to go back and re-listen to episodes just waiting for us to totally botch the description of a movie and it looks like torturous

all of these happened in the 3500 range of tbtl episodes none of them are outside of that that hundo there 3500 so okay here we go are you ready i'm so ready i don't you're saying you're ready but i don't feel like

you're ready i am absolutely ready okay now i believe you do we special game music i feel like

we should have some special game sport game music oh yeah do i have that um sport do do do do that's as good as it yeah here oh here it is i got it luke i'm a professional all right here's your quote here's our quote um but actually no this is your quote this is something you said on this podcast they've both be nope let's go back okay they're both i got the first word wrong is that a problem uh they're both basically on child care duty on a particular day they both for whatever reason get their kids to this field trip late they both have huge days so they agree one of them is going to watch both kids for half the day and then trade off and hilarity ensues i have no idea what you're talking about there but it sounds like you do oh my gosh a wonderful and i think deeply underappreciated don't give it away yet don't give it away but you definitely know what it is i'm gonna see the answer to super i'm gonna click on because lauren did include hints so i'm going to read This hint, it stars Michelle Pfeiffer. Are you laughing at the sports? Yeah. Starring Michelle.

The perfect music for this exercise.

It stars Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney. No, I don't remember. I blacked it. That's not narrowing it down for you. No, I have no idea. And I don't remember us talking about this. This was only 500 episodes ago. What is the movie?

Well, I'm not shocked to hear that you did not watch this movie, did not go to the theater to watch this movie, because this is an adorable rom-com. It did come out, I'm going to say, probably late 90s, early 2000s. So I would have been like, you know, the dad of like maybe a 10 to 15-year-old. I would have been in prime. I'm going to be watching these kinds of movies with my... It's not a kid's movie per se, but you would have been... I'm trying to think of... Are you able to... Well, you don't know the movie, so you can't look up the...

Well, I have looked it up now. I've looked up the... Or I've clicked on the answer key, so i do know what it is does it say what year the movie came out let me look because the listeners still don't know that's right exactly they're still in the dark they still don't know why they're listening even um yeah uh well it looks like the song 1996 okay but i do want to point out the song of the same name came out in 1963 i don't know if that helps at all um it uh it's

1996 so andrew it doesn't help at all 1996 so uh hold on let me go back does it hey chat gpt does

that help at all no i'm sorry i don't know why i'm trying to sabotage the show come on um so 1996

so even like even longer ago andrew even boy i was just barely done working at bumpy's fruit

and yogurt you graduated high school 95 or 94 94 oh okay so we're not that far away in age but we're a whole grade difference i forget that i'm yes and also i was a father and i'm not saying

that i'm not saying that to brag andrew okay i'm not saying that to lord it over you weird flex but um no what i mean is in 1996 let's say that i saw the movie you know i probably rented the movie blockbuster or something so let's say i got to it by about 1998 1998 i have a four-year-old daughter i'm doing like 50 50 uh you know um sort of parenting with her mom and so there would be long days and weekends where I was the primary caregiver and uh movies like this one the movie that is in question would be like a movie that I could watch with her there that would be entertaining for me and not wildly inappropriate for her you in 1996 were uh Kent State's most eligible bachelor and were just uh out there you know boozing and cruising um and uh and living a totally different life than me so it's not surprising to me that in 1996 you weren't up to

speed on this particular film i'm watching eraser head probably at this point and trying to figure out like is that a roasted chicken and is it talking to the main character precisely yes you

you're you're like you're in a very different um well you know what's funny is it it isn't like at that time for myself i i wasn't also trying to be artsy but always but failing like i you know trying to get into things that seemed like I definitely didn't want to consider myself to be part of the quote unquote mainstream when it comes to like the music I liked or the pop culture that I liked. But I think, I think I was much, much more prone to just following into that well-worn groove than you were at that age would be my guess.

Now I don't want to be too snob. I mean, I was snobby back in the day, but I will say that even like the first time I watched sliding doors, that's like a, I consider that kind of a rom-com.

I remember saying that Ben Affleck movie, I believe.

is that something that you always get wrong yes okay yeah i always say that it's an affleck movie i'm trying to figure out like is this one that i always get wrong or that he always gets wrong am i being spoofed um yeah like i remember so like there were some films like that that i did like although i'm getting the impression that one fine day might not have had the i think you

would have liked it had you seen it because oh maybe oh there you go it's one fine day by the wait but when did the song come out the movie is duhost when and and the song of the same name came out in 1992 by romstein um how close was i on when duhost came out i don't even know what duhost is it's a song by the band romstein well i caught that from the content it couldn't be it could not be more different than the song one fine day it would just be funny if the song you

were referencing was du hast du hast by who because i mean rammstein rammstein oh i have deutschland by rammstein but i have du hast by oh is it not in 1997 okay i think i always thought that was wrong i don't know what i'm even saying i'm making noises with my mouth i don't even know

what they mean why did i step on that thing that was a beautiful beautiful drop anyway uh it is one fine day is the movie and the song and i just think it is a wonderful

film first of all george clooney and michelle pfeiffer are just certifiably um delightful in this uh and it's also nice that the gender the way that it breaks down along gender is they both have important jobs that they need to be doing so it's not like you know michelle pfeiffer is not a shrinking violet or somebody who needs to have her life fixed by george clooney um they're both working single parents i believe he's a reporter at a chicago newspaper i believe she is an architect and they have a there's a they they miss they both miss the field trip that they're supposed to be taking their kids to like it's a boat that's going out into lake michigan they both get there and the boat has already left and now they both have like the biggest day of their work that they've ever had and so they agree like but cluny will have the kids in the morning while michelle pfeiffer does what she needs to do and then michelle pfeiffer will have the kids in the afternoon while cluny is doing what he needs to do and hilarity it's also you

know who one of the kids is uh do i know who one of the kids is no i'll never and veal from

arrested development may whitman oh right wait the first time i ever saw her on screen as a young

kid in one fine day and she was also in a movie as a young kid that that was then rebooted or they made a sequel to much much much later right but then she was not cast in it and people thought it was because she didn't grow up to be sexy enough what am i talking about i don't know but

maybe i'm just starting to shit or maybe we're creating more content for the winter games yeah

for us to correct all of that do you said her name is may whitman may whitman okay let me see

here can i possibly not to be confused with maybe which is ali shawcat right from arrested this was ann veal her name was her um who uh is george michael's girlfriend and who the family can never quite figure out what it is that has so bewitched george michael about uh about her and

i'm trying to figure out what like classic movie she would have been in that i feel they made like a much much much much later a sequel to and then but she wasn't included um i could be thinking of maybe but i didn't think that that was the case because me ali shawcat ali shawcat but anyway

let's uh move on with this quiz because i'm kind of i am just really happy that i um oh uh let's see here well this is what this okay andrew whitman did not reprise her role as the president's daughter in independence day resurgence independence day resurgence yes the 1996 up because she did

not want to read for the part okay well then i guess i'm wrong i thought so that is what i was remembering but i had i swear i'd seen headlines that people like you know i think there was an outrage amongst fans that sounds like it was miss it was an assumption on the part of fans yeah and then here i am a wikipedia well i kind of trust wikipedia and stuff like that like it's got to be sourced um i'm out here spreading spreading the falsehoods and yeah you there she is in one fine day you're right i'm on her wikipedia page hey how about let's do another i'm just thank you for

saving me a little bit there though at least no i will never miss an opportunity to talk about the film one in fact you know what i might have to order that on dvd is it in the criterion collection

i i want to see if that's on streaming all right i think you would i think depending on your mood

andrew i think you would genuinely enjoy it i believe it yeah it's a like i said i think i my sense is it holds up it also helped okay i'll stop right after this that the kids in the movie are probably about the age addy was when i was watching the movie and i don't i might have been single even you know like a single dad with like a cute little cute toe and around a cute little four-year-old so i i feel like i think my sister rachel used to say like oh that reminds me of your life and i was like well yeah let's um let's not hold our breath on that i'm not going to turn into a george clooney anytime soon but um i think i identified with the film in some way okay

on to the next apparently it's only streaming on voodoo the fandango based app which i didn't know existed until now that i can rent for fifteen dollars see this we're talking about a few weeks ago on tbtl like there's just like they make it seem like oh everything is available on streaming hardly anything is available on

streaming honestly when you're actually that's why again i i was only half joking when i said maybe i'll get it on dvd like yeah you can probably buy a lot of stuff that you would have to rent uh to stream for fifteen dollars you could probably buy it for less online a used version

of the dvd and then like have it forever yeah also you know um get the vpn get some pirating going on hey how about this this is a clue this is something that i said i'm a little bit known on the show luke for being a little bit more to the point than you yeah you sort of ramble you go all over the place you use words you don't know what they mean exactly i'm just like in there and out of there like here's my like here's my quote it's a movie about a tv that has a lot of static That's a quote from me. Now, I don't...

remember saying that but i have a strong feeling i know what we're talking about here do you it's i think about it two ideas probably poltergeist that's what i'm guessing

or the movie click starring adam sandler i don't click doesn't live in my head so i'm guessing

the clue is in the genre movies luke was too afraid to see when he was a kid so it was click and the answer is click no the poltergeist is there actually a the on there i'm not putting lauren on front street is it poltergeist or the poltergeist poltergeist the only reason i ask is i'm still playing that game to fall asleep at night where i like try to get you out of a couple of jams and i'm on the same game i've been playing for months and months and months now because i'm halfway through the alphabet and i fall asleep by the time i get to this but the game is and i've told you this particular one before i'm looking for any movie that has a two-word title and the first word is always the so again i've already talked about this on tbt a long time ago but i have the same ones i go over every night until i get into the j's and k's and then i fall asleep but the apartment the oops i was gonna say the boondocks that's a tv show uh the apartment is the first one the burbs you know the cooler the doors the expendables blah blah blah it all goes it all starts with the letter the or the word the so if it is the poltergeist that would be helpful to me when i eventually get to the peas but i'm guessing it's not now when we just

had a little moment there where it was obvious that we were talking about the movie poltergeist or the poltergeist whichever it is but then i jokingly and kept making the joke funnier by insisting that it was in fact the movie click starring adam sandler and it reminded me andrew if i can i know we're we're almost at the end of this episode boy how quickly it flies by when i

spend most of it talking about bumpy's yogurt i'm happy to i'm happy to carry this one over as well because the quiz I have scheduled for Friday is a quiz that somebody sent in two years ago about who's a celebrity vegan. And I don't even know if those people are going to be vegan anymore, honestly. It's from 2020 or 2021.

I'm trying to also find the audio to play here, and I don't think I can. So I'm going to do one of my famous reenactments of something that I just saw online that reminded me of a funny moment from 30 Rock. And it is, you know, because again, Everybody knew that we were talking about Poltergeist I was trying to make it like we're talking about Click It's when Liz Lemon Is going to some sort of corporate function And she's remembering how she and Jenna Used to have to do improv At corporate functions Which, this is a real thing A lot of the business around Second City I don't know if this is the case anymore But for a long time If you're putting together a conference You're always looking for some sort of New thing to throw at the people coming to the conference something that's supposed to be fun and entertaining and so i think there was a pretty brisk business in like in like corporate improv so like you know the people from the touring company of second city would show up at some kind of corporate event and then do improv and kind of use it as a teaching tool about you know all answer is always yes and improv being your way you know what i mean like they make it so it has some corporate benefit so liz is remembering when she and jenna used to do improv together at these corporate events and this is the scene they go okay uh we need oh shoot andrew i'm gonna kill this because i can't remember the second part of the joke this is really really you're pulling in andrew you've been working with me too long no this is because you i really need okay uh i'm just gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna improv this okay andrew i'm gonna have to make up i'm gonna have to make up part of this but um

Is there any chance? I mean, I found something on TikTok that's 30 Rock Jenna Improv, and it's 20 seconds. Is there any chance this is announced TikTok, so the audio is going to be all weird here? Let's try it. Let me see if I can make this happen, pot this up.

They're getting two names. They need two characters, and one of them is Sling Blade, and the other one I'm forgetting.

So if we hear that, this is literally somebody filming with their phone their laptop computer. This is going to be so terrible.

Is that like a corporate retreat? I used to have to perform at those all the time back when Jenna and I were in that improv troupe. The audience's suggestion is Sling Blade and Oprah on a date. I sure do like them french fried potatoes. No, you don't, Oprah.

I do remember that I saw that coming when she started. Because that means that's also her impression of Sling Blade. That's also, that's funny on many different levels, including the fact that that is apparently Jenna's impression of Sling Blade as well.

Well, yes, that, well, first of all, that Jenna thinks that that's Oprah. Right. And that also she starts with no, which is literally the first word, the first rule of improv is the answer is always yes. And Jenna's, no, you're not Oprah.

It's just, it's like, it's like, what was, it's like the, who is it? It's like Hemingway's like famous short story, like children's shoes for sale. Oh, the six word story, children's shoes never, for sale, children's shoes never worn. That is such an efficient joke. No, you're not, Oprah.

But it's also funny to think that like that is clearly Jenna's impression of Sling Blade as well. Like she's supposed to be doing Sling Blade, right?

Well, that's – Tina Fey is doing – Lemon is doing the impression of – you're saying Jenna. Do you mean Lemon?

No, because in Jenna's character, if Jenna believes that Liz is doing Oprah –

Oh, that's what she thinks Oprah sounds like.

If she thinks that that's what Oprah sounds like, Jenna has to be doing the other role, which is Sling Blade. One of them is Oprah. One of them is Sling Blade. Oh, yes. If Jenna believes that Liz is Oprah, not only is that funny, but, yeah, she also – It's funny on three different levels, the third one being like, oh, that also must be Jenna's impression of Sling Blade if she thinks that Liz is doing Oprah.

Wow, Andrew, that's some really high-level analysis by you. Three different jokes. I did not even pick that part up, but you're right. That's amazing.

No. You know, I think of yes and as being very, I mean, I know that that's something that has been in improv circles forever. But I feel like Tina Fey is the one who sort of really popularized that by talking about it in her book. Was it Bossy Pants? What was her big name? Yeah, Bossy Pants. And I sort of feel like after that, everybody started saying yes and no but. Yes and no but.

Yeah, I think that she is one of the many people who studied under the guy named Del Close, who was the legendary kind of – I don't know if he was the founder of Second City. But he was the person who kind of everybody that you've seen. Well, most of the people that you've seen on Saturday Night Live over the years have come out of the out of improv and have come out of either literally studying at Second City or studying under someone who studied at Second City. And that's all I think that's a Del Close thing. You know, the answer is always yes, because he comes up a lot in that book, Bossy Pants.

Yeah, I know that she didn't make it up, but I do sort of feel like that was like when all of a sudden I feel like there was a period there where everybody I knew was talking about yes and. or whatever and i sort of feel like that was that tina face started that now i because we've already i'll say because i've already kind of already ruined this show let's hold off on the quiz for now but i'm sending you a link to your email address i'd like you to open it the link is to the video that i just played from 30 rock a a video of somebody's laptop computer the last thing that i want to ask you about this clip we just played is who plays the person who introduces the improv scenario he's also somebody that we know who i don't think i knew who this guy was uh when 30 rock was on the air but now i'm looking at him sling blade and oprah on a date and his presentation there now have you been able to open that link yeah i am i'm waiting for uh

tick to talk sorry you're gonna you're gonna hear a little bit coming out of my computer i'm watching and i'm watching andrew be careful universe we could be folding in on ourselves at any point i'm watching the tick tock video where someone's pointing their phone at their laptop andrew so that i can satisfy your question on our podcast okay good just now hit play a second oh i don't i don't recognize that person oddly enough and and i i kind of pride myself on uh on you know knowing at least having a sense of like that's that guy from that other thing no and you know what this is not this is not that person for me you know who he reminded me of and

the timeline wouldn't work here his presentation in that one line read reminds me of the guy that you and i got briefly obsessed with on tiktok who's always doing the impression of a podcaster chris is leaving that blow your mind i'm gonna blow your mind right now he reminded me of that guy but this would have been i mean don't even think about how long ago no 30 rock was on the

air um so he would have been the wrong dip come out i realized too that i think i think probably bumpy's fruit and yogurt is going to be my new schubert dip like that's my new time marker right

yeah 30 years so um okay how about uh let's let's i really do like this quiz despite the fact that i'm not respecting the quiz at all i do love it so let's thank some donors and then come back to that quiz tomorrow if that's okay i would love to do that right now i realize i've been formatting the show sheet as i forget that we're sharing the show sheet so did i mess you up can you find the donors on there no i've got them right here okay good

jenna fernandez orand is in gaithersburg maryland thank you jenna thanks jenna appreciate you Elliot Solomon is in Brooklyn, New York. Thank you, Elliot. I've been there. Yes, we ate it. juniors in we certainly did yeah and then um that night i remember one it was before our we did a show in brooklyn about four years ago and that was like really the only time i'd really spent any time

in new york so interesting because you lived fairly close to there and you know it's your kind of town just in terms of the i know the urban kind of density of everything and and uh it's the city that never sleeps and you famously never sleep i know and i love apples i love big

All of it.

Thanks, Elliot. Also, thanks to Daniel Via in Miami Beach, Florida. Nice. Home of Andrew's favorite podcast.

That's very true. Yeah.

So, you know.

On the media. It's a very, if you listen closely, you can hear the very.

No, it's not, Oprah. Sarah Connors is in Lancaster. P-A I wonder what it's like

being named Sarah Connors I know, now the S does differentiate you from the popular, I believe so but either way, do you think that people are letting Sarah off the hook for that? No I mean, not even people who she's donating money to generously Oh, there's a note here, she says, I will donate so long as you do not make a Terminator

The most obvious reference of all time to my name, Sarah Thank you for your donation and please forgive us. Again, as a person with the name Luke, I know what it's like to sort of give people a layup on the name. William Galleon is in Kenmore, Washington. Because a cool hand Luke, right? That's exactly right. My boy says he can eat 50 eggs.

Comes up more than you'd think.

Yeah, like, I mean, obviously Luke Skywalker, but well, less so now. Despite all the reboots, I feel like Luke Skywalker is because I don't maybe it's he didn't really make his way into like the the the whatever the app because all the prequels and stuff and you know maybe I've really lost track of that really lost track of the plot of that show but um like you know it's it's the Mandalorian's world now Andrew it's the Mandadorian's world we just we Luke's we just live

in it aren't you glad that your parents had named you Mandadorian that would have been amazing

there's a good joke in there somewhere by the way like I was weird growing up with the name from Star Wars because people are always making obvious jokes. Oh, hey, Mandalorian. How's it going? Good. I like that. Andrew, it's really about defying expectations. You set up a certain expectation, then you subvert it. I have so much to learn about humor. Once we're done recording today, we'll do a breakout session on Zoom. I'm really looking forward to that. Thank you. Josh Laster is in West Caldwell, New Jersey, and is also supporting the program. So thank you, Josh. Thanks to all of our daily donors. And again, thank you so much for making the journey over here to Independence for us. Independence Day, colon, TBTL, colon, Mae Whitman can be in it if she wants. I think that's where we've arrived here on this franchise.

And if you don't mind me saying, and I don't mean to end the show on a somewhat negative note, but very specifically to Josh Laster, I just want to say, screw those knuckleheads over in East Caldwell. You know what I'm talking about? you know what i'm josh knows what i'm talking about east caldwell yeah for snoozers yeah it's

a real please it's a it's a it's we got an east caldwell west caldwell rivalry and we're solidly

team west caldwell absolutely unless we have a donor from east caldwell tomorrow in which case i don't know we'll see oh my god i pray to god there is i pray to god there is an east caldwell

right all right thanks uh everyone okay that's gonna do it for today's show um by friday we may have gotten through this quiz from Lauren so at least we're not talking about Vanderpump people having all kinds of secret trysts that they shouldn't be having because it was a fun but

dark period for the summer game that is true I have something that I'm I I'm dying to tell you Luke I'm going to tell you uh on tomorrow's show a follow-up to something we talked about on Friday a great coincidence happened to me this weekend okay and I'll tell you about it tomorrow uh so

that means we're probably never getting through this quiz and that's okay too. That's fine. Because I got a story for you on Wednesday about becoming a binocular boy. Ooh, yeah, you've been teasing that. I want to hear about that. We have much to talk about. Alright, thanks for listening, folks. We'll see you tomorrow with more Summer Games. In the meantime, please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

Power out.