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Ah, jeez. Luanne, sometimes life throws you a curveball. Now, there's two ways you can deal with it. You can cry, and that's the path you've chosen, or you can not cry.

How do you not cry?

Well, instead of letting it out, try holding it in. Every time you have a feeling, just stick it into a little pit inside your stomach and never let it out.

Are you supposed to have a pain under your rib?

Yes. That's natural. The body doesn't want to swallow its emotions. But now you go ahead and put that pain inside your stomach, too.

I think it's working, Uncle Hank. I feel sick, but not sad.

There you go. TBTL!

A lot of times in a meme war, it's all about speed. You've got to get to your memes quick. If you can't get to them quick, you're useless. They'll just keep blasting you with memes, and you can't fire back. You have to know where your memes are.

Hi, TBTL. It's me, Langley. I have one joke for you. Here it goes. What did the water balloon say to the kid? Squirt. Bye-bye.

You shout like that, they put you in jail. Right away. You're stealing right to jail. You're playing music too loud, ride to jail, right away. You're driving too fast, jail. Slow, jail. You're charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses, you ride to jail. You undercook fish, believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Well, I've said a lot of things in my time. Not all of it's worth listening to. But let's just say this time around, it is.

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

Memories are made in your mouth.

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

You know, with my fecalist in jail, I can eat whatever I want today.

I am going to see the doctor later today for my first physical in, well, a long time. We'll see how that goes. I was rehearsing today on my little jog in the morning. I was playing out in my mind how I'm going to answer the question, so how many drinks do you consume a week? Like, it needs to be a number that isn't on its face preposterously low based on what all of my medical testing will indicate. But I also don't want the doctor to literally collapse with shock if I give him the real number, trying to figure out how that's going to go. Oh, by the way, coming to you, of course, from the Madrona Hill studio perched high above the mighty Columbia. Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful. And getting some rain, but also some blue skies. And right now it's quite, quite gorgeous out there. We have arrived, my friends. It's happening. We're at episode 4042 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. I don't know if you heard about the hottest new steakhouse in New York.

New York's hottest club is Crease.

It's called Mehran's, and it opened recently for one night. Mehran's Steakhouse.

I dropped the steak in the bathwater.

And I'd heard about this thing, what was sort of behind this pop-up steakhouse. But when I read the New York Times piece that got into real details of how the one night of Mehran's steakhouse existence went, I was lolling. I was literally laughing out loud getting ready for the show today. So I want to share that joy with all of you. And also, if you're interested in buying Berkeley's legendary hot tub house. It's going to be very hot, going to be very uncomfortable for everybody. It can be yours for the low, low price of around $900,000, which it turns out is a great deal in Berkeley. It's a screaming deal. We'll talk about that. And we'll do some Blur's Days on this Thursday. 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. He is Andrew. Boom, boom. Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. I also made a doctor's appointment yesterday. Hey, good for you. Thank you. It's been way, way, way too long. And did I inspire you to help? Well, what inspired me was the fact that I had not been to the doctor in years and years, and it's been hanging over my head. And then I figured, well, once we get our, you know, my health insurance situation, as I transferred out of the American public media system and set up my own.

And I was like, OK, as soon as I get that done, then I'll finally get my health on. I'll make a doctor's appointment. And then I kept on dragging my feet on that until I woke up a couple of days ago. I told you this off air with an incredibly painful ankle for reasons that I still don't know.

Did you, as they say now in football parlance, he's out with an ankle?

Yeah, I was out.

He's got an ankle.

But usually the thing, the difference, there's one difference between me and a professional National Football League player, Luke, which is when they are out with an ankle, it means that they've heard it through activity in some way. Mine is, I was doing all this reading, like mysterious ankle pain causes overactivity or underactivity. I'm like, yeah, I don't think there's any. We can rule one of those out. I think we can rule one of those out. Every now, I was telling you all this off air. I don't want to get too far into the ankle situation.

Well, that's why, yeah, I certainly wasn't going to bring it up unless you did.

But it was one of those things where sometimes you wake up, you get to a certain age, You get little cricks in your neck or whatever, and you live with it for a day or something, and it's just natural. I've had that in my ankle from time to time, I feel like. I don't know for sure, but it didn't seem like that big of a deal until it lasted two days and kind of got worse. I was like, oh, shit, this might be a thing. This could be an arthritis-y thing. I'm not exactly sure. So I'm like, all right, I've got to make a doctor's appointment. I've got to make a doctor's appointment. Yes, I have eliminated that. I was like, don't be gout, don't be gout, don't be gout. Oh, God, don't be gout. Oh, shit. I can't be a gout man, which is terrible. I'm sure we have people listening who've had gout, but given the way I treat my body, if I were to get gout, it would be shameful for me personally.

I would say, and more critically, the way that you judge yourself when things that may be avoidable but also may be unavoidable happen to you. I know someone specifically who had gout, and it was not due to any particular lifestyle stuff. I think it just hits some people and doesn't hit others. But I know that that would be for you something that would cause you to really be mad at yourself. And so I'm really glad that it's not that, just so you don't beat yourself up.

Yeah, so it's definitely not that. It was more of an ankle thing. But anyway, and by the way, today it's much, much better. But I wasn't making an appointment for the ankle, but just one of those things where it's like, here's the deal. The doctor that I had, I don't leave doctors. Doctors keep leaving me. Have I told you this? This is like the second time this has happened. And sometime during the pandemic, the doctor that I had on record, like my physician, just sent out a note saying that he wasn't quite retiring, but he was just not going to be a doctor anymore. But he was going to work in the office in a different position. I was like, oh, my God, he's looking at my charts again and just was it Dr. Spaceman? I have the results of your physical.

You have no reflexes. Your blood tastes like root beer and some of your bones appear to have vanished. That's exactly.

I literally got that dropped. I edited that drop and got it together to play tomorrow when I give you the report on my physical.

Oh, I could have sent it to you.

I had to take Tracy Jordan out of it. Because the fuller context is, Tracy, you're going to die when you hear who I'm dating.

Squeaky Fromm, she is difficult. I love it. It's so good. It's one of the best. Dr. Spaceman gives all of the best jokes on the show. He really does. squeak like that joke just keeps going you're gonna die when i tell you who i'm dating like already that's enough of a joke squeaky from and then she is difficult any whoozles i uh i went to

make an appointment yesterday and so i'm like i think you know i have this new doctor now but i've

never met him before i think he just sort of you're seeing doctor now yeah from my 600 pound life oh i don't know that guy dr nowzardin he's the doctor on that tv show but it's hilarious because i believe he's originally from iran but he's been living in the greater houston area for a long time so he greets all of his patients or would-be patients with his kind of like uh sort of accent but with a very texas how y'all doing oh that's how he always greets everyone y'all

um so anyway i when i call the i call the um office of the person who i guess is my doctor now and i kind of say you know i was a patient of dr so-and-so i think he's retired but i i think i'm on the books now with this other doctor being my guy and she's like yeah she's like she says oh yeah we haven't seen you since 2019 and then pauses for a reaction from me and luke i'm not lying when i tell you my first my first thought was oh that's not as bad as i thought yeah like I thought it was 2017 or 18 or something, but I didn't say that to her. She just waited for me to respond, and I just said, yeah, I know. She was a very helpful person. It was not a painful call.

Did she ask you why you were taking finasteride?

No, she didn't. Everything went fine, but she really did seem to need a verbal response to, we haven't seen you since 2019.

like well what do you want me to say I have not been super responsible but I I the ankle is much better today but generally speaking I'm glad that it's sort of kicked me in the ass to finally get the ball rolling on this I got an appointment in a few weeks and then I know that when I'm there we're gonna set up a you know we'll talk about and then set up a time for me to make an appointment for my colon cancer screening which I assume will be a colonoscopy for me I'm not in I don't think i want to take the root of pooing on paper as some people have chosen so i think that's phase

one i think i'm supposed to i've got a lot of uh i've got a lot of alerts in the kaiser permanente portal uh telling me that they want to get inside my portal and see what's going on like and it starts with some kind of a yeah you know doing that on a on a stick but then oh it's all it's

both i thought it was oh man i thought it's like you choose one pill or the other pill i listen our

Our listeners know much more, particularly our friend Phyllis Fletcher, who's her favorite topic.

Do you think we'll get any texts today?

Probably. Knows much more about this than we do. But I think you—I mean, one of them is a sort of—sending in a sample can give some useful information to the folks. But my guess is there's a certain age at which you pretty much have to get the full meal deal. And again, I stand by my assertion that you and I should make a whole episode out of it where we pull a Steve Martin and Martin Short who they get together every whatever it is, year or two for theirs. And they hole up in Steve Martin's presumably mansion of a house. They take their their pills or I've heard that's gotten a lot better, too, by the way, the stuff you have to take to kind of clean out your system. And then they just make a whole hang out of it. And then they just like hang out and then they go and they use their respective restrooms and then they come back and they hang out. I feel like we should schedule our colonoscopies on the same day and we should record the night before our colonoscopies, record a couple episodes and then we can recover for a day or two.

Are you thinking in person? Because if so, are you coming up to Seattle to get your health care taken care of? Because I'm not going to the tri-county area, I'm afraid.

Listen, I first of all, I resent that implication that we don't have the finest doctors down here as well. I would do that. Just like I said, it's just you have two restrooms in your home. That's the critical thing we need. You know, everybody needs to have access to their to their own private chamber for this whole thing, because my sense is there's a lot of visiting the bathroom the night before one of these.

But but I think I'm too private of a person to be comfortable with that arrangement, to be honest with you. That's see, that's the kind of bonding that in the same way I think I started yesterday's show by telling you how mortified I was because I tooted in front of my my girlfriend yesterday. So if I'm if I'm if I'm dealing with gastrological issues with that amount of shame and embarrassment, I don't think having a poo party is really kind of in line with what's going to make this process feel better to me.

okay i just thought if we socialized if it'd be less maybe there'd be less dread around it fine

i'll get camaro keb he would do that yeah like i just feel like we need to de-stigmatize it and

we also need to kind of like this is something that you and i both need to start doing on the reg and i just somehow making wearing a party hat to me feels like it'd be like kind of something that was fun and weird instead of being something that's just weird i'm happy to talk about it i'm

happy to schedule them around the same time but i don't want to recreate that thing in saturday night live that was one of my family's favorite jokes which was the couple's toilet do you remember they're like holding hands i think yes yes i remember who the other person was yeah yes

maybe victoria jackson yes i think it was yes very good she went off the deep end unfortunately

she did she get kooky she got real kooky there's like tape of her showing up at like

uh i think maybe school board meetings she's got some real thoughts about curriculum andrew and they're not good thoughts and they're very progressive they're extremely bad thoughts but um uh speaking of doctor's appointments uh this is kind of funny to me the as i mentioned this kaiser permanente who i'm gonna start using i guess as of today they're so communicative one could say over communicative like overly so they send me many many many updates asking me you know do i remember i have an appointment today and here's how you confirm it here's how you change it etc and then i log into the whole system the website for them they've got ever i had to take this elaborate quiz not quiz i had to fill out this survey this morning indicating for many pages about what my level of food insecurity might be which you know i think is a good thing for for for doctors uh and and you know the sort of medical profession to track what is someone's food insecurity what is someone's transportation needs there was a bunch of questions about if i if i had transportation issues if i've suffered food insecurity etc so it's a pretty thorough thing before we've even gone in there you know what they don't have anywhere on the website that i can find andrew anywhere the

address of the doctor's office you know that'd be helpful they I mean I it must be somewhere in here but it is not anywhere that I've been able to find and I was clicking around for a good 20 minutes looking for it's got the name of the doctor it's got uh the a general name for for the for the place but not like specifically like it's at this address it just it's like such and such internal medicine and i put that into ways and it gave me a totally it gave me a place down in portland that also has internal medicine in the name so it's not even like the name that they're putting down on there is i can just put that into a you know a computer and it'll just take me to the place like it's the i guess i'll just have to call the finasteride lady after this and go hey what is the address but doesn't that just seem like probably one of the most important pieces of information to tell the person who you keep bugging to come in for their appointment

Yeah, that seems, yeah, obviously that seems very odd.

Yeah. Like, I don't know if it's like on a need-to-know basis.

The only thing is, well, it doesn't matter.

Are they withholding the information until I send in my poop on a stick?

No poopy, no Addy. Don't anybody repeat that or quote me. I will deny it. I was going to say it might be one of those things, and again, I don't think it's entertaining for me to try to puzzle this out on the air, so this is all I'll say about it. Like I like you, it sounds like, you know, get my health care through a network system. Right. And my doctor is is part of that network. But there are offices and buildings all over this great city of ours. Mine happens to be in Ballard because I like to choose the offices that are the furthest away and hardest to go east to west. And why would I go 10 miles west when it's so hard to go east west in the city? Ballard is 30 minutes from Ballard.

It is my famous saying. Yes, it absolutely is. You're absolutely right. I like, too, the idea that you're – and this is only the old heads in Seattle even get this sort of reference. But I like the idea that your doctor is going to be a very old Norwegian mariner.

I told you. I told you, like, I like my doctors. Like, I like my coffee. Very old. I don't know if that makes sense. No, it doesn't. But I mean, I knew I think the days of me having a doctor who is older than me are long gone. And that's probably good from a medical perspective.

But like it was just always a doctor older than you may be experiencing certain later in life sort of mental decline.

Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, it's always, you know, a bit odd for me as somebody who is very anxious about health care stuff and then going in and talking to like young fit doctors. And I just again, I have a lot of issues in the way I regard my body and my lifestyle and all of that. So I am I did read the reviews for this new doctor of mine who I kind of inherited through the system. Oh, and that's what I was going to say is like maybe like like maybe they assume that if you click through enough, you end up getting to the actual doctor's Web page. Like I know that I had to get, you know, like three pages deep to get to my actual doctor's office to discover that it was in Ballard. I don't know if that's kind of what you're tripping up on or what they're tripping up on as far as not giving you clear indications on where to go for your appointment.

I mean, I can probably just Google my doctor or this doctor's name. Yeah. And although I will say this, his last name is you, which is, it turns out, one of the most common doctor names out there right now. And so and don't try to figure out who my doctor is, people. OK, that's weird. That's over the line. I'll just give you this. his last name is why you that's it that's all i'm it's all i'm gonna give you his last name is riviera his first name is dr nick hi everybody it's your window to wait game um so yeah so if i can make it down there um and find it uh that's going to be happening this afternoon i i will be totally honest with you and we don't have to talk this to death this is i've never been a person who's particularly apprehensive around medical care and i'm i feel like that's real privilege because I've just generally been a healthy person. And to be honest with you, I am still a very healthy feeling person. I'm very lucky in that way. Like I don't have a ton of aches and pains. But I am really, I'm just, I feel like I'm nervous about, you know, what the, A, I'm actually really not looking forward to getting weighed because I haven't weighed myself in a long, long time. And I don't really know what that number is. and uh i've i've always gone towards scales that are like cutting me about five to ten pounds of

slack like i just like that in a scale i like that what are you looking for in a scale i'm

looking for one that makes the number lower for me i don't i'm not a fan of that whole situation where they're moving the counterbalance over all that business

I don't, I don't, I mean, I know that's probably how the, you know, they did it in ancient like Egypt or something, but I don't, I don't know. I don't like that scale because it always gives me a number I don't feel great about.

You blame the abacus. I do.

I absolutely, I blame, I blame the entire Nile River Delta for this. But like, so I'm not looking forward to the weight portion because I cannot, I've, I mean, whatever. I don't want to get into specifics and I don't want to really get into talking about bodies because everyone's body is different. But there's a kind of a number that I sort of assume that I hover around and that number I don't really love, but I have a feeling I'm going to be pretty far in excess of that number that I've just been kind of telling myself, yeah, you're probably about this amount and I'm going to have to have a real come to Jesus moment with what my actual weight is when I go in today. And also no joke, like I have to tell the doctor that I certainly probably consume more alcohol than is healthy for a body and what am I going to do about that and like I just I'm I'm I'm more apprehensive about this than I have been in the past because I feel like kind of like you said you were telling yourself well we get through the thon and we get through like launching independent tbtl and kind of like then it's going to be time to sort of get our ducks in a row I've kind of had this doctor's appointment circled as like this is when I'm getting I'm going to get kind of real about some health stuff that I've just been just been kicking various cans down the road and today feels like the day when i gotta go pick those cans up secretly drive them across the columbia river and try to turn them in for cash in oregon it's funny or the analogy for

me is um finally i'm going to go into the doctor's office and it's going to be the equivalent of when i hear the garbage truck empty my recycle bin and it's going to be nothing but the sound of glass bottles shattering as it exposes to the entire neighborhood how i've been spending my evenings that's basically the equivalent of what's going on inside my body that's why for me like when the stepping on the scale is not my favorite thing but like it's how can i explain this when i go into that office i and this is terrible by the way this is just like i know that we have so many people listening who have a much more healthy relationship with the health care system and and their own in their own situation and and i shouldn't have this much shame and anxiety around going to the doctor But the fact is, I do. And for me, the moment I walk through that door, I basically feel debased from the I mean, so like it's like I don't know if stepping on the scale is better or worse than anything that happens in there. But basically, like if debased is the wrong word, certainly like, well, anything anything that I've been trying to hide, mostly my shame, I need to let go of right now. Like the scale is just the beginning of it. They're going to be I always I also think looking inside me and seeing basically the inside of the turkey from the from the National Lampoon's Christmas vacation right before it explodes. Right. It's just it's just going to they're going to put a dry husk and it's just going to be dry and black and somewhat dusty in there.

Well, again, I have a feeling that probably when you get on that scale, I bet you anything the number is in fact lower than whatever your self-perception is.

That is not the case in the past.

Because I was just going to say, we talked about this a while ago on the show. And again, this is all dicey territory. I don't want to get too much into talking about bodies and stuff. But like, I feel like the people when they meet you and then they talk to me about meeting you, they're always like meeting Andrew did not square up with how I expected meeting Andrew to go. And a lot of that has to do with maybe sometimes the way you describe yourself. And I was just thinking you like you might self-report a certain thinking that you weigh a certain amount and maybe the reality is less than that. But maybe that's not the case. I don't know.

No, yeah, I'd be honest with you on that. It is always a little bit, even as I'm rounding up, I'm always a little bit shocked. Like, oh, okay, I'm that person now. Okay, like that's interesting.

Well, I'll give you a full, and I mean violating all manner of HIPAA law tomorrow. I'll give you and the listeners a full report.

Okay, yeah, let us know where the doctor's office is too.

Well, that's, I mean, honestly, that's most of the journey for me. And then deciding if I'm going to be honest about my drinking or not. So I'll give you a full update tomorrow. Let us thank some daily donors who are making today's TBTL possible with their generous financial support. If any of them know where Dr. Yu's office is, please point me in that direction. I'm talking to you Stephen Shore In Brooklyn, New York Where's that? United States Says it right here on my list Andrew United States I'm going to be in Brooklyn next week Boy I'll tell you what I

Yeah, well, hotel rooms in New York are comically expensive. Luckily, I'm not paying for it. CBS is, but they have this rule. It's called the per diem, which is weird because I've never known it. Per diem is like the money they give you when you're working somewhere for a day to buy food and stuff. But they refer to the hotels with per diem. The CBS Sunday morning per diem for New York is like, I don't know, 200 bucks a night for a hotel. It's like you it's like it's like you cannot get a hotel room in New York anywhere, anywhere in certainly in Manhattan. And now in Brooklyn, I thought, well, I were filming in Brooklyn at a restaurant. I thought I'll go out there and give those Brooklyn kids, you know, something to get excited about. I'll go stay at, you know, at a fancy, fancy hotel in Brooklyn, because I thought all of the expensive hotels were in basically Midtown Manhattan. I know like the hotels in Brooklyn are also it turns out quite fancy and quite expensive you and

I got a little taste of that before things even skyrocketed more when we were out in at the Fairfield that was that was pre-pandemic that was a long time ago and you know that was a it was a nice kind of trendy hotel but you know small rooms I remember even at the time you you saying like wow the prices have changed in Brooklyn I couldn't get in I would kill to be in that Fairfield Inn

in Brooklyn again, Andrew, also because they're part of the Bonvoy situation. So, you know me, I got to get that platinum elite status, got to keep that. But anyway, Stephen, what I'm saying is, can I crash at your house?

Hey, before we thank another donor, let me ask you this. Do you remember, because I think I bring this up to you from time to time. Do you remember what top story we covered that had me in stitches as you and I hunched over a portable recording device and did the podcast from the Fairfield Inn in Brooklyn before our live show that night. So this is not the live show. This is that day's episode. You presented me with a top story that had tape that went along with it.

And I could, I wish I could remember because I feel like it's so rare that I actually delight you with one of these top stories.

Actually, you know what? I'll give you a hint. Coincidentally, some of the tape was in today's intro. intro that you played intro that i played which means you were getting coffee

no no i was in a meme war it's about speed was it this guy you gotta get to your memes quick

i think if you look it up that whatever like that that would be on the show sheet from the day that we were recording in that in that hotel room and i remember just like you're playing it for me it was so long he just went on meme dad and some his son his young adult son had made a documentary about his dad's obsession with memes.

Yes, and what I remember about that was it didn't seem like it had the number of views on YouTube that it should have. Like, it was still in the, my memory is that it was still, it was, it hadn't blown up like some other, you know, sort of things on the internet. And I was like, this is gold. This is some of the greatest internet content I've ever seen. And I thought it was a fairly boutique kind of audience for it.

Yeah, I wonder, yeah, that is true. Like, it looms so large in my brain, but I don't know what its life is outside of TBTL.

We also want to thank John Lynn in Spokane, Washington. Thank you, John.

I need to get out to Spokane.

You sure do.

Yeah, I hear it.

Get out to the Inland Empire. Have you been to Spokane ever in your life?

No, that's what I'm saying. I haven't. Now, I thought the Inland Empire was in, I thought that was like the, that was part of California. I thought that's where like a lot of.

Well, I think there are probably a few places. Yeah, because like San Bernardino and the, there are places in California, you're right, that also refer to themselves as the Inland Empire. But I grew up with Spokane and that area being described as the Inland Empire. It sounds kind of like my kind of town from what I hear. I mean, I really love Spokane, actually. It was a big place to go for us when I was a kid because my parents' friends, Mike and Pat, lived over in Spokane, and they were just so much fun, and they lived in this really cool kind of old Victorian house, and it was just a big, fun, they had a trampoline. It was just great, so I have very fond memories of Spokane. Zach Labby is in McFarland, Wisconsin. I also have fond memories of McFarland, Wisconsin from my childhood.

Do they have trampolines there?

They do. They do. They just, actually just re-legalized them. Oh, nice. There was an incident a couple of years ago. Sure. You know, when I was in high school, maybe middle school, a kid from my school named Philip Peterson, who actually is in the band. He's in a lot of bands, actually, but he was in that band Tennis Pro that I think we've had on the show that our friend David Drury, Stephanie Drury's husband, is in that band Tennis Pro. Phil Peterson had a trampoline. And when I think about the things that we would do on that trampoline that were dangerous.

Like there was a period of time where my goal was to do as many backflips in a row as I could. So it would be like bounce, do a backflip, land, do another backflip, land. I think maybe I could do like four or five. I have this memory of being in like backflip attempt number five and just looking down and realizing my body was no longer over the trampoline. and just but it being fine like landing on the ground and then getting up and probably getting back on the trampoline that would kill me at this age that would absolutely that'd be the end of my life and it used to just be like not a huge deal that first of all is the opposite of sitting i

just want to throw that out there also something very funny sitting is the opposite of standing Something just funny happened to me, which is I was just curious what that Fairfield Inn in Brooklyn would cost for a night. What's it going for? Well, first of all, they don't have any openings. Oh, I see, because I was looking at, yeah, okay, so they do have openings in the next few days. And they're way more reasonable than I thought. I see one for $175, one for $284. No, no, no. And I'm sitting here, like, talking to you and sort of puzzling that out and being like, that is way affordable. And now I see I am in Brooklyn, Ohio. Oh, sure. I think there might be a price difference there.

Because honestly, dude, it's not too late for me to switch hotels.

Can you switch Brooklyns, though?

I'll ask the people at the restaurant where we're filming next week if they wouldn't mind uprooting the thing and moving it to Brooklyn, Ohio. We also, of course, have to thank Megan Pecht of San Diego, California.

Beautiful San Diego.

When we were down in kind of the greater San Diego area, I don't know, a few months ago, I was down there on a TV story, and Becca was with me, and on our way home, I might have talked about this at the time, we had some time to kill in San Diego proper, or like the greater San Diego area, and we went out to that Hotel Del Coronado, which is on Coronado Island, and it's, of course, where they filmed Some Like It Hot. And it was one of the most magical afternoons I've probably had that I can remember. The weather was amazing. That hotel, I mean, you know, it's pretty posh, but if you wanted to just for a special occasion go there for some lunch or dinner, like, I had a fish sandwich that I can't stop thinking about. Like, really. No, I've had that kind of food before. Like, I spend, I will wake up sometimes thinking about this, like, halibut sandwich I had at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, or on Coronado Island. And God bless my sainted girlfriend. And Becca has basically remade it almost exactly, I mean, like to the T. So I can have a version of it whenever I want. But just sitting out there on their little, not little, their giant balcony and looking at the ocean and eating this fish sandwich, it was just, it stayed with me. So I want to thank Megan Pecht for that. I don't know why, but I'm just thanking her. Also, Julia Bush is in Providence, Rhode Island, a place I have not ever been, but which I have heard incredible things about. Did you get out to Providence?

I don't think I've ever been to Providence, but I feel like I can picture it like foamy, cold, white waves crashing upon rocks, Luke. I mean, it sounds beautiful. I don't know if any of that's right. Is that right?

Doesn't Providence also have a big cabaret scene? Like, I feel like Providence has like a kind of just a really interesting artistic community as well that you, you know, might not expect in Providence, Rhode Island. But I feel like also like Anthony Bourdain spent some formative years there and wrote about it, maybe in Kitchen Confidential.

Anyway, I don't think there's any waves hitting Providence, by the way. There's a bay there, but it's not it's not like the shores of New Hampshire. So my apologies to Julia and everybody.

Please don't stop donating just because of our sort of lack of information about your hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.

I'm happy to tell you how much of Fairfield Inn is there, though, just with a little bit of research.

Now you're looking in Providence, Georgia.

Yeah, yeah. And by the way, Fairfield Inn, New York, Brooklyn, the other Brooklyn, as I call it. Yeah, we're talking between 4 and 4.50 a night.

See, even that would be fine. I could get Larry Allardo to sign off on that. The problem is I'm not staying there tonight. I'm staying there next week, and that was a whole. That's the thing, too, is I have to run all this through Larry. And Larry and I, as you know, have had an up-and-down relationship over the years.

How does he know that you're not going to Disney World, and that's why you want to stay in Brooklyn? Well, that's the thing.

That's the issue. So I'll tell you, I'm going to have Sophia Cosby in Berlin, Germany, vouch for me. They don't have Fairfield ins there, I don't believe. Did I tell you that Becca's brother Scott ran the Berlin Marathon This last weekend? No And it was You want to talk about a really Her family That family is a tight-knit bunch of folks

i went to sleep because i was scott don't be mad at me i it was it started at 12 15 a.m west coast time on saturday night and i was like okay i'm i'm beat uh when i woke up because i was on this text chain everyone in the family had stayed up all night i think they also suffer from a fair amount of insomnia as a family had stayed up all night watching his splits in other words how fast he was was running each mile in the berlin marathon and cheering him on virtually i mean he couldn't see any of it because he was running very fast but it was really i thought it was really sweet it was really like what a cool family that like people my my family would never do that and and again i love my family but that's not they would not stay up all night rooting me on when i was

running in the berlin marathon i mean is there proof that they actually did this or did they

just tell you yeah it's all it's all time stamped oh you know what i mean it's a text chain and you can see yeah sure you can see like sudell uh checking in at 1 a.m going great job son i mean you can you can forge that stuff though uh-huh and definitely i think definitely becca's mom is one of our nation's foremost hackers yeah i mean so she's probably written a program to do that anyway well thanks to sophia thanks to all of our donors today for making tb chill possible we just could not do this without you hello and welcome to top story i um thought i kind of knew the deets on this new york steakhouse story but this is one of those cases andrew where the first mention i saw of it was in the new york post and as i have talked about on the program a lot i have a very conflicted relationship with the new york post i love reading it and i hate myself for how much i love reading it because it's just a complete trash it's a complete trash fire of a newspaper that is mostly about trying to act like joe biden is corrupt i mean it's generally i swerve on media that holds that as a worldview but they just have so many other stories about the um you know about like just things that are trashy but just serious enough that it just it i don't know it feels it's the arby's of news i don't want to like it as much as i do but i do um so i saw the i saw this article there and i read it and i thought okay some kids in new york did a did a stunt but then i read the new york times piece written by becky hughes and it is to me kind of incredible the dazzling deets did you have a

chance to actually look no i didn't i heard you reading it and chuckling today i was legit laughing

reading it yeah so basically what happened was you had a bunch of young people living in an apartment in new york city on east 83rd in manhattan and uh these were a bunch of folks that are in interested in tech and i think that they this was kind of considered to be what you might call a hacker house there was 16 20 somethings working in this house and they slept in closets and on bunk beds. And, you know, I don't know if this is really my lifestyle or your lifestyle, Andrew, but I mean, you know, for these young people, this was just kind of their thing. They're all interested in probably coding and hacking and doing these things. Well, one of the folks that lives there, a guy named or lived there, I should say, was a guy named Mehran. And he used to cook up steaks for people that were living in this hacker house. And so as I guess kind of a joke one of the um one of the people living in the house decided to start calling it calling the house I think on like google maps they changed the name of the house to like Mehran's steakhouse um just because he was there making steak for people it was like an inside joke in this friend group you know what I mean like they had gotten somewhere into the sort of like guts of the internet and mapping and whatever and they had basically renamed just this like i presume apartment they're living in they started calling it mayron's steakhouse i've

lived in apartments before i believe where when you look at them on google maps it identifies them as a business because somebody was running a business out of the home before i moved in

mr uh jalali cooked steaks mainly topped sirloin for his roommates uh dinners and uh ms egan uh who danielle egan who lived there um uh renamed their address on google maps as mayron's steakhouse creating a google listing is as simple as picking a name clicking a few buttons and waiting for it to appear there are few safeguards to prevent fake reviews which is how the listing racked up rave reviews so she or somebody starts calling it mayron's steakhouse as a joke and then their other friends start writing reviews of mayron's steakhouse love it love it to the point where at At some point, somebody walks in a week after the listing was posted in March 2022, Mr. Jalali, now 21, said, a couple walked in like, we're here for the steak. people started trying to show up because they're reading these rave reviews of Mehran steakhouse and so of course the joke is just growing and growing within this friend group where more and more reviews are being written they create basically an email waiting list to get a table at Mehran steakhouse they've got I don't know like 900 people that are on just a waiting list to get into Mehran steakhouse to get a reservation because they can't get a table at this non-existent steakhouse but very few of these people on the waiting list know that this whole thing is not a real place and because of course new york is the kind of place where it would not be inconceivable for a particular restaurant to have a year-long waiting list folks are just kind of like you know like well yeah i mean of course i can't get a table this is the hottest steakhouse in new york so it turns out that all these folks uh from this hacker house most of them anyway move out to the west coast and um and so they decided as kind of a joke because they were all going to be getting together in new york for something they decided as a joke to actually try to open mayron's steakhouse for one night and this is where i think the story becomes very charming because they have literally no idea how to run a steakhouse we put our money together to go to two steakhouses one big and one small to see what they were like at stk and son the friends quizzed waiters about restaurant and server logistics they developed a four-course menu which was 114 dollars before tax tip and wine and asked the chef elias bakaki of lay sandwich to taste and critique their dishes on saturday afternoon as tropical storm ophelia drenched the city mr jillali and his quote staff which was 60 of his mostly college student and tech dropout friends prepared for dinner service. I'm going to send a Google Drive link to the menu, he told the team. This is your Bible, your Koran. The novice crew peppered him with questions like, what if guests ask for drinks beyond the three red wines or milk on offer? I didn't think of that, Mr. Jalali said. How do diners add a tip? I don't know, Mr. Jalali said.

What if someone complains? I'll come downstairs and apologize. almost none of the volunteers had any cooking experience and were randomly assigned prep work by mr mr waltz or mr jalali as anson you a pesca is that my doctor doctor you impossible as anson you a pescatarian patted dry 114 pounds of ribeyes mr jalali asked the team do the steaks get seasoned

before or after the sear they've got like but wait a second he knows it they know how to make I mean, the thing, this all started because he really did make good steaks.

Well, I don't know if they were good. It doesn't say they were good. It just said he would make steaks mostly sirloin, which I don't know a lot about steak. I'm guessing sirloin is a little bit more of a down market cut.

That would be my guess. I don't know much about it either. I know that ribeye is what I've always made.

So I'm thinking that the idea was Mehran was making steaks for everyone in the hacker house, but he wasn't, you know, like Bobby Flay or something. The first guests arrived at 5.30, and they were Mr. Waltz's parents, who had spent the afternoon running to Target to buy supplies for the event. They made sure the staff members were eating protein bars and hydrating. A few more tables of relatives trickled in, and then the unsuspecting customers arrived. Joe Skorapiewski, age 30, added his name to Mehran's waiting list in January. He'd walked past the supposed address, perplexed by what appeared to be a residential building and a laundromat. When he and his wife, Allison Skorpuski, 29, got the call that a table was available, they jumped at the opportunity. The menu purportedly followed the life cycle of a cow. As diners at the pop-ups, 35 tables tucked into courses like Meadows Bring Life, that was the name of the mixed salad. Youth Ever Precious Ever Fleeting Which was the name Of the Veal Meatballs Little on the nose I don't like to think about I don't eat any veal But I don't like to think About veal's life And Agrarian Synergies Which was Bruschetta And Mozzarella We were laughing Because it was like Do you think We're being punked Said Lee Wade An OBGYN Who was there With her husband Richard Iario An emergency room doctor Who'd waited since February Around 8.30pm A young man went To the front of the dining room and knelt to propose marriage to a server the awkward stage moment was a tip-off for many guests is this a social experiment i'm 95 sure it is said alex feinstein an accountant i low-key think this is an nyu production reactions to the food were about evenly split some diners praised the steak but others sent theirs back one man saying his was like at a

wedding buffet oh the press that surprises me the presentation based on the photos and the times is really it's it's quite

Quite well done, it looks like. I'm looking across several photos here, even the salad and everything. I feel like they did a really good job of plating this stuff, if nothing else.

It looked pretty pro. I think the room, it was not in a traditional restaurant space. Yeah, the room looks like it. I think the room was probably kind of a giveaway.

Yeah, definitely. They have a really nice kitchen, too. That's the thing. Like, they got a lot of butcher block in there. It might be a small stove, but it looks like one of those kind of chef-style gas stoves with the really did apparently have a broken hood though they mentioned in the article so so like there's 16 of them living here and they have tech jobs i mean if they pooled their money just to go out to a steak restaurant i guess they're not swimming in funds but by living together with 16 people i guess that's the place itself like in i'm just trying to judge these guys's lifestyle and it looks like a pretty nice place to live like not just like location but like but it's not this

This is not – but it's not in their apartment. It's not in what was – I see. I'm sorry. I missed that. No, no. That's probably not me. I left that out. You didn't miss that. I actually – that's a good clarification, and probably all the listeners were on the same journey you were on. They rented a totally different thing to do this present. I should have put that right at the top.

Because they have – because that's why I keep thinking, like, they have this stove. They have this kitchen. Again, it doesn't look like a huge kitchen, but it looks like it's got some professional grade um appliances and layout and i'm like oh wow so they they must have been cooking up some good stuff anyway but no they don't live in these that's not the hacker house in the photos okay

gotcha but uh but again i didn't clarify that and i i'm sure the listeners were equally confused um i thought this was interesting they one of the customers was someone named katherine schrader a hospitality manager who had told a facebook group that uh she doubted mayron's was real but that she'd gotten a reservation after realizing the location was an event space watching a 22 year old sommelier struggle to open a wine bottle doing some basic math on the prices and number of employees miss schrader became confident that the restaurant was a ruse okay well i was gonna say

too because okay i went into this thinking that the guy who made steaks really was making good steaks like his friends were like oh you got to try this guy's steaks and so therefore he knew what he was doing even if he was as the kids used to say balling on a budget so um i kind of i was kind of taking all that in and these photos of again like some of these photos that i'm seeing it seems pretty well plated i was actually thinking 113 bucks for a plate was not bad at all but i guess if the um yeah i guess if you're sort of like you're struggling to open a bottle of wine and it's kind of a janky setup as far as the tables are concerned in an event space i understand that Maybe you don't want to, like, overcharge and create havoc amongst the masses, I guess.

I mean, I'm surprised they pulled it off as well as they did just because, you know, waiting tables is a – it's a real talent and a skill. And, you know, if you're an experienced server, there's a whole art to it that you don't just kind of, like, pick up night one if you've mostly been writing code somewhere. And then now you're, like, trying to open a bottle of wine and tell people about it. By the way, the waiting proposal was totally fake. they threw in things oh one of the other things i don't think it's in the times that was fake yeah that was just they were trying to create like a weird experience one of the things they did too was photoshopped may ron into all of these photos over the years of him being a chef with like celebrities and this is actually not in the times piece but i read it maybe in the post but like it's pretty funny too because i think it's like him and like nelson mandela it's him but, like, him and Frank Sinatra. I think it's him throughout various eras, but he's always Mehran, just like the celebrity chef with whoever the, you know, famous person of that moment is. This is what the hospitality manager, Catherine Schrader, said. She goes, Mrs. Schrader finally got it. She said, we are experiencing the punchline of some online joke between a bunch of friends. But was she disappointed by the steakhouse run by 21-year-olds? quote I've spent more on less she said and it got us out of the neighborhood

like that's a good attitude

I would I mean honestly I would have gone to this and I'm you know like I said I you're much more sensitive to this than I am but I'm myself kind of over sort of pop-upper-y if you will not pop-upper-y I'm sort of over like improv happenings improv everywhere you know and I mean you're like

And performative, and especially if it's got a whiff of trickery to it or prankster. This started off so innocent that I think it sort of eased me into it, so I think I'm leaning more towards charming than not. Although the fake wedding proposal, that's where things start to turn for me a little bit. But this gave me the impression of an inside joke that started to build its own momentum as it rolled downhill, and so therefore it didn't strike me right away as like, Hey, we're going to teach these New York elites.

lesson right yeah i i'm this i had this that's a really good way to put it it started out with such okay intentions and just being a really it sounds like an organic thing of like a bunch of young kids living in a place and then somebody jokingly changes the name in google and then it just kind of gets out of control it just this just seemed like a very joyful kind of fun thing other than the veal meatballs i wish they would have left that off the list but i don't want to i don't want to moralize i don't want to get into that but like yeah it's it does it didn't seem like it was, I don't know, it didn't seem like it was a bunch of, again, peace and love to improv folks I actually very much enjoy certain improv but like that whole, we're going to get on the subway and everyone's going to take their pants off and then we're going to do a flash mob, I guess it's really the flash mobification of America that I'm also not super into you're deeply not into it oh, but you know what, actually this kind of that Andrew, I have a great pairing for you this evening we do things a little different at this restaurant

Oh, yeah. No, we bring you menus and then I'm going to hunch down and put my arm on your arm.

No, but this is a great pairing from the made up restaurant to the guy in Berkeley who was just having people over to use a hot tub that he had built at his house. I just found out about this recently. This was an S.F. jay barman writing an sfist so there was a guy in berkeley named deward hastings and he was known over the last 50 years just as the hot tub guy he had this house in berkeley on essex street and he had built a hot tub there um and i'm just reading from jay's piece an extra hot hot tub where nudity, total silence, rather, and respect for women were the strict rules. He apparently installed the hot tub back in 1975 after falling in love with hot springs while backpacking around the world. And for 47 years, he kept it clean and very hot, installing a passcode entry system based on phone numbers at his property's side gate in the 80s after, he said, too many incidents with drunken frat bros coming at all hours became a problem uh this though uh let's see i want to find the number i don't know if it's in this article the number of people who uses hot tub over the years andrew it was kind of shocking to me it was like in the like 30 000 people or something had just seen i mean this started before the internet so i don't know how the word was spread initially but thousands upon thousands of people had just heard like eh free hot tub why not and then stopped by i believe he kept the hot tub at 113 degrees which doesn't seem survivable yeah i don't know at some point you turn you got yourself a stew yeah i don't know what the average is i mean i can tell you 104 in my inflatable hot tub is is pretty toasty and also trips the breaker here got to figure that out pulling way too much amperage but um uh i find it amazing that as many people as as did wanted to use this hot tub uh there isn't any allegation actually of creepery on his part at least in the couple of articles that i read about he really just did seem like a kind of a quirky dude who loved hot tubs and wanted to share his love of hot tubs with people um i guess the rules eventually became um women only except if they brought a male person with them so i guess he was trying to kind of keep you know keep the creep factor low what i think is also interesting about this article is that what they mention is that in mid-september 2022 a hot tub patron arrived to find hastings doing the thing he most loved soaking except in this case hastings had passed away in the hot tub the guy died in the hot tub that he built at age 78 that so many thousands

of people had visited that's how he went out can you imagine a better passing than soaking in your 113 degree hot tub that you built that many many people enjoyed and then you're just sitting in there and then you just you you go to sleep and you don't wake up that might be the greatest death

i've ever heard of yeah i'm trying to think what's the equivalent for me i mean because it was also such i mean he was known as the hot tub guy right if you threw a dart i was thinking that too

If you were, I don't know about the Eagles because it would be traumatic for people, but if you were hanging out with Bingo and you threw a dart and it, what do you call, is it cricket? What's the name of the game you play? I usually play cricket, yeah. And you get your, I don't know what you have to get on cricket, but you get your like thing right as the Mariners win the World Series, which might happen this season. Let's not talk about it. What would that be for you? Would that be the high point?

Or I'm trying to think I get like three bullseyes in a row and my head just explodes. Sure. And I don't mean like, I don't mean in a medical level. unfun way. I mean, literally my head just sort of explodes cartoonishly off of my head. It maybe even shoots up to the moon, possibly.

I would take head explosion. I mean, that's got to be one of the more painless ways to expire, right?

And you feel bad for the people you leave behind, I suppose. Well, that's true.

And you're going to need to get some medical-grade cleaning in that basement. That's going to be a mess. But, yeah, I'm trying to think of what that would be for me what i mean honestly it might be my inflatable hot tub yeah except like i said i've got to figure out a better system for it because when i'm when i'm running the hot tub and i'm uh running my various little small heaters because there's no heat in the house and what was i trying to do the other night it was basically like i had to decide which like four things could oh i think i started running the microwave with everything at the house shut off like the microwave was like the final straw so i i have to figure out i also need to do some research at like what temperature like what is the most energy efficient temperature i can run this inflatable hot tub at so that when i want to warm it up to get in it it's already at a base temperature

that's okay does this make any sense like so you're not starting from cold water every time

i don't want to start from cold water because that takes like two days but i also don't want to i can't run it at like the hottest at the hottest temperature it goes to because i'm imagining that will be so expensive and also just kind of wasteful so i need to figure out like is there like a temperature that it can just kind of hang at that would allow me like oh you know i'm i would love to go sit in the this hot tub tonight so let me now program it to warm up over the next three four hours like i don't know what the baseline is i got to figure that out this doesn't

answer your question but i was curious about your average hot tub temperature and it looks like it's according to the first result on Google, which comes from jacuzzi.com, so I'm listening, is average 100 to 102 degrees Fahrenheit. 104 degrees is the standard maximum, but 100 to 102. And so this guy's cranking it up to 130, huh?

113.

Oh, 113. I was going to say 130, yeah. Now that you put it that way, that sounds like danger zone. 113 still.

Yeah, 113 is, I mean, like I'll say this. my little Coleman uh at I think 104 is kind of a stretch like I think they're I think they might be cooking the books a little bit it doesn't because 104 seems like it'd be too hot for me it's not and also the other thing that happens is it immediately starts losing heat it's got this like inflatable cover that kind of you know contains things but as soon as that's off it's just like it's I'm watching the temperature go down but I will tell you the other night when I was sitting out there and I was listening to my tunes and I was looking at the stars I was it was a borderline religious experience if that would have been if that would have been you know if I that would have been when I when I went to the big sleep not bad would have taken it I'm you know so uh R.I.P. rest in power DeWard Hastings

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 having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be number one.

All right, Luke, we have five Blur's days today. I was going to say, oh, we'll make it like a top five list, but that would imply that we're counting down and that one Blur's Day would be heavily weighted above another, and that is not. All Blur's Days matter. All blurs are equal here in the Blur's Day segment.

I saw a stand-up comic. I wish I knew this person's name, but they were talking about tattoos, and they said their friend has a tattoo that says all lives matter, but they got the tattoo in, like, 2003.

Oh, just, like, more of a hippie, dippy kind of, like, really trying to embrace, Hey, everybody matters. Right.

If you said that before, it was so politically coded. Right. You were just trying to be like, hey, everyone matters, but not as a pushback against Black Lives Matter.

And they also have a tattoo of an American flag with blue stripes and black stripes. That one they did get recently. We just like the color blue, and we're trying to be arty about the flag. I don't know what's going on. Don't tread on me, but it was supposed to be a joke about it.

There's a point at which it becomes their fault. Like, it's like, you've got to start to really interrogate your own motive.

Exactly. It's because somebody actually stepped on their toe once. Marissa in Maryland. Our buddy Marissa says, happy seventh Blurs Day today to my sweet and adorable five, Avi. Seven years ago today, the world got, oh, go ahead. Gosh, sorry. I'm a little rusty here.

That's okay. The world got a big extra dose of sunshine when you came into it. Love forever from Mommy, Daddy, and Leo. Happy Blur's Day.

It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain.

How about Jesse in Hanford, California? Wishing a very fun and joyous Blur's Day to my five. Charlie, he's turning nine tomorrow. That's the date of episode 4043 for my episode counting buddy. Sounds like Charlie's into...

Who is my daddy, and what does he do?

Charlie's keeping track of the numbers, Luke. Does that make you nervous? I've been, listen. No, you've been doing a great job.

Famous last words. I have been, for the last couple of weeks, I've been fairly on it. Yeah. I'm sure, and at some point, probably when I'm traveling and I'm a little distracted. But I've been really trying to live up to the standards that Charlie has laid out for me.

Charlie! Oh! That really hurts! Perfect.

And let's see here. This is still from Jesse to Charlie. Your drawing skills are unmatched, and we are so excited to watch you grow your talent even more. I can't believe you're nine while I haven't aged a day. Love you so much, Bubba.

As Jay would say, he's got flow.

Did I hear myself at the end of that?

God, you have a keen ear for yourself.

Yeah, and I feel so shitty.

Happy birthday to all the children.

Obsessed with my own voice. Lori in Mukilteo says, I'm writing to wish a very happy upcoming Blur's Day to Sarah of Magpie Mouse fame. Hey, happy Blur's Day, Sarah. She's a delightful artist whose work I love, and I also enjoy seeing her in person occasionally. I hope this is your best Blur's Day ever, Sarah. Happy Blur's Day, Sarah, from all of us. What is that? I'm like, I don't know. That's my guy. There aren't that many Blurzays today, so I thought the music could just... Yeah, absolutely. Justin says, I'd like to... Houston, we have a motor. Let's clear that out. Justin says, I'd like to wish my wife, Liz, a relaxing and contented Blurz Day. Looking forward to soggy hikes and listening to the frogs for years to come. Happy Blur's Day, Liz. That's so sweet. I should be in this poof. Happy Blur's Day, everybody. Hey, nice. Yeah, nice little compact little Blur's Day segment there for everybody.

Now it has me, though. I'm deep in the audio here, and there's just all kinds of things. I wish I would have had a couple of more so that I just could have played things like...

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Do you want me to make some up for you? Could you? Because I've got this guy.

Please welcome the wickedly talented.

Let's see here. I can't even find the music. Do you want me to just do it over sports?

I was at the Apple store trying to explain to the person selling me a computer what I needed the computer for. And they were being very understanding. But it was like, well, I play little like audio sounds while we're talking. So I just need the computer to be able to connect to the internet and play audio sounds. I could tell they were like, okay, this person's living in a delusion.

It's an Apple store. I mean, apples are the computers of creatives. Oh, dude. Podcasting is very popular.

I was in a CVS in Portland the other day, Andrew. And they have a podcasting section now. I mean, it's just where they sell all their random electronics. but they had podcasters mic literally set on the box and then like you know like a ring light that you can use you know for your when you're vlogging and your phone fits in the middle of it and stuff they they had so much podcasting equipment at the cvs and i thought well this could explain this this is a canary in some kind of coal mine do they have special tissues for podcasters because

they know that when i laugh my eyes leak and i need to blow my nose a lot and so they did that's That continues to be an issue for me on stage. I don't know how bad it was during our last show at the Neptune, but I remember having to, you know, dry my eyes. That's not as bad of a look as having to blow your nose on stage, but it really is a good sign. It means I'm laughing. For some reason, my face leaks when I'm happy. Like, that's a weird thing, but it's not a bad thing. But I don't like it if somebody's taking photos from, you know, from the audience and I've got a tissue on my nose the whole time. I look like I got a cold. Yeah.

What makes people all over America break down and cry like this?

We started today's show and we're ending it with a crying reference. It's almost like our baseball team more or less effectively got eliminated from postseason contention last night, Andrew. It's almost like that happened. It's almost like I.

pulled that tape because i saw it of the um of king of the hill because i saw it on instagram i'm like oh that's kind of funny and i grabbed them like maybe i'll use it was really funny by the way oh good i'm glad you liked it and then i was like wow that's kind of upsetting and sad and then after the ball game yesterday i was like fuck it i'm using it like i am upset and i am sad and uh i'm glad that you like it i i wanted to dissect it a little bit at the top of the show and i was like maybe that's a bad idea but like did you notice how different hank hill's voices That's apparently from the very first season, and it's so much more Beavis and Butthead-y. Is Mike Judge the voice of Hank Hill? I don't know who does the voices, but I kind of assumed, right? Because I have that right. It's the same makers, right? Yeah. Mike Judge did both.

Let's see here. Yeah. I guess I'm just on the internet saying Mike Judge took the mic to voice Hank Hill, also lending his vocals to Boomhauer and Stuart Dooley, among other characters.

Oh, wow. So they were multi-tracking that. So that's funny. He was doing multiple voices when they're standing outside with their beers talking. That's kind of interesting. I assumed more like live interplay between the actors. But, yeah, it's funny as Hank Hill goes on, and I'm not somebody who watched that show religiously. I think when it was new, it came on right before or after The Simpsons when I was in college. And I did have sort of a standing date with a group of friends. We'd go to Matt and Liz's apartment, and we all, well, I guess I technically had a studio. But either way, they were sort of the adults of our crew. Like, they had an apartment, and so we'd go there to watch Animation Domination. There you go, two days in a row. I don't think it was called that then. And so I would watch it then, and it was okay, but, like, I'm not somebody who's been tracking it over the years, but hearing that tape from season one, which was so long ago, you realize that, like, Hank Hill over time develops a more softness to his voice, sort of like a whisper about every, or, like, you know what I mean? a breathiness sort of around it where that was like he was talking so much from his gut in that tape we played at the beginning of the show I found it to be interesting I loved King of the

Hill I you heard me pausing anything so I was trying to remember if it's still on the air I don't think it is but I thought that yeah that was at some point where I was uh yeah I just happened to be watching a lot of over-the-air television when King of the Hill was on and And yeah, I think that show is pretty genius and not underrated because it was popular. But like, you know, I think it's I think it's really good.

It's really sensitive to. Yeah. I'm blanking on the little boy's name, but I think Bobby Bobby was a pretty progressive character. I didn't realize that it ended in 2010 that it's been off the air for over a decade now. I would not have guessed that if you had told me that it's still on the air, I would have believed you. But I would believe.

Well, that's why I did that. That's why I did that weird trying to amend the very last word I was using because I was like my brain was like, is it still on the air somewhere? and I just don't remember it.

Yeah, it's the old Wikipedia is or was question.

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