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You know, he's not the only one that's exploring their creative side. I had that awesome directing gig recently, and I really got bit by the art bug. So I'm secretly taking stand-up workshop down at the community college. You want to check it? Yeah, yeah. Welcome Susan Bieber! I'm usually a lawyer, but I'm also a mother. And I find time to do charity work on the side. Also, oh, I was so popular in high school. And I'm still popular now with the people that I work with. That's what I got so far. Okay.

TBTL.

It's the first line of the film, man. It's gotta be on the money here.

Wow. You wanna roll with this? Then let me tell you how this is gonna go. Now let me tell you how this is gonna go. No, I'm not interested. I'm not interested. Do you know who's not interested? Me. I'm also not interested.

You know, a lot of people may not know this, but I happen to be quite famous. Please, I hate to say this about anyone,

but that man is full of bologna. Bologna. You're right, he's so vile, we should use the crude Americanization of the word. He's full of bologna.

Okay, are we done with the business part? I wanted to start the clown portion of the meeting.

Well, all right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Monday edition of TVTL, the show. It just might be too beautiful to live. Here we go again. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

Cup of coffee in the big day.

Coming to you once again from the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia. Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful. Well, it is very nice to be back home and doing the show from the comfortable confines of the TBTL studio here. Although, this week that we are embarking on as a community, as podcasters, as tens of listeners, this is probably going to be sonically the most challenging week we've ever had because the construction has never been closer to where I am trying to record the program from. Bang! Bang! Try and stop it! Bang! Bang! The studio is having something called Hardy Panel put up on it. It's basically kind of a siding of some sort. And it is going to involve a tremendous amount of nailing things into the outside of the studio, literal inches from where I'm doing this. So I just want to give everyone a heads up that this is going to be happening probably all week, and it's going to be potentially very loud. But it's not going to stop us, my friends, from going forth into episode 4048 in a collector's series.

Let the fun begin.

Because, you know, like Lorne Michael says, they do SNL at 1130 on Saturday night, not because they're ready, but because that's when the show starts. And we're going to do TVTL every day this week, not because we're ready or because it's going to be good or because there's not going to be people smashing nails and drip edges and all manner of things into the wall right by me. But because we do this five days a week, because we, you know, we owe that to the listeners. Literally, legally, we owe that to the listeners. Here's what we want to talk about today on the program. Well, for one thing, Travis Kelsey. I don't know if you've heard of him. he's had kind of a quiet couple of weeks in the media but um turns out along with dating taylor swift and it would seem generally having good takes he is maybe the coolest person we've

ever met you're like the coolest person i've ever met had a very very good take regarding

the vaccine we'll play you the tape and also i will have to fully fully admit to andrew that His spidey sense about a certain other football player is so on, is so incredibly on target that it's hard to even overdescribe it. Anyway, also, if we have time, we will get into the science of talking to yourself. They suddenly realized I was talking to them. And how it actually might be a very important self-soothing technique. This guy, when he's not talking to himself, he's talking to me, thankfully. He's the longest running co-bro of the show.

He may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships, capturing their grace and power. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

When I'm not talking to myself, I'm talking to you. And when I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to DartBot. That's it. Yes, sir. That's my... I hung out with some friends this weekend. A friend. Its name is DartBot. Boy, you know what DartBot is teaching me, Luke?

Did we just become best friends, Dad?

The dad thing is weird.

Trying to make it a bit. dad, uncle thing really threw me for a loop on Friday, but yeah, DartBot is teaching me some valuable lessons mainly that darts be hard now that I actually have a way of measuring myself sort of outmaneuver DartBot yeah, now that I'm actually kind of accountable for my dart throwing I'm sort of stuck at a level but it's interesting, I feel like it is making me better and it's a lot of fun It's a new addition to my life that I'm very excited about.

But you're doing, so if people missed, I think it was Friday show, you have downloaded a piece of software that, or an app. It's like a web application for my tablet computer. And it basically, like, you play against it, and it tells you what it did. So it got these sorts of points, and then you have to respond, as opposed to just kind of playing cricket or throwing the darts and scoring it yourself. this is now giving you something to sort of work off of. Exactly. But it also means that you're having less success, at least in the short term.

Well, I worked my way through a bunch of levels, and I said I'm going to find out at what level I kind of win some games and lose some games and where I am, and it turns out it's not that far up the ladder. You know one thing I meant to mention to you regarding this web application, too? Now, I wouldn't be interested in this. This is not for me, because when I'm playing a game like Darts by myself in the basement or playing a video game or something i'm not really looking to hang out with actual human beings in those scenarios the whole point is i'm sort of like shutting out the world however what this app lets you do is play against other people i mean that's probably why most people download it i'm guessing i don't think you set up a camera or anything to keep people accountable but if you're logging into this app to find like a dart playing you know partner or i guess opponent across the web you can both just enter your um i'm pretty sure you can do that i haven't i haven't tried it but i'm pretty sure that's a big part of this app is like oh you could be you know keeping your score in um uh in kelso i couldn't remember if we'd say kelso we're not on the show uh intermittently i consider it spiritually kalama in the tri-cities area um anyway um uh yeah so that is a big part of this but i am not interested in that that is not how i that's not i'm not i'm not like looking for because like for me it's like oh if i'm in the middle you're not looking to meet and greet on the internet i am not single i am not looking to mingle like the for me like i have you know tendencies just to like wander around in the middle of a game i'll go get a beer and then i'll oh well i'll go clean these glasses while i'm over here in the kitchen area and then i'll do this and then i'll come back to a game like the idea of having somebody on the other end of the line like waiting for my darts to be thrown um does not seem very fun to me but i could see that being fun for other people and maybe someday uh you know If I felt like bold but I got to work My way through the dart bot levels first

Yeah I bet you that that is very appealing For a lot of people that are Similar to you they're playing darts by themselves They're not down at down at the pub But then they realize Oh I could actually be and I bet you even And it doesn't sound like dart bot does this But I bet you that there are various Services that will let you stream What you're doing with someone else so you're Just kind of like virtual like not virtually playing You're really playing but like you set up a camera And you're doing your thing wherever you are, and someone else could be anywhere in the world doing their thing, dart-wise, and you could be playing against each other, and I bet you a lot of people have a lot of fun with that.

You're just not one of them. I'm just realizing this right now. What if DartBot is Clippy? You know how they retired Clippy from Microsoft, like, you know,

a couple of decades ago now? I've never seen Clippy and DartBot

in the same room. Exactly, and like, okay, so Clippy goes away. I'm assuming that, you know, Clippy was just retired and not retired, if you

Andrew, Clippy went to live in a desk upstate where he could play with other office supplies.

Yes, exactly. I like the idea, though, of Clippy being like, well, I could maybe just like maybe, you know, in my later years, in my retirement years, go and play darts.

America loves a second act. It really, really does. I love the comeback story of Clippy.

Of Clippy, a.k.a. Dartbot.

Yes. I feel like every time the subject of Clippy comes up, I feel obligated to mention this, but when I was doing some work for a large software concern on the east side of the Seattle area, that, this is going to give it away, Andrew. May or may not. Is the same, may or may not have invented Clippy.

So this is really narrowing it down. Well, Clippy gigged around a bit before landing at its main home for a long time.

You know, that's the thing about, people think Clippy was an overnight success. I mean, it took Clippy 10 years to finally book the Eastside Software Concern gig.

Yeah, no, Clippy, I believe, drove a Lyft for quite some time.

Yep, yep. But I used to do these little kind of video, sort of quick video things that my good friend Caitlin produced.

And one of them was going to the kind of like museum of this big software concern that has all the history of the place. Like it has the chairs that like Bill Gates. I'm narrowing it down even further, Andrew. This is the software concern Bill Gates is associated.

Clippy Bill Gates. I'm getting so close. I'm getting. I don't think it's Google. Okay. It's not Google. I'm going to keep working on this.

But like there's this kind of. It's not a museum. It's an archive. And it has, you know, like literally the chairs that Bill Gates had in his office and other kind of odd little quirky things from the history of this company that none of the people listening can sort of guess as to which company I'm talking about. But they have this clippy mascot that used to it was the idea was it would show up at events. I think it would show up at, you know, this particular company has or they had stores kind of in the way that there's an Apple store. but they had their own store which I think a lot of people wouldn't know about because you've rarely heard of the Microsoft store. There I said it, Andrew.

I said it. I thought for, I was like, Angel Fire. Adobe. It's gotta be Angel Fire. Did you ever go to the Angel Fire store? I used to live there.

But anyway, what is the company that just makes whatever that traffic cone is that tells me I don't have the right video player for whatever is happening.

Oh, VLC or whatever.

Yeah, VLN or something. Anyway, here's the point. They had this Clippy mascot that I think was for Microsoft store openings. So they're opening a Microsoft store and then Clippy will show up. And I don't know how long that lasted, but eventually it became the case that you could just rent, not rent, you could check out the Clippy costume if you worked there. You could just email someone and be like, hey, can I borrow the Clippy thing? And you wear it. You wear your inside of it. Can we borrow this? And they were loaning it out to various get-togethers, and it kept coming back reeking of tequila and other alcohol.

Yeah. You think a lot of sober people are putting out the Clippy.

The people in Clippy were getting hand-boned. The people talking to Clippy at parties were getting – and they basically had to end the program of loaning out Clippy because it was just from a smell standpoint an issue because it sounds like people were just getting completely drunk and like rolling down a grassy hill in Clippy while vomiting.

There was a rumor in my high school, which I won't name, but it was on the west side of Cleveland. It rhymes with... Icrosoft? Paint Pugnacious. God, I actually kind of got close to rhyming something with it.

That could actually be the name of a Jackson Pollock autobiography.

Paint Pugnacious.

Wasn't he a famously sort of pugnacious character? You know, that sounds about right. He was played by Ed Harris in a movie. Maybe I'm just confusing him with Ed Harris. In that I think of Ed Harris as being somewhat pugnacious.

Wait, who's the artist we're talking about again?

Jackson Pollock.

Jackson Pollock is white?

I'm not even joking.

Oh, okay.

I don't know why I thought Jackson Pollock was white. He did the kind of abstract, kind of, you know, basically it looks like a lot of paint. Yeah. Kind of droplets. Is that what a droplet is?

But yeah, I can picture the art and I don't know why I thought Jackson Pollock was black. But there you go. You learn something. He was black, but they had Ed Harris play him, which I think looking back on it seems. Yeah, controversial seems questionable. Hey, you know what I want to tell you? I'm actually forget about the high school story. You know what I want to tell you is you were talking about all the noise and construction at your place. It's funny. Genevieve has. Oh, yes. Going away. You know. Listen, Andrew, come on.

I know things. I have people everywhere. anytime there's a construction project in the tbtl universe i get i get an update you probably know

more about this i'm just i know i know exactly i know exactly the kind of peering that you're using the work that is going on in my house than i do yes i have been like i've been we haven't even told the audience what we're talking about yet but genevieve has hired somebody to embark on a small uh small uh project at our house a carpentry project i did not mention that to you I was about to the thing is I have been so like Genevieve basically said hey I'm interested in extending our deck we have a little deck in the front and I knew that that was a long-term plan of hers and then an email went around the neighborhood email chain saying hey my husband's a carpenter he does good work he's kind of got a fallow period if anybody's looking for some work to be done I think I use fallow get him down here man is fallow right there like he's he's like not super busy right now so anyway um so next thing I know Genevieve's like hey I hired that that neighbor guy to work on the deck i was like okay and like i was basically like i i have i have contributed literally nothing to this genevieve just every now and then tells me a little bit about what's going on but it sounds like she's telling you more than she's telling me which is

me and rodin and genevieve have a home improvement related text chain interesting i see so what's

going on at my house do you want to tell me well you're

experience.

You're expanding your front deck, Andrew, and you're using those kind of triangular concrete, like, sort of pier blocks, as opposed to digging out footing and pouring it. Okay, that's interesting. And it's going to double the size of your front porch, and Genevieve cleared everything, but is, as you mentioned, leaving the sort of heavy construction to your neighbor, who she's feeling very optimistic about. And Rodan and I both agreed that that was a great call to have a professional do that part because I have built a couple of wonky decks and staircases in my time. It's the kind of thing that looks like it should be straightforward, but it can be complicated for some reason. And so, yeah, I'm eagerly awaiting some photos, some update photos as this project goes on at your house.

I will send some photos to you. I will do that thing, though, where I will, like, take off all of my clothes and then, like, leave a teapot somewhere. So if you zoom in, you'll be able to see that I'm actually sending you secret nudes.

Excellent. Now, I have a construction project going on here, Andrew, that might be the most complicated thing I've ever tried to build, which is a NordicTrack treadmill.

Oh, okay.

Which I ordered.

NordicTrack, still going strong.

It's Wirecutter's recommendation for best home treadmill.

Hmm, cool.

but what they don't tell you is it is in i would say roughly 1 million pieces like it came in a box it was delivered when i was in new york and first of all it weighs about 500 pounds i mean that's not an exaggeration i think it literally weighs 500 pounds according to like amazon and the delivery or whatever like i bought it from nordic track but by way of amazon and first of all the um the way they put it in my little here in the studio which has an area where I'm going to set this up and they couldn't I guess they they could have known this but but they didn't pay attention it's backwards if that makes any sense like the part that I the part that has the readout that that's ultimately gonna have the digital display and everything is facing the wrong way and I cannot move this by myself it is so heavy so I have to wait probably until Friday when my dad is back down here or or grab one of the folks that's helping with the construction here maybe i'll do that but the bigger problem is i was all excited to use this treadmill this morning and i i opened the box and it's not like the kind of thing where you have to kind of like screw one part onto the thing it's like it's seriously in 45 pieces and i just feel like they should tell you that it probably somewhere in the fine print says some assembly required but this is all assembly required this is i'm i'm shocked that i don't have to put the the like rubber you know treadmill whatever that thing is called the mat on there like it is so beyond just a simple assembly and it that should be in huge red letters at the top of the ordering process because i would have bought a different one if i knew this was this complicated um you want to

talk about all assembly required i'm sure i've told you this before but do you remember a product from the 80s called solo flex another exercise machine andrew walsh i coveted i never had

one but i coveted the solo flex system because i would watch those ads and i wanted to look like

the guy in the solo flex ads well there's another man who wanted one of those and his name was robert walsh his name is robert walsh he's my dad um but my dad had a company called walsh manufacturing at the time where he could he had people who could design things and make his own version of things and so my dad i believe where the story is going and then had the guys in the construct or i don't know if he did any actual welding on this himself i'm assuming at this point he probably drew it up and had some you know had some of the engineers help him design a replica nordic i'm sorry um solo flex machine are there pictures of this i am dying to see a photo of how this turned out that i have access to right now but i will ask you please ask him i mean he'd have to go digging through i mean i don't know if we even have any but luke what i love about this is do you remember the which i assume is like probably i can only imagine even

though this was built by professionals and i'm sure it was totally effective when it was done i can only imagine how little it looked like a solo flex when it was done yeah i'm not sure

about that i mean it definitely had you know major rubber you know yeah whatever those like those

kind of almost like hands or whatever well yeah yeah they were like what they were were these rubber like poles that would create the resistance because they would bend at least in the solo flex so you had diff and the thickness of the rubber or plastic like tube although it was it was not hollow it was solid whatever you call those rods maybe the my understanding was the thickness of the rod was what created the resistance so you would have different thickness of rods or something yeah i'm trying to here was the i'm looking at the original solo flex as it was like sold in stores and i think it went through very if you just do a google for solo flex and look at the the first photo on the wikipedia page that is the version that was recreated i'm seeing less of the um rubber tension then because i think they made them later where you're literally pulling rubber bands but this is uh that that's the version that my dad recreated if anybody's interested in looking that up but what i was going to say was do you remember there There was a Saturday Night Live sketch that I don't think would pass muster today, but it was, let's see, Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd playing the wild and crazy guys. They were two recent emigres from Eastern Europe, I believe was the joke. There was some fish-out-of-water culture clashes with them as they would try to make out with ladies and what have you, and they were very much out of touch. And one thing that they were very proud of in their apartment that I thought was hilarious as a kid was when they went to get their portable vacuum cleaner that they smuggled out of Yugoslavia, which I believe is a direct quote from the sketch. I'm glad we smuggled this out of Yugoslavia and they pull out the biggest, heaviest shop vac you can possibly imagine. Just a huge thing. Like my memory of the Solo Flex, it might have weighed pound for pound exactly what the original did. but in my head we just had this incredibly heavy which we actually moved at least once if not twice as we moved homes this just super super heavy handmade not handmade but you know handcrafted uh knockoff solo flex in our basement and you're excuse me you are so right by the way

as to the um the rubber band thing i don't know where i got that i think they're no i'm I'm thinking of Bowflex. Oh, you're thinking of Bowflex.

That's what it is. Yes, yes, yes.

Sorry, I was confusing my Soloflex and my Bowflex. So my question is, how did your dad get his hands on those rubber bands?

I think, you know, just industry. You need all kinds of things for the type of work that they were doing. And, in fact, sometimes it was even my job as I got older and worked less in the shop and more in the office to, like, order parts, various parts for projects and stuff. So I'm sure, you know, the Macalester, what was it, the Macalester catalog or something? I'm sure they just this thick ass catalog that was just like the size of like 15 Bibles and and even more regarded. And you can order all kinds of things. So I'm sure he just found the right kind of bands.

I bet you that was part of his inspiration was looking at and thinking, I've seen all of these components in my, you know, in my work with this company. And so I could put these all together. I bet you that was just like he's like, oh, yeah, we use those bands for, you know. x y and z and and have terry weld this up and you know yeah i could see and again he was in the right industry for creating one of these things what i had uh in the basement at 77th andrew was not a solo flex or a bow flex but a um uh like a weight bench that had it was a machine but it was the kind of thing where you had to pull the pin out to you know increase the weight that you were doing and you could do bench press and all that stuff but it was it was too tall to actually fit in the basement and my dad god bless him his solution was to cut a square in the basement ceiling drywall and i to this day remember him with the drywall saw like the hands and making like a little you know so that the top of the you know the top of whatever this kind of you know weight system was could just poke up from the basement up into the the rafters of the main floor of the house so i could have my little exercise machine in there and i used it a lot as a kid it did nothing for me i remained a absolute pipsqueak but i remember uh appreciating that my dad was willing to cut a hole in the ceiling of our rental house of the basement in order for me to have my weight bench to try to get as they say buff you might notice or hopefully you don't

notice this while you're trying to talk but i'm sending you text messages because i'm a little embarrassed about something i said the mccallister catalog which i knew was wrong you could hear if you went back and i'm not encouraging anybody to do this but if you went back about two minutes in today's show you'll hear me just start to absolutely leak confidence as i'm talking i'm feeling good i'm talking about solo flex i'm talking about things that i'm comfortable talking about and then i just start to like just dribble out the rest of whatever my thoughts were because i was obsessed with the mcmaster car catalog is what i was thinking of which is a pretty famous like kind of uh equipment catalog which i've sent you a couple of photos of check out the one on ebay it is so ridiculously huge and i and what did this have in it what didn't it have in it is the question it's all industrial parts and stuff so it wouldn't be just for like you know something that you need around the house but it would it just contained all anything you could possibly imagine and of course this is like pre-internet i mean mcmaster car still is around as a supplier. i believe but it's just so interesting i'm looking at these photos feeling very nostalgic i mean we had just at the office bookshelves filled with old mcmaster cars um i think i'm trying to think they were kind even though it's a catalog that you purchase things out of i feel like there was a value to the books themselves even um because you couldn't just like well they're selling them on ebay yeah well yeah what is this one going for here by the way only $42 for a mcmaster i know That's what you're getting for Hanukkah. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, that's what I meant. Not the McAllister. I'm just feeling a little bit embarrassed about that.

Don't, don't. That's, that's a very obscure reference. Also, I was confusing Bowflex and Soloflex, which I'm going to have to live.

I can't. I'm going to have to live with that for a while.

But when I say Kelly Blue Book, what comes to mind? Oh, yeah. Cars. So I'm currently in a pitched battle with our fact checker at CBS Sunday Morning as to if the Kelly Blue Book is a widely known thing. Oh, yeah. I mean, maybe. I feel like this is a Manhattan problem. You know the New Yorker cover, right? The famous New Yorker cover of how Manhattanites perceive the country.

No, I don't know if I know that.

Oh, it's basically like a map that is, it's Manhattan, and then it's like nothing, and then it's like Los Angeles in the far distance. I think I can picture that, yeah. And that's what I'm up against, because the story of the Hollywood sign, which is what I am working on, which is going to, I think, maybe play this coming week, the Hollywood sign turning 100. The people who helped save the Hollywood sign in the 70s was a Motley Crue who was a rogues gallery It involved because the sign had like basically fallen apart Most of the letters had blown over and they were like we either have to fix this the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce We'll either fix this or get rid of it and it was Alice Cooper It was Gene Autry. It was Hugh Hefner and the guy who invented the Kelly blue book

Wait, you're being serious. I thought you were just trying to think of the most Motley Crue you could think

no no literally alice cooper put down the first 27 000 excuse me they figured out like what they needed for each letter and it was roughly 27 000 and they went and they did these charity events and they were like who wants to sponsor the h who wants to sponsor the o the first person to step up was alice cooper that's awesome yeah the second person to step up was hugh hefner and then gene autry got on board and uh also um uh i'm forgetting there's one other person but then the final person the guy who brought it home was the inventor of the kelly blue book which i think is a dazzling

deet and and your editor is like nobody knows what the what the kelly blue book is i yes you know i was gonna say maybe it's an age thing but like honestly this is for cbs sunday morning i'm

not trying to take a dig here you know it is it's a manhattan thing because nobody in manhattan has car and they don't they don't they're not obsessing over as as you know i was in my youth how much what's what's a honda civic gonna run me right you know what's a what's an 87 honda civic what's

the kelly blue book on that right and is the person who's trying to sell me this car at the service station like are you know are they on the up and up i mean that's exactly are they trying to

charge me over kelly blue book for this but i feel like if you're not in manhattan you know what the kelly blue book is and it turns out some people in manhattan don't know what it is and i don't know we'll all find out together on sunday andrew if i won the argument or not i'm i'm pretty

i'm i mean there are more important things in the world not to me but uh yeah this seems like this is very misguided by i i usually do i feel like i at least try to look at things from the other perspective but in this one like that's a very common thing especially and again like i think of like the the cbs sunday morning audience is not young hipsters in brooklyn like i think that i think most of america watching that will know exactly what that is and i find that to be a very

dazzling detail right everyone i've told like here's who like here's who saved the hollywood sign like alice cooper they're like well that's weird hugh hefner and that kind of checks out gene autry haven't heard of him and the guy who invented the kelly blue book what yeah that i

everyone is always like kelly blue book guy yeah i think no i'm with you on this is i'm gonna really

i think this is gonna drive some eyeballs to sunday morning this sunday to see did luke win

the kelly blue book argument well are you gonna send this tape to the um to the editor i'm sending

it right now i'm actually passing it through a transcription okay um ai program and and then i'm sending it to Kat, our fact checker. This guy doesn't even know what the McMaster... She's like, okay, no one's heard of the Kelly Blue Book, but everyone's heard of the McMaster car.

This guy doesn't even know what the McMaster car is. I just sent you via email a commercial that I'm going to force you to watch along with me while I play the audio here. This was a NordicTrack commercial from 1995. Now, this is one that I actually found on a VHS tape and digitized and uploaded myself. You can find more of these types of things at YouTube. just look for after these messages podcast but I want you to watch this Connie Hammett is that the first so this is a first person this is a testimonial style this is a full minute long testimonial style like almost you almost want to say like person on the street

street style like some of the people are on the street like on the sidewalk outside their home other people are like in their living rooms or whatever and they're all giving these testimonies to um to why NordicTrack is so good but and I'm trying to remember why I was obsessed with this well the guy at the end is is weirdly aggressive with his joke I remember that and also it's just coming back to me now this has no music underneath it which gives it a very weird serious quality for something that is just supposed to be people talking about why they like their exercise equipment and so i'm just remembering this now we start i took this and i mixed like 500 different kinds of music underneath it to give it different tones like various music i was as you were saying

this i was looking for the social network yeah music i wonder on on spotify to see if i could like if i could um you know because i think that might be what pd uses oh i thought pd makes his own stuff i think he does but in the early days i think maybe there was something he was always playing this ominous music yeah maybe i mean he's a musician so maybe he wrote you telling me that it reminded me um sort of spiritually reminded me of like the social network theme it was for now

enjoy this without the music because i think it's even weirder that way the combination of the

nordic track exercise along with a low-fat diet has really helped me trim my waistline and my weight

when i first started working out with the nordic track i i lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time i went from 226 to 172 in just a few months i look good i feel good i've gone down

two dress sizes i feel sensational if you've ever wondered what a nordic track workout can do for

you now we have this i want to hear david prince's you want me to talk about my experience with nordic track i had become a couch potato we all know what they are ended up talking to my doctor who said I had to do two things, watch my diet and exercise regularly. So as a result of getting on the Nordic track, I brought my weight down considerably. I lost 12 pounds. Now I want you to go right out and buy one.

Is that not super weird? That guy at the end, what's the thing, David Prince? Yeah, this is like a wife, but you never really see her. Like he's outside somewhere and the camera is really close on his face. He says a couch potato. We all know what those are. As if there's, like, more to that. Like, it's so weird.

I also find that laugh really unsettling. It feels like a laugh that his wife has done thousands of times in their relationship to try to normalize something weird, David Prince said. You know what I mean? You're probably right. Like, that's kind of, that's a move that she has perfected in social situations when he's being a little too David.

Or, like, me on this show when you say something that I just want to, let's just move on. I just throw the laugh out there. Let's just keep it light.

Don't talk about your divorce. Right. That's kind of what I... Now, let's see here. I don't know why I'm trying to force this, but I'm trying to see. All right.

The combination of the NordicTrack exercise along with a low-fat diet has really helped me trim my waistline and my weight.

When I first started working out with the NordicTrack, I lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time. I went from 226 to 172 in just a few months.

I look good. I feel good. I've gone down two dress lines. I feel sensational.

If you've ever wondered what a NordicTrack workout can do for you, just listen to an owner.

You want me to talk about my experience with NordicTrack? I had become a couch potato. We all know what they are. Ended up talking to my doctor who said I had to do two things. Watch my diet and exercise regularly. So as a result of getting on the Nordic track, I brought my weight down considerably. I lost 12 pounds. Now I want you to go right out and buy one.

When did this show turn into Twin Peaks?

I know. I love it. All right. That's great. So ominous. Oh, my God. I know I mixed like The Hobbit underneath it at one point.

Did you do this for after these messages?

Yeah, and I think I prepared like 10 of them or something. And now I can't find them anywhere. I don't know. I didn't label it right. but anyway yeah so anyway you were talking about nordic track and it just reminded me that there was something about that commercial i couldn't remember what but then it came to me as we

played it i'm glad worth it well i am going to be i'm going to be spending the better part of this week i guess assembling this thing oh yeah and i mean it's it is it's very daunting i guess sometimes with these kinds of things you can pay there nobody there were didn't seem like there was a button for pay to have somebody put it together becca was saying i should get a task rabbit i don't know if they have task if there are task rabbits out here task rabbits are irl i

always thought that a task rabbit was able to do the task in their own space i mean this is just a weird assumption i always made like i think a lot of people i think a lot of

TaskRabbits or people that were doing that. Is that still existing, by the way? I feel like that was, like, Cosmo.com. It was, like, kind of an okay idea, but the actual, like, for it to really work financially might be kind of a challenge. But I know people have hired folks off of TaskRabbit to come put together furniture at their house.

Oh, yeah, handyman moving delivery. It looks like they still exist. I don't know if it's, you know, if it's changed hands. But that's so funny. I always, I don't know why I assumed this, But I always assumed that the tasks of a task rabbit would be something that somebody could do sitting behind their own computer, like crunch numbers or like just I didn't know that they would actually come to your house and just like build stuff for you.

I think that's the main thing that they actually do or, you know, just some kind of like, yeah, like handyman work. Would they come over and play darts with me but not look at me? Like not look me in the eye? And not think it's weird that you have a dart robot that's going, great shot, dad.

wait hold on what if i hire a dash rabbit to come over and just input my score into the dart bot i will pay for that i would seriously pay for that they can't look me in the eye but when i get a score they just have to do that in the report what the dart bot got and like donald

trump you cheat wildly oh on the golf course is that yeah he's he's famous for for like just sort of like Judge Schmales in Caddyshack. Winter rules! He's just always like, he's a well-known golf cheat, which will surprise no one.

I was going to say, that's out of character. That doesn't check out with his otherwise

morally upright existence, but I love it if you, I love the idea of you hiring a TaskRabbit to log in your scores, but you're clearly lying about your scores. Yeah, right. Like you miss the entire board and you're like seven. They're just like, they can see the dart is lodged in the wall.

Market Zero, Donnie. Exactly.

That's a better reference. I'll admit that I was half expecting that weird social network music. What a vibe that would be for thanking the donors of the day.

We should mess around with that a little bit. And you're right. It's some, what's the, Badalamente? No, I'm saying that wrong. Who does the music for Twin Peaks?

Oh, I don't know.

I think I came... At all. I think I got, like, maybe three out of five syllables right on that last one.

Well, while I thank these donors, why don't you look it up? Sure. You know what's funny is, like, I don't even know what the music of Twin Peaks is, but I feel like I can imagine it.

Oh, that's right.

I've just never watched an episode of Twin Peaks in my life. But I'm weirdly pro-David Lynch. Like, I love David Lynch existing in the world. I love his weather updates he does. I love his appearance on various things. I just don't think that the content that he creates is for me. But I'm so glad that David Lynch is out there David lynching.

Well, I'll tell you what. I don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly, but Angelo Badalamente seems to be the name. So there you go. You know, David Lynch reminds me for some reason of David Byrne, even though they're in different disciplines. Which reminds me, I saw Stop Making Sense at the theater this weekend. Did you wear your big suit? I wore a tiny, tiny, tiny

suit instead. Ah, you always gotta zig

when everyone's zagging. It's called counter-programming It was kind of in, you know we went to see a concert video Wow! Wow! Sorry about that We went to see a concert video in the middle of the day on a Saturday. We were Genevieve and I were two out of five people in the theater. There were three older people sitting down a few rows in front of us. So, you know I've been hearing about some people like getting up and dancing in the aisles or what have you. That was not the vibe for this one, but I'm really glad we went. It was an interesting weekend because we saw the Death Cab Postal Service show on Friday, then saw a fake concert on Saturday. We're over here talking about Nordic tracks, and you've lived two lifetimes this week. It was fun. I went into a movie theater to watch a concert that was taped in 1983. That's a lot for you. That's right. That's a lot for one week. Anyway, it was a fun musical weekend, but we should focus on this music.

Alright. Let's focus on thanking Alexis Loving of Melrose, Massachusetts. By the way, Andrew, I have good news and bad news. Yeah. The good news is there won't be any construction noise today. I had warned everyone about construction noise. The good news is there won't be construction noise because the bad news is they've all just gone home.

Oh, yeah. Why? Because I heard you kind of saying goodbye to somebody. What is going on there? Are they under the weather?

Well, one of the guys is a little under the weather, but also I think there's there's gonna need to be some some kind of plywood sheeting on the building before the final product goes on so basically they have to go buy some supplies but this is also feels to be very much the pace of things which is there was an hour ago there was three men with tool belts here ready to put start putting up the hardy panel on this studio and now there are zero people with tool belts here or

their trucks well genevieve's guy is still here so you know i'm telling you like and and you know

the when everything everything eventually gets done and it's always i'm very happy with the with the outcome and i really like all these folks but it's just it's a really it's a really unique kind of workflow that involves it's just like why did we why did everyone come out why did everyone come out and put on tool belts to look at this and go yeah we're going to do kind of a new thing with it and then everyone left and where do they go now they're all are they all shopping together is anyone shopping will i see someone tomorrow will i see someone later this week what happened to the hendersons no one's looking for them are you wearing a tool belt you have a Always, I do. And it just, it has the sound machine in it.

It has a preamp. It has a post amp.

It has my hand sanitizer. Jow. By the way, highly recommend. Addy got this for me. J-A-O. And it's just like a spray, you know, kind of a hand sanitizer spray that smells so good. Oh, nice. So good. I want to, like, huff it. Oh, don't. Don't, please. No, I just mean I put it on my hands and then I smell my hands. Kind of like Mary Catherine Gallagher smelling her hands. I'm not huffing it.

It's just like Love, Liza. That's all.

That's right. Exactly. Thanks, Alexis Loving, for paying for this in Melrose, Massachusetts. Also, thanks to Taya Gant in Olympia, Washington.

Thank you, Taya.

I'm watching birds, Andrew, fly in a V north up the Columbia River. And I can tell you that if they continue on this path, actually, if they continue on this path, they're going to go out to the Pacific Ocean. but if they continue following interstate five they're going to end up in olympia washington very soon and maybe flying over taia gant's house why are they so they're you feel like they're

going northwest why are they going north my dad asked the same question the other day what's

going on this is bad look at the compass is the thing spinning around it's fun he was my dad was so tickled at his joke the other day about the birds flying the wrong direction what was it Well, it was that they were flying. For some reason, there's a lot of formations of birds that are right now, they're flying north up the Columbia River. And I don't know what that's about. But my dad was like, they're flying the wrong way. I was like, yeah, that is weird. They're going north. And he's like, somebody needs to get them MapQuest. They're going the wrong way. And I was like, yeah, Dad, they are. They're going the wrong way. We're having our coffee, right? MapQuest. And he was like, yeah, somebody didn't get the email. They're going the wrong way. He presented the facts of them going the wrong way About five to seven different times

And with varying internet tools

Various kind of like And just like compass jokes And just like It was like on those cooking shows Where they're like I'm doing salmon three ways He was doing the birds are flying the wrong way In various deconstructed formats

Well, it makes me nervous Feels end of daisy to me But I'm glad your dad is taking it all in stride

And to be honest with you I kind of was, I was sort of zoning out when he was doing it, but now that you also mentioned that that's the wrong direction, I think there might be something to it. Anyway, thanks Taya Grant, thanks, or Gant rather, thanks also to Jennifer Siemens, who's in San Jose, California. The direction birds should be flying, Andrew. That's right, it's warm down there. If I, if I see a bird flying south, I'm going to assume they're heading for Jennifer Siemens place. Kendra Peterson is in Seattle, Washington. i don't know what's going on with the bird population there a lot of them are i mean i

i don't know if they're still doing it but this was a beautiful fall where we had huge populations of birds just honking their way over our house heading south it was really nice i absolutely

crushed the um morning edition or weekend edition sunday puzzle this week andrew the not the puzzle but the whatever you want to call it the challenge yeah i'm gonna put it out there really

That the listeners submit to Morning Edition?

Sometimes, but also sometimes Will Shorts comes up with them. Will Shorts is really the vessel through which these things pass. Sure. Puzzle editor at the New York Times. And as Aisha Roscoe says, puzzle master on their show. Becca and I listen every week to hear Aisha Roscoe say, puzzle master. It's the best thing ever.

She is so good. I don't listen to that show enough, Weekend Edition. But I got to say, I was sort of down on NPR last week. we were talking about a little bit and I was saying that a lot of the programming that I used to love like the weekday programming I just don't enjoy it anymore I think it's changed a lot but man she kills it and every time I hear a bit of her hosting the morning shows on the weekend I think I need to make this more appointment listening because she's so good I love

yeah would recommend it's very hard to

Establish your voice on shows like that and to actually kind of cut through just all of the like I don't know the mechanics of NPR and Aisha Roscoe totally does like just a delight to hear on the radio But I'm going to just quickly throw this out here as I'm thanking Kendra Peterson of Seattle, Washington and also Catherine Waltz of Buckner, Missouri. Mmm. Thank you both So the question was the puzzle was it's a mammal an an insect and a bird and if you say their name in that order if you say their names together it sounds like something that you see this time of year a mammal and insect and a bird and if you say them together it's a thing that you hear I see a lot this time Elephant ant finch

Is that it?

God, how did you get it? That's crazy, it took me like 20 minutes

There are so many elephant ant finches Growing in our yard right now I keep cutting them back but they grow back Even more

I really need to I really need to text that to Becca She will die

Well I'm sure she's listening this far into the show Let's see, is it I can't even think. By the way, I'm going to meet a dog today. My friend Hannah adopted a dog. You know Hannah, Hannah Brooks Olson. She adopted a dog. Of course, your co-host of Spotless. Spotless, and she's coming up here to do the show in person later on this afternoon, and she's bringing her new adopted dog, Lola. I am so in love with Lola just based on social media. I guess we have one more person to thank here, and then I need to figure this out. Mammal, insect, bird.

Okay. The other person is Orlando Buria of Greenville, South Carolina.

Hey, cool. Pretty good distribution. Thanks, Orlando.

Yeah, really great distribution. Massachusetts, M-O-S-C, California. We got it all. Olympia. I do feel, is ant the insect?

Because I feel like it's a good bridge word, ant. Yep, it is ant. It is ant. Okay. You don't mind giving this to me bit by bit? Okay.

Also, I want to warn people that I am going to give Andrew the answer to, and it has not been revealed yet. It will be revealed next Sunday.

Oh, you just are confident in the answer you came up with, or that Becca came up with? Is it you? That I came up with. Yeah, you came up with, okay.

By the way, Andrew, I solved not one, because we always have a bunch of them we haven't listened to. I solved not one, but two puzzles this week. And when I tell you that I was walking on friggin' sunshine yesterday...

i feel yeah so i'm glad i'm proud of ant uh dog totally ant dog ants pony show um but is pony show what kind of bird there's got to be a bird probably uh okay and we're all seeing dog ant pony shows i mean just i can't it's just like i'm sick of them at first they're beautiful um i don't know man i guess i mean i i could do this all day but i feel like it'll really

hurt our numbers okay i'm gonna play this sounder and then hello and welcome to top story because the new top story is you trying to solve this thing

um so you got ant so you want me to keep going on this mammal insect bird i mean mammal covers a lot well they all cover a lot of ground but i feel like man really lean into the the time of year lean into the halloween okay well we see a lot of pumpkins we see a lot of yes

we do we see pumpkins pumpkins what happens to the pumpkins this time of year oh mammal and uh so it's jack-o-lantern jack it is jackal ant turn jack-o-lantern yes good you know the turn is the

remembering that a bird is called turn what what was your process of getting that

where you well started by thinking about the things we see i did and then i was oh and i by the way i didn't i left out an important detail which is they gave the number of letters of each thing so i knew that the middle letter the insect was three letters so it was going to either be ant or b sure and like you said ant was a good connective bridge and you did that without even like knowing the length of the of the insect so that you get extra points for that um but uh i I was just staring at it, and I was like, ant, ant, ant, ant, this time of year. And then I was really trying to think of what, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

And then it was like, lantern, jack-o'-lantern. And then it was like, oh, yeah, jackal.

Yeah, jackal.

And then turn.

That's a good one.

Yeah. And then I think the, here's the thing, though. I only get these puzzles when they're relatively easy. Because the other one that I got, which I feel fine revealing because it's already been out there, was it was the name of an American city that if.

you it's it's a four syllable city in america that if you take the first two syllables and add a letter it makes an animal that would potentially live in the last syllable of the city name so a four syllable city that if you take the first two syllables and you add a letter to them you get an animal and then if you look at the last syllable of the city it's a place where you might find that

animal mrs. sips live in p yep they do they sure do famously pretty gross actually yeah i wish i wish that sentence wasn't uttered by me um and i got the oklahomes in ha that doesn't work city city though oh yeah well i was thinking oklahoma city but oh oh yeah right uh oh but i yeah maybe oklahoma city is actually six syllables if you count the city um the way that i got there was

because i was like well the last syllable has to be something where you find animals

mississippi isn't a city i just wanted to put that out there sure because i realized i said mississippi first and then i got defensive on oklahoma you were can you stop being so defensive please i'm just thinking i'm trying to think i'm feeling a lot of pressure i because i want to be good yeah no and you i want you to

like me i want everybody to like me what is it dad you're so good at solving puzzles bring a dart bot in here i need some goddamn encouragement oh i can't i'm having trouble even just thinking

this is really hard on the spot this is not fair to you i'm just it's i like doing it i'm just kind of trying i'm triumphing in the fact that i got two this week but they were both what i was going to say is what aisha is going to say next week regarding the um the jack-o-lantern is she's going to say we had a lot of we had a lot of really smart people on this we got 2 000 correct responses because when it's easy relatively easy like that you get a lot of correct responses and then when it's super hard she's like this is a tough week we only had 300 correct responses and I want once in my life I want to get one that's like she's like this was a real toughie I only get the ones where she's like we've never had so many correct answers submitted well

especially now I mean we are a powerhouse of a media organization ourselves so now a lot of our

listeners a powerhouse media organization that its content is just repeating what they said on weekend edition sunday by way of will shorts okay uh it is the answer is kalamazoo oh and you cal uh cala you add an uh oh and it's koala which you would find in the zoo but i calama kalamazoo four syllables but i thought that you oh it's just the first two syllables that you augment i thought

you augment the first three okay well i mean not that i would have gotten it anyway but um i got

there because of zoo i was like i was like now i will say this will short said it's a well-known american city which i guess kalamazoo is well known because it's a kind of a it's an interesting name but would you think of cal if i was to say it's a well-known american city would kalamazoo

jump no i would think of the you know the major markets you know i mean right or wrong i would think of your your chicago's new york's l.a's etc um i had a teddy bear named uh cuckoo koala It was a koala bear Just so you know I just want that on the record

This is going to sound like I'm ribbing you And I really am not But did the koala and the teddy bear That you would play Monopoly with Did they know each other Were they in the same risk I would play risk with all of them sometimes The same what would the P-C-U Yeah Plushy

Stuffed animal extended universe Stuffy comic universe Yeah, no, I would set out my various stuffed animals and play games with them, of course. Do you have them? God, shit does not change, does it? Like, it just all comes back to Dartbot.

That's amazing. I hadn't thought of that, but you're right. It's like Dartbot is the new koala bear or the new Andy bear.

I'm going to start calling it Cuckoo Dartbot. Anyway, Cuckoo Koala.

I would love to get my hands on the stuffed animals I had as a kid. That would be, like, the hit of nostalgia from that would be overwhelming.

I believe that Cuckoo Koala, like a lot of stuffed animals you just name yourself unless it came pre-branded. And I feel like Cuckoo Koala, I just added some extra syllables there, I think. I think Cuckoo Koala was something that came already named. And I'm looking at this. I'm looking it up now. I already sent you some pictures of McMaster car catalog. See if I can send you a Cuckoo Koala. But I'm not coming up with anything, so maybe I'm wrong about that.

I've told this story like a hundred times on the show and it sounds real Dickensian, but it's not meant to

but my sister hannah i believe got a doll and the doll was not secondhand the doll was from the store like and she named the doll brand new because it was probably the only brand new thing anyone in our family had ever had and the doll was just to this day named brand new that's funny

that's like our bird named oops that would shit all over the place we'd say oops and then eventually called the bird that huh i'm finding a lot of koalas but i don't think i can find actual cuckoo koala and now i'm starting to lose confidence in remembering what it looked like because now all these koalas are looking alike but um congratulations on your puzzling and i

hope thank you i was very proud but again i think this week let's all tune in this sunday in the morning we'll tune into a weekend edition sunday to hear how many people got jack-o-lantern it's going to be a lot yeah and then in the uh then switch over to cbs and see if i won the argument

about kelly blue book oh yeah interesting so we're still hey can i play you a little travis

kelsey tape are you up to speed on this have you been getting a steady diet this by by way of

levitard i think i mean i don't think levitard but i think i saw this on my socials this is him answering questions so you're gonna play the tape of kelsey not of the original shots from um no i

only read those and of course they were on the um pat uh mcafee mcafee show yeah yeah um which is like where aaron rogers likes to go to um unburden and so should we say what he said on pat mcafee

yes before this tape so he on pat mcafee referred to travis kelsey as mr pfizer right because he actually because i believe kelsey showed up in some pro vaccine psa i think he's yeah i think he's in some kind of ads for pfizer for pfizer but specifically for the coronavirus vaccine right

not just generally speaking yeah yes and um aaron rogers was basically sort of defending the play of this is not a story about football everyone this is a story about aaron rogers being an unredeemable piece of shit yeah like and i mean you know i go back and forth because i watched hard knocks this year and i will admit aaron rogers is able to when he wants to kind of come up as pretty charming i even heard marshawn lynch tell a really good story about aaron rogers recently which kind of was making me sort of feel good feelings towards aaron rogers and then he dropped this mr fizer bullshit marshawn lynch was telling this story on shannon sharp has a podcast Called the Shay Shay show It's really good by the way It's so freaking good He gets just like the best stuff out of people

Oh that's right because this is where Marshawn Lynch Was also recently talking shit about Russell Wilson And not having his number and stuff

Yeah but what Marshawn Lynch Said was that when he was at Cal With Aaron Rodgers Aaron basically Marshawn Lynch was really Just getting started and he was Kind of trying To make a good impression and he went the wrong way On a play and Aaron Rodgers kind of saved his butt like he it was supposed to hand off to the right but Marshawn Lynch went left and Aaron Rodgers did this kind of back handoff and then when Marshawn Lynch was getting yelled at by the coaches Aaron Rodgers took the fall for him and said no I called the wrong play wow that

I will say is a good move what I think when I I mean I know that I've been hating Aaron Rodgers for a long time I'm not alone in that but long before he became sort of like a yeah sort of pry in this way but um one of the things i hated it so much about him is he seemed his body language on the field and this is not a story about football um but it's a story about body language and his body language on the field would always seem to me like just like so like eye-rolly at his teammates like sort of to imply that the mistakes were always his receiver's faults or whatever like that that he would actually like oh like sigh if a receiver missed something which is

of the reasons i always hated him and you know you know people change he might be more that way now than he was i mean he did one thing at cal that made that sort of made a good impression on marshawn lynch you know and but i don't know if that defines how he behaves in the nfl in this day and age but anyway um so aaron rogers was on pat mcafee show and he was basically kind of defending the play of the new york jets which is the team that paid him i think 72 million dollars of guaranteed money for him to take four snaps this season and uh and he was defending the play of the new york jets and he was saying basically that they were hanging with the kansas city chiefs in a game they had you know they had acquitted themselves fairly well and he said you know mr pfizer didn't really have that big of an impact on the game and that was his kind of snide way of talking about travis kelsey who of course is big in the news these days because he's dating taylor swift and uh and aaron rogers you know famously lied to the media about being vaccinated he said he what was the term he said he was inoculated inoculated maybe immunized i thought it was i think inoculated or something like he basically like said something he led everyone to believe he had been vaccinated but he hadn't and so he's you know clearly skeptical about the

vaccine and he was trying to drag Travis Kelsey the reason this jumped out at me is because and we were talking about this last week when we were talking about the general Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift situation which was at one time I had assumed that Travis Kelsey had bad takes because he is a football player and uh and he's a white guy honestly the whiteness somehow plays into that I just feel like a lot of the white guys that get to the highest echelons of sports are also have bad takes I don't know I don't know where I get that from other than my sort of anecdotal experience. And somebody corrected me and said, no, he's actually got good takes. And boy, does he? Because here he is talking to the media about being called Mr. Pfizer derisively by Aaron

Rogers. I thought it was pretty good. I mean, with the stash right now, I look like a guy named Mr. Pfizer. Who knew I'd get into the Vax Wars with Aaron Rogers? Mr. Pfizer versus the Johnson

and Johnson family over there. By the way, that is a very, very good roast because the family that owns the new york jets are the johnson and johnson family and they of course make one of the vaccines and so like they're the ones that are paying all this money to aaron rogers i i love that travis kelsey connected those dots i don't even know if i would have right like i i don't think i remember that that's who owns the jets but it's like he was he that was that was a pretty i think that

was a pretty clever little he had that locked and loaded i mean that's kind of the thing so you know to a certain degree this little thing was living in his head and he knew he he was like oh, I'll pull this out when they ask me about it.

They wrote me off. I didn't write back.

That's fine, though. Like, I'll take it. I mean, he delivers in a very charming way and also makes it sort of seem off the cuff and casual. Yeah, totally. I don't think we asked you about it since you're in the commercial.

Can you kind of just say why you wanted to do that? I mean, I've always been, you know, once I got the vaccine, and I got it because of, you know, keeping myself safe, keeping my family safe, the people in this building. So, yeah, I stand by it 1,000% and fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Fizer.

That is the confidence of a man who is on top of the fucking world right now.

Yeah, I know.

This guy is catching touchdowns. He's dating Taylor Swift. Yeah. This is a guy who does not—

He's got, like, the number one podcast in America, I think.

This is a guy who is not about trifling-ass Aaron Rodgers and his Mr. Fizer, and I love it. It's such a good look. To laugh it off, I mean, I would have been tempted to say, Aaron Rodgers should get immunized against having his Achilles tendon disintegrate four plays into the season. Like, I feel like I would say, like, yeah, I'm not really going to get my health care advice from somebody who got four plays into the season. Right, exactly. There's so many. I mean, the fact that Aaron Rodgers is lobbing these insults while in a walking boot.

Yeah, that's all he is anymore now is a heel.

It's just so hilarious to me. I know that's not related to the vaccine, but it's just like Aaron Rodgers, is in no position to criticize anyone around the subject of physical health.

Right, exactly. I mean, I mean, that it's, yeah. I mean, listen, he's an older guy who's an incredibly talented quarterback during his time and wanted to get some more years out. I mean, he was definitely pushing the age limit, and not everybody is Tom Brady. I don't revel in the fact that he's hurt, but it does, like, but, you know, I'm glad that he's not playing, I guess. But it really does kind of reduce him to just being this guy who like sort of like sits up in the box i'm trying to think the last game that i said well it was that it was that game it was the the green bay uh chiefs game and he was like up in a box somewhere with his foot up on a table just sort of like scowling down or whatever like i mean listen i saw him for two seconds out of a three-hour broadcast so i i'm putting a lot on that but like it just sort of seemed like he's just up there like thinking like thinking two things i'd be a better quarterback than this guy and also um the the media is the the left-wing progressive media is out to get me and i'm over woke culture basically those are the he's also apparently on

the record as saying because i saw a clip of this too this is aaron rogers of saying that he's like defying all expectations with his recovery oh have you seen this clip no it it it really feels like strong let's ride territory like he is claiming that his recovery is way ahead of schedule in a way that doctors can't explain which i mean may or may not be true but it's just funny because you it's just you you start to really and again you were on this you were on this way before i was but what we're starting to see is the emerging or the the even more public facing side of a person who's clearly a lunatic like he's i'm sure he's got every every nano bubble water you know another kooky whatever he's doing he thinks that it's he thinks that it is causing his recovery to exceed all expectations and to defy medical science and this is a guy who's been trying to defy medical science for a long time now it turns out and we never got an answer on that

goddamn darkness retreat, which I don't think

he actually completed that we didn't we did not get a full you're right there was not a statement that said he completed it it said he emerged from yes he rolled back from this room yeah but did the third day the stone was rolled away and a disheveled aaron rogers wandered out into the light but did he stay all three days or not is the question and did he see his shadow

here i go once again with the email every week i hope that it's from a female no man it's not from

a female all right emails and vmails yes luke do you remember friday at all barely specifically anything we talked about on tbtl on friday i was in new york city you were we were talking i was A lot about music on the show on Friday. Yes, we sure were. Before even the music for your weekend.

We were going down a whole road with songs that are, oh, by the way, I figured out the song that I couldn't think of on Friday.

Well, are you trying to think of this? Because I think that's what I'm setting up here is there is a song called Back on 74 by a duo called Jungle that I was playing. and we did this whole thing where I said this reminds me so much of a song that was very popular and played a lot on TBTL during Song of the Summer in the past five years or so and this is the song, this is the newer song that was reminding me of something I couldn't put my finger in

So this is a song that I've been hearing

a bit lately by jungle called back on 74 and you and i was playing a few songs that i thought yes a quadrant song which wasn't it and happy by pharrell which is kind of the same style right now after the show actually while people were still listening to the show i could tell i got a lot of responses i'm not even going to name anybody because i got so many responses from people saying hey i think this is the song you're thinking of

Right? Is that what you were going to say?

Is this what you thought of this weekend? No, I have a different song I couldn't think of that I'll play for you later. So that's Feel It Still by Portugal, period, the man. 2017, by the way, longer ago than I thought. I would have guessed in just the last couple of years.

You know the guy from the coffee shop at the end of my street when I lived in Seattle, Kyle, is in Portugal The Man.

Oh, is he The Man?

No, he's Portugal, period. Oh, okay. I remember him going, oh yeah, I'm playing with this band called Portugal The Man now. I was like, hmm, we'll see how that goes. It went well, Andrew.

So they're a Seattle-based band?

No, well...

Oh, you were in Portland at the time.

Nope, nope. I was in Seattle. I believe they're from Wasilla, Alaska, home of Sarah Palin. But that's where I think they formed. but they must have had some time in Seattle because the guy that was making the coffee at the coffee shop there in my old neighborhood was, I think he may have been like a kind of, you know, maybe they'd been around for a couple of years, but he said, yeah, I'm playing with Portugal Demand now and I thought, oh, that'll be fun for you. And then the next thing I know, they're like, Feel It still comes out. It's the biggest song in the world and then now they're selling out stadiums.

Does he know about this song back on 74? I could text him right now. Do it. He'd be like, huh?

Who? This is the guy from the coffee shop? Do you actually have his number? I literally do. And it says, Kyle O'Quinn, Portugal Demand. How'd you get his number? We were pals. We used to chop it up when I'd be getting my coffee.

I mean, thank you to everybody who wrote in. Like, that was really... So that was the song. That was it. I was like, I was listening to this. Again, I like that song by Jungle, but I was like, but it's so similar to something. It's so close. and uh that is exactly what it was and like it was driving me personally bananas and then we talked about on the show and then thank you to everybody to help me untangle that knot now what

song were you trying to think of i was trying to um like a think of i was trying to describe a song that because what we were talking about were songs where the critical component of the song is just from something else and you kind of wonder how much value the new song is adding when the very best part of it, and we were talking about that Sleigh Bells song, Ring Ring, and how that ripped off, or not ripped off, it just sampled effectively, or at least it was, you know, inspired by a song by Funkadelic called Can You Get To It, or whatever the song is. And so I was trying to talk about this other song that's just everywhere right now, that is just basically a person rapping over another song. And I couldn't remember the song, and that was why it was not a very interesting story. And then I heard the song this weekend, and then I was like, I texted it to myself so that I could remember. Okay. This is the song.

I just wanted to play for it. That was going to be such a better joke if it was at the critical part of this social network music. I was waiting for it to kick in.

That was the social network. I'm sorry. I was like, oh, okay. It's going to kick in any second now. I would have sat there all day.

No, this is really the song, though. Sorry. Okay. God, what a great joke I just presented the listeners with.

Me zoning out and just being like, oh, that's pretty.

Didn't know it's just like if it would have been like the real plaintiff sort of piano part It would have been great, but it wasn't it just sounded like there was feedback on the line The song is called low boo thang and I'm gonna be honest with you It's pretty catchy, but the reason it's pretty catchy is because it's just the song best of my love by The emotions with a guy just rapping over it and it's like probably the number one song in America and again it's a it's a it's a perfectly catchy little rap but it's like it's just I'm gonna play it for you it's just whoops sorry I'm gonna start over a little hot little hot hold on hold on hold on we got this we've got this let me get the volume to a level that's not gonna destroy everyone's eardrums here

i mean it's catchy as hell right yeah yeah but it's it's the song best of my love by emotions

it's kind of i wouldn't have known the name of it but i mean it definitely sounds very

familiar i mean what's good about this song primarily is the thing that the emotions did in whenever 1970 something or 1980 something

Anyway, that was a song I was trying to think of

on the subject of just basically taking a previous piece of work and then putting a little change to it and then it being very popular.

Well, here's something that I just discovered. So remember I told you I was looking for my NordicTrack remixes earlier and I couldn't find it? It's because I had already archived that off of my hard drive. I have them labeled here. I found the hard drive while you were doing that. I have them labeled here just as numbers because I wanted to try to... Oh, wait, no, here they are. Can I play a couple of these for you? I won't play the whole thing. Here, I'll start with this one because I already told you about this one.

The combination of the NordicTrack exercise along with a low-fat diet has really helped me trim my waistline and my weight.

When I first started working out with the NordicTrack, I lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time. I went from 226 to 172 in just a few months.

I look good. Okay, so that's The Hobbit. That's great. Let's see how this one is. This has been a long time since I've heard this. I think it always starts dry.

The combination of the NordicTrack exercise along with a low-fat diet has really helped me trim my waistline and my weight.

When I first started working out with the NordicTrack, I lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time. I went from 226 to 172 in just a few months.

I look good. I feel good. I've gone down two dress sizes. I feel sensational.

Okay, I won't play all of them. Just allow me to do one more here. I have too many to do them all, but this will be the last one.

The combination of the NordicTrack exercise along with a low-fat diet has really helped me trim my waistline and my weight.

When I first started working out with the Nordic track, I lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time. I went from 226 to 172 in just a few months.

I look good. I feel good. I've gone down two dress lines. I feel sensational.

Those are good, dude. All right. You really should have started the show with that.

That's unquestionably the best content that we've done today.

Let's see. After these messages, just search for Nordic track. There you go. Okay, that's where we'll end things.

Now I have Lil Jon and the East Side Boys in my head for the rest of the day. Although it's replacing the sitting song, so that's good.

Oh, that's probably a blessing. Yeah, I forgot about that. I always forget about that over the weekends, and then somehow we're reminded during the week. And then Monday brings it right back. Yep, exactly. Right back.

All right, that's going to do it for today's program. Thanks for listening, everyone. We are going to be right back here tomorrow with more Imaginary Radio, so please do join us for that. In the meantime, have a great Monday. Take care of yourselves, and please remember, no mountain too tall. Good luck to all.

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