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This is the DJ 3000. It plays CDs automatically, and it has three distinct varieties of inane chatter.

Hey, hey, how about that weather out there? Whoa, that was the caller from hell. Well, hot dog, we have a wiener.

Man, that thing's great. Don't praise the machine.

Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.

How's he keep up with the news like that?

are you all right no no i'm confused nothing makes sense to me anymore this face it's not my face my whole world has disappeared and and now i'm talking to a car you know you're overthinking it buddy yeah i mean just kind of see this as a fun thing to do or you

make a little bread you've got to remember that these are people of the land the common clay of

the new west you know morons stop talking get off the phone and let's do this let's do this immediately let's go all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a thursday edition of tbtl the show that just might be too beautiful to live i can't believe you're still on the air my name is luke burbank i am your host coming to you from the madrona hill studio perched high above the mighty columbia on a absolutely spectacular thursday morning california got sunshine i did i did get in my car this morning and drive down to town because i thought this might be the last really nice day for, I don't know, a long, long time. I keep feeling that way as we get closer to wintry weather, or maybe I should just say more fall-like weather in the Northwest. And I was, it was beautiful up here, but I thought, well, then I'll go for a beautiful run around Lake Sacajawea. And then I drove down into town and it was just completely fogged in, like 10 feet in front of you was foggy. And it also had the distinct odor of the pulp mill. So I really hoisted myself with my own idea there instead of just being up here, perched high above the mighty Columbia. That's all right, though. We got the exercise in, and we are ready, my friends, to bring you episode 4057 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. I got to keep working out because my tea has got to be at some sort of an all-time low. I started getting emotional today talking to my dad about woke politics.

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

Maybe we'll talk about that also. Netflix says they are going to start building Netflix stores. That's right. They are going brick and mortar on it.

You've got to be kidding me.

We'll get into that. Time permitting, we may talk about the new world's hottest pepper ever. Hotter than the Carolina Reaper. Be careful, though. It's spicy. And also, it's a Thursday, a.k.a. Blur's Day, so we will do some birthday messages. I don't have that sound effect ready to go because this is the first Blur's Day that I've been using my new computer. So forgive me for that. I will have it all ready for next week's show. Just know that we're going to do some Blur's Days on this Thursday. And we're going to talk to this guy, the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. Speaking of things that are hot, he is going to have a number of hot things for dinner tonight, presumably.

What's courageous about eating a hot dog?

He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Here you go, Luke. This is a freebie. I'm going to do this in the clear. It's my birthday today. Okay. Not bad. There's your— Thank you. That is actually not my best work as far as imitating drops. I feel like I'm relatively good at imitating a lot of the drops you play. That was not my finest moment.

Well, that's also, you're trying to impersonate, if you will, a small child. Yeah. Who is like, you know.

I wrote that today. Oh, you got it.

Now he got the drop. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I just didn't have it ready to go on my daily drops board. Give us this day our daily drops. And forgive us our podcasters, as we forgive those who podcast against us.

Sometimes it does feel like we're podcasting against certain people, doesn't it? It really does.

It really does. People with good taste.

Yes. I told you before the show, if you'll allow it, I think this will be a decent conversation. I don't think it's necessarily funny, but I think it might be interesting and maybe relatable. And also, I would like to start this conversation by saying, I think I'm in the wrong here. I think that the fundamental question, as I introduce this, is what is wrong with me?

But I'd like your take on this. So I started using a password manager for my computer, for all of my passwords, my online passwords. I started using it about five years ago, I'm going to say. And the reason I started using it was because they were an underwriter or an advertiser on TBTL when we worked for American Public Media. And everybody had always said you should use a password manager. And I was like, it's fine. I got sticky notes. I got I email myself passwords. I broke every rule of like having a secure online life. Right. So I'm like, OK, well, I get a free trial of this online password manager.

And so I start this is the beginning of a social engineering attack.

And I liked it. And so when the premium subscription ran out, I didn't pay for the premium subscription anymore that I got for free when we were advertising for them. But I continued to use the free service and the only the big thing that signing up for premium gets you is the password manager will work across all of your devices if you pay about five bucks a month. Right. So right now I'm using the free version of it and it means it only works on one of my computers, my main computer. But if I'm in another room trying to log into Netflix and I can't remember my Netflix password, I can easily come open up my laptop and just get it there. And so I've never paid for this service before. Today, I got an email from this company saying, attention, upcoming changes to your account. Uh-oh. What do you think the changes are?

Hey, unless it's Xfinity taking away my root sports, they're never saying upcoming changes to your account. You're getting more for less, and we're going to make it easier. And we've hired 1,000 phone helpers so that if you call, they'll pick up on the first ring and totally make it easy for you.

Yeah, exactly. And they'll be given the tools that they need to actually help you. Exactly. Anyway, the email, when I opened it up, it said, guess what? Your free service is even more free. No, it said, guess what? For a bunch of years now, you've been using the free service. And if you want to continue using the free service, it is now, and this will change in December, it will now only store 25 passwords. You're currently storing 309 passwords. What? It says we will not delete the other passwords, but you will not be able to add any new passwords unless you start paying for the premium plan, right? So in other words, the free service I've been enjoying for five years now is basically useless unless I just have 25 favorite passwords that I care about, right? Which obviously you need more than that. And I was immediately just like kind of pissed. I was just like I deleted it and I started thinking do I switch to a different free password manager there was something about just you know clicking subscribe here and giving them my money and I just imagine I'm like wow so they just run the service where they send up this email and starting December 7th they're just going to start watching money roll in because people like me who've been using it for free for so long are basically kind of over a barrel either we have to like go into the process of moving over to a different password manager are there other better free versions I'll have to look into that what is the transfer like will it be smooth and so I'm telling Genevieve this this morning I'm like I just got this email my pass you use a different one right she's like yeah I'm like I might move over to that she's like well how much is the new monthly fee gonna be I'm like I don't know I didn't even look as soon as I saw the word you got to pay for this i was like screw you and i was mad and but genevieve asking me how much it was got me thinking what am i mad about like well i should go look at the email and i see that like it's about five bucks a month i can get an introductory rate of 225 a month two dollars and 25 cents a month that's not much money at all now obviously it'll get jacked up after my first year of using it or six months or whatever but like honestly five bucks a month five bucks i I can't speak. Five bucks a month, you know, over the course of a year. That's not that much money for a service that I use. And this is where I'm coming back around to, wait, what's wrong with me? Now, there are certain things that I use online that are heavily advertised that or, you know, have advertisements in them. And so I'm used to something being free. But hopefully, you know, the people who are making that content are getting paid in some way because of the advertising model or something along those lines. And if I want more of that, then I'll pay for it. And I pay for, you know, we pay for a lot of magazines, newspapers, obviously online streaming services.

We pay for a lot of stuff. not totally we're not just stealing all of our content we certainly aren't but in this case i'm like wait a second it's a password manager i've never seen an ad on that before like this is a service that i've been using for free for five years and it's actually really handy and if i start paying for it i'll start to be able to use it across all of my devices my phone my my tablet where i read my tom clancy novels um your kindle my kindle like what is kendall my kendall what is what i mean i'm in the wrong aren't my job is password like they the only reason i'm mad is because they gave it to me for free for so long yeah that now they're saying hey we would like you to pay for this service like why am i mad at that like no i should it's a service that i use that will improve when i start paying and it's not asking that much five bucks a month is not that much to ask probably for the service it provides right correct but I totally understand

that journey that you went on because of what you've already stated which is when we are trained to think that something is just free it's just out there for anyone to grab it'd be like for me like paying for YouTube and I know there are different levels and people do pay for certain I guess ad free services or whatever but like if if they said if they said YouTube is is 50 cents a month I'd like i'm never looking at youtube again because i have i'm very it just doesn't seem like a thing that should cost me money ever um so i understand you sort of going on that journey i had a kind of a similar thing which was when i was setting up this new computer and putting stuff on speaking of this audio system that i use here which i don't it's considering i feel like i'm one of the few customers of this program i should know how to pronounce it but i don't i don't know if it's Farajo or Farago but like it's this like sound tiles and actually there's three products this Farago thing that I use where I have all these audio things ready to go and then something called Audio Hijack which is also made by the same company and it comes in a bundle and what I use Audio Hijack for is just recording stuff off of my computer screen so any video audio anything that's playing on my computer screen I can capture that audio for the purposes of this show and I realized that I was going to have to buy I've never had this I've had this on my other computer and I've been in a trial mode this whole time which means if I ever try to record more than eight minutes of content off of the internet or off of wherever on Audio Hijack it just adds a big and I realized that for probably eight or nine years I've just always had to make sure that if I I was recording something that was longer than that. I stopped it, I started a new recording. This was a hundred dollars, I think. This whole thing to have the newest version of this audio system that I like to use and Audio Hijack that I can now record an endless amount, roughly. I mean, maybe not an endless amount, but I can now record more than eight minutes at a time. This is something I use on a daily basis to do this job with you. But I was putting it off because it was a hundred dollars. And I also felt annoyed that I was gonna have to buy the bundle or let's be honest, too beautiful to biz was gonna have to buy the bundle my life has improved so much from this my work life it's just so much better it's so much easier and it's like why was I in trial mode for as long as I was so that's not exactly what you're saying but I just on the subject of how we get in these weird things

about what we pay for and what we don't pay for yeah and I mean you can't do this with everything and unfortunately I do but when I think about five bucks a month I think like well I mean I'll blow 20 bucks on pull tabs without like thinking twice about it now the thing is i don't buy pull tabs actually i haven't i haven't i don't think i've played in the pull tab space in quite a while luke as a matter of fact but the thing is like i say that about everything in my life and eventually you're like exactly five bucks here and five bucks yeah exactly you're talking real money yeah well i mean whatever i'm gonna buy a bmw what is it uh how many baskets of pull tabs is that i'd blow it on pull tabs anyway but anyway yeah so i just kind of went on this journey and from like well i god damn them like they're just going to like they can just do this thing hold us over a barrel flip a switch and then suddenly just fill their coffers because obviously on december 7th money is going to start pouring in but then i'm like but i like the service how else are they supposed to make money for all these years

yeah it's you know it you feel on one level a little tricked because you're like this was their plan all along get a bunch of us using it and enjoying its service and its utility and then at some point they were going to say now it costs money like there's something about feeling like they were sort of trapping you even though they're just a business trying to stay in business like we

are here at too beautiful to biz and right exactly now of course ours is always voluntary and so i think that that is something that sets us apart but it reminds me more of the guy i get my methamphetamine from like right he used to like give it to me skinny joe skinny joe oh oh you have the same guy i used to in when you were in seattle oh that's nice yeah so Okay. kind of a similar thing there. Anyway, I'll just end up, I think I will end up paying for this, but I just wanted to talk to you about it. Cause I, I sort of, at first I was mad at them and then I was sort of mad at myself. Well, as long as you ended up mad at yourself, I think that's everything always reverts. I think that's the takeaway, the important takeaway. I had an

interesting morning talking with my dad about, so we have this, this kind of when he's here working on the house, we have this kind of morning coffee ritual, get up, make the coffee. We sort of sit in this one part of the living room and uh he reads it's funny like i was very worried about his news consumption this week so i had to kind of like make sure i was getting eyes on his his ipad not my dad is actually i have to say for being somebody who is a person of faith he's a christian a practicing christian he and my mom are and i mean practicing sort of evangelical christian my dad actually has pretty good takes amazingly like well he's very i put it this way he's very very down on donald trump which puts him at odds with all of their friends my parents friends in fact they're going to they're supposed to go to some reunion for the commune and then my dad's like i don't know if we're going to go because i don't want to be arguing about donald trump or antifa with all of these people i guess when my dad went on facebook and wrote some anti-donald trump stuff we a while ago all of their old friends were coming at him and basically saying that he was siding with antifa i mean it's just it's wild out there but i just what i noticed the other night was my dad or the way my dad reads the news is a he reads it on his tablet reads it on his his ipad and it looks so zerg net to me that it got me worried like it's not like you or i reading like say the new york times website or the washington post or seattle times or even um an aggregator like pocket or something it looked like it was it was a news feed for people with low media literacy like every other like it'd be a picture of like you know um matt gates doing something then the next picture would be like of that old kind of guy that looks like tommy chong i don't know what they're selling but like just shows up a lot on the periphery of real

kludgy websites and the jacked up little boy where is he now you always know that kid's name

and i was like but i didn't but i was trying to kind of get one eye on like what is this guy where is i was like dad where do you what do you read he's like oh just um it's just google i was like yeah but like what did what did you google like hey gorgle like you know but um but he uh i i gave it a look-see i don't know what it is but it's actually legitimate stuff like it's some aggregator that is actually i wanted to make sure it wasn't like giving him newsmax stories you know that were somehow not obviously coming from newsmax um but um we we were talking this morning about wokeness and how it's really frustrating to him that all of their friends and even you know some people that are in the in the sort of family structure of like you know a couple a couple what would you say a couple rings removed there are people in the like larger family structure of my family who are very now quote unquote anti-woke and it did my heart real good to hear from my dad that he doesn't like that people are going around freaking out about wokeness because that was that was really it's great because my dad's hatred of donald trump has been a real it's been a real conduit for him to then pass into other slightly more progressive ideas like he's pretty down on um leonard leo the architect of the supreme court which is crazy because i think my parents probably are pro-life if you will i actually don't know if that's the right term that's kind of giving too much credit i think to that movement you know anti-choice you could say um anti-abortion um but they but he's but also it's weird the way my dad gets news because he was like yeah i don't know what's going on with this legal thing with you know the conservatives trying to pack the courts he goes i was reading this article i wish i could find it i would send it to you i was like yeah probably about leonard lee or whatever and then he goes oh i found it it's in my history and he goes oh it's um it was uh i was reading fresh air and i go the radio show he goes yeah yeah i was just i'm reading the article i go you should listen to the radio show he goes well i read most of the article so by the way my dad is now reading fresh which is good but it was an interview with some new yorker writer talking about basically the

conservatives pack in the court so i was like whatever actually ask you are you sure it was the pro publica thing because there's a mini series on and i haven't delved into it yet but i keep on getting the promos for the on the media teaming up with pro publica we must talk about leonard or what i can't remember the name it's not that one okay it's not that one um because

that's what i thought it was going to be referenced it was a new yorker writer being interviewed by terry gross okay um or maybe tanya mosley i didn't get to see the article by the way shout out i'm gonna say friend of the show tanya mosley friend of my show called luke burbank

i know i i don't hear that show very often but i was flipping uh the other day and i did hear

tanya on fresh air she's so good yeah good really she's doing a just absolutely bang up job over there as one of the new i guess not that new anymore

but as kind of another fresh air host um but uh anyway so i was relieved that like in this weird kind of flow of information that's going to my dad that's mostly photo based again that's what scared me at first was he's just scrolling on a totally white background with big square photos on it and i was like half of those are definitely going to be for like how like telling him that he actually has four pounds of undealt with feces in his colon and here's how you get rid of it you You know, just like whatever that weird-ass shit is that's hanging around me. That is weird-ass shit. Literally. My bell. But then we started talking about wokeness, and then we started talking about, for some reason, immigration. And then I was trying to explain the Darien Gap to him. Are you familiar with the Darien Gap? No. It's just this part of, I believe it's in Panama, and for a lot of families that are coming up from Central America and maybe South America, So people that are going on unbelievably arduous journeys to get to even Mexico, to get to the U.S. border. There's this area that many of them go through called the Darien Gap, which is just unbelievably dangerous and challenging and just mud-filled. And it's a gauntlet of its own before you've even gotten to Greg Abbott's razor wires. And anyway, I was trying to explain to him, because my dad is not, he's certainly, I mean, he's a very, very sweet person and he would help anybody anytime. But again, he's, you know, he's, he's much more progressive than his friends, but still maybe is like, we got to do something about immigration. And I was like, well, I think we do. But for the purposes of the people trying to immigrate, like, in other words, I'm not worried about, oh, that was it. He was saying, yeah, a lot of his friends think that if they step outside their door, like maraud, undocumented marauders are going to get them. And I'm like, limited chance of that in Briar, Washington. but um and so uh anyway i was like telling about the daring gap and then i like brought up this picture of it this picture from there that has haunted me i mean truly has really lived very large in my mind it's from a new york times piece about this particular section of of of land in panama and it's just a dad and his kid and you know they're covered in mud and the little girl is so little and i was just telling my dad i was like you know dad if you were born in like venezuela or something this would be you and one of your daughters you know like this could

potentially be you and sarah because and you've made this argument a lot and me working with you even on the radio side years ago you'd always say like the people that are being villainized for coming over would be heroes in their family or are heroes in their family but by the people who are who are like kind of talking about them disparagingly on the radio and saying we have to do something about the borders like no this is what any good person would do for their family to try to build try to get them to safe harbor and build a better life exactly like if you're

on one side of a river and this is what's so crazy about what's going on now is let's just say you're on the mexico side of the rio grande and you're looking across and on the other side of that river is the potential to um build a house for your family to feed your family you know to go through remittance i was at the safeway the other day and there was a guy it made me really wish that i had even slightly usable spanish because there was a guy there with his daughter it was like a saturday and he was at i was buying a powerball ticket andrew because i make good financial decisions this guy was there trying to use the wells fargo this is at that little kind of like customer service thing they'll have up in the front of the store it's also where they take my alcohol now when i try to buy it oh have you been through this

have you seen this one andrew no i mean i do have to ask for a bottle of booze and they go get it and then they ring me up at the self-checkout, but I haven't had to, like, make a second stop.

What'll happen is if I have not planned it correctly and if I haven't finished all of my shopping, I need to just make getting any kind of expensive alcohol the last stop on this train, but sometimes I'll forget, like, I need hamburger buns, so then they'll go, we'll just put it at customer service for you. But anyway, so it's my Powerball and my Suntory Toki whiskey. That's what I'm getting up there because I'm a good, productive member of society. This guy's there with his adorable daughter And he's trying to do Western Union And I think what he's doing is remittance He's trying to send money presumably back to A different country where he may be originally from To his family And he was having There was a language barrier between the woman that was You know, working in the customer service thing And this guy And he just I don't know why this topic is so emotional for me For some reason Because it's not anything I've ever been through But it was like This guy could tell that he felt embarrassed because he was having a hard time communicating with this person he had his daughter there and they were both like they were both in there like in nice clothes like it was a saturday like i'm i'm i'm kind of assuming a lot but i think this is based on a lot of like experience this is a guy who's probably working really really hard uh monday through friday and probably some weekends at some job that's really tough that's tougher than any job I've ever done and he does this for his family and he does this probably for his family back home in whatever the country he was trying to send the money to and but he was in some nice clothes he was in like clean jeans and a nice tucked in shirt and his daughter had her little pigtails in just an adorable scene of these two people and I could just see in his eyes this kind of embarrassment about not being able to communicate and all he's doing there is just trying to help his family you know and it just made me feel so uh like like like weirdly i i really don't know why this of all the things is what really gets me but i just felt very protective of him for some reason so anyway so clearly this is a big thing for me because i'm showing my dad this picture of the darien gap and these these families and i'm just like getting exactly like i am right now and And that was when my dad really decided He wished that that electrician was his son Where's Jaden I think what I'm trying to say Where's Dry-Eyed Jaden And that's what we call him around Is it Jaden It is Jaden But it was just a weird It was this weird moment because You know me and my dad He's known me for a long time He's seen me very emotional in various states But there's something weird about As a 47 year old dude Crying in front of your dad Because of a photo

in the New York Times but I'm hoping he took it in the spirit it was intended no I mean well so how did that conversation go so your dad mentioned something like oh yeah we do have to do something and so his point was we do have to we do have to do something to solidify these borders more and then you you start talking and maybe I don't know if you told the story of what you saw in that in that grocery store or um or you said you showed him that photo um and then how did he respond to of that well i mean the thing about my dad that is that i appreciate is he is other than maybe

let's see other than pronouncing it latte and putting the wrong emphasis on home depot he's really not strident about anything like he's pretty open so i think he generally has a thought that like there's something kind of broken about our immigration system i think he probably hasn't totally made up his mind what he thinks that issue is and my argument was the issue as i see it is we live in a world where there's so much inequity people have to go through the Darien gap to get to this country you know that's to me that is the fundamental issue is that there are places in the world that are where people are so impoverished that this is what they have to do you know and I think he was buying that argument and I don't know if I changed his mind because I don't know if he has his mind made up but I will tell you this I am greatly relieved that my mom and dad have not been drawn into this MAGA world like all of their friends it's crazy and it's really like it's really been a problem for them because these are you know the people that they know from their kind of religious christian background that they've known for 40 50 years they're like they can't even be in the same room with a lot of these folks anymore because it's so if my dad says one thing that's anti-trump and by the way i do think he kind of enjoys trump and them like i think yeah the only time that i hear my dad use the f word is related to

either vax denial or trump which again he made a trump reference like it like it wasn't it wasn't even relevant to what we're talking about when we were visiting them you know earlier this summer i remember him like kind of dropping some sort of like dunking on trump thing i'm like oh that came really out of the blue i mean it lives large but here you know i ever since you you set up this story there's something that I wanted to say which might have to do with how your dad feels not that I'm in any way here to say how your dad feels but or for me really to speak on on religion at all I'm not a person of faith in fact I'm kind of surprised you know I for some reason took the show earlier this week into a discussion of the separation of church and state like which because i like to keep things light on the show and welcome to on being i'm andrew tippet and in my wheelhouse and things that you know like but you set up this story by saying your parents are you know very religious very christian but despite that they tend to have good takes on things or be on the right side of things or something and there's i think that's what probably bothers me the most and i mean this as a defense of christians and christianity and i think we have a lot of listeners who are people of faith who listen to this show who are on the right side of things there's a huge spectrum on it because that is like i am not christian but i grew up christian and went to christian you know catholic schools and everything i still think that i want to live my life the way the the various christian churches say to and faiths say to which is be good to one another.

other give everybody the benefit of the doubt like all of those things like that's what is so frustrating about it is we live in a topsy-turvy world now like on a on a you know a national political perspective where the people who claim the mantle of christianity act the the least in accordance with what i understand the teachings of christianity to be i know that that is sort of sort of obvious but i mean that as a defense of people like i say we had this conversation earlier this week where i was like kind of saying i'm really sick of like religion blurring the line between um you know church and state and and and those types of things but i don't mean any offense to the christian um to christian people who truly believe the tenants that that i believe to be the

christian tenants it's wild because and i don't yeah i mean today we're talking about this probably because of me bringing up the story of of talking to my dad but i don't know why we're talking about religion so much on the show right now, but I, you know, I, I find I'm with you. Like, I feel like if you, if you think about the stuff that Jesus was doing in the Bible, it was like, he was the guy showing up at, he was hanging out with the undesired, so so-called undesirables, you know, he was, he was the one calling out the religious leaders, the Pharisees, et cetera. Like, it's like, it just seems like it's really not hard to see that Jesus was really about like loving on people helping people putting his arm around the people that that the others thought were unclean or were you know not deserving of love like that was the guy's whole deal and how it got turned into lauren bobert carrying a gun into congress like how did it turn into that it's the weirdest kind of like you said it's it's just like topsy-turvy um the thing i was saying to my dad was and i mean he agrees with this but i was like here's what you just need to tell the folks if you go to this reunion in eureka i was like just go like hey i want to i i say to them do you remember that guy that used to um that was coming to the ranch to the lighthouse ranch do you remember that guy that was that was hanging out at the ranch and he used to grab women by their um vaginas in fact he admitted to it and then he was stealing from everybody there and remember he had sex with that porn star remember that guy at the lighthouse ranch remember how we just let him live there because we thought he was cool and they'd be like no and be like that's donald trump right you moron like he wouldn't have lasted three months at the lighthouse ranch in eureka california circa 1974 and now he's like the hero of these people

it's totally wild and i think the thing that um is it is funny how much we've been talking about

i don't know if my dad's gonna say grab him by the vagina ever probably in his life but i was

just trying to equip him right he would say um you know i i do think you know one thing that has been coloring both of these conversations that we had this week that has been sort of living in the back of my head for i think a couple of weeks now is i didn't even read the article as a as a proud 2023 netizen all i had to do is read the uh all i had to do is read the headline to be angry but i consider you a mom on the net it was i think it was a new york times it might have been a post piece that was basically an analytical look at how the the forces the people the groups that want to discriminate against gay people whether you're talking about making websites for gay weddings or cakes or whatever how they were able to win their supreme court victory right and well

it's because so many people asked that that woman to make websites for gay weddings exactly thousands and thousands of requests poured in the gay people in america were like we have to have our website built by this oh wait actually no no one had ever asked her to do that zero zero no and so anyway

obviously you know how I feel about that and I know how you feel about that and it's just like that's what bothered me the headline I even I never get political on Instagram but I actually kind of grabbed that for a second then took it down quickly because the headline said how Christians were able to or Christian groups or something and I retweeted it or whatever and I put Christians in quotes and I was like what would Jesus do like I felt defensive of the word christian and christianity on behalf of good christians and christianity that follow again the tenets that i believe really are core to that faith system and how it's been when we talk about audio hijackers and i asked you before if you think that the people who started audio hijacker probably in 2001 regret going with that name but um because it is like kind of a standard tool anyway um it's just like i feel like they they've totally misappropriated what the word means like literally the opposite these days because that is not at all what i went to catholic school i remember in literally a class that was called morality class uh teachers trying to give arguments for why the gay lifestyle is this is a sinful lifestyle and it never held water it had to do with procreation it's like what so people who can't reproduce if they're a man and a woman Is that also a sin? Like it just, it never, it never held any water at all. But I mean, I sat through classes where people tried to make those arguments, but like, it's just.

so ridiculous to say that oh yeah the christians won and now they can be bigots against gay people like what that's not what i understand that word to mean part of why we're talking i think so much

about religion this week andrew is because we're not talking about the question of who will be cast as lord voldemort for the new harry potter tv series and the reason we're not talking about it andrew is because i received an email from the publicist for this project i'm wondering if you got the same one somebody named Emily Boswell sent this to me early this morning again subject Harry Potter TV series who will be cast as Lord Voldemort and it just starts the email hi name I hope you are well I just wanted to send you a quick follow-up on the email I sent you the other day hi n-a-m-e all caps comma m m you got it you just I just right there it's right there at the top you got to go in and take the time to replace to put my name or something just say just say hi how about that just say hi hi name name name may be a greeting that you're unfamiliar with you know what that's fair that's with this woke culture i'm sure probably that's how we're gonna have to greet each other exactly all right it's time to thank some of our donors this is a listener supported podcast if you're enjoying it and you're not donating uh you can go to tbtl.net do we have a button somewhere i love i'm just going into this pitch without actually double checking is There's a link somewhere. There's a button for folks if they care to join this list of people that I'm about to read, right?

Top right-hand corner of tbtl.net, there's a little button that says Donate. And then it gives you a link directly to my own personal PayPal account. Uh-huh. Right.

But I've actually audio hijacked it. So now it goes to my PayPal account. And then I rerouted it to my Venmo account. Well, spy versus spy. So we're doing well as business partners over here. Definitely. It's a lot of emails from John Sklaroff that I haven't returned about various financial questions. That's not true. We need to not.

We're spoofing. We're goofing.

We need to not make those jokes. Oh, man. When I was doing LiveWire the other night, it was. How do I. Gosh, there's no way for me to talk about this without it becoming over like oversharing about. Basically, like, let me put it this way. We have, you know, sponsors. We have great sponsors on that show, and somebody came to me and said before the show, hey, no pressure, but for this particular sponsorship message that you're going to read from the stage to this live crowd of people, if you want to really sell it, that would be cool because we have somebody else in the house who has the same kind of company, and we might want to be – we might try to go with them for the next season or something.

So in other words, it's sort of a proof of concept. Kind of a proof of concept. This could be you, but you play in. This could be us, but you play in.

Precisely. You've you've grasped it exactly. So I was trying to do a kind of my my goal was to to do such a great job of thanking this one kind of sponsor that the the people there would go. We would like to be that kind of sponsor, you know, and maybe help us out. I ended up as soon as I got into this, I knew it was going to be trouble because it's not particularly scripted. There are bullet points and it ended up being about like if you're in a loveless marriage and then it was, you know, I was talking about the divorce. i started talking about divorce keep it light don't mention your divorce it was so off the rails and unhinged you made it that way or the or the bullet points no they i promise you bullet points were not in a divorce was not in the bullet points andrew oh my gosh i mean i was trying to be funny but it just ended up this would be a more interesting story if i could be more specific but i can't because there is a lot of overlap between this show and live wire and i all i'm saying is i got it just ended up going it ended up going way off the rails and being jokes about about divorce oh my god and it was only because that person said to me hey not to get in your head but like they should have never told me that's what that's you know i blame them okay i blame the

victim here live wire did you bring up the as i said earlier i believe the tenants of christianity by the way i want to offer an apology i believe i said the word tenant several times but included, and there were several mispronunciations of that word, which is a bit of a pet peeve of a lot of people.

But you didn't mention divorce, and that makes it a win, Andrew, because that's how I decided to try to promote this particular product. I'll tell you what,

I mean, I know that that is not in the show, but that is, like, the best promo for Livewire I've ever heard. Like, that's the first time I'd be like, oh, I'd listen to that.

Oh, that's not getting on the radio. That's why we've got to come by. No, of course not. I know. That's why you've got to come see that sausage getting made, baby. Don't miss that sausage fest. Heather Woodford is in Gilbert, Arizona, and is supporting the program. Thanks, Heather. Thank you. I've been watching a lot of—I told you yesterday about how I've been watching all these, like, 30 Rock best of various characters. And I've also been watching or just seeing a lot of, like, best Matt Barry stuff. Oh, yeah. So, of course, I'm incapable of saying Arizona normally. Like, I wasn't doing that for effect. I said it because that's now how it is in my brain. It's Arizona. Chris Corey is in Washington, District of Columbia. Oh, is he one of those clowns in Congress? How about those clowns? Chris is trying to change it from the inside. Okay, good. He's in the back of the clown car. Way in the back. But he's trying to, again, work from within the system. So thank you, Chris. Also, thanks to Mary Simpson, who's in Seattle, Washington. Thank you, Mary. alicia langill is in waterloo ontario canada wait a second uh-huh that's where they make that water

i like so much hold on let me check something here okay yeah nope that's not uh that's not mary all right i'm sorry that's not um alicia i received a bounced back coin yesterday from canada and um it says that the address is incorrect so i need to i need to try to get this back into the right hands i thought it might have been alicia i could have spoken directly to alicia right there and said please give me your your address by the way one interesting thing about this that i don't ask the listeners for their addresses uh via the airwaves oh i will i will get their addresses um this bounce back you know this clearly traveled over the border and then came back a postal carrier wrote incomplete or incorrect postal code but then And also, somebody took our C-A in the address, which would mean, I guess, Canada, and they wrote out N-A-D-A. In other words, I guess we don't call Canada C-A on a mailing address. That's California.

Maybe because we have a C-A. Is this where I play Gary Goldman's thing about state abbreviations?

Right. Hey, he was on your LifeWire show recently, right?

He was so lovely. I mean, just an absolute sweetheart. He did stand-up comedy, which was nice. A lot of times, if we get someone who's famous for being a stand-up comic, but they've written a book, they're not interested in doing stand-up comedy, which I get. It's like it's a different kind of muscle, and it's a different mindset. I mean, he's a guy who has sold out Carnegie Hall. So playing our little show and, you know, for our fine folks at the Alberta Rose Theater or whatever, you know, he was just being so nice to get up and actually do comedy for us, as well as doing an interview. uh he was just i got his number afterwards he was like yeah we should try to collab on things like it was like it was he was he was really really sweet and i'm a big fan of his so that was extra

fun yeah we should get him on the show you know he was on comedy bang bang a couple of weeks ago too and you just could not ask for a more humble gentle sweet soul for a guy who is so accomplished Did you ask him how you get To Carnegie Hall

I didn't I asked him how to get to Pacoima And what is the What's the Bugs Bunny thing that I used to always play Oh Albuquerque Should have taken a left at Albuquerque

But you know the joke I was going for right Practice practice practice That's the joke

I actually forgot that was a joke Until a moment ago So when I initially responded, I was not realizing you were making a joke.

Yeah, well, a lot of people say that about my jokes, which is what makes me such a good joke teller.

Can you believe this isn't the part of the show that I'm crying in? I mean, that's surprising. If you were going to be like, this guy's going to have an emotional breakdown at some point, you'd think he would be around this portion of the program. But no, it wasn't. Anyway, thanks to Alicia out there in Waterloo. Thanks also to Christine Hernandez in Tacoma, Washington. One of our Tacomis. Nice. Thank you. Thanks, Christine. And then thanks to Barbie DeVere in Nevada City, California. That's so confusing. I love it when they do that. I love it when they go Paris, Texas. I love it when they go California City, Nevada. I don't know if that's a place. Probably California City, Nevada is right across the border from Nevada City, California. And I like it that some old, probably farmers back or prospectors back in the late 1800s were like, let's have fun. Let's go Nevada City, California. But here's what you do. You go California City, Nevada And they were like, yes And they shook hands on it

It's not as close to the border as you might think It is northwest of Sacramento But closer to Sacramento than Reno

We might have driven through Nevada City Maybe

In our bus I feel like we would have noticed

I probably would have tried to see if there was

a casino there anyway thanks barbie thanks to all of our donors we would not be here doing this show without you so thanks for your support hello and welcome to top story uh netflix has announced that they are going to start building some sort of brick and mortar locations um it's unclear if it's going to be a place where you actually get a dvd of a movie it appears more like they're trying to they say there's going to be dining options and retail options leveraging their content so like maybe the idea is that there will be a netflix store in the mall or whatever that's also a restaurant, and in the restaurant maybe your server will look like somebody from, I don't even, what's a Netflix show? Tiger King? Stranger Things. Tiger King would be amazing. Somebody from Stranger Things will come out and serve you your cheeseburger or something. I mean, the reason it landed on my desk was, well, because Becca sent it to me, so thank you to unpaid junior producer Becca. But the reason that it's making the rounds is because, of course, Netflix started off mailing out the DVDs and then they switched to mostly we're going to be digital and I remember thinking that has no shot if you get away from the DVDs you are going to you've absolutely lost your way there is no future in internet sending me the movie via the internet that is craziness and then of course that's become a big thing for them they've just recently phased out the DVD so the idea that after the end of all of that they're arriving once again at building physical places for us to go in physically and experiencing Netflix. It sounds crazy, but on the other hand, they do have a lot of IP, I guess, right, that they've created that they could conceivably leverage.

Yes. Now, here's my assumption based on this NPR article, I think. Yeah, it's NPR because I think it quoted one Eric G. Deggans.

I saw that, and I knew that that was going to pop up. I knew there was a bat signal, the shape of Eric Deggans' face. Whenever he's mentioned Why am I obsessed? I don't know We need to get him on the show Honestly We really should I don't know how he'll feel About the fact that he is The patron saint He's kind of I would say Sklarov is probably The third amigo of this show now He's gotta be like

Fourth amigo I know I think because We used to book him On Press Play The public radio show in LA That I produced for a while I don't think that he would Remember me But I used to book him sometimes But I mean I'm sure he's gettable I really do like him on the radio But anyway all of that is to say Here are my Uneducated guesses about them About this whole situation First of all it will probably be Like Somewhere in between A hard rock cafe Or no no no what was the Hollywood What was the Hollywood one that I think Bruce Willis Maybe planet Hollywood Yeah, like it's like a Hard Rock Cafe Planet Hollywood kind of situation only with a Netflix bent to it, sort of like with maybe a touch of Disneyland, but like probably more on the scale of a Hard Rock Cafe or something like kind of a themed experience. And they could play around with different themes and change it up depending on what like, you know, like when the culture was especially obsessed with Stranger Things to kind of stick with that. You know, they might they could kind of change the focus of the restaurants or whatever they are to maybe really kind of embrace that cultural moment. I also think this was not mentioned in the piece at all. I feel like this is a paperwork thing. How about that for a take? Like, I just think that business like, you know, Luke, all the computers like me and now business is Google. like i don't know i i know less about business than i should considering that we now run a small business yes but we're learning and there are various advantages to um diversifying right and i just get the impression that like there was some meeting where somebody said well we can't we need to we need to park some money or property somewhere we need to do something this is a tax haven not a Tax haven, parking it is the wrong word, but like sort of like, well, in order to continue growth, we need to do something else. Like there's some advantage on paper to do something that is like, well, let's give it a shot. And if this folds in 10 years, like whatever, it's a calculated risk. I just find it hard to believe that Netflix really thinks this is the future or a long term plan. This feels to me like, well, we need to diversify in some way. And somebody thinks this is a good idea. so let's do it that is such a like an uneducated thing to say but it just

reeks of that to me well I do think that there was a time this is one of the things that Eric Deggans also says in this NPR piece right which is leave it alone that he thinks that you know this is kind of what Netflix is maybe the comparison to Disney is pretty obvious and like part of me is like well it would have there would have been a time when it seemed crazy that the like guy that drew steamboat willy was like but we're also gonna have a roller coaster right like there was a time when that disney probably had a growing body of intellectual property and somebody had the bright idea to leverage it into this like real world experience um that would have seemed nutty and now it's like disney is and disneyland and disney worlds and all that stuff is just such a kind of uh it's such a given and they're they make lots and lots of money with that stuff so i don't know there's any reason why we couldn't have you know netflix over time couldn't do this What Deggans was saying is Disney has dumped a lot of money into building Disneyland and the sort of the idea of Disney off the screen and that Netflix may not have the finances or the stomach for trying to make Netflix the new Disneyland. Also, I mean, would you go on a Better Call Saul ride? Is the question.

I think that's A&C, right?

But what about... Oh, well, it's playing on Netflix, Andrew.

Oh, okay. What was the one, what was their original, okay, help me here. I think it was a movie and it was like everybody had to be really quiet or nobody could, everybody had to wear blindfolds. I didn't watch it. You watched it, but everybody was obsessed with it like three years ago or four years ago for a hot minute.

I'm going to ask you a really dumb question. Okay, now I've figured it out. So I can't log into my Netflix. Speaking of password management, Andrew, I'm on, well, I'm on a different computer, right? I'm on my work computer, which I've never watched Netflix on because I'm a professional, Andrew, and I have a different computer for that. So I can't log into this one because it doesn't know who I am, and I don't know the password. But what I did, so then I just went to, I did an internet search of what are the most popular shows on Netflix. And it brought me back to the Netflix website where they're trying to sign me up as a customer, even though I already am a customer. And so I'm looking through all of these things, and you're, of course, absolutely right that, like, Breaking Bad, that's on here, but it's not a Netflix show. The Walking Dead, same thing. These are all AMC shows. Interesting that some of the most popular shows on Netflix right now are AMC. But then there are the ones that have an N on them, a red N. That would indicate to me that they are made by Netflix. And we're talking about Wednesday. We're talking about Manifest. We're talking about—

Do you not know the movie that I was trying to describe? I know I'm describing it terribly, but it had a— And I'm trying to Google this, too. I'm not being stupid on purpose. This is just pure, honest stupidity. natural this is just no idea what i'm talking about it was like it wasn't who's in it i feel okay this what happens in the movie it's like some sort of a horror movie i believe a woman is in a rowboat at one point she's a very famous actress oh yeah bird box i knew bird was in and i kept on wanting to say lady bird bird box i think that was lady lady sandy b it was sandy b and that

was that you couldn't look at the monster if you looked at the monster he got you and so was that only way to be using uh i yes i feel like it was a net you're right it was like a pandemic era netflix obsession probably i feel like it was you know um yes bird box i watched i thought it was actually it had machine gun kelly in it which was oh which was odd because i don't i don't have a huge number of thoughts one way or the other on machine gun kelly but i kept thinking god the tall blonde kid is if i seen him somewhere and it was the musician the machine gun kelly playing like one of the people that's trapped in this place with sandy b trying to figure out how they're going to get to there's some safe zone and of course yes the i think i think the sort of climactic scene is sandy b in a robe having to row down a river blindfolded so she can't look

at the monster and therefore become possessed or whatever 2018 so kind of pre a little bit pre-pandemic but something that was pre yeah but it was but everybody was really obsessed with it for a really hot minute and I remember thinking I didn't see it but it seemed like it was hot on the heels of the movie that I saw in the theaters where it had the guy from The Office and everybody had to be really quiet all the time The Quiet Place. Yeah exactly. How'd they come up with that name?

I don't know. How about The Quiet Place 2? How about The Bedazzler 2? How'd they come up with that?

I never saw The Quiet Place 2. I felt like The Quiet Place 1 gave me everything I needed. I enjoyed it as a film but I guess the point of this segment is not for me to

review the quiet place or the quiet place too there is a show that i've been hearing people talking about on hbo i think that i might is this an hbo show it seems like it's so beneath them but like i think it's called naked love or

Love, comma, naked. Basically, the premise of the dating show is you are looking at people who are naked. You're looking at their naked parts, not their faces, and deciding if you want to date them or not.

Oh, is that how it works? I knew everybody was naked, but I didn't know that it obstructs the view of their faces.

I think they're—I haven't watched it yet, but I think that— I, like, heard them talking about it on, like, the Howard Stern show, which is really my place where I get all my naked-related news. I mean, Andrew, it is, dare I say it, Cocktober. and a blessed Cocktober to you and yours.

Is that a Howard Stern thing?

It sure is. It surely is. But anyway, I was just hearing them. What's that? I said, let's keep it there. So, but yeah, I think my sense of the show is that you cannot see the entirety of the person. You can only see the parts of their body that would typically be covered by clothing. And then based on that, you decide if you want to go on a date with them or not. I think we may be running out of premises or of ways for dating shows to differentiate themselves. There's going to be one where you just look at their iris. You know what I mean? We're like, we're getting down because it's like there was one called Love is Blind where you don't see the person. You talk to them from this, you know, it's almost like a confessional, right? So the idea is you're supposed to fall in love with the person, not what their looks are. The reason that I thought that show was bullshit, I watched the first episode, was because everyone was still very conventionally attractive. So it really was what flavor a very conventionally attractive person will you get i mean it was like you know they didn't throw in any ringers and i don't even want to get into saying what what would make someone a ringer because i don't want to talk about people's whatever that way but i just want to say if you put 30 people that all look like they walked out of a catalog together just because you can't see that specific person there's not a lot of drama put danny devito in there let's let's get real

let's get real um they were talking about the show i'm scrolling back what is it called by the way i'm looking for this love is naked something like that but they were talking about it on the wordle chain recently it really sometimes the wordle chain really naked attraction that's what it is and like i didn't know about it and everybody was like oh there's a show where it's a dating show and everybody's everybody's naked and like basically somebody watched like three episodes and said you know it was titillating at first but then it just gets old really quickly and just becomes another kind of not so great show or whatever and then one person was like um well I really like looking at the naked ladies or whatever and um I was like you know what I got a website I can tell you about for that you know it's just like so it's on the internet yeah on the internet it just seems like it seems like such a weird thing I don't watch reality tv at all so it all just seems very um kind of i guess somewhat foreign to me the idea of wanting to sit down and watch any kind of a dating show i just can't think of anything i'd be less interested in and i know i'm out of step with society on that but like if the idea is oh yeah but these we can show naked people i'm like there is not a dearth of places to see naked people in 2023 you know i mean maybe if you're a young person and you know your your parents have some controls on the on your internet devices but like aside from that like you want a naked person i can get a naked person with nail polish with nail polish there's a whole site just for that

there's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll you can't just listen to your soul just remember that life is number one you can be having so much fun just remember that All right, Luke, I really need your help with this one.

Do you have your sound box ready to go?

Oh, my God. He unmuted.

We have a lot today. I'm not going to tell you exactly how many, but more than eight, less than ten. Okay. That's how many.

How about you, ladies and gentlemen, Scotty Do.

Hey, that's a new one to me. That's an old Dr. Evil. What'd he say? He's saying, how about you don't, Scotty don't. It was like a whole thing where Dr. Evil had a son named Scott, played by Seth Green, but he was always negging his son.

How about you don't, ladies and gentlemen, Scotty do.

If you're into that world, you're into it. And if you're not, it's probably confusing.

I'm on the outside looking in on that one. But James is into it. And James says, happy 10th Blursday to my beautiful five, Violet. You're such a creative, wonderful child, and I'm so proud of who you are. You've been through so much and have done it with grace and style. I know you're going to become one of the best veterinarians in the world when you grow up, but slow down. Being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I love you so much.

Happy Blur's Day, Violet. Cute. I feel cute today. Look at my outfit. I have a niece named Violet, by the way. That's such a beautiful name. Veterinarian is a hard word for me to say. Rachel says, I'd like to wish a most happy birthday to my husband, Matt. Every year I attempt to explain how much I love you. Isn't he the best? But it's never quite enough. I'm forever grateful you are in my life, and I can't wait to celebrate another year with my best friend. Happy Blur's Day, Matt. I'm Rachel.

Oh, fabulous.

Brooke says, I'd like to wish my five Arthur a very happy ninth birthday. Like his older brother, he's been listening to TBTL his whole life. He's well on his way to becoming a 10. Arthur, we love you so much. We're so glad you were born. That's not Brooke. That's me saying that on behalf of me. But also Brooke says it as well. We're so lucky to have you in our lives. Love, Mom, Tom, Big Brother Oscar, and Sherlock the Cat. Cute. He was king of the tuck-tuck sound. Great name for a cat, Sherlock. Wearing the little hat. He's got a bill in the front, a bill in the back. Carolina in Sao Paulo, Brazil says happy birthday to Matt, Charlie, Eddie, and Beaky and I. That's me and our three cats. Love you with all of our hearts. This is so confusing, Ron. You are my rock and caring partner. I hope you've enjoyed this last year and a half. We've lived in this awesome slash crazy country. and I mostly hope you feel loved by every single one of my nuclear and extended family that love you so very much. Happy Blurs Day, Matt. Cute. Unlimited. What a fun adventure. What a fun, sexy time for you. Aaron says, I'd like to wish my dearest friend-o Megan a happy Blurs Day. She's the kindest, most thoughtful, or I would say thoughtfulest person you'll ever meet, and always inspires those around her through her actions. I'm going to say that again with better emphasis. Who do you think you are? I am! I just yelled at a gentleman the other day for no reason. Who do you think you are? I am! Sometimes it just gets in your head, and once it's in your head, you've got to let it out. Who do you think you are? I am! So Erin says this about Meg, and I'm going to do this again. She's the kindest, most thoughtful person you'll ever meet and always inspires those around her through her actions. See, it makes sense when you say it like that. Sorry, Billy Joel. We did start the fire. Can you believe that our friendship is so old it can legally drink but still probably gets carded? Love you lots. Happy Blur's Day, Megan.

That was something called Algo 3 Swirls Major 8 Bits. There's another, like, weird audio thing that I didn't clear out, but now these are my favorite things in my drive. I love it.

But also, the Archer at the end said, call Kenny Loggins because we're in the danger zone.

Call Kenny Loggins because you're in the danger zone.

Tom says, happy Blur's Day to my longtime co-bro, Michael. Even though you now live in upstate New York and I'm out here in Renton, I'm happy I could be your TBTL progenitor so we can share the joy of this. Louie, what is that? I'm like, I don't know.

What is it?

Imaginary radio show together and banter about Luke and Andrew's banter. I hope you and your family have an amazing time on Saturday of the day of your blurs. So that's happy. Tell me what the hell is going on. Happy Blurs Day to Michael from Tom and us. Stephanie says to my dear Chubby Bunny, happiest of blurs. Sorry this year got away from me. Also, happy zero blurs to our brand new five. Ah, you're literally perfect. Love you both so much. Well, congratulations, guys, and happy Blurs Day, Chubby Bunny. Pretty says, I may be too late, but I wanted to send in a Blur's Day message for me. My Blur's Day message is just a big thank you to all three of you for the pod and the TBTL community. I feel like you're my best friends, and I feel a little less alone.

That's the whole point of this thing. I love that.

Hello, CD listeners.

I mean, trying to cure global loneliness one person at a time, and it sounds like in a small way, We're helping have that impact on that person. Who is it again? Pretty. Thanks for checking in, pretty. What up?

And finally, Jake and Stephanie in Portland say, welcome to life on the outside to our dear tiny five August. You suck, and that's great. Houston, we have a motor. Hey, even though you love to splooch all over, We are thrilled to see what our new adorable as heck Cobro has in store for us. We love you and hope our angel cats who poop in boxes become great older sisters to you soon. Also, happy Blursday to me. Jake.

We just do a little hugging and kissing means good, clean fun.

Happy Blur's Day to Jake, and happy outside Blur's Day to August. Welcome to the world. Absolutely. Now, Tane, I can get into. Indeed.

All right. That's going to do it for today's show. I need to just go weep softly for a few more hours in the living room, or what will be the living room of this house. so I've got my afternoon pretty much booked up. Maybe tomorrow we can talk about the, are you having a ladybug infestation at your house?

No, I saw one the other day, but it wasn't at my house.

It was on a website. They are out here in force, and it's interesting because ladybugs, you know, we think of so positively, I think generally most of us, and I don't just mean the Rodney Dangerfield movie, ladybugs, but when you get a lot of them, they just kind of become bugs. It's like one ladybug lands on your hand, And you're like, make a wish. It's magic. I'm in a field. And 7,000 of them land on the siding of your house. And you're like, all right, that's enough.

Summer down, ladybugs. I'm looking for ladybug news. Why do brown ladybugs cover my North Carolina house in the fall? Anyway, that's the best. I knew I should have taken that left towing at Albuquerque. Sometimes it's satisfying when you feel like, oh, there's something going on that you've just noticed. And then you Google it. And then the news is like, oh, yes, there are a lot of ladybugs in the tri-county area or what have you.

Yeah, there are a lot of ladybugs perched high above the mighty Columbia here on the Madrona Hill. So anyway, okay, that's going to do it. But guess what? We're going to be right back here tomorrow. Is it Friday already tomorrow? No, tomorrow is. My goodness gracious. All right, well, we'll see you then. In the meantime, have a great Thursday. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all. It's a little girl. This house is obviously infested with reticularis Mario Cuomo's. What's that? What's what? Reticularis? See, you can't even say it yourself. Power out.