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#4110 Full Gruntle
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

#4110 Full Gruntle

from TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

January 2, 2024 | 00:33:42 | Leisure, Comedy

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Luke made quite the entrance at a recent social gathering, and it was much more than he bargained for. He and Andrew also gird their loins before jumping into today's quiz, then they look up what it means to gird one's loins. It's a whole thing. (Show image from " The Art Of Manliness: How to Gird Your Loins ")
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00:00:00 - 00:00:53 | Speaker 1:

I'm 36 years old. It's not going great. I gotta be honest. I don't look good for 36. Nobody's ever like, no way. I'm broke, too. It's not good to be broke at 36. That's not good. In your 20s, it's fine to be broke because you can be like, you know, figuring it out. But in your 30s, you have to get ready to die. I'm not ready, folks. My friends are getting ready. They like own their house. They have kids. They have, like, funds. They'll be like, Andy, what's your retirement plan? And right now, it is to walk into the woods. That's all I got. Just kind of wander into the wilderness to see what happens. My 401k is to walk 401 kilometers, so... TBTL!

00:00:56 - 00:01:05 | Speaker 2:

I don't know what this is, but jay says it's a big sea turtle did he yip or did he if uh he said skip and i said no my name's

00:01:05 - 00:01:11 | Speaker 3:

buddy okay he yipped if he yipped that means hello if he yifs if that happens well then you got a

00:01:11 - 00:01:17 | Speaker 5:

problem great i've made the change your wife's new legal name is targets targets is this okay

00:01:17 - 00:01:21 | Speaker 2:

oh my god man we are seeing some we ain't never seen before

00:01:21 - 00:02:20 | Speaker 5:

All right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to the first day of the rest of your 2024. That's right, we decided to come back and bring you a Tuesday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live, here during our Winter Games. It's episode 4110 in a collector's series. I'm very happy to report that that funny person you just heard, Andy Haynes, Our good personal friend, Andy Haynes, is doing great. He was in a dark spot when he recorded that very funny piece of tape, but he and his lovely wife, Rosebud, they've welcomed a beautiful child into the world. They're thriving. So I just wanted to update you on Andy Haynes' life and update you on this guy's life. He's the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is Andrew Walsh, and he, not to brag,

00:02:20 - 00:03:04 | Speaker 4:

does have a 401k right i think so i gotta i gotta talk to some people i feel like that's a thing you would know yeah no i have various retirement plans oh all right well jesus well i mean it's just like you work for you work for various companies throughout your life and then you get like retirement place i got i got one with i think like two nickels in it and it's not even a dime it's two nickels for some reason but you can rub them together yes you can from when i worked at, like, KUW for a minute, right? It was like, you know, I was not a salaried or a salaried employee there, but, like, you know, because it's the states, they created some sort of a retirement plan for me, but I was hardly there, so there's not much money in it, but I've been dragging it around with me.

00:03:04 - 00:03:05 | Speaker 5:

Roll them together, bro.

00:03:05 - 00:03:07 | Speaker 4:

I don't have the rolling machine.

00:03:08 - 00:03:13 | Speaker 5:

You do. You just have to. You probably, what about our time at 8 p.m.? You mess with that fidelity?

00:03:13 - 00:03:19 | Speaker 4:

Yeah, I got that going. I got a million different logins. I should roll them all into a IRA.

00:03:19 - 00:05:00 | Speaker 5:

Can I tell you something, my friend? I love Fidelity so much. This is why people join us for the Winter Games, Andrew, is because of an unsponsored advertisement for Fidelity. I don't know anything about how my money is working for me or not working for me, but I'm at the age where if I have a great customer service experience with a company i'm a i'm a customer for life and what what what what happened was um i like you had various little kind of financial threads blowing in the wind and i decided a while ago i should just try to figure out what's going on with all this and take these various couple of nickels here and there and try to consolidate them like for instance we used to work for american public media and so there was a matching thing you know we would put money in they would put money in that was great that's not happening anymore so there's kind of no reason to stay in that particular 403b so i was like well where is this thing living it's like oh it's at fidelity and i was like i gotta this is gonna be a nightmare this is gonna be just a huge plus i had a little stuff that i was bringing over from from like even when we were at cairo and stuff i call the number i get like first ring a person who knows exactly what i need and what we're talking about and they walked me through it and they're like okay do you have the app and i'm like no they're oh just download it i'll wait i download it i hit a couple of buttons they're like all right what do you want to do it's like it's well here's what it's in now i'm looking at it right now it should be in this kind of thing, just like legally, like 403B is a

00:05:00 - 00:05:43 | Speaker 1:

you're with a non-profit now you're going to put it in a you know whatever an ira i go okay i hit a couple buttons the next day it's like hey uh your stuff's all over here now and then i wanted to do something else and then i just called them and i just got a different helpful person on the first ring and they're like yeah and everything took like meanwhile with our old bosses i'm sorry this is so boring not our own old bosses but our old system when i called up the people that used To hand all this stuff for Cairo And that's like down in Salt Lake City That's like Bonneville or Deseret or whatever I had They were like You can't move this money over Because you need to get approval from your spouse And I was like well that's where I've got A real plot twist for you

00:05:43 - 00:05:45 | Speaker 2:

Wait for it

00:05:45 - 00:08:11 | Speaker 1:

I was like Clearly my reputation has not preceded me All the way down to the Salt Flats The Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah Because I am no longer married And they were like, well, you've got to send us the divorce papers And I said, okay So I sent them to them And then they said, okay, but we also need you to send us the separation agreement Which is the financial side of it I was like, okay So I sent it and then they were like, it needs to be notarized Every time this happened, it took five days to two weeks For these pieces of information So if you add this all up, we're talking months, right? and the problem was whoever was in quote unquote legal i could never talk to them directly what i would talk to is a nice enough person who was somewhere more at the phone answering level who would just be able to tell me like there was someone that was an admin but they weren't in the legal department and so they would just kind of say i think legal still needs you to do this and when it came to the thing that was notarized i had notarized it and i said can you have legal look at the last page where there's a notary stamp and then finally one day months later I just got a paper check here for the amount of money that I was trying to move over to Fidelity no apology no you were right sorry and again I've actually you know everybody I dealt with was actually very nice but it was just that was one process so now I'm like I'm like girding my loins I don't know why I did that that was unnecessary but I did I girded my loins for battling and i got ready i fruited my looms for battle i called david allen greer i fruited my looms and i was like ready to go into battle with fidelity and the first person i talked to was like oh yeah you can just take a picture of that check i was like huh because it's a you know significant amount of money i go don't i have to don't have to like hire a brinks truck and have them drive this to you do i have to handcuff myself to the check they're like no take a picture of it i took a picture the next day they were like yeah it's in your account it was remarkable so i just wanted to give a free ad for fidelity at least if you're doing whatever the crap i was doing it was amazing and literally andrew it makes me think as i go forward with my financial planning and if i ever uh get done with this remodel and i have the uh good luck to actually put a little money away it's going into a gall dang fidelity situation they were really helpful

00:08:11 - 00:09:07 | Speaker 2:

i am my i'm i'm on i'm on a flight of fancy here luke um not that that's not a fascinating story and it is that sounded sarcastic and i didn't mean it to be but you said gird you're girding your loins and i don't know why that's a biblical term well but here's the thing that i'm getting at here and this has come up on the show before and i feel like i've because i feel like this could be a real good winter games type of thing that is the type of word that almost only appears in one context at least like you gird your loins what else do you gird i mean i'm sure the word girdle comes from that so in a certain way if you wear a girdle maybe you are girding your your stomach or whatever but like for the most part nobody uses the word gird outside of gird your loins outside of proverbs 31 17 so i know there are lists of other words like that can you think if any off the top of your head words that are basically only used in one context well i mean

00:09:07 - 00:09:35 | Speaker 1:

one of them that i've brought up on the show before this might not be exactly what you're talking about but like there are words that you never hear you only hear them in one expression of the word like disgruntled the the existence of a disgruntled i think indicates the existence of a gruntled right or grunt gruntled disgruntled disgruntled gruntled yeah yeah full gruntle with samantha b so the i thought that was going to get that's actually pretty good you know it took

00:09:35 - 00:09:45 | Speaker 2:

me a second to don't act so surprised it took me a second to remember i'm writing that down as a show title um uh but uh it took me a while to remember what her show was called that was me

00:09:45 - 00:09:53 | Speaker 1:

doing the math but that's one of those ones right i don't know if it's exactly does that fit into what you're saying the idea that like disgruntled is never you never hear just you never gruntle

00:09:53 - 00:10:50 | Speaker 2:

without the dis i that's a little bit different that's interesting but it's different i am thinking of words that are almost only used in like one idiom and I've seen these lists before and I find them to be fascinating actually you know what I think I heard them talking about one of these lists years ago on Slate's Political Gab Fest I think that's my source for this I think that one of the hosts had found this and was sharing it and now since then I mean that was probably like 2016 or something and it's lived in my head a whole list of words that are only used like in certain phrases or idioms and gird your loins would be the perfect example of that um but there are hundreds if not well okay maybe not hundreds but there are at least dozens if not dozens of us dozens of us um but i but as i and i've done this on the show before i'm googling on the fly here i don't know what the proper like search terms are and i'm not really finding much good stuff here it is though

00:10:50 - 00:11:15 | Speaker 1:

Andrew, apropos, that we would be talking about girding our loins today from Proverbs 31, 17, which I'm seeing that on the internet. That's not, I don't have that committed to memory. We're doing this today on the same day that we are completing more of a quiz submitted by the very Reverend Chris. It is true. If anybody's girded a few loins in their day, it's probably Reverend Chris.

00:11:15 - 00:11:18 | Speaker 2:

Why is Chris girding people's loins?

00:11:19 - 00:11:40 | Speaker 1:

Well, just because he's a reverend, I feel like, and it's a very biblical thing. By the way, it's to prepare oneself for action. It alluded to tucking up the traditional long robe into a girdle, which in those days was just a belt, so it will not hamper your physical activity. So when you're girding your loins, you're basically tucking your robe up into your belt so you can get out there and slay some Philistines.

00:11:40 - 00:12:06 | Speaker 2:

Check this out. Wikipedia, fossil word. A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. So, in other words, this is close. This isn't quite what I'm getting at here, but like ado. When do you use ado other than I bid you adieu?

00:12:06 - 00:12:16 | Speaker 1:

Never. Absolutely never, right? I mean, unless you're doing the song from Sound of Music. Adieu, adieu to you and you and you. I do like that one.

00:12:17 - 00:12:36 | Speaker 2:

Beck and call. You never use Beck out. Like, I don't know what Beck means. I guess it's like beckon, but maybe you could hear somebody say, well, I was beckoning him from across the street. I mean, it's a fancy way of saying that, but it's not crazy town. But just Beck, you would only say Beck if it was in within Beck and call or if you're talking about the Scientologist slash musician.

00:12:37 - 00:12:44 | Speaker 1:

Which, by the way, the Scientologist has now moved above the list. It's above the fold. The music is below the fold.

00:12:44 - 00:12:53 | Speaker 2:

Right, exactly. But anyway, okay, at least I'm getting a little bit closer. I want to do a little bit more Googling around of these fossil words and maybe come up with some good content for later in the week.

00:12:53 - 00:12:59 | Speaker 1:

I'm looking up various illustrations of loin girding. I'm loving it. I'm not kidding. We've got our show pick today.

00:13:00 - 00:13:00 | Speaker 2:

Oh, boy.

00:13:02 - 00:14:22 | Speaker 1:

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00:14:23 - 00:14:46 | Speaker 2:

Okay, Luke, we do need to get going with today's quiz because we left this off yesterday. And as you set up eloquently, this is from listener Chris, the Reverend Chris. And it is about the Mandela effect, things that we believe to be the truth. although they may not be as we remember them uh if we if we remember some of them yesterday

00:14:46 - 00:14:54 | Speaker 1:

it is beats by dr dre yep um the fruit of the loom uh fruit did not have a cornucopia

00:14:54 - 00:15:00 | Speaker 2:

exactly uh oh okay now this i need to describe this to you which of these

00:15:00 - 00:15:19 | Speaker 1:

is the correct volvo symbol oh is it a silver circle with the blue volvo in the middle or is it a circle with an arrow pointing out of it like the symbol for being male m-a-l-e you know how that has a oh yeah yeah yeah i just thought it was the circle i don't remember an arrow pointing out

00:15:19 - 00:15:27 | Speaker 2:

to the northwest or northeast rather that oddly rings a bell andrew i'm gonna say it's got that

00:15:27 - 00:16:04 | Speaker 1:

arrow which is like a weird statement for your car it is this is also the first time that we have gone different paths on one of these and it's it's not bad or good it's just different and i feel a little bit is i just got a little bit of a chill thinking that you and i are going into this differently because i'm going um just the circle you're saying circle gets the arrow and the answer is circle and arrow look at you there's gotta be a story behind that right i guess so you're right Because, I mean, it seems sort of like a compass and it's like you're driving, but it also is like it's coming out of the same part of the circle that would usually indicate male.

00:16:04 - 00:16:30 | Speaker 2:

I'm looking up the word Volvo became a registered trademark in 1911 after branding executives took the infinitive of the Latin verb Volver, which is to roll, and conjugated it into Volvo, which means I roll. Before Volvo cars were ever born, this name was initially applied to the parent company's first product, Iron Ball Bearings.

00:16:30 - 00:16:38 | Speaker 1:

Oh, and are they the same company that had the famous ball bearing commercial years later to show the contours of the car?

00:16:38 - 00:16:40 | Speaker 2:

I don't think I know about that commercial.

00:16:40 - 00:17:08 | Speaker 1:

A commercial from the late 80s or early 90s for a luxury car would show a very, very close up of somebody placing a ball bearing on like the seam of a car, like maybe where the door closes or something. and then oh yes yes to show how ball bearing right how like how tight all of the the construction is and also just in the flow of it it was like the anti actually you know what volvos are known for being boxy so this would be the opposite of that is probably like lexus or something showing how

00:17:08 - 00:17:38 | Speaker 2:

like unboxy it was i believe i'm just on the whole thing with volvo now i don't think i realized it was a swedish company although now it's owned by the chinese holding company called geely i love their work this is really interesting i guess it's just for the word volvo it's a very spare wikipedia page um so if you look up volvo let's see but maybe like you'd think the car manufacturer that would be like miles and miles of wikipedia but uh it's just i guess this is just for the word

00:17:38 - 00:18:02 | Speaker 1:

so the 5 000 year old symbol was chosen to represent war and it had to do with the metallurgic composition of weapons are you on behind the badge i'm looking at um volvo are you on the news wheel no i'm on some uh what is the meaning and origin of the volvo logo is what i'm looking at here but apparently it goes back um centuries so i'm not getting us any closer to having a good

00:18:02 - 00:18:06 | Speaker 2:

content so i'm going to move on here okay but i want everyone to remember i got that right

00:18:06 - 00:19:09 | Speaker 1:

you did get that one right congratulations you are a ding ding ding i don't mean to create this narrative but i think it means you're a better person than me um question number seven true or false in the star wars movies c-3po's right leg is silver from the knee down oh yeah yeah yeah i think that's true i feel like i wouldn't have thought of this but i feel like i remember him having to be rebuilt and so maybe that i remember like on a toy the leg being different but i wouldn't have guessed silver so you're gonna go yes on this i'm gonna go no just because i want to be like kind of honest to my memory but i'm sure i'm gonna be wrong true although the toys usually had two golden legs it was silver from the knee down and it was like that for the entire franchise from like getting out of the gate it wasn't like after because wasn't he taken apart at some point and then put on a conveyor belt and then somebody saves him yeah he definitely

00:19:09 - 00:19:38 | Speaker 2:

Somebody put him in a Backpack or something and they're carrying him around I feel like they're carrying around his torso maybe I don't think, speaking of Mandela FX, I Don't know if he ends up in that Like really one of the saddest Places in the Star Wars universe Which is robot torture Town, like where they just Torture robots for no reason I don't know if he makes it there or not I do think though that C-3PO Would fit in okay with the Fruit of the Loom Fruit. Sure

00:19:38 - 00:19:39 | Speaker 1:

You just vibe-wise?

00:19:39 - 00:19:44 | Speaker 2:

I feel like he could just be chilling. Yeah, he could be chilling in the background. Like, I feel like they get each other.

00:19:44 - 00:19:45 | Speaker 1:

Does he ever chill? I don't think he's ever chill.

00:19:45 - 00:19:50 | Speaker 2:

That's right. We've never used chill in C-3PO. The C is not for chill in C-3PO.

00:19:50 - 00:20:17 | Speaker 1:

Listen, I'm not trying to make everything all about me, but if there's any character in the Star Wars universe that I would... sort of like align with I guess would be C-3PO right like is there any other character that is I'm not saying that I'm exactly like C-3PO but the overriding characteristic of nervousness the shiny guy is always nervous as we say on this show I guess I don't know I you know the thing is I'm

00:20:17 - 00:20:52 | Speaker 2:

not Lando I'm not solo well yeah but like I guess I feel like that's not that's not that's not doing justice to my friend andrew because you're not a you you are not a head case the way that c3po is and i mean you might be you might you might have your moments of agitation but like i said this on the show a while ago like when the chips are down you really channel your in in orlando in orlando calrissian so i don't i feel like i don't want people to think that you're just walking around fretting constantly because it's just not your default state in my unless there's a lot going

00:20:52 - 00:21:08 | Speaker 1:

on inside that you're not letting us in on yeah well there is a lot going on in here i'm i'm taking an honest assessment now i'm going through like every character i can think of and disregarding gender and like i'm i'm not leia certainly i'm not somebody's gonna teach you fly boys somebody

00:21:08 - 00:21:24 | Speaker 2:

what does she say somebody's got to get you fly boys out of here she does call them fly boys at one point that really stuck in my mind i believe that's when she's shooting a hole in the sewer great that's going to get them down into that weird watery thing because they're like trapped and then she's got an idea

00:21:24 - 00:21:30 | Speaker 1:

I think yeah she sort of saves the day let's see here alright we should get back to the quiz

00:21:30 - 00:21:35 | Speaker 2:

I'm like Luke Skywalker but when he's being a whiny little bee about going to Tashi

00:21:35 - 00:21:40 | Speaker 1:

I wanted to go to Tashi maybe that's me I don't know

00:21:40 - 00:21:48 | Speaker 2:

that's me when I'm complaining about something that happened on the airplane and then the person at the hotel front desk looked at me and said this And then I said, I wanted to go to Tashi.

00:21:49 - 00:22:01 | Speaker 1:

You know who I probably am? Who? What's his face? The Wookiee. Chewy. Chewy. Second in command. Can push the buttons.

00:22:01 - 00:22:01 | Speaker 2:

Genial.

00:22:01 - 00:22:01 | Speaker 1:

Amiable.

00:22:01 - 00:22:02 | Speaker 2:

Very strong.

00:22:02 - 00:22:14 | Speaker 1:

Yeah. Loyal. Very hairy. Very hairy. Just sexy as hell. Yeah. I like to think I'm cleaner than Chewbacca, although that is me making some pretty broad. Yeah, let's not.

00:22:14 - 00:22:15 | Speaker 2:

Hey, can you please?

00:22:15 - 00:22:20 | Speaker 1:

But I mean, honestly, though, are there any showers on the millennial? What is it?

00:22:21 - 00:22:25 | Speaker 2:

The millennium falcon? Millennial falcon? Shoot. I'm not a Star Trek guy.

00:22:25 - 00:22:29 | Speaker 1:

This feels like the quiz. This feels like the quiz. Is it millennium or millennial? Millennial. Millennial.

00:22:29 - 00:22:31 | Speaker 2:

I go back and forth on that one.

00:22:31 - 00:22:50 | Speaker 1:

As do many of the listeners, I'm sure. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I'm sorry. On the Converse All-Star. I honestly still don't know the answer to that question. On the Converse All-Star sneaker, where is the iconic logo? On the outside of the ankle, inside of the ankle, both inside and outside. I feel like I'm falling for the trap again, but I just had it on the outside of the ankle.

00:22:51 - 00:22:59 | Speaker 2:

I'm guessing inside of the ankle because it's counterintuitive. Those old Chuck Taylors. Did you have a phase where you wore Chuck Taylors?

00:22:59 - 00:23:23 | Speaker 1:

Yeah, like the mini high tops, right? Oh, wait. No, you know what? I'm sorry. I'm lying. I never had the high tops. Those were iconic kind of in school. But then I just had the regular low tops. And that was more like right after college, I think, I started wearing them. when you could go to their website and mix and match all the different colors and threads and everything, and you can make your own shoe. I had a nice bespoke, literally bespoke gray pair that I liked a lot.

00:23:24 - 00:23:57 | Speaker 2:

Yeah, I actually don't think I ever wore the high top ones either, but I definitely had the low tops, probably around the same time. I think they were kind of in style. I bet you you and I were both, we were in different places wearing the same, well, mine weren't exactly like yours, but both wearing Chuck Taylor low tops. I just can't believe what was accomplished on the basketball court wearing those rubber bricks on your feet like you think about like you know lou alcinder putting down a hundred points in hershey pennsylvania just wearing 11 pounds of rubber on each foot

00:23:57 - 00:24:03 | Speaker 1:

it's a it's a no form at all like the opposite of the pump you know just a flat piece of cardboard

00:24:03 - 00:24:11 | Speaker 2:

and rubber hey we found something that's actually harder than the wood floor that you're standing on and we'd like to strap it to the bottom of your feet.

00:24:11 - 00:24:42 | Speaker 1:

Have fun. Why don't they just make the airplane out of Converse? Okay, the outside of the ankle, the inside of the ankle, or both. I'm saying outside of the ankle, although I do feel like maybe if you crossed your legs, you could see that logo. Like if you crossed one leg over top of your knee, you could see that logo. So I'm going to say both or outside. But if it's just the inside only, I am going to... Is kvetch the right word there? Whatever it is, I'm kvetching. It's just the inside of the ankle. Wow. You were right.

00:24:42 - 00:24:43 | Speaker 2:

You are kvetching, and I'm kvelling, Andrew.

00:24:44 - 00:24:44 | Speaker 1:

Yeah.

00:24:44 - 00:25:01 | Speaker 2:

I'm kvelling with pride right now. Although, my kvelling is turning into kvetching because I was totally wrong. It was not Lew Alcindor, a.k.a. Krim Abdul-Jabbar, who scored 100 points in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain. The shoe thing holds, but... the specific player I was wrong about.

00:25:01 - 00:25:05 | Speaker 1:

What happened in the 1987 NBA All-Star game, though? Do you have any?

00:25:06 - 00:25:24 | Speaker 2:

Andrew, I will tell you that when I got together with my family for Christmas and I talked to my Aunt Mary Lou and I brought up that whole situation with the garbage can lid in her house, she verified it word for word. I was amazed at how right I was

00:25:24 - 00:25:28 | Speaker 1:

about that. This was about the leak. This wasn't about the All-Star game itself.

00:25:28 - 00:25:44 | Speaker 2:

No, but that was all the same moment in time. I was watching the All-Star Game and eyeing this leak in their ceiling that had been remedied with an upside-down garbage can lid, a hose coming out of it, and a broom handle holding it all up. And she described it note for note.

00:25:44 - 00:25:49 | Speaker 1:

Oh, my gosh. And that was the work of the property or the landlord. That was the work of the landlord. Yeah, exactly.

00:25:49 - 00:25:55 | Speaker 2:

Exactly. So I didn't want to hide my sugar on the shelf. I did get a big W on that one, everyone.

00:25:56 - 00:26:20 | Speaker 1:

I don't know if we have time for any more of these. I don't know if we do. Let's one more quick one. One more fast one. Okay, Oscar Wilde's only novel was titled which of these? The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, or The Podcast of Dorian Gray? I think obviously it's The Podcast. No, I always say The Portrait. I think it's The Portrait B, so I will go with that. Although, if I think it's that, what I've learned is I'm probably wrong.

00:26:20 - 00:26:43 | Speaker 2:

It's The Vlodcast of Dorian Gray. what would you say if I would say the picture of Dorian Gray you would have always said that even to be honest with you that's something that you've explained to me you've made that reference on the show and I've been like who and you've been like yeah it's a thing where isn't like he's he's forever young but not in the picture or what I don't know the plot I haven't I don't think I've

00:26:43 - 00:27:12 | Speaker 1:

actually read it but I'm pretty sure it's he stays young forever but he's got a picture a painting a portrait of him up in his attic or something and the portrait is aging and that that's all I know That's a sweet deal. But then, I mean, something happens, though. There's got to be a twist, right? Yeah, I don't think it just ends, you know, like, oh, and then everybody just lives forever. I would love to offload some of this aging if I could. And then what happens with the painting? Anyway, I always thought it was portrait, so I'll go with that. You think it's picture? And you would have said picture, huh?

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I would have said picture, but I'm very unfamiliar with the product.

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Click here for the answer, and you are correct. A picture of Dorian Gray. I had no idea. I put no picture away. I had no idea.

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Well, we've learned a lot here, and I want to thank the very Reverend Chris for putting this together. Thank you for educating us on all manner of things. hey let's thank some donors today who have um have taken the proactive step to support tbtl i don't want to belabor this i don't know why the second day of january as we launch into 2024 is why is when I want to get into this. But, like, you know, when we did the thon, when we went independent, I didn't know how many people were going to come on the journey with us. There were some people that were supporting us under the old regime, and I do consider it a regime. I consider it a failed narco state.

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What have you been listening to?

00:28:21 - 00:28:41 | Speaker 2:

Too much podcasting. But, no, you know, we didn't know how many people were going to actually take the proactive step to sign up for a new way to donate to this show. And a lot of people did, or at least enough people did, and here we are. Yes. And we've got folks like Jenny Dahl to thank, who's in Burien, Washington.

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Thank you, Jenny.

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Thank you, Jenny. Thanks also to Darren, book night of Case, South Carolina.

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Or did we learn it's Casey? I would say it's Casey, but you saw how I did on that quiz, so I don't know.

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I feel like this is something we were specifically. It's a portrait. I was wrong about and learned about and then forgot about. It is definitely part of the research. It's part of the research parallelogram.

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It is indeed.

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It's part of the research rhombus.

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Uh-huh. Ooh, the research rhombus.

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Yes.

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Rhombus, rhombus. Rhombus, Targus. Targus.

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It's part of the research. Rhombus, rhombus. Darren's new name is rhombus, rhombus. Sorry, Darren. Hey, thanks also to Nathaniel Holtman of Tacoma, Washington. I think he goes by Nate. One of our Tacomis. Yeah, thanks, Nate. And where would we be without Patty Birkenshaw of Lake Stevens, Washington? We love it up there. One of Tom Thumb Market. And a number of our good friends who all come from Lake Stevens, Washington. Hey, look who it is. It's our friend Jake Rahr. Oh, Jake. Of Seattle, Washington. One time of Portland, all time of being in our hearts. Thanks, Jake. That really, honestly, I'm touching. and heartened every time we have anyone supporting the show but like Jake has been riding and dying with this show for a long long time so thanks Jake that really means a lot thanks also to Jane and Ross Johnson who are there in Everett Washington thank you Jane and Ross if you're from a certain era of the program Everett oh really if you're part of the people if you're part of the crew that says Washington you might also be the kind of folks that call it Everett

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Washington they call them our planes they really make the airplanes uh-huh are they didn't work

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you on it we don't have time for this but you're on a tour of that our plane factory with your father and somebody like shouted you out that must have just been like so cool yeah for your

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dad to know this is working I was pretty new on TBTL I think this is before I even had my radio show at night so I think I had just started working with you maybe maybe within the first six months or something like that and there was a 10 working at the Boeing plant and he had heard on the podcast that I was going to be taking my family who's visiting from Ohio on a tour and apparently he thought I was going to be there one day and hung up a big banner like I don't know if you've been there before but hung up a big banner in this area where you could see it coming off the elevators and apparently management told him he must take that down this isn't like welcome Andrew or something like that uh but then uh I ended up not showing up on the day he thought I was going to but i was in the elevator like a big industrial elevator with the entire tour group the doors accidentally open on the wrong floor and there's a guy with a cart there and i'm so sorry that i can't remember this uh listener's name um but all he did was get fired for he said is that andrew walsh of tbtl and then everybody looks at me and is like you guys got a celebrity on the elevator and the doors close and everybody looks at me and they're like what do you do and my parents were looking at me like what do you do oh boy i bet this ended very well for you Yeah, I am sunk into a puddle on the ground And I dripped through the grave

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I had something similar happen Where, by the way, thank you to all of our donors How about I tell this great story over the closing music So that we stay on schedule here during the Winter Games But Becca and I went to a holiday party And the person throwing the holiday party Who she works with is a public radio listener And as we stepped through the door I didn't know anyone at this party As we stepped through the door There were a lot of people around he said hey it's public radio's luke burbank yelled it i was one foot in the house this was the craziest part andrew i'm not kidding a mild applause went up oh which was i it was i i didn't i well let's let me just tell you what i stayed at the party for a total of 20 minutes i was like Like, I've fully humiliated myself, or been humiliated, and I will now just be slinking out of here whenever I've met the social obligation of how long I need to be here. That's a tough one. Yeah. It was meant with love. Of course, the intentions were grand. It was. I wish I could have just burrowed a hole right in their floor and gotten down like bubbles getting in between the floors. I would have fully gotten in between the floors if I could.

00:33:12 - 00:33:15 | Speaker 1:

Bones in under themselves, yes. Right, exactly. Oh, my gosh.

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All right. I think we can all agree I'm pretty famous, and that's the takeaway here on today's episode. All right, thanks for listening. We're going to be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you, so join us for that. In the meantime, have a great day. Take care of yourselves, and please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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Power out.

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