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all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a thursday edition of tbtl the show that just Might be too beautiful to live. Hey, where's the freaking gabagoo? My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

Just study it out and you'll see.

Coming to you from just off the Las Vegas Strip.

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With a just absolutely gorgeous view of the freeway and the Michelob Ultra fan district, which is what they're telling me the Luxor now is. Well, one side of the Luxor pyramid is apparently the Michelob Ultra fan district and then the other side is just dedicated to Doritos. It's literally painted like a giant triangular Dorito. But I am coming to you from the fan district and I'm hoping you'll be a fan of episode 4127 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. Which is where we find ourselves on this Thursday. An article that was sent to me by a number of people, I guess my brand is fairly strong, was a story about somebody who was allegedly kicked off an airplane recently for flatulence. The word was F-A-R-T. But I read the story. Not just the headline, my friends. I read the story and it's not great journalism.

I'd like to point out to anybody watching, this is really bunk journalism.

I hope you're sitting down as you listen to this. I hope you're ready to learn that a story about a person kicked off a plane for passing too much gas.

Forted right into my butthole. It's like a fart transplant.

It turns out was kind of poorly written. So we'll delve into that. And also, it's a Thursday, a.k.a. Blur's Day. So we'll do the Blur's Day messages. And we'll talk to this guy, the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. When it comes to him, I'm always in the ultra-fan district. I'm a fan of his. He's Andrew Walsh. Yeah! And he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. I just remembered something that I've been wanting to tell you, and I've been trying to decide whether or not this is an on-air or off-air conversation because I was reading a book the other day and I had an issue with the book that seemed very Burbankian to me, but it's also embarrassing that I would have this level of expertise on this particular topic. So you know how if you're watching a movie or you're reading a book, like a fiction book, and something just strikes you as not realistic, especially something that you're familiar with, like sports or specifically sports betting or really anything that is vice-related and we're embarrassed about how much. Right, my brand. Yes, exactly. Well, that's why this is sort of a...

I call it the Silver Linings Playbook conundrum.

Right, because of all the sports betting in that. Did you walk out of that movie?

The two things I know about, Andrew, making bad decisions and then paying someone so you can talk to them about your bad decisions. And they were 0 for 2 between Silver Linings Playbook.

I saw that movie in the theater. I forgot that, of course, therapy plays a big role in that as well. Well, I'm reading a book that probably a lot of our listeners are familiar with, or at least the mini-series called Sharp Objects. I don't know if you know about that. I've heard the name. I haven't watched it. Yeah, I haven't watched it either. Honestly, the way I read a lot of books these days. Are the objects very dull? Yeah, that's what's...

weird it's like it's about plushies and like marbles and i'm like i don't know if you know what a sharp object is and i'm saying it like that um no you know i often will read a book just because i'll flip through our shared kindle library and i'll just pick something late at night usually and this was something i picked the other day and it's by um i don't know if it's pronounced gillian flynn or jillian flynn oh that's the gone girl person exactly which i didn't realize when i first started reading this and i've seen gone girl never read it this is my first novel by her that i'm reading and it's good i mean it's a real page turner you know it's not like the highest literary uh thing you could read but it's it's a page turner it's a mystery and the um main character is this investigative reporter kind of kind of a young woman i think maybe in her 30s and uh she and she's a little bit she's a little bit hardened she's a little bit troubled as you as you might guess and she's a big drinker right and there are some depictions of drinking and alcoholism in here that i'm like i i don't know man i i don't know anybody in my life who drinks like that but also i don't know a lot of people in my life who day drink you know so i i it seemed a little bit off but i couldn't really tell and then i get to this i'm gonna read to you a part

of this can you tell that i've been sipping on some scissor up this morning are you is this a

is this an intervention it is i'm calling you in no okay i i think that i think almost every listener especially any listener um with dignity will think that i'm making too big of a deal of this and also probably some people will argue that i'm just straight up wrong about this but i just want to run this by you okay this is uh so this is as the recognized occasionally problem

drinker on the show i will i will add my my my lived experience and expertise on this i feel

like i'm kind of putting myself out here too here we are in front street um you be my sponsor i'll be yours here we go it works if you work it oh here it is okay so uh the first word i'm going to read here is a quote from a uh from oh i see the main character herself the the reporter and she's talking to a detective that she needs a quote from and she's uh just run into him at the bar she's been drinking at the bar okay and she says i pointed to my notebook and i looked at him what's your theory mr willis that's detective willis actually he grinned again i finished my drink and another swallow began chewing on the stunted cocktail straw so camille can i buy you around he asked i jiggled my glass and nodded bourbon straight up he said nice anything strike you about that uh you scare me you're an alcoholic other than the fact that it's pretty you know

cliche sounding okay um believe it or not nothing jumped right out at me except um that was a weird way to describe chewing on the cocktail straw yeah the swizzle stick well here's the deal and i but bourbon is it is that a not a way that it's bourbon straight up redundant in some way well

i've had my fair share of bourbon straight up i would say that's my go-to drink at a bar which is you know again things are going great for me but they don't usually give you a stirrer with straight bourbon. Oh my. Encyclopedia Brown, you've done it again. And I'm just like, this is kind of an example. It's so small, but it's just like one of those things where somebody who's not, you know, like somebody who's trying to write about somebody who has various struggles or a certain walk of life. But like, I was already wondering, like, is this, is this a real depiction of how a real problem drinker would go about her day? And then it's kind of like, I was chewing on my swizzle stick and then I hold up my glass, another straight bourbon. I'm like, huh, interesting. what are you mixing with that straw great catch that's that's oh it's a proud day here in the walsh household that's my book report for the day luke webster's defines alcoholism as

noticing things and you know i'll uh i've been holding off on talking about this because i feel like i'm going to just uh i could take up the whole show with it but a a thing that i've been really obsessed with lately and have been peppering you with text messages related to is the Showtime program The Curse with Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder in it and Benny Safdie oh that you texted

me about the curse and I was like oh I have not even heard of that thing but that's not true I was in the room watching a few scenes when Genevieve was giving it a she was kicking the tires on that show a few weeks ago maybe even a couple of months ago it seemed compelling Emma stone like it's so hard to look away from anything that she's acting in she's so good she's amazing

in this as is Nathan Fielder I didn't really think of him I mean I guess Nathan for you he's sort of acting the whole time he's pretending to be somebody who's you know clueless and thoughtless in a way but he's really good at acting as his character in this show I mean this the program

just kind of it was almost like scientifically designed for me it's about like this couple that is living in new mexico emma stone and nathan fielder and they're kind of they're sort of the they're trying to become the next like chip and joanna from like hgtv very famous couple that you know flips houses but their thing is kind of like um sort of uh carbon neutral housing and emma stone is really into like the house they live in and the house they're trying to build are like covered in mirrors which I don't know if you've seen any pictures of those out in oftentimes in the southwest but they'll sometimes people build these houses that are completely mirrored so that they very much fit into the environment and they also reflect a bunch of light back so they're you know easier to keep cool of course it's totally unattainable unobtainable you know like this is not something that is scalable this kind of house like the basically what it is is the intersection of like privileged white good intentions with the reality of the world and also all the ways that rich privileged white people are actually kind of shitty but they don't realize it it's just i mean and again it's kind of like a dwell magazine component the cinematography is incredible the soundtrack is great for me it's it's because the safety brothers are the guys that did uncut gems a very favorite movie of mine and whoever did the soundtrack for uncut gems also did the soundtrack for this thing the curse and it's just so compelling to me but they also had a scene in a recent episode that i thought was so well done because the benny safty character he is kind of like an old like i think maybe a college friend or high school friend of nathan fielders and he is a guy who makes like hg tv kinds of shows and what's happened is he's sort of teamed up with nathan fielder and emma stone and he's been shooting this pilot of them that they're going to try to pitch to hg tv but he also has a drinking problem and there is this scene where he kind of wakes up in the morning after kind of you know i guess you could just say blacking out and there is just a physicality to how he's moving around that sadly i'm very familiar with and it there was it was just the exact opposite of what you're describing from that book where I was like I don't I don't know anything about Benny Safdie's life or the writer of I think the writer was actually Nathan Fielder my sense is I don't know that Nathan Fielder is somebody who's struggled with addiction but there is just a way that they have Benny Safdie kind of careening around that's not over the top it's not like you know the stereotypical idea of what a sort of drunk person is but it is a it's a physicality that unfortunately I have been very familiar with at times in my life, and I was like, oh, man, they nailed that. Whoever wrote that scene, they got that one down.

Oh, he's also an Oppenheimer. I didn't realize. Oh, he is?

I'm the one person who hasn't seen Oppenheimer.

Oh, okay, I think so. So I'm a little, okay, I have a very specific question about the show, having seen just a little bit of it. I have a very specific answer. And you will have a very specific answer, but before we get to it, I'm going to sideline us a little bit, and this is a dangerous game if we start talking about who was in what.

But you said, you mean yesterday when neither of us could remember Meryl Streep during the sound check?

Nobody knew about that. That was a freebie loop. That was a dark time. Nobody knew about that. Why you got to put that on Front Street? Like, good Lord.

I believe my comment was, she's so famous, we don't have to remember her name.

That's right. She needs no introduction.

Exactly. And we won't give her one because neither of us can remember one of the most famous actors in the world.

I would love to be like the emcee at some event and say my next guest needs no introduction and then just walk off the stage. But OK, so before I get into my real question, which I really want to get to, I just want to try to get things straight. You're talking about Benny Safti. You said you see him on screen. He plays the he plays the reality TV producer of the reality show. But it's also you said this is by the Safti brothers.

Did you say that? I think they did not direct it. Nathan Fielder directed it, but they were maybe executive producers, and it has the energy of one of their... It feels very much like Uncut Gems, but with different characters.

So Benny Safdie, the actor who appears in this and maybe had a creative role beside that, has a brother, and together they wrote and directed Uncut Gems. Is that correct? Yes, exactly.

I was not familiar with that. And this is more information than anyone cares. I'm clearly very geeked out on the Safdie brothers, but like they've also announced that they are amicably going their separate ways creatively like they're going to just start making stuff kind of you know individually as opposed to being a team they've pretty much been a team throughout they also made another movie that's incredible with robert pattinson called good times where they're gonna say the batman it it fundamentally changed my idea of robert pattinson because i haven't really watched the twilight movies but I just didn't have thoughts on the guy and

And it's incredible. Benny Safdie plays his brother, who's somebody who I think is somebody who's sort of neurodivergent. And Robert Pattinson is just this guy who's really, really kind of on the margins of the law and of life. And he's trying to kind of like sort of make his life work and also make life work for his brother played by Benny Safdie. I mean, it's just an incredible piece of filmmaking anyway. So clearly I'm a fan of their work.

So here's my question about the curse. I watched I watched a big chunk of an episode with Genevieve again, like Genevieve sort of filled me in on what was going on. I wasn't like sitting there wrapped. I was like sort of, you know, kind of maybe a little bit in and out on it because I didn't assume that I was going to be dedicating any real time to watching this. but it was really compelling. The way it was shot was compelling. I was interested to see how Nathan Fielder acted because I think of him more as a bit of a prankster and, you know, working in some sort of more of an improv space. So I was interested in that. Like I say, big fan of Emma Stone. They had a lot going for me, but here's what made me think I don't want to get sucked into this. And I'm going to describe very vaguely some things that I saw in the first episode keep in mind this is the very first episode and my brain is broken I really don't think any of this is going to be a spoiler for anybody but if you're especially sensitive I guess alert alert but like in the first I believe episode that I was watching you know there's like kind of a series of events where one domino hits another hits another he you know kind of offends a reporter pretty significantly but then needs to get out of that but in trying to get out of that has to obtain some money then it's having an awkward moment at an ATM where there's a local trying to get his ATM number and it's like does he trust this guy is this guy trying to help him and should he hand over his ATM code and I was like I think I need to walk away from this now because it all feels like this is all going to be cringe like the whole thing is going to be cringe the whole time and honestly Uncut Gems I enjoyed that and I appreciate it for what it is but that's not a movie I return to. That is not a happy place for me.

It's the weirdest thing that I watch that movie as comfort.

Yeah, it's the opposite of comfort for me.

Well, as it should be. I mean, that movie is so incredibly stressful, and your suspicions are right. The curse is, it doesn't get less cringey from there, but in, to me, the best and most relatable way, or at least, you know, there's so many things that both, well, really all of the characters do that I'm like oh I've done a version of that like I find it very compelling but your your spidey

sense was tingling for a good reason I walked out during that ATM scene I'm like I don't know how this interaction is going to go down I don't know if he's going to trust this local or not but I'm just like I just get the impression that I've watched maybe 15 minutes of this thing and everything seems to be snowballing in a cringe fest and also maybe because of what I know of Nathan Fielder's work like I'm not somebody who watches his other stuff because of the of the cringe factor um and so yeah if it's cringy I'm probably for that I'm out well but let me say this

it it is acting whereas like Nathan for you the I actually didn't watch all of that because when it's when it's very cringy and it's real people who are maybe not in on the joke that's really hard for me to watch but this is you know people who are acting so somehow that kind of alleviates it for me i guess but yeah i could see that the other thing i mean again the i i'm i'm very very in the bag for this whole show but like uh nathan fielder's character has worked at a uh like a casino that's owned by a tribe there in um in new mexico and that's another thing they totally nail again have you been in a casino what a great character i'm in a casino right now what a great character reference by the way for me um the verisimilitude of someone who had blacked out and the verisimilitude of a kind of, you know, just very standard kind of small-time casino that's on tribal land somewhere. And we're not talking Vegas here. We're talking, you know, something that you would drive by and see a sign for it on the highway. They get, they nail it so much. And that's what I really love about the show is just clearly somebody did their homework on what the vibe in one of those casinos is at, say, 5 p.m. on a Tuesday, whereas, like, Silver Linings Playbook, what I don't like about it, among other things, is, you know, they have, like, De Niro's character making bets on teams that don't even play each other in the playoffs, and they have the therapist messing with Bradley Cooper's character by, like, playing something in the waiting room of the therapy office to, like, get some reaction from him, which is highly unprofessional. like this thing the curse they they just nailed all of these small details and

I find it super compelling.

Well, to take it back to book land, there was a book that I read recently that seemed to really have a real grasp on, I think, realistic depictions. And it was about this really good guy that everybody really liked. He went to church a lot and helped out in the community. And everybody just really loved him. And, like, as somebody who lives my life that way, goes to bed early, does a lot of reading, and is smart. Like, the guy's really smart, you know? like just one of those guys you want to be trapped in a conversation with and it's just like it really seemed um real to my life goodwill hunting the book it was the novelization of goodwill hunting i actually don't even fully get that because i've never seen goodwill hunting um no

i was just trying to make it sound like i know about good guys goodwill hunting uh was a real mood like i remember when it came out i was obsessed with it because it the the rise of matt damon and ben affleck represented for me a uh you know guy in his sort of early-ish 20s who aspired to be a filmmaker it seemed like well if they can do it i can do it but uh like it was the it was a stand-up comedy bit from the now uh rightfully sort of under what not appreciate i don't want to use the word cancel because it doesn't apply here but basically louis ck had a bit about goodwill hunting that ruined the movie for me oh really yeah because the plot is that matt damon and ben affleck are friends living in boston um finally somebody set a movie in boston and matt damon is a i believe custodian at like harvard or mit and there's some kind of a like a a math problem that's written on a dry erase board in one of the classrooms that nobody he can solve but then matt damon solves it because he's like a genius but he also like gets in bar fights and kicks people's butts and it's the kind of thing that when you're like younger and and maybe a little bit less uh less of a sort of jaundiced view of the world it's like oh this is such a cool movie and then just the idea that matt damon who it seems like a lovely human being by the way by all accounts yeah but that matt damon was part of writing a character for himself where he's both the only person that can solve math problems and kicks people's asses in bars in Southie. It's just like, if you wrote this character and you told your friends about it, they'd all be like, okay, I guess. It's the corniest, I'm also a genius, but I kick ass. But I'm a custodian. It's just like, oh, really? You really wrote that for yourself? Okay.

Well, who was it? It was somebody on SNL. I think it was Andy Samberg and somebody else doing kind of a weekend update thing where they both kind of bounce off of each other. No, no. Was it Sandberg? And who's the guy that everybody kind of loves to hate? The really smiley guy who was on

SNL for a long time. Colin Jost? No,

the guy who was like a controversial figure. Like people are like, why does he love? He dated a whole bunch of women. He had BDE. Oh, oh, oh.

Pete Davidson. Pete Davidson.

Thank you. I kept on thinking it's Davidson. Pete Davidson Street. I know. I was like, I'm doing a real stream here. It's Pete

davidson and he's in these really bad taco bell ads by the way yeah you talked about those on your

show um i i don't know if they've come up on the show because i have talked i think she likes them more than me that's the thing like i think he's a i don't i don't dislike him that much but i think genevieve's like in the bag for him and so like those go a much longer way with her than they do for me she finds him charming i think but um i'm not anti pete davidson per se but i think i find

those ads just the the like cinematography is weird it it's like I'm sure they're going for something but they just they're they're odd to me but anyway okay so anyway it doesn't even matter

like this is so stupid what I'm doing here but anyway it's like a weekend update I think I played it for you maybe even on the show I thought it was really funny it was like is Pete Davidson and good friends with John Mulaney maybe I don't know somebody gave them some space on a weekend update just to sort of like do a jokey little diatribe together. And it was about some movie that Clint Eastwood made like in the past five years or so when he's like pretty elderly man. Was it like Gran Torino or something? I believe so. And they point out in their tirade, they're like, this man, you know, wrote a character for himself and directed a character for himself who had a threesome as a 70-year-old character in this movie. And then they pause and say, twice. Now, I haven't seen the movie, But according to that SNL sketch that I just butchered or bit that I just butchered, I believe Clint Eastwood wrote two three-way, two sexual three-way scenes for himself in one movie as a septuagenarian.

It's funny because it's like you're allowed to be that character in movies if someone else wrote it for you.

Right. It's like giving yourself a nickname.

Right. Precisely. You're allowed to be Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting if you didn't. write goodwill hunting i've had another stand-up comedy bit jangling around in my brain from the comedian brian regan um which is about how stressful it is to think of words that start with a letter when you're trying to like give your airline reservation letters over the phone to someone okay yeah so like let's say that you know your reservation is like b g you know g x y It's like B as in, like, because I don't know the, like, there's, what's the, there's a name for that particular, like, whiskey, tango, foxtrot, there's, there's some kind of a name for the, there's official words that are associated with letters that you're supposed to use, B as in Bravo, A as in Alpha, but those, I don't know them, so I, I'm always improvising it's like j as in jericho like i'm i'm always struck i don't know why it was so much pressure for me to try to figure out a word that starts with a letter when i'm reciting them over the phone to somebody uh and trying to get some help with something what do those words say about

you too you know what i mean like how much are you revealing about where you're it's like a Rorschach test, where do you go right away? D as in, didn't kill him! I mean dog.

What does Robert Durst say at the end of... Yeah, right.

Right, right.

K as in, killed them all.

Yeah, right. Wait, is this thing on?

You've probably heard me talking about the Radiotopia show, Everything is Alive. It's the interview show where all of the subjects are inanimate objects and they're created by, you know, amazing performers who are kind of ad-libbing what it's like to be a streetlight or a can of soda or whatever. Well, the folks that bring you everything alive are trying something a little different this season. It's a new series called The Animals. It is an interview show in which the subjects are all animals. You ever wondered what's going on in the mind of a flamingo or a kangaroo with a Joey who refuses to leave the pouch. That's all happening this season on the animals from the folks at Everything Is Alive. Hari Kondabalu is their friend of the show. Maeve Higgins, my pal from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. It's an amazing show and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts. You know, the irony of that is they don't even have that in the script, Andrew. They didn't even say I ad-libbed that.

Yeah, no, I tried to get in the clear there. Was that music distracting? I mixed that yesterday and I was listening to it there. That music has a weird beat to it.

No, it's peppy.

Yeah, it's peppy. It was a little distracting, but okay.

Good read, though. Good read. Thank you. Thank you very much. That is a great show. My friend Ian Chillog is primarily responsible for that. Everything is Alive.

Yeah, you have been telling me to check it out for a long time.

yeah it's not cringy it's the opposite of the curse so you you'll probably enjoy it okay great looking forward to it let's thank some donors today these are generous people keeping tbtl in business I want to let everyone know that while I'm here in Las Vegas I have no access to the too beautiful to biz funds it's true and that's something you and John Sklaroff were very very firm about and And I honestly, it's kind of offensive to me, but it also makes sense.

Do you know that when I was leaving an American public media, our supervisor at the time, Beth, who I love doing a great relationship. She was just trying to follow everything by the book as far as, you know, employees leaving. We had a company credit card or I had a company credit card and she said the instructions were to cut it and send it to her. I think I was supposed to cut my. And again, this wasn't her not trusting me.

This was her just trying to. Darling, don't you go and cut your card?

Yeah, she said, so I guess just cut it in half and maybe mail it to me. I didn't do that. I think I cut it up and took a photo of it in case they wanted proof. But they canceled that card before I was even out the door anyway.

Yeah, and again, the fact that I'm not allowed to have a credit card for our company, the fact that I'm not even allowed to know what bank the money is in, well, you know what? It's money being donated by folks like Yvonne Vorderstrasse, who's in Tigard, Oregon.

Now, Tigard is in the greater Portland area? Yes.

Yeah, it's nearby. Yeah, I think so. I'm bad with directions, but I have been to Tigard now many times. I'd say it's maybe 20 minutes from the heart of Portland.

You know what I would say? Hmm. I would say people who don't donate, Tigard, Yvonne, Weigard. Oh, my God. Wait, what? I'm sorry. I think I just, like, what? Worked out for a minute. No, that's how it feels when I tell jokes like that.

Yvonne, as we like to say during this part of the show, no givebacks.

No takebacks. You experience the usual symptoms when I attempt a joke like that. Okay, let me just explain what I was trying to do. I'm not trying to defend that it was funny in any way. Oh, does this have to do with the Y in Yvonne's name? No, it was supposed to be a tired or wired type of situation, but Tigard and Weigard. But then I was trying to think, what do I make Tigard that isn't insulting? I almost said yesterday's donors, but that's not true. They're still Weigard, too. So I said, people who don't donate are Weigard. But people who don't donate are Tigard, and people who do donate are Weigard. I really fixed it there.

Did you ever – was that a segment on any of the shows that you produced, Tired or Wired? I feel like I've only heard about that from you.

Oh, really? I thought that you used to talk about it. and pans man myself no i love picks and pans cheers and jeers vives and i used to i love a good cheer and jeers and i used to do a segment on um after these messages which i almost called all things considered all messages considered yeah uh called cheese and g's because we didn't want to get sued by a tv guide for cheers and jeers love it we now call it ad calades and admonishments um it's just awful i hate it so much i can never say i can never say genevieve loves it i hate it so much really i think it's good thank you to the listener who sent that in but um no tired and wired that's just an internet meme thing i thought you used to quote that on the show yourself like i thought that was like i thought that was like a fastball right down the

plate for you i don't remember saying that but there's so much from the show that i don't remember

so tired and wired though that's not something you come across or remember coming across on the

internet huh um not really i feel like i remember you saying it i mean we of course we were big on awesome not awesome a long time ago uh which only recently have we stopped getting people emailing us saying this would be a great segment for awesome not awesome it only it's only

taken about i don't know 12 to 13 years i'm trying to think of a good example oh here i got um know your meme tired wired so like um uh tired rem wired the jayhawks wow i don't know why that was the first one tired and they shut down pitchfork wired bbc i don't know it's just people trying to make bold claims about what's tired and what's wired there was a big thing going around towards

the end of the year or the beginning i guess of this year which was like people's ins and outs lists you know what's in and what's out yeah and uh they were pretty funny yeah some of them

the new york times had a big um uh kind of uh animated version of that on its website that i

thought was interesting they really nail it with the integration of i mean this is a fascinating story that um that has emerged which is that the new york times i'm not even being sarcastic here like the the new york times is a tremendously successful media company and there was a period of time where that was not necessarily going to be the case like they just somehow got ahead of all of this stuff and and like pivoted into like hard well first of all the paywall was like a super controversial thing and everyone thought it would be the the ruination of the new york times and in fact it you know they have become like one of the most dominant things on the internet and they're really good at integrating you know things like that animation you're talking about into their

reporting did you and i listen to the same episode of on the media about two maybe yes we did and is that's exactly what where i got yes do they consider themselves a journalism company or a tech company it was so fascinating that show has been so good lately man

absolutely um that's not a show that i know of that's being supported by georgia millward um of baltimore maryland but maybe you should consider it georgia this is the part of the show where i recommend our donors donate to other shows i literally donate to where we get most

of our content from i am a donor to on the media i just got another mail from wnyc i believe yesterday so you guys you know well i don't want to tell you not to donate to them but you you worry about tbtl and i'll worry about on the media there you go i don't know if i just undercut our

brethren public radio arbitrage you donate to us and we donate to the casino um to wnyc exactly Thank you, Georgia. Appreciate you. Thanks also to Kurt Pewterbaugh in Shoreline, Washington. Hey, that's just. We love Shoreline. That's where Andrew likes to illegally dump most of his stuff.

It's not illegal dumping. It's illegal leaking.

It's illegal overflowing. they asked me what my zip code is. I said what my zip code is. They said, you can use our dump. And I later realized when I told that story on the show that like technically that is not for people on the Seattle side of that zip code, but just the shoreline side, but that's okay.

It's for the Kurtz of the world.

In fact, let's not talk about this now, but maybe tomorrow you'd be interested in hearing about our upcoming dump adventures. We've blocked off a chunk of time. We've rented a truck. We are going to be going around the neighborhood, picking up our friends junk.

This is the content that I am here for. I've got a whole situation going on with my local recycling center and waste management place in my neighborhood.

Well, I'll set it up for you tomorrow about what our plans are for the dump, and I'll let you know on Monday how it goes.

Exciting. I'm very into that. I think Caroline Prem is also very into that kind of content. She's out in Redmond, Washington. I don't know what Caroline's relationship is with her local waste management company is. But, oh, speaking of garbage anxiety, you know, they didn't take the garbage from my house for two weeks because of the ice. Oh, yeah. And I feel like I should be allowed to, I mean, I should be allowed to put out as many cans as I need to, right?

Yeah, you should. But, I mean, look it up. See what they say. Nothing's guaranteed. Who has the time? They ended up charging me for that Christmas tree. Oh, wait, you weren't on the show when I was going bananas. I watched what okay I can't get into this again I went into it way too much on a show that I can't

believe you didn't burn the Christmas tree that's one of the great joys in life yeah but it's kind

of it was you know the weather has been soggy it's not like um but uh it was a huge deal on whatever Friday show that was when you were out and I had put the Christmas tree out of the curb that supposedly there was gonna be free Christmas tree pickup but I didn't quite believe it and then I went outside and I couldn't the Christmas tree had been pushed back from the curb and i was wondering if i'd if it had been rejected by the garbage collectors and then i came back inside i was complaining to genevieve about it and then the truck pulled up and i watched like a peeping goddamn tom i watched from my basement window while the guy picked up our christmas tree and flipped in the back of the truck i was so legitimately excited i was like thieves at work blah blah then the the uh charge appeared on my next bill for like and it wasn't much luke it was eight dollars but i called and i contested it and i got it taken off because i was like come on man like you can't put free christmas tree pickup everywhere now here's the deal i shouldn't be so honest they said to cut it up into four foot chunks which is your favorite thing to

do i've watched you know but this thing was like cut plant matter into smaller pieces it's your

whole thing it was like six feet maybe maybe six and a half feet tall i mean come on like you can and it was very light and the guy just picked it up and flipped in the back of the truck I feel so betrayed by the guy who flipped in the back of the truck and then took more time out of his day to write something in a little tablet, like this guy owes the city $8. And I know, I can already hear from listeners who were saying, like, hey, you've got to pay your fair share. I broke the rules here. I was supposed to probably cut this thing in two, so it would have been two three-foot chunks instead of one six-foot chunk. But come on.

Which sounds like more work, honestly.

Yeah, for them. Exactly. And I was so but I called and ended up having the most fun, delightful conversation with the woman who was taking it. She's like, oh, yeah, I don't know. And then we got in this whole conversation. She's like, what do you usually do with your tree? And I'm like, man, I used to like totally denuded inside my house and then sweep it all up. And she was laughing her ass off. She's like, yeah, that's why I stop.

Sir, please don't use the word nude when talking to the waste management people.

I'm not joking. Like this woman, we like we hit it off. We're like laughing our asses off by the end of the call. She took the $8 off or $7.99 or whatever it was.

You know what I did this year? And this, by the way, this is exactly why Maurice Higgins of Lincoln, Nebraska, is supporting the program. Because Maurice knows that at some point I'd start talking about Christmas tree storage. What I did with my tree, I was very proud of this. And I think it was winter game, so I didn't get to tell you about it. But I did post it on Instagram. i have this like 1950s probably aluminum christmas tree that you know it's you you basically it's like a pole that has these little holes drilled in it and you you fit these kind of shiny aluminum you know branches into it and then you have this color wheel that shines light on it i'm a big fan of the whole vibe what i'm not a fan of is putting it away every year because it came with like there's like a hundred of these i'll call them fronds there's like a hundred of these branches and you're supposed to slide them into these little paper sleeves and the sleeves are falling apart because they're literally like 80 years old and because you put this whole thing back in this box this ever gleam christmas tree box right and i was dreading doing

and I thought what is why am I why am I subjecting myself to this why don't I just go to the Home Depot or Home Depot as Walt calls it and buy one of those big clear Tupperware things boxes and then just gently lay the fronds in there and maybe create a couple layers of like cardboard you know kind of to keep them separated and I did that and I put the whole thing away it took me like five minutes and now for the rest of my natural life I have a system for this Christmas tree and it honestly I was geeked out on this for a week about the I to this day if I think about the Christmas tree being stored in my basement in a way that's easy to access and easy

to put away it makes me feel happy yeah let me ask you this and I you might have explained this and I might be twisting things here but what did you do with the original packaging so you you're not using the original packaging anymore you're putting it right into one of these you know glad wear things or whatever it is but did you save the box and all the little sleeves and everything because those would be also you know kind of valuable yes the well yeah but the box

was really jacked up like it had about i bought this on ebay and this is the second one of these i've purchased the first one uh i lost in my most recent divorce so then i went out to try to find another one because really what i'm about is recreating moments of my life from when my life was more pleasant and so it came in the mail and the box had a ton of water damage and so it was not even worth saving what i did though was i cut the the color wheel comes in a separate box and that's actually the really hard thing to find and i cut the top of the color wheel box off and i taped it to my big tupperware i see so i was retaining a little bit of the original charm but the the evergreen box like tearing down a building but putting up a plaque where it used to stand that's right that's right this was i was able to tear this down right before the historical preservation society stopped me it was like that googie denny's in battle that they tore down under

the cover of night oh i thought there was one in santa monica that they were uh not it was in santa monica it was another town near la that they were going to tear one down but it was saved at the

last minute and i was rooting for that denny's that was a big story in the early days of tbtl um when we were a radio program was we loved this denny's in ballard and it was it had been designated uh historically you know significant because it was this googie architecture thing and then there was some kind of a like there was literally like a 12 hour lapse in the in this particular designation like and in the period of time like it was like someone you know it was like 6 p.m. on a tuesday and then someone needed to go like move some paperwork around at 9 a.m. on a wednesday and in the period of time that the paperwork was was in transit or this thing was officially not designated they tore it down jeez now it's a five guys is it well i have a that's probably where you had a burger before you went to see your movie at the majestic bay

I hope you're happy oh no no no we went to a no we didn't we want to kill my dreams a tiny little shack um that was kind of a weird establishment but um okay well here here's the deal and I don't want to get into it also I think we do we have more donors to thank maybe not only do we have

more donors to thank Lori Tipton Andrew is in Henderson Nevada hey Lori I can see you I can see your house from the Mandalay Bay where I currently am so close your blinds yeah no honestly like you're going to want to put on a house coat or something put on a house coat i was just going

to say there is something and i'm thinking specifically about the um you know a case that came up recently in seattle history where um i think they were going to close down the show box because some developer bought the the um you know the property that this this beloved venue down by place and there was no historic um you know designation to this building but when somebody bought it was going to tear it down um everybody was like no you can't tear down the show box and so everybody scrambled i i think like the you know the county actually dow constantine the county executive actually got involved the cool county executive exactly rides a motorcycle and like they were able to like save the building and i had such mixed emotions about that because like i didn't want that venue to be torn down either but like i the lesson should be let's get in front of these things let's get our historical society and our historical designations in order because there is something a little bit iffy about like just saying no this is not a historical landmark then letting people invest in it with and again this person who i'm not trying to defend this guy who bought it like he was like you know it was the ike from the marijuana no it wasn't but it was

i mean and again i'm kidding but you know that guy seems like the least likable

person in Seattle currently this guy apparently was kind of unlikable too like he was a he was a

guy real estate developer unlikable okay but also like he's the guy who developed a whole bunch of

I think like strip clubs and adult stuff around town or something and again like well whatever I don't want to get into all that but like I don't know but people were sort of like saying that in a way that also painted him over we're gonna let this strip club developer buy this land and he wasn't gonna turn it into a strip club I think housing was gonna be involved which is also like important so anyway i was a little bit like i'm glad the show box was saved but i was kind of like do you is is that right like how would i feel it's kind of a goal post something and then yeah moving the goal post but my takeaway from that would be like okay you save this one but now can you get can you get your people out there and decide what is actually should be designated and then people are trying to designate a lot of things that shouldn't be designated just to keep their you know single family home zoned properly and to keep development out so i don't know it's

a very complicated issue when you talk about and by the way thank you laurie tipton yeah and thank you for closing the shades apologies laurie for everything um when you talk about kind of i don't even want to say shady but like you know strip club developer type people i think of something that was not far from the eagles that you all love so much that i guess i'm technically a member of which is it was called talents west if you are if you're old like me and you grew up in seattle and also you were overly aware of the strip club culture of seattle i was never and have never been a particular fan of that form of entertainment i'm more of a casino guy but the people that the the company the guy i think that ran like most of the strip clubs in seattle turned out to be very seedy you'd be shocked to hear and he had this little office on lake city way called talents west and over time it would become clear that there was like organized crime going on there and all kinds of bad stuff like if you were if you wanted to be a dancer at like ricks or something i think you had to go to talents west and quote-unquote audition which sounds truly awful for everyone involved but i somehow read about all of this in like the Seattle Times as a kid and I remember we would take Lake City Way to go to church and there was a couple of very big kind of uh visuals for me as a kid driving on Lake City Way to Gospel Outreach Christian Fellowship and one of them was one of them was the deja vu at 145th uh and and Lake City Way and the other was the shabby offices of Talents West oh my god I would just I would just see that and I'd be like that's where the strippers are going to audition to be strippers and I was deeply fascinated with the offices of talent which was again the the shabbiest little building you

could ever imagine and you were in your 30s or whatever at this point uh early 40s early

early to mid to late 40s like my mid 30s and that's i think the big takeaway here by the way

i was wrong about a denny's it wasn't a denny's it was a norms in los angeles that was saved the one with the pointy sign yeah can you picture that thing that almost was slated for um for like redevelopment i believe and i'm looking at an article here in reuters in 2015 and that would have been right when i lived there and it's like this beautiful googie building with this amazing sign and that one was also saved and so again like i don't know if i'm all over the place on on like you know my uh where i stand on this issue because like i love it i love that this building was saved but i also just sort of feel like we need to get out in front of this right

Right, exactly. Like, nobody wants to side with a rich real estate developer, but it is kind of the case that if you bought something and were told you can, you know, you can turn this into something, and then all of a sudden just because people are kind of mad about it, now that's not the case. That doesn't seem like the best system for working this stuff out. Hello and welcome to Top Story. All right. Let's see. I've got a few different top stories jangling around. And I guess the question to you, Andrew, is what are you most interested in? The return of Jon Stewart or bunk journalism regarding flatulence on an airplane?

Let's talk about the airplane one, because the only thing I know about the Stewart one is what you just said. I saw that. I saw that headline yesterday, too. But maybe I can read that before tomorrow's show if you want to bump it by a day. But I did read this airplane story and I share your ire.

yeah i was um again a number of people sent this to me which tells you the brain space that i occupy in people's minds which is stories about flatulence um the headline from the new york post excessively farting passenger forces american airlines flight to turn around and i i saw the headline i thought wow that's really you got to really work hard to ground an airplane from flatulence and so i was like how how does that even work Like, how could you be making a smell that bad that we, you know, there was a lot.

of attention around the person who had like a kind of a bathroom incident on an airplane and you know it was a biohazard situation that kind of makes sense although even that one i believe that flight was going from like atlanta to europe and unless the biohazard material had hit me directly i would have been like can we keep flying please can we get out did turn around right it was it did turn around yeah okay but um so uh i was like i saw this headline i thought how how's that possible that somebody is so gassy that you have to land the plane and then i read the article and it turns out that was the the lowest that was the least of the things this person was doing it was an american airlines flight and it was uh from phoenix to austin and uh somebody wrote on twitter i think or some internet place um quote before most people had boarded i observed this man was audibly disgruntled about something maybe hung over rough day i don't know but as soon as he sat down he was grumbling about something under his breath like bleeping hell or something um and uh the person continued to say i don't know what provoked oh he he the man apparently uh was like mad at people getting on the plane and he said he is he was heard to have said you thought that was rude well how about this smell and then farted but what really seemed to happen was this guy was angry and muttering to himself and muttering to other people and the flight crew decided that he was a loose cannon so to speak and they basically turned the flight around and took him off of the flight but it it doesn't seem there's nowhere in the story where somebody was like I was vomiting from the smell of this guy passing gas no one even as far as my reading of it even reported that the farts smelled bad no this guy this guy was just being problematic character in all kinds of ways he was a problematic person on the plane who by the way it sounds like

his complaint was that other people were farting oh really is that true I guess I misread that I thought he said I thought the story was which I'm also dubious about was that he said do you think that stinks what about this and then he farted did I misunderstand that part of the story

no you you you understand that part correctly but he also said something apparently about people eating food that made them smell bad yeah yeah so like it sounds like he my guess is he was sitting on an aisle somebody crop dusted him he was hung over and mad and then he ripped one but that was not what got him kicked off the flight thank god if ripping one on the flight got you kicked off i

would be on a no fly list but um it's kind of the perfect crime on a plane i mean it is it is i mean depending on that that kind of that loud hum of an airplane that is just like loud white noise for

everybody you can the constant recirculation of the air you can kind of sneak one out and then

like and you you pray you pray that there's no um aroma associated with your work but then if there is it's like unless it happens a lot the like if you do it frequently on the plane which i would not uh recommend nobody really knows where that's coming from exactly it's very hard to trace it

yeah um and you know what you can do is uh you throw a if it's the kind of flight where they give you a blanket throw a blanket over your lap that's kind of a filter oh that's all that's a

hell though now if i see if i see you i walk through the airport with a blanket tied around

my waist so they can't and i do that on flights when i'm ripping one in flights when i'm not

so it's impossible to know you tie your jacket around your waist and then it blows out and back um this guy just sounds like it also like maybe this was me sometimes you read a headline you just make assumptions or whatever which is that's on me as a consumer but um there was something about the way the headline was written that i thought like they turned a plane around on the tarmac like the plane didn't take off which is another kind of whatever this is this is my least favorite kind of story though because it's like the reason they wanted to write this was because people were making jokes on social media and they wanted to rewrite they wanted to reprint some of those jokes which were not good they were terrible no terrible but there's like oh we can farting man on plane we can make it and then they make the writers here insert a whole bunch of fart puns and say that, like, heavy winds stopped this plane, which that's kind of good.

It's funny when you say it.

Yeah, but, like, it was like, oh, they just wanted to write a pun-filled fart joke when really, like, this is a pretty, you know, sounds like a pretty disturbed guy who was disturbing a lot of people.

Yes, there's no indication that in any way him farting was why they turned the, you know, rolled the plane back to the gate. And then they took him off the plane and everybody was kind of happy. The joke they really wanted to kind of signal Amplify was somebody who wrote, I think maybe on Reddit.

that the guy missed the opportunity to yell smell you later when he got off the flight which doesn't

even really make sense even a joke it's not a good joke that's what i mean they're just like hey there's this funny thing on reddit let's turn let's turn it into content and then the thing that you it's like he could it's not even a joke it's like it's something that could have been said like i mean listen i've already done that on this show several times wouldn't it be funny if i introduced somebody on stage and said they need no introduction like or what about me just restating louis ck on the program that's a great look but still like well also uh what we're doing is a little bit different than what was this nbc news that put this out i can't remember but it was like

well i was reading it in the post which again it makes me feel bad about myself as a person because

it's a terrible terrible oh it is a post this is the post oh that's well that explained my apologies to the National Broadcast Corporation because I was reading the post piece too. No wonder it was so bad.

There's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll. You can just listen to your soul. Just remember that life is number one. You can be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be number one.

All right, just a couple of Blurs days here today, Luke. I was going to say so you can, you know, preserve your sound machine a little bit, but I guess you're on the road. You don't have a sound machine. What are you going to be bringing to the table during this shortened Blurs day segment?

I've got drops. I'd like to grow a pair sometime. There it is. Oh, yeah. I've got audio. It's just every drop I play is going to have a nanosecond of the next drop at the end.

Oh, you still haven't figured that out. Yeah, we've got to. I think some listeners sent in some advice. Let's not get into that, though. Let's reset. I know.

We could go down a long, dark rabbit hole about that. But the advice from listeners was well-intentioned but did not solve the problem.

Bet says, I want to wish an awesome. Our friend Bet. Bet, exactly. In New York State I want to wish An awesome tank girl Filled Blur's Day To my lovely Friendo Linder You have been Such an amazing friend Since we met In Austin I love you My Friendo I love you My badass lady friend Happy happy Happy Blur's Day Did I do that right One two three Yes happy happy Happy Blur's Day You are a beautiful Human being Happy Blur's Day Linder Linder's been a long time Friend of the show

Also bet Sending you Delayed belated love and light in the wake of the Buffalo Bills

losing. That was

a brutal game for our friends in upstate

New York. So brutal. Oh, and I was just checking, so I play, I share my Wordle results with Bette every day, and Bette already sent hers in at 6 a.m. in the morning, my time here, and she broke her day streak. Congratulations to Bette.

Oh, nice, like set a new one.

Yeah, that kind of, I think, is still rolling on a long streak. I'm up to almost 175 days, Luke, without a skip or a wrong wordle.

And I'm going to get all anecdotal on you.

Anyway, the Blur's Days have gone off the rails. And just one more.

What's happened to the Blur's Days, Luke? I don't know. I mean, this is, listen, be careful what you wish for, Andrew, because you'll get it. You're always talking about your mixed feelings around the Blur's Days. And for the last month, we've had maybe a couple on Thursdays. Spattering.

A light sprinkling of Blur's Days. We have Karen in Kenmore, a.k.a. KJ, who says happy Blur's Day to Julie, a.k.a. J.K. So, a.k.a. KJ says happy Blur's Day to a.k.a. J.K.

There's a Hidden Valley Ranch party in my mouth.

In Salem, Oregon, you are a gifted foodie and my best bestie all rolled into one. You are my footsie. I guess if you're a gifted foodie and my bestie, you're my footsie. Happy belated 60th Blur's Day. Love ya. That's from Karen to Julie. Cute.

Mmm. Is this organic?

Now, here's one thing, and I don't know if I've ever told you this, Luke, and we haven't come across this before, but we are, because this is a sponsored segment, we have to keep the blurs days rolling for a certain amount of time but since i've run out of content we need to just play this music for about five minutes okay i have plenty of drops i can play okay great do you know that this is now one of the songs that i get notes from um youtube on saying i was actually just wondering about that When you started playing it, because it is, you know, the property of Tim Heidecker.

It's actually not that bass part that we talk over. It's the first part, the right way to rock, because, I don't know, listeners may not know that that's an amalgam of two Tim Heidecker works.

From the, like, what, Uncle Muscle's telethon or something? I think so, yeah.

Uncle Muscle Hour, maybe.

He's, you know, he also is a kind of a serious musician.

He is, yeah.

we were playing that album that was that was serious and he you know like uh again we've talked a lot about tim heidecker on the show this week but um but but i i somehow forget that that's

also him doing yeah blursday song yeah exactly so anyway happy blursday everybody yes indeed

i am off uh to uh do a bunch of interviews around las vegas nevada wayne newton is tomorrow night So I've still got some time to get it together, to get my plan together, to try to break through, break on through to the other side of Wayne Newton.

We won't hear about that until Monday.

We'll start with your dump run on Monday. I love I'm just forward promoting Monday show. We still have tomorrow's show.

That is true. I was going to ask you, can we spend, let's see here, because I'm getting the impression we're at the end of the show here. Who are you rooting for to make it I think I know, I think it's obvious Do you not want to talk about this because number one People might not care about sports, number two We will just hurt the feelings of people Who live in the cities that we don't choose To go to the Super Bowl, if we had our druthers

I think that our listeners Are mature Reasonable people And they can understand That us embracing A narrative around a particular team Even if that team is playing their team it does not mean we don't love them and we're not thinking good thoughts for them so to answer your question um i of course am hoping that the detroit lions win the super bowl because that is a a city that hasn't had a super bowl championship maybe ever is that true or maybe

not since the like you know 1950s or something yeah i'm not sure i i know that they haven't even been close to the playoffs in so so long um i'm not sure about it's amazing to think of how much

We roasted Dan Campbell, the coach of the Lions, when he was talking about biting your kneecap and falling down to love this.

I mean, it's just I mean, it's great. It's so great. I love that storyline. And also and so we want the we want the Ravens and Lions to go to the Super Bowl. And we want and we want the Lions to to win. Right. That's yes. I think a lot of people probably feel that way who have already been eliminated. Obviously, probably our friends in Kansas City see things slightly differently and in the Bay Area. But yeah, that would be a Lions Raiders. Is that what you're kind of is that kind of what you're rooting for as well? That'll be a really interesting Super Bowl. Like this season has been really interesting for me. And I've said it before inarticulately. And so I won't try to articulate it again. But like loosening my allegiance to the Cleveland Browns has sort of opened up the rest of the league to me in this interesting way. And I felt like I was like way more invested in other teams storylines, some of them as revenge to the Browns. Like, I was all in for Baker Mayfield to do really well down in Tampa Bay. And I wanted Houston to do really well because of the deal they made with the Browns. And so, like, I had those narratives kind of going. But also the Lions thing is so interesting. And honestly, like, it's fun to root for Lamar Jackson. I can't believe I'm saying that. I can't believe I'm saying that as a former Browns. But, like, once I loosen to my grip on my Browns fandom, you can just sort of enjoy the Ravens a bit more, I feel like. and especially the Lamar Jackson of it all.

And isn't, I mean, we have to admit, right, if we're being honest, that a big part of rooting for Lamar Jackson is rooting against racism, right?

I honestly believe so, yeah. In the league, in the league.

I'm highly pro-Lamar Jackson because I'm highly anti this sense in the NFL, this notion around black quarterbacks, which is obviously complete bullshit, but it just feels like a thumb in the eye to racism everywhere when Lamar Jackson prospers

yeah exactly and and and it's in the culture around the Ravens I think as well like I don't think I'm the right person to maybe speak to it but I mean obviously I mean Patrick Mahomes is in is in the um you know is in the playoffs again of course as well and he's a black quarterback so I don't want to like kind of dismiss that but um Lamar Jackson has been very much dismissed by kind of like white media and there's always and whenever he does something good i feel like there's sort of an asterisk and so um anyway yeah so i think that's a really interesting

narrative as well if there's a way that the lions can win the super bowl but lamar jackson

also wins do you think that the lions can do a globetrotters thing bring him out like do a

washington generals thing bring lamar jackson out as a detroit lion after halftime okay of the super

You know what I really, I mean, I couldn't believe I was rooting for you.

for a what would have been it would have been a the bucks are the nfc right are they the afc i

kind of can't remember any great question camp is so far from seattle that i don't really know

the answer to that to be honest with you most bucks fans don't know either baker isn't even 100 sure on that but anyway i can't believe i was rooting because i thought that i was rooting for a while for the bucks to play the texans in the super bowl but i don't think that would work out i think they're in the wrong divisions but it was amazing how my my anger at the browns was had me rooting for like a Super Bowl matchup that just like nobody else in the country would want except for fans of those teams but anyway it's not even Friday I don't know why I wanted to do a um well

I'm here I'm here in advance of the Super Bowl I'm literally looking at Allegiant Stadium yeah the game is going to be so it's it's relevant to what's going on for the show that's pretty

exciting I am actually interested in hearing and maybe we'll hear more about it even on Monday after kind of all of your time is spent there. But, like, there is – I asked you about this a little bit on text last night, but we can talk about it more on the show. But, like, the idea of the buzz around an area as something is approaching, for me, my experience with that was living in New Hampshire during a couple of primary cycles and, like, the buildup to it and almost the electricity in the air before the big event sort of. And it must be growing literally by the day, if not by the hour while you're down there.

Well, it's weird because Vegas is always in that mode anyway That's true It's sort of hard to separate it out But as I texted you last night They have changed all of the paintings in the hotel lobby And the hallways to be like Patrick Mahomes And Max Crosby from the Raiders And it's all NFL It's like photographs that they've turned into paintings And framed and hung up Yeah, it's like, wow, you really went all out for this You're going to take all these down on like the Monday after the Super Bowl. It's also funny to see all of the huge promotions for the big game, like on the billboards. Nobody can say Super Bowl here. And so you've got like all these sports books that are trying to get people to come watch the Super Bowl at their place, but they can't call it the Super Bowl. Because like you would seriously get busted here. Like if you had a billboard being like, come to Cirque for the Super Bowl, it's like Roger Goodell would literally drive up to your casino and be like cease and desist that.

Right, and people have like sort of a misunderstanding about that. It's not like you and I are not allowed to say the Super Bowl on this show or even on sports radio. I think you'll hear a lot of like kind of hosts say, oh, you can't say it, but you can. You just can't say like we're giving away. We're holding a contest around the idea of the Super Bowl. You can't mark it. You can't use the Super Bowl to market some event that you're doing or something that you're doing. But you can talk about the Super Bowl. Also, I don't know why I got to get negative at the end of the show, but let's retire the superb owl joke.

you know yeah i'm i'm guilty of i'm guilty of using that when i'm in a tight corner

sometimes i'm not proud of it gently lay it to rest just tuck it in just give it a little

gently place a pillow over it it's really about making the superb owl comfortable at this point

it really is okay uh i gotta get out of here i'm gonna say what a dark way to end the program

it's me canceled you know the good news is you can't say anything anymore andrew really you You really can't. You can't say Superb Owl. You can't say Super Bowl. You can't say Louis C.K. No. This woke mind virus is really out of control. All right. Thanks, everyone, for listening. We're going to be back here tomorrow with more Imaginary Radio for you. In the meantime, have a great Thursday. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

so this team's going to be built on we're going to kick you in the teeth all right and when you punch us back we're going to smile at you and when you knock us down we're going to get up and on the way up we're going to bite a kneecap off all right and we're going to stand up and then it's going to take two more shots to knock us down all right and on the way up we're going to take your other kneecap and we're going to get up and then it's going to take three shots to get us down and when we do we're going to take another hunk out of you before before long we're going to be the last one standing all right that's going to be the mentality power out