Muse

Well, are you going out, by the way? You have plans?

Uh, no, no, not really. I'm going to stay in tonight.

Yeah?

Yeah, I'm going to hang out. I've got some stuff to do around here.

It's Saturday night, don't you? Isn't there a... What about, um...

Well, I mean, I have plans. I just, you know, they're not that complicated. There's some plans, though, that I do have, Dad. Like what? You know, I'm going to take a shower, and I'm going to clean up, and I'm going to, uh, you know, lie down on my bed and just feel clean.

I don't think this is healthy, Ben. I think that there's something missing here. It's Saturday night. I'm going to shave my body bare is what I'm going to do. Don't shave yourself again, Ben. You're going to chafe. Dad, I got it. The hair's dirty. Hair is dirty. I want you to get counseling, Ben.

T-B-T-M. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is.

It's Friday. Friday. Got to get down on Friday. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. What'd you say? I didn't say anything.

Yeah, totally. No, I hear that. I was in a band back in the day.

Oh, yeah? What was the band?

The band was back in the day. I was in a band back in the day. The name of the band was back in the day.

This is the real thing. This is the necessary art of our time. This needs respect.

Come on in, guys. The guests are having cocksquatches.

Well, all right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Friday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live isn't that for techno geeks with spreadsheets

my name is luke burbank i am your host hey where's the freaking gabagoo coming to you

from the south waterfront of portland oregon oh la la where it is a kind of damp and not particularly pleasant day weather-wise but being here in portland south waterfront does mean i am currently surrounded by adorable cats who are one named Holly Golightly and one named Bubbles Burbank. Bubbles Burbank decided to welcome us back this morning to Becca's place by just doing a full on running sprint jump into the air and then parkouring right off of this scratching post that's shaped like a saguaro cactus and then just knocking it right over. When I eat hot Cheetos, I get crazy. Currently, I am activating sound effects with my right hand and flitting one of those feathery situations around with my left hand that currently has bubbles completely locked up. Anyway, that's what's going on in my immediate field of vision, but I am going to ignore all of that and focus on episode 4138 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. Because that is the show that we are doing here on this Friday, the Friday before the Super Bowl kicks off, which is, you know, a big story, whether you care about football or not. It's, of course, a big weekend event, and we're going to talk about it and maybe even some of the ads that people are looking forward to, as is sort of a Friday before the Super Bowl tradition. If we run out of content there, which seems unlikely, we may talk about the story of a French guy who set out to build the largest reproduction of the Eiffel Tower made out of matchsticks. It was a waste of time to do that. And then ran into some sort of, I don't want to say legal trouble with the Guinness World Records folk, because he wasn't in any kind of legal jeopardy, but he did run afoul of their rules. but then he maybe ran back. If you run afoul of something, what happens when you're no longer in trouble? You're foul? He fouled back into the rules of Guinness about the Eiffel Towers. I don't know. This guy maybe knows. He's a fan of all sorts of athletic endeavors.

I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

He's also the longest-running Cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. Something I've been meaning to tell you, speaking of cats, because I think my cat has picked up a behavior that you were telling me Bubbles does or used to do. I'd like to know to what extent your cat does that, but I can't tell if this is the result of some training by Genevieve or if it's a happy accident or somewhere in between. But Bingo now plays fetch, but insistently like a dog. I will be sitting there on the couch playing my game, and he brings over—

He's got that dog in him.

He's got that dog in him. And I don't like—Genevieve is the same. We don't like complimenting cats by saying they are like dogs. You know what I mean? Cats are their own thing. But this is very dog-like behavior because he will grab this little—his latest toy is this hairband. You know, it's like it's rubber inside. It's got a little cloth on it.

Like Warren.

Or maybe, I don't know, the band Slaughter

He keeps on singing She's My Cherry Pie Uh-huh, yeah, no, that's definitely

One of the larger hair bands that I can think of

Yeah, so anyway Yeah, it's like some sort of a, not a scrunchie But like some rubber band thing with some cloth around it Genevieve gave it to him And he just runs it over to me And drops it right at my feet And if I'm not paying attention He will just sit at my feet and look up at me with those eyes I'm like, oh, okay, buddy, here you go And I just toss it away and I go back to my game He runs over, grabs, does a somersault, like he's showing off, and then he brings it right back and drops it on my foot or next to my foot. And this will go on for, I mean, it went on for at least an hour the other night. And, again, I'm not even, like, I'm not even encouraging it. I'm like, go, get it, get it, get it. And then just brings it right back over and drops it like a fetcher.

I love that activity from a cat because, you know, first of all, it feels to me like you're sort of wearing them out a little bit.

Yeah, he needs exercise.

It's a fun game for the whole family. It is dog-like where, you know, from getting Bubbles, although I've been a very absent father for Bubbles.

Bubbles, remember you? Did you stop at the gas station and get, like, a toy truck to bring Bubbles?

Bubbles, do you remember me at all? This is what Bubbles knows about me now. I think it's that I smell vaguely familiar, and every time I see her, I pick her up. I'm going to try this in real time. She's probably going to run away, and I'm also lashed to this setup through my headphones. Oh, and she knows it.

Does she like being picked up generally?

No, she hates it. And that's what she identifies with me is the guy who comes over, the guy who she used to spend a lot of time with, and now who comes over and then picks her up. And then if I can get her, Andrew, I'm going to try to entice her over closer to me so I can. Isn't it weird how they just instinctively know if you're up to something? Like, I don't think this cat is going to get into Mensa anytime soon. But all I want to do is get her. She loves this little feather thingy More than life itself I have it over here I'm dangling it by my feet So as to get her to come closer So I can snatch her up So you can hear the sound that she makes When she gets picked up And she suddenly Has now figured out That something is up And she will not come over to this little She's like kind of crouched in a corner Doing that butt wiggle thing She's very intrigued So am I But she somehow knows I was playing that sound effect for you She somehow knows To not come over here and mess with this thing It's the strangest

She can sense a trap

I mean I guess that does kind of make sense On some level right because These animals You know their ancestors Some number of generations ago Were living in the wild presumably And you have to have a very very Kind of highly sensitive Sense of when you're in danger or you won't or you won't be around sorry she just ran over here but i missed my chance anyway i think you know if you just think about from an evolutionary standpoint they've got to have a very very sensitive little sensor in their brain that says is something trapping me right now because you know the ones that were more like all right coming on over they all you know died and they

didn't have kittens and well what is the evolutionary imperative for instinctively knowing when a podcast is over because this is a real thing genevieve will come in here like i mean like finished forever because a lot of people have wondered why that hasn't occurred to us yeah no that's a special that's actually a certain kind of bloodhound you can get it'll sniff around your studio and just like shake its head if it's actually pack it up you do little

slices of the podcast you put them in a petri dish and they can identify which ones you rub

You rub a t-shirt on a microphone and then you have the bloodhound smell it. So I remember various pets of yours. I think Rudy was one and maybe Bubbles, too. Could sort of tell when TBTL was over because you would say, I don't know if the animals recognized what you were saying at the end of the show, what your energy was. But it is true that when you and I are recording this podcast, at a certain point, we go silent on our ends, right? We take off our headphones. We're not in the same room anymore. But Genevieve and I, every Tuesday night, do after these messages, which will maybe come up later as we talk about commercials, and we sit at this table that you can picture well, Luke, across from each other, and we put on headphones and we talk into microphones for about an hour to 90 minutes, right? And Bingo will come in at the very beginning when we're sound checking, and then he just sort of leaves. And I think he goes and he sits on the couch outside the studio. And then we finish the show. We take off our headphones, but we just keep on talking to each other. nothing has changed sonically as far as Genevieve and I sitting here talking to each other laughing having a good time but we're just not recording anymore he always trots in right at that moment he knows that the podcast is over how is it that is fascinating You mentioned one time I'm going to take off my headphones for a second. There is sort of a if you worked in radio a long time, this telltale sign of that sound of somebody putting on headphones. I don't know if it came through the mic there, but like I recognize that sound. I can tell if you're getting close to your computer and putting on those headphones because I've worked in radio for 25 years. But Bingo's only worked in radio for like a year and a half.

Yeah. And the idea that like he's figured out that I mean, a more impressive. I mean it's all impressive But an even more impressive thing would be If he could just tell When you're being on Andrew Yeah right And when you're just being normal Andrew Yeah right I swear And same for Veves Like he's like this is Mommy and daddy are podcasting right now Why because they're acting Way more interested in each other than normal life

They're acting like they like each other

And now it's real life again And I can just sense energetically the shift

Yeah you can feel the tension coming off of us How are we going to keep this relationship

going to our retirement how are you um planning to spend joking how are you planning on spending sunday are you going somewhere to watch the game are you having folks over are you doing your pop

up what's the scoop i don't know man this is what i'm trying to figure out this is what i'm trying to figure out no i've made plans to take the day off of pop-up let's try to grab bubbles and she skittered away sorry i thought something went tumbling um it was the cat going tumbling I knew it was cat related, obviously, but I did make arrangements to take the day off of volunteering so that I can, you know, concentrate on the Super Bowl. And, of course, the ads, because Vives and I will be doing our we're going to be releasing our podcast a day early on the Monday after the Super Bowl to talk about.

Oh, nice. After these messages, get it. After these messages, wherever you get your podcast.

And we already did. And again, I mentioned this to you before the show. I can maybe give you a little preview of things to look for in during this is one of those years where I just.

have absolutely almost zero intel on what the uh big ads are going to be and i wonder if you if you have noticed this yourself yeah i have um that it doesn't feel like one of those years where they're you know they're putting out all these lists of like these are the top 10 ads look for like very few of them i mean i have been leaked or i can't imagine they're embargoed to such a degree that we can't get our hands on them but it just seems like they're just generally don't

give a shit this year yeah no it's I'm glad that you noticed that too because I was like well maybe it's just my consumption of media being less plugged in but Vives and I both noticed this and this is how we started our show this week just saying that like I mean if you look for you know the Super Bowl ads to look for this year you'll find like CBS and other outlets will have lists of 20 to 30 ads that are both like teasers and some of them have all already released both the teaser and the Super Bowl ad like we played a whole bunch of them they run the gamut from some really funny stuff to some that just lay there um and uh but there's not as much buzz around it except for now near the end of the week a couple of things have bubbled up and we'll again maybe talk more about that later in the show but my to answer your question or to stumble my way through trying to figure out my your question um this weekend i don't know what i want to do because if i had cable like regular cable in my house i think i'd probably just stay home and know that i have a direct connection right the commercials and and the and the game and everything and the only social activity in my life that's going on going on around the super bowl is um they're playing it at our eagles club and that sounds really nice to me i'd like to do that but if i do that i know i will not be studious enough to really pay attention to the commercials as much as i want to i'll be in line getting a drink i'll be doing this i'll be high-fiving darren i don't know what else is going to be going on and so i feel like checking your bets but on the other hand genevieve is so good at checking my bets exactly will cronk make the field goal or not where's who will be you know oh right the uh i don't i don't even know

destiny or something are they are they letting him on the real field to do that i don't know he

apparently did it last year i have no recollection of him doing it last year but there's kind of a

funny commercial with him and john cena now yeah i saw that too uh and i i had the exact boy you and i have been just living very similar lives without you'd think with as many hours a week as we talk to each other this would have come up live wire tonight oh thank god i did not do any of the prep but like like i had the exact same thought about the gronk kick of destiny thing which was did they do a kick of destiny last year and is it possible so what what i got from this year was supposedly last year there was some kind of a contest you know promotional thing involving Rob Gronkowski where he was going to try to kick a field goal or an extra point or something and then he missed it and so then the commercials this year are about like should we try and do it again I don't remember there being a first time is it possible that they are putting

together such a meta project that the premise is that it happened last year even though it didn't

happen last year that would be i would definitely be pretty amazing i would tip my cap but you're

saying that's not the case there was a kick of destiny last year that just somehow we didn't

notice i mean i'm taking them at their word for it like i mean i guess i have they get you i haven't dipped into that conspiracy theory but no i'm pretty i mean because the whole point of it but But it's a it's a I want to say DraftKings, but I'm not sure. It's some sports book promotion. So you can use that, you know, get on our platform and will he make the kick or not? And then suddenly you're a DraftKings customer, you know, you can win a huge prize. But I don't know how I got on that particularly.

But well, just the kind of buzz or lack thereof around these commercials.

So do I want to go to the Eagles and just trust Genevieve to take all the copious notes and then we can come back and do Internet research later and just have a fun time? Or do I stay home, make myself some mini corn dogs, glue myself to the television and hope the illegal feed that I'm watching contains the commercials?

I'm still really trying to figure out if there was a kick of destiny one. I just keep seeing all I can find, Andrew, is kick of destiny, too. Here, did Gronk make the here's here's people also ask, did Gronk kick the kick of destiny last year through Vinatieri? I assume that's Adam Vinatieri. Gronk developed a soccer-style motion for the Kick of Destiny using the side of his foot to attempt the kick. When it left his foot, Gronk claimed he struck the ball at a perfect angle, enabling him to deliver one of the most powerful kicks he's ever had. Gronk seeks redemption in FanDuel's Kick of Destiny 2. I just feel like we didn't spend any time talking about Kick of Destiny 1 as a society.

No, we didn't, but it did have some local ABC station. I don't know.

We can confirm.

Harrisburg, Virginia, I'm assuming. Rob Gronkowski misses field goal on live Super Bowl commercials.

This is not the sun from the Raisin Box brand wearing sunglasses. This is not the Mandela effect.

I was going to say it's a Berenstain Bear situation here.

I mean, we've just seen too much of that lately. That would be bold, though.

That would be the most amazing thing for a brand to lean into the Mandela effect and just start, like, have a— because the campaign this year is very much like it starts with a boardroom of a bunch of creatives saying, we can't do the same thing two years in a row. That's marketing 101. And you have John Cena sitting there like, yeah, I'm going to do the kick this year. And then Gronk comes in and says, no, I'm going to do the kick again. And his very, I'm acting about as well as Gronk does. Oh, I think better.

I think, I think he gets so close to getting that special insurance discount through Navy Federal. He's just, it's like, you know, Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. He's just always about to get it. and then he messes up somehow there's a misunderstanding i know we see that differently

but i like those they charm me i he says he seems a bit touched but that's i don't have a i don't

actually have a problem with them i don't really have a problem with rob gronkowski like generally existing he seems like kind of a big galoot but like not a not a force for ill in the world i'm not anti rob gronkowski per se i do find it interesting that there would be any companies in america that are going hmm who can sell this for us during a football game i don't know is there a guy who's in every commercial currently is there a person whose personal brand has been so diluted through being hired to do every and also is now one of the like halftime announcers depending on the week could we get that person could that be what puts us over the top like

peyton manning or gronkowski i mean honestly throw a dart you'll probably hit peyton manning's

forehead it's a large large edifice but like you know what i mean like i don't understand i don't understand the ad wizards who are thinking what we the difference maker for us is going to be if we can land rob gronkowski it's sort of like if we can get shack for our product then we'll finally sell some icy hot or whatever like it just seems like there are some folks that are you know in so many different things that i lose track of what it is they're promoting it does not grab my attention anymore in a particular way because they're just like i said diluted i don't

know i don't know why they're still booking gronk for everything but i mean i guess my question for you is it is is your feeling on this also based number one on their performance in the commercials and is it based at all on their popularity outside of the commercial realm because i sort of feel like patrick mahomes was in tons of stuff too not just the insurance commercials and i could be wrong About this but I thought for a while there he was In let's see checks notes everything Like every commercial And does that seem like the same delusion To you or is it because he's Like the best quarterback or One of the best quarterbacks playing right now That it doesn't seem as Kind of strange or off-putting or maybe

It does I think An active player A player that is active and that is at the Very top of the game Is more compelling than someone who's no longer playing the game and has now shifted fully into personality mode. So I think that, you know, you put Mahomes in stuff because, like, he's, you know, one of the most famous football players on the planet currently. And when he's on television doing a press conference, people are, like, leaning in because, you know, he's critical to who wins the Super Bowl or loses the Super Bowl. I just think that it's, you're kind of, for me as a viewer, I mean, I'm not overly jazzed about any of it, But I think I can handle a more oversaturation of Patrick Mahomes because he's still on a daily or a weekly basis. He's still relevant to the plot line in a way that Rob Gronkowski is not.

Yeah, I see. So it does. So it does have to do with sort of their their place in active. But I mean, I do feel like there's just there are people and athletes and ex-athletes who are just people find them personable. And so they put them in commercials. It doesn't seem as big of a mystery to me. These two guys, I mean, I can't get away from these guys. We're about to get a Joel Batonio reference My name is Jack And I protect your city's favorite Quarterback My name is Joel and I guard The city of rock and roll What's the rhyming there

I do believe, doesn't Joel Batonio their Air guitar as well

I think so, yeah That's a classic I'll tell you, if you want to make an ad

and it's all backed by us okay whatever this is going far too deep into football but it is the friday before the super bowl so i don't know forgive me this you want to put an a player in an ad a current a sort of quasi current player and you want me to pay attention put cadarius tony in something that guy i don't know does he not have eyebrows just google cadarius tony right now andrew please who's cadarius tony he is a receiver for the kansas city chiefs he is apparently very physically gifted but he also has a bad case of the drops like he drops a lot of passes when he catches the ball it's great because he's again he's physically very fast and very kind of like hard to tackle but he has he sort of single-handedly played his way off of the team to where they put him on like injured reserve but he wasn't injured but he then did a press conference where he announced he wasn't injured and then Andy Reid this guy and then Andy Reid had to kind The coach of the Chiefs had to kind of say, well, he isn't injured. We were just trying to save a little face for him. And what no one is talking about is Kadarius Toney is one of the most visually arresting slash upsetting people I've ever seen.

I'm just looking. OK, first of all, I had heard that story. I've even heard that. I heard the audio of him talking on his IG or something like I'm not injured. It's like, dude, we're trying to cover for you here. So I had heard of this story. Now, I'm looking at still photos of him, but they all are kind of a different sort of vibe. Some, you know, it's just a headshot and his hair is out. Other ones where he's wearing a hood. He looks a little menacing on the field. But what are you what are you talking about?

I'm talking about Kadarius Toney eyes wide open, no visible eyebrows, some kind of some kind of maybe. I mean, you know, by the way, if he has alopecia, listen, societally, we've learned that not make fun of people with alopecia. Even if you don't know it, you could get beat up by Will Smith. But, like, maybe there's something physical going on with Kadarius Tony, but I think he also revels in it, because I see so many pictures of him where he's got his kind of hood pulled up so he doesn't appear to have any hair on top of his head, and then he's got his eyes really bugged out, and then he's, you know, got either a grill in or different things going on with his actual teeth, and it's as if he is literally trying to look like a character from, like, a Nosferatu, like, I'm talking 1940s black and white thing. and like the fact that this is just the look that he's chosen to assume in the world and that he is a guy who is supposedly really good at football but also can't catch the ball to the point where they said let's just pretend you're hurt and then he decided to say i'm actually not hurt and i would really like to play to where andy reed had to say give me them nugs sir you are you are not hurt but we were just trying to make you look less bad like i'm put him in a commercial that's who i want to

see cadarious tony please i gotta say though and i'm not just doing this to do like to to do like um you know a hot take radio like okay i'm actually i'm now seeing a photo i'm wondering if this is right out of college he's wearing a suit and tie and his hair is shorter here but it's still no eyebrows um but like it's not a bad i find him to be attractive though right he's a

good looking guy well here's what i'm looking at when he i'm seeing pictures of cadarious tony without his like you know sort of hood on the thing that you would wear under your helmet right when I see Kadarius Tony with his hair out he looks totally normal like I would never think I would have no thoughts about him calm down bubs I'd have no thoughts about him in terms of his appearance but when he has the hood up and because he has kind

of minimal eyebrows and because he does seem to like to bug his eyes out like intentionally the first few times I saw Kadarius Tony he really looked like he was out of a movie where he's supposed to be like standing next to David S. Pumpkins or something like he just he looked otherworldly to me in a way that I I think made an impression on me uh you're right though there are plenty of pictures of him where he just looks like a completely norm completely normal completely I'll just say unremarkable person like he just looks I mean except he's got a great smile I will super athletic but he i think i think he enjoys doing this one particular kind of weirdo face that i don't think is an accident i think it's his way of like celebrating that something went well and i i can't right now because i'm not in my normal location i can't get you some uh proper video evidence but i am of the opinion that cadarius tony of the kansas city chiefs who mayor is he even playing in the super bowl i saw somebody was betting that he'd be super bowl mvp and you're getting plus 8,000 for that? That's the bet, by the way. That's the Burbank Stone Cold Lock. Kadarius Toney, Super Bowl MVP. That would be a plot twist that nobody saw coming. I mean, I don't know if he's even on the active roster for the game.

Now, this is a question I should be asking you off air. This is probably not entertaining radio. But that prize, the Super Bowl MVP, is that usually given to somebody who has one remarkable I mean not just one but like can that be given to somebody who has just like one remarkable moment in the game that might be maybe it changed the course of the game or does it look at overall game performance throughout because if he was supposed to not play at all and or isn't expected to but then just has you know like the last minute touchdown catch that you know that seals the game or something is that all it

would take to win that award i don't think that there's a very sort of good rule book for this sort of stuff or like a consistent like system that says this is how they decide the mvp i think it's sort of kind of a it's a vibe because if i remember right malcolm butler the guy that intercepted the pass from russell wilson intended for ricardo lockett because one of the things you should definitely do when the game is on the line is throw to a guy who has two catches this season let's do that for the super bowl but anyway uh the guy from the patriots who intercepted that ball i believe he was the mvp of the game and i believe i could be wrong on that but my memory is he was the mvp and by the way i can't argue with that the most valuable thing that could have happened in that game was that interception at that moment of time so i i think sometimes it can be a person who just does a play and then sometimes it can be a person who you know just gained a lot of yards or made a lot of tackles and just overall had an impact on the game so I think it could be one of I think it'd be either one I think if they let Kadarius Tony on the field it should be MVP

yeah that's it just getting one snap most visible player at least in Luke's mind right exactly all

right I'll make that bet sure okay thank you bet ah oh man I'm wrong because I've talked so much about my uh kind of interest in in sports betting and I want to be clear we're talking peanuts here We're talking five bucks here, five bucks there. What I kind of like about sports betting is that I get an outsized enjoyment from it. Well, first of all, I can't do it at my house. It's not legal in Washington. They're pretty good at figuring out if you're in Washington on your cell phone, it turns out. So most of the time I'm not putting any bets down. But when I do, I can have so much fun for $5. because if you pick some kind of silly five-leg parlay, meaning five different things all have to happen, your $5 could turn into a bunch of money. It never does. That's why the payoff is so high because it's statistically really improbable. But what it does for me is gives me all these different little rooting interests during the game. This person to get X number of catches, et cetera. So because I've talked about it a lot on the show and in my real life, I now have people reaching out to me going like, what are you going to bet this game or who are you going to bet or what prop bets are you taking and the truth of the matter is I've done zero research on this I don't really think I'm qualified to be the person that some people in my friend group and other places turn to for gambling advice on the football game but I guess I'm that person now well what is your watching situation we are going to go down to Becca's brother and his wife's house down in Salem and They do a big Super Bowl party every year So we've been going for the last few years That was the place last year where And this is now on me a little bit If people think that I am the recognized master Of sports betting I had put down a bet that at some point One of the kickers would kick A ball off of the upright Known as a doink And that happened And I won't lie I was fairly into my cups By that time And so being pretty drunk and getting my doink bet right i i think i made quite a scene and i think a couple people took a note and were like well i guess this guy knows what he's doing so now i'm officially the go-to person for sports

betting i see roy doink used to play in the colgate hour i believe the colgate comedy hour yeah he had played the horn with the kink in it you could hit that high c all night let's do this

let's thank some donors and then i do want to talk about this paramount commercial with you because it's the only one that i have seen it's also by the way technically a place i do work i guess i consider everyone in that a colleague paramount i do that's where i have to go to file my expense reports i have to i have to sail up the chrome river and then scale the paramount and then drop it into concur like throwing the ring into mount doom so um i do want to talk about this paramount commercial with you though uh because it is a the only one i've seen and i do i do have some thoughts i'm i'm i'm intrigued and it is one that i know you've also done some

recon on yeah and i can tell people i i will give people the opportunity to be the person in the room genevieve says you don't want to be this person in the room but i'll give everybody the opportunity to be the person in the room to say hey everybody pay attention this one this was a

good one right as it comes on okay good uh i wonder also where it'll be in the order of things i guess the first commercial is kind of always bud light right do they still are they still paying top

dollar for that oh i always thought it was um i always thought it was the um shack and the general No I thought it is a weird one though I always thought it was good grief What from Mexico Oh Modelo Oh my god what do you make guacamole out of

Oh avocados

Avocados from Mexico have been like the first commercial For a while now haven't they

Maybe recently for many years It was always like Budweiser Or Bud Light it would be the Clydesdales But like they were I say many years it might have been like five years There was a period of time when I paid more attention to this stuff That it was reliably Bud or Bud Light But they may have ceded that I mean, as we've heard, Bud Light's been running into some financial issues They may have ceded that a while ago To the avocados of Mexico Anyway, we'll thank some donors And then we'll continue talking Super Bowl commercials in a moment

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All right, let's thank some donors. These are the wonderful, generous people keeping TBTL in business on this rainy Friday. Folks like Dave and Aaron Goulet of Edmonds, Washington.

Hey, hey, Goulet. Thank you, guys. Thanks, Dave and Aaron. Appreciate y'all.

I wonder what the resurgence of the idea of Robert Goulet has done for having the last name Goulet. And by resurgence, I mean 20 years ago when Will Ferrell did a character.

Oh, I was wondering what the connection was.

Well, I feel like Robert Goulet was someone in the kind of far back ancient annals of pop culture history. And then Will Ferrell apparently was really fascinated with Robert Goulet and then did a Robert Goulet character on SNL, which then caused people like me who have great comedy ideas and are always finding new funny things to when we see the name Goulet, we tend to yell at Goulet in the style of Will Ferrell impersonating Robert Goulet.

I don't have a strong handle on Robert Goulet. Like now that you say that, I know that it's somebody from a bygone era. I picture like a kind of a general like singer and entertainer during the sort of.

You picture correctly.

I know he wasn't in the Rat Pack, but that sort of era, is that what we're talking about here?

Yep. I mean, I'm very close. My sense of him is that he was kind of one of those actor, singer, you know, kind of entertainer guys who would pop up in various things, but had a lot of swagger. I see. And I think that that was his kind of, you know, his, what would you call it, his sort of self-confidence and his way of moving the world was what somehow spoke to Will Ferrell, which then somehow spoke to me 20 years ago, which is somehow now speaking to everyone hearing this.

To Dave and Aaron in Edmonds.

Specifically. Thanks, Dave and Aaron. Thanks also to Richard Callow of Burnsville, Minnesota.

Ah, Mr. Burns. I'm assuming owns that town and has built a machine to block out the sun.

Last time I quizzed Becca on a Simpsons thing, it didn't go well. What does Mr. Burns say in the X-Files episode when he's all shot up with that radiation medicine? I come in love or something? We've got a strong I think so From the background We've narrowed it down

You've got to be careful around that stove

The person who might actually know the answer is Kathleen Dunkley Who's in Evanston, Illinois And a noted Mr. Burns scholar

Nice, and another Midwestern Donor there, thank you

Now we're going to talk about one of our friends to the south though John Harkness in Gig Harbor, Washington

Thanks you, John. I appreciate the donation from John. It does hurt that John's from Gig Harbor because it reminds me of a very painful moment on the show for me when I was totally wrong about the placement of Cheney Stadium. Oh, that's the... Oh, yeah, Gig Harbor. Yeah, okay, gotcha. Yeah. And you want to talk about the Mandela effect? What I realized is that I have just been... I mean, I would say hundreds, maybe a thousand times, definitely hundreds of times I have driven Highway 16, crossed the Narrows, gone through Gig Harbor, that whole thing because of where my parents live relative to where I lived for many years. And somehow in that making that journey so many times, I had just misfiled the location of a very large baseball facility for the Tacoma Rainiers and was so darn sure about my rightness that even after you corrected me, I was furiously Google mapping about and eventually had to admit I just had that thing in the wrong dang place. I was just

sort of i don't know future tripping is the right word when it's a good thing but as you were talking about cheney's stadium i just gotta say it different i future tripping you're tripping like you're going to disneyland astral planning but as you were talking i was sitting in the stands of cheney's stadium with the biggest bag of popcorn between my knees they serve so they serve these giant bags of popcorn that i think are like a penny farthing or something um and you You have to ride a bike with one giant wheel to get this popcorn. If you win the stick and hoop contest. No, it is true. It's like everything is much more affordable. All the concessions there are much more affordable. And so I always get this giant thing of popcorn. And I definitely need to take in at least one Rainier's game this year.

Well, Andrew, I don't know why you'd be going to the Koma Rainier's game when apparently Ty France has worked on his swing, which gives a promise that he may return to some amount of competency. I mean, how do you not get turgid over that kind of information in the Seattle Times today? Reworked swing for Ty France could lead to a resurgent season. I mean, are you kidding me? A guy who was greatly disappointed last year has reworked his swing? Move over, Otani!

I think you missed what I was saying. I'm going down to a Rainiers game so I can watch Ty France rework his swing there.

The Mariners are like, he's on an injury assignment. He's like, I'm not injured. They're like, we were just trying to cover for you, Caderius, France. Anyway, thanks, Kathleen and John, and also Amy Weaver, who's in, okay, this is interesting. I didn't realize that there was a Belvedere Tiburon, California. I know about Tiburon, California. I didn't know there was a Belvedere Tiburon.

What is the, let's see here. When I look that up, is Belvedere Tiburon the same as Tiburon? Oops, sorry, I think I said it wrong.

Isn't Tiburon like Spanish for shark?

Oh, I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not that far into my Spanish lessons yet. Let's see. It says Belvedere is accessed from Tiburon. So it seems like there are two communities that are very, very close to each other, I'm guessing. How's that cat doing?

Becca's holding her, trying to. So she just did a move where she remounted this really large scratching post that I mentioned, shaped like a cactus, and hung off of it backwards and then just let out a caterwaal, the likes of which I don't know if anyone's ever heard. And Becca and I both looked at her like, what is going on? So she was trying to calm her down a little bit and it was kind of semi-effective. That's what you were hearing in the background.

How about this? I'm seeing on Google Maps here that Belvedere Tiburon is a lush scenic area along Richardson Bay. So it looks like it might be a small community

within Tiburon okay but more critically is Tiburon Spanish for shark that I there's no way that's what I need to be correct about that's a big thing for me when I take a um huh como se dice como se dice Tiburon en Espanol how is that helping me is that what you typed I know I just typed in well you saw what I actually typed it was No, you want to know what I typed Thank you, I'm going to give you The actual letters I typed in To my phone, because again, I'm not at my normal setup So I'm trying to not knock us offline I've got a wildcat running around I've got a girlfriend who left her battery charger At the hotel So it's just a scene here, we've got a lot going on And while talking to you I was trying to type in Tiburon in Spanish And here's what I typed in T-O-B-U-R-O-N Toburon I love to get those in my stocking for Christmas I typed in Toberon and then S-P-A-N-I-S-G Toberon Spanish Isn't that a Greek dish? It is And so anyway We actually did finally get to There we go Your person says it different than mine They have a different voice

That's what they're doing on the google That I'm looking at anyway Here's the thing and this is I think why Amy donates to the show Because she's Dealing with a co-host of the program Me who knows that Tiburon is Spanish For shark So thank you and you're welcome To all of our donors thanks for making The show possible today And I'm sorry And also we're sorry That's implied in everything that we say I also just did a ginger shot So if you hear a certain, if you hear me getting amped, if you hear me getting hyphy, it's probably the ginger shot. Hello and welcome to Top Story. All right, let's talk a little bit about this Paramount commercial that we'll be playing during the Super Bowl. I will say this. I wasn't seeing it written up in, you know, ad week or anything. I just probably on TikTok saw This is how I now experience most of the world Somebody on TikTok just writing The words yo this Paramount Ad unhinged You know what I mean like it's not It isn't like Bob Garfield Like analyzing the Where the money is being spent this year on Superbowl ads or something it's like a person going Yo no cap This Paramount Legit unhinged And then I watched it I thought this is actually pretty funny

It is pretty funny and you know it's Like I mentioned earlier Veeves and I Oh Did you pick her up?

I got her Bubbles Would you agree That Paramount Legit Unhinged? Really? You're gonna go quiet now? I'm holding her Next to the microphone She knows She really does Yeah What does she What does she understand About what we're doing And what don't I understand About it?

Well a lot of people Are like that You all have a good conversation Then you start rolling And then they clam up I swear to god

It's the radio producer's Dilemma anyway let's talk about this commercial so it's for what it's for the family of content right that all falls under the umbrella of paramount plus yeah this campaign has been going on for

at least a year i want to say two years although i'm not exactly sure and the way paramount plus is sort of advertising all their content that is available on the platform is by taking some of the stars of that content both live action and animated and in a lot of cases and putting them on a mountain somewhere and calling it Paramount or Mount Paramount or something along those lines. And they did this. They had a Super Bowl commercial last year with a bunch of celebrities in there. And this year, and I don't know. I mean, do you want to play it? I don't know. It's actually pretty good audio. We could also just tell people to keep an eye out for it. No, let's play it. My journey for this thing was kind of, I think, somewhat interesting because, like I said, I hadn't been seeing a lot of commercials kind of getting buzzed or floating to the top. So Veves and I, for our show, you know, sought some out and did some Internet research. And this was one that legitimately made me laugh out loud. Like every now and then when I'm prepping for a show, I know like Genevieve will know when I come across a good commercial because just peals of laughter will leave my studio. And this one like really got me in a couple of places. And I was like, oh, Genevieve, this is really good. This is maybe my favorite frontrunner so far because we do something called the bullies after the Super Bowl where we hand out awards. and um and anyway and so anyway i was like yeah that's a good one we talked about on the show and then i don't know i think it was yesterday you and i were talking about something i had people magazine.com opened and you know how they have those like kind of you know all kinds of just like clickbaity headlines and suddenly i saw a headline that said like sir patrick stewart tells drew barrymore to shut her face a new a new super bowl commercial and i'm like yes that does happen And yes, it was legitimately funny, but somehow seeing People Magazine apply that headline to it made me like, you're ruining the commercial, which is like, what a dumb thing to yell at People Magazine. There are so many other things we can yell at People Magazine. I know. But in this one, I'm going to, while I look for the link here, and it's a long one. It's like two minutes long.

I can give you some of the people who are in it. I've actually got it up here. I don't know what my audio abilities would be.

I can play it over here.

But it's got Tua, Tagovailoa, I guess because what? Is Paramount playing football now? Have they been playing? CBS, I guess, plays football, a place I work sometimes.

Yeah, I think they had. Yeah, Paramount Plus carries like one of the, I don't know. It wasn't Thursday night. That's Amazon. I can't remember which one.

Well, and then you got Jeff Probst from CBS. That was the one person I couldn't.

Survivor. Yeah, I couldn't recognize him when I was playing.

The one person who's been on this very show, my friend. Oh, wow. um and then uh of course sir patrick stewart drew barrymore you know what's actually funny when i go to uh new york and i work at the cbs headquarters as i was recently the you know the thing that people were lining up for was the drew barrymore show it's funny because i watched this this whole commercial at one point.

didn't put it together that it is legitimately a place i work and these are people i again i'm joking when i call them my colleagues but literally i have to go past the drew barrymore show to go into where i do my sunday morning work and yet it did not occur to me until this moment

that that's why drew barrymore is in the commercial right so it's also there are some animated characters in here too i think probably um our listeners are more familiar with the cartoon character arnold than i am but arnold has sort of a this is key here sort of a football shaped head Peppa Pig Peppa Pig is standing around there too And the basic plot of this thing is They're caught in some sort of This whole crew of celebrities

Oh sorry you know what I think Peppa Pig is in the Josh Allen one

Peppa Pig plays a critical Role in this at the end of this commercial I wasn't sure if you were making a joke

I wasn't making a joke I'm just looking I'm kind of scrubbing through Oh oh they do show up at the end I think it's confusing for me because I'm Looking at one of the ads And it's It's, you know, the scene that you've talked about, this paramount, and it has, there's another one apparently that has Josh Allen and Peppa Pig and the Transformers doing a whole thing. Oh, okay. So I was sort of blending these together, but I think Peppa Pig is in both of them, you're right.

And I can't speak for all of them. I remember thinking some were funny in the past and some probably are less remarkable. But in this one, the key is this gang of people, for some reason, this gang of celebrities are in some part of this mountain pass where they can't get over this cliff. So you have Tua, the football player, the quarterback for the Dolphins. He's got one of those grappling hooks or something, and the commercial begins with him trying to get it up over this huge rock wall, and he misses, and he says something like, well, if this grappling hook were a football, I'd be able to do it. So that's where the story begins. I'm going to play it here, and I'll jump in to clear some things up as we go.

On Paramount Mountain, the stakes get higher.

i mean i i can't get that thing up there if it were a football i'd be able to reach the top

what about a football shaped head now that's patrick stewart and he's wearing a big coat over his shoulders by the way and he and when he says a football shaped head everybody looks at the cartoon character arnold who has a football shaped head who looks concerned about this idea

We throw the child Gutsy call, sir Smart thinking No, that's dumb thinking He's not throwing

That gutsy call is Thomas Lennon from Reno 911

Yes, I left that out, yes

And I, you know, it's, listen We've seen the joke, we've lived the joke, we get it But him, superimposed in a snowy glacial mountain In those short shorts Wearing the short shorts It's just, it's not, with the frosted tips It's always going to get me It's always going to give me a good feeling

He's so great we throw the child gutsy call sir smart thinking what no that's dumb thinking he's not throwing

arnold throw him throw him hey do you want an immunity idol i don't know what an immunity idol

is but i didn't know who he was the first time i watched that's jeff robes offering him some

survivor-esque what is he offering it to arnold basically yeah arnold doesn't get thrown and

arnold doesn't know what the hell he's talking about what you can't throw a child at a wall

Padamore, shut your face.

Shut up.

Unless you prefer to freeze to death. I'm not going to throw a kid. Not built for the moment, I see.

Not built for the moment. Which is honestly kind of a meta joke about Tua, sort of. Right.

Look who's not in the Super Bowl right now.

Right, exactly. Because the Miami Dolphins, I know this because the show I listen to is based in Miami. I mean, like they basically they had a decent season, but they didn't beat the hard team. They didn't beat the difficult teams. They didn't beat the good.

I wonder also, you know, when they wrote this, they had to obviously write and film this before the football season was over, probably this summer or something. Yes. So, like, I mean, it would have been great if the Dolphins were playing in the Super Bowl. That would make that joke even funnier. Yeah. It goes from being really funny if they're in the Super Bowl to being, like you said, unfortunately somewhat telling.

Not built for the moment. Now, I mentioned that Patrick Seward is wearing a big, you know, heavy coat and it's over his shoulders. He is about to shed that coat. And I guess I'll just tell you now what's going to happen. And this is the part that had me laughing out loud. I don't know why I didn't expect it. And it's such a good visual joke. He says, not built for the moment, huh? And he shakes the coat off his shoulders. And underneath, he's wearing an old-fashioned football uniform, exactly like an old leather neck or leather head.

Right, like real Newt Rockne era.

Yeah, he's got big leather pants pulled up really high. When Goofy is a football player, that's what he's dressed like. It is so goddamn funny.

Not built for the moment, I see. Point. I'll throw him.

He looks at, okay, so we start to hear some Creed playing in the background. He looks at his wrist where he has one of those playbooks, and he opens it up, which is obviously not what you would have during this era of football. And it just says.

throw the child doesn't his jersey say sir Patrick on the back of it does it say sir

I thought it just said Stuart but I could be misremembering that we'll see that in a second and then we do hear this music of Creed playing and then they are the surprise celebrities who are now in their real form playing on the cliff behind them

and Creed's here watch and learn dang he's cool it's the fifth quarter and we need a whoring one before the seventh inning stretch

be brave just for what it's worth the i don't understand sports and i'm going to get my um sports sayings wrong here probably the weakest part of the commercial for me i have a different

weakest part of the commercial that i'd like to submit later okay sounds good i wonder if that

involves a back tattoo we'll see uh it might it just might andrew he is um but it is also a funny visual Patrick Stewart kisses be brave and kisses Arnold on top of the head before he

by the way I've given this a significant amount of thought and the only way this commercial works is because Arnold is a cartoon oh yeah like we have to throw real babies well sure obviously but I mean it's only and it's and it's also because Arnold is not even a cartoon that looks even remotely human like like normal human like whatever that means you know what I mean in other words even throwing a cartoon of a baby could get you kind of you know it could certainly distract people from the point of the commercial but it's so unrealistic but i remember thinking are they really going to have him throw this child cartoon and they do and i was like well of course because it's a child you can do that and it's also a child cartoon that's intentionally non-realistic appearing it's just a good thing

that the stranger things kids aren't on paramount plus otherwise you have a rude awakening during exactly throw 11 okay so he's he's kissing arnold he says be brave be brave you're right says sir patrick on his uh jersey he throws the kid Now, Thomas Lennon is showing off a tramp stamp style tattoo on his lower back that says Creed.

That part was a little... That's the part you don't like?

Or is it the whole creediness of it all that you don't like?

Well, the creediness of it is a bit of a problem for me because I will say this, and I'll raise my hand, as he says.

Are you just talking about flatulence?

As what's-his-name says in the show that I also can't remember the name of. Saxon Dale, I want to say. Thank you. I will raise my hand and admit to spending a lot of my life kind of making my personality about disliking other things, including the music of Nickelback or the music of Creed. I regret that I don't have to like it But also I don't have to spend A lot of time You know Talking about how much I don't like it I wish that that hadn't Have been my personality For as long as it was That being said The kind of Sort of ironic Re Embrace of Creed I'm also a little weirded out by We talked about this on the show How you had In the post season A number of MLB teams That would After they won a game Just start singing this song The Dallas Cowboys Were apparently singing it I think in their locker room like it's having a moment as a sports anthem and almost to the point where it's like liking Creed now like whereas like disliking Creed isn't a personality and to me like ironically liking Creed or being like Creed is back is also not a personality like I feel like it's a joke that's been made already and and then when you throw that in and then you throw the quote-unquote tramp stamp joke and it just was like a rapid fire moment of more jokes than we needed for me and more jokes that i was kind of medium on in a row that for for me anyway yeah no i well here's the

deal with me and i'm trying to do some cross-checking on this i think it would be funnier if creed had a reason to be on this mountain and as far as i know i'm hoping i'm wrong about this but if if paramount plus is actually carrying a live creed show or something like that or

well they're on a label oh yeah that's true they might be on i might have to do a profile of creed at some point andrew will they dig this up will it be like when ao etaberry had to go on snl with j-lo right because they dig up all my anti-creed comments and then say this guy can't interview

creed yeah he was saying that people like them ironically and then don't like them ironically i am yeah so i'm not sure i'm trying to figure that out but i mean that's the thing that kind of that's the bigger bummer to me like i don't mind the creed joke if there was a if there was more to it than just like creed isn't that funny you know like if they were part of the the paramount

plus universe and it's like oh what a perfect use of them but if they kind of broke the rule of their own commercial just so they can make this creed joke then i'm i have a strong suspicion

that they are on a record label that is somehow caught up in the overall you know sort of octopus that is paramount and i say this because more and more when i'm doing a story including when i'm working on for the next few weeks we get the script back from legal and they're like well You also need to mention that this movie is produced by such and such, which is a, you know, part of our parent company, Paramount Global Plus. That's getting into more and more stories that I'm doing. Yeah. That disclaimer. I have no theories. Tiboron. Tiboron.

We are all owned by Globochem. Right. By the way, so let me, I'm not going to play the rest of this. So basically it looks like Arnold's going to make it over the cliff, but he doesn't. He just face plants right into the side of the cliff.

All right. I did actually forget that part. I'm not kidding you.

Yeah. And then they're like, oh, he still didn't happen. Well, I guess I'll play the end because this is the Peppa the Pig part. So close.

How are we going to get up there? Now, if there were only someone made of pig skin. Bingo.

Oh, dear. Am I saying that right? Is it Peppa Pig or Peppa the Pig? Again, I'm not really familiar. I think it's Peppa Pig. Peppa Pig. So then Peppa Pig says, oh, dear. And that's where it ends. But generally speaking, when Sir Patrick Stewart sheds his jacket, and you're right, I had the back of that jersey. Like that whole visual thing when you don't know it's coming is it had me really laughing out loud.

I mean, I just him, the the gravitas with which Patrick Stewart can deliver things that are, you know, obviously on their face, ridiculous. It's again, it's it's it's not a it's not a surprising joke to me, I guess, but it works every time him looking at a cartoon and saying something with deep seriousness to the cartoon. as he's about to throw it like it's just i want to give him credit because he's just he's a master at delivering that kind of stuff and also has really found a second or maybe third act as one of our go-to super bowl commercial actors because think about it he was in all the uber eats was one

famous uber eats but yeah well the one with mark hamill right yeah yeah but still that's a pretty

I mean it's I don't know if I would have went when Star Trek okay here we go it's about to get dangerous everyone the third rail of podcast when when Star Trek uh next generation when he was you know serving as Jean-Luc Picard I just would have never imagined one day he's going to be throwing Hey Arnold I mean partly because I don't think Hey Arnold had been invented but you know what I mean like or that he'd be the guy for the Uber Eats tonight I'll be eating or at least that one ad like you said like it's just it's a it's a it's an interesting kind of third act for a guy who i just wouldn't have seen him to being the person we're putting in all the commercials

yeah i think like and does he have well again there's no need to get into this i'm trying to think he does he have any i oh yeah of course he's got iconic roles outside of um star trek of course the the x-men universe he plays yes um professor x look at me he's he plays professor x luke yes he certainly does if i had my belt i would ding it for you we're really doing it look at us um I just wanted to mention so one thing that I haven't even seen yet a commercial that I haven't seen that it seems to be the buzziest one for me right now because I read a New York Times article about it yesterday that maybe you're starting to see too are the Michael Cera ads apparently there's been a sort of a guerrilla campaign with Michael Cera going on for a while for some product named CeraVe or CeraVe I'm not sure how to pronounce it but it's a skincare thing are you up to date on this I don't know anything about this so apparently it started a while back with some sort of like guerrilla marketing of like of like laying the groundwork that Michael Cera is the creator of CeraVe and and it started with like him carrying huge bags of CeraVe and getting caught by the paparazzi or something like that and then like I think it comes up on some you know he's planted on some podcast some real podcast and apparently they ask him like are you the creator of CeraVe and he gets up and walks out or something like that and it's all been building towards a Super Bowl commercial, which I think Genevieve now finally, I heard her laughing at her desk earlier. So I think she's actually seen some of the commercials now and I'm not sure exactly how they're going to play out. But it's this whole viral campaign with Michael Cera, which is very much in the TBTL wheelhouse where Genevieve says, we always start our show with a drop. And she said, well, we already have our drop for the Super Bowl show. Apparently you start by saying, hi, I'm Michael Cera and this is my cream. So anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing more of that too. People should look out for that in the Super Bowl.

I mean, I have to say this is the first that I am hearing about this, but if they pull it off I give them credit because at any time there are over 1,000 like

What's the word I'm looking for boardrooms In America despite the you know Lack of people returning to Office the one place they are returning I Assume are two boardrooms where people are sitting around Thinking how do we go viral how do we Make something truly different how do we You know how do we like Do something that's unexpected And it catches people by surprise and that just Seems like it's so hard at this point There's just almost Everything under the sun has sort of been Done can we get Gronkowski He's already doing the skin Cream for our competitors Like and then You know often times also you try something but you just Get kind of busted on it sort of like the Joaquin Phoenix you know Fake documentary that they made where he was You know supposedly talking about his Artism and everything even that kind of like They couldn't get through it they couldn't get the whole Production done because people started to figure out it was a Production you know that's what Paul what my

Friend Paul went is that version of Joaquin Phoenix for Halloween this year I believe That's pretty good That's the beard and the sunglasses right Dressed in all black yeah

But it's just really hard to pull anything off anymore And if they have pulled this off Or at least if they got it this far I think that's pretty I think that's I tipped my cap Because I just feel like And I'm you know I've never been in any meetings That are this high level But I've been in Unfortunately enough of them Where it's people creatives And I use that term loosely Saying okay we gotta figure out How to really just like shake it up And it's just like really hard to shake it up at this point It's like you know what you do, you get Sir Patrick Stewart Have him talk to a cartoon with too much gravitas Call it good

And you know, I complain a lot About Super Bowl commercials because I sort of feel Like the laziest thing to do when you have A lot of money is just to get a bunch of celebrities And then make it some sort of like either over The top action adventure Scene through the streets of a city Or it's just like, or we're just going to keep on Oh and don't worry Luke, there is a Snoop Dogg And Martha Stewart appearance for big lighters again what an unlikely oh my goodness everybody drink um so anyway uh so yeah like the lazy use of celebrities uh and and just piling on more and more celebrities into a commercial like i just think that's so lazy especially when usually they've put all their resources into the talent quote-unquote talent and then um the writing is so bad but it can be done really well too i think i'm gonna not play this i'm gonna tell because first of all if you want to hear all of these you can listen to last or the last episode of after these messages uh but also i don't want to spoil for folks ever stop promoting that show we use the promo code live wire um and if you want access to that um but um the uh i would i do want to like kind of say like keep your ears peeled for the christopher walken ad i don't know if um you know if you've seen this but only listen to it yeah keep your ears peeled but look away look away from the screen you will Turn into stone no but I think It's a really good use of it basically I'll tell you the Basic plot Christopher Walk is for BMW He's walking through his life and Like you know the person the valet Who gets his car the people who see them at a restaurant Everybody the makeup people Everybody starts talking with him and then They immediately slip into an imitation Of him and it's just his Like reaction to all of this and then there's an Usher Usher is doing the soup When did you learn where were you Where you learned that Usher is doing the half

the halftime show I was a week ago when I saw him on CBS Sunday morning talking to Tracy Smith I think I was the same episode I was talking to Wayne Newton if you want to know where I am on the

CBS Sunday morning pecking order I think it was like two days ago when I saw Usher in this commercial I'm like oh he must be doing this the halftime show like that's how unplugged I don't know it's like I think it's not that people aren't talking about the Super Bowl you know what I think it is I honestly think it's the Kelsey Taylor Swift thing I think that's the bigger cultural moment i'm just landing on this now but i think that's in in i'm not complaining about that like some people are god those montages from fox news i've seen so many different i've heard different montages of people on fox news losing their shit about taylor swift how much tape of that is there

it is amazing you must it's quite something did you uh we we should get to the music for your weekend obviously but like i'm looking at well we've got a cat we live in a literal cat fight going on right now oh between the two cats or uh no between becca and bubbles it's ugly no between the two cats um the uh did you mention this but i'm just scanning this new york times article that these are directed by tim and eric oh i didn't know that yeah is that in the new york

times article i must have maybe tapped out of the article at some point i did not know that

directed by tim heidecker and eric wehrheim so good i mean so there you go i mean that's i think that's i i feel confident that it's going to be pretty watchable or at least pretty entertaining to to folks like us if you got the tim and eric stamp on it that's great and michael sarah yeah yeah all right how about a little music for your super bowl weekend we can say that i can say that we're reporting we're reporting on it and also promise you roger goodell is not going to hear this um what song would you like to play here

i have a question for you luke because i think i have stumbled on a song that you are going to like a lot excellent and i had never heard of this performer before uh have you heard of a rapper from the 90s named e-rule nor had i i like literally was googling something completely unrelated to this but whatever i was googling called up a video for a song called listen up by e-rule and i'm like oh this is great and then i went to put it on my like a spotify list and it's not on spotify and i i dug around a little bit and apparently like this is a truly like classic hip-hop track that had that has like a lot of respect from people who were performing during that era but e-rule like didn't apparently have an actual album release until 2002 but this song from uh 1994 I guess was like kind of whatever viral was back then and it's not on an official label so you can't find on most of the streaming platforms and it is just so good what I listened to this about five times in a row last night and then I just went over and started to listen to Illmatic by Nas it's kind of like that sort of athletic style of emceeing and you're just gonna and I think it's got um a sample you're gonna hear like a boogie downs boogie down production sample in this as well it just it checks all the boxes take a listen to this this is a janky old video by the way where it still has what do you call it like the slate up at the top not the not the physical thing that you clap not the clapper but like we're watching like a behind the scenes production um release of this video that is very janky from 1994 for

hawk is worth it i'm on the brink of blowing up y'all examine hits however they call it mics in flight graphic when i grabs it gab with forms of this odd words i comport swift no what's ends or ifs later on the reel eventually to scale a bill i pack a creel up the ramp till there's a meal and chill when i feel like grow like shrubs overdubs indulging buds maybe 420 demons on the elements of green what's the word travel on a six third brothers in mad words to build upon a scene That was not me rapping, by the way.

I can rap like that, but that was actually E-Rule from 1994. Oh, my goodness.

That's so good.

Right? How do we not know about this?

And whatever that, like, sample is behind it, it reminds me of, like, some stuff from, like, The Roots when I was really into them back in the Illadolph days. Like, I, yeah, oh, man, that really takes me back, and I really, really, really like that song.

I would have guessed that was West Coast, but I think he's actually from Chicago, for whatever that's worth. But, yeah, that song is great. I'm looking for the B side now

That's way good Alright the song that I want to play Is a song that Becca actually sent me It's from a band called Slow Pulp They are I guess originally from Madison, Wisconsin But they live in Chicago now And they put out an album Called Yard And this song that I really like Is just called Doubt And it just Like so many of the things that we play on this program Andrew I think this is where we've landed or i don't want to speak for you but where i've landed is listening to younger people playing music that feels reminiscent of music i listen to made by older people when they were younger people

the music for your weekend we didn't talk about it because it's the last thing that we play before we you know break for the weekend but the listener submission oh yeah yuli what you and i were texting about that yeah what what's the name of the the artist it's yuli something right um i'm blanking on them the the band and their yeah vives and i ended up spending friday night like just watching or maybe it was saturday night just watching a whole bunch of their videos and like their their performance in some sort of amazing art space and it's incredible so whoever submitted that thank you but again it's like it kind of reminded me of stuff that i had that maybe i would have been into when i was a younger person i'm watching these children make this music i know well these are i don't want to describe them as children but they're certain

younger than us who isn't i helped out with a thing for becca's work last night and this is a you know a sort of an important and respected piece of the portland civic community and i i was on stage helping with um like just running this little kind of what i don't know game we were playing and i realized this morning that i was the oldest person on stage and this included the ceo of the company of the of the organization this included many luminaries from portland I was the oldest person Who set foot on that stage last night Andrew And that's the new reality

Yumi Zuma by the way I just wanted to get that in there because I was saying Yuli That's also what Bubbles has right now Yeah God damn Yumi Zuma again

Anyway This band Slow Pulp This is the song Doubt And it sounds a little Amy Mann to me It sounds like a bunch of things I love So can we play that

Five letters aren't enough To tell you what I've got my mind on Or am I taking too long Lather up burning the sun Go wash the soap off of your tongue Do it right or you'll be a no one Could you wish this Or will you show up just to quit I think it's better to forget Take me out Put me down I just wanted you to do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do All right, so there you go.

A little slow pull. Yeah, I love that. It's good stuff. They've also, I guess, toured with Death Cab and also the Pixies. That makes sense. Yeah, it all makes sense. Our listener suggestion is from Mike in Columbia, South Carolina. And he says, I'd like to recommend the song Begonias by R.A.P. Ferreira and Fumitake Tamura. A couple of weeks ago, you talked about your conversation with a customer service rep named Apollonia, which made Andrew think of the Kanye song stronger. That's not true. I was one that thought of it. How dare, how dare Mike in Columbia, South Carolina. The Kanye song stronger because of the line since Prince been on Apollonia in this. Actually, I do think you thought of it. And then I just said it.

I couldn't. i couldn't i couldn't place it i had the line in my head but i wasn't sure what i think you started

it i think you started it and then i then i finished it i i mean i'm i'm happy to seed this

one just really you don't want to be the just so you know where i am on this like i'm i'm not

claiming anything dude i don't we need to go uh we've all got things to do including the listeners but i cannot i should not and i cannot open this can of worms right now and um mike in Columbia, South Carolina, I blame you to some degree How do I put this? How do I put this in a way that doesn't start Another hour of talking about Yay, aka Kanye

I'm legitimately nervous right now

I was watching over the Weekend, Travis Scott Was performing in, I think Orlando, and he Brought Kanye West Out, and he brought him out To perform the song Runaway You know, that's the Kanye song That starts with that very kind of spare Piano notes that are

Alternating and that's definitely one that I Would have heard it's from the era oh you definitely Know I don't know that by title but okay

Yeah you it's it's it's what I consider later Kanye but like Before we had kind of Before he had fully lost the thread

Okay like easy or something era Maybe yeah exactly maybe even

The life of Pablo or something I can't Remember which but it's It is a really well done song in my opinion and it starts with this these alternating two piano notes which i'm tempted to sing but i'll do it poorly but it's very like i said it's it's very striking and if you know you know particularly if you're probably from a younger generation than us and what i ended up watching because this is how tiktok works you know when you let something run you then start getting more and more and more versions of it it was like a raushman style series of videos all filmed by different people on their cell phones one after the other of this moment when kanye or yay comes out to this song to this packed arena in orlando so you've got travis scott who's this very energetic performer Has been running around and doing his show Like you know his music And there was like I guess rumors That like Drake was going to make A special appearance And you know everybody knows That there's probably going to be some celebrity Some special appearance they don't know who it's going to be Maybe it's going to be Drake And then just again I kind of wish I could play the music

I think I know the sound that you're talking about The opening notes It's like

And then this beat kind of kicks in And it's somebody saying I think they're saying Who shot you, who shot you Or whatever

And then you know

The line too It's like something like You know, whatever I won't continue to try to recreate For whatever it's worth

I'm the one who If you're talking to me I know exactly what song you're talking about Now I would have never known the title of it that's from the era where I don't know the titles of yay songs anymore they seem and here I guess

is where I'm going with this like watching this arena when they figure out that this is the song and that this is the person that's coming out and then when Kanye comes out on stage and just the whole thing and then seeing it watching 12 versions of this from different shaky cell phone cams of different i'm just going to call them all kids kids in the different parts of this arena which is probably called the you know god knows what td america trade crypto fan zone arena or something you know in orlando peace and love to our listeners orlando like the the vibe the energy in that place and just the i ended up just watching so many videos of it and of course i have huge problems with what's happened and what the the things that Kanye West has done and and and promoted I'm not I would I would say I can't be a fan of his anymore you know Travis Scott was was involved in this situation where people lost their lives because of this rush of the crowd and there were lawsuits there and you know like everything about this is fraught but what was undeniable was what a goddamn good song Runaway is and the way that it just moved those people and it was I couldn't I couldn't compare it to anything else that I maybe have, like, seen in a long time. And I don't even know what, I don't have a power out on that. It was just crazy to watch.

I know that I lean on this too much, but you want to talk about fraught? Can I introduce Dave Chappelle into the conversation? Because, I mean, even though it's not music and so it hits you in a different way, the feeling you're describing is a little bit like when we went to see a last-minute Dave Chappelle concert Before he started being openly anti-trans And talking about that stuff Long before any of that We were living in Los Angeles And a friend of ours said Hey he's playing like Kind of a last minute Kind of secret show At this Latin dance club Do you want to go We're like of course And I've told the story before

Was it like Los Globos or something?

I can't know It wasn't that But I can't remember the name of it right now But anyway That was the one where I think They gave us special magnetic bags To put our phones in It was like kind of the beginning Of all that stuff This would have been about 2014, 2015 and um anyway and then like we didn't know anything about it or who would be opening or anything like that it was all kinds of it was all kinds of people that we love i can't think of their names off the top of my head but chris rock but then yeah but then oscars and then he introduces chris freaking rock wow like a few weeks before the oscars who's working on his oscars stuff and it's like that moment where you're just like he's like oh wait hold on you know before i get into my thing i got a friend who wants to come out here and do some stuff and You know, freaking Chris Rock in this small club just walks out. So I think music hits a little bit different than comedy. So that feeling that you're describing, especially given the quality of how that song begins and you're not expecting it. And then watching or hearing the crowd realize what is happening. That sounds it's yeah. There are not too many, quote unquote, canceled performers who affect my listening or viewing that much. But Kanye, who's like unforgivable, like it's not there's no gray area here. He has said and I know he's apologized again or whatever, but he's said the most deplorable, despicable things about human beings. Like he's not he's not coming back from that. Not not in my estimation, but that is for me anyway. Yeah, not for me. And that and that hurts because I that that is a whole discography or half of a discography that actually I feel the loss of.

Yeah, and that's the thing. I think I had, he's become, you know, this is what I always say. I think that we're witnessing someone who has been in a protracted mental health crisis. And because they're rich and famous, and I guess, you know, have the legal right to not seek the proper help, just continue to operate in the public sort of space in a mental health crisis. And so because of that I don't like if he put out a song I would

Wouldn't listen to it I'm not really particular I just don't think about him Very much anymore And I used to think about him A lot We used to talk about him A lot on the show Just from a purely You know Adoration standpoint And then What do we do about Kanye's standpoint And then I guess We were just gonna have to Unfortunately walk away From him standpoint And that was where I was And then all of a sudden It was just like I hear those notes Of Runaway And I see him walk out On that stage And I'm just like God damn it dude Basically And I blame Mike In South Carolina For bringing it up Because he says This made him think of, or made you think of the song Stronger because of the line since Prince been on Apollonia. In this song, R.A.P. Ferreira rhymes me and two Apollonias picking begonias in Fredonia. It's also just a super chill vibe that I think you will dig. There are several uses of the N-word, but it's clean otherwise. Well, okay. As long as it's clean otherwise. I can clean that up, too. So here's what we're going to hear. This is the song Begonias by R.A.P. Ferreira and Fumitake Tamura. and that is suggested by Mike in South Carolina and it is how we are going to wrap up this broadcast week but guess what, Monday is just around the corner and we'll be back here with more imaginary radio for you, in the meantime, have a great Friday, take care of yourselves, have a good weekend, and please remember no mountain too tall, and good luck to all

700 rotations, I won't say anymore the day obeys the claymore facts aren't always congruent, I'm sure we can agree God is a black woman shapes from under the rug Drill bits covered in blood I can't count past a bunch Ain't even been sentenced Looking for redemption I play the greens Eat the blues Read the funny pages Avoid the news It's nothing new Pickled morals I too want some of the spoils Perish ofonia Me and two Apollonias Picking begonias and Fredonia Nevermore this rhyme Don't have a single metaphor I wrote this in a temple That's also a record store Somehow I never made sense But it always paid the bills Back in my day we called that Scales Scales I'm an escape merchant, master in the 5th through 8th circuits. Time and again, I have to learn patience is purpose. I'm always trying to cut the line, bifurcate the parallel. Very well, and that's my liberation from hell. My name is Joel, and I guard the city of rock and roll. Power out.