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It's called the Olive Garden. It's a new Italian restaurant and it is so popular that ever since it opened, which was about one month ago, they have had 45 minute waits at lunch and dinner. I mean, people are just going in droves to this place. Now, there's a big parking lot outside. It's a very convenient suburban restaurant. And when you go in, you see what they're going for, which is they call kind of an Italian garden setting.

It's a family Italian restaurant, as Steve said. It's owned by General Mills, and they have been all over the country. They started in Orlando. They have many of these in Ohio, but this is their first one in Minnesota, and it is a hit, as you can see. It is a very open space. It seats a lot of people, over 300 people, and they do have kind of an Italian decor. They have some murals on the wall like this. They have some umbrellas on the tables that feel like an Italian courtyard, and then lots of skylights. So it is a bright, open space. The tables are nicely spaced, even though they do have room for a lot of people. You don't feel crowded in there.

Now, the menu features various regional foods from both northern and southern Italy. We're looking there, and what it says is you can get those breadsticks and salad complementary with the entrees. All you can eat. All you can eat, which is really nice. Now, there's what they call the tour of Italy. If you'd like to try a number of different things, it included a grilled chicken parmesan, a fettuccine alfredo, and lasagna. When you put that together with the salad and the breadsticks, we are talking a huge, huge, and the salad is bottomless. You can keep getting more and more and more. That's great.

At lunch, you can get spaghetti with meatballs for $4.25. It's a bit more expensive. It's $6.50 at dinner. But that still is a really good deal for the size of the portions that you get. All the pastas are made here on the premises daily. They do make their own homemade pastas, and they have all different kinds, from ziti to spaghetti to ravioli, lasagna, the basics as well. There's a few a little more exotic, including manicotti.

We have a four-point rating system, four being the best and one being the worst. And we start out with food. And for food, now this might come as a surprise because we've been raving about it. For food, I gave it two and a half. I'll tell you what, we went there twice. Some things were really good. I mean, I like their soup and their salad was good, their dessert was good. Some of the other things were just okay. And one night the fettuccine Alfredo was good, and another night it was just so-so. So I think they need some fine-tuning there, about two and a half.

I gave it a two and a half also.

TBTL! Well, it's really kind of simple, let's see. Um, I speak into this, and my voice is instantaneously transmitted out where it's heard by well over a hundred people.

Well, you just enjoy your coffee while I tell you a funny story about my friend's cat. His name is Mr. Wiggles, and his cat's name is Benson.

Excuse me. You have one of the largest auras I've ever seen. It's been taking up this whole room, and I just... I had to say something.

Hey, you gonna finish that freaking quartzo?

What kind of disco dancing nonsense is going on here? Hey, welcome to the party.

Well, all right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Monday 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. And while we're at it, please subscribe to my channel right there. Coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio perched high above the mighty Columbia, where I just want to be really upfront with all of you. I have had far too much coffee already today.

This song goes out to all the coffee lovers of the world.

And I'm not slowing down. The thing is, I brought this insulated carafe of coffee out here with me, out here to the studio today. And I'll be darned if I'm not going to get through all of the coffee in there. And it was too much coffee for one podcast host, but I don't care today. So just be ready for me to be maybe even loopier than normal. There could be aphasia. I could be bouncing off the walls. I could also go into a narcoleptic fit. I feel like with my undiagnosed ADHD, sometimes a lot of caffeine actually makes me feel more sleepy. So it's going to be an adventure here on episode 4154 in a collector series.

Let the fun begin.

We've been talking about baby names a lot on the show, considering this show is co-broed by two bros that don't have any babies Babies, or Babies on the Way, that we know of. And now a new addition to the conversation about baby names. Oh, hey, y'all said my name. Words that would make great baby names if they weren't already words. So we're going to dig into that on this Monday. And we're going to talk to this guy. Longest running co-bro of the show may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships. Yes, it's a Monday.

day edition of the program yes it can be i don't know a little daunting a little a little um you know stressful to dip our toes into the water of another week of broadcasting but the thing is this guy shows up every day because he is in fact a broadcast professional i'm a professional look it up in the book he's also 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 i'm jealous of your coffee situation i'm actually, on the other end of that spectrum

right now. Under-caffeinated. I don't have, I'm

a little bit under-caffeinated, and more importantly than that, I actually think I'm physiologically I'm relatively well regulated right now, not to brag. Can we get a t-shirt that says that? Physiologically, I'm relatively well regulated

right now. And then on the back it says not to brag? And then on the back. I just feel like it's going to be really busy.

What if it says not to brag but on the front? And then all of that is on the back.

That's a great idea because, you know, it's a real cliffhanger.

Yeah, right.

You know, like you've got you've now now you've got people intrigued. Remind me when you're done with your story to tell you about a T-shirt I recently observed in an airport that it it was an all timer.

When you just said right there, when you're done with your story, I panicked because I forgot. I remember what we were talking about. Maybe I know. I didn't even remember that I had a story. And in fact, I don't even know if I would call this a story. No, I'm back there now. But maybe I'm not well physiologically regulated. Anyway, I was going to say, I'm having an issue right now with doing the show without a cup of coffee. I don't feel low-gey or anything. I don't know if I need the caffeine, but I need the mug. And I've only got like a sip left in this mug, and I'm nursing it. And I just, I need, like Jack Donaghy, I need a mug in each hand while I'm doing the show. What do I do with my hands? What do I do with my hands, Lemon?

i've got mine although it is i'm i don't do i don't do well on uh too much coffee it gives me the very spacey disconnected feeling but i'm with you like sometimes i just i don't know it's i just out of habit or ritual or some kind of oral slash what do we call a hand i mean oral fixation what was a hand what would a hand fixation be i don't know like if it was like it's gonna sound dirty

No matter what I say

The t-shirt that I saw That's a great chance for me to flex my hosting skills And to just move us on to a less Dirty topic The t-shirt that I saw in the airport I've said this many times I do feel like we are now a nation of people Who mostly express ourselves through Messages on t-shirts Such as not to brag Dot dot dot It's a whole series of shirts

That we're going to do now It's going to be like the new co-ed naked blank stuff from the 90s it's going to be not the big johnson but yes exactly and then it's something different on the back actually this is kind of becoming an idea that i might want to i still think don't

post that john yes i think that is that's really our um what's up of tbtl merch i agree with that no this idea will burn brightly but then everyone years later will go god remember when everyone

was saying don't post that john right um now i just want to be clear here this idea of the t-shirts the not to brag series of t-shirts that's not a tbtl idea that is that's a me thing this is my

new business that's a that's a mr banana grabber you should have gotten the rights you should have gotten the rights the t-shirt that i saw a guy wearing said and i quote because i see it every time i close my eyes i didn't fart my butthole blew you a kiss no i know it's early in the week for this kind of crude talk andrew but i feel like it's my responsibility to report back to you and the listeners what it is i'm seeing out there in the streets and and by the streets i mean harry reed airport in las vegas i was gonna say this

is vegas right you just knew you've been traveling around but i'm like because i was gonna ask you to describe this person i assume that it was like a a really well-maintained professional looking person who looks like they're just constantly kind of kicking ass and taking names in the corporate world

closing the Jacobson account actually it was a you know was a guy was a middle-aged dad type and he had this t-shirt but then he had like a short sleeve collared shirt over the t-shirt but it was unbuttoned so you could read the t-shirt and I wondered if he was traveling with his family if maybe like his kids and wife and whatever if he maybe buttoned the outer shirt up to be allowed to leave the house like that but then once he got to Vegas, because we were in the airport, although I was arriving if I remember right and so I feel like I was just getting there and he was walking the opposite direction, which means maybe he got the shirt in vegas i don't know the whole story but what i realized when i was in vegas you know two times in kind of rapid succession once for that story once for becca's brother's birthday and what really was impressed upon me was like this lady was wearing a shirt walking on the strip that said like number of and then the f word number of bleeps given given you know i'm kind of on a, I'm on a mission to try to clean up the content of this show for reasons that, again, will become apparent hopefully fairly soon. But it said, like, it was like, number of F's given, and then, you know, of course, like, it's got a variety of different numbers, and then zero is circled. This person was giving zero F's. Oh, I thought it was gonna be a bunch of F's. No, no, no, no, Vegas, baby.

Vegas. Oh, okay, zero.

Zero F's given. I didn't fart. My butthole blew you a kid. They were not together, although I wish I could have introduced them. I mean, they weren't

together then. They might be together now. Love finds a way.

Love is love is love. But I think it's particularly pronounced in Las Vegas, but there is, I think, a kind of a person who maybe has a difficult time expressing themselves at times, or maybe verbalizing how they feel, or even just being lively if you will and they go to a place like las vegas and they're like we're going somewhere to have fun this is you know what happens in vegas stays in vegas so i but they are not a person who maybe actually does let their hair down too much or cut loose a lot and there's just they're they're sort of larping a person who gives zero f's you know what i mean they're live action role-playing it they're not it's maybe not natural to them maybe they live a fairly sedate life somewhere else in america but they show up in las vegas in sin city and they it's not natural to them to actually kick up their heels they're not really doing a whole lot of stuff that they couldn't be doing back in parma illinois but they do have the shirt for it that's a way of kind of engaging in the culture of sin city when you're sort of you don't naturally have a lot of ideas about how to actually be a a wild and crazy person i feel about a t-shirt not to brag dot dot on the

front and says i'm larping right now on the back could that be i just i need to bounce ideas off

of people you really i yeah you're really like uh is tbtb in some sort of financial trouble i'm not aware of because i feel like you're really kind of going hard on this side project and it has me

nervous okay you had me nervous there for a second because i thought once again you were suggesting that i'm offering this as a tbt no i feel like you're building a lifeboat very very clear it

makes me nervous i mean i don't think it's a great one i'd honestly stay on the titanic Like, that is too beautiful to biz.

Oh, what? You don't like boats with holes in them? But what was I going to say about that? Okay, I have a slightly different theory. I have a feeling that the people who wear these types of shirts probably wear them in their hometowns as well. I feel like they wear them to the mall. I feel like they wear them to sporting events, maybe. I don't know. But I feel like, and you might disagree with this, and I'm open to that. I feel like 93% of these t-shirts are gifts. I would strongly disagree with you. Really? You don't think that somebody like got like their buddy, the farting joke, or maybe even like there, maybe like a kid, an adult kid got that for their dad because it's like kind of off color or whatever. and they're like oh the farting shirt and then he just kind of throws it on with his other comical shirts and those other bass shops shirt or whatever bass pro shop shirt it's pot you know

what it's possible i can't climb inside the brains of these people but i guess because all i can think about is my experience which is that's obviously none of these are shirts that i would sort of wear but even if i was given to humorous t-shirts it would have to be for me to wear a humorous t-shirt now i'm not even talking outdoors andrew in my home with no one but possibly bubbles to see it like i i wouldn't i couldn't that farting t-shirt i like i couldn't even i could not put it on my body no of course not i could not walk around in my own home like if i was if all of the other t-shirts i own were dirty and i had nothing to wear i would go shirtless in my own home before i would put the t-shirt on that being said if i were the kind of person who liked humor expressed through t-shirts i would it would be so specific to me the joke like i somebody giving me a joke t-shirt a t-shirt that was sending a jokey message i would be so unlikely to wear it because it's it's a very specific personal choice so that's why it seems to me like somebody was walking down the street and they uh you know saw a t-shirt shop and they saw uh this t-shirt about you know their butthole blowing somebody a kiss and it cracked them up

They lulled and they said, that's the shirt for me. The other thing I noticed when I was in New York now a little while ago, because, you know, Times Square, that's big that's big T-shirt energy out there. They got a lot of T-shirts and they're just really embracing just the most base and kind of I don't know what I would call it. aggressive profanity now like what the t-shirts in new york city and times square are leaning into now is the idea that new yorkers are walking here but it's like do i so there's a big one that's like do i look like an effing people person that's a big one and then uh i guess they had to up the ante uh so the one i saw a bunch last time i was out there was f you you effing f Except the words are written out This is just on a t-shirt I don't want to clutch my pearls too hard But just people, children Possibly nuns Just walking through Times Square F-U-U-F-ing F But the words totally written out

Friend you, you friendly friend

Show title

I don't understand what is your What's your problem with that It seems like it's kind of I mean it's awkward French you, you friendly Frenchman

um uh so again back to your question about if these are gifts i am sure that there are many novelty t-shirts that are given as gifts and there are probably people who are just they just don't process this the way i do and it's not such a big thing to them it's like i don't know i put on a funny t-shirt i went out put on a big johnson t-shirt and i put on a big dogs t-shirt if you're not the lead dog the view never changes and i just went about my day like that's how many people are living their lives and i i've i really whipsaw between envying and pitying those people in equal

measure envying so that you could just walk around without that concern without all of the concern yeah with all without all of the without all of the f's given like you're giving too many

f's and you need to give like three french's and i should be giving zero french's right like zero Exactly. We wouldn't have a show, probably, but my whole day is full of mental shadowboxing and of mental preparation for something and then of mental kind of replaying of something. I mean, not in exactly the same...

Mental wincing?

Yes. Not as much as I should, probably. That's more your game. but like my you know my my whole life is lived unfortunately above the neck and you know uh that's a that's whatever that's my life that's how i'm wired i'm i'm trying to actively work on other ways to move through the world and you know at 47 uh it's never too late to start on that but you see somebody walking through the airport wearing a t-shirt that says i didn't fart my My butthole blew you a kiss. And it's like that is a person who's not inside their head at all.

I'm envious of that. If that was a drop, though, you would play it. Good point. If it was not a T-shirt. Really good point, Andrew. You would, though, right? Like, it's kind of a question because obviously, like, the one you used to drive me bananas with was from Rick. I want to say it was from Rick and Morty of somebody saying, like. Farted right into my butthole. There you go. Smart transplant.

Now, that's actually, no, that's a Zach Galifianakis. Yeah. There's another one, too, a Rick and Morty, which I don't know if it might not have made it over to this relatively new computer I'm using. So that might be a bit of a little blessing for you. But you know, Andrew?

Was that the too loud and too specific one? Is that whatever comes before too loud and too specific is something that might be on a T-shirt that one might wear around Vegas?

Yeah, I guess all we have now is a...

Too loud and too specific.

I may have edited out, you know, the other part of it or something out of deference to you, Andrew. But you raise a very, very good point, which is why is it funny to me to play audio like that on this show? But why would I that's heard by thousands and thousands of people versus I would rather die than wear it on a T-shirt, which might be viewed by tens or hundreds of people. I don't understand the psychology of that, but you have pointed out, my friend, you've pressed my flabbergast button because I don't know why that is.

If you want to know what podcasting jiu-jitsu is, you have somehow worked your magic to get me to play the drop that I hate. Sir, the doctor's appointment to examine the discoloration on your butthole flaps was loud. Too loud, Cynthia. Too loud and too specific. And that's David Cross saying too loud and too specific. I do believe that was, wasn't that, wasn't that just a, a wonderful time to be alive,

which was when.

When the Rick and Morty stuff was really hitting.

Yeah, I have not watched probably the last two seasons, which is odd because that show was a show that was so withholding with its production schedule that people like me and Genevieve, who really enjoyed the show, we would we would rewatch the early seasons over and over in anticipation of the new season coming out. We were so excited, excited about it. It's not like a conscious decision on my part. I am just generally watching less TV because I'm throwing more darts and playing more stupid Horse Commander 3 video games. But aside from that, it got a little overly complicated and overly dark and grim for me.

Well, and there was also all kinds of stuff happening behind the scenes. Oh, yeah. The co-creator of the show turned out to be very problematic. And, you know, that's why I say it was a beautiful kind of moment in time when the, you know, the first couple of seasons came out. And I got to that show kind of late because people were, I started to see people talking about Rick and Morty. I didn't, the animation did not speak to me initially, like visually. I didn't see it and go, oh, what's that? And I don't know.

A lot of burping, like literally, like a lot of burping and farting. And I know that we're having this conversation in the context of playing these drops. But, like, that's not usually the stuff that you and I are drawn to in our relaxing time.

Yeah, I mean, I think there was at least two seasons out. I've been hearing about it. Honestly, well, I wouldn't describe myself as somebody who goes in for a lot of animated content. But if I think about some of my very favorite content that gets created over the last 10 years, much of it is animated. Bob's Burgers, I love. Obviously, The Simpsons. I kind of cut my teeth on The Simpsons.

Horseman, Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman.

so i i think i i think i thank you i think i like animated content much more than i realize until i sort of do an accounting of it but yeah it was like i was living in bellingham and uh who is i pre-pandemic and i don't know life was life was sort of good i guess and then you find this show and then you dig into it and it's it's so entertaining and so kind of like um complex and in a way, you know, I don't want to overstate it. No, it is. The multiverse

stuff and everything. The sci-fi stuff, absolutely. What I think is really interesting is to

talk about butthole flaps. Yes,

and to go back and watch Community, which was not a show that I appreciated during its actual run, but in retrospect, I've watched I don't know if I've seen every Community now, but a bunch of them, and to see how Harmon was working these sort of concepts, these sort of high-minded, sci-fi-ish and multiverse concepts into what would be like a just a network sitcom is like really interesting i still like i have tons of i i love watching that evolution i love watching how the the seeds of this stuff comes out in all of his projects and i may go back and watch the the rick and morty at some point but it just it seems more like a um it seems more like a heavy lift for me as a as a viewer

right now yeah i don't see myself going back and watching it but uh when we hear a drop from rick and morty it it actually speaking of time travel and multiverses it time travels me back to when i was obsessed with that show because everything that's great about getting to a show a little late is there's sometimes a lot of that show that exists for you to watch i mean that's again the sweet spot of just like getting into something and then being like oh shit there's 12 episodes of this or you know however many so that was yeah that was a special special time for everyone um should we do some dazzling donor thanks because i want to i want to play you this tape that was actually suggested by a listener in north carolina um that um that had me had me uh i wouldn't know if i was lulling but i was feeling a certain amount of mirth and i think it actually raises an interesting kind of thought around language and and names so uh let's do that but let's thank some dazzling donors too humor around baby names huh sort of my lane we was hoping for some razzle

dazzle. Razzle dazzle. That's right, man. Razzle dazzle. On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go. Everybody razzle dazzle. All right. Let's thank those dazzling donors. These

are the wonderful, generous donors who are dazzling us with their donation of dough. And it's how this thing is happening day in and day out. Thanks to folks like Brian Smolenski in Squim, Washington out there in the banana belt. It's not spelled like you think it is. No, it's not. And it is one of those probably said this in years past. It's one of those locations that if you know, you know, it's a good way of weeding out interlopers. Not that we want to weed out interlopers. It's a big tent. Everybody. No, no, I want to weed them.

out everybody you know like everybody gets should be able to live where they want to live wherever they might be from originally but like yeah if you if you come to the pacific northwest and you call it sequim you you've you've got some learning to do about the uh lavender capital of of washington

state you might as well just go to pike's place market after that and then puya yowlup or or what's the one that lives in my head when i had a when i had a farmer on the phone for a pre-interview at a public radio station the willamette weekly and i kept calling it the or the willamette valley i think i kept calling it the willamette valley yeah in hindsight i listened back to the pauses that that the the the hum of the phone line as the farmer realized he was

talking to an idiot brian smolensky of squim washington is no idiot uh how do we know because brian is supporting the program so he's got to have a lot on the ball brian says hello imaginary friendos first time dazzling donor long time listener welcome brian thank you i mean not welcome to being a listener but welcome to um the rare air of being a dazzling donor exactly

i just want to point out i mean brian smolinski's name is very uh familiar to us so i mean brian's been a donor for a really really long time and a supporter of this nonsense for a long time and now at the dazzling level we couldn't appreciate it more uh brian says tbtl has been a friend

to me for many years listening in my car during my daily commute between Squim and Silverdale and always a topic of great conversation for my kids Wayne, Patrick, Bobby and Katrina. They all grew up listening and are all tens. What up Smolenskys of Squim and Silverdale? The youngest is 27 and the oldest is 38. Thanks for the great memories. I would be remiss if I did not mention my long-suffering 11 sometimes listener. Kim.

Hi, Kim. What up, Kim? Sorry.

Thank you for tolerating us to whatever degree that you do. She will sit back and listen to myself and the kids talking about some TBTL rant and knows that our small investment in TBTL is well spent for the true joy and fun times that it has brought our family. So really, we are thanking you all, past and present hosts, co-bro, producers, TBTL employee Number one, John, plus Genevieve, and of course, all of Luke's partners, past and present. Fair. Fair, Brian. Yeah. Thank you to everyone. I mean, it takes a village. Do they donate?

All of your partners, past and present.

Would that the money float in that direction. I'll say on that count. Thank you, Brian. And thanks to everyone in your life for enjoying the show, slash tolerating the show. and all the people in my life who've helped. It takes a village to build this content. Yes. Maestro.

On your mark. On your mark. Get set. Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go.

Everybody rattle, dattle.

We've also got to thank Lee Lambert. Looky here, Lee.

The king of cycling. I still have your videotape, Lee. What do you want me to do with that thing? Lee sent me a videotape, a VHS that he wanted digitized from the Cascadia Bicycle Club, which I did, but that was like a year ago, and I forgot to give him his t-shirt back.

You have the equipment for that. I do, yes. So basically, you're running a side t-shirt hustle and a side duping business.

I am. We're on video. I hope you didn't just see me spit all over myself as I laughed at that. Not to brag, but dot, dot, dot, I just spit all over myself. New t-shirt.

Lee says, long-time donor, second-time dazzler, and self-named senior bike correspondent for TBTL. In my professional life, I serve as the executive director of Cascade Bike Club. I'd like to encourage my fellow 10s to get out and ride their bike. May is Bike Everywhere Month. Please consider replacing one car trip per week during the month with a bike trip. This could be a commute, a trip to the grocery store, or out to grab a bite to eat. If there are 10s looking for a personal challenge, I have a special offer. If they go to cascade.org and use the code TBTL10, they can register for the Seattle to Portland bike ride July 13th and 14th at the discounted member price. That is the STP, Andrew.

That is so cool. And now there's an official TBTL10 code word for a discount? That's awesome.

TBTL10, if you want a discount on the STP, if you are a cyclist or even an aspiring cyclist, um lee says the stp is a 208 mile ride not a race all ages and bikes are welcome for the tens that live in the seattle area please consider joining one of cascade's daily free group rides which can all be found at cascade.org i have to say cascade a bicycle club has been around forever and has been a great organization.

in the northwest even before our friend lee was running it but now it's even greater i told you

i think i ran into lee and a couple of his like colleagues there at the cascade or maybe they were people volunteering with cascade which i think i mispronounced earlier in the segment my apologies for that um and they're just good people i think i ran into them after the um all star game maybe and i was like running to catch a train or something and then then i just saw saw lee and his buds like across the parking lot we chopped it up for a little bit like really good

people makes you want to ride a bike and also i mean it's a very good reminder for those of us who are in cars particularly in cities to be careful around people that are on their bikes and also to appreciate them because them being on their bikes is them not being in a car and so even though you know there may be times this is good for me to remember as somebody who does not cycle as much as i probably should um and is in a car probably more than i should be that if you're if there is a two minutes of inconvenience in your life because of something going on with sharing the road with a cyclist just think about how much better it is to have all of those people that are on their bikes not in their cars sitting in front of you and around you exactly spewing out exhaust

or whatever so to quote a musician who we don't quote anymore oh drive slow homie oh yes okay

love that song i thought you were gonna say something else but okay now i want to know what you were thinking this is a different this is a different singer that we don't talk about much on the show anymore so i'll just let people fill in whatever blanks they want to and i will say thank you lee appreciate you and your whole family even though i think one of your kids did really dress me really dress me down at a tbtl picnic once but that's that's right that's neither here nor there that's that kid is probably 20 now yeah and think of the same thing and that's um that's ancient history i forgive you and thank you for the donation lee and family hello and welcome to top story all right um here's a i don't know if it's quite a top story but it was an interesting email that we received from a listener in north carolina listener katie north carolina was reminded of that conversation recently andrew um from you about your again you're you're you did not describe it as a stand-up comedy routine no no this was a specifically

a public speaking class I was in in like sophomore year sophomore year of college and the very first assignment was to I believe do some sort of a sales pitch on something and at the last minute I just grabbed one of those baby name books that you would find at the checkout aisle the grocery store in the 90s and I just made a sales pitch around that but I guess it was such a ridiculous premise that it ended up being a pretty funny speech and a lot of people laughed at it and the reason I brought it up on the show the other day was not to say hey one time I made people laugh luke you have to believe me um it was because take your word on this that got in my head and it gave me something terrible called self-confidence and then the next time that i gave a speech in that class i was like hey i'm the funny guy here and so i tried giving a funny speech and i paused for laughter after jokes and nobody laughed and it was one of the most embarrassing but i think needed lessons in my life i don't know if it was needed Why did you need to correct a little bit?

Well, right. Like, I mean, you needed to feel like I don't is bad the right word. You needed to feel a little bit embarrassed and bad about yourself. I don't think anybody needs that. Do they?

The lesson that I took away was so, again, given the context of the first talk that I gave, I wanted it to be good and maybe like kind of charming or maybe slightly funny. It ended up like kind of being very funny and people liked it. But the problem was the second time it was less natural. And I thought I went into it thinking, oh, I'm really going to slay and like pausing for laughter. And even in my life, it's like whether it's an interpersonal conversation or something that is publicly facing, like this idea that I'm setting something up. And now like I I'm dropping my joke on you and I'm waiting for a reaction. That's a terrible way to to relay jokes or talk to somebody.

I mean, I have learned that even in my other jobs, whether it's doing, you know, Livewire or Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Like there is something happens to the viewer, the audience, the listener, when something feels off the cuff. It's amazing how kind of how how their defenses go down and also the bar just gets lowered. And when you are reading something and and it's meant to be a joke, it's I noticed this when we don't do this anymore. But with Livewire, each episode used to start with a monologue from me, like on stage. and I just like inherited that from the previous host Courtney as a thing so I just was doing it and for a long time I would write them out and then and then I finally realized and they weren't going well and then I finally realized that what i needed to do was write them out and then kind of loosely memorize them and then just kind of talk on stage off the top of my head and it was incredible the change in the reception of that content and even like if we're doing wait wait you know peter segal the host has sort of written he's very good at delivering them in an off-the-cuff way so i think he kind of sort of blunts the effect of this but even so he has written jokes and then we have not written jokes uh responses to things and again people are just so much gent more generous with their response to something that feels off the cuff to them yeah no that makes a lot of sense and there's

no need to relive this but just because i like radio and thinking about these things like the person that you inherit first of all livewire right now is a lot different than it was when you kind of inherited it at first as a just a reminder for folks you were just supposed to be a guest on the show one day right and then the day that you were supposed to be a guest the host fell ill i believe and so they asked you to be a guest host on your drive down to portland from seattle or maybe from bellingham or from seattle or townsend yeah i remember because i woke up at

my house in seattle titanically hung over uh-huh and uh and and was like had a bunch of missed calls from the producer of the show and i thought that's a lot of calls from the producer and then you know called them back and and yeah they said our host is under the weather what i learned later and I can talk about this because it's all in a book that Courtney Hommeister wrote. She had a lot of anxiety around hosting the show and it had sort of hit this point that week of just literally like, I can't do this. I cannot do this anymore. So I kind of, I sort of jumped in to host the show.

That's what it was? I can't do this anymore? I kind of didn't realize that. Yeah.

Yeah, she described it and I actually kind of know this feeling. And everything I'm saying here is in her book. She wrote a book called The Will to Whatever about a lot of things, including this experience of like hosting this show that always would build in her this thing she called her dread ball. Oh, wow. Yeah. And so at the, you know, at the beginning of the week, it would be small. And as the as we got ever closer to the night of the performance, the dread ball would get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and heavier and heavier to carry around until it was just, you know, one week. it was literally too much and i guess she had had she shared with me later that she and maybe the producers too had had in the back of their mind this idea that maybe i could be some sort of fill-in host or something on the show like there was there was there was there were gears that were turning that i didn't even know about um about me maybe having some role on the show but yeah it came as a big surprise to me the morning of to go down yeah and that was also back when We used to do two shows in a night, so a full-on show, an intermission, and then an entire additional show, which, same audience, and let me just tell you, they were jazzed about four hours into this. Yeah, right. By the end of the second show, I mean, you just, the electricity in the room was unbelievable.

There was a segment near the end of the second episode called Wishing for Death. Yes. That was a lot of audience participation. No, I didn't bring that up to Razio. I brought this up to say that the show has evolved a lot since you've been the host, which has been a long time now. But it sort of feels like this was, at the time, I don't know how you would describe it today, but at the time it seemed like it was a variety radio show recorded in front of a live audience. And you've got to say, like a Prairie Home Companion probably did a lot of work to sort of set the standard for that. So the idea of coming out, and I believe the host before you tell me if I'm wrong about any of this, was a writer first. Like that was her calling. That was her profession. And so the written word would make sense in that case. And also if you're sort of – if there's sort of this public radio template of a radio variety show and you come out and you sort of read a monologue, that would sort of make sense. Do you think that I'm right about that, that that is sort of maybe the seeds of how this came about?

Yes, precisely. So, yeah, it was a very written show and very writerly. And I showed up and was not really wired that way and more into just trying to keep it conversational, kind of like what we're doing here. And luckily—

No, this is all written for me.

so we were talking about your hit performance reading baby names and that prompted listener um katie who's in carrie north carolina to send in this content that was created by some a couple of people a couple of women on i think tiktok who one of them at least uh puts out stuff under the name oat children i don't i don't know anything more than that they're called oat children and And what they're basically doing here is listing words that if they weren't already words would actually be beautiful.

baby name so take a listen to this these are baby names that we think would be cute if they didn't have any meaning behind them first asthma asthma asthma asthma what do you think about asthma

it's actually fairly close to asthma holland oh i don't know that name she's uh one of the hosts

of morning edition i um i see where they're going for there and when they say it in that context i can hear it i will say and this is something very specific to me the construction of an the construction of an s next to a t and an h is like brutality to me because i used to have a lisp

yeah so i'm less attracted to that word okay we're gonna you're no on asthma okay let's see here

sharpie sharpie sharpie do you hear it we do sharpie that'd be so cute how about sharpie isn't he? I'm writing with a Sharpie right now, literally. Don't you think though

if it wasn't a thing that we already thought of, it seems like a cute name for a kid. Sharpie

I see that, I see it as a nickname I feel like this is a character that you might have been kind of fleshing out on the show a few months ago, we were talking about like a kind of a rich brosify guy who goes like kind of sailing with his friends or whatever, and his name like somebody

His real name is like William Johnson IV, but he goes by Sharpie.

Wasn't that something that you were talking about on this show?

I was incredibly chuffed over how right I was about that, which is, I forget who the person was, but it was somebody who was the third. And I'm like, I promise you their name is like, you know, Tuft or Fluff or something. Because there is a certain kind of name that's so silly, but it's with somebody who is so clearly from privilege that you know that it's what everyone calls them because they're like the eighth person in the family that has the exact name that they have.

Right, exactly. So their golf buddies make up a nickname for them.

Right, exactly. Okay, so Sharpie. Now you've ruined Sharpie for me. I cannot name any future children Sharpie because now it sounds like some guy who's in a regatta.

Friar. Friar. Friar. Friar. Friar does sound like a good name.

Friar, also, Friar and Sharpie sound like they might have been on the same crew team.

Yeah, Friar sounds like, yeah, that definitely sounds like a kid who is really getting into sports and the parents are starting to kind of regret how much driving around they have to do.

Regret or is it becoming their entire identity as a family?

Oh, that's interesting. Somewhere, like a little bit of both, maybe?

Friar has, like, Friar is 13 but already has one of those sports mullets. yes and is sort of like in them he's a less generous version of the kid who says i'm just

here to hit dingers yeah like we like that kid that kid i love that kid yeah that kid seems like

a sweetheart but fryer is kind of next gen of that he's kind of like he's already like you know going on like various uh websites that rank um you know young baseball players and trying to see if he can get you know yeah some sort of status there like um and and the family's going broke over this travel baseball team that Friar wants to be a part of. I have a lot of resentment around travel sports. I think I might have told you this story, but I was at a summer party last summer talking to someone who I actually really, really like. I won't be more specific other than to say it's somebody that her and her husband, I've met socially a few times, and they're awesome people. And they're both very sporty, and their kids are really sporty. and their daughter is a basketball player who had just had a phenomenal game on one of these travel teams. And I just went into my... So she just said, oh yeah, you know, I said, oh, where's so-and-so? And she said, oh, she's in a tournament over and somewhere. And this, not to get too complicated, but basically this is a child who is... This person is divorced from the father of this particular child. So they trade off on the sports duties, if that makes any sense. So I said, hey, where's so-and-so she said oh she's actually over in spokane she just had like this amazing game she had like five three-pointers and somehow in my brain i thought the proper response to this was to go into my diatribe about about travel sports and about how i just feel like all of us parents are being held hostage by this competitive thing around you know your kid shows some aptitude at a sport and then it's not enough to just like play for the school anymore it's like you've got to get a personal coach or you've got to get on one of these shooting stars teams and dump untold amount of money and time into traveling around the region and even the country with these sports and i kind of because you know uh addy did travel volleyball which was both very fun but also you know I don't know.

a big expense and a big time commitment. And I said all of this and then I just saw the look on her face and she just kind of said something to the effect of, Oh, it's our favorite thing in the world to do. Like, of course it is.

I'm sorry. What I meant to say was congratulations.

That's all I needed to say. Congratulations on how Friar did in his game.

Blinker. Blinker. Blinker. Blinker.

Blinker.

Blinker. Blinker. Get down. Blinker. Get down from. blinker i'm counting blinker does sound like they'd be trouble i think blinker's on top of

something tall blinker sounds like they climbed is blinker more of a child or a pet oh i love it as a pet name actually yeah and you can do that see that's the thing you can name a pet a word that is already in existence you know you can't really it would be it would be novel it would be a novel legal approach to do it for a child for a human child but it would not be for a pet there

is some um tension building in this story luke that you might not even know of i uh speaking of sharpies i told you i'm holding a sharpie here and i just wrote down a note there is a word there's a word that i think would make a beautiful name for a child but it's already taken by something that is very not beautiful and we can never name a child that i'm dying to see if this

is on the list okay here we go powering through here um rosacea rosacea rosacea what's so good

rosacea this one rosacea is interesting because it is obviously a skin condition that the people who have rosacea would tell you that it is um an unpleasant experience but as a word it is kind of beautiful is it like uh i mean it's a redness of the skin that comes from certain things that's what rosacea is but if you if you were to separate it from that context it's a very beautiful word it really is certainly yeah rosacea rosacea is one of my favorites calorie calorie 100%

yeah calorie yep yep these are my kids hillary and calorie yeah like i mean seriously because

like there's there's something i'm sure that there's somebody out there uh listening to this who understands the english language much better than i do there's something about the construction of the word calorie sort of that is is pretty it's a pretty word because of because of i don't know the the way that the vowels and the consonants work together calorie i could see that being a name and being very pretty if we didn't already associate it with something you know what that

makes me think of luke and this is kind of interesting i think family ties mallory mallory was the daughter's name one of my michael j fox that's pretty good um but mallory was like that was such you know that was a very popular show but i don't know i've never heard of the name mallory outside of that show good is that a common name i never questioned it it never sounded like an odd name but it's not until now in 2024 like i've never met a mallory that i nor have i or thought of any other characters or anything yeah

yeah i don't that's a really really good point it i think when i you know would occasionally catch that show as a kid which would have to be at someone's house or my parents were maybe out for the night because there was no way i was allowed to just sit down and watch family ties no but i i think i just assumed that there was a whole world of people named mallory that were walking around that i just hadn't met yet like i didn't question yeah its existence as a

name yeah me me too i guess same with tootie well we're talking about 80s shows yeah right that's a

that's a very good point tootie and mallory were both you know we were just we're just going on blind faith that these were real names and not just made up by the creators of these various shows all right uh so calorie that's a good one i think calorie right now is my is the leading

contender hi calorie yeah if it didn't have any meaning it'd be so cute my name's raby Rabie. Rabie. Rabie. Like rabies, but rabied. Yeah. I accept that S.

What about rabie? That's interesting. Yeah, because first of all, there is no singular of rabies, is there? I have one rabie. Can I get one rabie?

How much for one rabie?

How much for one rabie? Rabie? It kind of sounds like baby. It's hard for me to separate rabies out from that. And I'm not in love with rabie, honestly. Sorry.

All right. Sorry.

we have more feta feta i'd be naming my kid that right now if it weren't a cheese you don't feta

how about feta yeah i mean for me and i don't like i specifically do not like feta cheese so that's a hard thing to separate out but uh it is sort of a i feel like i would like somebody named feta uh-huh yeah uh they seem worldly uh-huh maybe it's just like the kind of greek influence there but like

Like, I sort of feel like, yeah, maybe that's just what I'm doing.

I feel like they could be the Secretary of the United Nations. Absolutely, they should be. Somebody named, like, FEDA. I don't know what their last name would be, but that seems like a person who would be wearing one of those headsets that's, like, translating into every language as they talked about a U.N. security resolution to figure out what's going on with North Korea. FEDA World Peace. Oh! You get into that. All right, so FEDA, that's a possibility there. Felony.

Felony. Yes. What would that be my favorite? Felony. Felon. That one sounds the most real. Like you could say it right now. Felony.

Felony.

Felony.

Like Melanie. Yeah. Felony. Like kind of one off from Mallory. Felony. Yep. Yep. I like Felony. These are my daughters, Mallory and Felony. Okay. That's a possibility. That one I think might be the most, Rosacea and Felony are the most, it's the hardest pivot I think, from how we associate the specific word in question.

Yeah, that is true. Although, if they don't get to mine, I think mine might blow that out of the water. Ribbon. Ribbon. Ribbon. Ribbon. Yes. Ribbon. Ribbon is so good. Velvet. Velvet.

Okay, ribbon.

No notes on ribbon. Even though ribbon is already associated with something, I still think it's a great name for a child. And a person.

Yes. Could you get away? I mean, I guess, you know, Michael Jackson's kid was named Blanket. because you could i don't know i mean was that did i know that or did i forget that i blocked that out yeah paris jackson and then i think the other one i don't know if his legal name is blanket i know that it was like a thing where michael jackson would carry them around and cover them with a blanket because of you know privacy concerns but then i think people might i don't know i don't know what the i don't know what the official where that officially landed if like there's a birth certificate somewhere that says like blanket jackson or not but ribbon is ribbon is very pretty very and you got a little preview of the next one i think it might be the last one

is velvet velvet that one's so cute so cute oh love them that's velvet velvet i see that it almost seems like it is already a name does it yeah see i i i go the opposite on that it doesn't sound like a name to me it sounds like something that i like and i i i think i think of it as a

name because first of all the movie national velvet which it's a horse it's not a person but it's a it's a thing that some you know it's obviously a material but it's also i've seen it associated as a name of something that's not the material so i'm already predisposed yeah i always

wonder what national velvet was about and why it was called that is that the name of the horse in

the movie that it well the horse is named the pie and um let's see here it's so elizabeth taylor is the um well here's a little bit of elizabeth taylor from national velvet

now i don't know now that i think about it so the horse is named the pie

um is it possible that elizabeth taylor's character is named velvet because she ends up riding this horse the pie in this big you know kind of race and they i think they win and mickey rooney is the horse's trainer is her name velvet it's some i've just looked it

up i don't know i'm just looking at a preview of a of an article but it says national velvet is the story of a 14 year old girl named velvet brown okay velvet is the name and actually now i'm into

it can you believe that these 17 year old young women on tiktok are unfamiliar with the movie national velvet starring mickey rooney and elizabeth taylor kids these days okay so you have one though i think that uh that you think might take the cake i think it takes the cake in one

specific category which is it's the nicest sounding word that takes the hardest turn from

what it actually means so it's a word that means something uh i don't want to say negative but It's something extreme, but it sounds really beautiful and nice.

I think you can say negative. I'm going to hold it up to the camera here while I say it. Luke Burbank, are you ready for this?

Yeah, but this is the long drum roll. There's about 15 more seconds. Can we get the murmuring after that? We could probably do it at the same time if I can find it. What is it? Chlamydia. Ooh. That takes the cake. Is it too late for children to add an addendum? Oh, my gosh. That's a I mean, that is a that's Andrew. When you're right, you're right.

It's a beautiful word for a not beautiful thing.

It's it's it's it's reminds me it's close to clematis, which is a plant, which is I don't know.

I think clematis might be like some kind of a climbing vine or a flower or something. Because I remember thinking, hmm, clematis, pretty close to chlamydia. But you're right. It's a beautiful. I think it must have to do with things that end in A.

Oh, yeah. In this case, in that E sound. Yeah. You know, especially like that I, A. Yeah. It's funny you should say that about a plant because I've thought this for a long, long time. I feel like even in college, I was telling people like chlamydia sounds like a beautiful flower that you would see somewhere. And I sort of feel like syphilis, too, like while we're just talking about this. Syphilis sounds like Sisyphus. Yeah, it sounds a little Sisyphusian. Chlamydian. Chlamydian, yeah.

Don't tell someone you're dealing with a chlamydian task.

Then we'll get the wrong idea about what's happening on your junk. Exactly. But there you go. Name your child chlamydia. Be the person to break the cycle.

Thank you, Katie in North Carolina, for sending that in.

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

all right email or v-mail before we skedaddle do you remember no burbank you don't remember do you remember a while back we were talking about getting our ears cleaned yes not not together We don't have any plans to go to the doctor together and get our ears cleaned. I'm not ruling it out. I'd be down for that. I'm not ruling it out either. But I don't think either one of us have had this experience, but we've both thought about it and have talked to people who've had like an actual professional cleaning of their ears by a doctor. And people will say that they'll go in, the doctor will remove all kinds of earwax, and then you can really hear better afterwards. And it sounds so satisfying.

Yes, and also so much safer than jamming some kind of, you know, implement in there, even a Q-tip.

Exactly. So a while back, we got this voicemail from listener Corey.

Hey, dummies. This is Corey from Brookline Mask. I was just listening to your discussion on Monday's episode about cleaning the wax out of your ears. And I thought about this story that I thought you would appreciate. So a couple of years ago, I was having a similar issue. I walked into the doctor's office. I was wearing my AirPods, and I walked in, and I took them out when I started talking to the receptionist. And she told me to wait, and I put them back in. And then when I went into the exam room, I took them out and put them in my pocket. And I waited, and the doctor came in, did her business. It was very satisfying. All that stuff cleaned out of my ear. And it felt better. I could hear better. And I was sitting on the table, and I could hear, like, a conversation, like a very low-level conversation. It sounded like it was coming from another room. And I was like, this is amazing. They cleaned my ear, and now I can hear through the wall. Am I Spider-Man? I'm a superhero now. Yeah. And I picked up my coat, and I walked out, And I realized that the entire time my earbuds had been playing TVTL, but I couldn't hear it before when it was in my pocket. But then once she cleaned my ears out, I could hear it. It was a worthwhile trip to the doctor.

So that means the doctor probably could hear us talking in Corey's pocket during the entire procedure.

Do you think the doctor thought that they were a superhero or were like losing their mind? or something like I actually have a version of this happen a lot because I do wear AirPods a lot and then I'll take them off and put them in my pocket. And then they're constantly trying to get back home. They're trying to like reconnect with the phone. And also because the issue is I don't, I can't, oftentimes I can't find the case they go in. So I'll be somewhere in my house. I'll put the AirPods in. I'll come out here. I have a treadmill here in the broadcast center, And maybe I'll run on that But I don't have the case anymore So I'm like listening to As I was this morning on my jog Listening to why is this happening Our friend Chris Hayes' show And so then I take the airpods out after my jog And then I just put them in my pocket And I'm just trying to listen on my phone And it's just constantly trying to rejoin with that And sometimes I'll even be in the house And I'll be out here But if they're loose If they're out in the world Like the only way to avoid that Is to put them safely back in their holster Because if they're loose, they're just sitting there waiting to try to re-grab the audio at any time.

Try to reconnect and also, actually this reminds me of a story about you and I a while back. But I'll start here. I'll say that I'm relatively new to having kind of my version of AirPods myself. I've always used the over-the-ear kind of big Bluetooth headphones. But I got this pair of JBLs that are kind of like your smaller pods that go in the ear. And I've been using them for a while.

i don't know six months or so now and i like them although they do seem to irritate my ears a little bit but we don't have to get into that but um i will say that it's quite often like i will stop them and you know they you can just tap the one on the right i have it set up so to stop the stop what i'm listening to i tap the one on the right and then sometimes i'll just take them both and i'll throw them in my shirt pocket i'm almost always wearing a shirt like this that has a shirt pocket and then inevitably they're so sensitive that it's they hit each other or maybe i don't i brush up against something and next thing you know i hear my podcast emanating from my breast pocket right and then i have to like kind of try to carefully take one out and tap it to stop the recording and it reminds me of i mean this is a long time ago now um i didn't know how these things worked and i think you probably know where i'm going with this do you know what story of you and i and airpods that i'm going for you know you and i were leaving for somewhere uh for a work trip like you and i were like i think heading to the airport together um after a sunday morning seahawks game and we had to leave the eagles early the game was still being played and i think it was an important game so you and i then run into your car we're driving to the airport we're listening to the game on the radio but then we need to take the tram at the airport to go somewhere and the game is still not over so you dial it up on like your satellite radio app or whatever and you give me one of your and these are air buds you know there's no wire air buds sorry air pods uh there's no wire and so you give me one of them but i don't know how these things work and it keeps on feeling like it's going to fall out of my ear and i don't want your ear your ear this is very romantic very lady in the yeah it was very nice yeah yeah and then you fed me some spaghetti it was nice um but anyway i don't know if you recall this but i remember sitting on the tram and it was a new experience for me to have just one of these things kind of dangling in my ear and I kept on rearranging it but every time I touched it it would stop it and I didn't know that I thought we were just having connectivity issues and you had to be like no no every time you touch that you're stopping the game like we're so into this game because it was an important game and I just keep on stopping it by pushing this thing further into my ear well the thing about that way of

controlling it is it makes sense and I should probably just take a few minutes and re-educate myself uh refresh my excuse me my memory on what does what because i don't even know anymore on the latest version of airpods or the version i have and so i never use it for that if i'm going to stop it or start whatever i just like my phone or my watch so all that i'm sure there's also a way to turn all of that off all i know is that i'm i it's never coming in handy for me and particularly the the majority of the time that i'm wearing like airpods like this is during a jogging event but my ears are filling with sweat sometimes and i'm trying to like move it and then all it's do is like skipping me to the next chapter of huberman lab or like doing some weird thing to it like i don't know if i've ever successfully used the tap feature to do what i wanted it to do oh wow i use them all the time i probably should just like actually read up on it do a little trial run because it is a tremendously convenient option i just never really learned how to use it that way And so I just think of them as like wireless headphones that occasionally do some weird thing because I adjusted them, you know, and I forgot that they're also kind of the remote control for the whole thing.

Well, the podcast that I listen to has a lot of content, but also a lot of commercials, a lot of commercials that you hear over and over. And also whenever Dan Levitard starts talking about comedy, I find it unlistenable.

I mean, that's funny. That's stuck with me that you said that that's something that like.

Have I mentioned that on the show before?

Either on or off the show, but just like if there's a throw your phone moment, it has to do with that that subject matter.

I just fully skip it now. Like he's so insistent that he is the arbiter of like what what is funny, what is not. And also like how he's one of those people who thinks that like every stand up comedian is like a hero. Like they almost have like journalistic privilege sort of in the way we should treat them because they're speaking truth to power.

And this is kind of they would you say that there are the last of the public intellectuals?

I mean, he was like he was trying to like he was talking down to his younger producers who are way younger than him about how like they're saying like, you know, honestly, we don't think about Bill Maher that much. He's like, how can you not respect it? I'm just like, dude, like I've always wondered what a high George Washington would look like.

Is that a Bill Maher? He looks like he looks like George Washington, except he's always high now. He's like he has that show that he does. I forget what it's called. I mean, he has whatever the politically incorrect or something, but he also has this show that he just does that actually Tim Heidecker does like a unbelievably great parody of, and it's, it's Bill Maher in a, like, like, it looks like he's in his rumpus room in his basement and he's got like a bar there and I think there's like a little neon sign behind it and the idea is he has people down there to just like hang out and have a scotch or Toka J and just, like, have a real conversation. Like, forget about, you know, political correctness. Forget about all of that. Just get real. And what's really funny about it is that one of the early episodes I became aware of featured Richard Dreyfuss, like, from Jaws and Mr. Holland's opus. Have you seen this, Andrew? No, no, I haven't. Please Google.

Like, right now? Why not? Well, you just Google.

This needs to be an image search. Richard Dreyfuss, Bill Maher. And I would like you to, if we get lucky, you'll see a photograph of the physical posture that Richard Dreyfuss achieved during the conversation.

It's like that I think you should leave sketch where he won't get off his phone. He's so slumped down. He looks like he's having an episode.

He's more sea cucumber than man. and and as far as anyone can tell this was never addressed during the episode this was just the this was just how Richard Dreyfuss uh from Close Encounters of the Third Kind felt like felt like hanging with with Bill Maher that day and I my understanding is not even on the chair he's like

his back is on the chair and I feel like his butt must be hitting the floor at this point I I think

it was a sort of a progression like i think he started out sitting and then he literally like a cartoon character just went like kind of oozed down the chair onto the floor eventually so i mean from a visual standpoint i have to say it's groundbreaking so i give it certainly is i give

bill mar credit for that but um as i did this search do you think that i spelled dreyfus or

mar correctly by any chance no but this is the beauty of the internet right they knew what you were going for you even though even though the spelling was way off so exactly well that's all right well let's end this show like we like to talking about someone else's show yeah somebody else's podcast that's right exactly all right thanks for listening everybody we're gonna be right back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you in the meantime have a great monday and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

I'm sorry, who's in there?

It's Richard Dreyfuss! Damn you! I told you I didn't want to wear the damn mask!

Okay, just do the scene, Richard. What I really need is a droid that understands the binary languages of moisture evaporators.

Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters. Very similar to your evaporators in most respects. Thank you very much. Now listen, I can do that better, okay? Thanks, but we've got all we need. Look, I don't need this! I was in JAWS, okay? Okay, thanks. Power out.