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Hey, this is Corinne, and I don't know if this is still a thing, but I'm at the Multiplex at 11 a.m. on a Sunday, and this restroom is pristine. Power out!

I feel a real need to express something, but I don't know what it is I want to express, or how to express it.

Now, I don't know much about this podcasting business, but let me tell you, there's something about this show that just gets me hooked. These guys have a way of talking that's like having a chat with your neighbor over the backyard fence.

First thing, I never heard of you, never heard your name before you went on some news show. I think you're a liar and you want publicity. That's all you want. I don't think you can play football. I don't think you can wrestle. I don't think you're I don't even think you should be out here. There's a thousand people out here, a hundred thousand people want to get in a limelight. And you say you come out and say, first thing I want to know, what gives you the right to even be out here?

No, definitely. Yeah. Literally, no. Yeah. Yeah. No. For sure. No. Yeah.

Probably have a lot to talk about. Go. Keep things light. Don't bring up your divorce.

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 it's like my heart is trying to hug my brain my name

is luke burbank i am your host i'm not even supposed to be here today yes it is a special

memorial day edition of the program a lot of podcasts they would uh they look on the calendar they would see a national holiday nationally recognized holiday and they would say okay this is a day where we can hit pause on the podcasting continuum this is a day that we can take off but we know that there are tens of people out there in america who absolutely need this even on a holiday so here we are bringing you a special memorial day edition we are working so hard for you the tbtl tens of listeners oh wow and uh we've got a good show in store for you here on episode 4214 in a collector's series let the fun begin this is the part of the program on a holiday where i say as a form of attempted self-care and boundary setting i'm going to try to keep the show relatively compact today since it is a holiday and um i would say the average holiday show clocks in between two and four hours and i've got kind of a i don't i don't know if it's an interesting story or just interesting because it happened to me and to the people i was with last night but uh things got things got a little hairy out there on the mean streets of portland when we took a lift to have some tacos on a sunday night and there was a traffic incident involving our Lyft car and a guy who just about took the door of our Lyft car right off the hinges. So we'll talk about that. Oh, and we're going to talk to this guy, longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is so happy to be here, even though it's a holiday.

You are, to me, when you're working, an innocent champion of honesty.

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

I am going to do my best to be succinct today. I was, while you were talking, I'm thinking I also would like to keep today's show short. It's a holiday. Having said that, I don't want to be withholding. I need to walk a fine line between being here for you, keeping the needles moving, but also not... Encouraging me. No, not even... Don't encourage him. That puts it more on you. I meant like don't myself like don't be now I'm doing it like don't don't encourage yourself don't belabor things just like you have a little story that I'm interested in hearing

I don't need to add a little story sounds dismissive but okay you got one of your little

stories that you want to tell and I'm fine with that I sit with it no um for real I want to I want to be true to our mission today of being entertaining and enjoyable to listen to but not

here but also getting ourselves to also enjoy a bit of a holiday exactly right because i am going to once we're done a podcasting for the day i am then going to relax in the way that so many people do in this country on memorial day tearing an entire kitchen out in my home just out of rage rage impotence sure um impotent rage fear impotent rage that's actually the name of the

The main bad guy in Furioso, which I actually saw last night, by the way. Oh, how was it? Good, good. I recommend it. Okay, okay, okay. We get it. We get it. What do we get?

We're just trying to keep things short today.

I was trying to think, what was I virtue signaling there that I ate a lot of popcorn?

I think the new bit on the holidays is you just start something and I just shut it down immediately.

And vice versa. What's your little story, Luke? No, I will say, maybe we can talk about it more because I know that you liked Fury Road, which I think was maybe a little bit of a surprise to me.

Eventually.

Oh.

I left Fury Road the first time. Oh, I don't remember. i didn't remember that i the first time i watched it um i was very uninspired by the film it seemed kind of silly and dumb to me and so i was watching it in port townsend and got about i don't know 20 30 minutes and said eh not for me and went home and then at some point i want to say it might have been like camaro kev or somebody heard that i had done this and said let's revisit this and then i I rewatched it, and then I enjoyed it the second time.

And you rewatched it in the theater, right? It would kill me if you had left the theater, but then rewatched it on a home screen.

I rewatched it on my phone.

I rewatched it on my Apple Watch.

That's great. I actually do think I must have seen it on the television. I'm sorry to report to you. Well, I didn't, because, you know, it was only in the theaters for so long.

I know. I said really not as judgmental, just like, as you're telling that, and I'm trying to remember if I remember this story. You're not mad, you're just disappointed. I'm not Mad Max. I'm just Disappointed Max, maybe. Disappointed Max is a decent show title. But anyway, I will say this. If you liked Fury Road, this is very much in the spirit of it. It's a prequel. I didn't even realize there was a prequel going in. Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, can I?

Yes. Can we rewind a little bit? Yeah. Fury Road is the one with Charlize Theron, right?

Yes, and she plays a character named Furiosa.

okay now what was the one before that because when they rebooted it right was there was that the first one of the reboot when like george miller came back essentially yeah the first one

was the 70s which was mad max then there was the road warrior which i think was early 80s mel gibson yeah three mel gibson one thunderdome and then there's fury road after you know decades of of um of of no new movies and then this is so this there's five total and two of them are And I would say that if you like the first one and this is in the spirit of that, it's a prequel so you learn. I didn't realize it. I thought it was a sequel. We're going to find out what happens Oh, is Anya Taylor-Joy

the prequel to the Charlize Theron character? Yes, so we see

Furiosa as a young person and then the entire origin story. And I think it's well done. I will say for Fury Road, I didn't really have any nits to pick because you either really liked it or you didn't. It was just really good at what it did. And it did one thing, and it was basically one huge long.

It was weird guy suspended from chains playing an electric guitar that shoots fire.

Just one huge road war, basically. And it was just really, really well done. This one is basically the same. I don't know if I knew this going in, but I felt the CGI on this one a little bit more. I don't know. I couldn't go back and forth. It's not over the top. I'm pretty sensitive to CGI, unfortunately.

That's a Sylvester Stallone movie.

It's like a switch. Um, but, uh, it's not, it's not totally distracting, but I could just feel it a little bit more in certain shots. And it's like, oh, that's kind of a bummer. I prefer practical effects. And then there's a couple, there's just like a couple of small things like, um, with the plot, but not nothing big. And so I would say, generally speaking, thumbs up, not quite as good as Fury Road, but, but I recommend it. And I certainly, we saw it at the Cinerama here in Seattle too. So it was like really big screen. It was a, it was a really fun night.

The thing about those movies that I find so interesting for some reason is that, you know, the main bad dude, Immortan Joe.

Yes, which is how we got here, right? What did you say? Something about impotent rage or something.

He, of course, is toe cutter in the old ones.

Oh, I didn't. The actor?

Yeah, the actor who plays. And is Immortan Joe in this new one or does he die in Fury Road?

The character does not die in Fury Road. he is well actually I don't know that but it doesn't matter this is a prequel so I actually don't remember what happens at the end of Fury Road this is a prequel but I will say this I did not know that that was Toe Cutter from the Road Warrior but it's not the same actor in this movie because apparently the actor who played Immortan Joe did pass away between Fury Road and this one but there's so much makeup and he has a huge mask on the whole time that I had no idea until after the movie my friend said that. The thing when

we say Fury Road that comes to my mind is the song thunder road by bruce springsteen and tonally you just couldn't have two more different artistic experiences it's but i it calls to mind some kind of mashup although i mean could you i

feel like you could have more i mean i i know that they're they are oceans apart in similarity of vibe but sorry that was just a funny sentence um but uh like

I do feel like something with a flute would be even further, like some sort of a sensitive Donovan song from the Garden of Hope or something like that.

Maybe. The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways. Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays. Roy Orbison singing for the lonely. Hey, that's me, and I want you only. Don't turn me home again. I just can't face myself alone. I'm just imagining Immortan Joe singing this. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.

just going around but he's singing it just sort of under his breath while he's puttering that's what i really he's just making tomorrow's coffee and just sort of singing thunder road

under i was being a crazy person this weekend with a mashup song that only existed in my mind i got i got hooked into listening to this podcast called scamanda okay which is about a woman who pretended to have cancer and and and raised all this money and got all the sympathy and it turned out it was completely made up and the reason that i listened to it was recommended to me by an associate of mine a friend of mine who happens to be an irs investigator like this would be a pretty good show by the way and it has three letters so like you know fbi irs yeah yeah things like tsa the tsa one would drop off a little bit i think that stakes would be a little bit lower

i didn't know that you had a friend who's an irs investigator i feel like this is like the plot of the americans where the spies are living next to the fbi agent like you're getting a little bit you're getting a little close there aren't you aren't you friend well i have to ask them to get

caught well first i have to study their world from the inside so i can learn how to avoid getting audited yeah um i'm being i'm being a little vague only because i don't think it's confidential information but i really do know someone through friends of friends who uh that's their job and and and she like you know investigates basically busts people that are trying to uh you know uh Ne'er-do-wells as it relates to the IRS and so when I was talking to her and she said well If you want to understand kind of what I do listen to the podcast Scamanda Because how they ended up really busting this person was by Charging her with the like IRS the wire fraud because she was getting all these donations donated to her via this website She'd set up but she didn't have cancer and so that was how they got her anyway So I started listening to the Scamanda podcast and it's exactly what you think it'll it is It's, you know, it's a little hokey. It's a little lifetime television. It's a little, you know, it's not really prestige podcasting, but boy, did it ever hook me in. I love that feeling.

Even when you know it's not like the best of the best, but just like, oh, oh, this is just going to be one of these, like, just put it in my veins podcast.

Absolutely. So there's like eight episodes or something, and I just like power, power listen through those. But what it did to my broken brain was there is a song by the band Boston called Amanda. Oh, yeah. I think the lyrics are something along the lines of I'm going to take it like a man and make you understand, Amanda.

Oh, I didn't remember those lyrics, but I had a crush on a girl named Amanda around the time that that song was played on the radio. So I, Amanda, Amanda. Or wait, am I singing? No, I think we did this exact same thing. God damn it, I always do this. God damn it. Uh-huh.

Even on a holiday. I think, you know, it's really more of a busman's holiday.

I was just singing Rosanna, right? Yes. Rosanna.

Yes, and I think the last time, believe it or not, this isn't the first time the song Amanda by Boston has come up, and it's not the first time I think that you may have transposed those two things.

Sorry, I'll play in the background while you tell this story.

But anyway, Andrew, this story, mercifully this story will be short because I'm going to tell you the end of it right now. I've been walking around for like three days singing, Scamanda, Scamanda. Oh, sure, sure, sure.

If I tell you tonight, would you turn on the lights? Walk away Are we getting close to the hook?

Oh, by the way, the real lyric is I'm going to take you by surprise and make you realize This actually works with the Scamanda concept Scamanda I'm going to tell you right away I can't wait another day Scamanda I know the timing's off

Yeah, this is funny, you know, I do remember And now that I hear this, I'm like, yeah, this was the song, but it's been so long. This isn't how I remembered it in my head, but this is the song that I would hear it on the radio, and my heart would go a pitter-patter, as I thought of my classmate.

Oh, this was big couple skate music at Linwood Rollaway when I was a kid. And, you know, yeah, Waiting for a Star to Fall by Boy Meets Girl and Amanda by Boston were very big. And if you were lucky, and I wasn't, you know, somebody who you had a crush on would ask you to couple skate or agreed a couple skate with you and to that music and it would be a very romantic event so anyway i've been walking around singing a song called scamanda in my mind all weekend and oddly

you're you're probably not the only person i'll bet you a lot of people of your generation who are familiar with this podcast Find themselves puttering around singing Scamanda

I bet you that's right I was kind of wondering Based on the ads that they play I don't think I'm the demo for this podcast Oh I think at least they think That they're reaching a much more Like sort of Suburban female Demo that are interested in Certain products and certain Hygiene products etc I've never felt less connected to the advertising Profile of a podcast than listening to the Scamanda podcast.

I don't think about that a lot, but I do think, I almost said Making a Murderer. What is the very popular podcast they call their fans Murderinos? It's embarrassing.

Yeah, I think that's, isn't that the Making a Murderer?

No, that's a TV show, I think. This is really embarrassing because it was like literally the most popular podcast in the country for a long time, I think. More popular, My Favorite Murder. My Favorite Murder, yeah. And I know that they have a real cult following, so I'm only cringing it myself. Is it bigger than TBTL? I don't know, not bigger. Okay. Let's keep it in perspective. It's not bigger than TVTL.

Andrew, do they do an abbreviated show on Memorial Day?

I was about to say to you, we are about, what, 15 minutes into this? I'm waiting to hear your story, but this might be the day. This might be the day. But not before we thank some Dazzling Donors. Look at us. We're doing it.

Yes. Love it.

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.

All right, let's start by thanking Diane Marshall of Beaux Arts Village, Washington. Beautiful Beaux Arts Village. Diane is the reason I know it's pronounced Beaux Arts Village, I believe. I believe you're right. I think I was probably calling it, at some point, Beaux Arts Village. That's the real ones. No, it's Beaux Arts. I thought you grew up knowing that it was Beaux Arts. No. I thought you taught me that. I stayed there once. No, I wasn't allowed on the east side. yeah as a kid um you know that was where the that was the the respectable people were over there on the east side but um i stayed one time uh carrie and i stayed with some uh somebody that she knew or and her husband and they lived in a beautiful home in beautiful beaux arts village and we walked around there and i thought where has this been my whole life and so i became kind of obsessed with it it was one of those things that i always thought maybe someday i can be a A Beaux-Arts Village kind of fella And I can't Andrew But I can know someone named Diane Marshall Who is over there in Beaux-Arts Village And says hey there friendos I've reached the point in my life Where many people around me Are talking about their bucket lists But I prefer to contemplate My not in my bucket list

This sounds like me Things I don't want to do before I die

Powerful Andrew vibrations in this one In other words things that I hope never to do And in true TBTL style I will note that just because it's not for me doesn't mean it might not be for someone else. I'm not here to yuck any yums. Good thinking, Diane. Good looking out. So this is not a list of things that you're not allowed to like, but it's a list of things that Diane in Beaux Arts Village is fine never experiencing or never experiencing again in her life. She says, without further ado and in no particular order, I hope to never or never again. Number one, let me get my lousy bell over here. Vacation in Branson, Missouri Branson, Missouri is a very, very odd place I will be honest with you And peace and love to our listeners out there in the Ozarks And maybe who love Branson I can see a world in which Branson would be very fun But I think it would be a world in which there was more alcohol there See, that's the thing It's like very It's not a dry town But it I guess You know, it's B-Y-O-L-S-D Bring your own hallucinogens when you go to Branson, in my opinion, because if you're going to go see like Greg Williams from the Brady Bunch do like a 90 minute review of various disco hits, it would help to be on something. And Branson is a very like Bible belty kind of clean scrubbed, you know, home of the throne biscuit. Are you familiar with the throne biscuit, Andrew?

No, I know that people throw their biscuits when they listen to the show sometimes.

Yes. Throwing your biscuits is the new clutching your pearls. all right everybody calm down everybody's throwing their biscuits over this

she kind of sounds filthy now that i think about it i don't want to sully a dazzling donor with what i'm with the context which i could hear did you throw someone's biscuits into a conversation but i'll just back off of that i honestly feel like i'm making a compelling

argument for going to branson missouri uh-huh home of the throne biscuit yeah there's a lot of like restaurants off the kind of side of the highway maybe not even specifically in Branson but in that part of like Missouri and stuff where you'll

just see a sign like so-and-so's diner home of the throat biscuit and i think you go in there and what it is is they throw the biscuits to you it's oh that's it doesn't have to do with the preparation of the dough no no they don't like the dough as far as i understand there's nothing about the dough i think it's about how the biscuit arrives at your table oh gosh i don't like that

at all i can where's the home of the biscuit is placed gently on the plate and presented to me

Home of the, we wore gloves when we made these.

Yeah, right, exactly.

Hold on, I'm Googling, was this just, let's see, am I just high? Oh, Throde Rolls. Okay, by the way, Throde Rolls sounds really different than Throde Biscuits. Yeah, it is true. So we've got Lambert's Cafe, home of the Throde Rolls, and it's in Sykeston, Missouri. Maybe it's just one place, Andrew. Maybe I thought this was a regional delicacy, and it's literally this one place called Lambert's Cafe, home of Throde Rolls.

Well, it is, but that's so, that is the, oh, but it's in, but wait a second, is it in Branson?

No, it's in Sykeston.

Oh, okay, right, because I'm also seeing here that it's in Foley, Alabama as well. Oh, maybe they're a chain. Yeah, so interesting. So can one city be the home of it? No, I guess the restaurant is the home of it. I promised I wouldn't do this. I'm going to be quiet now.

Diane will never find out, Diane, because she ain't going down there. Number two, thing that Diane is putting on her not bucket list, drink a grasshopper cocktail. They are frozen and minty And when I was 10 I couldn't imagine anything more sophisticated Oh, okay Oh, so a grasshopper cocktail is not I thought this was one of those stories About how we're all going to be eating grasshoppers For our main protein in 20 years I feel like those stories cycle through Every once in a while You're going to mostly be eating bugs I think the grasshopper cocktail Is just a cocktail that's minty And tastes kind of like a grasshopper cookie, maybe?

I'm looking at it Oh, that's right, grasshoppers were a kind of cookie And they were in the shape of a grasshopper I totally forgot all about that. Was it kind of the closest thing you could get to a thin mint outside of a Girl Scout cookie season?

I think so, although I don't think that the grasshopper cookie was chocolate-like covered. I think it was more like, think of like an Oreo, but with a mintier center. Right, you are.

I'm looking at them. Oh, my God. This just makes me want to be like at a, wow. I haven't seen these things since I was like a sixth grade Halloween party or something. Yeah, amazing. And like somehow I was washing this down with orange soda poured into a cup out of a two-liter bottle. Is there anything better than orange soda when you're a kid? I love it. I still love orange soda.

On this Memorial Day. You know what I made? Slake your thirst with some orange soda.

You know what I made for myself at the movie theater last night? I mentioned we went to Cinerama. First of all, they do something cool. They give you these plastic cups that are reusable. And at the end of the night, you throw them into a bin and they wash them all. So instead of a recycling bin, it's actually a sturdy plastic cup. You drink out of it, but then you throw it in a bin, and then they wash them all, more like a restaurant, reusable cups, which I thought was really smart. But also, yeah, I made myself a graveyard. We had a darker name for it growing up. And am I the only 47-year-old man in Seattle who's still making himself graveyards? I don't care, man. If you know how to make them right, there's nothing better, man.

Okay, so you actually think that it tastes good. It's because as a kid, you know, you did it, but it was just because it's like I have this palette that I can, you know, work from. And so I'm going to do it. But I wasn't going for I wasn't balancing any flavors when I was making a graveyard at the AM PM on Aurora. Not far from your house, actually. But but so you're you. What what flavor are you trying to achieve?

We have to figure something out. I don't know if maybe during the TV telethon when we're in the same in the same room together or whatever. But I think I can turn you around.

I think I want to make you a graveyard that I'm open to it I mean listen I'm not anti and in fact you know I do like those uh those real fancy soda machines where you could make any soda under the sun although as I've said before I think there must have been something there must have been something about those machines that they were either really expensive or like a pain in the ass to maintain because I feel like as soon as that as quickly as those came into our lives they've now left I don't see those anywhere anymore they have them in the theater near my

house here at oak tree they're around i don't like them as much because they're mixing they're not as pure of a flavor honestly yes um but not to rehash that conversation but i will say uh if i'll give them a little recipe here when you're making a graveyard style soda that's when you're mixing a whole bunch of different kinds together really the important flavors are your um oranges your um dr pepper or mr pib interchangeably there and then root beer is a really good one too they didn't have root beer last night and then i go um i then uh you know a little splash of cola because that's always there you got to have some cola in there but i go pretty light on the um sprite yesterday i took it because i was just like well i should put some in there but really Sprite isn't bringing a lot to the graveyard park. party but definitely it is about that it is about the balance of the orange and the root beer and the dr pepper that's where the sweet spot is and then you're going to put some cola in there as well a cost of living increase that's exactly right so like i said i'm going to keep today's

show short this is the show that does like a good cost of living increase reference we're not going to leave that stone unturned when it uh is uh you know presented to us all right so uh diane just to remind everyone, Diane is not going to vacation in Branson, not going to drink a grasshopper cocktail, not going to aspire to her boss's job. Boy, that, I mean, we could do an hour on that, because it's a very interesting concept, which is the point at which, some people arrive at this awareness early in life, some people arrive at it late in life, some people never arrive at it. That is the question of should we be trying to climb whatever the ladder is that's near us kind of you know in the job world should we should it be assumed that we always want to have more responsibility and maybe a little more pay and more prestige in that corner office or are we better off just kind of realizing that a lot of that is not what it's cracked up to be um i don't know diane's journey but i know that as of uh today monday may 27th she is not interested in

her boss's job yeah no i i'm i'm i'm with you on that as well especially like in our field where you start off and you're like very close to the microphones or the mixing console or whatever it is you know i guess those are antiquated references you're next to the digi mic and the and the piece of software where you edit your digi mic um i don't think a digi mic is a thing anyway uh but i understand like and so you're making radio i mean it's a fun thing to do but i i've seen some of the best minds of my generation rise in the ranks so that they don't even get to do the fun stuff anymore they're just managing people because they were just public insight reporting

by the way this is a show that will both make a cost of living joke and a howl joke okay wait

no is that howl or is that that was that was howl i also though i thought you i thought you were giving yourself credit for the pin the the public insight network joke as well i was really trying

to put that to bed i was trying to put that one i was i was trying to leave that one right where i placed it lest anyone i don't know i'm not that's not a um a direct shot at anyone that's just a conversation you and i are having offline about about the way that you know career trajectories sometimes go but okay uh diane is not looking to uh have her boss's job we are not looking to have john sklaroff's job andrew so we are also not looking to get our boss's job uh and then number four diane uh on the diane's no thank you bucket list no thank you rich kazarian list uh i'd like to never hear luke refer to his fellow humans as sacks of meat again yeah you know i will work towards not doing that do you do that a lot i don't think i must have done it one time and it must have really scarred her i'm guessing the context was more like about i don't know i was probably getting into some sort of getting in over my head in some philosophical conversation about the nature of the human soul or something and how kind of like we have these corporeal forms That we think about But really there's something inside us Who knows what I was saying But Diane, this is my commitment to you On this Memorial Day On this abbreviated Memorial Day episode I will really try to not use the term Sacks of meat anymore Because it even grosses me out Reading it in this message from Diane Actually, I looked it up

You used it when you were hollering at me Actually, you were body shaming me

I didn't realize that we were rolling on that I thought that was an off-air conversation Diane says I do plan so this is on Diane's bucket list if you're scoring at home those other things on the no thank you list this is on the yes thank you list I do plan to continue to support this special podcast and appreciate this special community of 10s and 11s and 5s who call in with jokes congratulations on your first year of independence and high hopes for many more well Diane thank you for helping us do this whole thing we are very very grateful Maestro

on your mark get set Get set. Now ready. Ready. Go. Everybody rattle, dattle.

Look who it is. It's Frank McCready. And the pronouncer is the same as Mike McCready from Pearl Jam. So that does help. I wonder if Frank and Mike know each other. I wonder if they get together at the McCready family picnic every year on Memorial Day.

I could be wrong about this because I know that I'm not the smartest person in the world. But I feel like only people in the Pacific Northwest or maybe even in the greater Seattle area, if you consider Puyallup to be that, which I do, I do would use Mike McCready as a reference point. Like, I will tell you that I liked Pearl Jam, you know, back in the 90s. I was quite into them for a while, but I never knew the name Mike McCready until I moved here. It's sort of.

seem and no no offense to mike mccready but it really seemed like one of those names i was like wow seattle really seattle really loves its pearl jam pearl jam yes um would you uh accept an eddie vedder pronouncer if someone's yes i feel like eddie vedder household name um lars alrich somewhere

on the line what about uh where does stone what about the voice of getty lee what about the voice

Oh, do you know what Getty Lee's Instagram handle is?

No, but I think you're going to tell me. Getty Images. I just learned that this weekend.

Because he, of course, spells his name with D, and somebody had reposted something of his, and I saw that his handle is Getty Images. Just wonderful.

That's very funny. Getty Lee's real name is also kind of an interesting story, right? His name is Gary Lee Weinrib But there was something about his parents When he was a kid growing up He grew up in Canada And there was some kind of a thing Where I think Well, you know what? Let's see Can I just play you a little bit of Geddy Lee On Q On the CBC Talking to the one, the only Tom Power That sounds like a made up name

And Gary, in your mother's accent, became... Became Geddy, because she spoke with a very thick accent, especially when I was young.

I believe his parents were immigrated from Poland to Canada. They were Jews. I want to say they were maybe fleeing, you know, violence, maybe even World War II.

And I had one friend in particular who overheard that and thought, why is she calling you Geddy? I said, she's not calling me Geddy. She's calling me Geddy. just sounds like it so he started calling me getty and oh the rest is history every

luke i love that so much isn't that great yes like here's the thing i i personally can take or leave the music of rush generally but i love getty lee existing like he wrote a you know an autobiography and he was making the rounds and that's i'm sure what he was promoting on q and every time I would encounter some kind of Geddy Lee content just him being Geddy Lee I was like I love this dude so much regardless of if I care a lot about Rush or not

I had no idea I'm with you I don't have you know strong feelings about Rush I've tried to sort of get into it I have failed but you know again that's just that's just me I know people just love Rush if you like Rush you seem to love Rush so that's great but I don't really I didn't really have it I didn't know that Geddy Lee was like such a kind of an in interesting sort that's i really that that story really kind of touches me like not just like the the kind of imagining his mother um and kind of her journey to get there but then also the the sort of the loving friendship he had or at least has as i picture it in my head with a friend who who um yeah sort of bastardized his mom's pronunciation of his name that's really

sweet well frank mccready like mike mccready says hi guys oh by the way he is in puyallup Washington you've established that Andrew great job on Puyallup by the way you're one of us oh so how do people say it uh no you said it exactly right yeah but without even a thought are you dreaming are you dreaming in English now that's when they say you really speak another

language and you start to dream in it I'm now dreaming in the Washington State Fair oh I just

lost all cred hi guys it's a vacuum themed message this year it's a marshmallow world from Frank mccready first i'm sure that i have the same wet dry vacuum from sears that andrew's father owns it's olive green with white lettering i bought it in the 1970s and it still works i even have

the owner's manual so does my dad i think my dad i think sent me a photo of that recently

i'd love your advice on cordless stick vacuums we just installed vinyl plank flooring and we're in the market for a cordless vacuum if cost is no object which brand and model would you get thanks Love the show. Well, Andrew, as the co-host of a cleaning podcast called Spotless, I will defer to you on this. What cordless vacuum product would you recommend for Frank McCready?

Do you want to know what irony is, Luke? Because I am going to defer to you and not just to wiggle out of this, but because you dropped some very interesting advice on this show that I've already forgotten the details of. But I personally have used but I've been thinking about it because I am also in the market for a new vacuum pretty soon. And I have been using the Dyson animal vacuum. It's like a stick vacuum. You know, it's cordless. It's what everybody was buying for a while. They're pretty expensive. And, you know, I had this thing for now. It's been a while, but it was kind of like, wow, are we going to be spending, you know, this amount of money on a vacuum every few years or what have you? And so I've been kind of gearing up to buy another.

Dyson because I did like it there's a lot of good stuff going for it but then I don't know a while back on the show you mentioned a brand that is like half the what is it Tyneco? Tyneco yeah is that the one that you're talking you're not making a joke right that's yeah

no that's literally what it's called you came to it

through Becca right am I wrong about that

yes although good memory yes here's the thing so the I had I also went to Costco and I purchased a Dyson Animal and it did not work for me for some reason if it had just a bum battery or what but like it would run for 30 seconds fully charged run for 30 seconds and just stop well we later realized

you were doing that on the highest level where it really only lasts for i mean it's not a great feature but the highest level of that is only for short bursts that are supposed to last a few

seconds otherwise you but then even when i didn't do it on the highest level it was still doing this so it was just being a problem and then there was this whole thing where i tried to take it back but i forgot like one of the attachments and then i got somebody who's known as a vacuum queen who by the way i saw at costco like a week ago when i was having when i was getting my mind blown about liquid iv and its harmful effects on your teeth as becca and i were walking out of the costco i was like there's the vacuum queen and this this uh employee of costco really shut me down on my attempt to return this vacuum without the attachments um or one or two of them anyway we got those eventually becca was nice enough to return it for me so that kind of soured me a little bit on that particular thing because that was not a cheap vacuum and then she said well you know what i'm using is this thing a tyne co my mom researched it it's like a hundred bucks or something and it's pretty good for the for the cost and i thought well i could buy four of those i guess and you know if i had to replace it every two years i could buy four of those and it'd be the same price as one of these dysons so i bought that and i've been using it and it's pretty good it's it's um one thing that the Tyneco does that I don't love is when you're done vacuuming, if there's a little bit of, you know, particulate still in the shaft of the vacuum cleaner and you stop it, it like basically drops the dust. So, you know what I mean? Like when you turn it off, it sort of releases the contents of whatever's in the mechanisms and stuff. So then you have this new little small kind of mess. So that's a bad feature. Um, and also Becca's Tyneco died. And we just went to Why we were at that Costco is we were buying her another vacuum, like a shark.

Oh, yeah, I've had sharks before, yeah.

So I don't know. I mean, what I would say is if price is no option, Frank, then you should up your TBTL donation. What are you doing spending on vacuum cleaners, dude? What's wrong with you? But no, if price is no option, I'm just going to assume that Dyson is the way to go. Although, you know what? A friend of ours who will remain nameless because I don't want to put them on Front Street did text us about the bougie product they were using that was not a Dyson. Do you remember this? And do you remember who I'm talking about?

No, I'm not 100% sure that I'm part of this. Is this part of your home repair chat sideline that you have just with Genevieve and Roden?

No. You know what? I think it's the Melee. I think this person that we know might be using a Melee product. That's the real high-end.

I've never heard of it. I don't know. I'm not pretty.

Well, they make really high-end appliances. you know, kitchen appliances and stuff. It's M-I-E-L-E. And I think that the Miele company, everything they make is just, you know, is just the absolute gold standard. And it's why these, I'm looking at this thing right now on Amazon. Miele Complete C3 Brilliant 1200 Watt Bagged Corded Vacuum Cleaner. 1789 dollarini. And it's corded. I mean, wow. What a flex. Yeah. What an absolute flex. So I guess what a friend of ours, Andrew, and maybe I was just texting with this person directly. Yeah, I thought we were all on the chain. But anyway, I think this person that we know was saying that they have these milays and that they're like incredible. But they're also like so, Frank, if you really I mean, if you just like want to light money on fire, maybe that's good. I've never used it. But if I know one thing, the more money you spend, the better something is.

They do have I'm looking on their website right now. Now, they do have cordless options, like in a stick of vacuums, like we were talking about here that are closer to between a 600 and 700 for like from five ninety nine up to like seven ninety nine or whatever or eight ninety nine. So and that's kind of I mean, honestly, once you get in the low level of that, you're kind of in Dyson territory anyway. So I might actually look into these Miele's as well. I was thinking, Luke, and I know you haven't seen Furiosa yet, but was I saying Furioso before? I might have mispronounced the name of the movie.

You were saying Furio from The Sopranos.

I was saying, which is a very different movie. This is not a spoiler, but one of the main characters whose name is Dementus, which is, you know, he was going to be a leader. You know, his name is Dementus with a name like that, as opposed to... His brother was named Deshyest, and he just was a more background character.

Right, exactly. Well, he's the head of essentially a huge, huge motorcycle gang, and so there's a lot of motorcycle imagery. But because he's the leader of it, he has some contraption where he's actually in a chariot. Like, picture an old school chariot from Ben-Hur. Ben-Hur. I was trying to think of Ben-Hur. I was going to say The Robe. I'm like, that's the wrong movie for that era.

Well, it's also Charlton Heston, though.

But they're both Charlton Heston, yeah. So good call. But, like, I'm the guy who thinks of the robe before Ben Hurd. Either way, he's in an actual chariot, and then he's got, like, he holds these reins, and he's got two motorcycles, two motorcycles that do not have people on them, and he holds it, and they pull his chariot. And Vives and I just kept on, like, throughout the movie, whispering to each other, like, 100% on showmanship. Like, awesome. But practicality, how is he starting those things? why does it look like he's sometimes whipping the reins and how does that affect the actual speed of the motorcycles like does he have a fob to start it like i don't understand i don't understand how it works you could do that if you could buy the um timeco the cheaper vacuums you get four of them at a time well you attach them you attach one vacuum to the other three and they can pull it

around well i do have two of them andrew because you because up here in the studio uh there's a of vacuuming that needs to happen and then down in the house there's a lot of vacuuming and i didn't want to always be and they're cheap relatively so i don't want to lug them back and forth so i thought i'll get one for the for the studio and one for the house and they're like i said they're doing okay so far but i do think i do think you get what you pay for really so over time i think i mean again it's been totally serviceable and i've still only spent half the money that that that that um dyson was so i'm still i still am ahead of the game but if frank wants to get real fancy you know there are there are some options out there anyway uh let's see i think frank wraps up by saying thanks love the show well frank we love you and we appreciate your support on the program don't spend all your tbt only on vacuums that's all i'm asking

hello and welcome to top story all right getting the top story is about 40 minutes in this should

be a typical tbtl show here it's I don't have a particularly great power out but I do think this is I haven't had anything like this exactly happened to me which was last night we were having a fun time hanging out Becca and I were hanging out with her brother Scott and his wonderful wife Tiffany and we were over at Becca's place and we realized at about 9 p.m. we're all a bit hungry. And so we went out to meet some other people and get some food. And, you know, it's a Sunday night in Portland and boy, post pandemic, they just really roll up the streets now, you know, at nine o'clock, most places, even though it was like a, you know, it was a warm Sunday night. It's the, you know, the eve of a holiday. You'd think things would be hopping, but things were pretty quiet. So we found this one taco place, but it was a little, I mean, like a restaurant, but it was a little ways away and so we called a lift and we jumped in the lift and it was a like a Prius I think if I remember right and I was up in the front seat and then Becca and Scott and Tiff were in the back seat and we pull up to the to the street where the taco place is and it's a we pull off onto like a side street you know like a residential street and we're over in the right lane you know where our car should be and right as scott is opening his door this tremendous i just hear him go whoa and then you just hear this like tremendous crunching of metal as a car is like just taking the door not off of the prius but just bending it all the way against the driver's door so scott's on the driver's side in the rear and the door is just completely like bent the car is jacked up the other car stops and what's what's interesting was i there's just one fact that i know that has lived in my head for a long time which is in certain circumstances if you open the door and and somebody like if you're parked and somebody is cycling past you like on a bicycle and they're in a bike lane and you open your door and they

ride into your door it's your fault that's what i was going to ask because i know that this happened to somebody i know way back in the day but i was kind of like well you're just opening your door in traffic without looking i'm so careful when i open a door that is facing the

traffic side well this is the thing we were in the lane of traffic that we were supposed to be in and there was no oncoming traffic so theoretically we should have been fine the only thing that could have been happening that would be a problem is if somebody illegally goes on to the other side of the road into basically the direction of oncoming traffic I see okay and peels the door off but immediately we were like oh no what just happened whose fault is this are we in trouble

is our driver in trouble who is this guy who just hit us and um he stops his car he gets out um and he did not um english did not appear to be his first language there's somewhat of a language barrier we're trying to use kind of like a google translate program on a phone to explain to him sir it would appear that you uh were violating the law here in that you went around this car that was stopped with its hazards on and you went into the side of the road that is for traffic that's coming in this direction, and in doing so, you know, peeled the door off of this poor guy's Lyft. Also, Leo was our driver, and he was an older guy. I think he spoke Russian as his first language. And as soon as we knew that Scott was alive and had not lost an arm, and by the way, I'm not even trying to be dramatic. This could have been a lot worse. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, the first thought was like, oh, shit, is my Lyft ranking going to go down? Because that was the one that called the car. I was like, am I going to lose standing with Lyft? And I was like, wait, is my almost brother-in-law going to lose an arm? And I was like, oh, my God, this could have been if he would have just stepped out of the car and this happened, this would have been such a worse situation. So at least we're only dealing with like property damage. But the guy pulls over and he gets out and we're all trying to kind of explain to him, hey, buddy, like this is, you know, what you did here is not acceptable. And just so you know, and he was trying to again, we was real language barrier. He was trying to make some case or whatever at some point while we're sort of talking to him and Scott is kind of taking care of Leo We're trying to get Leo's door back on the Prius So at least he can get the car home or to the repair shop, you know As we're like talking to the guy who who who crashed into our car This couple comes over and I don't know why this sticks with me But the guy was holding an aerobee, you know that like yellow disc thing that you can throw super far kind of oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah more aerodynamic this guy with an aerobee comes over and says hey i just want to let you know that guy almost hit us when we were crossing the street and he was on his cell phone and we're like okay could you please stay right here and can we please get your information so now we're building the case against this guy which is somebody volunteered the fact that he was on his phone and almost hit them while they were just trying to as pedestrians

cross the street with their aerobee uh-huh with their aerobee exactly oh my goodness yes yeah right

and so now we're also very concerned about poor leo because leo was like uh you know dude in his 60s he's driving an uber i'm my guess would be this is probably his how he's making his living and like he is going to now have to like navigate this world of like insurance and lift and the portland police department and all of this stuff that's like a hassle for any of us if we happen to speak english as our first language and happened to be pretty familiar with the systems and and that wasn't the sense i got for leo it's just like this guy's like this guy's month just got so bad yeah over this and so we were like really scott and i and this is what i love about scott is like he was like we were out there for a while scott was like this is my phone number like we called the police for him um we went over to the car now the the car that did the hitting it it was a newer car or at least it was newly purchased didn't have license plates so like they're like scott and tiff are like taking pictures of the vin number of the car like through the windshield and then like the uh temporary tags and everything and it's like there's kind of a crowd starting to form the guy who did the crashing is still trying to really make the case and i am like i'm trying to suppress the urge to use my very very rudimentary spanish to like because it's like if anything i should use the google translate on the phone i don't need to try to like break out my 11th grade spanish in this situation but at some point i sort of do and i try to explain through very very broken spanish like sir see the direction this car is pointed our car okay see all the cars are pointed that way now see the direction your car is pointed now see how all the cars are pointed the other direction and as i say that to him and i'm pointing to these other cars and it something in his mind clicks and the dude just runs to his car jumps and slams the door and tears out of there with people like almost hanging off

the back of his car about how long into this whole ordeal is it when he tries to it felt like a while

but it was probably four minutes max oh okay but he was i mean he and i had a fairly long conversation using this translating program on his phone to try to like sort of i mean i don't i was just letting him know like i think you're kind of in the wrong here buddy and um there was some point there's some speculation that he may have also been drinking a little bit so again purely speculation but like there was it was really crazy because i don't think i've been involved in something like this where you can just see the gears turning in someone's head and it was something about i think when i pointed to like see your car is looking is going this way and see all the other cars are pointed this way like you are going the wrong way when you did this and it was just like something shifted in him and he was like i gotta get out of here and next thing i turned

around it's like just it's just taillights as the car is just burning out of there and people like

hey like they're running out of the car we took a photo of the license plate huh no no we got the

vin number of the car and the temporary license plate and the guy so i i was like he my first thought was like dude you're in so much trouble now because you also it's now a hit and run but then i also was like you know portland police department they're pretty understaffed Nobody was injured in this like are how what sort of law enforcement resources are they going to throw at this? I have a feeling this is going to become a matter of insurance claims Which is which was kind of interesting because like I don't I mean I don't know I could be wrong I just don't get the sense that this is the kind of thing that the Portland PD is going to put their best detectives on I think it's going to be a thing where Leo is going to have to get file insurance claims some and you know Some the guy doesn't have insurance. Maybe he'll get in trouble over that But I I this is what I'm trying to say. I think him leaving was probably the best option for him.

Oh, really? Oh, I mean, believe it or not, the other thing, too, that I think of and like I have no idea. I'm not trying to stereotype. But if you have somebody who doesn't, you know, speak very much English or hardly any English at all, you'd also don't know their legal status in the country. Like he might have been sure this could start a cascading thing that that leads to some terrible things in his life.

Potentially. He did stick around for a while, though. So that made me think there was a period of time where he thought I can talk my way out of this or this is going to be okay. And then there was a period of time where he decided, no, this is not going to be okay. And I don't know what that, you know, why that switch flipped. But my first thought was like, oh, this guy is going to be in way more trouble because he just like fled the scene of an accident. But then I thought, actually, I'm not encouraging people to do this, but he probably made the smart decision because it might be difficult to prove he was driving the car. Here's what we know. This car was involved in an accident. Was it him? I don't know. Maybe it could be his brother who looks like him, like nailing down that he was the person operating the vehicle is pretty hard to do, like legally. And then if he was if he had had a few drinks, well, that would be out of his system by the time, you know, he gets a call from the Portland PD the next day or whatever. So that's not provable. Like it. He could say, I thought, you know, we exchanged information and I left. I mean, there's like a and we're like, you fled. I didn't flee. I just left because I thought we were done. It gets very gray very fast And I think what it'll end up being is Oh yeah, you jacked up the door on this guy's car And your insurance, if you have it Will have to pay for it Or Leo's insurance will have to pay for it I think this will just become a matter of insurance Adjustment versus This guy is going to Do hard time

So the door probably was not able To close after this?

It was because it turns out Scott has superhuman strength we were like bending the door for leo scott and i were trying to like and we were lifting half of the prius up because we were trying so the door was bent down in the accident so the door the the mechanism of the of the door handle did not close because it wasn't going into the right spot in the like door frame of the prius so we were trying to like lift the door and bend it back up with limited success and we got it i guess bent a little bit and then scott just said hold on let me try and then he just did some weird thing where like threw his shoulder into it lifted with his legs and got it shut and that was because what that meant was leo can drive this car now to at

least get home right that's what i was wondering like one of the most triumphant moments of the

last 10 years of my life yeah was that door shutting for leo yeah yeah because at least now

he can drive it somewhere you don't have to like literally call another uber while he's yeah he's

a larger uber and then just do like a matryoshka of ride shares you just keep getting larger ones and putting the smaller ones into it, which would be culturally appropriate if, in fact, Leo is from Russia.

What did you do then? Did he end the ride with you or whatever, and he takes off, and then do you guys... Oh, you got to your destination, I guess. We were at our destination,

but the whole energy kind of shifted. Of course. It was pretty weird, and I just felt so... And as did Scott, we just felt so bad for Leo because, again, he did nothing wrong in the situation, and now he's going to have to deal with this, and again, through kind of limited language skills,

which just makes it even harder so yeah and again and you know if you're driving a lyft for whether it's extra money or your main income you're probably not rolling in it and then this is your source of income is this vehicle now your vehicle has a door that won't open which i mean i don't even know technically if lyft would let you drive a car like that anymore like this again on his side of things too this could just like really just kind of cascade into like and i keep I have no idea what this guy's night was, but, like, it could be one of those things, too, where it's just like, oh, I'm just going to pick up one more ride before I go home. Right. You know? God damn. He's just, I'm going to pull one more job. Just, I was supposed to retire tomorrow. Yes.

I'm getting too old for this shit. Yeah. So, anyway, that was the big night in the big city last night. I'm glad to be back here in Country Mouse Town where nothing.

nothing crazy ever happens out here at the madrona hill studio nice well i i am glad that scott's arm

is okay because that is that is no for real though like the the like the whole sort of like i don't know what you want to call it the weirdness of the situation distracted me from the fact that it was

actually a very dangerous situation yeah exactly i was thinking about like did was there maybe especially for scott this is a question for him but i imagine there might have been like a real adrenaline crash after all of this like maybe even like that fixing we powered everything yeah and And then but I just mean that, like, it's sometime afterwards, just like kind of the realization of every I mean, the the adrenaline that must have been coursing through his veins in the moment that this happened must have been insane.

He is a cool customer, though, like he is the guy that if something weird goes down, he's the guy you want on your team. Like he has a very like his resting heart rate, I think, is one, one beat per hour.

So he had for it.

I'll do that again in an hour. I was tempted to wait for an entire hour for the bit.

I couldn't tell if the screen froze.

We end up turning in a one hour and 53 minute show. All right. Should we just, I mean, in the interest of trying to wrap up at least seven minutes early, should we go ahead and call it a show? Or do you have emails and emails? You know what?

I got a little voice and I'll play at the very end of the show here. Okay, nice.

All right, everyone. Thank you for listening. We did it, Andrew.

We did it.

We did it. 55 minutes or something? Yeah, under an hour. at least. Sweet. All right, everyone, we are going to be right back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you. So please do join us for that. In the meantime, hope you're enjoying your holiday. If you're getting to have today off, uh, have a great Monday. Hey, go little sluggers. And please remember no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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