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Hi there. This is Mia, and I am a 10. I'm calling because I sing songs to my two dogs, and one of them is big and one of them is small. So often my songs are to Big Pup and Little Pup. There's a song by Childish Gambino that is called Little Foot, Big Foot. So that has turned into a natural Little Pup, Big Pup song that goes like this. little pup big pup get out the way you're a fluffy puppy fluffy puppy all day little pup big pup get out the way you're a good puppy good puppy all day and on like that that's it power out

well all right hello good morning and welcome to day one of a very ambitious, very exciting bit of special programming here on TBTL. That's right. We are bringing you a solid week of the songs that the 10s sing to their pets. And we are going to rank those songs in a sort of bracket-style system. And we are going to choose a winner. We are going to choose the ultimate victor in the TBTL right now working title, TBTL Pet Sounds Tournament, and you just heard the first entrant in the Pet Sounds Tournament, which is a listener, Mia, doing two dogs, inspired by the work of Dinald Glover, a.k.a. Oh, by the way, right over there, that laughing presence is my friend and the longest-running co-bro of the show, Mr. Andrew Walsh. Good morning.

Big bub, little bub, buppy all the way. I think I'm already ruining it, but I love

that. That was a jam. I was getting shades of l king x's and oh yes yes in that in that song which is also great um i also we would also would have accepted a play on the the song from the robin hood the animated robin hood soundtrack that i believe is uh my beloved roger miller which is um uh little john and robin hood running through the forest okay or whatever they sang that could have been little dog and big dog running through the forest there's a lot of directions you can go with the big dog little

dog motif that is true i wonder if this week of special programming this is like our this is like our npr special coverage i wonder if this week of special programming will inspire and spawn more songs for either our pets or or the listeners pets i it's funny how and we don't even have to get into all this right away but i was thinking like well at some point we'll probably talk about the songs you and i sing to our own pets and suddenly even though i know i sing the songs all the time under pressure i can't think of anybody i know i've taken to calling bingo bingorf the great or bingorf the terrible i'm not exactly sure why or how that happened but i can't think of any songs off the top of my head which is maybe a good thing i am trying to think because

you know i've got a complicated um sort of situation with bubbles the court uh allows me visitation yes but holidays weekends i think she's not allowed to it's supervised visitation supervised by becca but so i mean i had a lot of bubble songs when she and i were living together full time and when i stay at becca's it definitely there are some that that just tend to come out although i like you i can't think of them off the spot when i had gigi here the black standard poodle i was singing a song called gg girl gg girl which was inspired by a morrissey song song, which is, da-da-da, da-da-da, would you work for me? I can't remember even what the title of the Morrissey song is. Oh, Ouija Board. It's Ouija Board. I don't know that song at all. Oh, okay. Ouija Board, Ouija Board, would you work for me? And I would sing, Gigi Girl, Gigi Girl, would you work for me? And she would just look at me perplexed, like a dog listening to a record player.

I love the way these songs come from something deep inside us, right? We don't think about it. We don't even notice that we're singing these songs sometimes until months after the routine has been set.

And the idea that my brain was going, okay, Gigi. This is all subconscious, right? Well, Gigi, that's a G-I-G-I, and that's kind of like Ouija. And Morrissey's got that Ouija board, Ouija board, would you work for me song. so that's a but again when's the last time i thought of the morrissey ouija board song you know 25 years ago a quarter of a century ago i was um uh i was spending some time with some folks recently who are younger than than i am uh and i thought to myself i was alive for a quarter

of a century before these people stepped onto the planet, and that's a big number. It is a big number. It's best

not to think about these things too closely.

It is. That's good. I've got something else to think about, and these are potential titles, Andrew, for this week of special programming. This is sort of, I'd say this week anyway, is kind of in lieu of the summer games. You and I both have some travel this summer, and so we're trying to kind of create a combination of content options for the tens of listeners. some special programming like this, some, as we say, live programming where you and I are teaming up with an august group of fill-in sidekicks and co-peoples and things like that. So this whole week, what's going to happen is day one. I'm saying today is the West bracket. I'm going to be honest. That indicates my West Coast bias. I'm just saying West Coast, Best Coast. Interesting.

Yeah, you know, I could have divided up the callers by region. I didn't do that. that we're not set up to do that.

You've already done so much for this project, Andrew. I didn't want to make more work for you, but today will be the west. Tomorrow will be the east, then the south, and then the north. That'll be on Thursday. And then on Friday, the final four. So each day we're going to pick our favorite pet song, and that is going to be the song that moves out of that bracket. And then on Friday, we're going to play the top four songs, our four favorite songs, and we're going to pick our ultimate champion of TBTL Pet Sounds, or Pet Sounds, the TBTL Pet Song Tournament. How about Cat Calls? Oh, that's pretty good. The TBTL Pet Song Tournament.

That raises something I wanted to mention to you. I know that a lot of these are cats, some are dogs, and at least one is a bird. We might want to keep an unofficial tally of, like, which animals get the most songs, or you know what I mean, which type of animal, cats, dogs, birds.

Yeah, I do have a, there is one set aside for our avian friends.

Okay, good, okay, yeah, because that is one thing, like, I love, Cat Calls is a great idea, but it really makes it sound like we're just focusing on the feline friendos.

Right, I tried to come up with one for almost any kind of pet that we could have. So Cat Calls, the TBTL Pet Song Tournament. Dog Whistling, the TBTL Pet Song Tournament. Oh, wow, that's pretty good. That's pretty edgy. I kind of like that. How about Music for Marmots? The TBTL Pet Song Tournament. Are marmots, do people domesticate marmots? Are there any, I don't know if that's a real category of pet.

What was the whole name again? What for marmots?

Music for marmots. How about Music for Marmadukes? Oh, better, better. That was, sorry, that was a little loud. That was driven by me wanting, that was the music was what drove that. I ended up at marmots. Marmadukes is a much better answer. So music from Armadouks. How about songs, colon, chinchilla?

Songs, chinchilla. That's a reference to a record, isn't it? What is that?

The songs, Ohio reference.

Oh, songs, Ohio. Okay.

I think I also recently saw somebody who had chinchillas as pets on TikTok. So I think of that songs, chinchilla. Okay. How about silly little dove songs?

Aww.

Silly little dove songs.

Everybody's singing those silly little dove songs. What's wrong with that? I'd like to know. I have nothing.

Because here I go again. With Silly Little Dove songs. How about... Are we singing the same song? Are you doing the... I'm trying to do the Paul McCartney. Oh, okay. We are. Silly Little Dove songs. Okay. We are on the same page. I don't really know how that song goes, except... Is that the one that gets into I Love You at some point? Yeah. I love you.

He says, because here I go again. because I love you. Here's a little detail about that song. It is featured in the, if not the pilot episode, the first episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Whoa. Yes, near the end of the episode, if I recall. And I think I'm remembering this from the 90s. We should look, somebody look this up. I'm too busy. I'm playing a bunch of cat songs today. But it is my recollection that, you know, the very first episode of that show was set up, you know fish out of water will smith west philadelphia no more he's over in bel-air and he's having some trouble like sort of um vibing with his new family his aunt and uncle and i believe at the very very end maybe even over the closing credits he goes upstairs and he overhears his aunt vivian singing in the shower and she is singing that song and i think it is like such a culture clash because it's such a white song oh man i love that dazzling detail i

I am dazzled by that detail, my friend. And I also love that song, even though I don't know anything about it. It's just like many a Paul McCartney song, when it comes on some sort of algorithm, it delights. me to no end but i couldn't i certainly couldn't have told you those kinds of details around it so uh we've also got um i'm not very proud of this one turtle tunes okay sure turtle tunes the tbtl pet song term again very specific to one kind of pet ownership but it did whoa create uh i never get phone calls are those is that the is that the producers of the fresh prince of bel-air is that andy borowitz it is it one time was he really prince of bel-air really oh my goodness i believe that there was some time where when he was still, listen, I did not we are not doing this special program for me to drag the work of Andy Borowitz, which is much more popular than the work that I do on any of the platforms that I do. People love the Borowitz Report. People love Andy Borowitz. And I bet you Andy Borowitz is an absolute gem of a human being. I don't, I might have seen him in passing because he was doing some stuff for Day to Day, that weekend, or that weekday show that I worked on, that midday show. yeah because one of the things was hey we're in los angeles let's lean into let's get some let's get some entertainment movers and shakers in here and i remember the the main sort of calling card that somebody was passing around for andy borowitz was that he had been one of the original i think he might have been like the co-original producer of the fresh prince of bel-air and i feel like that was being offered as a sort of urban street cred and i uh you know from my perch granted not being um somebody who necessarily even needs to speak on matters of what and what is not urban street cred I was unconvinced I remained unconvinced yes on the topic and then last but I don't think least because I think this one might be even though it's specific to birds I do think it it fits into a lot of categories in the TBTL lore music for your beak end the TBTL pet song

tournament that's pretty good it's like when a song is right on the tip of your beak you know it's like music for your beak end I do like that music for your beak end so I don't know do you have any of that list do you have any well I like them all I like them all I mean I'm going to be a little bit boring here though and say they're almost all species specific and so I don't know if that I mean that is except for pet sounds which of course I gotta say all of yours are more clever than pet sounds pet sounds is just like we're acknowledging that there's a famous album called pet sounds but I mean is there I don't know how much time we want to spend workshopping this is there a way of taking any of those and broadening them out a little bit it is a wide tent or and we haven't played around with the idea of uh song of the summer we used to do a song of the summer contest is there anything um that of course summer rhymes with bummer and people are

bummed that we don't do that anymore i got i got right there in my mind with the board with the

i was already there lightning quick reactions you already bummed us out with your borowitz story

I'm sorry, did I borowitz you with that?

You're borowitzing me back to death. Can we make that a show title? No, it's too rude.

Listen, I'm somewhere sweating it out in Rome. That's right, in your sandals. You have complete control over the naming situation. You know, honestly, as we get back to it, i i feel like pet sounds is probably the strongest choice i don't want us to use the same same kind of logic that got us joe biden like safe choice broadest appeal least threatening

most general oh you're saying you don't want to do that you don't want to do no but i don't want

to do it but i'm going to do it oh i okay sounds good i don't feel great about it but i do feel i feel like it's a good choice that even though it's not the i think the jazziest is music for

your beak end i mean let's just do music for your beak end then i mean what what are they going to

do revoke our broadcasting license i wonder also well pet no because i feel like pet sounds it i think it conveys i mean i think it just more clearly conveys the message of what is going on

here which here's what we're going to do just need to do here's what we're going to do we're going to call the overall week okay pet sounds all right we are going to take that list and we are going to name each show one of the selections on your list friday is going to be music for your weekend okay do let do not let me forget that email me that i like this because that way we're not like we're not wasting all of those yeah so what is today's show title what was the first one on that it was like the first three i think all really got calls should we wait should we listen

to yeah some more of these songs yeah and then kind of see if a theme is emerging it's something that kind of naturally coincides with one of these many. I love it. Like, for instance, if somebody is singing a song to their chinchilla, I feel like songs call in chinchillas. Yes. I mean, it's time has come.

Right. You know what? That one will let us know, like a dowsing rod. So, yes. Thank you. If we want to jump into the songs, I want to mention. We've got Nia, Two Dogs. Exactly. That's been played. And if you do hear your song in the intro, that does not mean that you are disqualified. You are just as qualified as the other ones that we played during the show. But not more qualified. Not more qualified. We're not trying to play favorites here at all until we play favorites and pick a favorite. So we had Mia singing about the big dog and little dog. Can I say one thing quickly on that, on the picking of favorites?

This is the most arbitrary. This is the least scientific thing that we've ever done. And so if you're one of the 75% of the entrants on a given day who did not move to the next round, please know that it is not in any way a reflection on your song or your love for your pet. This is rank speculation on our part. And so the only way that I think this contest even works is with an acknowledgement from everyone involved that this is complete hokum that we're doing here.

I do not want to contradict you on the show, and I can cut this out if you want. but um actually i was go i because you're you haven't heard all these yet and i did i went through every single one of these we do have an even 20 voicemails that we're going to be going through and what i did was i sorted them all out and then cross-checked them with people's tbtl donations okay and so there is some science behind this whereas the people who win have donated literally the most money to the bottom line of this show sort of imagine your afternoons just

being like kind of the show's over you post and then you just kind of kick back in your chair and just wait for the mariners to start you've been doing god's work yes by god i mean the love

of mammon anyway no john does not let me see those forms um okay yeah so we have mia singing about big dog little dog and then we have clementine here i'll be honest with you and this might be just a failure of my own ears i cannot tell what kind of animal this is that clementine is talking about here definitely it sounds like one animal is chasing the other animal around one of them is definitely a kitten i'm thinking that they're both cats this is clementine's song

to roscoe hey guys it's listener clementine here this is a parent's cat his name was roscoe the

retired outlaw they found him in new mexico and do you did were you able to catch that any better than i'm a terror cat oh a terror cat okay great so these are two cats okay can you go play from the beginning here yeah slow it down hey guys it's listener clementine here this is a terrorist cat

his name was roscoe the retired outlaw they found him in new mexico and then they introduced this tiny little pet kitten to him and they would chase each other up and down and so i'm going to go like

He goes, it's Roscoe, the retired outlaw, and the cannonball, running up the ceiling, running down the wall. We can't go to sleep at night, but we love him very much. Roscoe, the retired outlaw, with his tail in a bunch. Thanks. Peace out.

Okay. That's good, right? Strong. Strong work from the two seed out of Southwest. I like both of those. i'm already sweating a little bit because i don't know how to choose between even just those two

well i'll i'll say um you know something about that song that spoke to me was it's a very um it's actually a very logical and followable storyline in the terms of these in in the life or describing the lives of these two cats it's like the songs that i will sing to my various pets are just absolute nonsense like you can't get anything out of them that would tell you anything useful about the backstory of these pets but that's a you know what that'd be a tight little tv theme for a tv show about these two pets it just immediately tells you the story of these two

pets and and why we're watching this show i can see it if it was an it doesn't have to be an animated series but i like the introduction being animated and i can see like the little dust clouds like kicking up underneath roscoe as as it's being as he's being chased around i think roscoe's being

chased right kind of in the way that and i don't know i think we come down i think we're a no on this show just because of the liberal use of the confederate flag but in the way that the dukes of hazard theme song told you right away the whole story of the show just some good old boys never meaning no harm been something something been in trouble with the law since the day they were born uh making their way only way they know how something something it just like kind of lays out like them duke boys they're getting in trouble now again looking back on it i don't i don't feel like it would have been good to talk politics with those duke boys just based just on the general league but the song the point is that the theme song told you everything you needed to know you

raise a good point though is it the liberal use of the confederate flag or the conservative use

of the confederate flag that actually bothers you i don't think they were trying to reclaim it in some larger sense i think it was or maybe the love how about the love boat let's go with the less complicated yeah you know love exciting and new yeah

Step aboard, we've been waiting for you. You know, I've never watched an episode of The Love Boat because I think you and I have discussed this. It was far too fresh for both of our parental units letting us watch it, right?

Yes, I didn't watch it. That was a show for adults, but I had an experience of watching this that I want to share with you the other day. Well, this was last winter, I believe, which was technically the other day. It wasn't this day, and it wasn't tomorrow. It was on at the Eagles, and I don't remember what was going on. I think it was like a bingo night at the Eagles or something and everybody was up in the, I mean, it was a holiday party. Yeah, that's right. Everybody was doing holiday stuff up in the banquet area. And I think I had participated a little bit, but then I was like kind of done with things and I came down into the bar area and music was playing and everything, but without the sound on, but with captions on the television was the love boat. And I got a drink from the bar and I sat down at a table by myself and I just sort of accidentally locked into the love boat for a while. And I got really kind of into an episode. And I thought it was actually pretty good. And then people would come up and they're like, hey, you're watching The Love Boat. And we'd chat about it a little bit. I'd be like, yeah, I've never seen it before. I'm kind of digging this. And then it was just like, it just put me in a mood. And, you know, I like nostalgia and everything. And so I was really enjoying it. That night, I came home. I said, Veeves, I want to let this Love Boat thing ride. Let's like dial up the Love Boat. Honestly, it seems very much like something that you could get into. And I had missed it, you know, in a dayday. So I dial it up. luke it has a laugh track i watched probably two or three episodes at the eagles really enjoyed it closed captioned only but i had had a it had a tone in my head that was 100 disrupted by a weird ass a weird ass laugh track an aft track as i call it aft track aft track and uh and it was gilbert god have you ever had anything like that it was like that time i listened when I was a kid and I got my first Herp Albert record and I was like wow these guys can really blow and then I realized I was listening to it on 45 RPM and the next time I listened to it it wasn't quite as good. I don't

know if I can say that I've had exactly that experience but I can very much relate to what you're talking about because you didn't, I'm guessing that when you were watching it at the Eagles it was muted or like you said there's music playing so you were seeing all of the kind of falderall going on and like I know that the Love Boat was pretty famous for it's like cameos, right? Because it's very, I mean, it's in a way a real ship-in-a-bottle kind of episode, Andrew. It's a bottle episode, because, you know, you just have, like, it's this particular voyage of the love boat, and so now whoever is kind of hot in that moment, or interesting for whatever reason, can pop on and just be on this particular journey, and there's no need to, like, keep them around or write them into the show. It was, like, really well set up for that. So, there's just a lot that would be kind of fun to see on the show, but yeah, a laugh track seems like it would be it would throw me off as well you know i've been on the boat that the love boat is based on in fact i did a tv story about it but what's really weird is that you know the love boat was a book it was a series of books about a thing called the love boat before it became a tv

show i didn't know that that seems weird to me the writer i know it just doesn't seem like it

has enough heft to even be put on the printed page but like the the the person who wrote the love boat books spent some time traveling around on this um this this what had been i think like a german luxury liner that then has been through had been through all of these different iterations and lives um but it had been the the thing that the person it was like roaming around alaska as some kind of cruise ship and the person who wrote the love boat books either worked on it or just visited it and then got inspired to write the love boat i later got there when a dude had bought this boat off of like facebook marketplace and was trying to fix it in the sacramento river delta and update andrew as of a couple weeks ago it's sinking and they are gonna have to unfortunately probably scrap it so did nobody buy it he wasn't trying to sell it he was trying to refurbish it up to where he could then offer it as like a hotel kind of a thing or maybe a very, very big Airbnb and try to sort of defray some of the cost and I guess he just wasn't, I mean it was, when I visited it it was very much a work in progress, like it really the scale of the project was pretty mind-numbing and I don't think he was able to get it ship-shape as it were before it started to just give in to the ravages of time, but all that is to say uh i could see the a laugh track ruining the love boat for me i would not want to i would

not want to laugh track especially when you've been watching it like all afternoon or you know evening i guess that was and um and by

By the way, I feel like we would be very, very popular on that love boat. Some popular things are great. Oh, damn it. It's the wrong drop. Same show. I wanted to play with the number one show on sinking river boats because that's literally what it is. I don't know what I was saying. I was just stalling for time while I looked for the wrong drop.

Well, let's keep this. Yeah, let's get this back. Let's keep these pet sounds rolling because otherwise I'm going to go down some kind of a rabbit hole of a guy named Jack Jones who sings the love boat thing. theme. Oh. And I feel like that's the exact kind of thing that causes us to have two and a half hour episodes of this program. Yes. I'm going to try to keep to time here because these shows are a little bit slightly more on the concise side this week. So, okay.

So we've got Mia with two dogs. We've got Clementine with Roscoe, the retired outlaw. Then we have this submission from listener

Christopher. Hey, dummies. This is listener Christopher calling from Portland, Oregon. I have a little australian shepherd his name is george michael and he's absolutely named after george michael blue but the song that i sing him has nothing to do with arrested development um we have this local plumbing chain here called george morland and they have this jingle that we hear all the time and it goes george morland coming the water heater king sounds like you're familiar with that

luke i've just seen like the trucks and the i think i may have seen the building like i'm vaguely aware of the george morland empire but you had not heard that jingle before no because i don't listen to a lot of local portland radio outside of opb which doesn't do ads but i can

very much imagine this george morland thing george morland coming the water heater king so i'm sure you can connect the dots as to the song that i sing to my dog it goes It's George Michael Plumbing, the water heater dog. So, we have fun.

We have fun. So, George Moreland, I'm sorry, George Michael, the water heater dog.

Yeah, there's a lot to love about that song for me. One, you know, I'm a sucker for any kind of, like, local TV and radio jingle. Mm-hmm. I love that. I love how nonsensical it is. I love how the water heater dog makes no sense except it's just it's just what they say in the ad so that's it I will say this it it feels like the song I would sing to this dog named George Michael if I lived in Portland and listened to it and I would probably sing the water heater dog at the end just because like so I see a lot of myself in this song from Chris and therefore it

is currently maybe at the top of my list and these things are so organic you know again I'll bet you that feels like one to me that Christopher probably didn't even realize he was singing that to george michael until it had already been out there in the world for a little bit right

right that i think that's the mark of any high quality pet song or pet sound is you've done it for a minimum of two weeks before you're even conscious it's happening right exactly you know yeah and that seems like that would fit the bill okay that's really really good uh george michael

the water heater dog roscoe the retired outlaw mia uh big dog little dog and then finally here This is from our friend Anna, my buddy Anna, who I always nominate Anna. Oh, I know Anna.

Recently showed up at a TBTL event wearing a rich name tag. A rich name tag? Oh, no, no, this is different Anna.

This is Anna, the Volunteer of the Year Anna. Oh, okay, sure. Different Anna.

We've got an embarrassment of Anna's on the show. Indeedly do. I was thinking of a different Anna. A couple of people showed up at the bracelet event. We all had name tags on, and they were Rich and Linda. Yeah, exactly.

The only difference was these people were real.

And I sent that picture to Rich, and he was very touched by it.

Oh, did you really? You got a photo of them with it? He was very honored to be remembered in TBTL lore. Nice. Okay, so here is the final submission. This is from Anna.

Hey, friendos. This is Anna from the Green Lake neighborhood, or Greenwood neighborhood. I guess not where I live. Of Seattle?

I think Green—well, I don't need a doctor.

And you had to know that when you talked about singing songs to cats that I would call in. for Ella, who died last year. I had two songs for her. One was to Foo Fighters This Is A Call. Kitty cats are cute, but kitty cats are rude. It seems that all they ever do is beg for more food. And then the other one was to MGMT's Little Dark Age. My kitty cat's the best.

I'm going to rewind that a little bit. I don't know if you heard this. This is to an MGMT song, which I'm not sure if I'm familiar with that.

My kitty cat's the best. She's fuzzy and she's sweet. I love her pointy ears. I dig her rabbit feet. When she is on the bed, I see her staring, yowing loudly. Feed me now.

I must awake my little cat face. So those are my Ella songs.

Nice. So I didn't realize that we're kind of, you know, there's two good songs there. Is that fair to the rest of the competition?

Well, and also, I mean, Anna's definitely playing the sympathy card because this is R.I.P. Ella. So it's kind of, you know, what kind of a show would pick any other song? That's a good point. When we're hearing that, you know, Ella is no longer with us. Well, I am contrarian. I know. I will leave that to you. I know you don't feel like you have to pick a certain song because of the sympathy vote. Also, low-key slash high-key, very nice singing voice for Anna. That's not the point of this. That's not what this contest hinges on, but it's very nice singing.

So now is the hard part. I don't think we have the technology to go back and listen to just the songs isolated here, but I think we remember them well. We have Mia singing the two dogs, the big dog, little dog, right? We have Roscoe the Retired Outlaw, which is like the theme song to a Love Boat-style show. Christopher singing George Michael, the Water Heater Dog. And then Anna's songs to her cat, Ella, which are parody songs based on that. Of the two, I think I even like, of Anna's, I like the first one the best. I think maybe because I recognize the song. The Foo Fighters one. The Foo Fighters one. I would have never known it was the Foo Fighters, but I heard it in there. Gosh, this is hard. This is hard, yeah. And then we have this submission, which is from listener Joe. And he goes, I sing this song to my cat, the cat who eats the food. I was just trying to play along there.

Put that one in kind of. Is that a song that you sing that you just want to try to sneak in? I was just desperately trying to match her. Is that a song you sing to Bingo?

I'm just trying to do the Jeopardy song. All right. That was rough I really threw myself out there Okay I don't know Luke do you want to go first

Well I mean They're all good and it's like one of those I feel like this is we're going to realize this This week And I want to tell you I haven't listened to any of these songs Andrew you have because you had to load in the audio And stuff All four of these songs Pure delight Like I this is You and I were both like We're going to try this as a way to put some special program together is it going to be entertaining enough will it hold a week's worth of content which is hilarious thinking that what we do normally we think will hold a week's worth of content like why start now but i the delight that i feel listening to each and every one of these four songs is is i'm childlike i'm serious it is like i am having a childlike

reaction it's gonna be a good week joy you know what i mean i'm serious like i didn't mean to cut you off but like yeah it's gonna be a good week because we have like that just the idea of these are the songs that people sing sometimes subconsciously always lovingly to their animals

past and present um i'm sort of i mean i also just realized something we have a problem here which is um this is two people voting yeah so if i pick my favorite and you pick your we here's one thing that we did not take the time to figure out how do we actually arrive at the decision right and

because we are taping these listeners can't really weigh in on this. It's not kind of a real time voting. I tell you what, let's borrow trouble. Let's let's, you know, let's cross that bridge when we get to it. I don't feel like today that you and I are going to be, well, I'll tell you what, I don't want to, I don't want to be rude here, but I will say that I need to start limiting these in some way. I would say the water heater dog was delightful, but also very kind of short and to the point. I would say that that would probably be one that I'm ready to, to acknowledge and honor and then say goodbye to see that was the top of my list really then you

know what this is the last show we're doing that was the top of my list just because i think for some reason the line the water heater dog just kills me but i love all of these so if you're not feeling water heater dog quite as much i can happily go with a with a different i don't think there are any any losers on this list i don't think there are any songs that that any this is like you know a really well put together bracket in that any of these songs could take the bracket in my opinion how do you feel about roscoe roscoe the retired outlaw well it did give us some good love boat related content there's a whole story there it's a whole story it's a rescue cat to adopt don't shop unless you're me in which case i very much shopped and what did i get a cat that is just a bad person beck and i have decided by the way this is this is the discourse around bubbles has really changed now listen nothing's gonna happen to her she's still gonna live out a happy life between here and Portland but we have decided she is if she was our friend we would stop being friends with her bubbles bubbles yes bubbles she is not

a I mean we love her and she's adorable she's a beautiful cat I love your cat but like in the way that bingo is so interested in you and wants to cuddle and hang out and is curious and all of the things that bingo does the things that are just unbelievably endearing and cute bubbles does none of those things bubbles is totally and completely on her own wavelength you know there's all the jokes about like a dog will come when you call them a cat will take a note and get back to you um but like seriously bubbles is i don't know if it's a training thing that we can do or this is just what happens with a bangle she's just she just wants to do what she wants to do and that's fine but i mean again doesn't she play catch with you you know she does she does and maybe we should re maybe i should re uh introduce that into our relationship um but like at and i think also once she starts coming out here more and once i build the catio i think we'll see kind of how that a little more room to roam and stuff for her what kind of goes on but like but like she's definitely very much leaning into whatever the stereotype about cats being aloof about cats not being a dog I thought she was very dog-like when I first had her because she does like to chase and fetch things and stuff like that but as far as the kind of the um you know wanting to just be near you and cuddle you and stuff she does not really that is not really in

her personality well also cats will change based on their circumstances as well like you know when when bubbles goes out to live with you there she'll be the only cat again and sometimes well

that's also part of it we think she's emotional emotionally very reliant on holly now oh even though you don't even though holly is holly is a pretty chill dude a pretty sedentary little lady just kind of chills there we are of the opinion that part of why bubbles has freaked out so much when I brought her up here was because she's the only cat. And that might be kind of bad for her, like her kind of emotional whatever. So probably the two of them will come spend some time up here and then they may go down and spend some time like Becca's got some work trips coming up and stuff so this is probably going to be a package deal which I'm down for because Holly has zero maintenance. But anyway, all that is to say I can get with Roscoe.

I can get down with Roscoe. Aurora is going to offer you this although it puts a lot of pressure on you. Because I kind of didn't realize that I was putting the kibosh on the water heater dog that you were leaning towards. But if we are going with my gut and saying that that's probably not the winner today, I am happy to take whichever you choose out of the three remaining. Well, let's see.

Puts a lot of pressure on you, though. Again, it's hard because I really like all of them. I really like Mia's opener. Man, I like Anna's. Whose idea was it to turn this into a contest? That was mine. And as such, okay, you know what, Andrew? I'll make the tough decisions. It gives us something. I'll make the tough decision to agree with you. Do you want to see donor levels? And I'll say our winner moving out of the west bracket is Clementine doing Roscoe the retired outlaw. All right. I'm trying to play this. Excuse me. Let me just. I believe I did it with my mouth. There it is.

roscoe the retired outlaw congratulations to roscoe congratulations to clementine congratulations to the other little terror that chased roscoe around because it was a congratulations to everyone who

submitted songs on today's show they're they're all winners uh so thank you to everybody who helped us make round one of this possible i think this is going to be a good week andrew i think so

too, as long as we don't make too many enemies.

Thank you for being a 10. We're not here to make enemies, Andrew. We're here to thank TBTL Daily Donors. Our friends. They're our friends. That's the thing. They're the reason that we're able to do this as a job. And there are some new names on the list. There are some names we've seen before, and we are just incredibly grateful. We're also trying our new theme song. this year, which is our friend Alini. Please go check out Prom Queen and Alini wherever she's making music. She's the absolute best. We're going to use this song, even though it sounds so much like the Golden Girls song that you said. It did throw up some flags in some places. But I just consider that a compliment to Alini's skill.

YouTube was like, you can't use that song. That's copyright. I'm like, nah, nah, nah. It's our friend. It's our friend. And the words are different. Come on. And she made it just for us. In fact, I'm holding her payment in my hands right now.

What a paltry payment.

Lini, we would love to actually support you and have you bill us for your work on this. And she said, okay, here's my bill. I need you to make me a special friend. Bracelet that says Leany on it So you made a special one right there I did and I put extra beads in it too I wanted it to be extra nice

It's heavy, you can feel that You can feel that Let's get to it I was going to tell you a story but it was going to delay us For many more minutes that nobody needs Taken up out of their day So let's thank Donor of the day, Joseph Toll Of Rockville, Maryland You're remembering that, huh? Toll A. No, I was trying to, I was guessing on the pronunciation because I guess we don't do, we're not doing pronouncers.

Well, you know what, Luke? You know, I copied and pasted a little grid with today's donors in it on your show sheet. You can see it there. And you notice how there's a column with a first name, a column with a last name, a column for the city and for the state. There's a column in the middle where it's blank. You know what that column is? Pronunciation. Apparently, 99.9% of our daily donors did not offer a pronunciation on their name. Are we doing pronouns as well? Pronouns, we should have that in there. In fact, I'm not sure that that was on the forum. That's right. I think I meant to do pronouns and pronunciation. We definitely do that for the dazzling donors, and we should have inserted that. So anyway, Tole, Thole, Tole, Rockville, Maryland.

You got it covered all different ways, Joe. Joseph, excuse me, of Rockville, Maryland. Thank you very much. Thanks also to Gail Kenny, who's in New York, New York. a very nice town New York, New York

I love that that's where your brain goes that's the only song that's ever been written about New York, New York sorry about my silence there I was also just noticing that I have the date or I'm sorry, the state and the city backwards I was just noticing that I need to in Maryland, Rockville you know what, honestly, you can get away with it in New York, New York yes, exactly, right I was just thinking, I was taking a mental note oh, I have to flip those around for the next show

Also, thanks to our pal Stacey Sledge of Bellingham, Washington. Stacey, thank you so much. Thanks also to Bree Kempa of Lone Tree, Colorado. You see what I'm doing here, Andrew? This is radio professionalism at its best. I'm skipping over the state. I'm reading the city, and then I'm going back to the state.

I like that. That's good. Also, take care of that tree. I think I said that last year. I know. Take care of that tree.

There's a lot riding on it. I feel like there's a lot of pressure. I also feel like OnlyTrees, like raising an OnlyTree, that sets it up for all kinds. You know, it's probably good for, if possible, for the tree to have some sibs. I don't know. OnlyTrees is a website that I go to sometimes. OnlyTrees. When I said that, I would just try to race right past it because I heard that OnlyFans joke in there. And I decided I was more going this way. They're all around us, but who gives a s***? Nice. Thanks also to Kathleen Climo of San Francisco, California Thank you, Kathleen By the time this airs, I will have spent some quality time in San Francisco, California and I guess I'll be able to report during that week, yes, that's what I'm doing, Andrew I'm bending the space-time continuum I'll be able to report if San Francisco is living up to its billing as the coldest winter ever spent by Mark Twain was a summer in San Francisco that's the word on the street

is it summer, does he say summer in that or is it spring I think a summer, don't you feel like

the joke would work better with summer

maybe I don't know why I thought

because I think the spring is kind of nice I don't know Allison Wall probably knows in Shoreline, Washington Allison is our final donor that we're thanking today thank you Allison, thank you to everyone who donated to TBTL this year and has been donating um we i will not i'll try not to belabor this point over the course of the next 360 days or however however many more shows and days we'll be thanking our donors this year but we were very uh uh we were very comforted and relieved that after year one of tbtl independence that that thawne that we did in my parents basement that people signed up uh and that people said hey we still want to hear this but we were very very worried at least i was very very worried internally about the what the buy-in would be on the second year because you know it's just a sense of like well okay these guys did it they're here i don't need to be worried anymore they're not in luke's basement they've moved into his partially remodeled garage and um now they're fine and uh in fact people did step up and i am unbelievably appreciative and grateful for that

so thank you to all of our donors today for donating and also i i looked it up the actual quote is the coldest winter i ever spent was a winter in duluth minnesota mark twain just

rapier with rapier don't beat around the bush there's no reason to get cute with it

no you were right it was summer i don't know why i thought it wasn't summer i thought it was more nuanced than that

don't know what i'm doing um okay here's what we're doing we're wrapping up today's episode of pet sounds but this is actually this is exciting andrew i get to be as excited as the listeners for tomorrow's show because i don't i haven't heard any of the pet sounds and so tomorrow we're gonna have four new we're gonna have the uh the east bracket uh figuring out uh the next song that will move forward in the competition for pet sounds the tvtl pet song tournament so Please do join us for that. In the meantime.

Oh, what are we calling today's show? Hold on. Oh.

How about cat calls? Cat calls. Sounds good. Is that cool? Because we had a lot of cat stuff today. Sounds good. All right. Thanks for listening. We'll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

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