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That's a no from me, dog. Mom, it's not real. It's a jib-jab. all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a thursday edition of tbtl the show it just might be too beautiful to live yeah everyone's got a podcast my name is luke burbank i am your host your voice is like a combination of fergie and jesus coming to you from the madrona hill studio first high above the mighty columbia bring it back home baby bring it back home that's Right. I'm back home and back on my 75 hard-ish. Ish, ish. Got my trusty water bottle here, water gallon. Actually, half gallon. And, well, I've already had enough of that today that it's going to be a bit of a coin toss as to if I make it through this whole show without having an accident. I am so happy to be back home, though, to be looking out on the mighty Columbia. It's just an absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous early fall day.

Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful.

And we have a gorgeous show for you. I mean, I don't know. Can an audio product, can a podcast be gorgeous? We're going to try today here on episode 4307. Let the fun begin. In a collector's series. there's much debate as to if the new francis ford coppola film megalopolis is in fact gorgeous or like one of the bigger train wrecks in the history of cinema so who needs a movie i am totally obsessed with the story around megalopolis and the amount of his own personal fortune that francis ford coppola has staked and how poorly the movie did at the box office and how divided the critics are. I might go to this movie. It's playing in my local town, the place where many of the cars are pulling giant, don't tread, I mean, the trucks have like, you know, don't tread on me flags flying off the back. Not the place I would think a Francis Ford Coppola passion project would be playing. And yet it is tempted to go see this movie, maybe just to help alleviate some of his personal financial exposure on it.

That cash could really get me out of a couple of jams.

Also, it's a Thursday, a.k.a. Blur's Day. So we will do the Blur's Day messages. Finally doing the Blur's Day messages on an actual Thursday. What a novel concept. We're also going to talk to this young man. He's a handsome young stranger, a soulful rocker from New Hampshire, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships and being the longest running co-bro of the show. He did have COVID, hence that intro tape from our friend Nola. I'm in total agreement, Nola, with the sentiment of that intro tape. He's doing much better, though, and he's absolutely ready to bring it on this Thursday. Basically, it's going to be a podcast party. I like to party. Do you like to party? He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

I am locked in today, Luke. I'm not being sarcastic. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I have not been happy with my performance on TBTL. I feel like there were a lot of distractions leading up to the big Philly event, and maybe I was just maybe riding shotgun too much during the show. And then the past two shows we did, I think I was not very clear-headed. And today is, mark your calendars, today is the day that TBTL returns to its former glory thanks to me, first of all, having my first cup of coffee in a week and a day, by the way. So that helps right there. I finally went back.

Things are going to start happening to me now.

I finally went back and watched some of those TikToks of Frankie Valli. Oh, man.

Deering in the headlighting on social media or on stage, I should say.

We talked about it on the show the other day. They're very odd because, again, if you bumped into Frankie Valli in the airport, as Lenny Kravitz apparently did recently, you'd be like, this guy's doing really great for 90. Sure. If you saw him trying to lead a sort of musical review of the career of Frankie Valli in the Four Seasons, you would say, this is not fooling anyone.

Yes, and that's one that I wanted sort of a redo on. And so maybe that's why I forced it here at the beginning of the show, because you sent the show sheet. I still got thought. There was a mention about Frankie Valli kind of, you know, issuing a statement saying, I'm not being forced to be on stage. And I had not really seen, as you noted, I had not seen the social media postings that would maybe mandate one to release a statement to say, I am not being forced to be on stage. But then as I was posting the show and I did not use I thought maybe I'll use a photo of modern day Frankie Valli on stage looking again, just like he doesn't exactly know where he is and just barely lip syncing while the audio is just like pure 1960s.

I mean, it's like, it's like the guy hasn't missed a beat. In fact, you know, honestly, I'm glad that we can now have, you know, sometimes you got to have the conversation twice, Andrew, to really deliver on the promise of the topic. But like, as we, as I think about it now, you're totally right. It might have, it might be better if they are trying to go with this concept or trying to present the idea that he is singing, maybe make the recording kind of a little bit worse. Yeah.

Muddy it up. Do something.

something it can't sound like 1969 oh what a night era frankie valley it's amazing like now

that i've seen the video and now of course if if listeners haven't i don't know if i'm doing it much more justice but you were sort of telling me about it i'm like okay yeah that sounds interesting but boy when you actually go on tiktok and type in frankie valley it's first of all it's also interesting i can't tell how many people are posting it because they're pointing out how bananas it looks like he's barely moving his lips and certainly he might be lip syncing but he's not like breath syncing you know what i mean like he's not taking a big breath and then going

you know he's hitting those he's got very very limited like facial expression yes and it's just

like he moves his lips a tiny bit but presumably this just like high perfect note comes out like

something that would be a real physical undertaking yes for anybody he's not selling that part of it

For a 25-year-old, you would see more kind of like you'd have to be throwing your body behind it. So it really is kind of amazing to see that. But then some of the postings, I'm not sure are from the perspective of, oh, wow, look how lip-synky this is. Some of the postings are just like, can you believe this guy still has it? And I'm just like, wait, are you? I couldn't tell the layers of sarcasm that I needed to dig through. Or if these were just kind of earnest fans who are just like, yeah. And I don't, by the way, all these postings were from people who love an experience they had, you know, from a man that they love and admire. So I don't want to take that away or scuff it up. But it was really hard for me to like kind of figure out like, but you guys, this is like, I'm never sure exactly what the word uncanny means, but I think this was uncanny.

Well, you're right in that. And, again, peace and love to Frankie Valli, who I mentioned I have seen in the last, like, maybe seven or eight years live and had a great time. But the uncanny thing does seem to be apt because it kind of has the feeling of a non-functioning Rock of Fire explosion character.

That's what it is.

And that's where –

It's not totally broken.

it's not no it's but it's not keeping up with the banjo jamboree that it's supposed to be engaging

in at this pizza parlor its batteries are just dying were you the one right for me that there was a stand-up clip i heard recently where it must have been on satellite radio where somebody said i miss the days of like batteries dying like now if your phone bat you know you can be listening to music on your phone until the very moment it's completely dead and the music is fine but in our era you would grow up listening to a walkman and then eventually you put on the walkman it's a little bit slower but you can work with it this is i don't know if i'm not going to be

able to find this on the fly at all i mean this is we've actually been on kind of a hot streak lately i feel like with tape paying off like when you went down that nitza rabbit hole the other day that was pretty good i feel like i grabbed some some audio kind of on the quick the other day and And it was, you know, deece. But what I'm trying to find now is.

on my phone i then have to text it to myself to play it but what it is is the dry cleaner that i go to in town the door chime is running out of battery power and it is the most it's like this digital it's like a dying digital sound that has happened every time i go into this dry cleaner and open the door and uh it's so um it's the kind of thing that i would if i you know if i had to listen to it all day it would be really really dispiriting for me i was going to ask you does it give you the bad feeling when you walk it gives me the worst feeling sorry i'm scrolling through i took far too many pictures in italy like i think because you know you know storage space on your phone is relatively cheap it's like i just have absolutely i never ask myself the question should i take one more photo of this it's like yeah why not but then the problem is one day i'm trying to scroll through and find a video a surreptitious video of me walking into a dry cleaner because the other thing is i didn't want the proprietors to realize that i was videotaping their door chime because i didn't want that i don't know i just didn't want to seem like i was being weird but i really wanted you to hear this the other problem is i can't search for it by city because um this This is the city of Longview, Washington, where I go like 10 times a day. Sure. Not really 10 times a day, but hold on. Give me like two more seconds.

Yeah, well, let me ask you a question while you're kind of fumbling around for that. I was interested in hearing more about your experience recording this. So you mentioned that you did it surreptitiously, and you did it – do I say surreptitiously? It's like a delicious breakfast treat. um you recorded it on your way in not on your way out i assume that the the the door makes the sound whether you're coming or going but you decided to kind of tape this on your way into the dry

cleaners well the first i mean i probably like the first three times that i just went into the dry cleaner and heard it and let me just make this even less interesting this is not the regular location that i go to so this family that owns this dry cleaner they actually own two locations in my town but one of them and again how do i put this like um it's a work environment that i would have a very very difficult time in so the first one the one that i typically was going to is just like this i don't know what it maybe was before it was a dry cleaner but you go in there and it's like just the ceiling like had a dropped ceiling you know that kind of like but then like half of the drop ceiling is missing and there's just kind of like random electrical hanging out it's very dark um no like very little natural light going in the only entertainment is a copy of costco connections magazine that's just sitting on the register and that's where i get some of my favorite bullying advice or anti-bullying advice yes um and like so in going into that one uh i was i would i kind of already had this feeling of like man i don't know how somebody kind of exists in this work environment day after day and and and doesn't kind of like have it get to them um and so then they decided to i do some sort of remodeling apparently on uh on that location and they're still doing it i don't know how extensive the remodel is i just know that it's like closed and there's like a banner saying you got to go down the street to the other location so i started going to the other location and that's the one where it's got the like world's saddest dying door chime and so the first two or three times i thought well they're gonna fix that and then i realized nope they can't even hear it anymore like this is just back i mean this is not even background noise this is just something that's now their brain has summed out this sound and so then one time walking in i did i can't remember if i was going in or going out but i think i i put my phone on record and i made a movie but it is a movie that i cannot currently locate so how about this this is going to be a hell of a forward promotion for tomorrow's show okay i'm going to find it after today's show i'll play it for you tomorrow and um anyway all that is to say uh yeah that is a that's a very something you said prompted me to remember this video that i had made i was

something about a dying battery i actually interrupted you you were talking about something else which i forget and then i mentioned hearing this stand-up comedy routine recently where somebody was kind of nostalgically bemoaning the loss of batteries that slowly died over time and how we could hear it in our devices. Our alarm clock buzzers would just get sort of weaker and sadder. Can you, and I'm going to put you on the spot here, can you give an approximation just using your own voice box of what this chime sounds like? I will try.

It's not, remember, it's a non-human sound. I know. Okay. Okay, so it's like, but my memory of it, and we'll see tomorrow when I find this, by the way.

this phone is wild no no we haven't found it but i i was just trying to i was like maybe it knows i was in a dry cleaner so i'm trying to search yeah in my photos dry cleaner and it doesn't know i was in a dry cleaner but it has found a photo of a hand washing instruction from the hotel room yeah which is clean your hands uh it found uh some like sanitizer cleaner that i had in my car it found And, like, it's amazing what it's able to kind of figure out, like, that is in these. And then it's got a picture of me.

Oh, my God.

It's text-based. The other thing it found is a photo of the smock that the Seas Candy Company made me with my name, Luke, on it. Like, the apron that I could wear when in the factory. because if you look at the label, it says professional dry cleaning only because it's on a hanger that says professional dry cleaning only.

Oh, I see, and that's why your phone found it.

So it can go through, yeah, my phone will go through any photo that has the word clean in it. If I search dry cleaners, it's finding a bunch of pictures. They're not the ones that I'm looking for.

Oh, hey, can I offer you a piece of advice? Now, again, I have Android, so they might not work exactly the same way. but you must have more uh photos on your phone than videos sometimes when i'm looking for a video i just search for a video and at least it weeds out a whole bunch of the the stuff i don't need i don't know if that's you think if i just put video in it will that filters out all the photos for me and i don't have that many videos on my phone i'll occasionally take one um so uh did it

work let's just search for video just found a picture of taboo video on aurora which i clearly took a picture of at some point to like make kamara kev laugh or something or no actually you know what this was this was where my old apartment was in portland there was a taboo video down the street and i was just absolutely shocked that that's a business model that's still a going concern in this day and age it just seems like an adult video store where you go get brick and mortar adult videos i just don't understand who the customer base is for that I think I took a picture of... I don't know how to...

It's not Fred Willard anymore. We know that. I know. RIP.

We've lost Fred Willard. We've lost Paul Rubens. We've lost some of the brightest lights of our porn shop IRL attendees.

That's right. So the video hack did not work for you. Oh, well.

Well, I don't know how to... What happens is when I'm looking for video, it's just finding things that have video on them. I will locate this at some point. Maybe even by the end of today's show, Andrew. I don't know. You'll have to stick around and listen. The other problem is that as videos go, it's very, very sort of generic. Like, in other words, I can't just look at the little thumbnail on my phone and see. Like, I wasn't filming the outside of the dry cleaner walking in. It's probably like a shot of the pavement, right? Because just like whatever my phone was kind of pointing at, it might have even been like in my pocket as I was walking into the place. So that's the other thing is it's especially sort of hard to find. Now, back to me making the sound.

Try typing in James O'Keefe, just seeing if it pops up, because it sort of seems like it's going to be that cinema verite gotcha style video. Uh-huh.

Project Veritas.

Just type in Project Veritas to see what pops up.

Most of the photos in my phone are of places that I've parked at Portland International Airport.

Uh-huh. As a reminder, yes. That could be an art project.

i was like i was in the hotel in um i guess lancaster the other day and i um i was using the gym there and then i like locked my stuff i left the little key card for my room in the cup holder of the treadmill uh-huh and so then i went to sit outside and just kind of like cool off a little bit and and whatever and then i came back in and then i went up to the person at the front desk and I was like hey I uh I left my uh and you know of course I don't have my wallet or anything I was like I left my key card in the gym or something goes what room is it and I go I have absolutely no idea like I couldn't even tell you and the more questions that this person asked me the less information I could provide I mean it really came off as a pretty uh like like I was definitely not doing myself any favors in terms of making it seem like I was actually the person I said I was And I was just like, yeah, I don't I don't know. I've been staying in a lot of hotels lately. And the person was nice enough to help me figure out what my room was and everything.

But you don't have your ID either. I think about that sometimes. You know, as I'm putting my hotel key card in my back pocket, like I have a system sort of for everything. Actually, I don't put my I put my key card in my wallet when I'm traveling.

But when I'm brand new in a hotel room, let's say I just checked in, I unloaded my stuff, and then I need to leave my hotel room immediately. For my first, let's say, the first 12 hours I'm in that hotel room, in my back right pocket, now my back left pocket is where I always keep my wallet, but my back right pocket, which is usually empty, that's where I carry the little envelope that has my room number on it. But I carry the card that actually opens the room in my wallet because I just have this weird thing that I've been doing since probably the first time I stayed in a hotel room with a key card, which is like, well, if you lose the key card, you don't want it to be in the envelope that says what number it is.

You know what? That's actually pretty smart.

I mean, kind of. It's also super paranoid. Like what world am I living in in which I drop this card and then somebody realizes, oh, I can go into the, you know, whatever hotel I'm the Windsor Suites and go into this room and I'm going to get, you know, I'm going to steal this person's identity or their, you know, or their toothpaste and toothbrush. I don't have a lot of like super valuable stuff with me when I travel. But because I did that when I was a young person, that's what I always do. Like, you know, the back pocket is the room number. The key card itself is in the wallet. And then I go out and I make my merry way around the town.

I have two hyper-specific hotel reflections, Andrew. And one of them does involve key cards and that little thing that the, you know, like the little sleeve the key card goes in. They need to make those sleeves out of a material that is porous enough that the key card can work through it. because I always get to my hotel room and I've always got like nine things and I've got the key card in the little sleeve but if you try to rub the whole sleeve and key card up against the door thing, it doesn't change.

That shocks me.

You would think, right? Yeah. I do this a lot, by the way, and if it ever comes together, it's like a little miracle or something because generally the idea, I don't have a free hand to take to dislodge the key card from the little sleeve. So I always, with great hope in my heart, I always put the whole thing up against the little reader, praying that it will go green. It never does. And then I've got to stop, put my stuff down, take it out. Like, they could make that out of something that's a little more porous. Now, maybe the thought is they—

Yeah, I'm shocked that they don't. I mean, it seems like it would cost more to make it a shield.

well what people are going to email and say is the reason that they don't is because they don't want your phone to demagnetize the car so there's probably something in that little sleeve maybe i might be assuming a lot here but there might be something in that little sleeve that like is supposed to protect it from getting demagnetized but that same thing means that it also then you can never just use that as the way to get into the room which i just think would be very convenient. Um, something else that, uh, I do have a video of me going through a car wash, so that's good in case I need that for later. I'm still on this project, by the way, I'm still looking for this video. Um, the other hyper, this is beyond hyper specific, but because I've been using a lot of, um, hotel room gyms lately, like I was doing that in Philly and stuff. Um, one of the times I got out there for a jog, uh, a lot of these hotel treadmills have, I don't know if You're more of an elliptical guy, Andrew, but the treadmill a lot of times at hotels will come with this preloaded inspirational video of running through the streets of Paris or running on a mountain trail or something. I had two different times. I just got on the treadmill. I didn't even ask it to do this. It just starts doing it automatically. and like it the it's like the so you know it's a pov of some person running but you're looking at the screen and it's kind of inspirational because you're just in like a you know residence in somewhere you'd rather be out in the grand tetons but like i was like this is crazy i don't know how this person is doing this like they're running over the hugest boulders and they're like they're not even on a trail right now and like it's like how like i'm getting i'm feeling nervous like i'm gonna trip because this path that we're taking is totally like it's not really something a human could run over at this speed and i realized oh shit they're doing this with a drone at like ground level at ground level but the problem is the drone is not subject to the vicissitudes of trail running the way a human is and so you don't get the right experience because you're just kind of like it's like yeah if i was a drone this would be great i'm not a drone i'm a 48 year old man who's still young and virile and very very has many many good years in front of him um but it's like i want it to feel like i'm really running on the thing and the problem is the person who's running the drone is not in any way

asking themselves could a human run over this am i following the trail is this believable as a plot for this jog so i just want to let everyone know who's making these videos try to keep it believable because if you're just a drone flying through the grand canyon but over things i couldn't ever run over i'm not getting the experience that you're trying to create for me

i will say that and boy this reminds me i have not been to the gym in in a while i'd like to You've been dealing with a lot, my friend. Yeah, exactly. I should be feeling pretty good today as far as the arthritis is concerned. And by the way, big news on Andrew Healthfront. These shots are coming. The shots that I'll be administering to myself, my big new medicinal experiment will begin. I believe they should get here tomorrow. So maybe on Monday I'll give you an update about what it's like to. I'm kind of anxious about having a kind of a bi-weekly medicine where I'm popping myself in my belly with a little needle device.

But I bet you're also kind of excited about the idea of reclaiming my life. A lot of relief.

Yes, exactly. So anyway, I am looking forward to getting back into some sort of a gym routine. And you're right. If I'm doing or the thing that I always begin with is the elliptical. and it's funny how i'm not even getting on the machines and like trying to choose a vantage point of a television anymore that i think will help me through my workout there were times when like if it's the middle of baseball season and you're going to a gym that might have the baseball game on which by the way it's been a decade since i've been to one of those gyms but that would be the best even if you don't care about the baseball game it's just enough for you to within the first five minutes decide which team you like. I mean, it could be like a softball game. It could literally just be a college softball game of two schools I've never heard of. But within five minutes, I'll choose who's good and who's evil. And that is just enough investment.

That's what I'll be doing tonight for Thursday Night Football. I don't know who's playing, but I'm like, I'll find something of interest in this game.

Exactly. Let's look up the arrest reports of everybody who's on his team. Right, exactly. I got to see what's going on. No, but like I can get invested. But, you know, the vast majority of the time now, what I'm seeing on the TV screens are either just like news or talking head coverage without any kind of subtitles. So it does me absolutely no good. Some sort of a reality TV show that is usually studio based, like a cooking show. And I think I could see why that would be sort of an escape for some people. But it usually just sort of makes me hungry. And I'm also just not really into reality TV, sort of the lighting. And there's just something about reality TV that I just – my body rejects. And so I don't like to see any kind of – often it will be a shark tank or a cooking show or all this stuff that I just really do not like looking at. It makes time extend for me instead of making time pass. But at the gym I go to now, there's one TV that is just like promotion – I think it's called promotional bullshit. it's like one of those things where it's like you know half the tv might be telling you what song is playing but it doesn't even matter because you have your own headphones on and then the other half of the tv is just like random drone footage or not drone footage it's like half drone and half gojo footage of like somebody who's like running off a cliff but they have like those wings on

their back yeah what was i saying gojo which i think sounds probably like a korean sauce you might put on something you know or is that or that um or that uh gojo is also the kind of like hand cleaner yes that you use if you get a lot of like you're doing like work on a

an engine or something yeah gojo is a whole brand of kind of industrial cleaning supplies and hand i love the smell of gojo by the way yes and we used to place place orders for that all the time so i grew up with gojo because my dad ran that shop in cleveland so anyway you know thanks for the correction there that would have been very confusing go pro uh gopro footage right um of like you know people kind of like winds i don't know what you call that wind what do you call it when you like you have those you jump off a cliff but you have the wings on your back you can oh

yeah yeah sure that's well it's base jumping but also wing suits sure or uh people even on mountain

bikes or whatever like that that kind of footage sort of does it for me the problem is it's too repetitive they kind of have three or four and they just keep going through it but even though like i'm not like hey i'm the guy jumping off the cliff i will say it is something that sort of takes me because i'm just looking for something that sort of takes me out of the moment a little bit because if you if you're really exhausted the worst thing is to start counting down the

minutes on the display in front of you right i yeah i cycle through so many different approaches like uh this morning i was i went down to the lake and i was listening to a lot of like long form, I listen to a ProPublica piece.

about fentanyl sometimes i want to like listen to something that's very like mentally stimulating or at least feels important and that kind of distracts me sometimes i just want to listen to like clap your hands say yeah and lose it's it really it really varies i committed what i think is an act of protest uh when i went into the the the same gym where i left the key card i walked in there and there was a tv and it was just playing fox news there's nobody else in the gym area it was muted but it was just playing and it was in pennsylvania too and i was like this is grotesque and i couldn't find the remote so i just reached around it it was like i found where the plug was just unplugged nice it was like behind all these like barbells and i was just like nope you know what now we've lost our tv privileges residents in gym whoever put this on fox news you know good luck finding out how to plug this tv back in now nobody gets to watch tv yeah you're alone in there

it's like a smallish gym uh you know there was nobody else on any of the machines or anything nobody on any of the machines you're well within your right well within your right right anyway

well andrew i uh i've not been able to find this video i'm wondering did i hallucinate it do i have to go back to the dry cleaner today and hope that they still haven't fixed this you never gave

us your impression of it though okay here's what i think it sounds like

it's like the it starts off like it starts off it's like me if you listen to any of the sentences it starts off strong it starts off with confidence and then it just sort of peters out it ends with

yeah it's like it has enough it has enough oomph yeah to start at the note it's supposed to start with but then but then it's like it just starts dying but then i guess it must you know recharge itself because it's it's my memory of it is that it starts off doing what it's supposed to do but

it just cannot maintain okay i'm gonna make a note i'll try to what i need to do is i need to isolate the sound you just made i tried yeah to see how it lines up with back to back i'm just so

i guess what i could you know what i could do is i could find god this is gonna be so much work i'm gonna have to find a credit card charge for the dry cleaner and then based on that day That will help me narrow down What day in my phone I need to find Because I know for a fact That I videotaped this sound So I'll figure that out by tomorrow I've got some lovely pictures From my dad's 70th birthday too I know it's not interesting for the listeners But I'm getting to really go down A trip down memory lane on my phone

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these folks are making tbtl happen with their continued financial support we are so unbelievably thankful for folks like sydney mcelroy of gross point park michigan sydney has been listening to the show andrew for so many years i remember meeting sydney when we did a show at shuba's in chicago tbtl live in chicago that was not the virgin hotel no that was a different chicago show

many years before back when you were doing double bills right wasn't that a double bill didn't you do two shows in chicago maybe on the same night probably maybe so it sounds like that might have

happened somebody i want i think it was our friend bobby pape uh i was talking to him and our friend chris uh at towards the end of the night there at the mulberry and i think it was bobby who said that basically like i keep saying to people like i at the philly show i kind of gave a little spiel i think maybe before we started recording and i said like just in case you're like you don't know what tbtl is you got dragged here like this is the story and i of the show and i said you know we've been doing for almost 15 years and i think bobby was like you know it'll be like 17 years in january like i'm somehow underestimating this by like almost two years or something but so yeah we've been doing this for a long time and sydney's been riding along with us for all of those years and I really appreciate you, Sidney. Also, Raul Alvarez from Seattle, Washington. Ride or die. Absolutely. Thank you, Raul. As is Linda Critchfield. I got very excited because I thought I maybe had just been in Linda Critchfield's part of the world because she's in Lancaster, but she's in Lancaster, California.

I saw this coming up on the spreadsheet the other day. Yeah, it's like, are we going to have a Lancaster thank you from Lancaster? I can't say the other one. Lancaster. Lancaster. And the thing about saying the Pennsylvania one is you've got to kind of say it like you're throwing it away a little bit. But then I get in my head about it. You know, like then I'm throwing it away too much. And then I put on an accent there. But unfortunately, that is not the world we live in. You are now in the cozy confines of your studio. How great is it to be back by that?

the way golly andrew i think i we had this exact conversation the last time that i got to come be here after an extended period of travel and and doing the show and like it's yeah it is amazing honestly it's like i understand how and why it is that people say no to projects like i understand how it is that people go oh yeah that's not going to work for me because i need to just be around the stuff that makes me feel comfortable like again the equipment here in the studio works really well i have my little routine i make my coffee it's like i i feel a real sense of of happiness as i'm walking from the house out here with my cup of coffee and my big water thingy and um and just getting ready to do the show like it feels it feels calming in a way that when i'm like in a hotel room and i'm kind of wondering is the internet going to cooperate and is housekeeping me gonna be knocking at any moment and you know things like that like it is i feel so much more at peace when i'm doing the show in the place that i have specifically designed so i can do the show and yet i seem to forget that when forever presented with the opportunity to go be somewhere else uh for some of my other job stuff i don't know i've got i've been saying this for years but i got to figure out i gotta figure out how to be here more of the time than i have been lately

Well, you have a nice solid two days before you head off to Hong Kong to do some story about a purple fruit bat, I'm sure. So enjoy it.

I'm a real Tim Walz. I've been to Hong Kong. It wasn't exactly when Tiananmen went down, but it was in the general vicinity of that.

Is that why I said, I wonder if that's why I said Hong Kong.

That poor guy. I mean, I don't know. It's funny how, and this is the exact kind of content that Alyssa Wright of Bothell, Washington, pays for. isn't it funny how like okay so tim walls you know the he said at some point that he was in uh hong kong when the tiananmen square uh protests were going down you know low those many years ago but and that would have been in june i think it might have been like june 6th or something was the day of like maybe famously with the tanks and the one protester photograph but in fact he didn't get there until later in that summer and isn't it weird how like when i hear tim wall say that i'm like well of course he doesn't remember exactly because it's been 40 years and he probably just like remembered being in and around the vicinity of china when this was going on or in the aftermath of this and then over the telling of the story over 40 years it's migrated and it's become i was there when this happened i mean i don't think he ever claimed he was standing in tiananmen square he just means he was in he was in china when it was going down i guess he wasn't he was there a few years later a few months later like i just think well that just happens with memory all the time now when if you have if you have a jd vance or a donald trump saying something similar i'd be like straight to jail yeah right right you know what i mean like i'm just so my capacity for like my capacity for forgiveness of just like a gaffe from tim waltz is just like endless right it's like that's what happens with our memories we do and we talk about the mandela effect on the show all the time memories do migrate and yet we were going so off on donald trump i mean again i'm not here to defend that guy today but like the story about being on the helicopter he said with willie brown now the thing is there's a gross racist undertone to this misremembering by trump but i really did have the thought the other day as i was thinking about the walls thing and i just thought like it is you know our memories are way worse than we think they are we blend things together we tell stories a bunch of times and we end up in a totally different place this is a normal part of human life when Tim Walls does it I just think that's the memory for you when Donald Trump does

it I'm just like this guy is just the worst yeah and you know people on the other side of the political spectrum would probably say that the Democrats are all a bunch of liars too so this doesn't maybe really hold up but like you really do have to first of all take in consideration track records of honesty and dishonesty and the you know again like and so let's just take the helicopter story which i i think i tried to tell you about on the show a long time ago and probably absolutely butchered but the the no i think you were actually totally right i think i was right

i don't think i told it very well bad info on that too but i think i thought it was this other

this other dude so but the bottom line was that was a story that trump told that clearly you know he clearly misremembered it i don't even think it was a total lie but the bottom line was he was trying to spread nastiness with that he was yeah you're right the whole bottom line first of all like you said there's the racist overtones or undertones i'm not even sure which kind of tones they are anymore um of just like confusing these two prominent black politicians um but also the whole point of it was yeah and this politician while we were on this private as our lives reflect before our eyes he took a moment to explain that he didn't like his girl how much he hated kamala harris right like that that wasn't could you imagine if that was a scenario that had really unfolded just kind of like oh my god we're going down okay before in the last 10 seconds of our life i gotta get something off my chest yeah in 40 years you're gonna be running against someone who you've never heard of named kamala harris she sucks right imagine that conversation actually right actually happening right as donald trump as donald trump is trying to portray and you're no you're totally right though which is like this tim wall's misunder misremembering if he got to the greater sort of china area on june 6th or it was in august or something there's not malice there but there is malice and an attempt to besmirch someone to go out of your way to say something sort of ugly about someone where you then have to also invent this story where you you then also mix up two different black men and that is way worse than the Tim Walls thing you're

right and and your whole campaign for the past four years has been based on what is literally called the big lie I guess called by partisans the big lie but like when when that is your entire reputation for just telling mistruths and lies in order to mislead and then anger a population and some points to violence it's just different than you know than the you know even if it was a brian williams of vacation of right that's a good comparison of retelling i think

that it's just stay out of the helicopters right that's what we've learned no good comes from

remembering a helicopter ride now i'm pretty hard on the williams stuff because he was a journalist and i actually am kind of surprised that he ended up kind of being able to reclaim his position as a as a kind of journalist but like again like i i don't want to i don't know all the details of the tim wall story honestly i sort of checked out when i heard it was not when i heard that the debate was not like a slam dunk i was like i just don't need to engage with that i don't need to feel more anxiety about this you want to talk about like selective yeah knowledge yeah i've just been like you know what i got enough going on right now i kind of don't need that anxiety i don't know how much it matters in the long run as far as you know it um the the new york times had like we talked to seven undecided voters voters and talked to them about like how this affected their plans of voting and every single one it was almost like a joke it was almost like the onion it was like i don't know that didn't make a difference i don't know yeah how does that

i think the good news is i don't think it moved any needles the one thing too is that walls did for the purposes of like creating political ads and stuff walls actually probably scored the only really meaningful point of the whole thing which was basically putting jd vance To the question of You know did Donald Trump Win the 2020 election or not And J.D. Vance wouldn't answer that And it's very clear he's like do you think He lost the election and then J.D. Vance goes I'm focused on the future like they're gonna make Ads out of that like and that was also At the end of the debate like You know the prevailing wisdom on these things is Particularly in the vice presidential Debate it's like There's basically maybe at best One takeaway one sound bite One thought you know That people have about it And it seems like that one thought is J.D. Vance refuses to Because he can't He refuses to just say what everybody knows Which is that Donald Trump lost that election I actually think, and again This is the kind of stuff that Christy Anderson Of Westport, Washington Specifically asked me to refrain from But I'm doing it anyway, Christy I'm in a flow state now, forgive me I don't know if I said this on the air or off the air to you, Andrew But like, I think it's going to be really interesting it is my dear hope and belief that kamala harris will win this election and i think it will be very very interesting to see what jd vance ends up doing as far as does he light any potential future political career on fire does he die on the hill of defending that donald trump didn't lose the 2024 election or does he does some kind of self-preservation kick in and does he like slink away like does he become another like does he become a Rudy Giuliani or does he like because this is a guy who's clearly very ambitious he's very I would say craven but like there's going to be a moment if and when Trump loses again big big on the if and and I'm praying to all any higher power that's out there I'll any anybody who can affect this please do but like it like basically like you know what if they were if they lose and then trump goes into his whole thing that he's always going to do of trying to like steal the election back which i think will be much harder for him because he's not the sitting president that gives me like a small solace that helps me a little bit fall asleep at night then i think it's gonna be really interesting to watch what vance's posture is because

Trump will want him to just go like right into the breach with him, which I think will ultimately make Vance look ridiculous and silly. They'll lose all of their frivolous lawsuits again, and he'll end up having totally evaporated any future political career over this. Or does he then is it just rats off of a sinking ship? Does he like because listen, he has absolutely we know this because he's on the record. He has absolutely no no actual love for Donald Trump as a person. does he then just like you know is he the one like going full on at to jd on julius caesar you know what i mean like does he is he the first one putting a knife in trump's back because he doesn't want to like ruin any future political career it'll be very interesting to watch and fun well

the interesting thing about him though is and i don't really know what i'm talking about this is just my knee jerk reaction to what you said but like he's still a senator and i just looked it up You know, his Senate term doesn't end until twenty twenty nine. So I could sort of see him just not being that outspoken, generally speaking, because like you say, Trump's not going to run again for president if I'm like, just knock on all the wood. Is there any wood in this sauna like a studio I work in? Yeah, you're surrounded by it. I'm just like, get to knocking. Hey, boy, knock harder, boy. But, you know, if he does lose, that at least puts an end to the Trump campaigning for the first time in goddamn a decade and a half or do. No, no. Well, whatever. And it'll too damn long. A lifetime and a half, I think, is the amount of 12 years. But it puts an end to the campaigning of Trump. And so I think and I'm guessing that while there are still plenty of crazies in that party, there's also some people in that party who just will kind of like to turn the page on that anyway. And I can sort of see J.D. Vance just sort of going back to business as usual and looking to, you know, like maybe win a reelection campaign in 2029 or even step up his ambitions. I don't see him. I don't know, especially what we saw, supposedly, especially given what other people saw during the debate the other night. It sort of sounds like he was able to compose himself in a way that didn't seem absolutely disrespectful.

So, you know, he has actually very, very unsettling. Yeah. What he has the ability to do is present these really, truly horrendous ideas in a way that doesn't sound as manifestly insane as when Trump does it. Right. Which is this long running question. Is it like what's worse like Donald Trump, who's a national embarrassment and also a truly vile human being, but is kind of bad at actually like describing these things and actually doing them or somebody who's really capable at doing these horrible things because they're smart enough to not just like constantly tell on themselves. You know, who knows? Christy, I'm sorry that we had to go there, but we did. America begged me for my take on J.D. Vance's political career post-November 5th, and I just delivered it. Sarah Spots was one of those people. Sarah is in Bellingham, Washington. We're also thanking Sarah today. Thank you to all of our donors for making TBTL possible. We could not do this without you. hello and welcome to top story all right our top story today megalopolis the francis ford coppola film uh generated four million dollars at the box office uh this past weekend it's opening weekend uh this is against something like a hundred and thirty seven million dollars to make it most of which was francis ford coppola's own money and then it's a marathon not a sprint yeah well that's actually part of the conversation because you know i don't so you know the the the reviews from the financial side are pretty clear that this was like a very very bad idea which all the distributors and studios told francis ford coppola it was in fact lionsgate who distributed the movie i think he had to pay them to do it like it was they're not they're not absorbing any of the costs they were just somehow like a district the the mechanism by which it got distributed to all these theaters um there's also this i've been reading a lot about this so anyway if you don't know megalopolis is this movie that franciford coppola has wanted to make for like 40 plus years he's been talking about it in interviews forever and he you know finally put it together but it's the story of this architect who lives in a place called new rome which is like a kind of stand-in for new york city that's played by adam driver some of the scenes i've seen from it just look really there's a scene where John Voight has talking about his boner and then he shoots someone with an arrow that may or may not be his phallus I mean it seems really really really really all over the place um but also Francis Ford Coppola I guess has always been this guy that

when he makes a movie people either love it or hate it that's kind of his thing and what i think is interesting is the movie seems like a big financial failure but like i read manola dargus's review of the film she recommended the movie in the new york times like so the people on tiktok i'm seeing which are people that are like maybe a little bit younger and i'm going to just guess like are not super steeped in film in in cinema history the way like a manola dargus would be um all the tiktok reviews i'm seeing are like this is the worst movie i've ever seen i drove an hour to see megalopolis and it's terrible and then you see the like and i don't know if this is just a generational thing or what but then you see the manola dargis of the world being like not everything works but he's actually trying something here and that should be saluted in and of itself so i guess my point is it it seems like i don't know this the if the movie just absolutely stinks on ice seems like that might be something the opinion on that might change over the years the financial side of it it seems pretty straightforward dude lost his ass on this and yeah and and didn't he

have to sell off like a big chunk of his wine business he borrowed against his wine business

he borrowed 200 million dollars against his wine business now here's another thing though that i thought was kind of interesting i heard or i read a clip from an interview that he did where he basically said literally like i'm old this just has to do with what my estate planning looks like he's like dude i'm 85 or however old he is and he was like i've always wanted to make this movie i'm not gonna be able to spend the money i have which is kind of interesting because he's he's done this before right where he's self-financed movies and that's looked like really bad for him like i think i want to say apocalypse now was one of those movies where like he's just famously always mired in these projects which seem like a total disaster until they're not and so i mean i guess his thought was i'm not gonna be able to spend the money i have so i might as well spend it on this movie it just means sofia and roman coppola are going to get less right and they're

going to be them they're going to do fine it doesn't suck to be them they're going to do fine and right yeah you know so i didn't know any of the lore of this movie at all until we got a text message from television's chris hayes what was it a few days ago um uh with a link to a drew mcgary article just saying that like listen you're gonna hear that this movie is bad this is this is drew mcgary's take by the way not chris's but you're gonna hear that this movie is bad but you're gonna want to go see it anyway out of some sort of sense of camp i'm telling you do not do that like this is a terrible movie soup to nuts just like there's no redeeming qualities here it's just awful i only read like the first part of the review but you know it's funny i didn't even note

that text message and what drew mcgary is describing is exactly my thought process yeah this looks like so bad that i feel like i would be also the fact that it's playing in longview washington it's actually playing in the movie theater across the parking lot from where you and john stayed oh god you were here for the thawne that's where i wanted to see um what was

And I ended up not seeing it there, but I saw it later, but a really, really dark movie. Oh, goodness, not Righteous People. Whatever. I ended up seeing a very dark movie.

Oh, oh, oh, Kinds of Kindness?

Kinds of Kindness. Thank you. Wow, goddamn, man. You really bailed me out. I really got to start giving you a cut of my salary. But I'm kind of glad I didn't see it in that theater. I don't know if I would have been okay walking into that parking lot afterwards. Well, that's the thing, too.

There's something very, I don't know. it feels like like late stage capitalism that whole mall area yeah and to be like living in late stage capitalism to walk out of a movie like megalopolis into a very physical reminder of late stage capitalism seems like it might be a lot for a thursday it really would yeah and i was already

dealing with a lot that week but um i was gonna say that like so all the first i'd sort of heard of this was this article saying hey listen i'm not i'm not joking this isn't campy it's just bad Not the room. Avoided it at all costs, right? But then after that, like I said, I'll admit I didn't see this one, but I saw a headline in the Seattle Times. I don't know if it was from a local reviewer or reprinted from a national publication, but it said the headline was something like Francis Ford Coppola's beautiful disaster or something. So already starting to split the difference a little bit, saying, yes, this movie is all over the place, but there are some redeeming qualities, which is its long form beauty or what have you. and then like i'm just getting bits and pieces from the most random places i you ever get a you ever get a newsletter in your inbox and you're like oh yeah i signed up for that one i got one stack yeah like i got aiden arada is somebody i think i'm saying her name correctly a-r-a-d-a i believe is somebody who's like kind of a i don't know like she's one of those people who creates memes in such a um young and futuristic way i feel like usually i'm not even in on the joke, sort of, but I find her in her internet presence to be sort of fascinating so i must have signed up for her newsletter at some point and so when i was at the doctor's office yesterday just like in the waiting room i'm like reading sort of her i don't know if you would call it a review but like observations of it and she's saying the exact opposite of drew mcgary saying like go see this movie like it's there's something about a passion project she's like yes it is a disaster but it's also a passion project and there's something about like truly exposing your soul and being vulnerable as somebody who creates art and knowing that it's imperfect and putting it in the world. And it was a very poetic look at it. And I was sort of like, people are, they're intriguing me. You know me, I love sitting in a movie theater anyway. Like just the idea of being in a theater is already plus one for me. So like every movie gets that first point for me, like putting your name correctly at the top of the SAT.

What's the access to popcorn?

Yeah, exactly.

In this here situation? Oh, ready access to popcorn? Okay, I'm listening.

So I would say within the past four days or whatever it was that Chris sent us that link, I went from, oh, I don't have to waste my time with this at all, to, oh, I'm probably going to see this. And I just wanted to say one other thing, which is I could get up on a high horse if this was the type of thing where it's like, oh, the studios are turning their heads at young up-and-coming talent or people who maybe traditionally haven't had voices as far as filmmaking is concerned. so that they can fund another thing by some old white guy whose time has passed. But if the dude self-published this or self-funded this, you don't even really have that. It's just like it's a wackadoo thing that a rich guy spent his money on, and why not? Like you said, there's popcorn involved, potentially.

I thought I was reading, I think, like a Hollywood. By the way, sorry. I wish, Andrew, I would have shoot a video of this. This is insane. You'll never be able to find it. i hold on let me go to the strike there is there's a guy here doing excavation and oh my god that is wild so there was a huge boulder that was just sitting in an area where i'm going to eventually kind of put a little sort of gravel road in so that there are you can get to my house without having to walk down these very steep stairs um just because there's folks that maybe wouldn't be able to do that and i would like everyone to have access to to my place and uh the guy that i have here doing some excavating for other things i was like can you move that rock he's like yeah and he just took this thing down there this excavator and like it was a child picking up a pebble just picked up this like i don't know two thousand three thousand pound rock and then just like placed it over across the yard where i asked him to it took under 20 seconds It's totally wild, but it's also going to be kind of loud, so sorry.

I have some bad news for you. I know that boulder you're talking about. I saw it when I was there, and that thing is part of a retaining wall. In fact, I see that things seem to be shifting in your studio right now. Do you realize you're totally on a slant?

What does the toe of the hill mean, and is that important?

That was a load-bearing boulder, my friend.

So sorry about the noise.

I could barely hear it, but I will say that maybe I should be your— On the way back from Philadelphia, I think, I said to Genevieve on the plane, I don't know what it was. I think I heard a voice. Literally, I was watching something on my laptop or something, and I heard a voice that vaguely reminded me of the voice I hear at the beginning of, I want to say, AMC theaters. Like, welcome, please turn off your phone. I'm doing a terrible imitation of it. But that voice just popped in my head, and almost as strong as the smell of popcorn. I suddenly wanted to be in a theater and I turned to Genevieve and I said hey we got to go see a movie when we get back and she said oh what movie did you say you want to see and I said I don't know what's playing we just need to go see a movie when we get back it's been a while since we watched a movie and this might be the one and this and I guess I'll probably see that Joker movie although I thought I was.

Oh, that's another one that's getting very, very mixed reviews. Oh, really?

Do we have time? What are people saying about it? My expectations are low, so that's kind of a—

I've only heard bad things. Really? Which is weird because I thought the first one was really good. I think Todd Phillips is really talented. I like his other movies. So it's weird when someone who's only made films that I found to be really good then makes one that everyone's like— Apparently they just break into singing for no explainable reason at multiple points in the film.

When they first announced that Lady Gaga was in it, I want to say more than a year ago, I saw all these internet headlines or maybe just commentary on social media saying, I heard they're making the sequel a musical. And then I thought...

that maybe that was just exaggerated i gotta say that's my least i'm not into musicals and that's exactly why like breaking into non-diegetic song like just randomly in a movie really takes me out

of it maybe i am i gonna see please call me joker that'll be weird will i end up seeing the francis

Ford Coppola disaster? What a double feature, baby. Forget Barbenheimer.

How about musical Joker right into Megalopolis? I don't know if they make enough LSD for that.

There's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll. You can't just listen to your soul. Just remember that life is number one. You can't be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much more You can be nothing but one

All right, I think I have all of the blurs days here. You sort of alluded to this, I believe, at the beginning of the show. We've been a little bit all over the place with our blurs day responsibilities. That's on me, I apologize. Well, we had some pre-tape shows, yeah, and so people were sending in sort of last-minute blurs days last week after we'd already pre-recorded that show, and I think that happened a couple of weeks in a row, so we are going to start with some folks here whose blurs days are already a week late, apologies for that, but the good news is I'm checking my spam folder here, I'm looking, this should get, this should make us right, this should make us whole once we're done with today's blurs days.

I've been looking for something to do that.

Yes, exactly, and we're going to start.

I've tried the drugs, I've tried the alcohol, I've tried the gambling, and none of it's worked.

How about some straight, pure, uncut Blur's Days right up your snoot? How about that? Will that do it for you? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We're going to start with April, who says, I want to say happy Blur's Day to Anne in Washington. She's the coolest person I have never met. She's like my cool older sister, who always has the best advice, and I love her style. I have loved getting to know her through social media over the past several years, and I hope to meet her in person someday at Yarnfolk, her yarn store in Ellensburg. Someday we'll meet there, of course.

Oh, sure. We know who that is. Absolutely. The place to, if you're going to get yarn in Ellensburg, Washington, that is your only option.

Right. That is the place to be. So happy Blur's Day to longtime friend of the show, Anne, from April and us. How about this? Talk about longtime listeners who've practically grown up with the show. We got this message from Juliet, who says, I'd love to send a self-congratulatory 29th birthday shout-out to my identical twin, Catherine. Even though we now live 8,000 miles apart in two different continents, or on two different continents, I still feel like we're just getting closer. That's really sweet. Thanks for listening. Happy Blurs Day to Juliet and Catherine. Lauren in Jacksonville says, Happy Golden Blurs Day to me. Now I want to point out, this is another one that was supposed to come in last week. So actually last week, her actual birthday was on Thursday. And so I had to sort of like change some of the tense, the grammatical tense of this message. Lauren says, last Thursday was my 45th Thursday. And though I can't believe that is possibly true, here we are. I thought I'd be heading to Philly on Friday, but with the impending hurricane whipping its way towards us, I thought it better to stay close to the fam. In the meantime, I'll be down here listening, sporting my sweet hat and spreadsheet bracelet, watching the river crest.

You know what, Andrew? First of all, I'm hoping very much that everybody's doing okay. You know, in the aftermath of Helene, I wanted to say that we got a message that our guy, John Sklaroff, saw on Facebook somewhere. I don't know if it's the Stens page or not, But our dear friend and longtime friend of the show, Veronique, and her husband are, I believe they had relocated to Florida very recently and then are not going to be able to live in the place they were living because of the storm and are hoping to locate housing and are really having a hard time doing that right now is my understanding from reading this message. So this is not super helpful information for me. Again, I'm hoping that this is unfolding over on the Sten's Facebook page and that people are reaching out or seeing if there's anything they can do to help. But I wanted to just try to signal amp that a little bit. If you're not on the Sten's page, it sounds like they're definitely in a tight spot. And so if you have any ideas on how you might be able to help them out, again, I believe they're in Florida. Do I have that right? That's what I'm double-checking, because I wasn't sure that it was actually Florida, but I do know that this message is circulating, like you said, on the various TVTL social media places, but yeah, it does look like the Sarasota area, if I'm reading ahead here. And yeah, both Veronique and D'Artagnan have been long-time listeners and friends of the show.

And let's be honest, basically the most creatively named couple, probably in the history of podcast fandom, you get a Veronique, that's one thing. You get a D'Artagnan and a Verac. I mean, forget it.

And D'Artagnan, I don't know if you'll remember this or why you would, but D'Artagnan used to work at the Whole Foods that was across the street from me. So I'd run into them both from time to time. And you know me. I always try to attach myself to anybody with an in in the grocery business.

No, it's really kind of one of your main.

It's kind of getting weird, to be totally honest.

One of your main focuses of your life is grocery store culture.

It is true. But in all seriousness, it was pretty shocking to see. So they moved there to Florida to help a family member, and that family member, I think, has found some housing. But essentially, they, at least when they sent this kind of call for help out, they were essentially without a home, like, without a place to sleep. And, like, I just can't even imagine that. So if you are on the social media sites, please keep an eye out. I don't know if anybody has created a specific, like, GoFundMe or what it is, but we are certainly thinking of you both.

I think if I can, just because I'm reading this post, I think that they said that they have funds. It's literally finding a place is the problem. Interesting, yeah. Just to put a little more context around it. But yeah, if you're in the greater Sarasota area or something and you have any ideas on how to help them out, please do that. It's so scary.

Oh, I didn't mean to start it from the beginning. I just wanted to get rid of the music during some of the more serious talk.

Really, you didn't want the sweet bass grooves of Tim Heidecker to underscore us talking about our listeners dealing with, you know, having nowhere to live?

No, we're getting very close to the point where the beat drops, so let's just get to it.

You can be nothing but one.

Oh, here it is, here it is, here it is, here it is. All right, so all that is to say, Lauren in Jacksonville, I hope you were able to stay safe and keep your head down down there, and happy Golden Blur's Day to you. Absolutely. I'm a professional. Look it up in the book. Justin and Bob in Ferndale would like to wish Liz a happy Blur's Day. Thank you for making our days brighter. Have fun at the PJ Harvey show this weekend. Love you a ton. Smooches and fish breath forever. Okay, sure. Soviet Russia, coronavirus gets you. I don't know, man. I don't know if Justin or Bob added that part about fish breath forever. But either way, happy Blur's Day to Liz. you know we mentioned ann who has the um yarn shop earlier well laurie i'm gonna say that again laurie in muckle teo and krista both one to wish a happy blurs day to fellow 10 sarah of magpie mouse studios oh sure we know that in seattle and the um in pike place market laurie says besides creating beautiful things she's a positive force in this world and i appreciate her and krista says Sarah is one of the most talented artists and jewelry makers among us. Sarah brings so much joy to the world, and we are so lucky to have you in the Tent's community. I concur. Oh, fabulous. Happy Blur's Day, Sarah. All right, and finally, this one's a little bit long, but we've got to address what has to be addressed here. You'll be glad to know, Luke, that you—

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.

You are completely without fault in this sharpshooting, so you should enjoy that.

I never liked this as a starting point.

Nope, you were as far away from this episode as possible. You were in Italy when this went down, so your hands are clean. But Stephanie says, happy Blur's Day to Gregory. Gregory recently shared an episode of TBTL with my cousin, who's a big film buff. It was an episode about the best films to be played on silent in a bar. This was the show that I did with Nick Jarin. I remember this episode. Nick Jarin. Yes, I got a lot of good feedback. Nick is an amazing guest, and he kind of had been compiling a list of good movies to play in a bar with the sound off, and I thought it was a great conversation. I had a lot of opinions about it, but Stephanie says, My cousin loved the ideas, currently making his own list, but he was absolutely appalled that you would give Steven Spielberg credit for directing The Goonies. Now, this is going to be the sound that you might recognize, Luke, of me throwing my co-host under the bus. I was surprised when Nick told me That Steven Spielberg directed The Goonies Turns out that is not true I think that Steven Spielberg Was a producer on The Goonies Goonies never say die Perfect and Stephanie says Our family has still not found peace Since that episode Please correct the record

Name Richard Donner as the director so we can all move on from this. Oh, Richard Donner. Wasn't he Midnight Run? And I believe I get this confused, but I'm pretty sure he did the first Superman and half of the second Superman before being pulled from it. He got pulled off of one of the Supermen, and then I think Richard Lester took over. But anyway, please correct the record and name Richard Donner as the director so we can all move on from this. Oh, also tell Gregory that I love him very much. Happy Blur's Day, Gregory.

I think that is such a compliment that this show can ruin the lives of a family for multiple weeks. That tells you just how important. What we do is so important, Andrew. What we do is so important.

There you go. Happy Blur's Day, everybody. And you know what? We're all caught up. We're ready for some fresh purses. It feels good.

Now, also, I'm just excited that we're still on the air because, again, I've got Jesse, this guy working an excavator, and he is absolutely. you know you give a guy an excavator and everything looks like an excavation project believe it first of all it's unbelievably fun to watch i'm also terrified because underneath his excavator somewhere is a conduit that has the internet in it that i buried with walt but i forgot where it was oh good you don't so we just walked around kind of trying to do our best guess and every time he's got this big scoop and every time it digs down into the ground and moves earth I can just imagine this conduit that has the internet in it just getting popped up and us going right off the air and me being very, very screwed. So I'm glad at least we got today's show in before that happened. That's right.

Yes. And let me know if we need to make any plans for tomorrow. Maybe you'll be flying up here to Seattle.

We're going to fly back to the residence in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and send a very wobbly recording down the line. How about that? Fantastic. All right. Thanks for listening, everyone. And we're going to be back here tomorrow with more Imaginary Radio for you. In the meantime, have an amazing Thursday. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

Hey, dummies. This is Bruce from Vashon. And a while back, I thanked you because I unexpectedly got a coin, even though I didn't realize I was contributing. So I go to my P.O. box today. And I get a package. And it's got a ball cap. And even though I'm a snob about my hat, I will wear this thing because it's so cool. I love the logo, TBTL, and I get a bracelet that says Frendo, and I love Coen Brothers movies, so I'm thinking that goes on my rearview. I go to put it in my rearview mirror, the elastic explodes, all the letters end up in the dash here. Well, now it says Fiendor, so I'm going to re-string it as Fiendor, put it on my rearview, and call it good. Anyway, thank you for what you all do, and have a nice day.

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