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well all right hello good morning welcome everyone to a wednesday edition of tbtl show that just might be too beautiful to live my name is luke burbank i am your host oh my god he admitted coming to you from the madrona hill studio perched high above the mighty columbia where it is absolutely the beautiful outside i'm looking at the moon right now how about that blue sky and there is the moon just thought i would share that with you here on this wednesday which by the way brings us to episode 4300 and 21 in a collector's series. Let the fun begin. We've been doing this podcast for a long time. For approaching 17 years. And we got here early, but now guess who's getting into the podcast game? Yeah, everyone's got a podcast. A controversial chicken shop is trying to horn in on our action here in the podcast game. We'll talk about that. Also, would you install a camera on your toilet to take a picture of your number two? When I saw myself poop and i was just like you gotta be kidding me if it could save your life and also i don't know if i really understand ai we'll talk about it when we get to that story people are calling a lot of stuff ai and i don't know the difference between ai and then just i don't know something that's computer software anyway we'll get into that and we'll talk to this guy longest running cobro of the show may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships oh wow he's andrew Well, she needs to join me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. I have some exciting news. I'm going to be taking you on a TVTL breaking news. I'm going to be taking you on an audio adventure today.

Ooh.

That's right.

This is my impression of the person at the beginning of the show. Is that Jennifer Coolidge?

It is Jennifer Coolidge. It is, yes, from A Mighty Wind, I want to say. I haven't seen that one as much as I've seen the other Christopher Guest movies, so I'm never quite sure the ins and outs of that movie. But I have myself here up. You hear that? Isn't that a satisfactory sound? That is the sound of a bunch of pistachio nuts inside of a little bowl.

Harlan Pepper, will you stop naming nuts?

Oh, did you hear that? That was me cracking a pistachio nut. And then this is the best part here. You throw the shells into the other bowl, the shell bowl. I love the sound of that. Jerry, you know my pitch for M&M's, right? I want to be the lead creative.

You want to be the sexy M&M in the high heels?

I want to be the sexy M&M. Why did they take all the sex out of the M&M's is what I want to know. I just think that— Woke mind virus. That's right. That is why. Thank you for answering that question. I don't want to f*** any of this candy now. Jesus. That's how you get the— No, that's okay. That's how you get the—

Will you bleep that?

Sure, I'll bleep that.

That was out of the blue. I need to kind of, I need to warn people about that. I just find that, wasn't that, wasn't there some Tucker Carlson nightmare BS around that? Going crazy about it. I'm sorry that that F word just came flying out. That's what I think of Tucker Carlson.

But wouldn't you, couldn't you, like, those animated M&Ms, and this has nothing to do with Woke Mind Virus. I just have always thought they were kind of stupid. I don't really like them. I think it's a terrible campaign. It's unclear. It's like people are eating the M&Ms, and the M&Ms sort of want to be eaten. but it's also some sort of saw-like situation, it seems like. It seems unpleasant. I don't know. All you need to sell M&Ms is to show a bowl of M&Ms, like a nice little bowl of M&Ms, and then ASMR style, show somebody's hand, maybe a kid's hand, maybe all kinds of different hands. We can have great representation here. Just reach into the bowl and grab some M&Ms. Now, this is...

These are nuts you're hearing here. I don't have M&M's. If I had come prepared, I would have done that. That's all you need. The ASMR of somebody grabbing a few M&M's out of a nice candy bowl, that is going to sell the M&M's.

Almost as much as wanting to hump the candy.

I mean, honestly, they do say sex sells, so maybe that is the way to go. To both want to hump and also eat the candy while it's alive and potentially screaming, I don't know how that works. Yeah, do they have nerve endings? They seem, when they realize a human adult is about to eat them, they seem worried, right? They do, yeah. So what is the deal? That's it. That's my question. What is the deal?

Speaking of commercials, by the way, I want to say congrats on getting the shelled pistachios. I've said it before on the program. I cannot be trusted around a bag of the pre-shelled, the ones that have been shelled for you. That's just, I can't, it's too, I'm just too close to the main, you know, the main supply of those pistachios I need the work of taking the shell off

You know, that's one of the reasons I think I like eating with chopsticks At restaurants that have chopsticks You know, they'll give you, let's say a teriyaki place or whatever They'll give you a choice, they'll give you a fork and chopsticks I prefer to eat with chopsticks, not because I've ever we all have those friends who traveled east right to Asia and they came back and now they're experts and they have to eat everything with chopsticks or whatever I don't know if we all have those friends I don't even know if I have that friend honestly but there's something about eating with chopsticks that just like it sort of is it kind of slows me down a little bit you know I've been eating with chopsticks for a long time it's not like I'm fumbling around with them like it's a Jerry Lewis I bet you Jerry Lewis would handle that really I bet you Jerry Lewis would handle

very very nuanced very delicate a chopstick scene don't let the chopsticks anywhere near jerry lewis or even where he's probably buried at hollywood forever don't even don't even bring him to the

cemetery jerry's on the set everybody get rid of the chopsticks hide anything he could be racist

with please exactly but anyway i i am actually i have to be honest with you i am very proud of my chopstick skills it's one of those things that I'm a pretty adept at and the trick is to hold them further back on the chopstick then then would seem uh advisable because what people tend to do is get way down like kind of towards the bottom of the chopstick because you know you're like well the closer I am to that the easier I can manipulate it it's weirdly it's the opposite and uh so yeah I'm kind of proud of my chopstick skills and I like to be real cash when I'm eating with them and i'm just talking and i'm picking up you know this and that although i will tell you

i'm still not good with rice i was gonna say that's the only thing that is like sticky rice that comes with teriyaki is very easy to eat with chopsticks but i'm doing a tv story on teriyaki oh oh yeah you mentioned that in in passing the other day i think that's a good uh i think that's a good idea seattle's seattle's teriyaki shops are a kind of unique thing in fact i think i did a hay dummies about that because people are like you always talk about these teriyaki shops like

what are these things and i'm gonna go talk to toshi the guy that's credited with kind of oh nice sort of inventing or modifying the the teriyaki process in seattle he was still with us he must be getting i didn't either age yeah and i didn't know that he was like kind of credited with being the originator because i used to go to toshi's teriyaki as a teen all the time um but yes that rice is a little easier to deal with but the uh you know other stuff i get fried rice yeah i've never really mastered that but otherwise i i feel pretty good about my uh my chopstick skills now can i ask you a commercial related question and this is going to be really unsatisfying for the audience because i can't exactly remember the commercial um and i'm hoping you've heard it it's a radio commercial and it plays a lot when i'm listening to sports okay and it's for i forget what the product the amount of things that i don't know about this commercial andrew are just

frankly stunning i don't know what it sounds like i don't know i don't know what it sounds like or

what the words are that they say in this commercial but i want to get your take on it no it's like a commercial i think it's for like t-mobile and it's something to do with like a movie but it's like having to choose it's like having to choose oh yes sci-fi yes yes it's like getting sci-fi and romance oh my god oh my god i love you jenny i'm a robot and i do not understand the concept of the commercial it's it's it what are they saying luke luke okay yes we need to talk

i've been waiting my whole life for somebody to come up to me also be annoyed at this to come up to me and to say can we talk about that t-mobile commercial because i hate that commercial so much you work on the right show my friend so first of all i think that and and this is maybe overly cruel, but I'm pretty sure the T-Mobile spokesperson is that person who sometimes we see him on TV ads too, and he's got the thickest neck.

in the history he must be like kind of a gym rat guy he's not positioned as a gym rat guy you just see him at the end and he's like the guy who will be like it's as easy as choosing slash as your guitarist for your band do you remember those and he kind of like comes into the screen at the end they have a radio version of that and a tv version and he's in really good shape there's nothing i shouldn't be like focusing on somebody's body this way it's actually kind of counter to how i like to live my life but there's something about his like his big muscly neck that i find so distracting

that you know the guy with the beard i don't think he has a beard i think that's a different guy

um but when i hear his voice on the radio even if there isn't a tv version of it i'm still

distracted by him there's something about like this you can hear his neck i can i can hear his

neck and it's this fake smile i don't know why i find him just to be i i find him to be very irritating as a spokesperson but just even putting that aside they're saying that t-mobile um you can get some sort of a bundle right it's like you can have maybe it's internet and sell i don't know what it is but they're trying to sell you two different like digital products right via t-mobile and they say it's like getting romance and sci-fi at the same time and then they do a little clip for an example of what that might sound like like a little radio play and you hear a robot saying i love you i am a robot and it is like the worst thing it doesn't sound entertaining at all and so that's what i don't understand about that commercial is they're saying hey we have this thing where you can bundle these two things but then they give you an example of two things that first of all on their face it's i guess you're sort of making it sound like they don't go together although they've been as genevieve has pointed out because actually i think i have made her have this conversation with me we've had to have the talk um but like there are plenty of sci-fi romances like i i would maybe even put well genevieve gets mad if i call star wars sci-fi she doesn't consider it to be sci-fi but she's do you know that genevieve's gone like full sci-fi nerd like she will get mad if you call something sci-fi that she's like that's a space opera that is not sci-fi she's like it doesn't have any of the tropes of sci-fi she's like it's a soap opera that happens to take place in space, but there's no, she's like, there's no science in it.

Uh-huh.

So anyway, but yeah, but this commercial is ridiculous because they make it sound like a terrible thing. Then you're like, wait, why would I want to combine your two things if you're giving an example of two things that sound like they don't go well together, but also they should go well together. There are plenty of things that have sci-fi and romance in them, maybe even Game of Thrones.

It fails on every single level

that I can think of. Game of Thrones would be fantasy. Sorry about that. Yeah, it is so bad, and like all of the worst commercials, they've been running it for like two years, and I've just had it. I've had it.

What about the two guys, speaking of T-Mobile, the two guys being weird in the garage? Oh, I don't think I know this one.

Tell me the story.

You haven't seen that one?

No, this is a TV commercial. Okay, yeah. I think we have a different diet of TV.

It's like two guys, like they were playing it a lot last year during the baseball games. again they like sponsor the stadium i think so they probably do a lot of mariner stuff and it's like these two guys that are in suits and they're just being kind of like weirdos in this garage

but somehow it's a mobile ad they're the okay i can give you some background on this the two guys are from the tv show suits which is why you and i were not familiar with them we don't watch the show suits there was a super bowl commercial i'm gonna give you the backstory on this it's not going to be satisfying but i'm gonna give it to you anyway there is a super bowl commercial i believe in the last super bowl where the bit was a whole bunch of people were trying out they were auditioning to be the next t-mobile spokesperson and i think a lot and it was one of those super bowl commercials were sort of jam-packed full of various celebrities um cooper who's the hot guy bradley bradley cooper and his mom have a scene i think some influencers whose names i wouldn't know have scenes and it's like a it's a bunch of famous people and and one of the the one of the clips in this montage is the two guys from suits who you know are well known among certain i guess usa tv watchers is suits on usa is that correct i stopped watching it once uh megan once the princess left but anyway um but yeah so what happened was they had that that montage commercial with a bunch of celebs of varying levels of celebrity i would say and then the the long tail on that commercial is everybody else went home but the suits guys were like no really we need a job and so it's really confusing they're still sort of in audition mode in like their parents garage or in their own garage where they're filming it but it doesn't make sense because there's like one of them like there's a there's like a voice over but then there's a director in that's right then there's one it's gone on so long that there's a director in the garage with them and you're like wait a second if t-mobile is going with this and they're hiring a director why are they still in their shitty garage like the And next.

narrative to the degree that it ever made sense it doesn't anymore yeah i didn't know any of that

story of them being from suits so i was just seeing the ones that's just them in their garage and it i i sort of appreciated the attempt like because there's a lot of like i'm sure that the people that made that commercial thought we've made the weirdest commercial ever because there's a lot of there's clearly what appears to be a lot of improv-ing a lot of ad-libbing them kind of getting up close to this camera them doing weird stuff to each other like where they must have They just had a script and then got the script, you know, gotten a take they liked and then just said, like, go nuts. And I think they ended up keeping all the stuff that was going nuts. But none of it really works. Like, as improv, because these guys, the Suits guys, I'm sure they're perfectly nice and talented people, but they're not really, like, I don't think that they're particularly skilled improvers. It reminds me of many bad productions I've personally been part of, where I'm asked to improv and it goes badly. Like, maybe that's why it gives me agita, because it reminds me of my brand of work,

which is poor improv now um i'm gonna steal something from after these messages here this is a commercial that i saw in heavy rotation i was watching something that was like on an on-demand platform and i don't remember what it was it might have been the penguin which by the way i've been i think i'm caught up on the penguin now surprisingly maybe we can do a review later in

the week yes i've been wanting to watch it is it in fact the soprano well there's interesting it

was you kind of mentioning that somebody described it that way and also the fact that every time i turn on my smart tv my tv is like don't you want to watch the penguin my god you haven't watched the penguin yet and finally i um kind of caved in and started watching the penguin it is there are parts of it that will very much remind you the the physicality of the penguin is very tony soprano esque because it's not he's not like a super villain he's not dressed up like a penguin he just is dressed up like a gangster um who is kind of a larger go out does he get the newspaper and

then he goes out to his pool and there's just penguins in his there's a bunch of penguins in

his pool exactly they're shitting all over the place since you already swore i can say that um but anyway i was watching something on demand and when you're watching some things on on demand platforms they will just serve you the same commercial over and over and over again each break and sometimes that's really irritating but there was a commercial i saw that i literally couldn't get enough of it i was waiting for the next commercial so i could see it again i might have a small crush on the kind of nerdy woman in this commercial so i am going to do this i'm going to play the audio for you, Luke, but do you have your email open? Do you have your regular email open here? I'm going to send you the link so you can sort of see the physicality of this as well. And why would I do that when we're recording an audio-only medium and I should be focused on the listeners? I will do my best to bring the listeners along on this. This is a commercial for something called Native Body Wash or All Body Deodorant. I think there's a couple of different versions where they kind of swap out the ADR voiceover on this to sell different things. But the point of it is that this product makes you smell really good. But we see a woman who's probably, I'm going to say, in her 30s or something, and she's pulled over by a police officer, presumably for speeding or something like that. And I think that he mentions that something smells nice. And she says, oh, yeah, that's my all-body deodorant or whatever. And she says whatever the scent is. The version I'm going to play here is their holiday scents, so they don't smell as good. The one I saw the other day, they they have different scents that they're advertising doesn't really matter. But I want to let you know that. So he pulls her over and she's like, oh, yeah, that's my body wash. You smell. And then she starts sniffing him. She's like, what do you what do you and then she's like all over him. She's sort of like leaning out of her window, sniffing this police officer. And they're in this kind of awkward moment. And then we realize there's somebody else in the car.

Even ma'am doing 52 in the 25 zone. Have you been drinking?

No, if you're smelling something, it might be my spiked eggnog body wash. It's kind of cinnamony.

Oh, I'm getting it.

Are you wearing some?

My native fresh mistletoe.

I smell it. Olivia? This is my Jason. How's it been? My husband.

That is good.

her acting is so so good but then she looks when she has to stop smelling they're like they're not quite embracing but like they're leaning through the window her and this cop who are both like kind of shy and nerdy in a way but they can't get enough of smelling each other and then off screen you just hear Olivia and she can't even think of the word she's like this is my Jason there's just something about the way she delivers that line it slays me and I swear to god every time I watch it it got funnier

that's very edgy you were having actual spiked egg dogs

I mean that's a very edgy

I just watched it too muted that's a very edgy commercial because you've got like police involvement you've got like hints of a DUI

Yeah, right. Like a lot of kind of taboo topics for a commercial, you know, like that's pretty, I have to say that's pretty daring of them. Also, I would say maybe don't wear that if you're driving because if they smell that on you, they're not going to believe it's your native body wash. They're going to pull you out into a field sobriety.

Right. Oh, I'm sorry. You're smelling my Jim Beam themed native body wash.

I'm sorry, you're smelling my tequila aftershave that I like to put on.

Tequila sunrise aftershave.

But no, that is, and also you're right, the physicality of it, it's not, like they don't just start making out the two characters, it's this kind of more sort of animalistic, but not fully sort of sexual thing, it's somewhere in between, it's this animal magnetism, I guess, that's hard to describe, but very well acted. They're a lot better than that stupid Squatch guy With the long hair

Now I hope that

Somebody gave me that soap In my stocking for Christmas It was very sweet of them But that soap does not smell good

It's all like soap for dudes I don't go in for that stuff

It's like every smell is like tobacco leather I'm like how about soap

How about Irish Spring I like that

Do you remember speaking of commercials how vivid in your mind is the irish spring commercial where they cut the soap and water

shoots out of it oh my well for oh i don't know that i remember water shooting i just remember that the commercial they would famously take a pocket knife and just shave like a very satisfying slice off of the irish spring i remember that i believe my memory of it is that when they

shave that slice off then it would shoot water out because it was an irish spring that they had

tapped into maybe in some but I think that Irish Spring that that that kind of specific thing I'm talking about I think goes back to the 70s because I was watching some of these on the show with Vives at some point for the podcast I don't you might be remembering one specific one or one specific campaign I don't think that that was always the case okay maybe I would maybe that

was just later on in the game or something I do I maybe it wasn't coming out was it coming out of a guy i i remember that there was somebody they cut some soap and then water is springing somewhere maybe it's from the person maybe it's from the soap i don't know maybe it's just in the shot

here let me try this one now this is a this is a and i'm not i'm by the way usually when i say something definitively i'm wrong so this is really though an area of expertise for you what with doing the whole podcast about i do love commercials i can't believe you brought up that that thank you so much for bringing up that t-mobile commercial about the sci-fi and the fantasy and the romance And it's like, it's so angering. It's so angering that somebody just said, okay, I think we're done here. Send the script. Send the script.

It feels like honestly an argument for just letting AI do it.

Yeah, maybe AI did it.

If this is the standards that humans are going to hold themselves to, maybe we just let the AI handle it.

Yeah. And then they can, well, it was robot related content. Here's a 1991 Irish spring commercial. It's only 15.

In Kalani, legend says, take a deep breath after it rains and that fresh, clean feeling will last the rest of your journey. There's a bit of this in every bar of Irish Spring. Ah, the lost and fresh scent of Irish Spring. The Irish never quit.

The Irish never quit sounds so defensive to me. I didn't realize that that was the log line. In that one, which is not humorous at all, we just have a guy just slices a slice of the soap off and takes a big deep breath of it. But I'm not saying that the commercial you're describing doesn't exist. I just don't know if that's the one that I'm as familiar with.

Yeah, somebody will find it and send it to me. And again, I probably have a lot of the specifics wrong. There's probably just a spring in the background and maybe the guy's bathing in it or something. There was one commercial where they lean into the idea of an Irish spring. And I think I've conflated the cutting of the soap and the water. By the way, it's funny that I started this by going, how vivid in your mind is this thing? And it's probably a thing I made up.

Maybe not. Well, because I remember you said there's a clicker, right? And there's like, they're in some sort of a foxhole and there's a clicker.

They stink real bad because they've been storming Omaha Beach all day, and they haven't showered, and then they cut open an Irish spring, and the Germans notice the water pouring out of the soap.

What I have found here is another one. This one looks a little bit more humorous. It doesn't have the spring coming out of the soap, but we do have a guy who's about to take an outdoor shower, Luke. It's all very, very classy and above board. But we see a man and he's just wearing a towel and he's outside in the woods and he's going to go into this. It looks like kind of an outdoor shower that he's going to be able to disrobe without us seeing too much.

The freshness of a spring morning reminds me of the freshness of my Irish spring soap. It's springtime in a bar. And these green and white stripes are too deodorant. That leaves you feeling clean and fresh a long, long time.

Now, here's the deal. This is the reason I wanted to tell you about this is because he cuts the soap open. He uses the knife to point out the various stripes inside there. This is from 1982. But Luke, while he's showering, he's very vulnerable out here. Two women on horses are coming up behind him.

Now that's my kind of soap. And we like it too.

Uh-oh.

A Irish spring leaves you feeling clean.

You know what those are, Luke? Those are cheeky lasses. Those are cheeky lasses who are enjoying his. Oh, and then at the end, he dumped a big thing of water over his head. Maybe that's what you're remembering. Anyway, I'll get off of this.

I think I hallucinated the whole thing.

I'll get off.

Guy's a real Arnold Palmer, I guess, huh?

An Arnold Palmer?

Oh, you missed this part of the discourse? You lucky SOB. Yeah. Oh, just the guy that wants to be president describing the fact that the golfer Arnold Palmer was well endowed. that's just oh i heard it's just a thing he started to say on the campaign i heard like

the most glancing passing reference to that on like npr or something i think i would love to hear

their way of describing what he's what he's saying it really was it was like it was like a

lead and it might have even been i think i was listening to that that npr up first podcast but i did not realize that they do it on saturdays as well with the saturday morning edition people so i'm pretty sure it was i'm pretty sure it was scott simon who was hosting it and in the lead he He was just like kind of rattling off a bunch of things that the former president has been saying lately, including something about the anatomy of Arnold Palmer. But it went by so quickly and it was it was packed. It was packed with so many other bizarre, scary things about this guy that it just went by so quickly. I never thought about it again. So he's just like talking about the the size.

He, for some reason, was talking about Arnold Palmer And then just started describing what a cool guy Arnold Palmer was And then, but also how in the locker room, after showering The other golfers were really impressed with his, you know, manhood or whatever And like, yeah, this is, bizarrely enough, like the least dangerous thing that he said

Yeah, right, yeah

It's just completely insane, but it's not, you know, saying the enemy within or something, you know?

Yeah, right, yeah.

But, yeah, it does feel like he is trying to – I feel like he – is it possible that he is really trying to figure out where the line is? Like, in other words, is he just at this point amusing himself by going, what can I do that is insane and get away with it? And just like, you know what I mean? Like, is this like, is this an art project, a performance art piece at some point?

Okay.

I'm going to try playing the music.

Well, that was, that seemed like cognitive decline, but who am I? What's the, what's the goldwater rule?

There's a really great, uh, this week, great episode of the Ezra Klein show where he really goes into sort of the thing. And I'd never really thought about this way, but basically he said, what is appealing about trump to some people and what is unique about him is that he has absolutely no inhibition like he has he has you know and and it just you you just rarely see that in the political space the way that he does it and it's sort of this thing where it's like he's just saying anything he wants to at all times he has and that is what is appealing about him in this weird way and i'm not doing a good job of describing just listen to the ezra klein episode but he he had a way of talking about trump in a way that had me thinking about him differently than i had before or you know not differently not like i'm voting for him but just in a different way of talking about the madness

that is this dude well that's sort of and i'm trying to figure out what the context for this story i'm about to tell you was but um yeah as far as seeing things or seeing this camp this particular person and his campaign in a slightly different light i was i think in the car listening to a radio story about some sort of I guess press event that Trump did I think it had to do with inflation and I'm sorry that I don't know the background but I guess it doesn't really matter I'll let it go let's say it was something about inflation and there was a box of Cheerios or maybe a couple of boxes of cereal or something along those lines that were he was using them to illustrate a point right and I believe in the news story that Veves and I were hearing they mentioned something about him saying they really made it sound like it was one of those events where he was off the rails sort of right like kind of just like losing the losing his train of thought but he's sort of at one point looks at the box of cheerios and says something along the lines of man i used to love cheerios used to eat them all the time and he like takes the box of cheerios and says i'm taking these and again it was sort of portrayed as one of these bizarre moments like what is going on in this guy's head is he all there etc After, uh...

But it actually was, I think, the very, very first time in my life that I was actually like, oh, that's kind of funny. Like, that makes me laugh. And I might be messing up a lot of the context of this or even where Genevieve and I heard this. But I remember having a count.

I think I remember that press avail because he was basically standing around next to some groceries that was supposed to illustrate food prices. Maybe that was that event.

Yeah, let's see here. He says, wow, school lunches are up 65%. How can a family afford this? But look at this over here. what a nice job he trailed off i think i'm going to take some of them back to my cottage and have a lot of fun like the cheerios i haven't seen cheerios in a long time i'm going to take them back with me and so the headline here and the you're going to sex them they're not m&ms that's the weirdest i'm going to take these back to my cottage and have a lot of fun but anyway so this is written up in the independent it's a bizarre moment trump gets distracted by box of cheerios But I was like, I don't know that he got distracted. I think that he like I think that's actually legitimately funny. I think that it's like, you know, obviously he's, you know, obviously I haven't changed my mind about him. I'm not I'm not on the fence as to who I'm voting for. He's the danger that he poses is incredible. but I and then we can sort of stack up all of these bizarre moments that he does have and it seems to be having more routinely that seems somewhat you know concerning and on their own but I do think and I remember telling Genevieve this or we're hearing it together she said yeah I do think that people like us sort of forget that there is an appeal there that he does make people laugh and maybe this Cheerios thing while it was being portrayed as more cognitive decline I was like, wait, that's actually just kind of a funny joke that somebody would take. It almost reminds me of that scene from Bridesmaids. Have you ever seen Bridesmaids, Luke? I sure have. So that's got Vince Vaughn in it, right? No, I get those guys confused. No, that's Vince Vaughn, right?

Is he in Bridesmaids? Because I think of Bridesmaids as the movie where Maya Rudolph poops in a sink.

I didn't mean Bridesmaids. Thank you for catching me on this. I'm glad we had this conversation. I am talking about a movie called Wedding Crashers. Have you ever seen Wedding Crashers, Luke? And is that Vince Vaughn I'm thinking of? That is Vince Vaughn. Okay, I knew it was like one of those guys who I kind of just basically don't like him very much, right? Like when Vince Vaughn is on the screen, like I know that he's sometimes playing into the, the kind of sleaziness of his characters, but generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of Vince Vaughn.

Does he remind you of people that hassled you in high school?

I mean, maybe, I don't know. Just like, yeah, there's something about him. He's not as cool as he thinks he is, but there's a wonderful scene where I believe there's like, you know, he's hanging out with this family. And I think that like the teenage son or maybe young adult son of the family paints a special portrait of the Vince Vaughn character for Vince Vaughn. I think he might have a crush on Vince Vaughn or or maybe just like an infatuation or something with Vince Vaughn. And so he paints him this painting that Vince Vaughn.

I think that's Bradley Cooper, right? Or no. Bradley Cooper's in that movie. Maybe he's not the one who's infatuated with Vince Vaughn.

Yeah, no, I don't think so. This is like kind of a real nerdy looking kind of kid who looks like he doesn't get out much or something. okay and then um at the end when like the jig is up and the wedding crashers are getting kicked out of their own wilson and vince vaughn um the boy says i want my painting back and vince vaughn says i'm i don't remember the kid's name let's say it's patrick he says no patrick you made this for me this is my painting and for some reason like him just deciding i'm not going to give this painting back to this kid who made it for me makes me laugh so goddamn hard i don't know why it is so funny the moment just the way it's played is so great you made this for me and I'm keeping it. And so that is like Donald Trump and the box of Cheerios. I think it was a funny joke that he made. And it was a reminder that while we people like you and I don't find most of his humor funny, there are a lot of people who are like, this guy is really funny. You know what I mean? And like ninety nine point nine of the jokes don't land for me so far. One has landed. It was a Cheerios joke. But you're kind of like, oh, yeah, like for people with different senses of humor and different worldviews like he's a funny guy who's doing funny things and we're all like look at the cognitive decline in some cases in some cases it's his style of speaking is so

like off-putting to me like he was talking about the uh january 6th uh you know insurrection and he but he has this way of he so i think he says something literally like um uh you know We said it was peaceful Then he names the protester Who died, I forget the name of this Protester, whatever you want to call it, insurrectionist Because there was somebody who I think was maybe shot by the Capitol Police Or something, and she was trying to break in And so she's become some sort of Martyr for the cause, which is totally messed up By the way, you know they're keeping all those guys In the same cell block? No. Have you seen that article? No. Sorry, I'm all over the map today Point is, quickly about the statement He said something like, you know so-and-so died, nobody died.

um there were no guns they had guns we didn't have guns there were no guns it's like it's so like hard to follow and it's just i feel he is a bad public speaker like he's he does not finish sentences he says things like so and so died nobody died it's like well which is it did someone died did nobody die like it's i find it just to be so unbelievably grating but no yeah here's the other thing they've got all the january 6th guys uh living together in a jail somewhere i think in like maryland or whatever and it sounds like they're just having a ball of a time i thought

they purposely try to like house people house inmates in in different places because of exactly

this type of scenario supposedly the theory is that if you spread them if these guys are terrorists and you spread them around different jails then there's more basically like points of connection with them and other people so then maybe they spread their they spread their sort of ideology more widely than if you kind of put them together this is mentioned in the article that there's kind of two schools of thought on this i see it basically sounds like these guys they're doing a podcast in there like a video podcast like you know by the way you know the jailers yeah and you know that the guards look i don't want to be mean to the i don't know if we have any correctional officers listening but just knowing a little bit about who those folk kind of like the politics generally speaking of that whole scene you know that like it's just a it's just a big back slapping you know yeah buddy buddy situation of of these guys that the jailers probably don't really think did anything all that bad and like the craziest like moment um i wish i could remember the reporter who reported this piece it's really well done piece i think it's in the times um but they were talking to one of these guys who's actually willing to talk to them and this person said that when trump got shot in the ear the place went bonkers because they thought he was hit they couldn't tell what happened like they went into lockdown or some craziness and they thought trump was dead and they weren't getting pardoned oh my god so their logic in there is if trump gets re-elected they all get out it's like some i i misused this word because our buddy john sklaroff has corrected me on it i think i say is it arkham i say arkham or something you said it's arkham asylum yeah it's some arkham asylum shit trump gets re-elected and he just like lets these dudes out but they thought for a moment and again i think what happened was it was on tv the shooting or there was coverage of it but then people were freaking out so they went into lockdown So these guys are all in their cells and they don't know if Trump is alive or dead. And if Trump is dead, they all got to do like 10 years. And if he's alive, they think they're all getting out.

Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. Let me just, I have two things I want to play for you here. This one, only because I think I messed so much of this up. And I'll bet you I'm going to make it even worse by playing this. But let's see.

Jeremy tried to seduce me. You did? I want my painting back.

The painting was a gift, Todd. I'm taking it with me. Yeah, Todd. I said, Patrick, why is Todd so much funnier there? The painting was a gift, Todd. I'm taking it with me. And also, I think I might have found a little bit of fun for both of us.

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I want to say I've never heard the three examples. No, I've only heard the shortened version with the sci-fi and romance.

But by the way, it doesn't get any better. No, it doesn't. despite what dan savage told you it does not in fact get better those are all horrible examples

and then like the robot is dying like you're you're purposely making this sound like a bad

thing yeah you know who the robot sounds like my favorite uh my favorite sound effect from the yeah that that is i you know having been involved in some amount of commercials myself and seeing the process and just the iterative process and how many versions of the script you go through and the client and all the cooks in the kitchen. It is amazing to me how bad that commercial is that it got through all of that and that was the final product.

I know. I shouldn't care so much but I get so angry at the laziness.

Andrew, that's the magic of this show. You and I are bonded over caring too much about things that no one else cares about like that T-Mobile commercial. Thank you for being a 10.

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I'm having a panic attack right now. It's not really a panic attack. I shouldn't worry people. But I'm having a majorly intrusive thought. And it is not Katie Porter's fault. In fact, I truly appreciate Katie being here to support me during this. But two shows ago, I think it was on Monday's show, you and I started the donor segment. We made a quick mistake and we decided to restart the segment. And as this music was just playing here, I'm having a true panic. You realize that you forgot to cut it out? I feel like I would have heard by now if I had forgotten to cut that out. But you ever have that? like i don't think i've yes all the time it's been a long i mean i now i just want to knock on all the wood good thing i'm surrounded by wood and pistachios but like it's been a really long time i think since i've forgotten an edit you know there are several edits that we make in every single show it would be embarrassing if there was a little bit of us just chatting casually in there it's not the end of the world we don't say anything untoward but i'm just sitting

here thinking i did and like i don't i believe you know what it's like it's like when you arrive somewhere and you don't remember stopping at any lights yes but you probably did you have a system you write down notes i don't i can't remember the last time something slipped through i'm guessing that this that the system uh worked even though you don't remember consciously doing it and since

it was a couple of shows ago i feel like somebody would have told me by now if there's clearly a mistake in the show that is kind of like almost a hot mic moment it's also just so funny that there

is actually an even less performative level of this that we could be on it was during the break

and you said have you seen that t-mobile commercial i'm like good let's talk about this now because this is not something we want to bring to the podcast like this seems like the lowest level

of energy that could be presented to people as a product they might want right and yet if you heard us talking when we don't think we're recording it's somehow even lower energy we're just there is a basement to this which we visit occasionally and we try to remember to cut it out and sometimes we do and maybe occasionally we don't yeah let's just hope that we cut that out because i don't want katie porter to to hear no katie porter deserves better as does linda hill who's in bothell washington for whatever amount of time feels right to you follow your heart thank you linda david brumley is in bellevue washington that is a very familiar name to me i think i went to school with a uh somebody with the last name of brumley i wonder if this could be the same person i wonder if there's anybody from like you know my like christian school days who is a donor to the show these i wonder occasionally i'll hear from someone that they kind of tuned in yeah and

then maybe they they get a little hooked which would be nice i have a question for you about Bellevue and I'm be very careful here because I don't want to insult David and maybe he even worked on this project but how do you feel and do you know about this I assume you do from listening to like um Seahawks games I think that there are certain like maybe Seahawks themed events that happen in some sports bar in Bellevue but there's a there's like a mall there's basically a fancy mall there that is called you square well it's called the Bellevue collection you ever hear that no join us at so-and-so's in the Bellevue collection which to me like a Bellevue collection sounds like you know like I don't know if you're you're selling a special boxed something for the holidays try our Bellevue but um yeah they're that's what they call this like whole um I think like area of stores the Bellevue collection and it seems like a a strange name for me and I think it's also because people are people don't like to be called a mall anymore you got to call yourself

a square or a collection what i'm wondering is is this the rebranding of bellevue square i'm

wondering that too because i haven't heard bellevue square in a while and when you mentioned

that i was like i guess it looks like there are three components bellevue square lincoln square and bellevue place and maybe the totality of them is called the bellevue collection i'm not sure i'm

on their website the bellevue collection.com and oh you know what i'm seeing here is um david Brumley is featured prominently so yeah he is as part of the Bellevue collection. He is part of

the Bellevue collection. He completes the Bellevue collection. He does. If you don't have your David Brumley you just honestly do not have the entire set. True. Thank you David. Thanks to Joe Brenton of North Bend, Washington. Hey now how do you feel about the North Bend collection? It's good. It's coming along. It's not where the Bellevue collection is but it's certainly beautiful out there. It is. Where Joe is. Hey Chad Nor...

Norman is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. It's our buddy Chad Norman. Thank you, Chad. And then Melody Fedden is in Canyon City, Oregon, which I believe is where Becca's mother grew up.

Can I ask a favor? Can you say Canyon City again, but like with kind of a fake echo as if you are yelling it on top of the canyon?

Canyon, canyon, canyon, city, city, city. How's that for a little ADR here? It's not even ADR. What is that? It's acting. That's what it is. It's really good.

It's called acting. Get to know me. That was better than I expected, and I expected a lot from you, so congrats. Thank you.

And thank you to our donors. We expect a lot from you, or I should say we're appreciative for how much you do for the show, i.e. funding it. So thank you so much, donors. Hello and welcome to Top Story. We have kind of a lot of stories here and kind of not a lot of time. So I'm going to try to be somewhat expeditious. First thing, a story in Gizmodo. I think it was first reported in TechCrunch, but this was Dua Rashid writing in Gizmodo. This toilet seat has a camera for taking pictures of your poop. It is a startup called Throne. and if you pre-order it, it's $2.99 or if you wait, I guess, and purchase it after they're out of like beta or whatever, it's $4.99. This is the concept is to photograph your number two so the seat can provide feedback on your gut health and hydration levels. It's powered by an AI model that Throne calls artificial gut intelligence. According to the company, the AI is trained by physicians to help you understand what your waist is trying to tell you about your health. What is the difference between an AI program that does this and just a piece of software that knows what to look for?

Ah, isn't that the question about so much stuff that is labeled AI these days?

Yeah, I feel like that term is thrown around so much now when about half the time I feel like you're just referring to a piece of software.

Right, exactly. It's like, hey, have you seen my AI clock? It's like that's a digital clock, my dude.

Yeah, like AI to me is something that is able to make connections and learn in a way that we didn't previously really think computer programs could. But just a thing that is a camera that just has a bunch of images preloaded for what to look for, it doesn't feel like AI to me. Unless it starts talking to you at some point, going like, what did you eat? How about that? It comes with a peanut gallery function where it just comments on.

It's Waldorf and Stadler. Is that what their name is? This guy's back again. Well, we should go somewhere else.

I would say lay off the guacamole.

Let me ask you a couple of questions. First of all, you said the name of this company is Throne. I have not read this article. Is Throne, is it missing a vowel or something?

No, it's- Really? It's just called Throne. It's a classic. Oh. It's spelled like the word.

Why did I assume it was like T-H-R-O-N with a line over the O. That's how I was guessing it.

That's a very educated guess, but in this case you would be wrong. It is spelled like the way we think of the word throne. And my other question is, will I ever be out of beta?

Okay, go ahead. I just wanted to make that joke.

So the article raises a couple of issues, which is basically the privacy component. like think about it like unfortunately and i'm not trying to be gross here there are you know occasions where people try to secret cameras in like a bathroom like to get photographic evidence of like people using the bathroom this is like you signing up for it like putting a camera in your toilet that's doing this to you apparently this company uh it says it's anonymous that it's you know they have all these security measures in place so that uh there's no connection between the photographs and the person who's actually being photographed and that you can call them at any time and have them delete all of your, your account, et cetera. And so I started off being like, well, first of all, this is just an attention grabber. This is just one of those silly articles that we'll see in like, um, what's that email that you and I both get the hustle or something?

Oh, um, pocket.

I get this one called the hustle. You get one called the hustler. And it starts kind of a, never thought this would happen to me. Um, but, uh, At first I thought, well, this is kind of a BS thing, so to speak, and also it's just a thing to get attention. But then I thought about it a little bit more, and I thought, you know, honestly, I'm the person who is, and don't get mad, listeners, okay, I need to get it together, but I'm the person who's still been stalling on my colonoscopy.

Me too. And I'm not proud of that. I mean, really, I need to, I need to remedy that. But, you know, like a lot of people, I get busy and it just kind of, also, weirdly, because of my healthcare, I have to go back to the doctor and get them, actually, you know what I did? I zoomed with the doctor. So I think I'm back on the list of people who are allowed to get this. But anyway, I need to do this. I haven't done it. But like the idea that actually my toilet could just be to some degree tracking this for me and giving me an early indicator. like it sounds like a really dumb thing except it actually could i'm not going to go get this obviously but it it's it actually kind of seemed like less of a dumb idea the more i thought about

it yeah maybe i mean i definitely think you were talking about like the privacy issues if you have this installed in your own home signage is going to be key here i mean the yeah that's a good point like you're gonna i mean hopefully maybe if you have something like this maybe you're somebody if you're spending money on something like this maybe you're somebody who has multiple bathrooms in your home and you can install this one in your en suite bathroom or whatever. So you're the only person who would ever use it or some situation like that. Because I will say, if you're having people over and you have to say, hey, listen, just so you know, you can use that restroom. There's a camera in the toilet. There's a camera in the toilet.

And it might talk to you.

And it might insult.

There's two Muppets in the toilet and it might make fun of your BMs.

There are two Muppets in all of us.

if i said that right is it statler or is it i think it might be statler and waldorf but anyway uh yeah like that is a conversation you you gotta have uh yeah i mean that's a

conversation that's a good point that is not even raised in the article but you're absolutely right like it's it's it's one thing if you want to have this in your bathroom but then anyone who uses it It's being subjected to a high level of surveillance that they should really know about.

Certainly, and especially if you're like dating someone, if you're bringing somebody home and it's the first time that you're maybe making dinner for someone. And then you have to, again, have the talk with them to let them know, by the way, when you go to use the restroom, it will be recorded.

Yeah. You know, I've moved so much stuff around in my little house, like in terms of what the rooms used to be. And I moved the kitchen out to what used to be some little kind of dining room. and what was the kitchen is now going to be a bathroom and that's going to connect to what is going to become my bedroom. So from my bedroom, I will have a pocket door that I can open and I can step right into what will hopefully be kind of a nice bathroom that I'm working on right now. And I've already realized that anytime Becca's over, I will be using the bathroom down the hall. Like, I will not be availing myself of this convenient bathroom with a radiant heated floor and all these bells and whistles I will not be using it when my girlfriend is in the bedroom I will be going down the hall to the really janky bathroom that is currently the one I use all the time anyway that's just on the subject of en suite I'm always the one banging this drum but I think we've been had over this idea of wanting your bathroom to be connected to your bedroom, that's supposed to be the mark of high living but I just think it's the mark of the mystique of a marriage collapsing in front of your very ears we do not have we do not live in a house

that would even recognize the words on suite um but um there is a bathroom right next to our bedroom and just a single wall separating it and in fact not just a wall but a vent some sort of a heating or a duct duct vent and um there is i mean just nothing left to the imagination no privacy at all so if like if i have to go to the bathroom i you know if i have to seriously go to the bathroom i go i go all the if you have to take a waldorf and stapler right exactly i will i will get out of bed no matter what time of day or night basement and i will march all the way down to my private bathroom in the basement like hobbling down the stairs and just like going in but i will hitting your head on the yes hitting my head on that low low ceiling with the cool noodle on it Yeah, as our friend said. I think Genevieve said something slightly, I don't know, slightly critical or was teasing our friend Katie, something about her house or her condo or something. And Katie just said, we quote it all the time, oh, I'm not the one with a pool noodle in my staircase. Such a good bird. Katie Beck for the win. Such a good bird. But Katie will hear that. I probably messed up the ramp up to that, but I think I nailed the dismount. But yeah, I just I and I, you know, Genevieve, I don't know if she knows how I don't know what Genevieve's experience is, but I do know that if she is using the restroom, I try to afford her some privacy by choosing that time to put in some earbuds or something along those lines. Yeah, exactly. I'm very sensitive about that stuff. And I just yeah, I don't I don't get the wanting the.

bathroom to be as close to your bedroom as possible. I don't mind walking down the hall. It's okay for me. The other story that caught my attention today, Andrew, is that Chick-fil-A, of all places, is releasing an entertainment app with original shows and podcasts. They're getting into the content business, which is strange to me. I ended up spending a decent amount of time today watching the trailer for something called Stories of Evergreen Hills, Which is some sort of like, I don't know, is it called a cartoon when the, you know, it's not real people, but it's also not a cartoon. It's like more like a generated kind of like, I don't even know what you call that. You know what I'm talking about, though?

Luke, it's not real. It's a jib jab.

It's a jib jab. Is it called animation when it's a jib jab?

Are jib jabs cartoons? These are the questions of the day. No, I don't, maybe you just, are you just saying animation? It's like an animated?

Maybe it's an animation, but it's not like, you know, Disney. It's not like a drawing. It's like a computer-generated character that's, you know, animated, but not in the way I think of animation as going, which is more like, you know, Beauty and the Beast or something. But anyway, they are, they're launching this app, and they're going to be, they're making these animated shows, Except it's like somehow they have to work like a milkshake into the plot Like literally because it's one of the things they're known for It looks really bad And also I mean they're heavy on the family friendly Because of course the history of Chick-fil-A And their you know unfortunate stance on LGBTQ plus issues and things like that I'm sure that I'm sure it's going to be a heavy dose of conservative values Being pumped through this content The thing that I was surprised though to read in the article was that Chick-fil-A is the third largest restaurant chain in America, trailing only Starbucks and McDonald's.

Wow.

First of all— Isn't that surprising? Yeah. Well, first of all, the Starbucks thing always still throws me—

I don't agree with that. That's BS. It's not a restaurant.

I guess—you know, like, that's what my gut says, and I agree with you. I just never go into Starbucks, and maybe now— I mean, are people going in there to buy so much food that it is— and it is fast?

I mean, they do have sandwiches and stuff like you can get some food there, but I just don't think of it as a restaurant.

I think of it as a coffee shop. Yeah, me too. That has some food. Famously, that's that's what it's. So, yeah, fast food. I sort of I don't want to be totally dismissive of that, but it seems like a weird standard. But then Chick-fil-A, because it was so regional for so long, like we did not have Chick-fil-A's in Ohio. Or so you had to really like kind of travel far for one. We didn't have any in Washington for the longest time unless you drove all the way up to Bellingham, I want to say. or was it actually up on the, what's the border town? I think maybe it was Bellingham. Blaine, maybe. You know what, though? I think it was on the college campus. I think it was in Western Washington University was the closest Chick-fil-A because Genevieve grew up with it in the South, and so she would hunt them down in other areas of the world. And the fact that it's now the third largest is astounding, or second largest if you don't count Starbucks. Yeah, if you don't count Starbucks.

I feel like I see a million jack-in-the-boxes.

Yeah, right? Maybe it's not about location count.

I don't see that many Chick-fil-A's. It must just be, if you're south of the Mason-Dixon, they just must be, like, everywhere. This was another thing that I thought was kind of interesting, I guess.

Could I just ask, though, how are they measuring it, though? When they say biggest, do they mean most locations? Are they talking, could it be a finance? It could be sales, which could affect it, or, yeah, exactly. Like, the pricing is going to be very different at a jack-in-a-box. But anyway.

Yeah, oh, you know, by sales. Okay, that makes more sense. Sorry, Andrew. I left out the critical part of the sentence. Chick-fil-A has held the spot of third biggest U.S. restaurant chain by sales.

Okay, that's a little bit more believable.

They're just selling a lot of chicken, just not on Sunday. No, not on Sunday. And not to people who love someone of the same gender.

Which, did they come around on that or not? I thought they stopped that bigotry.

I think they probably did. I think they were getting too much heat. This was another thing I thought was kind of interesting, though, is I guess McDonald's has been eliminating their playgrounds. And this is a big way that Chick-fil-A has kind of filled in the gap. What? Because they still have playgrounds, and people like that. Chick-fil-A's have playgrounds? While many of Chick-fil-A's customers still enjoy its in-restaurant playgrounds, more of its customers are now using its drive-thru lanes and ordering delivery. Rival McDonald's has slowly been erasing its play places, a change likely resulting from fewer children using the playgrounds, concerns about health and safety, and a shift away from marketing to children. I mean I don't want to live in a country that doesn't have a Mayor McCheese That you can climb inside of And get claustrophobia at the Greenwood McDonald's

And wasn't there a jail involved

Yeah I don't think he was the mayor I think he was like a police burger

Yeah well no there was a Mayor McCheese That was a real thing because I have a glass Or I used to have those McDonald's glasses I think off.

All of them have broken except for a grimace, I think, at this point. But there was a Mayor McCheese, but then you did have the Hamburglar, but then was there a name for the character that would chase the Hamburglar?

Here's from Reddit. Who remembers the Burger Jail from the McDonald's Playplace?

Yeah, I remember the Burger Jail. Seeing them, not necessarily being in them, I don't think.

Well, that's the thing. They were very—I'm looking at it right now. It's like a police burger. It's got like a tall kind of almost like a Bobby kind of hat with a star on it.

I can totally picture it

And then it's a burger but you know There's some bars But I remember you used to have to go through this Even as a kid This like very narrow tube To get up into the hamburger jail And I remember even as a kid Being like I don't really love the feeling of being in this tube And then once you were in the jail It was like really tiny I was also probably too large to be playing Like 17 But like I just remember being like this is I'm feeling claustrophobic about this whole thing

I always thought them as being kind of dirty sort of I was just like I don't know crawling around with a bunch of kids you get somebody's sock right in your face like I don't know if that actually happened to me I just I never liked messing around I didn't I wasn't big into ball pits or any kind of thing that had a bunch of other kids thrashing about

well you were smart because I didn't have any of those hesitations and probably still have, like, microbes somewhere in my body from the ball pit at Showbiz Pizza in Linwood. Other thing from this article that I noted was that they're talking about basically restaurants getting into the content creation. In January, Chuck E. Cheese said that it's working with the top chef producer, Magical Elves, to create its own game show. I'm surprised to hear that Charles Entertainment Cheese is even still a going concern.

But I'm listening. like okay first of all okay listen if any restaurant fast casual or otherwise is going to get into the entertainment business the one that already has e for entertainment in its name

i'm going to lead with that i was going to say the one that leads the nation in um having the police called because someone's trying to fight his ex-wife's new boyfriend i mean i would actually watch a reality show set at a Chuck E.G.

Oh, a reality show. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. Did they stop selling beer and wine there after a while because the adults had nothing to do but drink, and then they would get

into trouble? Drink and have complicated feelings about custody. Because, I mean, that's the problem. It's Todd's birthday. It's little Todd's birthday. Do you think there's one person in America under the age of seven named Todd?

Yeah, that's a good point.

I don't think we have any babies named Todd

right now and you call a kid who's under seven toddy or do you have a do you soften the tod at

all when they're very young yeah what do you have maybe todzy or toddy or something but um uh yeah i've actually a reality show i think knowing what i know about top chef i guess this would be more of a competition i wonder what the chucky cheese competition show would be but i would just watch a straight up reality show just set me up at a chucky cheese somewhere in north dakota and let's just see what let's just see what goes on during a given week i want the i want the whole kind of upstairs downstairs like the staff and what's all that what's the tea there what's going on with the customers is anyone ever washing how often does a kid's diaper come loose in the ball pit and what's the what's the strategy there like there's actually as as i'm saying this out loud that's an entertaining that's a entertainment cheese show that i would watch you know the funny thing is

you set up the show today at the beginning when you were telling us what's coming up and you're like there's a new podcast coming from a very surprising place and i was like all on board and then it's like before we even get to this segment you casually say that everybody who's locked up from the january 6 insurgency is podcasting from jail now i'm like oh wow these podcasts seem less surprising that's notable somehow yes two surprising podcasts one that

could end democracy yeah and then also one that they're doing the january 6th i knew you were

gonna do that it was such a lazy setup here i go once again with the email every week i hope that it's from a female oh man it's not from a female all right emails or emails yeah you often bring

up on this show because of your family roots in pennsylvania the yinzer accent when you say yinzer by the way is that the is that philly that's actually that's pittsburgh right i was gonna Yeah, I always think of it as Pittsburgh. Yeah, and so that came up recently. Yeah, I played that weird tape.

Hey, Dawn.

Oh, that's right. Yeah, and so this is Mike, who also, I think, heard somebody doing an imitation of that Pittsburgh accent. Didn't have the tape to share with us, so he just wants to do his own imitation of this imitation.

If, if the court pleases.

Hey, friendos. This is listener Mike in Sacramento. I'm actually a born and raised yinder. And I'm listening to last Thursday's episode where you played the clip at the end about with the guy on TikTok. And he has a really funny video that I saw some months ago where he recreates and sings songs that would be funny in the yinzer accent. So I thought I would recreate some of them for you. Just two of them. First one.

Get down on it. Get down on it. Get down on it. Get down on it. okay and then the um the second one is we're going down dine in an earlier ride

and sugar we're going down swinging i'll be your number one with a bullet a loaded gong cocktail cock it and pull it

a little fallout boy for you is that what that was i was going to ask you i couldn't i didn't know i was unfamiliar with the second song i believe that's fallout boy i see that's great I love that. Yes, and I just love the fact that how many times on the show can you and I not find the tape? So we just do our own imitation of somebody else's art. Or a drop. Yes, and so now the listeners are getting in on that. Wait, what's the opposite of proud? Less shame. Less shame tradition.

You know what that reminds me of, too, is the Kroll show, the really, really good Kroll show sketch, Ponsylvania. Did you ever watch that? I don't think so. OMG Andrew It's so great It's Nick Kroll He runs a pawn shop in Philly And then is it John Daly Is that the other guy who's in a ton of stuff with him They're like cousins or brothers But John Daly runs a pawn shop In Pittsburgh So it's like a fake reality show Like Pawn Stars or one of these things But it's called Pawnsylvania

Maybe you've told me about this It all just revolves around the

Yinzer accent versus the Philly accent I think Nick Kroll is from like the part of Jersey that's more or less a suburb of Philly so he's got a lot of like Philadelphia roots and energy and kind of gets the vibe but oh my god Ponsylvania is so good. Nice. Would recommend. Alright we'll check it out. If you can't get Mike to call you and sing Fall Out Boy the next best thing is Ponsylvania from the Kroll show. Alright that's gonna do it for today's program. I will be in Los Angeles tomorrow so give you a Full update on that whole situation. I'm going to be eating historical sandwiches for a TV story. So I have a full report on sandwiches of history. So do check it out, please. In the meantime, have a great Wednesday. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

And good luck to all.

A tale of two big cities. The city of brotherly love.

Welcome to the bird. With two even bigger personalities.

I'm Murph, owner and operator of South Philly Murph's Pawn Shop on South Street. Here in Philly, I got all the business and women I can handle.

He's looking for some stillers, pirates, penguins. Got all that crap down Don's Pawn. Oh, that's good as hell.

Welcome. Welcome.

To Pennsylvania.

You're coming by tomorrow to pick up them laundries, aren't you, anyway? Oh, yeah, I gotta get them laundries. Hello? Murph, Don. Oh, what's up, Don? You want advice on how to win a World Series?

No, calling to give you advice on how to win one Super Bowl ever.

I got a pawn shop to run here, Don.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I don't know anything about that.

Listen, Jagoff, I got a whole treasure tray of Philly magazines, okay? One of them's got a picture of Darren Dalton and a tux eating a hot dog. That one where he got that mustard on his face? Yeah, that's the one. Power out.