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Can you feel the coziness coming right on through your AirPods and right into your heart? Hello, everyone. Good morning and welcome to a special Thanksgiving Day edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host right over there, my dear friend and the longest running co-bro of the show, Mr. Andrew Walsh. Hello. Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you. You too. Is there anything less cozy than an AirPod?

You know, it doesn't scream coziness, but I'm sure, Andrew, that now that you've mentioned that, Instagram will start delivering me some sort of product that's the cozy version of an AirPod. It'll be like earmuffs meet an AirPod. Someone will be sitting by a fire somewhere in Vail.

It'll be like Vanessa Williams wearing an oversized sweater curled up by the fire.

Just like comfort on a stick. Yeah. And then I'll purchase it because I'm highly, highly suggestible. I am loving this Geraldi. I have been really, I've been working assiduously to avoid the Christmas music and the Vince Guaraldi until it's the right time for me. I'm not telling other people how to live their lives, but yeah, I've been tempted because of the emotional black hole that we've all been in. I've been tempted to really rock the feel-good Vince Guaraldi, but I've been holding off on it. So I feel like now, you know, Thanksgiving Day, we're really, really close to the day when I start getting the full Christmas on. I think this is OK.

I do love this music. At some point, today is not the day, but at some point I'm going to have a, maybe on Monday we can come back and have a conversation about my feelings towards holiday music this year. Because I'll tee this up. I'll tease it a little bit here, but I don't want to be a downer on this special turkey day. But, yeah, I've been hearing you and some other folks kind of chatting about how they need Christmas music and the Christmas sentiment more than ever this year, whereas I'm finding it harder than ever to get into any kind of holiday spirit this year. And we can talk more about that on Monday. I do not want to have that conversation, though, here on Thanksgiving.

Well, you know, it's interesting you'd bring that up, though, because I will be totally honest with you, and some of my family members might even hear this, but I was having a really hard time getting into the Thanksgiving vibe, and I'm sure it has to do with the larger sort of political landscape, just maybe, I don't know where I've sort of been, it's hard to separate out what is just low-grade depression and what is the circumstances of the world.

And Thanksgiving has specific, you know, now we're doing it, but Thanksgiving has specific ties to a narrative that we've always told ourselves about the history of this country.

Oh, I'm fine with that part. I fully, I choose not, I choose to do no further examination about the story of the pilgrims and the Native Americans. I love that. I mean, I fully embraced that narrative. For me, and if you listen to the show And if you listen to any of the Thanksgiving shows You know this about me But Thanksgiving is probably my favorite day Of the year It's always been a big deal in my family Because we didn't celebrate Christmas when I was young And Thanksgiving took on this kind of Over or outsized importance And for many years When I lived in other places It would be like I hadn't seen my family for a long time Maybe I hadn't seen Addie for a month or two And this idea of us all getting together at my folks house and the the good smells in the kitchen and just the you know all of that it just it literally was what would get me through sometimes like i'm working in new york and i'm getting up at four in the morning and i'm doing this bryant park project thing which is giving me no joy and i feel very disconnected from a lot of things in my life again particularly my child that are important to me but i would have be like but thanksgiving but like i'm going to be in silverdale washington at my folks house on and it just it took on this thing in my mind where it was almost like a a mythical cure for whatever ailed me or like if you could just get to that

moment right almost like you're crawling towards something like okay i'm you know shoot the glass you're crawling through that but if you can just get to thanksgiving if you can get to that elevator i actually i don't know die hard that well but i'm right now thanksgiving is the elevator and you need to get there so you can hang a sign on a corpse it precisely did i capture the spirit of the mother effer i have the turkey now or what is he what does he hang what does the sign say now i have your turkey now i have a gun

Yeah, I have a turkey. Yeah. OK, there you go. But like but but yes, I mean, kind of slightly muddled diehard references aside. You're absolutely right. Slightly. It used to be this thing where I was like, if I can make it to Thanksgiving, everything is going to be OK. And this year and again, I would attribute a lot of this feeling to just like the wider world. it was like even thanksgiving can't fix this for me and that itself was a kind of a a bit of a bummer and then something happened andrew and i don't know what it was but like all of a sudden uh something is something in inside of me shifted and i was like i actually am super excited about this like and it took you know we're actually recording this the day before thanksgiving um so when we're done with this i'm gonna uh you know put a bunch of stuff in my car and then head off towards my sister hannah's house uh where we'll do a little thing the thanksgiving eve thing and then tomorrow will be the big day with my folks which is the time when everyone's potentially hearing this i i don't know what happened but i got up this morning and i just i don't know if it was at the hawk squad was popping off about what everyone's bringing or um i don't know what it was but something inside of me shifted and i'm now fully feeling i'm so excited to get up to mostly my parents' house, and to be watching the Macy's Day Parade with my daughter and drinking a cup of coffee and just being around kith and kin, as Chevy Chase says.

Are those your nephews?

Thankfully, we don't have any kiths or kin in our family. But yeah, so I've been having a really hard time engaging with the feelings that I want to be having around particularly Thanksgiving, and then all of a sudden it kicked in. It's a Thanksgiving Day miracle, Andrew, and I can't explain it, but I'm not going to question

it well i am legitimately very happy to hear that for real and by the way i am also looking forward to our thanksgiving meal here you know we are having and in fact i'm very much looking forward to the thanksgiving situation this year last year genevieve and i we had plans to have people over but it was kind of a poultry guest list a poultry a poultry guest mostly invited chicken yeah and it was and so we ended up and i think somebody dropped out or something so we ended up going to the eagles which was a lot of fun you know our eagles right where we you know we gathered with a bunch of people that we like and it was it was a great time but we didn't want to do that two years in a row and uh this year we put out the um call again to see if some folks wanted to come over and some very close friends some of whom i i see quite a bit and some who i have not really seen in like almost a year are coming over i think there's five we have five guests plus the two of us and um we're doing the whole thanksgiving spread and everything and i am i am deeply looking forward to having people over here later today. And so I'm not grumpy about that. But when you tell me that you kind of got over your hump on that, I'm very glad to hear that because I know how important Thanksgiving is to you. And for me, if I focus on the micro, the moments that I'm going to be having today with people that I care about, I'm very, very happy. It's just if I start, You know, if you zoom out again, again, I don't want to talk about this now, but I mean, I guess like maybe one thing is like I have when I was a younger person, I was very hardened towards sentimentality, I think, or I had my own version of sentimentality and the stuff that was bandied about in pop culture or whatever. I was very cynical about as very Gen X, especially as a very young man. I think you would have really not liked me as a young man. Maybe I'm not sure, but we can talk about that.

Thank God I met you as an old man.

We can talk about that on Tuesday.

I need a young Andrew and an old Andrew.

All of that is to say there are times like now in my life that even a really cheesy, completely commercialized message around the winter holidays, Christmas, will still maybe make me feel warm and fuzzy a little bit, you know, in a good year or in most years or whatever, especially as I get older. and this year like i'm just like i'm not i'm not buying it anyway well we can talk more about that as the actual holiday of christmas which i celebrate um is uh it comes up but today um thanks on this day of thanks i am truly thankful and i'm not just saying that for because there's a microphone here and i feel responsible to keep the keep the nose up i'm really really looking forward to having these folks over and having just a good hopefully eggnog filled I'll be.

i mean is there a more smell-based holiday than thanksgiving i can't think well my fartiversary oh okay other than fartiverse right yeah uh the i would say i mean the the the smells of thanksgiving are honestly like 50 to 70 percent of the enjoyment of the whole thing there will be a point in my parents you know kitchen where there will be you know all of these different great savory smells will be mixing together and again football will be on the television and various no longer young children will be coming in and out of the house i mean that's another whole thing it's like they're well i mean other than my but my buddy he is a friend but also a brother other than my brother sam's daughter like there aren't very many little kids left in our family the little kids are getting older and in fact the burbank family fun run uh i think this is i mean this has been happening for a while but uh any illusion i had about still being competitive in the burbank family fun run has now well ended i mean my brother david could smoke me for a long

time but now he does it in one step right isn't that and that's i think unfair honestly i don't

think that's fair that's cheating but um now my nephew jack who is on the varsity cross-country team as a freshman he's running like he's running like six minute miles i think david said well we know who's winning the burbank family fun run yeah now that david's aging out now that's david is no longer the young buck on the on the fun run scene so it'll yeah anyway it's they're just gonna be i'm looking forward to sort of multiple moments of of again just being with the people that i love and smelling the smells that i love and kind of to your point i do think that this will be maybe the first chance to try to put into play that notion that i was saying a lot right after the election and something that i'd heard from addy which is that like there's pain in the world but there's not pain in this room in other words finding the moments where we we are we acknowledge that the wider world is a really messed up place right now and that there's a lot of bad stuff happening but also acknowledging that it doesn't have to be our constant companion it doesn't have to be in the room with us right at this moment and like i'm going to be working on that you know as um you know as the dallas cowboys are just getting absolutely desperate actually that will be a really good moment that's not hard for me to that's not that's the part where it's not hard for me to engage with the fact that this is there's no pain in this room because i love nothing more than seeing jerry jones brought low but you know what i mean like it's it's going to be a lovely day and i'm going to try to allow it to be a lovely day i'm going to try to not let the other stuff in the wider world enter in too much. We've got Friday for that. We've got the rest of our next four years for that. It doesn't have to be today.

Well, can I also mention, speaking of Friday, that we have a special show tomorrow? I don't know. I think we maybe mentioned this on the show earlier this week.

Yeah, we promoted on Monday. Out of, by the way, a sense of hopefulness because we hadn't recorded it yet. Oh, yeah, that's true. As I was saying it, I was like, let's better not fall apart.

But yeah, we had another crossover episode with our friends, Lindy and Megan, from Text Me Back. We've recorded that, and it'll be posting us tomorrow's show. It is tons of fun. Again, a laugh riot. You can just hear me giggle the whole time. As always. Yeah, so tune in for that.

Please do. Yeah, it's a great way to wrap up this here Thanksgiving week. Now, what is your sort of specialty, do you feel, in the Thanksgiving culinary arena, Andrew? I've probably asked you this question before, maybe even as you were being shocked by a stove. Yes. Just refresh my memory. You're like, what is, or here's a better way to ask the question. What is for you the perfect bite? What's the perfect Thanksgiving bite?

I thought you were asking, what is my role in the kitchen? You're asking, what is my role at the table?

Yeah, I think we've probably, over the years, talked about your role in the kitchen, which is to just look sexy as hell.

Which is to be seen and not heard, if I understand it correctly.

In that apron, barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen is Andrew's role. No, but like, what's your favorite bite of Thanksgiving?

i'm guessing i mean obviously you can you pile some things up on your on your fork but you know you just can't well you can go wrong with stuffing but if stuffing is done right it's the perfect dish i think you know it's got some i i know you're not eating meat these days and there's a lot of different ways to make stuffing or dressing but like if you have a good stuffing like i think genevieve has made it with um sausage in there before some sort of a chicken sausage i thing so good or something like that so you get a little bit of that that um you know the kind of taste and also texture in there like stuffing is the thing that you i don't think i eat stuffing any other day of the year like even mashed potatoes there's going to be a couple of times i go out to a rest. and maybe order a steak or something hearty and there's going to be mashed potatoes on the side. Is there any time in between Thanksgivings that you have an opportunity to eat stuffing?

No, I don't even eat it on Thanksgiving usually because... Oh, it's not your go-to. Well, I want to measure my words because there are people in my life who hear this and it could get passed on to other people, but I do think... I would say this to my mom if she were here. I think my mom has always made the stuffing And I think what my mom loves about the concept of stuffing is that it is a convenient home for stale bread, like that. It's actually I wouldn't say it's encouraged, but it's not discouraged. In other words, if you've got some bread that's gotten a little stale and you've thrown it in the freezer at some point. Now, this is a time to tear it up and throw it into the stuffing. I think that's the appeal. And so I guess over the years, I've seen my mom tear up all kinds of weird like Sara Lee locale bread. I feel like raisin bread may have made an appearance at some point, which has powerful better, powerful dead or better off dead vibrations. It has raisins. Remember? No, I don't think I've seen better off dead. What? Yeah, there's a bunch of there. There's a bunch of things I haven't seen. That's kind of, you know, that's a that's a biggie in the I'm just amazed that some didn't make its way to you in Ohio. John Cusack and anyway his mother his mother makes this very very bizarre kind of weird gelatinous meal and she splats it down on the plate in front of him and her thing she keeps saying is it has raisins and I believe it maybe crawls off of John Cusack's plate or something but all that is to say

Is this the one where he doesn't want to build anything that makes money? No that's say anything? I also boy did I ruin that quote I could not have gotten that quote more wrong but you're right okay that's say anything I don't think I've seen either one of those

Better Off Dead has a couple of pretty famous moments. One is the paper boy shows up and wants his $2.

Okay, yeah.

And for some reason, John Cusack doesn't want to pay it, and then he ends up getting chased by, like, 50 paper boys on their bikes going, I want my $2. Also, there's the scene where the character from Better Off Dead, Booger, I forget his name in, I'm sorry, from Revenge of the Nerds, Booger, he and John Cusack are going to ski down a mountain called K2 and he famously says, because he's a druggie can you imagine the street value of this mountain, I guess

I've seen that scene before I was going to say, don't they chase him on skis or was that some 1980s ski movie frolic that was borrowing the I want my $2 but there is a chase scene involving the $2 on skis

or on snow no i think that one's on cycle on bikes i think that the i think that the paper i think that the scene when he goes down the mountain is not a chase it's just a like he's crazily going down the mountain because this hill is too steep for him or something i see i've totally conflated those two scenes into one but but what my point in all this is to say i did not grow up in a family where the stuffing was always something that i was really drawn towards like when i hear becca talk about her family thanksgivings it's wild because in the in the you know in the last 10 years my family thanksgivings have gotten actually from a culinary standpoint really elevated because um you know my siblings have all learned how to cook really well and a wife alicia is like a phenomenal cook so it's like we've the cook game has been really raised the bar has been raised in my family but when i was a kid it was a little haphazard and when like becca was talking about this cranberry relish that she makes for her family and i you know i think of cranberry you know sauce or dressing as being you know something out of a can maybe but it's like she's like oh no what you do is it's cranberries and then it's all this fresh orange and then you do the da da da and then it's it's tart but that's why you pair it with a bite of this stuff and the tartness cuts through and it's like i'm like this is a whole other level of of thinking about how flavors get combined than i sort of grew up with so i guess what my point is is that my thanksgiving palette got formed or my thoughts about thanksgiving got formed at a young age And even though now I am living in a golden age of Burbank family Thanksgiving cooking, I still just gravitate towards a big-ass mound of mashed potatoes with a crap load of butter on it.

Because that was reliable. And your Hawaiian rolls. I always think of you and your Hawaiian rolls.

I do like a Hawaiian roll. I like a Hawaiian roll. Because that was the reliable stuff when I was a kid. Everything else was like up kind of a crapshoot. But those things were – those never got messed up.

Speaking of elevating food and recipes.

I'm going to play for you a commercial here from 1971 that I played for Genevieve on After These Messages on Tuesday. But I'll play it for you here as well because this is like maybe you don't want the traditional cranberry sauce. You're looking for something a little bit different. This is one of those commercials that offers you a recipe.

It isn't too early to be thinking about something spectacular for holiday eating. And cranberry crimson mold could be it. It's colorful, good, and you can make it ahead of time. We started by dissolving two packages of strawberry-flavored gelatin in a cup and a half of boiling water. And now we're adding the gelatin, gradually, to a cup of Miracle Whip salad dressing. That's where the creamy look and the teasing flavor come from. After the mixture has chilled till it's slightly thickened, fold in a 10-ounce package of cranberry relish and a cup and a half of applesauce. It's a marvelous combination of flavors. And the lively, teasing taste of Miracle Whip is perfect for it. Just before serving, unmold it. Then we're going to top it off with more Miracle Whip and watercress. With holiday time coming up and lots of sandwiches and salads to be made, better get a couple of jars of uncopyable Miracle Whip from Kraft.

Now, I want to tell you what I mentioned to Genevieve in the After These Messages audience when I played it for them, which is, if that sounds unappetizing to you, you should see it, baby. You should see what is on the screen, what I just watched. When they're, quote-unquote, folding in the applesauce into the rest of the wretched stew, it's something to be old, my buddy.

I mean, because Miracle Whip is a sort of cousin of mayo, right?

That's my understanding of it. I always stayed away from all that stuff. All I know now, because they really seem to lean into it, is it has a teasing taste. I didn't know there was going to be such a tease on the Thanksgiving table.

I started out trying to track what I thought the overall flavor profile of that would be, and then they just kept adding things. It was like, and then some bacon grease, and then two jiggers of Kahlua, and then I just kept, like, I thought, I know where this is going, And then I kept getting surprised by, I mean, the history of food products trying to convince you that some bullshit ass recipe of which their food product is the foundation, is the new thing, is long and rich in this country. You know what I mean? Like, this was just being like, how do we sell more Miracle Whip?

Yeah, well, we make the recipe. Tell them to put applesauce in it. What's the recipe in the box? And of course, I mean, I'm being a bit snobby here. maybe there are some people who like you know their family made this in the 70s but i mean this was the and they still love it today or something but like this was the era of you know the final product here is one of those upside down molds right that jiggles a little bit it looks like a

life it looks like a life preserver yes from when he said mold i also didn't realize he was he was like m-o-u-l-d i was like mold are they is this like is this like something like blue cheese are they activating is this a probiotic what is going on here i've got probiotics on the brain i know you do um yeah becca makes this also this is all like family recipe which has now fallen to her because she's the keeper of the flame um they do this lime jello thing that again i don't know who's going to hear this i don't know who needs to hear this andrew but it's one of those things that she described to me as something that seems totally weird and crazy unless you grew up eating it and then i had it one time and i was like yeah it is crazy and weird i was like this is as advertised like i love you and i love your family traditions but this is one that's going to stay with your family like i have i am too old to be introducing this into my life at age at the time you know 45 or whatever and and what was it do you remember it's like lime and like it's a crazy it's it's not kind of unlike here i'll i'll even throw a text out what is that weird lime maybe not weird what is that lime thing you make for your family okay we'll see if i get a response before today's episode is done i'll mention one other thing andrew um this is now i think becoming maybe a thanksgiving tradition i feel like we were recording the thanksgiving episode last year when the same thing happened which is my neighbor's grandkids are showing up in other words um that the the adult children of my neighbors brian and terry have now rolled up with the grandkids and when you see the grandkids jump out of the car and go running up into the house to see the grandparents and then the dogs, the, the, the, the, the grand, you know, the, the dogs that belong to the grandkids are jumping out of the back of the SUV and you.

could see the excitement on the faces of the grandparents sure it's just adorable it's right out of kind of central holiday casting i've told this story before but my neighbor has built this entire like kind of faux western town like a little like there's like a saloon and a barber shop and it's it's it's like something that you would see in an old western movie like a little

section of it right and i got you know i remember you talking about this a long time ago when you had first moved in and now since then i've been to your place so just so the listeners know this is not something that is visit it's not like some some carnival sideshow that is visible from your property at all i totally forgot if i had remembered it when i was there i would have asked

to see it i mean you can see it i'm looking at it right now but you can see it you can but you'd have to you know you'd have to remember to be it also was i'm looking at a part of the madrona studio that you were not really spending a ton of time in point being uh he was telling me when i got the tour one time about this little pioneer town that he built i mean it's not enormous like you didn't it isn't like it was staring you right in the face andrew and you weren't seeing it but he was like yeah my wife made um pretend money for the town that we give the grandkids and they can go around and spend it on things in the town and i was like i was like wow this is a lot of where he goes well you know it's just basically grandkid bait i built this whole thing so that my grandkids would come hang out here. And I was just like, oh, that's so heartwarming. So to see.

How come when I build grandkid bait, everybody's up my ass about it? I don't understand. Chiefly the Seattle Police Department. Yeah, I just, it's two Americas.

It's called, oh my God, Andrew. It's called Pacific Lime Mold. Oh, okay. The lime item. Whoa, whoa, whoa, sorry. I'm looking. I'm going to read you the recipe for Pacific Lime Mold, although this is in handwriting from literally the 1920s or something. Oh, I kind of love that. Okay. It's called Pacific Lime Mold. It appears to have, I'm just looking at a photo of the recipe, two cups of boiling water, three packages of lime jello. Okay. Yeah, this is a mold.

I think I might have offended Becca and her family with my commercial I just played.

Ten ounces of crushed pineapple. I'm trying to do it in the voice of the guy that we just heard. Two cups of creamy cottage cheese. Have I got your attention yet, Andrew? Yes. Two tablespoons of horseradish. One cup of mayonnaise, sour cream, or Greek yogurt. Oh, God. Okay. A half a cup of chopped nuts and dried cherries. Dissolve gelatin in water. Add the juice from the drained pineapple. chill until slightly thickened 20 or 30 minutes i've almost described exactly the thing that you

just played i think these kinds of gelatin-based molds were a real thing for a long time and now i'm getting nervous have i gone too far in my in my critique and in my criticism of the style of

food no it's just more for them that's true that's the thing like you're not uh you're not going to be if you're ever invited over to the family thanksgiving down there in salem they know that they've got all the pacific lime mold they want why am i usually not invited to those by the way well it's the grandchildren bait that's actually a federal offense yeah that is true that's that crosses state lines with you my friend you know it's fair enough thank you for being a tan is there a more appropriate day for us to express our thanks to the generous donors, the people keeping TBTL going, then this, the very day of Thanksgiving, and we give thanks for Judith Spencer, Judith Spencer even, who's in Walton, New York. Walton, the Waltons, coziness, family. Well, that's what I'm wondering. Oh, dude, do you know how much Waltons will be watched?

Oh, that's right.

Your mom is deep into the Walton-verse. majorly big time just in love with john boy my dad wants jaden the electrician yeah as his son and my mom wants john boy walton yes yeah i know that blammer thanks judith thanks also to tim whitehead who's in cartersville georgia oh nice i wonder if interesting genevieve probably passed

through cartersville before being from georgia herself i don't know that for a fact but maybe

i mean obviously that was a place where someone named carter lived i wonder if it was jimmy carter probably he's the man from planes right famously and i think that

that'd be a pretty new town that'd be a pretty new town you know what if it was nel carter

from okay now now you're talking my language that's making sense yeah megan c perry is in omaha nebraska oh nice is that home of saddle creek records i believe it is i do believe it

it is uh thanks megan c thanks also to ann plumber who's in paul's bow washington nice and if you step out on your porch right now and you listen to the wind you can hear me yelling hello from silverdale yes i'm i'm a hop skip and a jump away if you listen very closely you can hear luke

screaming wait up wait up you guys are running too fast if you listen very close you can hear me

out of breath trying to keep up now various members of the family who are faster runners

than i am hey you know it's been a really long i feel like there was a period of my life where wait up was something that we all yelled a lot at each other i haven't yelled wait up

in yeah nobody else 38 years at least yeah there's no more i mean wait up is a very much a thing you're yelling a lot as a kid yes because you're with people and they're going too fast hey wait up hey wait up i never you don't deploy that as a i think slow down is the adult version hey slow down yeah you're at like you're with your kids you're at like you know disneyland they're running around hey guys slow down slow down wait up becomes slow down yeah you said something profound the other day that i i noted it on the show but i've been thinking about it so much andrew which is um yeah which is uh that uh people are either sleeper inners or they're nappers It's just one of the two. I was like, truer words were never said.

Well, is that true? I mean, or is it people—

I think in our friendship it is.

In our friendship, yeah. Of the people who stay out late at night, certainly. I mean, there are probably— Would I be right in saying that Becca is neither one of those? Yes, you can be a neither. You can be a neither, yes. But you can't be a both. Yeah, yeah, yes.

If you're a both, you're suffering from a pretty profound depression, and it might be time to talk to somebody. Yeah, exactly. If you're a sleeper inner and a napper and a going to bed earlier, you're probably dealing with some stuff. Let's also make sure, before we get out of here, for the donors, we thank Christy Pugh of Roanoke, Virginia. Nice. We love it. Is the Roanoke Tavern in Seattle still a thing?

I was about to say it certainly is, and I know the folks who run it now. It's because the original owners, or I guess the previous owners of that bar, which is a real community place. It's kind of, you know, it's between kind of Capitol Hill and the University District. Is that? That's not really right. It's between Capitol Hill and Eastlake, I guess. I'm not exactly sure. But it's not like a-

It's in a kind of a bit of a no man's land.

Yeah, a little bit. But it's like, it really is a place where people would go to always watch kind of, I think, like statewide debates. And like, I don't know, it's just like one of those real pubs. I didn't spend tons of time there, but I heard they were selling. And I was like, oh, no, please don't let the Roanoke go out of business.

And you sound like Fred Armisen trying to not eat pasta.

When you eat pasta, I cannot hear the word pasta.

I'm thankful for your Fred Armisen impression today. I can only do good.

What do they call it on Levitard? A limited fake? I can only do the most limited fake Fred Armisen. Let me see if I can find this. but so often when i hear the word pasta i think when you eat pasta let me hear while you're

looking that up let me also thank erica mittendorfer of seattle washington okay maybe

near the roanoke tab but i did want to say the roanoke is now owned by one of the bartenders of teddy's or one of the and i think he's still maybe maybe whoa no teddies whoa no but he um he and his wife have been running and i'm gonna say for at least five years now and he was one of the regulars at Teddy's who I got to know. And then they took over the bar. So it's just like one of those things where you're like, I don't want this bar to go away. And instead like the perfect people took it over. And I was like, when you eat

pasta. When you eat pasta.

That's so good. Thank you to all of our donors today for making this Thanksgiving episode of the show possible. We are very thankful for you.

There's a right way to rock and a wrong way to roll. You can Just listen to your soul. Just remember that life is number one. You can be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun. You can be number one.

That dog barking legitimately sort of startled me for a moment. Sure. I was going to say scared, but I wasn't scared. I'm not scared of dogs anymore, but... Meow. It's a little loud, sorry. People were saying, people come up to me all the time and they say, Andrew, you're not going to do the Blur's Days on Thanksgiving, are you? And I'm like, of course we're going to do the Blur's. It's Thanksgiving on a Thursday this year? Yeah. Well, then, yeah, we're doing the Blur's Days. Oh, by the way, when we were talking about the... timing of holidays earlier I don't know if we were talking about the timing of holidays earlier whatever when we were talking about Thanksgiving earlier I did a little math and I realized my birthday is going to fall on Thanksgiving next year I feel like that I know this does not make mathematical sense but that obviously happens once every what seven years or so but I feel like it hasn't happened in a while if I look back at my childhood I feel like my birthday was always falling on thanksgiving and now i feel like it never falls on thanksgiving obviously that's not

true that's not how calendars work as a kid okay we've talked about the fact that you were not super into the attention of having the happy birthday song sung to you no but i did it still but i'm sure but i'm but i'm guessing that as a kid you were still pretty psyched when your birthday rolled around for the present getting right you weren't like anti-birthday as a kid you just didn't like that moment where everyone's focusing on you no and i gotta give credit to my

parents like they they really went all out with gifts and stuff i remember like i can remember special birthdays i got my first stereo like a all-in-one realistic brand you know from radio shack realistic brand a turntable two cassettes there were no cd's remember that time you got that goat that was a kind of a weird gift but it was a it was the um if you want to look it up my My first stereo was the Clarinet 122 is what it was called, I believe. The Realistic Brand Clarinet 122. Look that baby up. I'm going to read a Blur's Day here. You look it up and then describe it to me, and I'll tell you if it's the right one. But first, let's say one Blur's Day wish here before we re-engage with the Clarinet. Happy Blur's Day to Krista. If you know Krista, it's impossible not to ascertain that she's a good friendo to know. I'm going to say that again. If you know Krista, it's impossible not to ascertain that she's a good friendo to know. We ascertain that she makes us happy of ourselves to know her. Krista, we ascertain. They're spoofing on something here that I am. It's just tickling the edges.

Kids in the hall when he kept saying ascertain. The kids in the hall.

The kids in the hall. Thank you. I was like, what is this? I know this. I just couldn't put my finger on it. We ascertain that she makes us happy of ourselves to know her. Krista, we hope you have an amazing Blur's Day, and we look forward to more adventures with the Badass Babes Book Club in the year to come. Love, show, and Aaron. Happy birthday, Krista. What do you learn about the Clarinet 122? Is it as sweet as I remembered?

Well, I'm looking at it. So did it have a turntable on top?

Turntable on top, two cassette decks on the front. It's difficult to – AM, FM.

Yeah, I'm looking at it, but there aren't, like, hundreds of pictures of it. First of all, mostly the pictures are of clarinets, even though I put in realistic. The thing about naming your stereo company Realistic and then having it be called a clarinet is I'm getting a lot of photos of realistic clarinets.

You're putting the 122 in there, though, right? Because I'm putting in clarinet122, and the first hit is on Reddit, realistic clarinet122 on our turntables.

But when you click on it, though, are you seeing a picture?

No, I'm not. See? That's what I'm talking about.

I'm seeing one on YouTube. I'm seeing a video on YouTube. Did it also have an 8-track? No.

No 8-track.

Huh.

Huh.

See how hot? Okay, now I think I'm getting there. Yeah, you're right.

I would expect the internet to be filled with... Should I... I feel like I would give... I don't know which organ, but I would give a bodily organ to get my Realistic 122 back. I mean, honestly... The Realistic Clarinet 122 test that you're looking there on YouTube, this is my baby here, I think. I need to get this music out of here.

Would you give one $19.99? Because I do believe I can get you one. Wait, $119?

I can't afford not to get that.

The Vintage Realistic Clarinet 122 AM FM Cassette Recorder Player Stereo Receiver. Does it have two tape decks on it? Two tape decks.

I keep saying that. Oh, I'm looking at it. Dual deck. Oh, this thing. I'm looking at it again, and I am transported.

I'm looking at this on eBay. In fact, you know what? There's a wide selection on eBay, Andrew. We could get you one of these things. I mean, it is going to cost you an organ, because you've already said that. That's legally binding. Right. I'm going to go with, hmm, spleen? I'm trying to think of an—

Yeah, I could do that. I could do that.

Yeah, I feel like liver is going to be a straight-across trade.

Oh, okay, he's just flipping through the channels on this thing. I hope they're doing all right. Oh, he's going to flip it to cassette. He's going to hit play. Dude. Oh, listen to that sound. Oh, yeah. The Pacific Blue soundtrack we're listening to here. He's putting it in the first one.

Andrew. Oh, yeah. I'm looking at an absolutely cherry realistic clarinet 122 AM FM cassette recorder player stereo receiver from the bling.watches.depot. And they only want. $89, and this thing is in amazing shape. This is actually the nicest one that I've seen. Honestly, you might need to get this.

Where do you think my original one is? Is there a chance that I could be buying back the one that I used to listen to, like really depressing Rolling Stone songs on and look out my window and think there's a whole world out there I'm just beginning to understand? I remember listening to Paint It Black on the Realistic Clarinet 122 while looking out my bedroom window at the above-ground pool below and just thinking, what is this song about, and why does it make me feel so dark?

It is a real downer of a song. It really is.

Anyway, let's do some Blursdays. I don't know why these Blursday people insisted that I talk about the climate 122. Jessica says, please wish Tim a very happy Blursday. We got married on June 3rd, and I vowed to always wish him a happy Blursday, and I almost forgot yet again. So I'm off to a bad start. No, you are not off to a bad start. You did it. You wrote in. It's perfect. This is the week of his blurs. Happy Blurs Day, Tim. Jessica. I know this is a Blurs Day message for Tim, but I have a message for Jessica. Go easy on yourself. Yeah. Tim loves you. Wait for the hook. Any minute now. Here it goes. Jamie says, hey, y'all. I just wanted to send a message to be shared for my dad's birthday. My dad is a longtime listener and fan, and I just wanted to be able to wish him a happy Blur's Day on his favorite podcast. So happy birthday to my dad, Troy. I love you, and I hope your birthday will be a good one. That's from Jamie. Wow. That's very sweet. That's super sweet. Happy Blur's Day, Troy. You got a good kid there. Eric in Walla Walla says, I want to wish a happy Blur's Day to Alicia, who may be best known for her training of the canines capturing their grace and their power at Journey Agility in Tucson, Arizona. You help humans learn how to do great things. They get their dogs to do amazing things. What you do is so important.

Eric also, yes, if you're a dog person, if you're an animal person, you want to tune in to tomorrow's episode where Lindy West will share her recent forays into animal rescue. That's right. Or attempted forays.

And you'll hear a story about bad horses and one bad pig wearing leather jackets and smoking sickies. Eric's message also includes a Blur's Day wish for Lindsay Lou. Lou Tuna and I are so lucky to have you in our lives, whereas Luna Tuna, did I say that wrong? Luna Tuna and I are lucky to have you in our lives, whereas Luna Tuna most loves butt scratches. Oh, this must be his cousin. I most love learning about the world with you. Without you, how else would I know the difference between a McDreamy and a McSteamy? Happy Blur's Day, Lindsay. Oh, sure.

That's it.

And finally, Alex says, I would like to wish a happy Blur's Day to Tim in Kamloops, who's 41 this year. It's our Kamloops listener. It's an exciting time for Tim as he is featured in the crime documentary In Cold Blood. What? On Amazon Prime. Spoiler alert, he's not the killer, but rather the reporter who covered the case. Well, hold on a second. Now, is this In Cold Blood, the Truman Capote?

In Kansas? Hmm.

Has there been another murder? I don't know. In Cold Blood? It was released in November and went straight to number one in Canada. Congrats, Tim. This must be something that is borrowing the phrase In Cold Blood, because this can't be the famous Truman. I mean, that was almost like the original true crime, wasn't it? Am I wrong in saying that?

I mean, no, I think you are right in saying that. I'm trying to find this in cold blood, this Canadian in cold blood, which I assume is in cold blood A. Oh, God, sorry.

Let's turn this up a little bit. Honestly, that's it. Those are the Blur's days. Not exactly my most powerful power out in the world, but it was fun. It was a fun Blur's day. We got to talk about my old record player. All I got to do is become an 80-dollionaire, and that baby's mine. Now I know what to get you for your birthday next year. Yes, exactly.

What I gave you yesterday was the gift of talking about the Mariners.

That's right. Actually, you know what? No, I'm going to need that gift again next year, too, I think. Actually, next year it's going to be on Thanksgiving.

On Thanksgiving, which will be interesting. So even though you're not a big look-at-me-celebrate-my-birthday guy, you will very likely have gathered together with folks, and it'll be a ready-made a ready-made little birthday celebration even though I know you won't make that the focus

potentially I could be wearing a turkey hat do you know that I am now the owner of three

I have three turkey hats now

I bought one years ago that ears would flap and I bought it for

tbtl video then i wanted to pull a string right uh no i think you would squeeze a little bladder

in his toes and then that one i was like oh we're gonna freshen it up for another video so i bought a new one after three or four years of wearing that and then we went to uh like some sort of a what do you call a white elephant party at the eagles and somehow we ended up with another turkey hat i now have three turkey hats luke that's a lot for one it's a lot for one guy who

isn't exactly a silly hat boy right well i mean just be thankful for it my friend there's people that love you and they're for some reason gifting you with turkey hats all right that is going to do it for this special edition of the show but guess what we'll be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio again our crossover show with our good friends from the text me back pod so please do tune in for that and enjoy the rest of your thanksgiving take care of yourselves hope you're able to gather with loved ones and feel the uh feel the good feelings that we're all trying to feel today in the meantime have a great thursday take care of yourselves and please remember no no mountain too tall there you got it and good luck to all

hold on one second here luke i want to play something here and i'm really mad at myself that this is the first time i'm actually playing this

i don't think your mic is on buddy i know i was not annoying that i was just playing along for my own enjoyment totally unrelated to the show i'm leaving it all in