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How about like pranking an animal? You put like a couple kittens at a doghouse and you let a dog go inside his doghouse and that way all three animals get pranked. You cannot prank an animal. Animals don't know they're being pranked. Why even do it? I mean it's like it's borderline animal cruelty. What, pranking a dog? Pranking an animal?

You can punch an elephant. Sure. Done. I'd punch an elephant.

TBTN! I mean, we need to negotiate here. We're looking for, like, you know, we're working, too. Yeah. I mean, my man had to run across three lanes of traffic. Well, that's a fine pickle this fish seems to have landed us in, eh?

Ha ha, Charlie. Charlie bit me. And that really hurt, Charlie, and it's still hurting. So I'm nervous, but I'm excited at the same time. So I'm just going to start talking about what I like and hope I get some replies.

Well, all right. Hello, good morning, and welcome everyone to a Friday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. Today we arrive at episode 4,348 in a collector series. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. Joined, as always, by the longest-running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships, their grace, and their power. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's right over there. Good morning, my friend. Good morning.

How confident are we in that 438 number? Because I had this...

400, 300, 4,348.

I had... All week, I had been thinking... This is why I've been off all week. All week, I thought Friday was going to be 4,349. But that's Monday. No wonder I can't get any sleep.

This is the first that I've heard that you are, like, predicting. And by the way, hell of a prediction. This just goes sequentially.

No, do you have any idea how much money I just lost?

You had the over.

Do you know what the odds were that it was going to be 4,349? No, it's because this was a show that we were working on, especially with our friend from the Text Me Back podcast, that I already had some production stuff going on. When I have production stuff going on, Luke, you will be unsurprised to hear that I have a folder on my hard drive called TBTL. And then in that folder, there are a bunch of folders. And one of the folders is shows. And then in the shows folder, there is a separate folder for every single show that you and I have done. If there's no production needed, it's just one audio file in the show pick. If there is a more complicated production like today, there might be various audio elements and various mixes in there and that's the folder and it said Friday 4,349 and I just took a boring conversation and made it more boring but I'm changing this to an 8

We'd like to welcome new listeners who heard about us on the Text Me Back podcast This is I gotta be honest with you, this is kind of what we do It's a lot of file management talk

You thought I was gonna gussy things up for the new listeners No, I have a whole, I have 10 minutes on why I think threes are yellow

i do think synesthesia talk is one of our stronger segments yes today is one of those crossover episodes that we've uh so enjoyed with our friends lindy west and megan hatcher mays over at the text me back podcast um this yeah this is is this the third time we've done one

i also have this slugged as super show three because i think when we first proposed doing this the first time maybe even a year ago now however long ago it was I said it'll be like a super show so I'm always referring to these as super shows and this is super show three and we are

you could say a sort of a super group of podcasts which I think it was Megan who first established that we were because it's text me back TMB and then TBTL Timbaltol of the dog

yeah of course I mean what else could it be

by the way that's foreshadowing yes it is it is for someone else saying to you Andrew What else could it be? I'm pre-stealing Lindy's jokes. And that's a good way to do it because Lindy and Megan are so funny and so smart. And we're always so happy when they agree to spend a little time with us. Do you want to set up here kind of the tip top of the show? What we're going to hear next, right, when you and I hand it over to us from a few days ago and Lindy and Megan?

Yeah, let's do this. It was a lot of fun, a lot of laughs. And it was just kind of a slow roll as we all dialed up and started chatting with each other. and I think off air you guys were kind of like talking about like kind of hosting events or whatever that might be sort of guitar forward like fundraising events or something where old rockers were showing up and oh yes that's what I was none of that's on the tape but

Then I think we're going to start the show here with me just saying, do you guys even like guitar solos? So it really comes in from out of the blue. It's a very strange place to start the show. Do you guys like guitar solos? But I wanted to let everybody know why I was asking that question.

It was actually very relevant to all the stuff we were saying before we were recording. Yeah, at least that's right. Before it was clear if we were recording or not. Yeah, yeah. And, I mean, honestly, I was there when everyone answered, but I've already forgotten all of it. So I'm on the edge of my seat, Andrew.

Oh, you should listen. We could use the numbers.

All right. Starting now.

Do you guys like guitar solos? No. Me neither. Who requested that? I don't know. But they're in every song. Well, not every song, but way too many songs. I agree.

I don't know. Sometimes I like a short one. I feel like sometimes in a Weezer song or something, there'll be a thing where it's like, and i'm like yeah and then that's it right i like that i'd say the pixies and tom petty gets a good

one in there every now and then just sure let's get to the point let's stay on topic

leave him wanting more speaking of yeah speaking of i will allow prince i will r.i.p he was allowed as many guitar solos as he wanted and he very famously had a intense one involving tom petty right after george harrison died he had they did like a while my guitar gently weeps jam and i don't even know that tom petty knew they had invited prince he just sort of showed up started jamming and everyone was like what the fuck is going on and then prince wouldn't stop and then george harrison's son was like this rocks this is the best day of my life even though my dad just passed away uh and then i think everyone knows this then prince threw his guitar in the air and it was never seen again it never landed no one knows what happened to it it just sort of entered the skies it's like that bit that you used to do where you were pretending to play with a baby

oh a dog you're throwing it in the air and then eventually

where'd it go this dog he's gone to heaven there's a there's a prince guitar solo that i just discovered recently and it uh is making me so happy i've been sending it to everyone it's Q-Tip from Tribe Called Quest is doing Vibrant Thing, and I don't think anyone, including Q-Tip, realized Prince was backstage and just comes out and starts playing the, like, the two notes. And then at some point where the crowd's just making this noise, it's not a huge venue, and, like, Q-Tip looks over and realizes a tiny, tiny man is going, on the guitar. And, like, the place freaks out, and, like, it completely changes the energy of the whole show. and it's also like it's a it's a riff that i could play right but somehow prince is still

elevating it to some level that it's never been yeah he just was the coolest person who ever lived you know what i mean he could do whatever anyway rest in peace king sorry to bring down the mood welcome to have we started the show has the show begun i don't know welcome to timsel of

the derg the number one guitar solo podcast i am shocked that that name has stuck and i don't mean that megan insulting no you should insult me it was really stupid it's but but like so many things that are um not overthought uh it has turned out to be the perfect name for this

it's so dumb look i haven't i haven't heard anyone come up with anything better so yeah so we're waiting we're waiting uh well we're excited to be here should we do some

Tidings? Absolutely. Can I ask a quick pre-Tidings question? Because I've been here at my little house working on some things today, and I've had the song Tidings of Comfort and Joy. It just absolutely assaulting my brain because I've been thinking I need a Tidings, and then my brain goes to that song. Is that a hazard of having a segment called Tidings? Are you thinking of that song

at some low frequency at all times? Because we have our own Tidings jingle, which I keep meaning to send you so you can have it on your media board when we arrive uh on your show but so no it's always just like a handles messiah is my handles messiah's b-side but in my brain at all

times i do think that that's where tidings came from like we were thinking of like what's a funny word for like how are you news of news of the day and then i i'm sure it was megan came up with tidings which is really only ever used in the context of tidings of comfort and joy so it it has to have like that's that's its ancestry.com but that's not legacy are they are they the ones

that are like deeply deeply in debt is that ancestry or is that 23andme oh god i don't know

but i have i have both of those i think 23andme is in serious

Thank you.

one of them is in serious financial trouble and i have a theory and it's i think 23andme started suffering when all of the true crime shows started coming out about how they were catching murderers from their like third cousin and i'll tell you what i i felt pretty glad that i'm not in that

shit it's really crazy well you don't even have to be what one of your all your all you need is for one of your third cousins to be in there and then you probably my sister hannah then your goose is cooked sir like all those unsolved murders you committed it's over burbank if you're if

you're a random ass cousin comes to you and is like don't you ever fucking sign up 23 and me

yeah we've got a hot lead yeah call the fbi for sure um yeah well it's creepy i mean i don't know we just started sending our dna to websites yeah okay i don't know it's just weird because it's like yeah i know you sent your dna to a website but it's just weird because like the founding fathers were like you know what's the worst thing i could imagine the government having access to your information without a warrant and then we were all like what if we sent our dna to a website they didn't even ask for it okay so i want to do it in my defense here's what here's what happened

here's what happened because i used to feel like that uh and i honestly still do but however uh I became depressed and nihilistic, and my mom got me a 23andMe kit for Christmas, and I was like, sure, whatever, who cares? And so I was like, I don't know, I'm going to die before they do anything with this DNA, whatever. But now I'm like, why did I do, because I did, no, I did find out some interesting information, which is that I have a secret cousin, who I haven't figured out who she is yet. i have a first cousin who so like one of my aunts or uncles had a secret baby but i'm not

accounted for like it doesn't give you a name of the person oh no i have their name i've never

heard of them before in my life oh wow uh so i have not reached out to this person but me and three of my other cousins who are on there we're all first cousins and she's our first cousin i We have 15% DNA in common. So anyway, seems like probably Uncle Pear, rest in power.

Oh.

Because we would have known. There's only two uncles. I'm sorry.

A guy named Pear is far too Scandinavian to be out there tomcatting around.

I think he was a rascal. I think he was a rascal.

Yeah, he was a little rascal. I was going to say, how does Bonnie feel about this? But she doesn't know either.

so they didn't even have any kids together i don't think or no maybe so she doesn't care look i can't keep track of all of these people but she she doesn't care it would have been but it would have been pre-bonnie if it happened oh bonnie was such a glamorous well lady that's why she's already she's already moved on to her new husband and she's off living some glamorous life i'm like this woman was my aunt for my entire life i have not heard from her since the day my

uncle died she's like i'm someone else's aunt now bye did you like along with depression and nihilism did you submit this thing because you were hoping you were like related to betsy ross or something um and i love the coolest person from that's the coolest person from history and yes specifically

betsy ross um you know of course there's like narcissism in it like and by the way no i'm not related to anyone interesting who's ever lived, which is actually kind of cute. And so then I got into Ancestry.com. So like between 23andMe and Ancestry.com, they own my whole shit. My whole ass. And that's honestly, I guess I still feel nihilistic about it. I'm like, I don't care. This diverted me for three hours and that was worth it.

I think I have some good news here, though, because you mentioned something about what do you call the thing that you play audio from when you discuss it on your show? You call it what an audio?

Oh, I called it the media board. The media board. Well, I don't know.

I have I have something here called Music Bee. I don't know what that is, but it's got this in it.

we totally did send you the song i just forget to load it up for the media

beautiful beautiful that put me in a totally different state of mind that made me i know

ready for this lindy i know you have a really good tidying would you like to commence i'm a

big fat tidying i can't wait to tell you about i am so excited to tell this tidying okay so on the election day Donald Trump won the president I'm not sure if you guys had gotten this information

I was taping that

The Apprentice So I was like

um i'm sad and i need but i then i for some reason my first instinct when it seemed like trump was going to win is i was like i gotta rescue some kind of rancid creature and bring it back to life you know like i was like i gotta go get the the most fucked up gnarly like scraggly turtle or miniature horse or you know whatever and i get 87 year old cockatiel whose

feathers all fell out from stress exactly that's what you're really after i was like i gotta bring

it to my home and i have to like bottle feed it until it's beautiful again okay that was for some reason my instinct like i was like i need a tangible little project that i can take from from from shit to fit you know um from i'm also taping that so don't spoil that

it's the et flower phenomenon you need some kind of little weather like a weather vane or an

indicator of like of life coming back in some way yes and so uh i i mentioned that to um my spouse he said no absolutely not he said absolutely not absolutely no way even less now than before he was like i want another animal even less you want to bring an 80 year old cockatiel

yeah while the world burns really where are your ethics west but so then guess what i put on my

thinking cap and i and i came up with a new plan which is called i'm volunteering at the animal rescue yes near my house and in the woods it's fully in the woods fully in the woods it is not an animal shelter like where people can bring their dog in and be like my dog bit my kid or whatever or like my i'm moving and i can't bring my cat here you go they don't do owner surrender They only do cruelty cases, hoarding cases, neglect.

So some light comedy for you during these challenging times.

Get ready to laugh. So all the animals have been horribly abused. Or they do severe medical cases, medical intakes, and wildlife rehab. so they have like bears raccoons possums deer but also the all the wildlife is there to be released so like the volunteers aren't even allowed to go into the wildlife barn because they don't want them to get acclimated to humans so anyway it's like a real special facility and so I went to my orientation on Saturday and I am brimming with excitement i'm i'm i would say over brimming it's i um so but i do have i have a couple anecdotes that i wanted to share as my tidings one the animal rescue has a lot of livestock and i live in an area with a lot of mountain lions and so here's how the animal rescue protects the livestock they have an attack emu and and an attack llama and they literally are there for protection oh my god do they work together are they solo are they're in separate pens yeah um but they are there for protection because like the llama will not let anyone hurt henrik the pig you know and it is so freaking cute so that is a thing that i didn't know about that an emu will just fuck up a big cat did you know that the emu part checks out to me because

i follow somebody on tiktok who's got like an emu that is always trying to actually murder her yeah she has a kind of an animal farm and she has this incredible ability to like so she'll just be talking to her phone and being like okay it's day you know it's a friday on sunny brook farm and then uh the emo will just be behind her and then she'll just be like stop and its entire beak will be an inch from her face and like they're they're terrifying they are terrifying and do you know

actually that there are two famous emu women on tiktok and they're both they're both lesbian emu farmers but then it came out that one of them was maga and the other one i hope i'm not following

the MAGA one. I wonder which one was the MAGA one. I don't know. I was just looking this up because I was like, yeah, what is that emu's name? It has like a funny name like Deirdre or something. And then this thing came up where it's like, there's two of them. There's two famous emus. Watch out.

Are there any undecided emus?

persuadable emus any rfk voters so okay so we got it oh the emu uh is never mind okay um i was like gonna give some identify identifying information about the emu but then i was like i should try to not dox myself too hard yeah well you know the emu deserves uh privacy so um then also uh this is the really important thing that i want to talk about so i feel like i grew up fat in a city and in my heart i wanted i was like born to be a horse girl but i it was just not an option for me i never felt like that was an option i felt like i don't i didn't know where to find a horse i didn't feel like i was allowed to get on one um but i feel obsessed with them oh and there was a horse named sriracha and it sniffed it sniffed me and it went huge it was so cute

beautiful solid horse and presh by the way oh yeah and then they have so they have like a barn

like a paddock where a nice horse named sriracha might sniff you and then they have like the bad boy paddock barn where like the mean horses live that you can't go near because they were her only abused but um so there's like two horses and a pig that are just like a like a like a mean

click that live in this other barn do they smoke do they smoke cigarettes i can totally picture

this they're wearing leather jackets they they're they're riding they're riding skateboards and i know what you're thinking does a horse stand up on its hind legs and ride a skateboard like a man No, a horse has four skateboards, one for each and the front.

Yeah. Fine line between that and roller skates. Do you know that I, and not to take away from your tidings, but it wasn't until I think maybe about seven days ago that Luke brought it to my attention that a centaur has six limbs. I think my whole life I've been picturing it one of two ways. Either it's like all hooves are on the ground and it just has like kind of a neck and a head or maybe two hooves on the ground and then like an you know bow and arrow thing i didn't realize we're talking four on the ground two in the air we're talking andrew andrew how else could

it possibly be you have to you have to think for a second if it's no no human arms then what you have is like a worm yes no offense to people that don't have arms i don't think you're a worm But, okay, I've gotten down a bad road. No, no, keep digging. That's only one possible way that a centaur could be. Yeah, I just hadn't fully. It is creepy, though. It's six-legged like a bug, though. Yeah. It hadn't occurred to me.

I mean, I was looking up all kinds of images of centaurs to prove Luke wrong, and they all just kept on coming up six.

I wondered why you got sort of quiet for a while. there is there is a thing that happens on the show where if andrew or i assert something and then the other person is like i don't know about that then the other person does sort of go into a quiet moment of quietly googling to try to collect some exculpatory information do you guys

do that on text me back yes i would also like to say this happened just the other day when lindy was like i forget why you were mad about it oh you were mad because the the hockey team the kraken has some ad that was bothersome to you i want to tell it i want to say why like the kraken this doesn't even make sense because the kraken is famously from greece and i was like the kraken is famously from greece and she's like yeah yeah duh he's greek coded then we looked it up he's absolutely not from greece he's one of lindy's cousins from norway in your face dude okay really

quick i don't i'm not going to talk for the rest of the time once i do this and then my tidying but what i was saying was the kraken has an ad that's like coming up from the depths or something it's out of the deep comes the kraken and i was like hockey is uh lives on the frozen water and the kraken lives in the liquid water and you can't they're fundamentally opposed you can't have the kraken you can't the kraken cannot live in the ice rink and the hockey team cannot play hockey on under the ocean and i it i the internal logic doesn't work and then i said i guess you could if it was the if the ocean was frozen you could play hockey on it and have liquid water underneath but then i said that the kraken was famously from

greece and the mediterranean would never freeze and then there was some all those was happening over text but there was some quiet googling going on i was like famously you committed the classic

blunder lindy that i do often which is like i'm actually making an okay point or i have one fact correct like on the show the other day i was talking about skid row not the band andrew had brought up the band skid row and then i went on to my the famous seattle association with that with the history of that of that and then of course i like placed it in the wrong century and like said it was hoover i was just wrong about so much it was like but there's that moment of like you kind of like you have a fish on the line you're like oh i'm saying something here this is working and then i never quit while i'm ahead no sometimes the vibes are more important

than accuracy actually i'm going to go ahead and say that vibes are always more important than accuracy when you're gisting that's not a fact that you're not in the zone of facts you're in

the zone of gisting leave it alone i think i think that what is important here the takeaway is that everyone needs to understand that a podcast is fundamentally a competition um and the the goal is to beat your friend um okay let me finish my let me let me tide for two more minutes other thing i want to say because everything is a court case an open court case you're not allowed to take pictures of most of the animals and so there was like a whole room full of puppies that had come from a hoarding situation and on the door it said no photographs were part of an open court case and we're in witness protection unfortunately that would only want did it

make me want to take more was it witness protection it should have been it should have been luke

um there also is a full-time there's one full-time raccoon that is not hidden away in the she can't be released because she has a neurological problem her name's miss kitty and um she she does not live in the wildlife rehab area so i did get to take her picture and i will be feeding her lettuce at some point and um and then the the last thing i want to say and this is like kind of a sad part of the story you know it's it's been a lot of laughs up until now this part i was slightly disrespected by the volunteer coordinator um i who is a lemur yes uh so there were like six of us there by the way just 100 white women between the ages of you know 42 and 62 uh so and then at the end after the tour they went the volunteer coordinator went around and was like who okay so could i would love to hear each of your you know impressions of the facility and what you think you might be interested in helping out with so i said oh yeah I mentioned this earlier, I never finished my thought, that I always felt like a horse girl in my heart, but I don't have any way to pet a horse or be sniffed by a horse. And so I was like, I'm really up for anything. I just love animals. My husband won't let me get any more animals. And so I whined about it to the point where he was like, oh, my God, just go volunteer at the animal shelter. Jesus Christ. But I love all animals. I'm happy to help out with whatever. and i guess i wanted her to look at me and be like look at those freaking shoulders we need you we need you out in the paddock shoveling the shit and like we're like we're oh i can't believe you're here you're ready you're ready to move in any direction and like you're gonna be our go-to guy and um and instead she was like okay i think we'll start you in the uh kitten room socializing the kittens and i was like what did i just say i i was just like kind of insulted like i was like but because everyone else she was like okay i want you to walk the big dogs you have to take a special dog walking class to learn about the and then she was like you are gonna work with the livestock because you like everyone else got like a hardcore job and she looked at me and she was like i gotta i'm gonna put this idiot in with the fucking cats that you can't mess up

well can i tell you something you should not be offended by that i used to foster kittens and it's one of the spiciest jobs you'll ever have they are very very rude um and here's the best part of uh socializing kittens so first of all everyone should know all cats come from outside every single cat you know was born in a trash can outside somewhere and the trick is to get them back inside before they go too feral but all cats are outside cats it's just you they're not all feral but you got to catch them you got to catch them at the right phase so that you can make them normal ish in their minds so basically when you are socializing a kitten you just grab it and you make it let you pet it and so half the time they'll be hissing at you and purring at the same time that's the sweet spot that's how you know you're doing your job it is not easy you will love it okay there's the toughest job you'll ever love

i mean yeah who who rescued who lindy okay i know i know that i that i love it and i hate using a shovel and being in the rain like i don't but i just i felt like she was calling me weak i felt like she was making fun of me you know um here's a butterfly net it's spicy kittens to its spiciest warriors this is okay this is a big job for you that makes me feel better and she was like you know if you're in the cat room you'll you'll meet everyone from the other departments and then you can like um get to know them and then maybe you can branch out i was like okay uh so i i'm gonna do that obviously honestly what i want to do is play with kittens um yes i just want i want people

to see me as robust yeah they didn't give you an ant farm and tell you to take care of that and

then let's see where it goes that's what happened to Andrew the files like do the filing oh I just want to say one last thing that was humiliating which is that she called on me first out of the group when she was like I want to hear and so then I I didn't know like what this was supposed to be like and so then I talked for like five minutes I don't know if you guys have experienced that from me I was like here's my here's what I'm like here's my life here's my job here's who I am hello and i was like i kind of i love dogs and i love cats but i love all animals and i also love horses that i would love to i love a goat and i love a you know whatever and then um she moved on to the next person they were just like horses like everyone else in the circle was just like i like dogs i'd like to work with i'd like to work with dogs so um i it part of me is like you can never go back there because i do feel like i made a fool of myself but part of me you have to

go back i'm living vicariously through you because you have this is like i've i've been also really really wanting to like either get an additional pet i have one cat that doesn't even live with me right now i'm not even on speaking terms with the cat it's at my girlfriend's house in portland because i'm gone too much so but i like deeply want to get another animal because i just have some emotional void but it makes no sense because of my sort of work travel and it hadn't even occurred to me yeah just go volunteer go be around animals i wonder though if you make a strong emotional connection then the like you know saying goodbye to that animal if they get adopted out or you know the case somebody the judge rules in the case how are you preparing for that part of it

i don't know it's going to be horrible i'm already it took 10 seconds there is a three-legged black cat named tiny that that that only says squeak squeak and not meow and and like i would die for tiny i just found out about it would also die i came home and i was like i'm so sorry i petted a cat for 10 seconds and that's my cat and that's actually my daughter it's actually my daughter i actually gave birth to her you guys missed it but i you know they all there's all these statistics that like people don't adopt black cats and i'm like i will save tiny's life and tiny tiny will be my tiny baby um but then i came home and i i said that and then uh aham immediately got mad at me he was like why can't you just why can't it just be a nice thing that you went to the animal shelter like why does it have to be a guilt trip that you bring home that i won't let tiny come live here and now i'm the bad guy i was like yeah also are you allergic to cats yes and then and then my twist my eyes like almost swelled shut for the whole rest of the night but wait a second you can't be in the cat room yeah i can i can i just gotta she's not gonna tell she's not gonna tell that lady she's allergic to cats oh you guys there was a line on the on the on the forum the waiver it says any allergies i said na and i lied i did a fraud But I can just take a pill. I can just take an allergy pill forever.

Does NA stand for nasty allergies?

Just nasty, nasty allergies.

Don't put me in the cat room.

That's what I'm going to tell the judge when they find all the perjury charges.

Oh, my God. I have a question for you. I mean, one of the most shocking parts of the story that has a lot of twists and turns is that you're part of a recruiting class. I thought for sure you were just going to show up and you were going to be like, hey, how can I join the fold? but like what this is like a this could be like a 1980s movie yeah this is like police academy

it's like breakfast club yes yeah i know it was like saturday morning we we all gathered for the for detention to animal detention you know yeah yeah so uh apparently they get well so there was recently a very famous hoarding case very famous um there was a big hoarding case like in the area where this this frickin rescue had to take in a hunt. 150 cats in one day and uh and four and 40 dogs and so i think they've gotten an influx of

volunteers and so they have also everyone's depressed and sad yeah and wants to be around

animals i feel like what you said about the demo showing up on this saturday lindy was telling

yeah yeah yeah a bunch of kamala voters yeah literally yeah one of them had um a bumper sticker on her car that was the trump font uh but then i said pee pee poo poo

that woman was lindy oh so you have a new best friend um can i say my tidying because it's kind of related actually andrew when you said ant farm it got me thinking about my tidying uh because mine is also animal related if you think about it um so i my stress has taken the form of like filling my home with houseplants even though i'm not great at keeping them alive uh although i've had better luck of late but here's what here is the terror that has befallen me most recently my houseplants are infested you guys infested to the brim with fungus gnats and they're disgusting and they're very annoying and they um the british call fungus gnats like buzzy facey boys or something because they're always flying around like right here in between both of your eyeballs they're really obnoxious um so i got like fly traps and and the fly traps became like full of fungus gnats then i got these things called mosquito bits where you make this like bacteria slurry that's supposed to kill all the larva mosquito bits exactly um that's actually that's what they call cookies and they're terrible and so like i was like uh i think i got a little i got a little over my skis because the mosquito bits were pretty um effective so i was like i've done it i've eradicated the fungus net infestation and i stopped using the mosquito bits and you'll never guess tim till what happened uh the fungus gnats they're back they're back baby and they and they've humbled me there's so many of them and they're all flying around right here in front of my eyeballs at all times oh um so i had i felt like, I don't want to bring in pesticides, you know, I've got a bunch of pets. And I feel like pesticides don't even really work for this anyways. So I was like, you know, searching up what to do about this. And I came across something called beneficial nematodes. And they are these little microscopic buggies that you put in the dirt. And they are apparently very efficient predators. They just like zoom around your houseplants and eat all the fun and they just keep eating fungus gnats until there are no fungus gnats left so i was like okay i'm ready to take the leap with the beneficial nematodes so i ordered them are they like sea monkeys

does it show you a happy family of nematodes like a little bit they're like they're just

sort of like come in like a little case full of powder and you're like i guess that's them

i don't know the mom looks hot the mom looks hot in the comic book

very patriarchal it's like a classic

glasses a little blazer i know it's crazy so i ordered the beneficial nematodes i ordered like 200 million of them and they came in a little box must be nice to be rich i know i well not everybody gets to be a magic mind ambassador um anyways so i use my magic mind money to um to buy 200 million beneficial nematodes uh and then anyway so and i then i kind of forgot about it and then i got a phone call from a number i didn't recognize i almost always ignore them but this one didn't say potential spam and it was a dc number and it's just like not typical that you get like a spam call from a 202 number i just thought that was weird so i answered it and this lady on the other I said hello and this lady on the other end goes hi and I said hi hello and she goes is this Megan and I said yes who is this and she was like Megan I got a package delivered to me and I don't want it I don't want these buggies Megan come get your little buggies come get your buggies Megan and I was like what the fuck is going on like who is this person and what is she talking about and then I started to put it together she lives at the same number address as me except two streets down and so she'd gotten my package of beneficial nematodes and I was like what buggies and she's like I don't want this in my house because at first I was like what do you mean you don't want my package you got something delivered to you that was for me and you opened it and decided you didn't want it and i was like what the hell lady but she was like i don't want these buggies in my house and then i realized she was talking about the beneficial nematodes so i'm like oh well they're not really bugs and she goes i don't care i don't want this

that's a fair response yeah and she was like i think it goes without saying she was very high on marijuana so she was like like so she was very much like come get these buggies making i don't want these buggies and so had she released them into the atmosphere well at first i thought maybe she had in fact opened the package and like i couldn't figure out how did she know what was in it how did she get my number like how does she know what my name is so i go i go over there. I was like, can I come get them right now? Oh, she goes, she goes, do you want me to put them in the freezer? And I was like, what? No. I was like, I'll just come over right now. I'll just come get them. So I go over there and I got to meet her dog, a pit mix named Callie. Very cute, by the way. And she came, she came out in sort of like a almost like comic book mom outfit. Like she was wearing like a pink fluffy robe and a bonnet. And I was like, this lady deserved to have a relaxing day off. She got stuck with my buggies and my weird ass coming to her house to get them. So I go in there and I was like, hey, I'm just here to get my package. And she goes, I don't want this. I don't want these buggies. No, I know. And so I'm like, I'm trying to apologize. And she's like, okay, go. And she's like, literally like doing that, like using her hands sort of like usher me out. And I was like, they're not really bugs. And she's like, have a good one have a good one so i look at the package and they of course they had sent it to her they sent it to me with a huge sticker on the outside that says live insects keep cold and i was like oh no she really thought i was ordering some sort of like exotic cockroaches

or something crickets to feed to your boa constrictor i know yeah or like yeah like live

mice or whatever and so uh and my phone number was on the outside of the package thank god so she was able to call me and be like come get your buggies and i can't for as long as i live i will never stop thinking about her saying come get your buggies megan i don't want these buggies i don't want it i don't want your little buggies megan i don't want your little buggies megan and i was like they're not bugs and she's like i don't care get out anyways the nematodes have been applied to my houseplants what do they look like it really it like the box is very tiny for 200 million you know um and it's just it looks like cocaine if i'm being honest it's like white powder and then you just sort of put them in the dirt and then you water the dirt which disperses them like i guess awakens them from their slumber and so so far so good i haven't seen a fungus

snack in a couple of days did you rub a little bit of it on your gum to make sure that it was

oh yeah that's i was like that's good that's the only way to do that i'm worried about this from

miami i am worried about this situation there's no way this doesn't end with you not having some sort of an aardvark problem like i read this story as a kid like it's going to escalate we're in

little old woman territory very much if you give a mouse a cookie it's giving it's giving then you got to give them a milk. And it's like the nematodes are going to become increasingly demanding. I don't know what's going to happen, but we'll see. I'll keep, I'll keep everybody

posted. I was going to, I recommend the nematodes are, I think are probably a better, a more holistic, uh, you know, sort of naturopathic remedy. I was going to suggest that you use this thing that I have, which is like a blue light that you put this. Uh, so what it is, is you plug it into like, I have like on my kitchen counter, you plug it in and it's like a little blue light that shines up on this little paper square and you slide the paper square into the blue light device so that it's that kind of blue that bugs really really get obsessed with but the side of the paper is the stickiest like my eyes exactly it's called lindy west blue and and um and and the you know so it's basically having a blue light but it's not zapping the bugs they just get stuck to it and i thought this was some you know bullcrap or whatever but i was you know impulse buying at home depot or something and i plugged it in and i came out the next day and there was like a thousand and it's it's like bugs of every yeah like the noah's ark of bugs it's like there's big ones and there's little ones and there's like i had no idea this many bugs were living in my kitchen but they're all stuck on there and that's the downside is you have to reckon with the destruction like the nematodes are just eating the bugs i when i change this thing i change like every few days i have to come face to face with the destruction

that i have yeah created your victims you've serially killed millions i have innocent families

and i have to tell you i don't want to you know sort of paint myself in too much glory here but there are times now that i'll see a bug and he's walking along the like counter like the backsplash and he's going towards it and I'm like, nothing good.

that way buddy don't do that i will literally swipe them away from the thing that i know will kill them it's one thing if it happens when i'm sleeping i can't that's not your business exactly that's between them and their god i can't i cannot look at another living creature even if it's a stupid bug and know that it's going towards its death and let it happen like i don't want to watch

it you know i don't want to see it happen uh so yeah so lindy and i are ass deep in animals what's

up with you two you're you have 200 million new animals in your life that's true lindy tell aham microscopic animals you're an animal hoarder can i tide in next please yes please um well my first one wasn't really a tidings it was just a question should i leave my harris wall sign up for four years um because where i live it's like i'm really behind enemy lines here and in fact putting the sign up caused me more agita than i'm proud of because like i live in a place where someone could really just be like you know at the least kick your sign over and at the most do something kind of a little yeah but now that it's been up i can't i cannot bring myself to go pull that thing out of the ground it's too sad it's it really feels like another another you know sort of trauma or something so it's just out there and i'm like is it going to be there for four years and maybe i should just leave it there for four years as a reminder i would just leave it yeah you could

always do you could become like that uh the guy in clee ellum who always has the rotating magazines like you could add start adding stuff to it like at the top you could be like don't blame

me i voted for well that's kind of part of it right is i do not want this country to become the place that i very much fear it will become or go more towards yeah but there is a perverse sense of like wanting people to remember that they did this to us and themselves which is a shitty this is a shitty way for me to process this this grief is to yeah it sucks your life sucks and i

hope you remember that i made the right call i mean you never want to be in a situation where you're like i mean i saw a lot of this after that was like you're gonna get what you deserve and i don't think anyone deserves what's coming i don't think anyone deserves that and you didn't you never want to feel that way especially not about your neighbors but it's also like i tried to tell you it's a difficult emotion to feel both like the information was available and i don't know why you chose this but i also don't think anything really bad should happen to you although it will but something bad is going to happen to all of us you know maybe i leave it up to the midterms

and then if we lose the midterms then i leave it up for i'll just i'm going to take it on a two-year

yeah a two-year basis okay well they're saying that kamala might run for governor of california so you could leave it up for that. You could just do long-distance support. I'm in southern Washington. I'm like one state north of that. I'm almost in California. Super close. And Walls. Who knows what could happen to Walls in 2028? Luke, you'd just be ahead of the curve.

Luke, before I could hear you getting ready to move on, but I actually would like to stay here for one minute, if you don't mind, because I have a similar question regarding bumper stickers, because I was behind a car yesterday.

You have your visualized Ballard sticker on still, right?

I read it. I keep North Aurora weird. I don't know if that's interesting. No, but is bumper sticker technology the same technology as it was growing? Like, I grew up in the 80s, and it was my understanding. We were a non-bumper sticker household. It was my understanding that there was nothing worse you could do to a car than put a bumper sticker on it, because that is like a tattoo, right? That is like never, ever, ever coming off. And I was behind a car yesterday that was, you know, a Harris bumper sticker. and it did give me like kind of the bad you know just gave me the bad feeling in my stomach and I thought about the person driving that car and how they feel getting in that car every day um and I was wondering like well is there recourse like we all know that election cycles good or bad are going to be you know cyclical two or four years usually so what is the plan for a political bumper sticker when you slap one of those on your car are you just locked in for

life yeah i mean so my very first car was a 1987 volvo sedan and i put a carrie edwards uh sticker on that motherfucker like you wouldn't believe and i left it on until obama okay yeah because there's a little bit of like a little bit maybe a little bit of like hipster pride about it where i was like i tried to tell you a little bit like what you're saying luke i was like i and i just kept it on the car uh i think it kind of depends on where you live too because there's a lot of anger and hate out in the world you might want to cover it up with something else maybe you have to

covered up though that's your only recourse yeah you can't peel them okay you can peel them off i

mean that's why you should put them on your window easier to get them off the window because i had my razor blade yeah i used to have my carrie edwards sticker and then to the left of that was my stone cold steve austin whoop-ass 101 sticker both stayed on the car for the entire life of the car basically uh but you can always covered up but these days you know they have magnets if you don't want to commit you can get a car magnet instead and they're much easier to take off i had a uh i put a carrie edwards sticker

on my car um in 2004 and uh and then later i sold the car to my aunt and then i saw the car and she had like sort of violently ripped it off like no it was like half but i i and i don't even think i'm sure she voted i don't know maybe she doesn't vote but like she's not like a republican but i think she was she just didn't want it on there she was like embarrassed i don't know i was

like well it hurt my john edwards did ultimately become very embarrassing so maybe she just was like i don't like the way he maybe she was she was trying to rip the edwards edwards it was

yeah yeah she stands i love seeing particularly in seattle growing in seattle i love seeing an old car like with just all the different things that this person has thrown their weight behind um as the sort of like rings on a tree yeah or the sedimentary layers like dukakis yeah and you know like just whether it's candidates or or or you know greenpeace like issues that are kind of

especially salient at some point yeah i just a random gregoire thrown in for a good local measure

like i you know i have a lot of tattoos and and a lot of tattoos that i haven't really thought through very much and i always sort of describe it as just being like having a sense of hopefulness about the world like as opposed to and this is me just justifying that i have a lot of tattoos i haven't thought through but like being like you know i don't know maybe i won't like it someday but i'll cross that bridge when i come to it or something it's kind of just a reminder of things things that i've thought in my life at some point um so i don't know i think i like the idea of

leaving them up just as a reminder yeah just leave it up my mom's obsessed with those um the magnets and she loves to have a magnet on her car to help her identify her car because she drives a very generic car and so then she wanted to get me into the magnet so she bought me a stack of magnets um but and like they were fine but i was like except no no they weren't fine they weren't fine there was one really crazy one yes so the magnet that she wanted and then she was mad when i didn't put this on my car it said honk if you banged my mom

i was like yeah let's put that on my car what is wrong with you you know what i'm with your mom on this one you fucked up you should have put that on your car immediately it's so funny it's so funny but I still have it

I had no idea your mom had that sort of sense of humor, Lindy I mean, seriously

I mean, it's a little outside the box for her, I gotta say

it is, it's a little bit outre

I also have some bad news, Lindy honk

beep beep beep oh no, not all four of us

okay, what's the next

uh what's the next it's it's just a quickie and it is um that and again i don't i'm still trying to understand fully how tidings works this is i think time number three that we've done it but uh i will say that i am feeling i like everybody and like most of the listeners obviously this sort of there's a sense of dread around all of us at all times and that really sucks but i will tell you that i have actually um i am ahead of the game on christmas presents this year which has never happened to me before i think something something inside of me needs like a safe place and for some reason that's like christmas music christmas shit which i know is a

pretty basic it's a pretty basic endeavor but no christmas music rocks i love it it really gets

you to the right place emotionally and and like this idea that i think you know instagram and Instagram shopping and also the TikTok shop, these are things that are probably overall making the world a worse place, but I have just been, when I see something, in fact, I got Andrew something at the TikTok shop the other day for Christmas. We don't even do presents. I was going to joke about what do you get the podcast co-host who has everything. I got you something, Andrew. What I'm doing. I want to guess

what it is, but I'm scared to guess it correctly and then you won't be able to like. If you guess it correctly,

I will, I'll send you one as well. Try to guess.

Is it the bagel sweatshirt made by the old Jewish men in New York in their tiny shop? Okay.

No.

That's okay, because I already have one of those. So do I. And it's really cozy. And you got me one. I have one, too. Yes, because they accidentally sent me four instead of two, and they let me keep it. Oh, I thought you got me a present. No, I mean, I got, but then I had four. So I was like, I'm just giving them out to everybody. But I got it for you also. that is

three extra anyways go on please continue what i've started doing now is because i'm being bombarded particularly on instagram they really have me figured out as far as things that i am likely to try to buy like you know what i mean of all the different ways that the internet tries to sell you shit most of it's ineffective most of it is i'm reading the washington post and there's like a sidebar ad for like and it's like a really buff guy who's like 60 but he's wearing a t-shirt that clearly what's written on the T-shirt just gets swapped out by some algorithm. And it'd just be, you know, like, I can't even give you a good example, but just like most of the shopping that is aimed at me, the commerce is so wildly off that it doesn't work.

It was always like, it's like, I got my grandpa's sense of humor and my grandma's gun and my mommy loves me. I went to Tennessee for college. You know what I mean? It's like that, it's on a shirt.

is that what you got me well shit megan now you guessed it verbatim but like but like instagram instagram really kind of like has me figured out which kind of is a sucky feeling because i just think i think well i'm very predictable but i see things on instagram all the time and i go that would be fun to have or now i'm thinking hey you know who would like that and i am uh you know typically what i've done is waited until the day before christmas and then i'm running first of all i just have anxiety because there's so many i'm one of seven kids i have a daughter i have a girlfriend there's a lot of people for me to buy i have a co-host it's a lot of people for me to buy presents for and i never do it and it makes me it means that part of the holiday season for me is just anxiety because i haven't done any of this and what i've started to do is when i see something in the tiktok shop like i did yesterday and i think i bet you my friend andrew would get a kick out of that and i know this sounds like a message supporting consumerism because that's what it is i'm just saying also andrew the thing i bought you was four dollars so just don't get to i don't understand the economics of how it's getting mailed

to me from malaysia now i feel like now i feel like i do know what it is okay what is i just

panic bought you a new stereo system because i heard you

perfect i think it is a christmas ornament of um tim robinson robinson on the megan

that's exact a fucking i've been seeing i think you're only i think you're only here for the zip line

yes on the zip line i just got served that yesterday i can't believe i cannot believe

it took you two guesses that's exactly what i got i just got served that yesterday and i was like

i'm gonna buy that then i was like i've never in my life in my adult life purchased my own christmas tree i don't need a christmas ornament and then i was like i'm gonna get the zip line

it hangs so perfectly thank you for speaking of me luke perfect intersection of uh memes and uh

christmas ornaments so yes it's actually for you and genevieve i was gonna say i can't wait to tell

genevieve because she's the one who first showed that to me before it ended up in my own feed as

well so she will be psyched to hear that okay so that's a bad example because everyone's getting everyone that this year but there's also i got i got my girlfriend something that actually takes like three weeks to make um and i put the order in the other day and i was like hey look at that that's i mean lord willing and the creeks don't rise that'll be here in time i guess what i'm trying to say is if you are anxious out there and if you're someone who does have to do some holiday shopping and you see something being served to you and it seems like something someone would like you might just check it off the list if you have the you know resources to do that because i am i'm this is the least i mean again globally very stressed christmas wise low stress

i mean that's that's uh that's my tidings yeah it's it's crazy i'm the same where i uh feel like i i do the ask app not to track so i feel like kind of safe uh you know and then somehow instagram is like you idiot you fool you think we haven't been paying attention to what you've been double

tapping uh yeah you think you think that you're gonna be able to stand up against a really cute old pennant that says melakaliki maca is that what you think idiot eighty dollars that i recently

ordered for myself regularly getting got by like a vintage looking poster i just saw this video

this i just watched this video of kristen bell being like oh i just ordered three things from targeted ads i shouldn't have spent my money i didn't need i didn't need any of these things and now these things are coming to my house and i was like oh been there sister and then she said what the three what the three things were and one of them was like a well first of all all the things were great and i was like oh yeah uh but one one of the things was like a bird feeder with a camera in it so you can see and

And I was like, I'm so glad that this is her ranting about not buying stuff. And so it's not an ad and there's not a link to this product because I would buy this product. But Instagram knows it listens to the videos. And so then the next the very next day I received the ad, the same ad that I'm sure she got that got her that she got got by. And it's the frickin bird feeder with the camera in it. Specifically, the one of the three things that I like. How does it know? It didn't give me the other two. just gave me the one that i liked and i haven't bought it i haven't bought it i didn't click on it i bought it i might click on it does it work i worry that i don't know i returned it i bought it

in a moment of like haste and then it came and then i realized it was like 200 and something the one i got was like 200 and something dollars yeah because it has a camera it's like a whole thing and then i was like i was i was just having one of those days where i was like actually looking at my bank account i was like this is not something we need to be spending $200 on sent it right back boy the ups store in longview washington they know me well i'm a return girly

i'm there every day with a real norm situation every time exactly i emotionally buy things

because i need to feel something and then they get to my house i'm like no no no no this we're

driving this down the hill this uh i was thinking i have gotten an ad for that too and i was like oh that does sound nice but one i don't really give a shit about birds at all and two it's just somebody finally said it i don't really care what they get up to and two in dc that's gonna be full of rats by end of day one so that becomes a rat cam rat cam no thanks that's a incentive for me

i would love more okay is such a slept upon city for rats everybody the new york rats get all the attention i know the biggest rat i've ever seen in my life i was sitting in an uber i was on florida in dc and somebody's front yard was raised up and there was a rat that was easily the size of a small dog that was just like doing its thing that the scariest rats i've ever seen were when i lived

in like adams morgan or dupont yeah well because they have little um interconnected highways underneath like adams morgan and dupont they're terrifying they eat people's car wires i have no i've heard of people having their cars totaled because of rat damage like brand new cars because replacing the wires was too expensive uh and they can eat through garbage cans i know this because there's a huge hole in my garbage can from where a rat ate into it so this is something that we're

dealing with right now in fact i almost brought it up uh when you were talking about kind of like having to to deal with your infestation of your of your bugs i don't know i don't know what actually made me think of this earlier but we have a detached garage that we do not park any cars and it's very, very unfinished. I'm sure it's porous as heck. And we don't keep much in there in the way of things that rats would want to eat, except for all of Genevieve, my girlfriend's bird food and stuff. And some of that stuff comes pre-spicy. Do you guys know about this? Rodents don't like spicy things, but it doesn't affect the birds. So Genevieve gets pre-spiced stuff. So that's fine. But then she has these other things that she would keep in a big, thick, like I'm going to say, I don't know, is it Gladware, Tupperware? I don't know what it is. one of those big garage bins right Genevieve went out there the other day and she says well the rats have gotten through it and that doesn't mean that they like took off the lid carefully and set it aside and had a lunch they just they like I don't even understand how they got through there so now we're having this whole conversation in our house about like what is the proper way to deal with this because it's not like they're in our home where we should you know if there's like a if there's some place where they're getting in we should seal it up like it's a really kind the crappy little garage that is not connected to our house and so you know i don't want to be a bad partner but i told genevieve like pretty much straight up like i can't help with this

like whatever decision you are not adopting another animal yeah right because genevieve was

like do we do live she's like i don't know what to do are we going to do live traps or are we going to like well and i just said i don't really understand why you're using the word we here because i can't explain to you enough like i can't be a part of this but genevieve is like well, I really like the, you know, any kind of sticky trap is really inhumane. Any kind of trap that would kill them. She's like, I just don't think I can handle that. So the plan now apparently is to put live traps in there. And Genevieve, and we live sort of near a really, really big cemetery here in town where there's a lot of wild animals. And Genevieve's plan, I guess, is to trap these rats in like sort of a live cage situation and then walk them a couple of blocks down the neighborhood to release them into the cemetery and to me i'm like well that doesn't is what are we what are we solving here because i don't feel like there's a big barrier between the out of doors in our neighborhood and the in of doors of our garage they're immediately coming back you're just giving them a ride

it's just a field trip not to mention the people in the cemetery mommy where's granddad he's in a better place being shit on by rats

that's right he's a rat king now covered by plague oh yeah highway so i have no idea i mean i guess genevieve's plan is to like sort of give him a ride to the cemetery i said are you going to put him in the car are you going to walk him over i said i don't want to get into a car if i know a rat's been in there even if it's been in like a cage and she said i think the plan is to walk it over and so now i am actually i'm kind of delighted by this i think genevieve's got some real ramona Quimby attribute so I'm sort of like picturing a neighbor just sort of peeking out their shade in the middle of the day and just seeing Genevieve walk by walking a rat on a piece of yarn

or a whole bunch of like a rat walker potentially I'm not exactly sure how this is all going to play out

yeah like one of those cat strollers but it's full of rats I was like have you ever seen someone with like a bird and a clear plastic backpack but it's just like a writhing ball of rats

So anyway, we're moving.

All right. I hate to say this, but I got to go soon because speaking of being prepared for holidays or not, I actually am cooking Thanksgiving dinner tonight. So it's 4.37. I have to go start.

Great.

Let me just end with this. It's something I've been wanting to tell you guys. And this was the only thing I had kind of queued up anyway, which is about 10 months ago, I started getting a lot of emails from listeners of our show and your show saying that you went on a whole journey regarding a phrase that my uncle said when I was a kid. And I think you know what it is. And it's one of my favorite expressions of all time. Your uncle? Shaking like a dog shit in peach pits. Yes. Uncle Frank. Uncle Frunkle. If you're ever in Cleveland, Ohio, and you run into an Uncle Frunkle, that's the man I learned that phrase from.

What?

It's so weird. you know what we get a lot is i i'm so sorry to say this but you can all stop sending me that clip from veep i've seen it uh but it was on an episode of veep where i think matt walsh's character says somebody was shaking like a dog shit in a peach bit uh and and people are like re-watching veep and so we get the clip in waves in our instagram dms uh but i had never heard it before so it was in this it was in this dumb movie that we got at fred meyer on vhs called big and harry where a boy becomes best friends with the sasquatch who plays middle school basketball it's not dumb it's not

dumb it's not dumb but it's not a harry and is it part of the harry and the henderson verse

but clearly someone was trying to cash in without violating the ip harry and the henderson's it's

literally it's literally dog it's harry and the hendersons meets air bud because the sasquatch is recruited to play middle school basketball and that's how they win the championship because there's nothing in the rule book that says a sasquatch can't play middle school basketball

that's a scene look it up if you don't believe that and that's in the criterion collection yes it's right next to royal tenenbaums and citizen kane um anyway so one of the characters says that the sasquatch is all hunched over like a dog pooping a peach pit and we for the for the longest time could not figure out what he was saying we thought it was he was saying grooming which didn't make any sense but neither did pooping none of it made any sense it was just not a saying either of us had ever heard and so when we were still making our show with kow the crack reporting team at kow tracked down the screenwriter brian daily and he called us he called in to be like it's pooping and it was like the greatest day of our lives. It was amazing. But if we had known we could have just called you.

It wasn't the shaking part though. Because that was the thing. My uncle kind of moved. My dad ran a kind of a fab shop. If a machine was shaking he'd be like that thing is shaking like a dog shit

in Peach Pits. It was being hunched. It was about being hunched.

I think the shaking is the part that I've never been able to get out of my head. I heard about this first and only through Andrew and the idea of a dog shaking like it's shitting a peach. I mean, that's what's landed most of the dogs in the rescue that Lindy's volunteering at.

That's why they're all in witness protection. People keep feeding them peach pits.

Well, sorry for bringing it up.

No, thank you. Really quick, before we go, could you do an impression of your uncle saying it in the classic style?

well he's a pretty down that well he also just for the record introduced me to the phrase it's raining harder than a cow pissing on a flat rock are you familiar with that one no well that's that's another one but honestly he would say it like that we're not that different in fact our hairlines are very very remarkably the same these days that's good that's good all right

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