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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 i've seen it on the set and it's heartbreaking

my name is luke burbank i am your host you're like the daniel day lewis of only doing one thing

coming to you from the madrona hill studio perched high above the mighty columbia already having some trouble early on in this broadcast because i just realized i'm wearing a ball cap i don't usually wear a ball cap during the show but i just during that intro tape i felt inspired well the truth of the matter is i didn't really fix my hair this morning much so i figured i'd throw this cap on it's hitting against i don't know if you can hear this it's hitting against the microphone arm because you know i don't usually have this on so it's my my range of motion is slightly sort of truncated okay so just bear with me i've got to adjust everything it reminds me i was at the blazer game last night blazers playing the nuggets and there was a guy and they pick someone out of the audience to come shoot like a trick shot you know he was supposed to she was to shoot the ball just stand at the free throw line with his back to the basket and hoist the ball towards the hoop and try to make a shot before like one minute or something he was wearing some like big I don't know monster energy drink kind of hat I don't know if it was literally monster energy culturally it was monster energy coated in big wide brim and stuff you know this guy looked like a fellow who probably probably rode in there on a truck, which was on a lift kit. And he just could not get the ball anywhere near the rim because his giant monster energy cap was blocking his ability to kind of throw the ball properly. Anyway, I feel like that guy here on episode 4,363 in A Collector Series.

Let the fun begin.

This week, the news has been dominated by stories out of the eastern part of the U.S., particularly in New Jersey. people looking to the sky people seeing lights and uh unidentified flying objects what is that what is i'm like i don't know i don't what is it i for some reason resist i don't know look i love a good story about a ufo i've been very into those stories about naval pilots seeing objects they can't quite explain but um i was weirdly resistant to digging into these ufo stories and then i did and then i was really annoyed at americans because these are identified flying objects that's the big difference anyway we'll talk about that oh and we're going to talk to this guy longest running co-bro of the show maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships he doesn't ask for much on this show honestly he is just uh you know he's a hard worker comes in every day he does his job but as we wrap this week up he has one request of you the tens of listeners please clap he's andrew walsh and he's joining me right now good morning my friend

Good morning, Luke. I want to tell you what I've been up to lately, how I've been spending my nights, but before we do that, I want to share with you an email that we received from listener Christine that I think came in probably, well, most certainly too late for your planning purposes, and maybe you wouldn't like.

this idea anyway but whether or not it's actually practical in your situation i think it's brilliant and luke yes i am introducing tarp talk again day five of tarp talk here on tbtl tarp talk and tbtl christine says i'm a couple of days behind so just really really quick setup you've been wrestling with various tarps to try to create a dry area in your yard where a person who's tiling your bathroom You can go outside and cut tile without getting wet in the rain. And so you've been struggling with that all week. And Christine says, I'm a couple of days behind.

By the way, when we say TARP, we do mean I've been struggling with the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

That's what I'm talking about, exactly.

Of the mid-2010.

God, I did forget about TARP. Did I get any TARP money? Do I have any TARP money laying around? Wait, no. Was TARP, that wasn't a payout program, was it? It was.

It was the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Treasury established it I think it was the 2008 Bailout

A program created by the US government

To help stabilize the financial system During the 2008 financial crisis Remember when all we were talking about was TARP

Yes I do and I think of it as an Obama program But is my No I think it was This is our turn

That's right I thought that was your George W. Bush As he was going to cut more brush In Crawford finally this is our turn to cut brush no you don't Oprah listen please clap

I'm trying to do please clap in an Obama voice I don't do impressions and I should probably just step away from that anyway but Christine says this is so exciting I'm a couple of days behind you probably already solved your tarp dilemma but if not I have a suggestion you could rent a small box truck and park it in the driveway and run an extension cord like think like a U Christine says, I think U-Haul isn't that much money per day, and since it's not being driven, you wouldn't add up the mileage too much. Had you thought of that?

You know who else suggested this? Somebody named Justin. Oh, really? Justin said, hey, I don't know how long the tile projects last, but I thought it might work to rent a U-Haul box truck. So two great minds working together but without knowing it to suggest that. Also, I got an email from, let me see if I can find this Somebody, yeah, Merrill, listener Merrill Said, don't rely on tying the rope to the grommet Okay, the grommet is that little circle that's punched into the tarp And it's metal and it's supposed to create, you know, so the tarp doesn't rip Says, don't rely, don't tie the rope to the grommet Wrap a chunk of the tarp around a small rock And then you tie the rope around that then you tie the rope to the anchor so i think you use you basically are you have more surface area or something to kind of hold because the one of the tarps that i used uh ripped apart immediately um as far as the box truck goes that's a very very creative solution and had i not finally just gone to the tarp district uh at the harbor freight and gotten this heavy duty tarp that i'm looking at right now i might have had to do that this one seems to be doing just fine I did have a moment of panic at about 3 a.m. Andrew this morning because as I've mentioned this exterior wall of my house the outside of my house basically where this whole situation is going on the interior of that wall is my bedroom now and it's like literally the wall that the headboard of my bed is pushed up against and so I in the middle of the night I just heard this flapping noise and I was like okay the wind is kicked up this thing is is going to be blowing wildly not only is it going to be keeping me up but it might be tearing itself you know it might be tearing itself apart or ripping the hooks out of the whatever exactly and I was like I finally know what Tommy Wiseau was talking about um and I just thought the last thing I want to do at three in the morning is go get on a freaking stepladder to because what I should have done yesterday before I went down to Portland for the Blazer game was I should have done my plan which was to kind of unhook this thing. So like when not in use, have it unhooked. Because, you know, to be honest with you, since I put it up, Andrew, guess how much rain has fallen here in southern Washington? About zero inches. Little. Interesting. We're getting a lot of rain up here. It has totally stopped raining. It's the irony of this whole thing. So really, I should just have the whole thing like just at the ready for if it's needed. And it hasn't been needed yet, but I didn't do that. I was kind of running late. I was hustling out of here. And so anyway, three in the morning, i start hearing this flapping and i'm like i can go outside and get up you know put on my slippers put on my house coat uh put on my my cap you know that like i'll get my candle that's on the little sure yeah yeah and my cat my snoozing cap that i wear cap yep it kind of is pointy but

But it flops down.

I can grow some mutton chops. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. and have tiny little wire glasses and bad breath probably yes definitely well i'm way heady on that and go out there and deal with it or andrew i can just shut the window yes door

number two that's what the other pillow is for the other pillow is for putting on top of your head when you don't want to hear i was white pillows yeah white pilled yeah um i i closed

the window and i went blissfully back to sleep and this morning i looked outside it was totally

fine so the flapping was just maybe a bird of prey no it was a little bit of wind but not anything

like we were dealing with earlier this week it was just a normal amount of just a gust here or there but i mean this whole thing didn't need to be first of all didn't need to take up nearly the amount of time on the show it has and it also didn't need to be such a hassle i decided to try to put this other one up on the like windiest day we've had in five years you know it was a terrible idea and also the guy wasn't even cutting tile that day it was totally and completely useless

and pointless you talked very much about how terrible the weather was on the one day that you were trying to put it up but we never explicitly said and then maybe this is where we leave tarp talk but we never just talked about just the the what i am going to describe as the general unpleasantness of dealing with a wet tarp even if it's not currently raining when i think of a tarp that has been out in the rain collecting those just random puddles of water in its tarpiness here and there whether it's been laying out on the ground or nooks and crannies just like just the idea of having to like kind of bundle up and in the wind like grab that and just know you're going to be getting wet like there's just something so no matter how much you think you've gotten all

of the water out of it there's one more pool of it that you didn't know about of just like rust water yeah yeah then water that has been collecting inside something that you didn't realize it was collecting and over the course of a season attire water and attire the worst also mosquito breeding ground exactly but like it's just like you pick something up to move it and you didn't realize that it gets you know hollow aluminum it's like aluminum tubing and you pick up like an outdoor like piece of furniture to move it and you didn't realize that there's and water collecting inside one of the hollow legs of it. Yes. And you pick it up to move it, and then that water just starts leaking out onto you. Right on your shoe.

Right on your shoe and probably your jeans. Probably into your shoe. Yeah. Ugh, nasty, nasty. One of life's worst experiences. You know, today, I thought you had mentioned this at the beginning of the show, today's the shortest day of the year, but then you start climbing back out of it. Didn't you have a calendar where you were kind of looking forward?

Yeah, it's tomorrow, I believe, right? Am I wrong?

I thought I saw today as the shortest. I mean, it might be different in Seattle.

If it's today, even better. I would guess we're on roughly the same schedule.

I mean, I don't know. What time is it there?

It's like 6 a.m. I can't believe you're up this early.

That's so weird. It's 7.14 here.

That's very strange. Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year, December 21st.

What was the stranger telling me?

You read that rag?

Yeah, right. Okay, Saturday, December 21st. I mean, apologize for spreading false information. I swear I saw the stranger saying that today was the shortest day of the year.

I wonder if they got some bad intel. I've got to tell you, Andrew, I've had it. The only reason that I was like kind of feeling semi-confident that it might be tomorrow is just because it's been legitimately circled on my calendar.

I believe you.

I know not liking the dark weather shouldn't be someone's whole personality, But I literally sent Becca Like a pep talk text this week That said That said like Hey, just so you know Saturday's gonna be the shortest day of the year But that means Sunday is gonna be the second shortest day of the year And then Monday You know, however that works We're climbing, we're getting the nose up We're climbing starting Sunday morning And just the knowledge of that Somehow was helping me fight the depression

Yeah, and actually it's been a very nice Winter here though I would say Like, that's one thing I've noticed. Like, I just this weekend I saw again and I have a chip on my shoulder because I feel like it's increasing the people talking about the big dark and everything. I'm just like I'm living in a city in December and I'm watching people out in public in their shorts. People are wandering around in their shorts. Now, I'm not saying everybody would be comfortable in their shorts, but like it is not uncommon to see somebody like running to the grocery store in their shorts in Seattle in December. And I'm just kind of like, that just is not the definition of a tough winter, but that's me coming from a place that has winters.

Precisely. I think that gets to that gets to like a Midwest or just like basically everywhere, you know, else in the country that isn't Washington, Oregon and California. And like, let's throw Florida and Hawaii in there. Well, OK, the Sunbelt states. OK, fine. It's an Ohio thing, Andrew. Get it together. no like in other words i think your thought about a bad winter and i've never lived through an ohio the winter. So I actually really can't say from any experience, but the idea that because it's not frigidly cold, like dangerously cold to be outside, then that means it hasn't been a bad winter. And I think our perception as people that grew up in the Northwest of a bad winter is like if it's actually clear and snowing, I'm pretty stoked. If it's just kind of gray and rainy and you just kind of it's just like you're always having to kind of like hustle from your car to the store and everything that to me. And it's getting dark at 445. That to me is a definition of a bad winter. But I think that's, like you said, attributable to just us growing up with different ideas of winter.

Yeah, because I went outside. I was taking out the garbage bins. I don't know if I ever mentioned that on the show, but I do.

Oh, I saw the photo this week on the Ascendant social media platform, Blue Sky. I believe you said it was a nice day or something. You were very happy with putting the garbage out.

Sure, yeah, no, I couldn't think of anything pithy to say. But, yeah, I don't know. I just, I guess, you know, I was taking out the garbage and I'm wearing like a short-sleeved shirt. And I'm just like, oh, yeah, this is like, oh, yeah, this is just like this would be this would just be so ridiculous. So I continue to be I try not to be annoyed by people overly complaining about it, which I do think is generally a thing people do around here too much. But I just personally need to remind myself just I never want to forget how great winters are here, because I remember coming here from New Hampshire. and you know this was 2009 2010 and for like so long like going outside to the car or whatever not wearing a jacket not you know not not hanging not having a picnic outside in December obviously but just being able to exist being able to walk outside and see grass to literally see grass in December is such a is such a pleasure and so like I don't I never want to lose sight of of how nice this time of year is here in Seattle because it's still special to me well like I said I can't

I've never tried to go through like an entire winter in like Chicago or the Midwest or one of these places where it just gets brutally cold my when I've been in those places during the winter I've noted that it's cold I've always thought well I'll just wear more clothing I'll just wear a warmer jacket and the idea that like it's I'm not stepping in like you know rivers of water every time i step off the curb that to me feels like a w like i wonder if i moved to chicago if i would be like we were having a great winter and everyone's like what are you talking about it's horrible i was like yeah but i didn't get rained on at all this winter there's a lot of

i mean i know you spent a lot of time in chicago but like there isn't like black snow and puddles all over the place in the winter time i mean that's what i remember like just well i think

it depends on yeah how how recently it snowed because i also think it's not like if i understand right there's not a permanent layer down right it's not like one of those places i mean was that like what it was like with in ohio in cleveland does it snow at some point and then the snow's never really gone for the rest of the winter in cleveland not snow i mean it kind of depends and

my memory of cleveland itself is a little bit foggier i do remember moving to new hampshire and being sort of surprised by the constant snow pack there and so i know there is a difference i just remember cleveland just getting just once it got to be winter time it was the snow would come the very first night of snow was nice and special and magical but then very very quickly it's just constantly constantly gray i mean in the sky like it's not like cleveland had like sunny skies to combat the the the you know what else was going on it was still like a gray place and then just constantly i just see now i'm thinking of like news footage from the 80s too which is not fair because it's got an extra layer of age and greatness on it, but just like constant dirty black ass snow and crunchiness and water and like, yeah, not like a constant. I feel like New Hampshire would refresh a little bit more with like a new coat of paint every every couple of weeks in the in the wintertime. Whereas Cleveland just was I just remember being just miserable and always wet and crunchy and kind of like I say, like that black, greasy snow all over the sidewalks and everything.

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying the same thing over and over again. But for me, the it's not even the rain. It's the getting dark at four o'clock thing that that really or not. Maybe not four, but four thirty, whatever the time is there. That's four twenty today.

That's what I was going to say. I just for whatever it's worth. I know, it's 419, got a minute That's part of our TBTL branding Yeah it is The Stranger Seattle, I'm confused by the way this is written Who wrote up this blurb? Hannah, somebody And happy solstice, welcome to the longest night Maybe that's what

That's classic stranger

The sun will set at 420 today And won't come back until 755 tomorrow morning and then Solstice Day is officially tomorrow. So anyway, I don't know what that means.

Oh, does that mean, is there a naked bike ride?

Oh, God, there probably is. I am not into the naked bike ride. Bro, I know you're going down to Fremont to pop a peep.

I will be popping nothing in Fremont.

We can't keep you out of there, man. Honestly, it's kind of weird.

They literally can. I said, I'm going to Fremont to pop a peep, and they said you are literally not allowed to come to Fremont anymore.

They were like, you, sir, are on a watch list.

That's right, the naked bike. I'm not a big fan of face paint, let alone body paint, so that's not a scene for this old man.

I think that, but it's one of the days. I guess so. Is it the shortest day or the longest day where there was famously a naked bike ride in Seattle?

Although, would that be the spring? Or do they do it? Anyway, I don't know.

Seattle naked bike ride. Oh, you know, I think, let's see, Fremont Solstice Parade. Oh, it's June.

Okay, that would make more sense because we were just talking about the weather here, which is like, I wouldn't want to be naked.

Yeah, precisely.

Although I don't want to be naked in June either, to be honest with you.

But it would be better than being naked in December, I think, for some of us.

Or maybe it wouldn't because fewer people would show up to see my naked body.

Ah, sure. But, of course, if that's the goal, then just don't go in the first place.

Well, that's true, too. I thought this was a court-mandated thing. I got a little swept up in this scenario.

Court-mandated that you are not allowed to go, sir. You don't understand what the term trespass means. I've been using that phrase a lot on the show lately just because somehow the thing— Last night when I was at the basketball game, I was there with my sister, Hannah, and my nephews, Little Luke and Ian, and Becca's brother, Scott, and my quasi-nephew, Alexander.

Did you put that in the Christmas card? Dear quasi-nephew Alexander. I did. Season's greetings from your quasi-uncle.

And anyway, the game was really fun. Wait, why did I bring that up? Where was I going with that? There's some reason for that.

We were talking about nudity and the law, so that's why you brought children into it, I think.

No, no, no. They asked me. Somebody said, how are you going to feel? I said something about what I was seeing on TikTok, and I think they said, how are you going to feel like if TikTok goes away? And I said, you know what? Relieved. That's like, how are you going to feel if they take away your drug that you're addicted to? It's like scared but ultimately relieved, probably.

How you live in Jay Piven is what I always want to know. Precisely. No, what is the latest on that? Because I keep hearing people reference that again, like the end is nigh, but I haven't actually read up on the latest.

Well, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case, which is kind of interesting. And I mean, the basic, the, you know, I think it's January 19th, I think is the date that what will happen is if, if, if TikTok, so TikTok's argument is that this is a First Amendment issue for the people that post on TikTok. So ByteDance, the parent company, and that's, you know, obviously based in China They're saying, look, by banning TikTok in the U.S. You are actually stifling the First Amendment rights of the people that want to post on TikTok And the Supreme Court will have to decide if this alleged national security interest of, you know Could China use TikTok to mine personal information As if that's not already happening in a billion ways Right, right, right it's such a weird it's such a weird priority for for for people to you know for certain politicians to kind of focus on but um like just because there's a million other ways that our personal data is just getting mined all the time often voluntarily but so basically the supreme court's going to hear the case and and i guess if they they'll either rule for or again bite dance the other thing bite dance could do is they could sell tick tock to some american company and then then it would it would you know and then the americans will totally take care of our data

and everything will exactly that's the thing the private industry will will look out for us

but so here's what's actually i guess going to happen like um as far as the practical thing like on let's say january 20th will i be able to look at tiktok yes it will still exist they're not going to come scrub it from my phone but what's going to happen is the app stores won't be allowed to offer it anymore as a download and as it did so basically what will happen is it will just deteriorate slowly over time on your phone which is very weird like it'll just become buggier and kludger and you won't be able to update it and then it'll just finally crash and that'll just be it we call that sonosing i believe yes exactly um except i didn't pay two thousand dollars for tick tock bastards every morning i start my day with a battle with sonos do you still do because

i know that you had the sonos system and i'm referring to a while back i mean this goes back years now but they basically said like this expensive system that we sold for a long time and that you bought a version of we're going to stop supporting that basically with the apps and everything that sort of ties together the whole system right they break it and what we're They bricked it, and guess what? Now I'm using the newer ones.

Yeah. They won.

I have two pretty substantial Sonos speakers that are just in the basement, not plugged into anything, because I don't even know how I would get them operating on the... What I wanted was one of the newer speakers that's portable that I could bring out to the deck and stuff, but in order to make that one work, the earliest generation ones could no longer... There's just no way for them to all be on the same system. So those ones are just... I don't know what. they're just kind of sitting there now but it's a whole thing where i have to like you know but sometimes you know how this we develop these weird workarounds so i have a sound bar from sonos and it's it's obviously connected to my tv it's for watching tv but it also is an independent speaker but when i'm turning on the system in the morning i can't start with the sound bar because it gets confused i have to start with this portable speaker so i have to turn i've to turn all the speakers off turn on the portable speaker which then allows me to slowly turn on all the other speakers like there's a certain order i have to do it in or the system gets totally confused

and that is not how it's supposed it's a special bite dance that you have to do to get the speaker exactly so can i tell you can i do you mind if i jump in and tell you about what i used to so just last i think last week i finally installed wired speakers and my little kind of dart setup

here so our friend by the way yeah you just sent me this amazing photo that I'd like to get more

info on oh yeah I told you I want to tell you what I'm doing with my nights I'm trying to recreate a 1980s living room photo that I went online a few nights because I'm still trying to learn this graphic design program so what I've been playing around you mentioned yesterday on the show I've been like making weird little TVs and trying to like put them on Instagram and then put content inside the TVs as just a little weird little like practice experiments for me I don't know if that really made sense but that's the amount of energy i'm willing to put into that sentence right now but uh and so i did one the other day and then i was like well what's my next challenge and again i'm just doing all this for no reason other than learning and whatever satisfaction i get at the end of the night or in the wee hours of the morning from like trying to make stuff and so what i do is i found some like photo of like maybe more of a 1970s i would say i thought this is what

you guys were going to do in your basement and i was so no no no freaking excited no i'm just i

just wanted to show you what i've been dinking and dunking around this is i would live in this basement yeah no i so i found a really cozy sort of like 70s modern basement and with a little tv in it and so little by little i am using my program to recreate this myself not like copy and paste it but actually kind of scheme it out and then like a blueprint it's it's like a blueprint now but i it's almost like i'm playing dollhouse at night because like little this all started as just individual lines and now i'm learning how to fill it in and then eventually once i have all the walls and cabinets set up then i'm going to start populating it with furniture or whatever

i thought you would like that living oh my gosh i'm so into this except again you kind of you kind of got me feeling some kind of way because i thought you thought i was actually making that no for has walsh has walsh ink no this is my dollhouse this is my digital don't rule it out

making yeah maybe someday but i that does sort of tie into what i wanted to say regarding bluetooth so our friend as i think you know uh rodin made us these nice speakers uh years ago now maybe five years ago as a holiday gift and we didn't have a for various reasons they didn't work well with our other like sort of systems like i tried to hooking them up to my tv by throwing an amplifier between them and the tv but then it wouldn't work with remote blah blah blah they just never integrated into our into our life that well even though i really like these things while i was over at his house recently and he's like hey listen you know i got my record player hooked up to these they sound pretty good huh and i was like yeah you know what maybe i should try wiring them back into my basement and connect them to my record player which i did and it's pretty nice now but here's the deal the best thing about it is all i have to do is flip a little switch actually you would love this little amplifier i have it's about the size of a big deck of cards it's like the size of a deck of uno cards and it's got one metal switch that looks like something you would switch in like a in maybe like a world war ii movie before you're going to drop a bomb or something like that you know like the little switch on the here you move the little red thing out of the way and then you flip the switch that's the power button it's very very simple and clean and i love switching it on but what i love even more is that i don't have to do this dance now see if you can follow this i tried to follow your bluetooth bite dance listen to my bite dance that really bit so my record player which is now wired to these speakers yeah is also a bluetooth record player and that's how i've been using it for the past year or so and so i have this little bose bluetooth speaker that's portable it's a small guy but it sounds good and i bring it out of my office and i would set it down next to the record player but then if i turned on the record player the record player which is something that should be sending

Thank you.

sending a signal out connected to the television even though the television was off the television would try to connect to the record player this doesn't make sense these are two output devices that would get caught in a loop of talking to each other and you'd say to yourself well then Andrew why don't you just turn off bluetooth on your television the reason is and this is one of those things that you would never look up in advance when you're buying a tv but it's so complicated the tv when you turn it off it automatically turns bluetooth back on so if this makes sense so the tv looks like the default setting yes and it doesn't default when you turn it back on when it looks like it's off the tv is actually in a resting mode sort of and in the background it automatic face it puts bluetooth back on so what i would have to do to turn on my record player is go to the tv turn on the tv go into the settings turn off bluetooth are you sure you want to turn off bluetooth yes turn off bluetooth keep the tv keep the tv on run back into the other room turn on the bluetooth speaker turn on the record player and pray and then you just like mom used to do it yeah and then it's just like connected to y-e-t-1-7-4-4-1 and i I can't rename the record player. And anyway, it was such a pain in the ass. And now I just come over and I flip a little switch and I'm listening to the Silver Juice just like that.

Oh, what an amazing moment where old technology has turned out to be so much easier than new technology. One little switch. How is it that this is what's the deal with airlines but updated to 2024? but how is it that bluetooth technology has perfectly perfectly achieved the ability to never connect with anything i want it to connect with yes and always connect with something i don't want it to connect with so good at connecting the bullshit the only seamless connections bluetooth

makes are with things that i would rather it not yes exactly i mean how is it that it's like i looked it up i'm like why is my tv turning on the bluetooth every time i turn it off and so i'm like is it me like what's going on i look it up and like yeah there are forums of people complaining about this feature but when you're going to buy a television you're not usually asking yourself things like well will the bluetooth get turned back on every time i turn it off and will it interfere with my ability to listen to an old neil diamond record like these just are not the

questions you ask what if you basically cobbled together a sort of a cloak of aluminum foil that You just place over the television at all times that it's not in use.

That sounds good. A TV cozy. A TV cozy.

Yeah, and then when you're ready to watch it, you just carefully remove it and put it to the side. But if you leave it on there, it probably won't. The Bluetooth probably won't work. I think foil stops that, right?

Yeah, that sounds like a good solution. Thanks, doctor. Thank you for being a 10.

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I was wondering, how do we answer that question?

But, thankfully, some of those not as many as you think listeners have taken it upon themselves to help keep this thing going. And it's quite amazing that it works. Folks like James Watt of Oakland, California.

Thank you, James.

I should use my best Roman Mars voice in beautiful downtown Oakland, California.

Can we make James? Do you think we'll make James a Mariners fan by next?

I actually, you know what, Andrew, of your many, or Andrew, would this show sound different if your name was Andrew?

I think, can we try it for a while? It makes me sound smarter, I think. It really does.

It sounds like you have a graduate degree in something. And the longest-journing co-bro of the show, Andrew Walsh. Some Anders energy there. What were you going to say, though? I love this project of basically creating a soft landing for Oakland A's fans with the Seattle Marins, another beleaguered franchise.

Yeah. And I feel like I feel like it's an it's it's not I'm not trying to bully anybody into rooting for the Mariners. I just want you to know that I legitimately feel terrible about what happened to the A's. We have open arms and warm cups of coffee up here for you to we're going to put a blanket around your shoulders. We give you a hot cup of cocoa. And we're going to invite you to the marine layer to watch balls just die in the outfield.

Bring me your tired, your cold, your huddled masses yearning to be free.

That's right.

yeah why why i'm just what are you doing i'm previewing i'm previewing something that my mouth my brain is telling my mouth to not say the thing it's about to say um there is because why get political on this friday but there is uh some like you know some guy that owns some property kind of down the hill from me he's got a bunch of like trailers and stuff like rental equipment like i don't know what this person sort of does but they have a fairly fairly large thing property kind of by the freeway and they got a lot of like you know a lot of signs i know this

place i stopped on my way out of town finally to see what it says i think is it a big sign like a

big trump no no that's how i mean wait are you talking about hamilton corner the thing that has

like a uncle sam on it maybe it was down like you know out of your little neighborhood but on like that main stretch there that oh okay probably yeah yeah did you see a statue of liberty i think so yeah i remember it being over the top and i could i would drive by and i couldn't quite because it had such a long phrase and then i finally on the way out of town after the drive after the tb telethon i just finally i was like so mad every time i saw it because i just knew that and it's it had to do it had this big sign it had to do with about like when they're they're taking away our guns and our ability to say anything or something like that well for a while it was like

political correctness is bullshit but it was a picture of a cow crapping and then it was like a picture of nancy pelosi and biden saying like or how can we be proud of this or just a bunch of a bunch of you know kind of weird signs that are obviously from one political but then this person also has like a like scaled down but still pretty large statue of liberty on their property and every time i drive past it i want to say have you read the inscription yeah right at the base of the statue of liberty right this we got to build a wall we got to like we got to mass deport people Are you familiar with the actual inscription on the Statue of Liberty, my brother, my brother in Christ?

Right, exactly.

What does your dad say?

Oh, yeah, brother in the Lord.

My brother in the Lord? I mean, do you understand how hilarious it is that you have a statue? Because, of course, your smooth brain 20 years ago was just like, Statue of Liberty, America, yeah. Like, you've done absolutely no research on really what the Statue of Liberty was all about. And then it was pretty involved to erect this thing, so you've never taken it down. But over time, you've drifted with the political winds into being isolationist and supporting people who are actively, actively working against the interest of families in this country that are mixed status, etc. And you still have the Statue of Liberty up. You look like a fool, sir.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, but no, I guarantee you that they never make that connection in their brain.

No, no, I don't think that that is a connection that has been made. I did hear from one, now, believe it or not, what I just said isn't even the part I wasn't trying to talk about.

Oh, okay, good. Now we'll talk about the part you're not going to talk about.

One of the guys working on my house had some crazy stories about that dude, by the way, the Statue of Liberty dude. Oh, really? yeah which i you know involving like illegal behaviors and things that again fly in the face of someone who is presumably law and order right it's i guess i'm not saying yeah because i was

wondering if maybe it got uncomfortable because you will often mention you don't know the politics of the people who are working on various projects around your house when you're hiring a contractor and you know given that field given that part of the state like you know it's very likely that a lot of the people who are working um you know on on your projects are not necessarily in lockstep

with you politically yeah um this guy who told me that story is in lockstep with me politically which i found the like one guy who pours concrete out here who's like a raging democrat which which is great i love it um but he was just telling me we were talking about that weird i wasn't going on my statue my patented statue of liberty riff with him we're just talking about you know the the area and stuff and he said oh yeah that guy's a piece of work he's like basically said yeah that guy was like uh i went over he was having a tool sale one time and like half of the tools were

stolen like they were stolen out of job sites oh geez oh yeah and i was like he was like yeah it's

like he's like a bad seed i think he might have even like it might have been a like my guy might have like found some tools that were for sale that had previously been his and had gone missing in some way oh my god i was like of course this is the law and order guy that's fencing stolen tools right you know it turns out a fairly inconsistent political philosophy andrew that might be generated uh or motivated mostly just by feelings even though they're they would like me to f my own

feelings no i think it makes linear sense um i also think we should probably get back to thinking

our donors thinking like nick kennedy the king of ska that's right coma washington mr tacoma mr tacoma wide yeah sure god i played so much pitbull at the blazer game last night i think they played three pitbull songs did they play fireball they did nice it's because it's like pitbull

I think Scott, my quasi-brother-in-law, not my brother in the Lord, my quasi-brother-in-law, he said, he goes, I think that this is exactly why the music of Pitbull was created. It's like, it's to be played in 15 second increments while people are running around frenetically on the basketball court in between the moments when the basketball players are doing their thing.

Yes, exactly.

That's like the perfect, that's the perfect time for that music. Fireball.

That's all you need.

Now, just imagine you're a guy who has a tiny chihuahua that is dunking a basketball that it's holding in its mouth, which was the halftime entertainment, which was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life.

That sounds amazing. Did the guy with the too big of a hat end up getting the ball into the net?

No, he never did. Honestly, here's how I would describe this guy. Big Kyle Shanahan energy.

Oh, Kyle Shanahan, the coach of the 49ers?

You know how, like, I feel like Kyle Shanahan always looks like where he really wants to be doing is towing his jet skis to Lake Havasu. Like, just like what he's got.

He's got the eyes on him. I just picture, I kind of can say a lot of these coaches, they all blend together for me.

Kyle Shanahan has big, like, I'm wearing a baseball cap that I have absolutely not in any way impacted the brim of. Yeah, yeah. And, like, it's a little too big, but it's, like, it's a look, it's a vibe, and I'm driving, like, I'm, again, driving a truck that's, like, lifted and just has, that's totally murdered out, and I'm towing, like, $100,000 of, like, either SUVs, like, either, you know, ATVs or water ATVs.

You are right about water ATVs or something. When he's got a little facial hair, it really emphasizes the ski-do-ness of the whole situation. Exactly.

I feel like I could just see Kyle Shanahan I think I wrote years ago on the failing social media platform Twitter that like after I think it was after the Seahawks eliminated the Niners or something it was like Kyle Shanahan Last time you were here

Sorry I thought it was a picture I was just going through pictures of Kyle It was a talkie One of those old fashioned talkies

That's Rich Eisen right?

I don't know who it was I hit stop right I just closed the tab right away because I just played

We love Rich Eisen we stan Rich Eisen Oh, that was the other thing Alexander asked me last night as we were walking back to the car. He goes, do you have stands? Oh, we do. I said we do. They're called the Tens. I was very excited to talk about the Tens. Folks like Elizabeth Maxwell, who's in Houston, Texas. What up, Elizabeth?

Thank you, Elizabeth.

The pause you heard was, we could have gone with Liz, Lizzie, Zip, which is what we used to call.

Oh, I love Zip.

We used to call my sister Liz, Zip.

That is a great nickname. I love that. By the way, I mean, I don't even really know who Rich Eisen is. You say that name, it rings a bell. But you're absolutely right. That was Rich Eisen getting ready to interview. You'd like Rich Eisen. Mike Florio about Kyle Shanahan. Yeah. Great poll.

You heard like two seconds of that voice. Well, speaking of stands, I've stand Rich Eisen for many years. He was one of the very, very first SportsCenter anchors who kind of was droll about things. Oh, okay. Although he was, I have to say, not the most, like, you know, you had the guys like Kenny Main and Keith Olbermann, and these guys were, like, really invested in the zingers. Rich Eisen was, like, kind of a steadier hand. He didn't zing so much, but he just had a kind of a sardonic nature about him, and then ended up kind of branching out into having his own show, which is, it's just always intelligent. It's like, it's reasonably intelligent sports conversation. Like, he doesn't go in for, his thing is not, you know, first take, or he's the

opposite of a you know of a skip bayless yeah yeah he's not just trying to set his cowboys

jerseys on fire to get a pretty precisely clicks yeah yeah so um yeah we do we like uh we like rich eyes and we also like sean miller of seattle washington yes we do thank you sean oh and then what about gretchen van miller yes of lakewood washington i'll see your miller and i'll do you

one better van miller van miller thank you gretchen appreciate it oh i didn't see what your sean miller followed by gretchen van miller i'm sorry i didn't know what we were doing there i was just trying to yes and i and i appreciate that yes and that's fine you don't stop wow what

if the what if the next name is van miller lennon yes of portland oregon it's actually just daniel lennon of portland oregon uh thank you daniel thank you so much to all of our donors here on

this friday for keeping tbtl rolling hello and welcome to top story did you um find yourself

talking or talking about reading about or delving into this drone story much this week i've said

this on the show before and this is just one of those weird stories where it sort of seemed to of bloomed when I was looking looking elsewhere and then by the time weirdly yeah and then by the time i was trying to get into it it was already kind of like kind of the past the peak of the story and everybody was already just kind of on to how stupid the story was sort of if that makes sense but yeah essentially yeah do you have a better sense of sort of how this began people just started noticing lights

above certain areas of new jersey i mean it seems like it's just basically a mass hysteria and also local news wanting to make hay and then people just people not employing a lot of critical thinking skills and then politicians having to kind of and various people at different levels having to um kind of placate these people who are not really plugging in critical thinking skills i mean basically you have some people that are noticing lights of either drones or maybe actual airplanes and you know pretty busy corridors like lights in the sky and then they start putting it online and then other people start noticing it and then they start filming it and then they start calling the police and their congress people and they start saying like there's stuff up there no one will explain what it is and then the media saying there are people saying there's stuff up there nobody knows what it is and then the authorities going well if you look at flight aware and you cross-reference it with everything people are seeing these are mostly airplanes there are some drones that are you know like you know up in an airspace they're allowed to be in some of this by the way is planets and stars like it's just like and i think i saw a headline probably in the new york times or somewhere that was like i'm going to kind of botch it here but it was like basically like reports of mysterious lights in the sky indicate different levels of trust in institutions you know and it was basically the long and the short of it was kind of a bunch of bunch of folks that again i don't think were particularly interested in hearing the real story because it was less fun we're just why we're just winding each other up over this when it was very very demonstrably not like it was it was very it was pretty easy to prove that

the stuff in the sky is all explainable so the thing that came out of this for me was a story that i had never heard before so like i said i had not been paying tons of attention to this i knew people were just sort of being a little bit mass hysterical over this you know drone situation in jersey and somebody on i think blue sky or some sort of social media site posted a really kind of one of those grainy old clippings from a newspaper from the 50s that was talking about chips and windshields and i wasn't sure why and they said this is you know basically we're we're reliving this thing that happened in the seattle area in the 1950s and are you familiar luke and i hope you're not because i want to read to you i just was never heard of this i was just scanning the wikipedia article about this the seattle windshield pitting epidemic and i'm going to read to you this is really well written i'm going to read to you quite a bit here i find this story fascinating and since i'm coming new to it i don't want to just sort of like try to explain it myself it says the seattle windshield pitting epidemic is a phenomenon that affected bellingham seattle and other communities in washington state in april of 1954 it's considered an example of mass panic it was characterized by widespread observation of previously unnoticed windshield holes pits dings leading residents to believe that a common cause was at work it was originally thought to be the work of vandals but the pitting was so great the rate of pitting was so great that residents began to attribute it to everything from flea eggs to nuclear bomb testing um it began in bellingham in march police thought it was vandals with bb guns but then they started to notice in nearby cities of said cedro woolly mount vernon the wolves all these areas that are all of the skagit county heavy hitters that's right things of that nature um within a week the news and so-called pitting epidemic had reached metropolitan seattle as the newspapers began to feature the story more and more reports of pitting were called in motorists began stopping police cars to report damage car lots and parking garages reported particularly severe attacks uh here were some of the things people were theorizing some thought it was a new million watt radio transmitter nearby at the jim creek naval radio station Some believe that it was the work of-

Probably Como AM 1000 in the day. They probably had a 90 share.

It's a real blowtorch. Cosmic rays, some thought it was. Glass bubbles from- Oh, some reported seeing glass bubbles form right before their eyes. They thought it was sand fleas in the glass.

Anyway, as- Oh, wow, that's wild. So in other words, because glass is made of melted sand, that there were these fleas that survived the process of the glass being melted.

The wiggly sushi of 1954, essentially. That's right. But anyway, then finally, and this is where we'll power out, finally, Sergeant Max Allison of the Seattle Police Crime Laboratory stated that the pitting reports consisted of, quote, 5% hoodlumism and 95% public hysteria. So basically, people were just noticing them. Right. It says it's collective delusion, not mass hysteria, supposedly. But, yeah, it was just like people have pits in their windshields. But once you start saying there are more pits and windshields, well, there's a pit in my windshield, and all of a sudden, all these people in the greater Bellingham and Seattle area start freaking out in the spring of 1954. I found that to be absolutely fascinating.

Me too. I'd never heard of that. Notice me, senpai. Notice me.

Felix Bunnell should do something on that.

Oh, that's got Felix Bunnell written all over it. That's got mohai implicated. That could be a whole wing of mohai.

It certainly could be. along with the tow-shaped tow truck.

Oh, Lincoln towing. Honestly, they can drive that tow truck right off of a cliff.

It's so gross.

No, just the fact that I had to retrieve my cars from the Lincoln tow yard on more than one occasion.

Yes, yes. That thing, I thought it had been retired, but then I saw it in an Aurora lot somewhere recently. So I don't know if they – there must be more than one tow truck.

Were you, were you, like, in Seattle, did you and Veeves get to Seattle in time for that tow truck's, or, I say original because when I became aware of it, it was living in South Lake Union. It was, like, basically where all of that Vulcan stuff is now, and, like, all that Amazon. You know, that used to all just be, like, shitty warehouses and stuff. And there was, when you would get, I think it was, I want to say it was, like, the Mercer Street exit, the old version of the Mercer Street exit. you would you'd come to some point where you would just see that tow truck i think they had a tow yard there basically and that was where it lived forever and ever and ever until that area got developed and they got rid of all that stuff and put in you know google and everything you know

i'm trying to remember if i actually saw it there or if i because it was so iconic and talked about so much i remember my friends and my new friends here in seattle talking about it um i know that i definitely saw it you know now in the years since that whole area was like majorly um uh developed I do know that they, I think, have the first one in Mohai now, which is why I said that. Oh, nice. But I'm trying to think if I actually, I'll bet you we got here right around the time it was being sort of maybe, like, retired or something. Because I definitely know that story, but I don't know if I trust myself to say that I saw it in the wild.

I know this has been a week of nostalgia for me, talking chubby and tubby and Christmas trees and all this stuff. But, boy, like, I'm just looking at a Reddit Seattle page. i miss the tow truck and it's a picture of the truck it's like we're pulling for you seattle lincoln towing and then it's this ridiculous tow truck and there's a it's got a picture of it towing the kingdom and then i think about the like you know the hat and boots down in uh yeah george soto and stuff and georgetown and and like um you know just these iconic things that were just part of seattle when i was growing up again i know that i'm not saying anything particularly interesting but it's weird or like elephant car wash when you see this stuff it is it's it's such a you know i get they say smell is the sense that most quickly maybe transports you somewhere but i would say this is right up there looking at this tow truck it just i'm you know i'm 11 years old

living in seattle when i look at this tow truck yeah i i totally totally believe that i'm looking at photos of this thing now it is kind of gross though isn't it also isn't very well made like

the i feel like i wonder is there an oral history on this thing which is and by that i mean like was this a bus that they cut like what kind of vehicle was this before they made it into this yeah and also like it's it seems like something an idea someone had that they follow it's supposed to be a foot i guess i guess the truck is supposed to look like a foot it's got these toes on top of it but they're not super convincing i don't know i want to know more about the construction of this truck i will say this and even though a v-dub van at some point even though it's sort of like

we look at tow trucks usually as the enemy unless you're like the property owner who needs a car off of your like we look at we have an adversarial relationship with tow trucks usually yes we're pulling for you seattle is such a good tagline that is don't you think we're pulling for you Seattle is a great slogan for a tow truck company. I mean, second only to the roofing company whose tagline is excellence is on the house.

Could you make some money being good guys towing? Good guys towing. And by that I mean your whole thing is this. We're not going to tow anyone because they're parked in a strip mall while they're at the chiropractor.

You know, but they can't prove that they were allowed to be there. You know what I mean? Like the predatory version of towing, what if it was good guys towing? And your whole thing is like, we are not going to just randomly tow you and hold your car hostage. We're the people you call, because like, yeah, we're pulling for you, Seattle, is a great, you're right, it's a great catchphrase. Untrue, I would argue, depending on if you were me in the 1990s. But, like, if you genuinely could stand behind that claim, like, if you could be like, hey, we know a lot of tow companies kind of suck, and they kind of, like, just tow your car, and then they're holding your car hostage, and then you have to basically do whatever they say to get it back. We're the people to call if you need your car towed, if you're having trouble, but we're the good guys of towing. We are not the gross ones. I wonder if there'd be enough, if you could generate enough, like, branding and goodwill around that, that you might actually, like, pick up some business.

You're only towing cars when they're broken down, essentially. Yeah, when someone calls you. I wonder if there's enough business there, though.

That's probably not. That's the issue.

And also, it's probably just really fun to make people mad and take their cars away.

Okay, so I was talking, I was starting this hours ago now, maybe days ago, I started to say how I'm using the term trespassed a lot lately because I've been seeing TikToks where people are being trespassed from a target or something. Like, they're basically somebody who's been maybe accused of shoplifting or something, and a lot of times the police will say, you're trespassed from this Home Depot. Like, you're not allowed to come back on—and I'd never heard trespassed as a verb. Yeah, well— You know what I mean?

No, I've heard it as a verb as in, I'm trespassing. That is an action that I'm doing. Well, okay, I'm sorry.

I've never heard it as, you can be trespassed.

Yeah, that doesn't sound—yeah, that doesn't sound like they're proper usage.

It sounds wrong, but it's uniformly and universally, I should say, used by law enforcement and other people saying, well, have you trespassed them? Yeah, they've been trespassed. Okay, sir, I have to let you know you're trespassed from this property. The use of the word that way always strikes me as kind of weird. It does seem weird. But it's clearly gone into some part of my brain because I keep saying that you're trespassed from very serious.

You know what's an amazing thing is listening to people slip into cop talk, which is one of my least favorite kinds of talk. when described like like i told you i sort of was opted into this neighborhood email chain that is

not totally unlike has genevieve asked you to stop looking at this email what do you mean i just because i could see you reading it and then just getting having a lot of theories that then you're gonna like who are you gonna tell about it genevieve and then you know yeah right you're

supposed to stop talking about local politics yeah well i did like there are so many times where i want to because you know sometimes like i guess there was this guy and i think that he has mental illness issues i don't think he was actually stealing mail but like a few weeks ago there's this thing where this guy was going around opening all the mailboxes on the street and you see that and it's not great our mailboxes there is like you know knock on wood it's very secure so like it's not a concern for us we have a decent one and nobody can get in there but if you just have a traditional old mailbox you know the kind that you would see in a looney tunes cartoon or whatever and that thing is wide open and it became clear and Genevieve even saw this guy and confronted him at one point um and got a photo of him giving her the middle finger and saying rude things to her but the thing is like everybody was talking about the male thief and I don't think he's a thief I think he's just a guy with OCD because he started putting up like the the mailboxes as well like he's he's not a pleasant character I'm not trying to um defend him and he shouldn't be messing around with people's mailboxes it's a federal offense you know but um but anyway I didn't feel like there was actually like a threat to our packages after a while but having said all of that when conversations like this pop up or hey we saw this guy on the street and that's what i don't like is like hey we saw this guy he was pulling a wagon it's like yeah because he's poor he's not he's allowed to pull a wagon down the street you know but they'll always say a white male or or whatever like people start saying like describing people as male and female and They start talking like cops the second they start getting into neighborhood watch. You know what I mean? It's just like you can just hear people do it. People do it on the radio, I think. I almost, to make you laugh, threw out a name from, I won't attach names to it, but you know the type of person at Cairo Radio who's going to start throwing out the term white male when talking about some crime or something.

I expected more buy-in from you on my whole, is there any sharp, anything sharp that will poke me riff, because that's the one that makes me so annoyed, it's this like idea, because I feel like the issue that we have, look, I've never been a police officer, and I can, what I can say is I'm sure there are a lot of parts of the job that I don't understand, and there's, I'm sure, a lot of really challenging and sucky things about being a cop, and just because, you know, I've watched some TikTok videos I'm not trying to act like I know everything about What it's like to have to do that day in and day out I do think that part of the problem though Is that they are trained to assume That every

situation is about to turn into life and death for them like that every person that they approach is Secreting a weapon somewhere in their body folds and is going to shoot them with the weapon unless they like It'll be like a you know a grandmother or something or somebody who just by all normal demographic Demographic indications is not likely to be a violent threat to them And they'll be like do you have your license or whatever and then the person will like reach into their person Like, do not reach into your purse It's like, don't reach in your pocket It's like, calm the flip down, everybody And then when it's like, arresting someone You're not arrested, you're detained Okay, I'm being detained for what? You're being detained for resisting How is I resisting? You're resisting right now by asking me these questions What? And then it's like, do you have anything sharp, dangerous, knife that will poke me? It's like, I just came out of 24-hour fitness I'm in like, my workout pants What do you mean? This idea that at all times Your life is under immediate threat Now again I know it's the training Because the idea is like well you never know But I do think that that adversarial And that sort of like I'm in mortal danger Literally every second I'm on shift I don't think it's probably good for the cops brains I don't think it's good for the brains of the people Who are being you know Detained or whatever by the cops And for some reason that whole do anything sharp or dangerous that will poke me it just and we had when i said this last time people like emailed me and look well they could have like this i'm like yeah they could but they never have and i promise you i've watched more tiktok videos about this than anyone in america i can absolutely put my wasted life up against anyone's when it comes to consuming this content

see the only context i've ever heard or seen that is through the tsa and i will say that while i get real shirt now maybe i don't get real shirty but i get you know i i am not a friend i'm not overly friendly when the tsa people say we have to like go through your bag i'm always like pretty pissed off about i don't say anything but i just stand there and i steam and i don't say i don't i don't waste any syllable that i don't have under a cab under your breath i do you

Automator ATAB.

ATAB. ATAB. Like tsunami. But I guess I – but that one question doesn't set me off because I'm like, well, I mean, I guess that's fair enough if you did have needles in there for any reason. Like if they're just like digging in your bag, I guess it would be good to know that they're not going to get stabbed with something.

But this is when they're patting people down. What I'm talking about is the cop context. No, no.

I'm talking about them going through my bags at the airport. Do they ask you that at the TSA? Yeah, that's the only time I'd ever heard, and I don't watch a lot of – I haven't gotten in trouble with the law as much as you have, obviously, and I don't – Few have. And I haven't gotten in trouble with the TikTok law as much as you have. In other words, like I don't – so like I didn't have any context for it other than when the people are going through my bag at the airport. And again, I'm saying like I'm grumpy when they do that, when they – you know, something in my bag sends it out of the conveyor belt. I am grumpy, but I still am kind of like that part of the part, that part of the experience particularly doesn't bother me. Them just saying, is there anything sharp in here? Because it seems reasonable to me. But I haven't like, again, like delved deep into the law enforcement end of that.

You know, it's funny because I've obviously had my bag searched plenty of times at TSA. And maybe I've just glossed over that or I'm trying to remember them asking me that. I'm sure it's the standard question. And what I probably would say if they asked me was, I don't know. You have the x-ray. yeah right you tell me yeah do everything sharp that's why you're pulling me over officer i'd just

be like well i have the obviously the bag of glass i'm taking that home yeah i have the bag of broken

glass i'm bringing that home to my quasi nephew for christmas right exactly i got my dirty needle

collection is that what you mean there oh yeah i store them in a sock so you should be safe

i store them in tissue paper right exactly here i go once again with the email every week i hope

I feel like we almost did the emails and V-mails today because we threw a few emails out at the beginning of the show, but I don't know if there's still one or two left over.

Yeah, let me just play this for you. In fact, I don't even know if I've listened to this yet, but I got this email from listener Matthew, oh, in Chicago, who says, my four-year-old has been really into telling jokes lately here is one i recorded with her um this one actually makes sense where most of her other jokes uh have the right cadence but are nonsensical i like that uh i'll try to catch some of those and send them later they're pretty funny anyway have a great day okay so this is it looks like lila is her name uh telling a joke and i don't know what's going to come here other than that it's 17 seconds long i'm glad i'm four years

What did the doc do when it bought something?

lipstick. Okay, what did the duck do when it bought some lipstick is the question here.

He put it on its bill. Dog, bada-bada-bada. The bada-bada-ba. Is it a rim shot? The bada-bada-ba

is, I mean, that sells, this is how you do it. He put it on its bill. Dog, bada-bada-bada. i love it waka waka waka i love it that's a great joke that's a great way

to wrap up the week i think honestly maybe some of the maybe some of the most compelling content on the show this week almost as interesting as tarp talk absolutely oh we're having a special

guest on the show monday by the way our pal nick jarren is swinging by to talk about holiday films

we love it yes it's gonna be for once it's gonna be a good show yeah i know i'm thinking about everybody please do join us for that in the meantime look here we are andrew once again at the end of today's show and at the end of our broadcast week thank you as always for spending some time with us everybody we will be back here on monday with more imaginary radio in the meantime have a great weekend take care of yourselves and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all are you seriously detaining me again am i being rendered no you're being friendered

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