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well all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a thursday edition of tbtl show just might be too beautiful to live my name is luke burbank right over there digging himself out from under a eggnog related morning the morning after is the longest running cobro of the show maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships mr andrew walsh Good morning, my friend.

Thanks for coming. I'm always inspired whenever I hear that sketch from Tim and Eric. And I understand. I just want to lay a thanks for coming on somebody in an inappropriate time. It always makes me want to do that. I want to have people over here and we're talking. I mean, the hard part is getting me to have people over. But we're having people. And then somebody is telling a story. The more serious the story, the better. And I just say thanks for coming. Like, what a chilling effect on the conversation that would have.

I mean, I was going to say the thing about it is I don't want to misdescribe you when it comes to the party environment. Because, like, well, for one thing, you know, Genevieve likes to have get-togethers. And you often specify this is Genevieve's party. Indeed it is. But you also do a lot of work for these events as far as getting stuff ready. And I've been to events where it's Genevieve's party, but you're there barbecuing and you're incredibly pleasant to be around. But if you had your druthers, and I don't know if you want to admit this, the day after Christmas, would you be wearing a Cinco party snoozer? Like, would you rather be, like, anywhere but there at the grill listening to your B-52s and making flippin' burgers?

I think once we're into, I think once the party starts, I'm fine. I will say the last time Genevieve had a party. Like, I always, I got to admit, I'm always grumpy at the beginning. I always feel bad for the first people I talked to at one of Genevieve's parties. Because, like, I do remember the last summer party Genevieve had, it ended up being a bad weather day, which is a real bummer for her. I feel bad. Like, I remember the rain was really coming down, so it became an indoor party. And I was running, but we still had, like, a keg and a bunch of coolers. So I, like, ran out to get more ice at the last minute. And then, I mean, I am just, I am getting less and less, I honestly think I'm getting less and less likable. But the reason for that is because I'm beginning to be less and less able to put on a happy face, I think. I think I'm a bit more of a raw nerve these days. And I remember.

He's beginning to get worse at faking it.

Yeah, and I don't want to be that much of a grump. I want to be likable. I want people to like me. I want people to give me money because they like me so much.

I want people to bestow on me their extra airline miles. I have some friends who maybe would do that.

You want to be MVP gold for the calendar year 2025? That's your project 2025, right?

It would be. Hey, you were the one sending emails recently regarding 2025 projects to me and the business boy.

I was emailing with you and John Sklaroff about something, and I said, this could be part of a good project for 2025 or something. Or a 2025 project And I was like, ugh, gross

That didn't feel great But anyway, I do remember coming home with a bunch of ice It was raining, and then I went to pull into my parking spot And I left before the party started But I got back 20 minutes later The party had started And so people had already taken my parking spot Which, by the way, my parking spot is not like It's not even in a driveway It's public I mean, it's technically public parking

It's got a sign that says Brown's Parking

I mean, right I mean, it's this public parking, but it's nose in parking. It's not parallel parking by our house. And I basically have this area that now also I've laid down gravel there because of some drainage issues where I park my car every single day. And it's essentially like my parking spot. Right. And so I come back with these bags of ice and the party goers for Genevieve's party have already taken up my spot. So now I'm needing to parallel park in a place I don't want to park. It's raining. I'm carrying bags of ice. I'm already and then I walk through the door the basement door and I think oh I'm going to come in the basement way because if there's any party people here they're already upstairs right but I come in the basement door and the party has already gotten I don't know people showed up on time and under budget apparently because there was already a bunch of you know a handful of people down in the basement area I would like to reiterate people whom I know and love and I'm not just saying that because somebody might hear this I mean that quite earnestly but I just I I think about growing up and I love my dad but my dad worked hard and he grumped hard and sometimes he was really grumpy and I remember just being very confused why a man would be so grumpy and now that I am 48 years old and grumpy a lot I feel like I feel like I just came in with my grumpy face and then eventually I warmed up and then the party was a good time so I will say that it takes me it takes me a while I think most of my anxiety comes in the days and weeks leading up to the party and then it comes to a peak right as the party begins and I have this feeling of just wanting to be like well how about I just keep the basement to myself and don't let anybody down here and this is my area and then eventually barricade yourself in yeah and then once the party starts I loosen up but then I do always have to realize like I am going to be up super late cleaning because I just I am and maybe this is a mental problem like seriously but like a mental illness but like i just can't go to sleep that night with like the whole house in full disarray and like food and beer out you know like whatever so i start cleaning when the last person leaves meaning i'm usually up until like four sometimes five a.m cleaning the house those those party

days and so i bet you when you get into bed at five a.m though and the house is spotless and you've done your duty yeah the party's over and you know obviously it's like a saturday or sunday so you likely don't have to get up for anything. Yeah. But that's a good feeling.

It is. And that's why the last couple of parties I told Genevieve, and I don't think that Genevieve loves this, and again, to her credit, not to mine, to her credit, she loves having a house where people can stay over after a late party night. But I'm like, no, no, no, I'm cleaning this house. So I've said to her the last couple of times, please, you can have this party. I do all the cleaning ahead of time. I'll do all the cleaning afterwards. But please, can you just not invite people to sleep on the couch because this is going to be, as soon as the last person leaves tonight, this is going to be my territory again. And so that's kind of a concession.

I'm just imagining you as a cartoon and you're vacuuming the house, but then there's just some very drunk person just passed out on the floor and you pick them up by their toe and you pull their whole body up, so now they're on their head and you vacuum under where they were and then you place them back down.

I know that I've been watching a lot of this lately, but I see that as a Pink Panther cartoon.

I think that's got to be where that's coming from. you know the thing i do like having get together and in fact i sometimes when i'm um like uh in the midst of one of my little jogs or something particularly when i'm on the treadmill which is very monotonous i will um kind of occupy my mind by imagining a moment that is well let's say three years overdue i remember being at a bar with you and jenny even other people right after i bought this little house saying like 4th of july it's happening that was going to be a swimming pool made out of a container yeah i believe and this was i want to say 2014 when i was saying this um 10 years ago on this very day andrew um and uh you know we've just been blowing through nap time but i actually think that this summer i had things will be operational i'm not going to have

a shipping container swimming pool that was just impractical and very very expensive i'm gonna have a hot tub which is it is what it is but i i very much like the idea of having some folks over i think it'll be actually good for me i think one of the things when i lived in bellingham and we had that swimming pool we used to have a lot of get togethers and i i loved it i'm a little isolated out here and i think i would do better just emotionally if i started to kind of host more things and just have more people than just me and occasionally walt in this house that being said the thing that i cannot fake being nice around is when someone shows up to a party that i'm throwing early i have no ability to mock to kind of like what you're describing like you think your grump sort of your grumpiness is actually like you're wearing it on your sleeve despite your best efforts when i'm because there is you know the last half hour before a get-together starts like let's say people are invited at three the that goes down between two and three if you're me is it's intense it's pressure packed it ain't fun it is like a race to the finish to get everything perfectly in place and ready to go and the music is dialed in and and everything is like because you know me i'm a very you know appearances really matter to me which you know Nobody likes to admit to that But I'm here to tell you this Unfortunately I care about that stuff too much And so if I'm running around Getting everything ready and then I just look And there's someone standing I can see their head in the window of the door My front door It's like what the hell are you doing here? Who's doing that? Well I remember years ago On Christmas I was talking about having mimosas In the sun on Christmas day I remember throwing a party uh having a get together at my house in la in echo park and um i remember let's say that this was a saturday and the party was supposed to start at two or something we had me and my ex had bought this house we're very proud of having bought a house in la and it was a really fun kind of spot to be in was sort of near dodger stadium and having people over it's a big thing and i want to say the party let's just say it was supposed to start at three i look out and standing on the front door at 2 15 is somebody i worked with at npr west who was an editor on the show on day to day and a person who i really like and really liked but who clearly didn't understand that a 3 p.m invite does not mean 2 15 i don't understand that mentality at all was it a mistake

i mean who thinks that like honestly i usually think if you say your party starting at a certain in time you do not show up until at least a half hour after yes i would say that's a good safe

number that i tend to shoot for i don't know you know this person and by the way i'm glad that we invited her because i don't know if this was a person who maybe had been invited to lots of get-togethers and maybe she was concerned about traffic and then when the traffic wasn't bad she got there or i don't know what the story was but i just know when i looked over and i was like oh okay hi hello like it be and it's tied into the fact that i want everything to i want it to be a reveal i want someone if they're going to show up at 305 i want them to step into a world of pure imagination where they're like oh wow your place looks nice and this music is a good vibe and yes i will have a drink and like i want it's so important to me that their experience is a certain way which by the way is totally dumb of me that when they show up early they've not only gotten there too early. They've ruined my sense of what their experience is going to be.

They're seeing all your cracked magazines instead of your New Yorkers that you replace them with on your coffee table.

Exactly. Just so you know, if you see me reading a New Yorker, there's probably a cracked magazine inside of the New Yorker. Oh, I know. I think I

learned that move from the movie The Big Shaggy Dog. I could be wrong about that. I don't remember anything about that movie other than, here's what I think I know about that movie. It has a Big Shaggy Dog in it it's a disney movie probably one that was maybe originally made for tv and i want to say this is the big one i want to say fred mcmurray i want to see fred mcmurray is in the big hairy dog big hairy dog i want to say you're absolutely right okay nice and i believe there's somebody i believe there's a boy who maybe before i don't know the plot but maybe there's a boy who's obsessed with dogs or something like that i think it looks like maybe a boy does a boy get turned

into a dog? Maybe that's what I, but I swear it looks like he's reading it. Because the dog is wearing a Letterman jacket talking on the phone. By the way, the movie poster for Walt Disney's The Shaggy Dog is an all-timer, Andrew. It's so good. I actually would buy this print and frame it and put it up somewhere in my house. It's just, I mean, it is so of a moment. You've got the Shaggy Dog casually talking on the telephone. Oh, geez.

Yeah, this is great. Isn't that great? So this would make me think that it wasn't made for TV if it had a movie poster. Wilby Daniels is a boy who creates often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, Wilby's father, Wilson, boy, they spared every expense on coming up with names for movies in the 1950s. His father, Wilson, hates dogs. They're going to understand why his younger son, Montgomery Moochie Daniels, wants one. Wilby and his rival, Buzz Miller, go with French girl Francesca Androssi to a museum. They eventually leave without Wilby, blah, blah, blah. Willby later collides the table that holds a display case of jewelry. Does this ever explain why he transforms into Chiffon, Francesca's old English sheepdog? Confused, Willby, as a dog, goes to Plumcut, who says that the blah, blah, blah. So, yeah, it's a boy who becomes a dog.

I feel like, and this is where I could be very wrong, the only thing that I feel like I remember seeing in that movie is maybe before he becomes a dog, he's a boy who's a dog obsessed, maybe, and he's sitting on the porch. I believe he's sitting outside somewhere, and it looks like he's reading a book. But then it's revealed that inside the book, I believe, is a magazine, maybe a comic book about dogs or a magazine celebrating the dog lifestyle. I don't know why you'd have to hide that, though.

Dogs quarterly? Is it like crotch quarterly?

Oh, because that's what the dogs tend to target. That's what they sniff. But, yeah, I would love to find this actual scene and see if I remember. Because I'm talking like this is just a fractal of a memory that literally from my youth, maybe seeing this at my grandparents' house or something. I have no idea why, but I swear that's where I was like, oh, you can slide a comic book into a textbook and nobody will know. How clever.

I'm trying to buy one of these posters, but the problem is there are lots of different versions, but not the exact one I'm looking for.

The one from the Wikipedia page, right?

The red background where the dog is on the phone with someone else. There's a lot of ones where, by the way, of course, they also remade this with national treasure Tim Allen. There's a Shaggy Dog reboot with Tim Allen.

We heard a little bit of Tim Allen in our intro yesterday. We did.

Thanks to DFTB for sending in that intro for the Christmas show. I would say Molly Shannon saves it per always. And Tim Allen just doesn't mess it up for her.

Yes, I would agree with that assessment. Is how I would describe that? Completely, completely. Did you, you know, you had heard of the Shaggy Dog before I raised it, right?

I had heard of it, but I didn't know any of these details that you're now sharing with me. And I could have maybe guessed it was a Chevy Chase movie.

Oh, I see. Like more of a modern, goofy movie.

Wasn't there, was there also something called The Shaggy Detective? Did this expand into, like, where this dog starts solving crimes now?

I saw, wait, no, I did just see, I'm off the Wikipedia page now, but I'm pretty sure there was something called The Shaggy DA, I think I just saw. Oh, yeah. That it said that it was a sequel, so you might be absolutely right. Here it is, here it is, a sequel, The Shaggy DA, came out in 1976. It's a district attorney? So keep in mind, this film came out in 59. Pretty important job for a dog. Yeah, so it was like 15 years later, somebody was like, and this is before everything was like you know franchised 15 years later they're like well we should do a follow-up to the shaggy dog yes we should what do you want to do well we should make

him the district attorney probably i mean the stakes just get so much higher after being suddenly transformed into an english sheepdog successful lawyer will be daniels must fight corruption all while evading the local dog catcher i just i mean it goes from like a kind of a hey i'm a kid and I want to go to the soda fountain, but A, I look like a dog. Two, I'm trying to bring carceral reform to this county.

And also, I'm trying to think, so it doesn't have Fred McMurray. It's got a, oh, I don't think I know this guy. I think it's got Tim Conway in it, aka Dorf on Golf. Oh, it looks like Tim, oh, there it is, Tim Conway. Yeah, so he's the one who's like in the doghouse. Okay, great. I'm actually more interested in seeing this than the original, although I want to find that scene of the boy reading the book and see if I have any accurate memory of that.

How can he work for the Innocence Project while currently inhabiting a shaggy dog?

What's the name of the guy who ran the Innocence Project?

Well, there was a few. Barry Sheck was one of them.

Barry Sheck is who I'm thinking of.

He was kind of the big name. The shaggy Sheck. The shaggy dog. Sir, we're filing a rup of habeas corpus.

If I could spell rup.

That would be the show title, unfortunately. My skills aren't that deep. See, this is why you listen to these weird, loopy holiday week shows, because every once in a while, what we won't do is get to the actual plan, but what we will do is find ourselves in a place we never expected, like a shaggy dog running the Innocence Project.

um okay the plan for today actually was to maybe kind of go through and and as again as we're getting kind of close to the end of the year maybe check some boxes close the things that close andrew i.e the many many top stories that i have promoted throughout the year that we have not actually ever gotten to it's kind of a joke on the show at this point what was eye-opening to me Andrew was when you shared a Google doc that you've been keeping all year that literally has every single show sheet pasted into it in order. Oh, there was one missing week, by the way,

which I was confused by. We could talk about that later. Yeah. Potentially that would maybe have been one of the holiday breaks where I keep a separate show sheet. So I couldn't quite tell,

but anyway, it was, you sent me this because I said, you know, we were talking about doing this to, to try to get some of these stories handled finally at long last. And I was scrolling through it it was really and it was an interesting experience um to kind of see your first of all i expected the formatting to be a i i expected that you in a kind of an ocd fashion would have gone in and like really meticulously reformatted everything it's a little more it was it was a

little more haphazard than i expected you see that i do format it i have a standard formatting but sometimes i don't get to because i kind of do that mindlessly during the show you probably see me sitting over here here let's get into the boring process here every day you put together a show sheet right and it's your notes basically it's got the date the critical information for

the show it may have the show title or the show number it may have the wrong it may have the wrong

number but you know of course we don't have a show title or a description or anything at that point you send me kind of a list of what the top stories are going to be or are supposed to be that day and just your your general skeleton of the show i take that i copy and paste it into a word doc and then each day i just paste a new one on top and so at the end of the year i have starting from you know the first show in january to the last show in december a record of what we what our plan was for the show during the during the actual podcast like we're doing right now i will type notes in there like oh this is a good show title or grab that shaggy dog photo for the show pick for the website you know like i'm literally putting these notes in as we're talking today and then at the end of the show i take that and i smooth it out and it becomes literally the document i use to like post the show online it's got i'll put a show title a little description the notes about the photo etc etc i will also sometimes put other notes in there like um oops cut out the part where i stumbled on this or oh iffy joke or something now i don't do a lot of that and it's 99 of the time something about me stumbling nowadays because i record a different way i can just do something quicker and put a little put a little tick mark in the actual recording and i go back and i clean it up i don't have to take as many notes but i was wondering Like, when we had this idea, I was like, oh, you know, we missed a lot of top stories this year. You're letting me into your thoughts. Yeah, and I was like, you know, Luke, I have a whole document with all of our show sheets, so we should be able to go through there and just see, like, what are top stories that we missed, and maybe we can, like, wrap up the year by going through some of those. And then I was like, I was talking to you on this very line, and then I was like, oh, I'll just share this doc with you. And I got to be honest with you, I've never shared my show sheet notes with anybody. I'm not writing a lot of personal stuff in there. Dear diary, today on the show, Luke was a real tool. But it did occur to me, I'm like, I am not keeping these notes with the expectation of anybody else seeing that. These are not outward facing. And this is, I'm sharing this with you in December. God knows what I wrote in January. You know what I mean? Did I say?

I mean, our relationship went through it this year.

I mean, the listeners don't know this. Cut out another one of Luke's dumbass jokes, you know. So I'm assuming you did not see anything like that or anything that was embarrassing in here.

No, I didn't. And the thing I'll say is I was scanning this at the almost 30,000-foot level, which was my process was I would look at the proposed top stories, and then I would go to the next day's show and see if one or more of the proposed top stories had ended up on the – so it's a Monday show. We're going to talk about X, Y, or Z. and then I look at the Tuesday show and it says we're going to talk about X, Y, or Z and then I look at the Wednesday show and it says the same thing just keeps showing up day after day after day. Some of them went on for like, I think five to seven shows would be the like real outer edge of how many times I would put something on the show sheet that we wouldn't get to and usually eventually it would just be like, just let it go just release it back into the wild and so what I did was I tried to find some stories that fit that description um that i didn't have any memory of us talking about but i did not like go into i didn't take the time to really like but now i have the link unless you lock me out of it so maybe uh you know later i'll under candlelight i'll go back and here's here's here's i'm sorry to

interrupt you but here's a good example uh let's see episode 4155 the beautiful biz boys uh march 5th, 2024. I had

a whole list of edits to make here and they're all like kind of then crossed out you know how you can cross things out in a word doc so at at the 28 minute mark huge stop down and restart riverside uh 29 25 a huge edit point luke corrects himself need to cut exclamation point we must have been having technical issues this day because again at 37 huge stop down edit and break uh here we go uh 40 andrew stumble i'm just going to be honest here i'm going to be transparent it says Andrew stumbles on teal house we were probably thanking our donors Audrey and Ryan yeah and and I must have I must have they have the they have a Instagram house on the hill yeah dedicated to their their tiny house their teal house on the hill in Akron in the Akron area and I must have stumbled on that but didn't want to leave the stumble in while thanking donors I'm assuming that's what happened here I also have here edit out Catherine and Paul's story I probably told a personal story about my friends katherine and paul then later thought oh that's probably not for public consumption and edited it out so these are the types of things that you might be able to see when i was taking notes uh from uh from a way back earlier in this year clean up after dazzlers

i do know that feeling though of even if it's just an email that's like a long email chain like a back and forth and back and forth and then you forward it to someone and there's nothing there's probably nothing in there that was bad but you also there's just this like when you're creating something with assuming one set of eyes is going to be on it versus somebody else like letting me in you know behind the curtain on this i could see it you being like god i hope that on one day i wasn't just in a bad mood and just be like like luke racist joke what the hell right well i'm

looking at one now from march 19th episode 4165 staring into the voip the voice that's such a great name dude that's a good one that was all you that was a good name and i do see that i say huge stop down all exclamation points and caps and then it says beep edie why was i b who's edie and why was i oh it's no it's eddie pepitone i see we must have played uh but instead they go on a strange journey involving zune recorders landline telephones and comedian eddie pepitone so i must have played some eddie pepitone tape that needed some cleaning up all right i'll stop

reading this list I did not find anything offensive or objectionable in there and good but it was very helpful thank you because I again it was a it was a neat easy way for me to just like identify some top stories that that we never got to including this one which was from very recent this was something that actually didn't have to go back months and months it was a story that I promoted about brain rot being the Oxford University Press is that the same as the Oxford Dictionary they

change their name i believe there's a connection there but i i would like to propose something here which would be deeply ironic i don't know if you're thinking the same thing but maybe i feel like i literally think we should bump this to tomorrow i let's we spent today explaining what we're going to do for the next several days which is maybe going over some of these skip top stories today we are going to skip the skip top stories i love it and tomorrow the only appropriate way to start this exercise andrew we will talk tomorrow about the the word of the year and why i have issues with it love it thank you for being a town time to thank some of

the tbtl donors who are voluntarily donating their money to the program to make this uh thing i mean i must say andrew the idea that we actually did not get to the top story today is just chef's kiss honestly no notes. That's just that is the most perfect encapsulation of what is wrong with this show and what's right with this show.

I mean, if we play our cards right, we will get to the end of this project and still have not gotten to any of the

top stories. That would be absolutely incredible. And you know who would love it? Nancy Nestor. That's right. Albuquerque, New

Mexico. Albuquerque? I can't say it in the funny way you do, like Bugs Bunny.

You've got to channel your inner Bugs Bunny who's kind of got a weird, like, Bronx thing, I guess, you know? Yeah, I guess. Like, I should have taken a left in Albuquerque. I mean, that's not a good Bugs Bunny. It's better than me. The energy that he's bringing is real like, eh, what's up? I'm not going to say what's up, Doc.

You are way more of a Bugs Bunny than I am. Bugs Bunny is crafty. Bugs Bunny kind of is not afraid of getting in trouble and getting out of trouble. Is Bugs Bunny a bit of a narcissist?

He's a sociopath and a narcissist. Do you ever see Bugs Bunny do anything that helps anyone that's not Bugs Bunny?

Does Bugs Bunny return his shopping cart, or does he leave it in the parking lot?

Oh, are you kidding me? He rides it down the street like some kind of a hot rod while poor Elmer Fudd is chasing him down. So you're supposed to bring that back. When did I turn into Mel Blanc? What am I even trying to do with these impressions?

Would you say, am I the Elmer Fudd? I'm trying to think of who. I'm not the best.

No, you're the Elmer Fudd because you're kind of a rules guy. You like plaid. You're kind of a rules guy.

And I'm always coming out on top, and everybody wants to be me, like Elmer Fudd. You're always kind of reminding us to be vowy, vowy, quiet, wheel-hunting wabbits. It's true. I tell you to stand by at the beginning of every show. Yes, you do. Can I be the guy with the two guns that's on the back of the mud flaps? Yeah, Yosemite Sam. I would rather be him. Elmer Fudd is really the short straw. I'm not saying you're wrong. I am not saying you're wrong. I think you're right, but it's just causing me to do a lot of self-reflection. I didn't want to do the day after Christmas.

Well, the first step is you've got to get yourself some six shooters, and you've got to perfect the art of firing them into the ground so ferociously that it lifts you off the ground, therefore making you taller.

I'm going to give myself—does he have a—what do you call that? A bandolero? I'm thinking of a blunderbuss or something. What is the gun that flares out?

I don't think it's full blunderbuss. I think it's more like, you know, Western.

Yeah.

like it's less pilgrim it's less it's less pilgrim and more uh you know six shooter or something

yeah yeah elmer fudd is more of a blunderbuss if anybody yeah he's a hunting he's he's out there

yeah uh but he does sing a beautiful rendition of kill the rabbit yeah to the tone to the to the tune of whatever that opera is uh killed a wabbit killed a wabbit killed a wabbit killed a wabbit brad uh zwering how do we say brad's last name zwering brad zwering had one request when he donated to the show and that was more Elmer Fudd impressions from Luke and you're welcome Brad's in Springfield, Missouri do you remember when we were in Springfield, Missouri my old friend? Oh you always

ask me that, unfortunately I don't we must have just passed through right? Did we stay in Springfield? We stayed in Springfield

I believe we tried to stay at the hotel that was connected to a giant bass pro shop

Oh that was Springfield, that's where we wanted to get some food and we found ourselves in some sort of a huge

buffet and then just like try the land crab we just worked that's right they said try we just like turned around seafood buffet it really was landlocked part of the middle of america that's right um that's also where brad is thanks brad thanks to lisa curry who's in hoffman estates

illinois sounds lovely over there hoffman estates sorry i i bounced out of the conversation for a second so i want to see if i could find our old note of our old itinerary from that trip but i could not but lisa i'm sorry that i wasn't there i wasn't there emotionally at first for your i was being strong for both of us but i am thanking you now from the bottom i was being thankful for two

i appreciate um but now i need to lean on you when we're thanking brenna collerton of harbor

washington oh absolutely brenna thank you so so much and i am here for you and i'm definitely here to spend your hard-earned dollars on new equipment like i really do need when maybe in the new year I'm going to get myself a new audio board, and we'll call it the Brenna Chollerton board.

There you go. Oh, we haven't even talked about naming rights. Yes. I mean, I'm trying to think of who could get the naming rights on the Madrona Hill Studio. Oh, well, that already has a name. Wow. Well, we'll just tack it on. We'll just sell it. We'll just, you know. The LaDawn Townsend. You know on OPB.

LaDawn Townsend. Now, I forgot the name of your studio already. I can't hold two ideas.

The LaDawn Townsend, well, I'm not going to say Memorial, but I believe we still have LaDawn.

No, of course. Yes, yes. Don't say that.

We just call it the LaDawn Townsend Studio at Madrona. At Madrona. Okay, that's what I was trying to figure out.

Okay, yeah. How do you get the Madrona in there?

Yes. LaDawn is in Kingston, Washington. You know OPB, the Portland public radio station? Oh, yeah. I forgot. You are down with OPB. How can I explain it? I'll take it. The fact that I said, oh, you know me, really belies the fact that I know that song. They're always now broadcasting from the Gert Boyle studio, and I don't know if you know who Gert Boyle is, but you know, oh gosh, the listeners, including Stephanie Gundel, who's in Seattle, Washington. Thanks, Stephanie.

Hey, Stephanie. Thank you.

What's the – there's a particular kind of outdoor clothing. In other words, like, you know, really, like, heavy-duty, you know, sort of jackets for being out in the snow and stuff, and it's a Pacific Northwest brand. It's not REI. It's another one.

Oh, something about Cliff, or is their logo hanging off the cliff thing? What am I thinking? Well, the thing is – Oh, I mean, you have North End, something end.

I don't think it's – is it North Face?

North Face is what I was thinking of. Good Lord, Andrew. Jesus.

No, but listen, there's the, so the, I'm the can't believe that I can't remember which particular brand. Again, it's a Pacific Northwest, very, very hearty outdoor clothing brand started, founded by, I believe this woman, Gert Boyle and her husband maybe. And then the commercials for years when I was a kid and they were great is like basically Gert Boyle, who at this point was pretty old, you know, I'm getting up there. She would be like on the side of a mountain and she would be dragging. her son along who was in his 40s and he wanted no part. I think the joke was always that she was totally fearless and just like down for anything when it comes to outdoorsiness and he was always a little bit more tentative Columbia, by the way. Columbia Sportswear

Columbia! Columbia Sportswear I'm looking at her obit right now, yes

Portland. And they were great commercials they were so funny. I loved them as a kid and now the Columbia Sportswear has I don't know how long the naming rights last for but every time you hear them on OPB they're at the Gert Boyle studio which I think is actually kind of kind of cool that is pretty cool anyway um we'll uh you know we'll figure out what the naming rights to your basement room and what the madrona hill studio are going for and uh put those out on

the open market i mean i'll name everything i got two microphones in here i have two what do you call these things scarlet uh they're like audio digital audio interfaces i have two of those i mean i am willing to name everything in here i have two ring lights each one of those can we name

the phone line can it be the roxino party line oh my god we definitely need to name the tvtl hotline

in fact we've joked about that for so long the spiro's pizza hotline if we not that's it everything is for sale in 2025 everything is for sale and that's what we call project 2025 oh what a terrible

way to end the show okay going to do right now thank you everyone for listening uh we are going to be back here tomorrow and i am i'd say 90 sure we're going to get to this brain rot story we'll

see not if i have anything to say about it love it all right we'll see you tomorrow thanks for

listening folks in the meantime have a great thursday take care of yourselves and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all power out