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Mark auditioned for improv classes and was turned away from the theater for life just to take a class Yeah, he they said no never forget that. Yeah, we don't want your money I initially initiated a scene. They said was too violent mark for me I just need to know how you can go into an improv class just to apply for an improv class and get denied what happened Probably none checks leave those at home. I didn't know you weren't allowed to have a props or weapons The whole idea of improv is you're making it up with nothing. I have a mug watch She's incredible at prop work, all right? Okay, now show me. You're flying an airplane.

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Okay, now you're driving a car. Okay, same kind of thing. A bus?

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All right, hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Thursday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. I can't believe you're still on the air. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

Things are going to start happening to me now.

Coming to you once again from London's West End in the United Kingdom.

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where they let you attend the supreme court and they only minimally search you that's the kind of place it is here having a great week here in england and i'm happy to report that my luggage has arrived just in time for me to pack it up tomorrow morning and fly home that's that's uh that's what's going on with that uh here's what's going on with episode 4402 in a collector series let the fun begin i took a train um almost well not the entire length of the nation of england but i went all the way up to liverpool yesterday oh and the adventure begins again such a fun train ride i was loving it when i got to liverpool i went on a guided tour of important beetles locations and peace and love peace and love Did not go the way I was expecting when we boarded the bus, the Magical Mystery Tour. That is literally what they call it. It's kind of, it's right there for the taking, obviously. Also, it's a Thursday, aka Blur's Day, so we'll do the Blur's Day messages and we'll chat with this guy, longest running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's also a soulful rocker from New Hampshire. He's Andrew Walsh and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. Things are starting to come into focus on a story that you told earlier this week, little by little throughout the week. And I saw on your original show sheet, you put a mention of this, although I didn't hear you forward promote it. So I hope it's OK for me to raise it here. But I'd like to retell this story from my perspective, if you will allow it. You mentioned, I believe, on Monday's show that while you were trying to get around London, you went up to somebody who maybe worked for the, what do they call them? The Tube. The Tube. I almost said the Light Rail. The Tube is such a better name than Light Rail. Seattle needs to come up with a better name for it, right? You have the L in Chicago. You have the T in Boston. You have the Tube in London. We have the Light Rail system.

Or hire Edgar Martinez to reenact his legendary Eagle Home Improvement commercial. It's a light rail.

We have to get Eagle Home Improvement to sign off on that. Anyway, what I was going to say was you had mentioned that you had gone up to somebody there, and you were a little bit lost as a tourist. Your phone wasn't working, and you said, where is, and I'm going to quote as best I can, Tottenham Square? And her quote was very charming, and if not a bit blunt, She said, well, you've mucked some part of that up trying to figure out. And the first thing you realized, well, at the time, you thought you were saying square instead of circle. It turns out that's not quite right either. No.

No. And in fact, it led us on this entire recurring joke about Tottenham insert shape name here. And I believe you might have even named the show like Tottenham. Quadrangle. Quadrangle. and

Imagine my shock and dismay when I was walking by the station after we recorded the show and I noted that it's actually a Tottenham Court. It was not circle, it was not square, it was not trapezoid, it's court. So that whole riff must have just been brutal for not only our British listeners but just anyone who's been to London and remembers the name of that particular station.

But the thing is, it's still being brutal because I've seen listeners commenting also. And this is because it really it really stuck with me because I thought it was such a good line. You've mucked. Well, you've mucked some part of that up like she was confused.

And I did. But the accurate part was I did muck it up by calling it Tottenham Square or Circle, but but not in the way that I thought I had.

But there's more to it than that, because I was thinking, yeah, but like if you call something a circle or a square from somebody who's clearly an out of town or like that's not. you've mucked some part of it's not confusing it's like oh you just said square instead of circle i think a big part of this too is that it's tottenham it's not tottenham and apparently that is kind of tough on the ears of people who know in the same way hearing somebody call it oregon i refuse to accept that criticism have you ever heard anybody and whether it's i'm not going to put any morality on this but do you get a bad feeling when you hear somebody say oregon who's not from here

if they are from the united states of america like if they grew up here then i think you might have heard like oregon trail like yes it does it does hit my ear wrong but if somebody came over from england and they said oh we're going to oregon i would think it was charming and cute just like when i call it tottenham well calm down people i'm not in the mood for it on this

well clearly but either way it helps me like forget about how it hits people's ears it helps me understand why the reaction to this from this person was well you've mucked some part of that up like there it sounded like there were a lot of things going wrong with that and I realized it was probably both the pronunciation of Tottenham and the square instead of the court so because I both I found it charming but the more I thought about it I was like why is this why is this person being

so difficult with you and that's probably why she was being I actually I have to I have to politely disagree with the gentleman from new hampshire i she was a she she was kind of laughing as she said it and i i mean maybe she was noting i mispronounced it but i just if i'm if i'm reversing the roles and i work on the light rail and somebody comes up to me and says what what's a light rail station that someone could say like could mispronounce or say incorrectly what's a word that somebody could mispronounce well like i'm saying like i don't know the light rail station

names is there like oh specifically one here um well angle lake and angel lake i mean it's angle lake but i think some people mistake that for angel because let's face it angel lake while somewhat ghostly is still a better name than angle way better right yeah although i would not go there with a group of horny teens definitely seems like a place where there's

going to be a slashering happening virginities and lives will be lost yes i still think that is it a geico commercial i still think that geico commercial where the you know kids are you know hiding behind the chainsaws handing themselves right over to the chainsaw killer i think that's that commercial holds up yeah my money yeah that's and then i think that's kind of

become a bit of a tradition right they release that every halloween now which is kind of fun

when commercials do that and also the guy who plays the chainsaw killer i've seen him in so many other things he just never has long hair like he does in that actually does he have long hair or am i just tottenhamming myself here i picture him with long hair but i don't know but like that you know you i mean you know this very well now because you're such a commercial connoisseur although you do claim to have some amount of face blindness i bet you genevieve genevieve is probably pretty strong on this like i've i've over the years been very proud of my ability although i would say it's lessened over time because we just don't watch you know we just don't watch many commercials we used to and you don't i don't sit there with uh becca and like just watch endless commercials like i used to in other relationships years ago and constantly say annoyingly oh that's

the guy from that other thing yeah that's like a big pastime for me i really wish two things that i would change about myself i mean the list is long only two you muck you muck something You've mucked some part of that up, Luke. You've mucked some part of it up, sir. No, obviously the list is long. It's like one of those long scrolls that you unscroll it, and then it rolls down the steps. It's like a CVS receipt. Yes, exactly. But anyway, number one is I wish I could read faster. I think that if I were not such a slow reader, if I were somebody who could read more quickly and absorb the information more quickly, it would change a lot of other things about me. I feel like there'd be a lot of good like kind of downhill effects on that. The second thing. though is my face blindness that is really getting in the way of life um it's led to awkward situations when I don't recognize my neighbor after I've met her 15 times it's led to me watching Super Bowl commercials and having like on the top of the list like of things to talk about is I don't know who any of these buff white guys are anymore like the the commercials on Sunday were just a celebration of middle-aged buff white guys that I don't recognize Chris Hemsworth Chris Pratt glenn powell channing tatum on my original notes that i hand wrote i was watching myself so i didn't have genevieve there and i just wrote who is this guy and so many times she's tracking the hemsworth brothers i promise you is this a chris i kept writing under all of them is this a chris i thought they were all chrises so yeah the face blind it's not helpful if there are two

hemsworths that's adding to the confusion what was the other liam and a chris and did they make appearances too i don't know i just mean generally these buff dudes on my radar yeah i never know which i never know which hemsworth i'm you know is playing thor in a movie i'm probably not going

to and then putting glenn powell in a big blonde wig you're like blonde wig isn't that a thor thing

because he was in that like oh he's in that goldilocks yeah by the way i thought that

commercial that commercial stunk oh terrible just for a second i thought god oh i had a really bad feeling like we're gonna have to stop our partnership because i thought you were about to say you like that commercial i was like i don't know i don't have anywhere to go with that i can't

I just kept waiting for it to improve, and it kept getting worse.

Like, that is the quintessential terrible Super Bowl commercial. Huge budget, huge name, and let's just take our toys and smash them together as much as possible and, like, write a script that makes absolutely no sense but put explosions and dragons in it. So bad.

Yeah, there was one moment where he says something to the kids. Like, this is about me, which I kind of, I slightly turned the corner of my mouth up in a smile. It slightly pleased me, but other than that, yeah, that commercial was kind of lousy. So, interesting. So, have you always, since you can remember, had a difficult time recalling people's faces?

I don't think I realized this about me until I was an adult, and I don't know kind of, I mean, I don't know when I started to realize it, but at age 48, I realized it's a real problem, and that's one thing that I really do think is cool. that you watch these commercials and you're recognizing the people who are just in a lot of commercials. Like Genevieve's got a decent eye for that. There's this woman that we keep an eye out for. She's in like some sort of a tax commercial and she's also like a, she's like somebody who's like a daytime investor at dinnertime with her family. I don't know if you've seen that one. And she's like really rude to the family because she's trying to, you know, work the markets in Asia or something.

She's trying to basically like, yeah, she's trying to day trade.

Yes, exactly. Only it's nighttime and she's like, well, the park is never closed or something like that. Like, she's in a bunch of commercials that we like. That's a great commercial. Yeah, and she turns in a lot of good performances, but I would have never identified her as the same person across various commercials that, like, you and Genevieve can do.

I have a friend, I mean, I don't think, can we call him a friend? A guy who I used to know in Seattle briefly, and then he moved to L.A. His name is Gabriel Tigerman, which sounds like he should be a puppet in Mr. Rogers' Land of Make-Believe. yeah but he is in everything and i remember i mean has been for years if you google that person's name you'll see you'll be like oh that guy he and he is still working to this day he's still in so many national commercials and he does not appear to be aging but not in a weird way like he's getting work he just has a very youthful appearance and he's just omnipresent and i remember the first few commercials i saw with him i was like oh that guy i know that guy from seattle and now it's just Like, there's Gabe working again, you know, for Clorox or whomever. So that one is one I've clearly clocked. But, yeah, there's other folks who, like, there's an African-American guy who's in, like, he's the guy they call, he's probably in his 60s, and he's the guy they call, maybe not even in his 60s, but he is the guy they call when they need a dad in a prescription drug commercial, when they need a guy who's, like, standing by the barbecue by a white picket fence while the list of side effects is rolling. and he's just got that market locked he's just an extremely kind of regular looking dude and i don't know that guy's name but i always see him in commercials yeah i'm uh i'm tracking that stuff

the only person i see and get excited about is my former property manager in los angeles oh yeah who is a junk well junk yeah um and uh it's in that geico commercial right where they're with the they're throwing phones yeah and then yeah that's right they're putting phones in the jug machine and then he catches one and he gets a line at the end of one of the edits of that he's like getting really excited as he's talking into his phone or something and of course he's in that final sketch of season three's uh or i guess the final episode of season is it banana breath banana breath yeah he He's the one leading the seminar. Is he leading the meeting or something like that? Yep, exactly. So anyway, that's the only face I recognize.

I think it was yesterday's show when you just said you casually mentioned the name of the alien that's in the Totino's pizza ad.

It's Chasmo, right? Chasmo. I think. I might have that wrong.

Now, I found that commercial delightful because I'm delighted by all things that Sam Richardson and Chris Robinson? No. Tim Robinson. Sorry, Tim Robinson. The other guy's the lead singer of The Black Crows.

You said Robinson, so I was like, yeah, Robinson is right. Yes, of course. Chris Robinson is somebody who...

There would be a lot more Southern voodoo vibes on that show if it was Chris Robinson of The Black Crows. It'd be more like Scarves. This is such a weird place to take... Well, I'll lay off the fact that Chris Robinson, they had one of those benefits, that big huge benefit for the victims of the LA fires that a bunch of really famous musicians got together and played and they raised money which I think is a very good thing to do and I really hope that folks are finding some modicum of relief down there but I just saw and I by the way loved the Black Crows when that record came out but there's just something about Chris did I say this on the air to you I might have or off the air a little while ago there's something about that vibe that just does not work into your like late 50s early 60s like you're talking about um

who's the famous who's the famous Lenny Kravitz I think you were talking maybe about that is who you're talking about is that the famous well yes okay I remember this coming up with that I don't know if Chris Robinson came in but would you sort of group that in sort of a similar kind of vibe

well I I yes although I never I didn't really think of it that way I mean the thing about Lenny Kravitz is he looks amazing yes he does he is he has like a 12 pack or something you know

it's I mean it's wild so I mean well I've got a keg so that's more beer but like I had never

thought about this as it related to Chris Robinson and then I I was flipping the channels or I was on the internet and and it was like this is happening live right now they're raising money and I just like who's that ridiculous as my brother Sam once said to my brother David in the backseat of my car when i believe david had put on a promotional bumbershoot ball cap that they'd been throwing into the crowd and sam said take off that ridiculous hat to this day we will say that sometimes but i was like who is this ridiculous person and i was like oh that's the black crows guy but he's not giving up the kind of southern gothic you know hard to handle She talks to Angel's energy, and it just doesn't really travel well with you into later years, as far as I'm concerned. But all that is to say.

Which is weird, by the way. I haven't seen him, if you don't mind me saying. I don't think I've seen what that guy looked like since the 90s, honestly. But it's kind of a bummer because I feel like that style of music could age slightly more gracefully. Oh, yeah. And maybe that sounds ridiculous. The music's okay. But, like, you know, it's very blues-based. Even Southern Harmony and Musical Companion was sort of a mature record for the time. sort of like you could see him continuing to evolve and you know and like continuing to work history into music and like become a graceful kind of older musician but if you're still but you're saying that there's still a lot of like kind of peacocking in a way that doesn't fit i

think the music is probably still pretty good um like howard stern is sort of obsessed with the black crows and so i think they released a new album and he played one of the songs i didn't think it sounded bad it's it's actually the music is fine for me it's just the the i just was this momentary thing where i again i was i doubt i turned on the tv but i was like looking at my computer and i was seeing this guy and like i feel like he had very flamboyant like facial hair going and some kind of crushed velvet you know blousey shirt on something where i was like i don't i don't get this look and then my mind realized oh that's the guy from the black crows anyway all that is to say tim robinson from i think you should leave and sam richardson from uh i think you should leave in detroiters and split net uh they did that totino's commercial i actually believe it or not did not see it when the sort of when i was trying to do a little cursory you know refresher on the commercials because of course i was on an airplane when the super bowl was happening and then i finally saw that one and i thought it was i loved it of course but i'm i'm in the bag for them do you feel like that was a good commercial were they creatively really

pushing themselves my question i thought it was a good commercial but in the same way that you have trouble sort of separating yourself from it so do i because also they released i don't know if these were teasers or just like kind of previous commercials in the storyline but before the super bowl genevieve played for me like three other 15 second commercials where these two guys are just standing outside the spaceship talking to chasmo and so we knew there was going to be some chat here. Let me see if this one will work here. On February 9th, if you only watch one commercial during the big game...

Make it the one for Totino's Pizza Rolls. And close your eyes for all the other ones. Totino's Pizza Rolls. You better not look at the other ones.

You better not look at the other ones. That's a great line. I didn't even realize that we have that one which sets it up. And then here's one where they're talking.

You ate all my pizza rolls. These are like $100.

No, Totino's Pizza Rolls are $10 for about a dollar. Well, then give us about a dollar. Why do you even care? I want something from an alien. So I just, if you're down for this kind of humor, just one more here. You ate probably 70 pizza rolls. It's kind of a lot of money, Chasmo. Totino's pizza rolls are 10 for about a dollar. Do you have any plans to pay us back about a dollar for every 10 you ate?

No. But I'm messing up your spaceship.

And that's it. We never see him mess up the spaceship. So I was sort of.

And then so the one that actually aired on the Super Bowl is when Chasmo is leaving. Chasmo's leaving. And the door of his spaceship closes on him.

And we see that there are kids there. there are no kids in these and the kids just this whole time i was like why did they make chasmo so goofy looking like such a like a rubber muppet of a cartoon of an alien and i guess maybe part of that is so that when they brutally kill it and it sits there dead with its eyes open how is this the first commercial in commercial history where they show somebody dead with their eyes open because it is creepy so yeah wasn't one of the eyes like roll over to sam richardson or something maybe maybe one of them still has motion i don't recall it was buried very near the end of the super bowl by the way it was like maybe in the last break or something like that you know what

chasmo had was really strong spewy energy do you remember spewy from get a life oh i vaguely and

i'm wondering if i know it more from you reminding me of it if that makes sense it was an episode

where this alien comes down and his name is i think chris elliott's character nicknames him spewy because his like his thing is he just his head rotates around and he just projectile vomits a terrible green fluid and i think i feel like there's a line where chris elliott's character says like he came to teach us about love but then of course at the end of the show they just eat stewy and he's just like stewy's delicious he's just eating a large roasted section of the alien

you are absolutely right this is definitely this is definitely a um i don't know an homage or or spewy spewed so that chasmo could die i don't know that's can that fit into a show title

hey i have a couple of uh little updates here the my luggage did arrive as i mentioned at the top of the show and i'm honestly five percent annoyed because it's basically i was i'd learned to live with the things that i had purchased at unique glow i had enough to get home and now i just have basically a gigantic suitcase i have to babysit all the way back across the pond yeah

that's what i was gonna say it's kind of coming in late i mean there must be yes i mean you must be somewhat glad to have some of your stuff or were you like basically across the finish line

of travel now you're going to drag this thing all the way back yes i mean it's when i uh when i get up tomorrow i guess i can wear well you know what here's one nice thing the thing i had not fully understood is new clothing when it hasn't been washed yet is a little uncomfortable to wear like it's a little it's a little stiff it kind of has a funky smell you know and so uh and practically everything i was wearing brand new underwear that had never been washed and a brand new t-shirt that had never been washed and like i was on the treadmill and it was like i felt like i smelled really weird to the other people in the gym here at the hotel that had almost that plasticky yes precisely and it was just like that but then with a massive amount of sweat working its way and like i thought these people think probably think i have some sort of medical condition where i i put out a very unpleasant like an unusual and unpleasant odor so i'm glad to be able to just wear like one of my own t-shirts that's been washed that is kind of nice But again, it would have been nice to have this all on Sunday with me. And it just is one part of what has been a very, very frustrating experience of trying to check in for my flight home because the ticket was bought on American Airlines, but it's a British Airways flight. and today i came as close as i've come in a long time to really kind of going off on a customer service person on the phone um because i just cannot like basically the american airlines app tells me that i need to check in on the british airways app and the british airways app tells me i need to check the american airlines app and i kept calling first of all the british airways elite level of phone call avoidance elite like you almost have to respect their game it is so hard to get a human being there and when you get that human being in my

experience now over the last couple of days they are not in the United States of America which is fine generally but I was dealing with someone today where I really could not understand the things they were saying it was it was sort of a bad hire in that the person you know they're not under any obligation to speak my language outside of the fact that they've been hired to kind of handle an English language you know helpline and it was the case that I actually could not figure out what they were saying and what I eventually put together was what they were saying was just the same like two lines of nonsense when I was asking for a supervisor or someone else so I call up and they said they were saying basically all of the information you need is at the British Airways website or on the app and I was saying I know that but I've been to the website and it keeps telling me I got to go to American Airlines and then I go to American Airlines and they're telling me I got to go to British Airlines and then she just said the same thing again and then i was like i'm having a difficult time understanding you i'm wondering if you might be able to transfer me to a supervisor and then she just said the same thing again and after like the fourth or fifth time i realized oh she's not even responding i mean this was a human too this wasn't a bot she's not even responding to my request she's not even saying i can't transfer you to someone else or i won't transfer you to someone else i was like dude is this the new training is this how the folks are being trained which is if it's almost like a politic It's like a Trump-level politician, well, not really Trump, but anybody else in his era who's getting confirmed, and the Senate is asking reasonable questions about your qualifications, and you are trained to just not even dignify the question with a response. You just say what you were planning on saying. That was the treatment I was getting from this person in British Airways, and it was really, really frustrating.

That is really rough. I mean, usually we are used to the first line of defense on these—I mean, first of all, the first line of defense is they hide phone numbers now. it's impossible to find and i'm not talking about british airways in particular i'm just talking about generally speaking when it comes to customer service in this day and age they're like they'll hide the phone number make it impossible please you know just all the answers you need all the answers you need are if you type in what is your phone number it'll be like are you trying to figure out have you tried plugging it in and unplugging it or vice versa you know what i mean like whatever the program is that you're looking for help with or whatever they're just like i promise you it's online you're like okay well can i get to the phone and then it's like well what about our chat service and then like i'm pretty sure like we're real people you know monitoring the chat what about chasmo what about chasmo and i know that the chat is not a real person at least or or they've lost all humanity or basically an ai type of situation where they're pushing auto responses and then you finally get on the phone and then you have a like 17 hours of pre-recorded messages saying whatever the hell you need it's all online can i give you your balance and you're just like god no just a human until like we the humans are just like screaming alone into a void human operator operator human or swearing right which i feel bad about but i deployed that not this time

around but in the last couple of weeks i did the move where i said i i intentionally inserted the f-word into the thing i was saying not even i mean i was mad obviously but not out of like rage but out of i know that this is trained if they hear a swear word they're going to get me to a human and guess what it worked i got to a human finally which it's really messed up that that's what you

have to do yes absolutely i heard somebody was telling me the same thing about um google search

yeah somebody emailed us and said if you put swears in it won't go to the ai version yeah

So if you type in where is Liverpool playing tonight or something like that, then it'll just like give you like some sort of AI answer of the history of the Liverpool soccer club or whatever. But if you if you say where the F are they playing tonight, then you'll just like skip all of that and just get a list of links the way we used to back in back in the glory days of 2017.

But at what cost to our soul? True. Now that we're just, you know, where the F word is, is Liverpool playing tonight? By the way, Liverpool was really a cool town, actually, and I loved, loved taking the train up there. I was listening to Morrissey while I was looking out at, you know, the Midlands, and basically, like, it felt like I was living inside of a Morrissey song. It felt like every day is like Sunday. In an eastern town, they forgot to close down. like it was just it was everything i expected from all of the smith's music that i've listened to as far as the trip up there it was really really great what is the weather like um balmy it was about 85 really no no no no no just gray like damp gray which is again in completely in keeping with

the expectation of of england this time of year for for me you know which like that added to it yeah like it was very it was kind of chilly in liverpool we're waiting outside of the magical mystery tour bus me and a variety of people well north of 70 i was not only the only person by themselves but the only person under the age of 50 who had opted for the 11 a.m magical mystery tour

and so this before this is you went out to liverpool because that's you're staying in london because you wanted to have the kind of the london experience but you took a train out to liverpool for a work purpose for an interview yes are you done with the interview now and you're like well i got some extra time or you're just kind of like i got some time before this interview let's learn everything about the magical mystery tour yes i went up early i took one of the first

trains that i could take because i wanted to leave some time before i had to go out to where we were filming so I was just kind of wandering around Liverpool in the morning and I just figured you know it's it's kind of well first of all it's like the main thing a main thing Liverpool is known for and also it's kind of corny but it would be the best way I don't have a car here it would probably be the best way for me to get you know in a two-hour period all of the information and see all of the kind of important places um you know even though sometimes I've been on a cold streak with tours lately i'm talking about how like our whale watching guy was kind of a lousy mc and uh when beck and i went on the san antonio river walk tour once we had a very very bad tour guide and we're all standing around outside the bus kind of freezing and these two guys walk up to the bus finally and the one guy is a little bit older gray-haired and then the other guy's kind of younger he's wearing a magical mystery tour like sweatshirt and the older guy says sorry we're late it's this guy's fault and then we all kind of like chuckle and i was like oof let's see how this goes and we get onto the bus and the the you know the guy kind of gives us the tour guide so the older guy was the driver dave and the um the the host chaz uh gets on the mic and he's he's uh kind of giving us the the rundown of what we're going to do and he says something andrew that chills me to my core he says you know we are going to be playing some music on this tour as well and i would love it if you would all sing along oh geez i was like and get me cut to outside the bus looking through the window luke trying to pry open the window of the bus right like it's like a school bus he's trying to get out that half that half window that they have

so that the kids won't climb out the window why is he screaming human operator human and the f word and the f-word yes but here's the thing i didn't expect andrew the tour was awesome

the guy chaz was great he was so knowledgeable and he was i mean he'd done this a million times but he was so good at like it's the thing i said about the whale watching tour which was just tell us everything we could ever need to know about whales i'm interested don't say that there's a contest for best question and then not give it to my girlfriend uh don't uh randomly say you probably think i'm making this up maybe i am they're probably like he's making this up like don't do any of that stuff and this this i would say kid because he was younger than me but this guy was phenomenal he he just had so much relevant information and he was really good at timing the way that he was presenting the information so he'd be telling some really fascinating story about you know the Beatles and coming up in Liverpool and whatever and then he would sort of crescendo right as we were arriving at the thing that was relevant to the story like he's talking about I think it was a young John Lennon who used to go and he would sneak out of his house and he would climb up this tree and he would watch this brass band that was rehearsing at the Salvation Army camp and the instructors for the Salvation Army would come and yell at him to get out of the tree because uh it was an all-girls school and they thought he was just like peeping on the girls but he was just really into the music he said and he thought that they were kind of overreacting and he said you know it's nothing to get hung about and it's because where he was watching them practice was strawberry fields that's why the line nothing to get hung about is this is as we're rolling up to the gates of strawberry fields like it was just he was so it was just like an incredibly entertaining and informative tour and the music was rad now thankfully no one really took the bait on singing along people were kind of quietly singing along including me very quietly but like there was he never said anything again about like you have to sing with the music he just played it and it was actually kind of like a vibe like he would talk about a bunch of stuff give us all his information we would get out of the bus and we'd go like take a picture of the house that uh george harrison grew up in and then we'd get back on and then he'd like play a george harrison song or whatever like it was like the music was actually very well suited to the moment and would also illustrate a point he had just made or it would be a song featuring the Beatle that we were currently deep diving on

It was phenomenal. I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you're going to Liverpool, try to get Chaz and Dave and do the Magical Mystery Tour. It was really great. The other thing was at the end I realized I had no British money. I still have not gotten my hands on it. I haven't needed it because I just use my card everywhere. And so I wanted to tip him, but I literally had no money of any kind. I didn't have U.S. money or British money. and he said basically like look you know if you want to tip us that's great he goes but the really the great thing you can do is just tell your friends about the tour tell people that you had a good time and i really wanted to say to him as i was getting off the bus i know i don't have money but i promise you i am able to promote this more widely than anyone else on this bus

but i don't have any money i don't have any money but sir i have something even better it's called a podcast i understand how insufferable that sounds why i didn't say it to him

But I really wanted to say, dude, I'm so sorry I'm not giving you five quid.

I still don't know what the money is here, what the amounts are. A quid is $1,000. I'm just saying that to make our listeners mad.

It's Tottenham.

And that's because that's where ham was invented. I'm pretty sure. I read it. That's what I heard. That's what they said on Ask Chiefs. I, uh, do they have, they didn't have any kind of, um, digital tipping thing. I'm, I'm, this isn't even an English American thing. It's just generally speaking, like kind of a tour thing. You would think more and more places would be adapting those or adopting those. I should say.

Yeah. I was, I was going to, that was another thing I was going to ask him like, Hey, do you have cash app or something like that? But I just got off the bus. I shook his hand heartily and said, that was really, really good. Cause it was. Yeah. And then I just made a note that I wanted to mention it on the show and give them some promo. If you're going to Liverpool, do that tour. It does not disappoint. And also it kind of rehabilitated to some degree Ringo Starr in my mind because, you know, peace and love, peace and love. He's really come in for some criticism on this show. And seeing like the little tiny street he grew up on and and hearing about how he was actually a very sickly child. He was actually in the hospital a lot. He had a lot of health problems and stuff. There was something about seeing the places where these folks came from and just imagining like Ringo Starr just as this like 15-year-old sickly kid who's in the hospital just kind of drumming away on his, you know, whatever, the table there or something. And that from these very humble origins, they made this band that, you know, really, I don't know, maybe changed the world as overstating it, but did something pretty phenomenal. like we went over to where Paul McCartney also Paul McCartney lost his mother when he was 14 which is a really sad thing and we were at Paul McCartney's house where he grew up as a kid and I was just walking around I mean it's a very very unremarkable street in Liverpool and I was just thinking what was it like for Paul McCartney to come out of this house like literally to walk out the doors of this house let's say he's 15 and he's going to go play a gig and he's got his guitar maybe in a case or whatever and he's you know he's on his way somewhere what do you think he thought this was going to be like how did he see this story ending could he have ever pictured how this would go for him and there was something about walking down the sidewalk that he had walked down and thinking those thoughts it was very I don't want to say profound but it was a really really fun fun thing to do

did they get into Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe and

the other guys too? Pete Best definitely was brought up I don't think Stuart who's Stuart Sutcliffe

he was like one of the original band members Was he a quarryman? I think he was in the quarryman And I think I could be wrong about this He might have been the one who came up with the idea of Calling them the Beatles with the word beat in there He was like an art I just remember him from Beatles documentaries I watched growing up And he was kind of a cool guy He was a painter I think Or some sort of a visual artist And he also did this He seemed more like the kind of guy Who was in the band in 90210 Because he was just like cool

like he of course he has to be in a band right um something i did not realize or know was that well you know famously their manager was brian epstein and brian epstein had a record shop in liverpool and he had like more records his inventory was bigger than anybody else in liverpool and um he had this this album i think it was from like germany or something that was selling like crazy and the reason it was selling like crazy is because the beatles were the backing band like so it wasn't a Beatles record it was somebody else's song I know who this is I have

this on tape so you know this story yes it's um it's the singer I'll look it up and so he's like

well who's this backing band that's you know people are going crazy for so he goes and he sees the Beatles and he says oh they're they're phenomenal or at least they have a lot of potential I should have managed them and he calls up their current manager Thank you. And basically is going to be like What can I pay you To take over this contract And the guy's like oh these guys are going nowhere They are a giant pain in my ass They won't do anything that I say Have them So their original manager wanted nothing to do with them And basically gave the account To Brian Epstein And this was also something that I thought was charming That our tour guide said He was like and that guy Has written three best selling books About being the guy who gave the Beatles up for free. And he goes, and one of his books is titled The Fool on the Hill.

Tony Sheridan, by the way, is the name we were looking for before. Tony Sheridan is who they're the backup.

I'm just like, these are dazzling deets. I'm loving it.

Did you, and there's no way I'm going to be able to find this on the fly, but do you remember, and again, I was just so obsessed with the Beatles that anything that was even tangentially related to the Beatles, I probably had a... I'm sure you knew everything this guy was talking about on the tour. Maybe not, actually. But I, also, it's been a really, really long time. since I was like really just obsessed with them. I was just like a kid and all I had was like my stuffed animals and the Beatles. And I never confused the two. People will say I confused the two. I never confused the two.

Well, you were allowed to kiss both of them.

So that kept it from getting overly complicated. That is true. What was I going to say? Oh, there was an old SNL bit where John Belushi, i think plays the guy who turned down the beatles and he's just like smoking cigarettes the whole time and he's just like it might maybe it's in the ruttles maybe it's in the ruttles which is another lorne michaels production or the beatles but there's some bit and i'm pretty sure it's i'm pretty sure it's belushi might be somebody else but he's just broken he's just chain smoking cigarettes and just answering the same question tetchily over and over and over about being the

guy who let the beatles go um yeah it was really uh it was really fun and uh and then i went out to a town called chester and we we filmed out there and then uh i got back and did not go to the to the the match decided against that uh the liverpool everton match although it was pretty crazy there like just the amount of like stuff for sale with either liverpool or everton on it and um it was kind of raining it was kind of cold and it was kind of 300 euros for a ticket so I decided to just take the train on back which I did it was a lovely ride home I was I told you I was in like first class of the train and I was the only person literally the only person in the entire car and I started to become kind of a not annoyed but I started to become kind of I don't know what the word is for it but nobody came to check my ticket for 90% of the train ride and I was like I could have just I could have just walked here and sat in this car and then finally a guy came through and checked my ticket and I was so happy he did I would not have been able to process the information if they would have never come and asked for my ticket were you like that's in that scene in a

real pain where they're just trying to like be cool but like walk up and down the train and kind of avoid the ticket takers do you recall that part I do remember that scene um I was I've been

thinking about that movie a lot actually over here because I'm in transit in Europe and that you know that's so a part of that movie and i was thinking about an interview that i heard uh with kieran culkin who said he was talking to his agent uh who said look this one's for you like doing the he said his agent said this is a movie that 30 people will see at sundance so if you want to do that fine but just know what this is and i feel like maybe that agent should be fired he's nominated for an oscar for this movie like that's pretty that's a that agent was kind of loud wrong on this at least as far as the professional you know burnishment of kieran colkin's career he almost got to do an interview with me i mean that's the hype by the way he still

regrets it he's not saying no to anything anymore um i i'm glad it's thursday and now i'm suddenly i can't stop talking about the super bowl commercials my apologies i'm all over the place today but um i did not recognize this do you remember the beluga whale commercial it was for nerd wallet i just happened to have it here in front of me i would have never remembered that but essentially a guy's in a whale watching boat and then he drops his phone into the water but then a whale catches it and like uh brings it back up to service and then the guy starts then

the whale is a talking whale kieran culkin is the voice yes i didn't recognize it i'm gonna play it

so we can hear it again um i didn't recognize it genevieve's like do you recognize that voice and I did not on the first time I saw it, but then when I kind of closed my eyes and listened, it was very, very clear.

The beluga whale has the IQ of a human genius.

Hey, Richard.

Got your phone. Did you say my name? Yes, I said your name because I'm a genius. Are you not paying attention now? Can I get my phone back? Want to know what else is genius? Finding the right credit card with NerdWallet. They do the research so you don't have it. to pretty cool huh wait you use credit cards we don't Richard but I don't know why he sings you

do like that but uh once you once you separate the visuals from that it's obviously Kieran

Culkin it's such a specific way of talking that reminds me Andrew of a blurb that I saw somewhere that I then I thought I texted it to myself to tell you how much it outraged me and now I can't find it but it involved the kieran culkin nerd wallet whale and it was like like people magazine or something and they're like kieran culkin talks about uh kieran culkin talks about his oscar nomination and also being the voice of a whale in nerd wallet and i was like i can promise you who availed him to people magazine and it was yes nerd wallets pr people like and the fact that they had to put this wasn't the full article this was the like you know the the blurb that was supposed to get you to click on the article and it's like i'm sure there's nothing kieran colkin wanted to talk about less than being the voice of a whale on nerd wallet but that was who that part of his contract part of the big money they paid him to do that scene was him also doing the rounds and really what you want to talk to him about is a real pain which is a brilliant piece of filmmaking and his oscar nomination but we've also got to make sure to ask him and what was it like when you were the voice of a whale on NerdWallet.

Oh, it's just such an honor to actually be part of the big game. So the one thing I've noticed in sports interviews, maybe it's just because I was late to sports radio, but I feel like it's definitely part of the modern sports radio experiences. Not even during the Super Bowl. I mean, during just whatever part of the year or whatever part of any sports season, they will local stations as well as like, you know, the levitard and the major like kind of outlets will have some athlete or former athlete on, but the first and last question have to be, well first tell us about this program that you're working with or tell us about old spice or just like, and it's like they have to, and it's like, it's very, in a certain way, you got to give them credit for being transparent. It's just kind of like, yeah, well I'm working with old spice because we're really trying to make youth smell better or like whatever the hell it is. And it's like, and that's all the time. I had a very interesting experience listening to Levitard's Super Bowl week content this week because I was they on Radio Row. Yes. And so Radio Row is like, I don't know, it's like a uber convention. Right. Only the the the convention, the profession that the convention surrounds is sports media, essentially. And so The Levitard Show goes hard on Radio Rose, specifically like kind of Stu Gatz's like role as like longtime buffoon who like everybody knows him because he's such a big name there and he loves the free chicken wings and just like whatever the gaudy experience is.

And let me guess, does Dan think that Radio Rose basically soul crushing?

Dan, literally soul crushing would be the word he would use. Exactly.

Yes, I've been on Radio Rose at various things, and it is absolutely – I've been a producer on Radio Row. And it's just – not for the – I don't think for the Super Bowl. I covered the Super Bowl, but I didn't have a spot. But it's – because really what you are is it is the clearest indication of where you rank in the minds of people and of PR companies and products. Because you are sitting there, you are cheek to jowl with 85 other radio shows and TV shows. And the people that are brought around to you, I just remember being at one of these things and us just getting the absolute dregs. It was like, you know, Kieran Culkin's driver talks about what it was like for Kieran Culkin to be the voice of the whale in NerdWallet. That's like who we were getting. I remember the host just being so annoyed at me that he'd see like some really famous person somewhere. I can't, I got to remember where this radio row was. I don't think it was the Super Bowl. But it was just like, I was just, I couldn't get anyone who was notable to come over and sit at our little dumb thing. So I just kept getting offered the worst people, but I kept having to say yes because we didn't have anyone else. It was brutal.

You know, the closest thing I have to this, and I'm sure the vibe is significantly different, although I think you'll go with me about the sort of seed of an idea here, was the New Hampshire primary. At least what it was like when you and I went there, and I had covered it, obviously, living in New Hampshire before that. But, you know, when you, me and Dave Ross went, we actually had our own little table there, which was like our little broadcast table. We were right next to W.M.U.R. or whatever. And we were trying to get like, can we get this politician or that politician or maybe somebody's aide or something like that? And so just John Huntsman, John Huntsman in a small gathering at someone's house. So anyway, I sort of feel like, do you remember that part that was in the convention center of covering the primary? I sort of feel like that would maybe be like a tiny radio row.

Yes, very much like that.

um but again i feel like there was an athletic component to it as well you know it might have been there might have been a radio row at morning show boot camp which would be i guess it would kind of make sense because you have a bunch of morning shows and so maybe because what i what i remember about this was it wasn't just politicians the thing that i'm thinking of but again it couldn't have been the super bowl because i don't think i was ever assigned to the super bowl as a producer but i remember there being these sort of pop culture there was a more pop culture dimension to it uh than just something strictly political and i just remember just failing well so hard at getting anyone good to come over before we slip too far

away let me let me finish my the reason i'm bringing this up here and then maybe they'll give you a time to think about it more if you want but um the reason it was such a weird experience listening to these Radio Row interviews on Levitard, I was behind because they release so much content, especially Super Bowl week. I had just gotten done recording literally a four-and-a-half-hour podcast with Genevieve. If you've ever wondered, can you upload a four-and-a-half-hour MP3 file as a podcast on SoundCloud, they do allow that, apparently. And so I got done on Monday recording this super long podcast all about the commercials with Vives. I was really in that headspace, and then I was like, we're done about 1030 at night, and I'm going to relax and play some darts, and I put on some of these Radio Row podcasts from the Levitard show, and what do I hear but pre-Super Bowl conversations with all these celebrities, mostly sports people, but also just celebrities like Adam Devine, who were just like, oh yeah, I'm a fit fluencer here, I'm here with Circle Water, I'm giving away these many water bottles, and they're trying to just get to the jokes in the middle part, But also, nobody's really trying that hard. It's just really kind of sad. It's kind of like the Stu Gatz just kind of wallowing in the radio row of it all. The celebrity is just on their, like, 1,000th interview about circle water bottles of the day, and they have to pretend to care about it. And also, I can't remember who the sports figure was, but somebody visited their booth and tossed around a bunch of those Walton Goggins goggles that you saw in the GoDaddy commercial. And so it was sort of weird to hear, like, to go back in time and hear how these folks and these brands were sort of, like, already putting the word out or somehow engaging with the product pre-Super Bowl. It was a weird, it's a weird world we live in. What a world, Luke. Andrew, as I've always said, what a world. Thank you for being a 10.

All right, let's thank some donors. These are the amazingly awesome folks who are supporting TBTL with some money, and we're appreciative for that. We don't have to do weird circle water bottles. I've never even heard of that before. Oh, by the way, it's also, I guess they get the W on that, and they're also getting a free mention on our show.

That's true, although I'm encouraging people not to engage. Never even heard of that product. It was like some sort of water. It's like C-I-R-K-U-L. It's like, did you see the commercial? It was early in the Super Bowl with Adam Devine, and he's like, I accidentally ordered 10,000 of these water bottles. I'm sending them to houses around America. It was pretty rough. He's apparently married to somebody who's very famous named Chloe, somebody who's famous in, I think, younger circles. I think she's a voice of some beloved character or something in some sort of animated film. But that's the other thing about these commercials is I don't know who half these people are anymore. I'm too old, and I've always been too ignorant on pop culture stuff. So I have the perfect job, I guess.

A job that is supported by Mia Carr of Painesville, Ohio.

Now, I am very appreciative of Mia, and I am not into spoilers. However, I would direct your attention, Luke, to a donor, maybe one or two down the list here. And I would ask you, do you think there's any relations going on between these supporters?

I mean, it's a heck of a coincidence if these people are not related. I'm, of course, talking about Sharon Sprout in Chilliwack, B.C.

That's exactly right, because if you look at it, there's an A in Mia and an A in Sharon.

And Painesville has nine letters, and Chilliwack has eight letters, so that's also a similarity. So you're telling me nothing, Andrew. Hey, we didn't credit that guy yesterday. Do you remember his name? oh the person yeah it's um we've started the show with some stand-up i think that was yesterday's episode where he's talking about being in a mini mart and uh and buying some beer and this like the fact that the cashier was commenting on his birthday month being the same as her daughter's maybe or something that's extremely likely to have happened but we did not credit that person i thought we should we should give him a shout out we should give him a shout out

His name is Aaron Weber. I think it was a couple of days ago. But yeah, Aaron Weber doing the birthday month thing. I just, oh, you know what? A listener sent that in because I think there was a bit preceding that about Seattle hot dogs or something, which was also entertaining. But I kind of like that part because I have that instinct, too, when somebody's like, oh, my birthday is November 13th. I'm like, no, shit. Mine is November 27th in a completely different year. Like, why would I ever think that's interesting to another person, yet I'm inclined to do it?

Well, thank you, Sharon Sprout and Chilliwack. And then, of course, thank you to Kirsten Carr in Saugatuck, Michigan. We've got a Mia Carr in Painesville, a Kirsten Carr in Saugatuck.

Ohio, Michigan, you know, geographically similar. Close together, pretty close.

These folks got to know each other. Do we have a David Carr in the mix? No, unfortunately, we no longer have a David Carr. We do have a Sarah Shipley, though, who's in Seattle, Washington. Ah, that's another city I've been to Thanks also to Katie Anderson Of Olympia, Washington Look at this, we have all It would appear anyway, Andrew, I don't want to make too many Judgments, but it would appear that all of the Donors today are women That's interesting I don't think, you know I'm trying to think of a podcast That we're competing with I think it's a credit To our show and to how in touch we are with Ourselves, Andrew, that we have Listeners of all genders

are we not doing the trend are we not doing one and a half men anymore

no we've stopped that and i think that's why the female listeners have flocked back to the program folks like lisa pedic of rent in washington and katie anderson of olympia washington thank you thank you so much to all of our donors today uh for making tb till happen should we also i don't want to create a hassle for john sklaroff but as we are getting towards the end of these daily donors if you are a daily donor and you have not heard your name can folks reach out andrew or is

that creating a logistic uh nightmare yeah i think that's good you can reach out to me and or john john at tbtl.net john does not have an h in his name and if you're curious how this works not to

get too much into people's and we say h over here oh sorry not to get too much into people's finances

but specifically the the folks that we um thank on the air this is something that we do for folks who give it the $15 a month level. So if you're somebody who gives it that level or whatever that adds up to after 12 months and you feel like you have been passed over, yeah, you can email john at tbtl.net or me, Andrew, at tbtl.net or write to me and copy John or you could write to John and copy Luke and then BCC me. There's a lot of fun you could have with this.

The thing is, Andrew, because of these donors and the many other folks who support the show, we can do this for our job And we don't have to appear in articles in Us Magazine. Adam Devine gets real about losing dad weight after wife, Chloe Bridges, gives birth the first baby. This is exclusive. Adam Devine learned firsthand that dad weight is real. During his wife, Chloe Bridges' pregnancy with their son, and he's finally shedding the excess pounds. My gosh, what an uphill battle that was. I didn't even realize how plump I had gotten. Devine, 40, exclusively joked to Us Weekly on October 2nd while discussing his partnership with TurboTax.

Turbo Tax, not Circle Water.

I look like I was a blueberry about to pop. I'm guessing both, right? Because he's in some kind of a water bottle commercial in the Super Bowl, you said?

Yeah, but I don't remember him being in a Turbo Tax commercial. Was this a new...

This is in October, so this is a while ago. But what I'm saying is Turbo Tax, Adam Devine does some partnership with them, and then they offer him up to Us Weekly. but then Us Weekly has to run this sham of an interview about him losing his dad bod brought to you by TurboTax. I'm just so grateful for our donors that we don't have to do that. Also slash nobody wants us to do that, but I'm just glad we don't have to.

Also, it would be sort of fun, though, to name for real to get a sponsor for our listener line. I just love the idea of having a sponsor for a phone line specifically because we joke about that so much. I feel like we should not run ads, But just any time we use a phone line and then maybe start using the phone line a little bit more, just like before we get a guest, before we get Chris Hayes on the line or before we open up the phone lines or whatever it is, we have to remind listeners that, you know, the listener line is supported by TurboTax or Circle Water or what. I don't think it's got to be. They're not going to call me a fit fluencer. I'll tell you that much.

It's got to be, though, like some kind of a very unnatural thing to be sponsoring the phone line. like the more the more random it is the more funny it is to me because that's what you get on sports radios they're trying to work in like it'd be one thing if it's like the verizon phone line or something oh by the way on that i am seriously considering when i get home switching

my cell phone coverage again because this whole xfinity thing over here has been a living nightmare like my phone just gets throttled so quickly each day and like yesterday i was trying to get an uber of from our shoot back to the the um the train station and like my i have no coverage out here i had to like borrow the phone of the person who we were interviewing to call a cab service because and it's i'm just i'm just not used to living and then when i get to the train station i walk out and i leave the bounds of the wi-fi of the train station once again this is in london now cannot call an uber because my phone does not work it's allegedly 2g but 2g is not even enough to operate the like uber website and the reason i'm using that over here is because i don't really have lyft but like so i hailed a cab again it worked out but this is really really annoying to me to basically not have a working cell phone when i'm out in you know a country that i'm

unfamiliar with yeah that's rough and you said it's also probably looking constantly for a signal and it's draining the battery quickly once again my phone was dead when i got back to the hotel

that's happened two times in the last 10 years and it's been on this trip well i'm not saying

that t-mobile should sponsor our call in line in fact that would be too unfunny a cell carrier sponsoring a yeah no phone line having said that i've been using t-mobile since i think i signed up for my first cell phone, you know, 20 years ago. And I'm pretty, on the rare occasions that I fly outside the country, I'm always like, I don't know what's going to happen once it realizes I'm in a different country. I'll look into that later. Like I never have the, I don't know, it's just so exhausting to try to figure out how phones work. So I'm like, well, when I land in Croatia, we'll see what it says. But my phone is always kind of like in the sky. It'll be like, oh, we realized that you just crossed over some boundary. Just so you know, this functionality is turned on on your phone and like you're good like I basically just keep on getting messages from T-Mobile being like oh it looks like you're in a different country you're good and so far

it's worked out pretty well dude I might have to switch honestly because this is not that I travel internationally that much but this is really annoying and like it's I guess it's this is why my cell service is like 50 bucks a month or something because it's fine in the U.S. and maybe that's what I should just focus on but like if I were in a place where it was English wasn't the default language i would be sort of in a tough spot like i can get around here because it's my native language but if i were somewhere else i would be really really kind of in trouble so uh just duly noted if you have like a xfinity cell service and you're traveling internationally just know that it at least for me is not working very well

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Today's Blur's Days are brought to you by chorizo-flavored Fritos, which I tried last night and didn't like all that much Stinky! Noah says, this is a Blur's Day message for my sister Laura Grace. It feels like just yesterday we were listening to TBTL in the car on the way to school and now you're all grown up. You know, I'm going to re-read that and put my own little spin on it Now you're all growed up and just bought a house. I couldn't be more proud of you. Love, your brother Noah. Hey, happy Blur's Day Laura Grace. You are handsome Don't worry. Congratulations on the new house, too. That's exciting times. No small feet. But if you have small feet, that's okay, too. Let's see here. We got a happy 50th Blursday to Jake from Natalie. These are buddies of yours, right?

Of course. This is my good friend.

His name's Mr. Mr. Mr. Unlimited.

Jake is a fellow longtime Northwest sports appreciator. He's known in some quarters as stay-at-home pops. That's like his social media handle. But also he's like deeply, deeply involved in the world of like Husky sports and Seattle sports. And whenever like he emails me, whenever I'm talking about like some kind of 90s sports memory, he's always chiming in. And we always have a good time. And Natalie is a longtime friend. You know, Natalie was responsible for the first ever ads that TBTL had. I believe Natalie worked at T-Mobile at the time.

Oh, I was just shouting out T-Mobile. Natalie, did you hear that?

We were. She's not there anymore. Left under very questionable circumstances.

Oh, she's not. I thought you meant she's not listening anymore. She's not there. She's not on the line anymore, Andrew. You can be quiet.

No, if I remember right, I think Natalie, when TBTL was still a radio show, but we were starting to hear.

starting to get some podcast heat, we had ads, like, baked-in ads for T-Mobile, I think, only on the podcast. And this was a revelation. This was way ahead of its time, and I think probably bought us an extra five months at Cairo. Like, because they were like, well, something's working. You're being sponsored by T-Mobile, like, just the podcast. So Natalie was forward-thinking, even back then, and forward-thinking when she and Jake got married and had a beautiful family and are living a great life.

How does Jake feel about the Mariners' infield going into this 2025 season? I've made a huge mistake. I believe it was his exact quote. Anyway, happy birthday, Jake. Indeedly do. Happy 50th. Really for the post. He's coming. Heidi in Minnesota says, I'd like to wish a late Blur's Day to my five. Reese, who turned nine a couple of weeks ago, just because I forgot to write a Blur's Day message in time. It doesn't mean I love him any less. I'm so proud of the smart, kind, and brave kid he has become. Happy Blur's Day, Reese. Grumpy. Can't believe it. Pardon the term.

Nine. You know what this is called? TBTL Trivia Denver. That's what this soundboard is.

That was a big time for Grumpy.

Oh, what a great. Grumpy. Pardon the term.

And finally, our buddy Keith says, I've been listening since the radio days. I'd like to wish myself a happy 38th Blur's Day this Friday, February 14th. Look at that. Love is in the air, Luke. Valentine's Day, Blur's Day here for Keith. Let's say this is signed. Listener Keith from Yelm. Do I look like I know what a JPEG is? I just want a picture of a goddang hot dog. Keith says, I hope the mini cassette player is working well for you, Andrew. Keith, remember my woes about the, I had all those mini cassette tapes, but none of my players would play it. Let me see if I can, I met Keith, he came up from Yelm, we had some beers at Teddy's, talked about, he works in a school, he's like a custodian, after hours in a school, which sounds amazing to me. Let me see if I, oh. Okay. Okay, well we're going to work on that later, figure out what's going on with that, but. It'd be a different device. Hopefully that's just the tape But thank you for the mini cassette player, Keith I'll get it working here in no time That was supposed to work So much better, Luke It wasn't supposed to pick up space size You're spinning around Apparently every time you get dizzy Anyway Those are your Blur's days, ladies and gentlemen

Happy Blur's Day, everybody Keep them coming Send them to Andrew at tbtl.net that's where they go right you're the collector of that's absolutely right we know it's not me

could be john andrew at tbtl.net is how you get them to me sorry i'm getting distracted here at the end i'm trying to figure out what are you trying to figure out to fix that thing well no i'm not trying to fix on the fly but i was kind of surprised because the truth of the matter is keith gave that to me because i was deep in my um i wanted to start that project of digitizing a bunch of old kiss these mini cassettes from uh from a voicemail machine i had years and years ago and I knew that it worked like physically worked but I guess I had never put a tape in there before so I was just a little bit surprised and I feel a little bit bummed that that was part of Keith's that was part of Keith's we're on a journey together with this Keith don't worry I'll figure it out grumpy pardon the term

it seems like a good place to end so you can get to working on that tape tape recorder thanks for listening everybody we will be back here tomorrow. One final show coming to you from England. Hey, you know who I am getting, ironically I guess you could say tea with tomorrow, although it's not tea, it's coffee. Is it our boy?

It's our boy. Are you going to have a chat? I was wondering about it. I'm going to have a cup of coffee and a chat

with our boy Bean Baxter tomorrow. A cup of tea and a chat.

A cup of tea and a chat. Well, that's the thing.

We're having a cup of coffee. I invited him to a cup of coffee not remembering that he's famous for having a cup of tea and a chat. That's his podcast. That's right. Check out

the podcast. Our buddy Bean. Well, great. We'll tell him I said hello. I love that guy.

Tell him the bean sent you.

That's right.

All right. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow. 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.