Muse

Sorry, I broke the egg yolk. I almost had it. I had what? The perfect egg bite.

Enough with the perfect egg bite.

What's the perfect egg bite? It's everything on your breakfast plate in one perfect bite. That sounds great. How do you do that? Well, I could take you through it if you want to see it. Alright, well, first you start with a piece of rye toast. It's got to be nice and dense so it can handle all the weight. So you take the toast and you put some butter on it. Now, you got to make sure that you don't put too much butter on because it's got to melt into the toast. Next thing after that is half a container of purple jelly. Okay, you mean grape? Yeah, I guess that's grape. Put that on there really nice, and then here's the Melsky secret. Hash browns. It both keeps it separate yet somehow unifies it into one cohesive structure. After the hash browns, it's time for the ketchup. I put it on in a W for wazzup. That's right. And it's also the most efficient way to distribute the ketchup so each bite has a little bit of it in it. Now this is the perfect combination of flavors, but it's incomplete. It's time for the crown jewel. The over easy sunny side up egg. And you put the over-easy egg on it so that the yolk is facing the corner. Now the trick of getting the perfect egg bite is getting all the flavors and the unbroken yolk into your mouth. Because if it's broken, it's ruined. If we've done our work properly, we're going to have a pretty good egg bite. I love you, babe. Here we go.

calm down no don't let this isn't funny okay it is serious to him he is trying i need a win

T-B-T-L Guess what day it is Guess what day it is It's Friday, Friday Gonna get down on Friday Everybody's looking forward to the weekend

Back here live at the Waterfront Village With my friend, the zombie, Jonathan You're looking good, Jonathan Just got an awesome face paint job What do you think? I like turtles What? You think I'm dressed to talk? I'm dressed to party hardy like an MC Scat Cat.

I like to rotate until the pain spreads and it's more of a numb, numb everywhere kind of thing. Okay, T-Bone, time for some serious crunching.

And boom goes the dynamite.

Well, all right, hello, good morning, and welcome everyone to a Friday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. It's a ship that made the castle run in less than 12 parsecs. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia, where it's a beautiful Friday.

Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful.

Blue skies. In fact, there's going to be a planetary parade tonight, which I am getting very excited about. I'm also very excited to be sharing episode 4,413 in a collector series with all of you. let the fun begin yeah the weather is going to be phenomenal today and that's got a young man's thoughts turning towards the idea of lawn mowing and i discovered something about my ryobi electric riding lawnmower today and that is that the blades on it are jacked up and i'm gonna have to get I'm gonna have to go like blacksmith on it Trying to fix these blades So I was on YouTube this morning Studying how to straighten out Ryobi Riding lawnmower blades I'm learning We may run into a lot of lawnmower talk today on the show Is this a thing people care about?

No

I make no apologies Something people probably do care about Was the life and times and acting prowess of Gene Hackman

You know, it's just living truthfully In imaginary circumstances

So we'll talk about Gene Hackman a little bit as well today. And we'll say hello to this guy, the longest-running cobro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is asked to be introduced in a new fashion here on this Friday, so I guess we have no choice but to honor his request.

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, say a song for me.

He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, Mr. Tambourine Man. Someone got a copy of my dad band's demo. How do you feel about the term dad band, by the way? It's been bandied about quite a bit lately. I'm good with it.

You mean dad band being a band that plays music that dads tend to like, be it Wilco or The National or things like that?

I don't think so. I think it's more like dads who are in like a garage.

Get together and play.

Yeah, I just, I feel like I had never really heard that term until like five years ago. And then it's like, oh, my friend's dad, my friend's dad band is playing. You know, we have friends who are always playing the Eagles and they're like Mouse Rat or something like that. But they're not Mouse Rat. They were pretty good, by the way.

I saw them play once. And I was impressed.

Like they do cover songs and they get the crowd into it and everything. But there's something about calling it a dad band that makes me dismiss it right away. I think it's bad branding. I think what people are doing when they say that is they're lowering. They're doing what I do in almost every situation in my life, which is lowering people's expectations. But unfortunately, it lowers it for me so much that I'm not interested.

I can hear what you're saying. Well, I would say with Mouse Rat or whatever that dad band is called, it worked because. Rat Crunch?

It's not Rat Crunch.

Is it Boca Raton? Is it Rat's Mouth?

It might be. Anyway, go ahead.

It worked perfectly on me because I remember hearing, oh, somebody's, you know, basically a band that is kind of an excuse for some guys in their 40s to get together and drink a couple beers and play some, you know, three chords in The Truth. Yeah. Like, they're playing the Eagles, and so my expectations were basically set at about that point, and then I was impressed. I remember leaning over to somebody. It could have been Veeves or you or Camaro Kevin saying, hey, these guys are pretty good. They are pretty good, yep. In that sense, I do think it worked. Now, I guess what you're saying is it works too well on you to the point where you then stay home and play darts under the cover of darkness while everyone else is at the Eagles watching the dad bands.

Well, I was there.

You were there that time, but I'm saying you may not go back, right?

Well, I mean, I don't know. I wouldn't put that fine a point on it. My point is just I just think it's bad branding, I think. It's just not exactly, I don't know, it just, you're right up front saying we're not serious about this. And so, therefore, it just sort of turns me off a little bit.

Would you be interested, speaking of music, Andrew, in one of these days, us doing a quiz that I will apply to you. But I'm nervous to even mention the idea of the quiz because I don't want you to cheat.

I want you to do it now. Can you give it to me now?

whatever it is i'm in i have so much lawnmower talk to talk about i'm not good with delayed

gratification which is by the way that's so untrue that's my dad band name by the way delayed

dadification delayed dadification though that's a show title um i i don't have listen i mean we could just try to do it right now but it is absolutely gonna first of all it may turn this into a four-hour show because i really do want to i have photos i'm really excited to talk I'm always with you today.

I am excited about the premise of this.

Let's just do it. Andrew, you know what?

Just give me a little taste. Just give me a little taste.

It's just, we're just going to do it, okay?

Give me one question, and then we'll continue the rest of it next week.

What is the topic? It's not questions. It's an audio quiz, and it's me just playing. So I wanted to surprise you with a little audio from our friends, Alvin and the Chipmunks. How is that worse? I don't know. I don't know. It's worse, though.

Did you run it through a transistor radio and then hold your phone up to it?

That's right off of 1965's Chipmunk A-Go-Go. When I went to, so I was Googling Tambourine Man chipmunks, and I ended up, somebody had reposted that song or posted that song on YouTube, and they were clearly a big chipmunk fan, and they said something, I'm paraphrasing here, underneath, the person who posted it said something like, this is my favorite track off of chipmunk a go-go which was really challenging for the chipmunks because of the style of music they were trying to cover in other words the person was nodding to the fact that there's something about 60s protest music that does not lend itself to being sped up like there is some stuff that you know maybe works when you chipmunkify it but this was a tough era on them and so then that led me to go well what else is on old chipmunk a go-go And I'm now at Chipmunkagogo And what I wanted to do Was just try to play a few of the songs And see if you could name Before it gets to the lyrics What the song is off of Chipmunkagogo And I think as a person Who loves music as cool Today as it was back then A.K.A. Kixi I think you might be well positioned for this Because this is stuff This is original music That's from the era that you'd tend to really enjoy

I've been using my Kixi chapstick all week by the way. My lips have been very dry during these late winter months and I have a whole drawer full of chapstick and I grabbed one and I realized I'm using my Kixi branded chapstick. Lips as moist now as they were then. Sorry. Okay, and that's why they canceled that bit of promotion.

So the funny thing here is I'm not even going to hear them sing, so it's just going to be like whatever weird alification of the musical parts of the songs.

So it's not an easy quiz at all, and maybe I'll let a little bit of it run, but I don't want them to actually sing. Like, for instance, Tambourine Man. Let's just imagine we're playing this with Tambourine Man, okay? So I'll give you an example. This would be, I'm playing the song Mr. Tambourine Man from 1965's Chipmunk's A Go-Go, okay?

Okay, you have a worse version of this.

Okay, whatever. That may just be how my computer interacts with Spotify. Maybe I'm not paying for premium, but the point is...

Oh, you're on Spotify? You're playing this off of Spotify?

Yeah.

Should I not be? No, no, that's just astounding to me because, yeah, that doesn't sound like the one that we played the other day off of YouTube. But anyway, go ahead, go ahead.

Well, we'll have to, that's it. Now they're going to start singing. So you would have had to get it in that time.

So now I know that that is Mr. Tambourine Man.

I guess my question is, could you have...

I think so. Okay, good. I think so. I don't know for sure. I'd have to start singing it.

Yeah. And I would love that, by the way.

Do they play their own instruments? This is important for me to be successful.

No, it was all Mike Nesmith. Really? Okay.

Okay, that's interesting. All right. Yeah.

Little known fact.

When he wasn't writing head, he was playing all...

He was the, like, the, oh, who were the, he was the wrecking crew of Chipmunk's music.

Oh, yeah, sure, sure, sure. The go-to. Were they the horn section, the wrecking crew, the horn section, or am I confusing them with some?

I think the wrecking crew was just the guys in Muscle Shoals who were, like, the go-to session band for a bunch. For all kinds of. Yeah, I think that they played a bunch of different instruments. Although, you know, there's a whole documentary about them that I clearly haven't seen. Okay, so, now, here, let's just start off. with this song this is the second track off of chipmunks a go-go um it's uh it has uh 24 000 plays which it puts it in the i think that in the like solidly in the mid-range of the popular songs off of this uh album okay in fact i'd say this puts it in the upper third in terms of most plays you'll be surprised when we get to the song that is the most played on chipmunks a go-go it's not tambourine man for the record uh it's a jennifer juniper like donovan no but i'm gonna give you a hint i think there might be a donovan song on here all right well no there's a song that when i first saw it i was like is that donovan and i said it with that exact tone of voice like is that some donovan shit uh-huh okay uh we're gonna start with we're gonna start with uh a song that uh that is the second track well you know what forget it we're gonna start with the first track i'm going to give you a slight hint which is this song to me has a certain kind of what's the word i'm looking for it's a bit of a novelty song to me it's not a novelty song it's from a it's from a very uh popular at the time i believe welsh singer who had a lot of hits but his hits always seem to have a sort of a certain sheen of novelty on them if that makes any sense okay okay so here we go off of chipmunk a go-go this is the first track this one has 43 000 plays which puts it in the top three of the tracks off of this well she really really got me my head i think i'm gonna i think welsh i think welsh okay okay

what's up pussycat what's up pussycat what's up pussycat

what's new pussycat Tom Jones what's new pussycat what's new pussycat this is the opposite of Tom Jones is this obviously going to just become the show

this is the opposite of tom jones i'm throwing my i'm throwing my underwear at the chipmunks and it doesn't feel

right and honestly one pair has covered all three of them they're fighting for oxygen i'm so sorry physically dangerous to the chipmunks to be caught under a an average size panty okay i'm glad to

know that i have a fighting chance here i got no i mean that's i'm impressed good okay i'm impressed

Okay, this one is a little bit more—I know this song, but I couldn't tell you who is the singer of it originally. But it's—yeah, it's from this era. It's the second track on Chipmunk's A Go-Go, and it sounds like this.

No, oh no. We can back it up. I guess it wasn't even—I was waiting for something to drop that would sound more familiar.

that doesn't even that doesn't even sound familiar you'll you'll i i don't think that i don't think

that they come right in with the chorus. So I'm going to let it go a little bit into the lyrics, okay?

Dangerous game.

Who wants to buy?

Now I do feel like I know this song, but I still can't place it. Who wants to buy?

How do we finish that? Is that what it was? Who wants to buy? Yeah, Andrew, come on. Do you have ears?

Who wants to buy? I think I've got to give up. Let it roll.

Who walked to buy this diamond ring? Oh, yeah. She took it off her finger now. It doesn't mean a green.

This is a, this diamond ring doesn't shine for me anymore.

Oh, this diamond ring doesn't shine for me anymore. Oh, yeah. And this diamond ring doesn't mean what it did before.

So if you've got someone whose love is true, let it shine for you. I think that one works pretty well, actually.

You know what I mean? You're right. That translates into the Monkaverse very well. Enter the Monkaverse. I do know that song, and actually I do like that song, but I couldn't tell you anything about it. I can't even really tell in either version, the Chipmunks or the original, unless the Chipmunks were the original, what the lyrics are. What do they say at the end of the chorus there? This diamond ring lyricks. That's how you spell lyricks, right? This is going to take us. You're right. We've got to get to your lawnmower.

Let's see. So if you've got someone whose love is true, let it shine for you. So what's happening, I believe, is the protagonist. I think this might have been a, was this a Gary Lewis and the Playboys number?

Oh, it was Gary Lewis and the Playboys. What a great name.

uh i think the idea is that burns his favorite man gary i'll go on the radiola and play with gary lewis and his playboys um i believe the premise of the song is you've been uh the the diamond ring has been returned to gary lewis and or the playboys and now he has no use for it so maybe somebody else uh can use this diamond ring is the idea diamond ring for sale never used

in the six-word stories.

One of the shortest and almost hard-hitting stories of all time. Then we've got Mr. Tambourine Man. Now we've got the song, and this, I'll mention, has the lowest number of spins on the entire record on Spotify. Only 2,000. Think about this, Andrew. In the history of the world, there's been only 2,027 other times someone has hit play on this.

That is pretty astounding. I don't even know what it is, but it's pretty astounding. because you got the names behind it, the chipmunks, Elvin, Simon, Theodore.

A go-go, yes. Do, do, do, do, do, do. And this is, I'll also tell you, I don't want to throw you off, but this was the song that I thought, is this a Donovan number? Okay. It doesn't mean that it is a Donovan number, okay? You follow? Yeah, which means it could be a Peter Noon song. It could be a bunch of other things, but it just seemed like a weird-ass song Donovan would be into slash would have written. so here we go off of chipmunks a go-go this is track number four

i don't know what's going on oh you know what yeah something's going on with your setup you're

we're only hearing one side of the why would that we we can't diagnose this right now we can't figure

it out now but it's something to do with your wiring i think i know which is why all of these

hold on uh i can do this uh that's why the first one sounded a little echoey because i was hearing

the echo of probably the other side of the stereo track how this we we should eventually i'm giving myself a point for that i knew something was off okay now i'm gonna play

this same track in fact you know what i could i could probably play all these off of youtube although that original little intro i i brought you in with was also off of youtube which you

said sounded tinny to you as well yeah but i don't know why it's something why it would be

that my system does not like i guess it's stereo yeah like this would be mono right you no i they

probably recorded this in stereo the chipmunks i mean specifically they went in there with a little cartoon producer recorded in stereo yeah and i think you have a setup where we're only hearing

left or right you've got to figure out at some point maybe you can talk me through it okay i'm gonna try this again this is off of youtube now okay yeah so i don't i i don't know if that will improve the audio quality but somebody mixed it down sure i'm gonna give it a try here okay No, it's the same problem. Yeah, see. Wow.

It's split into, yeah.

Do they have a mono? This is such a sad thing because it's such a buildup.

Yeah, and I can't quiz myself. I'll go blind. I really, after all this. Is there a setting?

Is there a setting in Spotify that monifies what I'm trying to do here?

I don't think so, although it would be amazing if they re-released this as a mon. mono album as well so you could choose for your hi-fi which one you want okay i know this is going

to be really annoying i'm just gonna have to play it through like just play it through your phone through the oh microphone oh yeah i didn't even think of that sure why not let's try that you know it's gonna be i mean you know i've also well you know it's kind of funny yeah yeah this will work i'm gonna try this okay oh my god it's so freaking integrated it's already on my phone right now and oh yeah because i've been trying to play it on spotify i do kind of like that Golly, they're winning. Okay, here we go. You ready? I am so excited. Okay. This is, I guess you're going to get both channels, but you're going to get them from my cell phone. Don't let me see the screen.

Don't let me see the screen. Right, right, okay. Wait. What is going on?

Why is my phone also doing that?

But you heard this track recently, like last night or something, because you said you heard it and you thought it might be down to it.

No, I just read the name and thought.

Oh, okay. Is it possible this is? Maybe there's something wrong with it. Maybe it was just taking a while to kick in.

I'm doing the same thing on my phone. Oh, you know what? Unless, let's see. I want to make sure that this is not trying to go through. No, this is on this network.

Oh, sometimes, yeah, your phone becomes a remote control for. Okay, yes. Oh, that is, I already guessed it, and I got it right. I just heard that. It is Peter Noon. That's Hermit's Hermit. Mrs. Brown, you got a lovely daughter. How did you hear that from? When you said before Donovan, I said, oh, it's probably Peter Noon. Noon, and it is Peter Noon. That's how it begins, yeah. Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter.

Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter.

Woo-hoo. I loved this song as a kid.

I love it or something great.

But it's sad.

She doesn't. It also works pretty well, right? It does pretty. Yeah, no, I could hear that very well. No, I mean as a chipmunkification, enter the monk-averse. I think it's decent, right? Yeah, I think Peter Noon, unless he died recently, I believe still has a show on satellite radio. Nice.

Well, I have to say, we are, I got to say, if this ever becomes a game show, kind of like a newlywed game, we should go on as a team because the fact that I described a song as something I would think was Donovan, And you did the math in your head, and without even hearing it, got to Herman's Hermits.

I'm pretty proud. I'm giving myself two points.

Okay, one last one that I do think this one, again, I think this one works on Spotify, because I did click on this one earlier, and it sounded normal to me. Okay. And then at some point, we've got to figure out, because obviously this is where the show's going, is me playing chipmunk songs for you and you guessing. So we need to get our technology dialed in so that we could do this sort of in full fidelity.

Can I write to Riverside and say we're having an issue with our Chipmunks-related music podcast? I'm sure you get this email all the time.

This is a song that – oh, by the way, I'll just spoil it for you. The number one song, the most played song on Chipmunks – this is not that, but I'm saying the most played song on Chipmunks O'GoGo. It's the final track, believe it or not. It has 58,000 plays. Okay. And I'm just going to hit, I have not previewed this one. I'm just going to hit play. I'm going to pray that it's somehow in the kind of, you know, it's mixed down to where you'll be able to hear some of this.

So you want me to guess this one, though?

I don't know if it's a, it is, this to me seems like the, almost the ultimate novelty song. That, again, not for me, not a song that I vibed with, but I'm wondering if maybe you'll recognize it. Let's just see. Again, this could be a major letdown. It's not good. You're only hearing one channel. If you can do this with one channel, you are.

I'm Henry VIII. I am. I'm Henry VIII. Hey, Luke. Yeah. Herman's Hermits. I'm pretty sure, right?

They were heavily leveraged into Herman's Hermits on this record. Am I right about that? Well, it doesn't say, it doesn't, it's I'm Henry VIII, I am. It doesn't say who it was, but I'm going to believe it. Yeah, Herman's Hermits, Peter Noon.

I mean, what we're learning here is that the Chipmunks and Peter Noon, like there's synergy there. Yes.

There's something, and again, I don't want to yuck any yums, but it's probably that kind of stuff that felt novelty to me. Even though I was hearing it literally 40 years later, no, maybe 30 years later, it's funny that it seems to work well for the chipmunks. Okay, last one.

I'm going to ask you this, and I hope I'm not blowing up this last question. Although, if I am blowing up this last question, I'm giving myself credit for it. Yes. Is there the Umbrella song by the Hollies on here? I could see them doing that, you know. No. I'll tell you the other songs. Do you know this song I'm thinking of, though? It seems like a Susie.

It seems like a jam that Susie B could get down with. It tells a little story. I don't know. You know, bus comes, bus goes, she stays, love grows under my umbrella. You're familiar with that song?

That's not where love grows, where my love grows, where my rosemary.

No, I love. Maybe that's why I think of your mom, because she loves that song, which is a different song. But anyway, go ahead.

The umbrella song by the Hollies.

You know that song, I'm sure.

I'm sure I do. I'm trying to find it on another. Is it called Bus Stop?

Maybe it's called Bust Up. I thought it was called the Umbrella song, but you're right. It might be called Bust Up.

I think once Rihanna did her Umbrella song, the Hollies officially, they just said.

This is probably the worst version of all this. This is not the chipmunks, right?

You know this song. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love this song. It's a good one.

We're definitely getting pulled off of kickseed this episode. It's so funny because, like, I don't mind this, but there's a certain kind of almost like harpsichordic component to a lot of this music. I think if I think about this style of music, I think of it having a lot of almost baroque-y kind of harpsichord, like da-da-da, and that is not a sound that hits my ear. I don't mind this song, but I'm not drawn towards it, and it would appear that it is a style that you are drawn towards.

You know, when you put it that way, I would agree with you. Like, I don't like that tinny. you know it's the mids listen to the mids no for the most part i don't like this is a song that i loved since i was a kid and i think it had to do with the storytelling nature of it i realize when you're a kid i think you're drawn to like even the the beatles songs i liked a lot as a young day in the life yeah they really kind of oh they even have more literal ones i think too you know eleanor rigby maybe oh sure but uh and so you're sort of drawn to storytelling things and so now i can't really separate out if i would dig on the umbrella song or bus stop or whatever if i heard it for the first time today but it's just part of my dna now absolutely i i think i mentioned

you're right day in the life isn't really a kind of a linear story but i've got it on my brain because we went down on that beatles tour that i did in liverpool yeah but the bus went down penny lane and we literally got to see where the bank is the banker never wears his mac where the barbershop was like these and i guess this i don't know if i said this back when i was in england and i was narrating to you basically what the tour was but like i guess that whole song was written i forget i was that is that one considered more mccartney than lennon i forget but anyway point was there's this little spot where you could sit where whichever which where the bus stop was and i'm and i'm forgetting if it was mccartney or lennon but one of them was just watching all this stuff kind of go on around them like as a young person and basically was just narrating the comings and goings of these people i think it was a bus they might have taken like after school or something that same bus line interestingly enough george harrison used to take it because his dad was the bus driver so he would get free rides on the bus and there was this point where they needed a new guitar player and i think paul mccartney was telling john lennon we should have this guy george harrison that i know in the band and george harrison was like much younger than them and john lennon was like no way we're not having a 16 year old in our band and then one day they get on the bus and george harrison is just riding around on this bus in liverpool with his guitar because his dad's the bus driver and he plays a tune and it it sways

john lennon to let him in the band oh nice see great things happen was this the e-line public transport was this the e-line absolutely you know i know i followed up with genevieve about um what happened yesterday but she was meeting some friends and she hopped on the e-line i got a text line from her uh that said the e-line is really e-lining tonight oh boy she made it home in one

piece your head on a swivel yeah yeah right okay this is we i think we've kind of like i think we've enjoyed this together there's just one last song that this one i i love this song because it's uh it's it's sung by a guy that uh i'm a big fan of a lot of his music um he also i don't know if this will help this is a dead giveaway for you andrew or this makes absolutely no difference to you he wrote the music for the disney cartoon robin hood at least the main theme song and uh and and so i i remember hearing him as a kid and not knowing his larger oeuvre of work which i then became a fan of in adulthood but uh this is uh another song and the final one we'll play from

the chip uh chipmunk ago go oh come on oh i can't hear the bass line but is this uh no no no no no no no no no oh yeah yeah roger miller yes yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna give that one to you because you weren't getting the critical part of the song i thought that was um for a second never know how

Yes, I was like, wow, what a sexy song for the Chipmunks.

Okay, I'm going to play one for you now. Chipmunks After Dark. I love it. They're just doing very overtly sexual numbers.

But from a certain era. And sped up. Okay, I don't know if this is real Chipmunks or if this is somebody online recreating a Chipmunk sound, but I was just looking down at my own YouTube, and I saw a song being recommended to me a song that you and I talked about on the show the other day or maybe last week totally divorced from this chipmunk situation and after the show I think I needed a show pick so I was watching the video and listening to it so now it's being served back to me and I thought well is there a chipmunk version of this song and I typed in chipmunk's version of this song and I have found something here that claims to be I'm not saying by the way nothing I've said so far as a lie i sound like i'm setting you up for some sort of bs everything i've said is true i want to see if this is truly a chipmunk version of this popular song from the 80s you can tell me if you can guess it before they start singing oh this is a fake i can tell

I love you, Dr. Zaius.

He'll never make a monkey out of me.

Wait, is this real? The sound quality is terrible.

Well, listen, I know a thing or two about bad sound quality, my friend, because I've been doing it the whole show. I mean, this might have been a chipmunk version. of Rock Me Amadeus. Wait, so here's my question. Is that photo? Because the day that we got into talking about Falco and Rock Me Amadeus, by the way, last night, Becca was going to a musical performance that her sister was a part of. Her sister's a phenomenal singer, does a lot of choral music, and it was at the Schnitzer in Portland, and what it was was they were playing the entire movie Amadeus, and then the choir was singing a whole bunch of the music. So it was kind of like a live slash the movie version.

So you were watching the movie, though? You were watching the movie. And then during appropriate times, the chorus comes up?

Yes, the music is live in the room.

Interesting. But there isn't live music the whole time because there are just parts where the dialogue is going on and the chorus just sits back?

Yes, I think that's it because it was three hours, which I think roughly maps with the time of the movie. And I said to her yesterday, we were out walking around Portland, I said, there's a lot of Amadeus happening in my life this week for some reason. Like, isn't that weird?

Yes. What a strange coincidence. Although you record for two hours a day and it's a pretty wide range of topics. Eventually it's going to come back to Herman's Herbets. I think you know that.

But that photo, so the day that we recorded that, I was supposed to send you a picture of my new record player, which I did, but it got caught in the tubes of my phone. So basically I had sent you a couple of pictures and then I realized later they were still in my like out box. So you never got them. So you just did the logical thing, which was grab a different photo.

there is is that falco what is that photo dressed up as amadeus from the video yeah okay i've clearly

i've never seen the video but like uh but but um yeah that photo was i was like what i i figured

that must be what it was yes exactly because you were like oh these never went through what did we

end up using for a show pic so no it was more like i want to see how this photo of my record player turned out and then i see like some weird guy some bug-eyed guy and then i was like huh i guess andrew's trying to flex on me and then i look at my phone and it's like no these have never left your phone yet yes yes anyway uh again i think we i i think we troy mcclure speaks for all of us when he says i love you dr zayas we was hoping for some razzle dazzle razzle dazzle

that's right man razzle dazzle on your mark on your mark get set get set now ready ready go

everybody all right let's thank some dazzling donors these incredible generous folks have stepped up and uh and are supporting the show with a truly dazzling amount of dough uh couldn't this just none of this would work without these folks folks like morella alejandrino morella thank you of kenmore washington uh morella says i just wanted to say a big thank you for your podcast it's something i look forward to every day and it's honestly become such a bright spot in my routine it has been for many years thanks morella you appreciate you uh you have this awesome way of mixing calm vibes with humor and it's exactly what i need to feel grounded and have a good laugh i'm so grateful to luke and andrew for doing this five days a week um we'll see how morella feels uh after being uh let's just say presented with a tremendous amount of half of a recording of the Chipmunks. One channel of a recording of the Chipmunks. We'll see if that was grounding today.

Do you think that you bring the humor and I bring the calm vibes, vice versa, or do we trade off? We trade off, okay.

Yeah. On another note, I have been a longtime real estate broker in the Seattle area. I specialize in working with seniors when it's time to make a downsizing move. Any of your listeners who need advice or tips for themselves or family members, I would be happy to help. You can find me at Marella's Homes on Instagram. That's M-A-R-E-L-L-A-S-H-O-M-E-S. Marella's Homes on Instagram is where you can find Marella. Nice. Well, thank you, Marella.

Yeah. This could be my own just like bad brain, but Marella's not a name that I remember seeing a lot in our correspondence and stuff. So it's always fun to see a name that, you know, somebody. So I don't want to put this on Mirella, but some people call themselves like lurkers. I think I just got an email today from somebody that said, I've been listening a long time, but I've been kind of a lurker, and now I'm coming out of the shadows.

And also, you know, real estate is a – the relationship between the person who's either doing the buying or the selling and the real estate agent is a really interesting one because there's a lot of trust there. There's a lot of trust on the part of the person who's the real estate agent that if they've shown you 50 houses, you're not going to just decide to go with your, you know, your friend Bernie or something who that, you know, you'll end up doing the transaction with. Also, you have to trust that as the client, that the person you're working with knows what they're doing and has your best interest at heart. You know, there's like a lot of, it's an interesting relationship these days, and I think it's cool to know that there's somebody out there who's a 10 and who's supporting the show and who also is doing this. I know we've got other folks that are in real estate as well. I guess I just think of it as a very good character reference on anyone in real estate, that they also are a TBTL fan.

Luke, this has nothing to do with the dazzling donor message. It has nothing to do with anything that you were just talking about, but I have a question for you.

Okay, sure.

Can you name three songs by the Paris Review? Let's see.

Let's see. Paper Tigers by George Plimpton.

Pretty good. I gotta say, better answer than I was expecting. Picnic Lightning by Billy Collins. I just looked up and I saw that you're wearing a Paris Review t-shirt underneath your sweater. And it just reminded me of the, oh yeah, you like Metallica? Name three songs.

I do read it, I have to say. I don't always get through every copy, but I do read it.

Good podcast, too, no joke. I don't know. Is that back in production again? I'm not sure. Anyway, I did not mean to take away from Morella's message and everything that you said is right on. Having bought a house somewhat recently in the past several years, I was very inexperienced in that and realizing that the relationship you build with your agent is unlike any other, and it's a friendship, and like you say, it's built on a lot of trust. And honestly, who's more trustworthy than the TBTL 10s?

This is a person in Morella who can be trusted to voluntarily donate to TBTL a significant sum of money every year just because she would like this to keep happening. So I would trust her implicitly with my real estate needs. Thank you so much. Maestro?

On your mark. On your mark. Get set.

Get set. I really thought it was going to be you were going to come in with the chipmunks being California Girl. Another song, by the way, on Chipmunk-A-Go-Go.

I am now so, like, just programmed when I hear the beginning of a music like that. I'm expecting the chipmunks to burst in. God, that would have been great if I had that ready for you today somehow.

That actually seems like something that all of the AI music could do very easily, right?

Sure, yeah.

I mean, if we've got Andy Rooney saying TBTL drops. Yeah. Because, I mean, think about it. Also, what a scam. I don't mean, scam, that's the wrong word. what a what a thing to get over that's also the wrong way to put it i mean what a heist wait no that's not right what a caper what a flim flam the idea that like and i this is something that would be easily known but somebody here's what happened andrew at some point somebody put a record on the wrong speed and it made it too fast and they were laughing not unlike we were when we recently listened to tambourine man by the chipmunks and they just had the thought this could be a multi-decade industry songs you've already heard but played faster i mean that is the entirety of the chipmunks you how how how much are you

standing by that origin story i'll bet you it's more complicated

And that has to do with marketing and having a, you think it really started with somebody accidentally listening to a record on the wrong speed?

Maybe not accidentally, but I mean, I think the whole premise is, I don't, here's what I don't think happened. And I've done no research on this, like most things. I don't think that somebody got up one morning and thought, what we could really build is a very profitable series of movies and albums and a TV show and a whole culture around chipmunks that sing. I think the first thing that happened was somebody heard a sped-up version of a song. And then they engineered it from there. They were like, oh, that sounds kind of funny and silly. That's a thing I recognize, but it's in a different pitch. And then the idea of the chipmunks came about. That's my theory, and I'm sticking with it.

I bet you it's not quite that. Only because this era, because I'm looking to see when it was started. It was started in 1958. as you sort of alluded to before there was just like so much novelty music like the other day I've stumbled on like uh Henry VIII is just like the tip of the iceberg of that kind of thing people were coming out and like doing really goofy novelty stuff on like um and of course this is an animated feature so I'm not saying that this happened on some sort of a variety show but I just sort of feel like the culture was rife were we just talking about somebody named rife yeah the comedian the quote-unquote comedian that right yeah sorry but anyway i don't know if

i'm using that word properly here it's ck the the world was ck but anyway i just sort of feel like

somebody probably had an idea of just like they were probably playing around with technology in the studio and said oh i can make it sound like we're high-pitched shipmunks that's my theory on it but i don't know if we can prove one of us right or wrong well wait you're saying wait the

repeat the thing you just said you said you thought it was somebody in the studio messing

around or you don't think it was that i do think there's probably somebody who's like well if you speed this up it's funny sounding and we can do it i don't think it started with somebody accidentally putting a record on and being like oh let's record it this way on purpose yeah i think

we're actually in agreement on this i'm not saying i i don't think it was literally like you got peanut butter and my chocolate kind of a like thing where it was like it could have been that but also i very much could believe that it was a couple of recording engineers just making each

other laugh by speeding something up you know what it was and now this makes sense this is probably a song that does not stand the test of time but the first song the person who created the chipmunks before creating the chipmunks did that song witch doctor do you remember that one where they well it's not a racist stuff yes exactly but you apparently you know it you know it implicitly look at the dude i got a tattoo um no but you know that song right songs and i think that was the first thing where he was experimenting recording himself at different speeds to create The duet between him and a witch doctor. Not unlike, what was that hip-hop song from the early 90s?

I Got a Man by Positive K, which I did not learn until way later was him pitched up. I really thought there was a woman in there saying, are you a chef? Because you keep feeding me soup.

I loved that song. I still love that song. I didn't realize it until I was doing TBTL with you. I think I learned that on the air. I learned it. I was just doing both sides.

Yeah, I was honestly, like, only five years ago did I even learn that. I would have, because I think adding to the confusion for me, this could be a total Mandela effect, but I feel like I even had a memory of a video where Positive K is rapping, and then there is a woman doing the quote-unquote female part of the song. Yes. That's probably not true, but I had it in my mind.

No, no, no, it is true, because I'm looking at it right now, and I really-

That's what confused me because I just assumed that was the, you know, that's who was doing that part of the song.

Yes, I remember this very well now that they're out. Sometimes they're in a club and sometimes they're outside dancing and she's a very attractive woman. And it's just, did I say 90s? This must be very early 90s, right? Yeah, 92. He's wearing a really sweet looking track suit. I love all of the colors in this. And yeah, the reason we were fooled was because they had a woman lip syncing this in the video.

right and that was like uh i think then i went further and assumed i would i probably have at some point said to someone uh oh that's so and so like from you know like i probably even named this the the what i thought the woman was i told you like in other words when i thought that there it was it was positive k and a woman i probably even thought i knew what her name was and i probably thought she was from some band that she wasn't even from or whatever the most embarrassing version of this for me that's ever happened though and i think i've told you this story before was, I believe it was, oh, it was Coachella. It was the very first Coachella, I think. Did you go to that? I did, yeah. And it was, I believe the big headliners were Wilco and The Cure and The Flaming Lips. Wow. And I was...

very excited to see all of those bands the thing about the flaming lips that was a bummer was wayne coin spent of the like hour that they were allotted or hour and a half he spent 40 minutes of it trying to get into one of those inflatable bubbles really take a really long time ago they've been doing the bubbles that long ago okay yeah and uh and then they were like they did like five songs and they were done i was super bummed but um if i remember right it might it might have been at that at that original coachella i think air the band air the french band air was playing You can fact check me on this Let's see if the lineup from the first Coachella If I'm remembering this correctly I'll look it up while you tell the story But I had listened to the band air a bunch And I thought there was a woman in the band Because it's two guys and one of them sings In a very kind of high register And I don't know, like who cares I thought that it was a woman singing, whatever But this is where I for some reason This is where I just kept myself in trouble Because I say stuff that I don't need to say Like I believe I said to someone like the chick in that band air is so hot i wasn't commenting based on the music based on the music based on wanting to seem more down with the band air than i was i guess i actually uh in the long term of my life have listened probably to as much air as about anybody on planet earth now i have like you know listened to tons and tons and tons of that band and i'm very aware of who the people are that make the music but at that time i had in my mind that There was a quote-unquote hot chick in the band air, and I believe I said that I think right before they came out on stage. A couple of dudes, a couple of French dudes.

Okay, so you got a lot of things right, but one key thing wrong, which is you got the lineup really right, but the year very wrong. You were at the fifth Coachella. The first one was in 1999. You were at the one in 2004, and this was day two of it. Day one had Radiohead Pixies.

Yep, saw them.

Oh, so you were there for both days. Oh, nice. That's really great.

Yeah, yeah. My friend Cotter, a.k.a. the Colonel, there was somebody in the Coachella Valley who had a house that we borrowed. It had a swimming pool and everything. It was great.

Oh, wow. And that was just the main stage. On some of the other stages, you had MF Doom. That's somebody that you really like.

I did not mess with MF Doom at the time. I wish I would have... RIP, by the way.

I wish I would have seen that. Death Cab played. And this is a band that I know that even if the music was great, you would have never touched and you will know us by the trail of dead i think that was an emo band but that sounds like a band that name that would turn i'd already at that point decided i was okay

with the dismemberment plan yeah and that was it there was like you only only one weirdly macabre named indie band gets to uh get my heart and i had already given it over to the dismemberment plan so you will know us by the trail of the dead it was sol yeah i remember a couple of things about that okay so it was the fifth one that's first of all i'm really glad we fact checked this because i been telling everyone for years i was at the first ever coachella and in 1999 i still lived in seattle so i of course i wasn't at that one but what i remember about that coachella was wayne coin taking forever to get into the bubble and also we were staying in this again we were staying in like a condo or something that had a swimming pool so we were a little bit of a drive from the polo grounds or wherever this was it was one of those coachellas that was so hot it was was probably 110 degrees and i remember we we pull up in our car we park it's just a dust storm and we're walking past the campground areas and there are so many tents that are literally covered in dust it's like a it's like a martian landscape and people are like it's like a 10 in the morning and it's already like dangerously hot out and i just see people unzipping their dust covered tents to like poke their head out into the 103 degree temperature and this was the beginning of me deciding music festivals are not for me even though we had the like you know we were actually staying in somewhere that was much more comfortable and we're getting good night's sleep and everything was like fine and i loved all these bands but again what i really what i really wanted to see was i really wanted to see wilco i really wanted to see the cure and flaming lips and radiohead the radio headset was really really good but everything else about the the temperature the line to get some water all of it was like the beginning of me kind of going this is not a lifestyle for me these these big music festivals and one other thing what i do remember about the flaming lips show was standing there in the oppressive coachella valley heat and i remember looking up on the side stage and because of you know the flaming lips where they do this whole falderall with the like streamers and balloons and everyone's dancing on stage i believe i could be misremembering but there was a theme there and it might have been alien themed or it might have been dorothy and wizard of there was something going on where people were dressed in a certain manner and i remember looking at the side stage and i think i was seeing um amber tamblin up there uh of the of the sisterhood of the traveling

pants and i remember seeing some a couple of other people that i knew from pop culture on the side of the stage drinking alcohol out of solo cups what i assume was alcohol and i was just standing there broiling in the heat like a person who had had their voice taken away by ursula the sea witch in the little mermaid and if you if you know you know and up on stage i saw these other people that were in this other category and i had this thought how do i become one of those other people and it was then very interesting that years later i got to be on stage with the flaming lips at that sasquatch because i really had this thought of like i am here i would like to be there i wonder how i would ever be there and then at some point to really be there like in a very literal way with the band that had sparked the thought was kind of a mind kind of a mind f for me really and also i was drunk i was loaded off my ass when i was on stage with the flaming lips so that was adding to it but i haven't anything else happened like that where i have a moment of like i would like to manifest this and then somehow like five six years later it's manifest yeah that's really amazing now

i want to do something here and we have to get to our second dazzling donor i'll i'll refire the music for this dazzling donor who's been waiting patiently on the edge of his seat waiting for us to read his message but so i'm looking at the lineup for i mean there's a whole bunch of i can't list every band that played on this sunday may 2nd when you saw the cure and the flaming lips and all these folks that you mentioned bell and sebastian too um but i'm looking at one of the other stages and this is i'm not cherry picking here um the outdoor theater the last one two three four five six bands or artists on this list i'm not gonna i'm not cherry picking i'm just gonna list the last six outdoor theater and i'm gonna ask you if there's ever been anything that says 2005 more than this i didn't think i could feel nostalgia for 2005 until i saw this list right bright eyes oh cursive okay atmosphere oh gosh broken social scene oh wait for it chick chick

chick you're one of a hundred people who knows how to pronounce the name of that band and pretty girls make graves oh my god wasn't chick chick chick like just exclamation points three

exclamation points but i think it's called chick chick yeah it is no you're right but i mean that was a real like that was a real password it was just yes it was such a moment you know like you knew that it was chick chick chick you were in yes and the thing is i know i knew songs by chick chick chick i couldn't name one right now for you i can't even name a song but i know that i

listened to them anyway the only chick chick chick i want to hear is chip chip chip monk Look who it is. It's Paul Pope of Annapolis, Maryland, waiting patiently as we journeyed down memory lane with Coachella. Thank you, Paul, for your patience and mostly thank you for your support. My goodness. Paul says that Luke, Andrew, John, and Tens, as I sit here listening to episode 4387, let's see. Actually, we're at 413 today, so not, you know, what is that, 30-ish episodes back maybe?

Yeah, I'm going to see what we talk. You read the message. I'm going to see what we talked about that day, see if it was a good episode.

Listening to episode 4387 and reflecting on the fact that I've been listening to you dummies since God knows when, And I'm so grateful for the opportunity to thank you all for what you do by supporting this imaginary radio at the dazzling level. On January 8th, I slipped on the ice and broke my ankle in three places. Oh, man. Paul, I am really sorry, and I don't want to make any assumptions about you, but I am guessing that like a lot of us, January 8th was not, that was not occurring during, like, you know, a great week in any of our lives. Let's just call the whole month of January kind of a lost month. and it ain't gotten better since then but let's just say breaking your ankle uh two days after the anniversary of january 6th with all of the things going on that we knew it's just

icing on the cake let's just say january was a terrible week i don't even know what that means

but i stand by it uh paul says i'm recovering from surgery and i'll be off my foot for at least the next month i'm sure that by the time you dummies eventually okay paul like one please It's the New York Times. On second reference, it's Mr. Dummies. Dummies upon first reference. Thank you.

God.

Are we the last two people who are in any way committed to the New York Times and AP style? I'm sure that by the time you dummies eventually read this, I will have long been back on my feet playing Pokemon Go again. Oh, let's hope so. But during these next few weeks, TBTL will hold two special places in my life that I'd like to celebrate. First, you guys will be in my ear holes, keeping me company as I recuperate. Thanks for that. Second, the only article of clothing I own that fits over the cast on my leg is none other than cue trumpet drop, my pair of tonight pants. Hey, look at that. that, see? Everyone, put your Tonight Pants in your bug-out bag. In your go bag. That was a weird, I don't know if it was a weird headline, but it was an interesting headline in the Seattle Times today. It's the, like, 24th anniversary of the Nisqually

earthquake. Oh, is it? The 24th?

I'm guessing, I could be wrong about that number. Okay. It's been many years since the Nisqually quake, but of course, I remember it very vividly because I was already I was at the first Coachella when it happened I was already I was performing with the cure I was headlining, I was inside of a bubble playing with the cure but I remember because I worked at KUOW when that earthquake happened and I remember exactly where I was, they were in the new building and I was what if this is wrong Andrew what if, I feel like what I can picture is I was walking towards the printer at KUOW when the Nisqually quake happened and in my mind it was in the quote unquote new building the place on the Ave which has now been there for many many years but it seems new to me and I remember getting under a desk but is it possible what I'm worried about is that if we actually do the timeline we'll find that KUOW had not even moved into the new building when the Nisqually quake happened

well you are right that it was exactly 24 years ago so it was 2001 when did KUOW move into the new building

well that I don't know but I'm going to say I'm going to say it was 2001 because you know what when I got hired full time there it was in the new building the quote unquote new building and 2001 let's see when was Schubert dip

this is a hard thing for me to figure out on the fly when they would have moved

because of I do I feel confident about this because basically we were in that building when 9-11 happened and because I remember I just remember a lot of those shows happening and us you know trying our best to bring whatever local angle we could to this international crisis. But all that is to say, the headline in the Seattle Times today was something like, it's been 24 years since the Nisqually quake. Here's what to put in your go bag. I was like, all right, I guess we're trying to give this an immediacy.

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I don't like that either. I mean, I'm not against them trying to get a public service announcement in there. I actually think that's pretty important. In fact, Vives and I were just talking. We do have a bin. Of course, Genevieve set this up. And I think she started this in L.A. Do you remember? I think I've mentioned this on the show before. There was a specific earthquake in L.A. It wasn't especially destructive that I know of, but it was one that we all felt. And it happened on St. Patrick's Day. So they called it the Shamrock Shake. Do you remember? Oh, that's pretty funny. Which is ironic because, look, I have a sticky note here that says Shamrock Shake from earlier this week. I'm supposed to get one of those.

Promises made, promises kept, question mark?

Well, not yet, but I looked it up. It's around through March or something like that. I think I'll get one. By the way, shoot, sorry. I'm on so many. The Shamrock Shake, I will say, I looked it up to see if the Shamrock Shake is available this year, and if so, how long. And so I found some sort of quote-unquote news story about it, I think, on USA Today. And it mentions like –

It's been retitled The America Shake?

It is. I feel sick. No, but like I forget that you can't go home again. I'm picturing myself going through a McDonald's drive-thru or getting out of the car like Bob Walsh would approve of and walking up and getting a shamrock shake and it coming in one of those waxy cups with a flat lid with the little bubbles you can push down. But then I read the description of it. It's like, what has whipped cream on top and a cherry and a minty green? And I'm like, oh, that's right. We live in the dome world now, which is so much different than I thought the dome world would be when I grew up. I thought it was going to be a different kind of dome. And I'm sure it tastes great, but the only reason I wanted the Shamrock Shake was to somehow relive a youthful memory or something, not to get a McCafe Shamrock Shake.

I know, because I also, I mean, it's pretty rare that I would order a McDonald's shake, but when I have, I don't know why I hate that plastic dome, because think about it. what it's allegedly doing and this is the same thing with slurpees now it's giving you more product in the case of the the mcdonald's shake that plastic dome is allowing for a bunch of whipped cream or something but it doesn't you're right it it doesn't feel and also they've got these straws that sometimes are like squarish i think and can also be a spoon oh depending on how thick the shake is or whatever i don't know i could be mixing up my um my my whipped dessert options at various places but I'm with you like I like a McDonald's chocolate shake used to be when I was a kid the absolute height of treating yourself and of decadence and of this is an amazing Saturday in my life this is and it was never in my case because my parents were taking me was because I had I had some allowance money and I'd gone up to that McDonald's on Greenwood Avenue So,

And I got something and a chocolate shake. And you're right. It's that waxy cup. It's the flat lid. It's this whole thing. And there's something about it not looking the same that kind of takes away a little bit of the fun for me.

You know, Luke, I'm seeing another dazzling detail from KOW's history here on the Wikipedia page. But I'm not going to get into it. I'm going to look at me. I'm a disciplined broadcaster. We'll save this for it. Am I involved in it? No, no. It's something funny that happened a couple of years ago. So I'm trying to not say everything that pops in my head these days, believe it or not.

Good looking out. We are over an hour into the show. We haven't even entered Lawn Mower Talk. And we still need to keep thanking Paul Pope. Paul says, of course, this night pants is the only thing that fit over his cast currently. He says, however, my physical therapist just tilted her head like Nipper the RCA dog when I tried to explain why I went to PT in a pair of pants with a repeating pants pattern. That's a lot of Ps, dude. It was an adorkable metamoment, priceless granite, power out, Paul in Annapolis. Wow.

I'm sorry, Luke. I don't usually like to correct you when you're reading these things, but I think it says priceless granite. Perfect.

I was trying to read. I did not have the bandwidth to also go find the drop, but I think that was better than the actual drop. Wait, that wasn't the drop? Paul, thank you so much for supporting the show. We really do appreciate you. And feel better. Hope that ankle is healing up. Hello, and welcome to Top Story. Andrew, you know what? This Top Story could also fall under the banner of, and I'm going slow here because I'm giving you time to retrieve some audio that we might need here on a Friday as we're looking towards the next couple of days. You know, picking up what I'm putting down? Yeah, I got it. Okay. Yes. Back to the history of KUOW. Hey, Andrew, at Big Weekend Plans?

Big Weekend, the biggest one I've ever had, Big Weekend. Weirdly, that still caught me off guard because I thought you were going to have me ready for that because you're going to go into lawnmower talk. Well, I am. And you wanted this. Oh, because that's part of your Big Weekend Plans. Okay, well, then let me not filibuster about my Big Weekend Plans. I don't have tons on the schedule except for one funny little thing that I might have mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago when I was looking ahead at my schedule. And I see, and I have no recollection of when or how this ended up on my calendar, but I see that either I or somebody via invitation put on my calendar, Seattle Miniature Show. Oh. And I looked it up, and there is a, do you say miniature or miniature?

I would say miniature, probably.

In this case, there's a Seattle miniature show going on, I think in South Center. This screams of Genevieve or Hauser. I'm not sure. Does Hauser have access to your calendar? Well, I mean, I guess he could have sent me an invite or he could have said, you know, hey, do you want to go to this thing? Put it on your calendar. It just seems like something either of my friends, Genevieve or Hauser, would be interested in going to this thing. So I need to look up the details and see if I can make it happen. Deets on this. Okay.

There is a note regarding admission. They are not set up for debit or credit cards.

I saw that. I already poked around a little bit. It says we accept cash. It's $8, right? It's a cool $8 to get in. That's not bad.

No, that's a good deal for us.

Cash only.

Saturday afternoon, down there enjoying some miniatures. It's put on by Pat Bennett. She's the show promoter. Her introduction to Dollhouse Miniatures was at a garage sale 30-plus years ago when she took a, quote, free dealer catalog from a box at the end of the driveway, the rest is history Andrew I know that I've been down that road

I have been down that road as well I'm a little distracted here because I'm stuck on this miniature thing do we spell miniature and miniature differently or do we just say it differently depending on what we're talking about because if I said this was Seattle's miniature show it would be a tiny little show right but if we say Seattle miniature show it's a show focused on miniatures

are those different words that's what

I'm asking you don't know either

No. I do know that Pat Bennett's motto is, happiness is miniatures. How do they come up with this? We didn't call them miniature tigers. Did we remember our friends, the miniature tigers? The miniature tigers. I don't think we called them miniature tigers. I think we called them miniature tigers.

I'm trying to figure this out on the fly. It seems like they're spelled the same way. But if I said the Seattle miniature show, that would seem like it would have a very different meaning.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Anyway, okay, so I don't know if I'm going to that or not. I have to record something on Saturday afternoon. I don't know if I can do them both, but I would love to make it to the miniature show if possible.

That sounds fun.

Yes.

I don't have any hugely specific weekend plans. I'm going to spend some time down in Portland with Becca. But what I've got to get done before the weekend, because today is, as I've already mentioned, an absolutely beautiful day weather-wise. Blue skies. It's going to get up to nearly 70 here. Remember earlier this week I said I was feeling the pull of some lawn mowing, but I really wanted to wait for the right day. And today feels like the right day. It's a Friday. There's going to be presumably a Mariner game on later. They're playing today, right?

Yeah, around 5 o'clock. I was going to say, yeah, I, um, let's see. I could probably, yeah, I was, it's a beautiful day outside. The Mariners have a spring training game on kind of in the early evening. And I'm wondering, I, I'm not, I'm not joking about this. If people don't see a newsletter in their inbox this weekend, don't panic. Luke, I know you did a video for it, but I assume that can hang till next week, possibly.

I'm not sure yet I've been I have not done any work on it and I'm feeling those feelings you're talking about when you look out the window and you see the sun outside I'm like do I feel like sitting behind this computer all afternoon I think honestly it's about self-care it's about work-life balance and I think if you go out and enjoy this because the thing is tomorrow I think the kind of like lousy weather returns and for the foreseeable future we are in a very specific moment of time where it feels like this and looks like this and smells like this, and we should take advantage of it. And if that means that we—also, it'll just help you recharge. I don't want the newsletter—as a person who does nothing to help with the newsletter, I don't want it to be a source of stress or a sort of Damocles or a whatever. I think sometimes, you know, hanging up a gone fishing sign for a week, kind of probably—you'll fall back in love with the newsletter next week.

Maybe I'll just do that. Maybe I'll literally send out a gone fishing sign. I would totally support that as your co-bro. We'll be back next week. By the way, the weather right now, and I think you're going to know what I mean when I say this, it feels like hose weather. Like, I'm thinking if I'm not going to sit here and do that newsletter, I can put on a pair of, like, old, thicker shoes so my footsies don't get wet and pull out the hose and start hosing down some of the things in the yard. Is this a hose job? I think I need to do a hose job.

You hose yourself up and down.

I got this tiny little, like, kind of this little roofing, you know, that wavy roofing material over top of our. Oh, yeah, corrugated. Yeah, exactly. It's plastic. We put it up there, I think, a summer or two ago, and it's got all kinds of moss falling on it right now. I'm going to go up there and hose it down.

I love it. I want to see some photos of this. Well, I'm about to send you a photo, Andrew, because this morning I realized that what I wanted to do was get out and mow the lawn and listen to the Mariners and maybe swing by the store down in town and grab a couple ears of corn and other barbecuables, other things that I could even maybe grill. out and um but as i mentioned earlier this week i also wanted to see what was doing with my the lawnmower blades yeah you mentioned and and because this all started because i saw that there was a that's a mobile blade sharpening guy and on his sandwich board it said lawnmower blades and i was like oh yeah that's a good point so this morning uh after my jog i i went down uh to where my rider My Ryobi riding lawnmower is And I tipped it over Which was a great feeling Andrew Because I did not have to worry at all About any kind of gasoline or oil leaking And what I saw Underneath The whatever you call it The mower The blades, Andrew, the blades Are so jacked up Like it's clear that I hit a huge rock That bent, there's two sets of blades Like think of like almost like helicopter

Oh okay, yeah

both of the blades have have one end of them that are like bent in a like a totally ridiculous fashion where i clearly like hit a rock as these two blades were sort of overlapping and it like you know what i mean and like wildly bent them they are corroded they're rusty are they bent

in a way it's been a long long time since i dealt with a mower with a bent blade but i feel like i have this visceral memory of uh having done that and then when you push the lawnmower it's cutting a rut into the ground because the blade is bent down towards the earth do you know what i'm talking about uh-huh so do you have any recollection of pushing this thing and being like oh man that's weird that's jacking up my lawn well the thing is i'm driving it so it's a little bit of a different that's why i'm picturing this wrong and that's why there are two blades of

course i'm sorry yes um but but i will tell you this this thing hasn't been right you know for like it's it's it's been i guess kind of working but like it's been being weird for like starting let's say in july or something this thing has not been right and now i understand why it's because i had totally jacked up the blades And so here's the thing. Guess how much a replacement set of these Ryobi blades are.

I can't tell you that because I just went to my computer to Google it. I was going to say, why don't you just buy new blades?

$29. Oh. Such a deal.

Oh, great.

So I've ordered some. They're going to be arriving at my local Home Depot.

Oh, sweet.

But not until later in the week, not until early next week. Oh, okay. And I don't know if you know how calendars work, but I can't wait until early next week, Andrew. I'm on a mission from God. So what I did this morning when I came up here into the studio to begin my day of work was I ignored my work. And I went on to YouTube to watch videos of guys repairing the blades for their Ryobi riding lawnmowers. And I learned something important. Don't bang on it with a hammer, which was exactly my plan.

Yeah, right. So are they putting them in some sort of vice?

Yes, they are. and then using, like, channel locks to just kind of bend them back, which would have never occurred to me. Also, of the many things about this house that I inherited that I don't like, including an NRA mailing list, et cetera, the guy who had this house before me has about four different sets of, like, mounted vice grips on various work benches in the basement, if you know what I'm saying, like big kind of industrial vice grips. Or vices. Vice grip is a tool. Not vice grips. You know what I'm talking about.

I misspoke to begin the segment, but yeah, vices, not vice grips.

Vices, yeah, the kind of thing that's attached to the workbench that's got the kind of twirly thing on it. Yeah.

So I've got those. But you said that that was something that you weren't happy that you inherited at first?

Well, no, no, of the many things that I am happy about.

Oh, okay, gotcha.

I am happy that I have vice grips and that it turns out those appear to be, wait, I'm saying it again. Vices. Well, we know I've got vices. Oh, good. Great news. He got more vices. These ones are a little better than some of the ones I've battled. But because I'm glad to know that I have the proper tool for the job, I watched a couple of YouTube videos about it. Again, my entire idea was take these blades off, lay them down on the concrete, and start wailing on them with a hammer, which is literally the number one thing they say you shouldn't do. So later I'm going to unscrew them. I think getting them off of the thing is going to be a bit of a chore, but I'll give it a shot. Get them in the vise. Get them straightened out. Get them back on the mower for at least today.

Maybe give him a – do you have a file? Could you sharpen him a little bit? I'm going to hit him with a file.

I'm going to see if I can get a little bit of a gleam, a little bit of a sharper edge on there, and then get back out and see what we can do about this lawn. It's just interesting to me that I noticed something had changed about the way that the lawnmower was operating, or at least its efficacy, but it never occurred to me to just kind of look at the blades and go, is everything copacetic? And it turns out nothing was copacetic.

Yeah, yeah. It's going to be satisfying when you get those new guys. The new ones. Did you now, did you Burbank this? So you need two new blades. Did you buy four?

Come on, who do you think you're talking to? Did you buy six? No, I bought four. Did you buy eight?

No, four, four.

No, that makes sense, sure. I bought two sets. Here was my thought. I think I'm going to need, I think basically the deal, I'm not planning on hitting more stuff, but I have a feeling that, because really there's also a lot of like corrosion and stuff just from like you know moisture i have a feeling that really what you need to do is every season you know when it's time when we're back to the spring and it's time to start again probably replace the blades and considering they're 29 that seems like a good investment for getting really good outcomes for the entire season so i thought if i'm ordering one of these things i might as well order two i'll put one up on the workbench and so then next spring when i replace them again i don't have to go buy them is my is my thought i like that thought but anyway that's what i am i am as you can tell andrew i am like i'm you're gonna be getting videos of me on the lawnmower riding around today because i'm and i didn't even know the mariner game was at five but that's i just looked it up during the

show at some point because i was looking out my window i am getting those feelings and i again like i know i know that we'll get more rain and stuff like i'm not really bummed about having a little spring it was weird like sort of online yesterday on reddit i saw people like you know i'm on the seattle subreddit or whatever and people complain about all kinds of things but like kind of saying like we oh man it's fall spring we're having like people were already complaining about the fact that we have a few days of nice weather and i'm kind of like well don't just don't complain that bad weather is on the horizon enjoy these few days of beautiful

weather in january or february no good weather or some good weather i'm gonna take some good

weather so i'm looking outside my window right now and just thinking like yeah i'm thinking about baseball i'm thinking about i don't even know who the mariners are playing or if it's televised even but i could even see myself getting out my little push mower or something yeah i need to

the idea that i could be like it could be five o'clock and i could be making some sort of an outdoor relationship

food thing with the baseball game on and granted these games could not mean less there with by the third inning i won't recognize any of the players on either of the teams but just the idea that that could be the backdrop of my kind of late afternoon as it's almost touching 70 is uh as as as i like to say it is giving me life it's making me feel good on this friday and there's not a lot of stuff out there to make us feel good so i'll take it and they're playing our what do they call them

our natural rivals the San Diego Padres which is that funny they call them is that because they also play in Peoria that is my understanding ah unless I'm just loud wrong about this but I just think it's the most laughable thing I feel like when I was listening to spring training a while back like years ago they would say ah our natural rivals having natural the yeah right you mean in a different division yeah like what is that and then it's like they're a national league team because we share the practice facility or something so they're trying to I think just I kind of make it a thing make it a thing and you know the Padres are going to be good this year oops let's not get into baseball talk I've done that too many times this week honestly at this

point I think this is this show is just for us Andrew I've descended deep into lawnmower talk which is usually when people check out so let's get out of here okay thank you for listening everyone that will bring us to the end of this broadcast week words they mean nothing

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both very regrettable way to end the week thanks for listening everybody we'll be back here on Monday with more imaginary radio in the meantime have a great weekend stay safe take care of yourselves and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

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