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I love a good gas station. There's a great gas station by my house. I'm in there all the time. I talk to the employees. They know me. This just happened. I was in there. I had a weird thing with the woman, the cashier. I bought a beer at the gas station, and the cashier goes, when's your birthday, honey? And I said, November 13, 1991. And she goes, oh, my daughter's on the first. But, you know, different year. so you're telling me nothing is that way i said three things and two of them don't apply to your daughter who i've never met what do you want me to say to that get her in here dude i got are you kidding me i gotta meet this girl november what that's insane get her in here

I consider myself to be an absolutely dead center, normal, average American.

And it's romantic and it's full of these sort of situations, which turns out to be that's very interesting, very scary at times, but also a lot of romance and really well made. so i recommend good soundtrack good soundtrack is there and i'm just guessing here some kind of

medication that you maybe need a lot of and have taken none of or maybe too much of today

laughter a sure sign of a good time flashes of queen sea well all right hello good morning and welcome everyone to a tuesday edition of tbtl the show that just might be too beautiful to live

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My name's Luke Burbank. I am your host. Please clap. Coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio perched high above the mighty Columbia, where it is an absolutely spectacular Tuesday, the 14th of October. Oh, ma, pa, it's just beautiful. I mean, just crystal blue skies. The cows are out in the river, and we are ready, my friends, for episode 4,575 in a collector series.

Let the fun begin.

i know we talk about ai kind of a lot on this show these days only because it's a big topic and sometimes i think the abilities of ava ai can be a bit overstated but there is this new video program that basically generates ai video content that is shockingly shockingly capable and i think it's going to really revolutionize some stuff lying is like 95% of what I do. And I can't see how that could be in a good way. Also, somebody stole a dinosaur in a bad way. In the Palisades in California. But then they got the dinosaur back and it's a cute story. We will talk about that. And we're going to talk to this guy, longest running co-bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's Andrew Walsh and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

Good morning, Luke. We learned once again yesterday that sometimes making a little booboo, making a little mistake on the show is one of the best ways to generate interaction with our listeners engagement indeed do you have any idea what I am going to correct the record on? We have heard from dozens dozens of people on one specific little topic, do you know what it is? I believe it might be

a bear

go ahead, no I'm giving you time

A bear who had no idea what world it just stepped into.

That was it. That was it. You know what? I'm going to play it again, Luke. Give it the volume that it needs.

A bear who had no idea what world it just stepped into.

There it is. We didn't know which bear's world we stepped into yesterday. Referring to your new cute sweater, I believe, is a Paddington Bear sweater. My new cute lucky sweater, by the way. Lucky sweater. But actually, it was Winnie the Pooh. As for the show pick yesterday, I grabbed a screen cap of you wearing the shirt. And then when I was posting it to the website, I was typing in the, what do you call it, the alt data or whatever for people who are visually impaired. To describe, yeah, what's actually in the photo. And as I'm describing, I'm just like, I guess that's Paddington. I didn't question it. I was just like, I remember saying to you, why not the rain slicker? I always thought that is the thing. I'm like, why did he disrobe from the rain slicker? No, no, this is famous naked on the bottom, this time naked almost all the way through. Not Paddington, but Winnie the Pooh is on your shirt.

Yes, and they are very different bears. I'm looking now. It does make me sad that when you Google Paddington Bear or Paddington, yeah, Paddington Bear, all of the visual, the initial sort of, you know, image responses are all the sort of like uncanny, what would you call it?

Like, not animated, but like the... Almost like computer-generated kind of illustrations. Computer-generated, animated Paddington Bear, which is not what I think of. Exactly. Not the classic Paddington Bear, but whatever newfangled business they've been... By the way, I'm sure these movies are 25 years old. But they feel newfangled to me because they're not the Paddington Bear that I grew up with. Famous lover of marmalade.

Paddington loves marmalade. Paddington loves marmalade, or... Yes. Okay, Winnie likes honey. He loves honey. I see. Interesting. You're right. Oh, because one, and why would I go? I don't know why would I.

Because of colonization, Andrew. Let's take it to the most fun place.

I was going to say, was he English? Paddington? He is British. Sounds very British.

He loves marmalade, which I feel like is related to the colonization of India. But I could be wrong about that. I see. But my gut says I've never been wrong about Paddington bear-related topics.

Right. I know. That's what I like. I like the fact that we got some corrections on that. And then I did zero more research, and now here I am trying to extend out the differences between these two bears. Now, here's one thing I'm going to say. And it was popularized in Scotland. Ah, not England. It has nothing to do with colonization. Now, this is going to be a somewhat controversial take on the topic, but have we ever seen these two? You know what? It's not a take. I'm just asking questions here, Luke. Have we ever seen the two bears in the same room together? How do we know they're not the same?

one of them has glasses that's what's always throwing me off very really black glasses that's a clark kent joke that's right and a little mustache i'm never gonna recover from how wrong i was about marmalade that was that was hurtful to the people of the united kingdom the people of scotland the people of portugal where i'm now learning it apparently originated somehow india

is also insulted i don't even know why caught astray on this subcontinent i apologize in three

3, 2, 1. All right, good morning, hello, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of TBTL, the show that just might be Too Beautiful to Live.

Carol, hold my calls. Just starting over. I love it. I love it. Gosh. So you sort of saw that after the show yesterday, too. That was probably just a quick in the moment you said the wrong word. You weren't actually confusing them? I was totally confused. You were confusing them.

Well, I hadn't given it any thought. I purchased, Andrew, I purchased a sweater. It was cute. With a naked animal on it.

Yes, you went to nakedanimals.com.

I actually think this might be on Becca, because I wore the sweater to throw her. Let's add Becca to the list of people who've been wronged by this episode seven minutes in.

Becca's over there eating her marmalade. Exactly, colonizer.

And I feel like this weekend we discussed the bear on my sweater this past weekend, And either I said Paddington, and she didn't correct me, or she might have said Paddington. Yeah. I'm pretty sure she said Paddington.

Yeah. And I just went with it. You know what? I am totally on board with throwing her under the bus here. Thank you. Because I kind of co-signed it as well. You did. When you said it, I co-signed it. But I didn't co-sign yours.

So you asked me who was the bear, and I said Paddington.

Yes. Yeah, I think at one point I even stumbled and I couldn't think of his name for some reason. By the way, I want to say one of the people who did reach out to me personally to set the record straight on that was our dear friend and celebrity journalist, Harriet Dellinger. Dellinger? Oh, from Harriet's On The Move. Yes, exactly. There in Friendship, Wisconsin. Wait, Harriet? Is that the first time I've said her name out loud? Because it occurred to me I might be mispronouncing Harriet's last name. But we all know who Harriet is. Wait a second. Hold on. Harriet called in or emailed in to correct the record on my sweater. Harriet wrote to me personally via email yesterday, not long after the show posted, by the way. And the show was... She didn't message APM where we still work? The fact knower has logged on? She listens to every show now. And yesterday's show was a two hour and 12 minute ordeal, Luke. I consider it a corker. By the way, I will apologize to you and the audience sincerely here, not joking. The day after the Mariners won two of the biggest games in their history, we should not have spent at least 15 minutes arguing about whether Dan Wilson is a good manager. I'm not saying it's not a conversation to have. Yesterday was not the day to have it, and I felt really bad the rest of the day about that conversation. First of all, my performance was terrible. Well, do you agree he's a good manager now? I don't, I still, well, this is the beauty of me, Luke.

Because he told them, let's get 10 runs, and they did it. A bad manager would not have said, let's get 10 runs.

Luke, you ignorant, I, no, I am a terrible debater. I still think I'm right.

But I just, I am a terrible debater. And also, like, I made no good points, so I'm mostly mad at myself. But also, it was just like, I just think everybody was, like, so excited to hear us just revel in the pure joy of this postseason and everything that the baseball gods have given us. And I include Dan Wilson as a baseball god. And then I just get in the trenches, and I'm just saying, well, you don't read Reddit, or whatever I was saying. That is not what you said. But anyway, I feel bad about that. I apologize to you and the listeners, but Harriet did listen to the whole, Harriet listens to the entire show. She said, came in hot, by the way, wrote, by the way, the email begins, by the way, I listened to the whole episode and the bear is in Paddington, it's Winnie the Pooh, just saying, I get the scores every day. So Harriet is out there in friendship, by the way, well, Adams County, right? Adam's friendship, we'll say. Like, hardcore rooting for the Mariners via the scoreboard reports because of our love. Like, Harriet has become a friend and a traveler of this podcast, and I truly appreciate it.

A fellow traveler on the road to 5,000. Harriet, we love you, and we appreciate you. And you're absolutely right. That bear that was not clothed is not Paddington Bear. That is Winnie the Pooh. Although it's actually not. That's the thing. I don't think they have the rights to any of it. I think it's a Pooh-like bear.

Well, that was the other thing that I was sort of thinking is I'll bet you, because you said you bought that on an Instagram store of some sort. The fact that I call it an Instagram store says that I should probably, my grandkids should probably take my phone away, by the way. But no, it's very cute.

It's always hard to have that conversation with grandpa that he can no longer be trusted with a phone.

Now, let me ask you this. Do I have to go on the website and find that photo and go into the alt data and change it for the folks who can't actually see this photo? That's between you and our listeners who may be visually impaired. Yeah. I feel like I'm lying to them, but I'm also sort of setting the record straight here.

On the subject of which? Well, those folks are presumably now hearing this.

I'm hoping that's the case.

And it's getting corrected. So if you're one of our listeners who utilizes that function on the website of the description of what's in the photos, just know that that description is incorrect, and it is, in fact, Pooh Bear, who is on the sweater. And speaking of folks who are visually impaired, did I mention to you the other day, I did write about this on Instagram, that over the weekend, I was using my record player. I was playing a record. My mom and dad were over, and I was playing a Ray Charles record. and we were bopping and enjoying it, and my mother took a moment to ask if I knew that Ray Charles was blind.

Hmm. And did you? I did. Yeah. That's one of the— If you dig deep in the Wikipedia page, you will learn that.

Uh-huh. Yeah, I feel like it's in the top five known things about Ray Charles. And then she said, well, what about Stevie Wonder? I said, also blind. And then she said, amazingly, who did it first?

Did it? I don't understand the question. Who had the idea to be blind first, Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles? I will not respond to it.

I believe Ray Charles was older, so I guess in this construction, Ray Charles?

That is an interesting question.

It was a truly, it was one of one as far as conversations I've had with my mother, and I've really had some over the years. Who did it first? Who wore it better?

That's what I was about to say. I'm not going to riff on that anymore

because i don't want to be disrespectful um but we are in high spirits today because of our

seattle mariners we are i was going to ask you a question before we got into the seattle mariners if that's okay but i i worry a little bit about putting you on the spot here because today something just happened right before the show some sad news broke and it's a reminder of um i know about this well you you might um you might just not expect me to bring it up but it's just it's a reminder of my just just huge just like gaping wide blind spots of pop culture I just saw that D'Angelo passed away I don't know oh so you didn't know that this just kind of broke right before the show and there is and I was reading um a New York Times kind of initial obit on him and I'm seeing this just absolute outpouring just an outpouring 51 yes incredibly young and also people just like now i'm seeing like sort of for the first time just like what a how how well respected and beloved a musician he was and i gotta say you like first of all in the 90s i was listening to music but it was all my like if it wasn't old stuff it was very alternativey stuff i was never a big r&b person and then i i think his huge hit was in 2000 when i had basically totally opted out of pop culture so i could just follow race

Thank you.

Suarez and the gang and talk of the nation like these are the big D'Angelo head and so like I um I always had heard the name D'Angelo and I knew like you know kind of 90s early 2000s R&B singer but I I was totally unaware of his impact on the culture and it's pretty embarrassing I'm bringing it up here I guess maybe as a certain kind of um penance but I was kind of curious if if this was something that loomed larger in your life as somebody who is more into pop music especially He has somebody who does karaoke and stuff.

Well, I would never have tried to pull off a D'Angelo song at karaoke.

Yeah, maybe nobody should ever try that. That was maybe a wrong way for me to end that.

I do remember he put out this album, Brown Sugar, that was like a big hit. And here's the thing, and I don't want to objectify the guy in his passing, but the video from Brown Sugar, I believe, awakened feelings in a lot of people that they may have not known existed. or it was a it was a real coming of age moment because he is shirtless he is absolutely about as attractive as a person could ever be on this planet and that was again i don't want to i don't want to minimize d'angelo's career but you say d'angelo to me and i think oh that video yes that

incredibly hot video the song was untitled apparently that was the name of the song of the song and that was off of an album called brown sugar i believe so yeah and that's just like i

I just, like, again, I don't want to reduce his career down to that, but that's, he was, that video is really something. And I believe the camera's kind of just doing this, like, if I remember right, it's sort of 360-ing around him. It's very sort of spare. It's like, well, we don't need to add a lot to this because we've got a shirtless D'Angelo, and it's working.

Here, can I, do you want me to read to you the official New York Times description of that video? Oh, good.

They mention it, so that's some cover for me. Yeah, well, this is the thing.

I'm not trying to make you feel bad here, but they kind of mentioned that it was like, this is what most people sort of know him about or know about him I should say or the first thing they think of is like so iconic and again yeah totally lost on me I'm reading about this and people and I'll read you the description so I love hearing New York Times write about erotica and the way they describe it but apparently it really he kind of then slipped away out of pop culture for a long time after that and he kind of didn't like the idea of being a sex symbol I mean And I don't know why he chose that particular video then, but apparently it set him off track for a while there. But here's how the New York Times describes it. Untitled, set to an erotically slow pace, also crossed over to the wider pop market, reaching number 10 in the Billboard's all-genre Hot 100 chart, thanks in no small part to its music video. In the video, D'Angelo stood as a black Adonis in cornrows, apparently naked. The video framed its lower edge just below his waist, except for a gold crucifix. The camera scanned D'Angelo's muscled, sweat-drenched physique as he brought the song, Luke, to an orgasmic climax. Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times.

What you hear from me is leaving that, I'm leaving that completely in the clear. Because I need somebody to pull that audio.

I stumbled too much. I didn't do a good job on my dramatic reading. I'm ashamed.

no that's um i mean that's that's that's very evocative the writing of it and uh and yeah i didn't realize now i'm kind of like also learning more about i didn't realize that he was reclusive or at least as described in some of his obits that he sort of had stepped away from from the spotlight and all that but um yeah yeah that said also i just feel like 51 is not old andrew i don't know if you know this it's not old and the older i get the less old numbers like 51 become to me

yes exactly you so i just realized and i'm not saying this so that you can get me any gifts although luke you know it's on my wish list you know it's on my amazon wish list it's that jeff bezos would go away live out his days on his island that's shaped like a human skull with juan sanchez and not bother us uh that jeff bezos would be forced to walk in someone else's shoes for a while but um

You know what Jeff Bezos' ultimate punishment is? There are so many people who call him Bezos. I'm shocked at how many people think his name is Bezos. Beedzos?

Beezos. Okay, gotcha. By the way, shout out to listener Gretchen, our friend and teacher in Tacoma who came up to Seattle this weekend and inherited all of the beads. Oh, nice. Left over from our bracelet-making party. Thank you, Gretchen. And thanks to everybody who reached out with both ideas of where to donate and folks who said I could use it as well. And Gretchen says there will be a great use for this in the classroom. So it's just so nice to know that those are going somewhere where they can be appreciated and used.

But by the way, did you say this just so we don't get Paddington again? that the D'Angelo song is untitled How Does It Feel? Were you saying that?

Oh, I didn't see that. I was just reading directly from the time.

Yeah, the How Does It Feel, I was remembering there was something else to that, and it's untitled, parenthetically, How Does It Feel.

Oh, sorry about that. I might have been reading. Parenthetically, Winnie the Pooh. I was reading the New York Times, so it was second reference in the graph that I was, you know how the New York Times has very specific rules about first and second reference, Luke? It was referred to as Mr. Untitled, the second reference in what I was reading. I believe that's honorifics is the name for that style of writing. I don't know why I was about to say this or how we got into it, but to finish my sentence, I just found out that my birthday is on Thanksgiving this year. A friend pointed that out to me. I didn't even know.

That must happen, what, every 10 years? I mean, it must cycle into Thanksgiving and out of Thanksgiving, right?

This is what a moron I am. because i i know that leap years mess around with this as well but this came up on the show once a couple of years ago and then phyllis sent me i can't remember if she figured it out herself or figured it out using computers or ai or the internet but like it's not something simple like well every seven years i would think there's seven days in a week it would somehow you know thanksgiving is always the what is it second to last thursday or the last thursday

in November I think the last Thursday in November and so you would think it would be on a more

regular schedule but anyway it seems to vary greatly maybe because of leap years or whatever but like there are clusters of years where it lands on Thanksgiving more often than not I think I was saying when I was a kid it seemed like it landed on Thanksgiving a lot more than it does as an adult but it doesn't really affect my life too much I don't plan on doing anything especially celebratory for my birthday as usual but it was an interesting thing to note and I was just thinking about birthdays because you had mentioned like that you're you're about to turn your next birthday will be turning to 50 exactly right and i'm about to turn 49 here in about a month

um does genevieve uh i know you know you're not a we know you're not a big birthday guy but does genevieve what's the process she says happy birthday and gives you a kiss on the forehead and that's pretty much it like how does it go in the household on your birthday it involves a very

sexy dance. How much do you actually, how much do you, what do you know about the D'Angelo video? Imagine a possibly nude Andrew. Uh, I don't know how it goes. I don't know. I don't, yeah. I mean, Genevieve will always get me a gift. Certainly there will be a moment where we will sit down and I will, uh, open a gift last year. It was a, uh, it was a cool t-shirt And along with a gift card to a cool record shop that's in, I want to say, not Ballard, but in that area. And no, I don't go in for cake or anything like that. I'm not a big cake guy. Sometimes if I'm feeling like I want to do something special, I will sometimes use my birthday just as an excuse to go spend too much money at a nice steakhouse or something like that. Like, what's the nice steakhouse? You and I would go there sometimes with the Cairo sales department down in South Lake Union. Oh, Daniel's Broiler? Yeah. Like, I remember we would go to Daniel's Broiler. Maybe not even on my birthday. Did we go with Brock once? Maybe you did. I don't know. I don't know. I remember. I think I've told you this many times on the show. I remember I was working at Cairo Radio as a producer. I was producing the show that you and Dave Ross hosted. they were just beginning to slot me in in some fill-in slots as a host here and there. I remember that. I can't even remember the origin of that. I think I just started talking during your show or something, or they paired me up with Curly one time as a producer, and he made me talk on the radio a lot. And then after that, they started slipping me into some late-night time slots or whatever. But I remember sitting at Daniel's Broiler. the sales folks wanted to take i don't know i think it was just you and me dave ross might have been there and then one of the sales people said we heard you're hosting the ron and don show later this week and i said what like yeah you remember this yeah and i was like are you kidding i remember like because that's a that's drive time right and i did not that must have felt very heady to you the whole thing that is the perfect word to use i wouldn't have thought of that but yeah i remember like just like being like i am and then like the rest of the evening and i love i love a good like kind of steakhouse hang anyway that's kind of a good vibe for me and i just remember like yeah heady is the perfect word sort of my head swimming the rest of the time like first of all being like i gotta get to the station tomorrow and figure out because so far my program director hasn't told me this nobody's told me this i need to verify this and then also i need to start a worrying campaign. Things are going to start.

happening to me now that's a good that's a fond memory that was a really fun day too i remember that as well um so maybe you'll go you'll go uh get a fancy steak or something like well not on

your actual birthday yeah probably not i'll probably i you know but if i do that i might defer it you know sometimes it's just fun to go do that so maybe sometime around my birthday if if i do we haven't done that in a while and that's just a steak deferred is a steak denied

can you believe we ruined canadian thanksgiving i know that was kind of a big thing yesterday and i want to say shout out to our friends in canada i'm i'm i'm of course uh pretty excited about the mariners winning but i'm also sorry that we ruined your thanksgiving and i don't really mean that as a joke thanksgiving is kind of my high holiday yeah as people who listen know i love thanksgiving and um it was an it was i mean there was a lot about that baseball game that was memorable for me but i've never seen i was saying this in the text chain uh there i've never seen baseball announcers do their john madden impression because i always associate john madden with thanksgiving day football and there's always this kind of quite uh upsetting turkey they would make that would have like nine legs on it because everybody who got like in a like that like if you got a turkey leg that was like um you know john madden was singling you out well not singling you out but was honoring your performance but then there was like more people getting the award than there are legs on a turkey so they started doing this real kind of frankenstein's turkey kind of situation but anyway a lot of turkey talk yesterday on the baseball broadcast

which was weird yeah the game ended up being a bit of a blowout it was a weird afternoon game at least for us here in our time zone so it sort of broke up the day in a kind of a strange way do watching the games like that during the day does it have a very different effect on you i had trouble um the last time we had a day game like that was the loss to the tigers and i told you that i was sort of like really you know that that that bummed me out for a while this one was like kind of a blowout this was a blowout in our favor but i still had sort of trouble engaging with it I can't explain it I was watching I was there watching but I was so I just had a lot of life stuff was coming in like kind of trying the doctors trying to make appointments with me which makes me sound sickly but just like my chart is popping off for some reason I've had this project that I've been dragging my feet on that I dedicated to yesterday to doing and so I was kind of running in and out of my studio and trying to do that and then I don't know I just sort of felt like And I feel like I keep on saying this, but I felt like maybe if that were a night game, I'd be jumping up and down and just screaming my head off at the number of runs that the Mariners produced. But instead, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is good. I just felt very distracted the whole time.

It was sort of like you're checking a box. Like, okay, Mariners win. Good. Runs are being scored. Okay, check that box. And now what else? as opposed to it being the total centerpiece of the rest of the day, or I should say of the day itself.

Yeah, maybe. And I think I just, well, now I'm just getting too personal. I don't think I realized this until the end of the day yesterday when I started to kind of, I think I had some generalized anxiety yesterday, generally speaking. Maybe it's because I felt bad for pooping all over the Mariner's victories with a weird half-baked argument.

Nobody except Harriet was listening to that part of the show.

that's the good news I don't know what it was but like it was just a kind of a combination of various things and so I feel like yeah there was just like some anxiety generally speaking and maybe some of it is about the game I almost had a moment yesterday where I was kind of like wait a second whatever I I'm I don't want to go down this road but I was sort of like wait how much of my anxiety lately has been about baseball and how much of it has been about other things and I'm

putting it in a baseball looking package sure yeah I can totally understand that like just focusing it on the Mariners because that's something tangible. And then, of course, it's also just weird. It's enjoyable when they're winning but it's also a strange experience for it to be the daytime and for it to be not stressful. And Thanksgiving like you said. It was such a weird experience. And it's Canadian. And John Schmoltz is eating a turkey breast. What the hell is going on?

I didn't like it. I know what he was trying to do at one point. He was trying to hold, he slices a piece of turkey and that was turkey, right?

It did make me hungry for turkey, by the way.

But he started, like, he tried to hold the meat up to the camera, like a slice of it, but then it was clear that he wasn't prepared for it and started falling apart on him. And it was, did you see that? And he's, like, using his hands and fingers too much. I'm like, ugh, that's, ugh, that's, like, you're handling that too much.

Well, you had one of the announcers who was trying to show off his turkey breast cutting skills, and he kept talking about skin. Now everybody gets some skin.

And I was like, okay, calm down. I might have been a little distracted over that part.

I was like, and so then, so the main announcer, whose name alludes me, the- And then John Schmoltz is like the color commentator guy. Long time Atlanta Brave, great. By the way, they are, I said this also on the text chain, but man, is this broadcast crew better than the previous one, in my opinion. Like, I feel like John Schmoltz is insightful. It also helps that the Mariners won both games. And so I guess I haven't been, like you were talking about your maybe generalized anxiety, kind of trying to find a specific box to go into, maybe it's the Mariners. my mariner anxiety is always searching for something and someone to blame for how i'm feeling and it becomes the announcers very quickly uh-huh interesting so maybe because the mariners are winning i then feel better about the announcing but i do think that they're a little better but yeah they were they were they were literally tap dancing like it was the game was really not that close and they were going into like oh we're just filling time mode and now i'm going to show off my turkey breast here's how you cut a turkey breast so that everybody gets some skin was like i don't want to hear that from my baseball announcers just a little bit somehow just felt a little graphic to you yeah i mean uh the idea that this guy has given this much thought to the skin distribution of his thanksgiving dinner and that he grew up in a house where if you didn't get enough skin you were getting left out of the process now let me ask you a baseball question let me let's get off of the topic of skin and on to the topic of baseball something that we have barely talked about so far in the last couple of weeks um you said yesterday that if the mariners um you would you prefer that they win the game yesterday that they are leading two games to zero over the toronto blue jays but you also said that that could also continue your anxiety because then it would make a the mariners not winning this series more of a collapse as opposed to just a hard-fought series that we weren't able to best the blue jays in but like being up 2-0 now means the Mariners are presumed to be winning this series the statistics are that when you go up 2-0 in one of these series most of the time that team wins not all of the time but a lot of the time and uh so I'm wondering how you're feeling today because it's pretty exciting that they're

up 2-0 but is it actually having the effect that you thought it might uh I think yeah I I remember saying that yesterday and also feeling like that was one where I was not articulating what I was saying I think okay I will answer your question but first let me kind of reset what I was saying yesterday i think what i was trying to say is i won't i have just basically been not counting any chickens before they're hatched and i i was like kind of emotionally prepared thinking we were not going to make it out of the tiger series and then we did and that was great and then i was like oh well the blue jays are definitely going to eat us up and now obviously two games up i no longer believe that it is a given that we are not going to win the series i remember coming into the Blue Jays series and just sort of thinking I just don't want to be swept I just want to show you know some I want to show some that we can play good baseball and not not embarrass ourselves and not collapse in a way that will haunt us forever because I feel like the Mariners have had some pretty famous haunting losses in the postseason and uh and that's what I was trying to maybe articulate yesterday about where I was emotionally but two games up now obviously we're not getting swept over there where as you were uh you kept saying during thank you i appreciate i i'm a

ball i actually hadn't thought of that i hadn't thought of that i'm not i'm not being sarcastic i am not being what do you mean i mean i just hadn't thought about the fact that we have

officially avoided a sweep we have officially avoided a sweep we played some great ball you know there i i am very much in what do you think about my mantra yeah no i was just about i was going to try to paraphrase that a moment ago and what what did you keep um putting in the

text chain yesterday let me see if i can find it the exact words because i was proud of this and i also feel like and again i'm just getting lucky here but i feel like about the time that i put that into the text chain things really started turning around for our beloved mariners for some reason i cannot locate the criminals this happens sometimes on my computer but i can find it on my phone i was saying basically oh i got it here if you okay good yeah he says uh the luke

kept putting this in the text I think before the game in the middle of the game and then afterwards it was maybe near the beginning

when they came back and tied at 3-3 as they say the brakes were beating the boys that was when I needed to go I needed to take my mind to a place of positivity and by the way this could have ended really badly if we gave up 7 runs after this but we didn't thankfully

I'm quoting from your final repost of this yesterday, the Mariners are good at baseball the Mariners do good baseball plays the Mariners have good players so in other words when we were down by or maybe where we we weren't down when they tied it up yeah it was kind of terrifying

because it was like you're just waiting for this sleeping giant that is the Toronto Blue Jays and it is this like absolutely geeked crowd you're waiting for that to sort of you know rise up and it's like oh my gosh this home run by Julio we're up three nothing this is amazing but I was tell you this and this is where i guess i was i was probably maybe channeling a little bit more of your thought process andrew when we went up three nothing no part of me felt good about that i mean that's not true i was i'd much rather we were ahead three nothing than losing three nothing but no part of me thought game over i was like my thought was it's going to take like nine runs to win this game um it turns out it would have taken four runs but just like it was weird because we get that home run and like for some reason my first thought wasn't like oh phew we've got this game it was like okay well now we need to start piling on because i know that there's going to be a moment where these folks are going to come rushing back and of course they did very quickly

tie the game again yeah just like they got a home run on the very very first pitch of game one like that didn't give us a good feeling either but you just never know what's going to happen and that's where i am now by the way uh and i guess apologies if i have been if i'm coming off as a grumpus about these things i'm just like trying to not get my expectations up too high but this is fun and also um i feel like any literally anything could happen in baseball like you think that we have the advantage because we're up by two games and now we're coming home and we have like everything looks good on paper our pitching staff is going to be pretty well rested as we get into this rotation here um the woo question uh remains a big question him although maybe less so now i mean depending on how it goes yeah well that's true too if if we even see him i'm which is such an amazing thing to even contemplate if the series doesn't go that long but um i am i anything could happen anything could happen the ball could totally bounce the other way for us you never know i think baseball is really weird but that's why i love it and i got to say after yesterday's win i'm just like very very appreciative of where we are right now and it is just it is bananas to think that we're two games away from potentially going to the World Series?

I lived in New York City when the Boston Red Sox were down, I think, 3-0 in the series against the Yankees and came back to win four in a row. And I'm not a particular Boston Red Sox fan. I'm also obviously not a big New York Yankees fan. It was absolutely exquisite for me to sit in these sports bars in New York City and watch the yankees collapse from a 3-0 lead in the in the world series i think it was wait they couldn't later than the world series yeah it would have been the alcs they had a 3-0 lead and the boston red sox i believe came all the way back and ended up winning the series so anything can happen and you're right like it's weird because like you would think mr mantra that's me i'm talking about me here uh would just be like we got this but um but now you're right it's it's strange because here's for whatever reason this is what always drives my sports beliefs is whatever everybody thinks is going to happen is almost never the thing that happens and so everybody thought in the first game oh the mariners are going to play really poorly because they just came off this 15 inning game uh their flight was delayed and they got in i love that too by the way like when pro athletes have to go through one percent of what we the rest of the people do it's like a call your congressman like every article was like and their flight was and their private plane was delayed oh man and they had to sit in those oversized large seats playing bunco with each other for an extra two hours god how will they survive this but anyway like by the

way they weren't saying that i heard the players quoting that time and just being like yeah we're just chill we're just at a and so they weren't woe is mean they actually described it very much as you described it like we're I think I haven't heard Cal say yeah you know we play cards uh-huh

good for them I like that I like that kind of um you know that that approach to these things um these hassles but uh yeah all the the all of the baseball knowers were like Bryce Miller has a terrible stats against uh against Willie kind of everyone this year and uh the Mariners are on no rest and like you know they're just going to try to escape with a one of the two games but definitely they're going to lose this game and that gave me this bizarre I really did I'm not just trying to like pat myself on the back i'm not just trying to paddington myself on the back here but um i did have a strange sense that the first game was going to go better for the mariners than people expected only based on the fact that usually when there is a conventional wisdom around something and everyone's like well it's just a given that it's crazy how often that doesn't end up happening that thing and now the conventional wisdom is oh the mariners are arrested they're going to send out you know arrested castillo he's going to be home there's going to be they kept talking last night about like you just can't understand how hungry this mariner fan base is for getting to the world series and it's like yes that is true but that has zero impact on the game yeah in fact i think there's an argument that being the home team is more stressful in a way you get to bat last which helps but you're like playing in front of your diehard supporters and the fact that they're screaming while you're hitting like hey let's quiet it down a little bit folks let's let

our hitters concentrate you know yeah well it'll be it it'll be very interesting

to see what the makeup of the crowd is going to be here at home too like there is how many jays fans yeah i mean i guess and i know we kind of have this conversation a lot obviously when the new york yankees are in town they have a national fan base so they true you know the yankees fans truly take over the stadium but the blue jays fans i i would say it's tied i i don't even know I mean, the Blue Jays fans during regular season games, if you are listening to a Mariners game here in Seattle on the radio, the crowd is so clearly rooting for the other team. It is disorienting because you realize how many little cues you get when you're listening on the radio and your mind might be on other things. And you hear the crowd go wild. You're just like, wait a second. The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd. Oh, you're familiar? Oh, you are? You're a baseball guy, too. I'm a news radio guy. I've been watching a lot of news radio lately, by the way. Very comforting. Just good to see Joe Rogan in his prime. I forgot about that. But anyway, it'll just be interesting to hear if Mariners fans, because there's no... I think it'll be different because of the playoffs. I hope so.

We've never had a home game against Toronto in the playoffs, because when we played them before, it was all in Toronto. so my sense is because it sells out so quickly because there's no i mean those regular season games it's like there are typically going to be a fair amount of tickets that are available and my sense is um well here's what i can say there were not very many mariners fans in toronto i was you know kind of when they would do crowd shots i was like let's i mean they found a few and certainly by the end yesterday it was the mariners fans were sticking around the blue jays fans were hitting the hit in the road but um but my sense is my guess is that there will not be it's not going to be like a regular season game there will be maybe some toronto fans but it's going to be overwhelmingly mariners fans which honestly i kind of like i feel like that's how it should be like yeah i don't i'm with you it's it's disorienting when we have these teams that come through and again i don't know why this matters here's what i will give the blue jays fans i'm guessing that most of the blue jays fans that show up are in fact canadian they come by their blue jays yes yes honestly as opposed to when the yankees come through and you and i there's nothing you and i love to do more from a moment of pure frustration and impotency than to say like oh what part of new york are you from and they say federal and they say federal way yeah exactly and then for some reason that in my mind means they're not allowed to like the yankees right right exactly it makes me so so mad so i will give it i will give it to the blue jays fans i don't think you have a lot of americans who just randomly latched on to the blue jays as although i did wear a blue jays hat in heavy rotation as a kid after i um stole my steven right valor and uh was awarded i think second or third place in the snow king stars of tomorrow talent show the uh my prize was 150 and i didn't know what to spend that money on at that age And so I went to the Pro Image at Northgate Mall And I bought a bunch of fitted hats And I bought a Cleveland Then they were called the Cleveland Indians Hat with a regrettable Logo on there

Oh yeah

Because I was a big fan of the movie Major League

Oh yeah right and that logo is all over the place And I thought that logo

I mean at the time of course I wasn't thinking about it in the broader sense And I thought it was in fact very cool I got that I got a There was one more I feel like and I don't even think I got a Mariner's hat. I think this was in the era when maybe we might have been getting into that S that I kind of like more now than at the time that it came out. And then I got a Blue Jays hat because I thought it was a pretty cool looking hat. It's a handsome hat. I stand by that.

Is it the kind that they were wearing yesterday with like the white panels on the front and the blue panels and the logo? No, I mean, listen, that is a tight uniform. That's a tight logo. Those hats are beautiful. The thing is, like, my thing with the Blue Jays is, like, I really, really get too angry about them taking over our stadium. I will admit that. Like, I really hate it. It triggers something in me. It makes me feel owned in a way that maybe I felt owned a lot as a kid, you know, by, like, bullies or whatever. And it's so weird. It's, like, to feel bullied by Canadian baseball fans, right?

Like, whatever, they're cheering for their team. Well, I've told you, some of the most tense interactions I've had at Mariners games have been with very drunk Blue Jays fans.

That is the reputation. I will say I haven't had any personally bad interactions other than just feeling like I'm, you know, a fish out of water in my own park. But you've had actual bad interactions with fans.

Oh, yeah. No, I've had, you know, kind of yelling matches and things like that. And again, I blame.

I blame Molson and probably Rainier, me with the Rainier, our Canadian fans with the Molson. Can I play something for you real quick, Andrew, that just really made my morning? This is a band, a group out of Seattle. I believe they're called Westerly's Music. It's a four-piece. It looks like a couple of trumpets and a couple of trombones. And take a listen to this perfection.

Have you ever heard a more beautiful sound?

That's so great. You said this is two jacks and a jill? They're out of Kansas City.

Right, yeah.

Key change. Another key change. That's Westerly's music playing the... I was you know what I forgot that that's still the theme song when I put that I put this like little video clip into the text chain recently that was like 90s I was listed on TikTok as like 90s mariners like hype music and I and I was I put it in there like oh what a flash what a blast from the past I was like wait that's still what they play it is yeah I think so yeah I I

don't is it on TV like they've been playing that for 25 years if not more because I know I hear it on the radio right i right yeah but i didn't know i couldn't quite remember if i heard it on a root sports though yeah maybe i don't like kind of see the beginning of games on a root sports so much i didn't realize that uh yeah because that that thing has been going around that original image that 90s imaging of of like the it's like the compass spinning around yes and it's like the

song is way too long i mean i guess it makes sense because it's for production they just are like however long, you know, like Rick Riz or Aaron Goldsmith or whomever wants to talk with the music under, and we need to give them a long music bed. But because of that, it goes, it's got like a ripping guitar solo. It's got like, again, multiple, it just keeps, the keys keep changing. It keeps ratcheting up. It's very long. That song, the one that I put in our text chain.

It reminds me actually going back to like kind of thinking about that, uh, that nineties imagery is what I was starting to say before, I wanted to hear if you had gotten in any good fights with Blue Jays fans that you wanted to open up about. But I will say that while I feel so much animosity because of that aspect of it, and them also, their fan base, they're very proud of that. They, you know, there was like, you know, people were saying in Toronto, or at least Toronto fans I saw online, like kind of saying, oh great, all of our games are home games this time because we take over, you know, and there's just something about that that rubs me the wrong way. But if I can take a step back from that kind of very particular phenomenon that goes on between our two teams right now. Like, what a cool matchup this is, just based on two, like, really cool teams, I think, both in their current state, but also just historically. The fact that they were both, it's brother versus brother right now. We were both born in the same year, right? Like, this is, I mean, there's a lot of, like, really cool things to love, I think, actually about the Blue Jays. And I think if things were different, I could totally see myself being a Blue Jays fan, first and foremost, because of those sweet-ass hats.

Yeah, those are very, very sweet hats. And yes, you know, as I said yesterday, there was a time where the sort of nationalism of the game played a role in my mind, which is to say I thought America was pretty great. And, of course, that has a lot to do with my experience. He said the day after Columbus Day. I've heard nothing has ever gone wrong in this country for anybody. but um you know i used to kind of have this weird an element of the whole thing for me was like we're the big brother canada is the little brother and um i don't know i just was sort of pretty smug about everything and i am no longer i can no longer feel smug about i mean i probably never should have but i certainly can't now and i don't know why that's part of i feel like that's been one of my burns on canada has been completely eliminated which is hey but we're a better country yeah again it was never an accurate burn yeah but in my mind it existed and now i don't even have that and it's almost like canada seems vastly superior to us maybe that's why the mariners are finally prospering because um you know there's some kind of the the universe craves balance and with canada being a manifestly better country than us that means our baseball teams have to be manifestly better than theirs

to be a balancing out if i were does that make any sense i um yeah i think well that's kind of that's science right uh i mean if if i were at one of these games because i'm assuming you know i brought this up yesterday and i'm assuming that they still do the thing where they'll play both national anthems um and because i saw some people saying you americans don't you know fellow americans do not be booing during their anthem which you sometimes you were saying that yesterday yeah Yeah, and I kind of brought that up, but I'm just thinking now, if I were at the game, there's a better chance I would stand for their anthem than ours. You know what I mean? I definitely would not be standing for ours right now because I don't think that this is the time to celebrate. Well, you're kneeling for our anthem, right? Thank you. Yes. I kneel for the cross. I stand for the anthem. Anyway, that's where I am. And now, so today's Tuesday. We have all day tomorrow to talk about it, but what are your thoughts about Wednesday's game as far as your viewing experience, not about predicting?

Well, it's at 4 p.m., which is better. Oh, it's 4, not 5. Oh, I had that wrong. I believe it's at 4 p.m. because, and again, it takes very little for me to get on this hobby horse, but, like, I was looking.

It does say 5, by the way. It says 5 o'clock. Oh, it does say 5. It's 5.08. I had never heard 4. I have 5 o'clock game 3, 5.30 game 4, and then a 3 o'clock game 5, if necessary.

Are they staggering? so are we playing this is crazy i swear to god i looked i could go on fubo i could go on fubo right now and double check this from this computer i swear i swear i was looking at the tv last night and they were showing when all the games were going to be on and maybe that's toronto two hours ahead of us maybe it was toronto time i don't know anyway i swear to god i saw that our games are each day our games are on before the dodger brewers games is at least that much true like are we always earlier than dodgers and brewers that i don't know i'm not following

i mean here i mean i could look it up i'm not really following the schedule i know that last night i was kind of just very mildly peeping the scoreboard for that uh brewers dodgers thing but i haven't really been kind of locked into that so that game had the craziest double play oh okay well let's see here so officially scored as a ground out by the way did you know that i mean

just absolutely wild a borderline grand slam that ends up actually being a uh like a home to third like out at home out at third double play your standard bases loaded double play that hit the

wall so weird i watch it like i had to watch it like five times to figure out what actually happened i only saw that on social media like right after it happened so i watched it a bunch there but That's the extent of it.

Okay, I am going to, I swear to God, Andrew, I know that this, listen, I know that I'm wrong so much, but I don't, my lion eyes, I looked at the schedule, they put it on the television, I looked at it, and I had feelings about it, and now the schedule I'm looking at is totally different. I may have just, the deer outside hear me getting worked up, which is never a good sign. A deer, did you say? Yeah, there's two deer in the yard, And they when I when it gets loudly, it gets very loudly and they stop chomping on the grass and they look up at me like, get a life, dude.

OK, listen, I'll give you cover on that, Luke. They could have totally gotten it wrong on a Chiron or something. Somebody put a Fox, put a Chiron up. I don't know if you saw this that was celebrating Cal Raleigh's first home run in the postseason a couple of days ago, like as if 2022 didn't exist. So I think there's a lot of people are calling it like kind of disrespect of the broadcast entire operation towards the Mariners. Like people are hearing about them for the very first time, especially when compared to the teams like the Dodgers.

Well, I was going to go on my big old complaint about how the TV men decide that the Dodgers are the only team worth watching and they put them in the prime position. But I'm looking at the schedule and that's not the case. So I take it back because it is alternating.

So tomorrow we're at 5 o'clock, and the Dodgers game is at 3 o'clock. Can you do that then? Are you going to be at home watching at 5 o'clock?

I will be at home watching. I'll be wearing, famously, the Paddington sweater, and I'll be calling it that because that was good luck yesterday. And, yeah, I'll be doing – now, I kind of messed up yesterday because I added a new luck to the thing that I now have to do. A new look?

No, a new luck, L-U-C-K. A new luck thing. Okay.

But it also was a look thing. So I had the sweater on, right, which is pretty warm. and I had to wear that the whole game and then but also it was it was a tad bit chilly in the house and so I put on this I put on a fire in the I have a pellet stove and that thing starts the thing really pumps out the heat and by about the sixth inning I was absolutely baking between the sweater and the stove the fire in the stove but I could not change it because everything was going great and so I had to sit there swell

sheltering like australians at christmas andrew what what an interesting thing to drop in the

middle of an otherwise normal conversation i love it i want to start using that i'm sweating like

an australian at christmas like and i was just like ah why did i choose and you know what i have to do tomorrow same thing sweater on heat blasting from the fireplace for the entire movie because that or excuse me it's the movie that is the baseball game because that worked and so that's what I'm stuck with so I'll be yes I'll be watching the game I'll be blasting the fire and I'll be

wearing the sweater so this was something I was starting to tell you I think the other day regarding kind of our luck and and how we're so superstitious about this even though you and I don't believe in anything magical um we do believe in our ability to disrupt a game by wearing the We are critical to the outcome of this game, my friend. Exactly. I actually was very happy the other day because I have two Mariners hats that are currently in rotation. And one is a little bit scrubbier than the other. Or maybe grubbier is the word I'm looking for there. But I think I wore that for game one of the Tiger series. And so I thought it was lucky. But then the other day, I didn't realize I was wearing my other Mariners hat. But the Mariners still won. So I'm like, oh, good. I can wear my nice Mariners hat out now. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's like, oh, good. Either one of these hats will get us a win. This one, though. That's good.

You're expanding the luck universe.

Yes, it was good. It would be like if you accidentally were wearing a different shirt yesterday and the Mariner still won, that would give you the freedom to not necessarily have to wear the Paddington slash Pooh shirt. But here's one thing. So, you know, I've been watching these games. You know, when I'm watching them at home, I'm watching them on some sort of stream, some sort of like, you know, non-official stream, right? some pirated stream and that's gotten me you know for years now i've been using various websites and stuff to do that and it always moves around a little bit some some government entity from some government will shut it down and then it'll pop up over here whatever but this year more than ever it's been kind of moving around or like the main site will be down or what what have you and on i I'm getting all my days confused here, Luke, but basically it was the Wednesday game last week that was what I call the sad game, right, where the Tigers ended up really owning us. We had a lead in that game. You might want to fact-check me on this. I feel like we were up by three, maybe three-nothing or something. Yeah, we were up three-nothing.

As I was arriving at my television shoot, the Mariners were winning three-nothing, and the Detroit Tigers fans were booing their own team. That's right, yeah. Put my phone in my pocket, and I thought, everything will be okay for the rest of my life, starting in this moment.

That's why you can never go on a shoot during a Mariners game again, even regular season. Yes. Well, listen to this. So I was at home. That was a day game. And I got one of my streams up, and there were very few options. And the stream, or the two streams I was trying to bounce between, each of them had its own issues. One would sort of temporarily freeze up every 30 seconds, and it would only freeze up for about a second, but it was really annoying and untenable. And then the other one would be fine for big chunks of time, but then totally crap the bed on me, and then I have to reset it. It was just really frustrating me. And I then remembered that a dear friend of ours, who will remain nameless for the sake of this conversation, I don't know why, but I'm going to keep his name anonymous, a few days prior had said you know what I'm biting the bullet and I'm gonna buy Fubo TV at least to watch this series and then we'll see what goes on you know after that or at least to watch this postseason and then maybe keep it later and I even said well yeah maybe we could even share that maybe we could maybe I could go halfsies on you with you on this or you know kind of figure it out and he's like well either way here's here's my login and password and he had texted it to me And I had not used that because I don't know. I got a weird thing about this. And you're probably going to feel galled by what I'm about to say because you used to drive my ass around all the time. But I'm somebody who doesn't like to drive that much. I like to take cars, public transport. I'm sorry. I like to take lifts or public transportation or what have you. But I don't ever want my decision not to drive to be a burden on my friends. I feel like maybe back in the day, maybe I did lean on you more, but you were more of a driver. No, I don't think so. But I really don't. I don't want to be the person who says I quit smoking and then I'm bumming cigarettes off of everybody. It's a bit of an antiquated analogy in 2025, but I remember that phenomenon very well from my college days. I don't smoke, but then they smoke half your pack. Anyway, I don't want to be that kind of a person with other people's Fubo. You know what I mean? I'm the one who have decided I'm not buying Fubo or a cable package, so I will try to use these various streams, and if they crap out on me, that's kind of my problem. They usually do not.

on wednesday of last week this while the mariners are up three nothing my streams keep going down so i text my buddy i'm like hey man i'm about to log in i'm going to use your fubo right now i'm letting you know because i want to make sure it doesn't disrupt your viewing experience if anything happens if i log in and you get booted off very small chance of that happening but if so i just want you to know that that's going on tell me to get off if that's the case uh also thank you you I just wanted to let you know I'm going to try this. Luke, I typed in a Fubo login. I typed in my friend's info. I was expecting a little bit more of a barrier. It worked so smoothly. This is on my laptop, which is plugged into the back of my computer. I'm sorry. This is on my laptop, which is plugged into the back of the TV. I'm logged in right there, the very first thing to choose. I even set up a profile for myself on his platform, and I call myself Andrew the Mooch. and I just

really leaving a toothbrush over there, aren't you?

Just to acknowledge, well, I didn't want to mess up his algorithm. I didn't want to if he had a bunch of silk stockings recommended to him or whatever.

It's called, Andrew, first of all, it's called My Stuff. That's right. That's the name for it in Fubo. Please use the proper language. And actually, yeah, you know what? I would, it never even occurred. I feel like a bad friend, Andrew, in all of this time, it never even occurred to me, oh, I could just share my Fubo login with you, which I would have. Oh, yeah. And you would see my stuff, and my stuff is, it's all in with Chris Hayes, it's American Greed, narrated by Stacey Keech, produced by Bill Curtis.

And that's kind of a, is that a true crime thing, sort of?

It's true crime, but it's true crime about financial crimes. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a little bit less kind of, I don't know, grotesque than true crime about people who've lost their lives. but yeah you could I didn't even didn't even occur to me and also I didn't realize you can set up

multiple profiles well doy when I logged in it just said are you are you so-and-so or do you want to set up your own I was like oh I'll just set up my own that way you can anyway uh it's no problem but here's what happened Luke I logged in it had it was so seamless it was so great and I was like oh my god this is amazing and then Luke I swear to god the first pitch I saw on that I believe was a home run that put us up only by two am i misremember i'm i'm sorry all the games are blending together but i swear to god the very first pitch i saw on fubo tv was i believe a scoring hit which i think was a home run no no no for the tigers so and we so fubo was bad luck we immediately we kept the lead but it was cut into i think by one run there because i think that inning was just like they ended up tying it I think with three individual runs I think that's how it went down but I put it on they scored once immediately Luke I mean immediately I'm like rut row I text my buddy I'm like rut row I don't know if I just messed up the vibe here they score again I think I texted him I definitely thought if they tie this up I'm getting off of Fubo they tied it up and I got off of Fubo and I went back to the janky stream and then it was so janky and then that's when i was like you know what then we just the bottom fell out and i'm like i'm gonna listen to the rest like the last two or three innings just on my in my headphones anyway i sort of gutted it out a little bit have you been back on fubo since i have not i have not and it's such a it's such a tempting proposition i really want you i i really want you to um i wish

you would have tested the waters yesterday because i think it would have been you know yeah i could have tested it you couldn't have jinxed that game for us right we were so we were just winning by so much like yeah that was turned ferguson proof that was such a great joke

i don't even remember what i said incredible oh you said put in a position player thank you i

didn't think it was that the celebratory that was one and then the other was about our friend the stew bot and his uh prediction that jorge polanco would do well for the mariners he before i think we even got into the playoffs or very early on our friend the stew bot said you know because because Polanco was a Minnesota twin for a long time, and he said when Polanco gets hot, he's a guy that can actually win series for you. And boy, has that ever been prophetic. And Stu likes to bring that back up sometimes.

Sometimes, every time Polanco does anything amazing, which is a lot these days.

It's all he knows. It's all he'll ever know, Andrew. But because there's been so much blocking and talk of blocking people in the text chain, after Stu was rightfully celebrating his prediction about Polanco, you then said, some to the effect of I've had Stu blocked I'm not sure what has he been saying and then what did you say that he said

I think I just said I have Stu muted but didn't he say that Polanco will be no good to us in the postseason or something along those lines I don't know what it was you know I just had a thought though Stu is the one who gave you that Polanco signed ball right which at first we thought was cursed it's also signed by Stu it's signed by Stu and Polanco I'm wondering

two of my favorite baseball players

Yeah. If the Mariners go all the way, how many signatures can you fit on a baseball? Should all of the fun-loving criminals sign that baseball? With the exception of John. Is John a Mariners fan? I don't know if John's a Mariners fan.

He's Ducks first. Ducks baseball. Then he's a fan of his bizarre Madden players and also whatever the baseball version is where he builds these players that have the proportions of totally non-human. What's his name?

Lasteroid? I think people are going to know this from TikTok. Lasteroid Clark or something? But anyway, we should all sign. I don't know how many signatures you can fit on a baseball, though. I love that. We could all sign.

We can't do it until the season's over, because nothing can be done to that baseball that might change the Soto Mojo. But once the season's over, one way or the other, then 100% we should all sign it. I love that, and that's a really good idea. I'll absolutely do it. I'm going to take it on a tour. I'm going to bring it to each criminal's home.

Can I drink out of it?

Yes. It's like the Stanley Cup. Exactly.

All right.

Let's thank some donors. These folks are making TBTL possible. This is 100% listener-supported podcasting. No donors, no podcast. and we are so grateful to get to do this for our job and we are so grateful for folks like Reed Schumann who's in Lafayette, Colorado

Thank you, Reed Appreciate you keeping this going Also, I am feeling slightly less sheepish I gotta say, I have been apologizing a lot for all the baseball talk So far, I haven't received, and this is not an invite to send them I have not actually received any emails of complaint like sometimes we do in the past In fact, I've only gotten emails of support from listeners who are saying, we're all in on this with you, and we really appreciate you and Luke having all those conversations about your feelings about it, and we're along for the ride. So I appreciate that kind of support, too, and Reed offers both.

Thank you, Reed. Thanks to Rena Lopez, who's in McMinnville, Oregon. I know where that is now. Yeah. I didn't used to know where that is, and now I do know where it is. We're all growing. Thank you, Rena. Yes, we are. We're growing. We're expanding our mental map of the Pacific Northwest, including Portland, Oregon. I have known where Portland is for a long time And that's also where Lindsay Swanson is

I'm sorry, I don't mean to sharpshoot And I realize that that might be I believe Portland is in Maine Portland isn't Portland in Maine You're absolutely right I don't think it's in the Pacific Northwest at all I'd like to visit Portland, Maine, by the way I hear it is absolutely beautiful Have you been there? You know, Luke, I feel like I must have I've definitely been to Maine I don't know for sure if I've been to Portland

We know you're corny on Maine

Did you see what I named the show that day?

Corny on Maine, that's a good

I've got to say, I'm not fishing for compliments. I think that was better than anything I dropped in the text yesterday. I love corny on Maine as a show title.

Ferguson as a position player was your greatest contribution to the comedy landscape of all time. Thanks, Lindsay. Thanks also to Stacey Molliette, who's in Spanaway, Washington.

Okay, now I've got to say, Spanaway, I love saying it, but I don't think I've been there.

I could be wrong. I feel like Spanaway is on the road to Mount Rainier. I feel like you go, that's when I, I don't exactly have synesthesia, but when I think about Spanaway, I think about Mount Rainier.

Maybe I have been at least through there then. Because you've been to Mount Rainier. Yes, I definitely visited, kind of took a, yeah, you're right. You know what? Spanaway is directly, and I mean Luke directly, south of Tacoma.

Oh, okay. Well, then it's not the road to, wait.

Yeah, I guess you would sort of cut. Then it's not the road to Mount Rainier. Yeah, I guess you would sort of cut. I don't know how you get to Mount Rainier, but it's definitely still north of Mount Rainier. So if you're going from Tacoma, you might go through Spanaway. I don't know, man. Possibly. Who knows?

You know, Stacy knows, and she'll get to us on this. Thanks, Stacy. Thanks to Christine Zuzula in Johnston, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island. Now, Rhode Island, I don't think I've been to, which is interesting because I did spend all that time in New England. But for some reason, I don't think I made my way to Rhode Island, another beautiful part of the country.

Yes, absolutely. That might be – is that the only state I have not been to? It's possible that Rhode Island is the only state I have not visited. I don't have any memory of doing a story there. I know that I've been to Maine. It's usually because I went there for CBS. I know I've been to Maine. I've been to Connecticut. I've been to Vermont.

Have you been to – have you been to South Dakota? Oh, yes. Many times. I summer in South Dakota. And North Dakota? You've been to both? Yes. Yes.

Yes, in fact, I went for a jog once, and I ended up at the governor's mansion, and accidentally, because I was jogging around the state capitol there, I think I was jogging around in maybe Bismarck?

And so, yes, because I was in Mandan, North or South Dakota. This is where I'm going to be. I've been to both of the Dakotas, but I don't think I've been to Rhode Island. So, Tristine, next time I'm there, I will look you up. Also, thanks to Sumathi Raghavan in Seattle, Washington. Hey, Sumathi.

Now, Sumathi was supposed to give, and I don't know if this happened or not, Sumathi was supposed to give Genevieve, I believe, a tour of the Burke Museum, the kind of remodeled Burke Museum, and I think she has a connection there. I don't remember what it was, and I don't want to dox her too much either. But anyway, thanks for being a friend and a friend of the show.

Absolutely. Thank you to all of our donors for making TBTL possible. We could not do this without you. All right, Andrew, once again, as is our custom, we didn't get to any of the top stories, even though they are actually, for once, pretty good top stories, and I want to talk about them with you, but we're going to have to – maybe we'll push those to tomorrow because the thing about tomorrow is there will not have been a baseball game yet so we will not be reacting to a game that we saw a mariners game and i feel like we've been pretty today we spent a fair amount of time on the you know what are we going to be doing when we watch the game tomorrow so unless a different four-piece horn group puts out a new version of the mariners the you know tv hype song i don't think that we're probably going to need to talk about the mariners too much tomorrow so there we can bring up the uh the top stories and get to them and if they do the name of the band should be horns on maine horny on maine that'd be a great horn on maine is better you're right i don't know horny on maine just becomes the thing it does become the thing that they say but if horns on maine is better

but if you were in sort of a second line group or something like that you want to call yourself horny on maine that'd be pretty great that would be pretty dope yeah all right thanks for listening

everybody uh we are going to be right back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for all of you So please, please join us for that. In the meantime, have yourself a great Tuesday and be safe. Take care of yourselves as well. And please remember, no mountain too tall and good luck to all.

Power out.