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I know we've only known each other for four weeks and three days, but to me, it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week, and the second day seemed like five days, and the third day seemed like a week again, and the fourth day seemed like eight days, but the fifth day, you went to see your mother, and that seemed just like a day. but then you came back and later on the sixth day in the evening when we saw each other that started seeming like two days so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day it seemed like a total of five days and the sixth day seemed like A week and a half I have it written down But I can show it to you tomorrow If you want to see it 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

Good evening and welcome to the pre-taped Call-in show where we tape all our shows a week in advance. I'm your host, Ken Doral, and, uh, let's try it again. It's really not that hard, okay? Our topic, once again, is the elderly. We're taping it now, and it airs next week, okay? So, if you're watching me talk about the elderly, don't call to talk about it. It's too late. instead call about cooking which is next week's topic that's not how it works

that's not how any of this works this show really improves with age why because the jokes get better no because my hearing gets worse what the mother effing seeing s and effing k is going on right now I get out of the

shower look in the mirror I'm impressed because I look frickin awesome a lot of

When people say I have a real cute laugh, it's like...

Oh, that's a great laugh.

We were up on Steve Irwin Way, and all of a sudden we thought, Run, he's got a gun. Where's our mum? This ain't no fun. And our hearts started to pound faster than a kangaroo hopping through the bush. And our poor mum was stuck up in a tree, and mom was distracting him to make him look the other way. Kind of like the toilets here. They swell in the other direction. And he looked the other way and mom ran into the bush behind the fence and he goes, I'll find you and I'll shoot you. And we went, R&R. You're more beautiful than Cinderella. You smell like pine needles and you have a face like sunshine.

Excuse me, who even are you?

I was asking myself that same question, and I did not like the answer.

Who saw that coming? They're going to throw the book at you, you know that? And you know what else? I'm going to let them, because I have a lot of pull in this court system. Don't ask me how or why. How and why? A judge ran over my face when I was six.

When do we get to sing, it's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men?

I swear, every time this guy talks, all I hear is a turkey goblin. This is what happens when an inside joke gets into the water supply.

Look, man, you know your stuff, but you're like a crazy volcano. You'd have to show me you can bring it down a notch. I'll bring it down a thousand notches if I have to! Let's get to the jokes.

Man, oh man, oh man. In this ever-divided world we find ourselves in, I think there's one thing we can all agree on. This has got to be one of the weirdest Fridays in history, right? like what is even going on with today well we're gonna lean into the weirdness here on a very special episode of tbtl this is of course the podcast that's too beautiful to live you're

hungry you're confused your face is streaked with dry tears and you don't even remember

when you started crying i don't know whose idea it was to put new year's eve on a wednesday but it has really thrown everything into chaos seemingly people are showing up to work in their pajamas today my cat bingo's already on his uh second bloody mary i'm still wearing the uh special holiday ducktales onesie that i've been wearing for two weeks now the one with the flap on the back and the juice stains on the front

But we are here, as you may be, at work today. By the way, I should say my name. My name is Andrew Walsh. Luke is out today. I don't know if you picked up on that, but Luke is out today. My name's Andrew Walsh. I'm doing the hosting. And we have a very special show for you today. And I'm not just saying that. We're doing something very, very different. And I'm very, very excited about it. as you know we have a voicemail line here at tbtl you can call it literally anytime day or night don't worry you're not going to wake us up it's a voicemail line people do call by the way at all hours people call to tell us stories things inspired by stuff we've talked about on the show people call in they sing songs one of the things i love about the voicemail line is a lot of times People call in, I think, just because they have a thought, something they want to share. I don't even think there's always an expectation that we're going to play it on the show. I think some people just like knowing that the voicemail line is there for them at any time. But a lot of them don't make the show. A lot of the voicemails don't end up on the air. Not for any particular reason. Sometimes it's just because Luke and I are chatterboxes and we talk too much we get to the email segment there's not enough time to play your voicemails sometimes it's just hard to figure out exactly where to fit them on the show especially those fun voicemails where somebody just calls in sort of randomly with a random thought but I have the privilege as the man with the keys to the voicemail line to listen to every voicemail that you guys leave and I'll admit sometimes they stack up a little bit sometimes I get behind on them and so on New Year's Eve a couple of nights ago before I went out with Genevieve, which I did do, by the way. We had a wonderful New Year's Eve. I didn't just stay home like a hermit. But before we went out, I decided, you know what? It's the end of the year. I want to make sure that I listen to every single voicemail on the voicemail line. So I went through, and I feel like I have a special view into the TBTL listenership because I have access to all of these voicemails, a lot of which don't end up on the show. And so today I want to give you the feeling that I have when I get to just listen to one voicemail after another, after another, after another on the TBTL voicemail line covering all kinds of topics. Some of these are longer voicemails, people telling stories. Some of them are shorter, just correcting us on something, if you can believe it, or just weighing in on a little factoid. Sometimes it's just a notion. Sometimes it's not even directly related to something that we've said on the show.

But it's all really, really charming. And I love just hearing them one after another after another. So I wanted to give you that feeling today, too. So I have here a whole bunch of voicemails, like a whole bunch of voicemails, and they're all great. And I'm just going to play them for you one after another after another. I'm not even going to I'm going to kill my mic. I'm not going to say anything during them. I'm just going to let them roll. And today, I guess, remember that cheesy Time Magazine person of the year cover where instead of naming, I think I'm right about this. I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, call the voicemail line, 206-414-8285. But I feel like one year Time Magazine made the person of the year you. And they put like a mirror or some sort of reflective cover on the front of the magazine. Well, I guess that's kind of what we're doing today with TBTL. You're the co-host today since Luke is out. And so as our co-bro, I'm going to turn the microphone over to you guys. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. And by the way, I'm not going to come back at the end of the show. I'm just handing it over to you. I'm giving you guys the rest of the show. So let me say right now, Happy New Year, sincerely. I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Eve, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend, because I think it's the weekend. Although I'm still not exactly sure what day of the week it is, but Luke and I will both be here on Monday for a brand new, fresh episode of TBTL. I'm really looking forward to that. I hope you are, too. And now, the gentleman from Washington State cedes the rest of his time to you, the tens of listeners.

Hi, business boys. This is Rachel from Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Not far from Cranberry, where I'm pretty sure they don't have cranberries growing. That's a side note. My reason for calling in is you guys were talking about wings, which has come up multiple times in the show, and I've thought about calling a few different times. But I wanted to share my thoughts about wings. I'm almost 40, but I would stay home and watch wings. Like, you know, in sixth grade, I was allowed to stay home by myself, and you're trying to find something when you're sick on the television. And I don't know, they had this programming, right, where it was like Wings and maybe a few other shows that were maybe a little bit too old for me, but were better than, you know, anything else on the TV at like 2 or 1 in the afternoon. But I remember my feelings about Wings turning into like a real hatred on this one episode where they had, I think her name was Helen, the main character. and she revealed she, you know, went to elementary school with, what was his name? I don't know, Pete, Joe, Joe. And they all have, like, little notes that they, like, wrote to themselves and things that they wished they did when they grew up. And hers was, I want to marry Joe. And it was, like, this sweet moment, right? But she opens up her letter to herself, and all of the words were, like, you know, misspelled. The, like, J was backwards, and I was in maybe fifth grade, sixth grade watching this, and I was fuming because I think they were supposed to be third or fourth graders when they wrote this, and I was like, how dare they besmirch children of our age group? Like, that is not how we write. Our handwriting is better. We know how to spell the word Mary correctly. Are you kidding me? And I turned the TV off and took an angry nap. I was so mad. Power out.

Hey, it's listener Joe from Atlanta. I was very inspired by the disco demolition talk and the dying beer night talk to remember when Andrew was talking about little bats. One of my favorite moments, which is when we were kids, my mom was from South Philly. We grew up in suburban Northern California and then in Atlanta, and there was a lot of debate between my father and mother about taking us for the first time to Veterans Stadium to see a Phillies game because of the level of just regular violence going on. But we went there, and it was Vaughn Hayes bat night, and they were giving out the mini bats. and I think it was around like the fourth inning or something that everybody realized they were armed and people just started beating each other you know not even like in angry fights but just kind of like there was a group of young guys in front of us and they were just essentially hitting each other in the heads with them um in any case it was the best thing my brother and I had ever seen but in any case I held on to the bats and uh I somehow I ended up with both of them but uh later in life when my uh brother passed away my nephew was a certain age and i took him to a baseball game and afterwards we came home and i solemnly gave him my brother's miniature bat from von hayes night you know i was all like you know welling up and teary and uh handing it over him and describing just how important and formative this moment was for my brother and i and uh you know afterwards took him home and when I came back you know I said to my wife like I'm just so glad I was able to give him that miniature bat I mean it was really great and she looked at me and she said I don't mean this in in too negative a way but that's one of the craziest things I've ever seen you do. How could you possibly think that level of emotion about the violence of Von Hayes Bat Knight could be warranted? And what do you think that, like, a, you know, a 12-year-old kid could make of, you know, such a thing possibly? Hey, Luke and Andrew, this is Adam from Albuquerque.

I just wanted to give my thoughts on a couple of the lists you have been doing lately. I know one of the top fives was top five smells and then also top five walks and this is related to both actually somebody mentioned like taking a walk somewhere where you used to live and you haven't been there in a long time i grew up in juno alaska and i have only been back a couple times since i moved away in 97 the last time i was back i took my family out there was in 2013 we got there was a A nice June evening, we checked into the hotel, and I decided to go for a walk. My wife was tired from the travel, and so I was going to go for a walk. It was still light out because it's summer in southeast Alaska, and at 10 o'clock, I'd forgotten how light it still is. But my oldest daughter, who was about 10 at the time, went with me. And walking around downtown where I grew up, mostly when I was especially middle school and high school, I was a downtown kid. And so, you know, I mean, I knew all those streets and everything like the back of my hand. It was weird because everything that was different stood out so much. But then there's also so much similarity. But I remember walking on the dock, the cruise ship dock down there, and something just hit me all of a sudden. and it was the smell of creosote.

from the pylons and salt water and probably a little, you know, probably a little diesel fuel from, from ships. And, but it was, I was, I was 15 again. It was, it was absolutely bizarre and, uh, and emotional. That smell just, just brings me right back. Anyway, I don't really have a power out for this, but talk to you later. Bye.

this is smell talk and you were talking about the smell of an iron and i it just brought back for me the smell of an iron melting wax and i noticed this smell as people are having like their skis waxed i was i don't even ski but i was in a ski shop and the smell i was like oh my god I know that smell, and it took me back to preschool or maybe Sunday school when we would, like, shave crayons or use crayon shavings and put them between waxed paper to make, like, stained glass it was supposed to look like, and the teacher would iron it and melt the crayons between the waxed paper, and it's such a distinctive and wonderful smell. It's like a pipe smell to me. That's the other smell that I love because my grandpa smoked a pipe, and I love the pipe smell. I wish people would smoke some pipes more often. Yeah, you brought back that memory of that smell. So thanks. Power out. Hi.

I'm calling in with a TBCL coincidence. I'm currently on a road trip driving from Massachusetts to Montreal. So, naturally, I had stocked up on some TBTL episodes to kind of help me make my journey a little cozier. And strangely, was called to get a kind of like crunchy gas station salad that I would say isn't really vegetables, but it's also lettuce, sort of. And I texted my friend to tell her how I couldn't believe how amazing this salad was. Actually, the language I used was not TBTL appropriate, but the point I was making was, you would think this gas station salad would be disgusting, and it's actually rocking my world. And then I started my car and started driving and put my TBTL back on. I'm a few episodes behind because I stocked up for this trip, and Luke starts talking about the joy of a non-nutritious salad. right as I finished my non-nutritious salad. And it was so good. Luke just read my mind. And that's it. I guess I would not categorize it as shame eating because although it is in the car, I'm not ashamed. I love my salad. I love my TBCL. I don't care if it's nutritious or not. Power out.

Hey, this is Cameron from Taos, New Mexico. There's a car that's about to pass me, so let me wait for them. okay andrew's talking about wanting to find another cold summer salad recipe my wife makes one that's quite good uh you take cucumbers put a little fault on them with the water drain off for 10-15 minutes and then you just dress them with soy sauce rice vinegar daily crisp for chili oil from the grocery store, sugar, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and some green onions. And it's really good, savory, spicy Asian salad. All right. Walking on from the farmer's market. That's why cars are passing me. Bye.

Hello, lovies. I just want to let you know, this is Maggie from the middle shelf. I want to let you know, I was listening to Chris Hayes, and he pronounces electricity, electricity also, just like our little Andrew Walsh. So what I'm thinking is maybe it's a back east thing? Question mark. Okay, well, power out.

Excuse me. Hey, fellas, it's Schaefer down at the front page in Austin, Texas. I'm calling because I just watched the end of what must objectively be one of the greatest football games in the history of the NFL. Luke must be electrified right now. He might have exploded maybe or just spontaneously combusted. I don't know. Congratulations, boys. I'm so happy for you and for the Seahawks. Punchline for all of this, though, I had Sam Donald on the bench in my fantasy team. All right.

Ahoy, ahoy, this is Lister and Jamie in Mississippi. I have a story that I do not know how to feel about, although I think the right thing happened.

We are moving. We are leaving the chicken drawer and moving to an even older house a few blocks away. And it was owned by a kind of eccentric man. He was a lawyer and then a GP. He went back to med school, then a GP, and then was a dermatologist. And as he got older, he set up a little office inside his house. And when we bought the house, we were basically left with things that some amazing furniture. This house has only been owned by four families until us, and it was built in 1829, and then some other stuff was just kind of junk, but he left his office furniture, and it was a desk and a kind of file cabinet and another cabinet. We couldn't get it open. It was heavy, and we didn't want it, so I have a friend that's been helping me move stuff, and so I asked her if she wanted it, and she said yes. She was going to take it to her daughter's tattoo shop or whatever, but it didn't work, And so she took it to that Habitat thrift store, and they said they just had too much furniture already. So she took it home, and we tried to get the cabinet open, but we couldn't. So she just decides, well, it's going to go to the trash anyway. She's just going to hammer on it and open it. And she opens it up, and she finds $1,000 in cash wrapped up in a bundle that said the year 2000. and she helped it and although part of me is like oh that 100 is the right thing it wasn't my money I didn't know it was there but at the same time I was so close to found money and um anyway I would not have taken it from her but I just have feelings and kind of the thrill of it knowing this blogs is someone who is long gone and you know it had been locked in there for 16 years before he died so he kind of abandoned it and then it was ours and then it was somebody else's

so anyway power out hey guys i've been having a rough morning so i just thought i would cheer myself and hopefully you guys up with a joke what did the salmon say when it ran into a wall

damn all right power out you guys hope you have a good day hey luke and andrew it's uh Listener Rich from Westchester, Pennsylvania, and I heard you talking about cranberry bogs, and it turns out my hometown happens to be Lakeville, Massachusetts. If you look at the back of your craisins or your cranberry product, you'll find that it is from Lakeville, Middleborough, Massachusetts, because they put the headquarters on the town line. Anyway, my first job was in a cranberry bog. They paid us 50 cents an hour to get the cranberries, Plus, they allowed us to skate on the feeder pond to the actual cranberry bog. So the way a bog works, really, really cool, is that the bushes grow in these kind of like large chessboard-shaped kind of fields called bogs with the cranberry bushes in the middle. And then what ends up happening is a feeder pond will be opened in the fall, and the water will run from the feeder pond into the bog, flooding the bog. Cranberries that are ripe float. And cranberries that are not yet ripe do not come off the bush. And therefore, they flood the bog and all the cranberries that are ready to be harvested rise to the top of the water and then you scrape the top of the water. Now, when I was a kid, we used to use these like baskets to put them on these big conveyors. And then we would skate all winter long because the feeder pond when you're ice skating is only like a half a foot deep when it's empty because the water is covering all the cranberry plants throughout the winter to keep them safe in the cold. And that way you could skate from first freeze to when you fell through the ice in the spring and you'd never die because the water was only like a foot deep. And that was fantastic. Now they have these tractors that ride on the water to get the cranberries together. So all those commercials with those dudes and the waiters standing in the water is like old school cranberry new school cranberry is literally a john deere with floaty wheels that drives on the water it's incredible anyway power out hi this is langley and i have a joke

how did the roman warrior feel after he ate his grandma gladiator bye hi luke and andrew it's

nikki from worcester ohio um the recent windstorm talk has been giving me flashbacks to my own windstorm saga in uh january 2017 i was living in colorado springs and we had this incredible windstorm 100 mile power winds um i was completely clueless that this was going to be happening not paying any attention to the weather reports i was living in a rental house with my husband

My dog, Hambone. My cats, Milo and Lola. My husband's name is Nick. I guess I should name him if I named the pets. And Nick was out of town. I was, you know, blissfully unaware of the weather situation. And I remember waking up out of nowhere at like 6 a.m. really suddenly. That seemed weird to me because I was younger and I was not waking up randomly at night until my alarm clock went off. And I thought, man, the wind sounds really loud. What's going on? And then my doorbell rings. Now, normally, being by myself in the house, even in the middle of the day, I'm not answering the doorbell if it rings, but definitely not 6 in the morning. But somehow, I felt like I had to. And I get up and just need a little piece of information, like maybe I did see a weather report somewhere that is in the back of my head. I'm hearing the wind. I was woken up really suddenly. And as I open the door, it just kind of clicks in my head what's happening. And I look outside, and this huge tree that is in my front yard that is, like, Y-shaped, where it's, like, one trunk and then spreads off into two huge branches, and each of these, you know, arms of the Y is big enough to be a normal-sized tree. One of the arms has completely fallen off, hit the back of my husband's car, which is parked on the street, denting the back and breaking the window. Portions of the tree has bounced into my car that is parked behind him, ruining the the windshield and the sunroof and then the rest of the street is in the middle of the road completely blocking all traffic and it wasn't the police or the fire team that was at my front door it was the local news so now I know why people seem so silly sometimes on the local news because I'm there in my pajamas with my retainer still in being asked hard-hitting questions like what do you think of all this wind so i'm just like in shock i have no idea what i said i never want to see that old footage i know what happened um i had i got my dog out of there because the rest of the tree we didn't know if it was going to fall over the landlord came and took down the rest of the tree so we basically um lost two cars you know barely got enough money back from insurance to get one halfway decent car after that and um i guess we we were missing a tree in run the house and had quite the stressful time. Anyway, so that's my windstorm story. Power out.

Hey, guys. This is Ryan in Gallatin, Tennessee. I just have some thoughts about Luke's recent adventures in reducing his mug diversity. I have some personal experience with hanging out with some friends at Airbnbs, and it's actually really helpful when mugs are in all different designs and shapes and sizes like one's china one's got a fish on it one's got wine a clock or whatever it's helpful when everyone has a different looking mug because then you can keep track of your mug so when you have company over you might want to use the diverse mugs and then when you're living your daily life you might want the more uniform looking mugs just from a design perspective or whatever but just had that thought because luke was talking about having family over and you might find that it's helpful to have different looking mugs all right have a

good one hi this is amanda i'm a tent out here in the foothills of mount rainier um and i was compelled to call you today because uh my husband's a my husband's a drummer and a couple years ago i got him as a gift a drum stool um from sweetwater sound and i was so impressed with their customer service they were so nice and helpful i also have no idea what to do with a drumstool so like i i called and asked them a question they helped me out and i ordered it anyway it was great um they called me back after we got it and asked me how i was doing with my drumstool and i said i think he's doing fine i think he likes it uh i was still impressed with that um but i just want to tell you that um i'll be gosh darned if like i don't know every six months or so a person, not a text message, not like, not an AI chatbot, not anything. A person calls me up from Sweetwater Sound to ask me if I need any more drumstools. Maybe I might need like drumsticks or like, I don't know, like a tom-tom. I don't know what drums are called. But they keep calling and they keep asking if I might need anything else. So good customer service. I don't really even have a hot take for you, except to say, you now have a new best friend in Sweetwater South, and we share him. Power out. This is just a quick note to let Luke know that the general term for 3D printing, the official term, is actually additive manufacturing in the world of engineering, which may make you feel a little bit better about the process okay thanks bye hey friendos uh listener

justin uh up in ferndale washington i was listening to yesterday's episode where luke and andrew were talking about the counting crows and how adam um doesn't really sing the melody anymore He kind of just does some jazz vocalizations over the top of the songs, and now frustrating Luke finds it. And you guys kind of brought up the Grateful Dead, and as a big deadhead, I kind of was resisting calling in, but then had to call in. And yeah, Luke pretty much nailed it on the head. Um, even if you are like a jam band where the audience is expecting each version of the song to be different, there are certain parts of the song that need to remain the same, um, really so that the audience can have the, that connection with the song. Um, and, uh, ever since Jerry Garcia died and the rhythm guitar player, Bob Weir has taken over more of the lead vocal duties um in the post jerry garcia grateful dead projects um he definitely takes some similar similar liberties as adam and um changes around some of the the phrasing and melody on the vocal line so that right when you're about to belt out this big line that just means so much to you and it's such a crescendo um he kind of just makes you feel like oh well i kind of screwed that up and um it's just him i don't know maybe wanting to have some control over the situation i really don't understand it but i got so frustrated that i don't even go see them live anymore because it's just not the same thing i'd rather go see a Grateful Dead cover band that can jam out and still fulfill the kind of needs of the audience when listening to certain songs. So you're totally not crazy, Luke. And yeah, it's such a weird thing when artists decide to do that. So yeah, power out. Bye. Hey, gents. This is listener Jamie

from Columbia, Maryland. And I wanted to weigh in with my thoughts on the best popcorn, because popcorn, along with beer, is one of my favorite things to consume. So for me, the number one kind of popcorn is the free popcorn you get in a dive bar. That's when, you know, especially when you're young and you don't have a lot of money and you go there and you can have all the popcorn you can eat. It's basically dinner. And then you, you know, you and your friends get together and drink pitcher after pitcher of foamy yellow beer and play music on the jukebox. For me, that's the number one popcorn experience but i also wanted to say that the number one kind of popcorn like the best tasting popcorn i ever had in my life was the popcorn my grandma made she made it in her cast iron skillet on the stove and she would cook the popcorn in bacon grease and then when it was all popped she would melt an entire stick of butter over the whole thing i mean it wasn't exactly health food but it was absolutely delicious so uh thanks for all the popcorn and beer talk. I've been loving it. Power out.

Hey, it's Jake in Chicago with my top five segments that I miss or at least segments that haven't been done in a while. First is an O-L-I Who Needs a Movie? It's just a sound that has lived in my head for, I don't know, 12, 15 years, something like that. Great job. Number five, guest producer Doug Schreckengoss. I love the chaos of it I love the uncertainty of Duck, Truck, and Gus and I just want to see more of that on TVTL number four shameless self-promotion drops of stupider I love doing that, it was so much fun number three speaking of drops, dropper let it's good every time I could listen to an entire episode of TVTL that's just y'all playing drops and laughing at the ones that play at random. Good shit. And then, of course, number two, classic, Cooking with Sean Dottori. It doesn't get better, except for this number one. What are you doing here? I think that's what it was called, where you would just call people at random and ask what they were doing while listening to TBTL. But that's a perfect TBTL segment.

Power out. This one's really special to me. These are my five ways to listen to TBTL. Number five is listening to several episodes in a row because for whatever reason, you have been off of listening.

for a few days or a week and you have all of these banked episodes and I don't know if some listeners will connect with this there's a feeling of when you have a bunch of episodes and you just get you're listening to one of the episodes and you don't have that feeling of like looking at your phone and being like oh I only have 15 minutes left in this episode it's like oh I have the next episode right after this um number four for me this is a pretty me specific thing on Fridays listening to the Friday show after I'm all done with work I've got all my responsibilities done I'll be walking my dog and listening to the Friday episode and there's something so relaxing about that it's like I have the entire weekend in front of me and I'm doing this thing that I love, which is being outside with my dog, walking, enjoying nature, listening to my cobros in my ears. There's something really, really gratifying and relaxing about that. Number three, this one's kind of interesting. When you're on a long car ride with your spouse, who in my case is, I would classify her as more of an 11. And maybe you're just listening to music or whatnot. and I've had this happen with my wife where she's like do you want to listen to some TBTL and I've been waiting for that and I'm like yes absolutely let's eat up some of this car ride let's listen to our co-bros she maybe doesn't understand the context of everything but it's like that to me almost feels triumphant because so much of me listening to the show is me listening by myself and so for my wife to be in on the experience is really fun uh number two this is kind of a unique experience listening to tbtl down the line as you're waiting to be a guest on the show this is something that i have been very fortunate to be on the other side of uh often which is you're you ring up you call up the the show you're waiting to be on and you get to hear the co-bros doing the show live and you feel like you're the only audience member and you're waiting to come on and you get to listen there have been shows where I've listened to like an hour of the show down the line before being brought on to do my little segment and there's something so fun about that you feel like you're getting an inside listen on it um and that's a really kind of fun unique experience number one this one should be obvious the live show if you're in the audience at a live show that's the best of the best there are so many

fun experiences i can remember of being at tbtl live shows um and i think it's it really brings home how special it is this show that we listen to all of us listeners the community we have with each other it just feels it feels like you almost were a part of putting the this show up on the stage you know it's like everyone almost worked a little bit to get the show on the stage there right in front of you so those are my five ways to listen to tbtl that is a lot of me talking

My wife, Rebecca, is a longtime 10. I, as her husband, am her 11, as I am aware. She recently got a sticker that she placed on her water bottle. That's her son. And, you know, it says, Cranky, bored, call, the number, the cure for global loneliness. And so I was like, what happens when you call the number? And she said, call the number. and so I called the number and now here we are and just want to say as an occasional listener of the podcast thanks, you guys are great I think you guys do good stuff in the world so cheers and power out Power out.