#4382 Round Pizza Option

Summary

Podcast Summary: TBTL Episode #4382 – "Round Pizza Option"

Release Date: January 16, 2025

Welcome to Episode #4382 of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live, hosted by Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh. In this lively and eclectic episode, the longtime friends delve into a myriad of topics, blending humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions. Here's a detailed breakdown of the episode's key segments:

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1. Biblical Commandments and Playful Debates (00:00 – 01:07)

The episode kicks off with Luke referencing a biblical story shared by a listener, Frederica. He humorously debates the number of commandments, stating:

Luke Burbank [00:51]: "12 Commandments? Excuse me, but I believe there were only 10."

Andrew quickly joins in the playful banter, setting a lighthearted tone for the show.

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2. Halloween Decorations and Community Rules (02:24 – 03:27)

Andrew brings up a story about a woman in Tennessee facing trouble for her extended Halloween decorations, sparking a conversation about neighborhood regulations and the thin line between seasonal decor and year-round displays.

Andrew Walsh [02:24]: "She's in trouble because apparently they have rules there about how long you're supposed to leave stuff."

Luke expresses mock fear, adding to the comedic exchange.

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3. Birthday Celebrations and Nickname Fun (03:27 – 04:06)

As it's Andrew's birthday, the hosts celebrate with humorous discussions about Andrew's various nicknames, showcasing their deep friendship and playful dynamic.

Luke Burbank [03:27]: "I love that little intro. You could chop that into a million intros for me."

Andrew reciprocates by brainstorming creative monikers for Luke, demonstrating their easy rapport.

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4. Bill Curtis and "Anchorman" Connections (04:43 – 06:14)

The conversation shifts to clarifying misconceptions about Bill Curtis's role in "Anchorman." Luke shares a listener's note claiming Curtis was the narrator, leading to a humorous exchange where Andrew recalls Curtis's distinctive voice in the Dandy Warhols' recordings.

Andrew Walsh [05:28]: "He's literally Sacramento. We got so much."

They debunk the notion with laughter, emphasizing the blend of pop culture and personal anecdotes.

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5. The Dandy Warhols and Documentary Insights (06:23 – 15:12)

Andrew delves into his admiration for the Dandy Warhols' album "Auditoriums and Others," discussing the band's evolution and his personal connections to their music. He touches upon the documentary about their tour alongside the Brian Jonestown Massacre, highlighting the raw and unfiltered portrayal of their dynamics.

Andrew Walsh [10:19]: "It's almost just kind of a tone piece in a way... it's so good."

Luke shares his desire to watch the documentary, praising Andrew's detailed recounting of its filmmaking nuances.

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6. Theater Experience at The Varsity (15:12 – 35:36)

Luke narrates his recent visit to The Varsity in the U District, detailing the dilapidated state of the theater and his mixed feelings about watching "A Real Pain" under such conditions. The hosts discuss the importance of maintaining local cultural spots and reminisce about the golden days of art-house theaters.

Luke Burbank [32:11]: "It's just so filthy... There were some pretty strong Karen energy emanating off of a couple of women."

Andrew empathizes, sharing his own experiences and the sentimental value of such theaters.

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7. Book Reading Challenges: "The Count of Monte Cristo" (35:36 – 48:50)

Both hosts discuss their struggles with reading "The Count of Monte Cristo." Luke explains the confusion between the abridged physical copy and the complete digital version, leading to his decision to read the unabridged version despite its length.

Luke Burbank [45:03]: "I really did. I thought it was a menu actually."

Andrew relates by sharing his frustrations with complex books, emphasizing the importance of persistence in reading.

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8. Broadcasting Influences and Bob Uecker (48:50 – 55:26)

Andrew highlights Bob Uecker's impact on his perception of broadcasting, dissecting Uecker's self-deprecating humor and iconic role in "Major League." The hosts laugh over memorable Uecker commercials, appreciating his blend of sports commentary and comedy.

Andrew Walsh [50:00]: "Bob Uecker has passed away. The Milwaukee Brewer. Great."

Luke adds his admiration for Uecker's ability to entertain, regardless of his sports prowess.

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9. Listener Donations and Community Shoutouts (55:36 – 71:57)

The hosts take time to thank their donors from various locations, fostering a sense of community. They humorously navigate mix-ups in listener names and relationships, adding personal touches to their acknowledgments.

Andrew Walsh [56:15]: "Thanks also to Emily Atkinson who's in Brevard, North Carolina."

Luke and Andrew share laughs over mistaken identities, reinforcing their friendly and inclusive atmosphere.

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10. NFL Discussions and Fanbase Observations (71:31 – 99:23)

Towards the episode's end, Luke and Andrew engage in an animated discussion about recent NFL games, team performances, and fan behaviors. They express frustrations with teams like the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings, blending sports commentary with personal opinions.

Andrew Walsh [77:31]: "The Lakers in that there are maybe a few people that have been fans of the team forever and ever, but mostly what they are is a thing that you can kind of embrace when you move to LA."

Luke humorously laments his love for popcorn and aligns it with his streaming habits, intertwining daily life with sports fervor.

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Notable Quotes

• Luke Burbank [00:51]: "12 Commandments? Excuse me, but I believe there were only 10."

• Andrew Walsh [05:28]: "He's literally Sacramento. We got so much."

• Andrew Walsh [50:00]: "Bob Uecker has passed away. The Milwaukee Brewer. Great."

• Luke Burbank [45:03]: "I really did. I thought it was a menu actually."

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Conclusion

Episode #4382 of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live offers a rich tapestry of conversations ranging from pop culture and personal experiences to deep dives into music and sports. Luke and Andrew's chemistry shines through their humorous exchanges and genuine discussions, making it a must-listen for both regulars and newcomers.

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Join Luke and Andrew daily as they continue to navigate the world with humor, heart, and a touch of goofiness on TBTL.

Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

So Frederica, you. You read both verse and poetry. In this, I believe you take after your mother, who knows a great many things. Just yesterday she cited to me a story from the Bible about a very wise king. This reminded me of many such accounts one learns in childhood. Perhaps the most significant informing one's principles is that of the old prophet who came down from the mount with tablets bearing the 12 Commandments which our Lord has taught us to obey without fail. 12 Commandments? Excuse me, but I believe there were only 10.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really?

[Luke Burbank]

Only 10 must be obeyed. Excellent. Well then, which two to take off? TBTL.

[Andrew Walsh]

What'S up? I'm Kirk Steele. I'm 18. I'm from Orlando, Florida. My favorite movie is Garden State. Are you ready to explore the infinite abyss? Today we are gonna go over a.

[Luke Burbank]

Great self defense strategy. Pooping yourself.

[Andrew Walsh]

Isn't that for techno geeks with spreadsheets? What in the reverse porkies is going on here? Ciao. Please, no. I won.

[Luke Burbank]

Stop. Don't do that.

[Andrew Walsh]

What do you mean don't do that?

[Luke Burbank]

Cause you didn't even use it in the right way.

[Andrew Walsh]

In a few hours you're going to be smarter than anyone you've ever met. Okay, enough chit chat. Let's get the family in here.

[Luke Burbank]

All right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello, good morning and welcome everyone to a Thursday edition of tbtl, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

[Luke Burbank]

I need you to understand something so.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good, check it out. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host, Mimi, coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia. At least the last time I was able to see it, which would have been yesterday in the afternoon. I have not seen it yet. Today I've not observed it with my own eyes because cloud fog. We are once again cloud fogged inn up here. We're up here in Cloud City, but seems like the perfect day to stay indoors and bring you episode 4382 in a collector series.

[Luke Burbank]

Let the fun begin.

[Andrew Walsh]

Speaking of things that are outdoors, there's a woman in Tennessee who put up some spooky Halloween decorations. You know, like skeleton and then the dog. That's a skeleton dog. You know, real scary stuff.

[Luke Burbank]

I am petrified. Petrified with this story.

[Andrew Walsh]

And now she is in trouble because apparently they have rules there about how long you're supposed to leave stuff. But her issue is what is to say that it is strictly a Halloween decoration. It could be she's put a Santa hat on them. Now it's a Christmas decoration. Anyway. This is something I've observed in my own neighborhood, and we'll talk about it. Plus, it's a Thursday, AKA blursday, so we will bring you those blursday messages. My birthday today, including a very special one from my own family. And speaking of people that are in my family, or they might as well be, let's talk about this guy. Longest running cobra of the show may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships sipping on Gin Andrews. It's Andrew Walsh and he's joining me right now. Good morning, Martin.

[Luke Burbank]

I love that little intro. I love it. You could chop that into a million intros for me.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's true. We have so many options. And in fact, I was thinking that this morning as I was trying to decide between all the different nicknames that I could have used for you.

[Luke Burbank]

Landru, Andy Kane, Drool.

[Andrew Walsh]

Supply and Demand Drew.

[Luke Burbank]

Androgynous.

[Andrew Walsh]

Deja Drew. Sipping on Gin Andrews.

[Luke Burbank]

Delusions of Grandrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

One Night Standrew Android.

[Luke Burbank]

Scooby Dooby.

[Andrew Walsh]

Drew.

[Luke Burbank]

Drewbag.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, we were.

[Luke Burbank]

Take that one out.

[Andrew Walsh]

You can't handle the Drewth. We went to take out. We're gonna take that one out. But the rest of them are pretty solid. By the way, thanks. I think it was listener Byron, you sent that.

[Luke Burbank]

And do we have a name? And now I'm putting you on the spot. I assume if you had the name of the person saying that, you would have given them a shout out. Do you know, Is it a tiki talkie?

[Andrew Walsh]

Now you're asking me. Now you're being a real Drew back.

[Luke Burbank]

I really am. Hey, listen, I. Let's change the subject awkwardly here, because there's something. I got a little piece of information from a listener last night that I don't know if you were copied on this email or not, but it clears some things up, I think, for me, and hopefully you, your friend and colleague, Bill Curtis.

[Andrew Walsh]

I have not seen this update. Should we remind folks of what was going on yesterday on the program?

[Luke Burbank]

Yesterday, you said that Bill Curtis and you thought that he had told you at one point that he was maybe the inspiration or one of the inspirations for the character of Ron Burgundy on Anchorman. And we were talking about that because Mort Crim in the Detroit area has also.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm the Mort Crimm of podcasting.

[Luke Burbank]

The Mort Crim.

[Andrew Walsh]

Mort Crim.

[Luke Burbank]

And so Mort Crim, some people have said that he's the inspiration. I believe he's said that he's partially the inspiration for that Ron Burgundy character. All that is to say, this note from Gregory says Bill Curtis, Luke was the narrator for Anchorman.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's literally Sacramento. We got so much.

[Luke Burbank]

We got. So.

[Andrew Walsh]

I can't believe that I didn't.

[Luke Burbank]

Good morning. Sacramento stands for whale's penis.

[Andrew Walsh]

I intentionally botched that so that it would be one click off of the real thing. I really want everyone to know that that was intentional. But. So if he's the narrator of it, of course that's how I got it in my head. But of course, I then forgot that. Duh.

[Luke Burbank]

But I still think Bill Curtis ever.

[Andrew Walsh]

Tried to tell me.

[Luke Burbank]

But Bill Curtis is, like, going around the halls of Wait, wait, don't tell me. And, yes, there are halls of wait, wait, don't tell me. Just telling everybody who will listen that he was the. The narrator for Anchorman. Is that what.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think he is. I think, put him on blast.

[Luke Burbank]

Roast his ass.

[Andrew Walsh]

Never. I would never, ever do that to my dear friend Mr. Bill Curtis. No, I'm sure that what happened was I just. At some point, because he narrates the movie, I was like, well, that. He must be the guy that Ron Burgundy is based on. The other thing that the. Before I ever met Bill Curtis in person, where he loomed large in my mind was he records the weirdest, like, spoken word open to a Dandy Warhol's record called, like, Auditoriums and Others or something like this Dandy Warhol's record that I used to listen to. I used to wear this thing out back in the day. It starts with Bill Curtis reading this kind of nonsense intro. And so that was kind of part of the music of the Dandy Warhols, for me, was Bill Curtis's voice when you.

[Luke Burbank]

First of all, I'd like to say, and I don't know why I need to say this, but I. I really feel like I missed out on the Dandy Warhols, and that makes it sound like I can't go back and listen. I can go back and listen, but it's a huge. Really, it seems like.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, I feel like it was a moment in time for me where I was into the vibe. Oh, boy. Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Really feel like you're pulling the ladder up on the Dandy Warhols.

[Andrew Walsh]

Landrew. Golly. I mean, let's just say I'm. I. What you hear is me considering how much smoke slash blowback I want to get over nothing. Let's just say in the years since I became a Dandy Warhol's fan and I was a big fan, I have had occasion to interact with the band a few Times, including recently. And it's left me feeling a little bit. I still enjoy the music. I don't see this as a group of people that I would spend a huge amount of time with socially for funsies.

[Luke Burbank]

Why does everything come back to that black carpet experience you had in Los Angeles?

[Andrew Walsh]

Are you kidding me, dude? I would frigging hang with Metallica. Those guys were great.

[Luke Burbank]

No, are you done meeting Metallica, by the way, or do you have any more interviews with them lined up?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's a question for my. My friend, the producer who I stormed out on to answer. No, I think. I think that's still. That's still happening. That's back on track. Everything's good.

[Luke Burbank]

We. We've.

[Andrew Walsh]

The Hatchets have Been Buried, which, by the way, is also the name of Metallica ep. Hatchets have Been Buried, Master of Hatchets. And yeah, we'll be that. That's all. That's all still happening.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, I didn't even ask that, like, did any. Did. Did that event on the black carpet scuttle anything? I just meant, like, did you get everything in the can or did you still have.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I have to go to, like, James Hetfield's house or something.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. Yeah, I thought that that hadn't happened yet, but. Well, all of that is for you. Oh, sure, yeah. Well, no, no, I have a question before. Before you play it, I have a question related to it. So this is the beginning of that song or that album. My question.

[Andrew Walsh]

Auditorium or Warlords of Mars? And what's the name of the record?

[Luke Burbank]

So one, I have one question, but first, a preliminary question about what era of your life were you listening to this record?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, it came out in 2005.

[Luke Burbank]

So you're adult. You're an adult.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm an adult. I'm living in Los Angeles and I'm probably bouncing around at that point, maybe between LA and. And DC and New York, because I may have already kind of gotten into the world of being a kind of quasi NPR reporter. That would have been around maybe 2005.

[Luke Burbank]

Which I think answers my next question, which is, did you know that this was Bill Curtis when you listened to it? Did you already have an awareness of Bill Curtis and his voice?

[Andrew Walsh]

I had an awareness of him from, as I mentioned yesterday on the show, his, like, American justice type shows where he would kind of. He was the narrator of those. But I don't think I connected that this guy reading this thing was the guy from the steps of the courthouse at the beginning of, like, American Justice. I didn't Have a huge. I didn't have a huge thought about Bill Curtis at this point to where when I heard this, I was like, oh, that's the guy from tv.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, gotcha.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because he wasn't on Wait Wait yet. We were still working with the estimable Carl Castle.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. And you didn't know that he would someday be your best friend and, yes, annoy you a little bit by walking through the halls of. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Just constantly bragging about his cv.

[Andrew Walsh]

We've all got our kind of blind spots, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, okay. I'm excited to hear it.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is.

[Luke Burbank]

By the end of the Great War, the Dandy Warhols had progressed far beyond the traditional jug band sound. Zia had all but hung up the washtub base in favor of her new invention, which she called the synthesizer. The banjo was still there, but now it was electrified through a flat microphone, which Peter wound tightly with copper wire and called his pickup and in turn made it louder by what Fat had jokingly called Pete's Amp. Well, the name stuck. And by the time such luminaries as Gene Vincent, Elvis Presley and B.B. king had heard this new Warhol sound, they were calling it Rock and Roll Dandy frontman Courtney Taylor. Taylor would be quoted as saying, I know it's only rock and roll, but I think I like it. I'm Bill Curtis and you're listening to.

[Andrew Walsh]

A Piece of History, so I guess I knew it was Bill Curtis. Right? But you said it right there.

[Luke Burbank]

Make the connections though, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Now, since we're already. That is technically track number one on the record. Means we're already in trouble in Romania. So can I just play you. Can I just. We're already. We're already screwed. I'm going to play you a little bit of the track that sold me on the Dandy Warhols. It's called all the Money or the Simple Life Honey. This song slaps. I'll try to talk over a little bit of it so as to distract the bots right now that are listening in on us. Well, I can tell you for the money the simple life Honey's good uh.

[Luke Burbank]

Huh well if you ask me how.

[Andrew Walsh]

You made it Secure life, baby, you should oh yes, you should Cause if you're doing all the best that you.

[Luke Burbank]

Can but still you're running just as.

[Andrew Walsh]

Fast as the man says well I can tell you for the money the same Live a lot Honey is good.

[Luke Burbank]

Now yes, it's good. Can I ask you a question about this? Oh, yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Is it. Am I Hearing it. Oh, wait, turn it up a little bit more now.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it's intentionally sometimes.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's like it's thin and yeah, I like that.

[Andrew Walsh]

This also classically has one of those moments. Listener Garrett, our music guy, could tell me what it's technically called, but it's, it's got a point later in the song because this builds. There's all these horns and there's like a ton of instrumentation and then it just cuts back down to that, like just the rhythm, which I'm such a sucker for.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And it's kind of lo fi and then it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Anyway, I was really, really, really into this record Auditorium or Warlords of Mars. Actually, it still really stands up for me as music now. The other thing was around the same time, I feel like that movie dig came out, that rock doc that was actually. It's funny, yesterday we were talking about how we don't like dox anymore. Or you don't. You do weirdly, you like doxing, which I think is strange. That's one of your main pastimes.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. I've been posting your home address online for weeks now.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's amazing, by the way, how I'm undocsable. You keep putting my home address out in it.

[Luke Burbank]

No one, nobody really cares.

[Andrew Walsh]

People continue to not show up.

[Luke Burbank]

They're like, yeah, thankfully we know.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, let's not. We've got, we've got, we've got listeners who live down the street from him growing up. They know everything about this guy. No, please don't come to my house.

[Luke Burbank]

Let's not, let's not put out there that I don't like documentaries. That's not a true fact. I, I, I've traditionally loved documentaries, but since in the past 20 years, kind of the idea of what now? Yeah, I'm not smart enough, able to follow, I don't know, like. Well, some of them have words on the, like people are speaking different languages and they put the words on the bottom read. Oh, I'm like reading, reading.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Stop remembering that.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm going to read a movie. Okay. Yeah, sure. Why don't I go listen to a book? I don't know what I was doing there, but. No, of course I love documentaries, but I, I just think that like the, the line between reality TV and documentary and people making their own documentaries as little honorariums to them, not honorariums, I'm sorry.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like auditoriums or warlords.

[Luke Burbank]

Tributes to themselves. So anyway, that's what we're talking about there.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, there is this documentary I'm actually, I'm guessing you've seen it because it was a sensation amongst the kinds of people who watch this kind of stuff. Andrew. Which would be you and I in say I know the 2000s, which was. It's following a tour of the Dandy Warhol's and the band the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

[Luke Burbank]

I've been meaning to watch this movie for decades, everybody.

[Andrew Walsh]

Seriously.

[Luke Burbank]

So good it is.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, I don't want to like over. I haven't watched it in however many years. I don't know when it came out. I've watched it in a long time. But when it came out it was, it was a. It was a pretty big deal to the kind of people who watch this sort of stuff. And yeah, it was just about like the dysfunction of these two bands and also their, their dislike for each other, their deep dislike. The, the. The real just kind of like sociopathic behavior of the lead singer of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It, I feel like it sort of crescendo's with him literally like kicking the shit out of a fan at Doug Weston's Troubadour. By the way, a place TBT alive has occurred. And anyway it's. But it's, it's so. It's. It's the opposite of one of these documentaries that again quote unquote documentaries that now you would see on Netflix that would be about a band that's supposed to be just like all the access you want, but it's like the band, excuse me, the band is the executive producer of it. This is the opposite of that. This is like a couple of guys with like Sony VX1000s, like early like digicams just like hanging around filming these people just completely melting down left and right. It's really good.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, it came out in 2004 and it's the result of seven years of taping. So they started taping in the late 90s. And here's some potentially exciting news, except it may only be for people in England because I've never seen it and.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, like me in a few weeks.

[Luke Burbank]

As you describe it, like I'm like, yes, this is a movie that I've been meaning to watch forever. I think Genevieve might have watched it or at least knew a little bit about these two bands and been recommending it for a long time. And again I see that it came out in 2004 and now I see a headline. It's returning to cinemas for one day only for its 20th anniversary, but that might only be in UK theaters I'm trying to see if it's going to. Because this is one where I would.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right, you would go if it was playing in Belltown.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, I would love to go. Because sometimes, I mean, first of all, it's a little bit tough for me to have the attention span to sit down and watch a full length movie at home that's a true story.

[Andrew Walsh]

But you need to basically like obligate yourself.

[Luke Burbank]

I need to go to a geography.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Oh.

[Luke Burbank]

In fact, I want to tell you about a theater going experience I had.

[Andrew Walsh]

I probably saw this at like the Grand Illusion.

[Luke Burbank]

So you saw it in theaters. Well, and that's the thing. But I was going to say it's also because the content, because I know it's going to be confrontational. That's another layer of like, there are things that I know that I want to watch that have been told are like good films or projects or what have you. But if I know if there's. I know it's going to be very serious or very sad. I like very serious and very sad things. But it's just hard for me to like kind of sit down and say, I'm going to sit down and watch this now. Which is why after years and years and years of never watching it, I randomly watched Schindler's List last year. Yeah, that's amazing that I hit play on at like 11 o'clock at night thinking, I'll just watch a little of this before I go to bed. Which was.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was me last night with the Darjeeling Limited, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah, I saw that in your show notes now. I think I've seen that one. Who's in that one again?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's a Wes Anderson joint.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I know that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are we. Can we call it a joint? If it's anyone other than Spike Lee. Does anyone else get to call it a joint?

[Luke Burbank]

I love calling them all joints. I think that's very funny.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's a Michael Bay joint.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that's right.

[Andrew Walsh]

So this is the power of suggestion. And in these, these. The gloaming of Tick Tock, I saw some clip from like the A24 tick tock feed that was Jason Schwarzman and Adrien Brody just kind of talking to each other like not in the film. This is them like recently reminiscing about the shoot for the Darjeeling Limited. And, and you know, I mean, I've said a lot about Wes Anderson on this show and if you care to get my thoughts, you can go back to those. The short version is I kind of never know what's happening in a Wes Anderson film or why it's happening, but I just find it so visually entertaining. That being said, we're getting to a point where it's. It. He's a victim of his own success and his own visual style. To where I see things, I'm like, oh, this is Wes Anderson being extremely Wes Anderson, which is, you know, I mean, he literally created a visual language as far as this kind of filmmaking goes, as far as I can tell. So the Darjeeling Limited was one of those ones that I just didn't. I didn't get a chance to see it, but, boy, did I love that soundtrack. He was really leaning into the Kinks, was old Wes Anderson at this point. And so I saw this moment where Adrien Brody and. Oh, by the way, I cannot wait to see the brutalist that is like. I mean, put it in my veins. Like, I'm kind of obsessed with brutalism as an architectural movement these days. Like, Brute Builds was a. Was a. Is an Instagram feed that I, like, subscribe to. So, like, Adrien Brody playing an architect who's instrumental in the brutalism movement is, like, very in my zone of interest.

[Luke Burbank]

I saw a trailer for that recently when I was at the theater. Do you know that I just want to get super hyper. I want to interrupt you and go super hyper. Local about an abandoned building in North Seattle. Do you know that brutalist building that's sort of near my house? House. It's near. It's been abandoned since I've lived here, but it's on 130th, kind of across from, well, what I would call sprouts. Except you would call it where the old Kmart was. You know that building looks like a government building.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I know that. Exactly. That. As you're going down the hill, it's on the right. Correct.

[Luke Burbank]

If you're going down the hill, like, with a highway behind you, basically, if.

[Andrew Walsh]

You'Re going away from Aurora and towards. I would be on the right.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, it would be on the right. Exactly. Yeah. It's still a kid.

[Andrew Walsh]

I never knew what that building was.

[Luke Burbank]

It's an amazing build. I'm not. I'm not really into brutalism, like, but that's an amazing building.

[Andrew Walsh]

I want to clarify. I'm also not into it as a style. Like, I wouldn't want to live in. I wouldn't want. I. I wouldn't snap my fingers and have my house somehow be more brutalist. But I do just find it really interesting as a Movement that took hold. I mean, you got like Odegaard and you get Suzelo over there at the U Dub and like the idea that it kind of was a thing for a while is just fascinating to me. By the way, one of Nikki Glaser's best jokes in the Golden Globes that went right over everyone's head was two time Holocaust survivor Adrien Brody is here.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, what's this? What's the other movie?

[Andrew Walsh]

Was it like the Pianist or something?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

I feel like Adrian Brody is always playing like, just like a. He's just always playing sort of like a. An absolutely broken, like Holocaust surviving person who finds a crack of light in the otherwise, you know, dim world that he exists in. I feel like that's really his sweet spot.

[Luke Burbank]

That's a really good, solid joke, right? Yeah, exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nobody laughed, which tells you it was a good joke. Anyway, so they were those two. Jason Schwarzman and Adrian Brody. Here's what sold me. On starting the Darjeeling Limited at 10pm last night, they were talking about the actual practical implications of filming on a moving train. The entire film set was literally a moving train in India. And that they had to be at set on time because the train had to leave. And then if you didn't get on the train, they couldn't, you know, you couldn't be in your scenes that day. It's a moving thing. And that what they did was they split the train in half and they built one entire set and then they built the exact same set in reverse so that the light would match. So that they would shoot in the. In the morning and in the, you know, midday or whatever and the light would be at a certain angle and then they would go to the other side of the train coming back so that the afternoon light would match the kind of mid morning light. And I just thought that was like so genius from a filmmaking standpoint that it made me want to watch the film.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it does mean as well. One thing that's really bothering me here is me not being able to tell whether or not I've seen this movie. But I'll tell you why. And I've struggled with this memory or lack thereof many times in conversation when this movie comes up. And it's because of the Grand Budapest Hotel. And that's how I'm gonna say Budapest. Now, I'm not gonna say it the proper way, insecure to do that, but I love the Grand Budapest Hotel. I think it was a slow burner for me. I don't think it was one of my faves originally, but I've seen it several times now. But I also think parts of that take place on a train. I believe there are checking papers and that type of train situation. And so I think, I keep thinking I've seen the Darjeeling, but really I'm remembering some key scenes from the Grand Budapest Hotel. And I don't think I've seen the Darjeeling. And I think I should, especially after everything you just said. I think I would have remembered if the entire, if I saw a movie where the entire thing takes place on a moving train.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, there's, there's a. They get off the train eventually, but it's the, you know, 90% of the film is on the train. And I would say to have a gummy or whatever it is you like to kind of put your, put your mind on, like we're going with this mode, you know what I mean? Which is a good place to be with a Wes Anderson film anyway. Just because it is almost just kind of. I overuse this, but it's kind of a tone piece in a way, right? It's the, it's the, the songs that are being used, it's the colors that are, you know, being filmed, etc. I really enjoyed it, by the way. I really, I, I had not had a gummy, but I was just in some kind of. I don't know, I was in a. I was in a place where I was open to the experience and I really, really dug it. The other reason I think you could get confused, Andrew, is because I feel like Wes Anderson loves to put a beat up Wilson brother in a film. Nobody loves an injured Wilson brother in a film like Wes Anderson. So you've got Owen Wilson who's got this, like, he's got bandages on the entire film because he's been in a car accident right before it starts. And I feel like we got some kind of quasi injured Luke Wilson going on in Tenenbaums or. I don't know, does he ever. I know he shaves his head in a pretty intense scene, but no.

[Luke Burbank]

Owen Wilson also, doesn't he have a bandage over his nose? A big part of Tenenbaums. Doesn't he get popped off and he's.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, he's a writer. Yeah, maybe it's just, maybe it's just Owen Wilson.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't remember why he gets assaulted or why he would have a bandage.

[Andrew Walsh]

Isn't he like dressing in Tenenbaums? His whole thing is he's sort of writing like native American.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, he's like.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's just.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, he sees himself.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's his move.

[Luke Burbank]

Swaggery, sort of intellectual writer. But he's a real dummy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe he's wearing, like, fringe. Like leather fringe, cowboy hat, Native American culture or something.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, no, I mean, he wears a cowboy hat and sort of a fringy jacket that I think is the cowboy hat.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's Native American culture. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

But also, though, I do think that he maybe has some.

[Andrew Walsh]

Literally the opposite or something.

[Luke Burbank]

And his book might have something to do with that. I'm stretching the. I'm stretching the edges of my memory of that movie, so. What a dumb way to put that, but I do. Yeah, that. That is a recurring thing, which I don't mind that I kind of don't mind. Nods. Well, the conversation doesn't always have to end up with me saying why I'm. I'm not into his newer things. Like, it is surprising to me, though, you were to go back.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hotel is his newest thing, Right. And you like it? No, actually.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my gosh, no. There have been so many.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, no. That movie. No, you're wrong. That movie came out six months ago, and I won't listen to any other discussion on the topic. Oh, yeah. Asteroid City, Asteroids. That one.

[Luke Burbank]

I have to say, New Yorker one. There's so many.

[Andrew Walsh]

The French Dispatch.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

I have to say, I had. I was challenged by Asteroid City. Andrew, I'm here to tell you, it was. It was so. So subtle. Like, what I liked about Darjeeling was this was. It was still like. It was an emotional film. There was actually a lot of kind of like. Like love between these brothers. I mean, the idea is you have these three estranged brothers who come together to take this train to go find their mom. And there was genuine affection there and feelings. Asteroid City was so. It was just. It was so many people just having these conversations that were so. I don't know how you saw it, right?

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, I didn't see that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it's. It's. It was. It was tough for me.

[Luke Burbank]

There was.

[Andrew Walsh]

There. Yeah, it was. It had too many people. First of all, that's the thing. I think that, like, what I liked about Darjeeling was it's basically these three guys. That's the movie. And that gives me a chance to kind of connect with them. Whereas something like the French Dispatch or Asteroid city, there's like 40 people in the cast. So it's just like constantly a person showing up and kind of talking kind of brusquely and in a detached way to someone else in a kind of non naturalistic dialogue. And usually while like holding a cigarette, kind of at a certain angle in their hand, you know, and then saying something and then leaving abruptly. But if that just keeps happening over and over again, I start to sort of check out from the film a little bit as the viewer.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, you know, I kind of. When these conversations come up, I tend to kind of say the same things over and over. But yeah, I sort of felt like the French Dispatch ended up being sort of a commentary, like a self commentary by Wes Anderson about his, his, you know, his filmmaking and the, those criticisms. Because what I always say is like, when you look back at Royal Tenenbaums, I mean, that is a movie that has all the harm. Hallmarks visually of a Wes Anderson film. All of the preciousness and the filmmaking and the style, but it also just has so much heart. Like, I can't watch that without almost. Without crying or almost crying at the end of it. And then as he becomes more and more of kind of playing with his dollhouse, I sort of felt like as the, as the movies go on, you're.

[Andrew Walsh]

Saying guys can't play with dollhouses.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I'm into doll houses, but it's just like. It's more like. It's more about the house and less about the dolls, frankly. That's the issue.

[Andrew Walsh]

Very, very well put. Very well put.

[Luke Burbank]

And then do you remember, and I think we've had this conversation at the end of the French Dispatch, which I kind of didn't like. I mean, it had its moments. And it's also.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm gonna put you in the, in the headspace I was in when I watched the French Dispatch two martinis in and had eyes on buying a truck I was never gonna drive. Oh, that's right outside the theater as I was watching it. So I'm a little hazy on the details.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I definitely saw the French Dispatch in the theater and again, theater. And I like seeing something that isn't like, you know, like I'm not into action films or whatever. So I'll. I'll sit through any Wes Anderson movie in the theater. And again, I still want to come back and talk to you about this theater experience I had recently. But anyway, at the very end of the French Dispatch, which I thought was very uneven, which is like such a cliche to say about any film, I feel like at the very end I can't remember who the actors are in the final scene. Bill Murray might be one of them, but I know one of the people is like an editor, right? And the editor is saying to the person who's turning in their article, like, this is all. There's no heart in this. There's no feeling. There's no human emotion. It's all just sort of like, it's beautiful. But. And they say, well, I'm not changing, essentially.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, that's very West Anderson. Basically saying, dude, that's going to make the movies I want.

[Luke Burbank]

That's my theory. I have not heard, I have not pursued to see if that is actually what he's trying to say there. But it felt to me very much like. Like a filmmaker saying, listen, this is. This is what I do.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just thought I cracked the code. When I figured out it was sort of New Yorker esque, I thought that was a great insight.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, again, I could be totally wrong about that. That was just a takeaway I had. And let's see, that came out in 2021. So that's me trying to remember the end of a movie I don't remember that well that I saw four years ago. I did want to recommend to you, though. I think you would like this. I always get nervous recommending things to you, but the Eisenberg film A Real Pain with Kieran Culkin, Vivian, I saw.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, you saw it in a theater.

[Luke Burbank]

Me too, but I saw it in a theater that should not be open anymore. Luke, I. We went back to and I knew that theater was going in this direction, but the only place this was playing, that. Was it like the day after? No, it was New Year's Day. Viva. And I wanted to see a movie. That's a very traditional thing to do, I feel like. But the only thing we wanted to see because I was not interested in any of the other movies was this movie, A Real Pain, which Genevieve had just told me about. But the only place it was playing was at the Varsity in the U district. And I knew that that place had been. Was pretty bombed out. I think the last time I went there was four or five years ago. They were showing some classic old movie. It was in bad shape then and I'd heard that it had gone downhill. Now this is a theater that, like, if it was in the right hands, folks who've never been there should know this would be a really, really cool.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's where you would work 20 years ago if you were planning your. Your final act of employment. This is where you'd work. The Varsity. It's on the Ave, right?

[Luke Burbank]

It's right on the Ave. Everyone wore ties. It's got an old school.

[Andrew Walsh]

Employees used to wear ties back in the day.

[Luke Burbank]

Is this true or you're saying 100. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, 100%. It was like in. By the way, regardless of gender, you wore like a white shirt and like a burgundy type tie or some kind of a tie. And everybody who worked there were like people who just loved film. Either they were at the UW or maybe they were grad students or they just were interested. It was like all artsy, creative people that ran this thing. And it was just like a haven for film people who liked film.

[Luke Burbank]

I. I knew this theater was going downhill. So my expectations were set pretty low going in. And because of that I was able to not. There were some people who were waiting for popcorn with me who were having really bad reactions to their environment. Like, some people who were like at their wits end because what was going on in this theater was not normal.

[Andrew Walsh]

What?

[Luke Burbank]

But just the way it was being run and it was just so filthy and it's so weird. But like I was able to like kind of be gracious to the one guy who was working there. But Luke, it is like really bad. Like you go in like first of all, both doors are shattered and like cardboarded up. You go in and there's one guy. The popcorn machine isn't working. The soda machine isn't working right now. And I just mean it just has the, the feeling of like there's a. There's like a toaster oven balanced on the counter. Like it is just. I cannot believe there are. This is so dark. But I mean, I cannot believe that this is a theater that shows things. Like a real pain. Like you would think that this would be like a SCSI, like porn theater from the 80s in New York or something. Because like, who's going to this place? And like it is so bananas. And then. And like some of it is like, okay, it takes a lot of money to keep a theater going. Like maybe some things are gonna break. But like the guy who was running everything was. He was a young man. You know, this is in the college area for people who aren't around here. And he was probably a college age person and you know, he was friendly enough, but also just kind of like, I can offer you what I can offer you, which is, I'll get the popcorn going in a little bit. I missed the first like 5, 10 minutes of the movie because he couldn't get the popcorn going until after he got through all the tickets people did. And that's where I say there Were some. Some pretty strong. And I apologize for saying this, but there's some pretty strong Karen energy emanating off of a couple of women who were like, had been waiting around and were getting a little stampy with him. And I was just trying to be the best boy I could be and just say, like, this is the last time I'm coming to this theater. It was also just like, it's one thing to be a bit broke, but, like, it was filthy that the steps. Because the theaters are upstairs, the steps just filthy. And you really notice when you're going up steps because the floor is right in front of your face. You know, we all know how steps work. I think we all know how steps work. And you just see it's just like nobody's cleaning anything, Luke. Like, doors are like. Are like warning taped off in some instances. There's no heat. Everybody in the theater is wearing. I'm wearing a coat and scarf the entire time. The popcorn, when it finally was made. Because I've always said, by the way, I've always said if I go into a theater and either the projector is broken or the popcorn machine is broken, I prefer the projector to be broken. This is a popcorn delivery situation. Exactly. I'm not going to sit through a movie without popcorn. So I did wait for some popcorn to be made. I missed the beginning of the movie. The popcorn did not taste very good, but I did put my popcorn where my mouth is, quite literally, because I really did repeatedly. Popcorn over the.

[Andrew Walsh]

How was the actual popcorn?

[Luke Burbank]

The popcorn was not that great. It had kind of a funny taste to it. But I ate. In fact, I ate about half the bag. And that's a rarity for me that I don't eat all of that.

[Andrew Walsh]

So you get like, half a bag of popcorn experience. That's an on cinema reference. If you guys want to watch some of the most surreal, like, movie conversations, watch the Tim Heidecker. And oh, my goodness, he's been a guest on the show.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, Greg Turkington. Sorry. I was thinking about a real pain again. But I would just to wrap up my story, it was a. I'll tell you what. The fact that I enjoyed that movie so much in these conditions speaks well to the movie. And I'd like to hear your thoughts on it. But yeah, for those who want to know, like, the Varsity, somebody there needs to buy that and fix it. Or like, I just don't. I would actually specifically say don't go there or don't go there unless you know what you're getting into. And you kind of want a rough and tumble movie going experience.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's such a bummer because that used to be, like I said, a delightful place to go see a film. And it was in this, you know, little circuit of. You had the. The Guild 45th and you had the.

[Luke Burbank]

Harvard exit, which was the Harvard exit.

[Andrew Walsh]

Area, but still just there was this. Yeah, there was this little kind of circuit of art house theaters in Seattle that were so much fun to go to and just great spots. And they're mostly gone now. I loved the film. A Real Pain. And I loved it so much, Andrew, that it. It made me retroactively regret my one and only decision to have personal, like work life boundaries. Because if you remember, I was supposed to go interview Kieran Culkin about the film.

[Luke Burbank]

I forgot. And that was for this film. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

And he was. He was. It was supposed to happen on a Thursday and he like missed his flight home from England or whatever. Didn't want to do the interview on the day we'd agreed upon. So they were trying to get me to come out on do it on a Saturday. That was the same Saturday I was supposed to judge a Halloween pet costume contest. And I said, that's what I want to do. That I've been looking forward to this. I want to hang out with Becca and her family. Which I did. And it was really, really fun. And then they ended up having Mo Rocca do the interview. And then I saw the movie and then I was furious at myself for not going and interviewing Kieran Culkin because he's so good in the film and also is now nominated for an Oscar. And I don't know if he's going to win. It's probably going to go to Adrian Brody for Surviving the Holocaust twice. But regardless, I was like, of course, the one interview I don't go do is associated with a film that I was absolutely gobsmacked by.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's a hell of a film, man. And they. They tour Auschwitz. Right? I have the right.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think it's Auschwitz.

[Luke Burbank]

Not as I was saying that it's.

[Andrew Walsh]

One I actually had not heard of. So it wouldn't have been like, I'm not going to try to name concentration camps, but it wasn't like Treblinka or Buchen Bald or whatever. It wasn't one that I had heard of. But they do. They go to a concentration camp.

[Luke Burbank]

But the reason I bring that up is because it's just shot unlike, I think, anything I've seen before. Shot is the wrong word there. It's just presented unlike, I think, any scenes I've seen in a movie before where basically the movie, because you're building up to it, and it's not like. And I'm telling the audience this, Luke, obviously, you know, but, like, it's not like they don't do flashbacks or anything corny like that. It's just a group of people who are taking a tour of a place where the most horrific things of mankind happened. And you know that that is going to be a part of the movie because this group of people are, you know, like, kind of touring Poland, and that's kind of why they're there. But when the movie gets to that part, it's like the movie just sort of stops. In fact, the tour guide kind of says that both to the people he's giving a tour to and I think also us, the audience, just saying, hey, listen, I'm going to kind of stop talking for this part. I think it speaks for itself. We're going to walk around and the movie just gets super quiet. There's no music. There's the sound of a group of about, I don't know, eight people walking around. You hear the creaking of their footsteps as they just silently look at things and as you silently look at them with them. And I'm getting emotional thinking about it. It is so powerful.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is incredibly moving. It's.

[Luke Burbank]

It's.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's a really. It's a really phenomenal piece of filmmaking in that it. Yeah, we've. Well, you, in fact, recently watched Schindler's List. Like, we've seen movies about this horror and. And this one made me think about it differently or experience or feel like I was able to have at least a small, a slim view into the experience of people who went through this in a different way than I've ever had before, which is really saying something because a lot. A lot of, you know, a lot of celluloid has been. Has been used up trying to in some way document the horror of this experience. And yet they found a new way to do it that was tremendously affecting.

[Luke Burbank]

It made. I was going to ask Genevieve this. This is one of those movies that I saw also. Did you. What's the other one? Did you see Queer, by any chance, the William S. Burroughs movies? Veeves. And I saw that too. I didn't even know that was a William S. Burroughs movie going into it. And we saw both of those, which are both two, like, kind of very heavy tonal movies that we saw, like, kind of probably within a month of each other, and both of them just really, really stuck with me. I don't even know if I liked Queer. I mean, I think I did. I mean, you can't see a movie and then think about it as much as I thought about it. For weeks and weeks. I kept on coming up to Genevieve and like, another thing about that movie, but it's a. It's a. It's a much tougher watch, I would say. But what was I going to say? Oh, I wanted to ask Genevieve, after watching a Real pain, whether or not she. How she would feel about touring a concentration camp and if the movie changed that. And I guess I would ask you that question. Like, that's not something I ever thought about because I so rarely travel overseas. But, you know, I know people who've taken those tours and I'm like, yeah, I could see myself doing it. And then there was something about seeing that. Seeing it in this movie in this really realistic way. A realistic way of taking a tour. I want to say again, that really made me wonder if I could emotionally handle being there in person.

[Andrew Walsh]

If I could. If I could take a tour the way that they did in the film, I probably would, you know, because they seem like they were the only people.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that was the one part that didn't seem exactly probably realistic.

[Andrew Walsh]

If I could do it that way where I could just be really left alone with my thoughts and my experience with it as opposed to, you know, queuing up at various places for things and. And crowds of. You know, Becca and I were in Italy this summer and like, touring a non emotional place with throngs of people is already kind of like annoying. Like, I don't have a lot of feelings about the Coliseum, but, you know, so if I were at a place like that, a concentration. A former concentration camp, and then there was this sort of the hassle of being there with a bunch of other people. That might be really tough for me because I think it'd be a lot of emotion and then a lot of annoyance.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, yeah, I thought of that while we were watching the movie. I mean, this is amazing. But also, there's no way that you're the only eight people here at all. You know what I mean?

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, maybe, though you never know because, like, this was in Poland.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it. I looked it up, by the way. I'm not even gonna try to pronounce it, but it was. It was a, you know, a former concentration camp in Poland that I had certainly never heard of before this and who knows, depending on, like, what day you're there and. And what time of year and how many. I mean, it's insane to think about this, how many different concentration camps there may have been. You could probably find one that wasn't just teeming with. With. With visitors, you know, and my guess would be that people are respectful. If there's one place where I would. I would hope anyway that people can be respectful, it would be something like this. But. But, yeah, I definitely felt like again, and I'm also not trying to be glib, but I. I felt in a way like I went on a tour of that place. That's how. That's how expert the filmmaking was.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I'm glad you saw this film. I didn't. I didn't know that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I am too. But again, if Kieran Culkin. I want everyone to know. If Kieran Culkin wins an Oscar, just know I will literally never prioritize my personal life over work again. That's the big takeaway, America.

[Luke Burbank]

And by the way, I'm really. You and I, before the show, were mentioning Brian. Brian Cox. That's his name, right? From Succession. We're Talking about the McDonald's theme song of all things. This is before the show began and now talking about Kieran Culkin. I feel like I'm really surprised you did not watch any Succession. If you like Kieran Culkin's performance in this, even though his background as a character is completely different in Succession and this movie, if you like that style and his. His personal kind of quirks and ticks or whatever, both characters sort of have that Culkininess to them that I think you would like in Succession.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think I will. Particularly if TikTok Legit goes away. I look forward to my. My brain, like, reconnecting with longer form content, maybe out of necessity. Like. I really enjoyed Darjeeling last night. I really need to. I need to, like, hunker down and finish somebody somewhere, which I haven't yet for reasons that I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe it's that I feel like now there's pressure on me to watch it or something. But I can see myself watching and enjoying Succession. I watched the first episode and I think I was coming to it. I was not in a place of jam when I was. I was. I think I was for some reason looking for something to not like, and I didn't. What I need to do is watch Nancy Pearl. Here's a hyper local reference. Yeah, the awesome. Kuow. You know, I think she was literally like Seattle's official librarian for a period of time. She used to have a rule of thumb for a book. She said give it 50 pages and if you don't like it after 50 pages, you have every right to put it down. But give it 50 pages, which I think is actually a very good rule of thumb. So I need to give Succession 50 pages. I gave it like three pages and.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm giving the Count of Monte Cristo 500 pages. I'm still slogging my way through. I didn't tell you. A quick update on this. So the reason I started reading the Count of Monte Cristo was because, I mean, I mean, probably over a year ago, let's be honest, I misunderstood the menu.

[Andrew Walsh]

I thought it was a more sandwich based.

[Luke Burbank]

I really did. I thought it was a menu actually. No, I was walking somewhere and I think I was walking to probably a bar or maybe just to the train. And I pass a couple of. On my walk to the train, I pass a couple of those little libraries that people put in their front yard. And I saw it and it was a big tome. And I was like, oh, maybe I'll just grab this and read this on the train. Or maybe again, I can't remember where I was going, but I just grabbed it on the fly. I'll kind of do that sometime. And then, oh, that's right. I think I was going to a pizza joint because then some student in the U district saw me reading it and then gave me like a huge download on it. It was, it was kind of cute. He was so excited that I was reading this book. Anyway, all of that is to say I remember the first thing I did when I read, when I picked up the book was I read the introduction and it was a note from the translator complaining that the editors made him cut the book back too much. He's like, I mean, how can you cut any word out of this book, etc. But it is what it is. And I remember just thinking like, what a pompous way to start this book. And then I start reading it and then this is a problem with me with physical books. At nighttime I would prefer to read on my phone because I don't have to have a light on. I can hold the phone closer to my face. I can adjust the font. I don't read physical books when I'm laying in bed at night. So I downloaded a version of this and I immediately noticed that. And you get this with translated books. The translation isn't exact. Right. I would read one passage from one book and notice it's slightly different than the other one. What I did not realize was the book that I downloaded is not abridged in the way that this. This other book that I picked up is already very thick, like thicker than the Bible. And that's the abridged one. That's the one where the guy complained about having to cut too much out. I grabbed the physical copy of the book the other day and I took it to the Vibe, the sports bar of my neighborhood, and I sat down to read it, and I couldn't find.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do they let you bring backpacks into the Vibe?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Yes, they do. And I could. I was so confused why I couldn't find my place in the physical book. And it's because the physical book that I grabbed out of the free library is just missing chapters. It's just fully missing. And it was already looked like a big book. The one I'm reading on my phone leaves no chapter out. And because I was going back and forth and I'm just like, oh, my God, they're just skipping entire scenes at the. At the opera.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is this the abridging process or is this that someone literally tore the chapter?

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, no, it's the abridging process. It's the guy. You know, the translator in the physical copy of the book was like, oh, I had to leave too much out. I'm like, I'm holding a book that's like, heavier than my car. What do you mean you left too much out? And then I start reading the digital version. But you don't hold a digital version the same way. I don't know how big the book would be if I was. If I was able to manifest it out of the digital version. So all that is to say the reason I'm selling 60% through this book is because I'm reading some unabridged version that is like. I literally think more than half. Like more than half over maybe twice the size, I should say, of the physical book that I'd grabbed out of that little library.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, if I can say this with peace and love, that sounds so frustrating.

[Luke Burbank]

Why?

[Andrew Walsh]

That sounds so relaxing.

[Luke Burbank]

I. And he's just like, are you ever going to read another book? Like, she. We're talking about Hillary Mantle, by the way. A couple of.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I never read the station. Station 49 or something.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I know her for, like, reading the Wolf hall, the Henry VII historical things. And those were thick books that I had to like, kind of like Google a lot of stuff, you know about.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was thinking of somebody else, by the way, and I. Somebody Mandel, I think.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I think I know what you're talking about.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway, it was confusing our author.

[Luke Burbank]

Anyway, point is, even those were, like, kind of books that I had to, like, you know, kind of really pay attention to to get through. And I'm just like. And I never read the third one in the series in the Wolf hall series. And I'm like, I can't wait to read. That'll be like beach reading to me now. And I cannot wait to get to it. Genevieve's like, you're never going to get to it if you refuse to read anything until you're done with the Count of Monte Cristo. I don't think you have enough life left in you to read any more books.

[Andrew Walsh]

I admire your tenacity, sir.

[Luke Burbank]

It's so good.

[Andrew Walsh]

Listen, I would have given up. Listen, I got, like, six hours into. Into the David Foster Wallace book, and I was like. I was like, I can't. I mean that. For me, the problem was a lack of footnoting because I was listening to it on tape, and it didn't have the audio footnotes. So it's just like, there's so much stuff that I was kind of missing. So, you know, Andrew, here's what I would say to you. People often ask, like, why is TBTL so popular? Why. Why are people flocking to this show? And it's because we are the show. And I think the. That can pivot effortlessly and deftly from conversations about the Holocaust to the life and times of Bob Uecker.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, this is. This is.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is a difficult pivot for some, not for us, because that is the level that we're operating at. Bob Uecker has passed away. The Milwaukee Brewer. Great. And by that, I mean I think he was a pretty average player.

[Luke Burbank]

He was a bad player. He used to make fun of himself all the time.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, I'd actually like to. You know what this is. If I would have. I only realized he'd passed away, like, as the show was starting. I would. I'm wondering how actually bad Bob Uecker was. Like, he was certainly not an elite player, but I wonder how much him being a bad player became part of the mythology of him as a broadcaster and commercial maker. I was saying to you before we started recording, I feel like to some degree, my thoughts about broadcasting were shaped by Bob Uecker, because when I was a kid watching, you know, this Week in Baseball and other things, I would see these Miller Light commercials with Bob Uecker where he was always the butt of the joke. The entire premise was Bob Uecker thinks he's a big shot because he's an ex. He's an ex baseball player. But in fact he was so bad that people actually dislike him. And it was just so kind of the joke being on Bob Euchre. I loved it. And I think it really went into some part of my brain about like a way that you can be sort of a broadcaster. And I'm not trying to put myself up in the pantheon of Bob Euchre's broadcasting, but here's just one. This is from 1984, Miller Light. This is Bob Euchre. He's at the stadium and he's all excited about getting his seat, which he thinks is going to be right, you know, right next to the field. But of course, you know, one of the best things about being an ex big leaguer is getting freebies to the game. Call the front office bingo. And once these fans recognize me, I probably won't even have to pay for my light pier from hill down. I love them. These fans know I drink light because it's less filling and it tastes great. Good seats, huh? You're in the wrong shape, buddy.

[Luke Burbank]

Come on. Oh, I must be in front. Light beer from Miller. Everything you always wanted in a beer and less.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, of course, he's in the nosebleeds by himself. He's yelling down to the field. Good seats.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey buddy, he missed the tag. He missed the tag.

[Andrew Walsh]

By the way, all you want in a beer and less is a great tagline. That's a really good. But then of course also, you know, in Major League, which I'm sure there are parts of the film Major League, the many films that were made under the major league kind of banner, eventually I only know the first one, really. I'm sure there are parts that don't stand up. It's an unfortunate mascot for the Cleveland baseball team at the time, etc. Etc. But still, the Bob Euchre performance, if you're somebody my age, is just absolutely legendary as the announcer for that entire film. He's essentially the. He's the narrator of the movie in a way. And there's just so many great bits. He just was a. He was a really, really funny, self deprecating guy who. Who I. You know, again, I think some part as a. As a fellow funny self deprecating guy, I can say I got a lot.

[Luke Burbank]

Of it from Bob Euchre self Deprecating, I'll give you. Sorry. I had to, I had to, I had to. You said it. Do you know, and I don't think you'll be surprised by this, as somebody who zero or, well, almost zero interest in sports growing up, what do you think my first sort of like recollection of Bob Euchre was? Because I think that this sort of points to his.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did he have a sitcom?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Mr. Belvedere.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, he was missing. He was on.

[Luke Burbank]

Am I right about. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Andrew Walsh]

It might have been.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, wait. He was definitely the dad on Mr. Belvedere.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's very possible. I mean, I was just always focusing on Mr. Belvedere.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

What a time. So he was the dad in the.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I mean he's definitely played George Owens in Mr. Belvedere. So I'm assuming that what, what a time.

[Andrew Walsh]

What a time in this country, Andrew, all of America would sit down at night together and watch one of three networks and watch these sitcoms, these, these multi camera sitcoms. And so many of them, for some bizarre reason were starring former pro athletes like Dick Butkiss. Like, did he have a show? Did he. I believe he did. Like George Papadakis, who was on Webster. What was the Dick Butt Kiss sitcom? If Dick Butkiss didn't have a sitcom, I might. Maybe I imagined it.

[Luke Burbank]

Maybe you're thinking, who's the guy from Webster that you said? Because I didn't know that name. But of course that was a former athlete. I kind of of knew that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe he just. Maybe he was just on TV a lot, doing commercials or something. Yeah, because I'm looking at it. Maybe I'm not. Maybe I was imagining that. I just feel like there was a period of time where there were a lot of former athletes that were just playing like a random dad in a sitcom, which is just such interesting casting. Like, anyway. And. And I guess old Bob Euchre was one of them.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I mean, again, I kind of bring that up because, well, it's a fond memory and. But it's also like I didn't know who Bob Euchre was. I would have at that time. I would just been like, oh, the guy who's the dad on Mr. Belvedere. Right. And then grow up. And then I start realizing, like, I mean, you bring up Major League. I wasn't somebody who saw Major League, I think until I was an adult too. Like again, just sort of how, you know, where my interests lay as a kid. But I mean you literally, you talk about a Pitch being outside and you just think about the most you have.

[Andrew Walsh]

To say just a bit outside.

[Luke Burbank]

Like you can't hear those words without hearing Bob Euchre say them. Like that is just like. It's literally iconic.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, that's. Yeah, that is. That is probably one of the most iconic baseball jokes that exists is a pitch being way outside, but describing it as just a bit outside. We have Bob Baker to thank for that.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. Thank you for being a tam.

[Andrew Walsh]

Alright, let's thank some donors today. These folks are making TBTL happen with their voluntary donation. This is 100% listener supported podcasting. Coming at you. We want to thank Rachel and Matt Howell of Broomfield, Colorado.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, Denver friendos.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thanks, Howells.

[Luke Burbank]

I only said not to. I'm not. I know that there's a difference between Broomfield and Denver, but we saw them. Yeah, we saw them in Denver.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right. Thanks also to Emily Atkinson who's in Brevard, North Carolina. We've got a solid distribution today, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Nice, nice.

[Andrew Walsh]

If we were trying to. If we had a tbtl, pitch deck, today would be a great show. I'd be like, okay. We cover such important topics as the Holocaust, the film the Darjeeling Limited, the fact that Dick Butkus was not in any sitcoms in Luke's youth, even though he wished it was the case. And look at this distribution of listenership. We've got Colorado, we've got North Carolina, we've got Carmichael, California, where Heather Schwamp Wilson. Would you go with Swampy or Swamp?

[Luke Burbank]

There's an e on the end there.

[Andrew Walsh]

There's an e. And I don't know exactly what to do with that E.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll be honest with you. The way you said it at first, Swamp Wilson sounded right. It felt right to me. It felt right to me. And this is very. This is a job. Again, put this in the pitch deck. Okay. From the podcaster's perspective, this is something you just have to have a feel for. Luke podcasting and make no apologies to me.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, you've got to absolutely break off. You break off that mirror, that rear view mirror. Because we're not looking back, Andrew. Yeah, we're going forward.

[Luke Burbank]

I did that to somebody's car once. They were very upset. You're not really.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know that I've had a crack.

[Luke Burbank]

Figurative.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've had a crack in my windshield that's like fully become like it was a rock chip that totally did the thing. Yeah, that and I have. I've yet to repair it for all these years. All these years, all these months, because they actually, the mobile repair people won't come out here to do it. And I just.

[Luke Burbank]

Too remote, I guess.

[Andrew Walsh]

And I do not feel like driving it to a place and then killing like five to eight hours while they're fixing it. And I've kind of gotten used to it. Now I am a guy just driving around with a cracked windshield like it's fine.

[Luke Burbank]

First of all, take it to Safelight Repair, Safelight Replace. You'll get a free three months of satellite radio.

[Andrew Walsh]

By the way, I'm playing those guys like a friggin violin.

[Luke Burbank]

What do you. Oh, how. So what do you got going on? What's your.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, was that the movie? Wait, who was in Captain Corolli's violin? That was. That feels like another Brody project.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't, I'm not sure, I'm not sure. Wait, do you have any sort of scam going on with.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, not intentionally. What it was was I got like 80% of the way through the process of signing up for Safelight Repair, Safelight Replace, and only then did they, I was online like, here's my kind of car and dah, dah, dah. And then finally they were like, oh, sorry we can't come out, we don't service your area. So then I was like, well screw that. But in their system I'm like a, I'm an almost. I'm a guy who got like pretty far into the process, so they just keep hitting me with like, your $400 discount is about to expire. And I'm like, well, I don't care because you're not coming to my house. And then about two weeks later I'll get an email, hey, how about a 500 discount? I'm just like, when you get it to a 100% off, I'll consider driving this car to Beaverton, Oregon to get this fixed.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I thought you were going to say that you got your free satellite radio already even though you didn't pay for the service.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I'm paying through the nose for that.

[Luke Burbank]

You got to downgrade to the six dollar a month account like I am. Anyway, the. All of that is to say obviously thank you, Heather, and thank you to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Kate Bergstrom, who's in Phoenix, Arizona. It's our friend Dates with Kate Case right down there in Phoenix. This has probably happened a while ago and I'm just finally getting the memo that Kate's in Phoenix. Kate was a Seattleite for many years. Hey Kate, nice to see your name on the list. Appreciate all these years of support from you and as well as the support we get from Brian Maddox of Albany, Oregon.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow, What a twist.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, and I'm trying to. I'm saying I'm going to. I'm Albany. That's what I'm saying. Albany, Oregon. I'm going with it. Andrew. No regrets.

[Luke Burbank]

As opposed to Albany.

[Andrew Walsh]

Albany. I used to say Albany, New York. Wrong. Albany is incorrect. It's Albany, New York. And I bet it's Albany, Oregon.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, probably. Who knows?

[Andrew Walsh]

And I definitely know it's Coon Rapids, Minnesota, where Leslie Davis is checking in. That sounds rural. That sounds like it is currently under, I'd say, one to eight feet of snow.

[Luke Burbank]

That sounds like a place where the red fern grows.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can you even see the rapids right now? Are the rapids just frozen over?

[Luke Burbank]

I'm sure they are.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can rapids freeze over? Leslie knows.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Thank you, Leslie.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thanks to all of our donors for making TBTL happen today. We could not do this without you. There's a right way to rock? Get a wrong way to roll?

[Luke Burbank]

You can't just listen to your song?

[Andrew Walsh]

Just remember that life is number one?

[Luke Burbank]

You can be having so much fun? Just remember that life is so smart? You can be nothing but one. Luke, can I say that I appreciate your discipline because I know that you have a very big, important personal blurs day wish for somebody that you could have wished them yesterday on the show, but you said, I will wait for the official blurs day segments tomorrow, and you held off on this. And I appreciate that.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is a show that is run, you know, by a set of rules and without favor or prejudice, we celebrate the blurs on Thursday, even if it's our own newly minted, freaking adorable niece, Gemma Burbank.

[Luke Burbank]

Congratulations to David. And congratulations to you, Uncle Luky.

[Andrew Walsh]

And to Alicia and to the world, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

To the world. Mm.

[Andrew Walsh]

This baby. Well, how do I say this? I send a picture of this baby to my girlfriend, and I hope this baby is safe. I hope this baby hasn't been possibly baby napped, because this little Gemma is the platonic ideal of what a little baby should look like. She might be the cutest baby I've ever seen in my life. And I can tell you that my girlfriend is feeling some kind of way about this baby.

[Luke Burbank]

So you're thinking it might be a little raising Arizona situation? I'm just a Burbank.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm just saying. I've recently purchased a large ladder. Son, call me. Hi.

[Luke Burbank]

You have a panty on your head. Hey. Congratulations, Alicia and David. For real and for Real congratulations to you, Luke. It's nice to be an uncle.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thanks. No, I'm excited.

[Luke Burbank]

Letting that really sink in. We got this from Danny in New York City. I'm laughing here because I read this. I read this earlier this week. And then on after these messages, I thought we received an email from Danny in New York City, but we received an email from David in New York City on the other podcast, and after I shared his email, I said, also, congratulations, because I was confusing Danny and David. And so I'm wondering if there is a David in New York City right now who thinks he just had twins because Danny in New York City says, I'd like to wish a happy, belated blurs day to my newborn twin sons, Ashley and Cameron, who were blursed on December 23rd.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my gosh. Congratulations. I got to talk to Danny and his wife at the Philadelphia event, and, I mean, I can't. Honestly. Luke and Andrew would have been better names for these people.

[Luke Burbank]

I think so.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, whatever they went with is also good.

[Luke Burbank]

Mm. I mean, Andrew and Luke would even be better. It was a long road for your mom and me to start a family filled with setbacks and heartache. I read that. In a funny way, it sounds like the family is filled with setbacks. I'm gonna reread that. It was a long road for your mom and me to start a family filled with setbacks and heartache. You see how pausing in a certain place Luke helps, but. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. But Danny says seeing your little faces every day, feeling you squeeze my finger with your teeny, teeny hands makes the whole experience worth it. Beyond words can. Beyond what words can express. We hope you never want more siblings, because all you're getting is hamsters.

[Andrew Walsh]

And critically, Andrew, the TBTL audience grows.

[Luke Burbank]

We have got.

[Andrew Walsh]

We've got to get some people under the age of 40 turned onto this thing or, you know, we're gonna run out of Runway.

[Luke Burbank]

Gotta find a way to monetize this thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's too, too good.

[Luke Burbank]

For real, Danny.

[Andrew Walsh]

Everyone can have twins and then force them to listen to TBTL and then raise them right so they have good paying jobs someday and they can keep supporting tbt. That's how this whole thing works.

[Luke Burbank]

I love the twins thing too. You're right. It's exponential the way we're double. We're doubling it. Yeah. Danny, congrats. Sarah in Portland. Luke, I think. Luke, I think this is more of a family affair here. I think this is your Sarah in Portland. My Sarah, your sister. Sarah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

She's in Portland, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

She sure is.

[Luke Burbank]

Shout out to Cassandra in Victoria, bc. I'm hoping you have a fantastic blurs day this weekend and a fabulous year ahead. Love, Sarah in Portland.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think that's definitely not my sister, but we love it.

[Luke Burbank]

Really?

[Andrew Walsh]

Do you think that my sister is familiar with one of our tens in Victoria, British Columbia?

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't know why she wouldn't be. Doesn't Sarah listen to the show sometimes?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, her husband Josh does. Josh. Unless Josh and Sarah have a wider network of friends than I am aware. I mean, it's. It's possible.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you ever use her last name on the show? Because I remember what the last name on this email was, but I'm not sure if we identify. I. You know, I love doxing. That came up. Does it begin with a letter? Oh, no, this began with a letter N, the last name on this one. So I was totally wrong. Sarah, my apologies. You are not Luke's sister. I'm gonna remove this note that says Luke's sister.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow, this is turning into Maury. But it's like a paternity test.

[Luke Burbank]

You are not the sister I really thought. I guess I had your sister's last name wrong. Huh? I feel like I've made this one of the most awkward blurs days ever in, like, at least three or four different ways. But you know what? From a programming standpoint, I don't hate it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Honestly.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I like it. I'm taking the fall here just by being a dumbass.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I love it. Honestly. I've never felt more right about things. And on that level, I. I fully endorse the way this has been going.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't want to turn this into a fight, but I'm pretty sure I'm right that this Sarah is your sister.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, it's funny because, like, you know how it is with friends and maybe siblings and stuff. There are the people that are kind of plugged into the vibration of TBTL and then the ones that just aren't. And I don't. I don't have any difference in how I feel based on that. Like, for instance, my sister Hannah.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. What does her last name begin with?

[Andrew Walsh]

An N. I think that's what happened.

[Luke Burbank]

I think this Sarah has the same last name as your sister Hannah.

[Andrew Walsh]

And see, now, if you told me there was a Hannah wishing someone in Canada a blurs dad be like, oh, that's my sister.

[Luke Burbank]

That is what happened. I know I'm making this even more awkward by not saying what the name is, but I'm pretty sure Sarah in Portland has the same last name as your sister Hannah. And you have a sister named Sarah. And I got all cons confused. I think there's that reasoning to my madness. Happy birthday, Hannah. Why not?

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure.

[Luke Burbank]

Throw it out there. Hey, for real. Happy Blurs Day to Cassandra in Victoria, bc. I feel like your message sort of got lost in my stupidity there. Hope you're having a great day, Cassandra. K.J. says to my bestie Julie in Salem, who's not Luke's sister. I'm. I am so excited to celebrate you and your 60th Blurs Day in person this weekend. Safe travels and we'll see you soon.

[Andrew Walsh]

By the way, I'm running a half marathon in Salem this weekend.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, wow. Good luck. You know what I mean?

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm trying. I don't know if I'll finish it.

[Luke Burbank]

You know what? I feel bad about KJ here, I.

[Andrew Walsh]

Believe, and I. KJ's my cousin.

[Luke Burbank]

KJ's your cousin. I'm pretty sure KJ has been going under this nomenclature, KJ for the past year or so, literally, because their name is Karen and the way society has now co opted the name. And I am not somebody who uses that phrase. Except for in today's show, I believe I said there was Karen energy and I hesitated to say that and now I feel even worse about it. And I'm leaning into how awkward these Blurs days are.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, that's. You know, I think maybe Andrew God, AKA us, could open a window here, which is. Can we. Is there something else that we can just use in the lieu of that name? Yeah, when a person is being. Particularly when. Yeah, when a person is just being a little tetchy, a little more whatever than they need to be in a customer service kind of experience, we should just say speak.

[Luke Burbank]

Earlier I said somebody had like kind of strong Karen energy and we should have said strong speak to the manager energy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure. I mean, that was a. Can I see your manager haircut was a thing for a while, which I kind of like.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Right. We didn't need to ruin people's lives over this.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, we need to. We need a. It needs to be punchy and like one word. It needs to be quick, like someone who's being a total, you know, a total something or other has to be one word.

[Luke Burbank]

Huh. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I don't know. I just. It needs to be catchy and punchy. That's why that other one is taken off. But you're absolutely right. We have a lot of listeners that have that name and they've done nothing wrong.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Yeah. It's just so odd that I would have actually succumbed to that earlier.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just bleep it out like you did with horse bleep yesterday. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you go back and listen?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, but our friend Pfletch reached out and just wrote the word and then laughed. And then I was like, oh, did Andrew forget to bleep it out? She's like, no, he did, but it was actually funnier that way.

[Luke Burbank]

Pretty funny.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, well, happy birthday, Julie. I'm glad that you and KJ get to hang. And finally, Randy says, since the Venn diagram of this is. This is a long time TBTL listener bringing up the Venn diagrams. I feel like since the Venn diagram of people that I know who listen to TBTL and also know my birthday shows zero intersection. No, I'm throwing myself out here. What really got me motivated was that my. Was that my birthday, which was last weekend, and my music algorithm got wind of it. Alice Cooper's I'm 18 showed up in my playlist, and with a little modification, it fits me perfectly. And then Randy shared the entire lyrics of the song, which I will not share here, but I'll say. I'll say I'll read this one stanza. I'm 68 and I don't know what I want 68. I just don't know what I want 60, I gotta get away I gotta get out of this place I'll go running in outer space oh, yeah Happy blurs day Happy blurs day To Randy. Would you say, Luke, that I captured the essence of Alice Cooper in my recreation of that song? Absolute spirit. The energy, the vibe, the kind of.

[Andrew Walsh]

Monstrous mayhem of Mr. Alice Cooper.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

What do we think Alice Cooper's real name is? It's got to be like. It's got to be like John. John Huggins or something. The most, like the. The most kind of regular Midwest guy.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, real name Vincent Fernier, or There.

[Andrew Walsh]

You go, Vincent Damon Fournier.

[Luke Burbank]

Now, this is one that I guess I was wrong about. Growing up, I thought Alice Cooper, like, you know how we as young people referred to Blondie as a person. But Blondie was the band, you know, headed by Deborah Harry. I always thought that Alice Cooper was the name of the band, but no, Alice Cooper was a nom de plume, it looks like, for a person who is the godfather of shock rock. Is he the godfather of shock rock?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's according to Wikipedia.

[Luke Burbank]

With a raspy voice in a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions. But Alice Cooper also played or is also the author of a wonderful song that our friend Ders put on a mixtape for me years and years ago.

[Andrew Walsh]

I feel like Gertrude has great musical.

[Luke Burbank]

He has amazing musical taste and he put together.

[Andrew Walsh]

And by the way, I've. I think you saw this. I've readmitted him to my life. Now that we are post Seahawks football season.

[Luke Burbank]

How would I have seen that?

[Andrew Walsh]

I posted it to the criminals. I said, life finds a way. And it was a screen cap of my phone saying that I had readmitted him to the conversation.

[Luke Burbank]

I wonder if I somehow missed that one. Or maybe. Maybe it was. Maybe you sent it during a flurry of texts that I wasn't keeping.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was. I was during. I believe it was in the aftermath of the Vikings loss to the Rams.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can I just say one thing about that? Because we're at the way into the show.

[Luke Burbank]

More than one thing about it. You can talk as much as you want.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Thank you. This is. I mean, you know, this is just, as Mr. Collard used to say, fun times.

[Luke Burbank]

We've.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think we've done a great show today. We've celebrated the. The blurs days of so many fine people. And now it's time for Andrew and I just to kind of like. Like alienate anyone who considered themselves a Los Angeles Rams fan. I was working that night. I was out filming in San Diego, and I didn't even realize that game was happening. I'm so bad at tracking the playoff football schedule when the Seahawks aren't involved. I mean, I knew that the Rams and the Vikings were going to play, but I didn't realize it was a Monday night game. And so I got back from the shoot, and I was eating at the hotel restaurant, and they, of course, had TVs, and I looked up, and that was about the time I noticed that people were in the text chain, basically consoling our friend the Stubbot, saying, we're so sorry. And I looked up and that, you know, actually, you know what? I want to. I want to amend what I was about to say, because they did move the game. So it was in Glendale, Arizona. I guess this explains part of it, but I looked up and There were still four minutes left in the game, and the stadium was 90% empty. And I took that to me. Now, I'd forgotten that this wasn't. That they had moved it from. From Sofi Stadium in LA because of the fires and stuff. So this might explain part of it. But I will tell you this. Looking at a At a game where there's four minutes left, but it's not really in question anymore. The Rams were winning pretty handily. And then there's like 80% of the crowd is gone. That's a perfect, perfect description of the Rams fan base to me. Now, I do think my critique doesn't work because they weren't playing in Los Angeles.

[Luke Burbank]

Not only were they not playing in Los Angeles, but if you're a Los Angeles sports fan, you have bigger things on your. On your mind during that game than. Than being at the game, clearly.

[Andrew Walsh]

So also that. Good point.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. So I. I won't dunk on that. But, yeah, I will say that that was. That was a huge disappointment to see. Not just to see the. The 14 and 3 Vikings go down like that. Luke, did I hear. I remember counting up to six sacks, but I think I heard on the radio yesterday.

[Andrew Walsh]

Eight. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I think it went up to nine or somebody misspoke on the radio yesterday. Nine sacks. So, anyway, yeah, that was a really, really tough game. And also, it's like there is. I'm not a. I'm not a fan of that Los Angeles team. And, you know, they're a division. Right.

[Andrew Walsh]

It just feels. Yeah. I mean, I. I will say this, like, I. I don't know why I need to end things on a negative note, but it's like, I mean, obviously I have a lot of feelings about the LA Rams because they have been besting the Seahawks now for a long time, and that's frustrating, but I also just feel like it's the. The ultimate astroturfed team. Like, they've just. They were the LA Rams when I was a kid, and they had, like, Eric Dickerson and Jim Everett, and then they. Stan Gronke took them back to St. Louis and then they were the greatest show on turf, which is, you know, I don't begrudge People in St. Louis who were stoked to have a football team that was really good with, like, Kurt Warner and Marshall Falk and all of that. But then they go back to la, and now I feel like the fans. What I feel like is they are similar to the Lakers in that there are maybe a few people that have been fans of the team forever and ever, but mostly what they are is a thing that you can kind of embrace when you move to la. I was interviewing someone a while ago about an unrelated story. In fact, it was the Metallica story, and it wasn't one of the guys in Metallica. It was somebody else who's associated with their world. And it was just like, you know. Well, I was like, oh, where are you from? And they're like, oh, you know, Connecticut or something. And I was like, oh, and this guy is in like the sports, like, marketing world or whatever. I'm like, oh, so you must be. Are you a Jets guy or a Giants guy or Patriots? Like, you're in Connecticut. You fall kind of in between all these teams. Like, no, I'm a Rams guy. Like, oh, really? How long have you lived here? Five years. Cool. Yeah, I went to the Super Bowl. Oh, the. The pandemic super bowl that they won that probably should have been played. Yeah, man, it was incredible. Okay, this pretty much checks out. If my, my. And again, this comes from my own disappointment about the fact that the Seahawks can't seem to figure out the Rams. Even on years when the Rams aren't that good, I feel like I can't figure. We can't figure them out. So I don't know, it just feels like a real astroturf situation to me. And the fact that they beat the Minnesota Vikings, who are. Now, if I understand this right, I didn't realize that they've never won a Super Bowl.

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't realize it until. I think I heard that recently.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wild to me, they must have won something that preceded the Super Bowl.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, like the Browns. I don't think the Browns ever won the super bowl either. The last time they won a national championship was pre super bowl era.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it was whatever they used to call it. There had to be. They're leather.

[Luke Burbank]

A leather helmet bowl.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. The smoking at halftime bowl. The ya tittle bleeding bowl.

[Luke Burbank]

I will, but. Oh, sorry, go ahead. I was gonna.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nothing. I just saw somebody saying this. I'm just repeating something I saw online. But, like, the thing that's so crazy about the Minnesota Vikings is they are the best team ever to have never won the Super Bowl. Like their actual record, you have other teams that have never been to or won the super bowl, but they are also teams that have lost more than they've won. They just have generally had a hard time being competitive. That's not the story of the Minnesota Vikings. They are the story of a team that has excelled in the regular season. And they also have this weird thing where they bring in older or what we're seen as washed up quarterbacks. And those quarterbacks have a career year. And this is like, like Rodney Pete had a career year after, I think retirement, as did. Believe it or not, Brett Favre's best QB rating ever was at 40 years old. As a Minnesota Viking. As did Case Keenum. As did. I'm forgetting some other ones where it's like somebody was just listing these quarterbacks who've come in in the way that Sam Darnold did, and they've been kind of like an afterthought. And what it seems to be the case is that Minnesota Vikings are draft really good when it comes to receivers and running backs. They create a system that's really, really good for the quarterback. And so they bring in these quarterbacks who all of a sudden everyone's like, oh, my God, they're so good. And then they always seem to return to earth at exactly the wrong time. Minnesota Vikings. And it's a heartbreak to me because if the Seahawks aren't going to win it, I would love it to be the Minnesota Vikings.

[Luke Burbank]

I am just realizing. I'm realizing some. I got a problem. I got a real problem here.

[Andrew Walsh]

Problem or a blessing.

[Luke Burbank]

We've been talking about how I caught a little bit of NFL playoff fever this year for reason, and last weekend only stoked it more. I thought last weekend was a really fun football weekend. Even. Even that loss, you know, you and I talked a little bit about that Buccaneers loss to the. Yeah, to the Commanders. The thing is, like, because I was rooting so hard for Baker Mayfield, you would think I now have a bad taste in my mouth for the Commanders, but that is not even true. I was thinking about the Commanders. They're playing the Lions. I'm like, oh, that's going to be such a good game. I had never seen what Jaden Daniels play before. I mean, they. I can't remember if they played the Seahawks or not this year, but I must not have watched it if they did because I swear this is the first time because I kept on hearing the name Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels. I knew he was a rookie, good, like, whatever. But there was. I mean, watching him play really did seem like something special. There was something about him connecting with receivers that seemed like they had magnets built into them or something. Just like these passes. And I don't. I don't know enough about football to explain why it was so magic to see him. Magnets.

[Andrew Walsh]

How do they work?

[Luke Burbank]

How do they work? Anyway, all that is to say, like. Like I'm seeing the Commanders are playing the Lions this Saturday at 5. Like, I can make my schedule work for that. But the jewel of the playoff season, if not the jewel of playoff seasons of the past five years or so, is the Ravens Bills matchup on Sunday.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's Going to be.

[Luke Burbank]

That is going to be. It's going to be so good. And I'm looking. That's the one game that's on when I'm supposed to be volunteering. And I'm just learning this now. And I know that my partner, Anna Fubo, who's there at Fubo, well, more like fomo. My friend Anna, who I volunteer with and she is there every single weekend, just like me. I know she will be hearing this, but I might see if I can finagle my way. Like maybe I can just make the coffee and hot chocolate and drop it off and then make my way back home. I don't know. I was about to say I deserve it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anna, do you want to do this in lieu of a donation this year?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, Anna's gonna be out there no matter what. I'll just be just a lazy bones making her do all the work. So anyway, I am tempted to maybe see if I can sneak home to see that Ravens Bills game live.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is where. This is where. This is where for us by U.S. television on your phone is just an absolute game changer. You could just be out there slanging, slanging coffee and food to folks. While, I mean, I know you want the experience. You want to, you want to like, you want to start making some garbage food at some point or heating up some kind of. What do you, what do you go. What's the. For you, the like perfect game food.

[Luke Burbank]

That's interesting. You know, it has sort of been a while since I've had like a sit down and watch football in the afternoon kind of thing. It really, you know, what I'm going to do is, and this wouldn't work for this Sunday anyway because I would still have to do other things. But if I were to wake up on a Sunday and have no other responsibilities other than watch football that begins around 1:00 in the afternoon. I am waking up and I'm saying I'm going to the freezer section of the local grocer. I'm driving down to that QFC on Holman Road and I'm going in, Luke, with an open mind. I'm going in with some notions, but I'm going in with an open mind. Now, it's going to be limited options, but I am going to be looking at.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's basically the RPO of snacking.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are you going to. You're going to. You're going to see what the defense is doing.

[Luke Burbank]

The round pizza option. The best I could do in the show title.

[Andrew Walsh]

The best Honestly, this is, this is actually genius because you've incentivized people to listen this far into the show to figure out why we named the show round pizza option.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like I could have done better. There was a little bit more time. But I am going to be looking at Buffalo wings. I am going to be looking at.

[Andrew Walsh]

And this is, this is frozen buffalo wings.

[Luke Burbank]

There are certain brands that are better than others. I mean, some are definitely wrong.

[Andrew Walsh]

And you're going to bake these or you're going to fry them in a pan with a boil?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, no, these are going to be like air fried, probably oven or air fried. But I'm trying to remember which brand it is. I don't think it's the TGI Fridays ones. Maybe they're the Friday's branded ones. You buy them in the freezer section, but the sauce is separate and you heat up the sauce separately. So there you can either eat them as good little like kind of dry wings, but also you can either use as a dipping sauce or you can like, if you're somebody who likes to sauce all your wings, you can do that. But I'm somebody who like you, who doesn't like to make too much of a mess. And there's one good, there are some bad frozen buffalo wings out there, but.

[Andrew Walsh]

There'S an air fryer gets a good crisp, crisp.

[Luke Burbank]

That's what it does well. So anyway, I'm going to be looking at wings, I'm going to be looking at. And this is one thing I love. Okay, just cancel your 4:00. The one thing I love specifically about the Holman Road QFC is that. And I don't know if other stores have this. They have a section for frozen pizzas, but then they have a section next to that called pizza snacks. And pizza snacks is such a good word for describing category. It is. And it's so smart. It's right. Because you know the pizza sauce, you can get your Totino's pizza rolls there, you can get your French bread pizza rolls there, herb pizzas there. You can get your Hot Pockets there also. And I think this is smart. You can get your mozzarella sticks there. And by the way, you do want to probably try the, the, the TGI Friday brand mozzarella sticks. Those are the ones that come out. They're kind of like, they're not round. They're more like, kind of like flat. You know what I mean? Have you ever had the kind of flat style ones?

[Andrew Walsh]

Probably at TGI Friday at some point in my Life.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Probably with you maybe. I don't know if we've ever done the.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, what's the. What's the. What's the one that we go to.

[Luke Burbank]

When we're Chili's and I'm not joking. Chili's came up for some reason in the news recently. I don't know why, like, literally, they might have been putting one in an airport somewhere or Chili's is back somewhere. I don't know.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think the story was Chili's is back because I saw in the airport. I just back. What I saw was this tick tock commentator who I really like. Her name is Mads Something. We've played her on the show before. She's so funny. And her. All I saw was her saying, chili's is back, honey. It never left. Basically, that's my knowledge of this story.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, well, anyway, I was. But I was thinking of you like I was looking at. At Chili's Food online for some reason, thinking like, me and Luke have got to get ourselves to a Chili's fast. Like, I don't know why I can't just go to a Chili's without you. Now I love. I did once an. I did once in Arizona. I got those ribs and it was awful. Remember my terrible riblet story this summer.

[Andrew Walsh]

When we're out and about gallivanting, you and I and possibly John Sklaroff. We need to. We. We. That's our love language damage. But so you go in and you just kind of look around and you just see. You kind of see what is striking your fancy in that moment. You'll bring it all home and then you air fry most of it. Right? It's all air fryable.

[Luke Burbank]

Most of it. These days I do. But I mean, back in the day.

[Andrew Walsh]

I would use the pizza products.

[Luke Burbank]

The full pizza would. Pizza rolls, Totinos are great in the air fryer because everything's gonna be a little bit crispier that way. And also now our oven is an air fryer. So the lines are getting. The lines are getting a little blurry.

[Andrew Walsh]

But.

[Luke Burbank]

But we call it freezer feast. Borrowing that from some friends who call it freezer feast. Their whole thing was like, on some night of the week, they would just open up their freezer and they'd have a bunch of remnants of this kind of stuff left over. They'd say they want to have a freezer feast night and they would just put it all together. I am more intentional with my freezer feast. I go. By the way, I left something off the menu here, which is Another just. Again, if you're just talking about the options here, frozen meatballs. Now, this is not something that a lot of people are going to be serving at their super bowl parties probably. And I'm not talking about the kind that like Swedish meatballs, which are also good and I could get into that. But when I make them, I will just buy a bag of like, Italian style frozen meatballs, put them in the oven, and then especially if I have guests over, I will get the. The cutest ramekins I can find in the house and fill one with like a spicy mustard and one of the barbecue sauce and one with the.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe even now I'm hungry for ramekins.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, I know. And maybe even a. Like a tomato sauce or, you know, like a marinara sauce is the word I'm looking for there. And anyway, yeah, so you can have. You can have fun with meatballs to Luke. So, yeah, there's a lot of options, but you got to just like kind of go. And I'm not joking when I say this. The absolute best part of all of this is the moment I'm in the grocery store because it's all potential. And I'm not. I swear to God. It's never as good as I. And it's never bad. Well, sometimes it's bad, but, like.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know what you mean, though.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, it depends on how the Browns were doing in 2017. You know, maybe it's bad, but like, honestly, it's just like the waking up or even maybe going to the store the day before and just being like tomorrow. I don't know what it's going to be, but I am loaded for bear. The freezer is filled with shit. I'm going to. Everything's in Bloody Mary. Everything's in front of you.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's the best feeling. It's like I used to always say that, like, the. The best part of the vacation is actually right when you're clocking out 10 minutes before you're clocking out of your last day of work before the vacation. Because that's when you have the maximum amount of vacation.

[Luke Burbank]

Still, the best part of the vacation is the one day that you built in at the end of the vacation, between the end of the vacation. The buffer.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know who's like that? Andrew, by the way. Becca.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is not a. Like, let's. Let's get home Sunday night at 11 and we'll just kind of. Monday's just gonna suck for us, but we'll have one more day at the place. She is much like you, she is, she needs to settle in. But it's like, do a crossword. Like, okay, like, needs to just kind of get back into her zone, get back into her routine, you know, just get, get her real life ready to go in a way that, I mean, ideally I would have that buffer day too, but if I have a choice, usually between one more day on the vacation or a full day home buffering, I usually go and stay a little veebs and I, I think are wired that way.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, very much so. By the time we're, we're in the, like last hours of the vacation, I just get a move on. I just want to. And I just, you know, I love being home. You know, I mean, there's in a certain way we joke about me being a hermit, but like, in a certain way, like, it really is, like, the reason I enjoy a day at the end of the vacation is because even a vacation, as much fun as that may be, like, I really love being at home and settling in and puttering and coming home and doing laundry and just like, yeah. Getting my life right again and kind of getting my time back and just turning on the TV or the computer or whatever it is and just being, being. And I think in a certain way, as silly as it is. And again, I'm sort of the butt of a lot of jokes about being a hermit. Like, there's something nice about liking your life. Like there's something about liking home, you know?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. No, I mean, I'm out and about doing all God knows what because of inability to be alone with myself at home, with my darts.

[Luke Burbank]

With your darts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, I'm not kidding though. I hear, I hear what you're saying, though. Like, it is. If there's going to be something that you like doing, it's good that it's being in the lovely home that you and Genevieve purchased and that you've, you know, put a considerable time into kind of setting up how you like. I mean, it's a lot better than the alternative, which is like, I hate being home.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Yeah. And I do. I mean, and I don't think that people who have the travel bug hate being home. I, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't cast that aspersion, but like, it is. I, maybe I'm just spinning it for myself. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna stop being so self deprecating about this. And don't get me wrong, I mean, you, that could slip into a type of, A type of, you know, you need to leave the house. Every now and then you need to take a walk. You need to. You need to smell the air. But, like, smell the air. That's what we're doing to the air, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

We're smelling it, we're sniffing it once in a while.

[Luke Burbank]

But, you know, obviously you can be too reclusive, and that's not. That's not great. But no, there's.

[Andrew Walsh]

I saw you went out with my good friend and your good friend John.

[Luke Burbank]

Goodwin, I was gonna mention.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I saw that you made it out.

[Luke Burbank]

It was during that we watched that game together, the one that got us here.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was managing his expectations on that. If you don't mind me telling you.

[Luke Burbank]

About my social skills.

[Andrew Walsh]

Not your social skills, about your wanting to leave your house. Because he said, hey, I'm gonna be in Seattle. I'm gonna see if I can get Walsh to come out. And I said to him, if he passes, please don't take that as any sort of personal reflection on you. I said he's been really leaning into his basement darts lifestyle, which I was just trying to. I was actually trying to take some pressure off of you in case you were just kind of not feeling it that day or whatever. But then I was. I was very pleasantly surprised to see you out and about in the world with John watching some football, even though it didn't go our way.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, well, no, that's an easy hang. I love John. And also, like, meeting up with somebody to, like, watch a football game that starts at 5 o'clock over a couple of beers and some crinkle fries, you know, that's a pretty easy hanging get for me. If you're trying to get me. That's a pretty easy way to know.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's the thing. That's the thing you want to place under the box. That's got, like, a stick holding it up. That's an Andrew trap.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Put a little. Put the ballet under there. You're not catching me. No, no, no. You put a little bit of bleachers.

[Andrew Walsh]

You'll never catch an Andrew that way.

[Luke Burbank]

By the way, I heard Coindexters is closing. Do you think they'll make it like the crosswalk again? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, when I now do. So that's what the crosswalk became. Was it basically like some kind of a video game parlor?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, basically. And it's still there. And I don't know. This is. This is rumor, by the way. I just realized. I just remembered that we're not talking on the phone that people are listening to it.

[Andrew Walsh]

We've gone to that phase of today's episode where it's literally just me and Andrew talking.

[Luke Burbank]

But I like to. When I met up with John, the reason I bring this up is that we met at this place called Bleachers, which is right in the main strip of the Greenwood neighborhood. And there's, you know, various bars around there. The Baron office is directly across the street, which we've talked about on the show a lot. And about one door or two doors down is a place called Coindexters, which is like a bar that. Yeah, as you said, Luke, it's like a lot of video games and pinball machines in there. And it used to be this bar that I used to like. It was a dive bar called the Crosswalk, which I always liked. But I swear to God, the woman at Bleachers who told me this, the bartender who's been working there for, I think she said 20 years or something. And Bleachers has even moved locations in that time, but it's always been kind of in that area. And I mentioned, like, oh, I used to love that bar when it was called the Crosswalk. She is somebody who has seen some things in her life and does not seem like she would cower at the idea of a dive bar. She grimaced at the idea of hanging out on the Crosswalk. I'm like, everybody, Like, I remember taking friends there. I remember meeting up with friends and one of them was pregnant and she met up with us there. And I look back at that place and people refer to it as a very. Like, there are dive bars. And then people say that that is a stabby dive bar. I want to say I never saw anything stabby going on in that bar. I liked it. I liked the floors. I thought the staff was very nice there. But anyway, it closed down years ago. It became Coindexters and now apparently Coindexters, this is just a rumor, maybe on its way out as well, which is kind of a bummer for that area. I had just finally accepted the fact that the Crosswalk is now Coindexters and I started frequenting it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I've still never accepted that the, like, whatever this is, now I'm looking at it. I think it's like maybe some kind of a mini mart or a cannabis place or something. Let's see if I can get closer to this. Oh, whatever Verity is, is Verity. Is that a Credit Verity Credit or something?

[Luke Burbank]

Where are we looking? Are you Google mapping this area directly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Across the street from, like, bleachers. That used to be a McDonald's when I was a kid.

[Luke Burbank]

Whoa. I can't picture a McDonald's in the neighborhood. I don't think you're allowed to put McDonald' McDonald's in those neighborhoods.

[Andrew Walsh]

And that McDonald's. That thing that's. It's a yellow building. It's 8533 Greenwood. That. Not that building, but, like, in the footprint of where that used to be. It was a McDonald's. And that was where I would climb up in that weird hamburger jail thing and stuff. Like, I loved that McDonald's when I was a wee. A wee boy. So there's just something odd. Not even odd, but just something interesting about, like, so much of your adult life, kind of your experience happening in a place where I had so many, like, childhood experiences, like this little stretch of. I mean, you know, and I also had a lot of adult experiences here, too. But, like, this is really. I say this a lot, but this is one of the places, sort of the cradle of my youth. We used to go to that Fred Meyer a lot, you know, me and my buddies and stuff. This was. This was our hang down here.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I'm looking at the building that used to be a McDonald's. It is sort of on a corner, sort of like a pedestrian corner, we'll call it, for the sake of this conversation.

[Andrew Walsh]

See that middle area where there's, like, kind of, you know, bushes?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

That used to be. That was the playground. That was the McDonald's playground back in the day.

[Luke Burbank]

A bigger footprint now. Was the Baron Off. The Baron off when you were growing up?

[Andrew Walsh]

It was. And I. I was scared of it.

[Luke Burbank]

That was where, like, should be.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was there where, like, you know, some of my friends, mom's boyfriends would come home from smelling like cigarette smoke and anger.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Like, oh, he was down.

[Andrew Walsh]

Terry was down at the Baron Off. And I'd be like, I'm going to probably ride my bike home now.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a good strip, though. I'm looking. I'm taking a little verse.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I love. That's old school Seattle. I mean, in a way. I mean, you know, there's a lot of. It is also kind of new school. But that. I feel like that little strip of Greenwood, stretch of greenwood has retained the vibe of Seattle that I remember from my young. I mean, other than McDonald's is gone, like, the Baron off is very much like 1980s Seattle in my mind. And, you know, it seems to. It hasn't been overly. I don't know, I don't know if I want to use the term gentrified or not, but it just, it seems like it's retaining some of the qualities that I identify very closely with Seattle of my youth.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm seeing. Okay, we gotta end the show now because now I'm just telling you what I'm seeing on Google Maps. I. I'm looking at bleachers from the outside and I'm zooming in on it and I realize if you zoom in enough, you can see the reflection of the Google car that is taking the picture in the windows of bleachers. If that makes sense.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, how about this observation, Andrew? If you keep going on Greenwood, you keep going south on Greenwood. If you're doing the street view.

[Luke Burbank]

Yep, I'm going.

[Andrew Walsh]

Keep going south on. But just barely. There's some cars that were lined up on Greenwood Avenue about to cross the street, I guess. So they're on the other side of. Of Greenwood Avenue across 85th. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. But they're not on 85th. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

They're not on 85th. They're on Greenwood Avenue.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Oh, now I'm seeing them. Okay. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Look at the second car. Is it a chance that's Camaro Kev?

[Luke Burbank]

That might literally be Camaro Kev.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is it possible Camaro Kev was captured by the. The Google?

[Luke Burbank]

Can we wait if I go another one. The way the sleeves are rolled up and if you've gone another clip.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's not wearing a pride hat and he's.

[Luke Burbank]

He's not wearing. Is that the, the pride?

[Andrew Walsh]

It's one of the like kick punching things he's into. It looks like a different arm.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And if. Yeah. And you can see this person's wearing shorts. I can't picture Camaro Kevin shorts. Are you in the view now where you can see down into the window?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I'm kind of getting this guy's business is. How great would it have been though if we had just captured a Camaro Kev in the wild?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, man. So good. I still. Okay, well, check anyway.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway, Happy birthday.

[Luke Burbank]

How do you guys find something to talk about every day of the week?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, sometimes we can't get to the top stories, Andrew. Like today because we have important, important business. Like what are we street viewing people in cars that our friends also own? Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my goodness gracious.

[Andrew Walsh]

I. You know, normally I would apologize now, but we've decided no apologies on this show. This is ever forward.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. We are the Bad boys of Babylon. Sure are the bad boys of Babylon.

[Andrew Walsh]

And We've got an episode coming your way tomorrow. It's our final episode of the week and you already know part of the show. It'll be some of the top stories we didn't get to today and some other cool stuff. Actually, we're launching.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right, a new segment tomorrow.

[Andrew Walsh]

So please do join us for that. In the meantime, have a great Thursday. Take care of yourself. Be safe. Safe. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Luke Burbank]

And good luck to all.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, one thing I can promise you is the the sun will come up tomorrow and we'll be attacking it with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. Power out.